What If (Second update from last night)

The image on the Light Screen changed again.

A familiar red figure, a familiar red coat.

He sat atop a boulder in the wasteland of Unlimited Blade Works.

The fierce desert wind whipped Guardian Emiya Shirou's clothing into a flutter.

The man's back looked so desolate and lonely, so tragic and pained.

Then, accompanied by the opening music of Fate/UBW Season 2, the man rose to his feet.

He advanced into the storm of endless wind and sand. At last, a brilliant glow appeared before him, and Guardian Emiya Shirou stepped into it.

Brilliant, yet deadly.

Immediately afterward, the image on the Light Screen went dark, and a passage of text appeared.

What if...

Guardian Emiya Shirou had truly used the Holy Grail War as a vessel, descended into the Fifth Holy Grail War as a Servant, and sought to erase his past self...

The words remained for a while, then vanished once everyone had read them.

Then, a new line of text appeared.

What possibilities might unfold?

Then, the screen went dark.

When it lit up again, a scene familiar to those in the real world appeared.

It was the scene from when the Infinite Tsukuyomi world had just begun, when Red A had first descended.

"This time, I really was summoned by an incredible Master."

Leaning against a sofa amid the wreckage around him, Red A said this to a somewhat startled Tohsaka Rin.

Combined with the earlier text, many people immediately understood. It turned out that not only in the Infinite Tsukuyomi world—if Red A had truly descended through the Fifth Holy Grail War, he would have done exactly the same thing.

Was that not just like him?

It truly was a reaction no one found surprising.

Just as people thought the events already shown would be