Invincibility Is a Debuff, as Everyone Knows

"Is that him?"

Near the Matou residence, Rin Tohsaka frowned as she stared at the figure in the distance.

In fact, she was not the only one frowning. After seeing that blue figure, Shirou Emiya instinctively clutched his chest. "I-It's actually this guy?"

Yes, the Servant standing not far away was none other than—

Lancer.

The last time they had encountered him at school, Fang Mo had blasted him with a massive cannon strike, leaving him at critical health.

While fleeing, he had casually stabbed Shirou Emiya, an ordinary human, to death. There had been no news of him after that, yet unexpectedly, he had appeared here and was talking to someone who looked like a student.

It was a boy with light blue hair.

His features were somewhat handsome, with faint traces of foreign ancestry.

"That's... Shinji?"

The moment Shirou Emiya saw him, he froze. That was the eldest son of the Matou Family, his classmate, the notoriously nasty Shinji Matou.

Honestly, Shirou Emiya felt rather heavy-hearted right now.

He had only been an ordinary person dragged into the Holy Grail War, and his judgment was not particularly sharp. Seeing Shinji Matou talking with Lancer, he instinctively assumed Shinji was Lancer's Master. Yet Lancer had stabbed through Shirou Emiya's heart just yesterday, and his thoughts immediately descended into chaos.

Shinji Matou had always had a terrible reputation at school.

He was arrogant, overbearing, and constantly looked down on everyone else.

Even Shirou Emiya was often bullied by Shinji Matou. Shinji frequently dumped work onto him by force, for example. Even Shirou's cleanup duty at the archery club yesterday had been forced on him by Shinji, whose excuse was that he had no time because he was going out to pick up girls.

Shirou Emiya normally did not fuss over