Unlike the panicked crowd, Zouken Matou, who had lost his emotions, was strolling on the deserted street.
"Zouken Matou, hand over the command spells!"
Zouken Matou stopped, raised his face filled with emptiness, and looked at Kiritsugu Emiya, who was speaking to him while being carried by Assassin.
"You are Emiya, Emiya, can you tell me what I should do, I..."
Kiritsugu Emiya looked at Zouken Matou, who was trembling continuously from recalling his emotions and goals, and shook his head with some emotion.
"Assassin, he's finished. Remove his command spells!"
Upon hearing Kiritsugu Emiya's words, Assassin walked to Zouken Matou's side and mercilessly used a dagger to sever Zouken Matou's hand that bore the command spells. As Assassin's Noble Phantasm passed through, the origin attribute of cutting and closing began to take effect.
Zouken Matou, whose mage circuits had been destroyed, still looked at his severed left hand with a blank expression. However, as the mage circuits were severed, the magecraft maintaining him began to fail. The worms, receiving no supply of magical power, began to run wild, frantically devouring all the fluids in Zouken Matou's body.
Before long, a large number of unsatisfied worms began to tear through Zouken Matou's skin and rush out of his body. Assassin casually cut the worms crawling out of Zouken Matou's body into two.
Kiritsugu Emiya looked at the emaciated Zouken Matou on the ground, who was on the verge of death, and without a care, let Assassin take the command spells and begin to retreat.
"As long as I have command spells, I still have a chance, I must still have a chance! I can definitely save, save all of this!"
"Bang!"
At that moment, a gunshot rang out. Kiritsugu Emiya looked at the hole shot through his abdomen in disbelief, looking at the Assassin carrying him on his back in confusion.
"Why! Why didn't you help me block it! Aaaaaah~"
Then, a massive surge of pain radiated from his mage circuits, and Kiritsugu Emiya began to wail in agony.
Assassin casually placed Kiritsugu Emiya on the ground, slowly pulling down his mask and flipping back his hood.
"You want to find a safe place and then use a command spell to make me commit suicide, don't you? Kiritsugu Emiya!"
At this time, Illya, holding a gun with trembling hands and teary eyes, looked at the wailing Kiritsugu Emiya on the ground and hurriedly threw down the strangely-shaped firearm.
Panicked, she ran to Kiritsugu Emiya's side with Berserker.
Kiritsugu Emiya, in pain on the ground, saw the gun in Illya's hand and gave a self-mocking laugh.
"Hahaha, an origin bullet!"
Indeed, the gun in Illya's hand was the pistol loaded with origin bullets that Kiritsugu Emiya had casually thrown at the scene after threatening Rin during the last war, which Rin later picked up.
Then, Kiritsugu Emiya struggled to sit up. Looking at Assassin's face, which was exactly the same as his own when he was young, he asked excitedly.
"Assassin! Did I succeed?"
"You failed. To save others, you ultimately chose to become a Guardian, starting years of murder, killing everyone who could threaten the world. But how is that different from what we did when we were young?"
"As I thought, you are me. You're seeking the Holy Grail! You're seeking a miracle! So, after sensing that I was going to order you to commit suicide, you gave up on protecting me..."
"No! There was one reason I chose to give up on you, but more importantly, haven't you realized yet? Since that monster came out, the Holy Grail is gone! And Tohsaka Rin once had Archer bring me a message! If I could bring you to her, she could give me the Holy Grail, the chance to save everything!"
Illya looked blankly at Assassin and Kiritsugu Emiya as they talked. 'Wait a bit longer! Just as Rin said, if I disable Kiritsugu's mage circuits, he'll understand. He'll come back to me and give up on that dream!'
Kiritsugu Emiya on the ground finished his conversation with Assassin and turned to Illya.
"Let's go! Take us to see Rin!"
Illya froze, looking at Kiritsugu Emiya in disbelief.
"Why! Why won't you give up! It's Rin, it must be Rin, she lied to me!"
As Illya went berserk, Berserker also began to let out an angry roar, taking out his nameless axe-sword and menacingly facing Kiritsugu Emiya.
Kiritsugu Emiya looked at Illya in front of him, and after pondering for a long time, he asked.
"Illya, are you willing to support me like Iri did? Support my dream!"
"If I pursue your dream with you, Kiritsugu, will you stop abandoning me?"
"Yes."
At that moment, a smile finally blossomed on Illya's face. Although this wasn't the best ending for Illya, at least this little girl who had lost her parents since childhood had finally found her father.
Assassin shook his head as he watched Kiritsugu Emiya being carried by Berserker, following Illya as she skipped away into the distance, and sighed.
"Kiritsugu Emiya! You really are a scumbag! But you'll understand when the Spiritron Holy Grail Ceremony comes! That girl Rin is the real monster!"
At this time by the seaside, Alice was standing in the palm of the hunched-over Bridge Giant, watching Fuyuki City get closer and the battlefield of Beast 666 in the distance, where explosions and flashes continued. She couldn't help but increase her magical output, trying to make the Bridge Giant move faster.
Meanwhile, Waver and Gray, who had escaped from Mount Ryudo, happened to run straight into the group from Chaldea.
Mash looked at Waver and Gray who suddenly burst out from the path and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Professor Waver! Teacher Gray!"
Waver frowned, looking at this group of magi, and secretly made a gesture to Gray.
Seeing Waver's gesture, Gray understood and gripped the scythe in her hand, lowering her head to hide her expression under her hood.
Suddenly, a violent magical reaction surged from the massive crater at the former site of Mount Ryudo.
Everyone quickly scattered to avoid it. Then, a black light cannon struck the spot where they had just been standing. Afterward, Saber Alter, holding a demonic sword, leaped up from the crater and landed in the middle of the group.
"Hahaha! Die, you rats!"
Then, Saber Alter flipped the demonic sword in her hand. With a horizontal slash combined with the exploding magical energy on the blade, she formed a five or six-meter demonic sword and slashed toward the Chaldea group, Waver, and Gray.
The mature Shinji suddenly reached out a hand to block the demonic sword, while at the same time pulling out the Holy Grail and throwing it into Fujimaru Ritsuka's arms, shouting.
"Gudako, go prepare as planned! Fujimaru, Mash, you two take the Holy Grail to Solomon. Leave this one to me! Waver, Gray, please stay and help me too!"
Waver and Gray looked at each other in confusion, then came behind the mature Shinji. At the same time, Waver took out the blank spirit origin Rin had given him, hesitated for a moment, then tilted his head back and drank it in one gulp.
Saber Alter leaned on her demonic sword, looking at the mature Shinji with a frown. After some thought, she spoke to the mature Shinji.
"You're that piece of trash? But can that black mud actually make someone grow old?"
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