Chapter 144

——Because your future will be nothing but hell no matter which side you choose, we hope you can think about it again.

This was Chaldea's advice to Geto Summer Oil - and before Geto Summer Oil officially came up with an answer, Chaldea rejected his request to visit the two children; there were even some Chaldea members around him who were always monitoring his recent actions and preventing him from leaving the high school.

——Like a ghost, standing silently and calmly behind Geto Suguru.

The person who appeared silently behind Geto today was not any of the students who had been or are currently taking classes with him in the El-Melloi classroom. Geto had considered whether Chaldea made any special choices in who monitored him or talked to him, but he had not found any pattern so far.

"You shouldn't have looked for me, Ash." The blonde girl in a white dress said to the silver-haired, blue-eyed witch in a black dress who looked exactly like her. "It would be better for you to look for Caster than me, Ash - no, Morgan. Even if she has become the Holy Sword, since she exists as an image of a certain memory, she is better than Avalon Le Fay who exists as the origin."

"I just don't know what to say to her." Morgan sighed tiredly, looking at Avalon Le Fay's clear green eyes that were similar to but different from Artoria Caster's. "But if the person standing in front of me is you, then some words that can't be said in front of them can be said - I think it's the same for Likolis."

"You really like to treat me as a tree hole," complained Avalon Le Fay.

"This is the responsibility of the elders after all." Morgan chuckled, his eyes casually sweeping over the figure of Geto Suguru who was standing at the edge of the forest of the high school, and Lancermello asked everyone to pay special attention to him. "Come to think of it, since you are the final completion state - then, will you be troubled by the problems that once troubled us?"

"After all, I haven't experienced that kind of development myself, so I'm not sure what I would do when faced with these problems." Avalon Le Fit paused and glanced meaningfully into the depths of the woods. "You are faced with choices that are more or less better for you personally - even if it is just a fairy tale or an empty dream."

"Strictly speaking, no matter which path you choose, there will be no good results. I am afraid that only Custer will be the one."

"But she finally took over the responsibility I had given up - even though she was just an ordinary person who didn't know how to do it, failed frequently, and tried her best with many setbacks." Morgan closed his eyes and thought of the fairy kingdom that was as beautiful as a fairy tale. "Even at the end, she would say, 'Although I tried hard this time, I will probably give up halfway next time...'"

To save the world, she had to destroy the fairy kingdom; to save the world, she had to destroy her own personality. Even if she gave up, it wouldn't matter, but Artoria Caster didn't want to go against the wishes of the people around her, so she worked hard to the end as the savior.

"That guy is not a child of prophecy. There is nothing here that can force him to keep working as hard as before." Avalon Le Fay sighed helplessly and disappeared in front of Morgan as a golden spirit. "He is just an ordinary human who will subconsciously choose to escape when he encounters a problem."

A week after the plan to interfere with Geto Kagome officially began, because Geto Kagome's condition had not changed, the Chaldeans once again gathered in the El-Melloi classroom for a meeting - the topic was how to advance the progress of the plan and get Geto Kagome away from the obsession with killing non-magicians.

"…Why don't you just say it directly?" Shirou Emiya stared at the few thin pages of information in front of him worriedly.

"In that case, even if there is a clairvoyant watching us, who knows if it will become the curse of Oedipus Rex?" Olgamari decisively rejected the proposal, but her eyes fell on the information in her hand with embarrassment, and it was obvious that she was also troubled by the plan that had no movement. "Although we said that we would deal with Ryomen Sukuna and Nose before leaving, who knows if there will be any accidents."

"I have an idea." Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at Mashu who was sitting next to him, and stood up under the attention of everyone. "In the world where the human reasoning was reorganized before, we let Mr. Anchor dream for a long time - I want to let Geta-kun have a dream as well. The content of the dream will be based on the experience of human reasoning... However, I haven't decided whether to let him see the content of the special point, or to see the things that Gaetia once let Mashu dream about."

"I re-examined Geto's experience a few days ago." Fujimaru Ritsuka walked to the podium and explained her speculation to everyone with the information in her hand. "Thanks to Mr. Taigong Momo, Lord Seimei and Mr. Doman for their tips - I have a little idea of ​​what Geto has been pursuing all his life."

——In the life of Geto Suguru printed on paper, the ten years after his defection negated everything in the first half of his life, and his final death negated everything in the second half of his life.

After entering the world of sorcery, Geto Summer Oil did not lack recognition from others - but until the moment of his death, he never recognized himself.

——He never recognized himself, he never redeemed himself.

This life written on a thin piece of paper seems to be a meaningless and worthless existence.

"...He is searching for the meaning of his own existence, or the value of his own existence." Fujimaru Ritsuka paused, looked at the crowd and continued, "What he needs is not the recognition of others, but his own recognition - and, because of the curse that Gojo Satoru cast on him, the threshold for his own recognition is too high."

"Once he feels that he can't catch up with Gojo Satoru, he will start to deny himself over and over again."

"Then let's modify the plan like this—" Lancer Melo, who was sitting in the last row, glanced at Fujimaru Ritsuka standing on the podium and announced the preliminary changes to the plan, "Project the dream that Gaetia once created for Mashu into Geto's dream; Fujimaru, go talk to Ieiri and reveal a little about Renri Yaki."

"After that - I'll leave it to you and her to find Geto."

Then, in a dream one day after that, Geto Xiayou listened to a conversation from the perspective of a certain girl.

——You will die soon. It has nothing to do with your will, because you are simply made this way.

In the dream, a man with the same face as the head of Chaldea's medical department announced this.

——Are you unwilling to accept it? Or will you be sad? Don’t you feel empty?

The man asked in a gentler way than Roman.

——This is outrageous. No, not referring to Chaldea's research. This is an evaluation of all human beings and all life.

There was genuine compassion in the man's green eyes.

——Life is doomed to die from the very beginning. In this doomed state, it has the ability to grow.

——Since you are going to die anyway, then just don't grow. Whether it's the flesh, the body or the spirit, it's enough to maintain the same state from beginning to end.

——In this way, there will be no sorrow and pain. Everything will be equal, and everything will have meaning from the beginning.

——But all life on this planet is in vain. It seems that they are growing for death.

Those words didn’t seem like something the always-smiling head of Chaldea’s medical department would say—everyone knew that Roman could easily become depressed and was a complete pessimist, but he would never deny human behavior or anyone’s efforts.

——It's meaningless. It's really meaningless. The more time passes, the more nostalgia grows. The setting of this planet for the life environment is fundamentally wrong.

—Don't you think so, ██?

Surprisingly, I didn't hear the name of the person, but that didn't stop the dream from continuing.

——You are half a life created by humans. It is an even more useless life created by useless humans imitating the behavior of gods.

——You have the right to hate, and you have the obligation to deny. Human history is worthless.

——These are just the remains of meaningless humans.

——And this remains just happens to look like a painting with a certain meaning.

The moment it was pointed out that the man was not Roman, the dream shattered - Getsu woke up from the dream and jumped straight up from the bed.

The next morning, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who rarely left Mashu and Ieiri Naoko, walked together and took Kagome Kaoru, who had no classes, to an empty classroom inside the Academic City - and briefly told him a story that had happened in Chaldea.

"…The one who went to save the world in the end was just an ordinary girl who was just trying to get on the shelf." Fujimaru Ritsuka sat with Geto Suguru and Naoko Ieiri and calmly recounted the savior's initial journey. "She was not a magician from a famous family, and she had never even come into contact with this world - but in order to save the companions she just met, she became the savior."

When the story came to an end, taking advantage of the brief absence of Fujimaru Ritsuka, Ieiri Shoko talked to Geto Suguru about the mission of that day for the first time.

"Hey, Geto - I have something to say to you." Ieiri Naoko looked at her classmate who had been distracted for a long time, and patted Geto's shoulder. "Chaldea has already told me that you showed a tendency to harm non-magicians during that mission - didn't you always insist that 'magicians exist to protect non-magicians'?"

"I'm a little confused, Glass." Xia Yujie came back to his senses and sighed helplessly, "I saw non-magicians persecuting magicians there - so my beliefs were shaken. Moreover, Chaldea told me that no matter which path I choose - the future that awaits me is only hell."

"Since it's the same no matter which path you choose, then at least consider us - we are your peers, Geto." Ieiri Shoko smiled helplessly and looked at Geto, "Since the future will be the same, then at least stand with us - don't easily fall to the side of murder."