Kiritsugu Emiya and Kariya Matou reacted very differently; one was more focused on gathering intelligence, while the other was more interested in Lancelot's current situation.
Irisviel and Lancelot told them some things.
After hearing the information about the Holy Grail, Kiritsugu Emiya fell into deep thought.
After hearing the news, Matou Kariya asked Du Can directly, "Mr. Ye Fan must be the mysterious person who killed Matou Zouken before, right?"
"It was me. When I saw such a disgusting magician, I couldn't resist the urge to strike, so I just struck him."
Du Can readily and openly admitted it.
After all, one should be willing to take responsibility for their actions. Besides, people aren't necessarily there to blame him.
"My benefactor! You are my great benefactor, Matou Kariya! You are the great benefactor of the entire Matou family!"
Matou Kariya immediately knelt down before Du Can and even kowtowed three times.
Everyone around was startled. Weber felt that the Japanese, whom he disliked, always managed to come up with some unexpected new tricks.
"I simply hated Zouken Matou, so I killed him. It just so happened that your house was ruined. I'm glad you don't blame me. Do you need me to compensate you for your property loss?"
"No, no, no! How could we accept money from our benefactor? It's good that you demolished that gloomy and filthy house. Out with the old, in with the new. We'll build a new house; how could we dare take your money?"
Matou Kariya wasn't bothered at all. After all, it was Matou Tsuruno who paid for the new house, not him. So naturally, he wasn't bothered.
"That's good. I wonder about my previous suggestion..."
"Absolutely no problem! Berserker! From now on, you'll follow my great benefactor!"
Kariya Matou simply sold Lancelot out.
Putting aside the fact that Du Can had already killed Matou Zouken, which was already an immense favor, Matou Kariya had also witnessed the latter kill Tohsaka Tokiomi's golden Servant not long ago, making it an even greater blessing.
This was already something he couldn't possibly repay. Seeing that the other party had a request, he immediately agreed without even asking Lancelot whether he actually agreed or not.
Lancelot was speechless at the situation. His condition for agreeing was that his king was indeed prepared to follow Du Can. Now, the other side hadn't even reached an agreement yet, and they were already selling him out so impatiently. Wasn't that a bit inappropriate?
Besides, you didn't even sell it all off completely. Matou Kariya said he wanted Lancelot to follow Du Can's orders, but the contract between Matou Kariya and Lancelot hasn't been broken yet.
Matou Kariya is still Lancelot's Master in theory, and this cannot be transferred simultaneously simply by verbally transferring ownership.
Unless his Master, Kariya Matou, dies, or a Noble Phantasm capable of breaking a magical contract severs the connection between them, Lancelot cannot become a masterless Servant and be contracted by someone else.
"That's good. Hold out your hand for a moment, and I'll transfer the control of the Command Seals."
Matou Kariya quickly reached out his hand, which had a red mark on the back.
He didn't know that Command Seals could be transferred, but he believed that someone as powerful as his benefactor was absolutely capable of doing so.
Command Seals are essentially marks similar to stigmata formed by combining magical crystals containing a large amount of magical power with magic circuits.
The transfer command spell is essentially an extremely precise dismantling operation on the magic circuit; if not handled carefully, it could render the magic circuit unusable.
The Holy Church is capable of doing this. Zouken Matou could theoretically do it too, after all, he was the developer of the Command Seals.
It's just that Kariya Matou, this half-baked magician, wasn't quite aware of it.
Du Can glanced at the shape of Matou Kariya's Command Seals, which resembled three spiraling red boomerangs.
The shape of a Command Seal is related to the nature of its magic circuit. Different people have different magic circuits, so the Command Seals they produce will also be different.
Du Can used his powerful mental strength to quickly and accurately strip away Matou Kariya's Command Seals without damaging his magic circuits at all.
He had learned how to remove magic crests before. Although Command Seals are completely different from magic crests, they are similar in that they are both extremely difficult to deal with.
He quickly transferred the Command Seals to the back of his hand. Instantly, the Command Seals on Matou Kariya's hand disappeared, and at the same time, three peculiar Command Seals appeared on his arm.
Two strokes resemble leaves, one stroke resembles a flame.
It's like fire rising from leaves, and fire giving rise to two leaves.
"Interesting, is this the Command Seal?"
Ducan already had a Servant named Hassan the Hundred Faces, but he did not actually form a master-servant contract with him, so he did not have any Command Seals.
Hassan the Hundred Faces was able to exist because of the skill that Du Can had given him. This skill allowed him to draw some magic power directly from the Great Source, so that he would not disappear due to a lack of magic power.
Now that we have Command Seals, we can sign a formal contract with the other party.
As for how to obtain the contract between Artoria and Lancelot, he also has a way.
"Kiritsugu, now you know that the Holy Grail has been corrupted and can no longer grant wishes. I cannot help you obtain a Holy Grail that cannot grant wishes."
Artoria's slightly cold voice rang out.
She disliked Kiritsugu Emiya's personality to begin with, and after learning the truth about the Greater Grail, she disliked him even more.
At this moment, Kiritsugu Emiya ignored the somewhat temperamental Artoria and was instead immersed in his own world of thought.
The Holy Grail War has clearly reached a breaking point, and it's not just about the Holy Grail being corrupted.
Although he felt a pang of despair when he heard that the Holy Grail had been corrupted and could not fulfill his wishes, as if everything he had done in the first half of his life had become a joke.
At that moment, it was as if a revolving lantern was spinning before his eyes, from killing his father with a gun on an island when he was a child, to bombing the plane carrying his adoptive mother with a rocket next to the airport when he grew up.
Mother, Xia Lei, Natalia...
He watched familiar faces die one by one, and in the future, that might include Hisau Maiya, Airi, and even Illya...
He sacrificed so much, all to use the Holy Grail to fulfill his wish. Now, being told that the Grail is corrupted and can no longer grant his wish is truly devastating.
However, having witnessed an even more shocking scene, he was not so bad as to lose his life goals and give up becoming a partner of justice.
Kiritsugu Emiya took a deep breath and then asked, "Mr. Du Can, could you answer a question for me?"
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"Du Can?"
"Isn't your name Ye Fan? Why does Kiritsugu address you as Du Can?"
Everyone was puzzled for a moment, then they immediately realized that one of the names must be a fake.
"You know me?"
Du Can looked at Emiya Kiritsugu.
"Yes, your name is quite well-known within the area under the jurisdiction of the Spiral Pavilion, and I happen to know a little about it."
After all, Du Can was previously known as the "Magician Killer," so it was hard for Kiritsugu Emiya not to be interested in learning more about him.
"Okay, I almost forgot that I'm still officially affiliated with the Spiral Pavilion."
Du Can nodded, then his eyes emitted a faint light that no one could detect, a light that carried a transcendent spirit that went straight into Kiritsugu Emiya's mind.
Du Can directly used his powerful mental strength to begin browsing through Emiya Kiritsugu's memories.
From the moment he was born until now, all his memories have transformed into a book that people can read, with text explanations, pictures, and even live video recordings.
"What...what is all this about? What a weird person."
Emiya Kiritsugu has become somewhat obsessed.
Ever since he killed his own father when he was a child, his mental state has become abnormal. He always felt that the world was beyond saving and that he should save it.
His method of saving the world was also bizarre, always taking the sacrifice of a small number of people to protect the majority as his guiding principle.
Regardless of whether the minority of people are willing to be sacrificed, or whether they are kind or evil, as long as it can save the majority of people, he will do it no matter how innocent the sacrificed people are.
For the small minority who were sacrificed, he was nothing short of a murderer.
For most of those who were saved, this was not a savior, but simply a lunatic.
His self-righteous behavior will not earn him any respect.
But he never cared about other people's opinions; he only thought about saving the world in his own way, regardless of whether the world wanted to be saved by him.
His wish in participating in the Holy Grail War was actually to save everyone and bring peace to the world.
To be fair, his dream was grand, but considering his character, it seems quite ironic.
Kiritsugu Emiya wanted to express his doubts, but Du Can interrupted him.
"You want to ask me what I'm going to do with this powerful force next, right? Will I save the world and create peace like you, or will I do whatever I want and destroy everything like those magicians?"
Du Can directly stated what Kiritsugu Emiya was thinking.
Emiya Kiritsugu's pupils contracted.
"To be fair, you consider yourself a champion of justice, but your actions are anything but just. You have killed countless innocent people. If I were like you, I would kill every single Japanese person in the world right now."
"Because, for many people, the Japanese are evil. And the number of haters is definitely greater than the number of Japanese. According to your logic, comparing good and evil and numbers, I should kill all the Japanese. Do you think that's right?"
Kiritsugu Emiya frowned, about to say something, but Du Can interrupted him.
“In my eyes, you are no different from those magicians you despise. It’s just that they consider themselves superior and therefore look down on ordinary people. You think you are saving humanity, but your actions still make you seem superior and still despise ordinary people.”
"Because you lack the ability, you choose to sacrifice a small number to save the majority. You don't care whether there are innocent or good people among that small number, nor whether there are sinners or bad people among the majority."
"You're just making choices for humanity, not judging them. Your so-called salvation is nothing more than destructive treatments like cutting off a foot when it hurts or a head when it hurts. Your so-called justice is nothing more than your own fantasy of self-satisfaction."
Du Can went on and on, but all he really wanted to do was swear.
He knew that someone like Kiritsugu Emiya, who was so engrossed in his own world, would never listen to others. He just didn't like the other person and wanted to curse him.
To be fair, if he were in Kiritsugu Emiya's position, he would indeed have a difficult choice, but he simply couldn't do something as decisive as Kiritsugu's approach of sacrificing a small part.
Because this is tantamount to placing oneself above everyone else, making choices for everyone, and deciding the life or death of others.
Emiya Kiritsugu is quite arrogant!
After hearing Du Can's tirade, Emiya Kiritsugu thought for a moment and then nodded.
He knew long ago that his way of doing things would not be understood by others, but he had always done it this way, making this choice countless times since he was a child.
He has accumulated too much knowledge and experience to ever turn back.
"Yes, I admit you're right. But I still want to know what you're going to do next?"
He didn't care what Du Can said, but he cared a lot about what Du Can was going to do next.
Because Du Can's strength was far beyond his expectations. Once he stepped onto the scales of justice in his heart, he might very well crush the scales that judged good and evil, quantity and scarcity.
Ultimately, the scales in Kiritsugu Emiya's heart can only be used to judge the value of people and make choices. They cannot be used to judge the value of the superhuman.
For example, what if there were a group of people who provoked a solitary alien species living in South America?
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