Please Let the Epidemic End Soon (Happy National Day)

People in the real world no longer knew how to mock this. Matou Shinji's level of scumminess had truly surpassed their imagination.

Especially with another Matou Shinji as a comparison, this "original version" of Matou Shinji was even more of a human piece of trash—a giant piece of non-burnable garbage.

They had originally thought he was, at worst, the kind of trash who abused people at home.

But now, in order to obtain magical energy, he intended to devour his classmates' lives—and the lives of every student in the entire school. The magic circle would slowly and imperceptibly absorb the life force of every human within its range. Unless they had some means of resisting it, they would continuously weaken from the loss of life force, soon falling ill and even facing mortal danger.

Most importantly, this magic circle had a "transcendent"-level application.

By activating it at full power, it could drain the lives and even souls of every human within its range in one go, converting all of it into magical energy.

It could be said that this was the standard evil ability of an evil villain, a textbook case of benefiting oneself at others' expense.

Of course, that in itself was nothing much.

The most important thing was that when Rider explained the situation, Matou Shinji merely looked disdainful and said with a pleased smile, "For those pathetic, mediocre mortals to become fuel for my acquisition of the Holy Grail is an honor for them. They should be grateful."

"So don't worry about it, Rider. Just do it. Don't you need sufficient magical energy to display your true strength?"

Yes, in Matou Shinji's eyes, the students at the same school were merely fuel. He commented on the purpose of that "fuel" in a lofty tone, perfectly demonstrating what