Chapter 121: Hey, What Lies Ahead Is Hell!

Emiya Shirou suddenly collapsed onto the ground!

The bloody smell and deathly coldness from those memories had just rushed straight into his brain, nearly making him vomit in an instant!

Red Archer sneered and looked down at him coldly.

"Emiya Shirou, if you want to catch up to someone like me, then use your own eyes to look once more at the world I reached!"

As his voice fell, enormous mana erupted from beneath his feet once again along with his chant, corroding reality like flames!

In an instant, the dead and silent world of swords descended once more, and the enormous gears in the sky turned!

Inside the church, Cú Chulainn revealed an expression as though he had seen through everything.

So this was what he called being out of mana, huh?

Tricking Heroic Spirits, was he?

No wonder his hair was completely white. He probably had eight hundred schemes hidden in his heart!

But to be fair, seeing this Reality Marble again was extremely exhilarating!

Especially those countless longswords covering the mountains and plains!

Who knew how many Noble Phantasms were hidden inside!

Looking at the boy who still refused to yield, Red Archer's eyes revealed anger, though it was unclear who that anger was directed at!

In the next second, he poured his past regrets into his weapons and slashed at Emiya Shirou again and again!

At the same time, he continuously shouted accusations at the other party, saying that this dream was not something given to him by anyone else!

Emiya Shirou was defeated without surprise and collapsed, blood flowing continuously from the wounds across his body!

The boy's brain grew dizzy in waves, as though he had fallen into a hallucination at the edge of death.

There, he saw all of Red Archer's suffering and tragedy. He saw the other party lose everything!

And that was the hell he was about to reach!

At this moment, his heart wavered, and he even felt that what the other party said was right!

Outside the screen, Garou clenched his fists tightly!

Give up!

A life like that had no meaning at all.

If one path failed, why not choose another!

Naruto World!

Naruto, who was inside the tank, began struggling.

He wanted to shout, but his lungs had long since been filled with liquid.

At this moment, he could only roar in his heart, telling Shirou not to give up.

He wanted to say that dreams did not die in darkness!

Suddenly, an inner voice rang out, reminding Emiya Shirou that he had forgotten something.

In an instant, he once again returned to his childhood, to that inhumanely tragic fire in Fuyuki City!

He saw a red-haired child who had survived walking toward the flames, wanting to save others.

At this moment, Shirou instinctively opened his mouth to persuade him.

"Hey, what lies ahead is hell."

However, the child merely shed tears and still walked forward without hesitation.

Looking at this scene, a voice seemed to echo within Emiya Shirou's heart. In the next second, he also walked forward without hesitation!

And at this moment, Red Archer's voice came from behind him:

"Hey, what lies ahead is hell!"

Shirou did not look back. He simply continued walking forward.

At this moment, he said with absolute certainty:

"This is what you forgot."

"It was not an ideal given by someone else. It was originally the wish in my own heart, the wish to overturn that hell."

As his voice fell, Emiya Shirou walked into the flames!

He crossed through hell!

He stepped onto the wasteland of blood and death!

Until he finally reached the end!

There, a sword was stabbed into the earth!

The moment he stretched out his hand, Red Archer's voice rang out again within the light:

"Even if your life is treated like that of a machine, will you still do it?"

Emiya Shirou slowly reached for the sword hilt and spoke calmly yet firmly:

"Yeah. I will still insist on becoming an ally of justice!"

In an instant, the longsword was drawn, igniting with raging flames!

Tohsaka Rin stared blankly at Shirou on the screen, tears spilling from her eyes!

She understood...

This was not repeating the old path!

It was a new resolve!

At this moment, within the world of swords, Saber suddenly revealed a shocked gaze!

She saw golden light erupting from the wounds of the dying Emiya Shirou!

That was the scabbard recognizing him, opening the gate to the utopia Avalon and releasing the power to heal all things!

Although Saber did not know what had happened in Shirou's mental world while he was unconscious, she knew that the ideal of the person she wanted to protect had not changed!

He was Emiya Shirou, not that Heroic Spirit!

Naruto World.

A faint smile appeared on Naruto's closed-eyed face.

As expected, giving up was impossible!

Only death could stop him.

Inside the sealed space.

The Nine-Tails revealed a dazed expression.

It had never seen a human like this before.

Within that golden light, Emiya Shirou slowly stood up, astonishing energy flickering between his hands!

"My body is... made of swords!!"

Along with his shout, two black and white twin blades of completely different strength from before appeared in his hands!

Red Archer smiled coldly.

"Have you finally found the trick?"

"But so what? You should understand the gap between us even more deeply now!"

Emiya Shirou not only did not retreat at all, but instead raised the blades in his hands.

"What you call correctness is nothing more than simple 'correctness.' I don't need that kind of thing!"

"I will become an ally of justice, just like the me you denied!"

"I will also give everything I have and continue walking forward!"

As his voice fell, this time, he took the initiative to charge!

Blades clashed, and sword edges danced wildly!

Shirou fell again and again, but immediately stood back up each time!!

Red Archer slashed again and again, and he also did not give up!

At this moment, looking at the battle on the screen, countless viewers began to feel conflicted.

One wanted to destroy the self that had given birth to him!

He wanted to erase the regret that had been born from this and would continue endlessly.

The other wanted to cut down the self that blocked his path!

He wanted to protect the thing he had once believed in and would continue believing in from now on.

Emiya Shirou was right.

But was Red Archer truly wrong?

Or perhaps neither of them was wrong.

Finally, Red Archer no longer chose to kill the other party's conviction!

He raised his hand, and longswords condensed behind him one after another, pouring forward!

And Emiya Shirou did not give up or submit!

Instead, he ran straight into the rain of swords!

With every step he took, this sword world that originally belonged to Red Archer also began to change!

The ground was no longer covered in rust-like dried blood, and the sky behind him was no longer filled with thick red clouds. Blue sky began to appear!

At this moment, his inner landscape was changing the other self with every step he took!

"There was nothing wrong!"

"There was nothing wrong!"

"This dream was absolutely not wrong!"

Amid his roar, Shirou created a miracle!

Even if his body screamed, even if his body was cut, even if pain and exhaustion ravaged his nerves!

He still swung the short blades in his hands and shattered the rain of swords before him. It could not stop even a single step of his advance!

Until finally, the instant Red Archer raised the short blade in his hand, Shirou struck his body!

Unlimited Blade Works instantly shattered, and the eroded world restored itself into the castle hall!

In the next second, Emiya Shirou looked directly into the other party's eyes and said:

"I won... Archer!"

Red Archer looked at the wound on his body that had not struck a vital point and fell silent for an instant.

Outside the screen, countless viewers froze.

Even after all that, he still would not kill him?

Inside the church, Cú Chulainn revealed a smile!

He suddenly understood that Emiya Shirou wanted to save not only others, but also "himself."

Truly naive...

But perhaps someone like this was the reason the world still had meaning.

At this moment, Red Archer dispersed the blade in his hand and gave his final response.

"It is my defeat."

At this moment, his voice was filled with emotion.

No one knew whether he was speaking of this battle or of their convictions!

Or perhaps, both.

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