Chapter 14. Ally of Justice, Yukinoshita Yukino!
The Middle East lay in ruins, a city long unwashed, steeped in the smell of smoke and dust.
Under the terrifying destruction of war, everywhere were the wreckages of collapsed buildings, refugees with blank eyes and numb expressions. A stray dog lay panting under the eaves, the entire scene cloaked in a suffocating, stifling atmosphere.
A woman wearing a plain headscarf and draped in a red cloak stood there silently, gazing ahead.
As if recounting a scene deeply etched into her memory, her hoarse voice echoed.
"I also know that valuing others more than oneself is hypocrisy."
The camera slowly moved, revealing the silhouette of the traveler within a refugee camp.
She sat near a white tent, her beautiful face bearing a sorrowful smile, while filthy children laughed innocently, surrounding the traveler, happily enjoying the food taken from her heavy backpack.
The gloomy atmosphere was nevertheless full of hope, like blooming flowers before the dawn.
The plain scarf wrapped around her hair made it hard to see the complex emotions in her eyes.
"Even so… even so…"
The camera gradually zoomed in, enlarging her face. Beneath hair grayed by wind and frost, eyes like flames appeared—sincere and resolute—full of humanity, with an idealistic light shining brightly.
"The wish to see others happy… should have been something beautiful."
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The scene shifted again, seemingly returning to a past time and place.
That face became youthful, eyes determined, standing at the edge of a graveyard of swords, blood flowing from her eye sockets, sweat dripping down.
Despite being covered in wounds, she never lost that unshakable determination.
Embracing justice, she would never fear the thorns ahead!
The woman standing opposite gritted her teeth in anger, seemingly unable to understand why someone could be so foolish.
The maiden's memories intermingled, a dream passed down under the light of a full moon, igniting an unyielding belief.
"RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE——!!"
Two massive greatswords descended like divine punishment, carrying a terrifying pressure.
The maiden's hair stood on end, her palm flashed with blue lightning, and with a crisp "clang," two ancient Noble Phantasms materialized in her hands, instantly deflecting the greatswords that were about to pierce her body.
Immediately after, her eyes remained firm and unwavering. Holding the twin blades, she charged forward, ideals bursting forth alongside a hoarse roar!
"This dream is absolutely not wrong!!!"
Countless greatswords flew at the maiden, as if even space itself wanted to be torn apart!
The air trembled, the sky cracked, the black-and-white twin blades deflected every threat. Amid thunderous explosions, the ground was torn open into deep trenches, flinging mud across several meters.
Within the mist, the maiden, like a frenzied hawk, charged ahead, her legs cutting through everything like wind and lightning!
The cold face of the white-haired woman subtly shifted, as if finding it difficult to accept.
But no matter what, under the girl's relentless assault, the two drew closer and closer.
Twenty meters…
Ten meters…
Five meters...
Two meters...
In just a blink, she had reached the Servant's face, facing the tall enemy, her bloodstained left arm swung forward in attack.
Her right arm retracted, and the black dagger stabbed fiercely into the opponent's abdomen, piercing through that belief without hesitation.
Even if the road ahead was hell itself, she would absolutely keep moving forward!!!
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"How cruel..."
"A woman like that… did she really exist..."
The white-haired female Servant was silent, her gaze somewhat dazed, as if even her own belief in existence was beginning to waver.
She raised her right hand, the white dagger spinning more than ten times in her palm.
Without a shred of hesitation, she viciously stabbed it downward toward the girl's head.
At the same time, the melodious BGM abruptly ceased.
Time itself seemed to freeze in that very moment.
The sky was gray, with massive gears interlocked between the two people, clouds churning endlessly.
Bit by bit, it formed a painting like a world-class masterpiece.
The camera kept pulling back…
And pulling back…
Then finally appeared before everyone's eyes—an endless sword graveyard with no visible end.
With the camera's rapid motion, the gray sky instantly vanished. Countless layers of black clouds swirled down like a curtain, while endless white clouds poured into this desolate world, vast to the point of seeming without boundary.
Everything—everything—became incredibly small in that moment, making people tremble from within.
...
No one knew the outcome of the two. Only the final image remained, like a clear sky after a storm.
As if implying something?
"Is this Yukinoshita Yukino from a parallel world?"
In the classroom, Kasumigaoka Utaha locked her phone screen, still shaken inside.
Logic told her that this could be a PV clip from a movie funded by someone, or that the woman with pure justice and steadfast resolve might not be Yukino, but just someone with a similar face.
But the burning emotions in her heart told her—this PV was real!
Parallel worlds truly existed!
That woman… without a doubt, was Yukinoshita Yukino!
There was no evidence at all, only an irrational intuition, but she was absolutely certain of it.
Ally of Justice, tearing apart a Servant bare-handed, staking everything for her ideals...
Just thinking back to that earth-shattering scene made Utaha's blood boil, countless bursts of creative inspiration surged in her mind, and she only regretted not being able to immediately write a super badass passionate light novel!
For some reason, Utaha felt a bit of reverence for that parallel world Yukinoshita Yukino.
The previous unpleasantness from being compared to her had now completely vanished.
No one could hate someone truly kindhearted.
Personally going to a war zone, helping refugees, practicing righteous actions.
She was seriously cool as hell!
Utaha had made her decision—the protagonist in her new work would be based on a gender-swapped version of Yukino!
The girl quietly affirmed it, then put on her headphones, unable to resist watching the video a second time.
There were still ten minutes until class began—enough time to rewatch it five more times.
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At the same time, in Class 2-J of Sobu High School.
The air was full of buzzing whispers from students, and all eyes turned in one direction.
"When did she start acting?"
"Who would've thought that cold-looking Yukinoshita-san secretly went and acted in a movie~."
"This movie felt way too real, like parallel worlds actually exist. I can't believe Yukinoshita-san could be that badass… kinda regret not befriending her back in our first year."
"I'll love Yukinoshita Yukino forever! I wanna go yuri with her!"
"Yukinoshita-san's right over there—go confess!"
"I like the Holy Grail world Yukino, not the Yukino from this world."
"Such annoying wordplay."
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Yukinoshita Yukino, utterly embarrassed, bent down and buried her face in the desk, using a book to cover herself.
This was social death.
Truly, social death.
Why does a weird website like that even exist? Is that so-called Yukinoshita Yukino really me?
She didn't want to be an Ally of Justice!
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After Fate/stay night aired, an overwhelming wave erupted across the internet.
On Observer Network, just the number of comments on the PV video had already piled up to several million, with all kinds of shocking reactions flooding in nonstop.