Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

Yu Yi's answer was to turn on the Tohsaka family's television, which they had bought but rarely used.

The live television broadcast showed a terrible apocalyptic scene.

Monsters are everywhere; they appear in streets and alleys, schools and shops—wherever there are people, these cursed spirits will appear.

These mysterious things, which should not be seen by ordinary people, appear here with impunity, causing great harm and slaughter to ordinary people.

Flames soared into the sky, blood filled the air, and countless lives were slaughtered.

Upon witnessing this scene, Tokiomi Tohsaka's vision went black. He was first filled with fear, and then with rage!

"He must pay the price!" Tokiomi Tohsaka roared, gripping his cane in a fit of rage.

Regardless, the Tohsaka family is the family that protects Fuyuki City. Although they do not have actual power, they have always regarded themselves as the nobles and guardians of the land of Fuyuki.

"Assassin, can you find Ruler's whereabouts?" Kirei Kotomine remained calm and composed, showing no anger.

'Yes... we've found him.'

"Alright, take me to see him!" Kirei Kotomine said without hesitation.

Excalibur Morgan!!!

The holy sword, named after the most hated witch sister, was unleashed. Its originally pure golden radiance was now filled with darkness that devoured light, shooting out with incredible force.

The pitch-black yet dazzling light instantly engulfed a massive, three-story-high cursed spirit, while simultaneously annihilating the monsters that had piled up across half the street.

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Artoria saw a young woman stagger out of the collapsed house, only to be turned into a pulp by the falling cursed spirits.

A helicopter filming news from the air crashed, its rotor blades tearing through the glass of skyscrapers and slashing passersby like blades.

“Saber…” Irisviel said, her face deathly pale.

“We can’t possibly kill all these monsters.” Artoria looked around and sheathed her holy sword, frowning.

“We must deal with the culprit, Irisviel. Things are about to get dangerous—”

"I'll take good care of myself, don't worry, Saber!"

Artoria looked at Irisviel, who was patting her chest and making a promise, and for some reason, it reminded her of Guinevere.

Finally, she nodded and headed without hesitation toward the tower in Fuyuki Shinto, shrouded in dark clouds.

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205. A Meaningless Rescue: Lu Bu vs. the King of Knights

In an instant, Fuyuki was plunged into an ocean of calamity and death.

Perhaps no Holy Grail War has ever allowed the mysterious concealment to become so uncontrollable.

Tsurugi is freely saving innocent citizens in this hellish place.

He couldn't use his Saint character card at this moment, since he had used the Conceptual Mystic Code: Adam at the last moment of his battle with Lu Bu three days ago just to show off.

However, this was insignificant, and even the deaths of these people did not stir any emotion in Tsurugi.

In a rare moment of kindness, he created a massive sanctuary at the Fuyuki City Hall, then commanded his army of the dead from his Underworld Palace to surge out of the city and slaughter every cursed spirit he saw.

Of course, in the eyes of the locals of Fuyuki City, both the undead and the cursed spirits are monsters that can scare them to death.

Driven by their instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, they followed the hideous undead to the City Hall for refuge, filled with fear. The Fuyuki City Hall, now packed with nearly 10,000 people, was filled with awe as everyone looked at the man sitting lazily on the throne in the center.

In a sense, this was also a huge mysterious leak, but nowadays probably no one cares about such things anymore.

“Great saint, on behalf of the citizens of Fuyuki, I thank you for your help.”

Tokiomi Tohsaka, who had rushed over, immediately adopted his elegant, Western-style demeanor and approached Tsugumi to express his heartfelt gratitude.

Although he certainly doesn't look like a saint, the fact remains that he saved so many people.

"But this is completely pointless~~~"

Tsugumi, who was sprawled in a chair drinking cola, raised her eyes and glanced at Tokiomi Tohsaka, saying lazily...

"Only after saving so many people did we realize that whether we saved them or not was meaningless."

"What do you mean...?" Tokiomi Tohsaka was still confused when Tsugumi took out the frozen Matou Sakura and tossed it to him.

Before Tokiomi Tohsaka could react, Tsugumi, without any further riddles, revealed the Matou family's messy affairs, finding a slight sense of pleasure in Tokiomi Tohsaka's regretful and pained expression.

He's mainly just too lazy to take care of the child, and if possible, he'd also like to try and send the little guy away.

Then he looked at Kirei Kotomine, who seemed hesitant to speak, knowing what the guy was thinking, but Tsugumi went straight to the point.

"Good deeds will be rewarded, and evil deeds will be punished. I don't know what I was like before, but now that I'm here, the karmic consequences of this world will eventually come."

"If you want to pursue your own happiness, then go ahead and do it. But you will naturally have to bear the consequences later. There will always be people like you who are born this way; it's just a matter of whether they can control themselves or not."

He paused, then shrugged.

"If you insist on pursuing the greatest experience of fulfilling your true nature in your life, then try living until the next Holy Grail War. You will probably have someone to experience the greatest fulfillment of your true nature in your life. And by the way, take care of your daughter. Maybe you can get the answer from her in the next four years? If you can't find it, perhaps you can get the next step you need from me in ten years."

What Tsugumi said might be a complete riddle to Kirei Kotomine, but Tsugumi knew what this old priest would become.

If he can truly control himself, he might actually experience a unique and one-of-a-kind feeling of self ten years later.

The first person to break the vow was the one who betrayed the Lord I believe in. Oh, this feeling is truly unique and unparalleled.

Going back to the beginning, why do we say that saving these people is a pointless endeavor?

The answer is simple, because—Tsugumi discovered something interesting: on the way to save these people, he saw many dead people and also killed many scoundrels who took advantage of the chaos.

And the common characteristic of these people is—

"Their souls aren't all here~~~" Tsugumi shrugged.

He wouldn't be angry about the disappearance of the empty shell and the illusion.

A deafening roar echoed above the Civic Center, shaking the entire building and sending dust flying.

Looking into the distance, Tsurugi knew that the battle on the other side had begun. He cracked his neck and walked over unhurriedly.

Now that he knows the people in the inexplicable cage are causing trouble for him, Tsurugi will absolutely not let them have their way!

"Emiya Kiritsugu, do you still have enough mana?!"

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"Excalibur Morgan - Ten shots in a row!!!"

"Croak!!!!"

Before his injuries had fully healed, Kiritsugu Emiya, who had chosen to crawl out to protect his wife, had just heard Artoria's question when he suddenly let out a painful scream.

He felt that the corrupted Artoria was deliberately tormenting him to get revenge for her previous attitude—well, that was certainly a factor.

But Artoria did this because the enemy before her could not allow her to be even slightly vulnerable.

Just as she sped to the tower at the center of the disaster, slaying the constantly emerging cursed spirits along the way, a huge figure landed in front of her, stirring up a cloud of dust and giving Artoria the feeling of being stared at by a prehistoric beast!

"You're a woman... but you're also a rare and powerful individual!"

Lu Bu stared at Artoria before him, his mouthful of shark teeth revealing a ferocious and gleeful expression.

He pointed his halberd at Artoria, his ferocity and killing intent undisguised.

"Even though he's from another world, is he still a treacherous traitor like the historical Flying General?" Artoria gripped her weapon tightly, speaking coldly.

"Are you going to fight or not?" Faced with Artoria's Type-Moon-style debate on justice, Lu Bu didn't even bother to reply, but instead went straight to the point.

I don't have time to waste on your nonsense. Either have a good fight or get lost!

"Will you let me go?" Artoria countered.

The answer is obvious: Lu Bu doesn't like fighting the weak, but the Command Seals are in Su Nuo's hands, and Lu Bu, who has no magic resistance, cannot resist the orders.

Of course, it was precisely because of this order that he would not truly resist it. If he truly hated such an order, Lü Bu would rather commit suicide than listen to it!

Knowing that there was no way to resolve this peacefully, Artoria immediately stepped forward, and the blackened holy sword in her hand burst forth with a dark light that devoured all light around it as it released its magic.

The refracted dark light slashed toward Lu Bu's head at incredible speed, and in that instant, Lu Bu launched a counterattack.

Wow, so fast!!!

Artoria was startled. She also had A-rank agility, the same as Lu Bu in front of her, because she had made a contract with Kiritsugu Emiya. But why was he so fast?

The fleeting shadow of the halberd was enough to seriously injure Artoria if her intuition hadn't detected it and made her lean back to avoid the attack from below!

But the attacks that followed were as frenzied as a storm!

Lu Bu's martial arts are very direct, or rather, in Artoria's opinion, his moves are more like those of a beast than the skills of a martial artist, and therefore there is no room for trickery!

Simple and unpretentious, yet extremely ruthless!

In a pure contest of strength, Artoria was easily suppressed. She didn't even dare to take the opponent's attack head-on. With a difference of three orders of magnitude in strength, she would knock the weapon out of her hand in just a moment.

Their speed was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. Those within a few hundred meters could not even feel the aftershocks, only the terrifying, invisible destruction.

Everything within a radius of several hundred meters was engulfed; high-rise buildings collapsed, and the ground...

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205. A Meaningless Rescue: Lu Bu vs. the King of Knights

In an instant, Fuyuki was plunged into an ocean of calamity and death.

Perhaps no Holy Grail War has ever allowed the mysterious concealment to become so uncontrollable.

Tsurugi is freely saving innocent citizens in this hellish place.

He couldn't use his Saint character card at this moment, since he had used the Conceptual Mystic Code: Adam at the last moment of his battle with Lu Bu three days ago just to show off.

However, this was insignificant, and even the deaths of these people did not stir any emotion in Tsurugi.

In a rare moment of kindness, he created a massive sanctuary at the Fuyuki City Hall, then commanded his army of the dead from his Underworld Palace to surge out of the city and slaughter every cursed spirit he saw.

Of course, in the eyes of the locals of Fuyuki City, both the undead and the cursed spirits are monsters that can scare them to death.

Driven by their instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, they followed the hideous undead to the City Hall for refuge, filled with fear. The Fuyuki City Hall, now packed with nearly 10,000 people, was filled with awe as everyone looked at the man sitting lazily on the throne in the center.

In a sense, this was also a huge mysterious leak, but nowadays probably no one cares about such things anymore.

“Great saint, on behalf of the citizens of Fuyuki, I thank you for your help.”

Tokiomi Tohsaka, who had rushed over, immediately adopted his elegant, Western-style demeanor and approached Tsugumi to express his heartfelt gratitude.