"I see...... Nobita said thoughtfully, "you were serious at that time. ”

Almost two days ago, Shirou had asked Archer, "What is your desire to participate in the Holy Grail War", and the latter half-jokingly gave the answer "yes to kill you". It was at the dinner table, and the atmosphere was generally harmonious, so no one was more serious...... Even Saber, who is known for his alertness, only thinks that Archer is just a mouthful of addiction, and does not delve into it. No one would have imagined that there was such a heavy killing intent hidden behind his unserious appearance.

Except for Nobita.

He learned from Altaïr the ability of "empathy", which allows him to perceive the general emotions of intelligent life at every moment. At that time, he really felt the killing intent and determination in Archer's heart, and it was by no means as simple as fighting with words. If it weren't for the situation, this decisive archer might have really swarmed up and killed Shirou without hesitation.

But he didn't understand why Archer had such a deep hatred for a teenager he had never met. Empathy is empathy, and he doesn't know what the goal is thinking...... Otherwise, this is not called empathy, it is called mind reading.

"Hmph...... I'm serious at all times. Archer tilted his head to the side and sneered, "After confirming your strength, I still haven't given up, thinking about taking a look at it again, if I can try my luck again." The night before yesterday, when that kid was hung and beaten by Soichiro Katsuki, it was supposed to be my last chance, at that time, there were many people, everyone had their own enemies, mainly to test each other, and they didn't show all their strength against the enemy...... The main thing is to take time to put a cold arrow when I'm fighting against Lancer. ”

"But then I realized that although you were fighting back and forth with Caster on the surface, you were actually not relaxing your observation of that kid for a moment, and at least sixty percent of your energy was on him. Even if I shoot a cold arrow, you'll teleport to his side to help him block it, and then drop a few things I can't read and blast me to the scum...... After that, I gave up completely, thinking that I would just find a chance to have a showdown with you. I just know that you want to train him, no, the opportunity has come? ”

"Archer, you...... Why the hell did you want to kill your predecessors? Sakura asked in a trembling voice, "From the timeline, it is impossible for the seniors to have any intersection with you, how could a seventeen-year-old half-magician provoke an enemy like you?" ”

"Unless, you're someone from the future......" In this detail, Rin's IQ burst out again, and an earth-shattering hypothesis instantly came to mind, "After Shirou grows up, he will have a grudge against you at some point in the future." The 'Heroic Spirits' of the Holy Grail War are not limited by age, and it is entirely possible to summon a person hundreds or even thousands of years later, yes! ”

"......" Archer glanced at the girl with a very complicated look in his eyes, which was filled with sadness and admiration, as if he was nostalgic for something precious that had passed away and would never return.

"I'm not an enemy of Emiya Shirou." He sighed and said in an extremely tired tone, "I'm Emiya Shirou. ”

……

"Boom ————!!"

Nobita felt something explode in his mind, and an overwhelming flood of information came over him, enveloping his five senses. Before that, he had repeatedly broken and crumpled the tip of the Emperor of Nothingness, and he hadn't stopped thinking for a second. He desperately wants to find out where Shirou is similar to himself, is it a personality? Age? Personality? Or is there something else that is not yet known? It wasn't until this moment that the answer was revealed.

Not "now" Shirou.

It's the "future" Shirou.

Other words......

On the other side, Archer, or the man who used to be called Emiya Shirou, didn't notice that Nobita's side had broken the line. He was leaning against the pillar in a posture of "going through vicissitudes", looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, and telling the story of the past with a decadent face.

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In his memory, the Fifth Holy Grail War was not as comfortable as it was now.

However, Archer quickly figured out that the reason why Shirou on this timeline went so smoothly and conveniently was entirely due to Nobita's "variable" that fell from the sky. Now he is participating in the "war", it is simply leading Nobita and Shu, the two full-level summoning beasts, to refresh the map of the hand village angrily, the existence of these two has greatly destroyed the balance of the game, even if the other six servants are united together to visually inspect, they will be killed alive...... For example, in the current situation, Shirou seems to have entered the Time House to practice hard, and just standing at the door, he can hear the crackling of sticks and screams inside, as if the situation is quite miserable......

But compared to Shirou, who "has already experienced a Holy Grail War", it is nothing in comparison.

Not to mention anything else, at least now this Shirou still has a choice, and there is still time to grow "slowly". Even if the enemy does force their way through the door, Nobita and Shu will beat them all back and create an absolutely peaceful "safe house" for Shirou to level up. When he is sure and his magic is great, he will go out of the mountain again, and go to his old opponents one by one to take revenge.

And in his memory, his Holy Grail War was much more tragic.

He doesn't have Nobita's plug-in, he can only rely on his own ability to challenge those opponents who are far ten or even dozens of times stronger than him...... All in all, after paying a considerable price and losing some people, Shirou finally won the Holy Grail War with a "miserable victory" and became the winner.

After that, Shirou began to carry out Kiritsugu's legacy, using magic and physical skills as a basis to wander the human world and become a partner of justice. Perhaps from this moment on, his end was already doomed......

In a certain crisis, when his ability was not enough to save everyone in front of him, the "inhibition of the world" suddenly appeared and made a terrible deal with him, which was as follows: these humans who were supposed to die could be saved, but in return, the moment after Emiya Shirou's death...... He will be captured by the power of the Holy Grail and sublimated into a Heroic Spirit while existing as a "Guardian". The specific duty of the guardian is to appear in the human world instead of the inhibiting force, to clean up the filth, and to stop those people or things that may threaten the existence of humanity, similar to Gandalf.

Sounds pretty good - being recognized by the world's inhibiting forces and sublimated into a heroic spirit by his personal actions is undoubtedly a rather lofty honor, and it is also an affirmation of his "righteous deeds" over the years.

At first...... That's exactly what he thought.

But soon Shirou realizes that he is wrong, and he is so wrong that he has no idea about the mode of thinking of inhibition.

Shirou, who was betrayed and died, soon opened his eyes in another place, and gradually discovered that the so-called "guardian" was actually a shady profession. If he had to say it, he was more willing to call himself a "lynching officer", specifically to help the restraining force do some murderous and overselling things.

Analytica is that a genius scientist will invent a potion fifteen years later, and then the potion will circulate on the black market and end up in the hands of another crazy outlaw. This outlaw injected the drug directly into his body, and the poor injection environment, contaminated syringes, and special climate and other factors combined to form a virus that can transform people into zombies. Taking this as an opportunity, all mankind began the plot of Resident Evil, and three years later, there was not a single living person left on the earth.

In a situation like this, it's the inhibition that comes into play, and the way it regulates it is crude and simple - just send the Guardian over and kill the scientist before he can develop a drug. The binding force of the contract on the Heroic Spirit is absolute, and even if Shirou wants to resist, he can't do anything about it, so he can only convince himself with reasons such as "this is for humanity" or "kill one of him, and all mankind will be spared".

Can...... It's a lynching after all.

Are you really qualified to judge the scientist who developed the drug? If you think about it carefully, the original purpose of his research on this drug is definitely not to turn people into zombies, even if all human beings are zombies in the end, he will not be the one who should be most responsible. Even from the perspective of human law, he is just doing what he should do, and he is completely innocent. Suppressibility does not think like this, it will only solve the problem in the most fundamental and crude way, that is, let the problem never arise from the beginning, and what has never been there is naturally no danger.

In this way, in lynching after lynching, Shirou killed one person after another who he didn't even know if he was innocent. Perhaps a large part of them are good people, but for various reasons they have become "inducements to destroy human reason" and are on the nirvana list of inhibitions. His principles also continued to retreat in the numb killing, and finally one day there was no way to retreat, and it completely collapsed. At first, I just wanted to be a partner in justice, but ...... Can such senseless killings really be linked to the word "justice"? He didn't even know who the name of everyone he had killed, or what mortal sin he had committed.

He had never hated his past self so much.

What a righteous partner, a short-sighted dream, in the end is just a lynching officer with blood on his hands.

If anything, Shirou has learned from such a long time as a guardian...... That is undoubtedly the simple and crude idea of the inhibition force – if you want to solve the problem once and for all, you have to make it never happen.

In this way, just let the past self disappear completely...... The archer named "Emiya Shirou" will disappear with it, right?

With this desire in mind, Archer answered the call and came to the city of Fuyuki in this era.

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Meanwhile, in a secret basement of the Church of the Magicians.

A handsome man in a black motorcycle suit with short blond hair was sitting in an uncomfortable seat, staring at a game of chess on the table, frowning slightly, thinking quietly. This is undoubtedly a person with quite an aura, although most of his attention is focused on the chess game in front of him, he still exudes a domineering temperament, and his red vertical pupils stare at one or two key chess pieces like a snake. The chair across from him was empty, and he didn't care if there was a person sitting across from him, just playing games was enough to arouse his interest.

He is like a mighty lion, just sitting here, the noble aura of the superior continues to escape from his body, with inviolable majesty. The man's right hand gently shook a goblet containing a little mellow wine, which took on a strange color in the dim light. He didn't seem to want to drink the wine from the quilt, and over the years, the man had tasted so many delicacies that he didn't care much about a glass of wine. He just thinks it's more stylish to take a cup out and shake it in his hand at this moment, that's all......

"Click", the wooden door was gently pushed open.

"Did you bother me?" Yan Feng Qili glanced at the scattered chessboard on the table and asked in his rather magnetic voice.

"Huh...... How so? The blonde man said lazily, "Actually, this game of chess has been placed here since the morning, and not a single piece has been moved. Qili, you know what? When people are thinking, they always need a soundboard...... Generally speaking, it is better to be a living creature, which we call 'listeners', i.e., to do only some simple interactions in the process of listening, and not to analyze the logical loopholes of the narrator. In this way, the enthusiasm of the speaker will be mobilized to the greatest extent, and the speed of thinking will be appropriately accelerated, which is the principle. ”

"According to you, ordinary people probably can't be your soundboard."

"Hmph...... What are you kidding, just those crumbs? The blonde man's cold snort was full of contempt for humans, "Don't talk about talking, it's disgusting to sit in the same room with them." ”

"So, what are you thinking about using chess as a sounding board?"

"Hey...... Qili, what do you think this king is thinking? The blonde man's voice changed back to that somewhat unorthodox look, "In the whole world, what else is new to make this king interested?" ”

Speaking of which, Yan Feng Qili also understood what he wanted to hear, and immediately said, "The person you asked me to check last time was a little eyebrow-raising. ”

"Hmm." The blonde man nodded, patiently waiting for him to continue.

"This time the temptation ended in failure, but judging from the information gathered before...... All I can say is that your reasoning is completely wrong, and that guy is not a man who sells fame and fame. On the contrary, he has real skills, and he ...... It was indeed he who killed the rider with a broken bamboo. Qili said slowly.

"Oh?" The blonde man raised his eyebrows in some surprise, "I thought it was that waste from the Maki family who deliberately said him a little more in order to shirk responsibility, but I didn't expect it to be true......"

"Shinji Maki doesn't have magical powers." Qili brought up Shinji in a bug-like tone, far from the polite gesture he had when facing him, and the disregard in his tone made people shudder, "He can't support Rider to exert his true power in this life, in other words, Rider's strength has been greatly weakened, and his ability to kill Rider doesn't show how strong he is." But...... Through some technical means, we have roughly recreated the battle in the park. ”

"His physical abilities are comparable to those of the Berserker, and he can also release large fireballs with a temperature of up to 1000 degrees Celsius, which can teleport, and can temporarily suppress the Berserker's body with telekinesis. During the battle at Ryuto Temple, I saw him unleash several powerful spells without reciting the true name of the Noble Phantasm, and their strength was comparable to that of a caster. ”

"All-round Heroic Spirit?" He stood up suddenly, laughing, and his laughter was full of arrogance, "I didn't expect it...... This time I was able to meet such a guy. ”

"Anyway, your previous predictions about him are sure to be completely disappointed." The priest teased a little sarcastically, "You don't feel embarrassed? ”

"What's so embarrassing about that? I'm not a perfect creature who knows everything, and it's normal to be wrong once in a while. The blonde man waved his hand very generously, drank the wine from the glass, and said, "The most important thing is that this king has been waiting for so long, and finally came across a sample that is 'interesting' enough, which is really interesting." An outsider, a special heroic spirit supported by a completely unknown system...... Hahahaha, what kind of fun will he bring to this king? ”

"I suggest you take it easy." Qili said lightly, "You said it, he may be an 'outsider' and has a system that we don't know. Thy king's treasure shall not work before him. ”

"Huh? Gifts? You mean...... Isn't this king his opponent? The blonde man said this in a tone that was completely like repeating a joke that was not funny, "The man from outside the sky...... And how? In front of this king, it is just a somewhat novel target, and this king has 10,000 ways to kill him. ”

"Next, I will go to Einzberen's house first as planned." He stabbed out the door and said, "It's best to get the 'Little Grail,' maybe...... You can also force that guy out, killing two birds with one stone. ”