Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

But here, it is a one-on-one duel mode, which is extremely disadvantageous for non-frontal combat jobs such as Assassin.

It can be said that countless strategies cannot be implemented because of this one-on-one frontal battle.

And the man in front of him, Kotomine Kirei, smiled unconsciously.

Yes, this non-melee mode is even worse for Shirou Emiya who has no Servant.

In the Holy Grail War, a Master who does not even have a Servant is not a threat to others at all. Unless there is a personal grudge, no one will target a magician who does not even have a Servant.

Uniting the weak to fight against the strong enemy is a normal evolution.

But the current situation forces Shirou Emiya to confront those Servants head-on, and there is almost no room for maneuver.

"Of course, during the six days of hesitation, you need to go to the arena, which is the labyrinth you have arrived at before, and collect two code keys there. You can think of them as the keys to the final battle."

"The Master needs to find them by himself during the hesitation period, and if the Master cannot even do this, he will face computer death before entering the arena."

"Although it is computer death, it is not particularly different from real death. The body on Earth will never wake up because it has no soul, until it completely decays."

"This is just a simple test to show that the Masters have the ability to fight a decisive battle-"

I am afraid that the way to obtain the code keys is not as simple as Kotomine Kirei said, otherwise Kotomine Kirei would not have this expression.

"During the hesitation period, private fights between masters are not allowed, whether it is a fight between masters, a fight between servants, or a fight between masters and servants."

"If a private fight occurs inside the arena, then after three rounds of fighting, the system will forcibly intervene to stop the fight."

"If a private fight occurs in the academy, then no matter what kind of fight it is, the party that fights will have the Master and Servant's stats reduced, or even more severe punishment————"

Sure enough————

Emiya Shirou was thinking secretly in his heart that if the master was relatively weak, he might not be able to hold on for three rounds and would be defeated. This fight also happened during the hesitation period.

"Who is my first opponent?"

As it should be, Emiya Shirou asked Kotomine Kirei.

If Kotomine Kirei hadn't suddenly called him, Emiya Shirou wouldn't even know that the preliminaries were over.

It's not that he didn't want to save those magicians who were still trapped in the fake campus life.

渟　It is just that in this academy, it is difficult for Shirou Emiya to distinguish between NPCs and magicians.

If Shinji Matou had not noticed the incongruity around him and was extremely surprised, Shirou Emiya would not have even realized that Shinji Matou in this world is actually a magician.

According to Sakura, these NPCs are artificial intelligence characters reproduced from the data of humans who have existed (or exist) on Earth.

Since the more realistic the NPCs are as life, the more realistic the Masters who come into contact with them will react, so NPCs are given artificial intelligence by Mooncell.

And these also have their own thoughts and personalities.

Even when facing Sister Fuji, Shirou Emiya did not feel that there were many differences from Sister Fuji, who he knew well.

Perhaps the only difference that can be felt is that she often reveals some names of magicians, and other than that, she is also completely careless and sloppy, which is completely inherited from Sister Fuji.

Because she kept looking for people to try to make more magicians sober up, she was scolded by Rin Toosaka.

Just like Rin Tousaka who appeared behind Shirou Emiya at this moment, with a look of disgust on her face but couldn't help but make a sound.

Chapter 538 Rin Tousaka

"Huh? How come you don't know who your first opponent is? Didn't the terminal tell you to check the bulletin board?"

Accompanied by such a voice that seemed to be full of disgust and unreasonableness.

The crisp footsteps also stopped behind Shirou Emiya.

Hearing this familiar voice, Shirou Emiya also looked back with a slight bitter smile.

It was a girl.

A girl about the same age as himself.

Like Sakura in this world, she was a familiar but slightly unfamiliar person to Shirou Emiya.

The girl had twin ponytails, and wore a red dress, a black miniskirt, and black over-the-knee high-heeled leather boots that did not belong to this school uniform at all. She looked extremely beautiful.

She was Rin Tousaka, whom Shirou Emiya had met a few days ago.

She was also the one who had spent the longest time with him in the past few days.

Although the first time Emiya Shirou met Rin Toosaka was, uh, um.

To describe it in words, it should be an unfriendly but pleasant meeting.

Rin Toosaka doesn't really want to mention this process again.

"In this system of the Holy Grail War, only the Master who wins in the end can leave here. Even if you don't have your own Servant, there is no way to quit halfway-"

This is what Rin Tohsaka said to Shirou Emiya the first time she found out that Shirou Emiya did not have a Servant.

But then she quickly turned her head away as if she remembered something.

Because Shirou Emiya was also a participant in this Holy Grail War, according to the faction, Shirou Emiya was her enemy.

Perhaps it was a habit, or maybe it was just her original personality, the moment Rin Tohsaka heard that Shirou Emiya did not have his own Servant, she actually felt worried.

She came to [SE.RA.PH.], a virtual reality world built by spirit particles, with the idea of ​​obtaining the Holy Grail.

Everyone here is her enemy, an enemy she wants to bet her life on.

"But it doesn't matter, because there is only one winner of the Holy Grail War————"

Thinking of this, her tone towards Shirou Emiya was full of fighting spirit. Even if there was no Servant, it didn't matter. If the opponent in the first battle was Shirou Emiya, she would not hold back.

As a magician, in order to seize the only qualification to hold the Holy Grail, I must be ruthless!

But even so, Shirou Emiya standing in front of me was not afraid or timid at all, and even thanked me with a faint smile.

Why?

After seeing Shirou Emiya leave, Rin Tohsaka, who was standing on the rooftop, was extremely anxious.

Her fists clenched tightly involuntarily.

Then she waved at the wall beside her as if to vent.

I have clearly expressed that I am your enemy, and I have clearly expressed that I want to win the Holy Grail. If I meet you, I will definitely kill you without mercy.

Why are you still thanking me like this? We are enemies who have to fight each other with swords, and your life will end here.

This is the Holy Grail War, not a child's play!

Then, Rin Tohsaka leaned against the wall and sighed. Why would she worry so much about a stranger she had just met not long ago, or even a stranger who was destined to become an enemy.

However, I did feel an indescribable sense of familiarity in him, as if he had known me for a long time, but I didn't know him at all.

My memory had been retrieved, and there was no false memory of Shirou Emiya in this academy.

"Shut up!!!"

As if she was angry, on the rooftop, Rin Tohsaka roared at the air beside her.

After that, Rin Tohsaka would pay attention to Shirou Emiya from time to time.

She didn't know why she cared so much about a Master who didn't even have a Servant.

At this moment, Rin Tohsaka stood behind Shirou Emiya, frowning, looking at Shirou Emiya with a slightly condemning and slightly worried tone.

How could someone not even know who his first opponent was.

Sure enough, if I hadn't appeared, Shirou Emiya would probably be eliminated before he even saw his first opponent.

"Terminal, what is that?"

Emiya Shirou seemed to be used to Rin's tone. He turned around and asked Rin with doubt.

This was the first time he heard the name terminal.

"?"

When Rin heard that Shirou Emiya didn't even know what a terminal was, she became confused. Then she looked at Shirou Emiya carefully, with disbelief written all over her face.

Isn't this something that everyone will be automatically equipped with when they come to this world?

But looking at Shirou Emiya's expression that didn't seem to lie, even though Rin Tosaka had a lot of doubts in her heart, she still explained to Shirou Emiya while taking out a very sci-fi-looking mobile phone-like thing from her pocket.

"That's right, it's similar to the existence of a mobile phone. In theory, no matter whether it's a magician who comes here, or even those NPCs, Monncell will equip them with a terminal when they first come."

"What's more, this is common sense for magicians participating in this Holy Grail War--!"

In fact, she just happened to pass by and happened to hear Shirou Emiya's question full of high blood pressure.

"You don't have it? Is it really strange?"

Kotomine Kirei also showed a puzzled expression at this time, and then as if he was thinking about something, countless data flashed in his eyes.

"As an advanced AI, the terminal is not of much use to me for the time being. I have loaded your information into my terminal. You can use this one for the time being--"

As if confirming that Shirou Emiya did not have a terminal, Kotomine Kirei quickly took out an item exactly the same as the one in Rin Tohsaka's hand from his clothes and handed it to Shirou Emiya.

And in a very short time, all the information about himself was deleted and the information belonging to Shirou Emiya was logged in.

Although the information about Shirou Emiya may only be the most basic, such as name, gender, height and weight.

But it is enough to receive the news from the system.

"By the way, the Master who has passed the pre-selection will get his own room--"

Saying this, Kotomine Kirei handed a key to Shirou Emiya.

This was originally a place for Servants and Masters to rest, but now it has become a place for Shirou Emiya to rest alone.

Chapter 539: The First Battle, Begins

Following the instructions from the newly acquired terminal, Shirou Emiya quickly came to the bulletin board on the second floor, where a piece of paper that was completely different from the surrounding bulletins appeared.

But only he and his opponent should be able to see this piece of paper.

Otherwise, if there were 128 masters who needed to fight a round, this bulletin board would be covered with notes.

Even if only the battle list of this school building was displayed, there shouldn't be only this piece of paper here.

Thinking about it, in fact, only he and his opponent should know who they are fighting against, and other people should not be able to directly know who other people's opponents are from the bulletin board.

On this white paper, the battle information was written very simply.

Master: Shirou Emiya

Master: Shinji Matou

Battlefield: Ichirsuki Nokai

"Hmph! I didn't expect that the opponent of the first battle would be you, a disgusting guy!"

At this moment, an extremely proud voice sounded from behind Shirou Emiya.

That was the seaweed-haired Matou Shinji whom he had seen at the door of the infirmary.

He was also a person that Shirou Emiya was very familiar with.

He had never thought that his opponent in the first battle would be his former friend, Matou Shinji.

However, Matou Shinji looked at Shirou Emiya with extremely disgusted eyes, his eyes full of disdain.

"Your good days will soon be over! It is your greatest misfortune to meet me in the first battle! I will definitely return tenfold what you did to me that morning."

Like a child, Matou Shinji gritted his teeth and said harsh words to Shirou Emiya with anger. Until now, he still remembered that Shirou Emiya knocked him down at that time.

"It's really sad. It's so hard to struggle out of the preliminaries, but now you have to lose in the first battle. Even I feel sad for you!"

Matou Shinji's face was full of intoxication, as if there was no doubt at all, and the victory had already belonged to him.

In his eyes, Shirou Emiya had no chance of defeating him at all.

"Shinji, your personality hasn't changed at all!"

Looking at Shinji who was covering his Federation and immersed in his own world, Shirou Emiya couldn't help but complain.

Although he acted very perfect and calm in front of those girls, when he was with him, Shinji would unconsciously indulge in the things he had woven, and Shirou Emiya had long been accustomed to such Shinji.

"Ha! Who are you calling Shinji? I'm not that familiar with you, but we have a blood feud!"

Hearing Shirou Emiya call him Shinji again, he looked at Shirou Emiya with an extremely unhappy look.