☆ 111. Towards reality 03
Lead to the real 03
game.
It started to rain frequently during this period. The rain combed the banana leaves and fell on the soil. The temperature dropped slightly, but when the sun came out, it returned to a sultry state.
As his adoptive father, Noriken Emiya, moved to Heli on this island, since his birthday, the severe headache began to subside and his complexion improved a lot.
"Try it."
As Emiya Noriken's assistant, Xia Lei came into contact with Heli as often as Emiya Kiritsugu. She picked fresh fruits, broke open the black peel, and handed the crystal flesh inside to Heli. inside the mouth.
Heli met Xia Lei's expectant eyes and ate it in one bite.
"...It's delicious!"
Xia Lei watched Heli wrinkle his little face with soreness, then quickly opened his eyes wide, indicating that it tasted good, she was amused, put down the fruit, and rubbed Heli's head.
"Okay, I'll eat the rest." Seeing that the time was coming, Xia Lei picked up the blood vessel and faced Heli's obedient appearance. She couldn't help pinching the other person's face, "Heli is so obedient."
Although. Not much blood was taken away, but it did make the girl's face almost transparent for a long time.
Xia Lei lowered her eyes from an angle that Heli couldn't see.
But Teacher Noriken Emiya's experiment is very meaningful and can extend human life. This is unimaginably great.
And the teacher also said: "Heli is special, and her blood is indispensable. I will cure her split personality disorder. Please take good care of her during this period. Never let her be alone. At present, she The personalities in my body have begun to notice my purpose, and there are signs of inducing her... Don't tell Kiritsugu yet."
"Xia Lei?"
Heli's soft voice was like cotton wool, lightly interrupting Xia Lei's thoughts.
After Xia Lei reacted, she looked into the other person's clear eyes. This innocence that seemed to be free of impurities made Xia Lei tighten her hands. She showed her usual smile without leaving any trace, "...passed. It's Kelly's birthday in a few days!"
Kelly, whose pronunciation is the same as Kiritsugu, knew that she was talking about Emiya Kiritsugu, and his attention was diverted.
"What should I give as a gift?"
The two of them whispered under the eaves. Xia Lei looked at He Li's bright and tangled eyes and thought for a moment.
"Hmm... I think," Xia Lei thought about how much Emiya Kiritsugu cherished Heli, and couldn't help but joke, "Even if Heli gives him a piece of paper, he will be very happy, right?"
" Eh?"
Heli was slightly surprised, and then he really started to think about whether to send a piece of paper. Xia Lei didn't expect that her words would be directly adopted by Heli.
At night, Heli held the cut paper in his hand, lying on the bed, holding the brush borrowed from Xia Lei, and scribbling on the white paper bit by bit.
"Heli, I'm in!"
A young man's voice came from outside the door. Heli nervously hid the paintbrush under the quilt and stuffed the paper under the pillow.
After getting permission, Emiya Kiritsugu walked into the room. He looked at the girl who had half her face hidden in the quilt, and sat beside her bed.
Emiya Kiritsugu skillfully ran his hands along Heli's hair, "How do you feel today?"
"I don't have a headache today! Xia Lei even gave me something to eat..."
Listening to the girl's voice, Emiya Kiritsugu Si's eyes softened, and he sometimes agreed, feeling grateful to God in his heart. He went to church to pray every week, and just hoped that Heli's health would get better and better.
Emiya Kiritsugu vaguely remembered the girl's appearance when she was just brought back by her father.
After she entered the door, she just found a corner without saying a word, sat on the ground with her hands and knees, her body was thin, her eyes were in a trance, as if she couldn't take in anything, and she didn't communicate with them, but often talked to herself. language.
The father said he would cure her and she would be part of their family in the future.
"Kiritsugu?"
The girl's soft voice woke up Emiya Kiritsugu, and he quickly responded, "Huh?"
"Kiritsugu, go to bed early." She stretched out her hand and squeezed Emiya Kiritsugu's arm with a very light force, like Feathers fluttered.
Emiya Kiritsugu covered her with a quilt and touched the top of her head cherishingly.
"Good night, Tsurato."
Tonight is the moment Tsurari is looking forward to, to celebrate Kiritsugu's birthday.
Xia Lei and Xia Lei agreed to give Emiya Kiritsugu a surprise together with other friends. They planned to hide in Emiya Kiritsugu's bedroom and wait for him to come back before jumping out. During the day, everyone tacitly agreed with each other in their own way. Due to being busy and having something to do, he didn't go out or see Emiya Kiritsugu.
Generally speaking, Tsurato is not allowed to go out at night by Noriken Emiya, so she will quietly sneak out of the laboratory room tonight to join her friends.
Wearing glasses, Noriken Emiya rolled up the sleeves of his arms and was sitting at the table, looking at the documents in his hands.
Heli sat aside.
This room is filled with various wooden shelves, all of which are flowers of the same species. They are the experimental controls of Emiya Noriken.
However, the room surrounded by flowers was unusually quiet, and the only sound that could be heard was Noriken Emiya turning the pages of a book.
"Thank you for your hard work, Tsuruto." After a while, Emiya Noriken turned her face to look at Tsuruto who was sitting there obediently. "You can go back to the room and go to bed."
"Okay, dad."
She jumped off the chair . , first walked to a small room in the laboratory, which was her bedroom.
Heli put the scribbled card in his pocket, then lay down at the door, listening to what was going on outside.
It wasn't until she heard the footsteps of Noriken Emiya leaving, and just as Heri was about to open the door and slip out, the long-silent voice sounded in her mind again.
"Heli."
"Heli, did you hear me?"
"Dad is not here, do you want to go out alone?" "
Heli, you haven't seen us for a long time."
"Obviously we are the most important to you. People."
The voices that came one after another were either deep or clear, and they all seemed to be in a normal mood. However, Heli suddenly held her forehead, and a familiar tearing feeling came. The pain made her uncontrollably slide down from the door and sit down. on the ground.
A thin layer of sweat broke out on her forehead, and even her hair was wet. Her cheeks turned pale, and her fingers couldn't help but curl up.
"No..."
Why now? They were waiting for her, and so was Kiritsugu...!
When the pain reaches the extreme, it will only make people feel paralyzed, and the throbbing pain from the head will make people lose their minds after being paralyzed.
Heli didn't know how long he lay on the cold ground.
The voices in my head kept inducing me.
"...Are you tired? I'm here to help you."
"Don't be afraid, Heli is a strong boy."
"Choose me."
"No, of course you have to choose me."
"Leave it to me, leave it to me Let's -"
"Leave it to..." Heli opened his mouth, his eyes showing an increasingly thin color, and he murmured unconsciously.
The cards in her pocket were scattered on the ground, and her limbs were curled up so weakly.
Until vaguely, apart from the voice lingering in her mind, there was another voice coming from far and near, calling her name anxiously.
The old door frame rubbed against the joint, and with a gust of wind, the door was opened.
Heli felt as if he was being hugged by someone in panic.
Her cheeks were buried in the hot embrace unknowingly, and someone lifted her arms. The cold liquid penetrated into the blood vessels familiarly. Soon after, some gloomy sounds seemed to sound in her mind that was so painful that it could not be described. words.
"...The guy who is in the way."
When Heli finally woke up, she found that her hand was being held tightly by someone. She opened her eyelids feebly and turned her face to look.
The young man lying next to her bed was groggy and seemed to be so sleepy that he closed his eyes and forced himself to open them again in order to wake himself up.
"... Kiritsugu."
The young man woke up completely. He quickly sat up and hugged Heli into his arms.
Heli could even feel the young man's arms gradually tightening and his chest rising and falling, trembling imperceptibly.
As the pain dissipated, she realized something, clung to his chest with her hands, and said helplessly, "Kiritsugu's birthday, I, I..."
"It's okay, it's okay." The boy repeated it, and he held his hand He lifted Heli's cheeks so that she could see his eyes clearly, "Nothing is as important as Heli."
The eyes that were bloodshot due to fatigue and stress were still extremely clear, with the seriousness unique to a young man.
He bent his eyes and said in a warm voice, "I saw it. Is this a gift from Heli to me?"
The young man picked up a few cards with colorful strokes on them, with the words "Wish Coupon" written on them and a sticker on them. The heart made notes in the corner, "Exclusively for Kiritsugu" and "Can fulfill any wish."
"Well..."
Sensing that Heri was still a little guilty and his eyes were red, Emiya Kiritsugu immediately took out two of the wish coupons and placed them in front of Heri.
"Then I'll use two now!"
He grinned and bared his teeth. "First of all, call me brother, brother."
"...Brother." Heli buried his face in his arms, making his voice muffled. Boring.
Emiya Kiritsugu couldn't help laughing, and pinched her cheek again, "Then my second wish is that I hope Heli can always stay by my brother's side, even if he has someone he likes in the future." Unexpectedly, the
person in his arms hugged her tightly on the spot. He asked, "What about brother?"
"Me," the corners of Emiya Kiritsugu's lips curved, "we are family, of course I will accompany Heli." "It's
agreed."
He said. Head, eyes wet, looking at him persistently.
Emiya Kiritsugu couldn't help but kissed the girl's forehead, pinched her fingers and made a hooking motion, "Of course, it's a deal."
After coaxing the girl to sleep, Emiya Kiritsugu covered her The quilt is ready.
He put the remaining cards in his pocket, then sat by her bed, his eyes fell on the door of the room, and his thoughts gradually became empty.
Heli had fallen there before.
The breath is so weak that it seems to disappear at any time.
Unconsciously, his fingers were clenching the edge of the bed harder and harder.
He lowered his eyes, closed them, and covered his forehead.
"Kiritsugu, you didn't come into my workshop last night, did you?"
Emiya Kiritsugu, who was suddenly woken up, sat up in confusion, "No."
Emiya Noriken didn't know what he thought of, and he said calmly, "Today Don't go to the village, I'm going to bring Tsuruto over now."
Emiya Kiritsugu, who was sitting at home waiting at first, watched the time gradually passing by, but he didn't wait until his father brought Tsuruto here. After he noticed something was wrong, He quickly ran out of the house. However, when Emiya Kiritsugu arrived at his father's laboratory and opened the door to the small room inside, he saw that there was no one in the room.
"...Heli?"
Did he go out? Or was he taken somewhere by his father?
Emiya Kiritsugu turned around on the spot and began to search everywhere. He stopped immediately when he heard the panicked crow of a chicken in his ears.
However, the white chicken was stained with mottled blood. This phenomenon made Emiya Kiritsugu aware of something strange.
Until he heard the sound of eating something not far away.
He approached cautiously and cautiously. In the corner, a figure lowered his head and held something to bite. The first thing that hit his nose was the strong smell of blood. When he realized who the figure was in front of him, Emiya Kiritsugu's pupils suddenly shrink.
"Xia Lei?"
Her hair was messy and part of it had been intertwined with dried blood clots. Her original blue eyes were dyed dark red, and her facial features were painfully grim. As her father's assistant, Xia Lei The change frightened Emiya Kiritsugu for a moment.
"Don't come here!!" Xia Lei covered her face, her voice sharp and panicked. On the ground was a chicken that she had eaten before. Only part of the bright red flesh and feathers were left, and it was already shapeless.
"...Kill me!"
She murmured repeatedly, tearing her hair with her hands, and even hitting the ground with her back, and explained painfully with tears in her eyes, "I just want to prove the teacher's research!...No It was intentional, I didn't—"
Emiya Kiritsugu saw a black glass bottle lying quietly on the ground, and he realized that Xia Lei drank the potion that his father was studying.
"Now...it's still too late...kill me!!"
His pupils were trembling, and he was too frightened to speak.
Emiya Kiritsugu didn't know how he ran away in fear. He panicked and found the adults in the village. After informing the priest of the church, he hid in the house, hugging his knees with his hands and feeling extremely cold all over his body.
Emiya Kiritsugu, who had never seen such a scene before, his still young face was full of fear. He paused for a long time before he realized that Tsurato hadn't been found yet.
Emiya Kiritsugu's legs and feet were already weak as he forced himself to stand up. However, not long after he walked out of the house, his keen vision discovered that the steps of the villagers walking in the dark were bumpy and strange. After a while, he noticed those people. His state was almost similar to that of Xia Lei before.
The village in the distance suddenly burst into flames and was swallowed up by tongues of flames. Many people wearing strange clothes appeared and were getting rid of the villagers who were walking strangely one by one.
The noise, the crackling sounds of burning, and the screams and howls almost filled the ears and made the mind buzz.
Emiya Kiritsugu covered his mouth tightly and his pupils shrank. He even saw the priest he had asked for help before, also looking like he had lost his mind. In an instant, he was hit on the head with a wooden warehouse by an outsider.
The ground was full of blood, twisting and turning the soil red.
His heart was beating wildly, and he almost fell to the ground and couldn't stand up.
Heli... Heli hasn't been found yet!
Emiya Kiritsugu forcibly suppressed his fear. He kept looking around, and when he returned to the area near his house, he saw a large number of abnormal villagers raising their hands in the air, trying to catch the person hiding on the eaves. A strange and greedy sound came from his mouth.
The thin moonlight illuminated the man's appearance, and Emiya Kiritsugu's heart skipped a beat.
Heli! ?
The girl kept climbing to the highest point of the eaves, looking helpless. It seemed that her feet slipped for a moment because she was too scared.
Everything seemed to be in slow motion. When Emiya Kiritsugu saw her, she screamed and suddenly slid down to the edge of the roof, holding the edge tightly with her fingers and shaking there.
"Tsurato!!"
Emiya Kiritsugu couldn't care less. He burst out with unimaginable strength and desperately clenched the knife hidden in his arms, trying to rush towards the villagers who had turned into Death Apostles.
Some villagers who heard Emiya Kiritsugu's voice rolled their red eyes and howled on the spot, preparing to pounce on him.
Right now.
"Bang", "bang", "bang"——!
The sound of wood that sounded from behind Emiya Kiritsugu was shot at the villagers with great accuracy, causing them to fall to the ground without exception. Then, when Emiya Kiritsugu was stunned for a moment, there was a burst of force from behind that knocked his clothes off. He pulled up the collar and threw it directly.
After standing firm, Emiya Kiritsugu quickly threw away the knife and raised his arms to catch the person on top. The girl couldn't hold on and fell, and the two fell to the ground together.
Emiya Kiritsugu's chest was rising and falling, and his heartbeat was so fast that it still hasn't slowed down. He ignored the pain in his back and hugged Heli tightly before looking up at the person behind him.
The woman wearing a black trench coat and short silver-white hair had a stern face. After changing the magazine of Tekukura, she narrowed her eyes and pointed the mouth of Tekokura to the left. She quickly killed another villager who had turned into a Death Apostle. .
"Thank you..."
After learning that the other party's name was Natalia, Emiya Kiritsugu, who was temporarily safe, quickly took Heli to stay next to Natalia, and the changes in the village were undoubtedly due to Xia Lei The subsequent series of horrific phenomena were caused by her drinking the unfinished medicine her father had experimented with.
...Just because he didn't listen to Xia Lei in time and kill her.
"I'm looking for a magician. Do you know where he is?"
Natalia's voice was clear and clear, as if she was stating a cold fact. "Everything happening now is caused by him. He is being pursued by the Magic Association. Ji, for the purpose of magic research, he developed a drug that turns into a Dead Apostle, and has also carried out experiments on it in many places. Currently, the two groups of people who broke into the village are looking for him."
Heli in his arms was already pale due to fright. After falling asleep, Emiya Kiritsugu hugged her tightly. After hearing Natalia's words, he felt deeply unbelievable.
The sacrifices of so many people and the burning eyes were all due to his father's experiments, and his father had even killed more people.
Everything seemed to be the intersection of fate, and it inevitably left extremely terrifying traces in Emiya Kiritsugu's heart.
"Where are you going?" Natalia asked calmly.
Emiya Kiritsugu, who begged Natalia to look after Tsuruga for him, replied in a weak voice, "Find someone." Emiya
Kiritsugu returned to the house again and saw that luggage and belongings were being hurriedly packed in the house. The information comes from Noriken Emiya.
Emiya Noriken, who noticed that Emiya Kiritsugu was safe, breathed a sigh of relief, and then he quickly asked: "Have you seen Tsurato?!"
However, Emiya Kiritsugu just lowered his head and said nothing.
"...Damn it."
Emiya Kiritsugu, who had always been calm, actually showed a look that was so anxious that his face was distorted. It was only a moment of exposure, but Emiya Kiritsugu noticed something.
"Quick, Kiritsugu." But Emiya Noriken quickly regained his composure, and he hurriedly ordered, "Take out those blood collection tubes in the freezer, we have to get out of here quickly."
Emiya Kiritsugu opened the freezer, and his eyes touched The rows of test tubes containing dark red blood were all marked with the time and name of the person being collected.
——"Emiya Tsurato".
so much.
So many, so many...! !
Emiya Kiritsugu's eyes widened, and his black pupils gradually became darker and richer.
"...To treat her, do we need to collect so much?"
Emiya Noriken didn't have time to reply to Emiya Kiritsugu's words, he just hurriedly collected the information.
As if the information at hand is more important than anything else.
"Why isn't dad worried," Emiya Kiritsugu continued to murmur, "or even look for Tsurato?"
"What are you talking about? Of course I have looked for it -"
Emiya Noriken's words came without any warning. Stopped abruptly.
Severe pain spread across the punctured abdomen. Emiya Noriken's breathing was stagnant, and he looked at the young man standing in front of him in disbelief.
The other party raised a sharp knife with a silvery luster, his face was like stagnant water, and the expression in his eyes tended to be nothing.
The next second.
Emiya Kiritsugu picked up the Tekokura on the table again, pointed it at Emiya Noriken without hesitation, and pressed the Tekokura's switch one after another.
After being silent for a long time, he squatted down and began to read the information scattered on the floor.
When he saw some of the content, he gritted his teeth and his pupils fluctuated violently.
【April 21st. Within the Magic Association. Her blood does contain incredible power.
April 30th. Within the Magic Association. Designated as ■■, she is the existence closest to the source and cannot be hidden like this.
October 13th. I escaped with her.
October 27th. Her split personality disorder worsened. Preliminary research showed that she was unable to control the approximate source power in her body, so multiple "her" selves were born in her body, trying to snatch her body.
November 11th. Alimango Island. Her blood really helped my experiment.
There was no treatment process for Tsurato, only Emiya Noriken's joy at the progress of his experiment.
So many people died, Xia Lei and the once kind villagers...
everything was swallowed up by the tongue of fire.
Nor did Emiya Noriken show the slightest trace of guilt.
And Heli...
who will save her?
He lowered his head and dropped the wooden warehouse in his hand to the ground.
finally.
Natalia walked here with the sleeping girl in her arms. When she saw with her own eyes Noriken Emiya who was killed by Emiya Kiritsugu in the house, her eyebrows gradually wrinkled.
She calmly covered the eyes of the girl who had not yet woken up with her hands.
"...If this person escapes, he will continue to study the Dead Apostles elsewhere."
Facing the young Emiya Kiritsugu standing there frailly, Natalie could make such a judgment so clearly and rationally. Ya turned his back and couldn't see clearly the expression on his face.
"As a reason for a child to kill his father by himself, this is really too bad." "
...You are a good person."
Listening to his weak voice that could not distinguish emotions, Natalia asked the last sentence, "I will take you out of here, what else do you want to take away?"
Emiya Kiritsugu just walked to Natalia's side, the remaining halo of the indoor light still remained in his eyes, reflecting the paleness of the girl Her sleeping face was like the last candle that was lit, crumbling but not extinguished.
He raised his hand and touched the cheek of the girl in her arms, the movement fleeting.
"No, I only have her."
Emiya Kiritsugu, who chose to follow Natalia, came to the outside world from the island that was originally isolated from the world, and gradually came into contact with the darkness of the world.
He inevitably embarked on the same path as Natalia, as a bounty hunter, wandering between life and death, learning firearms, and busy training.
"Drink some." Natalia brewed a cup of coffee and handed it to Emiya Kiritsugu.
The young man, whose facial features and even limbs were gradually growing longer, took the coffee and took a sip in silence.
His arms were wrapped in bandages after the injury, and his face was thin.
"Just hiding it from her?"
Natalia, who was sitting next to Emiya Kiritsugu, asked.
Emiya Kiritsugu, who didn't want Heli to see all this, put the person in a relatively safe place and entrusted others to take care of him. He would visit Heli every week.
So Heli still doesn't know what he is doing now.
"Kid, I'm not in the mood to play house with you," Natalia saw that Emiya Kiritsugu didn't reply, so she added, "Tsurato isn't the only one in contact with you, she's not what you imagined. So fragile."
"No!"
Emiya Kiritsugu, who suddenly raised his voice, realized that he had lost his temper and quickly explained, "Don't let her know that she is not suitable to be a hunter either." "
..." Natalia narrowed her eyes slightly. Eyes, after a moment of silence, warned, "Naivety will kill you and take away the most important person in you. You should know that you have embarked on such a path. Once the enemy knows your weakness, what will happen?" What's the consequences?"
However, Emiya Kiritsugu just held the coffee cup tightly.
Finally, after completing a mission, Emiya Kiritsugu hurried back to the small town where Tsurato was located.
On the other end of the phone, the servant responsible for taking care of Heli said this: "Heli had another attack last night... The doctor came to see him and gave him an injection of medicine, and he is going to sleep now."
He didn't care about his travels . Opened the door of Heli's bedroom.
Heli, who was lying on the bed and had woken up, looked slightly pale. She was holding a book in her hand. She looked over after hearing the door open.
The man standing at the door, who was still holding the door handle because he moved too hastily, fell into Heli's eyes. For some reason, he felt strange.
It was probably because the voice in my head was still ringing non-stop in the past few years, and the tearing pain did not get better at all.
Heli's memory even turned faintly blurry.
She was stunned for a while until the man came to her bedside, squatted down and held her hand, and asked with warm breath: "Heli?"
Heli looked into the other person's eyes, as if they were covered. A layer of bottomless black, without any ripples, could not even reflect any of her expressions.
What was Heli thinking at that time?
Probably... who is this person?
"Kiritsugu."
She said her words slowly, one step ahead of her thoughts, and the other party breathed a subtle sigh of relief.
But Heli was wondering.
The Kiritsugu she remembered was clearly a young man who loved to laugh and had a warm personality.
However, even though the man in front of him had grown facial features and matured, and was still wearing a long black coat, his eyes seemed to be gradually dying. He stood up, probably because he was afraid that she would smell something bad, so he quickly took off his dusty coat and took it outside to hang it up.
"What are you looking at?"
The man sitting next to her bed spoke as slowly as possible, and his arms became more generous. When lying in his arms, Heli felt a little drowsy.
He picked up the book on the bed and after flipping through a few pages, he paused.
It is a travel atlas written by a recently famous author.
"Heli, you want to go out for a walk, right?"
Heli forced herself not to close her eyes. She felt the other person's palm gently stroking her forehead, and she couldn't help but nodded.
"Wait until May," he said after noticing Heli's sleepiness, his voice softened, "I'm a little busy at the beginning of the year, so Heli needs to be at home and be good, okay?"
She made a replying sound from her nose, and unknowingly she was already leaning against him. She lay on the pillow, and the vague warmth left her forehead as soon as it touched her. She closed her eyes and breathed gradually evenly.
After hearing the bedroom door close, Heli opened his eyes again. His eyes were obviously very clear and there was no trace of sleepiness at all.
She sat up from the bed and dialed the phone on the bedside table.
"Hello?"
"Natalia."
Heli said calmly, "I've thought about it, can I come to you?"
Natalia on the other end of the phone put down the wine glass in her hand, and the corners of her lips curved , "Of course."
In fact, a few months ago, Emiya Kiritsugu thought that she had already known about the things that he had successfully concealed from Heli.
The smell of blood and dust from injuries and long-term missions was difficult to sweep away. In addition, Emiya Kiritsugu never smoked in front of Tsurato, so the smell of tobacco could be covered up.
After knowing that Emiya Kiritsugu has been doing such dangerous things, Hesato is determined to meet Natalia.
There were not many people at the place where the two met. After Heli sat down, the first thing he said was, "What Kiritsugu can do, I can do too."
Natalia glanced at her.
The childish girl who was once held in his arms has become more and more beautiful. She tied up her long hair, revealing a soft face, but the look in her eyes was extremely firm.
"This is not something you can just say."
Natalia was a little surprised by her choice, but she still warned calmly, "You should know what I mean. Becoming a bounty hunter also means that you will no longer be a bounty hunter. You are the original you."
"I know."
Heli even begged sincerely, "No matter what, I have to give it a try."
"Why?"
Facing Natalia's question, Heli calmed down. , "He won't be able to bear it alone."
Previously, after learning that Emiya Kiritsugu had chosen to become a bounty hunter over the years, Heli asked Natalia what he thought.
Natalia once said: "He no longer wanted to see more people sacrifice, so he decided to embark on this path. Facing so many enemies, he still did not forget to save people. This is a naive and overly rational ideal. I'm a Christian."
"I'm different from him." Heli's thoughts came to this point, he looked at Natalia's slightly fluctuating eyes, and said word by word, "I can do anything, if he wants to Save others... Then I just want to save him."
Save his dead eyes and disappeared smile.
Natalia just looked at Heli, speechless for a long time.
She finally stood up and rubbed Heli's hair. After messing up the hairstyle, she sighed, "You are also a hopeless brat."
Heli remained determined despite his messy hair. Incomparably, "Can I?"
"Come here to see me tomorrow. You have agreed in advance. Don't cry if you are scared."
Natalia, who returned to her cold look, received a smile from Heli.
"Well, thank you very much."
Heli's eyes seemed to be filled with an extraordinarily warm color, "Kiritsugu will feel a lot more relaxed when you are here."
Natalia turned her cheek to the side, pretending not to He was caught by Heli's gaze and responded calmly, "Kid, what are you talking about? You're not very young, but your tone is so mature?"
Later, without telling Emiya Kiritsugu, Natalia secretly taught Tsurato how to train his own skills as a qualified hunter and professional killer.
To Natalia's surprise, the Heli in front of her didn't look like a newbie at all.
The reaction ability, calm thinking and reconnaissance awareness that the other party should have were able to understand so quickly.
If learning is a long process, then the other person is like a piece of jade that is being quickly carved.
Natalia even doubted whether Heli had ever studied in this area, but she had forgotten it and was unfamiliar with it.
"Natalia," Heli quickly eliminated the shadow hidden in the ruins, lowered his voice and looked at Natalia, "It's over."
This is what Natalia led Heli to do. The first task.
The difficulty is not easy, but Heli chose the one that could be completed the fastest without leaving any room for failure between killing and not killing.
Natalia stepped forward and patted Heli on the head.
"Your choice is right."
Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.
"Thank you."
Heli put away the Mukura branch, and in front of the ruined walls and several lifeless corpses lying on the ground in the background, Heli showed a warm smile without impurities towards Natalia.
Natalia was unusually silent.
This scene was too impactful, as if Heli was not aware of the loss of death and life at all. Human life was bound by the cold Mucangzhi in her hands. What dominated her will seemed to be only whether the person hindered Heli. Complete the task, or whether she can complete the task faster.
Was he really right to let her take this path?
Nearly mid-May.
Tsurato remembered that Emiya Kiritsugu had said that he would take her out during this time.
Therefore, she obediently did not accept any more tasks.
But a few days later, Tsurato could not wait for Emiya Kiritsugu to come home. She sat by the bed, picked up the landline phone, and started dialing the number in Natalia's residence.
The phone beeped slowly several times, and it took a long time before the call was answered.
"Natalia."
Heli spoke first, but the breathing on the other side suddenly stopped. Hearing the strangeness, Heli was stunned and did not speak again.
"...Tsurato."
It was Kiritsugu.
Heli didn't expect that it was Emiya Kiritsugu who answered the call, but she gradually sensed that something was wrong.
The other party's voice was hoarse to the extreme, as if it was extremely difficult to speak any more words.
"Kiritsugu?"
She held the phone tightly, feeling uneasy for some reason. She even raised her hand to pinch the skirt of her chest and asked slowly, "What's wrong?"
The other party didn't reply.
"Brother, didn't you agree to take me out?"
Her heartbeat accelerated, and she tried to say to him through the microphone with current: "I have been waiting for you at home, and today..." "
... Sorry," the other party replied with suppressed emotions, "I'm going home now."
The phone hung up.
He Li didn't know why Natalia asked Kiritsugu to answer the phone. Wouldn't this expose the fact that she often contacted Natalia in private? Natalia shouldn't be so careless. Did something happen...?
She sat on the bed, hugging her knees, but those voices sounded in her mind again.
"It seems they don't pay attention to you at all."
"Heli, you are getting more and more bad-behaved."
"Are you talking to us?"
"No one cares about you, they have nothing to do with you."
"Only us, We will..."
"Shut up!"
Heli covered her head and retorted sternly, "It's so noisy!"
There was pain in her forehead again, but she seemed to be used to it, and just pressed her head harder and harder. , as if to tear the things in my mind into pieces.
When the bedroom door was opened, sweat was already dripping from Heli's forehead, and she looked at the visitor with drowsy eyes.
Emiya Kiritsugu came to her side urgently, "Tsurato?"
She immediately buried herself in his arms and hugged him tightly.
He could smell the unpleasant smell of tobacco in his nose. He Li didn't dislike it, but murmured repeatedly, "Brother, you won't want me, right?"
Emiya Kiritsugu also hugged the girl in his arms, his chin He pressed it against the top of her head, his movements were suppressed and his breathing was steady.
His eyes were already ashen at the moment, but he seemed to regard her as his only life-saving straw.
He could feel Heli's uneasiness. She rarely called him brother, and only when she did, he couldn't refuse her.
"No," he promised, "I will always stay by Heli's side."
He only has her...only her.
Emiya Kiritsugu, who had his eyes tightly closed in the dark, hid his expression, and buried himself in Tsurui's soft hair. He smelled her breath and felt his body and mind tremble.
a day ago.
On the plane Natalia was on, hundreds of passengers and crew members had died after being stung by demon bees. Once the plane with a large number of dead apostle bees landed, it would most likely endanger more people.
Even though Natalia was still alive and preparing to land the plane, Emiya Kiritsugu still had the urge to not look back.
He rode on the yacht, raised his rocket launcher, and shot down the plane she was on in the sound of Natalia's last remote contact with him.
It was he who killed Natalia with his own hands.
Killed his mentor and also killed his mother.
"... Kiritsugu?"
Heli felt that the figure of the man holding her was trembling slightly. She was slightly stunned when she faintly felt the dampness coming from her neck.
Kiritsugu...crying?
She couldn't help but hug him tightly.
Then she heard the other party's almost inaudible voice, as if seeking help that was out of reach.
"I'm right, am I right...?"
"Yes."
Heli raised his hand and touched the top of his head, his movements slowing down, "No matter what, I will stay with Kiritsugu."
Emiya Kiritsugu There seemed to be a tremor in his slightly opened eyes.
He kept kissing her hair, her earlobes, and finally the top of her hair, cherishing it extremely.
There is still some unfinished business... He needs to find someone who can cure Heli's illness.
After Emiya Kiritsugu said sorry to Heri that he would take her out in a few days, Heri nodded dullly.
He was ready to find another way and began to look for a capable magician to make Heli healthy.
After that, he took over Natalia's duties and began to deal with the Magic Association and the Holy Church.
Until he received a wanted mission from the Holy Church, about catching a girl who escaped from the Magic Association many years ago.
The task list only provided simple characteristics, that of an Asian girl with black hair and honey eyes, and a subsequent note: extremely dangerous, do not spread widely.
Emiya Kiritsugu held the list, his eyes calm.
He prepared his weapon, sneaked into the Magic Association invisibly, and placed the eavesdropping equipment in the corner.
Then, he hid in the distance and heard -
"Not found yet!?"
"No..."
"Trash!"
Someone in the quarreling crowd said: "You must not let her fall into the hands of others. You You know, if you are not careful, if someone else cracks the power from the source of her body, the world will disappear or not in a single thought of hers!" "
What if she remembers how the power works...?"
" Shut up!"
As if the topic of the question was frightening, the man added: "It's okay, it must be okay. She has become like a child, how can she remember it?" "
But in the prophecy..."
Several people fell silent, and the atmosphere became increasingly tense.
"Sir!!"
Suddenly someone broke in, breaking the current scene, and reported in a panic: "We found it, but the people who were taught go first -"
After hearing this, Emiya Kiritsugu's movements were almost uncontrollable. General, whole body stiff.
And he already had some information about the wanted girl.
It is densely listed with a large number of people who died because of her.
Black hair and sweet eyes, missing time, escaping from the Magic Association... and the information handbook left by his former father.
All of them correspond to the most important people in my mind.
He didn't care about the chaos in his thoughts, and realized that the mission given to him by the Holy Church was just a trap to divert him away so that he could attack Heli.
Emiya Kiritsugu rushed to the place mentioned by those in the Magic Association as quickly as possible.
The church was completely dark in the dark night. He vaguely heard the miserable screams and quickly rushed to the deepest part of the church corridor.
After breaking open the wooden door, a long and deep staircase was revealed.
The screams had become fainter, and there were very light gasps lingering in the corridor.
Emiya Kiritsugu walked to the end step by step.
The first thing you notice is the horrific mess on the ground.
Several bodies with weak breaths were lying on the ground. However, looking at their injuries, they were afraid that time was running out.
Someone was sizzling, blood was still flowing from his mouth, his pupils gradually turned gray, he raised his hand tremblingly towards Emiya Kiritsugu, his voice was intermittent, "Help, help me..."
until he saw clearly where he was. The girl lying in the middle had a needle and a wooden barrel rolled down beside her hand. Her figure was curled up there. She was in pain so much that clear veins appeared on her forehead, and her eyes were so trance-like that she was delirious.
"...Tsurato!"
Emiya Kiritsugu didn't think much. He quickly picked up the girl and raised her face.
However, Heli could no longer say any unnecessary words. Her body twitched from time to time, and her arms hung weakly. The pinholes with blood drops on her skin were extremely dazzling.
Emiya Kiritsugu saw this clearly, and even realized that she...killed all the people around her.
He uncontrollably thought of everything he heard and saw at the Magic Association.
Are you kidding, how is that possible...! ! She doesn't know anything? Why endure all this! !
The last thing Heli felt was this hot embrace.
A few minutes ago, after being injected with the drug, the voice in her head was like a high-pitched roar.
Shut up, stop! !
She explosively grabbed Mukang from the waist of the person in front of her and pressed the switch countless times.
The smell of blood filled her nose, but she fell to the ground as if numb.
"As I said, only we will accompany you."
"They want to control you."
"...It hurts, poor child."
"Leave it to me..."
My mind was filled with different voices. , that bewitching voice became increasingly unstoppable.
She just kept her eyes open, as if she was being picked up by someone in a daze, and then her eyes were filled with tears, and the pain actually made her almost fuzzy memory clear, like a flashback.
It seems that she was like this many, many years ago.
Before being locked in a dark room within the Magic Association.
Because of the uncontrollable power, countless blood was intertwined between her hands, and everyone who came close to her died. Scorned and scared, he even thought she was a witch and clamored to burn her to death.
The flames rose up, and the crying and screaming could not stop the pain of being swallowed by the tongues of fire, which was extremely terrifying.
A heavy rain extinguished the flames, and she sat in the charcoal with her body covered in charred charcoal. In front of her were the humans who had died because of her violent power.
Her eyes lost their expression and became void.
Destroy this world... destroy everything.
The first unfamiliar voice started to sound in my mind.
At this point, she became more and more indifferent, but she was trapped by the people of the Magic Association, and her body turned into the appearance of a child.
The memory was sealed, leaving only more and more voices in my head.
They tried to take her body.
"Heli...do you still remember this coupon?"
Faintly, an unknown voice woke Heli up from the dead silence of memory.
The shape of a card was vaguely reflected in front of her eyes.
"You drew it one stroke at a time. You said you could fulfill any of my wishes," his voice trembled imperceptibly, "Do you remember?"
Coupon...?
It's a wish...voucher.
However, the voices in her mind became more and more shrill and noisy. She only felt bursts of tearing, as if it would explode at any time. She couldn't even say a word. The sweat on her forehead seeped into the slits of her eyes, which was extremely painful.
She... couldn't hold on any longer.
You can't let them take away your body, you can't...
His eyes were in a trance, and tears had filled his eyes. Heli finally saw the person in front of him clearly.
The man with bloodshot eyes seemed to have died together with her from the burning torture many years ago.
No one had saved her before, so she wanted to save him...
No, she had to persevere, she had to live...!
She tried hard to open her mouth and wanted to say something to him, but it was too painful to say anything.
"Are you really tired?... Heli, if you can't hold on anymore."
The man held her tighter and tighter, and finally buried his face in her neck as if he was afraid that she would see his vulnerable side. In the nest, his tone was trembling, revealing his true emotions.
"...Brother is here to help you."
He didn't know how he said this.
It was like being paralyzed, even the beating of the heart stopped.
Finally, in the midst of pain, Heli felt a light and precious kiss on her forehead.
Her cheek was held up by the other party, and the picture in front of her was no longer clear.
"I want to use this coupon," he suppressed it tightly and said, "My last wish is...forgive me, Heli."
As if she noticed something, the tears that snaked down the corner of her eyes were relieved by him. Wipe away slowly.
"Bang——!"
The sound of a gun sounded.
Emiya Kiritsugu could no longer suppress the despair in his heart. His cries and collapse sounds seemed to be tearing at his throat, like thousands of blades piercing his heart and overflowing with blood.
"Are you kidding!! Oh, what are you kidding me!? Bastard——!!"
Is it because she might kill more people in the future? ! !
——"You have to cherish her, you two hopeless brats." Before the plane was destroyed by him, Natalia's gentle voice on the plane was transmitted to Emiya through the remote communication headset. Kiritsugu, "She said she wanted to save you."
- "Then the second wish is that Tsuruto can always stay by my brother's side, even if he has someone he likes in the future.", "What about my brother?", "Me Ah, we are family, of course I will accompany Heli.", "We agreed."...
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...I'm sorry, Heli."
The breath of the person in his arms disappeared, but his eyes seemed to have never been there again. There was no luster anymore, and even the candlelight, the only thing that could shake him, was extinguished.
Now, the person who wanted to save him is also dead.
Killed by his own hands.
Emiya Kiritsugu's lips and teeth trembled, but he just hugged her hard, as if this could relieve the emptiness in his heart.
Became completely nothing.
Outside the game.
Fushiguro Megumi, who was facing the man with white hair and red eyes, frowned and was thinking about how to deal with the special cursed spirit in front of her.
However, without any warning, the girl who was leaning on the chair and unconscious began to shed tears from the end of her eyes.
Her voice was very soft, as if she was telling someone, "...It doesn't matter."
"Tsurato?"
The two people in the room stopped immediately. Fushiguro Megumi urgently held her shoulders, but looked at her tightly. Her eyes were closed, tears were falling, her breathing was trembling, her expression became increasingly sad, and she was fragile to the point of despair.
It made the two people present look pale for no reason.
Four chapters in one! ! The word count is huge! !
This final game belongs to Heli's memory. The truth chapter is still a little bit explained. The next chapter will explain everything about the vests and the game!
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