The Holy Grail is a miraculous object originating from Christian legend.
But in the world of magic, it has a special definition, that is, it is synonymous with miracles, the product of the third magic "soul materialization", and is recognized as an attempt to reach the "root" of the omnipotent wish-granting machine.
The root is also called the "root vortex". It contains all the "causes". If there is a cause, there will be an effect. Therefore, in terms of existence, this is the "ultimate knowledge". It is the ultimate goal that all magicians dream of, and it is also a dreamland that humans cannot reach in their lifetime.
Legend has it that if humans go to the Vortex of Origin, they will be able to master the fundamental causes and laws of all things in the world and can change the world's structure and order. In other words, they can create a new world and destroy the old world.
It is because of this that the impossible can be made possible.
Because of this, everything in Fuyuki City came into being.
About 180 years ago, Sakura's ancestor Tousaka Nagato, the founder of the Matou family Machiri Zorgen (Matou Zouken), and Justisia Rizleich von Einzbern, who was known as the "Holy Maiden of Winter", secretly built the Holy Grail System in Fuyuki City.
Tousaka Nagato provides a sacred place that stores powerful magic power, namely Fuyuki City.
Machiri Zorgen created a ritual called the "Holy Grail War" in which seven Masters and Servants fought each other to collect magic power and summon the "Holy Grail".
Justissa Justissa von Einzbern dedicated herself to become the core of the entire system.
The "Holy Grail War" has a 60-year cycle and has already been experienced three times so far. Each time it failed due to different reasons.
Of the original three people, Tousaka Nagato passed on the dream of "reaching the root" to future generations and died of natural causes.
Machiri Zorgen used all means to prolong his life for his own ambitions, until he forgot his original intention. If Shinji hadn't intervened, he would have continued to prolong his life and make plans driven by his obsession, leading to a series of tragedies.
Justissa Justissa von Einzbern still sits at the center of the Holy Grail system, but her personality has long disappeared.
This is Shinji's understanding of the Fuyuki City Holy Grail system. Most of it is correct, except for a slight deviation at the end.
The personality of the "Winter Saint", who is the core of the system, did not completely disappear, but was preserved in the form of residues within the system. By chance, she came into contact with Shinji after he traveled through time, and was finally able to appear in the world in a similar way to a ghost.
It sounds ridiculous, right? Shinji himself also thought it was ridiculous. His first reaction was that he had been hit by some unknown "magic". After all, Type-Moon was quite mysterious, so it was not surprising for anything to happen.
However, as the contact deepened, Shinji was basically certain that this was indeed the personality of Justisa, or more accurately, a partial personality. It carried the memories of Justisa, but was not as rational and cold as the real herself.
According to Justisa herself, it was the influence of the servants on one end of the Holy Grail system.
Unlike the Tousaka family and the Matou family, the Einzbern family is a family of androids, and Justissa herself is also an android. From birth until she went to Japan to build the Holy Grail system, she had been staying in the Einzbern Castle and had no contact with humans, so she had almost no emotions as a human.
When the Holy Grail system was completed, Justisa's body died, but her soul and personality did not dissipate directly. Of course, if there was no external intervention, her already indifferent personality would not last long.
At this time, the First Holy Grail War began, with Servants constantly dying and being injected into the Holy Grail system.
Servants are the incarnations of Heroic Spirits, which are the beings that heroes become after their great achievements become legends and become objects of faith. Beings that become Heroic Spirits will be freed from the constraints of time and move to the Seat of Heroes located outside the world. Heroic Spirits transcend the timeline and they will be summoned in all eras, whether in the past or the future.
However, only the "world" can summon the real Heroic Spirits. Unfortunately, humans cannot summon the real Heroic Spirits and can only summon Servants as clones.
Even though they are clones, their existence is still incomparably powerful and dazzling. Their emotions affect Justisa's gradually dissipating personality, making her more and more humane, and deriving an obsession to witness to the end. In the end, this obsession continued with the miracle of the third law and became the current Justisa.
If everything is normal, Justisa's personality does not need to do anything but witness quietly.
However, an unexpected change occurred. In the Third Holy Grail War 59 years ago, Einzbern violated the rules and summoned the eighth Servant, causing the Holy Grail to be contaminated and lose its proper function. As a result, the existence of Justissa's personality became increasingly unstable due to the existence of foreign objects. If things continued like this, Justissa's personality would disappear when the Fourth Holy Grail War began.
Fate is so wonderful. Two wills to survive broke the limitations of life and death at the same moment, met each other, and made a contract to help each other.
With the help of Justisa, Shinji gains strength, kills Zōken, and opens up the future.
With the contract with Shinji, Justisa appears in the form of a spirit similar to a Servant, and plans to use Shinji's hand to expel the objects that pollute the Holy Grail and restore the Holy Grail to its original appearance.
Justisa's body is the core of the Holy Grail system, and her personality naturally controls a small part of the magic power of the Holy Grail system. Although compared with the entire Holy Grail, this part of the magic power is so small that it is negligible, it is still powerful for humans, powerful enough to open up Shinji's meridians, ahem, the magic circuits that were closed due to the decline of the family.
With the infusion of magic power, Shinji successfully impressed the magic circuit and obtained the qualifications of a member of an ancient magician family. In the process, he accidentally came into contact with the origin of his bloodline, triggering a brief "spirit" phenomenon.
The Matou family originated from the Zorgen family in Europe. Their origins can be traced back to the great hero of the mythological era, Perseus, who is first-class even among heroic spirits. Perhaps because he is called "Second Master of the Age of Gods", Perseus's nature is very similar to Shinji, and the two have a very good compatibility.
After the "seance" ended, Shinji suddenly realized that he had obtained an extremely powerful trump card - Perseus's "treasure".
The Noble Phantasm is the ultimate armament of the Servant, a materialized miracle, the proof of heroism held by the Servant, the crystallization of mankind's longing for miracles, the strongest weapon known as the "Noble Fantasy", and the symbol of the Servant itself.
This is exactly what Shinji relied on to kill Zou Yan as a six-year-old child and gain the future.
Unfortunately, Perseus's Noble Phantasm is very powerful, and Shinji himself is too weak. His magic power can only support a single Noble Phantasm for a few minutes, and using multiple pieces at the same time will further increase the consumption.
This situation dictates that the matter of killing Zang Yan must be resolved as quickly as possible. If it cannot be completed before his body can no longer hold on, everything will be over.
Therefore, before taking action, Shinji thought about it countless times, simulated countless times, and finally decided to launch a surprise attack when Zōken attacked Sakura.
Only at that time, Zang Yan's defenses would be the weakest, and only at that time would there be a chance to destroy Zang Yan's body and soul at the same time, and truly kill Zang Yan without leaving any future troubles.
In order to ensure that everything goes smoothly, Shinji has been preparing for several months in advance, including but not limited to taking advantage of Zouken's business trip to tamper with his home and artificially create a loophole in Zouken's underground magic workshop; he also specially contacted Kariya who had been away from home for many years and asked him to deal with Tsuruya and any servants who might appear.
The previous attacks seemed easy and smooth, but in fact they were extremely dangerous. One wrong step would have led to a bottomless abyss.
When Shinji sent Sakura back to her room, he was already at the end of his strength. His mental, emotional, magical and physical strength were all exhausted, and he was holding on with just one breath.
When the result became clear, his breath was gone and he fainted on the spot.
When he fainted, Shinji was still smiling.
For a home without haze, for a bright future that is within reach.
Even if he had to bear a heavy burden, he was willing to do it.
PS: In the UBW line, Rin said: "Although this clan has been exhausted, the blood of Matou still has traces of genetic magic circuits. If Illya Sophiel's heart, something like a nuclear furnace, is stuffed into the body, the closed circuit will be forced to open." Yustiza used a similar method, and it was relatively gentle.
PS2: Shinji is not a pseudo-servant, he only got a Noble Phantasm.
PS3: Mr. Mushi often travels to various places on business, which provides favorable conditions for Shinji to conceal the truth.
PS4: Almost everything that needs to be explained has been explained, and now it’s time to officially begin Erye’s story.