Shirou Emiya is determined to kill all the cursed spirits and evil spirits

"Because I usually cook at home, but we don't have the necessary conditions for cooking here, so... I forgot about it for the time being." Emiya tried to explain.

He didn't really want to try to gain sympathy by telling the other person that he had no place to live. After all, if he just wanted to make a living, Emiya had a way.

"I see, Emiya-san, you're actually pretty good at cooking?"

"Well, I wouldn't say I'm very good at it, but I'm pretty confident."

"How about this? I'll treat you to a meal, Emiya-san, and then you can cook for me so I can taste it."

Yotsuya Miko is certainly not stupid. She can see that Emiya is in a rather down and out situation right now, so she has to find a way to win the favor of this powerful exorcist.

"Is this okay?"

"I'm just treating you to a bite to eat. It's what good friends often do."

Volume 1: Chapter 4 That guy, he killed people.

MDL, one of the world's largest multinational restaurant chains.

It has nearly 30,000 branches across the country, mainly selling hamburgers, fried chicken, French fries, soda and other fast food.

Because of its convenient and quick nature, there is no need to wait for the long preparation process like normal meals, but the food can be in your hands almost immediately after placing the order. Therefore, in this era of increasing work pressure, even though it has been criticized for its health issues, it is still loved by office workers.

What a joke! They say that long-term consumption will lead to nutritional imbalance and damage your health.

Don’t office workers know that working overtime and staying up late is more harmful to the body? Do they dare to refuse to work overtime?

Likewise, fast food may not be nutritious enough, but having your wages docked for not being able to make it in time for work is even more heartbreaking.

MDL entered the Japanese market in 1971, and its development has been unstoppable since then, becoming the most successful catering company here.

So even though he knew that his time was more than ten years away from here, he could still see familiar shops and Emiya couldn't help but sigh.

Maybe so many magicians work hard all their lives, but the money they earn is not as fast as investing in the catering industry?

"I never expected that, Emiya-san... I thought people who can cook would be less interested in fast food..."

Looking at Emiya, who didn't stop eating even in a state of deep thought, Yotsuya Miko's face was full of worry.

Because Emiya said he was embarrassed to spend his own money, the two of them chose a relatively cheaper and faster fast food restaurant, where a hamburger only cost a few hundred yen.

But......

Yotsuya Miko looked at the half-eaten hamburger still left in her hand, then looked at the dozen or so neatly folded paper balls in front of Emiya, and felt like crying but had no tears.

It doesn't matter. A dozen burgers are only a little over 6,000 yen. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter.

Ah, my pocket money...

Even though tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, Yotsuya Miko was convinced that she was not crying.

"I believe that as long as the food is nutritious, there is no distinction between good and bad. I cook for myself only because I often have to take care of my family."

Emiya made his remarks very solemnly, but then he realized that he seemed to have eaten a considerable amount of food, so he put down his hand somewhat embarrassedly.

"I'm sorry, I accidentally spent quite a bit of your money."

Emiya himself didn't feel anything at all, but now thinking back, he realized that even if he excluded the time when he was unconscious, he probably hadn't eaten normally for two days and two nights.

In an environment where the great source is gradually disappearing, if magicians want to use magic, they can only squeeze it out from the magic circuits in their bodies.

Essentially speaking, a magic circuit is an organ that can convert vitality into magic power, which is why it is said that excessive use of magic circuits may be life-threatening.

In the absence of any better methods, eating is naturally the best way to restore magic power and vitality.

It was very strange. Why did a blond man with a big appetite suddenly come to his memory, but he couldn't remember who that person was?

"It's okay, it's okay. It's just a sigh."

Yotsuya Miko hurriedly waved her hands and recounted the truly unscrupulous merchants: "You know, a string of Buddhist beads claiming to exorcise evil spirits costs 3500 yen online, and it turns out it doesn't do anything at all."

This was a tragedy she had personally experienced. Because of those strings of Buddhist beads, she and her good friend were almost targeted by a powerful evil spirit.

Compared to this, the dual-blade exorcist who can help you easily eliminate evil spirits with just a few meals is simply amazing.

Yotsuya Miko, are you going to become one of those annoying capitalists?

But honestly, with someone who could easily slay evil spirits standing beside her, Yotsuya Miko's sense of security and happiness had indeed increased exponentially. At least when she saw those ordinary ghosts and evil spirits, she was almost not afraid anymore.

"But speaking of which... Yotsuya-san, have you ever learned how they were created?"

Emiya finished the food in his hand, folded it and put it aside, then wiped the corners of his mouth with a tissue before asking so seriously.

"Birth?"

Upon hearing this question, Yotsuya Kenko was stunned for a moment, then replied as if it was a matter of course, "Isn't it because after death, people feel unwilling to accept something, and then they will...eh?"

Halfway through saying this, Yotsuya Miko was stunned.

To be honest, she had never really thought about this issue seriously before. She just followed her inherent thinking and believed that evil spirits must be the product of the death of humans with evil thoughts.

But if that is true, then those huge monsters that seem to be made up of human limbs can barely be explained, but what about the rest of those strange and bizarre creatures that have no normal shape at all?

Could it be that they are all transformed from human souls?

This is obviously unreasonable!

"It seems, it seems that there is more to it than just this... I've also seen creatures that are almost identical to those in urban legends. What's going on with them..."

Yotsuya Miko was a little confused for a moment. After all, the condition for those guys to kill is that someone can see them. But if everyone who can see them is killed, how could such an urban rumor appear?

"For now, there are two possibilities." Emiya analyzed carefully.

"First, some people have seen the ghosts in these urban legends, so similar urban legends exist."

"Secondly, similar urban legends were born first, so ghosts similar to those in urban legends were born."

"Actually, I'm more inclined to the second possibility."

For Emiya, this was a concept that was easy to understand. Just as people's recitation of the epic stories of heroic spirits could create great miracles, why couldn't people's fear of monsters also give rise to monsters?

If this is the case, it is not difficult to infer why human society remains stable even though there are man-eating monsters living around everyone at all times.

Because some people know that fear will only encourage the growth of these monsters, they deliberately hide their existence, guide public opinion, and kill the monsters that are likely to get out of control.

Those are the people Emiya needs to find.

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean they'll never disappear?!"

Yotsuya Miko had always spoken in a very low voice before, but now she finally couldn't hold back her voice anymore.

Just as people always need to eat to survive, she also knows that it is impossible for humans to overcome the fear of death and ghosts.

If these things can never be completely killed, doesn't that mean she will always have to live in an environment full of ghosts and monsters?

No, absolutely not! She is not a young person who likes to seek excitement. It turns out that a quiet and stable life is more suitable for her!

"Well, after all, these are just my guesses. I still need to find more professional people to know the specific situation..."

Ding dong————

Just as Emiya was still stating the facts and thinking about how he could collide with those people, the door of the store automatically opened after sensing the pedestrians, and an office worker wearing strange glasses walked in with his body straight.

Even through his neat suit, Emiya could clearly see the muscular figure beneath it. But if that were all, it wouldn't be worth noting. After all, there are many office workers who sacrifice their leisure time to improve their physique.

But this person is different.

Before returning to Toki City to settle down, Emiya had followed Kiritsugu on a journey as a magician. As an adopted son and disciple, he traveled around the world with Kiritsugu to find a way to save the world, and he also learned a lot of magician skills from Kiritsugu.

The work of magicians is mostly related to magicians. Sometimes it is just a simple delivery of commissions, and sometimes they will encounter tasks such as eliminating opponents or killing apostles.

And the first time he saw this office worker, Emiya could confirm one thing with certainty - he had killed someone.

Something like murderous intent sounds illusory, but it undoubtedly exists.

The reason why people feel afraid of killing is not only because of the ideological education they have received since childhood, but also because of the instinct of living beings towards their own kind.

No matter how timid and embarrassed a person may have been, once he has tasted the feeling of killing, he may turn into an uncontrollable murderer. Emiya had seen such a person when he followed Kiritsugu.

Because after feeling the life of a fellow human slipping away in his hands, he would not necessarily just feel fear, he would also think: Ah, this is killing, it is no different from the feeling of eating bread.

Just by swinging a blunt instrument hard, or stabbing with a sharp object, a life that may be very important in the eyes of others can pass away easily. How can it not make them feel light and airy?

If you take a life, there is no going back.

This is what Kiritsugu told the young Emiya at that time.

So during those years, Kiritsugu never really let Emiya do such a thing, as if he had never really considered Emiya as his successor.

Emiya is not completely against killing people, because some extremely evil people must be killed to explain their evil deeds and protect more people. But Emiya does not know the reason why the office worker in front of him killed people.

Is he just a simple murderer hiding in the city, or...

"Jianzi, pay attention to that guy over there. Don't look back, or he'll easily notice you."

"Eh?"

Yotsuya Kenko subconsciously tried to turn her head away but was stopped abruptly. She just glanced at that side with the corner of her eye.

I only saw the office worker walking quickly to the MDL's food outlet with the same pace as his peers, and completing the order at an extremely fast speed.

"One teriyaki-style hamburger and chicken nuggets, one Coke, no ice, to go, thank you."

"Okay, please wait a moment!"

After receiving the order, the clerk only took a few tens of seconds to successfully pack the food in the thermal box into a bag and handed it to the other party together with the drink.

"Your food has been packed, please enjoy it."

"Thank you."

The office worker nodded, then waved his palm in the direction of the clerk and nonchalantly instructed, "Even if it's for work, you should take care of your health. And by the way, it's best not to take shortcuts just to get faster."

"Huh? What are you talking about, hello?"

The clerk wanted to stop the man and ask him what was going on, but the guy, who seemed to be in a hurry to go to work, had already walked out the door after picking up the food.

"What? What a weird guy." The clerk just muttered a few words and successfully put the matter behind him.

He had seen many unreasonable customers, and compared to them, the decisive office worker was considered super friendly.

"Emiya-kun, that guy looks like just an ordinary office worker being exploited by his boss... eh?!"

When she was halfway through the story, Yotsuya Miko suddenly widened her eyes.

"There was a demon on the clerk's back, but the office worker just waved his hand and... it disappeared?!"

What? She had watched many ghost-exorcism programs on TV and was considered knowledgeable, but how could anyone get rid of evil spirits so easily in this way?

"If nothing unexpected happens, he might be the real exorcist... Yotsuya-kun, just stay here. I'll go catch up with him."

Emiya also admitted that he was indeed lucky this time. He successfully met such a person just by wanting to find him.

But that guy had killed someone before. It would be best not to involve Yotsuya Miko until we were sure he was friendly.

"Hey, just leave me here alone, eh?!"

At first, Yotsuya Miko thought about staying where she was and waiting for Emiya to come back.

But after losing Emiya's protection, many evil spirits began to wander around her again, and one guy even sat next to her very naturally, which scared her so much that she immediately straightened her body and didn't even dare to blink.

"Emiya-san, wait for me!!"

ps: Although today is Thursday, I still wrote MDL

Volume 1: Chapter 5: Swords and Arrows Flying

Nanami Kento, a former office worker, is currently a first-class sorcerer.

The so-called sorcerer is the one that Emiya has always wanted to find. It is a special profession responsible for eliminating dangerous "cursed spirits" in this world.

Emiya's inference was quite correct. The "cursed spirits" were born from all kinds of negative emotions of human beings.

Spellcasters simply categorized curse spirits into different levels. A first-level spellcaster's target was a first-level curse spirit. However, the requirement for this type of match wasn't to be able to fight a first-level curse spirit, but rather to be able to completely destroy it.

In other words, putting aside some freaks whose strength is difficult to judge, the first-level sorcerer can almost be called the pinnacle of the sorcery world.

"From the moment they entered the shop, those two kids' eyes were fixed on me, but the fluctuations in their cursed energy were very noticeable. So... are they born with the Yin-Yang Eyes?"

Even though the targets he was responsible for eliminating were often 'cursed spirits' rather than 'humans', he was extremely sensitive to strange looks as he had been through many battles.

After all, Emiya's gaze was relatively discreet, thanks to professional training. But Yotsuya Miko's was very crude, a complete layman's, and any sensitive person could detect it.

It’s a pity that although the Yin-Yang Eyes sound good and are rare, they are not necessarily a good thing.