"..."
Kirei Kotomine Listening to this unknown woman's answer, her eyes flickered slightly, and she felt a strange feeling in her heart.
He wanted to ask the unknown woman, the man named Emiya Kiritsugu, how he obtained happiness.
However, in the end he didn't ask anything.
Just look at Emiya Kiritsugu quietly and turn off the Magecraft Mystic Code used for communication.
If you want to ask, it is better to ask in person.
"Move. When the boss transfers the money, I will take you to get it."
Emiya Kiritsugu put away the communication disk, took out a cigarette and lit it, then turned around and walked towards the castle, intending to move all the remaining antiques away.
As for chatting with these two Executor for a while, it was not within the scope of his choice at all.
He still had many abandoned children to raise, but he couldn't waste his energy on such meaningless things.
And... it's strange that Executor has been silent all this time. The look in his eyes is so intense that even a man like him, who has experienced hell, feels a little twisted in his heart.
However, he couldn't say anything. After all, the strange Executor didn't have murderous intentions, he just stared at him like a pervert.
How could he not show it to others?
"... Hey, Kirei, if you are free, go and help our accomplices."
At this moment, Rogue Priest patted Kirei Kotomine on the shoulder. "You should be very interested in that man. Now is a rare opportunity to get to know each other. If you have anything to ask, take advantage of it now.
With that said... He turned around and walked to the grass by the roadside to sit down. He silently took out a cigarette and lit it, his expression falling into a somewhat lonely state.
On the other side, Emiya Kiritsugu, who had not yet entered the castle, paused in his steps, his indifferent face changed color slightly, and then he seemed to want to escape, and his steps accelerated a bit.
Obviously... he had no intention of getting to know each other with this man named Kirei Kotomine.
(...Do you want to pursue Kiritsugu? Executor's xp is really strange.)
Not far away, Aoyama Aohana witnessed this scene and wondered what it would look like if Emiya Kiritsugu and the man named Kirei Kotomine really stayed together.
——Oh, no, it seems to be pretty good. This picture feels so beautiful, with a sacred, pure and beautiful feeling.
She stretched out her hand to touch her cheek and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. Especially when she saw Emiya Kiritsugu leaving in a hurry, she felt a sense of joy in her heart, feeling that these two Executor were not that bad after all.
"-I went over."
Standing there, Kirei Kotomine thought for a while, and then walked towards the castle. He wanted to start a soul-searching conversation with Emiya Kiritsugu.
What is the unfillable hole in his heart, and what needs to be used to fill it? Can it be filled with sweet love, as Rogue Priest said.
Or... does it require the use of heretical means?
***
Inside the castle.
Emiya Kiritsugu was walking in the dark corridor, and Kirei Kotomine was chasing after him from behind. His silent eyes were staring at the indifferent Emiya Kiritsugu, who was silently organizing his words to ask out his confusion.
He allowed his father's teachings to live, so to speak, like a saint.
However, he was unable to obtain anything worthy of reward from this way of living. He was not satisfied because he did good deeds, nor did he feel happy because others were happy.
He has always been troubled by this, why even though he is walking on the right path, his heart is still as empty as ever.
"... Is there anything you want to ask?"
At this moment, Emiya Kiritsugu suddenly stopped and stopped in front of a window. He held the window with both hands and looked at the bright moon in the sky, while the cigarette in his mouth was floating in the air.
"If I could answer it, I wouldn't mind having a good chat with you, but my meaningless life shouldn't have any meaningful nutrients for you to absorb."
He spoke so coldly and self-deprecatingly, without making a good evaluation of his life.
However, he sincerely wanted to answer Kirei Kotomine's doubts, because the current Kirei Kotomine looked very much like the confused orphan he adopted and asked him questions.
So... I don't know if it's because he's soft-hearted or because he has a kind heart.
In short, he planned to take some time to chat with Kirei Kotomine.
"Che Guevara, have you ever felt empty inside?"
Kirei Kotomine asked.
"That's right, I'm extremely confused and empty."
Without hesitation, Emiya Kiritsugu answered truthfully.
He pursued the impossible dream in a daze, wanting to be Hero of Justice to save the world. This too abstract and grand desire made his heart feel empty step by step.
"What now?"
Kirei Kotomine asked again.
"——Tricked!"
Emiya Kiritsugu took a strong drag on the cigarette, exhaled a large cloud of smoke, and then said with some entanglement, "That woman saw through my existence, and then used me like a devil, and like giving a sweetener, punched my heart into pieces, or in other words, used cruel reality to strangle my dreams."
To be honest, he still wants to be Hero of Justice and pursue the ideal of saving the world. And because he owed Aozaki Touko 200 million US dollars, he gave up the dream he had been pursuing.
But... the actual charity he invested now left him with no time to think about it.
If you want to pursue becoming Justice Partner who saves the world, you must first solve the problem of food and clothing for your adopted children.
There is no doubt that this requires astronomical amounts of money, and these adopted children are not a group.
Instead, it is constantly expanding and upgrading, which is basically a never-ending undertaking.
"Can that woman... be able to dispel the emptiness in people's hearts?"
Kirei Kotomine frowned and didn't know what he was thinking.
"That woman is not a Virgin. On the contrary, she is still like a devil. Although she can make people live a very fulfilling life, it will also lead to a harder life than a social animal."
Emiya Kiritsugu glanced at Executor beside him. "If you seek help from that woman, you will have to pay an unbearable price, which may be your own freedom or astronomical amounts of money."
He made a strange expression as he said this.
"Of course, if you are a beautiful girl, or have a very beautiful daughter, then maybe that devilish woman might consider agreeing to help."
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Chapter 122 What price do you have to pay?
"Does she like beautiful women?"
Kirei Kotomine asked questions and started thinking seriously.
If you can correct the hole in your heart that you have been suffering from, you can raise a beautiful daughter and then use her as a bargaining chip in exchange.
Is this something worth doing?
However, the three views he had been taught since childhood told him that this was the wrong choice.
However, he was not disgusted with this matter in his heart.
The hollowness and indifference in my heart, and the common sense cultivated since childhood, collided so fiercely at this moment, the contradiction was so contradictory that I didn't even understand it.
"——She should like what she said."
Emiya Kiritsugu flicked the finished cigarette butt, and the cigarette butt flashed in the air and fell. Then he took out another cigarette and lit it, and said in a somewhat uncertain tone:
"If you can really use a beautiful enough daughter as a bargaining chip, that devil-like woman might really be willing to use her genius to create a tailor-made solution for you."
Saying this, he turned to look at Kirei Kotomine beside him.
"But, since you have a daughter, the taste of love and affection should be able to fill your empty heart, and you don't need to look for that woman for treatment."
"So, instead of worrying about these heresies, you might as well put down your Executor mission, go out into the world to find a beautiful woman, and have a sweet love, and then you won't have any problems."
Yes, this is his judgment on the man named Kirei Kotomine. This man as Holy Church Executor should have suppressed his feelings due to Executor's way of living.
After all, Executor's mission is to fight against heretics, and his survival experience is not good at all.
During the mission, he wanders on the edge of life and death, and even attacks targets that are impossible to attack. In this case, he seals his inner feelings and then performs the mission like a machine. This is actually a self-protection mechanism for human beings.
It can avoid being overwhelmed by inner guilt, but it will also cause emotional loss.
Therefore, his advice to Kirei Kotomine was to give up Executor's job and return to society like a normal person.
In this way, his self-enclosed heart should slowly regain the missing feelings.
"Is that so?"
Kirei Kotomine subconsciously frowned, feeling something was not right and said, "But, I feel like this won't be helpful to me."
Yes, this is the fact that he intuitively stated. He does not think that this can fill the shortcomings in his heart. This kind of shortcomings that he has carried since he was born should not be solved just because of a so-called sweet love.
To be honest, he had some doubts about his ability to love others.
"Have you experienced it... How will you know if you don't try it?"
Emiya Kiritsugu asked back, and then said, "However, if you are really too confused, when I finish moving the antiques, I will contact the woman again to let her confirm your condition."
"That's it, please."
Kirei Kotomine nodded slightly.
"Just a heads up."
Emiya Kiritsugu said coldly, "You must be prepared to pay the consultation fee. The amount should be so huge that it will use up all your savings and may even cause you to owe unbearable debt!."
Even he has to admit one thing, that is, Aozaki Touko is the strongest doctor in the world. He can probably save even the dead. Medical skill's level even infringes upon the realm of gods.
However, the corresponding treatment value is also prohibitively expensive.
Even if he has been busy with charity work recently, he still knows how many extremely wealthy national Magecraft doctors have exhausted all their wealth in order to seek Aozaki Touko treatment to successfully achieve their goals.
The woman named 'Aozaki Touko' is the best doctor in the world.
But. He is also the most expensive doctor in the world.
"——Sorry to trouble you."
Without hesitation, Kirei Kotomine made the decision.
He has accumulated a lot of salary as Executor, and with his father's savings over the years, it shouldn't be a problem to support treatment.
Hmm... By the way, he should also get a share of the antique loot this time.
"Now that you said so."
Shaking his head with some pity, Emiya Kiritsugu finished his cigarette in one breath, flicked the cigarette butt away with a snap of his fingers, turned around and chose to move the antiques.
****
After some time.
The antique black van made several trips back and forth.
Finally, all the antiques in the castle were emptied.
At this moment, in a magnificent living room in the castle, four people, Emiya Kiritsugu, Aoyama Aohana, Kirei Kotomine, and Rogue Priest, were sitting together drinking coffee.
"... I finally finished moving, and I almost died from exhaustion~"
Rogue Priest was lying on the sofa like a salted fish, with a tired expression on his face, but there was no hint of fatigue in his eyes.
"I remember you didn't work the whole time, right?"
Aoyama Aohana took a sip of coffee and said in a mocking tone.
However, Rogue Priest said matter-of-factly:
"This is different. You must know that my soul is with you. When you are working, I am actually working, so it is natural to be tired."
"... I want to beat you to death~"
After a moment of silence, Aoyama Aohana showed cold murderous intent. It was obvious that she was unhappy with this sarcastic priest. She was a woman carrying an angel statue and didn't say anything. However, this guy who didn't work and waited for money was talking leisurely and sarcastically.
"Uh...sorry, I was wrong."
Decisively, Father Boring apologized heartily.
other side.
Emiya Kiritsugu took out the disk and contacted Aozaki Touko in the UK. After waiting silently for a while, the disk finally sounded the connection prompt.
Immediately afterwards.