The strange changes in the sky over the Fittoa Region caught the attention of the entire world.
Not only the Central Continent, but even the distant Demon Continent noticed the strange things happening in that area.
The strong people of the world were confused by this, and some suspected it was some kind of strange event, making all sorts of guesses and doubts.
But all of this wouldn't affect the condition of the region itself.
When the strange things in the sky were clearly starting to go wrong, Shirou was already rushing towards Buena Village as fast as he could.
Shirou, Eris, and Ghislaine spent two days traveling as fast as they could from Roa to the region where Buena Village was located.
Since he couldn't explain on the way why he was in such a hurry, Shirou could only try to make up reasons to get Eris and Ghislaine to speed up.
As a result, Eris and Ghislaine mistakenly thought that Shirou was too homesick because he hadn't been home for so long.
Shirou couldn't explain this, so he could only accept it in silence and was given the nickname "Family Man".
Anyway, Shirou quickly saw the familiar hillside of Buena Village. The big tree on top of the hill was still so lush.
The past when he, Rudeus, and Sylphy studied and played together here seemed like it was still right in front of his eyes.
He remembered those familiar faces that made him feel at home.
Shirou took a deep breath and instinctively sped up, eager to return to his familiar house and take everyone in the Greyrat family away from the Fittoa Region.
The strange things in the sky had already turned into a clearly abnormal situation.
Not only Shirou, but even Eris and Ghislaine were looking up at the sky from time to time, noticing that the black sphere was expanding at a very fast rate.
Of course, the two of them were clearly not as alert as Shirou.
They had become completely used to the existence of that black sphere over the years. Even if it changed strangely, they just thought it was something they'd seen before.
So Shirou didn't explain, and just walked towards the Greyrat family's house with Eris and Ghislaine.
When they were about to reach the familiar front door, and even the familiar faces of his family members were about to come into view, Shirou's expression suddenly changed, and he stopped.
"What's wrong?"
Eris and Ghislaine looked at him in confusion.
Shirou looked up at the sky with a terrified expression.
Ghislaine and Eris also looked in the direction of the sky, and then both showed confused expressions.
"The color of the sky has changed? What's going on?"
The sky had changed color, to an extremely disgusting color.
Purple and brown mixed together in marble-like patterns...
Seeing this, Ghislaine immediately took off her eye patch, revealing a dark green eye underneath.
Shirou and Eris then realized that the reason Ghislaine wore an eye patch was not because she was missing an eye, but because her other eye was a magic eye.
It was an eye with superhuman power.
Eris then asked out of curiosity, "Ghislaine, what's happening?"
"I don't know, I can only see amazing magic power...!"
Ghislaine shook her head and quickly put her eye patch back on.
Shirou had even stronger intuition than Ghislaine.
He even had a feeling that death was approaching, and even his breathing started to become difficult.
For a moment, he didn't hesitate at all, and immediately started walking towards the Greyrat family's house, trying to warn his family members to be safe.
But before he could get close to the house, Ghislaine suddenly shouted, "Wait! Shirou, be careful, get down!"
"!!"
Shirou had already reacted before Ghislaine warned him.
He reflexively drew the sword from his waist and blocked a wave of magic power that was coming from a distance.
Although the magic power was blocked by Shirou, the sudden attack caught everyone off guard, and they all looked in the direction of the attack.
"Who is it!"
Ghislaine took action before Shirou could react.
She drew the sword from her waist with unimaginable speed and immediately made the starting stance of Longsword of Light, unleashing an amazing slash at a speed beyond the limits of vision!
"Pfft!"
As the slash tore through space.
Ghislaine's expression didn't improve at all. Instead, she frowned, revealing an expression that was hard to hide.
"Ugh!"
Ghislaine's previous attack failed to hit her opponent, which made her feel uneasy, because it meant that the enemy's strength might be above her own as a Sword King!
However, Ghislaine didn't panic. She clearly felt that the enemy's movements were not much faster than her own.
Even if they were strong, they were at most a King-level opponent, nothing more.
In the next moment, Ghislaine showed an even more alert expression, preparing to deal with her opponent.
"..."
But at that moment, a strong wind suddenly blew through the area.
Ordinary people, or rather Eris, couldn't help but close their eyes.
But Shirou didn't stop watching from beginning to end.
The moment the enemy attacked, he drew the sword from his waist, made the same movement as Ghislaine, and swung Longsword of Light!
"Crack!"
Shirou's Longsword of Light was not as good as Ghislaine's, but it was still unimaginably fast, directly forcing the enemy's figure out.
Only then did everyone realize that the person who appeared in front of them was a man. He had blond hair and wore a neat outfit similar to a white collared student uniform that buttoned up the front. His face was hidden behind a yellow mask.
The mask was based on an animal similar to a fox.
His right hand held a large double-edged dagger.
This dagger was clearly a magic sword-level weapon. The other side had just used this weapon to create a magic power slash and sneak attack Shirou.
"Tch, so he's also a Sword Saint..."
The blond masked man seemed very surprised by Shirou's strength.
He originally thought that the other person was so young that his strength wouldn't be too great, but he didn't expect him to reach such an unexpected level.
This made the blond masked man even more hostile towards Shirou, and his killing intent was revealed almost without concealment.
"Who are you! Quickly tell me your name!"
When Ghislaine saw that the opponent had attacked Shirou, she became anxious and directly unleashed all of her strength as a Sword King.
"Whoosh!"
Her and the masked man's figures almost disappeared in an instant.
Not to mention Eris, even Shirou couldn't keep up with the movements of the two of them at all. He could only hear the clanging of metal colliding, and the sound of running footsteps.
After the second and third metallic sounds.
Shirou came back to his senses and found that the battle was already over.
Ghislaine was completely evenly matched with her opponent.
She could only protect Shirou while asking, "Just who are you! Are you an enemy of the Greyrat family!"
"...Almanfi of the Light, that is my name."
"Almanfi?"
"I have come here to stop this strange event. This is Lord Perugius's order."
"Perugius?"
Hearing this name, Shirou and the others were all stunned.
They had clearly all heard of the name "Dragon God", and they didn't expect that Perugius, one of the three heroes, would send someone to kill Shirou.
And the main thing was that, according to rumors, Almanfi of the Light, who was under the Dragon God, was a special familiar who could move at the speed of light.
If it was a part that could be recognized with the naked eye, he could instantly move there no matter how far away it was.
That was why he was able to keep up with Shirou and Ghislaine's movements just now.
"Why do you want to kill me?"
Shirou asked, he didn't understand why this Almanfi was attacking him.
He was just an ordinary Sword God Style swordsman. Why did the other person think that he was the cause of this strange event?
Almanfi didn't want to respond to Shirou's words.
But considering that the two people he was facing were both Sword God Style swordsmen who had mastered Longsword of Light, it was hard to say that he would definitely win in a two-on-one fight, so he could only say in silence:
"Your soul is not right. Although ordinary people can't see anything special about it, to us element spirit familiars, your soul is like it has been split into two parts, but forced into one body. This kind of unusual situation can only occur in beings at the Demon God level. And you just happen to be in this place where things are going wrong. It is very likely that you caused this strange event to happen."
"My soul is split into two parts?"
Hearing Almanfi's words, Shirou realized that the other person might have seen the fact that he had both Emiya Shirou and Servant Emiya souls in his body.
He didn't expect that there would be such amazing creatures in this world that could see through people's souls with the naked eye.
So he explained in silence, "My soul is indeed very special, but I didn't cause the strange things in the sky."
"I don't believe your explanation."
"Why?"
"Because my intuition makes me very repulsed by you. I instinctively think you are the enemy."
Almanfi himself was very confused by this feeling.
When he saw Shirou for the first time, he clearly rationally thought that this was an ordinary person, but he instinctively had an inexplicable feeling of rejection towards this young man, even causing him to launch an attack without thinking.
This strange situation was rare for him as a familiar.
And Almanfi's words clearly couldn't be accepted.
Ghislaine said coldly, "I am Sword King Ghislaine Dedoldia! If you attack us again without thinking, even if you are a subordinate of the Dragon God, I will never let you go!"
"..."
Hearing Ghislaine's name, Almanfi was clearly hesitant.
He didn't want to casually become enemies with a Sword King either.
Because behind a Sword King, there was usually a Sword God standing.
The Dragon God couldn't casually provoke a God-level figure.
So Almanfi shook his head and said, admitting defeat, "Since you are not the criminal, then forget it."
"...You attacked suddenly, but you don't plan to apologize?"
"This boy's soul is too suspicious. I don't think there is anything wrong with what I did."
Almanfi of the Light said proudly, without any sign of apologizing.
Ghislaine frowned at this, wanting to stop him, but she also knew that it would be difficult for her to catch up with this familiar of light.
At the same time as Almanfi left, Shirou had completely stopped paying attention to the other person. Instead, he couldn't help but look up at the increasingly strange-colored sky.
His feeling of tension and unease had almost completely run through his body.
Shirou didn't have any extra thoughts. He rushed into the Greyrat family's house as fast as he could. He immediately saw his family members playing happily in the living room.
His mother, Zenith.
Norn and Aisha, who had grown up a bit.
Lilia, who was cleaning the house.
And Sylphy, who was here as usual.
Paul and Rudeus were nowhere to be seen. The former might have gone out to patrol the forest, and the latter might have already left for magic university.
Familiar faces appeared in front of him. Shirou had thousands of words he wanted to say.
Zenith and the others also didn't expect Shirou to suddenly appear. They wanted to say something.
However, the words couldn't reach each other.
The moment everyone's mouths opened slightly, a beam of light stretched from the white sky to the ground.
The moment that beam of light touched the ground—
It began to expand at a very alarming rate, turning into a torrent of light that swallowed everything. At the same time, it gradually approached this side, like a tsunami. He also saw that the light made the house disappear, the town disappear, the walls disappear, eating up the flowers, plants and trees and approaching step by step.
Shirou watched as his familiar family members were swallowed by the light. An anxious expression flashed in his eyes, but he was powerless.
In the end, he could only see Zenith's confused figure, disappearing in front of him.
"Shirou!!"
Shirou wanted to rush over and grab Zenith's hand, but Eris suddenly grabbed him. The latter wanted to take Shirou away from the area where the white light was.
But the speed at which the light swallowed everything was much faster than he had imagined.
Shirou didn't have time to think anything extra. His consciousness disappeared in the pure and flawless light.
The last thing he could feel was the warmth of Eris holding him with all her strength, and Zenith's gentle gaze towards him before he disappeared.
The pointer of fate began to turn from this point.
Just like a stage will eventually move on to the next scene, the story ruthlessly moved a new gear in a cruel way.
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