NOVEL WEB Chapter 29: Chapter 29: To Hell With Your Fate
Facing this sage of Britannia, the legendary magus whom everyone admired, Su Shu had no intention of flattering him.
On the contrary, his attitude was exceptionally cold.
After all, his time with Artoria had made Su Shu clearly understand the girl's difficult life.
That pathological moral compass, one didn't need to think to know who had taught her that.
For this reason, Su Shu had no goodwill whatsoever for this incubus, Merlin.
Uther and Merlin, one a crouching dragon, the other a phoenix chick—a real pair of freaks.
They were absolutely responsible for the formation of Artoria's twisted personality.
In other words, a non-human thing was playing with human emotions.
Such a thing was disgusting, sickening—
"Oh my, are you angry?
"Don't be angry~ Alvin-kun, I won't ask anymore..."
The magus said with a grin.
"After all, during this time, my dear Lily has been under your care~
"You haven't harmed her, so of course, I have no reason to harm you."
As he said this, the magus put on an expression of what seemed to be regretful sighing.
"But, as Lily's teacher, I can't let you continue to stay by her side. I hope you won't be too heartbroken.
"I came here just to inform you of this."
"I see, heh..."
Hearing this, Su Shu couldn't help but laugh.
The curve of his lips was filled with sarcasm, his iron-gray eyes filled with mockery.
"So you can feel fear too, Merlin...
"I thought an incubus's heart didn't know what fear was."
"...Oh?"
Merlin tilted his head, asking with great interest,
"I didn't even realize it myself. Then tell me, what am I afraid of, Alvin-kun?"
"—You're afraid. Afraid that if I continue, Artoria will learn more of the truth, see through your hypocritical rhetoric, and further question the necessity of becoming a king."
Su Shu sneered.
"After all, the concept of a 'king' is meaningless to begin with, just a lie constructed because people hope someone will step up and bear all the responsibility."
"Tsk~ that's not how you should put it,"
Merlin shook his head with a tsk.
"To become king and then save Britain, that is Lily's destiny."
The casual words fell.
...The wind itself seemed to fall silent.
Looking at Merlin's smiling face, Su Shu was silent for a long time before he repeated those two words in a low, disbelieving, questioning voice.
"Destiny...?
"In your eyes, Merlin...
"—this is 'destiny'... is it?"
Before meeting Merlin, Su Shu had once thought that perhaps the limitations of the era had led to Artoria's tragedy.
The narrow view of the great man theory of history only focuses on the results of winners and losers.
After all, it was the Middle Ages, so even a great sage like Merlin wouldn't understand that a suitable political system and program were the true keys to leading the people forward.
To want an "ideal king."
Such a thing was natural for the people of this era.
However, at this very moment, knowing that Merlin, like himself, possessed the miracle of "Clairvoyance," the word that the incubus uttered finally made Su Shu feel a long-lost anger.
"Destiny."
Of all people, you, Merlin...
You, whom Artoria trusts the most, are the least qualified to say those two words—
"Hey, hey... you can see it, can't you, Merlin—"
Looking directly at this great magus, hailed as a sage in Britain, Su Shu said, word by word, in a low voice.
Looking at the silver-haired boy's calm-as-a-well expression, as if a raging fire was burning beneath the ice, Merlin's gaze also slowly became solemn.
The magus seemed to feel something he couldn't understand, slowly flowing out from the other's body.
"To be pushed to become a king...
"To be betrayed to death...
"To spend her entire life chasing an ethereal hope, trying to save this dying country.
"But never receiving any understanding or salvation. The only thing that accompanied her to her death was... endless loneliness.
"Hey, hey, you saw it, didn't you, Merlin...
"As her teacher, and with your Clairvoyance, you must have seen it long ago...
"—that even when she faced everyone's misunderstanding, everyone's hatred and prejudice, not understood by her friends, not loved by her people.
"Even so...
"Artoria, she still persisted.
"Did you see that?
"She still... persisted...
"And you call such a thing... 'destiny'."
No longer able to suppress the anger in his chest, Su Shu suddenly roared.
The shadows of the dense branches in this deep forest seemed to sway with the boy's loud voice.
"To hell with your fate! Sacrificing a girl's everything to save a country, are you even fit to be her teacher?!"
However.
Until the roar died down, and the echo faded, Su Shu kept his eyes fixed on the sage's face.
But he was disappointed...
Faced with this questioning, faced with this torrent of inquiry, Merlin's expression did not change at all.
Because he was not human.
Merlin liked women only because women, in his eyes, were beautiful things.
He admired human beauty just as one collects insect specimens.
At the same time, he fed on interesting nightmares and sweet dreams.
As an incubus, Merlin, although he hoped that humanity could have a "Happy Ending," did not actually love humans.
For the sake of that so-called happy ending, he had consumed countless human lives like insects, without any sense of good or evil, joy or dislike, or even a consciousness of sin.
Uther was a king he had once propped up on a whim.
Merely wanting to lend humanity a hand, he then began to cultivate a new vessel for a so-called "king," the one named Artoria.
Ultimately, whatever became of this country, Merlin felt he had no responsibility, let alone any sense of guilt.
He just thought... doing so was "interesting."
Shouldn't one be happy about interesting things?
So...
As an incubus, he could not understand Su Shu's anger.
"This was Lily's own choice."
The magus just smiled as usual, saying softly.
"I am only guiding her onto the right path."
"Anyone can say that, but you are the least qualified... you non-human thing..."
Never before had he been this angry.
Never before had he wanted to crush someone into dust so much.
A scarlet red, symbolizing tyranny, slowly spread in the iron-gray lake of his eyes.
The being known as the Ultimate Life Form, for the first time in its life, mobilized its full power.
Killing intent was unleashed, dragon's blood roared.
The beating heart sounded like a thunderous drum.
As the violence contained in this body was madly released and soared—one hundred thousand horsepower, a million horsepower—
At the most passionate beat of the drum, Su Shu's hand gently rested on the hilt of his sword.
Suddenly.
Heaven and earth fell silent.
...Instinctively, as if sensing something, the birds suddenly let out a mournful cry.
The birds and beasts for miles around began to flee in panic, escaping from this place.
Darkness gathered silently, even swallowing the moonlight.
A thick shadow, almost tangible, flowed like mercury around the silver-haired boy.
A thin, almost non-existent dark sword light spread inch by inch from the tip of Su Shu's blade.
Accompanied by his ice-cold voice, it slowly rippled through the deep forest.
"I am going to see Artoria.
"If you try to stop me, you will die—"
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