Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

There was no perfunctory treatment, nor any suspicion towards Sakura. As always, it was as if she knew nothing.

When he saw Sakura's heartfelt smile, Shirou Emiya couldn't help but smile.

However, this repetitive day was about to end here.

The light of the setting sun penetrated the window of the infirmary and slowly shone on Sakura lying on the bed.

Today, the purple-haired girl named Sakura lay on the bed for an unusually long time.

"Senior——!"

A light and gentle voice sounded from in front of Shirou Emiya.

"Senior, you should have discovered the fact that it is repeated every day."

With a cry and a laugh, Sakura looked at Shirou Emiya beside her very gently.

Shirou Emiya did not deviate at all, staring straight at Sakura, without saying a word, but just nodded slightly.

Since Shirou Emiya could find that Sakura was the only one who did not repeat her actions during the day, she could also find that Shirou Emiya did not lose his memory and kept repeating what he did on the first day.

"How did you find out?"

Shirou Emiya sighed. He knew how Sakura found out about him, but he couldn't help asking because he knew that since Sakura decided to show her hand at this time, she was ready to end it all.

"That's not it, senior. You don't hide your thoughts at all!"

Sakura covered her mouth and laughed a little, but Shirou Emiya could hear a very obvious bitter meaning in it.

"However, even if the senior knew that it was because of me that he kept repeating this day, he still took great pains to accompany me every day-"

As she said that, the girl named Sakura looked out the window where the sunset light shone, and stretched out her right hand slightly, as if she was recalling everything she had experienced with Shirou Emiya in the past ten days.

That's right, since Shirou Emiya arrived here, it has been repeated for ten days.

Looking at Sakura bathed in the sunset, Shirou Emiya said nothing. From Sakura's right hand that kept tightly grasping his palm, he could feel the tension and contradiction in her heart at the moment.

"Thank you, Senior Emiya!"

Sakura slowly retracted her gaze and expressed her gratitude to Shirou Emiya from the bottom of her heart.

Because of Shirou Emiya, she experienced things that she, as an AI, could never experience.

She could not experience such emotions in just ten days.

She thanked Shirou Emiya, but she was also reluctant to leave him.

But compared to wanting to stay with Shirou Emiya, she wanted to save him more.

Sakura had no idea of ​​restarting this day.

But at the end of this day, she suddenly remembered that she seemed to have not found any information about the magician named Shirou Emiya.

So at the last moment, she once again used her high-level AI authority to investigate Shirou Emiya.

However, during the continuous investigation, she confirmed a result, a result that she could not accept at all.

Chapter 531: Towards Tomorrow

That is, in Mooncell's view, Shirou Emiya's existence is more like a virus than a wizard.

Whether it is that Shirou Emiya himself does not belong to this world, or Mooncell infers that it may have an irreversible impact on itself through the abnormal magic fluctuations in his body.

Both make Mooncell reject Shirou Emiya.

He himself is not a person of this world, and Shirou Emiya's seizure of the Holy Grail has almost no meaning for the future of this world.

And because his own existence is almost identical to that of a person who has signed a contract with him, and Shirou Emiya is a human from another world.

Mooncell chooses to observe for the time being.

It summons humans from the ground and lets them compete with a one-time right of use as a reward. It is not pursuing the "strongest person", but this survival competition itself is the object of Mooncell's observation, as the "ruler" it needs to understand humans.

Shirou Emiya is still a human being, even a human from another world. Mooncell only regards Shirou Emiya as an existence more like a virus, not a virus.

It can be said that it is between a magician (Wizard) and a virus.

If Shirou Emiya can really get the Holy Grail, then Mooncell will regard Shirou Emiya as a virus and eliminate him.

But in the Holy Grail War, only one person can survive. If Shirou Emiya can become the last person, he will be regarded as a virus and eliminated.

If Shirou Emiya cannot become the last person, he will die in the Holy Grail War.

Even if Shirou Emiya does not become the last person and does not die in the Holy Grail War, he cannot survive.

Because he no longer has a physical body, when the Holy Grail War ends and Mooncell returns the magician (Wizard), Shirou Emiya will also dissipate his soul in the material world because he has no physical body to carry him.

In either case, Shirou Emiya will not have the possibility of surviving.

It is precisely because of this that Sakura uses the authority of her advanced AI to repeat what happened on this day.

But she didn't expect that Shirou Emiya's will could even fight against the system. Even if this day was reset, Shirou Emiya still had some memories.

And these memories would be completely restored under constant triggering.

Unless Sakura kept repeating this day and constantly wearing away Shirou Emiya's will until his will could no longer maintain the stability of his memory, Shirou Emiya could not forget everything that happened.

But how could she treat Shirou Emiya so abusively?

On the third day, Sakura was ready to face Shirou Emiya's questioning and accept his accusations.

But Shirou Emiya knew everything, but pretended to know nothing and accompanied her without any resentment.

At that moment, Sakura's heart was constantly entangled and she kept falling into contradictions.

Especially when she was on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and even eighth day, Shirou Emiya still had a faint smile and did not treat her differently because of his selfishness.

She had long been ready to face Shirou Emiya's anger, but nothing happened.

Sometimes, even when Shirou Emiya saw that she was in a bad mood, he would comfort her out loud.

You have to know that Shirou Emiya is not ignorant, but knows everything and understands everything.

Because of this, Sakura's entanglement and guilt will become deeper and deeper.

She wants to repeat this happy time forever, and she wants to stay on this day forever.

But what about Shirou Emiya?

She can't really trap Shirou Emiya forever on this day because of her own selfish desires.

Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.

She is the NPC of this Holy Grail War and also an advanced AI.

In this world, each NPC has their own responsibilities, and also has their own thoughts and personality, but the personality is disposable and cannot be separated from the set outlook on life.

After the war, the records of NPCs and AIs will be confiscated by Mooncell, and the rest will be reset and adjusted for the next war.

The manufacturing process of advanced AI is the same as that of NPCs, but it is endowed with firm human rights, personality and soul. Due to the high production cost of advanced AI, after the war, only the record will be reset, and the personality will be retained and moved to the next Holy Grail War as a fixed character.

Advanced AI cannot delete the records it obtains by itself, because submitting them to Mooncell is their principle and the meaning of existence.

And Sakura wants to keep this record forever, but Mooncell's AI detection is carried out every day during the pre-selection period.

If Mooncell finds her abnormality, she will not be able to avoid being deleted and replaced by other advanced AI.

Originally, she just wanted to delay time and find a way to save Shirou Emiya.

But she didn't find any way to save Shirou Emiya, and because of her own selfish desires, Sakura kept repeating what happened on this day.

But she didn't want to continue to restrain Shirou Emiya like this, nor did she want to make Shirou Emiya worry.

In the end, in the constant contradictions, Sakura chose to sacrifice herself.

And this was originally her duty.

The advanced AI that was created was born to know the Master. It was a violation of Mooncell to use one's own desires to repeat the behavior of this day.

At this moment, Shirou Emiya didn't know how to comfort her.

Sakura slowly loosened the hand that was tightly holding Shirou Emiya, opened her arms, and hugged Shirou Emiya very hard.

Tears fell drop by drop on the red windbreaker on Shirou Emiya.

At this time, the sky outside had become dark, and today seemed to end at this moment.

In the past, Shirou Emiya would return to the school gate at this time.

But now————

"Goodbye, Senior Emiya————"

Accompanied by Sakura's words, Shirou Emiya's eyes suddenly turned dark, as if his head had suffered a very strong blow, and he lost consciousness instantly.

Sakura, who was hugging Shirou Emiya in front of her, also had dull eyes at this moment, as if her consciousness had been deleted by some existence.

The next second————

"Senior——?"

The girl named Sakura spoke unconsciously, then slowly sat up from the bed and placed Shirou Emiya on the bed steadily.

The girl didn't know why, but she showed such emotions even though she didn't know him. Looking at Shirou Emiya lying on the bed, the girl named Sakura couldn't help but waver in her eyes.

Even if she lost her mental memory, the memories recorded in the body continued to live.

She should have forgotten everything and returned to a normal AI, but the moment she looked at Shirou Emiya, she was constantly shaken by the unknown emotions.

"Maybe, I should also take a good rest——"

Said this, Sakura came to the wooden table in front of Shirou Emiya's bed and put her hands under her head.

As an AI, she didn't need to rest, but for some reason, she felt that her body was full of fatigue.

Once again, she turned her head uneasily to look at Shirou Emiya who was sleeping soundly on the hospital bed, and slowly closed her eyes.

Sakura, who was originally unable to sleep, really seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep at this moment. Her chest was rising and falling very regularly, and her breathing quickly became calmer.

The corner of Sakura's mouth showed a smile unconsciously, as if she had had an extremely happy dream.

On the other side, among countless black oceans that could not be described in words and were extremely filthy, a woman with knee-length purple hair, a red ribbon tied on the left side of her head, and a sailor suit crawled out.

With unspeakable anger in her eyes, she looked towards what seemed to be the center of the entire black ocean in the distance.

His mouth kept roaring.

"Unforgivable!"

"Unforgivable!"

"Unforgivable!"

Chapter 532 Matou Shinji

Bright light penetrated from the window and fell from the sky somewhere, gradually filling the originally dark medical room.

"cherry--!"

Emiya Shirou looked at the pure white ceiling in front of him, and the memories of yesterday flooded into his mind in an instant.

Just like before, he instantly lost consciousness at that moment.

But when he woke up again, he did not appear at the school gate, but on a hospital bed.

"Senior, do you feel any discomfort in your body?"

Upon hearing Shirou Emiya's call, Sakura, who was sitting at the table, stood up quickly and walked towards Shirou Emiya, with some worry in her eyes.

"No, it's okay-"

Emiya Shirou looked at Sakura who rushed over quickly and responded softly.

"According to the examination, except for the injuries you have accumulated in the past, there is no abnormal condition in your body——"

Sakura also quickly glanced at Emiya Shirou's body, and responded to Emiya Shirou with a light and gentle voice.

Although she was the AI ​​responsible for managing the physical health of Masters, she was unable to heal Emiya Shirou's accumulated injuries.

"cherry--!"

Emiya Shirou looked at Sakura who suddenly spoke like this with some confusion. He could feel that something seemed to have left her body.

"Senior, is there anything else you can do?"