[Comprehensive] Be a good person from now on

"——Hello, beautiful lady android."

Irisviel slept normally, but fell into a drowsy dream.

The woman in the black robe stood on a mountain of corpses composed of endless [selfs]. The black silk boots on her feet stepped on the corpses of countless abandoned and failed artificial humans, and walked to Irisviel from the top position.

Arrogant, calm, indifferent, stepping on the road made up of these soft bodies, there is no disgust or fear on the face of the devil, and some are just accustomed to it.

"As the ruler of hell, I can't see these human-shaped souls—except you; it's a bit far-fetched to explain it with the perfection of artificial humans, then why do you have such a strong and persistent consciousness in your body?"

Those white palms slowly lifted up, gently stroking Irisviel's cheeks without being refused.

The Demon King held her face, and stared directly at Irisviel's beautiful red pupils with dark eyes, as if he could look into the chaotic heart of her unconsciously struggling and wandering through these eyes.

"But your soul can't be called a soul, it's not perfect, it's not natural, but it's very interesting, the artificially carved utensils of human beings have traces of consciousness and then self-despair's final struggle; and it feels...more like Something like a container."

Her smile seemed a little distressed, but it was more of an inexplicable and subtle sense of pleasure.

Xia Chao sighed softly, his eyes were full of gratified admiration as if he was admiring the completion of a peerless artwork in his hands.

"All your imperfections are perfect to me at this moment - perfect, perfect, Irisviel as a mother, Irisviel as a little Holy Grail, you are really wonderful .”

"...we'll meet again."

She left such a sentence in a low voice, and disappeared from the dream.

The demon king in black robe smiled and disappeared from this dream world that made Irisviel instinctively feel uneasy.

As soon as she disappeared, Irisviel suddenly opened her eyes and sat up from the bed. After waking up, she realized that she was covered in cold sweat before she knew it.

hallucinations?

Dreamland?

No, no, the dream will not have such a real sense of fear and touch. Irisviel clearly recalled every detail in the dream, including the woman's leisurely and casual steps when walking towards her, the wide sleeves and skirt swinging when she walked. , and when she touched her cheek, the other's slender and soft fingers and the cold temperature of the dead.

"You're having a nightmare."

The room suddenly lit up. It turned out that the overhead chandelier was turned on. Arturia stood at the door with her hands still on the switch. "Is there anything I need to do?"

Irisviel looked at her, opened her mouth in vain, and finally only raised a weak and gentle smile.

"...No, nothing."

The woman's hands under the soft quilt were tightly clenched into fists.

...the woman saw the Holy Grail in her own eyes.

For no reason, Irisviel just knew.

"...saber."

The white-haired artificial man swallowed hard in his dry and sore throat, and tried his best to muster up the courage to call to the heroic spirit who was about to leave quietly.

"Yes, I'm here." The blond heroic spirit replied meekly.

"Based on what you know about your sister Wang, what do you think she will do next?"

Seemingly not expecting to discuss this issue, Heroic Ling blinked in a daze.

"...Ask me, Miss Wang?"

Artoria looked up at the time at this moment.

At four o'clock in the morning, I took another look at Irisviel's completely refreshed eyes, and he probably wouldn't sleep again.

The King of Knights sighed secretly, guessing that the mistress he woke up from the dream would not fall asleep again. As for Emiya Kiritsugu, he has been locking himself in the room to read since the Haku Xia Dynasty, day and night upside down.

She found a chair and pulled it to the side of the bed, smoothed the hem of her skirt, and sat down. "What do you want to ask?"

"...That's true, I don't understand her either, it's better to say that I don't even understand Kiritsugu." Irisviel smiled wryly. Her husband originally had a great wish that was firm to the point of paranoia, but because of Bai Xiachao's words, Words and those books plunged into infinite self-doubt.

He tried to find words to refute the Xia Dynasty from the experience of countless great men and predecessors, but he could only prove that his thinking was more naive than a child's game time and time again.

...and the cruel end of that terrible innocence.

This made Emiya Kiritsugu's always cold heart collapse.

【"—Because the way you expect the 'Holy Grail' to execute your wish must be from your perspective, you can't expect a pure wishing machine to have its own way of thinking, otherwise it won't be completed for no reason Your wish, think about it, if you trigger it from your perspective, what is the way for the 'Holy Grail' to save the world?"]

These words that Bai Xiachao asked with deep meaning before leaving aroused Emiya Kiritsugu's fear.

He understands himself, if it is him, there will be no other way but to kill - the answer is also in front of him, if the current self gets the Holy Grail and makes a wish, then the final means of executing the wish is to kill all People, until there will no longer be "people" in this world who will have disputes and conflicts.

...for when all die, eternal peace comes.

This conclusion deduced from her few languages ​​was enough to drive Emiya Kiritsugu crazy.

From the moment she began to doubt herself, Emiya Kiritsugu was no longer the Emiya Kiritsugu she was familiar with.

The man Irisviel believed in began to doubt even what she insisted on, and everything she insisted on, an artificial human with no past and future, became pale and illusory in an instant.

It is enough to end her husband's ideals with her own sacrifice, whether it is the evils of this world or the long-cherished wishes of the Einzbern family, all on her—but this is not the greatness of a saint, Simply because a mother is desperately fighting for a promising future for her daughter.

But the final reason, the woman named Xia Chao, she couldn't say a single word to refute her or make her husband continue to persevere.

"Saber, is your older sister trustworthy?"

In the end, Irisviel hesitated for a long time before asking such a strange question.

Unexpectedly, Arturia didn't answer this question directly, but frowned and fell into deep thought.

"That depends on how you look at her."

She showed a wry smile.

"If she is simply my sister or a teacher and friend of the Knights of the Round Table, she is undoubtedly trustworthy: beautiful, strong, and reliable, this is the consistent evaluation and positioning of her by the Round Table; but From the moment she made the wish of being an 'ideal king' and she began to bear the darkness of the kingdom, she cannot be trusted."

Death, betrayal, assassination, lies... These things constitute the new Xia Dynasty.

"This is a very troublesome question to explain, Irisviel, a kingdom is not as simple as you imagine, and what I want to be is destined to be an ideal king without any shortcomings. The curse also needs to be within a controllable range - at least to the extent that future generations or most people will not think that I have a problem. For this, Sister Wang's "unfaithful" and "lies" are simply normal But that's all."

"So……"

Irisviel didn't know why she asked such a sentence.

"The words she said to Kiritsugu turned Kiritsugu into what he is now... Was it also for a 'greater ideal'?"

Arturia frowned and shook her head.

"This... I'm not quite sure. After all, I'm just a heroic spirit of the dead who briefly appeared in this world, and Sister Wang is no longer the Sister Wang I'm familiar with."

Her time stands still; the other spends long, empty days in endless cycles.

Regardless of black and white, they are all existences that have left the human world and watched the world.

"...Sister Wang," Arturia smiled softly, "Don't look at her as a devil king with a bad personality now, the former sister is actually a very gentle and good-tempered person, even if you leave you After a while, she will also find a way to make your life more enjoyable and relaxing; she regards herself as a device that can be repaired without limit, but she also regards other people as extremely important... From my personal point of view, Sister Wang It’s a good thing to give up the human part and become the Demon Lord—”

Because if she continues to insist on being human, she will go crazy.

"so……"

Irisviel opened her mouth, only to realize that her voice was a little rough.

"So, for this world where Sister Wang exists, I am willing to let go of the insistence that belongs to the king for the only time, and simply be her sister once. In the Holy Grail War, I will dedicate my loyalty and the glory of the tip of the sword to you; but If my current master needs me to point this sword at my sister, I will say: I can't do it."

Irisviel looked at the cold and gentle glazed eyes of the King of Knights, and her restless heart suddenly calmed down.

"...It doesn't matter, I'm not as persistent as Kiritsugu."

The young mother with white hair and red pupils smiled gently, her eyes gradually covered with firmness.

"Whether it's the Holy Grail or the sacrifice that needs to be made for it, I can and am willing to do it—as the price, I want to make a wish with the Demon King."

Arturia raised her eyebrows in surprise.

The mother in front of her took a deep breath slowly, and spoke word by word.

"For my daughter, I want to make a wish with the Demon King—a wish that a world exists where my daughter can be happy forever. Please accompany me on this trip...Knight King."

Artoria smiled softly and lowered her head.

"At your service, ma'am."

The author has something to say: desperately stuck in the ending.

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