On the Difference Between the New and Old Testaments

"Could you be a little more serious?"

Rin Tohsaka sighed. She truly had no way of dealing with Fang Mo. "We're discussing the murderer who killed my father."

"Didn't I already tell you?"

Fang Mo spread his hands. "According to my intelligence, it was that fake Priest, Kirei Kotomine."

"But what was the point of him doing that?"

Rin Tohsaka trusted Fang Mo and felt that he was probably telling the truth, but she still could not understand why Kirei Kotomine would do such a thing. She could not help asking, "He was my father's student... Was it just to loot the Holy Grail?"

"Who knows? Maybe little boys over here in Japan got irradiated."

Fang Mo shrugged indifferently. "After stabbing people for too long, his brain probably mutated, and he became a pleasure... Pleasure Criminal."

"Huh? A Pleasure Criminal?"

Rin Tohsaka froze. "What's that?"

"Exactly what it sounds like."

Fang Mo gave a simple explanation. "Kirei Kotomine's thought process is different from a normal person's. He can't feel happiness through ordinary means. He only feels pleasure when he sees painful struggles and ugly, disgusting things. Do you get it now?"

"Th-this... So that's how it is?"

Hearing Fang Mo's explanation, Rin Tohsaka was slightly stunned.

She had always found Kirei Kotomine strange, but she had never understood why. Now that Fang Mo pointed it out, she finally realized it.

"Wait!"

But in the next moment, a terrifying thought suddenly surfaced in Rin Tohsaka's heart. "According to what you said, the reason he killed my father couldn't be..."

"He probably thought your father was terribly boring."

Fang Mo confirmed Rin Tohsaka's guess. "Rather than winning the Holy Grail together, I think he might have been looking forward to a different scene—like the expression on your father's face as he died