I am the protagonist

Realizing that something might have happened, Ilya began to be wary of the castle.

If no one else is in this castle besides her, then she is the only person in the castle outside Fuyuki City.

Ilya searched the entire castle but still couldn't find a single person.

No one noticed, but Ilya stopped in front of some traps.

"This is... a trigger trap?"

Ilya carefully examined the traps and discovered that they were not the kind of magic traps specifically set by magicians, but rather traps triggered by firearms.

"Who put this kind of thing in my castle?"

"Didn't that person know this was Einzbern's castle?"

Setting up a firearms-like trap in the location of a magician is the greatest desecration of a magician.

Ilya never set any kind of trap in her castle, nor did she need to.

But the fact that such a trap appeared in her own castle puzzled Ilya.

"There are traps in Einzbern's castle that I didn't know about..."

"Are they Liz and Sera?"

“No, even if Liz and Sera were to set up traps, they would set up traps for magic purposes, not this type of trap.”

Ilya was increasingly confused about what was going on.

I had just woken up from a dream, and everything around me seemed to have completely changed.

Sera and Liz, who took care of her daily life, disappeared.

The Berserker who had always protected her also disappeared.

There were even some unknown individuals who set up some rather crude traps in her castle.

Everything about it seemed eerie.

Everything that happened made Ilya feel like she was dreaming.

"!?"

A sudden surge of magical energy caused Ilya to retreat quickly.

“Saber?”

"Caster?"

The person who appeared from the magic circle was someone she knew.

The former is a Heroic Spirit summoned by Shirou, while the latter is a Heroic Spirit who recently moved into Shirou's house.

“Illya, Shirou sent us to pick you up.”

"what's going on?"

"I don't know. It all happened so suddenly, I don't know what happened yet. But Shirou said he'll take you there first and then investigate the rest of the matter slowly."

Ilya frowned and walked towards Saber.

Something also happened in her castle.

To be honest, Ilya didn't want to stay in the castle any longer, especially since things weren't clear yet.

The next moment, Illya saw Rin and Sakura sitting in the desolate environment, and Rider standing guard beside them.

"Rin, what exactly happened?"

Rin silently raised her left and right hands, and three Command Seals were clearly engraved on the back of her hands.

"I don't know the specifics of what happened either."

"Right now, Shirou is probably the only one who knows something about the situation, and when Sakura and I woke up from the white light, our Command Seals were re-engraved."

"I'm not sure what exactly happened."

Ilya glanced around. The room was filled with decay and dilapidation, completely unlike the previous Emiya residence.

Has this change also occurred here?

Are these changes related to the current situation?

What did Shirou find out?

"...Shirou."

Why didn't you let Saber go with Shirou?

"Shirou sent Saber and Caster to bring you back. He said the situation is uncertain, so your safety needs to be ensured first."

Ilya bit her lip hard.

One by one, one by one...

[Shirou is like that, his mother is like that, and even Kiritsugu is like that...]

“Saber, I’m here. Go back to Shirou’s side immediately.”

"no need."

"I'm back."

Chapter 115 We are the Masters who have wandered in.

Things have happened rather suddenly, and Shirou needs some time to process his thoughts.

It's nothing, it's just time flowing backwards.

[It must be the Holy Grail using its magic to send them back to the past from the future. Maybe the Holy Grail isn't an omnipotent wish-granting machine, but this kind of thing is still possible... Bullshit!]

[It's not an omnipotent wish-granting machine, so why can it reverse time?!]

If such a thing were truly possible, then the Holy Grail would be an omnipotent wish-granting machine!

[Wasn't the Holy Grail supposed to be useless?]

Why does the Holy Grail we're encountering this time possess such power?

After calmly analyzing the current situation, Shirou felt that the Holy Grail he was seeing was not the normal Holy Grail at all.

The Holy Grail in its normal form is not an omnipotent wish-granting machine; it can only do things within the scope of the given conditions.

However, turning back time by ten years is definitely not something that the Holy Grail can do normally.

In other words, besides the Holy Grail hidden in Fuyuki City, there is another Holy Grail that caused them to return to the past ten years ago.

It's even possible that the disappearance of the Greater Grail hidden in Fuyuki City was caused by that abnormal Grail.

But would they believe that?

No, what I need to do is make them believe.

Having composed himself, Shirou looked at the group of people in his home.

"Please remain calm and let me continue."

"Everyone knows about this strange change now, and they've all seen it with their own eyes. But what's happening now might be even more incredible than what they've seen."

"I just went out to check out the surrounding area. The first place I went to was Rin and Sakura's hometown."

"My original idea was to go and discuss the situation with Archer, to see if Archer knew anything about it."

"But when I got there, I found that... the area around Rin and Sakura's hometown was full of magical traps."

Rin and Sakura both felt something was strange at that moment.

"Shirou, are you sure you saw a lot of magical traps set up outside our house?"

"But I clearly remember that I didn't set up any magic traps outside my house."

The magician will take good care of his home.

A magician's home is his facade, so it's perfectly normal for him to use many magic traps to protect it.

However, Rin clearly remembered that she had not set up any magic traps around the house since she and Sakura moved out. Moreover, the Tohsaka family already had Archer in charge, so why would they need any magic traps?

Archers are far more ruthless than magic traps.

It should be said that Archer itself is the biggest magic trap.

"Sakura, did you do this?"

Sakura immediately shook her head in denial.

"It definitely wasn't me who did it."

"I don't need to set up those magical traps since Archer is still at home. What if Archer steps on them?"

That guy's a seasoned pro; do you think he'd fall for such a basic magic trap?

Despite her complaints, Rin believed that her sister would never set up such a trap in front of their house.

"Shirou, what you're talking about is related to what happened to us, isn't it?"

"Hmm... What I'm about to say is going to be very unusual, but just take it as the truth for now."

Rin and Sakura both became more serious; what Shirou was about to say would definitely surprise them.

“I saw a car drive into your house.”

"?"

“I saw a woman who looked a lot like you as adults get out of the car, and there was a middle-aged man with her.”

"??"

“I even saw you as children getting out of the car.”

"???"

Basically, every time Shirou says something, a question mark appears above Rin and Sakura's heads.

After saying everything, the two sisters were left with only question marks above their heads.

At this moment, the two sisters shared the same thought; combining what Shirou had just said about the "abnormality," they arrived at the same conclusion.

"We've gone back in time!?" *2

Shirou nodded in response to the two sisters' questioning gazes.

"If my eyes aren't blind, then I'm sure we've gone back to ten years ago."

"I don't know the exact time yet, but I'm sure it's on the eve of the Fourth Holy Grail War."

This topic brought everyone present to a silence.

Saber was one of the people who felt this most, after all, she was one of the Heroic Spirits summoned to fight in the Fourth Holy Grail War.

"Shirou, so we'll be participating in the Holy Grail War this time too?"

"Ah."

Shirou channeled his magical energy into his body, and the Command Seals etched all over his body came into everyone's view.

“This time I was also chosen as one of the Masters, and the Command Seals on Rin and Sakura’s hands say it all.”

"This is a war we absolutely must participate in."

Shirou is actually somewhat interested in participating in the Holy Grail War, but his goal is not the so-called Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail was of little use to him; something flawed like that, meant to fulfill wishes, was unlikely to be of any use.

Moreover, that kind of black mud, filled with desires that can completely ignite another self deep within the soul, is not a very friendly thing; once it is truly manifested, it will be a big problem.

Rin now understands just how troublesome this situation really is.

He has returned to the Fourth Holy Grail War and will participate in it in his current capacity.

The thought of standing against her father was already giving Rin a headache.

"Wait a minute."

"We're going to participate in this Holy Grail War? Will we replace the original Master or participate as an additional Master?"

Did their status as Masters cause the three Masters of the Fourth Holy Grail War to be replaced by three others, or were their identities simply random additions to the game?

This is a problem that Rin takes quite seriously, as it is indeed very important.