Abnormal month

Let’s talk about a certain man’s story.

The man has personally experienced despair three times.

The man was born in the Shimabara area of ​​Kyushu in the early Edo period.

His family made a living as a farmer, with both parents - this was his environment until he reached adulthood.

In the early Edo period, there was a famine in the Shimabara area. There was no harvest from the farmland. People died of starvation on the roads. Some farmers even exchanged their children for food. The situation was terrible.

Even though the people's life was bleak and had reached this state, the cruel and greedy lord Matsui Shigemasa still imposed excessive taxes, focusing solely on collecting wealth and taxation, without taking the life and death of his subjects seriously, so that the local area was in chaos.

Bandits who turned into bandits, murderous villains, ronin with blood-red eyes who would kill anyone at the sight of them... were everywhere in the Shimabara area, forcing the local people to a desperate situation.

The village of men has become a sacrifice of this era.

When he returned to the village, all he saw were mutilated corpses everywhere and blazing fires.

My father, mother, and familiar villagers all died in the fire.

The man experienced his first despair.

The despair of all familiar family members leaving.

The man cried bitterly, but no matter how grieved he was, his dead family members would not come back.

In despair and confusion, he left his hometown in confusion.

At this time, there was no room for farmers to survive in Shimabara. Heavy taxes and famine had literally forced the local farmers to have no way of survival.

At this time, the shogunate issued a "ban on religion", requiring all people to give up their pagan beliefs. Anyone who did not give up their pagan beliefs within two months would be executed.

The Shimabara area has been an area where Christianity has been widely spread since the introduction of Christianity. Belief in Christianity is very common in the Shimabara area. Many people, including farmers, wealthy businessmen, and even wandering samurai, are devout believers in Christianity. .

The people of Shimabara, who were already living an extremely difficult life due to famine and heavy taxes, were deprived of even their last comforting faith. This made the people of Shimabara completely angry, intolerable, and revolted.

The person who led the Shimabara believers in the uprising was Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, a boy who was only sixteen years old at the time, but was widely known as a virtuous man and was believed to have the power to resurrect people, flesh and bones.

At that time, the appearance of Amakusa was like falling from the sky, giving believers a natural source of faith.

Because Amakusa is a young boy with indeed great supernatural powers. He can create many miracles. He can not only heal wounds, but also walk on water. Amakusa was soon widely worshiped as the "Son of God" and "Saint", and it was natural that he became a The leader of the rebel army.

This peasant uprising was known as the Shimabara Rebellion in history.

The man also joined Shimabara's rebel army, became a close minister of the rebel leader Amakusa, and saw with his own eyes the miracles Amakusa created.

At that time, he was so moved that he thought this was a miracle given by God. It was not until a long time later that he realized that it was just a natural magic talent.

The Shimabara rebels won consecutive battles at the beginning, defeating an army of 120,000 people several times with only 30,000 soldiers.

But the good times didn't last long.

After several defeats in a row, the shogunate began to fear Shimabara's rebels and sent battle-tested generals to attack. After two months of blockade without any water or food supplies, the shogunate was finally defeated by the traitors. Betrayed, the rebels would all lose.

More than 30,000 people in Shimabara City were all killed in the fire.

Among them were villagers suffering from famine and heavy taxes, ronin who looked unaccustomed to the prohibition, and Amakusa Shiro, the leader of the rebel army who regarded him as a saint, as well as many old people, women, children... all of them were very men. Familiar characters.

They have no crime to speak of, they just want to survive.

As a result, a fire was destroyed.

Only the men survived.

"You have to survive."

Amakusa Shiro said this, allowing him to escape the shogunate's massacre by feigning death, and he walked calmly towards the fire, walking side by side with countless people into the fiery hell.

This is the second despair experienced by men.

All colleagues with the same ambition, as well as the tens of thousands of women and children whom they swore to protect with their lives, were burned to ashes in front of their eyes.

The man successfully faked his death and fled Shimabara numbly.

Whether it is the people who love you or the people you love, all of them were burned in the sea of ​​​​fire in just twenty or thirty years.

This time, the man was like an empty shell, living in confusion for nearly four hundred years.

He couldn't understand why Lord Amakusa only let him live. He couldn't figure out what the value of his own survival was. People like him would only bring misfortune to the people around him. .

How on earth do people like him have the qualifications to survive alone after everyone else dies?

He kept thinking and thinking.

Without even realizing it, he plunged into the world of magic.

He thought a lot, encountered a lot, and tried to make various efforts along the way.

He wanted to see his father and mother who would smile and caress his head when he was a child. He tried to use magic to recreate the world of the dead, but failed. He wanted to summon the souls of Amakusa Shiro and other rebel soldiers, and wanted to interrogate his belly. He has accumulated problems for countless years, but he still fails. He wants to...fail, fail, fail, or fail, fail, keep failing, keep failing.

When he came back to his senses, he had lived for nearly four hundred years.

It was the end of the 20th century, and the world had already undergone earth-shaking changes.

And he had never succeeded in anything he wanted to do.

——Until that night.

The vast black mud radiated from Fuyuki City, surging to all directions of neon, and covered the entire world in just one year, dragging the entire surface into the sea of ​​fire and burning for a year. The earth was polluted, and humans died in large numbers. In the end, they could only shrink in the base, and the wild was occupied by inhuman monsters.

The whole world was like a sudden sharp turn, and from then on it entered a track that no one could predict.

The man relied on his relationship in the Magic Association to come to Fuyuki City and saw the source of all evil, the Holy Grail.

He and many other magicians experimented with the Holy Grail and finally came to a conclusion.

No one can use the Holy Grail now.

Even if it is a top-notch magician, facing the Holy Grail now, he will be cursed, polluted, and killed before getting results.

They can do nothing and cannot restore the world to its previous state.

"No, if it's Amakusa-sama...!"

But when the man faced that scene, a thought that made him tremble suddenly popped up in his mind.

That's right!

Ordinary magicians can't use the current Holy Grail at all. It's difficult to even touch it, let alone use it.

But what if it's Amakusa Shiro's ability?

Using Amakusa-sama's natural talent, as long as he touches the magic base, he can turn that base into his own thing, that is, as long as he touches the Holy Grail, he can make the Holy Grail his own!

No, you can't touch it. You have to stay away from the Holy Grail as far as possible and use Amakusa's ability as far as possible and shallow enough!

Then, the most suitable way is undoubtedly the magic eye!

As long as you reproduce Amakusa Shiro's ability in the form of the magic eye, you can use the power of the Holy Grail with the help of the magic eye!

The man-Jiemon felt that his whole soul was trembling.

"Amakusa-sama, I found what I should do!"

Jiemon was moved to tears.

He lived for four hundred years with guilt towards everyone, and finally found his mission at this moment.

That's right.

He found what he had to do.

He found the value of his four hundred years of survival.

Everyone else is dead.

Dad, mom, villagers, soldiers, Amakusa-sama... they are all dead.

Then, as a person who lives on in their place, he must have a mission and responsibility that he must fulfill!

That is why he is still alive in this world!

He wants to use the Holy Grail to save the world!