However, he knows more about the Holy Grail than most magicians because he once spent some time inside it.
And to some extent, Shirou Emiya was the ultimate winner of that Holy Grail War.
“No————! Eh? Senior, do you know your purpose?”
Sakura was about to object, but then looked at Emiya Shirou in disbelief. He knew about the Holy Grail War and knew the purpose of coming here.
But why didn't she sense the presence of Servants around Emiya Shirou?
"Well, maybe my memory is a little damaged. Can you tell me what kind of place this is? What is the situation of this Holy Grail War? And what is the situation of the magicians in this school?"
This is the only way Emiya Shirou could express his current situation.
Sakura looked at Emiya Shirou with some relief. Although the possibility of memory loss is very small, it does not mean that it will not happen.
And as an advanced AI, she is also responsible for guiding the Master.
"This is the Mooncell, or the Holy Grail that magicians fight for. It is a virtual reality world created by spirit particles on the surface of the moon. It is similar to the virtual world of games created on computers, but it is more real than the virtual reality created by pure electronics."
"And the magicians who can reach this place are called spirit particle hackers. Ordinary hackers can only connect nerves to the network to intervene, but magicians can "spiritize" their own mind, body and soul and send them into the computer world as clones."
"Because what exists here is the embodiment of the magician's mind, body, and soul. If you die here, you will die for real."
"Those magicians invaded the moon in order to gain access to the Holy Grail, which can grant any wish."
"The Holy Grail will not be given to the weak. The magician must prove that he is excellent as a living being, that he is the strongest. As a way to prove this, the Moon Cell gives the magician resources to fight on his behalf, things to fight with, and a partner who feeds on the magician's life and fights together with him as one. Servant."
"And by concluding a contract with a servant, the heroes of the past are brought back to life as familiars, and fighting for the Holy Grail is called the Holy Grail War."
As Emiya Shirou listened to Sakura's explanation, he kept thinking in his heart, wondering if he really appeared here in the form of a soul.
If we talk about the Holy Grail War, except that the thing called the "Holy Grail" has become a Mooncell that he has never heard of, the rest is not much different from what he knows.
Basically, magicians keep fighting and finally get the Holy Grail.
Although the only Holy Grail War he had participated in was a 7V7V1V1 situation, Shirou Emiya later wanted to understand what happened in the Fourth Holy Grail War in his world.
I also went to see Rin Toosaka to learn about the normal rules of the Holy Grail War.
Shirou Emiya suddenly understood why this world had such a weird feeling, because apart from the magicians involved, everyone else should be similar to NPCs, or AI like Sakura.
And how many people can participate in a Holy Grail War? There are only 7 magicians in a normal Holy Grail War, and even in the special case of the battle between Red and Black, there are only 14 magicians.
There are probably thousands of people in this school, but there are only dozens of magicians at most. No wonder it is so weird.
But out of caution, Shirou Emiya still asked Sakura how many people would participate in this Holy Grail War.
"The Holy Grail War has not yet begun. We are still in the stage of preliminary selection, a fixed ceremony required to participate in the Holy Grail War."
"There are currently 999 people participating in this Holy Grail War, but after the preliminary round, participants who cannot remember who they are will be deleted along with the school building."
Chapter 529: A Day Repeating Over and Over
“My head hurts—!?”
As if he had just been quickly teleported here from a very far place, Shirou Emiya's body became extremely unstable. He covered his head and half-knelt on the ground.
The intense pain coming from deep within his mind made Emiya Shirou clench his teeth tightly. He didn't quite understand what had just happened and why his head started to hurt so badly after arriving here.
I clearly didn't feel any pain when I transformed into a soul similar to data and traveled through time.
Unable to figure out what happened the moment he followed the data to this place, Emiya Shirou slowly stood up.
"Hokunhara Gakuen High School?"
Looking at the familiar yet slightly different school gate in front of him, Emiya Shirou couldn't help but speak out.
"Is this Fuyuki?"
Looking at the school gate in front of him, which was almost identical to that of Hokunbaru Gakuen High School, except for some differences in details, Shirou Emiya frowned slightly and looked around.
These streets full of a sense of déjà vu, these buildings that are so similar, if it weren't for Shirou Emiya's strong observation skills that allowed him to quickly find the differences in details, he would probably have thought that he was back in Fuyuki City.
But since it is so similar, I am indeed in Fuyuki City.
It should be just Fuyuki City in a parallel universe.
only----
For some reason, Shirou Emiya felt a strong strange feeling lingering in his mind.
Although the buildings here are indeed very similar to those in my own world, this should be my first time coming to this place.
So why do I feel like I've been here before?
Looking at the school gate in front of him that he seemed to have been to before, Emiya Shirou fell into deep confusion.
As far as I can remember, I should have just stepped into the door and came into this world for the first time after my body was destroyed. Why do I have such an inexplicable sense of familiarity?
It was as if this was not the first time he had stepped into this school gate.
But as he continued to think, his head began to hurt violently again.
"What happened?"
Shirou Emiya stood in front of the school gate, covering his head, and frowned as he looked at the school in front of him that gave him a familiar feeling.
What on earth is this place————
Now he could only suppress this doubt deep in his heart.
Because no matter how much I think about it now, I can't get the answer, because I have just arrived in this world and there is too little I can understand.
"Let's go to the school first. This familiar feeling also comes from the school—"
A dagger with a chain appeared in Shirou Emiya's hand. Apart from this school, although the surrounding buildings and streets also gave him a strong sense of déjà vu, it was far less serious than the feeling this school gave him.
What's more, every time I wanted to continue thinking about why I had this strong sense of familiarity, my head began to hurt severely.
Everything tells Shirou Emiya that he must go inside the school to find the answers he wants.
Covered by the armor, in just a few seconds, Shirou Emiya's figure disappeared in the air.
Since the school was so strange, he couldn't just walk into the school without making any preparations.
Although the appearance of this school is very similar to the Hokumhara Gakuen High School that he knows, the clothes worn by the students are completely different from the school uniforms he wears now.
He didn't want to enter the school in such a conspicuous way, and if it was a parallel universe, if he happened to run into him or someone he knew, he wouldn't know how to explain it.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Shirou Emiya naturally chose an extremely efficient and invisible way to enter the school.
What's more, [Evil Ghost Haunting] itself has excellent defensive capabilities, so there is a defense method in case of any emergency.
But the more I walked around the school, the more that strange sense of familiarity filled my mind.
"As I recall, this door seemed to be completely unopenable—"
"As I recall, Class 2-A seems to be the class where Shinji and Fuji-nee are—"
"I remember that Toosaka Rin seemed to be alone on the rooftop——"
"I remember that the student would fall to the ground at this moment——"
More and more familiar memories emerged in Shirou Emiya's mind. It seemed that this was not the first time that he walked around in this school in an invisible state.
It seems that every memory is repeated four or five times, but each repetition is slightly different.
Covering his head and staggering along the corridor on the first floor as if he was drunk, Emiya Shirou had already deduced that he was trapped in the same day.
Because every time you repeat it, what you do is not exactly the same.
I didn't seem to find Toosaka Rin when I came to this school for the first time, but the second time I thought of the rooftop that I had never been to.
The third and fourth times, my actions were different.
Although the decisions on many things are repetitive, the ways of reaching them are completely different.
It was as if he had originally entered this school to find Toosaka Rin, but later on he entered to figure out why this school had such a weird feeling.
Why, after so many times, I still can't escape from this repetitive day.
Is there no solution? Or is there another reason?
Shirou Emiya couldn't come up with an answer, as his memory had not fully recovered at this moment.
At this moment, he could only cover his head, endure the severe pain, walk forward and think.
In all the memories I had before, it seemed that I had never tried to find out why I was stuck in this day.
No action was taken to resolve the matter.
It was as if he already knew and accepted it. Even though he knew he was trapped on the same day, he still didn't take any action.
What exactly is this for?
Emiya Shirou's mind was filled with questions.
But no matter how much I continued to think, all I got was the intense pain coming from deep inside my mind.
The next second————
As if he understood something, Shirou Emiya quickly appeared from the air and ran towards the woman lying on the ground in front of him. She had long purple hair that went below her knees, a red ribbon tied on the left side of her head, and was wearing a white coat.
Even though he understood the fact that this day would be repeated over and over again, the young man named Emiya Shirou would still rush towards the man lying on the ground without hesitation and with an extremely nervous look on his face.
"senior--!"
Looking at the white-haired boy who appeared in front of her, the purple-haired girl responded weakly.
Chapter 530: The Girl for Just This Day
In the infirmary, the white-haired boy was still taking great care of the purple-haired girl who was lying on the bed and breathing slightly.
Looking at the girl who was temporarily unconscious in front of him, Emiya Shirou sighed softly in his heart.
He understood. The moment he saw the girl, Shirou Emiya understood everything completely and his memory quickly recovered.
On the third repeating day, Emiya Shirou already knew who was keeping him trapped on this day.
That was the purple-haired girl lying on the hospital bed - Sakura Matou.
It is easy to infer that the cause of this situation is the girl lying on the hospital bed.
This is a repetitive day, and everyone is doing the same things. Even Shirou Emiya himself makes the same decision and does the same things when his memory has not recovered at the beginning.
Without the influence of external forces, no one will change their behavior on this repetitive day. Students who fall will still fall, and garbage that is not thrown into the trash can will still not be thrown into the trash can.
Everything was going on in an orderly manner, except for the girl named Sakura Matou. Her behavior never repeated itself. Except for the first encounter, every subsequent communication or interaction was completely different.
Even if I said the same words as before, I would get different answers and different reactions.
The point is, in the entire school, there is only one girl named Matou Sakura who is like this.
If Emiya Shirou were to talk to other people with the same expression and the same words, he would get exactly the same answer.
Shirou Emiya quickly determined that Sakura was the one who caused this abnormal situation.
But he did not ask Sakura why she did this, nor did he try to stop her from doing so.
Although she was not the Sakura she knew, there was almost no big difference in her personality or other aspects.
Shirou Emiya didn't know what Sakura's purpose was. He was very slow in emotions and didn't know what Sakura was feeling at the moment, but he didn't feel any malice from Sakura's behavior.
What's more, Shirou Emiya's heart is also filled with guilt towards Sakura.
She felt guilty that she had promised Zouken Matou to take good care of Sakura, but he always disappeared for various reasons and was not with Sakura. She simply took Sakura to her home and never cared about her again.
I felt guilty for making Sakura worry all the time. Every time I returned home and saw Sakura looking at me with a faint smile, my heart would tremble violently.
I feel guilty that there are many things that I should have taken responsibility for, but I let Sakura bear them alone.
He also wanted to spend time with Sakura, but the current situation did not allow him to stop. Emiya Shirou also understood very well that given his physical condition, it was a miracle for him to be able to survive.
After seeing the genuine smile on Sakura's face, who was not someone he knew well, Emiya Shirou gave up the idea of questioning her.
Shirou Emiya could also feel that she, like Sakura, seemed to be carrying something and seemed to be worried about something.
But Emiya Shirou did not ask. Just as Sakura was willing to wait for him to tell her what he was carrying, he was also willing to take the time to wait for Sakura to tell her what was in her heart.
Whether Sakura was making bento in the infirmary, flying a kite on the playground, or even something else, during these days, whatever Sakura wanted to do, Emiya Shirou would accompany her very seriously.
