Chapter 158

【"You gave me happiness I never dared to hope for."】

【Emiya Kiritsugu's icy face finally changed.】

【"Sorry, I wanted to let you see more of the outside world."】

【Irisviel: "It's enough; leave the happiness I didn't get to Illya."】

"Iris, what happened to your body!"

Seeing the situation in the video, Artoria hurriedly checked Irisviel's body.

"Don't worry, Saber, I'm fine."

Irisviel comforted her with a smile, but her heart was full of bitterness.

Sure enough, that time was about to descend.

She really hoped time could stop here so she could live a little longer.

But there was no way; for Kiritsugu's ideal, this was a necessary sacrifice.

【Time passed in a flash, approaching dusk.】

【Emiya Kiritsugu was nowhere to be found, and Artoria was not there either, leaving only Maiya Hisau to keep watch.】

【"Maiya, why do you fight for Kiritsugu?"】

【Irisviel looked at Maiya Hisau, who was organizing weapons, and spoke.】

【"Because I have nothing else besides that."】

【Maiya Hisau didn't stop her movements and answered expressionlessly: "My family, my original name—I can't remember them now."】

【"Maiya Hisau is the name on the first fake passport Kiritsugu made for me."】

【"The only thing I remember is that the country where I was born was very poor, but the war never stopped."】

【"It's ridiculous, isn't it? Even though eating was a problem, they were still killing each other every day."】

【"Later, someone made a suggestion: instead of training recruits, it's better to kidnap children from other places and let them pick up weapons and fight directly."】

【"I was kidnapped at that time."】

【"After that, my heart and soul were already dead, and only my body was living numbly."】

【"My life only had one thing left: kill the enemy."】

【"Except for this thought, all other emotions have been discarded by me."】

【"Later, I met Kiritsugu; it was he who picked me up from the battlefield."】

【"From then on, I became a weapon fighting for him; everything is just that simple."】

"..."

Waver, Rin Tohsaka, and others were all silent.

Maiya Hisau's past was too dark and too oppressive.

"Sigh..."

Feng Xi also had some feelings about this.

Maiya Hisau was actually speaking very implicitly; the real situation was much darker.

For a woman like Maiya Hisau, living in that kind of place wasn't luck at all, but a nightmare.

She wasn't just a weapon for killing enemies; she was also a tool for men to vent.

Even Emiya Kiritsugu didn't know that Maiya Hisau had actually had a son long ago.

Because this son was the product of her being violated, and also a shame she couldn't shake off for the rest of her life.