Chapter 1602: Descent

Fuyuki City, Homurahara Academy.

The sky was gradually darkening, and the tidy campus was somewhat quiet, no longer as vibrant as it was during the day.

A red-haired boy was carrying a bucket, the floor beneath his feet reflecting the moonlight, and some water stains could be vaguely seen.

"Finished."

The red-haired boy with rolled-up sleeves put down the bucket and looked at the results of his several hours of labor. Although he had no obligation to clean the campus to this extent, the cool night breeze blowing in made him feel refreshed.

The red-haired boy put one hand on his waist and looked up at the moonlight outside the courtyard corridor. It was already very late, and he had to go back, ending this ordinary and fulfilling day.

Just as the boy was preparing to change his clothes and shoes to leave the campus, a crisp sound of metal collision entered his ears. The boy was clearly stunned; there shouldn't have been anyone around when he was cleaning the campus earlier.

If it were an ordinary person, at this time of day when night was about to fall, they would definitely hold the thought that "more trouble is worse than less" and quickly leave the campus.

Unfortunately, this boy was not an ordinary person. His name was Emiya Shirou, the protagonist of the plot, who aspired to become a hero of justice. But if Emiya Shirou were given another chance to choose, he would never go to check the source of that sound, because in his view, perhaps that way he wouldn't have released the devil.

Emiya Shirou walked toward the playground following the source of the sound. Before he even walked out of the teaching building, he saw two men fighting on the playground.

Sparks and red light splashed, and dust rose. Seeing these two, Emiya Shirou was clearly stunned for a moment.

"What are those two doing?"

Emiya Shirou instinctively felt something was wrong. The way those two were dressed didn't look like modern people at all. One was wearing a red windbreaker and holding a short blade, while the other was wearing blue soft armor and holding a blood-red spear.

"Who is it!"

The man holding the blood-colored spear shouted sharply. The battle caused the pendant on his ear to sway incessantly.

Only then did Emiya Shirou react; he had to escape immediately. Those two guys were clearly not normal.

Emiya Shirou had just escaped into the corridor of the classroom when he felt a cold sensation in his chest. It seemed as if something had pierced into his body, and the pain spread with his chest as the center.

The man holding the long spear slowly appeared in front of Emiya Shirou. He had been as if invisible before.

As a Heroic Spirit, ambushing an ordinary person was clearly not a very honorable act, so the Heroic Spirit holding the spear said a few meaningless words like "If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for not being strong enough" and "Perhaps this is the curse of fate" before leaving Emiya Shirou to wait for death in the corridor.

Blood spread beneath Emiya Shirou. He felt that he was about to die, his body gradually turning cold, and his pierced heart was about to stop beating.

"Boy, waiting to die here like a sick dog, are you willing? Accept the Command Spell and you won't have to die."

Some luster returned to Emiya Shirou's eyes. He felt a pair of eyes seemingly watching him through space—a pair of eyes flickering with blue light, sharp and cold, as if they would cut off his head the next moment.

"I... re... fuse."

Emiya Shirou said this with his last bit of strength. For some reason, he instinctively felt that he couldn't let the owner of those eyes descend into this world, absolutely not.

"Wrong choice."

Bang!

Emiya Shirou felt as if his brain had been hit hard. In the different space, blue smoke drifted from Su Xiao's hand. The situation was more interesting than he had imagined. Emiya Shirou's existence meant that the Fifth Holy Grail War had not continued his previous world plot development, which meant Emiya Kiritsugu hadn't died. This was a continuation of the Blood Gate Adventure Group's world plot development.

"Spare me, why is it you, and why today..."

A hazy voice entered Emiya Shirou's ears. With blurred consciousness, he tried to turn his head to the side. He seemed to see a figure. This figure gave him a different feeling—that was a sense of security.

I don't know how much time passed, Emiya Shirou's body twitched. He was still lying in the school corridor, moonlight shining into the window.

Emiya Shirou, full of confusion, sat up. The bloodstains beneath him had disappeared. He subconsciously raised his hand to press his chest, and a sticky, moist sensation came—it was the bloodstain on his clothes.

Emiya Shirou once suspected that he had entered the world after death, but after looking around, he found that he was still in the school corridor.

"What happened..."

Emiya Shirou could be said to be completely confused. He staggered to his feet and stepped toward the outside of the school. Although he didn't know what was going on, he knew that this place was not a place to stay for long, so it was better to run first.

A somewhat eerie scene appeared: a boy with bloodstains all over his chest was running on the street. The street was empty, and the boy looked like he was about to collapse.

Ten minutes later.

Bang.

Emiya Shirou collapsed on the tatami of his home, gasping for breath while turning over to look at the ceiling above.

"What was that? It was too abnormal, and I was almost killed—no, I was already killed, and then someone brought me back to life. Also, what was that voice before? Command Spell?"

The boy sat up with great difficulty, his eyes full of nothing but confusion.

Ding-a-ling~

The sound of a bell rang. Hearing this sound, Emiya Shirou instinctively looked up. The blood-spear man who had killed him earlier appeared, attacking him from top to bottom. That sharp spear tip made Emiya Shirou feel a faint pain between his eyebrows.

With a "swish," the blood spear pierced into the ground. Emiya Shirou dodged the spear by rolling like a donkey. Obviously, the Heroic Spirit attacking him hadn't used his full strength; otherwise, Emiya Shirou would have been pierced into a meat skewer long ago.

After a muffled sound, Emiya Shirou's head hit the wooden wall, and he struggled to get up.

"To think you didn't die. Killing a person twice in one day, is the human world always so cruel and bloody?"

Hearing the words of the man holding the blood spear, Emiya Shirou instinctively wanted to retort: "Cruel and bloody is also caused by you, Lancer. What kind of grudge do you have to chase me to my house?" Unfortunately, the man holding the blood spear didn't give him a chance to retort. Blood-colored spear light shone, and he rushed to Emiya Shirou's front in a few steps.

After a one-sided crushing, Emiya Shirou was kicked out of the house, rolling into the courtyard like a rolling gourd. It could be said that each generation is worse than the last. Emiya Shirou's father (foster father), Emiya Kiritsugu, was a ruthless man who could use various weapons to fight Heroic Spirits in a short time. When it came to Emiya Shirou, he was completely crushed.

"Wasted so much time, it's time to finish you off. Don't worry, this time I will cut off your head to ensure you won't come back to life."

The blood-spear Heroic Spirit arched his body slightly. Obviously, he was getting a bit serious.

Boom!

A loud noise came from behind Emiya Shirou. The Lancer Heroic Spirit not far from him jumped back a step, his pupils gradually shrinking.

"Time's up."

At the same time Emiya Shirou heard this sentence from behind, a feeling of restraint appeared on his right forearm, followed by a dizzying sensation and severe pain. His hand was actually pulled into the different space.

"Ah!!"

Almost instantly, Emiya Shirou felt as if his arm bone was about to crack, and a burning stinging pain came from the back of his hand. The next moment, the pain disappeared, and he regained his freedom.

Blinding white light came from behind Emiya Shirou, and a summoning array gradually outlined in the air. This array was originally white, but it was soon eroded into red by blood energy.

A figure walked out of the summoning array. Emiya Shirou, who was holding his arm and looking pained, turned his head to look.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you, no need to be so nervous."

The blood energy around Su Xiao gradually dissipated. He looked at Emiya Shirou with a gentle smile. Seeing this smile, Emiya Shirou swallowed his saliva, and the ominous premonition in his heart became stronger.

ps: (Two chapters today, Fei Wen needs to properly refine the mutual damage with the Blood Gate). ===== CHAPTER 1603 =====