Legend of the Dragon King: I am Genshin Impact

Chapter 248 The Meaning of Life

Is it an illusion?

Feng Zixi looked around and saw that Gilgamesh and Kiritsugu Emiya, who were originally around her, had also disappeared.

"So, make your choice..."

Suddenly, the forest of Ryudong Temple transformed into a hotel room, the old television screen flickered with static, and the final image lingered on a vast ocean.

"Imagine only five hundred people remain in the world, on two ships, three hundred on one and two hundred on the other. Both ships have simultaneously suffered a large hole, and you... Feng Zixi, are the last repairman. Choose: will you choose to save three hundred people or two hundred?"

Outside, Kiritsugu Emiya stared wide-eyed, wondering what choice Feng Zixi, the strongest Heroic Spirit, would make!

Although Feng Zixi cannot see Emiya Kiritsugu and others from his perspective, others can see him and even hear his conversation with the Holy Grail.

Kirei Kotomine smiled, looking at Kiritsugu Emiya who was waiting expectantly for an answer, and felt that it would probably be more pleasant to leave him here.

Although he didn't know what answer Feng Zixi would give, Kirei Kotomine had a premonition that Feng Zixi's answer would definitely not be the one Kiritsugu Emiya was hoping for...

"Tch, boring. Can such a question really test a person?" Gilgamesh curled his lip in disdain.

Inside the illusion...

"Pfft..." Feng Zixi couldn't help but laugh out loud. "I mean... is it because you can't find my psychological weakness that you've perpetuated the problem with Emiya Kiritsugu?"

"Choose one: will you choose to repair the boat that carries three hundred people, or the one that carries two hundred?"

Feng Zixi's smile faded slightly. Although this kind of question was rather pointless, well... since that's the rule, let's have some fun...

"I choose to save those three hundred people."

"Yes," the majestic voice rang out again, "but what if those two hundred men stop you and demand they repair their ship?"

Feng Zixi tilted her head, "Of course, we should kill them..."

The scene shifts to a ship filled with corpses, blood staining the entire deck, and crimson blood staining Feng Zixi's trouser legs.

Feng Zixi's expression remained unchanged. "And then?"

"Then these three hundred people were further divided into groups of one hundred and two hundred, and the ship..."

"I choose those two hundred people..." Feng Zixi answered before the Holy Grail question could even be finished.

Outside the illusion, Kiritsugu Emiya was excited. "See? See? I didn't make the wrong choice. Even the legendary Heroic Spirits made the same choice as me!"

Inside the illusion, Feng Zixi sighed and said, "Boring. Just tell me directly. I choose those two people instead of one. How are you going to divide the two in the end? If it's one person per ship again, then I'll just pick one randomly."

"You..." The Holy Grail's consciousness seemed unprepared for this situation. One could argue that guiding the human to utter these words was its intention, but... the person who uttered them would at least have paused to reflect, speaking with an indifferent attitude. This made it impossible for the Holy Grail to continue its interrogation...

"What do you take life for?!" Kiritsugu Emiya barked like a mad dog. Perhaps the Holy Grail consciousness felt that Kiritsugu Emiya's appearance was a good thing, so it simply pulled Kiritsugu Emiya into the illusion as well...

Feng Zixi looked at the suddenly appearing Emiya Kiritsugu. He didn't know if it was an illusion created by the Holy Grail or if it was really Emiya Kiritsugu himself, but... that didn't matter anymore...

"What is life? Life is an immeasurable treasure..." Feng Zixi said with a faint smile.

"If that's the case, how can you say such things so easily? You..."

Before Kiritsugu Emiya could finish speaking, Feng Zixi licked her lips and said, "Eh? Isn't what I'm talking about exactly what that creature named Kiritsugu Emiya is doing?"

Emiya Kiritsugu swallowed back a whole host of words; he couldn't refute it, and he had indeed done just that before... but...

"Between three hundred and two hundred, I chose three hundred, not because the lives of three hundred are more valuable than those of two hundred, but... I wanted to choose this way, and I was happy to choose this way." Feng Zixi smiled slightly. "For you, the lives of three hundred are definitely more valuable than those of two hundred, right?"

"Hehe." Feng Zixi gripped the railing of the ship's deck, gazing at the distant sea. "Emiya Kiritsugu, so this is you."

"You think you're a hero, that you can decide everything for others, that what you do is right, that it's the optimal solution, but... Emiya Kiritsugu, you really are arrogant..." Feng Zixi turned around, looking at the lifeless Emiya Kiritsugu, "You don't have the strength that arrogance should have, but you do have an arrogant personality. You've been like this since you were a child..."

"My view of all magicians in this world is the same: magicians are all madmen!" Feng Zixi walked step by step to Emiya Kiritsugu. "Whether it's a magician who pursues the Root or a magician like your father who pursues immortality, they are all madmen! Of course, you, this so-called magician killer, are also a madman in my eyes..."

"A person should have some pursuit in life. The distance between a madman and a genius is only a fine line. Whether they devote themselves wholeheartedly to pursuing the root of things or pursuing immortality, they all have their own meaning in life. They are all pursuing the meaning of life. But you... put a price tag on life..."

Feng Zixi's words struck Emiya Kiritsugu's heart like a heavy hammer.

Was Kiritsugu Emiya's father wrong to pursue immortality? Even in his research on immortality, there were no human trials. In the end, the problem arose because his assistant took it upon himself to use an unfinished potion...

Even if most people believe their father was wrong, Kiritsugu Emiya should not have killed his own father.

For the sake of his own perceived righteousness, he killed his father, his master, and his wife. Such a person is even more disgusting than Kirei Kotomine!

"Since you don't have the power of a creator, don't act like one, standing on a moral high ground and putting a price tag on life!"

Kiritsugu Emiya stared blankly at the blood on the deck. After a long while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he stared intently at Feng Zixi. "And you! And you! You talk so eloquently, but the decisions you make are just like mine!!! Aren't you just indifferent to life!!!"

Feng Zixi squatted down in front of Emiya Kiritsugu, reached out and patted his deranged face, saying calmly, "I'm different from you. You seem to have misunderstood a major premise..."

Emiya Kiritsugu frowned, not understanding why Feng Zixi said that...

"Haven't figured it out yet?" Feng Zixi chuckled. "The premise is that I've always been different from you from the very beginning. Although subjectively I've always considered myself human, I'm an elf..."