Chapter 350

She stood up to face Gilles again, but the wavering in her eyes was gone, and she became incomparably firm.

"I finally understand; I really cannot agree with such salvation."

Gilles: "Why—"

Jeanne: "Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou Tokisada, your actions show a lack of trust in humanity, which will make everything accumulated in the past go to waste. Because humanity has been fighting against evil for thousands of years, and even if they were defeated many times, they did not give up, overcoming the sacrifices of the kind-hearted, and arrived here!"

"Gilles, we are dead people; not only do we lead the living as dead people, but we also delusionally think of saving humanity; there should be a limit to daydreaming."

"Gilles, stop it; people are moving forward bit by bit based on us, even if slowly; you should affirm this."

"Gilles, do not pursue the salvation of humanity just because you want to atone for your sins! Your sins belong only to you; even if you cannot atone for them, those despairs still belong only to you. Do you want to push the responsibility of compensating for these sins onto others?"

"Both you and I are sinners; there is no way to compensate those who have already sacrificed! You can only continue to hold these distresses and these despairs; there is no way to start over, but even if it is only a little, you can help the frustrated living; this is what is called a Heroic Spirit, and it is the limit of what we can do."

Rin Tohsaka: "Did she finally figure it out."

Xiang Junior Feng Xi: "Actually, as long as she calms down, she could have figured it out originally. It was just that before, she was disturbed by Shakespeare, which is why she was led by the nose by the other party."

Gilles shed tears; this time it was his turn to kneel on the ground, holding Jeanne's hand tightly, begging: "Can I not be forgiven?"

Jeanne: "God will forgive everything, but the children you killed will not all forgive you. Your punishment is to bear this sin and these feelings of guilt forever... don't worry, I will help you."

Waver: "This is what they call being countered after trying to use a 'talk-no-jutsu'."

Xiang Junior Feng Xi: "This guy was originally the one being talked to. But before it was Shakespeare, and now it's Jeanne."

Bluebeard: "Ugh! This kind of person with weak will is definitely not me! I don't admit it!"

Rin Tohsaka: "Who cares about you."

Bluebeard: "Ahhh!!!"

"Sigh..."

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou sighed helplessly at this.

He didn't hate Jeanne, because she was also one of the victims of this world; if they could work together, of course there would be nothing better—but she refused salvation.

Shakespeare: "Master, what should we do?"

"Use the activated Greater Grail to crush everything."

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou looked at Jeanne and said: "Is it impossible to reconcile no matter what? From my position, I thought you would respond to his persuasion and rise together."

Jeanne: "... ell, if it were me right after appearing in the world, perhaps I would have responded to his persuasion. I also have no objection to saving humanity."

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou looked sad and said: "Then why—no, that's true, you want to save individuals, while I want to save the whole."

"Although you say you are not a saint, I believe more than anyone that you are a saint. I also had a period where I held thoughts like yours, but I couldn't bear it."

"Why are you different? What is the difference between when you first appeared and now?"

Jeanne smiled and glanced at Sieg, saying: "Because a special situation occurred, and an ordinary Master appeared. Although he is a homunculus with a very faint sense of being alive, he still longs to live, and has indeed obtained it. That is the result of humanity condensed; it is a goodness worth loving and cherishing. He knows why humanity is, knows goodness and evil, and is troubled by it. I think so, if you want to Matsuwanko Matsuwanko Take everything away—where will his troubles and his questions disappear to? Where should they go?"

"Him..."

Her words made Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou's eyes become sharp, staring at Sieg with hostility.

"So that's how it is; it is indeed the type of human you prefer—exactly the type I hate. The moment he was born into the world, he should indeed have been perfect, with extremely faint selfish desires, treating everything including himself fairly; he should have been an ideal creature that could live until death."

That's right. If humans are imperfect creatures, then homunculi are the perfect creatures.

Faint selfish desires, loyal to the role one should play, dying when one should die.

Irisviel: "No, homunculi are not as perfect as you think."

Irisviel: "As long as they are living creatures, as long as they have their own thoughts, they will have their own selfish desires, and I am the same."

Waver: "That's right, and Sieg's wish is only one, and that is to live on; do you think this is also wrong."

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou: "..."

Jeanne: "Are you saying that the wish to live on is evil?"

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou: "Humans do evil because they want to live on, and it will likely be the same in the future."

Jeanne became exceptionally sad; she didn't know how much distress Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou had experienced to have such thoughts.

Although it is said that one should not persuade others to be kind without experiencing their suffering, she still thought this was wrong.

Survival instinct is a desire that all living things have; if it is discarded, humans are no longer human.

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou: "Homunculus, what about you? Don't you think your past self was better? There was no distress, pain, or despair, and you didn't have to struggle to survive while actually feeling death."

"Homunculi are far from perfect; it's not as you think."

Without any hesitation, Sieg shook his head and denied: "We were not suppressing our selfish desires, but didn't discover them from the beginning. That is the distress that only arises because one has a real feeling of being alive... I actually envy you humans more."

"... hen, you are also my enemy now."

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou put away his sadness and said coldly: "Sure enough, it would be better to kill you all."

Jeanne: "—Sure enough, I still have to crush your dream directly."

"I won't fight you one-on-one, because there's no need."

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou looked at Sieg and said: "Right now, I only want to defeat you, who are a Master."

After saying that, the Greater Grail responded to Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou's call, forming a blue-white light behind him, like the arm of a giant.