Chapter 62: Crossing the Primordial Sea, Kyaa! (cont.)

Heracles shouted. His voice echoed deep within the narrow, elongated passage.

Shirou ran forward with Siegfried.

Shirou was very familiar with the depths of the passage.

After all, he had made it himself. How could he not be familiar with it?

Just moments ago, he had blasted open this passage from outside the gardens with the Sword of Distant Eternity, then secretly infiltrated the Hanging Gardens through here.

But when he had planned his way in, he had only considered getting inside. He had never thought about getting back out.

This was because Heracles had secretly sent word back to the castle that Vlad the Impaler III had become a vampire. Shirou had not had much time to set traps, so he could only rush into the Hanging Gardens with all his might. That was how he had managed to stop Vlad the Impaler III after he became a vampire in time.

"Where do you think you're running?!"

Achilles' voice rang through the entire passage.

Shirou could even feel the vibrations of that voice, as well as how the sound distorted as it traveled.

According to the Doppler effect, when someone spoke while running toward another person, the frequency increased.

Shirou could now be certain that Achilles was not far from him and Saber!

This passage, built in an incredibly short time, was extremely simple and straightforward. That was its greatest feature, and also its greatest advantage.

However, its drawback was equally obvious.

If someone was chasing them from behind, they were dead!

And Achilles was precisely a man as swift as a shooting star.

Yet even while being pursued so desperately, since Achilles had asked so sincerely, Shirou magnanimously gave him an answer.

"Of course I'm running forward, idiot."

From far behind, Shirou seemed to hear the sound of