Hunter's Ascent: Starting in the Hunter x Hunter World
Chapter 749

Gas: It Has Endured Too Much for My Holy Grail War

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Obviously, the "pleasure" Gilgamesh had instilled in Kotomine Kirei was, in essence, a process of breaking free from the restraints of law and morality and completely unleashing the dark desires lurking in the subconscious.

Simply put, in the King of Heroes' eyes, anyone who tried to hide their true intentions could be branded with the word "hypocrite."

And what he hated most was hypocrisy.

That was also why he later developed the idea of using the Black Mud within the corrupted Holy Grail to cleanse the entire human world.

Because in Golden Flash's eyes, the humans of modern society were far too hypocritical, always suppressing their inborn nature.

He simply did not understand that the sheer scale and complexity of modern society had long surpassed a sparsely populated slaveholding city-state like King Uruk's, and that hypocrisy happened to be the lubricant that allowed people in large cities to get along with one another.

It was like lying. Everyone knew it was wrong, yet everyone inevitably did it.

While the "pleasure" duo busied themselves digging a pit to bury Tokiomi in, Allen sat in one of the rooms on the top floor of a skyscraper, intently holding a "pen" made from special materials as he engraved extremely intricate, exquisite, and mysterious patterns across the nearly naked back of Hisau Maiya.

Meanwhile, Emiya Kiritsugu acted as though he saw nothing. He merely smoked and asked in a low voice, "How much longer?"

"About twenty minutes." Allen answered without even looking up.

Clearly, what he was doing now was applying a special Magic Crest that he had just invented to Hisau Maiya.

More precisely, it was a new technique combining enchanting skills from the game world with this world's arcane magical knowledge.

It could transfer attributes that could originally only be attached to

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