Late at night.
Everything is silent.
Although Emiya Shirou resolutely declined the invitation of the strange servant and did not choose to go to Ryudou Temple for the appointment, after rejecting the invitation, he also fell into confusion and did not know what to do next when faced with the question. measures.
The home is no longer a safe haven. The location was exposed and the house was destroyed at the last minute. Going back is not a good choice no matter how you look at it... But in addition, the rookie magician was shocked to find that he seemed to be helpless. Everywhere to go.
Nowhere feels safe.
In this long night, the city is like a giant beast lurking on the earth, quietly gathering strength, ready to choose and devour anyone at any time.
Shirou Emiya's heart was filled with worries and uneasiness, and he felt like "Fuyuki is so big, but there is no place for him to live in." A strong feeling of loneliness arose spontaneously, but he had no way to explain it to Saber.
The aloof swordsman girl was also unaware of her master's mentality, not because she was not careful enough, but because she herself had a lot of feelings when facing this Holy Grail War.
It’s just that she doesn’t want to show it——
Subconsciously unwilling to reveal one's sensibility and weakness.
In fact, this is the second time Saber has entered the stage of the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. In the battle ten years ago, she was also one of the summoned heroic spirits. Called out by Kiritsugu.
Unfortunately, during that period, due to the huge differences in philosophy between the two parties, the relationship between the Master and the Servants was extremely tense and almost on the verge of rupture. Even if Irisviel tried her best to mediate, it could not completely bridge the gap between them. chasm.
The final outcome is even more so.
At the moment when he was about to touch the Holy Grail, Emiya Kiritsugu forcibly ordered Saber to release the Noble Phantasm through a command spell, and destroyed the coming Holy Grail with the unrivaled power of the Holy Sword...
Recalling that nightmare-like scene, the swordsman girl clenched her fists tightly. She still can't understand why.
Normally, a summoned servant would not carry records of other summoning experiences, but she was an exception. Strictly speaking, she is an incomplete Servant and an incomplete heroic spirit. She is not dead at all and cannot be transformed into a spirit.
The true existence of this swordsman girl is still anchored in her era - the hill of Kamlan, which was just after the war.
Before she breathed her last breath, the primate's suppressive power made a heroic spirit contract with her, promising to give her the opportunity to pursue the Holy Grail that can grant all wishes.
Her "summoning" was essentially a time jump that did not pass through the Seat of Heroes. She was summoned to a different era at the moment before her death. After completing the Holy Grail War, she returned to that moment. As long as she did not obtain the Holy Grail, she would Continue to be called upon without dying.
Therefore, for this swordsman girl, all the details of the Fourth Holy Grail War seemed to reappear yesterday, clearly engraved in her memory.
She knew that Emiya Shirou was the adopted son of that man, and also knew the identity of Illya who had attacked earlier. She inevitably thought of the ending and regrets of Irisviel, that pure and innocent princess like snowflakes...
For a moment, walking on the streets of Fuyuki City, facing this city that was both familiar and slightly unfamiliar, the young swordsman couldn't help but have mixed feelings, completely unaware of the confusion and confusion in her master's heart this time.
In this way, after wandering aimlessly on the streets for a while, Emiya Shirou finally made a decision.
Mainly because he suddenly remembered what happened in the morning. Regarding the barrier that robbed the vitality of teachers and students in the school, he didn't know if it had been properly resolved...
Originally, according to his idea, he planned to go to the school in the evening. He had already gone out before, but he was really unlucky. As soon as he walked outside the house, he heard a clear and innocent laughter. When he turned around, he saw Illya came to the door.
After that, it was what happened not long ago.
——Saber and the violent and huge warrior giant are locked in a stalemate and fierce battle, surrounded by crises and dangers...
——The mysterious servant Assassin of unknown origin suddenly appeared, took action in time, successfully repelled the giants and led them to evacuate the battlefield...
——Then, the other party made an invitation to them, claiming that Tohsaka was also involved in this Holy Grail War, and cordially invited them to visit Ryudou Temple to discuss alliance matters...
However, due to Saber's obstruction, Emiya Shirou felt that this was more or less like a modern version of the Hongmen Banquet, so although he was a little tempted at first, he decisively rejected the other party's invitation in the end...
After this series of changes, Emiya Shirou almost forgot about his original plan for tonight. It was not until he wandered around the winter night streets of Fuyuki City for several times that he suddenly recalled what he was supposed to do tonight. Task.
Maybe other servants intervened?
But if it is not resolved, wouldn't it still be dangerous?
After thinking about it, he felt uneasy after all, so Emiya Shirou simply decided to go in the direction of the school. Anyway, he had nowhere else to go at the moment.
Saber has no problem. After all, the Holy Grail War is about constant fighting. Compared with Ryudouji, which is obviously a trap, the current enemy of the school may be easier to conquer. She thinks that the tall heroic spirit during the day can never be her. opponent.
only……
What she didn't know was that she probably wouldn't be able to meet her enemies during the day.
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Fuyuki City.
The residential area of Miyama Town, where the Matou family's mansion is located.
Under the cover of night, this house is also dark and deep, as if it is some kind of bottomless pit that can swallow up the light. I don't know how many dark secrets are hidden.
"Sakura! What are you doing! What are you doing!"
"Stop! How dare you disobey...ahhhhhh, stop it..."
She screamed in horror and confusion, but was completely unable to stop what was happening. The girl named Sakura smiled as if nothing had happened.
Even though the strong pressure caused blood to rise into the sky like a fountain, spilling onto the several-meter-high ceiling and surrounding walls, dyeing them a shocking crimson, she still calmly and resolutely inserted her fingers bit by bit into her heart, deeply deep into the nerves...
Pull out a bug.
No matter how hard you fight, no matter how hard you scream, no matter how you intimidate and threaten, everything is like a stone in the sea, and there is no response.
As if the conversation had lost its meaning, the purple-haired girl calmly crushed the ant-like life. After killing the insect, she couldn't help but show a smile from the heart on her fair face. The purity and joy were extremely real.
So simple, so simple...
It would be fine if they all died, why not let them all die...
Rider will also be happy for herself, she will definitely be happy for herself...
The next moment, the girl laughed, first softly, then uncontrollably, and finally laughing so hard that her stomach hurt, as if she was extremely happy and joyful.
Although the more he continued to laugh, the more he continued to collapse, and he couldn't stop crying, as if everything was unclear.
Until a roar erupted outside the door, wrapped in violent and angry emotions, accompanied by a burst of approaching footsteps, breaking the silence of the room.
"Hey! Sakura, how dare you! Didn't I agree that I am Rider's master now——"
With a bang, the door was pushed open suddenly.
"You still dare to smile so happily, do you think I dare not-"
Before he finished speaking, what he saw in front of him made Matou Shinji's roar and habitual insults suddenly freeze between his lips and teeth, like a noisy drake suddenly having its throat tightly clamped.
His eyes widened. There was no Rider in the room. The figure of the tall heroic spirit was nowhere to be found, as if he had completely evaporated and never appeared again.
There is only a bloody color on the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling...
as well as--
On the purple-haired girl who was laughing to tears...
"You, you... don't, don't do this..."
In an instant, a strong chill surged up from the soles of his feet and ran directly along his spine to Tianling Gai. It was as if the ancient warning mechanism deep in human genes was activated. At this moment, Matou Shinji sensed some indescribable terrifying threat like a prey.
Knees bent weakly...
My thoughts instantly disappeared into nothingness like an avalanche...
The neurons under the cerebral cortex do nothing but instinctively generate emotions called fear and regret...
The next moment, Matou Shinji experienced a visual impact like a reversal of heaven and earth. His line of sight rose sharply, but his perspective fell at an alarming speed. His cheek slammed into the pool of blood on the floor, causing circles of scarlet ripples and bouncing several times like a hit ball.
In this subversive change of perspective, he witnessed a body without its head falling straight down, and blood spraying out like a floodgate...
"I'm so happy." The girl whispered, and slowly stood up in the room.
In fact, I can't feel anything...
I just thought it would be nice if I could start earlier.
Slowly walking to the full-length mirror, looking at herself covered in blood, she laughed again.
In the mirror, behind the purple-haired girl, stood a figure that shouldn't exist. It had a face that was too beautiful and neat, like a doll, with red pupils like rubies, and long silver hair that shone like snow. hair.
The figure in a black dress was quietly watching all this happen.
Of course, all of this is the result of "it".
In this Holy Grail War, there are two humanoid terminals that can serve as the "Holy Grail". One of them is of course Illya, an artificial human being designed from birth to be the container of the Holy Grail.
The second one is this purple-haired girl, Matou Sakura.
In a sense, she is more qualified than Illya——
The malice in the Great Holy Grail could have remotely affected and corrupted part of Illya's mind through the records, but there was no way to affect Matou Sakura through the air.
But once this malice no longer takes effect passively, but acquires a certain degree of subjective initiative and can take the initiative to directly contact, control, and influence the minds of the two candidates, then the situation will be completely different.
Matou Sakura is obviously more compatible with "all the evil in this world"...
Keenly sensing this potential advantage, the malice within the Great Holy Grail cleverly guided Illya to Mount Enzo. Then he tried his best to gather some of the scattered malice and filtered impurities, and barely created an entity that could carry the personality projection.
The entity formed in spite of this has no actual effect, and no one except those directly connected to the Holy Grail can detect its existence.
However, this becomes the ideal tool to induce Matou Sakura into the abyss...
The plan went very smoothly, because the girl was already broken, and with just one more push, her spirit would burst like a dam, and all the darkness that had been accumulated so far would burst out.
Then she uses the Servant she summoned and absorbs it without any warning. After truly recovering the Servant's soul, her function as the Holy Grail increases rapidly.
It was a completely overwhelming force that had been freed from the shackles. Without any defense, even the old and immortal Matou Zangyan had no room for resistance. The main reason was that his life-saving trump card was equivalent to being directly sent away in this situation. into the opponent's hands.
As a price, human functions and sanity are also stripped away very quickly.
Next, you only need to go directly to Enzang Mountain and sweep everything away to end this boring Holy Grail War.
No matter how weird and special that heroic spirit is, it doesn't make any sense, because as long as it takes form under the system of the Holy Grail, it will definitely not be able to resist Sakura, who is the Holy Grail itself.
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The other side.
A long-premeditated ambush battle in Suiqunyuan Academy has basically come to an end.
The angry swordsman girl's face turned livid, and she rushed after the invisible sword in her hand, but she could not catch up with the young man in front of her.
The opponent restrained Emiya Shirou with one hand and retreated at an extremely fast speed. The excessive display of magic power appeared again... In order to retreat, the opponent directly used a high-level skill similar to "Magic Release".
"Hun Dan! Assassin, how dare you..."
The swordsman girl was shaking with anger. She didn't expect that the other party had just left not long ago, and then came back to the school to set up an ambush.
The level of breath blocking was too high. If it weren't for her amazing intuition and good luck, she might not have been able to react when the Master was taken away... In fact, it was too late to react now.
Although Emiya Shirou instinctively wanted to struggle and resist, no matter what, he was just an ordinary human being and could not resist at all. He was dragged away by Xia Zhi like a chicken.
"Sorry, I was just following orders..."
Xia Zhi turned back to look at the blond girl who was very familiar to her in a certain sense. Her decisive acting skills came to the fore, and she shook her head with a wry smile.
"If you want to rescue your master, come to Liudong Temple."
The helpless expression and the bitter smile with a sigh vividly and vividly expressed his central idea of being helpless, making Saber want to bite her silver teeth into pieces, and at the same time unconsciously shift the target of her hatred.
It's all the fault of Assassin's Master for resorting to such a despicable trick!
Again!
Also in this city, she was once again kidnapped by the Master she was supposed to protect!
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Fuyuki City is a place with a big nose, and even if the Holy Grail War is a little louder, it can't be hidden from other contestants.
Soon, what happened at Suiqunyuan Academy also spread to the Holy Church Church——
"Abduct Saber's Master and force Saber to go to Ryudou Temple..."
When the blond young man heard this information, a displeased sneer appeared on his face, and a dangerous light flashed in his scarlet eyes.
"They even dare to get their hands on what I like... I originally wanted these bastards to dance around for a few more days and put on a hilarious show to please me, but now it seems that these bastards have to die to apologize. Bar!"
