I am the protagonist

The key to Britain's destruction was the lack of a clear successor. If a clear successor had been identified, Britain would not have suffered such betrayal.

Is this considered a romantic comedy?

Kiritsugu Emiya was also somewhat confused by the change in atmosphere.

I just said that we shouldn't have any illusions about Heroic Spirits; those who have such thoughts are basically the ones who will never win the Holy Grail War.

Not long after he said that, his adopted son, who would appear ten years later, contradicted him.

[Should I now consider Saber as my daughter-in-law?]

Thinking about it this way, Kiritsugu Emiya felt like his thought process was about to explode, and he felt that the relationship was becoming more and more complicated.

"Cough cough!"

"Let's get to the point."

Faced with this serious situation, even Kiritsugu Emiya, who always maintained a cold expression, no longer knew how to keep his composure.

This was one of the few times he had shown such strong emotional fluctuations since Natalia's death.

"How exactly did you manage to arrive in this era from ten years in the future?"

"All I can say is that the Holy Grail is just a joke."

"We don't know exactly how we got back to this era. We're still thinking about how to get back to the future."

"Holy Grail..."

The reason for this was indeed no different from what Kiritsugu Emiya had imagined.

"Let me interrupt your thinking."

"The Holy Grail I was talking about isn't the Fuyuki City Holy Grail that's filled with filthy black mud."

I'm referring to the real Holy Grail.

"The Holy Grail containing the blood of Jesus?"

"I don't know if it's that one, but it was the appearance of that Holy Grail that brought us back to this era ten years ago."

"Furthermore, I'm wondering if it's because we've returned to this era that the Holy Grail from the Fifth Holy Grail War and the Greater Grail of Fuyuki City disappeared."

"...The Holy Grail has disappeared from Fuyuki City!?"

Kiritsugu Emiya suddenly stood up.

What happened during the Fifth Holy Grail War? Why did this happen?

The Fifth Holy Grail War takes place ten years later, but why did the Holy Grail War suddenly end?

The Holy Grail simply vanished without a trace?

Such a thing is practically unrealistic.

"Who knows."

"Perhaps it was because we returned to this era that the Holy Grail and the Greater Grail mysteriously disappeared."

"Ten years later, the Tohsaka family will only have Rin and Sakura left, and the Einzbern family will only have the older sister left. Only the old man from the Matou family will have the ability to tamper with the Holy Grail."

"However, I went to the Matou family to inquire not long ago, and the old man doesn't seem like the kind of person who would want the Holy Grail to disappear."

"As for Kirei Kotomine, I also had my doubts about him, but that man is not capable of accessing the Holy Grail, let alone causing it to disappear for no reason."

"Moreover, the Holy Grail disappeared just two days after the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War... Do you think this is normal?"

Kiritsugu Emiya gradually calmed down; this situation was indeed not normal.

He could believe that the Holy Grail was tampered with at the end of the Holy Grail War, but it was almost unrealistic to expect it to be manipulated every two days at the beginning of the Holy Grail War.

It might be possible if all the Heroic Spirits died in the first two days.

But looking at Saber beside his future adopted son, and at Caster whom he had just mentioned, he knew that the Heroic Spirits were not yet extinct.

So, what is going on?

Chapter 129 Kiritsugu Emiya Makes a Choice

"If it's not Einzbern, Matou, and Tohsaka, then making the Holy Grail disappear won't be an easy thing."

If the three starter families have all been eliminated, then there will be far fewer people who want to take action against the Holy Grail.

Foreign Masters wouldn't think of directly attacking the Holy Grail.

Kiritsugu Emiya had no idea who was behind it.

"The disappearance of the Holy Grail is neither a normal phenomenon nor a man-made one."

"I have observed the Holy Grail in the past and future and confirmed that its disappearance was instantaneous and not a deliberate act unless someone can block time."

"...Wait a minute, what you just said was about observing the past and the future?"

"You heard me right, I did say something about observing the past and the future. Is there a problem with that?"

This is definitely a big problem!

Kiritsugu Emiya was speechless. Why could such a thing be treated as something so ordinary?

"Why is observing the past and future considered normal? You must have completed the materialization of the third law of the soul."

"I did complete the materialization of the third law, but I never said I didn't have control over time."

"I have always held the power of time in my hands. Time suspension, time acceleration, and time deceleration are my specialties."

Isn't it normal to observe the past and future through the power of time?

Is this considered normal?

This can no longer be considered normal.

Emiya Kiritsugu was about to curse at the complete indifference of his future adopted son.

Time stop, time acceleration, and time deceleration are actually his specialties?

His magic only involved manipulating time within his body to accelerate and decelerate it; he never expected that his adopted son would use time to such an extent.

"So what's your guess?"

"In my judgment, perhaps there is a problem with cause and effect."

"The Holy Grail disappeared because the past was changed."

"Our arrival in this era ten years ago may be the reason for the change in the Holy Grail. Because we changed the past, the Holy Grail disappeared."

"If that's the case, then you must have achieved the final victory in this Holy Grail War by coming to this era, or you must have destroyed the Holy Grail."

Based on the current intelligence, we can determine the following two conclusions.

Regarding the cause-and-effect question from earlier, Kiritsugu Emiya felt it was highly likely.

Perhaps the topic of time travel causing causal problems is really abnormal, but if the facts are right in front of him, Kiritsugu Emiya would still believe it.

Because if we can only explain it through cause and effect, there is no other way to explain the sudden disappearance of the Holy Grail.

As for how cause and effect came about, the arrival of people from ten years later in this era is enough to explain the issue of cause and effect.

"However, since you have come to this era and changed everything in this era, the future will also change accordingly, if there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the two eras."

"Yes, I think this causal relationship should exist."

"The changes of this era led to the premature end of the Fifth Holy Grail War, and also left all the Heroic Spirits in the present world."

"If this cannot be described by cause and effect, then I cannot think of any other cause and effect relationship."

Emiya Kiritsugu now understood what his future adopted son meant.

He wanted to change everything in this era.

"If this era changes too much, your era will also undergo tremendous changes."

“If I were still alive, you might not have the surname Emiya.”

"Heh~ This is an interesting topic. I'm really curious to see just how strong the world's corrective power is."

"However, I believe that no matter how much this era changes, it won't change too much about what happened in our time."

"Just like the disappearance of the Holy Grail, if it really is all that we have done in this era, then our era had already begun to change before we came here."

"So I want to see what would happen if people who died in that era actually lived to the end."

Kiritsugu Emiya was truly terrified by this audacious idea.

But he also realized that his adopted son wanted him and Alice to live to ten years into the future.

The world after this world.

[I couldn't live to see ten years from now, and I couldn't even keep my promise to take Ilya away.]

[Really? In the end, I still can't do anything?]

Kiritsugu Emiya already understood whether the Holy Grail had any effect.

If that thing were truly useful, there wouldn't have been a Fifth Holy Grail War. If he had ultimately won, he would have wished for world peace.

But the world remains unchanged, which says it all.

The Holy Grail is not a magic wish-granting machine.

He has been deceived all along.

"...This time you want to win the Holy Grail War."

"No, you must win the Holy Grail War this time, because whether you win or lose this Holy Grail War may be related to whether you can return to ten years in the future."

"If you want to win, I can help you this time."

The Einzbern family is no longer bound by its constraints.

The wish in my heart is destined to remain unfulfilled.

Then it would be better to place all the bets on the adopted son ten years from now.

In the end, he accomplished nothing, so he decided to choose something he could do.

At the very least, we must keep Alice alive.

At the very least, he should be able to take Ilya away from the Einzbern castle.

He failed for half his life.

If you've devoted your ideals and aspirations to the first half of your life, then you should also consider your family in the second half.

【Kiritsugu...】

Irisviel is the one who understands Kiritsugu Emiya the most.

She knew that Kiritsugu's words meant he had completely given up on winning the Holy Grail War and would no longer have any thoughts of seizing the Holy Grail. Instead, he had focused all his attention on her and Illya.

However, Irisviel did not deny Kiritsugu's actions.

Knowing the future outcome already, the all-powerful wish-granting machine is nothing but a lie.

Now that we know it's a lie, we naturally need to discard it.

"However, the fragments of the Holy Grail in Alice and Ilya's bodies need to be removed."

These are the conditions.

"Of course, this is achievable, but we need to act in advance."

"Moreover, the Holy Grail needs a [container]. We need to destroy the Holy Grail, and we also need this container to materialize it."

"Fortunately, there was a murderous Master in the Fourth Holy Grail War, who was the best material to be used as a vessel."

"name."

"Uzumura Ryunosuke."

Chapter 130 The Fourth Holy Grail War is About to Begin

"Then let's go."

"Ah, I forgot about how we communicate."

Shirou took out a note from his body, on which some special runes were drawn.

"It's like a mobile phone; you can talk to the other side by infusing it with magic."