Sakura is a good girl. If that's the case, why should she be dissatisfied?

It doesn't matter if he gets scolded, it doesn't matter what happens, but he has made up his mind to marry Sakura.

As the saying goes, "good things come in pairs", when he finally convinced Taiga to agree to the marriage - it took about five minutes, Taiga was actually easy to convince - Sakura's friend Mizu Ayako came to visit with cakes.

Sakura is temporarily staying at Emiya's house because of a fire at home.

The pastries are very good and are said to be gifts from a high-end store.

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"I shouldn't have left." Shenji blamed himself sadly.

Yes, if he were here, he would definitely notice something wrong with the taste of those snacks right away

Even if he didn't notice it, Medea, who was proficient in potions, would notice it.

So, things will never be this bad

"Shirou...are you okay?" Sakura looked worriedly at Shirou Emiya, who was lying quietly on the hospital bed with a black face.

The man she originally wanted to entrust to her for the rest of her life is now on the verge of life and death.

"He will be fine." Shenji said firmly, "Since he can persist until now, he will definitely be able to persist to the end. The Shirou Emiya I know will never be knocked down by a mere poison." Although he said so firmly,

But he actually didn't have much confidence in his heart.

There were a total of six people who ate the poisonous cakes at that time, four humans and two heroic spirits. Heroic spirits with strong vitality are naturally not afraid of mere toxins. The Matou family was trained by Demon King Zouken using various magic potions and insects since childhood.

The descendants also have strong poison resistance, so Medusa, Nanoha and Sakura are all fine. Medea got some antidote for them to drink and it was fine, but the situation of the other three was worse...

Fujimura Taiga, who was deeply poisoned due to gluttony, died before Shinji and Medea could come back. Mizu Ayako also failed to wait until the antidote was made, and only Shirou persisted.

After being given the antidote, he was still in a coma and could only lie on the hospital bed... Fortunately, his condition was relatively stable and his life did not appear to be in danger.

[Strange to say, after analysis by Medea, it was determined that the poison was very powerful. Unless we are people like Sakura and I who have the ability to resist poison, it is almost impossible to save the victim. Why is Shirou able to persist until now?

?And the condition seems to have stabilized... Maybe it's because of the Noble Phantasm called "Utopia" in Shirou's body? It's really a wonderful thing...]

Perhaps just as he guessed, the top-notch Noble Phantasm "Utopia" indeed has unpredictable power. Emiya Shirou regained consciousness before dark.

Faced with the tragic situation caused by his carelessness, Shirou blamed himself even more than Shinji.

But he is neither the furious leader of the Fujimura team nor the grief-stricken Mizu couple. As a magician and one of the Masters of the Holy Grail War, he is not powerless in the face of "death".

"If it were the Holy Grail that could grant all wishes... it would be possible to bring the dead back to life, right?"

"...Perhaps, the Holy Grail War has been held four times in the past, but all of them failed to successfully complete the summons and wish, so no one is sure." Shinji looked up at the gloomy night sky, feeling his mood getting heavier and heavier, "I can only say

, there is hope.”

Seeing his friend returning to the room alone to prepare for the battle later, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Are miracles so easy to achieve?

Moreover, in order to achieve a miracle, you must obtain the Holy Grail.

In order to obtain the Holy Grail, you must defeat the other heroic spirits, and then sacrifice Illyasviel and Emiya Kiritsugu's only daughter.

[Forget it, this secret should be buried underground with me forever.]

There was another severe pain in his chest. He swallowed a large amount of anti-rejection medicine and painkillers. He looked at the dazzling words "has serious toxic side effects" on the medicine bottle, shook his head, and used magic to completely destroy the bottle without leaving any traces.

.

After tonight, we won't need the magic circuit anymore, right?

Whether it's death or life, in short, this is the last time I take medicine.

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"After fifty years of life, things will be like a dream in the next world. Is there anyone who will live forever?"

Emiya Shirou punched Shinji on the shoulder from behind, interrupting his emotion.

"Don't say such things before a battle, it's very unlucky."

Shinji smiled, his smile as full of teasing as ever.

This smile is called "the charming smile of a prince" by girls and is one of the important sources of his huge popularity.

"I just think this poem is very appropriate for the occasion."

He turned his head and stared at Fuyuki Town under the night.

"Hey, Shirou, do you remember ten years ago?"

Shirou knew what his friend was referring to and sighed deeply.

"You and I are both the ones who survived that horrific disaster." Shenji sighed in a low voice, "When I saw Uncle Kariya being devoured by bugs in front of me, I was really shocked at that time.

So scared”

The young man who had lived for two generations recalled the scene at that time, and there was still a look of horror on his face.

Matou Kariya, the only man in the Matou family with decent magic qualifications in recent years, relied on his skillful use of magic to escape from the insect nest built by Matou Zangyan, and thus obtained freedom, which was once envied by Shinji.

object.

However, this uncle who had regained his life, after learning about Shinji's experience from his friends, returned to the Matou family regardless of life and death, and made a terrible deal with Zouken, who can be called the great devil.

He went to win the Holy Grail for Zangyan, but the price was that Zangyan had to go to the source and give up the bondage to the Matou family.

Zouken would naturally not object to such a deal, so Shinji and Sakura rarely got some relatively easy days.

——Even though he has focused his research on artificial perfect bodies, Zangyan still uses insect magic from time to time to transform Shinji and Sakura in line with his wishes. This approach has no benefit or reason at all, as if it is just

Out of pure habit.

This already old monster always seems to have to rely on other people's wails to confirm its sense of existence.

So from time to time, he would leave the laboratory, throw Shinji or Sakura into the insect nest, and enjoy the heart-rending screams.

The person who receives this kind of treatment more often is Shenji, because Zangyan likes to listen to the screams of strong men, bullying little girls, etc. Even he would find it boring, and he only does it occasionally.

And when Kariya came back, he took the place of the two children and stationed in hell...

"Ten years..." Shen Er's eyes gradually blurred, "Destiny is like a wheel, it has turned around and seems to have returned to the starting point."

"This is not the origin of destiny, nor is it a wheel," Shirou said firmly, "This is the starting point of a new life. We will definitely break the fate of the Holy Grail War."

There is no winner, this is the fate of the Holy Grail War.

Whether it was the frighteningly powerful magicians in the First Holy Grail War, or the heroic spirits who challenged the strongest in history in the Second Holy Grail War, or they took advantage of the outbreak of the war to fight, and even continued to fight.

The huge Third Holy Grail War in Tokyo, and even the Fourth Holy Grail War for which all the parties were extremely well prepared... There is never a winner in the Holy Grail War, and it always fails for various reasons.

It's like... being cursed.

Time and time again, at least seven magicians and seven heroic spirits, as well as dozens of times and hundreds of times more unrelated people, were swallowed up by the flesh-and-blood millstone called the Holy Grail War. In the end, nothing but tears, sighs and despair

Nothing gained.

No one can be saved, no one can win.

However, the temptation to reach the source and realize the wish is so great that it constantly tempts people to put everything they have as a bet and step onto the field of Shura that cannot be returned.

"...Is this the last time?"

Shirou was stunned for a moment, and then understood what Shinji meant.

"Yes, this will definitely be the last Holy Grail War." He clenched his fists, and the magic light flashed on the back of his hands.

There are still two command spells composed of swords and feathers.

That is the source of his confidence.

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Chapter completed!