Or, why don’t you find another savior?

The Magic King's words were full of sarcasm:

"Master of Chaldea, who has left the kingdom of death, why do you still want to fight? You already know that life will eventually die, and you know that life has already disappeared, so why do you still shamelessly live on? You know clearly that there is no salvation for the future of mankind--"

“Even so…” Sweat oozed from Shiomi’s forehead, sliding down his nose and onto his cheeks. “What’s wrong with humans wanting to live?”

He used all his strength to roar out his rebuttal hoarsely.

Because she understands the concept of death firsthand, Shiomi knows the preciousness of life, and therefore wants to do everything she can to make a flower bloom, a tree grow, and a fruit ripen in that place.

"Is this your answer? It is indeed powerful, but it is not important." Solomon raised his hand and threw Sakura seven or eight meters away.

The Magic King ignored her as she rolled on the ground and just looked at Shiomi who was pushed to her limit.

The left hand covered with rings raised: "As an honor, I will add four more light bands to grant you death."

The light band suddenly expanded, and Shiomi could no longer resist. The light band that penetrated his magic power was like a sharp spear, suddenly piercing Shiomi's heart, leaving a smooth round hole.

The two colliding magical powers also reached their limits at the same moment and broke apart.

"As expected, the original rune was activated at the moment of death set in the heart." Solomon waved his hand gently, "But now even this rune has been destroyed by me."

Blood oozed from the corners of Shiomi's mouth. His body gradually lost strength and he was flipped over by the wind pressure like a puppet. He rolled on the ground for several times before stopping.

The eyes that were not closed gradually lost their light and became empty, turning into a complete corpse.

Blood gradually pooled beneath his body.

"father!"

Ying stumbled to her feet and threw herself beside Shiomi, but what she touched was a body that only had residual warmth, no longer having a heartbeat or breathing. She immediately burst into tears.

Death was inevitable for a magus, but Sakura had never imagined that this would be the way she saw her beloved family pass away.

She instinctively grabbed her wand and pointed it at Solomon to perform a magic trick, but she saw the man turning and walking away.

"Then I'll go back. I really wasted a lot more time than I expected."

"You've been looking down on us since the beginning, haven't you?" Mordred struggled to ask.

The Magic King stopped walking but did not turn back. "I don't care about you at all. It doesn't matter if I kill you now or let you live. Only that man must be eliminated by me personally. Do you understand? You are not worth my attention at all. But... well, but, if you can eliminate all seven singularities..."

He finally tilted his head slightly, with a confident and arrogant smile on his face: "Then, I will consider you as 'an incident worth solving'."

As Solomon spoke, the space in front of the Holy Grail suddenly distorted, and then his figure disappeared.

From the beginning to the end, he didn't take Sakura's strength seriously at all. He just raised his finger to force Shiomi to give up resistance and not waste his time.

"Sakura! What happened?! How come Shiomi's life activities have stopped?!"

In that brief moment just now, Chaldea's communications were completely blocked, and it was impossible to know what was happening here. Romani exclaimed again.

"Dad he...Dad he..."

Sakura knelt on the ground, bent down and buried her head in Shiomi's chest, sobbing intermittently.

"Master..."

With the departure of the Magic King, the instability of the Holy Grail Hollow completely disappeared. The unstable state of the spiritual base began to subside, and Mordred and Altria, who had barely gotten up, walked towards the two.

Nothing could be more damaging to their pride than seeing their Master die in battle right before their eyes.

"Wait a minute...what's going on? Shiomi's vital signs didn't disappear? No, they reappeared!" Romani was so shocked by the series of unexpected situations that he couldn't calm down.

Sakura suddenly raised her head and looked at Shiomi who was lying on the ground.

At some point, the hole in his chest had disappeared, and only the torn combat uniform proved that the previous scene was not an illusion.

"Huh?" Sakura began to be unable to understand the change in the current situation.

She felt Shiomi's heart start to beat again, and her hand, which had fallen to the ground with its powerless opening, suddenly moved its fingertips lightly twice.

This change did not escape the eyes of the two servants, and they were equally shocked.

The pair of eyes that had lost their luster began to be lit up by life again, and then, a sharp breath was heard, scaring Sakura so much that she could not move.

Xi Jian suddenly coughed, and a mouthful of blood that he couldn't spit out was spat out onto the ground at the side.

"Haah...haah..."

He struggled to sit up, holding his chest. Even he was shocked by the result and gasped for breath.

"Dad...are you okay?" Sakura asked blankly.

"Just barely alive." Xi Jian responded hesitantly. He was still thinking about his own changes.

But Sakura threw herself into his arms, sobbing uncontrollably.

He suppressed the remaining doubts in his heart and stroked Ying's hair to comfort her: "I'm sorry to have made you worry..."

At this time, Mordred wanted to pat Shiomi's shoulder hard, but his hand stopped halfway and he retracted his strength and just pushed his shoulder as a gesture.

"Really? You should have told me earlier about this magic that can bring the dead back to life. It made me break out in a cold sweat." Mordred also found it magical, but that was all he could think of.

Altria looked at Shiomi without saying a word.

That's not a magic trick to bring the dead back to life.

Because what the Magic King said was true, he did find the original rune that Shiomi had prepared in advance to deal with fatal injuries, and easily destroyed Shiomi's heart. After confirming that Shiomi was completely dead, he turned and left.

To this end, he even used Shiomi's weakness as a bargaining chip.

But even so, the Magic King's eyes could not see through Shiomi's true nature.

"My husband, how is the situation now?" Morgan's voice still sounded calm, as if she knew from the beginning that Xiomi would not die so easily.

"Everything went well. The Servant who claimed to be the Magic King has left. Once we have rested here, we will start recovering the Holy Grail and complete the repair work of the singularity." Shiomi reported.

Romani let out a long sigh and seemed to be wiping his sweat. "No, I'm fine. Take a rest first. I'll start preparing for the transfer of your spirit particles back here."

"Well, please."

Shiomi gently hugged Sakura, letting her stop sobbing and act coquettishly for a while longer.

Chapter 36 Return

With the Magic King's retreat, there was no longer anyone who could stop Chaldea from retrieving the Holy Grail.

He could have gotten rid of Sakura and the others as well, but that man did nothing.

The disregard and contempt were not concealed at all, as if telling the surviving Chaldea that it didn't matter at all even if the Holy Grail in the London singularity was recovered.

"Tsk... This is so frustrating. I recovered the Holy Grail, but I feel sick all over." said Mordred.

Sakura looked at the stopped Holy Grail ritual and the crystallized Holy Grail that was easy to carry. "After killing my father, the Magic King said that although we are still alive, we are nothing to him. Unless we can recover all the Holy Grails in the seven singularities, then he will regard Chaldea as a problem that must be solved."

"How much do you want to underestimate people?" Mordred said this, and suddenly remembered, "Wait a minute, in the previous Holy Grail War, wasn't Caster the bastard Magic King?"

The previous scene was so intense that Mordred had no time to recall this.

Despite the fact that, until the end of the Holy Grail War, neither Sakura nor Mordred had ever met Caster in person.

"I don't know what's going on..." Sakura shook her head.

In fact, Shiomi never told anyone the true origins of Romani Achiman.

"No matter what, there is no doubt that he carried out the act of burning humanity in the name of the Magic King." After Shiomi and Chaldea confirmed the specific time of the soul particle transfer, he stood up and answered Mordred, "So stopping him has become something that we in Chaldea must accomplish, and it can only be accomplished by us, the remaining humans."

According to monitoring from Chaldea, the magic fog in London has begun to dissipate, and the singularity will begin to repair itself due to the loss of the Holy Grail.

"Well said, Master's father!" Mordred patted Shiomi's shoulder, "The only ones who can decide the fate of mankind are the humans living in that era! Right!"

At this point, she was a little unwilling: "Originally, I wanted to go with you. But I was summoned by the singularity or the restraining force. Now the singularity is almost gone, and I have no place to rely on."

Because she was not a Servant summoned by Chaldea's Heroic Spirit Summoning System, she was unable to perform a spirit transfer and returned to Chaldea with the two of them.

"Maybe there will be such a situation in the future. As the servant with the closest relationship to us, or to Sakura, the next singularity may appear for other reasons." Shiomi joked.

Mordred laughed heartily: "Oh! If you meet me again next time, even if I don't know you, just ask me for help!"

Her voice suddenly dropped so low that only she could hear it: "Besides... I am also very happy to be able to act with my father this time..."

Sakura, who didn't hear anything, wanted to ask what was said, but Mordred covered it up and told her not to ask, as it was embarrassing.

At this time, Shiomi glanced at Altria who had been looking at the remaining base of the Holy Grail ceremony.

"It's almost time to say goodbye. Although I just encountered a little trouble, thanks for your help." Xi Jian still thanked him.

"I didn't do anything. The Magic King appeared in this singularity from the very beginning in order to kill you or subdue you." Altria suddenly pointed out a fact.

"...I didn't expect that I would be so grand and make the mastermind behind the scenes come out in person to surrender." Xi Jian was also helpless.

"Perhaps in the future seen by the Magic King, you will become the key factor that hinders him." Altria continued, "Be sure to be careful."

"Yeah." Xijian nodded.

He would discuss this in more depth when he returned, including his own abnormal situation.

There was no way the Magic King would target him without a reason.

But the fact that he came from the Land of Shadows and inherited the original rune is not enough evidence.

"Also, as my sister Morgan said, I manifested in this form to fight against the erosion of the Holy Lance." Altria's face remained expressionless, but her eyes were very serious. "Everyone must pay attention. In other singularities, perhaps..."

"Maybe?"

"No, it's nothing, just unfounded speculation," Altria denied.

Her and Mordred's bodies began to glow and turn opaque.

The retreat of the Servants from the singularity has begun.

Shiomi and Sakura once again thanked the two Servants who had worked with them during this short period of time.

By the time they had completely retreated, Chaldea's spirit particle transfer was ready.

Prove the existence of both people and then receive it.

After a brief interruption in consciousness, when they opened their eyes again, they saw the basket in which the spirit particles were transferred, and Morgan standing outside the basket.

Behind her was Romani, who was dragged over by Leonardo da Vinci and looked frustrated.

"The soul particle transfer was completed safely." Morgan said, looking at Shiomi's chest.

Despite this, the damaged combat suit was not brought back, and the Master would transform into a spirit particle when traveling between the London singularity and Chaldea.

During this process, as long as there is no essential change in the entity, the proof of existence will not be wrong, but on the contrary, if there is a change, many problems will arise in the proof of existence.

As for the damage to the combat uniform, it is not a minor detail that needs to be paid attention to.

"It seems that Sakura and I are the fastest group." Shiomi said.

"But this is also the most troublesome group..." Romani sighed, "Originally, I should have executed the forced soul transfer faster, but the impact was too great and you almost..."

Or rather, he was really dead.

Romani did not think that it was Chaldea's equipment that was obstructed, which led to a brief loss of intelligence.

—Even though that’s how Morgan explained it.

"After all, the mastermind behind this is so generous that he actually came to eliminate me personally." Xi Jian looked relaxed. "But I have a lot of things to discuss about the singularity repair work this time. How about holding a small meeting in the conference room in twelve hours, Dr. Roman?"

"Eh?" Romani was stunned for a moment and put down his hand on the back of his neck.

"The only ones participating are me, Morgan, and you." Shiomi said, and looked at the tired Sakura, "Sakura, take a rest first. When you recover, come to the control room and help everyone support the others who are still in the first and second singularities."

Leonardo da Vinci was still a little puzzled by this special attendee, but Romani already knew it.

"I understand. See you in the conference room in twelve hours."

Chapter 37 Of Solomon, Romani says...

In Chaldea, there is a conference room that is used exclusively by the director for rare meetings at the department manager level.

The place where Shiomi and Romani agreed to meet was in that conference room.

"Oh, I didn't expect it to be here... I hope the director won't be angry when he finds out?" Romani said as he sat down.

Shiomi shrugged. "It's okay. If she asks about it later, just say it was my decision. Also, what's the situation at the first and second singularities? Are there any anomalies?"

"No problem. Although their efficiency is not as high as yours, everything is going well..." Romani said with a smile, but his smile gradually faded as he spoke.

"Considering the appearance of the Demon God Barbatos in the Fourth Singularity and the appearance of the Crown Servant who calls himself the Magic King, I think it is necessary to pay attention to the First and Second Singularities which are still in the process of repair. That man said that the Demon Pillars were dropped as anchors in every era, and there may be Demon Pillars in other singularities as well." Shiomi said.

"Well, we have already taken this possibility into account in our response strategy. Once a similar situation occurs, if the danger is too great, forced evacuation will be prioritized," Romani said.