Heroic Spirit: I, Shinji, have tried my best.

Inside a fortress hidden in the forest

Amakusa Shiro stared at the figure on the screen, which showed the scene of Shinji's battle, with the remaining four heroic spirits of the red team standing around him.

"How is it, can you tell the real name?"

“…No, this ability is too complex to even be defined, but in any case, this person’s threat is greater than that of Duke Vlad.”

The dark-skinned, silver-haired Amakusa frowned. Originally, his inspiration had always been from Jeanne, but until this man appeared, all the sense of crisis shifted to him...

When Achilles saw the man, he remembered that the Big Sister was still in his hands... and then he secretly glanced at Amakusa.

The other party also guessed his thoughts:

"We should hold our ground for now and try not to act alone until Semiramis's workshop is completely completed. Otherwise, it will be difficult for us to defeat her in a one-on-one situation."

"cut…"

Upon hearing this, Achilles had nothing to say and could only wait for two more days. At the same time, he became more suspicious of this strange priest... They had already lost two Servants, so why were there no other Masters and no Command Spells being used?

……

The others didn't know what the Red Team was planning. After all, a sky garden was not something that most people could imagine, unless you had read the script...

Shinji leaned his head against the car window, looking at Jeanne beside him, wondering whether he should tell her the truth directly.

Given her current level of trust in him, she probably wouldn't suspect anything, but he would seem a little suspicious...

"Harm~"

I sighed helplessly. I didn't expect that it would be so troublesome to hook up with Jeanne d'Arc.

"Mr. Driver, please stop the car."

Shinji looked at Jeanne in confusion as she suddenly asked the car to stop, then pulled him out of the car and ran into the woods nearby. This action scared Shinji.

What happened to this girl? Did she suddenly come to her senses? Why is she playing so wild?

But he immediately understood what was going on:

“Ah…ha!”

When the two men were halfway through their run, a man in silver armor suddenly jumped out from the sky, holding a heavy sword and slashed at them. The two men dodged the attack.

"boom!"

"Hey! Damn Assassin, are you ready to be beaten up by me?"

You don't need to think about who this arrogant tone is. With a head full of frizzy blonde hair and a gangster tone, he is undoubtedly a naughty kid...

"I admit that you are hundreds of times better than the Knight King in terms of trash talk alone."

"Hey! Of course it is, but don't think I'll let you go just because you praise me now!"

I'm not praising you, kid...

At this time, Xiao Mo saw Joan of Arc standing beside her. The familiar face made her panic for a moment, but she immediately realized that they just looked similar, and then she pointed her sword directly at the other party.

"Heh, you must be the Ruler! As the judge of the Holy Grail War, you are secretly helping this bastard. How ridiculous!"

"Don't get me wrong, we are just traveling together. If you want to fight, I won't interfere. But if I hadn't stopped you just now, I'm afraid that driver would have died in your hands!"

Joan of Arc did not tolerate it at all and responded directly, but this kind of righteous condemnation was no pressure at all for Mordred.

"He is just an ordinary person. If he dies, he dies..."

Then the armor instantly covered his face, and he rushed towards Shinji without saying a word. He slashed the ground with the sword in his hand, creating a crack of several meters.

"You used your magic power to release it, but the power of your attack is still a little lacking..."

"Nonsense! Xine!"

When the attack failed, he immediately pulled the sword out of the ground and continued to chase after him, not intending to give Shinji a chance to prepare. It was a completely rogue style of play.

"Qiang!"

"Ok?"

Mordred looked at the black tentacles that blocked his attack with confusion, extending all the way to the opponent's feet, and black mud began to ooze out of Shinji's body...

"what!"

Xiao Mo retreated in disdain and swung his sword:

"You actually know such a disgusting move, I really overestimated you..."

"Don't say that. After all, your father likes it very much. Why don't you try it?"

"You're looking for death!"

"Hey! Saber, stop it!"

A car had already rushed forward and blocked the two of them. Mordred had no choice but to stop his attack and turned around to look at the Lion Jie who got out of the car with an unhappy look on his face:

"Master! What are you talking about? I haven't had enough fun yet!"

"..."

Shizijie wiped the sweat from his forehead. They had clearly agreed when they came here that no action was allowed, but this guy just kicked the door down halfway and ran over by taking a shortcut.

"Don't forget we are not here to fight."

"Tsk, really..."

Xiao Mo stopped helplessly, but still stared at Shinji vigilantly. Shinji also looked over curiously. What did this necromancer want from him?

Then the other party threw a phone directly over, and the call was still going on...

"Hey?"

A slightly deep male voice came from the phone:

"It's our first meeting. Because of my identity, I can only communicate with you here. I am one of the twelve monarchs of the Clock Tower, El-Melloi II..."

"El-Melloi? The Second... Waver!?"

Shinji was surprised to hear this name. Isn't this the adult Waver? There was also a silence on the other end of the phone for a while.

"Sure enough, you know me..."

"What do you mean, didn't you come to me first?"

"This is a little hard to explain. Anyway, Ruler is with you. Please call her along..."

Shinji looked at Jeanne d'Arc, then at Lion Jie, and it seemed that no one understood the current situation.

……

A few minutes later, the four of them seemed to have reconciled and sat in a circle, with the phone in the middle, the volume turned up to the maximum:

"We have discovered in the Clock Tower that all the masters who participated in the battle as the Red Team have lost contact. Now only Mr. Lion Jie is left."

"how come…"

"According to my guess, it should be that person from the Holy Church, Amakusa Shiro, who is controlling all this behind the scenes..."

"Humph! As expected! I said that guy was very strange, and I guessed right!"

Xiao Mo raised his head proudly, stretched out his hand and slapped Shizijie hard on the back, making him cough.

Joan of Arc's face didn't look very good either. It turned out that she didn't come here just to serve as a referee. As a judge, she could take the initiative to join the battle when necessary.

"Thank you for your information. I will investigate the situation here carefully. If you have any more information, please let me know again!"

"Of course, but this is all I can do. Perhaps the Assassin beside you is your greatest help..."

"Everyone looked at Shinji again. He was looking at the phone with a frown on his face.

"I have a question... I'm not surprised that you know these things, but how do you know me?"

This is not a future line, but a parallel line... That is to say, Waver summoned the King of Conquerors Iskandar to participate in the Subspecies Holy Grail War in another place, but Shinji did not participate. Logically, they should not know each other...

"I'm not really sure about this. I have no memories of you, but I somehow feel very familiar with you."

"And a few days ago, when I was looking up information about the Greater Holy Grail, I received an inexplicable [revelation], and the other party claimed to be... [Inhibition Force]"

"Um!?"

Shinji had seen this look on Gilgamesh and the Knight King before, but they were Heroic Spirits who could connect to parallel worlds, and how could Waver...

No... Now that you mention it, it seems as if he really was a heroic spirit... and a wise general with a legitimate spiritual foundation - Zhuge Kongming!