Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

Chapter 36

If I had held back on them on the battlefield, I might have been the next one to be stabbed in the back.

In the countless battles in history books, there are many negative examples of people being killed because of their kindness.

If Esdeath had only ordered her men to chase and kill, or if she had not killed those soldiers with the intention of completely annihilating them all.

Emiya would not have taken action at all.

Chasing the scattered enemy troops is a natural thing in itself.

But Esdeath should have had more ways to deal with these enemy troops, but she chose the most cruel way, leaving no one alive, and everyone died on the battlefield in an extremely cruel manner.

This might just be one of her strategies.

Killing the enemy until they are completely frightened is also a means of war.

Emiya can understand, but cannot accept.

Why can she look down on human life so much, why can she easily kill so many people without any psychological burden.

A flash of golden lightning appeared at the corner of Emiya's mouth. This was a war that had already been decided. He planned to buy more time for those fleeing soldiers.

"Ding!"

But Emiya stumbled suddenly and almost fell on the snow.

"My legs are frozen!"

Esdeath even thought that Emiya would not give up fighting with her. In the instant of breathing with Emiya, his limbs were all frozen, and he had no ability to move at all.

She didn't want to kill such a talent because of her own mistake.

If it weren't for the fact that the news of Numa Seka being captured alive on the other side of the battle line had not yet been transmitted, the war would still continue.

Maybe Esdeath would really be willing to fight Emiya without using her imperial weapon's power.

And kill him.

Instead of controlling Emiya.

Compared with taking Emiya as a subordinate, Esdeath is more interested in a hearty battle.

Apart from the imperial weapon, few people can fight back and forth with her in physical combat.

Esdeath is not only a brave warrior who loves blood and war, but also a general who treats her subordinates very well.

She doesn't want her subordinates to make meaningless sacrifices.

She can easily defeat the enemy army, but she still wants to confront them head-on.

This is not Esdeath's style, nor is it what Esdeath does.

As the general of the empire, she can distinguish between the important and the trivial.

Otherwise, she would have fought to the death with General Bud, or competed with the Supreme Emperor to see who is stronger, instead of considering all kinds of things in the empire.

She is a war maniac, a battle maniac, but she is not a person who has no reason and only fights.

She likes blood and war, but she will not let her subordinates complete this matter meaninglessly.

The war here should end now, instead of continuing to fight here according to her mood.

She has the ability to kill Emiya instantly, but she continues to entangle with him.

This is irresponsible to the empire and to her subordinates.

So she decided to end the battle quickly. She had already had enough fun, so there was no need to delay any longer.

Moreover, she hadn't seen such a young boy with such strength for a long time.

This made Esdeath cherish his talent, and with Emiya's unyielding eyes, she wanted to conquer him and take him into her subordinates.

In addition to these reasons, there was another reason why Esdeath didn't kill Emiya. Even though Emiya was so angry, he still didn't reveal any killing intention or hostility to Esdeath, only ordinary fighting intention.

This also made her extremely curious. With her beast-like intuition, she couldn't believe that the man in front of her didn't have any killing intention or hostility towards her.

It was as if she was not Emiya's enemy, which made Esdeath feel extremely incredible.

You know, from the beginning to the end, Esdeath was rushing to kill Emiya in terms of ideas, momentum, and fighting.

Even so, he still didn't show any killing intention or hostility to her.

Esdeath didn't believe that there were people in the world who could conceal their murderous intentions and hostility so that she couldn't detect them.

She also didn't believe that Emiya didn't want to fight her from beginning to end, and didn't have any complaints about her attack on him, as if he thought that he should be killed by her for helping those soldiers escape.

Even though he killed so many soldiers in the war, Emiya didn't have any murderous intentions or hostility towards them.

Emiya always counterattacked their attacks instead of rushing into the battlefield to kill them head-on.

If it wasn't because there was nowhere to hide, Emiya didn't want to point the blade in his hand at humans. Not only did he not have any murderous intentions and hostility, but he was full of guilt.

Otherwise, he wouldn't help those soldiers who wanted to kill him so that they could survive.

Esdeath became more interested in this Emiya who suddenly appeared.

There was no murderous intention and hostility, which was why Esdeath thought that Emiya could be kept alive.

Allowing a person who has murderous intentions towards you to be your subordinate would only bring disaster to yourself. Although Esdeath may not care about this, she does not want to be distracted by such trouble.

There are so many things waiting for me to do in the empire, and I don't have time to play this game of raising a tiger to harm myself.

Besides, Esdeath has not reached the stage of standing on the top of the mountain alone to enjoy the scenery.

She appeared behind Emiya, who was basically unable to move, in an instant.

"Puff!"

With a muffled sound, Emiya fell down drowsily without any resistance.

After all, with Emiya's magic power, just releasing the breathing method that projects four swords at once will consume most of his magic power.

Not to mention that Emiya has been using projection magic and breathing methods to fight since yesterday, and he has not rested at night, and his magic power has been consumed without replenishment.

Emiya's breathing method is combined with the magic circuit. It not only expands Emiya's magic power, but also makes Emiya consume his own magic power when performing the breathing method.

Chapter 58 Liva

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Emiya has become accustomed to being taken to various strange places after fainting due to various things.

So much so that he didn't complain about the unfamiliar ceiling in front of him.

Anyway, there was no time when he woke up to see a familiar ceiling.

Oh, except sleeping at home.

And he was used to looking at his body quickly after such things happened.

His hands and legs were already bandaged, and Shigong could even feel the gentle warmth coming from inside.

It seemed that the medicine was applied to treat his frostbite.

However, Shigong could no longer feel his frozen wounds at this time. In the bandages, he could move his fingers very sensitively.

Looking at some wailing imperial soldiers around him, Shigong didn't know why he came here.

When facing Esdeath, Shigong was ready to die.

For saving people from the enemy country of Esdeath's country, Shigong should have been sentenced to death, instead of lying on the hospital bed and receiving treatment from their soldiers.

These were all psychological preparations that Shigong had made long ago.

He didn't know who started this war, who was right and who was wrong. Shigong only knew that war was not a just thing.

Being able to save a few lives in the war, Emiya was satisfied.

Even if they might die at the hands of others later.

Although these were just Emiya's own psychological comfort.

If it is assumed that Emiya has a friend who wants revenge, if his revenge succeeds, it will cause extremely terrible casualties, and many innocent people will be hurt, and this kind of harm is inevitable.

Emiya will not dissuade him from giving up revenge, there is nothing wrong with revenge itself.

But Emiya will go to stop him.

The result is the same, but the purpose is completely different.

One is to stop revenge, and the other is to prevent innocent people from being hurt.

Just like Emiya saved those soldiers in the war.

He did not want to give the northern aliens some time to breathe, but to give those people a chance to survive this battle.

Whether they will fall into death again later, at least this time Emiya saved their lives.

In terms of the result, what Emiya did was the same.

He delayed Esdeath so that she did not rush to another battlefield quickly.

But only Emiya knew why he acted like this.

He had killed all the people around him before in order to survive, but now he was willing to sacrifice his life to save them.

"You're awake!"

A middle-aged man with white hair and wearing officer's clothes said to Emiya who was lying on the bed with full energy.

"Who are you?"

The man in front of him obviously didn't look like a doctor here, but he asked like this, and Emiya hadn't seen this person in the previous battle.

He had to ask like this.

"I'm General Esdeath's subordinate, Riva"

Riva answered Emiya's question without any posture.

He actually admired Emiya a little, not because of his actions to save those enemies, but because Emiya could actually fight with Esdeath for a few moves.

You know, he has never lasted more than three moves in Esdeath's hands.

And Emiya actually fought with her for so long, which made him have to admire.

Although in fact Emiya didn't last more than three moves in her hands, but Riva was not on the battlefield over there at the time, and could only listen to the descriptions of those soldiers, and three people made a tiger.

Moreover, he also heard that Esdeath wanted to recruit Emiya as his subordinate, so he thought that Emiya's strength was indeed good.

Because of this, Riva did not have a bad attitude towards Emiya. After all, they would be colleagues in the future, so there was no need to treat them in such a bad manner.

He did not think that Emiya would refuse Esdeath's recruitment, after all, she was a general with such dazzling charm.

"Mr. Riva, is Esdeath the woman with blue hair?"

As Riva nodded, Emiya felt his spine become cold again.

That kind of cold, Emiya really didn't want to endure it a second time.

The biting cold seemed to freeze his entire consciousness, making people extremely painful.

Emiya could endure it. He even endured losing his eyes, losing his right arm, and being cut all over his body. What could he not endure?

But he is not a masochist, why would he endure all kinds of pain for no reason.

"So, did you save me?"

Emiya quickly wrapped himself in the quilt and asked the middle-aged man in front of him.

"No, it was Lady Esdeath who didn't take your life."

Liva shook his head. It was impossible for him to save Emiya from Esdeath.

Besides, he was not there at all at that time.