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"Ilya, I'm alright."

Kiritsugu Emiya's voice came from behind. Illya quickly looked over and saw that Kiritsugu Emiya was being held by a hooded man with one hand, who was greeting her awkwardly.

"Kiritsugu, you idiot! How dare you lie to me!"

Illya felt she had been tricked; Kiritsugu Emiya hadn't been hit at all. She pointed her little hand at Kiritsugu Emiya.

"Berserker, beat him up!"

The Berserker, who had just been feeling aggrieved, immediately became excited again after hearing Ilya's order and prepared to beat someone up.

"Alright, Ilya, stop fooling around."

Li Yue, who was carrying Kiritsugu Emiya, spoke, using the same voice as Kiritsugu Emiya.

Li Yue casually tossed Kiritsugu aside and took off his hood.

"We're here to save you, don't let Hercules waste any more time."

"You are...."

Ilya was startled by Li Yue's face.

"I am Emiya Kiritsugu."

"Wait, you're Kiritsugu, then who is he?"

"He is also Emiya Kiritsugu."

Ilya stared blankly at the two Kiritsugu in front of her. One had fair skin but black hair, while the other had dark skin but sparse hair. What a strange black and white combination.

"What's going on? There are...two Kiritsugu?"

"Alright, Ilya, things are a bit complicated."

Kiritsugu Emiya got up from the ground. Just as he was about to be hit by Berserker's hammer, Li Yue appeared and saved him. Otherwise, he would have been killed by Berserker's punch.

Brushing the dust off his clothes, Kiritsugu Emiya walked up to Illya.

"Anyway, let's go inside the castle first."

337. The Truth of the Holy Grail War

As everyone entered the Einzbern family's castle, Li Yue, the [Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu], began to recount information related to this world line.

This world is the Fifth Holy Grail War. Compared to the previous four Holy Grail Wars, the Fifth Holy Grail War is very special because this Holy Grail War is only ten years apart from the last one, completely overturning the rule that the Greater Grail can only gather enough magic power to carry out the Holy Grail War every sixty years.

Because it was relatively close to the last Holy Grail War, a lot of information was preserved. For example, Kirei Kotomine retained almost all the information from the last Holy Grail War. Moreover, the ten years had passed, and he had not died at all. This is why he was able to easily control everything behind the scenes.

If Kiritsugu Emiya were to live to the Fifth Shinobi World War, he could naturally preserve all the information related to the Fourth Shinobi World War.

And the character played by Li Yue, Kiritsugu, is exactly that kind of role.

"The Greater Grail has been corrupted? And it was already corrupted during the Third Holy Grail War!"

"The Fourth Holy Grail War?"

Rin Tohsaka looked at Li Yue, anticipating her answer.

"That's right. There was no winner in the Fourth Holy Grail War because the Holy Grail had been corrupted. So it was useless no matter who became the final victor. Not only was it useless, it could even cause disaster."

"Wait, I don't remember it being like this."

Saber objected, refuting Li Yue's words. She believed Li Yue because she wanted to fulfill her wish and save Great Britain, so the Holy Grail was her last resort, and she was unwilling and unable to allow it to malfunction.

"During the Fourth Holy Grail War, I saw the Holy Grail descend, but I didn't see any contamination whatsoever."

"That's because you had already returned to the Throne of Heroes before the Holy Grail was corrupted."

Li Yue certainly knew why Saber said that, because during the Fourth Holy Grail War, she was still alive at the moment the Holy Grail descended, and she watched the Holy Grail descend with Gilgamesh. However, as soon as the Holy Grail landed, Kiritsugu Emiya suddenly jumped out and used a Command Spell to order her to use her Noble Phantasm to destroy the Holy Grail. She was very confused and angry at the time, and used all her strength to resist the power of the Command Spell, but Kiritsugu Emiya immediately added another Command Spell.

Saber was unable to resist the power of the two Command Seals, so she used her Noble Phantasm, the Excalibur, to cleave the Holy Grail in two. This is why she wanted to kill Kiritsugu Emiya the moment she appeared. In her mind, the Holy Grail was right in front of her, and she would soon be able to fulfill her wish. But her hope was destroyed by Kiritsugu Emiya, so how could she not be furious?

After the Holy Grail was removed, she returned to the Throne of Heroes due to the loss of her magical power supply, while Gilgamesh was swallowed by the black mud that flowed out of the Holy Grail, gaining a physical body and thus being able to exist in reality.

"Impossible. The Holy Grail had already been fully revealed at that time, and wishes could even be made."

"Make a wish, of course you can make a wish with the Holy Grail, but as soon as you make a wish, disaster will befall you."

What kind of disaster will it cause?

Emiya Shirou was very curious.

"The Holy Grail will still grant your wishes, but the way it grants your wishes will be completely different from what you imagine."

Li Yue looked at Emiya Shirou.

"For example, if you want to become the strongest human in the world, then the Holy Grail will kill everyone stronger than you, and you will become the strongest human."

"What?! This isn't what you call granting wishes, it's just a massacre!"

Emiya Shirou slammed his fist on the table and cried out in surprise.

"But your wish has indeed come true, hasn't it? You have become the strongest human in this world. Hasn't that wish been fulfilled?"

Li Yue smiled and asked in return, which stunned Emiya Shirou.

"Or, if someone wishes for world peace, the Holy Grail will determine that there can be no peace as long as there are people, and thus the Holy Grail will choose to kill all of humanity."

Li Yue looked at Emiya Kiritsugu as she spoke.

Upon hearing Li Yue's words, Emiya Kiritsugu immediately understood that she was speaking to him. Recalling his own wish for world peace, he realized that if he had actually made that wish, he would have become a sinner to the entire world!

The lingering fear made him swallow hard.

"As for Saber's goal of saving Great Britain, I don't know exactly how the Holy Grail will achieve it, but it will probably do so in the most malicious way you can imagine, if you can accept that."

Saber shook his head repeatedly after hearing this.

"No, I absolutely will not accept this way of achieving it!"

"So, this is what the Holy Grail is now."

"Wait, if the Holy Grail has already become like this, then the Holy Grail War has already begun. What if the Holy Grail descends?"

Rin Tohsaka couldn't help but ask.

"And how did you handle the last Holy Grail War?"

“Last time, Kiritsugu Emiya used a Command Spell to order me to use my Noble Phantasm to destroy the Holy Grail.”

Saber provided the answer.

"Use a Noble Phantasm to destroy the Holy Grail?"

Rin Tohsaka never expected things to turn out this way.

Li Yue immediately followed up with additional information.

"The result was that the Holy Grail was indeed destroyed, but only the Lesser Grail was destroyed. The Greater Grail behind it continued to operate, and darkness descended from the Holy Grail, causing a great fire in Fuyuki City."

"Wait, could it be that the fire in Fuyuki City ten years ago was...!"

"That's right. That fire was caused by the previous Holy Grail War, or more precisely, by the darkness within the final Greater Grail."

Li Yue nodded in affirmation.

"That's actually the case."

Shirou Emiya clenched his fists. He had become an orphan in that fire and was then adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya. He never imagined that it was all because of the Holy Grail.

"So what should we do this time? Are we going to start another big fire?"

"No, we won't do that again this time. Last time I didn't know how to stop the Holy Grail, so I tried to destroy it in the fastest way possible. Now I know how to stop the Holy Grail."

As Li Yue spoke, she looked at Kiritsugu Emiya, who immediately nodded.

"That's right, we've already mastered the ability to dismantle the Greater Grail. We can just go to where the Greater Grail is, dismantle it, and that will end everything."

Kiritsugu Emiya had personally witnessed Li Yue resolve the Greater Grail; having resolved it in that world, he could naturally resolve it in this one as well.

"So, now there are only two things left to do."

"Which two?"

Faced with everyone's questions, Li Yue spoke calmly.

"Separate the Lesser Grail from Illya's body, and then go and deal with the Archer who has survived since the last Holy Grail War, the Hero King Gilgamesh!"

338. The Truth Behind Tokiomi Tohsaka's Death

"It's unbelievable! That guy has been here all along and hasn't gone back to the Throne of Heroes!"

"Because of the Holy Grail, he was corrupted by it and obtained his own physical body from its power. Therefore, he does not need his master to provide magic power and can continue to exist in this world."

"Damn it, that guy, who is my father's servant, was here the whole time and didn't even tell me!"

Rin Tohsaka was very annoyed that Gilgamesh had been around all along but hadn't come to tell her.

"Of course he can't tell you, because it was he who instigated Kirei Kotomine to kill your father, making a magician's student kill that magician in return. What an interesting thing! If I told you, wouldn't that be boring?"

"What did you say!?"

Rin Tohsaka stared blankly at Li Yue.

"It's normal that Kirei Kotomine didn't tell you, after all, he killed your father, and did it at Archer's instigation."

"How could that be? He's Dad's disciple!"

"It's precisely because he's your father's disciple that he would do such a thing."

Li Yue recalled the reason why Kirei Kotomine killed Tokiomi Tohsaka.

"Kirei Kotomine is an empty-hearted person. He has no pursuit of his own, so he was taken in as a disciple by your father because he had no ideas of his own. Tokiomi Tohsaka took advantage of this, making him focus on being his disciple and assistant, helping him win his Holy Grail War. However, on the first day of the Holy Grail War, he offended Archer."

"What do you mean by offending Archer? Isn't Archer my father's servant?"

Rin Tohsaka didn't quite understand. According to Tokiomi Tohsaka's teachings, a Servant is a magician's follower, someone who obeys the magician's orders. What did it mean to offend?

"Heroic spirits vary from person to person. Some heroic spirits have their own pride. For example, the Archer that your father summoned is Gilgamesh, who claims to be the oldest king. He was once a very famous tyrant. As a tyrant and a king, he cannot tolerate being ordered by a human magician."

"So Gilgamesh set his sights on Kirei Kotomine. At the time, Kirei Kotomine was lost and empty inside, without any pursuit of his own. He only followed the orders of others. So Archer gave him a direction, which was to pursue pleasure."

"Pleasure?"

“That’s right, it’s pleasure. Archer even deliberately guided him to do those unconventional things to obtain the emotion of pleasure, such as betraying your father, his teacher.”

"After he made Kirei Kotomine accept the short sword that Tokiomi Tohsaka had given him, he immediately turned around and killed Tokiomi Tohsaka with the short sword."