The Collection of The End

My name is Elijah,

I am listening to wishes.

9:00:00

After the dinner, Caster remodeled a reception room. The huge magical power and the faint breath of roots made the magicians present more convinced that she could realize her wish, but the only problem now is, as a The "Holy Grail" incarnated by a heroic spirit, will she be selfish?

Emiya Kiritsugu, Irisviel, and Lin Hao all got more intentional or unintentional attention when Illya created "Between Wishes".

"Let's come in together~" After the magic fluctuation subsided, the voice of the girl's heroic spirit came from the room: "This is for timely coordination when there are conflicts between mutual wishes, don't worry about crowding, you will be diverted to different mirrors. "

Although I didn't understand what she was talking about, it was probably understandable. The magician and the servants looked at each other, and walked in together after a slight separation.

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Endless darkness, this was Emiya Kiritsugu's first impression after entering the room. Tohsaka Tokiomi who was walking in front, and Irisviel who was walking side by side with him, even the entrance door disappeared. What was left was the small round table that slightly dispelled the darkness and placed the Holy Grail emitting a faint golden light, and Illya who sat opposite the round table in a black sky dress.

"Magician killer, partner of justice." Ilya didn't sneer at him like before, and even conjured a high-backed chair across the table out of thin air: "Sit down."

"...My wish, you should be very clear." Just now his wife revealed that he actually cared about this "daughter" very much, but he didn't know how to react for a while, so Emiya Kiritsugu kept his usual indifferent attitude and sat down Said.

"I've wanted to say that a long time ago, but my previous identity was not suitable." Illya stared at Kiritsugu with her bright red eyes: "Why do you think a [Wishing Machine] can think by itself?"

"...What do you mean?" Kiritsugu didn't react for a moment.

"The Holy Grail is not a magic lamp genie, a sealed devil or anything like that - that thing was killed by our fire before." Illya knocked on the small Holy Grail on the table: "The Patriarch Grandpa should have told you Its essence is to gather powerful magical powers to communicate with the roots, realize the cup of the third law, and use those magical powers to create 'miracles' that ordinary magic cannot do."

Kiritsugu, who didn't feel anything wrong, nodded in agreement.

"So you're going to say to that magic prop that only works according to the established steps, 'I want to save the world, you can find a way'?" Illya picked up the Holy Grail on the table and shook it: "Let a cup think? This in itself It will take a miracle to make it happen."

"This..." Kiritsugu finally discovered the blind spot in his thinking. The "miracle" in his mind is not the same as the "miracle" in the mouth of the magician. ".

"Before I didn't know why you destroyed the Holy Grail when it was at your fingertips, until I became the Holy Grail myself," Illya put the Holy Grail back on the table, and the mouth of the cup shone with light, forming a half-face on top of it. Transparent light curtain.

Destroy the Holy Grail? How is it possible——Before Kiritsugu had time to think about the "history she knew" revealed by Illya, he was attracted by the picture on the light curtain.

[This is the only 500 people left in the world, on two big ships with 300 people and 200 people, but because they hit the rocks, the two ships leaked at the same time, and there is only time to repair one ship, and only you can repair it technology, so I was detained by the ship of 200 people and asked to repair first...]

"..." Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the "self" on the screen "killing a few people and saving the many people" again and again, and finally killed all five hundred people, leaving only Irisviel and Yili Yacai stopped.

"Look, if you have no real way of saving the world,

Coupled with the influence of that evil god, it will become like this in the end. "Ilya turned off the screen: "I have to say, it's a bit cool to kill people all over the world for the sake of your wife and daughter." "

"That's wrong, 498 people were sacrificed and only two people survived, it should, it should..." Kiritsugu couldn't organize his thinking logic for a moment.

"Should mother and I be sacrificed?" Ilya answered.

"Absolutely not!" Before Kiritsugu had time to think about it, the words of rebuttal had already blurted out.

"—The answer is correct," Ilya pushed the crown that was startled and almost fell off: "If you don't allow such an empty wish as 'saving the world', but eliminate all wars and bloodshed, I am here There is a reference."

The Holy Grail projected a light curtain again, it was still the two ships, but this time, they successfully docked at a simple pier.

[We are the No. 105 ship of refuge at sea. 】【Welcome to Land Shelter No. 111】

After the appearance of two lines of subtitles, the "camera" also zoomed out.

In the wasteland of nuclear war and the land of steel, human beings are no longer the masters of the earth. All kinds of Asians, mutated monsters, and alien demihumans are constantly fighting for the living space. Human beings in the cracks have to unite thoroughly. Surviving in a world of crisis, there is absolutely no spare energy for internal strife - that kind of thing means the destruction of a refuge settlement.

"This..." Kiritsugu groaned for a moment, although it is true that there will no longer be wars and bloodshed among human beings, but at the same time they have also lost their dominance of the earth, and they have to work hard for survival every day. Does this count as saving the world?

"When I led them as the 'King of the End', there were already signs of infighting, but I was suppressed," said Ilya when the screen showed that a girl wearing a sky dress was summoned. He closed it with a slap: "If there is not enough pressure, human beings will always fight each other for various reasons, so, which of these two methods are you going to choose? However, you will definitely not agree to provoke a nuclear war now, then Just lure the aliens."

"Choose neither," Kiritsugu shook his head, "I want to continue saving the world in my own way, so my wish is - to have the most powerful combat power in the world."

"Did you really find it? In the first method, you only need to prevent the two ships from hitting the rocks and leaking for no reason." Illya smiled slightly: "Then, as you wish."

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"I think you should know that the long-cherished wish of the Tohsaka family is to reach the root, and this has never changed."

Tohsaka Tokiomi sat opposite the round table, slowly drinking a glass of red wine.

"Since the Holy Grail has appeared, it is not a problem to communicate with the root, but once you reach the root, you will completely cut off contact with the present world." Illya looked at him: "Aren't you going to arrange for your wife, daughter and apprentices?"

"Cut off contact completely?" Tohsaka Tokiomi raised the corners of his mouth, put the red wine in his hand back on the table, and looked straight at Illya until she looked away uncomfortably.

"I have studied the records of many people who seem to have reached the root," Tokiomi said slowly with his hands folded on the table, "Most of them were accidental accidents with no bones left, but it can still be judged that some people suffered from accidents." You have actually reached the root, do you know what I base my judgment on?"

Elijah pursed her lips and shook her head.

"If you want to understand a person, you can look at his friends, but if you want to really understand a person, you must look at his enemies." Tohsaka Tokiomi began to say some philosophical words in order to make up for the stupid behavior during his time as a gem knight : "After those people disappeared, their relatives and friends benefited at an incredible speed and frequency, while the enemy suffered misfortune at an equally incredible speed. At this point in time, luck and misfortune come to an abrupt end at the same time."

Elijah looked up at the sky.

"According to this, it can be concluded that mortals will quickly lose themselves and be assimilated after reaching the root, but before assimilation, there is still time to use the power of the root to affect the things you want to affect in an imperceptible way—such as In this Holy Grail War, there are many incidents inexplicably biased towards your intention of 'keeping all the Masters alive'." Tohsaka Tokiomi finished speaking confidently, and began to wait for Illya's response.

"Okay, okay," Illya rolled her eyes at Tokiomi, "It's Alayashi's intention to keep all of you alive, but I actually just want to save my parents and Maiya Hisau."

This is better than the expected reason, proving that she is not useless to the root, and, after she became the "Jewel Knight", she subconsciously let down her vigilance against herself, which is also one of the reasons. Knowledge is shared.

"I've already judged it through the 'review' just now," Tokiomi maintained a confident attitude: "So, the original Saber should be the real King Arthur, with a noble demeanor and strong personal charm, but because of this, he and Wei Miya Kiritsugu's behavior style did not match, which ultimately led to the defeat of that battle."

Ilya was dumbfounded, her eyes even went blank for a moment, as if she was discussing something with someone.

"So, don't throw me into the root of nothing, and show me the way back," Tokiomi continued according to his own conceived words: "Please introduce me to 'Alaya Consciousness', I hope to talk to him."

"In that case, you really won't be able to come back, are you sure?" Illya stared at Tokiomi with eyes as bright as rubies.

"The long-cherished wish of the Tohsaka family is to reach the root," Tokiomi raised the corner of his lips, "but what to do after arriving is up to you to decide."

"Okay, as you wish..." Illya seemed to hold the Holy Grail very dissatisfied: "I hope you won't regret it."

The Holy Grail emitted a dazzling golden light, completely dispelling the surrounding darkness, and Illya and the table in front of her also disappeared at the same time. The next moment, Tokiomi found himself floating in a very high position above Fuyuki, and in front of him was a towering tower. Transparent ladder.

Tokiomi raised his foot and stepped on the stairs, and looked up, this revolving staircase seemed endless, and the place it finally led to was a huge and translucent translucent ring that appeared above the blue sky.

Indistinctly, Illya could still hear her complaints——

"Did you lose the chain at the critical moment?" "As expected of this world." "It's all Tokiomi's fault."