Chapter 588

Paracelsus: "Don't jump to conclusions before the end, Doctor."

["You really cherish your pet, Assassin. How cute. I forgive you."]

[Manaka Sajyou looked at the girl and said: "However, you won't do."]

[Still can't escape it...]

["Please wait a moment."]

[Paracelsus also appeared at this time: "Lady Manaka, that girl is probably not suitable as a sacrifice."]

[Manaka Sajyou: "Oh, first Assassin, and next is you? It seems that child is very important to everyone."]

[Paracelsus: "How could that be. I am worried that the fear this girl holds is too great. Perhaps, it will cast a shadow on the purity of the Greater Grail."]

[Manaka Sajyou: "...You should understand. If one is removed, another must come. Is the substitute ready?"]

[Paracelsus: "As you command."]

[And so, it ended.]

[The girl’s memory ends here; when she woke up again, she was already back behind the shopping street.]

[Of course, a group of strange cultists came to ask her questions later.]

Jinako: "Escaped a disaster?"

Blonde Rin: "What exactly is special about this girl that could make Caster protect her?"

Paracelsus: "Hehe, it was just a whim."

Blonde Rin: "Shut up, riddle-maker! If you don't want to say it, don't say it!"

Illya: "I feel like the Holy Church is just like the police in movies, waiting until after the fact to appear."

Ciel/Riesbyfe: "..."

[Underground in Tokyo, the Great Hollow.]

[Manaka Sajyou brought her loyal servant Caster, just like admiring a cherished treasure, just like petting a favorite pet—the silent lump of flesh shaped like soft mud.]

[Look, 'it' wriggling in the underground is a high-density collection of the darkness of this world.]

['It' is longing, it is desire, and it is also a container carrying the longing of countless people, a large number of souls—]

["...A hypocritical Holy Grail."]

[Just as Caster had gathered through the information collected so far, the 'it' in front of him is not the miracle device spoken of by the Holy Church and the Jewel Jewel Mage's Association.]

[I heard that a certain Cardinal brought out this Holy Grail.]

[A holy relic belonging to a top-tier miracle. It is a counterfeit of the 'cup' that carried the blood of the Savior, a fake Holy Grail.]

Waver: "It is actually... a fake!"

Kiritsugu Emiya: "The Holy Grail War in this world seems to have been a scam from the beginning."

Amakusa Emiya Emiya Shirou: "Hmph, this is playing with fire."

These modern magicians are really overestimating themselves, thinking of themselves as the Demon God King, wanting to hand-craft a Holy Grail.

As a result, they have created a big bomb, causing the whole world to walk on the tip of a knife!

[Originally, without offering the souls of all seven riders, the Greater Grail could not be truly started. However, by supplementing with a large number of living sacrifices equivalent to one Heroic Spirit, the Greater Grail would start.]

[However, what is realized after starting is not the wish of any ritual participant.]

[From the beginning—]

[This container is not a wish machine.]

[However, Manaka Sajyou knew this long ago.]

Caules: "Cannot make a wish? Then what is this Holy Grail used for?"

Waver: "(Dark face) I'm afraid it is, summoning or cultivation."

Caules: "Summoning? What does he want to summon?"

Waver: "Who knows..."

Thinking of the Great Red Dragon mentioned at the beginning of yesterday's video, he immediately had a bad guess.

[Manaka Sajyou: "Hey, Mr. Fake Holy Grail. No, you are an egg. A cute and pitch-black egg struggling to be born into the world."]

[Paracelsus: "Is it an egg..."]

[According to his analysis in terms of magic, this darkness is the eggshell of a chick waiting to open its eyes, a cradle for dreams to sway within. When the seven Heroic Spirits are offered, the eggshell will surely break.]

[At that time, a spiritual foundation that has never existed will be born into the world.]

[Different from the summoning of Heroic Spirits.]

[The 'it' that crawls out of the Grail will likely be incarnated, born, as the word literally implies.]

Waver: "It is actually cultivation!"

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "What is this thing? It looks a bit like the Evil of This World, but it's a bit wrong."

Kiritsugu Emiya: "Because this is not pollution, but birth."

Demon God King: "Hehehehahahahahahaha—"

Demon God King: "So, this is the beginning... hehehe, hahaha! It's so funny!"

Demon God King: "This is humanity, humanity that has stepped onto the path of destruction with its own hands!"

Rin Tohsaka: "What exactly are you talking about? Do you know what this thing is?"

Demon God King: "Hehe, it's better to reveal it yourself; go and see the evil fruit that you humans have planted with your own hands!"

Although Feng Xi fought the Demon God King nine years ago, the other party's identity as a Beast was not exposed, and Feng Xi, Feng Feng Fuxi, and the newly joined Merlin all had a tacit understanding not to mention this matter.

[What exactly will be born?]

[Even Paracelsus could not guess this answer, so he could only ask his master.]

[To achieve the goal of the person you love, what is it that you will awaken?]

[Manaka Sajyou did not answer immediately, but brought Paracelsus to the abyss with a smile like this.]

[Paracelsus had no resistance to this.]

[Both he and Assassin will eventually become the bait for 'it' wriggling at the bottom of this darkness. Even if that moment is brought forward to this night and this time, it doesn't matter.]

[He is already prepared to offer everything to his master.]

[No. It should be said that all things in the world were originally just possessions of my master.]

Arash: "...Caster, you are truly loyal."

Paracelsus: "Hehe, I still say the same thing, this child is worth it."

[Manaka Sajyou: "The Cardinal made a big mistake."]

[Paracelsus: "No one understands this world as well as you, Lady Manaka."]

[Manaka Sajyou: "Wrong to the point of being ridiculous? The Cardinal believes that as long as the Grail starts, a high-ranking existence will be summoned."]

[Paracelsus: "...An angel?"]

[Manaka Sajyou: "No. That's not it."]

[She is still smiling toward the darkness that is pulsing more intensely in response.]

["This child is a Beast."]

[She did not explain the meaning of this name, but Paracelsus’s eyes widened, and sweat seeped from his face.]

[This feeling is trembling.]

[Even when he was alive, because he seriously violated the rules of magical concealment to widely popularize magical knowledge, he remained calm when facing the assassins sent by the Clock Tower, but now—]

"Bang!!!"

The magicians in the group suddenly exploded.

Waver: "It, it is actually a Beast!"

Waver: "I have thought of magical beasts, evil gods, but I never thought it would be a Beast..."

Aoko Aozaki: "Manaka Sajyou, is this woman crazy!"

Aoko Aozaki: "No, it should be, are the Jewel Jewel Mage's Association and the Holy Church of that world crazy, actually cultivating this kind of thing!"

Kayneth: "It, it should be an accident; they don't have the guts to do this kind of thing..."

Caules: "Um, teacher, what exactly is a Beast? Isn't it a magical beast?"

Waver: "Hoo (deeply inhaled a cigar)..."

Lord El-Melloi II: "Sigh, let me explain it."

Lord El-Melloi II: "The so-called Beast, also known as the Beast of Original Sin, is a great disaster rejected by human history, also known as the Evil of Humanity."

Lord El-Melloi II: "The Evil of Humanity is a disaster sufficient to threaten human history and destroy humanity. They are born from human civilization and become more and more powerful with the development of humanity, but they destroy civilization from the inside of society; they are like cancer cells."