"Kelly, what kind of adult do you want to be?"

"I...want to be a partner of justice."

………

How many times has this happened? Emiya Kiritsugu couldn't count clearly.

The memory became ambiguous, maybe because I was dreaming.

This smile and the words "harmony" have appeared countless times in my dreams.

Next to the beach in summer, the playground of my childhood, a girl with a white skirt and bronze skin, a smile like a sunny beach and the sparkling clear blue water...

Everything is so beautiful.

But of course, this is all a dream.

Because this scene has appeared thousands of times in a row. If it looks like this every time, no matter how real the dream is, it will appear false.

This is the same as [if you read a word too much, you will feel that the word is not the word].

The scene in my memory is so beautiful. It's like a cutting-edge LCD screen coupled with the light and shadow magic hand of a famous videographer... It's so unreal.

After experiencing thousands of reincarnations, Emiya Kiritsugu is now extremely calm. He has recalled that the seaside in summer is not so beautiful. The sand is scalding hot, the sun is scorching, and the non-artificial beach is full of dangerous rocks.

Palm-sized sea mosquitoes, corpses of plankton, the fishy smell of rotting seaweed...

The truth of that day was not that my sister went to the beach to play with Emiya Kiritsugu, but to help Emiya Kiritsugu's father dispose of the remains of discarded magic potions in the sea. By the way, she met Emiya Kiritsugu while he was playing, and they took a break together.

Just fishing in the sea.

That question was actually just a casual chat without any deep meaning.

Memory always embellishes something without authorization, making it seem true.

"You are long dead, undead."

So, please put away your smile...

Every time I see that smile, the feeling of tearing in my heart, even if the inherent time control is turned on four times, it will be better than this.

Looking at the false memory images and the overly beautified good times, Emiya Kiritsugu didn't even intend to stay for a second longer...

He already knew what happened next

Kill everyone on the island, be rescued by his adoptive mother in the sea of ​​fire, learn to become a qualified killer, kill his adoptive mother to achieve his perfection, marry Einzbern, participate in the Holy Grail War, and then... go back to that summer

.

This was an attack from the enemies of the Holy Grail War, a spiritual attack. This was Emiya Kiritsugu's judgment.

But there is no one in the data who is a magician master who can use this method...

So is it [Magician (Caster)]? Then what is that little Saber doing?! Is her warning just a decoration?

...However, this kind of thinking only stays for hundreds of reincarnations and no longer cares about it.

Emiya Kiritsugu used various methods to leave this place, this too-perfect dream...

Suicide was first experimented and found to be useless, so Emiya Kiritsugu chose to make a different choice at the appropriate time.

But no matter what the right choice is, no matter the right or wrong choice, everything will change to its original trajectory at other times. Those who should die will die, and those who did not die will stay... and then start again.

[Everything is in vain, no matter how you choose, you can't escape the interlocking of fate...] As if to illustrate this truth, Emiya Kiritsugu was severely bound here.

Again and again, that smile, that summer, that island... and that joke-like chat:

"Kelly, what kind of adult do you want to be?"

"I want to be righteous... No, it's nothing. I haven't thought about it yet. Can I tell you later?"

For the first time, Emiya Kiritsugu didn't say "I want to be a partner of justice".

"Oh, I see. Kelly is still young. You can think about it later. Let's go back first, right?"

The smile is still the same, but the hand extended by my sister to Kelly is an invitation to go home with him...

"Well, I understand..."

[Kakakaka]

At this moment, the too-perfect memory picture began to shatter, revealing black cracks...

[Dong dong dong… dong dong dong…]

A knock on the door brought Emiya Kiritsugu back to reality on the sofa.

"excuse me"

The female assistant, who had not received a response for a long time, pushed the door open and said anxiously:

"Kiritsugu-sama, are you okay?!"

Seeing Emiya Kiritsugu sitting on the sofa, staring straight ahead without any abnormality, the female assistant breathed a sigh of relief.

But before she could say anything, Emiya Kiritsugu's expression suddenly turned ferocious.

A sentence like the ice of the abyss leaked out from between his teeth:

"Are you looking for trouble?!!"

Hoshikake doesn't do anything complicated. The dream game is entirely constructed based on the real version of Emiya Kiritsugu's memories, without any fictitious elements mixed in at all.

And it’s still a very simple text adventure game mode. The whole game only has two branches.

Choose [Become a Partner of Justice] at the beginning, and then you will really become a [Partner of Justice].

However, since it is a [bad end], the game starts again.

Select [I will not be a partner of justice] at the beginning, then [The game is not perfected, this route cannot be chosen], commonly known as a black screen, and then the player will be forced to exit.

Look, how simple it is. Anyone who is a player of the [Destiny Series] text adventure game produced by Xingyue can easily pass the level.

Moreover, in order for Mr. Kiritsugu, who is busy at work, to enjoy the game as much as possible, Xingke applied the techniques of [Acceleration] and [Lepirokinesis]. Not only can you play in a dream, but you can also dream about it for thousands of years... It is very considerate, compared to

Kayaba Akihiko's method of kidnapping, sleeping and sending him to the hospital was much more considerate.

After finishing these things last night, Xing immediately started to "keep vigil" while lying on the sofa in the living room while reading a book, eating frozen pizza and drinking instant milk tea... But, I don't know when, I fell asleep.

There is no way, it is human nature, everyone should be considerate of the elderly.

Then, what woke him up was the [Permanent Armor Body] which started to move strangely.

Xingke was attacked. The attacker was her master, and he was holding a fully automatic submachine pistol named [calico m950a] and fired a full magazine of fifty bullets at Xingke who was napping on the sofa.

…

Is there any master as outrageous as you? You use this method to wake people up.

Xingke was helpless and removed the [sound isolation barrier] he had set up to sleep comfortably, yawned and said:

"Good morning, Mr. Master."

"...Good morning, Saber." Emiya Kiritsugu lowered the smoking muzzle.

Xingke always felt that his sad face was a little more sad than before, and his tone was also very cold.
Chapter completed!