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Sakura nodded, looking at Kiritsugu's retreating figure, and said, "I never imagined that in other timelines, Kiritsugu Emiya would be such a tragic figure."

Emiya Shirou frowned, so Emiya Kiritsugu still intended to use Miyu Sakuzuki as a valuable tool.

That won't do. Once someone enters your restaurant, they are your permanent customer, even if they only come once in their lifetime.

We at Grand Cooker restaurant have a responsibility and an obligation to protect the vital interests and safety of every customer, unless they are a truly evil person.

"Emiya Kiritsugu, this isn't how you act as a champion of justice." Shirou Emiya felt that the Kiritsugu of this world hadn't experienced the harsh realities of life, which was why he was so stubborn.

If you look at other worlds, after World War IV, Kiritsugu Emiya's state of mind underwent a subtle change.

The goals and beliefs that the man named Kiritsugu Emiya once possessed were reduced to ashes in that great fire. What returned from that wasteland was nothing more than a wrecked remains, with only its heart still beating.

He realized and understood too late, but at least a spiritual transformation occurred.

But this Kiritsugu Emiya is different; he still clings to his almost pathological ideals.

They stop at nothing, disregard right and wrong, and only demand that they become the most accurate scales.

Make sure you never miscalculate the number of your lives.

Life has no distinction of rank or age; "one life" is its only unit.

He saves people indiscriminately, and he kills people indiscriminately as well.

Like other characters before World War IV, he lost his father, his mother, and even Irisviel and Illya; he felt no warmth.

He cannot be saved by Shirou, who already idolizes him.

Kiritsugu Emiya turned around blankly and looked at Shirou Emiya, saying, "I am not a hero of justice; I only want to save all of humanity."

"But that's no excuse for you to take advantage of Miyuki Sakuzuki. She just wants to live an ordinary life. You're using her as a tool. Have you ever thought about her feelings? She's a human being too."

Kiritsugu Emiya's eyes were cold. "No, she is not human. She is just a child of a god."

Rin Tohsaka asked, puzzled, "What is a god child?"

"It is the Holy Grail, the embodiment of the Holy Grail of his world."

“But isn’t she a little girl?” Sakura asked.

Emiya Shirou replied, "No, rather than saying that Miyu Sakatsuki is the Holy Grail, it's more accurate to say that the Holy Grail has developed an independent personality and become Miyu Sakatsuki."

Grandpa suddenly asked, "Are you planning to achieve your goals by sacrificing others?"

Kiritsugu Emiya nodded emotionlessly: "That's right, and it's not like she'll die, is it? Compared to saving all of humanity, I think this is fair."

Batman completely disagreed with Kiritsugu Emiya's statement, saying, "You call this justice?"

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Chapter Forty-Six: Justice VS. Justice

Bruce Wayne felt like he'd heard the biggest joke in the world.

What kind of justice must be achieved by sacrificing the lives of others?

And you still say it's fair?

In the face of justice, to whom is fairness shown?

Does this person think he's a scale that can judge and decide anyone?

To confirm his guess, Grandpa asked, "What do you mean by justice? Or let me put it another way, what standard do you use to measure justice?"

"Isn't the number of people the best?" Kiritsugu Emiya asked, quite puzzled. Why even ask that?

Grandpa was shocked by this answer for a whole year.

"You mean if one side has more people, then we can abandon the side with fewer people?"

Kiritsugu Emiya said, "Is there anything wrong with that? If sacrificing a few people can bring happiness to the many, I think it is necessary and feasible."

"But killing is wrong in itself, isn't it? Are you a law enforcement officer?" Batman seemed to have heard something out of a fantasy.

"I'm not."

"Then who gave you that right?"

"Justice, it is justice that drives me."

"You call this justice?"

Batman wanted to laugh, but couldn't. This guy's mind is so twisted!

"Then who are you, sir? What right do you have to criticize my ideals and justice?" Kiritsugu Emiya stared intently at Bruce Wayne.

"...I...I'm a vigilante." How would Batman put it? He can't exactly say he's Batman, a superhero, can he?

Even if you told me, Kiritsugu Emiya wouldn't know him, would he? And as for claiming to be a superhero, Batman doesn't think he's that thick-skinned.

Kiritsugu Emiya scoffed, "A vigilante? Oh, you make it sound so righteous. Your hands must be covered in blood, just like mine, right?"

“I haven’t killed a single person in decades while wearing this coat!” Bruce Wayne felt as if he had been insulted.

"No matter how heinous, unforgivable, inhumane, utterly depraved, or harmful to society, the country, humanity, or the world, you still won't kill them?"

“I don’t have the right to not kill, nor can I set a precedent. Once I kill the first person, I won’t stop. Humans are rational beings and must learn to restrain themselves!”

"Heh, nonsense. If you don't kill one person, they might kill even more in the future. Your sense of justice is laughable!"

"...Then I will arrest him again, put him in prison, until he dies, or I die."

Kiritsugu Emiya returned Blue Swayne's words verbatim, "You call this justice?"

You catch me and I run away, you run away and you catch me again, are you playing house with me?

"Your world, or rather, the place where you fight for justice, is quite chaotic, isn't it?" Kiritsugu Emiya asked.

"Yes, it is a city full of darkness, decay, and sin, but I believe, even firmly believe, that it will one day see the light!"

After hearing Batman's answer, Kiritsugu Emiya said, "If I were you, I would consider destroying this city or killing all the criminals. The best way to eliminate evil is to kill it, uproot it, and nip it in the bud."

"You're not normal," Batman accused Kiritsugu Emiya. "What you've done is no different from that of a criminal. When you treat everyone equally and fairly, taking their lives without any mercy, you're already abnormal. The value of life cannot be measured by some so-called scale!"

Kiritsugu Emiya retorted, "What a joke! In my opinion, you're the abnormal one! Your principle of not killing is to uphold the law and your own bottom line, right? But is such a law even necessary? It will only cause more tragedies, and you happen to be one of the writers of these tragedies, because you have the ability to stop all of this, yet you believe the law can stop it! Placing your hopes for justice on a corrupt law, what kind of justice is that!"

"You have no idea what Gotham is really like! Don't judge my city with your own limited perspective!"

"Your city is already broken; you might as well carry out a major purge!"

"Whether or not to clean up is not something we have the right to do or judge! Just as you cannot rely on your own judgment to assume you can save the world!"

Emiya Kiritsugu slammed his fist on the table in anger and roared, "You have no right to comment on my world! My world is terminally ill! But most people just haven't realized it yet! I'm going to save them!"

"Everything in the world operates according to its own laws. You have no right to decide for all of humanity, even if it's your world! If you continue like this, one day you will regret it. You will find that in the end you have not saved anyone, and you can't even save yourself!" Grandpa slammed his fist on the table in a fit of rage.

"What's your name?" Kiritsugu Emiya suddenly asked.

"Bruce Wayne, from another universe."

“You’re a madman, Bruce Wayne,” Kiritsugu Emiya said definitively.

Batman scoffed, "Aren't you a lunatic too? What's your name anyway?"

“Emiya Kiritsugu, this is my name. I will prove to you that my actions and beliefs are correct.”

"Bullshit! You'll just end up as a mindless killer! You'll regret using the scales to indiscriminately measure justice!"

Emiya Shirou sighed. It's like nobody can convince anyone else.

Batman asked again, "Kiritsugu Emiya, I have a few last questions for you."

"What's the problem?"

"Imagine a great catastrophe strikes the world, and only 501 people, including you, survive. They split into two ships, one with 300 people and the other with 200 people, and head to a new continent, a new home."

But en route, both ships ran aground. Only you can repair them, but you only have enough time to repair one ship. Which one will you repair?

"Of course it's 300!" Kiritsugu Emiya answered without hesitation.

"Oh, what if another two hundred people pressure you?"

"This...time is of the essence, I will..."

"Understood. The remaining 300 people have split into two groups at the new location, 200 on each side and 100 on each side. But they are all poisoned, and only you can save them. Which group will you save?"

"200 people."

Batman said mercilessly, "Well, you see, why didn't you choose to save the ship with only 200 people from the beginning? In the end, weren't there still only 200 people left? In order to save those 200 people, you abandoned 300 people?"

In the end, you might not save anyone! You may be adhering to your belief in the majority, but that's the problem!

After a long silence, Kiritsugu Emiya said softly, "That's why I want to pursue the Holy Grail... Through the miracle of the Holy Grail, I can avoid it."

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Chapter 47 What if we switched roles!

After hearing Kiritsugu Emiya's reflections, Grandpa was speechless.

He couldn't help but ask, "Can anyone tell me what the Holy Grail is? Is it the thing I'm imagining?"

Emiya Shirou explained, "The Holy Grail is something unique to our universe. It can grant wishes and is known as the omnipotent wish-granting machine."

However, the Holy Grail can only fulfill the wishes of the person making the wish through the means you can think of. It cannot fulfill what you cannot imagine or think of.

It will achieve this through any means you can imagine, such as world peace. The Holy Grail could very well kill everyone, and then the earth will be at peace.

Its methods are generally no different from those of the user.

Kiritsugu Emiya was stunned: "This is impossible! Isn't it a wish-granting machine for miracles?! What kind of miracle is this?!"

Emiya Shirou further explained with distress: "But this is indeed a kind of miracle, it's just that you don't recognize it. Of course, the above theory is based on the premise that the Holy Grail has been corrupted."

If the Holy Grail had not been corrupted, I would not presume to guess how it would grant the wish of the one who made the wish, but in general, the Holy Grail can be regarded as a highly pure crystallization of magic.

It should not possess any thought itself, so it will only operate mechanically in ways that can be foreseen, realized, and imagined.

For example, you might want Earth's civilization to advance by 500 years, but the Holy Grail could very well give you all the science and technology that would advance Earth's civilization by 500 years. Whether humans can understand it or not is irrelevant to the Holy Grail.

In other words, it cannot instantly advance human civilization on Earth by five hundred years. Do you understand the mechanism of the Holy Grail now?

Kiritsugu Emiya immediately slumped into his chair like a wilted eggplant, while Batman frowned deeply.

This idea is too strange; it's like skipping the process and seeking the result directly. The Holy Grail is something's not right. If it appeared in my world, I would definitely destroy it.

"Emiya Kiritsugu, there's something wrong with your thinking. You blindly place all your hopes on the Holy Grail. Your kind of justice is laughable!"

Kiritsugu Emiya looked up at his grandfather and said, "My wishes and justice are not wrong. I treat everyone equally, which is fair. No matter how fierce, cruel, or cold-blooded my methods are, I am ultimately doing it to save all of humanity."

And you, Bruce Wayne, since you admit to being a vigilante, then you fundamentally distrust the laws of your city!

But ridiculously, because of your own principles and bottom line, you sent them to prison and then ignored them, only to arrest them again after they were released or escaped.

Since you don't trust the law in the first place, why go through all this trouble? Have you ever thought about what you would do if one of the criminals you arrested escaped from prison and committed heinous crimes, causing thousands, tens of thousands, or even the entire city to be ruined?

Doesn't your conscience hurt? Will you still insist on your ridiculous non-killing principle? Will you still place your hopes on this garbage law?

If you could prevent the tragedy of millions by killing just one person, would you do it?

Tell me, Bruce Wayne, will you do it?!

"...I can't." Grandpa kept his eyes tightly closed, his facial muscles twitching, and his fists clenched, as if he was recalling something.

Kiritsugu Emiya pointed at Bruce Wayne, "Look, you're a madman too, a complete madman. Isn't your sense of justice laughable? I doubt the people you saved in your city will thank you."

Grandpa opened his mouth, then said, "Gotham has a problem, a big problem. I'm trying to change it, and I'll try my best to make it better."

"You'll never change anything unless you kill them."

"Killing is the beginning of everything. Everything will change, becoming darker, more unrestrained, without any bottom line, and the city and the world will become more and more chaotic."

“I don’t understand you, Bruce Wayne.”

"I don't understand you either, Emiya Kiritsugu."

Emiya Shirou brought a plate of hamburgers from the kitchen and placed it in front of his grandfather, interrupting their conversation. "Listen to me," he said, "since neither of you can convince the other, and neither of you understands the other, why don't you try switching roles? Why don't you try it your way?"

Grandpa looked at him, puzzled. "Manager, what do you mean?"

Kiritsugu Emiya looked at Shirou Emiya with the same expression. "What do you mean by 'identity swap'?"

"Literally, our store offers a little game where two guests each travel to the other's world and use their own set of rules to see who is right."

This idea came to Shirou Emiya while he was making hamburgers in the kitchen and chatting with Yui.

Customers who make a purchase at our store can choose to experience the worlds of other customers, similar to a soul-swapping experience.