Let me tell you another story about a boy.
The boy has flowing blond hair, a pair of amber eyes, and a delicate and handsome face. His appearance is at least 80 points. Even in the ACG world where there are countless handsome men and beautiful women, he is considered a first-class beautiful boy. If he were to go to another film set, such a beautiful boy would have no problem becoming a winner in life with his handsome face. Even if he is not so good, he can still find a beautiful girl and live a peaceful and happy life.
However, this is the Type-Moon world, and this beautiful boy has set his eyes on a girl who is extremely difficult to conquer and is accompanied by a dangerous girl - Ryougi Shiki, so he ends up in tragedy.
One day in 1995, he met Ryougi Shiki and confessed his love to her shortly afterwards.
The confession naturally ended in failure.
This is actually normal. Chasing a girl, especially a girl like Ryougi Shiki, has never been an easy task. It's no big deal if a confession fails once. Just find the right direction, find the right opportunity and keep working hard.
But the boy, who is still in his teens and not mature enough, doesn't think so. After his confession was rejected, the boy suffered a huge blow and felt that his whole life was dark. This is also something that happens at the age called the flower season. As long as you get through the most difficult time, the wound will slowly heal and life will still be sunny.
However, during this most difficult time, it is easy for a lovelorn teenager to sink, degenerate, and have some unreasonable and bizarre ideas. The boy had such an idea, he wanted to find out through violence, and wanted to prove that he was not "weak" by beating others.
Because the reason for Shiki's refusal was - "I hate weak people."
This thought changed the course of his life. In a fight, the boy accidentally killed his opponent. As he was on the verge of exposing himself to the spirit of death, he thought of swallowing the corpse whole in order to hide it, and thus realized his true nature.
With the help of Araya Soren who came later, the boy awakened his origin "eating" and dropped out of school on the grounds of studying abroad.
After that, he committed murder after murder under the control of the "eating" impulse. Most of the bodies of the victims had traces of being eaten by wild animals, and they looked horrible. It was this series of bizarre murders that accelerated the collapse of Ryougi Shiki's personality at the time and indirectly led to her coma.
While killing people, the boy felt fear and became more and more crazy. He began to think that there was no way he could kill people if he was crazy, and he must have a companion who was equally crazy.
He added his own blood to the marijuana left by Araya Soren, made blood chips and distributed them to the public, trying to find companions similar to himself. This behavior caused many deaths and disappearances. It was not until Ryougi Shiki fell into a coma that the boy gradually stopped his madness.
However, this pause was only temporary. After two years, the boy still hadn't found a companion, so he set his sights on Ryougi Shiki. In order to attract Ryougi Shiki's attention, he decided to commit another bizarre murder.
Unfortunately, this time, his luck was not as good as last time. When he was about to commit the crime, a man also wearing a black windbreaker appeared in front of the boy.
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After the Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya completely gave up his life as a magician killer and stayed in Japan to live a peaceful life with his wife Irisviel, his daughter Illyasviel, and his partner Hisau Maiya.
But this does not mean that he gave up magic, and gave up the skills he had honed for killing. He knew very well how important his wife and daughter were to Einzbern. If Einzbern knew that they were still alive, there would be a new battle.
In addition, he also promised Maiya that he would work with her to find Maiya's son Sigma. The country where Maiya was born is still filled with smoke of war, and it is necessary to have good skills to find people there.
In order to not lose his wife and daughter again, and to help his partner Maiya find his son, he practices magic and marksmanship every day. It is no exaggeration to say that Kiritsugu Emiya is now stronger than before he married into the Einzbern family, and even stronger than when he participated in the Holy Grail War.
In front of Emiya Kiritsugu, there was a letter of commission from Kanbushi City.
Originally, Kiritsugu, who had given up on being a magician killer, no longer accepted any commissions. But there was one exception, and that person was Shinji Matou, who had saved the entire Emiya family.
The commission was simple: find the murderer who committed the serial murders in Guanbuzi City in 1995 and 1996 and kill him.
The letter of authorization was accompanied by a simple document, including the name of the suspicious person and some clues collected by Shinji.
Kiritsugu didn't know why Shinji sent this commission, he only knew that he was willing to accept this seemingly very simple task. Although he gave up saving the world and giving up the dream of becoming a partner of justice, he didn't mind doing something within his power for the justice in his heart, such as helping a few good people, or punishing a few villains.
After telling his family that he was going to be away for a few days to do some work, Kiritsugu packed his luggage and set off for Kanbushi City.
Shinji, who received Kiritsugu's answer, also put his mind at ease.
Shirajun Rio, Araya Soren's earliest assistant, was also the first person to awaken the origin with Araya's help. Because the origin was too contrary to Ryougi Shiki, he was eventually abandoned by Araya Soren. But even such an abandoned child did something that Araya Soren did not do. He pushed Ryougi Shiki into a desperate situation and almost collapsed; he severely injured Kurogiri Mikiya, causing Mikiya to lose an eye and a limp, just like what was described in Chapter 7 of "Kara no Kyoukai" "Murder Investigation (Part 2)".
Shinji had intended to personally deal with this hidden danger for his friend, but unfortunately, firstly, his investigation ability was limited, and secondly, he had a lot of things to deal with, such as accompanying Kirie, accompanying Touko, accompanying Sakura, accompanying Yustisa, accompanying Fujino... Wait, why are they all women? Well, then add one more person to accompany Kan'aya (collecting information), anyway, there is no time.
So, he called in an expert.
Experts are experts after all. The person that Shinji spent half a month to find but failed to find, Kiritsugu found in just three days. When he found him, the target was wearing clothes similar to Ryougi Shiki's and holding a short knife, ready to attack a passerby.
When he found out that his murder was seen, Shiratsune Rio was not panicked at all. He ignored the passers-by in front of him and stared at Kiritsugu closely, licking his lips with a bright red tongue, revealing a ferocious smile like a beast seeing its prey.
The blond young man wearing the same clothes as Ryougi Shiki started running. He held a short sword in one hand and ran in the narrow alley with his body lowered to the ground.
Kiritsugu raised his eyebrows in surprise. The figure rushing over did not move like a human, but like a snake, moving quickly in and out of Kiritsugu's sight, making it difficult to judge his movements for a while.
When the distance between them was reduced to about five meters, Snake's movements suddenly changed into those of a ferocious beast.
Like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, Shiratsugu Rio appeared above Kiritsugu's head and stabbed him in the neck with her short knife.
At the critical moment, a dull sound came out of Kiritsugu's throat.
"Time alter (time control) triple accel (triple speed)!"
Along with this forbidden spell, within the field of vision, Shiratsune Rio's movements slowed down, so slowly that the patterns on the blade could be clearly read. At the same time, Kiritsugu's body functions were raised to an unimaginable height, and he dodged Shiratsune Rio's throat cut at the critical moment.
Bai Junlio's fatal attack missed and was about to give chase, but suddenly he found a black muzzle of a gun in front of him.
Gunshots rang out, and Shirajun Rio heard the sound of her head shattering.
His beloved gun, Thompson der, had completed its mission. Kiritsugu placed his right hand fingers on the switch of the bow guard and swung the gun sideways.
The force of the folding magazine opening caused the empty magazine to pop into the air, dragging a faint smoke residue as it fell to the ground, making a crisp sound in the silent night.
He took out a mobile phone from his coat pocket with his left hand and dialed a number skillfully.
"Mission accomplished."
PS: Shirajun Rio licked Ryougi Shiki from head to toe with her tongue, and this is where he deserves the most damage.
PS2: It is really satisfying to let the righteous companions kill the murderer.