Tsukiumihara Academy, in the health room.
At this time, Kirisakura was hurriedly bandaging Emiya Shirou, whose body was covered with bruises.
Although Li Shuwen, as a berserker, could not shatter his internal organs as easily as before, the powerful force and the strength that did not require a second strike continued to penetrate the protection of [Evil Spirit Haunted] and hit the body inside.
As a berserker, Li Shuwen didn't care about his injuries at all. Even though Shirou Emiya's knight sword hit his shoulder heavily, he remained indifferent and punched Shirou Emiya's body one by one.
"Really? I haven't even had a head-on collision with Leo yet, and I've already encountered something like this—!"
"It's all my fault. If only I had gotten rid of Julius earlier!"
Toosaka Rin, who was sitting next to Emiya Shirou, felt a little indignant and blamed herself. If Leo had not suddenly appeared around at that time, the consequences would have been disastrous.
But in the final analysis, the place of battle was too small, and Shirou Emiya had no way to break free from Li Shuwen's restraints and display his own strength.
However, Li Shuwen was able to launch attacks as much as he wanted, and Emiya Shirou could only fight him to the end.
I'm afraid the situation will be the same if I fight with Gawain. This terrain is really not conducive for Emiya Shirou to fight.
But fortunately, Li Shuwen is now in a frenzy, otherwise Shirou Emiya would not have been able to hold on to him for so long.
Even when Li Shuwen was in a frenzy, Emiya Shirou's skills could not match his. He was just able to fight with him better than before.
But if the battle continues for a long time, the loser will still be Emiya Shirou.
Chapter 625: How to deal with it
In the health room, Toosaka Rin sat on the chair at the desk next to her, took a sip of the black tea that Sakura had just brewed, and her face was full of unhappiness.
"Julius is now a ghost-like existence, wandering around the arena. If we enter the arena again, it won't be long before Julius appears again!"
She looked at the cup of tea in her hand and analyzed the current situation very calmly.
“And Leo, who is staying in the arena, will soon discover the noise caused by our fight with Julius, and he may rush to our location at any time. We can’t always be so lucky and meet Julius near the logout point.”
“So the only thing we can do now is to get rid of Julius before Leo arrives?”
Listening to Toosaka Rin's words, Emiya Shirou quickly understood the only solution at present.
They had no way to block Julius, and it could even be said that Toosaka Rin and Emiya Shirou had no idea what the negative emotions that were like black mud were like.
Shirou Emiya doesn't know how to analyze those things, and Toosaka Rin can't even come into contact with them. She also has no way of thinking of a good way to deal with Julius without fighting.
All I can say now is that the best way is to get rid of Li Shuwen or Julius in a short time.
Leo would not just stand aside and do nothing when he saw Shirou Emiya fighting with Li Shuwen.
He is gentle and kind, with an extremely mild personality, but he is also a king and a leader. Faced with a situation like this, he can order Gawain to release his treasure without hesitation.
"I want to ask you, do you have a Noble Phantasm that can quickly eliminate Berserker? For example, can you release Cu Chulainn's Noble Phantasm again?"
"No, Li Shuwen is too fast. I can't release my treasure before he rushes over to me--!"
Shirou Emiya looked at Toosaka Rin and shook his head. In order to release the [Spear of Piercing Death Thorns], he needed to prepare in advance. In just this short period of time, Li Shuwen was able to rush in front of Shirou Emiya.
If he wanted to release the treasure by force, during this period, even if he was wearing [Evil Ghost], he would be easily killed by Li Shuwen's strength that could penetrate armor.
One way to deal with Cu Chulainn's Noble Phantasm is to kill him before he can release it.
Emiya Shirou was unable to do this, so he always kept his distance from Cu Chulainn.
Emiya Shirou didn't know what would happen when Li Shuwen faced Cu Chulainn, but if he wanted to forcibly release the Noble Phantasm, he would die at the hands of Li Shuwen because he was not prepared.
Although the projected [Piercing Death Thorn Spear] could pierce Li Shuwen's heart, such a mutual destruction outcome was not what Toosaka Rin and Emiya Shirou wanted.
What's more, for Julius, as long as Shirou Emiya died, it didn't matter even if they died together.
And it was impossible for Shirou Emiya to just stand there ready and wait for Julius to come.
It can even be said that by doing this, the most likely result is that you will just stand there for a whole day, waiting for Julius to appear when you want to leave.
Emiya Shirou needs time, but Julius doesn't care about time. He can even stay in the dark, like a wolf staring at its prey, until the prey relaxes its vigilance, and then strikes again.
You know, he is the captain of Harvey's assassination team.
At this moment, a gentle voice sounded from behind Emiya Shirou.
"Senior, it's already been bandaged--!"
Beside Emiya Shirou, Matou Sakura gently wiped the sweat from her forehead, put away the medicines and blood-stained bandages on the bedside table, and spoke slowly with a worried look on her face.
Sakura Matou secretly used her own authority to withhold the healing potion delivered by Mooncell.
Mix it with the normal medicines in the health room, rub it on Shirou Emiya's body, and bandage it up very carefully.
She didn't know why she did this. She was just an advanced AI that had nothing to do with Emiya Shirou. She was responsible for managing the physical health of all the contestants, but she gave special care to Emiya Shirou.
Sakura Matou didn't understand, but she did it anyway.
"Thank you, Sakura--!"
Shirou Emiya also looked gratefully at Sakura who was bandaging him and applying medicine on him, and re-projected a shirt that was not stained with blood and put it on.
"However, there should be a way to get rid of Li Shuwen."
As if he had thought of something, Emiya Shirou spoke slowly.
"any solution!?"
Toosaka Rin also looked at Emiya Shirou with some surprise. After all, there was no time to use Cu Chulainn's Noble Phantasm that was released so quickly, let alone the possibility of using other Noble Phantasms.
In such a small space, with Li Shuwen's powerful strength and terrifying speed, what Shirou Emiya could do was almost limited.
There was also a wall that was extremely difficult to break down, and even Emiya Shirou couldn't do it even if he wanted to distance himself from it.
"Do you still remember that [One Sword Shura]?"
"The Noble Phantasm that made you weak even after your outburst?"
Although they left the arena, at the arena entrance, Toosaka Rin helped Emiya Shirou back to the infirmary.
It is a very bold idea to compress all the physical strength and magic power in the body into one minute.
But at the same time, it is also a minute of trying one's best. If there is no way to defeat the enemy within this minute, then the only one who will be defeated by the enemy is Shirou Emiya.
Even when Shirou Emiya was exhausted, he was still able to force his body to move with his strong will.
But with their combat power, it is naturally impossible to continue a head-on battle with the servants. At most, they can only barely deal with those hostile characters in the maze.
It can even be said that magic power can only be obtained by overdrawing one's own vitality.
"【One Sword Shura】 has another advanced level, 【One Sword Rakshasa】, which can concentrate all physical strength and magic power in one second and explode! And this will put an even greater burden on the body!"
After finishing the battle with the world's strongest female swordsman, Shirou Emiya stayed in Pogun Academy for a few days before saying goodbye to Shinguji Kurono.
During this period, Shirou Emiya also met Ikki Kurogane, who had defeated Toudou Touka. However, it was a pity that he had never fought with Ikki Kurogane until he left.
If he really faced off against Kurogane Ikki, Shirou Emiya didn't know whether he could win.
Chapter 626: Eventually Arriving at the Divine Realm
"Now that it's resolved, we should discuss the next issue—"
Hearing Emiya Shirou's words, Toosaka Rin relaxed slightly, but then became serious again.
"What am I like in your parallel world?"
She looked straight at Shirou Emiya. After analyzing that Shirou Emiya might be a being in a parallel world, Toosaka Rin couldn't help but want to know what kind of existence she was in that parallel world.
What is your relationship with Emiya Shirou?
"He's a maverick in school..."
Shirou Emiya could only respond to Toosaka Rin with a wry smile. He had not expected that his identity would be revealed so easily, nor had he expected that Toosaka Rin would so easily accept the fact that she came from a parallel universe.
It can even be said that most magicians can accept this easily.
After all, the founder of the Magic Association's Clock Tower was the second magician, Kissia Zelrich Schubineug.
The second magic is the proof and application of the parallel world.
Only Shirou Emiya, who doesn't know many things about the magic world, would make such a fuss.
Listening to Emiya Shirou's story, Toosaka Rin couldn't help but immerse herself in it.
Just like she said at the beginning in the elevator, if what she was doing was over, she would return to Japan and go to school.
What Emiya Shirou is describing now is the life she most looks forward to.
Sakura Matou, an advanced AI, was also sitting aside at this moment, listening intently to Shirou Emiya's description of everything about herself in another world.
Obviously I shouldn't care about this.
Time passed quickly as Emiya Shirou continued to describe his own world.
Toosaka Rin and Emiya Shirou returned to the arena once again.
"Tousaka, let's go find the logout point first--!"
They even said they didn't find the first code key and fled in a hurry.
But this time, they came to the arena not to find the code key, but to deal with the undead from hell - Julius.
"I know! Go that way!"
Toosaka Rin also responded to Emiya Shirou quickly, without stopping her actions, and began to search for the existence of a nearby logout point as quickly as possible.
It is easy to understand how weak Shirou Emiya will be after performing a move that squeezes all of one's strength.
So the first thing to do is naturally to exit the danger-ridden arena and come to the safer academy.
Julius would chase them as quickly as possible, so the most important thing at this stage was to find the logout point immediately.
Try to leave the arena as soon as possible after the battle.
However, plans can never keep up with changes.
After just a few minutes of running, the dark substance quickly swallowed up everything around it, and the depressing atmosphere once again lingered around Emiya Shirou and Toosaka Rin.
That scarlet figure filled with extremely terrifying murderous intent once again appeared in front of Shirou Emiya.
"Roar--!!"
Without any prelude or any spoken conversation, an extremely violent roar erupted from beneath the entire dark city wall, like a riot of ancient ferocious beasts, which was terrifying.
"boom--!"
The violent atmosphere rose up rapidly from Li Shuwen's clenched fists, bringing with it a whistling sound that hurt people's eardrums, as if tearing the sky apart, and in an instant it turned into a black shadow and shot straight at Emiya Shirou's body.
The principle of [One Sword Shura] is actually very simple.
Ikki Kurogane once said that humans are living beings with the instinct to keep themselves alive.
No matter how hard you force yourself to do your best, your instinct will not allow you to cross the limit.
Instinct will specifically distinguish and retain the part of the force that is sufficient to maintain life functions from the force that is normally used.
However, Kurogane Ikki used his willpower to break free from the constraints of his instincts. He concentrated all his strength into just one minute, and used it up without leaving a single drop, in order to achieve explosive combat power in an instant.
This is not a skill that can be performed simply by understanding it. Even Ikki Kurogane has never concealed the usage skills of [One Sword Shura].
If there really was someone like him who could perform [One Sword Shura], Ikki Kurogane would probably not feel depressed because of it, but would be even more excited.
This kind of skill not only requires unparalleled willpower, but also requires training that is dozens of times more arduous than that of others to obtain a body that has been tempered a thousand times.
So much so that in that world where talent is respected, no one can reach the same height as Kurogane Ikki.
"The weakest? Kurotate, you have already surpassed them—"
"The skills you have mastered are no worse than anyone else."
Feeling the heaviness coming from the featureless long sword, Shirou Emiya's heart also sank.
There is no preparation, nor is there any need for any preparation.
It was as if Shirou Emiya's heart stopped when Li Shuwen punched him without him having any reaction.
This sword was also beyond Julius's expectations.
"I'm betting everything on this second——"
【One Sword Rakshasa】
"The Seventh Secret Sword: Lightning!"
