Pole Vault Goes Live

Everyone else in the group probably already knew about his romantic history. Still, aside from Wong Luffy, the others were not much better than him.

Ye Fan closed Battle Through the Heavens and revealed an amused smile. He had not expected Xiao Yan to be such an expert at flirting.

He did not care much about privacy or anything like that.

In truth, sending these stories privately would have been useless anyway. If the others went to another world someday, they would naturally see the relevant information.

Even if Su Lin did not post them in the group, Ye Fan would look up everyone else's stories online if he went to Su Lin's world.

Baidu—who did not know how to use it?

So, he did not ask Su Lin to send anything privately and instead generously showed it to everyone.

Aside from some details, their God Almighty experiences were still largely similar for now.

He cast a disdainful glance at the big black dog beside him.

And despite already becoming an emperor, he had still been schemed against by this fellow, ending up losing his memories, getting married, and having children—all for the Innate Saint Physique Dao Embryo.

Ye Fan could only exclaim, "Good lord."

You thought about that Innate Saint Physique Dao Embryo every day. How many years had you been obsessing over it already?

The Black Emperor, sensing Ye Fan's gaze, felt a chill run down his spine.

"Woof! What are you plotting, brat?!"

When he went to Earth in Su Lin's world, he would first go to Yulin and buy two pounds of dog meat. After spending all day blackening others, he had been blackened by a black dog.

"Nothing." Ye Fan grinned, flashing his white teeth. He simply stopped paying attention to the damned dog and turned his focus back to the chat group.

Han Li: "Speaking of which, I wonder how Brother Luffy's older brother is doing. @Monkey D. Luffy"

After Han Li finished watching the ending of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, he saw activity in the group and decided to join the conversation.

Luffy: "Oh! Su Lin went back to that time with me and saved Ace and Uncle Whitebeard!"

Ye Fan: "Next time, can I visit your worlds and have some fun?"

Other than the similar Earths, it would be a lie to say he did not want to visit other worlds. He was exhausted from endlessly plotting against and fighting aristocratic clans, sacred lands, and princes of foreign races.

Especially after seeing his future experiences in the novel.

He was happy to learn of his future accomplishments ahead of time, but worries came along with that happiness.

The novel had clarified some things he had been unable to understand, but it had also created knots in his heart.

These were not things he should have been worrying about at this point in time, but he could never stop himself from thinking about them.

The Black Emperor gave Ye Fan a suspicious look. This guy had been acting strangely these past two days.

Could he have gone into qi deviation?

Did the severed Saint Physique cultivation path have side effects?

Luffy: "Welcome! I'll call you guys over next time I hold a banquet."

Han Li thought about it. Since the chat group explicitly prohibited members from harming or plundering one another, there was no harm in taking this opportunity to see other worlds.

Of course, he still needed to first learn about the relevant experiences of the other people in the group.

Han Li: "Then I shall gratefully accept."

Luffy asked, "What does that sentence from Li-Man mean?"

Su Lin: "It means he's willing to come."

Luffy: "So troublesome."

After all, it was a little difficult to make Luffy understand such phrasing.

Xiao Yan: "Excellent, excellent."

Xiao Yan planned to visit other worlds after the three-year agreement with the Misty Cloud Sect.

If possible, there would be no harm in going after awakening his teacher.

Having learned of his future, he felt deeply grateful toward his former teacher, Venerable Yao.

His teacher was absolutely trustworthy, and he was willing to share this opportunity to visit other worlds with him.

Shirou Emiya: "Excuse me, everyone. Sorry to interrupt, but may I ask whether the things in here are truly events that will happen in the future?"

The high-jump God Almighty—no, Shirou Emiya—had been stabbed by that guy in a blue bodysuit last night. He woke up groggily in the school building, returned home with a red jeweled pendant, and then—

The person in the bodysuit had broken into his house and attacked him again.

Fortunately, he had summoned a blonde female knight named Saber, who drove back that lancer.

Just then, his schoolmate Rin Tohsaka arrived outside the door.

After waking up, he found himself in a burning wilderness.

There had probably been a massive fire.

The streets he was used to had become ruins, like a battlefield site from a movie.

...Amid all this, Shirou Emiya found it rather unbelievable that he alone had remained completely unharmed.

He did not know how many times he had dreamed the same dream.

This was the site of the fire from ten years ago.

If things like one's parents and home all disappeared, then a child would have nothing left.

So everything except his body had disappeared.

To put it in Jane's terms, Shirou Emiya had thought something very simple.

That was, in exchange for keeping his body alive.

The part of him that was his soul had already died.

Shirou Emiya had a familiar dream.

On a familiar morning, he was awakened in the storage room by a junior girl named Sakura.

He worked out, then casually rinsed himself off.

After breakfast, as usual, he packed his schoolbag and went to school.

He helped the student council with repairs, then studied after the lunch break.

That evening, Shinji asked him to help clean the archery club.

The God Almighty behind his agreement was, in large part, that he had once been a member of the archery club himself.

After trying the posture for drawing a bow, Shirou Emiya shook his head and put away the cleaning tools.

It was time to go home.

After leaving the archery club, Shirou Emiya walked across the schoolyard. A gust of wind blew past, and the cold made his cheeks go numb.

"Ha—."

White mist lingered in the breath he exhaled.

Fuyuki's winters were not particularly cold. Even at night, only today was especially frigid.

In air so cold that even his fingertips seemed about to freeze, Shirou Emiya hunched over and endured it, wanting to get home as quickly as possible.

Clang—

He seemed to have heard something.

It was probably an illusion.

He raised his head and looked at the sky. Thick clouds filled it, and without the moon, the campus seemed even darker tonight.

Screech—

Was it not an illusion?

Shirou Emiya had indeed heard some kind of sound.

It was on the other side of the campus.

Driven by curiosity, he approached the source of the sound.

Bang—

The sounds grew clearer and clearer.

They sounded like metal weapons colliding.

Are people fighting with weapons?

I must be imagining things.

At first, Shirou Emiya thought it was an illusion. After all, how could he hear something like that at school in the middle of the night?

Until he witnessed a scene that nearly froze his consciousness.

A red man and a blue man.

They were dressed unlike modern people, armed with bizarre weapons, and just as he had imagined, they were truly slashing at each other.

He could not understand it. His eyes could not keep up with their movements.

Their movements were so unreal that Shirou Emiya simply stood there, staring blankly.

The clash of metal rang out without end, accompanied by showers of sparks, forcibly making Shirou Emiya understand that the two men were trying to kill each other.

At that instant, Shirou Emiya understood.

That was not speed or strength humans should possess.

As a novice Magician, he should not get involved with something like this.

At the edge of a battlefield overflowing with killing intent,

Shirou Emiya broke free from his fear and tried to move his feet, intending to carefully escape.

Could the serial killers they talked about on television be them?

Just as his mind finally forced his body into motion and he took a step,

"Who's there!"

The blue man's sharp shout rang out.

He could not even let his gaze touch those two. In that first instant, Shirou Emiya's desire to survive made him break into a sprint.

(End of Chapter)