Chapter 1160

【"Wha, what's wrong? Where, is this... where..."】

【She couldn't understand the current situation.】

【Why is the sister she has always admired grabbing her collar and dragging her along.】

【Where is this vast space she has never seen before?】

【What is this pitch-black shadow with powerful magic power and extreme turbidity?】

【And what about the young girls lined up on the cliff?】

【"Eek—"】

【The next moment, confusion filled Ayaka Sajyou's mind, turning into fear that invaded her consciousness.】

【She began to tremble as if her skeleton were being shaken, her teeth clicking irregularly. The frequency of her blinking soared briefly, but in the end, she widened her eyes. Staring at the living sacrifices, tears gradually accumulated in her clear eyes.】

【"I hate it, I hate it, what is this... I'm scared, sister..."】

【"Don't be willful. Ayaka."】

【Still wearing a smile on her face, Manaka Sajyou stopped moving.】

【No longer grabbing the young child's clothes, she pointed straight ahead.】

【Without words, she gave instructions to the living sacrifices.】

【Advance—】

【The living sacrifices began to walk, one by one they began to fall.】

【Without pause, the young girls, about ten years old, shed tears of despair, not even allowed to call for help, and just sank into the darkness. Not only their bodies, but even their souls were chewed finely.】

【This is exactly the most efficient material supply process that Caster mentioned.】

Emiya: "Damn it!"

Was it still too late...

It should be said that wanting to save everyone from the beginning was too difficult to begin with.

【"Everyone, don't fight, go in order, but Ayaka is different."】

【Manaka Sajyou bent down and said in Ayaka Sajyou's ear in a mischievous tone: "Jump down now and become material. You—you're not special at all, right? Then you have to go down. Because, other than that, mortals are of no use."】

【Ayaka Sajyou completely collapsed, not understanding how the sister who was once as dazzling as the sun could become like this.】

【"No..."】

【Tears flowed down.】

【"Don't—"】

【Why. Why. Why. Why?】

【And sensing the fragility peculiar to a mind falling into madness, the sea of flesh devouring the living sacrifices squirmed.】

【"Being willful again, even though you are hopelessly ordinary, you are still like this..."】

【Manaka Sajyou grabbed Ayaka Sajyou's hair nonchalantly and dragged her toward the edge of the cliff.】

【Cruelly, without even a hint of emotion on the corners of her lips.】

Rin Tohsaka: "... Crazy, this woman is truly crazy."

Caules: "Just because her sister talked to Saber, she is going to sacrifice her without mercy."

Jinako: "I can't take it anymore... Yandere and love-blindness are fine to watch in anime and games, but I don't want to actually run into one."

Kairi Sisigou: "Phew, Manaka Sajyou really pushed the viciousness of a magus to the extreme."

【--Oh, great one. As expected, you are indeed the mother—】

【The underground space was filled with emotions similar to joy at this moment.】

【That's right, the Beast that is gestating has already been born with the most basic consciousness, and everything happening now, she sees in her eyes.】

【At this moment, the shallow suspicion she had always held toward the young girl who was about to split the eggshell of the Holy Grail and send her into the world completely disappeared.】

【This young girl has no feelings for her blood relatives.】

【Look at her reaction to her sister.】

【No warmth from blood ties, no mockery, and no malice.】

【No different from witnessing all things in the universe.】

【Sky, earth, plants, flowers, animals, insects, humans, relatives—】

【All are equally powerless and illusory existences.】

【All are equally small and pitiful existences.】

【All are equally, piled up into blocks of worthlessness.】

【All are equally, not worth mentioning.】

【In the eyes of the young girl, there is only one thing of value in the world.】

【If the world is colorless and transparent, then only the pale knight has color and possesses unique value. Everything else is colorless, thin and weak to the point of being almost transparent.】

【Although it is everywhere, it has no mass and is equivalent to nothing.】

【The Holy Grail is also. Miracles are also. Even this darkness, which is about to be born from the waves rising without wind from the other shore, is also!】

【--Great Babylon—】

【--You are the return of affectation and decadence, the mother of all harlots and abominable things—】

"Babylon... Harlot..."

Nero frowned, that strange feeling of being both familiar and unfamiliar becoming stronger and stronger.

Ciel: "Great Harlot of Babylon! Could it be that one in the 'New Testament Revelation'—"

Amakusa Shirou: "In the end times, she will have jurisdiction over the kings of the earth, riding on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns, dressed in purple and scarlet, holding a golden cup filled with the filth of fornication, with words on her forehead, saying 'Great Babylon, the mother of harlots and all abominable things of the earth'."

Waver: "That's right, so it is also called, the Great Harlot of Babylon."

Waver: "According to records, she drank the blood of the saints and those who testified for Jesus, and her sins were monstrous, but within a day, she encountered death and sorrow, and was to be burned by fire."

Zabiko: "In plain terms, is she an existence against the Holy See?"

Waver: "Yes, I thought it was the Great Red Dragon, but I didn't expect it to be an existence more troublesome than the Great Red Dragon."

Amakusa Shirou: "Speaking of which, it is generally believed that the harlot is a metonym for the Roman Empire, because her evil deeds and ending reflect the extreme hatred of the Holy See toward the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century AD."

Nero: "What!"

Nero: "Umu! This is outrageous, how dare you insult my Rome like this!"

Zabiko: "Alright, alright, calm down."

Waver: "..."

Actually, there is one thing he didn't say.

The Great Red Dragon is also called the Beast of 666, and this title was also bestowed by the Holy See after Nero stepped down.

The Great Red Dragon, the Harlot of Babylon, Rome, Nero, this series of connections has already been formed.

He had another terrifying guess in his mind.

【"What are you doing, Manaka!"】

【A familiar male voice sounded, not Old Saber.】

【Why would he appear here?】

【Not by chance, but by necessity.】

【The one trying to stop the young girl with words was not the Mage's Association, not the Holy Church, but the young girl's father, Hiroki Sajyou.】

【Facing the atrocities his daughter is committing, not forgetting himself, not being overwhelmed, and being able to speak uprightly, it can be said he has considerable courage.】

【It is not the spirituality peculiar to magi.】

【Is this, the power of a father?】

Jinako: "I didn't expect the father to be the first to arrive."

Blonde Rin: "Both are fathers, why is the gap in being a person so big."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "..."

【"Asking me what I'm doing... This is the true use of the Holy Grail, Dad."】

【Letting go of her crying sister, Manaka Sajyou turned around leisurely.】

【She is completely a daughter who has violated her parent's requirements but has put forward counterarguments with reason and evidence.】

【"What realizing wishes, do you really believe that kind of light talk?"】

【"It's not believing, it's a fact."】

【Hiroki Sajyou clenched his fists and said: "The Holy Grail is a bridge to the Root, our wish for a thousand years, and the hope that will continue for another thousand years! You actually want to use it for this—your personal selfish desire!"】

【"Pfft!"】