Shirou vs. Kamijou Touma / Shirou and Rin Tohsaka
"But what medium will be used for the summoning? A laptop, or a kitchen knife?"
"Anything is fine! Even I could do it!" Rin Tohsaka said casually, waving her hand. Wasn't that what she did back in the other world?
"..." There was a moment of silence in the dojo, and the girls all had meaningful looks in their eyes.
"Why? They've all started acting weird," Mikoto Misaka whispered to Shokuhou Misaki.
"Hehehe, if that's the case, Mr. Shirou is quite similar to someone who always suffers from amnesia." Shokuhou Misaki said with a gloomy expression and a hint of inexplicable anger.
"No, sister, in that case, I'll be the medium!" Sakura stepped forward and said.
Artoria defended herself, saying:
"No! Leave this to me! After all, it was me that Shirou summoned in the first place, and the scabbard that has been with me for half my life is also inside Shirou. We have a close connection."
"That was in a life long ago, right? It doesn't really have any direct connection to the current Artoria," Sakura corrected with a smile. "In this world, I was the first person to move into my senior's house and meet him."
"So, when I was playing Pikachu, I already met Shirou. I was the first person to meet Shirou," Bazett said, raising his hand.
"No!!..."
"No, no!..."
"Shut up! If you're so eager to do it, then let's do it together! First, we need to find a suitable place to set up the summoning circle." Rin Tohsaka shouted, interrupting the argument, and walked outside.
Upon arriving at Shirou's house, the girls pushed open the door and entered Shirou's room. Except for Sakura, the others peered out curiously. Because he had a dedicated study for work, the room wasn't actually filled with many things.
"Ah, those are models of guns and swords. Shirou really likes these things." Artoria said, looking at the lifelike models hanging on the wall.
"A sharp and efficient style, absolutely amazing!" Bazett said, clenching his fist.
"Alright, stop looking and come help! Bazett is bleeding! Sakura, help clear this space."
Rin Tohsaka directed the girls, then reached into her collar, pulled out a Ruby necklace, and took it off her neck.
After the summoning circle is set up...
"Then let's begin!"
Shirou raised his head and felt the pull from another dimension.
A day in heaven is a year on earth, and Shirou has been living in the new world for over a month. He has become completely familiar with the Queen and the various demons. Although each of them has a completely different personality, they are not the type to do whatever they want just because they have super strong True Magic.
They are truly exceptional individuals, appearing only once every few thousand years, wise men whose experience far surpasses that of ordinary people, revered by past generations as beings from legends and deities. They are the ones who can truly understand Shirou's wishes, but neither support nor oppose them. Yet, even a few words from them can inspire Shirou.
The empress lay on the recliner, basking in the sunlight she had created, though her bloodless, purplish-red skin couldn't show any other tan.
"Someone has summoned me, I must go now. Your Highness, thank you for your hospitality these past few days," Shirou said.
"Oh, next time you come over, remember to bring me some fun toys. I'll leave the door open for you." The girl waved to Shirou.
"Hmm." Shirou had wanted to leave this world before, but he had no coordinates. Now, a pulling force has given him direction. It's like a beam of light guiding him across a boundless ocean.
Shirou tore through space and flew out. He finally left the gloomy world and came to a clear sky with blue skies and white clouds.
A chubby figure was being chased out of a house not far away.
"Enough! Uncle, you'd better get back here right now!"
"I haven't even met Chiga Asahi yet! At least let me see that girl in real life!"
"No! Absolutely not! You lolicon, get out of here!"
"Wait a minute! That's so heartless. We've eaten together before, after all. Didn't I treat you all very well last time?"
"Shut up! You disgusting pervert!" came a girl's voice from inside, as she threw things at the fat man!
Then a very thin, cool, white object was smeared onto the fat man's face.
"Wait, panties..."
"Here you go! Take it home and hide away to vent your frustrations! Just don't go near the children!"
Shirou looked around, realizing this couldn't possibly be Tokyo. Shirou stood on a straight concrete road, with houses on one side and a golden field of rice paddies on the other. It wasn't harvest time yet, according to the season.
This is clearly not the original world, so why is the man here?
"Iruma- senpai?"
"Ah! Ah... Shirou-kun!" The chubby uncle turned around at the sound, then remembered the panties in his hand and quickly put them in his back pocket. He smiled awkwardly at Shirou and said, "What a strange encounter~!"
Chapter 1131 Shirou vs Kamisato Shiro
The chubby uncle actually came into this world secretly on his own.
After Shirou became a god, he opened a door for all beings from other worlds, making it easier for them to return to their original worlds. It was during this time that the chubby old man, unable to contain his curiosity, brought over a ladder...
Because Shirou enlarged the opening, he, as the author, also had the right to enter the other's world.
So the chubby uncle arrived in this world and went to the school rooftop where the two girls had come from. He was almost mistaken for a suspicious person and arrested by the police. Fortunately, the two girls saved him.
Then the chubby uncle wandered around the Small Town he had created, looking around and asking the girl to introduce him to other characters, but he was quickly disliked by Adachi and Shimamura.
"Let's go back anyway!" Shirou had roughly figured out what had happened.
"Ah, Shirou-kun, I haven't even met that child yet," the chubby uncle said reluctantly.
The chubby uncle wanted to meet a loli named Chiga Masha, who claimed to be an alien. She often wore a suspiciously simplified version of a spacesuit, but her hair was a light blue color that no human had, and she emitted strange particles from her body.
She is suspected to be the younger sister of Hoshimiya Sha from the anime "Seishun Otoko" and "Denpa Onna". She shares the characteristic of emitting particles and using a pseudonym derived from a nearby shrine.
Shirou ignored the fat man's opinion, took him back to his house, and then returned to the room where he had been summoned.
When Shirou appeared in the room, he found several girls staring at him with wide eyes.
"Shirou! You're finally back!" the girls exclaimed with delight.
"Thank you everyone, thank you for your trouble."
"Oh, so you finally decided to come back. You've traveled through several worlds to get here?" Rin Tohsaka said, arms crossed.
"Just this once, okay? What a wonderful summons, Tohsaka! Thank you for rescuing me."
"Well, it's better than that time you appeared in other buildings and smashed up the living rooms, right?" The girl turned her head away and said unappreciatively.
"Now," Shirou has spent more than a month with the demons in that new world, and I don't know how long it took him to get back here.
"Only four hours have passed," Artoria said.
"Is that so? That's great. We shouldn't delay. Before Kamisato Shiro causes any more damage, we need to persuade him to accept my wish as soon as possible. Not just in this world, but in all the worlds connected to this place, I hope to bring happiness to everyone." Shirou said solemnly.
"Whoa, it's the truth. Being a pushover to this extent is practically a disease. The knight who saves the Princess is definitely better." Shokuhou Misaki looked startled, then continued:
"But that won't work on that high school student. He wasn't affected by that hand precisely because his resolve was strong enough, wasn't it? That's why he wouldn't change his mind because of what others said."
"It's alright. During my time away, I consulted with people familiar with his power and figured out how to deal with him," Shirou said confidently. The demons had already explained the workings of the power of the Ideal Banishment to him.
The initiation of the Ideal Banishment requires the overlap of both positive and negative desires, and a wavering of one's inner self. To overcome it, one must not avoid difficulties but confront pain directly; not give up on one's destiny but actively bear the fear; fully accept the world one inhabits and one's life, accepting both happiness and unhappiness without seeking to change the past or obtain a better future.
This belief can be very small, or it can become incredibly grand when it grows large.
"Wait, you just got back and you're going back again? If you get exiled somewhere else, I can't guarantee I can bring you back," Rin Tohsaka protested loudly.
"It's alright, Tohsaka can definitely do it," Shirou said with a smile to the girl.
"Really..." Rin Tohsaka blushed slightly and turned her head away. How could others have more confidence in her than she did? What was going on?
"Anyway, listen to me," Shirou told the girls about his plan.
After that, Shirou set off.
"Tohsaka, please do it according to the agreed plan. I'm counting on you." As he reached the door, Shirou turned to the black-haired girl with twin tails and said.
"Ugh! Seriously, I really lost out this time. I'll make you pay me back later!" Rin Tohsaka said angrily, not realizing that preparing a summoning circle also costs money.
As dusk approached, the telephone poles and buildings, backlit by the sun, formed a black backdrop against the orange-red clouds in the sky, creating a scene like a frozen painting. A high school boy with short brown hair walked down the street, occasionally raising his hand towards the sky.
Kamisato Shiro looked up and frowned, because he saw someone who should never be there.
"How did you get back? Could it be that you left behind some dismembered organs in this world?"
Shirou, having returned to this world, used spatial teleportation to appear directly in front of the high school student.
Although Kamisato Shiro considers himself ordinary, he has his own quirks, just as there was a reason why Imagine Breaker chose Kamijō Touma. It was no coincidence that Ideal Banishment appeared in his life.
Kamisato Shiro himself has a fastidious mentality of "not allowing a second choice." He does not allow any path other than "moving straight towards his dream and achieving it smoothly."
We cannot tolerate the cowardly mentality of "preparing insurance measures from the outset based on the premise that it may not be achievable." We cannot tolerate the possibility that "it might not be achievable" even in the corner of our minds.
He absolutely forbids the idea of "compromising with reality." Regardless of whether the object is himself or someone else, he simply cannot tolerate the moment when someone is crushed by reality and abandons their ideals.
"So no matter what, Shangli has to push up with that right hand!" He is a hero in that sense. He doesn't make any plans, he complains, but he will definitely protect girls in need and save the world. He just charges straight ahead and gets good results.
"Uesato-kun, I'm fully prepared this time! I hope you can accept my beliefs. Please shake my hand again." Shirou stepped forward and extended his hand to the man.
Kamisato Shirou didn't know what Shirō was Kamisato Shiro, but the result was the same. If Shirou truly lived up to his absolute belief, then he would respect and acknowledge Shirou's ideals.
However, if Shirou still harbors even the slightest wavering resolve regarding his inner ideals, he will be banished by his right hand.
Chapter 1132 Shirou and Rin Tohsaka
Kamisato Shiro did not lower his guard against Shirou, after all, the other party was an existence on par with a demon god. Even an incomplete demon god was not someone he could confront head-on.
The moment Shirou comes into contact with his shadow, he will initiate the Ideal Banishment. This is an established reality; this high school student possesses a level of obsession and determination beyond what is typical for someone his age.
He loathed the demons; they could change the world at will, making decisions for other humans without ever considering their feelings.
Just a month ago, he was just an ordinary high school student. He had no connection to anything mysterious, and had never even been to Academy City. He was just an ordinary person, accepting his ordinary life.
He never wanted to have the superpowers of those high school students he saw on TV, who could wipe out an entire army single-handedly, nor did he ever hope to learn any True Magic. He was simply content to enjoy his high school life.
But he, who didn't need power, was given this right hand, which then turned his life into a mess.
Yes, it was almost like how humans treat livestock. The demons probably thought that since they had bestowed such power upon him, he should be extremely grateful. Like a stray dog that had been taken in, he wagged his tail and licked their feet.
But this was a huge mistake! He didn't need such a thing at all; even a rabbit will bite when cornered, so he decided to take revenge on the demon god.
In Kamisato Shiro's view, Shirou is doing now is no different from what those demons are doing. He hates Shirou.
"What exactly do you want? Do you want to fight me?" Kamisato Shiro asked, staring at Shirou.
Shirou shook his head. Although Kamisato Shiro had exiled him, he wasn't a bad person at heart. He hadn't persecuted anyone, nor had he used his abilities to do evil or act arbitrarily. He was simply doing what he believed was right. Shirou couldn't bring himself to fight someone like that.
Shirou chuckled and said, "I just want to fix this world and let the other worlds return to their original states. That's all. I will rewind this world's timeline to three days ago and then erase everyone's memories. This will prevent anyone from suffering psychological trauma from the previous disaster. Everyone can return to their previous daily lives and live happily with their families."
"If those people knew all this, do you think they would really feel happy?" Kamisato Shiro asked coldly.
"The dead are dead. No one asked you to, so why do you arbitrarily resurrect them? The city has been destroyed, and people are clearly not capable of repairing it. Why should you be the one to restore everything? As a high and Goddess who saves the world, have you ever considered that there are people who do not want to be saved, and that there are people who do not need sympathy or pity?"
"At least for their loved ones, this is inevitable," Shirou replied softly, three steps away from Kamisato Shiro's shadow.
Two steps...
"So even if they're scum, we should still save them? What about rapists and murderers? Should we also help them find happiness?" Kamisato Shiro asked Shirou with certainty.
"I want to give them a chance to repent, at least to understand their mistakes and be willing to atone," Shirou said.
"That's just your self-satisfaction! Even wicked people have the freedom to persist in their malice until death."
"Ah, it has nothing to do with good or bad character, the key is whether I do it or not," Shirou said with a light laugh. He would give bad people enough time to change their ways. Because true happiness is about protecting people so they become better, not worse.
Step...
"Hmph!" Kamisato Shiro grasped Shirou's hand. Whether it was real or fake, he would find out by testing it.
"Sorry, I was lying when I said I was absolutely prepared. Of course, everything else is what I really mean. It's just that I don't know how to satisfy everyone's needs, but I've decided that I have to try no matter what." Shirou emitted a white light, enveloping himself Kamisato Shiro.
The next moment, the Ideal Banishment was activated, and Shirou, along with Kamisato Shiro, was exiled to a new world.
"In the end, people will probably still yearn for and aspire to some negative desires, like an instinct. There will be evil humans, and there will be good humans, and most people will be a mixture of both, living their lives in society. So, should we create a world that can accommodate human evil in order to bring happiness to all of humanity, or should we eliminate human evil so that humanity can achieve true happiness?"
Shirou said to himself.
"Who knows!" Kamisato Shiro said irritably. He had actually been tricked.
"Well, so I'll be going to try it out now. Please stay here for a while until everything is done. Goodbye then." Shirou said to Kamisato Shiro, then turned and was taken away by the summoning circle.
"Wait!" Kamisato Shiro shouted urgently, just then sensing a series of terrifying auras rushing towards him from behind.
The Daoist goddess of corpse dissolution, buried with the pharaoh, and the resentment, knowledge, and mystery of those sealed within the pyramids, combined with the papyrus used to resurrect the pharaoh; Nephthys, dressed as a mummy; the Chimera, a synthetic beast with glowing red eyes symbolizing the 'beautiful beast'; Nuada, the creator of Celtic mythology God King...
"Hey, human! How does that hand feel? Thank you for bringing us to this world," the empress said.
In the dim world, the demons, Ideal Banishment, pounced on the brown-haired boy with fierce glints in their eyes.
"Aaaaaah!!!" In Shinchi-chan, Kamisato Shiro let out a scream.
Shirou knew that the demons wouldn't go too far with Kamisato Shiro, so he simply left him there for a while until everything was settled before sending him back to the world of True Magic Index.