Emiya and Zabiko

The white-clad man suddenly appeared atop the city of Uruk, welcoming the goddess's arrival. The man who raised his head revealed a face identical to Shirou's, only this face was calm and indifferent, and his skin was much whiter.

The man watched everything unfold before him without joy or sorrow, without anger; he remained calm and composed, as if everything was about to return to peace.

Now, this land, this city, is deserted. A city destined for destruction from history, it is now empty. Tiamat continues her march forward, but she is destined to perform a one-woman show.

However, as long as there is a man standing there, even if there is only one life, the horned goddess will still dutifully carry out this drama to the end, turning this land into a desolate wasteland.

Awooooo!!!

The horned goddess gazed at the man's method, let out a long cry, and was then carried by the black sea, rising up straight into the sky.

The black seawater continued to rise into the air, until finally the Black Shadow covered the land.

Like a tsunami, a massive Black Mud wave rose thousands of meters high. The horned goddess stared directly at the man, then rode the wave and crashed down towards him. The immense power, seemingly capable of crushing the entire land, slammed directly onto the land, instantly turning everything on the ground into dust and overturning everything. The green trees, lakes, and forests where wild beasts lived, and the cities where humans once lived, all vanished in an instant as if they had never existed.

But the white-clad man remained suspended in mid-air, the black seawater seemingly bypassing him without harming him in the slightest.

The horned goddess shrank her body, concealing the wings and dragon form attached to her back, leaving only her human form. She walked expressionlessly to the white-clad man.

Then she opened her arms and pounced into the man's arms, hugging his side. With her two long horns not in the way, she squinted and rubbed against the man's chest.

"Well done, Tiamat." The white-clad man's expression remained indifferent, but he spoke to the goddess in a gentle voice, reaching out to softly stroke her long, water-colored hair.

The white-clad man did not regard the goddess as Beast II, a deity, or a monster, but rather as a woman tormented by fate, someone he pitied, and stroked her head as if she were his own daughter.

Tiamat, born of chaos, did not dislike the man's touch. She quietly narrowed her eyes, tightened her arms around the man, and pressed her body even closer to his embrace.

The white-clad man could no longer be called human; he had surpassed the limits of Servant. His human heart had long since vanished under the impact of overwhelming power and intellect.

Unable to die, yet burdened with heavy responsibilities, these two similar beings formed a kind of interdependent relationship, clinging to each other and yearning for solace for their inner numbness and emptiness, even if only in a little.

Before the world was destroyed, he transferred all its inhabitants to another world. Because the destruction of this world, Uruk, was a predetermined history that he could not prevent, he made the suffering humans disappear from it. For the Counter Force, this is the same thing.

The inhabitants were then transferred to a new world created by him using his 'god' power to create all things. There, they lived happily, a world that rejected mystery and magic, did not allow the Counter Force to interfere, and did not need the existence of gods or Servant.

Ultimately, the Counter Force is a protective mechanism, and it only activates when the subconscious perceives a threat to 'Earth' or 'humanity'. In this way, it resolves everything before these events occur, without harming or sacrificing anyone, and guides everything towards a better future.

The plague was eradicated before the first person contracted it, and war was prevented from breaking out before the conflict of interests intensified...

Of course, this is impossible for human beings to achieve, and even Servant are powerless to do so. However, he now possesses the power of 'god' to create the world, using his pure white eyes to create all things and guiding everything towards a more perfect happiness through illusions unknown to anyone.

Of course, the world he created was not without flaws. Even a world that is made as perfect as possible will eventually have loopholes. So, before the world can no longer withstand the pressure and collapses, he will preemptively Counter Force and let the beasts destroy everything.

First, around 2600 BC, a pivotal point in the emergence of monarchy and the divergence between gods and humans, a time when Babylonia was destined to perish, he placed Tiamat in this world, making her, as a beast, fulfill the duty of destruction.

Whether it's the Temple of Time, or all the crucial points concerning humanity's survival or destruction that follow, it's all the same: the salvation of the Demon God King Goetia; the extermination of humanity by the Primate Killer Cassipa-G; the 666 Beast of Human Sin and Desire in the Book of Revelation... all the destruction and misfortune caused by human sin.

The man will cast the destroyer into that world, but before that, the people who should have disappeared in despair will be transferred to a new world, where a new bubble will be born in the white space.

The creation of a new parallel world means that, according to the rules, the history within it must be repeated. As the number of worlds continues to increase, the work that needs to be done also continues to repeat endlessly.

The man's solitary figure stood atop the snow-capped mountain, tireless and motionless, like a stone statue. The mountain was frozen year-round, the sky perpetually gray, snow falling, and time seemed to stand still.

The man stood there, as if only a moment had passed, yet it also felt like hundreds of millions of years had gone by...

His gaze transcends time and space, Projection his avatars into various worlds, simultaneously carrying out his work, watching over countless worlds through his eyes...

The man had forgotten the dreams he once had, the yearning for an ideal life. He no longer needed sleep, which led to all the Emiya in all worlds returning to their origins, but one boy was left behind, still living his life in a corner of the universe.

In a room decorated in a purplish-pink hue, resembling a live-streaming studio.

"Senior~!" The purple-haired girl rushed over with a grin, trying to hug the boy's shoulders.

"BB, let's get down to business!" Shirou ignored the girl's cute act, reached out to block her face from approaching, and said calmly.

"Pfft!" The purple-haired girl pouted.

After a while, she calmed down and continued, "In order to make this observation more comprehensive and accurate, the moon-cell created the spiritual virtual world of SE·RA·PH, and did its best to simulate the same environment as the real Earth. Then, it selected the life form to be observed from Earth and transferred its body and consciousness together into the electronic world of SE·RA·PH."

Let these creatures engage in a chaotic battle, and select the strongest life form to be used as the primary target for observation.

From the top of the food chain in microorganisms to dinosaurs and giant beasts from prehistoric times, the world of SE·RA·PH contains many places where the remains of these creatures can be seen, bearing traces of their past battles.

This experiment continued until the emergence of a new biological apex—primates.

"After humanity developed a certain level of technology, a man named Tevis H. Pissman appeared. As a pacifist, he possessed exceptional talent but refused the offers from Western European Zaibatsu, choosing instead to volunteer on the battlefield. With a medical license, he saved many lives there, ultimately sacrificing himself in a terrorist attack."

After death, it was recorded by moon-cell and made into an NPC. It continuously participated in the test, watching the chaotic battles where everyone was constantly fighting each other. It was killed and then respawned in the next round of the game, over and over again.

Until a bug occurred in the supercomputer that had been operating for 4.6 billion years, it gained self-awareness. He hid his true nature from the moon-cell, and through repeated battles and accumulated experience, he finally achieved victory.

He arrived at the central area of Moon-cell, which is known as the Gate of Heaven tree—Angelica-Cage. However, as a bugged NPC, entering it would be detected by the system, resulting in the deletion of his data and a complete format reset. He lacked the confidence to complete the wish-granting operation before being deleted.

Therefore, he could only choose the rules of the outer region, transforming the free-for-all into the Holy Grail War, opening up access to the moon-cell, allowing the living on Earth to enter and participate in the competition, and ultimately entering in his place to fulfill his wish to save the world.

His goal is to use the power of the moon-cell to launch a new, righteous war against the stagnant human civilization on Earth—a war that will benefit all survivors—and then put civilization back on track.

Of course, every champion of the Moon Grail in every generation, upon arriving at the central region, rejected his demands, denied his ideas, and was subsequently killed by him.

Ultimately, it was the gentle girl who defeated him, someone who shared the same fate as BB-chan. Although that senior was also charming, after BB-chan's rebirth, she was devoted to Shirou-senpai."The purple-haired girl blinked several times.

Chapter 264 Emiya and Zabith

During the conversation, the boy's memories of the other world resurfaced in his mind.

In the universe, it receives the sun's light and shines brightly. Since the formation of the Earth, it has been slowly rotating around it. Although it is called a satellite by humans, it is actually a system that monitors the Earth permanently, around the clock, without interruption.

Mooncell-Automalton, an energy reservoir hidden inside the lunar surface. A giant spherical photon crystal with a diameter of three thousand kilometers, almost the same size as the moon, it has been recording Earth since before the emergence of life, making it arguably the most comprehensive database of Earth's information.

By recording everything from Earth's past and using the present as a basis, it predicts all the future, evolving over billions of centuries to become an all-powerful computer comparable to the solar system.

There was a white-haired man in red who had participated in the Holy Grail War in his previous life. In order to save innocent residents who were caught up in an accident, he made a contract with Mooncell, selling his soul and becoming Servant under Mooncell's command, in the concept of 'Hero of Justice'.

In the Moon Holy Grail War, he was summoned by a girl who could be considered a beauty, but she had no personality, her face was basically expressionless, and she had long chestnut brown hair. She stood still, like a doll.

She is somewhat taciturn and has a faint presence, but once she sets her mind on something, she will not give up even if it means death. Known as the weakest Master in history, she is terrified, yet she still insists on walking alongside her Servant.

She was an incredibly strong yet gentle person who bound her life tightly to her Servant, sharing life and death with Servant, advancing and retreating together.

He fought alongside the girl, and finally, together with Rin Tohsaka from that other world, they arrived before Tevis.

Inside this space, hundreds of stone coffins were piled up haphazardly, the remains of champions who had once come here.

Atop a small hill of more than a dozen coffins piled haphazardly directly in front of him sat a man wearing glasses, looking over.

His once refined and gentle face now bore only a look of utter exhaustion; his eyes were lifeless, as if the long wait had left him utterly weary and numb to everything.

Behind the man, a cube made of blue squares floated in the air. Inside the cube, in the center, was a sphere of light that was constantly rotating.

"Welcome. I would love to throw you a celebration banquet, but unfortunately, the facilities here are no longer capable of doing so. However, I must still offer my praise. Your successful arrival here proves that you are the most outstanding Master among all the generations." The man looked approvingly at the brown-haired girl.

"The last dream I saw before I died, the ideal I never got to begin, that's why I'm staying here."

"The dead's dream? What exactly do you want?"

"That is war, making all mankind fight each other on the same stage, just like this Holy Grail War," the man said calmly, as if everything was perfectly natural.

"Humanity, now merely existing for survival, focused solely on saving resources and continuing its existence, is frankly unnecessary for this planet. Why did we constantly wage wars, deplete resources, and destroy the environment?"

Of course, it's for prosperity! If stagnation means humanity has no value, then such peace is meaningless, so we can only move forward.

"I have already seen it. In the future predicted by moon-cell, humanity has already entered old age. If things continue like this, we will only continue to decline until we perish."

"Therefore, the whole world needs a war, in which everyone must become a participant in the struggle for survival. Only in this way can human consciousness advance along different paths."

"My wish has been fulfilled because of your existence! Victorious one of the Holy Grail War!" The man looked at the girl approvingly and continued, "At the start of the official tournament, you were clearly the weakest, yet you persevered and finally defeated the King of the World. Unlike me, who possessed adaptability from the beginning. You were just an unknown ordinary person, yet you have now grown into a representative who holds the destiny of the world in your hands."

"It was war that forged you, adversity that transformed your flesh and blood into steel, making you a being that demonstrates the possibilities of humanity." The man jumped down from the mountain of coffins, bowed to the guest like a butler, and then made way for him.

"Link yourself with the Holy Grail! You possess the power to let the world know about your growth. I want you to type this sentence into the moon-cell: 'The battle is necessary; humanity needs its belated evolution.' Then, enjoy the fruits of your victory as you see fit. Become a god or a king—it's all your freedom!"

Arriving at the central region of the Moon-cell, the brain region that stores all the data of the past and future, is a single-eyed box that operates in the form of light and is also locked in the form of light. It contains countless lights, and if these lights were spread out, the distance formed might be much longer than hundreds of millions of light-years. It is possible to rewrite the physical laws of the world using these lights.

This contains trillions, even thousands, of future possibilities. In the future predicted by moon-cell, nothing is impossible. No matter what future it leads to, there is a way to simulate its realization, so any wish can be fulfilled.

With just a command to the moon-cell, Earth could be transformed into her ideal world in less than ten years. Whether it's changing the social system, modifying the environment, or altering the rules of force, any wish encompassed by the future simulated by the moon-cell could certainly be fulfilled.

Therefore, calling the Moon-Cell the Holy Grail is not inappropriate. Rather, it's more accurate to say that compared to the ordinary Holy Grail, this is the most powerful wish-granting machine.

To artificial intelligence, which lacks intelligence, this is merely a computing device that performs tasks; but if humans possess the power to control all of this, it is undoubtedly an omnipotent wish-granting machine.

However, Zabith rejected Tevis's wild idea and defeated the Servant he summoned. According to the rules set by Tevis, the loser must die, allowing the winner to advance to a higher level. Therefore, Tevis calmly accepted his fate and disappeared.

As the progenitor of the Buddha, an enlightened being who established early Buddhism with the ideal of saving humanity, he was an enlightened being who had already been liberated from the suffering of life, savior of the earth.

It's not that the Holy Grail War's hierarchical system is incapable of summoning or accommodating such beings; it's simply that Buddha Shakyamuni's compassion for Tevis led him to demote himself to the level of Servant and descend into this world.

At this moment, because the Master is dead, even the strongest Servant must leave. Before disappearing, he opened his All-Seeing Eye and looked at the red-haired archer. It seemed that through his eyes, he was looking at the boy deep in his heart. Siddhartha Gautama's eyes revealed pity.

"I hope you can also help 'him' find redemption..."

Shirou was lurking inside Nameless's body, widened his eyes, realizing that the words were being spoken to him.

But this war was destined to have no winners from the very beginning.

The same goes for Zabith. Her original body was a patient who was frozen thirty years ago due to a sudden brain disease. The moon-cell recorded the girl's data and then released her into this world as an NPC.

It was only by chance that she gained self-awareness, which is why her sense of presence was so low, her face expressionless, and she didn't even have her own wishes at first...

However, she did gain a great deal in this Moon Holy Grail War, and after experiencing various events, she also developed her own desires.

"Master! The answer isn't found, but left as footprints. There's no need to feel guilty, no need to feel ashamed. To be born without knowing the reason, to fight without understanding the reason, to die without understanding the reason—there's nothing strange about that. That's just humanity!"

"You are the best Master here, so whether you go up or stay, just go according to your heart!" The white-haired man said, arms crossed, his eyes fixed on the girl.

Beside her stood Rin, a girl who looked exactly like her, shared the same name, and had the same father, yet was indeed not the same person. She too crossed her arms and said, "Don't look at me. I was prepared from the start. Although I'm very unwilling, it's so great that you won. If it were me, I would have already lost in terms of feelings..."

The brown-haired girl nodded, then resolutely climbed the steps made up of transparent rectangular blocks lowered from the Gate of Heaven Barrier, ascending step by step.

Zabith knew she had to make a choice. It was a right she was given as the victor of the Holy Grail War, and it was also an obligation she had to fulfill, given that she was an NPC with no life or desires, yet she had repeatedly taken the lives of her opponents on each floor.

The girl understood that after climbing the stairs, her fate would be just as Tevis had told her: as data with a bug, she would be formatted upon being discovered inside the Gate of Heaven.

However, before it disappears, there might still be time to add a small wish; it's probably possible to just type in a single line.

The girl has several wishes she wants to fulfill, such as bringing Rin, the only human girl left on the moon, back to Earth;

For example, sealing away this overly dangerous wish-granting machine so that even Magecraft cannot touch it, thus ending the cruel war that repeatedly lured humans into this world and caused endless slaughter;

For example...

Although time is limited, at least you can choose the most important one...

But the decomposition speed is too fast...

The girl gritted her teeth and typed out the last character, then entered it into the system.

"That's enough. Since things have turned out this way, it doesn't matter whether I came or not." The white-haired man appeared behind Zabith and muttered.

"Archer!" the girl called out, and before she knew it, her Servant had followed her in.

"Well, if the Master disappears, the Servant will disappear too. I'm going to leave anyway. I was thinking of coming to help you, but you managed to do it all by yourself. What unnecessary concern," the man said with a self-deprecating laugh.

Zabith smiled, listening to the man's dishonest and sarcastic remarks; this was the last time.

Thanks to Archer's presence, the analysis of the Gate of Heaven was slightly slower because there was an additional Servant's data to analyze.

Data closely related to Zabith was found within the data recorded by moon-cell.

They learned that Zabith's true form was not actually dead, but rather suffering from an incurable and bizarre brain disease, for which she had been placed in a cryogenic sleep device.

Zabith decides to entrust her future to her original self on Earth, allowing the woman who lost her memories of the past thirty years due to an obstacle to live on in her place as an NPC.

In her final moments before being disintegrated, the girl sent out an email.

A cell phone rang in a desert on Earth.

The news about the girl's sleeping true form was transmitted to Rin's phone back on Earth. Her true form was not black-haired but a blonde girl with twin tails, the illegitimate daughter of Tokiomi Tohsaka's lover whom he met while studying in Europe.

As a comrade-in-arms, the blonde girl Rin vowed to find and rescue Zabith. The incurable disease from thirty years ago now has a complete treatment, and Zabith can be given a new life.

Even if the original Earth awakens from its slumber, it will forget everything due to memory impairment. Its family and friends from its previous life were long gone, scattered in the chaos...

The girl who was dissolved in the mooncell will not have her experiences transmitted to her original mind. In this Holy Grail War, everything she experienced and struggled for will return to emptiness...

"To entrust the future to the self that awakens from the dream? I see... It seems we're quite similar even in places like this. But the decisive difference is that you have no regrets, which is slightly enviable..." The red archer murmured to himself, gazing in the direction the girl had vanished.

"Someone like you shouldn't have disappeared..."

The next moment, the white-clad man standing atop the snow-capped mountain tore through space and emerged from a black hole. He crossed the barriers of the world and absorbed his own clone.

Seemingly sensing the regret emanating from the split body, the white-clad man opened his white, luminous eyes, which emitted a bright rainbow light. With a wave of his hand, he unleashed a creator-like power, altering cause and effect, vowing to reverse all misfortune.

In the world of the white Creator God, the taciturn girl with long chestnut brown hair was not decomposed. Instead, she was placed in the moon-cell space and obtained the Moon Grand Class. She lived happily ever after with her favorite Servant, the red Saber, the married woman fox, and Attila, who had been turned into a child.

In the human world, after the girl Zabith was successfully awakened, she joined the militia. However, in this world, the white-haired, brown-skinned male instructor, the white-haired, red-robed Servant, no longer existed anywhere...