【So tired...I really want to sleep...】

Emiya Shirou leaned against a broken tree, gasping for air.

Beside him, a silver-haired maid fell to the ground, lifeless.

[There are still enemies who can’t fall yet]

He bit his tongue hard and used the pain to wake himself up. He raised his katana again and faced another maid with the same silver hair.

The intersection of weapons.

He took a step back to avoid the danger of being disemboweled by the maid's other knife, but he still ended up with a long wound on his chest.

[How many times have you been injured? I knew I should have practiced my sword skills...]

In fact, he knew very well that his swordsmanship was not bad. The reason why he fought so badly was because his opponent was too strong, and because he had to persist and defend this place.

Behind him, Sakura was displaying all her talents, sending out magic spells like raindrops, and countering the opponent's magic spells like a violent storm.

He must be Sakura's shield, because the heroic spirits have no time now.

Deep in the woods, the purple-haired Rider was fighting fiercely with a heroic spirit wearing a mask and holding an ancient bronze sword. The nail ropes kept colliding with the ancient sword, making a continuous sound.

And in the sky, his servant, his daughter from the future, was silently confronting another heroic spirit.

The Einzbern family, like the Matou family, actually has two heroic spirits.

When he arrived, he saw Rider standing in front of Sakura, using a nail rope to hold the ancient bronze sword. However, he was hit by several golden magic balls, and his whole body trembled.

If Sakura hadn't used magic to treat her in time, perhaps this innocent heroic spirit would have been eliminated directly.

Faced with this situation, he had no room to think or the right to choose. He could only fight.

This battle lasted for several hours.

The fatigue of the body has almost reached its limit. Although magic can be strengthened, it is still impossible to transcend the inherent limits of flesh and blood. The identity of the opponent is unknown, but he can be sure that his skills are not inferior to his own.

Being able to kill an enemy was just because of a sudden flash of inspiration.

In terms of true strength, he should have been the one killed.

[How can you die here? Sakura needs my protection]

He roared and used all his strength to swing his sword.

The male's physical advantage helped him. After all, the opponent was a smaller girl. It was difficult to resist such an attack, so he staggered back two steps.

However, a magic attack came over immediately.

Sakura, who had relatively little actual combat experience, faced the opponent, a girl as cute as a doll, who not only had excellent magic abilities, but also had cold and efficient fighting methods.

...She is better than Sakura, much better.

He reluctantly raised the knife and tried to block the blow, but his exhausted body due to excessive blood loss could no longer exert any strength and was directly thrown away, unable to even hold the knife.

【Could it be...that this is how it ends?】

My eyes began to dim, my mind gradually went blank, and my body seemed to be unable to feel anything...

【How can it be】

Just as he was struggling desperately to stand up, the roar of the car motor came from the distance.

The car was incredibly fast. It seemed to be outside the forest at first, but after just a second or two, it rushed nearby.

【How did it drive so fast in the forest?】

Before he could turn around, he heard the sound of trees breaking and falling.

【Is this a car or a bulldozer?】

However, he no longer had the strength to look back and see what happened.

In the haze, he only heard a familiar roar, and then the deafening sound of gunshots.

【Shenji...you came just in time】

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[My body... is almost reaching its limit]

Illyasviel transformed the magic power in his hand into a strong curse, and used the spirit of excitement to guide it towards the enemy.

Not surprisingly, it was counteracted by the cloaked woman on the opposite side using reciprocal magic.

Different from the previous opponents, this time he faced an astonishingly powerful magician, perhaps one of the seven heroic spirits summoned in the Holy Grail War, the one with the rank of caster.

The girl who inherited Tohsaka and Matou's magic is very outstanding in terms of talent and her magic power is very powerful. However, she has always lived under the protection of her brother's wings. She is obviously not familiar with the battle between magicians. Once she encounters

If you encounter an enemy with more powerful magic power than yourself, you will be at a loss.

Like her heroic spirit, it cannot withstand the test of the war.

Speaking of which, what a ridiculous rider. Although the "Knight" is best at control, and the second is force, he actually fell behind when facing Assassin, whose specialty is only concealment - even though Assassin's real body is indeed

The legendary swordsman is restricted by his class, so his power should not be as good as Rider...

This girl's heroic spirit, like the heroic spirit's master, is nothing to be afraid of.

If the old man's servants hadn't been asked to fight in order to reduce Saber's fighting, and if Saber and Assassin had attacked together, then the pair of masters and slaves would have been dead long ago.

In contrast, it was Kiritsugu's adopted son, Shirou, who perhaps should be called his "brother", who was even more unexpected.

He is obviously just an ordinary boy, with nothing special worth mentioning in terms of magic power or martial arts. He cannot be compared with Kiritsugu, who is as powerful as a ghost and god, but he has shown incredible growth in the battle. From the beginning, he has been

A weakling who almost killed just one android maid, quickly grew into a master who could fight one on two and even killed a maid... If he were allowed to grow like this, how strong would he become?

Could it be that... he is a hero like Hercules in the legend? He was weak before just because he had not "opened his eyes" yet...

The entire meaning of Illyasviel von Einzbern's existence is to win the Holy Grail War, summon the Holy Grail, complete the Third Law, and realize the long-cherished wish of the Einzbern family.

Yes, that's all

Therefore, she made up her mind to kill both hostile Masters here.

Even Emiya Kiritsugu's son is no exception.

If she had enough time, she would have wanted to get along well with Shirou, like ordinary siblings - or brothers and sisters - playing and chatting together...

But she has no time.

Yes, there is no time

As soon as Saber left the magic water tank, her body was shaky. It was completely dependent on her immediately strengthening it with magic power that she barely regained her mobility; and her own situation was not much better than that of the Servants. The small Holy Grail had already been mostly filled.

, taking up almost all the available skills in her body, first the reproductive system, which is useless to artificial humans, and then the digestive system, which will not die even if it is temporarily gone. For this battle, she had to

She even gave up her circulatory system. Now she relies entirely on magic power to maintain her life - no, that can no longer be considered "life". She just uses magic power to maintain the operation of this body and strive to persevere until the end.

It’s just time.

Because of this, she gave the order "Kill Emiya Shirou" to the maids who absolutely obeyed the order.

In fact, the situation is very favorable to her: Although Saber's situation is very bad, the grandfather's students immediately sent the heroic spirits after getting the news, so that Saber does not have to waste precious combat power in such an indecisive battle.

, and the daughter of the Matou family was completely unable to compete with her in a magic battle - even when Shirou arrived later, his servants strangely did not participate in the battle, and just stared at each other in the air with Saber, ignoring their own magic.

The Lord is fighting hard.

If Shinji Matou could be a few minutes later...

Sighing, Illya activated all the magic circuits in his body one by one, and activated the third magic ritual on his body.

The current heir of the Matou family, the "Crazy Demon Dog" Matou Shinji, is definitely not a rookie like his sister, nor a dilettante like Shirou.

As a magician and a master, he is an extremely formidable enemy.

In the past few years, more than one famous magician has disappeared without a trace in Fuyuki Town because of spying on the Matou family's magic and the ownership of Fuyuki Town's spiritual veins.

Rin Tosaka, who is supposed to be the manager of the spiritual veins, is an innocent girl who is so clear that she can be seen through at a glance. Anyone with a little experience can easily see through her - this girl is definitely not a vicious person who can kill many people.

generation.

The veteran great magician Matou Zouken has been almost unseen since he became addicted to magic research ten years ago. A few outside magicians are not worthy of him leaving his magic research laboratory.

In addition, Matou Shinji had fought several times outside Fuyuki Town, showing extremely strong fighting power and almost crazy aggressiveness, so there is no doubt that those magicians died at his hands.

Illya knew very well that among the magicians who were killed, at least two or three were stronger than him.

In other words, he was no match for the angry humanoid mad dog in front of him.

Fortunately...she is not alone

"Saber" she shouted to the servant who was still confronting the enemy in the air, "it's time to fight"

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Takamachi Nanoha was born in 2018. Although she has an elder brother who is so powerful in Nitōryu swordsmanship that he can be called a master, she was just an ordinary girl before she was nine years old.

When she was nine years old, she met the injured ancient heritage research expert Yuno Skrea, and under the guidance of this magician who temporarily transformed into a ferret, she inherited the magic weapon "Heart of Asuri" and became

An excellent magician.

More than just "excellent"
To be continued...