I had that dream again.
The same one from when I was alive.
Mordred stood before the unyielding stone, beside a Magus whose appearance seemed to flicker between youth and age, clad in a white cloak.
A sword was embedded in the stone, and the Magus proclaimed loudly to the knights of the realm:
“Whoever pulls this sword shall become king.”
Brave warriors, knights renowned far and wide, and those confident in their strength all stepped forward to try. But none ...
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Deep within the forest, Beryl Gut was doing everything he could to flee the Einzbern woods.
He hadn’t expected the Masters of the Fuyuki Holy Grail War to be such dangerous opponents.
Shinji Matou’s Servant, Perseus, the Heracles controlled by a hijacked Einzbern Homunculus...
And himself, alongside Hassan-i-Sabbah lurking in the shadows. It had seemed like a guaranteed kill. But then a third party appeared—someone who, with the skill of a Magus, effortlessly killed As...
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The sky unfolded like a massive water mirror, releasing a torrential downpour. Within it appeared the radiant weapons of knights from the past, present, and future—those who had never gathered on this land—only to fade away again with the mist.
“What a sorrowful Noble Phantasm... I really don’t want to see it a second time.”
Shiomi stared wistfully at the vanishing weapons and the once again fallen Heracles, murmuring to himself in a voice only he could hear. Anything mo...
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Heracles was still just one man. Tangled in a two-on-one with Shiomi and Mordred, it was impossible for him to cover all sides.
His instincts as a warrior drove him to counter and strike, but whenever he targeted one, the other would seize the opening. Each of their swords had the power to kill him again. Roaring, Heracles swung his massive axe in a relentless arc, leaving no room for either to break through.
They just needed a little more time.
"Archer, can your Projection ...
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"But still... quite the wilderness. So this is the place you once reached—your final destination, huh, Archer?"
Shiomi reached out and casually drew an unfamiliar longsword from the ground, raising it to point toward the distant Berserker.
His tone carried neither shock nor doubt—only a quiet sense of reflection.
"Perhaps," Archer replied, stepping forward. "In life, I was neither a swordsman nor an archer. I was just a Magus. I had no holy sword, no demonic blade. If an...
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"...Steel is my body, and fire is my blood..."
Archer’s chant continued uninterrupted.
But Berserker had no intention of giving him the luxury of preparation. In his fully berserk state, he would keep fighting until he ran out of mana—or until every last enemy was dead.
Even with Saber and Morgan drawing his attention, Heracles still targeted Archer.
Breaking free from Morgan’s chains, he lunged toward him.
Archer barely dodged the swing of the massive crim...
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At the same time, deep in the forest...
Assassin let out a twisted cry of pain, his palm nailed to a tree trunk by a crimson magic spear.
His right arm, his Noble Phantasm, had been forcibly cut off the moment he tried to activate it. The reason was simple—the weapon that interrupted him was also a Noble Phantasm.
Assassin glanced at the young man in modern clothes. He couldn't tell if the man was a Servant, but the aura radiating from him was anything but ordinary. No mer...
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In the midst of his battle with Berserker, Archer maintained distance as he launched attacks, preparing to activate his Noble Phantasm.
But just as he began his incantation, Berserker’s movements suddenly halted.
“What’s going on?”
The unexpected change caused Archer to hesitate. He watched Berserker closely, wondering if Rin had defeated the Einzbern Homunculus. Without a Master, perhaps Berserker could no longer sustain himself.
After all, Berserkers consumed...
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A few minutes ago, in the rooftop garden of the castle...
Saber had misjudged the battle. Now, she was forced to meet Perseus and his Pegasus head-on as they launched high-speed charges.
Even with her Mana-woven armor, the impact was hard to withstand.
Rider’s Pegasus moved as if it had no upper limit on speed—pulling off missile-like, razor-sharp turns just before crashing into walls, persistently tailing the dodging Saber.
The once-elegant garden atop Einzbern Ca...
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From Sakura’s perspective, this wasn’t even a proper magecraft battle.
Shinji’s attacks couldn’t break through the storm.
Worse still, his magecraft was undoubtedly burning away his own life. The more he cast beyond his limits, the faster his life force drained away.
At this rate, in less than two minutes, Shinji would die from sheer exhaustion.
Meanwhile, Sakura’s Mana reserves were completely untouched.
She hadn’t expected to be matched against some...
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In the midst of their fierce battle with Berserker, Archer noticed something off.
“Rin, did you catch that?” he asked.
“You’re talking about Berserker’s Master, right?” Rin held a gemstone between her fingers, ready to coordinate with Archer’s next move. “Yeah, something’s definitely strange. Einzbern hasn’t shown up at all…”
She had assumed her Servant was relatively average, not particularly powerful. But just now, working together, Archer had unlea...
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In terms of close-quarters combat, the Saber class is arguably the strongest among the seven.
When Servants are evenly matched in specs, Lancer tends to be at a disadvantage due to slightly lower stats, often getting overwhelmed.
Rider—Perseus, the Greek hero who became the constellation Perseus after death—was never famed for his martial skill. Compared to Heracles, who was still locked in fierce combat with Berserker and Rin, Rider fell far short in that regard.
So des...
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Chapter 36: Meaningless Inferiority Complex
The dry winter made the forest highly flammable.
For any Magus, setting fire to the Einzbern Forest wasn’t difficult—the so-called forest barrier offered no protection against fire.
Standing in the center of the blazing woods, Sakura remained unshaken by the thick smoke and searing heat, calmly watching Shinji Matou engulfed in flames before her.
Sakura Shiomi was pristine, not a speck of ash on her, forming a sharp contr...
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Sure enough, Rider and his Master, Shinji Matou, were hiding in the forest, spying on the battle from afar.
The moment Archer was injured and Rin stepped in to treat him, and just as the others were watching Berserker regenerate from his fatal wounds, they ordered Rider to launch a surprise attack.
“You useless Servant! Can’t even hide your killing intent, huh?!”
Furious and humiliated, Shinji slammed his fist against a tree, spitting out venomous curses.
“Shin...
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Amid the heavy distortion of space, a silver longsword and a pair of black-and-white twin blades slashed upward, clashing with Berserker’s massive axe-sword and unleashing a violent shockwave in all directions.
Rin and Sakura, just a few steps away, were nearly swept off their feet.
With their Masters behind them, retreat was not an option.
Saber and Archer moved in unison.
“Get back!”
“Hrah!”
The mana they released surged like red lightning, and ...
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“Huh? Your dad might’ve come back to Fuyuki?”
It was lunchtime at Homurahara Academy. Rin and Sakura sat in a quiet corner of the cafeteria, eating together.
Since yesterday, they’d been patrolling various parts of Miyama Town, trying to track the movements of other Masters and Servants—but neither Shinji nor any others had shown up with their Servants.
Having come home late the previous night, neither of them had the energy to prepare lunch this morning, so they...
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"That’s unexpected. It’s only been a day—don’t tell me you’ve already taken down Assassin?"
Pushing open the church doors, Ciel looked at Shiomi and Morgan from her place at the altar, visibly surprised.
"That’s not possible. Doesn’t the Church have a Spirit Board to track Servant summonings?"
Shiomi shook his head, denying her assumption.
"The Spirit Board only confirms whether all the Servant slots are filled—it doesn’t track when they’re defeated...
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“Damn... bastard...”
Lancer braced himself with his spear and slowly stood up, breathing heavily as he stared at Caster.
He still didn’t know who this Servant was, but the massive surge of mana Caster had just unleashed had engulfed the entire mansion grounds. Bazett, still not fully recovered from her injuries, was knocked unconscious again by the blast—unable to even use her prized Noble Phantasm.
Since Caster hadn’t activated his own Noble Phantasm, Fragarach ha...
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Summoning Magecraft is the art of calling spiritual entities from the past or future into the present.
By invoking and describing beings known as the "72 Demons," the King of Magecraft, Solomon, can summon them into the current world as powerful familiars. The Heroic Spirit summoning system used in the Holy Grail War is, in some sense, also a branch of this type of Magecraft.
As the founder who established phenomenon manipulation as a formal branch of Magecraft, the demons command...
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Shiomi's hunch and Morgan's judgment were both spot on.
The haunted Western-style mansion in the forest southwest of the Fuyuki Church was indeed Bazett and Lancer’s base.
And the one who launched the attack against them was Caster—Solomon, the King of Magecraft.
Though it was technically an assault, it was more accurate to call it a direct and open engagement. At his Master Marisbury’s suggestion, Caster made no effort to conceal himself. He simply entered the forest ...
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The next morning, Shiomi woke up to find his phone had run out of battery, so he quickly plugged it in to charge.
Ever since the start of the new century, devices like this had advanced rapidly, especially in terms of miniaturization. They were now far more convenient than Magecraft communication.
However, the battery was quite durable, so if he wasn't paying attention, he could go two or three days without charging it—and often forgot. Hence, situations like this would happen.<...
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After their late-night snack, the two of them sat under the kotatsu and resumed their earlier discussion.
The details of the Masters and Servants involved in the Holy Grail War weren't something Shiomi needed to concern himself with. He hadn’t returned to Fuyuki to compete for the Holy Grail. After learning Caster’s true name from BB, he realized that even if she managed to win every other battle, she’d still suffer a crushing defeat against the King of Magecraft.
Whether or...
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Sluurp—
The hot noodles slid down Shiomi’s throat, settling warmly in his stomach. Instantly, he felt revived.
He took another sip of the fresh broth. It was just a simple bowl of bone broth noodles, but on a cold winter night, it hit the spot perfectly.
Lifting his gaze, he glanced at Morgan.
She was also quietly savoring the noodles he had made.
The broth came from the leftover stock at dinner, and the noodles were handmade earlier that day.
If not fo...
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As it turned out, the woman lying in the alley hadn’t been attacked by Gilgamesh. He and his Master, Hakuno Kishinami, had simply heard her scream and arrived before Shiomi and the others.
Gilgamesh stayed behind to secure the scene, while Hakuno ran off to find a nearby patrol officer.
“I didn’t think you’d let your Master act alone under these circumstances,” Shiomi said, still eyeing Gilgamesh with suspicion. “Aren’t you worried she’ll be targeted by the Servant...
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According to the intel from Ciel, the Assassin's Master had mistakenly attacked Rider’s Master in Shinto, thinking he was just an ordinary civilian.
So after nightfall, Shiomi headed to Shinto with Morgan.
But even after over an hour of thorough patrol in the quiet, late-night city, the two found nothing.
Neither Shiomi nor Morgan could sense any sign of a Servant’s presence.
“Looks like after the mishap during last night's ambush, Assassin's Master has started b...
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“Seriously, that Servant sure ran fast. Took off before we even started fighting.”
As they walked toward the seaside park, Saber rested her arms behind her head, grumbling with a bored expression.
Back at the building entrance, Saber had sensed a Servant battle taking place at the school. Sakura had immediately sent her to investigate while she went upstairs to look for her sister.
“What kind of Servant was it, Archer?” Rin asked her own Servant, who had engaged the ...
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“Hey, did you hear? Something happened at the seaside park near the big bridge!”
“I heard it was an explosion caused by a gas pipe leak underground. I even cut out the photo from the newspaper—look!”
“Whoa, that’s terrifying!”
After school at Homurahara Academy, Rin Tohsaka overheard students chatting on their way home as she stepped out of the classroom.
By this time, there were barely any students left in the school building.
Starting today, the...
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Two days had passed since the onset of the Holy Grail War. That morning, as Shiomi was going about his usual preparations at home, he received an unexpected visitor.
“Ciel?”
Seeing the young nun standing outside the courtyard, Shiomi was momentarily speechless.
“Just as I suspected. After examining the traces at the seaside park, I concluded that one of the combatants in that battle was you, Mr. Shiomi,” Ciel said, her expression calm. “It's been a while. How have ...
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Though it was called a land of nothingness, that didn’t mean it was peaceful.
In fact, there wasn’t even water here—so the idea of stillness, of calm waves, didn’t apply at all.
In the Land of Shadows, anything tied to “life” simply didn’t exist. There were only things related to “death.”
Wraiths. Spirits. The dead.
Most importantly, the very concept of “death” seemed to endlessly attract and cluster together.
Weak souls, aimless and unconsc...
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Shinji Matou was in serious trouble.
As usual, after school he had taken a few girls out—shopping, karaoke, and finally a love hotel. Being from a prestigious family in Miyama Town with no shortage of wealth, Shinji had no problem attracting attention from the opposite sex.
But on his way home, walking through the night, he was ambushed by a Servant.
Overconfident in his abilities, Shinji had completely overlooked the fact that the Holy Grail War had already begun, with se...
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