The Enemy That Must Be Defeated!

In the beautiful future he longed for, everyone was homunculi like that.

Ruler... I finally understand.

So that was what you meant.

Indifferent to life and death, interested in nothing, blankly carrying out their tasks and serving as batteries.

Green fluorescence surrounded her...

She suddenly felt a little sick.

What meaning was there in a life like that? Such a bleak life absolutely should not be what humanity was meant to have!

"I was once a homunculus like that too... I'm just not one anymore!"

"You—what did you say?"

Suppressing the urge to vomit, Sieg struggled to tell Amakusa about his past.

"I was a homunculus created to be a battery. Confined inside a tube, watching the green fluorescence, I naturally felt nothing. My mind was empty. I never thought about anything."

"Until countless homunculus corpses were piled before me like a mountain. I was terrified. I didn't want to become like them at all. I wanted to live—I had to live!"

"Shut up, shut up!"

Amakusa Shirou suddenly slashed his sword at Sieg.

What ridiculous nonsense was this?

He would not accept it. He absolutely would not accept it. How could homunculi feel fear?

When his master had died, he had clearly felt nothing. That calm indifference was how homunculi were supposed to be. That was how the new humanity was supposed to be.

But to his surprise, Sieg blocked it.

Such a swift strike had actually been stopped by Sieg just like that.

That had been his fastest strike, and his strongest.

Why had it been blocked?

"You're afraid, aren't you?"

Sieg repeated the words Jeanne d'Arc had once said to Amakusa Shirou.

Ah... so that was what she meant.

"You're afraid, aren't you?"

Because Jeanne d'Arc had also seen Amakusa Shirou's weakness when facing her. His convictions