Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Shirou Emiya stomped his foot and turned to the side, dodging the gently brushing hand as he did so.

He wanted to know who had attacked him, not even in the arena, but within the academy.

The punishment for private fights within the academy is severe. Regardless of whether the person who started the fight achieved their goal, if Mooncell determines it to be a private fight, they will be subject to extremely harsh punishment.

Of course, this is on the premise that Mooncell determines it to be a private fight.

Shirou Emiya didn't know what kind of being attacked him, whether it was a magician or a Servant, and besides, he couldn't possibly choose to attack.

In this state, being possessed by a protective evil spirit is the best option.

The extremely fierce attack suddenly eased, changing from a fist to a palm, as if a familiar person were gently patting the shoulder, and struck Shirou Emiya's previous spot with very light force.

"!?"

Emiya Shirou, who had dodged to the side and was gripping a chained short sword, also saw the person who had attacked him.

He was a man with long, jet-black hair and wearing a black overcoat.

His eyes were devoid of any emotion, revealing a chilling coldness, and he made no attempt to conceal his killing intent in front of Shirou Emiya.

"The objective has been achieved—!"

With such cold words, the person in the black coat seemed to have anticipated that Shirou Emiya would be able to dodge.

Instead of continuing his attack on Shirou Emiya, he looked at Shirou Emiya, who was gripping his short sword tightly, with the gaze of someone looking at a dead man.

"Teacher Kuzuki——————"

Emiya Shirou's eyes narrowed sharply. He suddenly understood something, and without hesitation, the short sword in his hand changed.

The next second————

The once familiar campus corridor has now transformed into an utterly unfamiliar space.

The students lying lifeless on the ground, a sense of crisis lingering around them.

The land was as gray as if it were dead.

Ancient remains that blot out the sky.

Everything here is filled with an indescribable sense of oppression.

In the distance, invisible to the naked eye, monsters kept emerging from the ground.

The moment Shirou Emiya teleported over, he was immediately covered by the [Demon Possession] buff.

"This is the arena—"

Yes, just as Rin Tohsaka said, that teacher Kuzuki, no, Julius, is hunting down the contestants using methods that are almost illegal.

Private fights are forbidden within the academy, but battles are permitted in the arena.

Therefore, simply changing the location of the battle from the academy to the arena would not be considered a violation.

However, this is something that ordinary magicians are simply not capable of doing.

A life-or-death crisis suddenly surged from the soles of my feet to my brain at that moment.

Shirou Emiya, who was usually extremely calm in the face of all situations, was now so nervous that he could hardly breathe, and his consciousness seemed to freeze.

Simply sending contestants to the arena doesn't guarantee a 100% chance of killing them.

Therefore, there is only one possibility—

[Follower].

However, by the time he realized the answer, it was too late.

A very efficient voice came from behind him.

"It really is—"

His tone was filled with extreme displeasure.

The killing intent enveloped Shirou Emiya in an instant, and death filled his mind in a flash.

Emiya Shirou wanted to escape, and while wearing the [Demon Possessed] armor, he suddenly exerted force with his feet and dodged to the side.

However, the moment that capable voice appeared, everything Shirou Emiya did was in vain.

Before he made a sound, Shirou Emiya was completely unaware that there were other people behind him.

Therefore, the moment he makes a sound is naturally the moment he can be killed.

"call!"

A noisy wind came from afar at this moment, sweeping across this gray and white area that resembled a graveyard.

The surrounding corpses also silently revealed their sorrow for their fate at this moment.

"This armor can't protect your frail body—"

"Oh!"

The air exploded the moment the words were spoken.

That wasn't a storm stirred up by terrifying light cannons.

It was not the sound of an extremely hard sword piercing through the air.

It was just a simple punch.

It was just a seemingly weak punch thrown forward.

The person standing behind Shirou Emiya simply stretched out his hand and waved it forward.

The air exploded, emitting an unimaginable wail.

No one could imagine the impact that such a punch would have on that suit of armor.

"clang--!"

A crisp sound rang out from behind Shirou Emiya, who dodged to the side.

There was no powerful storm, no terrifying impact, and the armor that collided head-on with the fist didn't even crack.

Chapter 588 Assassin Li Shuwen

"I'm tired of this method of directly killing the opponent. I really want to get back to the feeling of fighting head-on."

Accompanied by a powerful voice, a valiant man dressed in clothes that looked like they were on fire appeared from behind Shirou Emiya.

He had fiery red hair that perfectly matched his clothes, and his hands hung naturally at his sides.

Just by standing there, one can feel the aura of martial arts training and the terrifying power that can make one's fingers go numb.

Circle

Grade: A

The technique of using qi to perceive the surrounding environment and to make one's own existence disappear. Those who fully master it can even become one with heaven and earth, merging their figure into nature. Because it is about assimilating the "energy" within the body with nature, even if you touch him, you will not be able to sense his presence before the "energy" within the body is transformed into an attack.

Just like Assassin, who possesses an extremely high level of aura concealment, Shirou Emiya could not sense the presence of this red-haired man even when he stood behind him.

All he could feel was the intense pressure surrounding him.

All he could sense was the inevitable attack.

But Shirou Emiya never imagined that this suffocating pressure, this sense of impending death, was deliberately revealed by this man.

It was rare to see a person in armor amidst this tedious slaughter, and he subtly revealed his imposing presence.

However, the ending left the red-haired man extremely disappointed.

"boom--!"

The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground echoed in the silent space.

Shirou Emiya didn't even have time to utter a sound of pain before collapsing to the ground, lifeless.

The heart had stopped beating, and breathing had stopped at that moment.

If a doctor were present, the diagnosis for Shirou Emiya's death would be—shock.

　Pi possesses extremely strong defense, even the evolved form of "Evil Spirit Possession" is rendered useless by this powerful force.

It completely ignored the defense of [Evil Spirit Possession], which was as if it didn't exist. The force pierced through it and hit the heart directly behind the armor.

This man's control over force has reached an unimaginably terrifying level.

Not only because this force completely ignored the [Demon Possession] armor, but also because Shirou Emiya's heart and internal organs did not rupture.

The sheer power of the fist technique indicated that it had reached a very high level, but the man with fiery red hair was even more advanced.

Like Kirei Kotomine, who has mastered Bajiquan, he is also able to penetrate things and hit their interior.

What he could do was make the tree appear unharmed after he hit it, but inside it was completely pulverized, and the tree would fall over with the slightest touch.

But the man before them was different. Just like Kirei Kotomine, he swung his fist at a tree, but the tree he attacked continued to grow like a normal tree.

It wasn't that his strength or power was inferior to Kirei Kotomine's; on the contrary, it was precisely because his power far surpassed Kirei's that the trees were not damaged in any way.

If the tree were cut open now, it would be discovered that the caterpillars living deep inside have fallen.

It wouldn't even turn to dust because of the penetrating force.

Similarly, Shirou Emiya's heart did not shatter due to the red-haired man's attack, and he died intact.

This is the ultimate skill that this red-haired man has mastered.

However, just as the man concluded that Shirou Emiya, who was lying on the ground, would die from shock, a number appeared before his eyes.

“【1】”

The meaning of this number is quite clear: it means that Shirou Emiya's first encounter with him has ended.

In reality, this doesn't seem to mean anything, since Shirou Emiya is already dead, so what's the point of recording it like this?

"wrong--!"

The red-haired man, who was walking into the distance, suddenly remembered something, turned around sharply, and looked at Shirou Emiya, who was lying on the ground wearing armor.