Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

With a gritted-teeth tone, Rin Tohsaka walked up the stairs from the side.

The school is not large, especially the teaching buildings. Although they can accommodate thousands of students, it is easy to run into people you know while walking around.

It's also very easy to overhear conversations among magicians in the school's corridors.

As a result, Shirou Emiya gained a lot of information about Earth at this school and learned a certain amount about what happened on Earth in this parallel universe.

However, his understanding was limited to the most basic level. Even in his own world, Shirou Emiya didn't have a deep understanding of things like the distribution of power and the international situation, let alone in parallel worlds.

Are you confident you can beat him?

Gawain, the White Knight of the Round Table. Also known as King Arthur's Shadow Warrior, the other one who wields the Holy Sword.

Just from his name, Shirou Emiya could sense just how troublesome he was.

Whether from legends or from the faint aura emanating from him, it was enough for Shirou Emiya to understand just how powerful he was.

"Hmph! If you don't even have this much courage, how can you be qualified to lift the Holy Grail? Besides, as a magician, I am much more powerful than Leo!"

Rin Tohsaka habitually put her hand on her ponytail and swung it back, looking in the direction Leo had left with an indomitable tone.

Chapter 549 Shinji Matou's Decision

After the incident with Leo, Shirou Emiya, following Rin Tohsaka's suggestion, went to the school library to look up some information about pirates.

While this may not necessarily confirm the woman's real name, it is at least a direction worth exploring.

And there he encountered Shinji Matou, who had been standing in the library for who knows how long.

He seemed to be deliberately standing at the library entrance, waiting for me to come in, as if he was always ready to mock me.

"Unfortunately, you're too late. I've already hidden information about that simple-minded, muscle-bound female pirate in the arena. There's absolutely no way you'll find her!"

"Go ahead and do your pointless, useless thing!"

Shinji Matou looked at Shirou Emiya, who had come to the library, with an expression of smugness and arrogance.

"You're a hundred years too early to fight me!!!"

With an extremely confident smile, Shinji Matou left the library.

Although his words seemed to reveal a lot of information, Shirou Emiya was indeed unable to find any information about his Servants.

Shinji Matou did more than simply hide the books about his Servants in the library.

He used some means to prevent the librarian from answering Shirou Emiya's questions.

The machine also seems to have malfunctioned and lost its search capabilities.

Shirou Emiya quickly lost his way.

As for why Shinji Matou chose to hide instead of destroy it, the hiding place was not in his own room.

Emiya Shirou casually picked up a book, and a crimson knight's sword appeared in his left hand. In an instant, flames burned the book in his hand to ashes.

However, the books that I had originally received reappeared on the bookshelf intact.

This is a data world. Although we don't know what methods Shinji Matou used, he probably has no way to really fight against Mooncell, which can create spiritual worlds. This information can only be concealed, not destroyed.

The reason they didn't bring them to their own residence was probably because it wasn't allowed.

Intelligence warfare is also an important part of the Holy Grail War.

Mooncell seems to have intentionally designed the library this way.

However, in such a short time, Shinji Matou probably couldn't have considered everything so thoroughly.

"Francis Drake?"

It took a considerable amount of time before Shirou Emiya finally settled on this name.

He had initially doubted that the cherry-haired woman's real name was Francis Drake, since historical records indicated that Francis Drake was a man.

However, he remembered that Mordred, whom he had encountered, was a woman, and it seemed that historical records about gender were not accurate, so Shirou Emiya quickly confirmed it.

Indeed, Shirou Emiya could not find any books about Francis Drake or any related works.

There was no way to find out which books Matou Shinji took by the librarian or the search machine.

But Shirou Emiya only needs to find a statistical book that records all the pirates in the entire pirate world.

List all the pirates who own their own ships.

Among them were famous ships and pirates.

Then, the information on those pirates was compared one by one with the detailed information and books in the library.

Apart from information on Francis Drake, information on other pirates is generally available, so it is easy to determine that Matou Shinji's Servant should be Francis Drake.

Emiya Shirou never expected that he could obtain Matou Shinji's true name so easily.

If it weren't for Shinji Matou's unnecessary actions, it would have been quite difficult to connect the cherry-haired woman with Francis Drake.

Just as a normal person wouldn't think King Arthur was a woman.

At first, Shirou Emiya divided the pirates into male and female pirates, but he found that there was no information about the cherry-haired woman among the female pirates.

Only after considering Mordred's problem and including male pirates among them did they finally find the true name of Matou Shinji's servant.

However, Shirou Emiya only received Francis Drake's real name.

He didn't know much about the man who first set the record for circumnavigating the globe alive.

Because Magellan is significantly more famous than her, and the history books she studied often mentioned Magellan, not Francis Drake.

History books generally only take up a small portion of the page; if you want to learn more about history, you have to go to the library.

As for Shirou Emiya, he mainly knows about King Arthur and some stories from mythology.

After all, Shirou Emiya spends most of his time in other worlds, and when he returns to Fuyuki City, he is caught up in an academic crisis, leaving him little time to look up information.

There is so much history in the world. Textbooks only give you a superficial account of it. To truly understand it, you have to explore other avenues.

"So, if I really want to understand Francis Drake in such detail, I still have to go to the arena?"

With that, Shirou Emiya left the library and looked toward the arena.

Shinji Matou seemed to have already headed towards the arena.

"They might be setting a trap for this—"

This is something Shirou Emiya can be absolutely certain of.

If one didn't already know something about Francis Drake, obtaining information about her would require taking this risk.

The second key had been generated for some time by this point.

There are only two days left until the final battle.

Whether it's to obtain the key to the final battle arena or to obtain information about Shinji Matou's servant, Shirou Emiya needs to make a trip to the arena.

A second conflict is likely imminent.

Moreover, it was a completely predictable conflict.

However, instead of confronting the trap head-on, Shirou Emiya thought of a better way to obtain this information from Shinji Matou.

But all of this depends on finding the location where Shinji Matou hid that information.

Once again, Shirou Emiya arrived at the arena called the Sea of ​​Ichinozuki.

The evil spirits enveloped his entire body the moment he stepped into the arena.

Their figures quickly disappeared.

A rapier shaped like a cross appeared in Shirou Emiya's hand, though it didn't possess the almost magical ability to grant wishes like Amane Shinomiya.

It is even far inferior.

However, it can also influence one's own "luck," making things go more smoothly for oneself.

If we were to express this numerically, it would be to change Shirou Emiya's Luck from E to Luck from A+.

Of course, Shirou Emiya had no idea what exactly his luck had changed.

He only understood that holding this sword in his hand could save him from a lot of meaningless things that depended on luck.

For example, when looking for directions or things, Shirou Emiya usually chooses to project this weapon.

With the discovery of the second key, Shirou Emiya also found the wooden box hidden in the canyon.

And treasures scattered throughout the island.

These treasures were not there when he first came to the arena.

It seems as if it was generated in the arena through some kind of method.

Chapter 550 Starting from Another Perspective

"Pseudo-Spiral Sword (Caladbolg II) —!"

As a deep voice echoed from above, Shirou Emiya, clad in a red cloak, slowly emerged from the cliff face, bathed in azure light.

With those words, the sound of a bowstring being taut was heard in front of Shirou Emiya.

That was the sound of a golden bow being drawn with remarkable steadiness.

Under this sky where only seagulls cry, only one sound can be heard.

"call out--!"

The arrow shot out brought with it a violent hurricane that reverberated, tearing through the air and the sea breeze, transforming into a silver lightning bolt that hurtled down.

"boom--!"

The arrow, unsurprisingly, struck the wooden crate hidden in the canyon along the coast.

The immense impact instantly destroyed the entire wooden crate.

A large number of books spilled out of the wooden crate.