Walking in the Question and Answer System of Heroic Spirits

She led him, so pure and innocent, to the battlefield, and although she repeatedly dissuaded him from going, she never refused to stay by his side.

If it's truly for his own good, if it's truly for his sake, then even if it hurts him, you shouldn't be with him.

"Joan of Arc, you know her, don't you? No, you're just pretending not to know, and you haven't tried to understand."

Gilles spoke again, just as he had instructed Joan of Arc on the battlefield.

"Saintess, your revelation commanded you to bring this homunculus to this battlefield, but were you told that if you didn't, he wouldn't have a happy ending? Indeed, this boy 'was born to die here,' and that is his happiness."

Joan of Arc: "No...that's not right..."

She wanted to find the right words to refute him, but at that moment, her Ruler ability allowed her to receive a message.

[Red player Lancer, Karna, has been eliminated.]

[Black's Saber, Siegfried, has been eliminated.]

"...Dead?"

Joan of Arc was momentarily incredulous.

[Shakespeare's Noble Phantasm has the effect of "only allowing people to watch," and it's impossible to interfere with her abilities.]

So, it's true.

Siegfried's exit from the stage means—Sieg, dead!

【"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"】

Rin Tohsaka: "Huh? Sieg is dead?"

Waver: "No, Joan of Arc was completely misled. From the beginning, the enemy instilled in her the idea that 'she will die after using up her Command Spells,' making her believe that it was 'certain.'"

Rin Tohsaka: "I see. It's not that Sieg died, but that he ran out of Command Seals."

Rin Tohsaka: "It was just a routine, but I happened to be caught in it."

Shakespeare, watching this scene, spread his arms wide and exclaimed, "Alright, the genre of this play is decided! It's a comedy! I say, saint! Welcome to the world of murder! I never expected that you, who haven't even gotten your hands dirty once, would choose the boy you so deeply admire as your first victim!"

"I killed him!"

"I killed him! I chose him with these hands, instigated him with these words, and killed him!"

"You're a murderer. Why didn't you eat the thallium and be determined to stop him, even if he hated you and it hurt him?"

"Liar, liar, liar! I should have known he would die! I should have known things would turn out this way, that this would be the outcome..."

The world collapsed, everything returned to reality, but Joan of Arc was powerless to fight any longer, curling up in a ball and weeping bitterly.

She relives her life within Shakespeare's treasure, but in reality, only ten minutes have passed.

Sieg: "Miss Joan of Arc..."

Joan of Arc: "..."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "I lost. I never expected to lose to them in this way."

Kiritsugu Emiya: "Psychological warfare, huh? I never expected Servants to fight in this way."

Shakespeare: "Thank you for the compliment."

Weber: "I'm not complimenting you."

Feng Xi: "With your methods, you'll end up hanging on a street lamp."

Meanwhile, above, in Semiramis's throne room.

[Sieg and his companions finally arrived and saw the corpse of Shishikatsu Kairi.]

"...Let's go, there's nothing left here."

Seeing the mess around them and the absence of Mordred, they understood what had happened and could only shake their heads, preparing to leave.

The fact that this hanging garden is still functioning proves that Semiramis is still alive.

[A-Fu: "Although we're saying we should move forward, where do we go from here—"]

Suddenly, his "Declaration of Breakthrough" began to operate rapidly, lunging towards Sieg.

[Afu then noticed that a black vortex had appeared behind Sieg at some point.]

【"careful!"】.

Chapter 311 Shifting Blame, Acknowledging

[Afu rushed forward, shoved Zig aside, and used his gauntlet to block the flying chains.]

But the next moment, the chains wrapped around his wrists, slamming him heavily against the wall.

"Master, run! It's after you!"

Despite the excruciating pain, Afu controlled the "Declaration of Breakthrough" to protect Sieg and guide him.

"Follow it! That one over there too!"

[Sieg: "Understood. Rider, you're coming right away too!"]

[Afu: "Yes! Of course!"]

[The "Declaration of Breakthrough" made a sharp turn, bursting through the wall and opening a hidden passage. Sieg and Corles rushed inside.]

Rin Tohsaka: "Semiramis, this guy still won't give up."

Weber: "I should say, I thought she had run away, but I didn't expect her to come back."

Mordred: "There's only one chain, and you don't even dare to show yourself. It seems you were badly injured by my sword."

Fiore: "Her spirit core is damaged and cannot be healed at all. She is probably just putting on a brave face right now."

Empress: "Hmph."

Seeing that they were safe, Afu could now focus on fighting the enemy.

He ripped the chains off his hands with a burst of strength, but unexpectedly, another chain appeared and bound him.

"It's so annoying!"

[Afu frowned in annoyance, then seemed to understand something, and immediately beamed with joy, shouting, "I see! I get it! Red Assassin, you're fatally wounded, aren't you! The fact that you can only summon this unimpressive chain is the best proof! If you had been serious, you could have easily killed me and Master back then! But now you can't even do that, which means you're injured and unable to protect your master! And compared to your master, my phantom horse is stronger! In other words! If I were to go inside, things would be bad!"]

[Afu tried to enter the passage to catch up with Zig, but was firmly blocked by the other.]

Despite his mockery, Semiramis still did not appear, proving his guess was correct.

Rin Tohsaka: "I didn't expect you to be so clever for once."

Afu: "The difficult part is the superfluous one."

[Let's turn our attention back to the Holy Grail Temple below.]

The previously trembling Greater Grail suddenly fell silent, and the floor began to shake slightly.

[Shakespeare: "The time for trickery is over, the redemption is ready—now comes our lord Amakusa Shiro Tokisada."]

"It's a dream come true! Our dreams have been realized here!"

A figure slowly tore open the spherical Holy Grail and emerged; it was Amakusa Shirou, who had changed back into his former Japanese attire.

His safe and sound exit means he has successfully taken control of the Greater Grail.

[Shakespeare: "My lord, what is the situation?"]

[Amakusa Shiro: "Everything has been achieved. It's currently in the warm-up phase. Soon, this Greater Grail will become the Heaven's Cup, replenishing its magical energy from the spiritual veins while granting all of humanity true immortality."]

Weber: "It actually worked!"

Amakusa Shiro: "Is that so? It seems that my long-cherished wish has been fulfilled in the other world."

Damn it, if it weren't for Feng Xi's interference, his dream would have already been achieved.

Shakespeare: "I'm afraid not."

Amakusa Shiro: "Huh? What do you mean?"

Shakespeare: "Haven't you realized it yet, Father? This Holy Grail War unfolds like a novel from beginning to end. And you are the villain in that novel."

Shakespeare: "Have you ever seen a story where the villain wins?"

Amakusa Shiro: "...Reality is different from fiction, I believe in myself."

Looking at Joan of Arc, who was still weeping, Amakusa Shiro asked knowingly, "Did you win?"

Shakespeare stroked his beard smugly and said, "Well, everyone except us has misunderstood. Master, including you."

[Amakusa Shiro: "What misunderstanding?"]

[Shakespeare: "She was just a little girl. Despite behaving like a saint, she was still just an ordinary young girl. Because she acted too saintly, she abandoned herself. Alas, it was inevitable; to be summoned as a heroic spirit, what was needed was not seventeen years of living at home, but two years of running as a hero of her homeland."]

Amakusa Shiro: "...How pitiful."

[Amakusa Shiro actually understood this very well.]

To act like a saint, one must abandon the past.

Amakusa Shiro: "A saint, huh."

Amakusa Shiro: "The world regards us as saints, but only we ourselves know that we are just ordinary people."

Joan of Arc: "..."