“—If you don’t want the Holy Grail, just give up the spell.”

The priest named Yanfeng Kirei, explained to me this.

He turned out to be a magician and a participant in the last war. The priest who trained him to grow up was the supervisor of the last war. After the old priest died in the war, Yan Feng took over his job.

What surprised me was that Yan Feng was also Tosaka's guardian and the senior brother of the magician. As a priest, he seemed serious and serious, so he should be a very serious person.

But after hearing my name, his performance seemed surprisingly enthusiastic to me.

The enthusiasm is close to malice, which makes it difficult for me to deal with.

“—As long as you don’t worry about the incident that happened ten years ago again.”

The priest admired my expression and seemed to be able to draw great happiness from it.

"Things ten years ago...?"

"That's right, it's something that everyone lives in this city knows, Shirou Emiya. More than 500 people were killed or injured, and 130 to 140 buildings were destroyed. The fire that was unknown was the claw marks of the last Holy Grail War."

The scene hidden in my heart for ten years has appeared before my eyes again.

The field of vision is blurred, and the focus is lost in the scorching hell of heat steam.

I smelled the smell again, the burnt stinking of the fat-burning corpse.

My body was about to fall down all of a sudden, just like the child ten years ago, lying weakly on the scorching ground waiting for death.

But, I stood firmly before that.

It suppressed with boiling anger, almost making people feel vomited when they fell down.

"Why is this happening? Isn't the church the supervisor of war?"

"The Holy Grail is just a spirit body, a cup of wish that can only be accomplished through the battle of the seven Servant. As for what the winner will do with the Holy Grail, the church as the supervisor will not be responsible and cannot be responsible."

“That is,—”

"Well, the fire ten years ago was because an unmatched master touched the Holy Grail. I don't know what wish he made at that time. The only thing we know is the disaster of losing five hundred people."

The priest said with regret, and the pressure surrounding him relaxed a little.

My hands and feet were stiff and I couldn't speak. It turned out that all the disasters that took away were just because of the battles of several magicians.

"That's all, Shirou Emiya, make a decision now. If you don't need the Holy Grail and don't care about anyone getting the Holy Grail, then give up the mantra. You can get the protection of the church."

“—If you don’t want the events from ten years ago to repeat, you can also participate in this battle. Even if you can’t get the Holy Grail, you can see the belonging of the Holy Grail.”

Looking at me from a height, the priest asked me about my final choice.

I have no wish.

If I have a wish, I will not use the Holy Grail to achieve it.

The reason why a wish becomes a wish is because we are striving for it. While a wish is fulfilled, it is also the time when the wish is over.

The universal wishing machine is not what I want.

——So, I don’t need the Holy Grail.

However, I cannot tolerate the recurrence of the incident ten years ago.

The disaster took away everything from me, and I was not able to be reborn until I met my father at the end.

So I long to be a person like my father, to help others and save others.

No matter how many hardships I have experienced, I must smile so happily like my father when I save me.

Now I have a chance to stop the same disaster.

If it were his father, he would definitely go.

How could I refuse to worship him and promise him that I would become a messenger of justice?

——I have to participate in the Holy Grail War.

After making the decision, there was nothing to do. Tosaka and I left the auditorium and met Saber who was waiting outside the church.

He told the girl who was currently not clear about anything, named Saber, that she had made her decision.

Then, the three of us did nothing and just walked silently towards the place we should go back.

I was thinking about the last few words the priest left me.

"Good, boy. Your wish has finally come true - without clear evil, your wish will not come true. Justice must have evil that is opposed to it."

"For you: the noblest wishes have the same meaning as the ugliest wishes."

~~~~~~~ World~~ Need~~ Divide~~ Line~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Silence reached the intersection of various ramps, the place where Tosaka and I separated.

"Let's break up here. I've done my best. We will be enemies tomorrow. It's a lot of trouble to stay together, right?"

Tosaka was the first to speak, she probably wanted to say that if she had been together for too long, it would be difficult to fight if she sympathized with the other party.

Since I said this, Tosaka would have been fine as long as he was not together at the beginning. He was as smart as Tosaka, and he should understand this kind of thing, but Tosaka Rin still helped me without measuring his interests. Tosaka Rin was also a good person like everyone thought, and treated me, who would be the enemy tomorrow with kindness.

"What, Tosaka people are so nice."

"Ah? I'm saying something suddenly. I won't show mercy even if I flatter you."

For some reason, Tosaka was silent for a while afterwards.

"Listen, if you continue to advise, you will really sympathize with you, so I won't say it. Please be careful of yourself. Because even if Saber is excellent, as a master, you will end here if you are knocked down."

Tosaka turned around and walked away lightly. However, she suddenly stopped as if she saw a ghost.

“——Where, what’s the end?”

The sound like singing was indeed the sound of a young girl echoing at night.

The clouds had floated away at some point, and the bright moon shone in the sky.

A tall shadow as tall as a mountain stands proudly on the hillside. It is an alien that cannot exist in the familiar life, a monster that is so terrifying that my consciousness is frozen.

“—— berserker!”

Tosaka thought of the other party's identity.

"Good night brother. It's the second time I've met like this."

The girl standing next to the alien said with a smile, her innocent smile made me feel cold on my back.

really--

Last night, I seemed to have met such a little girl who crossed the streets on an empty night and said something inexplicable.

I have forgotten what she is talking about, but how could such a little girl appear next to such a monster?

On the hillside, the girl looked down at us and lifted her skirt politely, giving a gift that was very unsuitable for this occasion.

"For the first time meeting, Rin. I am Iriya. I said it was Iriyasfelu*Van*Einzberen. You know, right?"

"Einzberen--"

Has Tosaka heard this name? Her body shook a little. Are you satisfied with Tosaka's reaction? The girl smiled happily.

"Then kill them. Kill them, berserker!"

The girl ordered the alien behind her as if she was singing.

The giant body flew up, and a monster called berserker, breathed a breath from the hillside and fell towards the place dozens of meters away.

"Shirou, back!"

Saber ran away. She shook her raincoat and blocked my sight for a moment. She ran towards the place where the berserker fell, and arrived almost at the same time as the berserker falling with the whirlwind.

“Woo--!”

The air was shaking, and Saber used an invisible sword to barely block the giant sword that could almost be said to be rock in berserker's hand. However, Berserker's giant sword flashed towards Saber like a whirlwind.

The explosion sounded easily tore the atmosphere, and the collision between steel and steel ended with Saber's defeat. Although it blocked Berserker's giant sword, the sword that Saber used to block was completely pushed back.

Saber's posture collapsed.

The lead-black Servant chased the saber, and the gray alien only knew about this. Each attack was a fatal storm that could not be defended without blocking the whole body. Even the invisible sword could not gain any advantage.

Therefore, Saber can only keep defending.

A sword like a black rock block, waving like a hurricane, has such a huge body, and with such a huge sword, the speed of berserker is still beyond Saber. The death storm created by overwhelming force and speed has no room for skill to intervene.

Berserker swung the defense that defeated Saber, ending the attack.

Saber was hit and flew away, drawing a large line of ground in the air and fell down. Before her back hit the ground, Saber turned her body and fell to the ground, and red blood oozed out of her chest.

——That is, the wound that was penetrated by the lancer.

Saber is posing as if she is protecting her chest.

When berserker slashed down at the injured saber like a storm, he received several shocks on berserker's back.

“vierstilerschiebung…!”

It's a very powerful magic. At the same time as Tosaka recited the spell, berserker's body was shaken open.
To be continued...