"Hehehe! Little girl, you're still too green to be Saber's master. I'm the most suitable person to be her master!"
Medea stroked her cheek with her right hand, her eyes fixed on the elegant blonde girl in the picture.
She opened her computer and ordered some raw materials for making clothes from an online store; she already had a new idea.
Compared to Shirou Emiya, who juggles multiple relationships at Carnival Phantasm, Medea prefers the weak Shirou Emiya here.
"Kid, as long as you know what's good for you and give me the Command Seals willingly, I won't harm you."
She doesn't enjoy indiscriminately killing innocent people, provided she hasn't entered her dark mode.
14 Enjoy yourself, young man!
Emiya Shirou changed into clean clothes, carefully placed the gem pendant left by his savior into the cabinet, and walked towards the temple with Saber and Rin Tohsaka.
Artoria, wearing a raincoat, stood at the entrance of the sanctuary church waiting for Shirou Emiya to come out.
At the same time, she had to be on guard of her surroundings outside the door.
I wonder if that Gold Pikachu, who's got some mental issues and talks nonsense, has appeared in this Holy Grail War.
After she destroyed the Holy Grail, she vanished into the annals of human history.
This time, I must obtain the Holy Grail and return to Britain with the improved hybrid rice and potatoes developed through pan-human history...
She never imagined that so many amazing things, such as the miraculous seeds that could save countless people from hunger, had appeared in the pan-human history.
"Tohsaka, what kind of person is Father Tohsaka?"
“He was originally my father’s student… After my father passed away, he became my guardian. So he is both my senior fellow student and my second master.”
"So, does that mean the priest is also a magician?"
"Yes. He's a genuine imposter priest."
The church rejects heresy, and its members are forbidden from using any incantations other than baptismal chants.
"Heh! You really brought a strange guest." Kirei Kotomine, facing the cross, wore his signature cheerful smile, his dark, lifeless eyes fixed on the boy and Rin Tohsaka before him.
"Is he the seventh Master, Rin?"
The dimly lit church was bathed in only a few rays of moonlight, and although it was a place to pray to God, it exuded a sinister atmosphere.
*I am Kirei Kotomine. What is your name? The seventh master.*
"Emiya Shirou".
“Emiya…” Emiya, is that Emiya? Kirei Kotomine smiled happily. What a wonderful coincidence. “Hehehe… Emiya Shirou. You are Saber’s master, right?”
Hearing the priest's laughter, Shirou Emiya felt a chill run down his spine. "Indeed, I have made a contract with Saber."
"But to be honest, I don't understand anything about Masters or the Holy Grail War. If only orthodox magicians can become Masters, then it's better to choose a different Master."
Upon hearing this, Rin Tohsaka nodded slightly. This was the result she wanted. Let Emiya withdraw from the Holy Grail War here and stay in the church until the Holy Grail War ends.
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Type-Moon Zero timeline.
The Tohsaka residence was brightly lit.
"I...I really am dead in the future." Upon learning of his own death again, Tokiomi Tohsaka was utterly devastated, his eyes trembling. Even now, he didn't know why...
What died?
He really didn't want to die and wanted to know the cause of his death beforehand.
No, that magician didn't cherish his life and didn't want to live. Only by living could he have a chance to reach the source.
"My disciple Kirei, you have truly taken good care of the Tohsaka family after my death... But why did my wife also pass away? Was it because my death caused her too much grief?"
Tokiomi Tohsaka locked himself in his room, muttering to himself.
Aoi Tohsaka held Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Tohsaka tightly in her arms. In the other worlds, she hadn't been able to raise her daughter, leaving her all alone from a young age...
Rin and Sakura Tohsaka clung to their mother in fear.
"Mother, Father, you will be alright...! Sakura and I will protect you!"
Rin Tohsaka patted her chest, tears welling in her eyes. She was determined to avoid the past, whether it happened in the future or in another timeline.
She refused to believe that she couldn't help her father and mother avoid death.
"..." Gilgamesh watched this scene speechlessly, then dispelled his spirit form and appeared beside Rin Tohsaka, applying a buff to her forehead.
"Rin, are you looking down on me? With my protection, who in this world can harm you? Stop thinking about such pointless things, hurry up and come with me!"
Gilgamesh, dressed in a cool set of beach shorts and a floral shirt, opened the gate to the bunny girl Artoria's casino.
"I'm going to have a showdown with the casino owner, so the job of exchanging the chips is up to you!"
He pulled young Rin Tohsaka directly into the portal, appearing at the Casino Singularity.
Rin Tohsaka and Gilgamesh swiftly appeared inside the Camelot Casino through the azure world portal.
The main body of the Camelot Casino is made of snow-white marble.
Pushing open the casino doors, the magnificent casino lobby comes into view.
Young Rin Tohsaka stared wide-eyed, curiously looking left and right at the table where dice were thrown, and at a middle-aged man playing cards with his eyes closed. The sounds of disappointment and ecstatic gambler shouts echoed in her ears.
This place is like a battlefield, only the way of fighting is a bit different.
Artoria Pendragon, dressed in a snow-white bunny girl outfit, stood on the top-floor stands overlooking the lively atmosphere below, and spotted that annoying Gilgamesh.
"This guy's coming to throw money away again?? Wasn't the lesson he learned last time enough?"
Gilgamesh was no match for her gambling skills; had it not been for the Gate of Babylon, he would have been tied up and displayed on a chandelier by now.
Type-Moon AP, Amakusa Shirou's timeline.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Semiramis looked into Kirei Kotomine's eyes, sensing the cunning aura emanating from him. "Heh heh! Your sworn brother is no ordinary person. He might just be the mastermind behind this whole incident."
"The ridiculous Holy Church claims to eradicate heresy, yet it allows the Holy Grail War to be held in a major city?"
She shook her head; the hypocritical Holy Church disgusted her.
She stood up and stroked Amakusa Shiro's cheek. "Don't think about saving humanity. Find a way to increase your own power. Even Lelouch, who conquered the world, couldn't save all of humanity. Saving is not an effective way to save the human race."
*Yes, now the only way to increase our power is with the Greater Grail. We must strengthen human civilization; otherwise, it's all for naught.* Amakusa Shiro nodded.
"In the future, even if we don't encounter the evil of humanity, we will meet alien gods or other civilizations in the universe. I doubt these aliens will treat Earthlings kindly."
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"I see." Hehehe! The Holy Grail actually chose him, this is truly... this is truly wonderful. Kirei Kotomine expressed his understanding: "This is indeed very serious."
"Why don't you teach him all those things from the beginning?"
"Huh—?" It seems that Rin's relationship with this boy named Emiya Shirou is quite extraordinary. Kirei Kotomine said, "This is the first time you've asked me for a favor. Emiya Shirou... Master is not something that can be given to others. Now that you've become a Master, you can't give up this identity."
"The so-called Master is also a kind of trial. This pain cannot be relieved until the Holy Grail is won. Shirou Emiya, the battle you have been drawn into is called the Holy Grail War."
Judging from Shirou Emiya's tone, Kirei Kotomine knew that the boy he was destined to meet loathed this ritual of mutual killing and did not want to join in. However... how could I let such an interesting pawn leave the stage here?
He already had a plan in mind: people who abhor mutual killing, upright character, and resolute eyes.
Hehehe! Got it!
"As long as one possesses the powerful Holy Grail, it will surely grant its owner limitless power. The authenticity of anything is meaningless in the face of this fact," Kirei Kotomine murmured.
"Then why is there a Holy Grail War? If it's really that powerful, wouldn't it be better for everyone to share it equally?" Shirou Emiya said naively.
If it were really that amazing, all the magicians in the world...
Everyone will come, right? There's no way I, an outsider, would be chosen by the Holy Grail.
"But only one person can obtain the Holy Grail. That's not something we can decide. It's decided by the Holy Grail itself."
"...The Holy Grail, to decide?" Shirou Emiya asked in surprise.
Does an object determine who its owner is?
"All of this was initiated by the Holy Grail itself. By making them fight each other, a single holder is chosen. This is the Holy Grail War."
"I can't accept this. To select one person, the only way is to kill the other Masters. This is simply unacceptable to me." Shirou Emiya hated this barbaric ritual; it felt like raising a venomous insect.
Could a master chosen through such a barbaric ritual be a normal person?
"Wait a minute! It's a misunderstanding that you only need to kill the other Masters, Emiya-kun," Rin Tohsaka said.
“It’s a fight to the death.” Kirei Kotomine whispered to the boy in front of him, whose thoughts were filled with innocence and righteousness.
It's a fight to the death, it involves bloodshed, it involves people dying, and it involves rituals that involve ordinary people.
"Kirei, shut up!!" Rin Tohsaka glared angrily at Kirei Kotomine. "I asked you to tell Shirou the rules of the Holy Grail War, not to spout this nonsense!"
She feared that if Kirei Kotomine continued talking, that idiot Shirou Emiya might abandon his previous idea and choose to join the fight.
"Listen, the Holy Grail located in Fuyuki City is a spirit. We have no way to directly contact the Holy Grail. Do you understand?"
Rin Tohsaka tells Shirou Emiya that eliminating the opponent's Master's Servant will also force the opponent to leave the field.
Kirei Kotomine gazed at Shirou Emiya with amusement, switching into his Oscar-winning mode: "Shirou Emiya. Let me ask you this: do you think you can defeat your own Servant?"
"Huh—?" Shirou Emiya thought he couldn't possibly be a match for a Heroic Spirit, so what kind of strange question was this?
"Even with Servants, it's difficult to defeat him. So what should we do? It's quite simple and obvious, isn't it?" Kirei Kotomine began to guide Shirou Emiya, leading him astray from the path arranged by Rin Tohsaka.
"No matter how powerful a Servant is, once the Master is defeated, the Servant will disappear. In other words...~~"
Upon hearing this, Shirou Emiya no longer believed what Rin Tohsaka had said before: "Defeating the Master is more efficient than defeating a Heroic Spirit."
Emiya Shirou frowned, his mood turning heavy. A magician who casually takes the lives of ordinary people would surely choose to kill his master.
Moreover, he recalled that Saber had previously intended to kill Rin Tohsaka.
Having experienced the Holy Grail War, Saber couldn't possibly be unaware of these rules...
"So, what if the Servant is defeated first?" Shirou Emiya asked Kirei Kotomine. "Only the Servant can touch the Holy Grail, right?"
"Then wouldn't a Master be worthless without a Servant?"
"No, as long as the Master's Command Seals are still in effect, the Master's authority remains," Kirei Kotomine replied with a smile.
Artoria turned around and looked at the heroic spirit standing on the roof of the church. A very familiar feeling arose in her heart, but she couldn't put it into words.
Standing on the rooftop, the Heroic Spirit Emiya listened to Kirei Kotomine's words below, inwardly thinking:
"That fake priest, he's always fooled me like this."
He knew why Kirei Kotomine had suddenly said these things to Shirou Emiya; the guy wanted Shirou Emiya to participate in the Holy Grail War to increase his own pleasure.
He focused his attention on his surroundings, keeping a watchful eye on Father Joy's every move, ready to rush in and rescue Rin Tohsaka at any moment.
Kirei Kotomine kept explaining to Shirou Emiya in detail, emphasizing that killing Servants was useless and that killing the Master was the most efficient and reasonable method.
He kept teasing Shirou Emiya, who was trying to give up his Master status by using up all his Command Spells, but that wasn't enough; he needed to add fuel to the fire.
The Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City has been fought for the fifth time, the first of which took place two hundred years ago.
This process then repeats itself approximately every sixty years.
This Holy Grail War is only ten years after the last one.
Emiya Shirou was shocked. This cruel ritual, which took the lives of others for their own desires and ambitions, had been held four times already!
"The Holy Grail Wars that were repeated in the past were all extremely brutal. The Masters were driven by their own desires and committed indiscriminate killings."
"Indiscriminate killing!? What if the person who gets the Holy Grail is an utterly wicked individual?" Shirou Emiya was stunned.
In other words, almost all the mages who participated in the Holy Grail War had blood on their hands, and there must have been ordinary people like myself who accidentally stumbled upon a battle between mages...
While the population density here isn't as high as Tokyo, it's still a city with a population of over a million...
Moreover, these magicians didn't seem to intend to compete in a secluded place.
His chest was now filled with rage—rage against the magicians, rage against the evil ritual of the Holy Grail War.
"We have no power to stop the Master chosen by the Holy Grail. After all, it is an all-powerful Grail that can grant any wish. If you don't want that to happen, Shirou Emiya, you just have to win it yourself." Kirei Kotomine's true intentions were revealed; the web he had woven had already tightly bound Shirou Emiya.
He had already...
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