Chapter 163: They Can Forget About Living

Activating the array once more, Shiro prompted Mami to create her ribbons. Then, these ribbons dove into the river before being pulled out—one Noble Phantasms in the end of it after another.

The fragments soon followed as more than two dozens of them are pulled into their place. Each of them has a certain amount of mystery within them, proving that they have existed during the Age of Gods, whereas Camelot is still standing.

"Are these... from the King of Heroes?" Sayaka asked.

"Mn. He fought a creature of foreign origins in this bridge ten years ago."

Hearing this, Mami recalled something strange about Fuyuki City.

"The hallucinogenic gas incident from ten years ago is related to this?"

"Hallucinogenic gas? So that's how they covered it up. It's only been a day yet you already know about these, Mami-chan."

"It's not too difficult..."

With her improved capabilities, it really wasn't difficult to skim through the suspicious events in less than 6 hours. Still, this compliment made her happy.

"As for the incident, it was something related to the Fourth Holy Grail War. The Caster summoned in it is a madman, so he summoned a creature related to Outer Gods and almost caused a massacre in the end. If not for Saber using her Noble Phantasm, many would've been dead."

"Saber's Noble Phantasm...The strongest Holy Sword, Excalibur."

As these two has the Semi-Librarian Role in [Library of the End], they knew more of its details through the recorded information about [Excalibur Morgan]. It's what Artoria Pendragon had wielded in an anomalous 5th Grail War, hence they knew more information about it since the Saber here is basically the same.

(A/N: Singularity F Salter.)

Furthermore, it is also the info storage that Sayaka had been using to project armaments that she hadn't projected in her former Witch state. It's also more detailed due to Shiro's insights added to the fray, so even Mami plans to use it to project modern guns and cannons.

"Anyways... Can you scan and input them in the library, Sayaka-chan?"

"Alright!"

It only took Sayaka a total of 30 minutes to do a [Structural Analysis] on every single thing present. After being done with it, Mami stored it in her [Storage Ring (SSR)], another one of the rewards that Shiro got during his crazy 120-pulls.

With that, the aura of Noble Phantasms disappeared, making it convenient for them to deactivate the array.

"Hm..?"

The moment he did so, Shiro's intuition told him that someone dangerous had been looking at him. Based on its direction, it should be on top of the Fuyuki Bridge.

In the end, he replied with a silent smile on his own, albeit his accumulated bloodlust from his previous massacre not long ago silently flowed out of his bright amber pupils.

*****

"..?!"

A blue-haired man wearing a tight blue jumpsuit almost fell from the wirings of the bridge as he sensed the boundless killing intent from the small boy. It's terrifying enough to make him, the Hound of Culann, freeze for a second.

His blood-red eyes darted away from the "small boy" swiftly.

"That bloodlust... Just how many did he kill?"

Instead of fear, what he felt is excitement instead—to fight someone who has that kind of bloodlust, it can say a lot about the small boy's combat abilities. Still, he saw that the boy is in a somewhat strange state, something he's very familiar with.

"He's severely injured, yet he can operate normally. He's not a Heroic Spirit, but he truly matches one. Interesting..."

Looking at the boy, he decided that he will fight him once the boy recovers his strength.

*****

'Lancer, Cu Chulainn. Looks like the priest knows about us, too.'

From what they've gathered, Shiro deduced that every master participating in this war had heard of them. Unfortunately for them, he knew their identities. The hours of no-sleep to finish all three routes wasn't wasted, perhaps.

In this route, in which he surmised as either fate or Unlimited Blade Works route, the seven servants are the following:

Saber, Artoria Pendragon.

Lancer, Cu Chulainn.

Rider, Medusa.

Caster, Medea.

Archer, EMIYA.

"Assassin", Sasaki Kojirou.

Berserker, Heracles.

Their corresponding Masters are the following:

Shirou Emiya.

Kotomine Kirei.

Sakura Matou (Shinji Matou).

Souichirou Kuzuki.

Rin Tohsaka.

Medea.

Illyasviel von Einzberg.

'Tohsaka and Emiya are our temporary allies. The Shinji here doesn't matter much due to his incompetence and Illya due to her childishness, so the only problem here are Kirei, Kuzuki, and Zouken. Heh, the sly ones.' Shiro thought.

While scooping his strawberry parfait, he calculated their priority levels, in which Kirei is undoubtedly at the top of it. With Gilgamesh, he's the one to worry about the most.

Ironically, he's also the easiest one to handle due to Gilgamesh's boundless pride. If the one summoned here is the one after his journey to immortality, they would've been screwed up.

In the end, he could only sigh and say, "It's no use to try being a bystander. They would definitely target us..."

""I will protect you, sensei.""

Two voices overlapped, making Shiro smile.

"I would take up on that offer~"

Seeing him like this, Sayaka and Mami froze. They saw Shiro's playful side before, but seeing it WHILE he's in his child form is even more deadlier!

Heck, even the staff of this cafe became dazed upon seeing that vibrant smile of his!

Hence, all of them are downcast when he put on his white face mask once more. The duo with him walked out with him, all the while they had 'happy' expressions that looked smug to others.

"Kuh..!"

"My luck... Only if I'm in their position..."

"Such a cute younger brother..!"

From a distance, Mami heard all of it. Thus, a slight ill intent emanated from her before quickly retracting.

"Mami-chan, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, sensei."

Shiro knew that there's something whenever a girl says that there's nothing, so he didn't ask her further.

Recalling their trip today, he asked, "How was the trip?"

"It's not bad." Sayaka replied with a serene look. "It can be considered that it's peaceful here, and only when the grail war begins will their daily life be in danger."

"It's the same as our world." Mami added. "Magi, Magical Girls... Even the threat of Walpurgisnacht and the fifth grail war are the same. Although, it's enviable that the magi here can live the life that they want, unlike our prior selves..."

Due to Fenrir's intervention, he made it so that the Soul Gem no longer has a Grief Seed as its core. This eliminated the danger of a Magical Girl turning into a Witch. Furthermore, they are assimilated with their body, making it so that they're now a proper power system. They have the chance to improve during battles, and their Soul Gems automatically absorb mana from their environment.

With a [Will] residing in their world, entropy is no longer a problem as it could now interact with the energies outside their universe.

As for their chance to improve, it's actually them absorbing the energies from Wraiths, a conglomerate of intangible negative emotions. Once they do so, they increase their magical power capacity as well as magical power quality. Together with the automatic mana regeneration, they can develop more special moves, unlike Mami's time when they can only use magical power during life and death battles.

Thirty minutes of walking later, they arrived on top of the hill where the Emiya household is.

"We're back."

The trio removed their footwear before stepping in to the household.

"Oh~! You must be the guests that Shirou had mentioned."

As soon as they walked in, they were greeted by an energetic voice. It is somehow full of power, reminding them of a tiger.

"""Greetings, Fujimura-san."""

Being greeted by them at the same time, she was quite surprised. Nonetheless, she reacted:

"Feel free to stay here! Shirou mentioned that you had some trouble at home, so you can relax here~:

"Alright..." Sayaka replied with a befuddled tone.

Sitting in the dining table, Saber took a sip of her tea before asking:

"How's your journey?"

Shiro said with a smile, "It's fun. We found many interesting things here in Fuyuki."

Hearing this, Taiga was surprised once more.

"Eh? You're not from Fuyuki?"

"Not really... But we know someone here in Fuyuki, which then led to us residing here temporarily." He replied.

"I see!"

Just as they were having a conversation, the purple-haired girl in the kitchen said, "The dinner's ready!"

Sayaka then stood up and said that she'll be calling Shirou.

Coincidentally, the eyes of Shiro and the purple-haired girl met.

Feeling this sense of familiarity and longing, she was confused for a moment.

'Eh? This is..?'

Meanwhile, Shiro had many complex emotions at this moment.

'So this is the fate of my student... had she not known me?'

In that moment, his anger towards the Matous surged once more.

'Since I've killed them before, they can forget living in this world line, too.' He thought.

Saber noticed the wrath in his eyes, but she was confused as to how seeing Sakura can trigger it. In the end, Shirou and Rin came in and they started to eat their dinner...