Shirou Emiya stands on the Terra continent

"No."

As Emiya shook his head, the expression on Exiah's face changed from smiling to despair.

There are only two ways to say goodbye to a fat belly: one is to eat less, and the other is to exercise more.

Exia decided to increase her exercise from tomorrow onwards. Forget about eating less. It is against the law of nature for Laterans not to eat desserts! It would be unfair to Emiya if she didn't finish the food he cooked! So she can only start with exercise!

"Okay, back to the topic!"

Emiya fixed his messed up hair and clothes, trying to change the subject.

"Where were we just talking about? We seem to be talking about our main work content?"

Texas thought about the topic just now and it seemed to be their main work content.

"Well, Sora mentioned that the cargo you deliver is quite dangerous and you will encounter all kinds of people."

Emiya remembered it clearly because he was besieged after that.

"That's right. Because we will encounter various battles, we care more about trust than anything else. You should understand what I mean, right?"

Texas told Emiya seriously that matters between men and women or strength are not the big issues, what is important is to be trustworthy.

An untrustworthy teammate will only slow down the team's mission progress, or even lead to the mission failure or death of the entire team. Compared with the risk of death, other things are really not that important.

"I probably understand."

Listening to what Texas said, Emiya also understood what he meant.

Just like Saber in memory, she is more of a Servant than a woman, and the same is true for everyone in Penguin Logistics.

"What are you talking about?"

Exiah on the side didn't understand their conversation at all, after all, she was just playing games with Croissant.

"Nothing, you'll know later."

Texas saw that Emiya seemed to have accepted the reality and was happily holding Pocky in his mouth. After that, the team had an extra long-range support. Although it might still be difficult to deal with the guy with a shield, at least there was one more person.

As for the car, it's time to ask my boss to upgrade to a bigger one.

35 Dream

After sending the four people back to their own rooms, Emiya carried out his daily tasks.

The pseudo-spiral sword in Emiya's hand was reshaped into a long and slender shape.

This is one of the extended abilities of projection, which allows one to change the appearance of the projected Noble Phantasm to a certain extent. Archer uses this ability to shape most swords into slender shapes and then shoot them as arrows.

"Is the speed still a little slow..."

Emiya picked up the pseudo-spiral sword that had become slender in his hand and observed it carefully. After the magic circuit went out of control last time, it could fully project the treasure. It was not just an empty shell, but a real treasure.

It's just that his speed is a bit slower overall, or it should be said that his proficiency is far lower than Archer's.

It would take a while just to project the pseudo spiral sword, and it would probably take more than ten seconds to change its form.

However, it is indeed enough as a killer move. After all, it was originally used by Archer in combination with Fantasy Collapse for ultra-long-distance blasting.

If we really want to talk about the problem...the magic power consumption is quite a lot, and Emiya is a little overwhelmed.

But for some reason, his magic power recovered quite quickly, as if something was supplying him with magic power.

After thinking about it, Shirou couldn't figure out anything, so he had to give up.

He removed the magic power from the pseudo-spiral sword in his hand, and it turned into a blue light and disappeared.

After all, the spiral sword in his hand can only be used as an arrow. If it is used as a sword, it is better to project Gan Jiang and Moye, which has lower consumption and is more convenient.

"But Infinite Sword System..."

Emiya muttered to himself, he didn't know why he couldn't use the Infinite Sword System, but it could be because this was a different world?

Emiya racked his brains but couldn't figure out the reason, so he could only put this problem and the abnormal magic power recovery aside for later consideration.

His priority now is to improve the speed and accuracy of projection. In order to maintain his energy to take care of everyone at Penguin Logistics, he has not been overexerting himself in training like in the past. Now his training level has to return to the previous intensity.

He didn't want to let down the trust from Texas.

What Texas said, in addition to expressing that they didn't care, also showed that they actually trusted Emiya very much.

He didn't want to betray this trust.

So he has to work twice as hard now.

Only when he began to feel dizzy did Emiya stop training. He wiped the sweat off his face, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep instantly.

Maybe it was because of tiredness, but Emiya felt like he was sleeping very deeply.

"..."

"…Emiya, Emiya! Are you okay?"

In the dimness, Emiya felt someone calling him. From the sound of the voice, it should be a woman, and it sounded very familiar. It should be someone he knew?

Opening his eyes slightly, Emiya saw two blurry figures, one was a black-haired girl in red clothes, and the other was a white-haired girl in purple clothes.

"He opened his eyes! Shirou... Shirou, did you hear me? Don't close your eyes, try to stay awake!

"

The blurry white figure kept holding his left hand and kept talking to him.

Emiya just felt that it was a bit noisy. He was so sleepy and tired and just wanted to have a good sleep. However, after hearing what the other party said, he still forced himself to cheer up.

Although he doesn't know why, he will do it if it is the other party's request.

"We have to stop the bleeding first. Archer has already gone to hold that golden bastard back. We have to hurry and stop Emiya's bleeding and get him to a safe place."

The blurry red figure seemed to tear something apart, and then seemed to do something to his right hand.

His consciousness was a little fuzzy, and the slight pain made Shigong slightly more awake.

What just happened?

Berserker fought against Golden Archer and lost, and Golden Archer seemed to want to attack Illya, but at the last moment he pushed Illya away.

The price, it seems, was...his right hand.

It's just... is he going to die?

Fortunately, the golden Archer was kicked away by Berserker. If it weren't for the strange golden chain, he might have been smashed to pieces by an axe.

However, the damage caused by the Noble Phantasm directly shattered his right hand, leaving no possibility of connecting it back.

He did not regret it. If he had not pushed Illya away, there was a high possibility that Illya would have been pierced directly by the Noble Phantasm.

"Archer? Where's that golden guy?"

Seeing Archer suddenly appear, Illya frowned and asked. Because both of them were Archer, Illya used Rin's name for that guy to distinguish the two.

However, Archer's attitude towards Emiya has always been very bad, so Illya is not looking at him well now, and is also secretly on guard against him.

"As you can see, the black mud repelled the guy, but I got some of it on me as well."

Archer pointed to a small hole in the abdomen, on which blood-red lines could be vaguely seen spreading, but Archer didn't care at all and looked at Emiya who was lying on the ground.

"You look really bad. How does it feel to give your life to help others?"

"Archer!"

Rin glared at Archer, she had known for a long time that the relationship between them was bad, but she didn't expect Archer to still be in the mood to joke at this time.

Even Illya showed an unhappy look and began to prepare magic with her hands.

"Is the right hand completely shattered? There is no way to connect it back. If Saber had not been contaminated and the contract had not been terminated, at least she could have relied on Avalon to repair the injury..."

Archer squatted down and carefully checked Emiya's injuries, but his words still made the two people beside him frown slightly.

"Archer you..."

Rin originally wanted Archer to go aside and recuperate, but unexpectedly Archer suddenly projected a black knife in his left hand.

"what you up to?"

Illya stood between Archer and Emiya. There was no need for any magic. No matter what kind of magic it was, it would definitely not be faster than Archer's sword in front of her.

"Archer, why... do you want to kill Emiya?"

Rin knew that there was no point in talking under the current circumstances. Even if she used the Command Spell to stop the other party, it would be useless. So the only thing she could do was to ask Archer why he wanted to kill Emiya.

"...Isn't this natural, Toosaka?"

Archer was silent for a moment as he watched the two's actions, then spoke in a tone and address that Rin was quite familiar with.

"Archer you..."

All the scenes of Archer and Emiya's past meetings, as well as Archer's past in his dreams, flashed through his mind, and Rin finally understood the relationship between the two.

Archer did not answer, but raised the knife in his left hand.

Illya wanted to stop him, but was stopped by Rin.

"Rin! What are you doing? Let me go!"

Illya, who was held by Rin, continued to struggle.

36 All the mistakes are the fault of the Holy Grail!

"Archer has no intention of killing Emiya right now."

As if in response to Rin's words, Archer placed the knife in his hand on his right shoulder.

"Archer? What are you doing...?"

Illya stopped struggling and looked at the other person's behavior with a puzzled look on her face.

"I am a follower. In the case of contamination, this is the best option. At least one person can survive."

Archer looked at Illya who had been trying to stop him, and Rin who had stopped her, and said with a relieved smile.

Although he failed to bury his ideal of being a righteous partner with his own hands, when he saw that the relationship between Shirou Emiya and Illya had eased a lot at the beginning, he gave up his extreme approach and chose to have a peaceful conversation.

I didn't reveal my real name, I just said a lot as someone who has been through it. The seed has been planted, and that is enough.

Through the conversation, he also remembered why he had made the ideal of becoming a partner of justice.

What he had always wanted to kill was not Shirou Emiya, but to stop his righteous comrade from becoming the next executioner.

Yes, he just hoped that Shirou Emiya would not repeat the mistakes of the Heroic Spirit Emiya.

"Emiya Shirou! Now that you've taken Illya's hand, don't let go! Stay alive! And defeat that guy!"

The moment he finished speaking, Archer swung the knife in his hand, and Emiya woke up in shock.

Emiya, who woke up in shock, first touched his right hand, and only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that it was still there.

"What was that just now? The memory in the door? No, it's more like a simple dream than a memory."

Emiya looked at his right hand. No matter how he looked at it, it was his always right hand.

His rationality and his still functioning right hand were telling him that what had just happened was just a dream, but his subconscious felt that it was not just a dream, but perhaps a memory of the Holy Grail War that he had lost.

If it wasn't his memory, how could it be so real?

Then if it was his memory...what about his right hand?

Exhaling deeply, Emiya sorted out the fragments he remembered.

First, he lost his right hand while trying to save Illya. Rin and Illya were both helping him stop the bleeding. Finally, Archer came over with a knife and cut off his own right hand.

There is absolutely no context. What about Saber? What happened afterwards? What was Archer trying to do by cutting off his own hand? And then just attaching it to his? Can a human attach the arm of a Heroic Spirit?

"Giving me only part of it is really full of malice! Is it the Holy Grail's doing? Do you know how uncomfortable it was when you only gave me textual knowledge? Now you only give me part of the memory?"

Thinking of the final situation, Emiya angrily threw all the problems to the Holy Grail.

All the mistakes are the Holy Grail's fault!

"Calm down... What we need to do now is to write things down first."

Emiya forced himself to calm down, and the first thing he did was to take out his notebook to record these things.

He would record some of the more profound memories and magic-related memories in his notebook.