Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

That was someone's hysterical roar.

That was someone's resentment.

The reaction test begins. A liver will be removed; it is necessary to confirm pain perception, but anesthesia will not be used.

Failed.

They age at twice the rate of normal people, and their lifespan is estimated to be up to 25 years.

What a failure! Useless, the most heinous sins, the most vile ugliness, truly unforgivable.

If it is produced from an average individual, it can be forgiven.

However, it is astonishing that such inferior products could be made from the most precious life forms on earth.

"What's wrong?"

Perhaps due to the influence of negative emotions, Rin Tohsaka did not sense the strange presence emanating from Shirou Emiya.

She covered her head and looked at Shirou Emiya, gesturing for him to put her down.

The oppressive atmosphere that kept encroaching from the surroundings almost made Rin Tohsaka unable to breathe.

"Is this malice Julius?"

Recalling the sound echoing in his mind, Shirou Emiya murmured softly.

In the very end, Shirou Emiya sees Julius's childhood memories.

That extremely tragic childhood, yet with only a sliver of warmth.

He did not know whether these memories belonged to Julius.

Because Shirou Emiya didn't know him, or even what his voice sounded like.

But the murderous intent emanating from Li Shuwen told him that this memory, filled with resentment, came from Julius.

"Soon, the real deal will appear before us!"

Chapter 621 Outsiders

Julius, a hidden figure who eliminates all obstacles and solves all of Leo's problems through dirty tricks.

Like Leo, he was an infant designed by the Harvey family and had a large number of magic circuits implanted in him from birth.

Julius, Leo's brother, was a failure in his design, as his inferior abilities and defects were discovered even in the womb.

In contrast, Leo, who was born after Julius, was a perfect, designed vessel for an ideal king, and became the savior of the earth.

Julius was abandoned by the Harvey family from the very beginning, but he survived through his extraordinary mental strength until he was six years old, when he used drugs to grow into an adult in order to generate what adults called "interests".

But Julius's motivation to do everything in his power to help Leo become the victor did not stem from loyalty to the Harvey family. It was to uphold the dying words left by Leo's mother, whom he regarded as his own mother when he was young—"Leo is in my care."

For Julius, it was the time he spent with her during his childhood that made him feel like a "human being".

Having lost the only "humanity" that could lift him up, he finally proved his "usefulness," using every means at his disposal to clear all obstacles for Leo.

If Leo is the light of Harvey, then Julius is the evil of Harvey.

Emiya Shirou, with extremely steady steps, felt the endless malice emanating from his surroundings as he helped Rin Tohsaka, who was also greatly affected.

Ahead of them stood the instigator of this overwhelming negativity—Julius, whose entire body had been almost completely consumed by the dark substance.

Julius and his servant Li Shuwen, carrying a murderous intent and overwhelming negative emotions that no normal person could bear, surged toward Shirou Emiya.

Similarly, behind them is the closest exit of the arena to Shirou Emiya and Rin Tohsaka.

Emiya Shirou remained silent, supporting Rin Tohsaka as he calmly observed the two people before him.

Julius alone could not generate such powerful negative emotions.

"Help me! Help me! I just wanted to earn money to pay off my debts! I never intended to risk my life!!!"

"To achieve my goal, I will kill them all!!!"

"Why! Why are you allowed to stand there! Why isn't it me standing there?!"

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die! I want to live, I want to live!!!"

Why do we only deserve to be abandoned? Don't we have the right to live?

"Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Kill you!"

The once pure white walls have turned pitch black under the growing negative emotions, and the surrounding things are shaking violently like a black swamp.

Countless voices flooded into Shirou Emiya's mind, giving him the feeling of stepping into the Holy Grail once again.

anger.

resentment.

pain.

Hatred.

Obsession.

These emotions continued to erode everything about Shirou Emiya.

However, amidst this ocean of negative emotions, the most powerful being, which should be said to have crawled out of hell, appeared before Emiya Shirou with such terrifying killing intent.

It is precisely because of this that Shirou Emiya was able to clearly understand Julius's life amidst such a multitude of complex negative emotions.

"I'd say it's our first meeting—Emiya Shirou!"

The half of his body in front of him had already been swallowed up by the pitch-black deletion program. The man, who was wearing a thick, pitch-black cotton coat, spoke to Shirou Emiya with extreme calmness.

It was a calm voice, completely opposite to the noisy sounds that kept swirling around Shirou Emiya's ears, and utterly out of place with the current atmosphere.

Julius!

Standing next to Shirou Emiya, Rin Tohsaka frowned deeply, clutching her forehead as she looked at Julius, who was also covered in the black deletion program.

"I never expected that Tohsaka would survive."

Although he used a surprised tone in his words, his voice remained calm, as if he already knew that Rin Tohsaka was not dead.

I didn't sense any surprise in your tone.

Rin Tohsaka gritted her teeth and responded to Julius.

"I'm sorry, you're not my target."

However, Julius did not want to get too entangled with Rin Tohsaka's response. After only a brief exchange, he turned his gaze to Shirou Emiya, who was standing in front of Rin, shielding her from the constant attacks of malice and killing intent as sharp as knives.

"You don't belong here! Outsider—!"

You have no right to decide the future of our world!

"Outsiders?"

Faced with Julius's sudden words, Rin Tohsaka's eyes immediately showed a hint of doubt.

"Defeat, even if it means becoming a ghost, even if it means suffering hellish torment in SE.RA.PH!"

　"At that end, I saw it; just before Mooncell was about to disintegrate, I saw it—!"

As if he had lost his mind, Julius suddenly burst into laughter.

"The real Shirou Emiya is still on the ground, in a refugee camp in the Middle East, where he is a combat instructor in a local volunteer group!"

Does this world truly contain me?

Upon hearing Julius's words, Shirou Emiya did not refute them. In the Holy Grail, which was like a supercomputer, his information was not difficult to find.

Shirou Emiya even believes that his records when he entered this world should also be recorded by this Holy Grail called Mooncell.

"Wait? You mean, Shirou Emiya didn't actually participate in this Holy Grail War? Then who is he? Is he an NPC created by Mooncell based on the Shirou Emiya on Earth?"

Rin Tohsaka's mind was also racing, since most of the NPCs Mooncell created at the school were based on humans on the ground.

"No, he is Emiya Shirou—!"

Upon hearing Rin Tohsaka's words, Julius shook his head in rebuttal.

"Parallel world!!!"

Suddenly, Rin Tohsaka realized that this school was originally a school in a parallel universe created by Mooncell through calculations, and it inherently possessed the ability to calculate more possibilities for the existence of humanity.

Naturally, Rin Tohsaka quickly realized why Shirou Emiya was so familiar with her.

Aside from fate, only parallel universes could explain this.

However, before Rin Tohsaka could ask Shirou Emiya a whole bunch of questions, Julius spoke to Shirou Emiya again.

"Whether we perish or survive, this is our world! Fate and choices should be made by the people of our world, not by outsiders like you!!!"

Chapter 622 Jealousy

"Are you entrusting the future of humanity to the Holy Grail?"

Listening to Julius's words and seeing Julius's somewhat excited expression, Shirou Emiya slowly spoke.

"No, the hope of humanity is Leo. I must make my brother, Leo, become king!"

"But no matter what, you can't convince me, because it's my duty! No matter how reasonable your words are, I will only be an enemy on your path!!!"

Julius did not run away; he met Shirou Emiya's eyes directly, but he did not give Shirou Emiya a chance to explain.

Just as he said, no matter what Shirou Emiya said, it could not shake his determination to help Leo.

No matter what Shirou Emiya does, Julius will stop him; it is his duty, and it is the meaning of his life from that moment on.

His previous words, to some extent, were merely a grand pretext to mask his true emotions.

Did Julius truly care about humanity? Did he really crawl out of hell for the sake of humanity's future?

From beginning to end, the only person he cared about was Leo's mother, the one who treated him as a "human being" and whom he regarded as his mother.