Chapter 59: Assassin, You Set Me Up Again! (cont.)

"How could that be? Summer in the Northern Hemisphere was supposed to be scorching hot."

"Use your brain. When it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, what is it in the Southern Hemisphere?"

"Winter?" Jeanne d'Arc answered uncertainly.

"Exactly. If the Earth's axis were reversed, wouldn't it snow during summer in the Northern Hemisphere?" Shirou smiled. "Furthermore, all over the world, the depletion of the planet's mana source would begin causing all kinds of abnormalities. It would be the same everywhere."

"The composition of the world would also become completely different from before. New substances would emerge, impossible to analyze. And whether people or other animals, as long as they inhaled them, they would certainly die. After all, a dead planet could not sustain the creatures that had once lived on it."

Shirou's words gave Jeanne d'Arc some understanding of the situation.

But she still could not believe it.

She could not believe Amakusa Shirou would do something so insane.

"Amakusa Shirou, was what Assassin said true?" Ruler demanded.

Amakusa's face remained calm, without the slightest ripple.

"Yes, it was true. I witnessed the result as well. Materializing human souls required an incomparably vast amount of mana. It required draining all the mana from the Ley Lines. Draining all the planet's mana source would lead to the death of the planet. Yes, Assassin, everything you said was completely correct."

"Why? Why would you do something like this? I never thought you were such a madman."

Why?

Amakusa Shirou had once believed he no longer had any wishes.

Amakusa Shirou had once believed he no longer bore any resentment.

But during the previous Holy Grail War, he discovered he had been wrong.

When his Master, the nearly perfect homunculus created by Einzbern, died before his eyes, and he simultaneously touched the Greater