In fact, Shinji's worries were completely unnecessary, as no one present cared about his seven-year-old appearance.
There are too many things in the mysterious world that go against common sense. Saber herself has her body age fixed by the Sword in the Stone, and Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel's daughter Illyasviel is also seriously retarded in physical development. She looks only three or four years old at the age of eight. It is normal to have a child whose appearance does not match his mental age.
Shinji quickly calmed down after realizing that Saber's camp did not look down on him because of his age, and said to Scathach, "Master, what do you mean—"
"The Holy Grail has no value to you, but it still has value to us, and that is the honor of being a warrior - this is the Holy Grail War, a war with only one victor, and only the victor can have the honor of destroying the Holy Grail."
At this moment, Scathach no longer had her usual intelligence, and her red eyes no longer had the calm wisdom. She was like a ball of fire, a fire that completely ignited herself and her surroundings for the sake of battle.
"This is a warrior's wish. I believe you can understand it, and so can Saber."
Saber held the golden holy sword in her hand and said nothing, but her stern expression showed that she hoped to have a fight with the legendary Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows.
"As you like."
Seeing this scene, Shinji knew it was useless to stop it, so he could only smile bitterly and speak to Kiritsugu and Irisviel.
"Please don't stop Saber. Let them fight to their heart's content. This is a small reward for their hard work for us."
Emiya Kiritsugu had a blank expression on his face and did not comment. He only said: "The mud is about to overflow from the altar."
"Don't worry." Scathach pointed both guns at the ground at the same time, "Before that, the outcome will have been decided."
"That's right." Saber left Irisviel's side, "Irisviel and Master, I promised you that I would obtain the Holy Grail. Now let me fulfill my promise."
"Saber, please bring me victory." Irisviel looked at Saber's back, her heart inexplicably surging. She once again said the words she had said the night she arrived in Fuyuki City.
Saber also replied with the same words: "Yes, I will - I swear to this sword that I will bring victory! Wake up, Assassin!"
"It's you who should realize this, Saber. I accept your heart!"
A chill rolled up around Scathach's body. With the two magic spears as the center, magic power swirled and roared, covering Scathach with a coat of fire.
Saber raised her sword and stared at Scathach closely. She knew that her opponent was about to release her Noble Phantasm, and the sense of crisis in her heart reached its peak in an instant.
"Thrust—"
Just like in a movie, the moment Scathach uttered the first word, she pushed off the ground with her left foot and appeared in front of the girl as if she had teleported.
The magic spear in his right hand stabbed towards the girl's feet.
That seemed a very stupid move, with the spear clearly tilted downwards and attacking towards the feet, which was useless to Saber.
Just as the Saber girl was about to jump over the spear and step forward to cut down Scathach, she suddenly saw a scene in front of her eyes of herself being pinned by the magic spear and pierced through the heart.
"puncture-"
At the same time, a second word escaped from Scathach's lips, and the spear that was thrust downward suddenly changed its trajectory and stabbed toward Saber's left shoulder in an impossible shape.
"!?"
Saber's body was shot away, and the whole person and the gun drew a huge parabola towards the ground - no, it did not fall to the ground. Saber's body was fixed at the highest point of the parabola.
Having succeeded in her first shot, Scathach immediately stabbed with her second shot, bending her left arm and raising the spear over her shoulder. This was the standard javelin throwing posture, and the tip of the spear was naturally aimed at Saber who was unable to move in mid-air.
"Gáe Bolg Alternative (The gun that pierces the deadly flying)!"
Scathach finally released the true name of the Noble Phantasm, and as she spoke words containing powerful magic, the magic spear in her left hand was like a red lightning bolt, cutting through the night sky.
This shot, like the previous one, was aimed at an insignificant place, but in mid-air, the magic spear changed its trajectory again and automatically locked onto Saber's heart, as if the outcome had been predetermined and would definitely arrive no matter what the process was.
This is exactly the terrifying thing about Scathach's Noble Phantasm, Gáe Bolg Alternative (Spear of Death) - reversing cause and effect.
Everything has a cause and an effect, but the Spear of Death Flying completely overturns this. Before the magic spear was thrust out, the results of "piercing the shoulder" and "piercing the heart" had already been determined. Since the results were determined, the process would naturally evolve towards the predetermined results. The magic spear did not change the trajectory at all, but the process of hitting.
This is a magic spear that is powerful enough to break through all kinds of defenses.
The fate of the opponent is determined when you attack. No matter how the enemy tries to evade, the cursed gun will hit you as long as you use it!
Who can withstand such a ridiculous attack
That’s why it’s a must-kill!
But—Saber blocked it.
The red lightning will surely pierce the curse of the heart, but it will be banished by the golden light.
That is the same glory as the Shadow Kingdom where Scathach is. It does not belong to the real world. It is the glory of the most precious treasure in the legend of King Arthur.
Before the cursed magic spear arrived, Saber played her final trump card.
What was being cast and scattered before her eyes was the sheath of the one and only holy sword, the embodiment of the legend that King Arthur could not be hurt.
It was made by some mysterious weaving method, but the sheath was a complete defense against the cursed magic spear.
No, this is not defense, it's blocking!
Saber, protected by the sheath of the holy sword, was isolated from all the truths of the world for only that moment.
The strongest protection in the world, an ultimate wall that not even the five major magics can reach and no one can break.
"Avalon!"
Therefore, the name of the sheath is "an utopia isolated from the world".
Before his death, King Arthur finally reached the utopia that other kings had dreamed of but could never reach.
The only way to reverse cause and effect is to make the "result" disappear.
Protected by the "Utopia of Isolation", Saber is in another dimension, a dimension that the magic spear can never reach.
Without the result, the process that existed to prove the result naturally ceased to exist. The magic spear in mid-air trembled twice, and the spear head turned along the same trajectory and automatically returned to the hand of Scathach, who was the "cause". Everything would return to the state before the second spear was stabbed out - if Saber was not there.
Before the magic spear returned, the green clothes flashed.
Saber's body was without any armor. She removed the armor that protected her, and the magic power flowed into the sword in her hand—
"Ex— (Oath—)"
"Well done—"
Scathach's admiring expression was right before her eyes.
"—calibur!"
With a blow all over her body, the holy sword cut through the body of the Demon Queen and destroyed her soul core.