God-Beating Whip

"Archer, I remember you saying you were the strongest..."

"Rin..."

"You can beat those two monsters in the sky, right?"

Rin Tohsaka looked utterly bewildered. Her clear blue eyes met those of Archer beside her, an elegant smile still lingering on her lips:

"Of course you can, right? After all, you're the strongest!"

"..."

Archer looked up at the sky. Inside his own Reality Marble, he could indeed produce a torrent of swords on this scale.

But.

Without using a Reality Marble, holding his own against thousands of gates from the Gate of Babylon firing simultaneously in the real world—was that really Shirou Emiya, and not something else?

A monster like that...

"Illya, are you sure that guy up there is Shirou Emiya and not something else?"

Rather than answer Rin Tohsaka's question, Archer turned toward Illya, who was shading her eyes with her right hand as she watched.

Saber asked in confusion, "Archer, what do you mean?"

"I've heard that certain beings can possess humans." Using his Clairvoyance, Archer clearly saw Shirou Emiya standing as firm as stone beneath the bombardment of Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasms.

Then there was his ability to fly, those unfamiliar types of Noble Phantasms, and those abilities that resembled Eastern spells...

He suspected that Shirou Emiya had been possessed by some Servant who was an immortal or a god.

"Shirou is Shirou. There's nothing else mixed into him." Illya clasped her little hands behind her back and said boastfully:

"My Shirou is the strongest. Beating up Goldie is no big deal, right? This is the qualitative leap you get from choosing the Illya Route. It's too late for regrets now, Archer~"

"Wha—" Archer froze.

"Just four days ago, he was an ordinary person Lancer could kill. Your Berserker even cut him in half!" Rin Tohsaka