Chapter 652

【Astolfo rushed up quickly, pushed Sieg away, and blocked the flying chains with his own gauntlet.】

【But the next moment, the chain wrapped around his wrist and smashed him heavily against the wall.】

【"Master, run! Its target is you!"】

【Astolfo endured the sharp pain in his body, controlled the "Trap of Argalia" to protect Sieg, and pointed the way for him.】

【"Follow it! That one over there too!"】

【Sieg: "Understood, Rider, you must follow immediately too!"】

【Astolfo: "Hmm! Of course!"】

【The "Trap of Argalia" made a sharp turn, broke through the wall, opened a hidden passage, and Sieg and Caules rushed in quickly.】

Rin Tohsaka: "Semiramis, this guy actually still hasn't given up."

Waver: "Should say, I thought she ran away, didn't expect she actually came back."

Mordred: "To only have one chain, and not even dare to show her body, looks like you were heavily wounded by that sword of mine."

Fiore: "Her spirit core was wounded, it's impossible to heal; she's probably just holding on now."

Empress: "Hmph."

【Seeing they were safe, Astolfo could finally deal with the enemy with peace of mind.】

【He exerted force to pull off the chain on his hand, but didn't expect another one to emerge and wrap around him.】

【"So annoying!"】

【Astolfo frowned unhappily, then as if he understood something, he immediately beamed with joy and shouted loudly: "I see, I get it! Red Faction Assassin, you received a fatal wound, right! Only being able to summon these unglamorous chains is the best evidence! If you were serious, you should have been able to kill me and Master easily at that time! But now you can't even do that, which means you are wounded and can't protect your master! And compared to your master, my Hippogriff is stronger! In other words! If you let me go inside, it will be bad!"】

【Astolfo wanted to enter the passage to catch up with Sieg, but was blocked firmly by the other side.】

【He mocked her like that, but Semiramis still didn't show herself, proving his guess was correct.】

Rin Tohsaka: "Didn't expect you to be smart for once."

Astolfo: "The 'for once' is unnecessary."

【The gaze returned to the Holy Grail Hall below.】

【The Greater Grail, which had been vibrating, suddenly fell silent, and the floor began to vibrate slightly.】

【Shakespeare: "Playtime is over, salvation is ready—next will be the second coming of my Lord, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada."】

【"Realize! Our dream is realized here!"】

【A figure slowly tore out of the spherical Greater Grail; it was Amakusa Shirou, who had already changed back into his Japanese-style attire from his life.】

【He came out safe and sound, which also meant he had successfully controlled the Greater Grail.】

【Shakespeare: "My Lord, how is the situation?"】

【Amakusa Shirou: "Everything is realized; it is currently in the warm-up stage. Before long, this Greater Grail will become the Grail of Heaven, replenishing mana from the ley lines while giving true immortality to all humanity."】

Waver: "To think, it really succeeded!"

Amakusa Shirou: "Is that so? It seems the me of another world has fulfilled his wish."

Damn it, if it weren't for Feng Xi's interference, his dream would have been achieved.

Shakespeare: "I'm afraid not."

Amakusa Shirou: "Hmm? What do you mean?"

Shakespeare: "Haven't you noticed yet, Priest. This Holy Grail War, the development from beginning to end is like a novel. And you are the villain in the novel."

Shakespeare: "Have you ever seen a story where the villain wins?"

Amakusa Shirou: "... Reality is different from novels; I believe in myself."

【Looking at Jeanne, who was still crying there, Amakusa Shirou asked knowingly: "Did you win?"】

【Shakespeare touched his beard proudly and said: "Hmm, all the characters who appeared except for us misunderstood. Master, including you."】

【Amakusa Shirou: "Misunderstood what?"】

【Shakespeare: "She is just a little girl. Although she acts like a Saint, she is still just an ordinary girl. Because she acted too much like a Saint, she abandoned herself. Sigh, this is also helpless; to be summoned as a Heroic Spirit, what is needed is not the seventeen years of living at home, but the two years of running around as a hero of her homeland."】

【Amakusa Shirou: "... Truly pitiful."】

【Regarding this point, Amakusa Shirou actually had deep personal experience.】

【The price of acting like a Saint is that one must abandon the past.】

Amakusa Shirou: "Saint, heh."

Amakusa Shirou: "The world treats us as Saints, but only we know that we are just ordinary people."

Jeanne: "..."