The Strongest Gourmet System

The Jiang Family affair differed little from the information circulating in other worlds.

But only after witnessing it in person did they understand how difficult it was for Jiang Taixu to emerge from utter depletion, carrying endless sorrow and grief, and find new life as a hero in his twilight years.

Starlight shattered into drifting fragments. Clad in robes whiter than snow, he stood in the air with the woman he loved in his arms, as though braving wind and frost to take in the world's scenery. Yet Fairy Caiyun could no longer open her eyes.

"The past life is an illusion, the next life an uncertainty. All we can fight for is the present."

The God King descended from the sky, his weary voice echoing in everyone's ears.

Without strength, you could protect nothing.

Those intangible yet tantalizingly close concepts and emotions—what sustained their existence was precisely the strength one possessed.

Standing beside the Dragon Transformation Pool, Shirou Emiya reached out to catch a fragment of starlight. Radiance spilled from it, scattering into streaks of light. He clenched his hand, and the starlight trickled through his fingers.

He did not worry about the possibility of failure because Proper Human History had targeted him. In fact, feelings such as grievance, confusion, and uncertainty would never arise over his own fate.

What worried him more was whether the future he had changed would lose all meaning if he failed.

For no particular reason, a figure suddenly surfaced in Shirou Emiya's mind.

Illya von Einzbern would die a year after the Holy Grail War ended, regardless of the worldline.

Emotions were the most unfathomable things in this world. Some bonds only grew stronger with time. His selves in other worlds had spent so little time with that girl that they could emerge