Atalanta's beast ears suddenly trembled.
What... was this...?
The girl's eyes widened. Had I actually... felt fear? Toward this boy?
A bead of cold sweat slid down her cheek as she stared intently at Shirou's movements.
The red-haired boy placed a spiraled longsword against the bowstring, then spoke the True Name of his Noble Phantasm (Martial Arts)—
"------Nine Lives."
That was in the distant Mythological Era where Atalanta had lived.
It was a "school" founded by the strongest Great Hero in history through his innate talent, yet one that vanished because no one could inherit it.
According to legend, it was the divine technique of launching nine attacks simultaneously in a single instant: "School: Nine Lives."
Performed with a sword, it became a nine-sword dance in the blink of an eye; performed with a spear, it became the peerless art of striking nine times with a single thrust—
In the Fae Kingdom, Shirou had analyzed the weapon (Mythical Artifact Marmiadoise) once used by the Great Hero.
After a series of grueling training sessions, the boy had ultimately completed this peerless art—
Although he was unable to achieve nine strikes in a single instant, he had managed eight.
Shirou had also successfully used this technique when fighting that golden wolf at Touko's house.
However, what Shirou had learned was merely the close-combat application of the "School: Nine Lives."
Heracles was considered most suited to the Archer class. What exactly did his peerless archery look like?
Shirou had no way of knowing.
All he could do was imagine it. He could only imagine.
By incorporating that imagination into his daily training, Shirou had comprehended this—
Atalanta's eyes widened in disbelief.
The arrow shot from the boy's hand was clearly only one, yet it presented such a spectacle.
Wrapped in the mana of