But here, it is a one-on-one duel mode, which is extremely disadvantageous for non-frontal combat professions such as Assassin.
It can be said that countless strategies cannot be implemented because of this one-on-one head-on combat.
The man in front of him, Kotomine Kirei, smiled unconsciously.
That's right, this non-melee mode is extremely bad for Shirou Emiya who has no Servant.
In the Holy Grail War, a Master who doesn't even have a Servant poses no threat to others. Unless there is a personal grudge, no one would target a magus who doesn't even have a Servant.
Uniting the weak to fight against the strong enemy is a normal evolutionary process.
But the current situation forces Shirou Emiya to confront those Servants head-on, leaving him with almost no room for maneuver.
"Of course, during these six days of hesitation, you need to go to the arena, which is the maze you arrived at before, and collect two code keys there. You can think of them as the key to the final battle."
"The Master needs to gather all the information by himself during the hesitation period. If the Master cannot even do this, he will face computer death before entering the arena."
"Although it is a computer death, it is not particularly different from real death. The body on Earth will never wake up because it has no soul and will never revive until it completely decays."
"This is just a simple test to show that the Masters have the ability to fight a decisive battle--"
I'm afraid that the method of obtaining the code key is not as simple as Kotomine Kirei said, otherwise Kotomine Kirei would not have this expression.
"During the hesitation period, private fights between Masters are not allowed, whether it is a fight between Masters, a fight between Servants, or a fight between Masters and Servant."
"If a private fight occurs inside the arena, the system will forcibly intervene and stop the fight after three rounds."
"If a private fight takes place in the academy, then no matter how the fight takes place, the party that initiates the fight will have their Master and Servant's stats reduced, or even be subject to more severe punishments—"
really----
Shirou Emiya was thinking to himself that if the Master was relatively weak, he would probably not be able to last more than three rounds and would be defeated. The fight had already started during the period of hesitation.
"Who will be my first opponent?"
As expected, Emiya Shirou asked Kotomine Kirei.
If Kotomine Kirei hadn't suddenly called him, Emiya Shirou wouldn't even have known that the preliminaries were over.
It's not that he doesn't want to save those magicians who are still trapped in the fake campus life.
But in this academy, it was difficult for Emiya Shirou to distinguish the difference between NPCs and magicians.
If Shinji Matou had not noticed the discomfort around him and expressed great surprise, Shirou Emiya would not have even realized that Shinji Matou in this world was actually a magician.
According to Sakura, these NPCs are artificial intelligence characters that were recreated using data from humans who have existed (or exist) on Earth.
Since the more realistic the NPCs are as life forms, the more realistic reactions the Masters who come into contact with them will give, NPCs are endowed with artificial intelligence by Mooncell.
And these also have their own thoughts and personalities.
Even when facing Fuji-nee, Emiya Shirou did not feel that there was much difference from the fact that he was familiar with Fuji-nee.
Perhaps the only difference that can be felt is that she often uses the title of magician. Apart from that, she has completely inherited Sister Fuji's carelessness.
He was also scolded by Toosaka Rin because he kept looking for people to try to wake up more magi.
Just like Toosaka Rin who appeared behind Emiya Shirou at this moment, with an expression that seemed to be full of disgust but couldn't help but make a sound.
Chapter 538: Toosaka Rin
"Huh? How come you don't know who your first opponent is? Didn't the terminal tell you to check the bulletin board?"
Accompanied by such a voice that seemed to be filled with disgust and unreasonableness.
The crisp footsteps also stopped behind Emiya Shirou.
Hearing this familiar voice, Emiya Shirou looked back with a slightly wry smile.
That's a girl.
A girl who is about the same age as me.
Just like Sakura in this world, she is a familiar yet slightly unfamiliar person to Emiya Shirou.
The girl had two ponytails and was wearing a red dress, a black miniskirt, and black over-the-knee high-heeled leather boots, which were not the school uniforms of this school at all. She looked extremely beautiful.
She was Toosaka Rin, whom Emiya Shirou had met a few days ago.
He is also the one I have spent the longest time with in the past few days.
Although when Emiya Shirou first met Toosaka Rin it was, uh——, well——.
To describe it in words, it was an unfriendly but pleasant meeting.
Toosaka Rin didn't really want to mention this process again.
"In this Holy Grail War system, the only one who can leave here is the Master who wins in the end. Even if you don't have your own Servant, there is no way to quit midway—"
These are the words that Toosaka Rin said to Emiya Shirou the first time she learned that Emiya Shirou did not have a Servant.
But then she seemed to remember something and quickly turned her head away.
Because Shirou Emiya is also a participant in this Holy Grail War, in terms of camp, Shirou Emiya is her enemy.
Perhaps it was out of habit, or perhaps it was just her personality, but when Toosaka Rin heard that Emiya Shirou didn't have his own Servant, she actually felt worried.
I came to [.], a virtual reality world constructed by spirit particles, with the idea of obtaining the Holy Grail.
Everyone here is her enemy, an enemy she is willing to bet her life on.
"But it doesn't matter, because there can only be one winner of the Holy Grail War—"
Thinking of this, her tone towards Emiya Shirou was full of fighting spirit. Even if there was no Servant, it didn't matter. If her opponent in the first battle was Emiya Shirou, she would not hold back.
As a magician, in order to seize the only qualification to hold the Holy Grail, you must be ruthless!
But even so, Emiya Shirou standing in front of him did not show any fear or timidity, and even thanked him with a faint smile.
why?
After seeing Shirou Emiya leave, Toosaka Rin, who was standing on the rooftop, felt extremely anxious.
Her fists clenched tightly involuntarily.
Then he waved it towards the wall as if to vent his anger.
I have clearly stated that I am your enemy, and I have clearly stated that I want to seize the Holy Grail. If we meet you, I will kill you without mercy.
Why are you still thanking me so much? We are enemies who have to fight each other with swords, and your life will end here.
This is the Holy Grail War, not some childish game!
Then, Toosaka Rin leaned against the wall and sighed, wondering why she was so worried about a stranger she had just met, even a stranger who was destined to become her enemy.
However, she did feel an indescribable sense of familiarity with him, as if he had known her for a long time, but she didn't know him at all.
Obviously, his memories have been retrieved, and there are no false memories about Shirou Emiya in this academy.
"Shut up!!!"
As if she was angry and embarrassed, on the rooftop, Toosaka Rin roared at the air beside her.
After that, Toosaka Rin would pay attention to Emiya Shirou from time to time.
She didn't know why she cared so much about a Master who didn't even have a Servant.
At this moment, Toosaka Rin was standing behind Emiya Shirou, frowning, looking at him with a slightly condemning and slightly worried tone.
How could someone not even know who his first opponent was?
Sure enough, if he hadn't appeared, Emiya Shirou would have been eliminated before he even met his first opponent.
"Terminal, what is that?"
Emiya Shirou seemed to be accustomed to Toosaka Rin's tone. He turned around and asked Toosaka Rin with a questioning look.
This was the first time he heard the name terminal.
"?"
When she heard that Shirou Emiya didn't even know what a terminal was, Toosaka Rin's expression became confused. She then looked at Shirou Emiya carefully, with disbelief written all over her face.
Isn't this something that everyone is automatically equipped with when they come into this world?
But looking at Shirou Emiya's expression, which didn't seem like he was lying, even though Toosaka Rin had a lot of doubts in her heart, she still explained to Shirou Emiya while taking out something that looked very sci-fi, like a mobile phone, from her pocket.
"It's similar to a mobile phone. Logically speaking, no matter if it's a magician or an NPC who comes here, Monncell will equip them with a terminal when they first come here."
"Besides, this is common sense for the magi participating in this Holy Grail War—!"
In fact, she just happened to pass by and happened to hear Emiya Shirou's question full of high blood pressure.
"You didn't? Is it really weird?"
Kotomine Kirei also showed a puzzled expression at this time, and then as if he was thinking about something, countless data flashed in his eyes.
"As an advanced AI, the terminal is of no use to me for now. I have already loaded your information into this terminal. Please use this one for now—"
After seemingly confirming that Emiya Shirou did not have a terminal, Kotomine Kirei quickly took out an item exactly the same as the one in Toosaka Rin's hand from his clothes and handed it to Emiya Shirou.
And in a very short time, he deleted all the information about himself and posted the information belonging to Shirou Emiya.
Although the information we have about Shirou Emiya may only be the most basic, such as name, gender, height and weight.
But it is enough to receive the news from the system.
"By the way, the Masters who have passed the pre-selection will get their own room—"
As he spoke, Kotomine Kirei handed a key to Emiya Shirou.
This was originally a place for Servants and Masters to rest, but now it has become a place for Shirou Emiya to rest alone.
Chapter 539: The First Battle Begins
Following the instructions on the new terminal, Shirou Emiya quickly arrived at the bulletin board on the second floor, where a note appeared that was completely different from the surrounding notices.
But probably only you and your opponent can see this note.
Otherwise, if there were 128 Masters who needed to fight a round, this bulletin board would probably be covered with notes.
Even if we only show the battle list of this school building, there shouldn't be only this note here.
After thinking about it, in fact, only you and your opponent know who you are fighting against, and other people should not be able to directly find out who other people's opponents are from the bulletin board.
There was only information about the battle written very simply on this piece of snow-white paper.
Master: Shirou Emiya
Master: Shinji Matou
Battlefield: One Moon Sea
"Humph! I didn't expect that my first opponent would be a nasty guy like you!"
At this moment, an extremely proud voice sounded from behind Emiya Shirou.
That was the man with seaweed hair, Shinji Matou, whom he had seen at the door of the infirmary earlier.
He is also someone Emiya Shirou is very familiar with.
He never expected that his first opponent would be his old friend, Matou Shinji.
However, Shinji Matou looked at Shirou Emiya with an extremely disgusted look, his eyes full of disdain.
"Your good days will soon be over! It is your greatest misfortune to meet me in your first battle! I will definitely return tenfold what you did to me that morning."
Just like a child, Shinji Matou gritted his teeth and hurled harsh words at Shirou Emiya with anger. Even now he still remembered how Shirou Emiya knocked him down.
"It's really sad. You finally managed to make it through the preliminaries, but now you have to lose in the first round. Even I feel sorry for you!"
Shinji Matou's face was full of intoxication, as if there was no doubt at all that victory had already belonged to him.
In his eyes, Emiya Shirou had no chance of defeating him at all.
"Shinji, your personality hasn't changed at all!"
Looking at Shinji, who was covering his Federation and reveling in his own world, Emiya Shirou couldn't help but complain out loud.
Although he behaved extremely perfect and calm in front of those girls, when he was with Shirou Emiya, Shinji would unconsciously indulge in the things he created, and Shirou Emiya had long been accustomed to this kind of Shinji.
"Ha! Who are you calling Shinji? I'm not that familiar with you. You and I have a blood feud!"
Hearing Emiya Shirou calling him Shinji again, he looked at Emiya Shirou with an extremely unhappy look.
