Chapter 150 - Onii-chan Will Avenge Us!!
If calculated solely by sheer size, the Church in Emiya's original world was even larger than the Mage's Association. This is because the latter's essence is to remain separate from human society, choosing to hide themselves to prevent the leakage of Mystery, thereby isolating themselves to research Magecraft and the Greater Source.
The former's doctrine, however, is to materially eliminate everything that does not exist in the teachings of the Lord, meaning they target monsters that have broken away from the human category, such as 'Vampires.'
Aside from the clergy who serve the Lord, the largest components of the Church are the Executors, who are outstanding combatants; the various orders of knights maintained by the Churches; and the Burial Agency hidden within the Church headquarters. Compared to most magi who do not focus on their physical selves, their actual combat power is often terrifying, and quite a few reach the Servant level while still human.
Even among this vast number of Executors, only a few are truly capable of wielding the Black Keys as naturally as an extension of their arms, but their ability cannot be underestimated. The most representative among them is the priest specifically responsible for overseeing the Holy Grail War— Kotomine Kirei.
The priest existed even in Emiya's world, and the man even provided him with quite a bit of help, such as teaching him the techniques for wielding the Black Keys and the secrets of the Ainsworth family. After gaining the memories of other 'Shirou Emiyas,' Emiya found that the man served as the overseer of the Holy Grail War in almost every instance, sometimes even bursting forth with unimaginable combat power using only his physical body.
He relied on nothing else; his only weapons were his own body and dozens of Black Keys.
Although he did not play the role of a good person in every worldline, Emiya must acknowledge Kotomine Kirei 's ability to wield the Black Keys. As for the other person in those memories who was also skilled in using the Black Keys... because her technique combined special divine arts with the weapon, which offers no guidance for Nobara's situation, Emiya will temporarily not mention her.
After projecting some Black Keys for Nobara to practice with temporarily, Emiya placed the plan to forge a complete set of weapons for her on his schedule, and then let her leave.
It took Emiya several whole hours to make rough arrangements for all his students. As for the official work to follow? It probably cannot be fully commenced without at least ten-odd days. But as long as the students' development eventually gets on the right track, all of this is worthwhile.
It's fortunate that he only has this few students; otherwise, if the number were slightly more than ten, Emiya wouldn't be able to manage everything, no matter how hard he tried alone.
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After completing these preparatory matters, the time had approached noon.
Considering that the students would likely need to rest next, Emiya postponed the visit to Megumi Fushiguro's sister until the afternoon, planning to first inspect Eso and Kechizu, who were imprisoned. Unlike outsiders like Kokichi Muta, these two, as genuine executors from the Cursed Spirit side, likely know much more information than Muta. The key is whether they can be made to reveal it.
Even if that fails, he should at least gain a clearer understanding of the situation with Choso, the remaining brother, and whether the remaining 'Cursed Womb: Death Paintings' are being utilized by the Cursed Spirit side. As long as they can reveal sufficiently effective information, they are useful. At the very least, their deep fraternal bond can be used to restrict Choso's actions. This is not dishonorable, as such a small measure could successfully save hundreds or thousands of lives.
The facility used by Jujutsu High to detain Cursed Spirits and Cursed Users is only a temporary underground dungeon. This is because for Cursed Users who are sentenced to many years of imprisonment according to regulations, the higher-ups centralize their confinement in specialized cages that have been reinforced through countless processes and cannot be directly breached by any Cursed Technique.
But even so, this underground dungeon at Jujutsu High is nearly covered with dense yellow talismans. These are all inscriptions used to suppress Cursed Energy activity. Even Emiya, standing away from them in the center, felt a slight discomfort. As for the Cursed Users completely bound in the very center? They cannot extract even a shred of Cursed Energy, much less use a Cursed Technique to escape. Even the two who are rated as Special Grade Cursed Spirits, Eso and Kechizu, can only stay there obediently.
This artificially created seal naturally has its limits. For example, in the case of Satoru Gojo, the higher-ups never even considered that anyone could capture him, and even if they succeeded, that place, reinforced countless times, might not be able to hold him for a few minutes.
If one's power is strong enough, they can simply ignore these constraints.
"Nii-chan, look, look! Someone's coming!"
Upon seeing Emiya's figure gradually approaching, Kechizu, who was bound there, immediately shouted out, and with excitement at that. He probably has no concept of being imprisoned here, only knowing that being tied up here is really boring, so having an outsider come over is a good thing.
"Remember what I said, little brother, I, as your older brother, will do the talking... We, as your younger brothers, shouldn't cause trouble for Onii-chan."
"I-I know, Oni-chan!"
They didn't deliberately lower their voices to avoid Emiya's detection while conversing. It's unclear whether this was intentional or if they decided to be this defiant.
"Why must it be this way? Although you brothers are all half-breeds of Cursed Spirit and human, you should know that the Cursed Spirit side's plan to destroy human society won't benefit you at all, right?
If possible, wouldn't trying to integrate into human society be better, even including your Onii-chan?"
Perhaps because their Cursed Techniques were suppressed, there was no foul smell emanating from Eso, who now looked indistinguishable from a normal person. That is why Emiya advised him this way. Being born into this world in such a wrong form was not their own desire.
"What nonsense you speak, sorcerer. Don't you know that it is because of humans that we brothers became like this?
Look at my little brother, does he look like someone who can integrate into human society?
Perhaps that disgusting human was just an individual case, but extreme xenophobia is a characteristic of the entire human collective; they even reject their own kind."
Eso was completely unmoved by Emiya's words. Indeed, even though Eso's appearance still looked very much like a normal human, Kechizu had directly turned into a monstrous form, walking on all fours.
A normal person certainly couldn't accept the appearance of this monster, and his latter statement was also completely correct; humans are creatures who will reject even their own kind. In the most extreme cases, they might not even believe that others whose appearance is not very different from their own can coexist with them, thus leading to genocidal killing.
Emiya indeed had no rebuttal for these two points.
"That may be the essence, but in truth, sorcerers are not very different from you.
If the abilities and existence of sorcerers were fully disclosed, the probability of this group being rejected by ordinary humans would certainly not be low."
Even if they can only live within the confines of Jujutsu High and the sorcery world, isn't that infinitely better than the Cursed Spirits' life of hiding? Emiya doesn't have any forceful interrogation methods, so trying to persuade and elicit information like this is the best approach.
"Saying all this only proves how hypocritical humans are, doesn't it... We will absolutely not betray Onii-chan, so just kill us already!"
The more he spoke, the more agitated Eso became, even causing the talismans covering most of his body to tremble, and a faint smell of decomposition began to permeate the air. Stimulated by this, Kechizu immediately shouted, "That's right! Our Onii-chan, who is connected by blood, can sense our deaths, and Onii-chan will definitely avenge us!"
Good. Even though nothing has happened yet, these two have already resigned themselves to death. But this conveniently allowed Emiya to glean a crucial piece of information—
"I see, so there is indeed this kind of kin-sensing ability at work? Does that mean it is entirely feasible to use you to threaten him?"
"What?!"
Hearing this, Eso immediately realized the mistake and couldn't help but shout at Kechizu: "Hey, didn't I just say not to say anything?!"
"I-I'm sorry, Onii-chan...."
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