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[The correswer is D: The duel is interrupted.]
[gratutions to Waver, Chihiro, Hero King, the King of querors, the Troupe of Acrobats, Emiya Kiritsugu, Tohsaka Tokiomi, Mapo Priest, Tohsaka Rin, Tohsaka Sakura, and General Tiangong for obtaining 5 Saint Quartz.]
[Bluebeard has chosen not to answer.]
[All other partits who answered incorrectly will lose 1 Saint Quartz.]
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Waver: "I was worried I had guessed wrong."
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Iskander: "Haha, you see, Waver! Luck favors the bold—#%##@#%"
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Chihiro: "Iskander, what was that? Are you okay?"
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Iskander: "Ah, it's nothing. Just a slip of the tongue, d."
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Keh: "Emiya Kiritsugu, aren't you and King Arthur on the same side? Why is it that only you mao answer correctly?"
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Irisviel: "Because we're ly… w together at the moment."
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Artoria: "Irisviel, there's o reveal such details so casually."
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Irisviel: "Oh, sorry."
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[The first question has cluded. The sed question will now begin.]
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[This is a multiple-choice question. Please watch the following video carefully and then answer accly.]
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[At midnight, two figures e and one small sat in a yard, gazing up at the luminous full moon.]
[The ure was instantly reizable: Emiya Kiritsugu.]
[The younger was a red-haired boy, his name kindly provided in the caption: Shirou Emiya.]
["Hello, hello, Dad?"]
[Shirou looked over at Emiya Kiritsugu, who had remaiill for a long while.]
["Hm?"]
[Emiya Kiritsugu didn't move, only responding softly.]
["If you want to sleep, go to bed, Dad!" Shirou suggested.]
["No, it's fine. I'm alright," Kiritsugu replied.]
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Keh: "So, even the infamous 'Magus Killer' has a son."
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Waver: "Professor, isn't that a bit… inappropriate?"
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Emiya Kiritsugu: "..."
He sat in silence, bewildered. He had no idea who the child in the video was. Could it be that iure, he and Irisviel would have another child? Did this mean he had somehow mao win the Holy Grail War?
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["When I was young, I dreamed of being a hero of justice."]
[After a long pause, Emiya Kiritsugu spoke quietly.]
["What does that mean?" Shirou asked, puzzled. "When you say 'used to,' do you mean you've given up now?"]
["Yes, unfortunately. I gave up," Kiritsugu said, with a self-depreg tone. "Hero is limited for a short time. Once you grow up, it's difficult to call yourself one . I regretted why I couldn't realize that sooner."]
["Really? That 't be helped," Shirou said, not quite uanding.]
["Yes, there's really nothing to be done about it," Kiritsugu murmured, his gaze returning to the sky. "What a beautiful moon."]
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Gilgamesh: "A 'hero of justice'? Hahahaha, how utterly ughable."
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Keh: "I never expected the so-called 'Magus Killer' to hold such a naive ideal."
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Artoria: "Kiritsugu, you…"
Even Artoria found herself taken aback. Emiya Kiritsugu, a man known for using any means necessary to achieve his goals, once had su i dream?
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Kirei Kotomine: "..."
Kirei felt an ued jolt of disbelief. Emiya Kiritsugu, the man he saw as a kindred spirit, a mirror of his owiness had pursued such a simplistid idealistic dream?
For as long as he could remember, Kirei had beeionally barren. He never experienced happiness, or at least, not in the way others did. His childhood and adult life were marked by a relentless seareaning, trying to uand what it meant to feel joy. But no matter how hard he searched, he never found that elusive sensation.
Even when his wife, Cudia, had taken her own life, it had stirred nothing within him.
Yet, Kirei did not give up. He tinued his search, abandoning his daughter, , to travel the world, hoping to find some purpose that could make sense of his existence.
Eventually, his gaze nded on a man named Emiya Kiritsugu. Here was someone who took on the world's cruelties, relentlessly risking his life for causes where the reward hardly seemed worth the effort. What was it that drove him?
Kirei cluded that Kiritsugu's as were propelled by a singur and resolute goal, something that gave his life meaning.
And so, Kirei sought to front Emiya Kiritsugu, believing that in uanding him, he might finally e to uand himself.
In the inal timeline, Gilgamesh would eventually guide Kirei towards the belief that "human nature is ily evil." This realization led Kirei to indulge in a perverse satisfa in others' suffering, much like Uryu Ryuunosuke.
Thus, when Kirei discovered that Emiya Kiritsugu's true ambition had been to bee a "hero of justice," he felt betrayed, believing that Kiritsugu's ideals were fually opposed to his own. This would fuel an intered towards him.
In their own ways, both men saw each other as por opposites, with irrecible values.
However, Kirei had not yet desded into the darkness of enjoying others' misery. And now, upon learning that Kiritsugu found so acts of goodness, Kirei felt even more lost.
He sat in Tohsaka Tokiomi's living room, alongside Tokiomi and Gilgamesh. Kirei's expression remained ptive, unaware that Gilgamesh's eyes, though harsh in the group's chat, held a certain glimmer of intrigue whehey g him.
Gilgamesh had clearly begun to think things over.
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Chihiro: "Hey, aren't you all taking this a bit too far? What's s about wanting to be a hero of justice?"
Chihiro had grown fed up with Gilgamesh ah's sneering remarks. Their relentless mockery of Emiya Kiritsugu had gone on long enough.
To him, it was absurd that they found Kiritsugu's childhood dream to be ughable. Chihiro believed there was nothing ily foolish about it. Almost every child harbored such dreams at some point in their lives. The harshness of reality might erode such ideals over time, but ging to a bit of that youthful hopefulness was not a weakness. It was a testament to one's humanity.
After all, wasn't there a part of every man that remained a boy until the end?
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Chihiro: "Gilgamesh, Keh, is it really so ridiculous to dream of being a hero who saves others?"
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Chihiro: "Or are your ambitions so ptible that the very idea of justice seems absurd to you?"
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The group chat went silent as the words hung in the air, f everyoo pte what it truly meant to dream of being a "hero of justice."
