On a moonless night, in front of the altar.
Shinji attacks and Shiro appears.
"You're here."
"I am coming."
"You shouldn't have come."
"I'm already here."
"You still have time to leave now."
"Why should I leave?"
"You finally managed to save your life, do you want to die again?"
"I don't want to die either, but there are things more important than life - I ask you, where is 'her'?"
"She? Which she? There are so many people that can be referred to by this. Is it Joan of Arc? Is it the Knight King Artoria? Is it Atalanta? Is it Semiramis? Or is it - the ghost hiding in the Greater Holy Grail who should have died long ago?"
The priest in black had a playful smile on his face, and the solemn and murderous atmosphere he had created earlier was gone. Since the "Black Coffin of Ten and One" was breached, he had returned to the altar and personally guarded this treasure that both sides were determined to obtain.
On the other side, with the help of the original giant "Adam", Shinji directly crossed the outer perimeter of the palace complex and relied on the concealment ability of his cloak to quietly move towards the Holy Grail - where the person he cherished most was hidden.
However, as soon as he stepped into the altar, he was discovered by Shirou. Realizing that stealth was not working, Shinji simply showed up and asked openly.
So the scene above happened.
The man covered by the cloak had a cold look in his eyes: "You're asking if you already know it? Where is Yustisa?"
"She is probably in hell, or maybe in heaven, but she is not in this world."
"You killed her?" Shinji's body swayed and the blood faded from his face.
"No, she overestimated her own abilities and tried to wrest control of the Greater Grail from me, but she failed and was completely assimilated by the Grail. I tried to persuade her to stay out of my way, but she wouldn't listen."
"You killed her."
"Okay, let's just pretend I killed her. What are you going to do?"
"If you kill her, I will kill you."
Shinji unfolded the full armor of Perseus, with the "Scythe of the Snake Hunter" in his right hand, the "Shield of Athena" in his left hand, the "Cape of Hades" on his body, and the "Feather Shoes of Hermes" on his feet. At this moment, his heart seemed to be divided into two, one half was filled with great sadness because of the death of Justisia, and the other half was filled with boundless anger. If anger could be transformed into substance, then the entire sky garden would be reduced to ashes.
"With you? Impossible." Shirou glanced at Shinji with contempt, "If you take Achilles, Chiron, Siegfried, and Altria with you, there might still be some hope."
"I am enough."
Shirou looked disappointed with this answer.
"It seems that you have been blinded by anger and can't even recognize the difference in strength between the enemy and me - never mind, there have been so many time travelers throughout history, there will always be a few with bad brains. It's my fault for having too high expectations of you. I'd better kill you as soon as possible and activate the Holy Grail. Oh, no, a soul of your quality should not be able to meet the requirements of the Holy Grail. Ah, what a trouble, I -"
Before he could finish his complaints, Shinji had already launched his attack, starting with the release of a control-type Noble Phantasm.
"Gaze of the Medusa!"
The Gorgon who had killed countless heroes opened her eyes, and the objects captured by her golden snake eyes were instantly stained with a layer of gray - except for the enemy that Shinji wanted to kill urgently.
"The Petrifying Eye is indeed terrifying, but unfortunately, my magic resistance is A, so I won't be petrified."
"Of course I do."
As he spoke, Shinji approached quickly and swung his snake hunting sickle directly at Shirou's throat.
Although it can avoid petrification against Magic A, it is not completely immune to the effect of the Mystic Eye. It only weakens the petrification into a "heavy pressure" effect, affecting the action. Shinji uses this treasure to use this feature to seal Shirou's "Shrinking the Earth"!
"Turning into a stone statue is too easy for you. I will chop off your head with my own hands!"
The edge of the sickle illuminated Shirou's face, but his expression remained calm, as if what was coming towards him was not a sharp blade but a breeze.
At the moment when the sickle blade was about to touch his skin, Shirou took a step forward, his body drew a strange arc, and appeared beside Shinji in a form that almost violated the laws of physics, and then drew his sword.
The sword light was dazzling, and in the blink of an eye, six swords were slashed out, each one heavier and faster than the last.
Although Shinji adjusted the direction of his shield in time and blocked the continuous attacks, the continuous impact from the sword made him very uncomfortable and he had to retreat.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shirou repeated his old tricks, using his unpredictable footwork to appear next to Shinji, and struck with his sword seven times in a row.
Shinji had no choice but to retreat again.
Shirou advances again, striking eight times in a row.
Shinji continued to retreat, and Shirou pressed forward.
This time, he did not launch a combo attack from the side, but appeared directly behind Shinji and stabbed the latter's unprotected back with a knife.
Because he had not yet recovered from the previous continuous slashing, Shinji had no time to use a shield or weapon to block. In a hurry, he could only turn his body and let the katana that was stabbing at his back pierce his chest.
Because his lungs were pierced, Shinji couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of blood foam, his eyes were dazed: "Shrinking the earth?"
"That's right." Shirou maintained his backstab posture and explained calmly, "For a strong man who has sublimated his footwork to the level of 'Shrinking the Earth', conventional blockades don't have much effect. You took it for granted again."
"No, after such a big setback, how could I underestimate you?"
Shinji suddenly let go of the shield, and tightly grasped the sword that pierced his chest with his left hand, not caring about the blade cutting his palm.
"I just want to catch you this way, get up!"
With a light shout, the ancient sword "Qingyun" pierced through Shen Er's shoulder, and the magic power on the sword flowed, turning into black wind and raging fire, ready to burst out.
"So that's the plan, but—"
Shirou nodded slightly at this and flicked his wrist.
Shinji suddenly felt his hand lighten, and the sword that was firmly clamped by his finger bones suddenly slipped out of his control.
Shirou drew out his katana and shook his wrist, also pulling out a piece of wind and fire, which collided with the black wind and fire amidst the spurting blood.
As a result, Shirou was unharmed and was still making sarcastic remarks.
"You said you didn't take it for granted. Why do you think you can take away the sword of a 'Sword Saint' in this way? Do you really think that skills like 'bare-handed into a blade' and 'taking without a sword' are easy to practice? Even if I can't pull it out, I can just discard the sword? How do you know I don't have a second sword or other weapons? Even if I don't have other weapons, how do you know if I am equally good at hand-to-hand combat? Well, your determination to kill me even if it means hurting yourself is not bad, but it's a pity that having this determination without anything else is just a castle in the air, just an illusion. With your current tattered body, what else can you do?"
"What?"
Shinji lowered his head, not moving at all, as if he had given up.
Just as Shirou was waiting for the next words, Shinji's mouth suddenly pulled out a ferocious arc, and the "Snake Hunting Scythe" in his hand drew an equally thrilling trajectory, chopping Shirou's forehead.
"Kill you, of course!"