Infinite Throne

   Chapter 721 "Kotomine Justice" (4K)

  This is an old town.

   - "Uk".

The terrain of   Uk is located in the basin and surrounded by mountains on all sides.

   The branch rivers that branch off from the Euphrates and the Tigris run through the town and merge into a small lake.

  Before the war broke out, this place was once a poor town.

   Locals with sallow skin, empty eyes and indifferent faces.

  They were in rags, lying, sitting, or sleeping, by the roadside, on the roof, on the riverbank.

  There are more people, hiding in the shadows that can give them a sense of security, hiding, looking at everything in front of them with dull eyes.

before,

  There was a boring geographer who discussed the reasons for the formation of the basin in the small town of Uk.

  Some people say that this is the subsidence of the ground where the entire town is located after the bottom shell changes;

  Some people say that there is a rich underground river system below the town. The weather is tiring, the moisturizing things are silent, and the ground gradually sinks, forming this landform;

  It is also said that many, many years ago, a meteorite fell from the sky and directly smashed a pit here.

   The specific reasons are also unknown.

   After all, this is just a poor town that nobody cares about.

How    basins are formed, who cares?

   After the call of the whole people,

  This town has also experienced the baptism of riots.

After    was plundered by the seniors, the place was devastated, and only one place was left in a mess.

   "This is human."

this day,

  A man with silver-white hair passed by.

   He wore a clean white robe with delicate lace trim. Under the robe, there is a dark and supple lining, and under his feet, there are a pair of thick round-toed boots. The man walked on the road with a smile on his face. He felt like the wind blowing from the grassland.

   "Excuse me, do you want to buy rare items? As long as, only 300 points!"

   When the white-haired man passed by, a woman with dried blood on her clothes staggered over and sold rare items to the man.

   She lowered her voice, and only dared to do this when she saw that the man was well-dressed. Otherwise, rare-level items can be exchanged for a lot of food at the senior gathering place next door. Under normal circumstances, she would never dare to expose precious rare-level items.

   The white-haired man shook his head and took a few quick steps.

The woman bit her lower lip hard, got closer, and said in a lower voice, "I'm pretty good at 200 points. Please, please, I'm too hungry. Even... I can. "

   "Oops, what a headache."

  The white-haired man smiled shyly and rubbed his hair: "I'm not your kind. Also, I'm sorry to have tainted your resolve. I don't like women."

   The local woman who was selling [rare grade] props was startled when she heard the words.

   She looked at the man's face, with flawless facial features, and a gentle smile like water. In a peaceful era, she would be willing to post it upside down. However, such a perfect man actually doesn't like women... What a pity.

   "Shh."

The white-haired man put his fair index finger on his lips. He turned his head and looked around. He saw that there were many eyes peeping at the dark place. He could only sigh helplessly and took out a package from his arms. , took out a piece of dry bread from the package.

   "Eat."

  The woman hesitated for a moment, but she still took the bread and ate it in big gulps.

   After a while, the bread was finished.

   When she raised her head still, the windy man had disappeared long ago.

  …

   After doing a trivial little thing.

  The white-haired man came to a church.

  The door of the church was open, and the pews used for prayer inside were scattered on the ground.

  In the corner of the church, near the wall, an open space was deliberately vacated. There, seven or eight corpses were neatly placed. There are various scars on each corpse. Some of the corpses were already cold, and some were still warm, as if they had just died.

   Their age, time of death, and method of death have nothing in common. But the only thing they have in common is that at this moment, they are all put in a straight posture, with their backs facing the sky and their eyes closed. Their hands, fingers crossed, are folded in front of their chests in what appears to be a prayer gesture.

   On the chest of each corpse, a bright little white flower is quietly placed. This ordinary little white flower dilutes the sadness of death and adds a bit of solemnity and solemnity.

   A thin young man wearing a black priest's uniform, with his back to the open church door, bowed his head in prayer.

   When the white-haired man stepped into the church, the young priest sighed and put on a ring: "Excuse me, are you here to pray... ah? Great Sage?"

   The young priest turned his head and stared, the round eyes on the bridge of his nose slanted to one side.

ten minutes later.

  The young priest moved two relatively clean stools in front of the statue of the goddess whose upper body was only half-length in the church, and then moved a table to sit with the white-haired man.

   The young priest had a nervous expression on his face. He twisted slightly on the stool, and seemed a little uncomfortable.

   "Master Great Sage..."

  After the embarrassing silence, the young priest raised his head with courage and was about to break the silence, but the white-haired man smiled at Cen Cen. That gentle smile was like a spring breeze. Like magic, he took out a box of chess from his robe.

   "Shh, don't talk," the white-haired man smiled and blinked: "Let's have a game of chess!"

   The young priest was stunned.

   But after a while,

   They still played chess.

   At first, the young priest was somewhat restrained.

  The white-haired man's offensive was slow and unhurried, like a frog being boiled in warm water.

   But this is exactly the style of chess. Playing and playing, the young priest was stunned as he watched the "Queen" who was besieged by a group of soldiers and shivering as the camp on his side was empty.

   "Come again."

   The white-haired man smiled slightly, looking very happy, and another round.

   Second game.

   The young priest became angry, and his chess moves gradually revealed his murderousness.

   On the other hand, the white-haired man still responded calmly, not killing what should be killed, and staying for a while if he could, with a completely unhurried appearance.

   Come down for a few minutes.

  The young priest finds his "tender queen" surrounded again.

  No more.

   He felt that he lost inexplicably.

   But be convinced.

   "As expected of a great sage."

  The young priest doesn't want to play anymore.

   "Come again."

  The white-haired man seemed addicted to playing, rolled up his sleeves, and took the initiative to play chess again on the messy board.

   "Master Great Sage, you are..."

   "Xiaozheng Boy~ Ah, we haven't seen you for ten years, you and I have become separated."

"is teacher."

  Young priest, whose real name is "Kotomine Justice", and his nickname is "Xiaozheng".

   The familiar tone of the white-haired man made Kotomine just bow his head, and quickly succumbed to the majesty of the white-haired youth, obediently changing his name.

   But on his face, he obviously looked a little happy.

   The two chatted casually.

   The third game started.

   "Xiaozheng Boy, I haven't seen you for ten years, you have grown up."

   "The teacher still hasn't changed at all."

   "Yeah," the white-haired man sighed, took a step at will, then touched his face and said seriously: "In my long life, this handsome face is my only trouble."

   Kotomine Justice: "…"

   He played chess silently and tried a different way of play.

  Serpentine movement, falsehood and trueness, hard to distinguish between true and false... Well, Kotomine just lost this game faster. Kotomine Justice suddenly recalled the fear of being held by the teacher and tortured and killed thousands of times during the boring days ten years ago on the moving mountain in the Wandering Sea.

   Kotomine Kotomine was started in the fourth game.

   As he went down, he couldn't help but speak again: "Teacher, long time no see."

   "Yeah, ten years."

   The white-haired man played chess warmly and smiled.

   "You are here today because..."

   "Play chess, alas, Xiaozheng, you don't know, no one wants to play chess with me in a dead place."

  It is strange that someone is willing to accompany you.

   Kotomine justice secretly complained in his heart.

  No one wants to, and has been savoring the taste of losing and losing, losing again and again, and losing to the end.

   "Do you know why you lost?"

   The white-haired man asked with a smile.

   "Because the teacher's technique is so good."

   Kotomine answered honestly and honestly.

   "No, I'm actually not that strong." As he said that, Kotomine's just "horse" smashed its halberd into the sand, and the horse's legs were broken, and sadly withdrew from the battlefield.

   Kotomine Justice: "…"

   "Most human beings only like to look at the 'now', but I like to look at the 'present', the 'past', and the 'future'."

   "Teacher, normal people don't use the ability of 'prophecy' when playing chess."

   Kotomine just looked up at the white-haired man, unable to hold back.

"You don't understand," the white-haired man said with a smile, "what is the past, what is the present, and what is the future? When you really understand it, you will find that what you do for the past, present, and future is just a combination of countless threads. , the confluence of mystery. You and I are in the mystery."

   "But teacher, you still won."

   "Because, I'm playing chess."

   Kotomine Justice: "…"

   "How has the ten years been?"

  The white-haired man didn't go any further on this topic.

   It’s still fun to play chess.

   He asked about Kotomine justice over the years.

   Kotomine just listened, and was silent for a while, until the chessboard was empty again, and then he replied: "In general, teacher."

   "Hey, you are still blaming me."

   The white-haired man pouted.

"Don't dare, teacher." Yanfeng took a deep breath: "I have a dirty blood flowing in my body, and I inherited a despicable surname. Teacher can accept me as a disciple. Justice is really happy. After all, teacher , but what about the 'great sage'."

   "You know why, we haven't seen you for ten years, and you and I will meet again at this moment, at this moment, here?" the white-haired man asked.

   "The disciple is very curious."

"Everything in the world has rules. Just like that sentence, each of us is in a mystery without knowing it. Ten years ago, you were expelled from the sea of ​​confusion by me on the grounds of 'playing chess and cheating'. , was sent to the church, and in this barren land, as a little pastor, do you know the reason?"

   Yanfeng said helplessly: "Teacher, you should know that it is because of the blood in my body that I resist this place."

   "No," the white-haired man laughed: "Everyone exists for a reason. Kotomine justice, remember, you and I are part of the mystery."

Then,

   Kotomine just lost another game when he was distracted.

   He played chess silently, ready to start the next game.

   It has been ten years, and the teacher has not talked to him like this for a long time.

   And he still doesn't understand.

   But this feeling made him miss him very much.

   Kotomine Justice was scorned when he was young because of the surname "Kotomine".

   His teacher also told him the hidden story in this surname.

   Therefore, Kotomine is fair, so I can't wait to change the name.

   Then, the teacher gave him a name.

   - "Kotomine justice".

   He came here ten years ago, with faith in his heart, and silently studied the "miracle" of the church.

  The teacher later wrote quietly saying that everything has a reason, and he will understand it one day.

   However, ten years later, Kotomine Justice is still confused and doesn't understand why he was expelled from the Sea of ​​Wandering by his teacher in the first place.

   But he believed the teacher's words.

  Because, his teacher is a person who has survived for a long time like a mystery in the wandering sea - the great sage.

   There was a suspicion in the wandering sea that the great sage was very likely to have the genes of ancient fantasy creatures in his body, so he could survive for so long.

   Simply put...he's not human.

   So he can live till now.

   In the world, very few people know the name of the Great Sage of the Wandering Sea.

   Coincidentally, Kotomine Kotomine is one of those who know the name of the great sage.

   That was when Kotomine Justice was still young, and he was tortured so badly on the chessboard that he couldn't help crying. In order to comfort Kotomine Justice, the teacher quietly told him.

  The great sage watched Kotomine just playing chess silently, and he lightly pressed Kotomine's hand to stop him from moving. He took out a pocket watch, glanced at it, and sighed with exaggerated movements: "Oh, it's too late for another round."

   Kotomine just stared blankly at his teacher.

   "Here, send you."

  The Great Sage handed a handmade doll to Kotomine Justice.

   Kotomine just took a look and saw that the doll was somewhat similar to himself: wearing a black priest's uniform, with a cross hanging around his neck, short brown hair, and old-fashioned round-frame glasses on the bridge of his nose. The overall style of the doll is slightly cartoonish, and it looks a little cute and cute.

   "Teacher, is this?" Kotomine was just suspicious.

  We haven't seen you for ten years, come here?

   "A gift," said the great sage with a smile, "Actually, it should be a reward. Do something for me, teacher."

   "I knew it." Kotomine just bowed his head and muttered to himself, but he carefully placed the doll in his arms and hid it, but he did not refuse, and asked, "Teacher, what's the matter?"

   "I'll tell you later." The great sage got up and patted the dust on the clean white robe, which did not actually exist. He walked out the door step by step. The gentle sunlight fell on the great sage, making him look like the incarnation of light, and Kotomine just staring at the back, almost giving birth to the urge to worship.

   "By the way, another disciple of mine will come here later to help you accomplish one thing. She's a beauty."

   "Okay, teacher." Kotomine just bowed his head, didn't ask any more questions, and wasn't interested.

   "The weather is really nice today." The Great Sage raised his head at a forty-five degree angle and looked up at the sky. He stretched out his white fingers in front of him, and the sunlight filtered through his fingers, casting a mottled patch on his face. At this time, the great sage was silent for a while, turned his back to Yanfeng justice, and suddenly said: "Do you still remember my name?"

   "Remember, teacher," Kotomine said.

   "Call me once, it's been a long time since I heard my name."

   "Good teacher."

  “?”

   "…Merlin."

  Merlin walked out contentedly.

   "Kotomine just,"

   Merlin suddenly sighed, facing the sun, with his back to Kotomine Justice, and called out his full name.

"goodbye."

   (end of this chapter)