Men Can't Resist Black-Unless It's Curvy

Second Master didn't like hearing that, and he retorted, "Sakura, when have I ever repeated the same mistake?"

"Bullying others with power, incompetent rage, and scum."

Finally, Sakura gave Shinji sweet smile, "As expected, no matter what, brother is still brother."

"How am I a scumbag? I'm nothing like the person in the story!... Maybe."

Shinji turned his head and glanced at Chloe and Ryougi Shiki behind him, then whispered.

Chloe sat on the sofa with her arms crossed, her pouting expression suggesting she was sulking.

Ryougi Shiki maintained her smiling demeanor, seemingly very interested in the ongoing HF activities.

What are these two thinking?

Shinji was curious, but fearing being targeted, he dared not speak.

Second Master knew very well that his best course of action was to remain calm and unbiased, not taking sides.

You absolutely mustn't ask questions that could provoke conflict, otherwise you'll be targeted by both sides. Women can be just that unreasonable sometimes.

Only in this way can one ensure that they don't get caught up in the Love Triangle, and instead gain some small advantages from the competition among women.

[Wait a minute... looking at it this way, Sakura might be right. I am indeed a bit of a jerk.]

Of course, only a tiny bit.

Second Master wouldn't consider himself a complete scoundrel; at most, he might think he has a bit of a love for the forest, rather than individual trees.

"Tch, brother..."

Sakura frowned in displeasure.

Having grown up by her older brother's side, she might not be at the level of knowing exactly what Shinji is doing just by looking at his butt, but she knows exactly what her brother's expression is like when he's swooning over a girl.

[It's a pity, we have to be patient...]

The most crucial moment in Heaven's Feel, the showdown with Matou, is fast approaching, and Sakura has no intention of taking any further action before then.

Because...

I want to see exactly how he edited this clip.

Sakura played with the ends of her hair, her expression a half-smile.

Although she had read the script before and even acted in it herself, this was the first time Sakura had seen the finished film.

The same script can feel completely different when filmed by different Director. Even footage shot by the same Director can evoke different feelings when edited by different people.

So even knowing the details of this plot, Sakura still wanted to see how her brother Shinji edited it.

If it's cut well, that's fine; if it's not...

Let's settle both the old and new scores together; the night is still long.

Sakura snorted twice, pondering what position she should take with Shinji later.

The subsequent plot remains largely unchanged from the theatrical version, the game, and Shinji's live-action adaptation.

Rider held back during the battle, allowing Shirou to survive until Rin and Archer arrived.

Then, Rider, who was in the sea, lost to Red A in one move during the battle, allowing Shirou and his group to rescue Sakura from Shinji Matou.

In order to create an opportunity for himself to escape, Shinji Matou directly broke the drug in the Sakura Earring, causing the Engraved Insect inside her to go berserk.

Sakura's pained expression drew Shirou and Rin's attention to her, causing them to completely ignore Shinji had escaped from the library.

In the original story, the cherry blossom earrings contained an aphrodisiac, but for various reasons, Shinji changed it to a Magecraft potion that could simply stimulate the Engraved Insect during filming.

In any case, the concept of the Engraved Insect has already been changed from lewd worms to monsters that eat human flesh and modify Magic Circuits, so Shinji's minor changes won't affect the main plot.

Since it's impossible for Shinji to film passionate scenes with his own sister, he wouldn't use such a straightforward and crude method to seduce male viewers.

Haven't you noticed that after Type-Moon became more mainstream, Nasu) has basically stopped mentioning the concept of replenishing mana with bodily fluids?

As the Engraved Insect within Sakura go berserk, Rin and Shirou also learn of the humiliation her body has suffered over the past 11 years.

This also reveals the fact that Sakura is the true Master of the Matou Family in this Holy Grail War.

Compared to the shock of the previous news, the second one didn't evoke any special feeling; instead, it gave off a sense of "it should have been this way."

"I knew it! Shinji Matou didn't use Command Spell; he just used a book to command his Master. Something just didn't seem right."

Shibamatsu scoffed at Fujita's hindsight-based remarks.

What does it mean to say that something is wrong no matter how you look at it?

You didn't question Shinji Matou's method of controlling Heroic Spirit in FSN at all before!

Azu stroked her chin thoughtfully. "The Book of False Vassals... It seems that Mr. Shinji Matou has meticulously implemented the characters in his story and the actual settings that Magecraft should have. Although some parts have been slightly modified for the sake of the plot, he is still a meticulous director of film and television."

Thinking of this, Azu glanced at Aoko, who was lying on the ground, bound hand and foot by her.

She was eager to know how Aozaki Public Hokuto, a titan of the Japan Mage world, viewed Shinji's work.

"Never mind."

Azu withdrew her outstretched hand.

She originally wanted to tear off the tape and hear Aoko's profound insights. However, given Aoko's current mindset, she would definitely spoil the plot for him first.

For the sake of her own viewing experience, Azu decided to wait until the entire series had finished airing before tearing off the tape.

"Waaaaah! Waaaah! (Azu, don't give up halfway! I won't spoil it for you!)"

Unfortunately, Azu did not learn the Magecraft of telepathy, or perhaps she did learn it but pretended not to.

In short, it's impossible for Aoko to gain "freedom of speech" before the series airs.

The television screen continued to broadcast Heaven's Feel, showing Sakura, whose magic had gone berserk, being taken to a church by Shirou and Rin for treatment.

During this process, Shirou learns about Sakura's terrible condition from Kirei Kotomine and argues with Rin about whether or not to kill Sakura.

Sakura, who overheard everything in the back room, smashed the window and fled into the rainy night.

Shirou searched for a long time in the pouring rain and darkness before finally finding Sakura shivering under a streetlamp.

Seeing the pitiful and helpless Sakura, Shirou hugged her and promised to be her only ally of justice.

"This is an agreement. I will only be a righteous person on Sakura's side."

Although it was just a hug, Shirou declared that this vow was more unbreakable than anything else.

As if to confirm Sakura's state of mind at this moment, the rain that had been falling all night finally stopped.

"Senior..."

Feeling Shirou's warmth, Sakura on the TV screen closed her eyes happily.

"I'm a little jealous of Shirou."

Shinji muttered something under his breath.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Shirou was inexplicably called out, looked completely bewildered.

Shinji sighed deeply, "I wish a junior would call me 'senpai' so gently..."

Shinji's most wild time was when he was abroad. At that time, Shinji himself was not even an adult yet. Dating a junior girl who was younger than him was not even a three-year minimum, it was practically a death sentence.

After all, the Romeo and Juliet Law were only enforced in a few states in North America.

So, despite Shinji extensive experience, Shinji has never actually tried to date a female student.

"Shinji, this is actually quite simple," Shirou teased. "Just find two cards, write 'sin' on one and 'π' on the other, then find a girl with a gentle voice on the street and have her read them aloud in turn."

"Shirou, you're quite the clever little devil."

Chapter 164 Men can't resist black, unless they have a curvy figure.

"This is an agreement. I will only be a righteous person on Sakura's side."

Shinji to play Unlimited Blade Works (UBW) before Heaven's Feel (HF) was not out of respect for the original game, but rather based on his own ideas and reasons.

The biggest difference between Shirou Emiya's Feel and his counterparts in the other two routes is that he gave up his ideal of becoming Hero of Justice and chose Matou Sakura, the person he loved.

Anyone who has watched UBW knows how important the ideal of being a "Hero of Justice" is to Shirou Emiya; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it the meaning of his life.

It is precisely because viewers understand the weight of this ideal that they are shocked by Shirou Emiya's choice of Matou Sakura.

This is exactly the effect Shinji wanted.

Of course, Shinji thinks that when Nasu was writing the FSN game script, he probably had similar considerations to his own.

Many viewers might find Shirou Emiya's Feel to be extremely selfish.

Shinji certainly didn't deny it, but he also felt it was a very romantic promise.

When two people are in love, they ignore the world around them that is gradually collapsing, as if the person in front of them is the entire world.

In the Second Master's eyes, this was true love.

You should know that the world of Magecraft is incredibly crazy and twisted; their values are far from correct, they're practically inhuman.

In this mad and twisted world, isn't Shirou Emiya, who protects his loved ones, more humane than the Shirou Emiya who possesses noble sentiments and pursues "boundless love" as a righteous hero?

On the surface, the HF route is a dark and brutal story, but Shinji believes that the core theme of this story is "choice".

Would people risk everything for a "choice," even if it means being misunderstood by the whole world, or even losing their lives?

In fact, every important character in the story of HF makes a "choice" and pays the price for their choices.

Kirei Kotomine chose pleasure, yearning to be born from "The All-the-world's Evil," an innate evil being who he believed to be the same as himself.

Matou Zouken chose his ideal, and even as his soul and body gradually decayed, he maintained his five-hundred-year-old obsession.

Among them, the most crucial and important is Shirou Emiya's "choice." He, who has always chosen "justice," chose "his lover" this time, which gives the Heaven's Feel route a completely different meaning compared to the other two routes.

Stories rarely depict protagonists making such selfish choices.

Throughout history and across cultures, most stories tend to explore the spirit of heroes who sacrifice themselves for others.

In mainstream opinion, sacrificing individuals to save the world is considered a matter of course.

But is acting in one's own best interest truly the greatest sin?

In Shinji's memory, the most famous stories that made the protagonist make such a selfish decision, besides FSN's Heaven's Feel, Makoto Shinkai's Children Who Chase Lost Voices, are the games the Last of Us Part I.

Wait a minute, Shinji suddenly realized he was wrong; the Last of Us game series only seems to have one game.

But whether it's Children Who Chase Lost Voices or the Last of Us, the common design of these works is that the person the protagonist cares about most bears the great mission of sacrificing himself to save the vast majority of people.

In the Last of Us, all hope for saving humanity rests on Ellie, but at the cost of her death; in Children Who Chase Lost Voices, the way to stop the rain in Tokyo is to sacrifice Hina.

This is also the biggest highlight of this type of story: the protagonist must follow their heart and make "inhuman" decisions.

In the Last of Us, Joel only wants Ellie, his pillar of support, to live, even at the cost of humanity's extinction.

In Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Hodaka cannot accept the consequences of Hina's disappearance and would rather Tokyo be flooded than not bring her back.

Their choices did indeed lead to very serious consequences. The Last of Us ended with the world truly becoming a complete apocalypse, and in Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Tokyo eventually became a water city similar to Venice.

But it is precisely this kind of ending that brings the audience a shock unlike other traditional stories.

However, such stories are very difficult to write.

To make the audience accept the protagonist's selfish decision, a lot of foreshadowing is needed beforehand; otherwise, it will give the impression that the protagonist is mentally unstable.

Therefore, the protagonists of these stories generally follow a relatively fixed template—aloof, indifferent, Human Order around them, and unable to feel the love of the world before meeting the female lead.

In the Last of Us, Rijol abandons his humanity, becoming ruthless and willing to contaminate his hands in order to survive.

In "Children Who Chase Lost Voices," Hodaka struggles to survive alone in bustling Tokyo, living a life where he never knows where his next meal will come from.

Because the HF route is a GalGame, Shirou Emiya's character design is much better than the previous two, but in reality, apart from a few people like Issei and Taiga, he is also seen as an oddball by most people.

Ufotable's theatrical version further emphasizes Shirou Emiya's loneliness at the beginning.

The reason why Shinji chose to make Heaven's Feel into a 6-episode series, each episode being 2 hours long, instead of simply three theatrical films.

Shinji had to spend a lot of time developing the relationship between Shirou Emiya and Matou Sakura, allowing the audience to empathize with Shirou Emiya's feelings.

If the audience's emotions are not properly engaged, HF's rating will be lowered.

Shinji believes that such a story is simply not suitable for a movie; the film is too short, and the audience's emotions cannot be properly built up.