I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

"Shin-etsu, our family's tragic wish is to continuously refine this power and ultimately reach the highest level. Any sacrifice for this is worthwhile. Do not run away because of your physical pain. It is your duty to die for the great wish of the family. You should be proud of it, just like your brothers and sisters."

In the safe area outside the testing grounds, separated by a protective glass door, the nominal father spoke earnestly to Oda Nobueshi before hurriedly leaving to check on the condition of the other test subjects.

To ensure this power remained firmly in the hands of the Oda clan, they never used outsiders for experiments; therefore, the subjects were always younger members of the clan. To acquire more test subjects, the Oda clan secretly purchased many women from the black market, transforming them into living "organs" with only reproductive functions. Oda Nobueshi was one such child born from these "organs."

In his earliest memories, Oda Nobueshi also remembered several children older than himself, children from the same background who had also undergone the modification experiment, a tall older brother who would comfort him with a smile, a long-haired older sister who would hug him and lull him to sleep, and many other children who were in the same pain as him but still tried their best to protect him.

During those days when the Oda family was eroded by a power that they called the power to reach the realm of the gods and that constantly brought them pain, the power that kept Oda Nobueshi from going mad was probably the children who always treated him with kindness and gentleness.

Before those children were consumed by the power and died.

As time slowly passed, Oda Nobukoshi gradually adapted to that power, and at this time, new children, his younger brothers and sisters, began to join this experiment.

Some of them were too weak and died soon after they began to absorb the power. They were then taken away by the family's body collectors and said to be buried in the family's glorious cemetery for eternal worship. Some children were able to persevere, but they could hardly adapt to the power like Oda Nobueshi. They were always in great pain, and their bodies even developed various twisted and crippled deformities as a result.

Comforting the children and becoming their pillar of support was the only thing Oda Nobueshi could do. Still unable to escape his status as an experimental subject, he could only helplessly use words to comfort his younger siblings who were gradually heading towards death.

When he was eight years old, he was taken to a secluded room where his nominal father, who was always cold and aloof, praised him endlessly with an expression of ecstasy, calling him the hope of the Oda family. Then, under a magical inscription that was so painful it was almost heart-wrenching, he was given a mark that commanded him to always obey the Emperor's orders and never betray the Oda family.

It was probably from that time that I vaguely began to realize just how disgusting those so-called "family members" really were. I talked about morality so many times and instilled so many principles of glorious sacrifice in him, but in the end, out of fear of his loss of control and retaliation, I chose to put an insurance policy on him.

"It is your duty and your honor to dedicate yourself to the interests of the family."

"Serve the Emperor! Join this war and win us even greater glory!"

"Never betray the Oda family, no matter what."

At the age of fourteen, when he was sent away from his family, those unfamiliar elders, whom he had to kneel before every time he met, spoke to him earnestly. At that time, he timidly asked if he would have time to come back and see his younger siblings.

This question displeased the elders who were smiling just a moment ago.

"As a noble finished product, you should distance yourself from those flawed experimental subjects. But oh well, after all, he's just a child. If you want to see them, come back and see them when you have the chance, if they're still alive then."

【Ugh, ahhhhh——】

The scene in my mind is becoming increasingly chaotic.

A battlefield strewn with blood and flesh, people slaughtering each other, arrogant superhumans, and ever-evolving weapons of mass destruction. Oda Nobueshi grows up in this world until he's sixteen, transforming from an ignorant boy into someone who learns more and more about the outside world.

It was during this time that he began to understand that the Oda clan's wish was to push this power to its extreme, ultimately reaching the pinnacle of humanity. As the most successful example of the clan in hundreds of years, he was getting closer and closer to this pinnacle, and even had a very good chance of successfully breaking through.

So, if I succeed, if I fulfill my family's wish, will we no longer need test subjects? Will my brothers and sisters who died be the final victims?

"Those who sacrifice themselves to fulfill the Oda family's wishes are honorable and sacred. Why would you have such thoughts? However, if you can truly reach the final path, then there will be no need for further testing. But, can you really reach the end?"

In the dimly lit hall, Oda Nobueshi's father answered Oda Nobueshi's question with a gloomy face.

Of course, in order to stop all of this from continuing, he had to complete that step no matter what.

He actively poured more power into himself, refining his skills step by step amidst increasingly intense pain, until finally, he completed that step, achieving the status of a transcendent. Having accomplished all this, he left the family's celebratory banquet and once again entered the underground testing ground, the nightmare of his childhood. There, he saw a new batch of children undergoing experimental modifications, and deep within the testing ground, behind a hidden door, a huge pit piled high with the bones of countless children.

I have fulfilled your wishes, so why hasn't this experiment stopped?

Weren't those children supposed to be buried in a glorious cemetery and worshipped for eternity? Why are they all in this garbage dump-like pit?

The angry questioning was met with indifferent stares from the family elders.

"Are you betraying the interests of the clan, Oda Nobueshi? Everything we have done is for the glorious future of the clan. You dare to question us here? Do you intend to betray the clan?"

The imprint planted in his childhood, now completely integrated with his body and soul, forced Oda Nobueshi to kneel down.

"If you can cultivate one transcendent being, then you will definitely have the opportunity to cultivate a second transcendent being, and even more powerful beings. But you actually want to use your personal success or failure to threaten the interests of the entire family. Do you know how shameful you are? For the sake of the family's interests, all these sacrifices are worthwhile. Don't let your childishness disrupt our overall plan!"

Is it for the family's interests?

No, that can't be right. It's all just for your own benefit, isn't it? We, who share the same blood as you, have never been treated as family by you from beginning to end, have we? We're just experimental animals for your greater profits, trash that you can discard after you're done with us, right?

"So what will you choose? To be a puppet for life? Or to join me in destroying this family you hate so much?"

The man with the blurred face extended an invitation to Oda Nobueshi.

【Ahhh, ahhhhh——】

The order of not disobeying the Emperor's orders takes precedence over not betraying the family. It is said that after Oda Nobueshi successfully reached the level of a transcendent, the orders marked on the new experimental children were reversed, meaning that not disobeying the family took precedence over not disobeying the Emperor. This probably explains the family's growing ambition. However, whether that's true or not, on that night of raging fire, all of that was meaningless.

Those high-ranking family elders were all reduced to nothingness amidst screams, and Oda Nobueshi, who had completely unleashed his rage, obtained a strange flame that night, a strange flame whose power could increase with his anger.

"Congratulations on completing your revenge, and congratulations on our cooperation in bringing this powerful family that began to threaten national security to an end."

Amidst the ruins of the family compound, a blurry-looking man spoke to him with a grin.

"Come on, you're just trying to ensure no one threatens your position," Oda Nobueshi said without even glancing at the man. "You're no different from those beasts who were burned to death here."

“That’s true, but I’m still alive, while they’re dead, and that’s the biggest difference. Do you know why? Because I’m smart, and they were stupid.”

The man spoke behind Oda Nobueshi, but Oda Nobueshi ignored him and walked away on his own.

"The biggest difference between a smart person and a fool is that the smart person knows how to recognize the situation. Moreover, a truly smart person will not make their life so stressful."

……

……Own,

Why did I recall these things...?

I can't understand it, I can't understand it. I'm angry, I'm angry. I want to kill, I want to destroy.

The burning giant skeleton, Oda Nobuyuki, who had completely lost his mind, let out a sharp roar and launched an attack on Aleister, who was standing on the blood-red sphere.

The malevolent flames and the magic bullets collided violently, clashing fiercely. Even from a great distance, Li Cheng could feel the terrifying power that was capable of destroying everything.

Zi's ​​voice suddenly rang out at this moment.

[Can we still use the gap?]

"It should last a few more times, what's wrong, Zi?"

"Then I'll have to be your porter and get us to the top of that big sphere, to the highest point of the barrier."

"What are you going there for?"

The highest point of the barrier, above the giant red sphere, may seem relatively safe from a height perspective, but it is still near the point where two transcendent-level forces collide. If anything unexpected happens, there might not even be time to run away.

This is unavoidable, as that should be the connection point.

"Connection point?"

[A sealed-off space is a technique capable of completely sealing off the inside and outside, forming a completely independent world. So how does this magical planet, situated within this technique, connect to the magical power of the entire outside world? This only proves that this space has connection points, capable of connecting the inside and outside.]

In other words, the highest point of the barrier is the connection between the inner and outer worlds?

[Once that shop is sealed off, the giant red sphere, severed from its internal and external connections, will naturally lose its conceptual power and its inexhaustible magic. As for that roasted skeleton, we have someone here who knows how to deal with it. The only problem now is that we're a bit too weak to get through.]

In other words, the key now is to bring Zi to the top of the barrier?

Squeezing out his last remaining demonic power, Li Cheng once again used a gap to move to Zi's side, and then took her to the highest point of the Academy City's barrier, which was ten thousand meters above the ground.

The moment he arrived at this point, even Li Cheng, a magic idiot, could feel clear traces of magic. Without a doubt, the connection between that blood-red sphere and the outside world was transmitted through this place.

The pale-faced Zi reached out and touched the barrier. Her figure immediately became ethereal and then vanished. If Li Cheng hadn't been able to sense Zi's presence within the contract, he would likely have panicked immediately. At the same time, Aleister, sensing something was wrong, immediately increased his firepower. While unleashing even greater force against Oda Nobueshi, he also diverted some of his power to attack Li Cheng above.

Li Cheng, unable to dodge in time, was blasted far away by the attack and landed somewhere unknown. However, the vanished Zi could no longer be attacked.

……

Kamijou Touma shakily got up from the ground.

Intense pain emanated from his severed arm, tormenting his nerves and causing them to tremble. He tried his best to calm his breathing and then slowly walked forward, toward the place where the fierce battle was taking place.

"Stop. Even if you go there, you'll only be throwing your life away. That battlefield is not for you."

Rear Water, who was also seriously injured, frowned and tried to dissuade him, but Kamijou Touma just shook his head and continued walking forward.

"If it's just going to stay here, that would be too useless. I really can't accept it."

A force was slowly gathering from his severed arm, and the water behind him seemed to sense an invisible wind pressure there, slowly releasing something hidden.

What exactly is this boy—

A colossal dragon's head suddenly appeared on the battlefield, plunging between Oda Nobueshi and Aleister. Immediately following, a second, a third, a fourth… at least a dozen dragon heads roared and charged into the battlefield, unleashing unparalleled power as they attacked both sides simultaneously.

Why did it suddenly erupt at this time?

Looking up at the pitch-black sky, and then at the giant dragon head and the crazed Oda Nobueshi before him, Aleister's brow furrowed even more.

Standing at a distance, Eric, preparing to provide support, suddenly sensed a gust of wind approaching. Before he could react, a figure appeared behind him, delivering a heavy blow that knocked him unconscious. Meanwhile, Aleister, no longer able to conserve his full power by manipulating his magic planet, had briefly suppressed Oda Nobueshi and the dragon head who had stormed into the battlefield. Panting, he gathered powerful magic, preparing to clear the anomaly above his head in one fell swoop. Then, he abruptly stopped; a bullet, seemingly out of nowhere, had struck his body, piercing his left lung.

Immediately afterwards, the bullet seemed to possess an unusual, demonic power, rapidly reacting violently with the magic circuits within his body and beginning to disrupt his entire magical system.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Normally, even if hit by such an attack, Aleister would be able to easily eliminate the effects, and with his abundant magical power, he could even crush it into pieces. However, now that his physical combat power is almost completely depleted, and he can only rely on the giant magical sphere to launch attacks, this attack quickly produced a significant effect.

"I'm so sorry, my behavior has probably caused you a lot of trouble, hasn't it?"

The blurry-looking man put away his gun and looked at Aleister, who was kneeling on the magic ball, with interest.

"But if you really succeed and become the one who eliminates the culprits with the magic power of the whole world, then you'll become the Japanese. That kind of thing is not worth it for me at all. I won't gamble on something that is harmful in every way, so I can only switch sides as soon as possible."

"I see. So that's why you have Kiritsugu Emiya's Origin Bullet?"

Aleister, clutching her chest and with blood slowly trickling from the corner of her mouth, calmly watched the man disappear before her eyes using a teleportation spell, without attempting to use her power to stop him, even though it would have been easy.

It doesn't matter anymore. So what if I fail? At least what I did has accomplished something I hoped for to some extent.

The magic ball beneath their feet was shrinking and disappearing. After being briefly suppressed, Dragon Head and Oda Nobuyoshi launched another frenzied counterattack. The final battle, which had completely spiraled out of control, was a magnificent explosion. A beam of light shot into the sky, piercing through the crumbling barrier beneath the purple light, and appeared like the sun in the clouds above the horizon.

"Have two Transcendent beings fallen?"

Outside the battlefield, Meryl thoughtfully raised her head, gazing at the sky, which was now as bright as day, and murmured to herself.

After today, many things will probably happen. Perhaps the peace that has lasted for a long time will begin to be broken.

It's no longer time to continue playing around. I should return to Camelot as soon as possible.

Having made up her mind, Merry pulled up her hood, completely covering her face, and quickly disappeared into the ruins. Further away, on the dust-free ground, Touma Kamijou, who was lying unconscious with his right arm intact, and Mizuki, who remained silent, were found by the survivors.

Meanwhile, covered in wounds, Li Cheng looked at the young girl who appeared before him with a complicated expression, looking dazed and as if she had just woken up.

"Cheng, is there anything strange about it?"

The blonde girl approached with a curious look on her face, her blue-violet eyes seemingly sparkling.

Is there anything strange about Xi?

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