Shinji and his group left, and Rin did not try to stop them.
The harsh words have been said, the declaration has been made, and there will be no problem in dealing with the aftermath.
Although no one has been seen to clean up the mess yet, since Shinji said so, it must have been arranged - Rin never doubted this, just as Shinji believed that Rin would not take advantage of others in distress.
The relationship between the two is so strange, although it looks bad and tense at one point, they trust each other deep down in their hearts, even though Lin would never admit it.
"That nasty fellow, villain, conspirator..."
After looking at the direction where Shinji left and cursing quietly for a while, Gilgamesh interrupted the girl's venting.
"It's about time you stopped. Swearing is the sign of a bastard. And your relationship with her isn't that bad."
"Huh? Is there something wrong with your eyes or ears? Can't you see my expression or hear what I say?"
Gilgamesh simply smiled at Rin's aggressive questioning.
"Falsehood and deception have no meaning to me. My eyes can see through the essence of human beings. In my eyes, so-called lies and deceptions are nothing but ugly farces of bastards. As a descendant of the king's ministers, Rin, I will not allow you to become such a bastard."
"Ah, here we go again. Since when did you have to decide my life?"
Rin sighed helplessly. After spending some time with Gilgamesh, she was more or less used to his way of speaking.
"I have no intention of deciding your life, but it is my duty to guide immature children. Let me tell you something that happened when I was alive. I once did an experiment where I randomly selected ten slaves and said I would kill the 'unnecessary' ones. What do you think happened?"
"Killing people for such a reason? You are such an unreasonable tyrant!" Lin, who is excellent in both character and study and has a correct outlook on life, complained, "You won't kill them all, will you?"
"No, the result is quite the opposite. None of them can be killed." Gilgamesh shook his head. "They all have their own uses, running errands, sweeping the floor, carrying things, none of them are redundant."
"Is that so?" Rin looked confused.
"Yes, that's how the world was before. Everyone was useful. But this world is different. This world is easy everywhere. Even if there are a thousand people to choose from, there will be no one who can't be killed."
With a sarcastic shrug, the street lights flickered, casting a deep darkness on the golden king.
"Really, this world has become super gentle to humans, so gentle that it's disgusting. Rin, no matter what path you want to take, whether you want to be a good person or a bad person, it's your freedom. But before that, I hope you can find your own "purpose"; instead of losing your true nature in this gentle world and becoming the kind of bastard I hate the most, who has no goals, lives aimlessly, and simply lives."
Lin said in a strange voice, "I didn't expect you to say something like that, but does this have anything to do with our previous topic?"
"You still say that I have bad hearing, but you are the one who has bad hearing. I just mentioned 'nature'; this is the biggest difference between being useful and useless. People who have lost their nature will have no goals and become bastards, and the beginning of losing one's nature is intentional or unintentional deception and denial - to use a new term I saw on TV before, it seems to be 'tired of rubbing your hands';?"
"Mo de lei" is the transliteration of "tsundere", and it is also the weakness that makes Lin crazy again.
"Who is the tsundere? You are the tsundere, I am just, I am just—"
"It's just not frank." Shanshan raised the corner of her mouth, seeming to be very satisfied with Lin's anxious reaction, "Well, let's not talk about whether it's tsundere or not frank, there is actually no difference. Maybe at the beginning you know that you are not frank, but if it goes on for a long time, you will get more and more used to it, and finally lose yourself. In this regard, the clown is much better than you."
"No way, that guy who sang 'I'm Going to Blow Up the School' is better than me?"
"At least he dared to speak his true feelings, and succeeded in pleasing the king."
"So, this is what you call 'useful'?" Rin looked at her Servant with disdain.
For a moment, she almost lumped Gilgamesh and Shinji into the same group, the kind with mental problems.
"Of course, do you think it's easy to make me feel 'happy'?"
"So, your nature is 'joy'?"
"That's right." Gilgamesh nodded happily.
"Hmph, you are indeed a tyrant who can conduct such an experiment."
"Rin, you've got one thing wrong. It's a sin to get pleasure from committing a crime, but pleasure itself is not a sin. Can you say that it's a sin for humans to get pleasure from doing good things?"
"Uh..." Rin was speechless.
"I think it is a sin to feel happy because of the clown's singing? The pursuit of pleasure is human nature. Pleasure is fundamentally part of the soul. Well, for a child like you, you may understand it. But the clown should understand it. Just for this reason, he is not a bastard."
"he-"
"Don't let your emotions cloud your judgment, Rin. That clown did not deceive me or hide his true nature from the moment I appeared until I left. Whether it was admitting what he had done, his evaluation of Tokiomi, or his final decision to stop your sister, they were all his true words. Perhaps it was because of this that the Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows placed such high hopes on him."
Gilgamesh said proudly while looking at the silent girl.
"Rin, I said I would take care of you, but I am not your babysitter. If you want to use my power to gain victory, then be prepared to expose your true nature."
"Nature, awareness..." Rin's expression kept changing.
"Use your shining eyes to look carefully, use your smart brain to think seriously, and come up with your own answers, not the answers imposed on you by others. Be it 'God', 'family's long-cherished wish', or even 'father's last wish', these are not reasons for you to give up thinking, as that will only lead to the corruption and degeneration of your soul."
After that, Gilgamesh stopped talking and stood there like a perfect sculpture, motionless until Rin sorted out his thoughts and spoke.
"Archer, what do you think of what Shinji said about you and your father?"
"You are still struggling with this. Then I might as well tell you that the clown's evaluation is basically correct. Tokiomi and I do have a certain degree of similarity in style, but our essences are different. Tokiomi is a dull and dull man with a slow mind. He is easily bound by old impressions and cannot see the changes in others. From the beginning to the end, he looked down on the man named Matou Kariya and never thought that he could do that for your mother. This is his biggest failure. I am different. I also insist, but I insist on my own nature. It is an insult to the king to take the bastard seriously - even now, I do not intend to change."
At this point, Gilgamesh once again entered a strange state where his eyelids and pupils were just slits.
"Which one are you, Toosaka Rin? A puppet, bound by the influence of others, or a man who is true to his own nature like me?"
PS: Well, Shanshan is a homebody, there is proof of that at the carnival.
PS2: Some of Shanshan’s performance in this chapter comes from FZ and FSF, and is not made up by Jian Shao.
PS3: Regarding the name that the master addressed Cú Chulainn, it should indeed be Setante, but isn't there an outsider here? Giving Cú Chulainn some face is also a way of directly telling Winnie the identity of Cú Chulainn, after all, she had exposed Winnie's identity in advance.