Please play Fate/Go with me.

So Shirou and the others entered the tower without any problems.

Inside the tower, the central area is empty with few furnishings, while a narrow, winding staircase in the corner leads to the upper floors.

After reaching the second floor, the staircase leading to the third floor was on the opposite side, with the floor guards standing in the middle, already waiting there.

King Lear, who has drastically altered the palace guards; the modified monster Chimera; and Macbeth, the servant of the Black Shadow? Only by defeating these guards can one reach the top of the tower.

At that moment, a shadowy servant appeared before everyone.

"My name is Macbeth, I am invincible, yet I have fallen beneath the wheels of fate."

"Macbeth?" Gudako asked the shadowy figure in confusion.

"Is this guy saying he's Macbeth? Has he lost his mind?" Leonardo da Vinci said with a laugh.

"He looks exactly like that Indian king whose wife looks exactly like him, but he can't find a wife no matter what he does, right?" Mashu remarked.

"I don't know who you're talking about, but that voice sounds familiar. It reminds me of someone. Anyway, let's teach her a lesson first!" Artoria said, drawing her holy sword.

"I am invincible!" the shadowy Saber shouted, raising her weapon.

The five men rushed forward at the same time, and a few minutes later, Macbeth disappeared from this world.

Mash and Da Vinci were making sarcastic remarks to each other in Chaldea.

"To say he's invincible seems to mean he only blocked a dozen or so more attacks."

"Miss Artoria is terrifying. She showed no mercy with every strike, aiming for his head more than ten times. And she was even sneering while she was doing it..."

"In the end, this is just a poorly made Shakespearean work with obvious signs of being rushed."

"Defeated! Thus, after King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, we now see Macbeth."

“So, we’re only one short of completing the four great tragedies. What a pointless charade,” Joan of Arc said.

"Wow... So you, who can't read, now even know about Shakespeare's plays?" Artoria glanced at the silver-haired girl with surprise and asked with a mischievous smile.

Joan of Arc crossed her arms, turned her head away, and said, "Hmph, I did study hard, but of course, I'm naturally bad at math, so don't blame me!" Indeed, she had only glanced at it briefly to confirm the evidence of the great writer's burning at the stake.

"Miss Joan of Arc is wrong. Although Romeo and Juliet are very well-known, Shakespeare's four great tragedies are Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello," the honest Mashu corrected.

"Huh? Is that so!?" Gudako exclaimed in surprise.

“Ugh…” Joan of Arc gritted her teeth in frustration.

"Hmph." Artoria smiled.

"It's alright, it's alright. Actually, most people wouldn't bother looking at something so ancient. There are plenty of people in China who can't even remember the Four Books and Five Classics," Shirou said reassuringly.

"Gudako-senpai, so you didn't know either! If the recipient heard that you were given Shakespeare's 155th sonnet, they would be heartbroken," Mashu said sadly.

Chapter 103 The End of Moriarty

Leonardo da Vinci from Chaldea interjected, "I think it's fine. The narcissistic Shakespeare would definitely take this as tsundere and record it as material for his writing. Ah... but if it were the opposite Andersen, he might be devastated and curse himself and the world to die."

"Why bother with all that! Just burn them down!" Joan of Arc impatiently raised her banner and unleashed several magical flames that set the three giant palace guardians, 'King Lear,' ablaze.

"Hahahaha!!" The bearded man kept firing bullets and shells, blocking the giant's vision.

Shirou and Artoria seized the opportunity and rushed forward.

The Palace Guardian (Foot God) possesses a hard body and immense strength, wielding a bronze pillar greatsword several meters long to attack. Even more terrifying is its sudden burst of kicks, which can even kill a general in one blow.

Dealing with these terrifying monsters isn't too difficult once you find the trick.

Artoria raised her holy sword and wielded the King's Hammer, smashing it into the giant's foot, leaving a crack.

The giant's broken bronze sword slashed towards the girl.

Artoria jumped back to dodge, and the boy on the other side also circled around to the giant's feet.

"Yad, hammer!" Shirou shouted, and the Box Mystic Code instantly unfolded, this time transforming into a battering ram. The boy twisted his body, his waist muscles tensing, and magical flames erupted from behind the giant hammer, propelling it powerfully into the wound on the giant's foot.

Its feet suddenly shattered with a deafening roar like blasting rubble. The giant, who had been holding the greatsword high, lost his balance and fell backward, landing on his back.

Artoria raised her holy sword and aimed it at the giant's weakest point, his neck, before striking down with a powerful blow.

The palace guard's head fell off, and after struggling a couple of times, his body stopped moving.

The three giants were each stronger and more resilient than the last. After a fierce battle, they were finally defeated.

After dealing with all the monsters, we finally reached the top floor of the tower.

Inside were rhomboid crystals resembling butterfly wings, and below stood a richly dressed, bearded middle-aged man who looked exactly like Moriarty, who was standing next to Gudako.

However, his temperament was much more ferocious, his expression was rigid and cold, and his eyes were fierce and cunning. Just one look was enough to tell that the person in front of him was a very dangerous individual.

“Bad Moriarty… sir?” Mash asked in confusion.

“No need for honorifics,” Moriarty said from the other side.

"Ah...yes, that's exactly right," Mashu said, suddenly realizing.

"Mash, calm down and stay put. It's nice to see the tense atmosphere dissipate like this." Shirou and Gudako said to the pink-haired girl together.

"..." Mashu stood there feeling wronged, silently zipping up her mouth.

"Hmph, I thought it would be some kind of monster, but it's really no different from anything else," Artoria said.

"There is no difference; a person's good or evil is merely a product of a single thought. Rather, it is inconceivable that the insignificant good thought that was taken from me has survived to this day and even comes here to oppose me," Moriarty said.

"Hahaha!! That's right! Even I'm surprised by this kindness!" The bearded uncle next to Gudako laughed loudly.

"Hahahaha!" Gudako laughed heartily, hands on her hips, then looked at the evil Servant opposite her and said very seriously, "Uncle is a good person!"

"To be honest, I was quite surprised myself." Holmes looked at his two arch-enemies, feeling a bit uneasy. Although his own Gudako was rather strange too.

Moriarty, observing this, pondered for a moment before declaring, "Hmm... it seems I'm quite popular. However, none of that matters anymore. The only one I care about is you, Chaldea's Master Gudako! You were captured and brought to my side before, then rescued by Holmes, and now you've reappeared before me..."

"...These are by no means the work of fate, but the result of meticulous calculation."

"You mean... it was inevitable that we would come here?" Gudako asked, frowning.

“That’s right. As long as my calculations are correct, the result will not be off in any way,” Moriarty said.

"Master Gudako of Chaldea! There's an asteroid hurtling towards us from the sky. With the power of my Phantom Archer, as long as I select it as the bullet, the meteorite will be loaded into this gun without fail! Although I don't want to die, destroying this place is more important than my life!" Moriarty declared excitedly, spreading his arms wide.

"This is insane, Shirou! Finish him off and end this!" Artoria gripped the Holy Sword, coldly staring at the enemy as she spoke.

“This is the only time I’ve ever had the same thought as that cold-blooded woman. Burn him!” Joan of Arc also raised the flag and said.

"Let's start the war! There's only one unknown outcome: either I will kill you and destroy you along with this world, or I will be defeated by you—that's all!" Moriarty raised the white coffin behind him, pointing his gun at the boy and girl.

"This guy, one of them is enough for me."

Shirou opened his Mystic Eyes and charged straight towards the gun barrel, swinging his scythe to one side and blasting away all the bullets, as if he knew from the beginning that the bullets would be fired there.

"Shoot this way the next moment." The instant the gun was pointed in this direction, Shirou nimbly ran to the other side and continued sprinting forward.

"Huh?" Moriarty thought it was his imagination, raised his gun and attacked the boy, retreating to create distance.

With the magic power of the scythe empowering him, Shirou charged toward Moriarty at an ever-accelerating pace.

In Moriarty's eyes, the boy's footsteps were rapid, unexpectedly rapid, almost like the moment when Shinjuku Assassin unleashed his Noble Phantasm.

"How could it be so fast?" Moriarty solemnly raised his gun. Since he couldn't hit the target, he would lock onto the spot where the boy would appear next.

Shirou suddenly changed direction a second ago, and the next second the spot where he had just moved was covered by machine gun fire.

"What!" Moriarty exclaimed in surprise, launching a tracking magic missile in an attempt to stop the boy from getting any closer.

But Shirou anticipated the opponent's move once again, projecting two flying swords that exploded less than half a meter after the missile flew out.

Moriarty jumped back to avoid the blast, but the smoke and dust blinded him, and the moment his feet touched the ground, he felt the sky darken.

The boy had already appeared above him, the raised scythe blade gleaming coldly, descending from the sky and slicing down in an instant.

At the last moment, Moriarty finally understood that it wasn't the boy's speed that was fast, but rather that he was slow from the start, and his movements had been anticipated before he even moved.

He was half a second slower from the start, and that half a second was enough for the boy to easily take control of the game.

Blood splattered, and the sound of a sharp blade tearing through bone echoed from inside the tower...

Chapter 104 The Phantom Demon Appears

"Ugh... I didn't expect this? I was defeated so easily..." Moriarty's eyes widened in disbelief. At this moment, his body had been cut by the scythe from his shoulder, all the way down to his ribs.

“Although it’s always been suspicious, we’ve been fighting alongside Uncle for several days now. Your fighting style is exactly the same as his; I’ve seen through it long ago!” Shirou closed his seven-colored mystic eyes, rested his scythe on his shoulder, and said calmly.

“No matter how meticulous the calculation, if the process and purpose are known to the other party from the beginning, then it is all meaningless, Moriarty! This is your complete defeat!” Holmes declared.

"I've lost... So, your appearance disrupted my plans from the very beginning... The Master of Chaldea is truly despicable, but Shirou Emiya is despicable too... Ugh." Moriarty disappeared from there.

"He lost... He was a terrifying boy in every sense of the word." The bearded man standing next to Gudako sighed.

Mashu looked at the test results, a look of surprise on her face. She unzipped her mouth and happily reported, "That bastard Moriarty, confirmed eliminated! Great! Success! Gudako-senpai! Shirou-senpai!"

"Thank you everyone! This victory is the result of everyone's hard work!" Gudako shouted happily.

"No...it's not over yet!" Holmes said with a wary look on his face. He had been feeling something was off, and his reasoning seemed to have some flaws.

"That's it! The Holy Grail...!" Shirou looked at the spot where Moriarty had disappeared under the scythe, but the Holy Grail was not left there.

"No Holy Grail? Then what is this power...?" Holmes was also unable to figure it out for a moment.

"Spirit Origin confirmed! This pattern is... how could this be!" Mash exclaimed in surprise.

At that moment, the entire space suddenly darkened, and a humanoid demon suddenly appeared in the distorted black hole, with rows of diamond-shaped, blood-red vertical pupils floating behind it.

"Ha ha ha ha!

Hahahahaha!

I remember now! I remember!

"Finally, you've come to me! You hateful Master of Chaldea! Gudako!"

The orange-haired girl asked in surprise the moment she saw the demon, "Could it be Goetia?"

Da Vinci analyzed the data and said, "No, no! This is a Demon Pillar! It has taken human form, but its Spirit Origin Mode is unmistakable!"

"Weren't all the Demon Pillars dead?" Gudako asked.

The demon glared at Gudako and roared, "Extinct! Our race has long lost all hope! Unable to be resurrected, unable to return. From the moment you ruined our plan 3000 years ago, everything ended! Even so, I endured humiliation and survived until now, all for this moment! All for taking your life!!"

"That won't do. Even if it happens again, I'll still take care of you." Shirou said, standing in front of Gudako.

Artoria walked up to the boy and stood beside him, coldly saying, "Hmph! So you're just a remnant of the escaped bandits. Even now, you're still bothering me, saying you want to take Gudako's life. How shameless!"

Joan of Arc said angrily, "You made me suffer so much before, and it was you who, even after losing, still couldn't forget about revenge, you worthless dog! It's infuriating!"

"I know! It's humiliating, it's ugly! But a fire of anger burns in my chest, tormenting me. It's not because the 3000-year plan was ruined, not because of the Demon Pillars slaughtered by the assembled Heroic Spirits, and not because of the hateful Solomon. The plan was perfect, the progress was flawless, but it was destined to collapse from the very beginning. That's right! It's you! Gudako!" the demon roared.

"Me?" Gudako pointed to herself in confusion.

"That's right, Master of Chaldea, the only thing I can't get rid of is the hatred in my heart for you! Why did it have to be you who arrived at that place! This planet, this era! Why did it have to be you! If you are a hero who is beyond human, then I have nothing to say. If you are a monster who is more evil than a demon god, then I accept my fate."

"But why did it have to be someone as ordinary and mediocre as you! To destroy everything? My purpose in fleeing in such a sorry state and surviving until now is only one: to kill you, even if it means destroying this world!" The demon roared hysterically.

"I'm just trying to survive!" Gudako said, looking at the demon.

“Yes, Gudako did nothing wrong! Whether it’s the Demon Pillar or the Black Mud Servant, they just inexplicably came up here saying they wanted revenge. It’s really a headache. Now let me help you take care of them!” Shirou turned around and said to the girl behind him with a smile.

"Okay! I'll help you, Shirou-senpai!" Gudako said, perking up and clenching her fist.

"Has he been plotting revenge for 3000 years since escaping from the Temple of Time?" Holmes asked.

"Indeed! Great Detective! What I have acquired over 3000 years is the technology to combine Heroic Spirits and Phantom Spirits. Even the remnants of a shallow history, devoid of faith, and abandoned by humanity, possess immense value. Supernatural legends! Fairy tales! Beasts extinct by humans! A thirst for retribution, an obsession with revenge. This is the essence of my being, the Demon God Baal! The very elements that define me today!"

"Then I have another question. How much do you have to do with Moriarty?" Holmes asked.

“As many as you want, my lifelong rival, Sherlock Holmes,” Moriarty said coldly from behind the detective.

The blade pierced Holmes's back in a vital spot.

"Moriarty...you...I see, you betrayed me from the start. What a blunder! I never imagined you'd risk everything for victory. Gudako, I'm sorry, my reasoning was flawed. Shirou! Kill me! It's not too late!"

"What's going on!" Shirou and the girls asked in surprise.

"I won't let you pass." The demon blocked the boy's way.

"Unfortunately, your companions can't keep up with your thinking and decisive actions. I've won! Farewell! My fellow human, the world's greatest detective, let me borrow your power to achieve victory!" Moriarty said, absorbing Holmes into his body.

“Spirit Origin…Holmes has been merged with Moriarty!” Leonardo da Vinci said.