I don't like the gods, I want to be a hero

Maqili's ideals were shattered in repeated disappointments, but he was still unwilling to admit this fact. He still had a try and visited the Einzbe that was said to be founded by the disciple of the magician. Lun, and thus met that snow-like girl - Justesa.

Like all fairy tales, the two quickly became best friends and worked hard together for that almost impossible dream.

The hard work paid off, and Maqili and his beloved Justesa soon created a ceremony called 'The Cup of Heaven' that could lead directly to the third method.

And in order to prevent someone from forcibly taking this achievement, they left Europe, where magic was developed, crossed Asia, where mystery was abundant, and went to the extreme east, which can be called the backcountry of the mysterious world.

Justesa dedicated herself to the Holy Grail, and Maqili, who witnessed the death of her beloved, suppressed the grief in her heart and continued to move forward to realize the common wish of the two.

But the problem still arises, the man named Maqili is just a human magician with a limit, his lifespan is simply not enough for him to survive the 60 years of accumulating magic power of the Holy Grail.

"The way to eliminate all the evils in the world is clearly in front of us, how can I fall down at this moment!" Maqili, with gray hair and aging body, uttered such an angry roar.

In order to extend his lifespan, the man began to delve into the engraved insect magic, which he had always considered to be inferior, and used these lowest-level familiars to transform his body, thereby prolonging his lifespan.

"As long as we win the Holy Grail War, I only hope to survive until the end of the ceremony."

The man prayed to heaven, and he did last until the end of the ceremony.

But what was different from what was expected was that at the moment when the ceremony ended, Maqili sadly found that there was a serious problem with the Holy Grail system, and after solving those problems, he had to wait another 60 years to restart the ceremony.

"I want to live by whatever means I can, I can't just die like this!"

With such a mentality, the great magician named Maqili devoured the life of a heinous person in a situation of self-loathing, and successfully continued his own life.

He comforted himself that it was just a scum, an evil soul that would eventually be wiped clean, and devouring his evil life was a necessary sacrifice to eradicate all evil in the world.

However, the second Holy Grail War ended in failure due to various reasons, and 60 years of hard work was once again in vain. Moreover, because the soul was resistant to life-extending magic, Maqili had to eat more people's lives to maintain itself The presence,

But how could there be so many heinous lives in the world to supply him with supplies, Maqili had no choice but to attack those who had less serious crimes.

Once again, Magery prolongs his own life, but returning to his younger self many times has aroused the suspicion of magicians and ordinary people.

Therefore, he abandoned his hometown and rooted next to his beloved's tomb knowing that the family's magic imprint would fade with time and his own magic blood would slowly degenerate, and changed his name naturally.

Taking his original name as his surname and his family's surname, and from that moment on, the great magician named Maqili Zorgen disappeared, and there was an extra one named Matou in the world. The Perseverance of Dirty Inkstone...

"What... what have I done!!!" Matou Zouken hit his head hysterically, and all the distorted memories like a jammed tape recovered, and the compassionate ideal of the past also disappeared. Cut off his heartstrings completely.

"Matou Zouken! Matou Zouken!!!" He cried out his name like crazy, his eyes reddened by anger were full of hatred.

"Die! Die! Die! With only you of this level, you who have committed such a heinous crime, how can you still have the face to live in this world!" Maqili cursed like this, and then prepared the spell to end his life!

"For the lives you devoured, for the human beings you fed to the hive, for the offspring who were tortured, you should have died in a dark corner like a bug long ago."

Maqili said that he was going to kill his own body, but at the moment he did it, he suddenly thought of the poor girl whom he planted the evil seed.

"I can't do it now, I'm dead, but what should Sakura do! How can I get rid of the sins planted in this body."

Matou Zouken shed tears in pain, his own sense of guilt drove him to self-destruction, but his restored good nature made him unable to ignore the poor girl and the impending disaster.

But he finally made a decision.

'You are Marchy Zorgen. Matou Zouken used the secret techniques in his memory to restore his former appearance, and then whispered to his former partner of justice.

"And I'm just a Matou Zouken..."

Chapter 39, Matou's underground wormhole

"So what about Sakura? Where did you take her now?" A gentle Emiya Shirou showed a ferocious and distorted expression at this moment.

He strode forward, stretched out his hand and tightly grasped Matou Zouken's collar, gritted his teeth and interrogated the 'culprit' who was full of guilt and kept his head down after telling the whole story.

From Matou Zouken's description, Emiya Shirou has a general understanding of the tragic experiences that his lovely junior has suffered in these years.

Although Matou Zouken, who has regained his conscience, is hard to say about some details that happened to Sakura, but just some vague blanks make this good old man who is determined to be a partner of justice furious, and he is about to savagely shake his fists. He hit Matou Zouken hard on the face.

"Emiya-kun, get out of the way." Without waiting for Matou Zouken to react, Tohsaka Rin, who was standing behind the young Emiya, stretched out his hand to pull his angry companion back with a gloomy expression.

"Tohsaka! What the hell are you doing!" The red-eyed Emiya boy almost roared and questioned the girl who stopped him. "Although I don't know the specific details, I know from this bastard's description that Sakura is your sister who was adopted into the Matou family since childhood!"

"Even if most magicians are monsters who despise family affection, you, Tohsaka, who have helped me so much, should be different from them!"

"Sakura is my sister, of course I care about her safety!" Tohsaka Rin's tone was unusually calm, but in this case, the calmer she was, the heavier the invisible deterrence.

"But the bastard is the only one who understands what Sakura has been transformed into, and the only one who knows how to take care of Sakura's body, we can't..."

"Miss Tohsaka, I myself have a very clear understanding of the sins I have committed, and at the same time, I understand your feelings after learning that your loved ones are suffering." Matou Zouken was thrown away by the strength of the two people pulling Regardless of tidying up his messy clothes, he immediately closed his eyes and apologized to Tohsaka Rin with a deep bow.

"Miss Tohsaka, please don't worry, I am now a body of repentance, and I will be responsible for the sins I committed before no matter what, and I am also prepared to bear your anger. Therefore, Miss Tohsaka does not need to worry about ..."

"boom!!!"

Before he finished speaking, Matou Zouyan bent over to apologize, as if hit by a full-speed dump truck, flew backwards at a speed that ordinary people couldn't see clearly, and hit the courtyard heavily. On the stone table.

"Your Majesty the Magician!" Assassin just brought the brewed tea to the stone table when his Master flew over and smashed all the tea sets he had prepared.He was stunned for a moment, and then very eagerly lifted up the messy Matou Zouyan.

Assassin, who had already heard it once, began to prepare tea and snacks for Saber, who was staring at him vigilantly, when his Master began to tell about his experience, but who knew that the most unusual method was used by the Master just after preparing it? Way to destroy.

"Don't worry, Assassin. I'm fine." Matou Zouken, who was lifted up, tightly covered his beaten left face with his hands, as if trying to cover up something.

But the sharp-eyed Archer and the closer Assassin still noticed that the skin around his left face was shaking irregularly.It feels like there are a lot of tiny bugs hidden under the pale, inhuman skin.

"Since you have said that, then I have to vent out as you wish." Unable to hold back the anger in his heart any longer, Rin Tohsaka stared coldly at Matou Zouken in front of him. "Can my behavior make your wormy heart feel better? Mr. Maqili Zorgen!"

At this time, Miss Tohsaka was maintaining an attacking posture, with her black silk thigh raised high, and a shining magic circuit emerged on the alluring black silk.

The azure green light shone, as if a circuit board was engraved on the body.As an orthodox magician, Ms. Tohsaka, her body is full of sci-fi and mechanical beauty when she performs magic.

"Thank you so much, Ms. Tohsaka, for your kindness. Thanks to you, I feel much better."

Tohsaka Rin's words sounded out of good intentions for the other party, but everyone present was very aware of the yin and yang aura contained in the girl's words, as well as the deep sarcasm towards Matou Zouken.

But even so, Matou Zouken, who was ashamed in his heart, accepted the girl's sarcasm, and bowed his head to thank the girl as if he didn't understand the true meaning. "Just can you ask Ms. Tohsaka not to call this person Maqili Zorgen anymore?"

"This body full of sins is not worthy of the name when I was fighting for my ideal."

"I understand, Your Excellency Maqili Zorgen." Tohsaka Rin agreed to Matou Zouken's request, but her address to Matou Zouken clearly expressed her attitude.

"Ah~~ Then follow Miss Tohsaka's will." Matou Zouken sighed deeply.

Although he has deeply reflected on the sins he has committed, and is determined to do everything in his power to atone for the sins, Matou Zouyan still wants people to compare that righteous partner Maqili with the sinful Matou Zouken. A small selfishness that Yan treats separately.

But now it seems that his selfishness is just an extravagant wish.

"Stop this topic first!" Emiya Shirou, who was stunned by Tohsaka Rin's angry blow, finally came back to his senses. "The most important thing now is Sakura's body, doesn't Tohsaka want to see how his sister is doing?"

"Let me take you to Sakura's recuperation room, after all...forget it, please come with me." Matou Zouken wanted to say something, but finally decided to give up.

Afterwards, he gently put down his hand covering his left face, signaled to everyone with his face that seemed not to have been attacked, and led them to the underground worm cave of Jiantong House.

As soon as they entered the tunnel, everyone felt an unbearable damp and cold air, mixed with a disgusting strange smell.

Enduring the body's discomfort from this breath, and suppressing the rising anger in their hearts, Emiya Shirou and Tohsaka Rin just followed Matou Zouken onto the high platform of the worm cave.

Then, they saw a chrysalis-like thing wrapped in layer after layer of transparent silk thread, a girl with long purple hair was closing her eyes tightly, soaking in the juice exuding vitality. middle.

"Sakura!!!" Emiya Shiro jumped off the high platform, and ran towards the wrapped school girl eagerly.But before he got any closer, he was stopped by a tall figure that suddenly appeared.

"Master's current situation is not convenient for others to approach, so please stay."

The one who stopped Shirou Emiya was a beautiful woman with long purple hair like a waterfall, a tall and plump figure, and a blindfold on her face.

"Are you... Sakura's Servant?"

Emiya Shirou stared at the woman in front of him. The cold and coquettish temperament, the perfect silhouette like a goddess, and the weird temperament that was completely contradictory to modern society exuded from all over his body, all of which showed the boy that she was a follower. identity of.

"En." The purple-haired woman nodded slightly, and then disappeared in front of people's eyes.

"Matou Zouyan." Seeing his sister's situation at this time, Tohsaka Rin couldn't help asking about Matou Zouyan. "Could you please explain Sakura's current situation?"

"Break out of a cocoon and become a butterfly." Jiantong Zouyan said slowly. "This is a great magic created in imitation of the reborn change of a butterfly as an adult, and it belongs to the mystery of butterfly magic."

"Big magic of the restoration type!" Tohsaka Rin instantly realized the key. "What do you mean?! Was Sakura's physical condition bad before?"

"Sakura's child has been subjected to all kinds of brutal body modifications before, but these have little effect on Sakura's body. The real harm to her is..." Saying this, Matou Zouken's face turned pale It darkened instantly. "Her heart was planted with a very dangerous and weird thing."

"Heart...very dangerous...strange thing?"

"Even if I was taking out that weird thing, I would inevitably hurt Sakura's body, and the rest..." Matou Zouken set his eyes on Sakura's body wrapped in the spell. "That's what you see."

"What the hell is that weird thing!? And..." Tohsaka Rin stared at Matou Zouken coldly. "Although I don't understand the principle of butterfly magic, the so-called magic is essentially a trick that pays a price and then directly reaps the result according to the amount paid."

"The big magic that can repair the heart injury and improve the body of the subject must pay a high price. May I ask who paid the price?"

Hearing this, Jiantong Zouyan was silent for a long time before slowly opening a secret space in the underground wormhole.

As the space opened, a scalp-numbing sound began to echo in this dark underground wormhole.

"careful!"

Thinking that Matou Zouken suddenly turned his face because of Tohsaka Rin's question, Archer immediately projected a pair of swords to guard the girl.And Saber also took out her shadowless sword, and with a light leap, she came to Emiya Shirou in the center of the wormhole.

"That's not necessary." Matou Zouken shook his head, signaling to the four guests not to be nervous, and then waved his stick, summoning a few beautiful butterflies exuding water-blue light.

These butterflies flew lightly to the space where the sound came out, and everyone saw everything in the darkness clearly through the soft light.

"That's it?! Shinji!" Shirou Emiya widened his eyes in disbelief, only to see his friend Shinji from the Archery Club with a weird smile surrounded by the dense and creepy swarm of insects. Sleeping naked.

"As an ordinary person born in a magic family, Shinji, who has no magic talent, has been under heavy pressure since he was a child, and this pressure has turned into naked jealousy after Sakura's arrival." Before Emiya Shirou asked Matou Zouken explained with a complicated expression.

"And under the connivance of this person to achieve certain goals, Shen Er developed an extremely bad character, and...committed all kinds of crimes." Matou Zouyan paused, and finally looked at the blood connection, and Shinji hid the details of those sins from his dying days.

"Although this body needs to bear a large part of the responsibility for Shen Er's sins, those sins were committed by him voluntarily and without repentance."

"So..." Tohsaka Rin gave Matou Zouken a cold look. "You tricked him into the wormhole on the grounds that you thought of a secret technique that would allow him to acquire magical powers, and then 'voluntarily' gave your life force?"

"You guessed right, but I didn't deceive him." Matou Zouyan shook his head, and continued in a melancholy voice.

"Ordinary people who don't have a magic circuit can only use a lot of life force at the cost of using magic, and I just exchanged his life force with my own magic power."

"Is this the key?!" Emiya Shirou stepped forward anxiously, and shouted at Matou Zouken on the high platform. "Shen Er should be your descendant, why did you take his vitality in this way!"

"It's because he is my descendant that I punish him for his crimes in such a gentle way!" Matou Zouken turned his head, and glared at Emiya Shirou with extremely severe eyes that were completely different from before.

"With his evil and unrepentant character, even if he doesn't have the ability to perform magic, it will bring serious harm to some weak ordinary people, and now I will not allow such a thing to happen!"

"But even so, I can't..." Emiya Shirou hesitated and wanted to say something, but under the gaze of Matou Zouken, he was inexplicably unable to say a complete sentence.

Seeing Emiya Shirou like this, Archer's face became inexplicably gloomy.

"A partner of justice is not a simple 'hero who helps others', but a warrior who has made up his mind and is willing to bear everything." Matou Zouken's tone was full of emotion and a little guidance .

Emiya Shirou was a little confused, he didn't understand why Matou Zouken brought up this topic at such a time.

Matou Zouken let out a long sigh. He learned about Emiya Shirou's character and "ideal" during the investigation of the master. He thought he had someone to succeed him, but he found out that this young man still has a long way to go. He wanted to go, but he didn't have much time, and he couldn't guide his way as a senior.

"Not everyone is worthy of forgiveness. If you do something wrong, you will be punished. Before you become a partner of justice, you must first understand why 'justice' exists."

Matou Zouken seemed to want to tell Emiya Shirou something special, but the boy just looked at him inexplicably, and his expression became even more confused.

What the two people who were talking didn't notice was that after Zouken Matou said those words, Archer behind him looked at the two people in the conversation with a strange look.

"Stop these inexplicable conversations first, didn't Matou Zouken mention before that he took out a very dangerous and strange thing from Sakura's body?" He patiently interrupted their conversation.

"Now hurry up and clarify, what is that so-called 'distorted thing'..."

Chapter 40 An Unexpected Encounter

On the streets of Fuyuki Old Town, Illya, who used hint magic to make all ordinary people ignore her, was walking happily.

And guarding this elven girl is naturally the spiritualized Seleus.

'According to the battle situation last night, there is a high probability that Saber, Archer, Assassin, and Rider have formed an alliance, so there is no need to worry about their safety. 'Selius quietly followed behind Illya, but kept analyzing the current situation in his heart.

"As for Lancer and his Master, they should be able to protect themselves with good strength. Even if they are under siege, Lancer, who has talked with me beforehand and knows what I plan to do, can also take his Master to escape with his superb speed. I'm here...'

"The last thing left..." Thinking of this, Serius' face suddenly became serious. 'It's the Caster who has been hiding all this time, and even Jill can't beat him. '

"Hmm~~Really, it was only yesterday night that I showed my skills and beat Saber and the others to pieces, letting my strength show the world again, but why did Berserker show such a sullen expression?"

Ilya, who was bouncing and walking on the street, suddenly turned around, staring at Serius behind her with those big wine red eyes in dissatisfaction.

Although Serius didn't kill any Servant in last night's battle, Illya didn't seem to care about it, and she was even excited for a while on the way back to the castle, and kept praising her 'Berserker is indeed the strongest! ''Other Servants are not enough to see in front of Berserker...' or something like that.

It wasn’t until Serius decided to fulfill his promise to tell her the story that Illya’s inexplicable excitement was gradually replaced by the joy of being able to listen to the story, and because of her body, she fell into a deep depression halfway through the story. fell asleep.

Serius thought that after the battle last night, the excited Illya would choose to stay in the castle, and then use the released familiars to look for Emiya Shirou and the others.

And in this case, Seleus, who doesn't have to spend his time trying to protect Illya's safety, can free up his hands to make the next plan.

Or just go looking for Caster's traces alone in the name of reconnaissance intelligence. Even if his poor perception ability makes him find nothing, he can secretly connect with Lancer behind Illya's back and exchange information with each other.

Although Berserker volunteered to collect information, it sounded a little crazy, but Illya had previously ordered him to collect information alone in order to tease Sirius.