Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

However, he knows the Holy Grail better than the average magician because he has spent some time inside the Holy Grail.

And to a certain extent, Shirou Emiya was the ultimate winner in that Holy Grail War.

"No————! Huh? Senior, do you know your purpose?"

Sakura wanted to object, but she looked at Shirou Emiya in disbelief. He knew about the Holy Grail War and the purpose of coming here.

But why didn't she sense the presence of servants around Shirou Emiya?

"Well, maybe my memory is a little damaged. Can you tell me, what kind of existence is here? What is the situation of this Holy Grail War? And what kind of magician is in this school? Condition?"

Emiya Shirou could only express his current situation in this way.

Sakura looked at Emiya Shirou with some relief. Although the memory loss was very small, it did not mean that it would not happen.

And as an advanced AI, she is also responsible for guiding the Master.

"This is the virtual reality world built by Mooncell, which can also be said to be the Holy Grail that magicians are fighting for. It uses souls on the surface of the moon to build a virtual reality world. It is similar to a virtual world such as games built on a computer, but it is smaller. Virtual reality constructed solely from electronics is more realistic.”

"The magicians who can reach here are called spirit hackers. Ordinary hackers can only connect their nerves to the network to intervene, while magicians can "spiritize" their own spirit, body and soul. "Sent into the computer world as a clone."

"Because what exists here is the incarnation of the magician's spirit, body, and soul. If you die here, you will truly die."

"Those magicians invaded the moon in order to gain access to the [Holy Grail] that can grant any wish."

"The Holy Grail will not be given to the weak. The magician must prove that he is excellent as a living being and that he is the strongest. As a way to prove it, Mooncell gives the magician the resources to fight on his behalf, the things to fight on, and the magician's life as the basis. Food, fighting together, a united partner——servant"

"And by making a contract with a servant, heroes from the past appear as familiars and fight for the [Holy Grail]. This is the [Holy Grail War]"

Listening to Sakura's explanation, Emiya Shirou kept thinking in his mind, did he really appear here in the form of a soul?

If we take the Holy Grail War as an example, except that the thing called [Holy Grail] turned into a Mooncell that I had never heard of, the rest was not much different from what I knew.

Basically, the magicians keep fighting and finally get the Holy Grail.

Although the only Holy Grail War he participated in was a 7V7V1V1 situation, Emiya Shirou later wanted to understand what happened in the Fourth Holy Grail War in his world.

I also went to Tohsaka Rin to learn about the rules of a normal Holy Grail War.

Emiya Shirou suddenly understood why this world felt so weird, because except for the magicians who participated, everyone else should be similar to NPCs or AIs like Sakura.

And how many people can participate in a Holy Grail War? There are only 7 magicians in a normal Holy Grail War, and even in a special battle between red and black, there are only 14 magicians.

There are probably more than thousands of people in this school, and there are only dozens of magicians at most. No wonder it is so weird.

However, out of caution, Emiya Shirou still asked Ichiban Sakura about the number of people participating in this Holy Grail War.

"The Holy Grail War has not started yet. It is still in the fixed ceremony and pre-selection stage required to participate in the Holy Grail War."

"There are currently a total of 999 people participating in this Holy Grail War, but after the preliminaries are over, participants who cannot recall who they are will be deleted along with their school buildings."

Chapter 529 A day that keeps repeating

"My head, it hurts so much——!?"

As if he had just been teleported here from a very far away place, Shirou Emiya's figure became extremely unstable, covering his head and half-kneeling on the ground.

The severe pain that came from the depths of his mind made Emiya Shirou bite his crown tightly. He was a little confused about what happened just now and why his head hurt so much after he arrived here.

Obviously, he didn't feel any pain when he transformed into a soul similar to data and traveled through it.

Emiya Shirou, who couldn't figure out what happened when he followed the data to arrive here, slowly stood up.

"Hogunhara Academy High School?"

Looking at the very familiar but slightly different school gate in front of him, Emiya Shirou couldn't help but make a sound.

"Is this Fuyuki?"

Looking at the school gate in front of him, which was almost exactly the same as Suiqunhara Academy High School except for details, Emiya Shirou frowned slightly and looked around him.

These streets are filled with a sense of familiarity, and these buildings are very similar. If Shirou Emiya had not been very observant and could quickly find the differences in details, he might really think that he was back in Fuyuki. In the city.

But since it is so similar, generally speaking, I am indeed in Fuyuki City.

It should be Fuyuki City in the parallel universe.

only----

For some reason, Shirou Emiya felt a strong sense of strangeness lingering in his mind.

丂 Although the buildings here are indeed very similar to his own world, this should be his first time to come to this place.

So why on earth do I feel like I have been here before?

Looking at the school gate in front of him that he seemed to have been to before, Shirou Emiya fell into deep doubt.

In his memory, he should have just stepped into the door and came to this world for the first time after his body was damaged. Why do I have such an inexplicable sense of familiarity?

It was as if this school gate was not the first time he had stepped into it.

But as he continued to think, his head hurt again.

"What happened?"

Shirou Emiya stood in front of the school gate, covering his head, frowning and looking at the school in front of him that kept giving off a familiar feeling.

What exactly is this place————

He could only suppress this doubt deeply in his heart now.

Because no matter how I think now, I can't get the answer, because I just arrived in this world and I can understand too little.

"Let's go to the school first. This familiar feeling also comes from the school--"

A short sword with a chain appeared in Shirou Emiya's hand. In addition to this school, although the surrounding buildings and streets also have a strong sense of déjà vu, it is far less serious than the feeling brought to me by this school.

What's more, every time I want to continue thinking about why I have this strong sense of familiarity, my head begins to hurt severely.

Everything is telling Shirou Emiya that he must go inside the school to find the answer he wants to find.

Under the cover of armor, in just a few seconds, Shirou Emiya's figure disappeared in the air.

Since the school is so strange, he can't go to the inside of the school without making any preparations.

Although the appearance of this school is very similar to the Hokumurahara Academy High School that he knows, the clothes of those students are completely different from the school uniforms he is wearing now.

He didn't want to enter the school so conspicuously, and if it was a parallel universe, if he ran into himself or someone he knew, he didn't know how to explain it out loud.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Shirou Emiya naturally chose to enter the school in an extremely efficient way, making himself invisible.

What's more, [Devil Haunting] itself also has excellent defensive power, so if there is any emergency, there is a way to defend.

But the more he walked around in the school, the more that strange sense of familiarity filled his mind.

"I remember that this door seemed to be completely unable to open——"

"I remember that Class A of the second year seemed to be the class where Shinji and Sister Fuji were——"

"I remember that Rin Tousaka seemed to be alone on the rooftop————"

"I remember that the student would fall to the ground at this moment————"

More and more familiar memories emerged in Shirou Emiya's mind. It seemed that it was not the first time that he walked around in this school in an invisible state.

It seems that every memory has been repeated four or five times, but each repetition is slightly different.

Covering his head, as if he had drunk alcohol, Shirou Emiya staggered along the corridor on the first floor and deduced that he should be trapped in the same day.

Because every time he repeated it before, his actions were not exactly the same.

When he first came to this school, he didn't seem to find Rin Toosaka, but the second time he thought of the rooftop he had never been to.

The third and fourth times, his actions were different.

Although many decisions are repeated, the way they arrive is completely different.

It's like he first entered this school to find Rin Toosaka, but later he figured out why this school had such a weird feeling.

Why, so many times, he still couldn't get away from this repetitive day.

Is there no solution? Or is there another reason?

Shirou Emiya didn't come up with an answer, and his memory was not fully restored at this moment.

At this moment, he could only cover his head, endure the severe pain, and think while walking forward.

In all the memories I had before, I didn't seem to have looked for the reason why I was stuck on the same day.

I didn't do anything to solve this problem.

It was as if I already knew and accepted it. Even though I knew I was stuck on the same day, I still didn't take any action.

Why is this?

Shirou Emiya was full of questions.

But no matter how I continued to think, I only felt the severe pain coming from the depths of my mind.

The next second————

Shirou Emiya seemed to understand something, and his figure quickly appeared from the air, running towards the woman who was lying on the ground in front of him with long purple hair over her knees, a red ribbon on the left side of her head, and a white coat.

Even if he knew that this day was repeated over and over, the boy named Shirou Emiya would still run towards the woman who was lying on the ground without hesitation and with an extremely nervous look.

"Senior——!"

Looking at the white-haired boy who appeared in front of her, the purple-haired girl responded weakly.

Chapter 530: The girl who only stays for this day

In the infirmary, the white-haired boy still takes great care of the purple-haired girl who lies on the bed and exhales slightly.

Looking at the girl who is temporarily in a coma, Shirou Emiya sighs slightly in his heart.

He understands. The moment he sees this girl, Shirou Emiya completely understands everything, and his memory recovers quickly.

On the third day of repetition, Shirou Emiya already knows who has kept him trapped in this day.

That is the purple-haired girl lying on the bed-Sakura Matou.

It is easy to infer that the cause of this situation is this girl lying on the bed.

This is a repetitive day, everyone is doing the same thing, even Shirou Emiya himself, will make the same decision and do the same thing when his memory has not recovered at the beginning.

Without the influence of external forces, no one will change their behavior on this repetitive day. Students who fall down will still fall down, and garbage that is not thrown into the trash can will still not be thrown into the trash can.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, but only the girl named Matou Sakura, her behavior is not repeated. Except for the first encounter, every communication or interaction after that is completely different.

Even if you say the same words as before, you will get different answers and different reactions.

The point is that in the whole school, only the girl named Matou Sakura is like this.

If Shirou Emiya uses the same expression and the same words to talk to other people, the answers they get are exactly the same.

Shirou Emiya almost quickly judged that it was Sakura who caused this abnormal situation.

But he did not ask Sakura why she did this, nor did he stop Sakura from doing this.

Although she is not the Sakura he knows well, there is almost no big difference in personality or other aspects.

Shirou Emiya didn't know what Sakura's purpose was. He was a very slow-witted person in terms of emotions, and he didn't know what Sakura was feeling at the moment, but he didn't feel any malice from Sakura's behavior.

Moreover, Shirou Emiya was full of guilt towards Sakura.

He felt guilty that he had promised Zouken Matou to take good care of Sakura, but he always disappeared for various reasons and didn't stay with Sakura. He just took Sakura to his home and never cared about her again.

He felt guilty that he had been worrying Sakura all the time. Every time he returned home and saw Sakura looking at him with a faint smile, his heart trembled violently.

He felt guilty that there were many things that he should have taken care of, but he let Sakura take them alone.

He also wanted to spend time with Sakura, but the current situation did not allow him to stop. Shirou Emiya also understood that with his physical condition, it was a miracle to be able to survive.

Seeing the smile from the heart of Sakura, who was not familiar to him, Shirou Emiya gave up the idea of ​​questioning her.

Shirou Emiya could also feel that she, like Sakura, seemed to be carrying something and seemed to be worried about something.

But Shirou Emiya did not ask, just as Sakura was willing to wait for him to tell her what she was carrying, he was also willing to spend time waiting for Sakura to tell her what she was carrying in her heart.

Whether Sakura was making bento in the infirmary, flying a kite on the playground, or even other things, in these days, whatever Sakura wanted to do, Shirou Emiya accompanied her very seriously.