Chapter 160: The Shadow Reappears, The Confused Shiro
() "Are you so moved that you want to cry?"
"Why am I so moved that I want to cry? Do you think I will be such a cowardly man? m... No one is dead... No one is dead!"
"It's okay... Men can cry sometimes, especially at this time..."
What can a man cry for...
So can ideals, so can hopes. So can victory, so can feelings...
And...the feelings between comrades-in-arms and partners.
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After finishing the old monster Matou Zōen, Felicia, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and looked in one direction in astonishment.
────The park is filled with dark colors.
The humid air froze instantly.
────There.
The "shadow" was already standing there.
"────────"
The space seemed to be skewed, and it looked like nothing.
The shadow doesn't even have a three-dimensional effect when standing.
It's as light as a presence that will fly away if you take a breath.
But he dominates the space here better than anyone else.
Without knowledge and rationality, I'm afraid it can't even be called a living thing.
The "black shadow" remains here, standing swaying like a mirage.
It was the dark shadow that Liudong Temple saw! It had only been two days, but it had already grown to this point!
Like───a monster that lives in the deep sea.
All movement stopped and returned to the silent world, with only that shadow swaying.
That is, it seemed like an idea at first.
"It" has no eyes, no arms and legs, and no body.
Even so, there are still shadows falling at my feet.
Reflecting the moonlight, a long shadow stretched out.
The shadow slowly pointed its tip toward Felicia, like a snake seeing its prey───
The shadow stretched out.
Without warning, the shadow suddenly covered dozens of meters of ground in an instant!
"Varied--"
Slightly surprised, Felicia quickly retreated, dodged the pursuit of the shadow, and then followed a mysterious rhythm, seemingly slowly but faster than ever.
At the same time, the two guns in her hands fired one after another.
"Bang bang bang bang——"
The bullet filled with magic power cut through the dark night sky and shot hard on the shadow-like figure.
"Ugh————"
The tentacle-like shadow was clearly injured by the quilt, and it trembled as if it had been seriously injured.
Then--
As if sensing Felicia's invincibility, Shadow suddenly shrank back and fled into the grass on the side after enduring another round of attacks.
"Varied----!??"
Felicia frowned and quickly took a few steps forward cautiously, only to find that the black shadow disappeared in an instant just like the last time she found it at Liudong Temple.
What on earth is this? Shadow, it seems to be a conscious thing
It feels similar to the strange thing that appeared when the Dark Master appeared. Could it be the evil in this world?
But the evil in this world is obviously black mud, and it only appeared after the Holy Grail was summoned.
What exactly is——
"...I accidentally saw your smile
Reach out to touch
But they fly and wither in the misty sky
I have always wanted to see you so much and I miss you so much..."
——The forest where you once existed
The sudden ringing interrupted Felicia's thoughts. She took out her phone and pressed the connect button.
"Rin, it's me."
"Rher, who was that white light in the sky just now?"
"That was rer's Noble Phantasm. Now rer has been eliminated, but the black shadow has appeared again."
"Rer was wiped out? That's great - Sombra, what happened to Sombra?"
"There's some trouble. Let's forget it and talk about it later. Rin, what's the matter with you?"
"Oh, Shirou and Sakura are both unconscious. We are in the church now. Kotomine is treating Sakura. You can just come over here."
"clear."
Simply hanging up the phone, Felicia took one last look at the dark park, turned around and left.
At the same time, raindrops fell in the sky, drowning the last bit of smoke.
church--
"Rher, are you here?"
On the church bench, Rin stood up and greeted Felicia who came in.
"Rin, how's the situation?"
"The liquid spilled from the earrings is a charm potion, and it is currently being cleaned by Kotomine. However, it was found that a large number of marking insects were buried in Sakura's body, which has become a nerve similar to a magic circuit. Even though Rer has been defeated,
But the infestation of the marking insects will continue, and now Kotomine is inside removing the marking insects from her."
"Extraction? In other words, she is fine?"
"No, she is now a puppet manipulated by Zang Yan, and her life is held in Zang Yan's hands. Therefore, if you want to save Ying, you must defeat Zang Yan."
"Zang Yan? Why, the insect is still being manipulated?"
"Well, it has never disappeared."
"Asshole, you're not dead even looking like this? Do you deserve to be said to be immortal?"
"how?"
"I just killed him once, and now it looks like I failed."
"ah?"
Before Rinduo could be surprised for a moment, Felicia released another shocking news.
"Lner is also dead, and his body was even manipulated by the old monster Zang Yan. He is probably also a master, otherwise it would be difficult to imagine how he killed lner."
Rin's eyes were filled with disbelief. How could that lner, who had a first-class escape ability, die? And it was actually made of Zang Yan!
"Is that old monster Zangyan a master?ster or a ssssn?"
"It should be ssssn. He didn't show up during the battle. He was probably hiding in the dark."
"I'm sorry, the Matou family has done something big this time..."
Rin clenched his fists bitterly, then sat back on the chair, held his chin and fell into silence.
Felicia sighed, stopped talking, and sat down next to Rin.
Sber and the awakened Shirou sat on the edge, listening quietly without interrupting, but his slightly trembling body and clenched fists betrayed the boy's mood.
What did Matou Zouken want Sakura to do, or did he do something to her? He couldn't deny it.
Just thinking about it makes me feel disgusted, like a snake that keeps hesitating, and the jealousy of having something extremely important taken away is swimming around.
It's my own fault, I deceived myself subconsciously.
As long as Sakura is still a member of the Matou family, it can't be irrelevant.
As long as you think a little bit, you can get the test.
How stupid
It's not that I didn't find it
But... I just don't want to find out.
In order to save people from disasters and live peacefully, this is the meaning of Emiya Shirou's life.
──Senior, if I become a bad person───
I don’t want to hurt Sakura, and I sympathize with her.
But there can be no exceptions.
No matter how important she is to me, if a tragedy like that happened...
Own--
───That’s great. If you’re a senior, that’s no problem───
The girl's voice lingers in my ears
You shouldn't be confused about this kind of thing, but why...
Suppressing himself, the boy lowered his head in pain.
never mind
Let's wait until Sakura's surgery is over...
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and time passed quickly amidst the sound of crackling raindrops hitting the ground.
"The operation is over. What happens next is beyond my ability."
Breaking the dull and breathless silence, Kotomine Kirei appeared.
"Hey───Wait a minute, Kirei. What happened to your magic seal?"
"Can't you see? As you can see, all of it was used for Matou Sakura's treatment."
"───Use it, use it, you?"
"Ah, all the engravings were used for treatment. In short, it was because we had to remove an eleven-year-old abscess. Not even a trace of engraving remained, so there is nothing surprising."
Everyone present held a breath. Magic seal, such a precious thing, will be used up as soon as it is used!!!
Felicia found that she couldn't understand this man.
In the anime, he was the final boss, but he was defeated by Shirou's weird move.
In the theatrical version, he was still evil to the core, directing a good scene, but ended up ordering lner to commit suicide and then himself being killed by lner.
But now this man would actually consume all his precious magic seals just to save a girl!
You don't need to think about what a high price that is to know.
"Kotomine. You——"
Rin's expression is very complicated.
"There's no need for polite words. It's you who say you want to help. I'm just responding."
"Ah, no. No. Well, thank you."
Shirou stammered his thanks to express his happiness at this time.
Sakura, it's okay, you can come back...
"Don't thank me. Anyway, you will withdraw your gratitude to me in the future."
The priest's next words sent him from heaven to hell.
"───Will you withdraw it in the future?"
Shirou struggled to spit out a few words.
"Although I saved my life, I just managed to get through it. All I could do was remove the imprinting bugs that had assimilated to the nerves, but the ones that had eroded into the nerves couldn't be removed. I just tried my best to remove them.
I am just prolonging the life of those who are scheduled to die tonight. Moreover, if the bugs rooted in the nerves take action, it will cost me a lot of effort."
"What - then, Sakura -"
"Nothing has changed, that's it. Although it won't hinder daily life, with Matou Zangyan's attitude, it is easy for him to go berserk again. To put it simply, it is an explosion that has set off the fuse."
At this moment, Felicia saw a trace of wavering in the boy's eyes.