The feeling of being summoned.
It looks somewhat familiar.
It was as if my soul was first pulled out by something and fell down an unseen path.
My body is slowly rebuilding itself along this path.
First the bones, then the muscles and blood vessels, the outline gradually takes shape.
Finally, there's the Astral Dress.
The Spirit Core throbbed in his chest, and magic flowed into his entire body through the Spirit Origin circuits.
Mayuri opened her eyes.
The first thing you see is the sky.
It was a dark, dull red.
It's like blood mixed into water, stirred up, and finally turned into this murky color.
This color stretched from overhead to the distance, without a trace of blue.
A few dark clouds drifted above, their edges somewhat jagged, and they moved slowly.
There was a smell of ashes in the air.
Mayuri sat up.
She was sitting at the bottom of a large, semi-circular pit.
The pit is huge, at least two or three hundred meters in diameter and over fifty meters deep.
The pit walls were exposed with rocks and soil, some of which were shiny from being burned, as if they had been baked by high temperatures.
Looking up from below, the edge of the pit is the ground.
There was nothing on the ground.
The mountains that should have been here are gone.
Mount Enzou.
Mount Enzou in Fuyuki City.
The core of the Greater Holy Grail System is in that mountain.
The core was originally hidden in Great Hollow inside the mountain, but now the entire mountain has disappeared, and the Great Hollow is directly exposed to the sunlight, becoming an open giant pit.
An altar stood in the center of the pit.
The stone base is covered with inscriptions.
The style of these inscriptions is exactly the same as the core array of the Fuyuki Greater Grail System.
Above the altar, a golden cup hangs in mid-air.
It looks very similar to the Lesser Grail that Mayuri saw during the Fourth Holy Grail War, only a size larger.
It is about half a meter tall, with the rim of the cup facing upwards, and its surface has a slightly unclean sheen.
The gold was mixed with dark red, as if something else had been added to it.
This is the Holy Grail.
Mayuri stared at it for three seconds.
Immediately afterwards, a piece of information flooded into my mind.
It's neither words nor images.
It was a whole set of concepts and instructions that were directly crammed into consciousness.
The content is very simple.
She was summoned.
What summoned her was the Counter Force.
The other party only conveyed one message: protect the Holy Grail here and stop the Chaldea Master from repairing this Singularity.
Singularity.
Mayuri mentally went over the word.
Singularity F.
Yanshang polluted city· Fuyuki.
FGO Part 1 Prologue, Singularity Zero.
She knew this place.
I encountered this while playing video games in my past life.
In the Fuyuki of 2004, which was altered by Lev Lenor, the entire city was burned to ashes, Servant wandered in the ruins, the Greater Grail was corrupted, and the corrupted Artoria ruled over everything.
Mayuri looked down at herself.
The black Astral Dress is still there.
No, it can't be said that it's still there.
The style of this Astral Dress is quite different from that of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
The Astral Dress from the Fourth World War was black with silver lines, but this one has a darker base color, almost pure black, and the lines have changed from gold to dark red.
The fabric looked stiffer, like a mixture of cloth and metal.
Mayuri turned her gaze behind her.
The wings are still there.
But the color is wrong too.
It was white during World War IV.
It's black now.
It was completely black from the base to the wingtip, with a layer of dark red sheen on the feathers.
Mayuri raised her hand and touched her hair.
I pulled it up to my eyes and took a closer look.
Pale gold.
This isn't the color from World War IV either.
She reached up and touched the top of her head again.
I encountered something that looked like an energy field.
I checked it out, and the shape is ring-shaped.
A halo hung above his head.
This sounds perfectly normal.
Angels have halos above their heads; there's nothing wrong with that.
But Mayuri could sense that the halo was alternating between red and black.
There are also some symbols engraved on it.
Those symbols looked strange; just looking at them made me uncomfortable.
Mayuri stood up.
The gravel underfoot crunched and groaned.
She looked down at her hands.
This body is indeed still that of the Mayuri.
The core of the Spirit Origin remains unchanged.
The outermost layer is completely off-center.
blonde hair, black wings, dark red Astral Dress, and a red and black halo.
This is the complete opposite of what happened during World War IV.
Reverse.
This word just popped into my head.
How can the same spirit's body exhibit two different states?
Mayuri in the original work did not undergo this change.
In the Date A Live movie, Mayuri always wears white wings and a black Astral Dress, with no plot twists.
Why do these things appear here when it comes to me?
Mayuri mentally complained for a few seconds.
Then the train of thought was cut off.
Don't think about that yet.
The most important thing right now is to figure out what the situation is.
She stood at the bottom of the pit and looked around.
There was no one else in the pit.
The golden Holy Grail still rested above the altar, its surface slowly shimmering with a dark red light.
The feeling transmitted through the contract was also very clear: the magic power was sufficient, and the Spirit Origin was functioning normally.
She turned her head to look into the distance.
Outside the pit, a presence was approaching.
It is the Servant.
Not particularly strong, but very stable.
Mayuri looked in that direction.
On the edge of the pit, a figure was walking down the gravel slope.
Male, slender build, but with well-defined features.
She had short, gray-white hair, wore a black fitted top and black trousers, had dark skin, and amber eyes.
Mayuri looked at this person, and the name quickly popped into her mind.
Shirou Emiya.
Or rather, the Heroic Spirit Emiya.
The true form of Archer.
However, the person in front of me doesn't have Archer's appearance.
He looks younger, like Shirou Emiya in his early twenties, but not quite Archer yet.
His short, grayish-white hair swayed in the wind, and his amber eyes calmly rested on Mayuri.
He stopped about five meters away from Mayuri.
"Hello."
The voice was flat, without any extra inflection, as if it were about something that had been planned long ago.
"I am Shirou Emiya."
Mayuri looked at him.
Shirou Emiya.
Kiritsugu son.
The Master of the Fifth Holy Grail War.
The protagonist of Fate/Stay Night.
However, the one before them was clearly Servant, not a human.
The Spirit Origin reaction isn't particularly strong, but it's definitely Servant- level.
"You must be the new Servant summoned by willpower."
Shirou Emiya glanced at Mayuri, his gaze lingering briefly on her black wings and the red and black halo above her head.
"This must be no ordinary character."
He didn't ask for her real name, nor did he ask anything else.
It's as if they feel it's unnecessary, or that now is not the time to ask these questions.
"From now on, the task of protecting the Holy Grail inside Mount Enzou will be entrusted to you."
Shirou Emiya pointed to the outside of the pit.
"I will snipe any enemies who dare to intrude from the outside."
The division of labor is very clear.
Mayuri guards the last line, standing beside the Holy Grail.
Shirou Emiya was in charge of the outside, stopping people on the outskirts of Mount Enzou.
Mayuri did not respond to this matter first.
She asked another question.
"Shouldn't King Arthur have been guarding this place?"
Shirou Emiya's brow twitched slightly.
Wasn't she summoned?
Mayuri added another sentence.
Shirou Emiya looked at her for a few seconds.
"You even know that?"
His tone remained calm; he was simply stating the facts.
"Indeed. King Arthur was guarding this place before."
"But she was defeated by Heracles a few days ago."
Mayuri's expression changed.
" Heracles defeated King Arthur?"
She stared at Shirou Emiya.
Did you misspoke, or did I mishear you?
"Wasn't Heracles, the Berserker class, nerfed to the point of being practically useless? How did King Arthur lose?"