Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

No. 88 slowly smoothed out his breath and asked again.

No. 88 asked once during the battle, but Shirou Emiya did not answer directly.

Chapter 348 Death is the best relief

The air condensed for a moment, and the whole alley fell into silence when No. 88 asked.

Shirou Emiya did not know whether he should tell them about this matter. He did not know whether it was right or wrong to do so, or what the consequences would be.

After all, from the conversation just now, it seemed that they belonged to the Empire and had been helping the Empire. They were even like those high-level officials, not caring about people's lives.

Moreover, there was something called the mind network between them that he could not understand at all. Each of them had a different personality, and it was unknown which one would tell those people in the Empire that he had returned to the Empire.

However, Shirou Emiya was not sure how long it had been since the Empire. He only knew that if the speed of time was the same, he should have left this world for three months.

"You are————the real body."

Seeing that Shirou Emiya was just silent, No. 88 already had the answer in his heart.

With the mind network, the information communication between them is naturally very fast.

No. 88 is not like No. 97 who doesn't like to think. As the captain of the team, he naturally needs to think about many things. He also confirmed at the first time that there was no abnormality in the laboratory.

There is no situation where an artificial human suddenly ran out. The empire has only one laboratory, and it is protected by everyone. It is basically impossible for an artificial human to leave the laboratory without being discovered.

Even if there is, it must be that something happened in the laboratory, not as calm as it is now.

From the very beginning of their meeting, No. 88 has never relaxed his vigilance.

But he didn't expect that when he was just doing routine work, Shirou Emiya would jump out directly.

He also fought with Shirou Emiya to test his absurd idea.

Whether it is powerful fighting skills or projection magic that is stronger than theirs, it is enough to prove that Shirou Emiya is definitely not a simple artificial human like them.

Neither came out of the laboratory, but also has more powerful projection magic than them. No matter how much he doesn't believe it, he can only infer that Shirou Emiya is the real body.

After all, the answer from Dr. Fashion was that Shirou Emiya died at the hands of Esdeath, and they also experienced the scene of being violently killed by Esdeath.

The deep fear naturally made them believe that their original bodies had died at the hands of Esdeath.

"Yes--"

Shirou Emiya slowly put down the imperial sword in his hand and looked straight at No. 88. He did not deny No. 88's speculation, because he also wanted to know what they would think if they met him.

And No. 97, who was standing behind Shirou Emiya, was also shocked when he heard No. 88's words.

Original body?

As the name suggests, the mind network is a network, and whether to upload what you feel to the network depends on the individual.

If No. 88 does not want to upload his thoughts, then other androids will certainly not receive the information he is thinking at this time.

This is also one of the reasons why each android has his own personality.

In short, it is the sacred Kara that connects the thoughts of each of us.

"You, are you really the real one?"

In fact, when No. 88 said this, No. 97 already believed that Shirou Emiya was the real one, because when Shirou Emiya gave an accurate answer, he had uploaded all his speculations to the mental network.

All the androids received the message from No. 88 at this moment.

And Shirou Emiya just looked at No. 97's unbelievable eyes and nodded slightly.

He has adjusted his magic power and is ready to fight at any time. As long as Esdeath does not come in person, the Empire should have no means to keep him now.

Even if Esdeath comes in person, he should be able to escape.

Shirou Emiya did not guarantee it.

Because the last time he came to this world, he saw only the fur of the Empire.

"Shua——!"

No. 124 jumped down from the roof and stood next to No. 88.

While they were fighting, No. 124 was also monitoring the surroundings.

"Have you been suspicious from the beginning?"

In front of Shirou Emiya, No. 88 had already disarmed the projected [Noble Chariot] and put away the weapon in his hand, and he did not seem to have any hostility towards him.

"No, because according to the information, you should have been dead."

No. 88 shook his head. The most combat data on their mental network was Esdeath. They had no doubt that Shirou Emiya had been frozen into pieces by her.

Because in the constant simulation of their mental network, the probability of defeating Esdeath was infinitely close to 0. As long as some miraculous events were not triggered, they would not have been able to defeat Esdeath.

"Indeed, if I had not left at that time and continued to fight her, I would have been the only one to die."

Emiya Shirou answered No. 88 with a wry smile. The one percent chance that he could win was interrupted by the sudden teleportation.

What should have been a winning result was reversed at that moment.

If he had really agreed to continue fighting with Esdeath after that time on the island, he would probably just become the soul killed by her sword.

"But you know that Esdeath and I have fought before, and you should also know that we are enemies."

Emiya Shirou stared straight at No. 88, with hostility all over his body, trying to get the answer from his eyes.

"Death is the best relief in the empire."

No. 97 said beside Emiya Shirou that this was not just the result of his recognition, but the result of the recognition of all androids.

You must know that in order to achieve his goal, the doctor arrested countless civilians. Many civilians were arrested with inexplicable charges hanging on their heads just for walking on the street.

In the laboratory, they didn't know how many times they heard the howls of those people.

But what was heard most was their own howling.

Even at this moment, in the laboratory, there are some artificial humans undergoing the cruel experiments of Dr. Fashion.

The artificial humans undergoing experiments are wailing in the psychic network, but they can do nothing about it.

They are not like Seliu or the [Hunter] negotiators, who only see the glorious side of the empire. They have actually been exposed to the darkness of the empire.

After all, Dr. Fashion spent a lot of the empire's financial resources and hundreds, even thousands, of civilian lives to create them.

They naturally want to create the value they should have for the empire.

Assassination, framing, massacre.

These things are within their scope.

Chapter 349 Arrogance

"In the homes of those nobles, in the upper echelons of the empire, in unknown alleys, countless people were tortured to death."

Number 124 explained to Shirou Emiya in a low voice, how could they not know about the darkness of the empire?

What's more, they are already part of the darkness of the empire.

Why are those civilians afraid of them.

Every time they met, they would kill him with thunder in front of everyone.

Without any hesitation, end their lives as quickly as possible.

"So, do you think death can free them?"

Emiya Shirou frowned and looked around. Unexpectedly, the entire alley was filled with Emiya androids.

In just a short while, Emiya's androids, who had nothing special to worry about, rushed over as quickly as possible.

If these androids hadn't radiated hostility towards him, Emiya Shirou might have risen to fight.

"This is the best way we can do to help them reduce their suffering."

An Emiya android outside the alley spoke in a somewhat depressed mood.

"Is there any big difference between you and those people you talk about?"

Emiya Shirou's eyes revealed anger as he looked at these androids with their heads lowered. When did helping others escape become an excuse to execute others arbitrarily?

Such disregard for life, although he knew very well that it was because of the distortion of the empire that created their distorted values. It was a great blessing to not become an executioner who only wanted to kill people.

But he still couldn't help but feel angry in his heart.

This is arrogance!

"Have you ever thought about why those people want to live in such a dark and twisted empire? Or, in other words, why do you want to live in this world?"

Everyone has their own meaning and reasons for living in this world.

Whether it's for loved ones or for ideals.

"I want to see more of the world, and I want to be able to walk freely in the empire——"

One of the androids responded to Emiya Shirou's question.

From the beginning, they were regarded as war resources, and it was impossible for them to obtain rights in the empire like those nobles.

Even the position of captain of the Imperial Guard is just to enable them to better operate within the empire.

As the empire's extremely powerful artificial beings, in order to be able to control them in the palm of their hand, the environment and food they live in are specially provided by someone.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that they have not been influenced by power, nor have they been tempted by money.

They don't realize what power is, what money is, and what desire is.

They have all these things, they just don't realize it.

"In this case, how can death be a relief? Don't you have the slightest desire to live when you die?"

They thought of their companions who had become experimental subjects, and their meager desire to survive could be clearly felt from the psychic network.

The moment they entered the laboratory, the moment they faced Esdeath, they knew from the bottom of their hearts that they would die.

I also accepted that I would die, but I did not choose to die peacefully. I still struggled to live.

Even if he was treated like that by Dr. Fashion in the laboratory, it would not affect the desire to survive hidden deep down at all.

The meaning of Shirou Emiya's words is very simple. Since you all want to live, why do you think that other people living in the empire don't want to live?

I'm afraid that in the subconscious of these androids, they still think that the lives of those civilians are not lives at all, just like those nobles and guards.

"But even if we don't choose to kill them, they will be captured by those people, suffer endless torture and eventually die painfully. We can't do anything."

Another Emiya android wanted to explain something, and said it with a little excitement.

Being able to let all civilians know the reputation of Captain Emiya, they must have been enforcing the law in the empire for a long time.

At the same time, they also killed a huge number of civilians.

Shirou Emiya didn't even dare to think about how much blood was stained on their hands.

"Nothing can be done? So really nothing is done?"

At least, in Emiya's view, not being able to do it and not doing it are two different things. He would not blame them for not stopping the nobles from abusing those civilians, because he knew very well that they had no ability to prevent such things from happening.

But they have the ability to avoid this kind of thing from happening as much as possible.

What did they do? They chose not to let these civilians suffer more, but chose to end their lives directly.

Instead of choosing to do their best to make these people live a better life.

These things are what they can do. Although the effect that can be achieved is minimal, it is far better than taking other people's lives like this.

The living bear more than the dead.

The boy knew that he would lose his life if he just secretly took a pancake.

But he still bit the bullet and took action. Was it for survival?

Maybe, but it is more likely that he would do this for important people.

"What to do?"

They looked at Shirou Emiya in confusion.

In the empire, there are many people with ambitions who want the empire to survive better, but they are just like these artificial people. Either they are like the [Hunters], who want to make the people of the empire happier, but do the opposite.