Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 258 A Desperate Gamble

"Hey, Avengers."

Gilgamesh spoke coldly.

Although his tone remained arrogant, it lacked some of the previous contempt.

"Is this dirty stuff a specialty from your area?"

Although he had vented his anger in a frenzy, the murderous intent in his eyes remained undiminished.

"Make him vanish completely! I don't want to see even a speck of dust of his in this world again!"

"Ah, I would be delighted."

Buzz—

The Zanpakuto seemed to sense its master's will and let out a hungry cry.

With a casual grab of his wolf claws, the wisp of remnant soul, illuminated by the Heart Mirror, flew directly into his claws.

"My name is Asuka."

He threw away the remnant soul.

"Remember this name. When you get to hell, don't be at a loss for who to hold a grudge against."

Clang!

He swung his sword and slashed down.

A thin black line, seemingly capable of cleaving through space, instantly sliced ​​through the remnant soul.

"The Infernal Hell - Black Rope Hell".

【No!!!!】

With a final scream, the black thread instantly transformed into a gigantic wolf's maw, swallowing Metastasia's remnant soul whole.

Chewing and swallowing.

Not even a trace of spiritual energy leaked out.

This Hollow, which brought nightmares to Shiba Kaien and almost destroyed Fuyuki City with its demigod body, has completely disappeared from the world.

The bird exhaled a long breath of stale air, dispersing its surrounding domain.

As the mirror of the heart dissipated, the oppressive atmosphere that had enveloped Ryudong Temple did not completely disappear, but the suffocating sense of despair was indeed lessened considerably.

Without the interference of the parasites, the chaotic black aura surrounding Gilgamesh quickly faded, and brilliant, even colder, golden spiritual particles appeared around him.

He didn't look at the birds, but stared intently at the huge hole above his head that was still constantly flowing with black mud.

On the ground, as the purifying flames from Asuka's Bankai spread, the black mud that had covered the entire temple began to disintegrate at a visible rate.

Those trapped in the nightmare finally struggled out of that bottomless illusion one by one.

"Haa...haa..."

"7

Kiritsugu Emiya suddenly knelt down, his hands gripping the muddy ground so tightly that his fingernails even drew blood.

His pupils trembled violently, and he was drenched in cold sweat.

The final scene in the dream... that so-called peace built upon countless corpses...

That was the answer the Holy Grail gave him.

It was also the end of his lifelong pursuit of justice.

"What a joke... It's all a lie..."

"7

Kiritsugu's voice was hoarse and filled with despair.

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Irisviel, who was suspended in mid-air.

His beloved wife had now become completely transparent, with only a faint outline remaining in the world.

As the vessel for the Lesser Grail, she is being forcibly assimilated by the enormous source of malice above her.

"That thing...it's not a miracle at all..."

""

Kiritsugu stood up unsteadily.

"Saber."

""

His voice was as cold as ice.

Not far away, Artoria had just woken up from the recurring nightmare of national ruin and family destruction, and before she could recover from her mental daze, she heard her Master's cold command.

"Master...?"

"Use the Noble Phantasm." Kiritsugu didn't look at her; his gaze was fixed solely on Irisviel. "Use the Lesser Grail..."

Destroy everything inside, including the contents.

"What?!"

Artoria was horrified, her holy sword trembling in her hand: "You mean... you're going to kill Irisviel?!"

She's your wife!

"She isn't anymore."

Kiritsugu's hands trembled, but his tone remained unwavering: "...If this door isn't closed, everything in this world will be swallowed up by that black mud."

"To save the world... she must be sacrificed."

It's always like this.

It's that damn multiple-choice question again.

Asuka frowned, looking at Kiritsugu Emiya with displeasure.

"I..

'

Artoria looked at Kiritsugu's face, contorted with pain, and felt an indescribable sorrow well up inside her.

She held the sword, but hesitated to raise it.

"

In the name of the Command Spell.

Seeing that she remained unmoved, Kiritsugu raised his right hand, and the Command Seal on the back of his hand emitted a dazzling red light.

"Calm down a bit, sir."

A wolf's claw suddenly pressed down on Kiritsugu's right hand, which was emitting a red glow, abruptly interrupting his spellcasting.

Kiritsugu's pupils contracted, and he instinctively reached for the submachine gun at his waist, but due to his previous injuries, his movements were much stiffer.

The bird stood beside him, signaling him not to act rashly with its wolf claws wreathed in golden flames.

"Don't be in such a hurry to subtract."

"I don't understand what you're thinking, but if your first reaction to a problem is to kill your wife... then you're living a terrible life."

"What do you know?!"

Kiritsugu abruptly flung Asuka's hand away, his eyes bloodshot: "That cup contains all the evil of this world! Once it is fully unleashed, the number of deaths will be in the hundreds of millions!"

"In comparison, a life..."

'

"Therefore, this kind of arithmetic really is meaningless."

The bird interrupted him, then pointed a finger at the shattered sky above.

"Since that hole is the source, why not just blow it up?"

Kiritsugu was stunned: "..."

...What?!

"I said, instead of agonizing over whether or not to kill your wife, let's all work together to close that hole hanging in the sky..."

""

"Burn it to dust, along with the malice within."

The birdsong wasn't loud, but it carried throughout the deathly silent square.

"What did you say...?!"

Tokiomi Tohsaka, who had just woken up and was rubbing his forehead to relieve the dizziness, was so startled by these words that he almost dropped his cane.

"Do you know what you're saying?! That's the '7' leading to the root."

"That's a cesspool leading to hell," Asuka corrected mercilessly. "You saw it too, didn't you? When that stuff flows out, you won't even have a bone fragment left, let alone the source."

Tokiomi opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but the nightmare he had just experienced left him speechless.

Looking at the drowsy Rin beside him, and thinking of his other family members, he gritted his teeth in resentment.

This system has been completely broken for sixty years.

"But..." Artoria stepped forward, gazing up at the enormous hole: "That hole connects to the outside of the world, and the magical power it contains is unimaginably vast."

"I'm afraid my Noble Phantasm alone is not enough to destroy it."

Faced with that vast void that was continuously drawing upon the earth's ley line magic, relying solely on a holy sword was indeed somewhat inadequate.

"Who said you're all alone?"

The bird looked at the silent golden figure.

"Hey, Gilgamesh over there."

He shouted without any politeness, "You've been fighting all night and watching the show for half a day, haven't you had enough?"

"How did it feel to be possessed by that filthy thing? Want to come with me and poke a hole in the sky?"

Gilgamesh's eyelids twitched.

She slowly turned her head, coldly staring at the bird with her red eyes.

If it were any other time, anyone who dared to speak to him in that tone would have been pierced by a thousand swords long ago.

But now...

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