Chapter 1156

【Without any hesitation, Old Saber drew his holy sword directly.】

【No longer concealed by the Invisible Air, the sword body radiating golden light appeared incredibly dazzling in this pitch-black cave.】

【"Make way for me!"】

【Caster: "I can. Before that, there are some questions I need you to answer."】

【"Now, are you still the Knight King who wishes to save a fallen nation?"】

【Old Saber did not hesitate: "No."】

【Caster: "Are you still the clown who cannot let go of the past and dances while bound by the Holy Grail?"】

【Old Saber: "No."】

【"I see."】

【Caster nodded slowly, just like a teacher listening to the best answer from his most satisfied student, quietly proud of him.】

Emiya: "Very simple, decisive, without any confusion."

Knights of the Round Table: "..."

Seeing the king of another world let go completely, they really don't know whether to be happy or sad.

Artoria's mood is also somewhat complicated.

After seeing so many developments, she is actually already somewhat shaken.

Perhaps she should be like Old Saber and let go.

The past is already the past; don't be obsessed with it anymore.

The future belongs to the present.

【This moment, which he had once longed for.】

【In reality, only a few days had passed, but it felt like hundreds of years.】

【Every day of falling into evil, harming others, and obeying the world after abandoning all right paths was slow to an strange degree.】

【Every minute, every second, his whole body was tortured by that dense sense of reality.】

【Just like swimming in a sea of red-hot coal, constantly swallowing filthy waste—the sense of reality of living as evil.】

【Those were days of humiliation, not out of his own will—it is easy to say that.】

【But Caster will not make such excuses.】

【Why?】

【Because, the way of living by obeying an absolute being more powerful than oneself—】

【Is simply too sweet, too comfortable.】

【Throwing individual self and dignity under one's feet, drifting with the current in the torrent of great power.】

【Thus, there is no anxiety or hardship.】

【There, only peace and pleasure exist.】

Rin Tohsaka: "So this guy is the type who likes to live in his own world and does whatever others tell him to do."

Taiga Fujimura: "Isn't that just a corporate slave?"

Caules: "The term corporate slave is a bit..."

Blonde Rin: "Not even as good as a corporate slave."

Caules: "..."

【"Holy Grail War. In the days when you confronted your own proposition, I kept tasting the ecstasy of extreme depravity. Even if I were thrown into the Greater Grail and digested, my soul probably wouldn't be more corrupted. Because, it has already been dyed so pitch black..."】

【Caster smiled and raised his Noble Phantasm.】

【His posture holding the sword is so amateurish that those skilled in swordsmanship would probably laugh at it. However, it carries an indescribable dangerous atmosphere.】

【"However, I rejoice at the arrival of this moment. If it were you, you would kill me, right?"】

【"Do you want to be killed, Caster?"】

【"No, no."】

【Caster looked indifferent: "Heh, it would be troublesome if you misunderstood me like that, Saber."】

【"Committing great treason, knowing I am evil, now, I am just a monster greedily devouring precious things. Proactively sticking out my head for you to behead?"】

【"How could that be. I just simply don't understand. As a modern holy sword wielder, why haven't you cut off my head yet—"】

【The magic sword began to emit a faint radiance.】

Caules: "Is this, seeking death..."

Zabiko: "It feels a bit like pouring one's heart out to someone."

Karna: "Yes, just like being suppressed for a long time."

Zhang Jiao: "Living really poorly, alchemist."

Caster: "Yes..."

【"I am, the enemy of heroes!"】

【"The contemporary magus I acknowledged as a friend is equivalent to being killed by me. The young daughter beloved by my friend is equivalent to being cursed by me."】

【"Just like the declaration at that time, I filled the Greater Grail with countless human lives from the Far East!"】

【Preparation complete, the magic circuits and magic crests in the body are synchronized and connected to the Noble Phantasm.】

【Patterns of light raced across the body surface, and the severe pain caused by overloading swept through the whole body.】

【"So what."】

【"Now, now, now also... at the end of this road, you will see!"】

【"See the young girls who have been robbed of their will, bound in intellect, and reduced to automatic machines offering their souls! People I loved deeper than my own life, by me! Hahaha—efficiently slaughtered!"】

【Something dripped down the cheeks, unrelated to the Noble Phantasm.】

【Old Saber: "... Why are you shedding tears, Caster?"】

【Caster: "No, how could there be tears. A demon that devours human dignity cannot shed tears!"】

【Bloody tears, never stopping.】

【"At this very moment, I am, a demon under the Empress!"】

【Has he fallen into madness—】

【No. His actions are extremely precise. His Noble Phantasm can already be released in a state of certain victory.】

【However, Old Saber is the same.】