"Hehehe... Don't worry. I didn't make much porridge this time, just one pot!" Circe chuckled after her niece saw through her plan, and put her arm around Medea's arm, saying, "Don't worry, don't worry, it won't ruin your relationship with Soichiro Kuzuki."

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early morning.

Emiya Shirou stood in the castle hall, now a ruin.

Just as he was about to say something, Archer, leaning against the corridor railing, said, "You're here, Shirou Emiya? You're so slow."

Emiya Shirou gazed at the man before him who had honed his immature magical abilities to perfection, realizing his ideals.

"Archer, how is Tohsaka?"

"I've kept her somewhere in the city. If you're worried, act quickly. Because you arrived too late, she was given to Matou Shinji, who arrived first."

"What!?" It was given to Shinji Matou? Shirou Emiya was instantly enraged by Archer's words.

"I kept my promise. I didn't lay a hand on her. So whatever others do to her is none of my business." Archer looked at Shirou Emiya and teased:

"However, the result is predictable. Shinji Matou harbors lustful thoughts and hostility towards Rin Tohsaka. The consequences of handing Rin over to him are unthinkable. That kid will explode if Rin provokes him, and he might be doing something strange right now."

Archer said flippantly.

What he conveyed to Shirou Emiya was—if you want to save Tohsaka, then hurry up and finish me off.

However, things were still going according to plan. Archer looked at the now dazed Saber, hoping she would understand what he meant.

"Ah~~~ It's alright, kid. Leave the girl to us. Just wait and see, we'll be there to rescue her soon." Cú Chulainn looked at Archer, who was standing at the end of the second-floor steps, with displeasure.

I only choose the option with the highest probability of success, which means these annoying archers in front of me must be planning some kind of scheme.

How annoying... I just can't get along with this guy at all.

“It was Master who gave me the order.” Cú Chulainn looked at the surprised Shirou Emiya and said, “Originally, I came to help so that the little girl wouldn’t die.”

"Oh my, I didn't expect it to feel so comfortable to carry out. Yesterday's battle was absolutely exhilarating. It's rare for me to actually enjoy my job," Cú Chulainn said casually, arms crossed, ignoring Archer standing in front of him, and walked into a passageway to the side.

"Saber, leave this to the boy."

"Lancer... thank you." Shirou Emiya looked at Saber and said, "Saber, I'm leaving Tohsaka to you. Please rescue her as soon as possible."

"No, Shirou, I will stay here to protect you. I will witness your battle."

A whirlwind swirled around Artoria, and the Wind King's Barrier attached itself to Cú Chulainn. She was going to stay and protect Shirou Emiya in case Gilgamesh, who had killed Berserker, appeared here and ambushed Shirou Emiya.

She didn't want to see this happen.

Since Archer was able to betray Medea and assassinate her master at a crucial moment,

Gilgamesh would definitely do the same; she didn't have a good impression of that man.

"Alright then, Saber, stay here to prevent any troublemakers from breaking in. Don't worry about it. This is purely out of my own interest. The previous orders were all unpleasant errands, but I will obey this one to the end. You too, just take care of yourself."

Cú Chulainn, with his back to Shirou Emiya, waved his hand and said.

He noticed that his master seemed to have become more normal. How interesting, how did he suddenly become enlightened?

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The world of dating sims is very unfriendly to random characters.

"Ugh, ugh, how can there be such a disgusting man...!" The lovely princess crossed her arms and writhed on the sofa. She couldn't stand Matou Shinji's undisguised, lewd gaze.

Olivia nodded.

He looked at Shinji Matou with extreme dislike.

She couldn't understand why Shinji Matou, who lived a wealthy life, had such a twisted and abnormal mentality in such a peaceful environment.

"Shinji Matou, you're overthinking it. No woman could possibly like such a filthy man." Angelica looked at Shinji Matou coldly, true to her character.

She would crush Matou Shinji completely, trample him mercilessly, and then use robotic weapons to throw him to the moon.

"Pfft, hahaha... This guy, this guy is such an idiot! You don't even respect girls' wishes, you treat them like objects. With such a scumbag style of doing things, how could Rin Tohsaka possibly be interested in you?"

Leon was laughing so hard he almost cried; he had never seen such a fool.

"Hopeless, utterly foolish. Luckily, this kind of person isn't my master. Otherwise, with my current capabilities, I wouldn't be able to help Shinji Matou at all," the main female robot said thankfully.

She couldn't even imagine what a nightmare she would experience if her master changed from Leon to Shinji Matou.

Shinji Matou will definitely use his power to do incredibly evil things.

"Shirou Emiya is really going too far! Don't you care a lot about Rin Tohsaka, Taiga Fujimura, Illya, and your family? Why are you handing Rin over to Shinji Matou now...?" Olivia said angrily.

She initially had a good impression of the Heroic Spirit, Shirou Emiya, and felt sorry for his tragic fate, but... but he abandoned the girl to a scumbag like Shinji Matou.

What will Shinji Matou do to Rin Tohsaka? Will he endure it until dawn?

"I find this very puzzling... He risked his life to save Rin Tohsaka, hoping she would win the Holy Grail War. I suspect Archer's plan backfired; he probably didn't expect Rin's location to be exposed."

However, even if we are understanding towards Archer, Rin Tohsaka, who was disgusted by Shinji Matou, will definitely be furious.

The princess looked on with a helpless expression as she watched Archer's plan backfire. What a clumsy boy.

Couldn't you have spoken to Shirou Emiya properly, in a different way?

“I believe that with Archer’s intelligence, there must be a better way. Archer’s goal is definitely not to kill Shirou Emiya.”

"Indeed. With Archer's elusive abilities as a Heroic Spirit, and Medea's homing arrows which are difficult for even her to resist, if they had used a bow and arrow earlier, it would have been over long ago if they had wanted to kill Shirou Emiya."

Lyon nodded.

The world of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

“Was this also part of your plan... Archer?” Joseph Joestar sat on the beach with Caesar. “But this approach is really unpleasant. I feel the same way as Cú Chulainn; I really don’t like your method.”

"I will absolutely not let anyone important to me get involved! This kind of bastard behavior is infuriating."

"You mean, the Heroic Spirit Shirou Emiya was originally planning to fight Shirou Emiya one-on-one, and sent Saber, who is extremely fast and can sense Rin Tohsaka's location, to rescue Rin Tohsaka?"

Caesar, holding an iced cocktail, said, "If you don't look at things from this perspective, other people really wouldn't be able to figure out what Archer is really trying to do. Maybe he was forced to do it, to get rid of Gilgamesh."

"Yes, I know this man would never let an evil being that harms innocent people go unpunished. Archer's goal from the beginning until now has been to end the Holy Grail War. What a tsundere, awkward guy. He must be a twisted virgin who has never been in love."

Joseph Joestar spread his hands, speaking silently.

"Shouldn't these attributes be found in pretty girls?"

Because she's a villainous young lady, she raised a demon king.

The monsters looked at Shinji Matou with utter disgust.

Brother Crow flapped his wings and shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Get rid of him quickly!"

"Little girl, you muscular freak, where's the strength you had when you kicked down the door and beat Medea up???"

"Hey!! Didn't you eat breakfast!?"

“Ah, she definitely didn’t eat breakfast. It seems she didn’t even eat dinner. No wonder she’s so weak.” Griffin rubbed his rumbling stomach.

"Being hungry and weak is why the bad guys tied you up. So, everyone should eat well every day."

Erin Lauren Dodler held a bamboo basket of snacks in her hand, smiling as she looked at the monsters.

"Come on, dinner's ready!"

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Saber may choose not to interfere in the battle between Archer and Shirou Emiya, or the battle between two Shirou Emiyas, but there is one question she wants to ask Archer: "Archer, why do you want to kill Shirou? To kill another version of yourself?"

"—There's no reason why. Just like he doesn't agree with me, I can't agree with him either. Simply put, I just don't like Emiya Shirou."

Archer explained calmly.

"How is this possible...? I can't accept it? You are Shirou, Emiya Shirou's own ideal, the one who became a Heroic Spirit to realize that ideal. Why would you do something so foolish as to try to kill yourself...??"

Artoria looked at the Heroic Spirit, Shirou Emiya, with a puzzled expression.

"Why would you think that, about Emiya in his immature period?"

Shirou, and I, who am known as Hero Emiya, are different individuals. Otherwise, we couldn't both exist here.

"So you became a Servant? Because you heard that if you become a guardian outside the timeline, you might be summoned to your own era...?"

You are Shirou. The image Shirou has always envisioned in his heart, the one he strives to become, is you. But why—"

Artoria couldn't understand why the Heroic Spirit Emiya in front of her couldn't stand her when she was younger, and didn't want to give herself room to grow.

Emiya Shirou tries to dissuade Saber from organizing the battle, stubbornly believing that the other, more wicked version of himself standing before him is trying to kill him.

He now wishes he could pounce on his grown-up self and bite him to death. How could he give Tohsaka to Shinji Matou? What a scumbag!

"You mean, a Guardian?" Archer chuckled. "You're wrong, Saber. A Guardian isn't a protector of humanity. They're just a cleaner, a janitor of the messes and disasters caused by humans. That's nothing like the hero I envision!"

"Shirou...?"

"I have indeed become a hero. Just as Shirou Emiya himself hoped, I have become a messenger of justice."

But Shirou Emiya believes that a messenger of justice is someone who will not harm anyone. Someone who appears in times of disaster to save the victims. This is Shirou Emiya's ideal.

However, in reality, the duty of the messengers of justice is to eradicate calamities that affect human order and organizations that will destroy humanity.

That is, the work of eradicating evil.

As long as there are humans on the planet, the disasters caused by the billions of humans living in the mysterious world are something that humans cannot and do not want to solve.

Therefore, Shirou Emiya believes he has become a cleaner who cleans up trash.

"I have indeed saved some people. Not only have I achieved many ideals within my own capabilities, but I've even averted a global crisis. —A hero, and I've unknowingly attained the status I longed for long ago."

"Having achieved the status of a hero—so, Shirou, you've been rewarded, haven't you...? At least for now, you've fulfilled Emiya Shirou's ideal, haven't you?"

"Then you should have no regrets. Because Shirou personally realized his ideal," Artoria judged from the perspective of her own era.

A few seconds later, looking at the mocking and self-deprecating expression on Shirou Emiya's face in front of him.

She knew that it was all just wishful thinking on her part.

Perhaps some people will be happy to receive these things. But at least Shirou Emiya wouldn't think that way.

He couldn't be happy at all.

"To realize an ideal, huh? I did indeed become the messenger of justice in my ideal. But in the end, all I got was regret. All that was left was death."

Archer said hatefully, "Kill, kill, kill. All I can do is kill, kill everything. To carry out my ideals, I will kill many people."

"To slaughter unrelated lives as if they were nothing, thereby saving thousands of times more people who die."

"That's right, it's been repeated so many times that it's impossible to count, Saber."

What I was required of was to fight relentlessly. Whenever I knew there was a struggle, I had to fight to the death. This was repeated over and over again, until I could no longer remember it.

"But there's nothing we can do about it. As long as there are those who are saved, there will be those who are not. No matter how many wars end, new wars will always begin. As long as these things exist, the so-called messengers of justice will have no choice but to continue existing."

"So I kill, trampling the wishes of dozens to save one person. And to save those who have been trampled, I must lose even more."

Killing the chances of survival for dozens, and in order to save what's within sight, even more aspirations must be extinguished. Each time, thinking, "This time it can finally end, finally no one will be sad anymore," one continues pointlessly.

"—But this has never ended!! As long as humanity exists, the struggle between humans will continue. The crisis of world annihilation will also follow. It's endless. I'm not dreaming of a world without conflict. I just hope that, at least in the circles I'm familiar with, no one will cry anymore."

"With each person saved, my vision expanded. After one, there were ten. After ten, there were a hundred, and so on, until countless. Finally, I came to understand the selfish idealism that Emiya Shirou held."

"Yes, seats are limited. The seats called happiness are always fewer than the total number because it's impossible to save everyone, so some people have to be sacrificed. Therefore..."

To minimize harm, a swift and decisive act is necessary to remove those beyond saving. This is the action of a hero, the act of a champion of justice whom this man believed in.

"Saving the majority makes you a champion of justice, right? So, you pray that no one will die, yet you kill for the sake of the majority. You say you don't want anyone to be sad anymore, but you make more people despair."

The task that the inhibitor assigned to Archer was torturous and painful.

Traveling through different timelines—ancient times, the future, and modern times—Shirou Emiya's figure can be found in every era.

He constantly deals with people who threaten the balance of the world.

For example, Joan of Arc dies in timeline A, but survives in a side story and even becomes corrupted.

The emergence of timelines that influence the course of history becomes a singularity, an obstacle threatening the survival of primates.

Since Alaya and Gaia could not intervene personally, they could only send Emiya Shirou, with whom they had made a slave contract, to solve the problem.

Regardless of whether the humans in the singularity are good or evil, all humans born here are labeled with the destruction tag by Alaya.

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