January 29, 11 p.m

"Saber, is Rin already asleep?" Emiya Shirou asked in a low voice

"Yes, I'm asleep," Saber said, standing outside the courtroom, "but Shirou, is it really good to do this?" ”

"She's Archer's Master, I can't wake her up at this point" Emiya Shirou sat up "Saber, I'm sorry, you just came back and asked you to be involved in this"

"Don't mind, but Shirou, please don't get off the hook," Saber said seriously, "I'm asking you, is it really okay to bring Rin to your own house to sleep?" ”

"It's because"

"Don't look around! And also! Shirou, why did you start calling Rin's name directly! Saber said sternly, "Please explain immediately, what happened in these days when I was away?" ”

"Saber is scary," Emiya Shirou said with a wry smile

"Ah, I'm sorry" Saber immediately straightened his clothes, "Forget it, anyway, Shirou has nothing to do with me, as long as you don't die"

"Who taught you to say this?"

"An acquaintance," Saber just said

"Then I'll just ask" Emiya Shirou stood up "Saber, let's go"

"Yes, Master," Saber said

Emiya Shirou opened the door, the bleak night wind blew him a little cold, Rin Tosaka had already gone to sleep in the inner room first, she was indeed too tired today, and her parents had not heard from her since yesterday, according to her, this kind of thing had happened before, but it was just rare, and she usually had to go to England to attend some high-class parties or something

So he had absolutely nothing to think about, and besides, Saber was by his side, and he could make irreparable mistakes on impulse

Emiya Shirou walked out of the suburbs in silence, and Saber followed closely beside him without saying a word

Surprisingly, Emiya Shirou didn't appear afraid to wait. Conscience, his heart is now indifferent, even if he knows that he will fight the heroic spirit after crossing the border of the city, he still does not retreat

There is no chance of winning a battle, and he will die after a sword halberd exchange, but he is ready to break the jar and break it

"The Holy Grail War is coming to an end, and you should be well aware that there are only three Heroic Spirits alive now, and the other party may have gone to the Assassin to kill them" The red-clothed Heroic Spirit said to him three hours ago, "Then now I have something I want to do, and you should be very clear that I am now in a state of no contract"

That's right, the other party hasn't mentioned re-signing the contract since he returned to Rin Tosaka, and Emiya Shirou doesn't know why

"I want to kill you" Without warning, the Heroic Spirit coldly spat out a few cold notes

“？！！” Emiya Shirou stepped back in panic

"Tsk, if it weren't for that strange group of Casters, this should have been conveyed to you a long time ago" Archer grumbled "I wanted to get rid of Rider before I was there, but it's not too late"

"I don't have a contract with Rin right now, which means I can attack him, so don't try to run away, don't ask why, I'll wait for you in the suburbs now, and give me an answer before twelve o'clock, whether to fight or escape" Archer didn't give Emiya Shirou time to react, he had already retreated after reading the "order".

Emiya Shirou didn't know what to do, and although he knew that Archer had always had a bad impression of him, he didn't pay much attention to it because there wasn't much interaction between the two sides

"Do you want to go" Emiya Shirou clenched his fists, for some reason, he thought that this fight would be extraordinary

"Shirou?" Saber's call interrupted the contemplation, "I'm out of the city of Tokyo, is it time to take the train next?" ”

"Ah, whatever" Emiya Shirou patted his head "I'm sorry, my mind is a little messy today"

"No, it's okay, I know Shirou's troubles" Saber nodded, "But don't worry, I'll always be by your side"

"Thank you," Emiya Shirou smiled

(Archer) Emiya Shirou tightened the necklace in his hand, he also had something to confirm

Half an hour later

The red-clad Heroic Spirit leaned against a ruin, and the rubble created a natural dueling arena for it, and Emiya Shirou could never remember when such ruins had been found on the outskirts of Tokyo

"Very well, although the time is late, you still came" Archer shrugged "and?" Is there anything I need to ask me?"

"That's right," Emiya Shirou held up the necklace in his hand, "Can you explain this to me"

"How the hell did you find out," Archer said, "You and Rin haven't crossed paths much now, so you shouldn't have thought about the secret of this gem."

"I don't know, but I often think about this in my heart" Emiya Shirou takes a deep breath, and sometimes he often dreams of a wilderness, Rin Tosaka tells me that it is the memory of the Servant, but Saber says that he doesn't know at all, because the wilderness is full of ancient swords, and there is a red-clothed heroic spirit at the end of it"

"Do you still have some connections" Archer chuckled "Okay, I'll tell you the answer"

The other party doesn't have a treasure of his own, his hands are full of imitations, and no hero is like him, so Rin Tosaka, Shirou Emiya, and even Tosaka Shitomi who has been hiding behind his back and commanding all thought of it

Since there is no one who meets the requirements in the past, then this heroic spirit may not be a hero who has not yet been born from the future to the present world

"There must be a catalyst to summon the Immortal, just as you summoned Saber, there must be a connection between the summoner and the Immortal"

But Rin Tosaka didn't have the catalyst needed to summon the Heroic Spirit, so she didn't think there was any relationship between her and the Heroic Spirit she had summoned. But there is no such thing as a heroic spirit summoned by chance. Summoners and Heroic Spirits will inevitably need material fate," Archer said indifferently

This necklace was given to him by Rin Tosaka that night, when he was pierced through the heart by Lancer, so Rin Tosaka saved his life with this necklace, and he swore in his heart that he would never lose such a thing for the rest of his life

Then the result is already obvious, if Emiya Shirou has been wearing that necklace for the rest of his life, then the Heroic Spirit who was summoned with this necklace is

"I am the future you, the Empress of the Heroic Spirit," Archer calmly spat out the shocking secret

“！！！！！” Saber's eyes widened, she couldn't believe the fact that Archer could actually be the future Shirou?

"You wouldn't have been surprised, Arthur," Archer said in a nonchalant tone, Immortal's real name, "I should have done it a long time ago"

"But I didn't expect that you would be so happy on this timeline," Archer laughed as if laughing at himself, "My father and mother are still alive, and the heroic spirits of ten years ago are still alive, and at this time, you haven't had too many stories with Rin Tosaka, and you haven't experienced the pain of life and death, I'm really strange, who changed this qiē?" ”

"But no matter what, there's only one reason I'll be summoned to this world, and that's to kill you" Archer grimaced "Saber, do you want to interfere in this battle?" ”

"No, the knight won't do such a move against honor" Saber swallowed softly in return, "Answer me a question, Archer, why do you have to kill Shirou?" Pure jealousy? ”

"Jealousy? His life has nothing to do with me, I just look down on him for doing this" Archer looked at Emiya Shirou coldly, "Obviously he already has a happy life, but why do you have to live as a hero, if you don't have the strength, you should give up obediently, since you haven't lost, then you should get used to losing"

"I see" There is no way to communicate, the environment in which the two sides are in a completely different situation is completely different, the current Emiya Shirou has a qiē, he could have lived a peaceful life but chose to embark on a blood-stained path, and the Archer in front of him is different, he lost a qiē, so he chose to bear the name of a hero in order to no longer suffer

Both sides have their own insistences, and Saber has no right to interfere with either of them's choices

"It's good to understand, you should also know very well, there are two extremes between me and him" Archer approached Emiya Shirou step by step, "Now you are not like I have experienced the battle of life and death like before, whether it is Soichiro Katsugi, whether it is myself, or the hero king, you have never fought against him"

“！” This sentence shocked Emiya Shirou and Saber, if the heroic spirit in front of him was really Shirou himself, then it means that he had fought with these powerful servants on a certain world line

In other words, the Heroic Spirit in front of him had already experienced a battle of death and death as early as the human period, which proved how strong his strength was now

"We're all swordsmiths, so this battle will be filled with the sound of swords and halberds," Archer raised his hand, and Emiya Shirou followed suit

"Projection begins!" Two angry shouts rang out at the same time

It was impossible to reproduce those two perfect famous swords just by imagination, but Emiya Shirou had done it once, and that was a skill he had used in front of Caster in order to save Rin Tosaka and Saber, and although it had only been done once, it was the same situation now as it was then

It's all about saving, and therefore the sword is forged

This body is the sword bone, and the heart is as pure as glass

The black and white sword appeared in the hands of both Emiya Shirou and Archer at the same time, without the slightest flaw, Archer has held this sword many times, and Emiya Shirou has a reason to hold the sword

"Not bad," Archer exclaimed, "It's a pity that it's just a sword forged by catching ducks on the shelves, once it shatters, can you still make a second one?"

"You'll have to try this to know," Emiya Shirou barely smiled

"Also, a sword that hasn't been through a killing battle can't be considered a weapon" Taking this as an opportunity, Archer took a step forward

A lightning blow, and Emiya Shirou also used a blow that was not much different from him, it seems that even after becoming a heroic spirit, the difference in skills between the two sides will not be too big

But soon, Emiya Shirou found out that he was wrong, obviously they were all the same sword, the same move, but after each confrontation, he was the only one who was injured, whether it was a sword or a person, and even his soul couldn't help but tremble when they collided again and again

"Whew!" A crimson memory flashed through my mind, people are red, the ground is red, and all sides are red, what the hell is that?

"The difference is really too big," Archer muttered, and then the twin swords in Emiya Shirou's hands shattered into pieces, "You haven't mastered the essence of the sword at all, and it's no wonder that this is still too difficult for you now"

What do you want to express? If you want to forge a sword, you need to be familiar with the sword, and if you want to make a sword, you first need to fight with the sword, and the man in front of him is a master of swords, and that's because he knows the sword better than anyone else, and that's because he doesn't know how many swords he has defeated

In the mountains of sword mounds, the red-clothed heroic spirit died with several swords on his back, this is his dream, this is his past

And that's his future

"No more kidding!" The two long swords were projected into his hands again, and the tiredness in his mind was easily overcome, Emiya Shirou was just a layman, but at this time he was able to fight the Heroic Spirit

"A qiē is meaningless, yes, this will be your future" Archer slashed at the next "I have indeed become a Heroic Spirit, I have saved thousands of lives, fought the world, and even stepped on the throne of a hero"

But what's the point? Constant fighting, constant killing, and the need to pay fifty lives to save a hundred people, there are always fewer chairs called happiness, and the so-called salvation is nothing more than an equivalent exchange like alchemy" Archer raised his right hand, and the white short sword slashed deep into Emiya Shirou's shoulder

"After a battle, a new battle will start again elsewhere, and the righteous companion is like a hunter, as long as there is a battlefield, I must rush there, and I don't know how many times I repeat it"

"That drives people crazy, you know?!" Archer roared and kicked Emiya Shirou away, "Do you think heroes are really compliments?!" slaughtered a city, killed girls who were far weaker than him in order not to be infected, and hoped that they would not die, but in the end, he could only silently watch them die generously, and he could only take their place and continue to charge"

"It's impossible to make everyone happy, some people are happy and some people are sad, the chains of human beings fighting each other will never break, that is behind the heroes, I am just the one who carries the chains in front of them" Archer raised his hand, and then clenched his hands into fists and slammed them down

"Whew!" Emiya Shirou let out a cry of pain

"The so-called righteous partner, that's nothing but self-deception" Archer looked at himself with a cold eye, "Your father has lived five years longer than mine, so he should teach you more, did you not listen or did you forget everything?" ”

"Let me tell you what happened to me back then, I signed a contract with Saber, and no one else's servants have changed"

"Lancer died trying to delay time for me and Saber, and his last life ended at the hands of Gilgamesh"

"Rider is killed by Saber's Noble Phantasm"

"Berserker was killed by the Sword of Contract with the cooperation of Rin and Saber"

"Assassin dies after one last battle with Saber"

"Caster dies in a raid on Gilgamesh"

"Archer was killed by Berserker while covering the escape of Sater and Rin"

"Saber vanished at the end of the Holy Grail War"

"And I, Emiya Kiritsugu, died three years after the end of the Holy Grail War, and I and Sakura are seniors and juniors, and Rin Tosaka are comrades-in-arms. Except for Velvet who survived, everyone else had already died in the war, so the head of the family was still the Dirty Inkstone of Makiri, and Rin Tosaka was living alone, and the supervisor was Yan Feng Qili "Archer said a little bit about the world he was in"? Is it shady? This is the real war, this is the real servant"

"So answer me, Emiya Shirou, in times of peace. How can you, who can't withstand even a little death, fight me? Archer asked coldly

That's right, he has no reason to fight with him, he is a hero who grew up in the bones, I don't know how many scars he has experienced, I don't know how many life and death pains he has crossed, his existence is justice, and he can only drown with his ideals

"One qiē's ideals are all wrong, and it is because I have experienced it that I can assert that "Archer pointed his sword at the throat of Emiya Shirou, "then, it is time to wake up from the dream"

"It's not a mistake," Emiya Shirou whispered

"Then what do you know about the reason for my refutation?" Archer sneered, "Still won't give up your so-called heroic concept?"

"Of course! Because there are heroes in every era! There is no need to rely on blood to save others like you do! There are bloodless wars in this world! Regaining his strength, Emiya Shirou struck Archer's sword open, "I can't argue with your experience, but I can object to your approach!" ”

"If you really can't save it, then try to give up, and then use your whole life to make up for it!!"

It was a word that Archer had never heard before, and the man gave "Emiya Shirou" a new five-year memory

He was devastated by the loss of his wife and daughter, and he wanted to go back but could never see each other again, so he could only entrust his dream to Emiya Shirou

He reflects on the past because of the loss of his wife and daughter, and does not want to go back or see each other, so he understands the true meaning of a hero and teaches it to Emiya Shirou

Is it all because of you in the end? Dad?

Without raising his hand again, Archer quietly watched the black sword penetrate his chest, never expecting the end, just because of a word, the cage in Archer's heart fell with a grief

"Definitely not a mistake" Emiya Shirou did not raise his head "This is my victory"

"This is also my defeat" Archer closed his eyes "Although the way of fighting is terrible, you have surpassed me"

"Looks like my heart is still not calm enough, I haven't even shown you the last treasure," Archer chuckled, "that's the only real thing that belongs to me."

"Come on, if there is nothing wrong in the future, you will be the one who wins in the end," Archer's figure slowly became illusory

(The man called Yukumo Chong - he is a character who has never appeared in my world, and I have never even heard of his family)

(And there is one most important thing, although it is said that this time the night of the wild goose is still alive, but the hidden in the body of the wild bird, it seems that the real enemy is no longer Gilgamesh) The hero relaxed

(At least this time I can take a break)

Sakura's body trembled, and her purple hair slowly turned white

Liudong Temple

"Archer is dead?" Gilgamesh was surprised, "It seems that I have to hurry up, but they actually dare to attack each other at this time, interesting~"

"There's only Saber left, don't overdo it," Chong reminded

"Don't worry, this king will be measured" Gilgamesh waved his hand and turned into a point of light and left, "I'll go get the Holy Grail, and use the Command Charm if I have something"

"This Holy Grail War, I will definitely make you feel happy~"

Note 1: What Archer recalls in this chapter is actually the Saber line plot, and the three-line plot is written together 23333

Note 2: I never expected the zuò group to play original, and I wrote the plot of the two maids as soon as I came out (C's mother's original Master will die) After all, Serra's ending is so sadistic (wiping tears)