Chapter 59 The Person Named "Emiya Kiritsugu"

"Miss Illya? Miss Illya is here..."

The counter staff's shout was interrupted by a low and hurried voice.

"Please hand me the list."

"Oh, okay, okay."

No magic was used, but the expression on the man's face was so terrible and empty that the counter staff's will was easily crushed, and they handed over the list in their hands blankly.

Emiya Kiritsugu snatched it and quickly flipped through it, finally stopping at an extremely familiar name.

[Illyasviel von Einzbern]

[Room 1986]

1986...Emiya Kiritsugu's fingertips began to tremble.

He remembered, he clearly remembered, Illyasviel, his daughter was born on a very cold night in 1986.

But how could she come here? From the distant winter city?

After returning the list to the counter staff, Emiya Kiritsugu looked in the direction of the Hyatt Hotel and closed his eyes, as if he had made up his mind.

Then, he took a step forward.

If his daughter was also in this fatal building, then as a father, he should risk his life to rescue her.

This is an obvious fact.

But this man is different. In the face of fatherly love, he has something more important to bear -

On the road to "father", the thorns of "ideal" make it difficult for him to take a step.

The man with trembling legs and empty eyes took every step towards the hotel. His heart was shaken, and the cracks on his calm face became deeper.

It seemed that every step was a betrayal of his wishes and his ideals.

"Emiya Norika, is Emiya Norika here?" The counter staff kept shouting, and the voice seemed to come from an unreal horizon, making Emiya Kiritsugu feel light, as if walking in the clouds.

Oh, father.

The father who devoted himself to studying time magic and was sealed.

The father who developed a dead apostle drug for magic research and used ordinary people as test subjects.

He still remembered the feeling of the dagger piercing the magician's body. That was also the first time he picked up a gun and completely ended the magician's life.

The scars of the past were torn, and the pain in the soul supported Kiritsugu Emiya to continue moving forward.

"Xia Lei, is Miss Xia Lei here?"

Xia Lei...

The scars flowed with bright red blood.

"What kind of person do you want to be when you grow up?" The brown-skinned Southeast Asian girl smiled brightly, and contained Kiritsugu Emiya's first love.

But she was dead. After taking the dead apostle drug made by Norika Emiya, she was cleared by the Holy Church and the Magic Association.

The dead apostle girl handed Kiritsugu Emiya a silver dagger and begged him to kill her.

But Kiritsugu Emiya fled in shame.

Because he failed to kill the girl he loved, the whole village fell - this disaster almost laid the values ​​of the magician killer named Kiritsugu Emiya for his whole life.

"Ms. Natalia? Is Ms. Natalia here?"

"Ah..."

This time, the man finally stopped.

The crack in my heart stopped bleeding, and the wind blew through, making a hollow echo.

After the village of the dead apostles was destroyed, Natalia, the bounty hunter who adopted him, was adopted.

She accompanied Kiritsugu Emiya through his youth, watching him transform from a little kid into a gloomy, cold, dry-eyed hunter.

In the last mission, in order to eliminate the dead apostle bees on the plane, Kiritsugu Emiya used the Blow Pipe portable surface-to-air missile to shoot down the death flight before the plane landed.

Even though his most beloved teacher, the woman he had been with for more than ten years, was on this plane.

After countless midnight dreams, Kiritsugu Emiya realized what he had lost.

——He had long regarded Natalia as his mother.

"Strange, Kiritsugu Emiya, Xia Lei, Natalia... Didn't they come out?"

Yes, they were all killed by my own hands.

The ghosts of the past reached out to him, trying to drag him into the unfathomable abyss.

The thin man stood in the crowd, looking so lonely and shaky.

It was fake, all fake, they were all dead, how could they be alive in this hotel.

Everything could only be someone's malicious mockery of him, or a setup to slow him down.

But despite knowing this, Emiya Kiritsugu could not change anything. He regarded himself as a scale to measure good and evil, but one end of the scale kept putting heavy weights, while the other side was held down by the man himself.

It was not just the scale itself that was creaking?

Each name turned into a secret hint, as if foreshadowing a tragic ending.

Then, the next thing was...

"Ms. Irisviel? Is Miss Irisviel von Einzbern here?" The Grim Reaper flipped through the list and slowly read out the next name.

Yes, even his beloved wife would be killed by his own hands...

"Yes, I'm here."

A sweet voice like a lark sounded behind Emiya Kiritsugu. Irisviel held her cheeks, her red eyes full of confusion:

"Strange, I didn't book a room at the Hyatt Hotel? But this is my name, um, is it a mistake?"

As if she had noticed Kiritsugu's incredulous look, the beautiful woman stuck out her tongue and put her hands together in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, Kiritsugu, I couldn't help but come here in the end."

Beside her, Saber in a suit stepped forward: "This is not Irisviel's fault. I came here on my own initiative. The fault should be borne by me alone."

But at this time, Kiritsugu Emiya didn't care about this. Looking at the woman he loved deeply, his dead eyes gave birth to a little light.

Under the astonished gaze of Saber and Irisviel, Kiritsugu Emiya stepped forward, opened his arms, and took the initiative to hug his wife, hugging one of the few ties in this cold world.

After a long time, a muffled voice sounded.

"Thank you, Saber."

Altria raised her eyebrows, and the ahoge on her head shook slightly.

This was the only time her master thanked her, but Saber was not happy at all.

Her intuition told her what kind of bitterness and blood and tears were contained in this thank you.

This man...what did he experience in the past?

On the other side, Irisviel also noticed something strange about Emiya Kiritsugu.

They had embraced briefly before, but every time, her husband suppressed his emotions and only did so briefly, as if he was afraid that he would be addicted to something and unable to extricate himself.

But this was the first time he hugged her without hesitation and snuggled in her arms.

Kiritsugu was very fragile now.

The sensitivity unique to androids made Irisviel quickly come to a conclusion.

Different from the fragility of saying "I am not qualified to hold this child" with a painful face when Illya was born, the fragility at that time was firm, because the person named "Emiya Kiritsugu" knew what to do and what would happen in the future, but was powerless to save the pain.

But this time, the fragility was empty and broken, like the despair of even the meaning of oneself being denied.

It was precisely because of this that it was more profound.

"If I decide to abandon everything and run away now - Ellie, are you willing to go with me?"

After a brief moment of tenderness, the man raised his head and said something that made Irisviel stunned.

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