Five meters...
Two meters...
In a single exchange, she had closed in on the Heroic Spirit. Facing the tall enemy, she thrust forward with her bloodstained left arm.
Her right arm bent, driving that black broken blade that pierced through conviction viciously toward the opponent's abdomen.
Even if the road ahead led to hell, she would absolutely walk it!!!
"How cruel..."
"A woman like this actually existed..."
The white-haired female Heroic Spirit fell silent, her gaze slightly dazed, as though even the conviction supporting her existence had been shaken.
She raised her right hand high, the white dagger spinning rapidly more than a dozen times in her palm.
Without the slightest hesitation, she drove it viciously toward the girl's head.
The melodious background music abruptly stopped.
Even time seemed to freeze at that moment.
The gray sky, the enormous gears intersecting between the two, the surging clouds and mist.
They gradually formed a world-famous painting.
The camera kept pulling away...
Farther away...
Then what appeared before everyone was an endless Graveyard of Swords.
As the camera rapidly pulled back, the gray sky instantly faded away. Countless rolling dark clouds drew back like a curtain, and miles upon miles of white clouds flooded into this desolate world, boundless as though there were no end in sight.
Everything, at this moment, seemed incomparably tiny and tremblingly awe-inspiring.
No one knew the outcome of the two, only that final scene that looked as though the rain had passed and the sky had cleared.
Was it hinting at something?
"So this is Shimo Yukino from a Parallel World?"
Inside the classroom, Utaha Kasumigaoka locked her phone screen, her heart still deeply shaken.
Reason told her that this might be a movie PV funded by someone, or perhaps that woman with clear-cut justice and unwavering resolve was not Yukino at all, but merely someone who resembled her.
But the surging emotions in her heart told her that this PV was real!
Parallel Worlds existed!
That woman... was undoubtedly Shimo Yukino!
There was no evidence, only an inexplicable intuition. She had to be.
A Justice Partner, tearing apart Heroic Spirits with her bare hands, staking everything on her ideals...
Thinking of those stunning scenes just now, the girl felt her blood boil. Countless wonderful ideas flooded into her mind, and she desperately wanted to write an insanely cool hot-blooded light novel!
For some reason, Utaha had begun to respect that Yukino from the Parallel World.
The slight irritation she had once felt at being called one of the "High Mountain Flowers" alongside Yukino vanished completely at that moment.
No one would dislike a truly kind person.
Going personally to war zones, providing aid to refugees, putting justice into practice.
That was just unbelievably cool!
Great, she would make the protagonist of her new work a gender-swapped version of Yukino!
The girl silently affirmed her decision, then put on her headphones and could not resist watching the video a second time.
There were still ten minutes before class. Enough for her to enjoy it over and over five times.
Meanwhile, Class J, Year 2, General Affairs High School.
Whispers rose from the surrounding students, and their gazes all gathered in one direction.
"When did she become an actress?"
"Who would've thought that Shimo Yukino acts all cold on the surface while secretly filming movies behind everyone's back~."
"This movie feels so real. It really feels like that Parallel World exists. I never thought Shimo could be this cool. I kind of regret not becoming friends with her in our first year."
"I'll always love Shimo Yukino! I want to date girls with her!"
"Shimo's right there. Go confess to her already!"
"I like Yukino from the Holy Grail world, not Yukino from our world."
"You're really playing a word game with those two characters."
Shimo Yukino shyly lay facedown on her desk, hiding her face behind a book.
This was social death.
Actual social death.
Why was there such a strange website? Was that Shimo Yukino really her?
She did not want to be a Justice Partner!
After Fate/staynight aired, a massive uproar also swept across the internet.
On Observer Net alone, the PV video's barrage comments had already accumulated into the millions, with all kinds of shocked comments appearing one after another.
Tokisaki-sama Also Wanted to Become a Justice Partner!
"A Justice Partner really is damn cool!"
In Tokyo, the black-haired young lady staying at home murmured to herself, her eyes filled with longing.
She had been born into a wealthy family and raised under her parents' doting affection. Since childhood, she had been draped in gold and jade, moving through the upper class admired by the ordinary world. She had no real complaints and had spent fourteen years of her life like that.
Her life had been exceedingly peaceful. She hated no one, and no one hated her.
The girl named Kurumi Tokisaki had always lived happily like this. Yet perhaps because she had grown up in abundance, or perhaps because it was simply in her nature, feelings of pity had always lingered in her heart...
Looking across the world, there were all kinds of people who had endured hardship.
Some died innocently in war,
Some were born sick and could not live long,
Some suffered from hunger and cold,
Some endured discrimination for no reason at all.
The bitter wind ravaged the entire world, mercilessly striking down every weak person!
Whether it was online, in media reports, or in scenes she witnessed with her own eyes, Kurumi's heart would fill with helplessness whenever she saw such things.
Because she could see them, because she could hear them, she did not want to stand by and do nothing.
She wanted to grow up faster, so she could help more people overcome hardship within her ability.
Some had mocked her childish and naive thoughts, but they could not shake her conviction in the slightest.
Therefore, when Kurumi saw the refugees devastated by war in the Fate/staynight movie PV, she felt heartfelt sorrow. When she saw someone extend a helping hand, she felt the excitement of meeting someone who shared her aspirations.
That clear sense of justice, that dream of helping others become happy...
In the girl's eyes, they were so beautiful and dazzling, exactly like the vision in her own heart!
It was practically like another version of herself living in another time and space.
If only...
She could talk to that person...
In their belief that they wanted to make this world better, the two were the same.
The difference was that person already possessed the strength to fight against cruel reality.
She herself was only weak.
But the spark of ideals would never be extinguished. People would inherit it generation after generation!
One day, she too would become a Prometheus who stole fire, a great person willing to sacrifice herself to save others!
"I will become a Justice Partner!"
The girl's eyes gleamed as she made up her mind.
Starting tomorrow, she would work twice as hard and study with becoming prime minister as her main goal.
Only by standing in a high position could she save more people.
Abe, hold on until I grow up before stepping down!
Nara Prefecture
Inside a rented apartment, an old television was broadcasting the news.
The female anchor wore a sweet smile as she calmly and methodically read from her script.
"Here is a news bulletin. Prime Minister Abe will give a speech at Yamadera Station tomorrow. We hope everyone can offer their applause and support."
"Yamadera Station..."
Yamagami Tetsuya muttered, wiping down his gleaming homemade gun.
At last, had he waited for this moment?
All those tragic longings would be settled tomorrow.
Master Luo, you said...
This divination would surely succeed!
On Observer Net, countless comments gathered beneath Fate/staynight to analyze it.
The comment section was filled with people from all over the world, their IP locations all different. There were not only Sakura Nation netizens, but also viewers from Yanhuang Nation, Akkameli Nation, Cosmos Nation, Tianzhu Nation, and many other countries...
Some believed the video was real, while many others thought it was all special effects.
But quite a few people knowledgeable about history had already begun analyzing the plot.
The identities of the Heroic Spirits were also completely exposed through the wisdom of the masses.
After all, it was easy to deduce them from their clothing styles, Noble Phantasm traits, speech habits, and so on.
Because of this, people standing on different sides began arguing fiercely in the comments.
"Dramatization is not nonsense, and adaptation is not random fabrication. How could King Arthur possibly be a woman? Fake, absolutely fake!"
A viewer whose IP location was the Empire of the Sun angrily wrote, frantically posting comments attacking the movie.
This was the essence of Celtic Mythology. How could the legendary king be defiled like this!
Yet no one paid him any attention. More people were immersed in King Arthur's peerless beauty.
There were also plenty of power-scaling fanatics who feared the world was not chaotic enough, provoking fights everywhere.
"Sasaki Kojiro is a sword saint! His Swallow Reversal is divine! Winning through the Holy Grail War would be no problem!"
"Your Kojirou got beaten bloody in the PV, and you're still pretending over here?"
"Without a doubt, our Great Hero of Ancient Greece, Heracles, is the strongest!"
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