Xingyue, is Xiaokai also considered Kai?

The children who got to eat opened their mouths like hungry baby birds, their faces beaming with genuine smiles.

"Is it tasty?"

"Ok!"

Jack's words reassured Lingxia a little.

"But Mom, this isn't what I want to eat. Although it's delicious too, it won't be of much use to Jack right now."

"So, what should we do?"

"Hehehe... Well, let's say 'that', the heart, a human heart, that guy's just now."

The petite girl answered with a shy smile.

Although Rokudou Reika entered into a contract with her, she did not supply magic to Jack.

"Is it okay, Mom?"

"Absolutely."

Without much hesitation, Liu Daolingxia nodded. She would not stop Jack from killing, because she understood that it was a necessary act for Jack to survive. To a woman, Jack was like her own daughter, so any opinion based on ethics and morality would be rejected by her.

If it were for the sake of their children, every mother would be willing to become a vengeful ghost.

"Then Jack, let's get started—"

It was at this moment that Novia appeared inside the house.

The sudden appearance of the man frightened Liu Daolingxia, yet she felt inexplicably at ease, while Jack simply shouted happily to Novia:

"mom!"

Novia knows Jack the Ripper, but the Jack that appears in the Grail Wars in the snowfield is not the Jack in front of her. The two are born from completely different foundations. The girl in front of her is an existence that is based on the children's resentment and sublimation of reality, while FSF is the embodiment of the Jack that people speculate about.

In 1888, there were tens of thousands of prostitutes in London. At that time, abortion technology was too crude and brutal. Children who should have been born were treated as 'rubbish' and their bodies were thrown into the river that flowed through the East End where the prostitutes lived. Resentment accumulated in the murky river water.

The resentment of tens of thousands of babies who could not be born properly gradually took human form. Later, a young girl who was not a prostitute wandered there in confusion, not knowing why she was born, why she was sad, why she was cold, she knew nothing.

Just then, Jack, a being embodying a collection of resentment, encountered a woman.

Jack, who couldn't help but call a woman "Mom," was scolded and felt very sad, hurt, and heartbroken, so she killed her.

The murder was surprisingly simple; the organs removed after dismemberment were as warm as flames, and the discovery of the body the next day caused a huge uproar.

She then killed a second and a third person, and before she knew it, the people of London had given her a name.

'Jack the Ripper'

The girl was very happy because she had no idea what her name was.

She was pleased when the rumor spread that "Jack must be a doctor, judging from her technique of dismembering humans."

The thing she hated most in the world was doctors, because it was doctors who kept killing them.

However, she died after killing several prostitutes.

The reason was nothing special; a magician realized that the series of murders was caused by a demonic entity, so he went and eliminated it.

The crime was over, and Jack the Ripper disappeared into the darkness... but the crimes he committed were too bizarre, incomprehensible, and too mysterious.

So much so that it left an indelible mark of fear on the hearts of Londoners, and its name has not disappeared even a hundred years later.

Time returns to the present.

Novia, who was called "Mom" by Jack the Ripper, did not refute it, but slowly approached Jack the Ripper with a smile.

Why call this unfamiliar man "Mom"?

Jack didn't know, she just shouted it subconsciously, or maybe it was because of the warmth. This person clearly had the aura of a magician, and according to her personality she should have taken action directly, but she really didn't want to, as if it were an instinct.

“…Um, Mom.” Jack, who was being patted on the head by Novia, whispered while fiddling with his fingers, “Mom is a good person.”

The first 'mother' she referred to was Novia, and the second 'mother' was Liu Daolingxia.

"Well, I know."

Novia turned to look at Liu Daolingxia and smiled again.

"Sixth Director Lingxia, you must live well for Jack's sake, she is your child."

Then, he entered Jack the Ripper's 'nightmare' alone—

That place of hell for countless babies.

What is hell?

It is an endless torture.

It is an endless cycle of killing.

It is an endless despair.

Indeed, the above descriptions all fit the cruelty of hell, but there are actually many kinds of hell in this world.

For certain people, the Whitechapel in the foggy city is undoubtedly hell. It is incredibly difficult to even survive, let alone live with dignity. In a world where a nine-year-old girl is forced to sell herself, what dignity can there be? The stench of factories and meat processing plants permeates the air at all times.

There are no strong people here, only miserable weak people, pitiful victims and cruel perpetrators.

Hell, hell for so many children.

There is no room for justice or evil to intervene in this; regardless of good or evil, everyone needs to survive.

Novia has experienced hell, both the real hell of mythology and the hellish 'Fort If'.

This is not the hell he experienced, but the hell of countless people who lived tragically in that era.

All sorts of disasters and despair flowed in and accumulated, like sludge being continuously spilled.

These prostitutes, monsters both inside and out, sell their sex and use the money they earn to strangle any life born from such acts.

Squeeze and crush, repeat, squeeze and crush.

The flesh and blood flow into the river, and since the factory is also discharging wastewater, it doesn't matter if a little more protein is added.

It really doesn't matter, it's perfectly fine. From the perspective of the world as a great river, this little bit of stuff is nothing more than a little bit of sludge.

And the monster reached out its hand from this pile of filth and was born.

This is hell, purgatory, the evil city of Babylon inhabited by inhuman beasts.

An endless stream of bestiality converges within it, witnessing underage girls being violated in their struggle for survival, seeing boys beating girls with sticks to snatch bread from them, seeing the bread a boy risked his life to obtain snatched away by adults using cruel methods, and finally, the bread ending up in the hands of someone utterly meaningless.

To see life being abandoned by the world.

In this hell, the glory of life is meaningless, because one is either killed or consumed.

"I want to go back."

"I want to go back."

"I just want to go back into my mother's tummy."

"Why? Why does everyone bully me?"

"I just wanted to be saved, why is no one saving me?"

"Are we the ones who are bad?"

"Do they hate us?"

And so, the light in people's eyes gradually dimmed, and the world, like silk, wrapped around them, swallowing them up without them being able to move.

If evil existed, that would be fine. If there were a supervillain who controlled everything, that would be fine too. However, this is 'evil' that arose during the process of humankind building and developing cities.

In fact, Novia knew how to resolve this situation; he was neither afraid to kill nor hesitant to kill.

But that was the only way, and he could do more, even if it meant enduring more.

Soon a ragged child stood there, like the beginning of countless waves. Then countless children rushed out. Although they looked very different, they had a certain sense of unity. Each of them was dirty and their eyes were filled with a dim and gloomy light.

Perhaps it was the unusual nature of Novia herself, which radiated warmth, that caused the children surrounding her to look at him with sorrowful expressions.

Those who enter this place will enter this 'hell', but because Novia had also come into contact with the 'Fort If' hell, these children also felt this and understood that despite seeking redemption, they had corrupted all the humans who came here, and were therefore nothing less than evil spirits.

Therefore, they understood that death was their only option.

Jack the Ripper cannot be saved because of her or his legend, which makes Jack the Ripper both anyone and nobody.

Possibilities are virtually limitless. Once things turn out this way, Jack the Ripper, as an anti-Heroic Spirit, would encompass all the possibilities in the world, making salvation extremely difficult.

"No, no... because we're crying... Mom... we... um, we need peace..."

The moment the children saw that glimpse of Novia's eye, they naturally took each other's hands and looked straight at Novia.

Novia could certainly do it; having experienced so much, he was naturally capable of it. It's just that he was having some trouble controlling himself right now.

"This is hell, I won't deny that."

Novia did not stubbornly pursue perfect goodness in humanity, and she was already prepared for the hell that humanity had created.

Nevertheless, the cause of all this cannot actually be simply distinguished as evil or justice.

Nevertheless, he still loved it all.

If possible, it wouldn't matter if the countless hells in the world existed only for myself.

Looking up at the sky, it is a vast, clear blue expanse, unchanging through the ages.

But the unchanging sky can sometimes feel heavy; that overly heavy gray sky seems to be crushing everything.

Jack the Ripper killed innocent people, which can be called evil, but she was born out of the small wish of an abandoned child to return to her resting place.

“You have no names of your own, the world will not recognize you, the evil created by humankind in the world I continue.”

The world does not recognize these resentful individuals as independent entities.

None of them had names; abandoned in their fetal state, they would not have names.

"You will find peace. The world may not acknowledge you, but I will. I am your 'mother.' You will have names. I will accept your infinite possibilities, and I will accept the infinite concepts of evil. This hell that belongs to you will be mine from this day forward."

And you, I will find a world that can accept you.

At this moment, the London created by the dim and cold resentment had a strangely distorted sense of distance, appearing both incredibly vast and oppressively small, with Novia, like the sun, standing in the center.

Novia could certainly force the world to accept the birth of these children, but he didn't do so, because that would be too much of a burden on the world itself. At this moment, he was simply searching for a world capable of accepting the birth of these children.

Ultimately, Gaia from another world responded.

It was the end of a Holy Grail War that swept the entire world. The victor of the Holy Grail made a wish that "the Holy Grail, as a wish-granting machine, shall continue to exist and be distributed." From that moment on, the world of the Holy Grail resided in everyone's heart...

The victor's spirit is Lucius Longinus.

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The nameless children, who were vengeful spirits, gradually disappeared, but the nightmarish fog city did not dissipate.

This place is clearly a re-enactment of the memories of vengeful spirits. Once they disappear, they will naturally disappear as well. However, Novia's choice of 'disappearance' is not annihilation, but finding another world that gives them the possibility of birth. Therefore, this purgatory for children and the powerless, like the evil city of 'Babylon', is still etched in time.

The purgatory for children still exists, but the children will not come here again, because Novia has already taken on the concept of Jack the Ripper's 'infinite possibilities' within it. In a sense, he has become the god of death in various mythologies, who is responsible for identifying the deaths of the innocent.

However, Novia is also the fifth sun in Central and South America, so it's quite normal for her to also act as the Grim Reaper, not to mention the power of Northern Europe and Rome.

And so, in the foggy city, only one girl remained, gazing at Novia with her pure eyes.

"Mommy, are we going to another world?"

"Yes, that world welcomes your birth."

“Oh, I thought we couldn’t go back anywhere, and could only keep going in circles, wandering aimlessly without ever reaching anywhere… But in the end, we were able to find a place to go. We are so grateful to you, Mom.”

The girl continued:

"But Mom, that mom is so pitiful, she... she's just like us."

Novia knew she was referring to Rokudo Reika, who had become a prostitute in Tokyo's Shinjuku district to make a living.

She was adopted after her family died, but was abused by her adoptive parents. Perhaps because of this, she has been living blindly. Having been abused by her adoptive parents for a long time, she has a weak understanding of life and cannot see the value of her own or others' lives.

After her adoptive parents died, she became a prostitute simply to make a living, casually abandoning the piano she had learned for so long from her family of origin. She was someone who could speak fluent Latin from a young age...

As Fa mentioned, she was by no means an evil person, nor did she have an insatiable urge to kill, nor did she ever think of enjoying cruelty.

The mother, who was willing to do anything to fulfill her wish to be seen as a daughter, was thinking of Jack even on her deathbed. She used her last two Command Seals to ask Jack, "Even if I'm gone, you'll be alright." The woman didn't understand magic, but she still used her last two Command Seals to slightly increase Jack's chances of survival.