If the woman in the mirror is really his mother...
Then what happened to the one I saw in my dream?
Ilia gritted her teeth and said nothing, but continued to look at the mirror.
The scene in the mirror changed again.
At the beach at night, at the noisy comic exhibition, and in the secluded castle, Illya and Emiya Shirou followed Anno's eyes, looking at Irisviel and Emiya Kiritsugu.
Anno's eyes were looking at the deserted corridors in the castle, but through Anno's ears, Shirou and Illya could hear it.
"Kiritsugu...?"
That was Irisviel's call with a slight hesitation in her voice.
"Ellie."
Emiya Kiritsugu's voice was trembling.
An Nuo's head seemed to have lowered. He no longer looked at the corridor in front of him, but looked at the ground.
"If we run away now, will you come with me?"
Emiya Kiritsugu's voice was suppressed with collapse and grief, and he said to his wife.
"Then...what about Illya? What should Illya do?"
It was Irisviel who heard these words - there was no surprise in her voice, as if it was completely expected that Emiya Kiritsugu would say such words.
"Let's go back and take Ilya away - if anyone dares to stop us, we will kill them all!"
Emiya Kiritsugu's tone gradually became more intense, and the two children could completely hear the fear and hysteria in his voice.
It was the sound of collapse that comes out when you finally get something in your empty life, but it seems that you are about to lose these things because of some of your decisions.
"From now on, I will only live for you and Ilia, I..."
There was even a cry in this man's voice.
Both Emiya Shirou and Illya's eyes widened.
——Is this Emiya Kiritsugu?
Is this what that man Emiya Kiritsugu can say!?
Incredible.
The Emiya Kiritsugu that Illya learned from her memories was a heinous bastard who killed his mother and abandoned himself just to pursue his own dreams without any regrets.
The Emiya Kiritsugu in Shirou Emiya's memory is a complex character. He can be an idealist who is desperate for his dream, or he can be happy after saving an unrelated boy.
The guy who sheds tears.
But... no matter who Emiya Kiritsugu is, it seems that he would never say such a thing.
"You can't do it."
Such a voice interrupted Emiya Kiritsugu's cry.
It's Irisviel.
"You can't escape. You won't let anyone escape with their tail between their legs and fail to save all mankind."
Irisviel's voice was filled with tenderness, tolerance, and sadness.
"You will be your own judge and kill yourself."
——This is what the mother said?
Illya was a little in disbelief.
Mother knew that if she participated in the Holy Grail War, she would definitely be killed. She would become the Little Holy Grail, lose all human functions, and finally exist as a wish-making machine, with no other function.
But she was in Saber Anno's memory——but she spoke to stop Emiya Kiritsugu who wanted to save her?
Just to... let Emiya Kiritsugu realize his dream?
At the cost of his own life?
--Why?
——Is that really the mother?
"...I'm scared."
After a long silence, Emiya Kiritsugu's voice was suppressed again.
"Assassin and Kotomine Kirei are a greater threat than Gilgamesh, but such opponents have come to find me. If Assassin hadn't just warned him for the time being, Maiya might have been killed, and I wouldn't be able to continue.
While alive, all my actions... have been seen through by them."
Everyone looked at Kotomine Kirei.
Kotomine Kirei looked calm and calm, as if the person Emiya Kiritsugu was talking about in the mirror was not him at all.
However, there was still a hint of thoughtfulness hidden in Kotomine Kirei's eyes.
So this is how Emiya Kiritsugu, that man, sees me...
And the woman he was talking about named Kuu Maiya was almost killed by Assassin...
Was it after the incident at the port?
"You were sacrificed in this battle, and I threw Illya in the castle, but now the most dangerous enemy has become my obstacle...I'm afraid...this battle will end in nothing.
Meaningless..."
The fear and trembling in Emiya Kiritsugu's words were clearly revealed.
"Kiritsugu, you are not fighting alone."
Irisviel's voice also carried the same or even greater sadness.
——She is the one who will be sacrificed.
"I will protect you. Saber will protect you. And...Miss Maiya will also protect you."
No one knows what is going on with Kuu Maiya.
He must have been an assister of the Saber camp during the last Holy Grail War.
Annuo sighed.
Ellie......
That child dedicated everything she had to Kiritsugu's ideals and even chose to turn a blind eye to the physical relationship between Emiya Kiritsugu and Kuu Maiya, although she also knew that it was Emiya Kiritsugu's punishment for himself.
But there is no doubt that she was the one who was betrayed.
No matter how much pain she suffered, she chose to endure it with strength, just for her ultimate dream.
But in the end...
Just like what Emiya Kiritsugu said, that battle might really be meaningless.
It just made Emiya Kiritsugu break away from the dream called world peace and feel his own despair, that's all.
The scene in the mirror changed again.
"It turns out that white knights can also be sad?"
Illya and Emiya Shirou heard this sentence.
In Anno's field of vision, there was a figure lying on a tatami bed.
here it is......
Emiya Shirou was stunned.
This floor...
Is it where you live now?
Moreover, Ms. Irisviel is...
Irisviel's eyes no longer had the agility and vitality they had before, but instead had a look of sadness and twilight.
Her face became a little thin, and she was lying on the bed unable to move, as if she was already dying.
"Mother......"
Illya looked at the mother in Annuo's memory and felt her heart twisting.
Like her mother, she was used as a small Holy Grail to carry souls. She couldn't understand why Irisviel had undergone such a change.
This is because when the number of souls entering the Small Holy Grail reaches a certain level, the human body functions of the Small Holy Grail itself begin to gradually stop.
In other words - Irisviel is going to die soon.
But even so...
Illya also discovered a fact.
There was still a smile on her mother's lips.
Her mood gradually sank.
Her mother seems to be concerned about all this...