Abnormality In Type-Moon: Madness Of Animeverse

"Pleasure? You call it pleasure?"

Rin Tohsaka glared fiercely at Kotomine Kirei, her eyes so bloodshot that they seemed on the verge of rupture.

"Is that really the reason for all the sins you've committed? Just for your own pleasure?"

"You call this sin? Hmm, I suppose you're right. From your perspective, I must indeed be the root of all evil."

Kotomine Kirei stood there, completely at ease.

Even though sweat was pouring off him like rain, he showed not the slightest hint of wavering. Looking down at Rin from above, his expression remained unchanged, a smile firmly etched on his face.

"Think back to ten years ago. I heard that the Einzberns had hired a so-called 'Mage Killer,' Emiya Kiritsugu, to act as the Master for the Fourth Holy Grail War. I was honestly looking forward to him. But when the war started, it wasn't Emiya Kiritsugu that I encountered—it was one of the Einzberns' homunculi. Rather than keeping himself in the shadows while putting the homunculus forward, he simply disappeared from the stage entirely."

"I found it utterly boring. So, I chatted with Archer. Oh, that Archer is the very same golden Heroic Spirit currently outside—your father's Servant at the time."

Rin clenched her lips tightly, her fury palpable.

Her gaze at Kotomine Kirei was filled with hatred. Even as she bit her lip hard enough to draw blood, she didn't notice. Her eyes brimmed with the desire to tear him apart limb from limb.

"So, you already know. Yes, it was I who killed your father."

Kotomine Kirei, noticing her hatred-twisted expression, let his saint-like smile slowly warp into something darker and more twisted.

"What the King of Heroes said made perfect sense. I was enchanted by his words. No, more than enchanted—I was drawn in, and I fell. Not only my mentor, but even my own father, Kotomine Risei, ultimately met their end by my hand. The expression he had in his final moments—I'll treasure it in my heart like sacred scripture for the rest of my life."

After listening to this, Rin's expression shifted from hatred to something entirely different.

Betraying one's mentor might still be explained as driven by personal gain.

But to kill one's own father? That had gone far beyond the scope of normal human behavior, into the realm of the utterly deranged—like those magi who had lost their sanity after years of obsessive research.

This man wasn't normal!

"The day the Holy Grail War ended, I touched the Grail, and the darkness within me was laid bare by it. The result was the great disaster ten years ago."

As if savoring that moment, Kotomine Kirei closed his eyes, raising his hands high as if cradling an infant, his face filled with a look of euphoric immersion.

"Scum!"

Rin cursed.

"Heh, you're absolutely right. I think so too."

Kotomine Kirei let out a light chuckle, fully acknowledging her condemnation without a shred of shame.

He no longer pretended. His face broke into an unrestrained grin of joy.

"The great disaster ten years ago ended in complete victory for the Greater Grail. I never expected it to go so smoothly. It made me wonder if this world is inherently broken... Honestly, I'd love to experiment with it again."

"You're not saying..."

Rin looked at him in horror.

As if some terrifying thought had crossed her mind, her eyes filled with dread.

"Of course. I've already made a second wish to the Greater Grail."

Kotomine Kirei spread his arms wide, sighing with a mockery of compassion.

"What a pity, Rin. If only you had come sooner, perhaps you could have stopped me. But now, it's too late. The Greater Grail has already resumed its operations. What's inside is about to be born once more."

Kotomine Kirei savored the moment with unbridled delight.

He fully acknowledged his twisted nature. For the first thirty years of his life, he had done countless good deeds, firmly believing that even if he wouldn't become a saint after death, he would at least make it to Heaven. But in the ten years since, his sins had completely outweighed all his virtues. Even being thrown into Hell and boiled in oil by demons would hardly begin to atone for them.

Patricide, betrayal of his mentor, serving as the detonator for the Greater Grail's disaster, which led to the deaths of over 90% of humanity—these were only the most significant among his sins.

Not to mention minor atrocities like torturing children to create human batteries or giving Command Seals to Matou Zouken to help him pursue Roy for his own amusement.

"...How many sins have you committed?!"

"At this point, who can still count?"

"Archer, kill him!"

Rin could no longer bear to listen.

He'd already made his wish. Didn't that mean the Greater Grail had been activated again?

That endless black mud, the curses that would cover the world, the flames that would burn all humanity—was it all about to happen again?

Rin was consumed by rage.

As one of the three founding families, Rin had always felt an inescapable guilt for the calamity caused by the Greater Grail ten years ago. The burden of that guilt had tormented her, and now the same disaster was about to happen once more?

She absolutely couldn't allow it!

"Even if it costs my life, I'll stop the Greater Grail this time!"

With this resolve, Rin blocked out every word Kotomine Kirei said and decisively ordered Archer to attack.

Under her command, Red Archer appeared silently beside her. Without hesitation, he nocked an arrow and fired it at Kotomine Kirei.

This shot was made without holding back. It tore through the air with a deafening roar, moving far too quickly for any human to react.

Boom!

But immediately, something inhuman appeared in the scene.

It was a giant hand.

A massive black hand formed of writhing mud appeared before Kotomine Kirei, intercepting the arrow. The arrow sank into the muddy hand but failed to pierce through.

Red Archer frowned and detonated the arrow.

Boom!

The explosion shook the area, scattering black mud like splattered filth in all directions.

"It's useless."

Kotomine Kirei let out a cold chuckle.

Suddenly—

One after another, enormous black hands emerged from the crater behind him, swaying back and forth like willow branches in the air.

Each hand, formed of black mud, stretched over ten meters long. They could easily crush a human and emitted an overwhelming aura of curses.

Counting them, there were as many as seven or eight.

"Unlike the first time ten years ago, this time they've already matured, waiting only for release. So, these are the enemies you now face."

Kotomine Kirei spread his arms as if praising the birth of the Messiah.

Immediately after, a massive black giant rose from the crater. Two of the enormous black hands were its arms. Standing nearly thirty meters tall, its head almost touched the ceiling of the cavern.

Rin quickly pulled out a gemstone, her expression deadly serious.

She couldn't afford any carelessness. What she saw next shocked her even further.

A second giant rose from the pit.

Then a third.

And a fourth.

Altogether, four black giants began striding out of the crater, walking directly toward her.

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