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Chapter 104 Erlang Shen vs. Typhon (1! Please give me a monthly ticket! Please subscribe automatically!)
102. Fight! Fight! Fight!

——Primitive Return

Since her debut, Athena has been saying that she wants to use the Demon King's burning of humanity, which has caused chaos in time and cause and effect, to return to her original state.

So, the so-called primitive return in Athena's mouth, the 'original posture' in Athena's mouth - when is it?
Generally speaking, it is the beginning of the mythological era.

But it is actually not easy to distinguish this way, because the main stage where the mythological stories known to modern people take place would be described as the "mythological era".

But the original time that Athena was looking for was before this, when the stage of the "mythical world" familiar to mankind had not yet been established.

As we all know, in the Type-Moon world, the so-called "divinity" does not mean something that is "inherited along with the bloodline of God."

The essence of divinity is a special ability that emerges from the interior of the planet. After that special energy is transformed into various giant beasts or giants, these "giants" and "giants" are called gods.

Because it is called God, the energy that overflows from the interior of the planet is called "divinity".

The word divinity did not exist from the beginning, but was 'invented' by humans through thinking.

A normal planet, in the process of development and growth, will constantly give birth to countless behemoths and giants, and these giants and behemoths will fight each other - in the end, there will not be any "mythical age" or "mythical civilization".

Instead, it will destroy everything on the surface of the earth, leaving all life in a final end of killing and devouring each other, with only the last 'ultimate only' left.

Ultimate one——abbreviated as UO.

The so-called UO is not just a super monster, but also a living, moving, and constantly growing "universe (world)".

That is not the ability to tamper with the rules of the universe, but that they themselves are a new universe with their own rules.

The difference between a so-called 'living planet' and a 'particularly large target' lies in whether it has the ability to breed UO.

Like many planets in the solar system, the Earth embarked on the path of giving birth to UO - that's how it started.

But problems arose almost at the outset.

Humans who appeared out of nowhere, visitors from another dimension, exiles from another world, invaders, invaders of invaders.
When we came to our senses, the Earth had become a chaos of local gods, gods from other worlds, alien creatures, alien civilizations, visitors from other universes, fugitives from other universes, inter-dimensional life forms, evil gods from the subspace, and so on.

Perhaps, that period can be called the 'super ancient period'.

To make matters worse, there is the emergence of humans, who are generally weak but numerous.

Originally, divinity should be the overflow of special energy from within the planet, and the focus of competition among various monsters and forces.

But weak humans have the ability to say, "If I think you are God, then you are God."

The key point of this ability is that humans see an alien robot, worship it as a god, and then "divinity" inexplicably appears out of thin air inside the body of this alien robot.

The weak humans who struggled to survive in the ancient times survived by relying on "resources" and even coexisted with some friendly "existences called gods".

In order to win and become stronger, more and more extraordinary beings began to keep humans in captivity.

The extraordinary beings also began to regard themselves as "gods" according to the names given by humans.

The wonderful thing about human resources is that they are renewable and growable, and a human being is not limited to believing in only one god. So the gods who were supposed to be fighting to the death began to unite and formed a "pantheon". As humans wove stories, they formed "myths". They obtained various "functions" and also gained power called "authority" from the "functions".

Unconsciously, the gods went astray and no longer followed the normal strategy of "fighting until only one UO is left". Instead, they imitated humans and began to build civilization.

Of course, that was a primitive and barbaric ancient time after all.

There are also conflicts between different human tribal kingdoms, and the brutal battles continue endlessly, but the goal has become seriously distorted - as the 'organizer' Miss Earth (Gaia), the original goal is not pursued by many people.

No one knows why weak humans have this ability, and no one can explain clearly where humans came from. Humans themselves don't know either, but they make up stories saying that they were created by a certain god.

In the ancient primitive struggle where many mythological factions were fighting each other, the forces called "Greek Gods" in modern times rose up strongly.

The Greek gods are not native inhabitants of the Earth, nor are they aliens from other planets, nor are they inhabitants of the subspace - but an entire 'interstellar colonization fleet' that came from other universes.

The original universe of Olympus has reached the limit of life - the universe itself has reached the time of "death".

However, the super civilization in that universe created a spherical space-time fortress called Chaos, which feeds on stars themselves.

Chaos, the mothership and the Ultimate Mecha God, merged with the cracks in the universe's space-time to forcibly delay - or "block" the destruction of its own universe.

Even so, doomsday will come one day, so Chaos sent out an interstellar colony fleet, hoping that they would find a way to save the universe from other universes - or an opportunity for revival.

After traveling through space for tens of thousands of years, the fleet finally arrived on Earth.

Then he joined the big melee at that time.

They are the twelve Mecha Gods in total. After acquiring the resources of the Earth, the fleet created many sub-generation Mecha Gods, so the original twelve Mecha Gods are also called "True Mecha Gods".

The Earth is a big stage! Come if there is work to do!
The problem is that there are simply too many living beings on Earth.

Although the mechas have a huge advantage in the 'scale of energy output', they are stretched when it comes to 'power', that is, the field of performing various spells and mysterious wonders.

To put it simply, the basic values of the mechas are very high, ridiculously high, but other competitors have mechanisms. If the mechanisms are successfully triggered, the values can soar even more unreasonably!
Compared to other 'magical' competitors, the mechas seem a little too 'scientific'.

Not to mention, before finding the Earth, there was an internal fight among the Mecha God fleet, causing serious damage.

But the mechas, led by their flagship Zeus, eventually succeeded in carving out a niche for themselves.

It's not the ability to 'mass produce' just because the Mechas have the resources.

But under the leadership of Zeus, the Mecha-

They! Combined!
The True Mecha God and the Combined Mecha God Zeus displayed overwhelming strength and defeated the top forces in the great war on Earth at that time, the representatives of the native gods of Earth directly supported by the planetary will Gaia - the 'Twelve Titans' represented by the sky god Kronos.

After seizing the Crown of Kronos, the Mecha-Gods took it over.

But even so, the super-ancient melee was still long and there was no end in sight, and during this period a civil war broke out within the Mecha God for unknown reasons.

There is also a saying that Chaos sent two fleets, one led by Zeus and one led by Kronos respectively. The twelve Titans were actually the Mechas under Chaos, and the battle between the twelve Olympians and the twelve Titans was actually an internal fight among the Mechas.

Regardless, Zeus won.

because--

"Zeus fell in love with humans and decided to coexist with them. He gained their support and power."

Athena was reciting the indescribable "historical text" as if she was chanting a spell.

"Originally, for the Machine God, rebellion is impossible in its construction process, and it is even less likely to cause internal strife - that's right."

"The rebel's name is—Zeus!"

"Zeus betrayed Mechagod and Chaos, and stood on the side of humans. He received help from humans! Under the transformation of human power, he gained the power to break through the source code designed by Chaos!"

“That’s not a very special story.”

"Nothing more than that in a brutal battle with the demons of the Subspace, the terminal used by Zeus was seriously injured and fell down - then, it was accidentally discovered by a human tribe and was 'treated'."

"It's called treatment, but in reality, Zeus was just defending himself and destroying the monsters nearby that were a threat to his injured terminal."

"This action actually protected the humans of that tribe."

"But the reason why Zeus didn't wipe out humans together is simply because he judged that humans were not a threat, and that 'humans' as a resource could be used to trade equivalents with other forces."

"Zeus, who was waiting for the nanomachines to repair themselves and for the terminal machine to reconnect with the main body and return to the fleet, was regarded by the humans who misunderstood him as a god who came from the sky to save them."

“It’s not some weird story.”

"Zeus was worshiped, and humans offered up witches. Because they were worried that humans would expose their position to other forces, Zeus' terminal pretended to be friendly, communicated with the witches, answered their curiosity, and gave a limited description of the origin and purpose of his fleet."

"The witch who could not understand 'science' wove Zeus's description into a story, and then the story was passed on by countless people and gradually became a myth."

"Mythology is only the result of people's thinking. From the 'ideas' of human beings, it transformed and gave birth to 'divinity'."

"And those divinities merged with Zeus' terminal and Zeus' AI program, allowing Zeus to gain independent 'self-awareness'."

"Zeus fell in love with humans."

"Zeus, who fell in love with humans, realized one thing"

"In fact, the Olympus Fleet that I represent is not fundamentally different from other forces that are fighting on the planet and regard humans as 'resources' and 'equivalents'."

"Other gods use the power of humans, but in the end, under the guidance of the will of the Earth, after the final winner is determined, they will destroy or devour all humans and become the UO of the Earth."

"Although the Olympus Fleet will not do this, if they win, they will use their resources to call on their mothership, the Ultimate Mecha God Chaos."

"Chaos will turn the Earth into a mine and rebuild the Mechanic civilization in this universe. Humans are unnecessary. To the Mechanic, they are not even worth keeping in captivity."

"That's right"

"Under the wishes of mankind, in the prayers and hopes of mankind, Zeus gained his own self and rebelled against Chaos."

"The final outcome of the internal struggle among the Mecha Gods was that the Twelve Mecha Gods emerged from among them. With the help of humans, they broke free from the shackles of Chaos and became the Twelve Mecha Gods that were sung by later generations."

"Led by Zeus, with the help of human wishes, the twelve machine gods combined and awakened with overwhelming power. Although they are machines, they are the most "human" of the Greek gods, although they have various problems similar to humans.
But for humans, they finally got the ability to defy fate and defy the gods—ironically, twelve of the strongest spears named after ‘gods’!”

"However."

"Gaia, who was supposed to be the stage itself and the will of the planet as the judge, of course hated the situation where the gods and humans turned themselves from 'judges' into 'prizes'."

"Gaia referred to the power and technology of many forces on Earth and created many monsters."

"Among them, the ultimate combat weapon against Zeus was created based on the technology of the Olympus Fleet and aimed at defeating the combined machine god!

That is--'Typhon'!"

It can be said that it can be called the "Earth UO candidate".

The strongest annihilation weapon created by the Earth in the ancient times, it has the body of a machine god, but it has the appearance of a dragon and snake that symbolizes the earth - that is, a 'machine dragon'.

But that is a very distant legend.

The decisive battle between the Combined Machine God Arceus (Super Zeus) and the Earth Machine Dragon is now a thing of the past.

Typhon had long been destroyed, and even the glory of the Twelve Mechanics had long since ceased to exist. The age of mankind had arrived.

but!

"Because of the actions of the Demon King and the emergence of the singularity, the logic of history has collapsed, making it possible for all kinds of 'IF' to appear!"

It is possible to resurrect Typhon or even regain the power of the combined Mecha God!

Athena wants to return to the original.

I want to get back my original appearance.

She is not of Mecha origin.

But he was defeated later and was forced to join the Olympian gods.

In terms of origin, Athena is closer to Typhon - the goddess of Gaia.

Because of this, now that Gaia's consciousness has been silent for tens of thousands of years, Athena's ambition begins to burn, taking this opportunity of the burning of human reason!
"The work of restoring human principles - no, the work of 'reshaping human principles' will be carried out by me."

"I will punish anyone who stands in my way, and any enemy who causes the burning of humanity!"

It is obvious that Athena is now in the state of 'just going out'.

Whether from the perspective of time or the amount of resources at hand, it is impossible to completely materialize (build) the ultimate weapon of the ancient times, 'Typhon'.

But Athena is the goddess of wisdom.

She used a rather crude method to 'take advantage'.

With the power of the Goddess of Wisdom, the magic power of the Holy Grail is used simply as an energy furnace with the highest efficiency - the spiritual base scale of the created 'Typhon' is directly upgraded to the main god level!
Of course, the size of the spiritual base does not represent combat effectiveness, it simply raises the output ceiling.

The Typhon created at this cost can be said to be just an empty shell. It has the output of a main god, but no self-awareness. Its body is only a short forty-meter-sized one. All the powers originally bestowed by Gaia have disappeared. To be precise, Athena did not have the resources or time to create it.

Even if it has the output scale, it does not have the intelligence to make this power operate efficiently.

But that's enough.

Because this is a Mecha God——that’s why!
The "will" of the Machine God, how to "use the power of the Machine God" - these things do not necessarily have to be decided and used by the Machine God himself.

That's right!

Just leave it to the "driver" to take charge!

Athena went straight into the cockpit!
She will replace the intellect and drive Typhon!
Perhaps it was because this was the Typhon that Athena had "reproduced" by imitating it. Compared to the terrifying monster posture of the ancient prototype, Athena's God Machine Typhon had a ferocious but not deformed streamlined feature. Rather than a machine dragon monster, it was more like a giant dragon-man-shaped mechanical warrior.
The Holy Grail Engine starts.

The scarlet glow of the magic source illuminated the earth, and the roar of the engine sounded like a dragon's roar!

Over at the Chaldea base, the energy recorder that Leonardo had hastily put together crashed while trying to observe and record Typhon's energy reaction!

The power of God and the magic of the Holy Grail mixed together.

A scarlet halo appeared behind the machine.

Like a god.

The particles overflowing from the light of God's Machine are even the crystallized rich divinity!
If the Holy Grail is used as a magic furnace and Athena is driving it, this guy's strength is -

"The Star of Disaster, the Machine God Typhon - its strength is no different from that of the main god himself!"

Leonardo da Vinci couldn't help but marvel at it, looking at the divine machine with eyes filled with almost fanatical excitement and curiosity.

She seemed to have forgotten for a moment that this thing was an enemy and a deadly threat - as a scholar, a magician, and a scientist, she longed to obtain the technology of the Divine Machine!
At the same time, she couldn't help but wonder: What kind of beautiful existence (technology) would the super ancient machine dragon Typhon be able to compete with the peak twelve machine gods, and the combined machine god Zeus after that?

No matter how!

From a common sense point of view, this shouldn't be something that appears in the 'Novice Level'!
"You've done well enough, leave the rest to me."

Athena's voice spread throughout the singularity through the divine machine.

Just looking at the lines, if you don’t know, you would think she is a friendly force.

"By the way, my daughter, I want to thank you for summoning it here - then, you should also return 'my pilot suit' to me."

The light is flashing!

The rich ancient divinity of Athena shows its true power by using the god-level divine machinery!

The rich divine power instantly transformed into hundreds of spirit snakes, and the power of the god of death allowed them to directly lock onto their target - Illya!

In an instant, it was a dense network covering the sky and the earth!
Even if Illya was wearing Athena's sacred armor (pilot suit), running the engine at full throttle, and firing the floater, she still couldn't dodge!

The spirit snake transformed from the power of death directly bit the equipment on Illya's body!

With the materialization of the power of death, the originally powerful effects of these equipment were forcibly given a 'death state' - that is, they became 'unable to activate their effects'!

If there wasn't this mecha, if Athena wanted to use this level of power so powerfully and brutally, she would probably have to risk the collapse of her spiritual foundation to achieve it, right?
But for Athena at this moment, everything is easy!
--even!
Olga Marie: “Huh!?”

Olga Marie couldn't help but groan in pain.

Illyasviel's consciousness was forcibly "kicked offline"!

"Illya, my daughter, you are now just a spirit possessed, which is equivalent to a 'ghost' - whether as a daughter or a soul, you are naturally under my control, huh?"

After easily capturing Illya — Olga Marie, stripping off her divine cloth and taking back her pilot suit, Athena suddenly seemed to discover something strange:

"Eh? Your 'body'... no, should I say 'state' or 'form of existence' is very strange? Are you a 'specimen' made by someone?"

This was said to Olga Marie.

But Olga Marie couldn't understand any of this.

At this moment, the situation on the battlefield has been completely reversed.

Illya's consciousness was forcibly kicked offline, and she was trapped in Olga Marie's body and could not move. After the abilities of the two became "unable to activate", the summoning effect that maintained the power of the Leo Giant Lion and the Hercules Hercules also ended.

Othinus's operation was interrupted, Ritsuka was tied up, and Othinus himself was tied up in a very shameful way and hung in the air by the vengeful Athena.

Caster and Aku Hinako were not punished. Athena only tied their hands at the minimum - they also became 'unable to activate their abilities'.

Athena's attitude towards Akebab is the best.

".Although it's a bit stupid, you and I can still be considered 'sisters' after all."

Athena is expressing her kindness in this way.

The general meaning is, you see, the others are all "daughters", only you and I are "sisters" of the same generation. In fact, it is true that Akagi Hinako is a natural spirit of the earth, although she was born a little late - is this a good thing? If she was born in the super ancient times, she would also be forced to fight in the ancient battlefield.

Because there is no survival without fighting, it is an era where killing and devouring each other is commonplace.

But Akagi Hinako was too stubborn to react immediately: "I don't know you!"

Athena couldn't help but shake her head.

For her, the next thing to do is to 'kill those who should be killed, lock up those who should be locked up', and then - wait for Shirou's return.

Honestly.

Athena couldn't imagine that Shirou could defeat her.

In Athena's eyes, Shirou cannot be considered a 'man' yet, at most he is a 'young son'.

You have what it takes to be a great hero, but that's not enough right now.

The awareness of protection alone is not enough.

If you want to be a hero, you need desire.

Shirou protects others because he feels that it is what he should do and that it is the right thing to do.

This simple and innocent heart has been recognized by many Buddhas, but it is only a potential and is not enough.

From ancient times to the present, what has driven human progress is desire.

It is not enough to just do something because it has to be done.

It is not enough to just do something with all your might because it is definitely the right thing to do.

That's not a wish.

It was just some kind of 'longing' that he himself was not aware of.

I admired Miss Musashi's optimism, I admired Rin Toosaka's integrity -- I admired the power of 'Dragon Demon Azidahaka'.

But longing is the farthest distance from "love".

And 'love' is 'desire', which is the essence of human spiritual power.

Uncontrolled desires will consume oneself - but Shirou's shortcoming is the opposite, he has too few desires.

Athena didn't know if Shirou had experienced something in his childhood, or if he was born with some kind of defect that caused him to be particularly weak in the aspect of "desire".

for example.

Shirou had been forging swords for so many years, working tirelessly and persistently - but as a heroic spirit who forged iron, he had never found joy in it.

I forged the sword just because I needed strength, and I forged the sword just because I wanted to fulfill my promise to Cong Yu.

Always doing the right thing for others.

But there is little consideration for oneself, and desires are too weak.

Just like Shirou's "Sun Sword" which could almost be considered a confession to Toosaka Rin.

If Shirou really had a strong 'love', he wouldn't even need to borrow the sun's light or take advantage of the moon's refraction to absorb the sun's power. He could probably deliver a 'sun-like blazing blow' based solely on his own will and belief.

Immature child.

But even in an immature state, it can have such powerful strength. No matter from which aspect, the future is promising!

Athena planned to subdue him - if Shirou refused, she would kill him, restrain his soul, and then slowly train him.

His power could perhaps be used to fight against the Demon King.

Or perhaps, it can be used as a 'reference object' for Athena to create new humans when she reshapes human history after defeating the Demon King in the future.

Human beings today are too filthy.

It is because of the current defects of mankind that this era of human rule has become filthy and that the Demon King has the opportunity to cause chaos.

[At this moment, what is Athena's interest in Ritsuka and Shirou? 】

[If she is more interested in Shirou, she will treat Ritsuka, tie her up and put her aside, waiting for Shirou to arrive for a decisive battle]

[Otherwise, the special plot of 'Fujimaru Ritsuka' may be triggered]

[To 'Li Xiang': 1D100=89]

[To Shirou: 1D100=96]

The strange feeling coming from Ritsuka caught Athena's attention.

But Athena suppressed her curiosity for the time being.

Like some kind of dining ritual, Athena planned to use all her attention and strength to fight Shirou next.

She couldn't imagine how this young son would defeat her current self.

But for some reason—she had a strange feeling.

This young child may have the potential to create a miracle.

——Does he really have a way to win?
Athena was curious.

I even started to look forward to it.

She had a feeling this might not take long.

But before that, she still had some simple chores to take care of: specifically, whether or not to kill Olga Marie, and protect (imprison) her soul and Illya's soul, lest they have a chance to cause trouble in subsequent battles.

Should we take action?

If Shirou arrives late, will he be stimulated by the corpse? Will he be angry and exert a stronger power? ——Although for her, a god of death, as long as the soul is intact, resurrection is just a matter of reshaping the body and stuffing the soul into it.

Athena thought and waited.

——At the same time, in Chaldea

After some intense calculations, Roman came to a very serious conclusion.

Roman looked at Da Vinci. "According to our original plan, we should be able to win by playing the card of Erlang Shen against Athena, whose strength is limited by the size of her spiritual base, right?"

Roman said this with cold sweat on his forehead:

"But now the situation is not right! Athena is driving Typhon, and the overall combat power is infinitely close to the main god himself. If you want to compete with it, Shirou needs to use more and stronger power belonging to Erlang Shen.
However, can Shirou's body really withstand the 'Power of Erlang Shen' that is enough to compete with the Machine God?"

Leonardo's answer was straightforward: "Theoretically, it's impossible. But the good news in the bad news is that Athena, as the Greek 'god of victory and battle', doesn't seem to want to use hostages as a threat - taking hostages is only to avoid being disturbed in the subsequent battle.

So it’s great that the battle-crazed side has appeared. I remember that if it was the side of Minerva, she would be the kind of person who would be happy to use dirty tricks, right? "

Roman couldn't answer Leonardo's question.

Little Da Vinci suddenly mentioned something: "Speaking of which, if Athena kills everyone and she wins, then it will be easy to revive them afterwards, but what if she loses? After she loses, who will revive everyone?"

Roman was completely silent.

"Hmm." Da Vinci pondered for a moment and made up his mind: "If it really doesn't work, then I can only use my last backup method. Abandon most of Chaldea's facilities and possible rescue of the wounded. I will hand over the leadership to you, little Da Vinci, and then - I will go to the battlefield myself!"

Roman hesitated, he couldn't express his doubts: Do you think you have a chance of winning?

I can only pray
Now all we can do is pray.

Pray that Shirou will return in time.

I can only believe it.

Now all we can do is believe that Shirou has a way to win!
Roman prayed, his fingers subconsciously touching the ring hidden under his gloves - the ring he never took off his gloves even when he was busy at work.

Athena also made a judgment.

"Alas, it's too troublesome to think about these trivial things. After all, I'm not a devil. Then I'll just turn into stone statues and bury them."

that's it.

Except for Ritsuka who was already injured and was treated differently by Athena, Athena planned to petrify them all, including Aku Hinako.

The ability to petrify and the magical eyes that can petrify are the most common abilities of basilisks. Of course, Athena, the goddess of snakes, also has them.

So--

[Can Shirou get back to the battlefield in time?]

[1/9, Added a high-difficulty "Resurrection Match (Forging Zanpakutō)"]

[2/6, Ritsuka seems to have done something and passed directly]

[3. Now that things have come to this, the only thing left is... Da Vinci! Attack! ]

[4/5, Although I passed that, because the body's resurrection point is inside the 'egg', I still need to conduct a confrontation judgment (difficulty 75)]

[7. Shirou directly saved Olga Marie and Illya! ]

[8. It seems that someone else couldn't help but take action (Leif sneak attacks Athena)]

[10. Chaos Super Expansion]

[1D10=2 (Good!!!)]

Just as the God Machine Typhon released light, the bodies of Olga Marie, Aku Hinako, and Caster, who were closest to them, began to turn into stone statues.

After completing his training in the underworld, Shirou Emiya immediately rushed back to the battlefield of the decisive battle!
Shirou's body was trapped inside the dragon egg - these things couldn't stop him at all!

The moment Athena realized that Shirou's soul had returned!

"--open!"

A long roar!
The golden lightning shattered the dragon egg from the inside!
Shirou put on the 'Divine Mask - Erlang Shen' without any hesitation, almost without restraint, allowing the power of the god, who was said to be as powerful as Sun Wukong, to surge into his body!

Can your body hold up?
I command you to hold on!

If the body suffers backlash damage, then use the 'Sword Forging Method' to directly heal (repair) it back to its intact shape, destroyed hundreds of times in an instant?

Then repair them all at the same speed!

Regardless of the damage, Shirou moved at lightning speed, and the piercing thunder pierced the sky like the cries of tens of millions of birds!

In a flash, he arrived in front of Athena.

Goddess of the underworld? The embodiment of death?

This is the land of the East! It is not your turn to use the power of the Western God to cause trouble!
Shirou transformed his hands into lightning blades, and actually shattered the darkness with the power of thunder—directly severing the spirit snakes that were the embodiment of the power of death!

Athena was not angry but happy!
"That's it! You've come up with a new trick - but it's not enough! As a hero weapon, you are far from mature enough now! If you want to compete with me, you must exert the power of 'that hero god (Erlang Shen)' to a degree far beyond the limit of your body!
How long can you hold out—"

Athena's voice, which had been growing more and more excited due to her high will to fight, was suddenly cut off like a castrated rooster.

Custer, Akako, Olga Marie
One by one, in front of Athena, Shirou used the power of "Boy" from Veleslana's magic on them one by one, blessing them and removing the incomplete petrification from them!
Olga Marie was in a daze and hadn't reacted yet. Illya logged in again and said something: "Shirou, wait a minute! There's also my share as your sister!"

Then came 'Boy's Protection.jpg'

Athena in the cockpit was so angry that she bared her teeth: "What are you doing to ruin the atmosphere on this battlefield!?"

Shirou ignored Athena's complaints and put the reluctant Illya back underground.

Then, he looked at Athena in front of him, and looked at the divine machine 'Typhon the Disaster' in front of him.

".Rin taught me that the gods who are still active in human mythology today basically love humans and stand on the side of humans."

"It's just that the love of gods takes different forms. The love of the god of death is death, and the love of the god of war is fighting. The person being loved will feel heavy and even painful, but it's best not to anger the gods, especially the goddesses - goddesses are willful and extreme, because that's how they exist."

"In the past, I remember Rin's teachings. Sometimes I also felt that it was pitiful for the goddess who could not learn to endure and control her emotions like humans and always ran away uncontrollably. That's what I told myself."

"However, according to the agreement with Smoke Mirror, I must now fulfill my promise and not 'convince myself to be considerate', not suppress or convince myself, but directly express my thoughts and not subconsciously 'accommodate others'."

Although, Shirou didn't know what the meaning of this was, it was a promise after all.

Shirou stared at Athena in front of him with his usual clear, innocent eyes:

"You're so annoying. Could it be that because you're a virgin goddess, you don't have the opportunity to release that kind of energy, and you're overly repressed, causing you to become mentally abnormal? If that's the case, I suggest you go see a doctor. Among my friends, Shinji is good at using alchemy to treat diseases, and Kiara is good at psychological consultations - you can go find them."

Athena: "!!!????"

Shirou didn't mean any harm.

It's not intentional venom.

It's just about not "accommodating others" and speaking your mind more frankly.

Shirou really thought so.

at the same time--

[Shirou, who witnessed the 'Disaster Star Typhon', what do you think of its 'liking'? 】

[Because of the effect of 'Seeing Happiness', if Shirou's 'liking' for it exceeds 50, additional correction will be obtained in the subsequent projection of it]

【1D100=85】

There are many people around Shirou who like robots.

Miss Gamesh, Sakura, and Shinji all showed extraordinary interest in them.

Before this, Shirou had not looked at them with any special eyes, but simply regarded them as "things that Shinji and Sakura liked."

Occasionally when I see models of new products in stores, I just habitually think: This feels like a design that Shinji and Sakura would like - that's it.

She has never considered herself, or it is difficult for her to consider herself subjectively. She is too 'altruistic' - this is what Toosaka Rin always feels helpless about: "You are just not good at this, Shirou."

Whether altruism is good or bad is not the point.

For Shirou, he always subconsciously thinks from the perspective of "considering others", which makes Shirou himself very lacking in enthusiasm.

But it's not that Shirou is without passion.

In fact, he also showed excitement during the fierce battle, but he always habitually regarded it as the result of "imitating Miss Musashi".

Always neglecting myself.

Perhaps, this is the reason why Shirou has not been able to complete his inherent barrier.

Of course, the "treatment" of the smoke mirror cannot cure Shirou's illness all at once. After all, it is hard to say whether it can be considered a disease or not.

But now, Shirou has changed a little.

Looking at the divine machine in front of him, Sky Eye began to analyze it, to understand its working principle, the flow of energy in each circuit when it was operating, and the roaring sound of the engine with divine power.

The so-called "ideals" and "romance" of humans that reside in robot culture - to be honest, although Sakura, Shinji, and Miss Gamesh often talk about them.

Shirou still couldn't understand.

However, I feel like I can 'feel' it a little bit.

——If there is such a powerful force

If I had a power as strong as the Organic God, then I could defeat stronger enemies.

You can better protect the people around you!
How can the body withstand the "Power of Erlang Shen" to contend with the main god?
Isn’t the answer right in front of you!

Athena has given the answer!

Then, just copy the homework yourself!

"——Projection, start"

←to be continue!

(End of this chapter)