A Dimensional Journey Begins with the Dragon Clan

Chapter 1240 1233. Must be realized

Emiya Shirou was speechless.

Why do you have to take such a tough stance here? Sakura.

"Okay, then let's use the guest room inside! There are plenty of quilts, and there are yukatas for several people! Is that okay with Saber?"

It’s okay, right? The tone of the voice seemed to be much stronger. Was he overthinking it?

"..."

Saber turned her gaze towards him with a puzzled look.

"...This is very troubling to me, Shirou. I have to protect you, and I won't be able to complete my mission if I stay in the same room with them. Besides, I don't know how to respond if we are in the same room."

“…I’m sorry. I can’t stop what Fuji-nee said. Besides, it feels like a quid pro quo. If I refuse, it seems that Saber’s promise to live here will be void. Then the two of us will have to sleep on the street.”

"...That would be troublesome. The barrier of this house is excellent, so it is impeccable as a base. As long as Shirou stays here, he can also deal with the enemy's sneak attack."

"...Is that so? Then you should be even more patient. As long as you stay in this room, you can always meet up with others even if something happens. Um, it's going to be tiring to talk to Fuji-nee, so if you're bothered, just say you don't understand Japanese."

"Hey, you two over there, whispering is forbidden. That's why Saber is with us. Shirou is a boy, so it's okay for him to be alone, right?"

Sister Fuji took Saber's hand and left Emiya Shirou.

"────────"

This way, the matter will be clarified.

Saber's accommodation was approved, and Fuji-sister was going to live here, and Sakura would move in with her.

The population density here increased in just half a day.

...Hmm...It really feels more and more like a hotel, I think.

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It's bedtime.

Saber didn't know what had happened. The lights in the guest room, which had been bustling just a moment ago, went out and silence returned.

Three women make a drama. Even the silent Saber and the steady Sakura cannot escape this rule.

"...No, that's not right. The main thing I heard was Fuji-nee's laughter."

Even so, it is a fact that the guest rooms are very busy.

It is not good for mental health to see girls of the same age and age playing around in the same place and under the same roof.

“──────Damn it. I was so concerned that I lost all my sleepiness.”

Like Saber's troubled expression, whether Sakura and Saber get along well, and what Fuji-nee is planning, and so on.

The more I thought about it, the more my head hurt. In this case, maybe it would be better to let Saber sleep in the next room.

"────────"

The time is eleven o'clock at night.

The lights in the house were off and there was no sound outside.

In order to avoid being discovered by Fuji-nee and the others sleeping in the guest room, Emiya Shirou lowered his footsteps and opened the sliding door of the room.

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Walked to the courtyard.

The moonlight is bright and the wind is cold.

On a winter night, the world is as quiet as if it were frozen.

The warehouse was completely silent.

The place where Lancer had cornered me yesterday.

The place where Saber appears.

The entrance was open, and the darkness inside seemed to be pitch black and open to all.

Went inside.

He closed the door to block out the air outside and lit the broken stove.

"...You want to shoot more than two hundred arrows a day?"

The teachings of Nakaguni Hisahisa on Kyudo.

The ability to hit the target as the word suggests.

Penetration is the ability to penetrate a target.

And the final "long" is the rigor of maintaining the mid-range penetration ability for a long time.

...I remember that these words seemed to have appeared in a collection of secret publications.

Those who are determined to become Sagittarius must persist in this forever once they have achieved the real meaning.

Therefore, more than two hundred arrows must be shot a day... and so on.

"...Yes. Since you don't know what to do as a Master, at least you should practice your magic well."

Emiya Shirou lowered his waist in the middle of the dogura and took a deep breath.

“Hoo—Hoo—”

…After adjusting his breathing, he began his usual practice.

The usual images come to mind.

The shadow of a sword appeared in the empty mind.

"────────"

Ignore this and your thoughts will become even clearer.

After the whole body is connected to the magic power, the next step is the usual intensive training.

Last night, I was attacked by Lancer and succeeded in performing the strengthening magic that I had not been able to do for several years.

Practice over and over again before you forget the feeling. It would be a shame if you can't get it for sure.

"──────Synchronize, start."

Half-close your eyes and force out the contents of your lungs.

─────Just think about this now.

No matter whether it was the Holy Grail War, Saber's affairs, or Tōsaka's affairs, once they were immersed in this project, they would all be swept away.

You need to clear your mind to the point where you can forget all your own confusions that are not important enough.

However, in that process.

  While I am doing this, is Tousaka, a magician, also training in the same way──────

Such distracting thoughts linger in my mind.

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─────Through the unnatural darkness.

It was late at night and the place was deserted.

Under the moonlight, she walked through the dark passage and stepped into the room.

"────────"

There it was, a room in a building.

There are about fifty employees inside.

Most of them were men, and all of them were scattered on the ground like puppets with their strings cut.

"────────"

She clenched her teeth.

The darkness that blinded my vision helped a little.

The corrupt air was caused by the fragrance of the grass turning into smoke that filled the entire room.

"────What's this scent? Archer, do you know?"

While opening the doors and windows, she asked the question behind her.

There was no one there.

There was only a breath thicker than the diffuse smoke swaying.

"Witch's ointment, I think. It's from the Celery family, and it's called Destroying Love or something like that?"

"...Poisonous ginseng? Why, it's not enough to just eat the magic power, you also want to prevent men from pleasing you, right, the one who caused this tragedy."

"In that case, the other party must be a woman. I don't know what hatred she has, but since she is a Servant and still kills innocent people, it seems that she has a lot of resentment."

"Stop bragging and open the window... The person who fell down is still breathing, right? In that case, there's no difference between reporting it now and not being discovered until morning. If the matter is resolved, leave as soon as possible, Archer."

After opening the side window and treating the person in particularly severe condition, she left the room.

"…Tsk. I need to send the clothes to the laundry."

I sniffed the coat. It wasn't anything special, but her coat smelled of rust.

It became a secret room.

Because on the ground called the floor, there was a pool of blood vomited by fifty people.

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The aura behind her took shape.

The person who appeared behind her, Toosaka Rin, was naturally a knight in a red coat.

Archer is the Servant who protects Toosaka Rin as a spirit.

"And then? Did it flow to Ryudo Temple?"

"...Is that so? All the lost energy flowed to the top of the mountain. The sleeping incidents in Shinto were mostly caused by the Master in Ryudo Temple. I don't know how powerful that Master is, but this kind of thing is not something a human can do. If we talk about the possible candidate, I'm afraid it can only be the Servant Caster, right?"

"A witch who built her nest in Ryudo Temple. If that's the case, I made a fool of myself last night."

"Making a fool of yourself...? You mean the draw with Berserker? I think that would be the best outcome."

"Not necessarily. If Caster had spread his net so wide, he must have been able to spy on last night's battle. And yet we failed to defeat Berserker, and even let Saber go, and my trump card was exposed. How can this be the best outcome?"

Said sarcastically.

However, Rin did not respond to this.

There was nothing wrong in defeating Berserker and saving Saber.

And most importantly────Archer didn't reveal his trump card at all.

last night.

It is a fact that the "arrow" shot by Archer stopped Berserker.

  But the true face of the treasure with such great power,

Even Rin, the Master, didn't know.

“──────Rin.”

...No, she also saw through the principle alone.

It was just a bomb.

The bomb filled with gunpowder, the Noble Phantasm, was detonated in front of the enemy.

It goes without saying how irrational this is.

That was an explosion of magical power using the most powerful imaginary treasure, which could be used only once.

─────.

This is the name of the ultimate killing weapon possessed by the Red Knight.

“──────Rin.”

...But that is really puzzling.

A Servant possesses only one Noble Phantasm, which is his or her inseparable partner during life.

Which heroic spirit could destroy this without any regret?

“──────Rin.”

It is not easy to repair a damaged Noble Phantasm.

For a Servant, destroying his own Noble Phantasm is tantamount to suicide.

"────Rin..."

That was when Archer gave up his strongest weapon when there were still six enemies to be defeated.

  No, if I destroy the Noble Phantasm that is the best proof of my heroism with my own hands, the other Servants will surely faint when they find out──────

“Rin────!”

"! Eh, what? Sorry, I didn't hear that."

"...I'm asking you what to do next tonight. You must be tired from the battle just now. If you don't rest and recover..."

"────────"

Rin clenched her fist slightly in response to what Archer said.

The battle just now.

Puppets made of bones moved in groups on the passage.

And she destroyed all of that by herself.

He didn't need Archer's help at all, and he didn't want to expose Archer's abilities.

The most important reason was that he had broken the rules of being a magus and involved a third party like this, and he was angry at this 'enemy'.

So it was destroyed.

No mercy, beat until the body is completely broken.

…Even if the skeleton came from someone who was alive a few days ago, there would be no sympathy at all.

"────────"

She was not injured in the battle just now.

There is only one place.

The price I paid for fighting while holding back the urge to vomit was just biting my lip.

"──────We have to chase Caster. The scent is still there. We have to kill her before she escapes to Ryudo Temple."

"What? That's surprising. Isn't it your principle not to do something you think you can't do?"

"…That's right. I won't do anything if I know the outcome. But this time is different. If I chase him now, I might be able to catch him. More importantly,─────"

"──────You can't get over it unless you fight her. Really. You leave the easy opponent alone and go after the toughest one."

“… Moo. It doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about Saber. We can deal with opponents like that anytime, so there’s no need to take them seriously. If they just stay at home, there’s no need to attack them. I let them go because they’re hiding at home.”

"…Is that so? Then, it would be a different matter if the Master is right in front of you. For example, if Shirou Emiya appears before you without realizing that he is the Master…"

Facing the probing words from his own servant.

  Rin Toosaka looked out at the night streets with her emotionless voice.

"I will kill him. I have no obligation to sympathize with someone who doesn't even know such a thing."

As if speaking to herself, Toosaka Rin asserted this.

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That was the winter five years ago.

A night with an exceptionally beautiful moon.

Shirou Emiya himself was not doing anything, he was just watching the moon with his father Kiritsugu Emiya.

Although it is winter, the temperature is not that low.

Although the corridor was still chilly, it did not detract from the beauty of this moonlit night.

Recently, Kiritsugu rarely stepped out of the house.

I seldom go out, and I spend more time at home doing things leisurely.

...Now when I think about it, I regret it.

It's clearly like an animal that has realized its own death, so why didn't it notice it?

“When I was little, I dreamed of being a righteous partner.”

Very suddenly.

His father, who was his righteous partner, spoke these words in a nostalgic tone.

"What are you talking about? It's just a yearning. Does that mean you've given up?"

He replied a little angrily.

Kiritsugu smiled apologetically and looked up at the distant moon.

"Well, it's a pity. Being a hero has a time limit, and it's hard to call yourself a hero after you become an adult. I wish I had understood this earlier."

Emiya Shirou understood after he said that.

Although I still don't know why, but since Kiritsugu said it, it can't be wrong.

"Is that so? There's really nothing we can do about it."

"Yeah. Really, there's nothing I can do about it."

Kiritsugu echoed him.

Then of course, what he was going to say was already decided.

"Well, if there's no other way, I'll take your place. Although Dad is an adult and there's nothing he can do, it won't be a problem if it's me. Leave it to me, Dad's dream..."

“————I will definitely make it happen!”