Shirou Emiya is determined to kill all the cursed spirits and evil spirits

Characters with odd colors and reptilian shapes were still okay, but the scariest ones were the ones that simply looked as terrifying as possible: guys with necks several meters long, guys with black holes in the middle of their heads, and even deformed monsters made of countless human remains spliced ​​together...

Such a world is definitely hell!

Especially even in a bustling city like Tokyo, there are almost no people passing by in the rural areas at the edge at night. Yotsuya Miko, who was walking on this road, felt even colder between her thighs.

Fortunately, the journey had been quite smooth. Yotsuya Miko hadn't encountered any ghosts or monsters approaching her, as if all her bad luck had been completely shaken off.

Finally, after more than ten minutes, the bustling area of ​​the city was in sight. She could even see the bustling crowds on the streets dozens of meters away.

This city that never sleeps, which never stops completely even in the early morning, really makes people feel safe.

With such a sigh in his heart, Yotsuya Miko subconsciously wanted to walk towards the dimly lit area, but suddenly he saw a figure walking towards him from the other side of the triangular intersection.

He was a strange young man with red hair streaked with white. His face was gentle, yet he held an unusual firmness within. At first glance, he seemed approachable yet also remarkably reliable.

But what made her stop was not only the boy's appearance, but also the huge guy behind him who was several meters tall and whose body almost filled the entire street.

It looked like a fox, but it was more than that. A normal fox wouldn't have more than a dozen human heads, and its tail wouldn't be made up of bones like a spine.

Apart from 'Lord God', this was the first time she had seen such a huge ghost!

The worst thing was that the young man seemed to have noticed something. He turned his head to look at it and was about to say something.

No, you can't do that, it will kill you!

Will die! !

She had to do something, she had to do something to save the boy.

Fear and other things don’t matter for the time being. She can’t really just watch someone die without helping!

"Um...the classmate over there?"

Yotsuya Miko thought the boy was about her age, and must still be in school. She could just pretend she was a flirtatious woman trying to flirt with a mistaken classmate, and that was fine. As long as she could save him, that was all she needed.

Just as she stretched out her hand and was about to speak the lines she had prepared, she seemed to suddenly hear the boy muttering something.

"Trace on."

Before Yotsuya Kenko could react to what the English sentence meant, he saw two big swords, one black and one white, suddenly appear in the young man's hands, and then he swung them crosswise in the direction of the evil spirit.

Sizzle————!

It was clearly a huge evil spirit that she had never seen before, several meters tall.

It was obvious that the length of the two swords was less than half of the evil spirit's body.

But when the two knives crossed in front of the evil spirit, it didn't even have time to react before its entire body was neatly cut into four pieces, and then the smelly blood began to spray out like free.

Perhaps because the blow was too sharp, the evil spirit's body did not seem to realize its own death until a moment later, and fell to the ground on both sides.

The blood turned into dense raindrops that soaked the boy's clothes, but he looked in the direction of Yotsuya Miko as if nothing had happened.

"Sorry, I just realized you're here... What can I do for you?"

Teeth, white teeth...

Who is this person? An exorcist? How could he do such a horrible thing without any expression?

Even though she tried hard to maintain a calm expression, Yotsuya Miko's hands subconsciously grasped the hem of her skirt, and tiny tears began to well up in her eyes.

If I say something wrong, will I be killed? I'll definitely be killed!

However, exorcists are considered good guys in many movies and TV shows, so even though they are cruel when killing evil spirits, they don’t necessarily cut themselves into pieces, right?

so!

“I’m sorry, I didn’t actually see anything!!!”

"......ha?"

Volume 1: Chapter 2 A Completely Different World

At first, Emiya Shirou thought that there was a slight error in his senses during the process of fainting and waking up from exhaustion.

He clearly did feel a vague malice coming from behind him, but when he turned his head to look behind him, he could not see anything, nor did he feel the flow of magic.

However, holding on to the assumption that the enemy might be very good at hiding his body, Emiya Shirou still projected his weapon without hesitation and attacked behind him.

For a true warrior, the sense of weaponry must be even more sensitive than the body alone. He clearly felt the blade strike something, but the sensation was only slightly thicker than air.

However, the malicious feeling did disappear, causing Shirou Emiya to mistakenly believe that the person behind him was watching and looked away after being discovered.

But when he turned his head again, he found that there was a black-haired girl standing not far away, and her pupils were filled with strange fear as she looked at him.

Is he an ordinary person?

Indeed, within the magic world, there are rules that prohibit ordinary people from witnessing magic performances. This is because the survival of magic often relies on a certain level of mystery. Simply put, the fewer people who know about it, the more powerful the magic becomes.

If the principles of a magic trick were fully disclosed to the public, then no matter how miraculous the magic trick was, it would eventually become almost useless.

As a half-baked magus, Emiya Shirou had always followed this principle under Kiritsugu's guidance. However, his main purpose was not to protect the "mystery", but to prevent ordinary people from being involved in danger.

Magicians are creatures who can ruthlessly abandon even their loved ones in pursuit of the truth. They may not necessarily go to the trouble of erasing the memories of ordinary people, and may even use a simpler method - killing them.

So Emiya subconsciously wanted to explain that the weapon in his hand was just a magic prop that could be hidden, but he saw the girl opposite him suddenly lowered her head towards him.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t actually see anything!!!”

"......ha?"

What's going on? It feels like I've stumbled upon a murder scene, and the witness is praying to the murderer not to kill her.

"what are you talking about?"

Emiya Shirou could see the girl's fear, but he found it difficult to understand the source of this emotion.

"You...you...don't notice?"

"what?"

"Evil spirit..."

Perhaps it was because he saw the most powerful individual among them being brutally slaughtered and the ghosts wandering nearby had already disappeared completely that Yotsuya Miko had the courage to say this word.

"Evil spirit?"

Emiya Shirou nodded slightly in thought.

This sounds like a monster made up of wronged human souls, as described in some supernatural works. However, according to modern magic theory, souls cannot exist in this world.

Because in modern times, with the development of science and civilization, [mystery] is becoming increasingly low, and spirits, which are inherently mysterious, have no basis for existence in the world.

But the premise of all this is that Shirou Emiya is still in the original magic world. Now he clearly doesn't even know exactly where he is.

The special ability that can see spirits that others cannot see is called... Yin-Yang eyes?

"What kind of scene do you see?"

"Eh?"

Yotsuya Kenko was stunned. She didn't expect that the exorcist in her eyes would turn around and ask her such a question.

However, after discovering that the other party was not as ferocious as she had imagined, and was communicating with her normally, she felt less afraid and began to try to figure out how to accurately describe the scene she saw.

"Exactly. Just now, I saw a demon behind you that looked like a fox, but with dozens of heads. When it realized you could see it, it was about to attack you, but you cut it into four pieces with your knife..."

Yotsuya Miko pointed to the ground nearby, where the bodies had not yet completely disappeared. But when Emiya Shirou looked in that direction, he still could see nothing.

Even if he tried to use the little remaining magic power to strengthen his eyes, the effect was still the same.

Could it really be some evil spirit that he couldn't see?

But why was he eliminated so easily... That's right.

Shirou Emiya raised his hands and looked at the two weapons in front of him, one black and one white.

Gan Jiang and Moye, famous swords passed down from ancient times.

This sword is a pair of yin and yang, male and female, based on Yin-Yang magic. The black one is the Yang Sword Gan Jiang, and the white one is the Yin Sword Moye. It is also the close combat weapon that the Heroic Spirit Emiya likes to project the most.

However, as a counterfeit of that Heroic Spirit, Shirou Emiya knew very well that this projected weapon was not entirely based on the original text, but was projected by the Heroic Spirit Emiya based on his own understanding after reading the allusions related to the original text.

In a sense, this can also be called [forging].

Even though Gan Jiang Moye's specifications as a treasure are not too powerful due to the huge difference from the original, Heroic Spirit Emiya retained the exorcism motto on it for some reason, allowing it to inherit some of the powerful anti-monster properties of the original Gan Jiang Moye.

Things like evil spirits happen to be categorized as monsters.

Seeing this, Yotsuya Miko finally realized something and tried to ask Emiya Shirou, "So, you can't actually see them?"

"That's right. If it weren't for this weapon's powerful effect against evil spirits and the like, I might be in trouble too."

Regardless of the true power disparity, an invisible enemy is still quite troublesome. Especially when the enemy is not in human form, you have no idea at all what angle or how it will attack.

Most importantly, Shirou Emiya could clearly feel that his current physical condition was not at all good.

After all, not only did his excessive use of class cards cause his body to be replaced with that of the Heroic Spirit Emiya, but he also unlimitedly squeezed his body and magic power in battle after battle, so that his body had actually reached its limit long ago.

No matter what, the so-called magic circuit is just an organ in the body.

Just like the heart will feel unbearable pain after strenuous exercise, the same is true for magic circuits, and there is even the possibility of necrosis due to overuse.

Fortunately, during his childhood magic training with Kiritsugu, he had taught him about this situation. As long as he stopped using magic circuits for a long period of time, this special organ would gradually become strong enough to barely withstand that kind of magic power.

Humans are creatures that can constantly adapt in order to survive. Perhaps only then will he be able to truly use the power of the Heroic Spirit Emiya.

But Shirou Emiya himself didn't know how long it would take for him to adapt.

After waving his hand and dispersing Gan Jiang Moye into blue particles, Emiya Shirou began to try to get closer to the other party.

Yotsuya Miko subconsciously wanted to keep her distance, but when she thought about the fact that this was the first person she had met who could exorcise powerful evil spirits, she stopped immediately and asked curiously, "So, are you an exorcist?"

"Exorcist? No, if I have to say, my profession should be a magician. It should have nothing to do with things like exorcism, right?" Since the other party had already seen the truth, Shirou Emiya no longer chose to hide it.

"A magician...like one who uses fire magic?"

"Kamen comes to fight Wizard?"

Yotsuya Miko thought of a special effects drama she had watched before.

"No, that has nothing to do with that... If you must say it, magi are just old folks who stay at home and study, while so-called magi are those who go against their ideals and use magic to make money or achieve various goals."

In the eyes of the ancient magic families, so-called magicians are rebels who should be eliminated. However, when they need them, these people will still choose to hire magicians without hesitation.

All in all, so-called magicians are just a group of guys who don't need much respect.

Even the reason they want to save Dayuan from extinction is not for the purpose of saving the world, but because of the absurd theory that they will no longer be able to pursue the truth after they die.

As an ordinary person with nothing special except the ability to see evil spirits, Yotsuya Miko was not able to accept the worldview described by Emiya Shirou for a while, but she was still keenly aware of the key point -

"So, as a magus, you'd also take on exorcism quests just to make money, right?"

"Well, if you must put it that way..."

“Right, right!”

The eyes that had just cried now showed expectation. Under the inexplicable luster, the golden pupils became even brighter.

Even though Shirou Emiya thought that he was a guy who had been abandoned by the concept of justice and should go to hell, he still seemed unable to resist the sincere requests of others.

For an ordinary girl like this who can see evil spirits but has no special abilities, it is indeed easy for her to encounter accidents that she cannot control.

Thinking of this situation, Emiya Shirou finally gave in and sighed, saying, "Well, let's just leave it at that."

"Thank you! But those evil spirits are actually everywhere. Of course, I can't force you to stay by my side as a bodyguard forever."

"But sometimes, there will be a situation where an evil spirit will stare at a person and won't leave. When that happens, I'll leave it to you. I will definitely pay you a full reward!"

Yotsuya Miko placed her palms together in front of her and even bowed solemnly to Emiya Shirou.

After discovering that the other person was actually very easy to talk to, she finally relaxed a lot. Of course, she would never do something like defaulting on a payment. Even though she was still an unemployed high school student, she still knew which was more important, money or life!

"But I have another question for you..."

Shirou Emiya knew that he was most likely no longer in his original world, but he still wanted to ask.

"Have you heard of the city of Fuyuki?"

Before Yotsuya Miko opened her mouth completely, Emiya Shirou was still able to fantasize about something, but this fantasy was soon shattered.

"Fuyuki City? Where is that? Is it also a city in Japan?"

Seeing the puzzled look on Yotsuya Miko's face, Emiya Shirou already knew the answer.

"No, it's okay... I just suddenly wanted to ask."