Servant Emiya was once a guardian of Alaya.
Alaya is said to be the collection of human will.
It is the collection of the unconscious of all humans, an unseen whirlpool of power aimed at prolonging the current world, one of the two great forces holding things back on Earth.
As the force holding back humanity, Alaya and Gaia, the force holding back the planet, work together to create the rules under the Root of the Type-Moon world.
As the force holding back humanity, Alaya has only one goal: to continue the development of the human race for as long as possible. It appears at the moment the main cause of the world's destruction occurs, eliminating that cause to seek a future in which humanity can continue as long as possible.
To achieve this goal, the force holding things back uses various means, but generally does not get involved itself. Instead, it chooses suitable individuals from among humans, borrowing their existence to achieve its goals perfectly.
For example, if an existence appears in a certain era that rules the world, and this existence's actions are destroying human civilization, Alaya, as a force holding things back, will take action.
It usually lives inside people who can become mediums, guiding, increasing, and strengthening the chosen individual in a subtle way, making them a hero to save the world, and finally, like in the story of a hero, letting the main character destroy the main cause of the world's destruction.
The person acting as the medium will only have the ability to eliminate the opponent and will not be given greater power.
This is to prevent them from replacing and becoming the new source of the world's destruction.
In short, Alaya uses various unseen means to help humanity exist in order to continue human civilization.
But in some extreme cases, there are times when Alaya's own methods cannot solve the problem.
At this time, it still does not get involved itself, but sends out its power as an offshoot, which is a guardian.
When someone's desire to save the world is too strong, and they themselves do not have the status to become a Servant, Alaya will appear and make a contract with them, allowing them to briefly have power beyond their limits, and turn the tide at a critical moment, saving the day.
However, after making a contract with Alaya, the person who is the contract subject will become a guardian after death, and will be used by the world as a force holding things back without will.
Guardians are people who have become Alaya's subordinates because of the contract.
Servant Emiya is one such case.
He once went alone into a nuclear power plant about to explode to save five hundred people in the nuclear power plant.
Even though he knew it was impossible to do, his strong belief and sense of justice made him take this almost selfless action.
But this was like an ant trying to shake a tree.
At this time, the force holding things back appeared.
It said to Servant Emiya, "Do you want to save the lives of the five hundred people near here? That's impossible, because no matter how history changes, these five hundred people must die. However, if you want to save them no matter what, will you become my guardian after death? Although you will still die painfully, the only thing that can be changed is the lives of five hundred people. Your life cannot be changed, and only cruelty and despair await you."
Servant Emiya agreed without hesitation to these purely selfless words that no normal person would agree to. His sense of justice did not make him have any doubts about this, and he was even filled with gratitude to Alaya.
Giving up himself to save all living things, a hero was born.
Even though he is a hero, what he does has not changed at all.
Originally, Emiya's goal was not to become a hero, but this process required the power of a hero no matter what.
But he also realized in the future the huge mistake he had made, and what this evil contract was waiting for him.
As Alaya's guardian, guardians generally do not have their own will. Their only purpose is to be summoned by the world to destroy the main cause after the main cause of the world's destruction is created.
Since Alaya is the force holding back humanity, the only thing it wants to eliminate is the [destruction caused by humans themselves]. Destruction from [natural or external factors] is solved by Gaia, the force holding back the planet.
This causes Servant Emiya to have only one thing to do after becoming a guardian: to kill those who are related to the main cause of the world's destruction.
By killing some people, to protect all other humans.
What this means is self-evident.
The guardian that Servant Emiya has become is not true [guarding], but pure [killing], saving people by killing people.
This is a path that completely goes against Emiya Shirou's beliefs.
At the end of endless killing, Servant Emiya could not help but be confused, and began to doubt the belief of being an ally of justice itself.
He began to believe that all of this was a curse, an error left by Emiya Kiritsugu before his death.
So he began to seek his own destruction. If Emiya Shirou had never existed from the beginning, then perhaps all the tragedies would not have happened.
Of course, these things are not the main point now.
Shirou himself does not know whether the path pursued by Servant Emiya is correct, nor does he know whether there is a correct answer to the confusion in his heart.
Perhaps one day, at the end of the road, he will understand Servant Emiya, or perhaps he will deny Servant Emiya.
But at least for now, he does not know the answer to that question.
For him, the only meaning of discussing the existence of guardians is the vast experience that Servant Emiya has gained from becoming a guardian.
Because he has to kill for the force holding things back, the opponents Servant Emiya has to face are generally all kinds of dangerous existence. Among them, there may be the heads of some war groups, crazy Casters who want to achieve their goals for their own desires, and even the leader of a country.
Because they are all such a group of enemies who are either in high positions or have outstanding abilities, Servant Emiya has to change his way of thinking in order to defeat them, learn the enemy's way of thinking, and study how to kill more efficiently.
The culmination of his abilities is B-rank Eye of the Mind (True).
As a unique skill of Servants, this is the insight that Servant Emiya has cultivated through training and practice, which enables him to calmly grasp his own situation and the enemy's abilities in disadvantageous situations, and find a "combat theory" for survival. B-rank means that even if there is only a 1% chance of reversal, he can grasp the opportunity and implement it tactically.
Eye of the Mind allows Servant Emiya to predict the other party's actions, break the situation, and avoid danger based on the information obtained.
Through this ability, Servant Emiya is able to fight any enemy, predict the opponent's movements, and respond to sudden actions.
Conversely, he can also use this experience to attack any unsuspecting opponent. Even with the existence of projection skills, his attacks are often more unpredictable, hard to foresee, and even opponents who are stronger than him will often fall into chaos because of this and eventually be defeated.
At this moment, facing a mere upper-level leader of a North God Style bandit, Shirou naturally does not need to seriously use Servant Emiya's killing methods to attack him.
He simply used the ability of Eye of the Mind to easily dodge the poisoned dagger thrown from the other party's shadows.
"What!"
Facing the unbelievable gaze of the bandit leader, Shirou even had the time to calmly admire the other party's expression, and kicked away the long sword in his hand while he was completely confused. At the same time, an uppercut sent the other party flying on the spot.
"Bang!"
The bandit leader spun in the air, looking embarrassed, but he actually deliberately took Shirou's blow in order to use Shirou's power to escape.
Yes, at the moment the sneak attack failed, he had completely realized Shirou's power.
That was a strength that he, as an upper-level North God Style leader, could not compete with at all.
Although the Boreas family's young lady was extremely tempting, giving up this fat sheep might be something he could never let go of in his life.
But if he was facing an insurmountable opponent, he did not have the courage.
"Damn it!"
So the bandit leader turned around and ran away without looking back. He did not have the slightest hesitation, and only wanted to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.
In fact, he did succeed. The young man in the distance did not seem to intend to chase him.
After all, the other party still had to protect the Boreas family's young lady, and there was no reason to forcefully chase him.
I can survive!
However, his joy only lasted for a moment before a strange feeling made his nerves send out a burst of intense pain.
In the rushing night, he suddenly felt a terrifying feeling that made his very soul tremble.
The bandit leader turned his head back in surprise and found the red-haired man in the distance holding a black bowstring in his hand, drawing his bow and arrow in the night.
"Crack!!"
In the next moment, before the bandit leader had time to react, a sound of a bowstring vibrating the air was heard, and cold, merciless death spread from his chest!
"How, how can it be..."
It was hard to imagine how far away he was from the other party.
And it was still such a dark night.
Even the top archers in the Kingdom of Asla would not be able to shoot a target so far away at night!
The bandit leader could not understand.
But it was precisely because he could not understand that his death was declared without any suspense!
"What a pity."
Shirou watched the bandit leader from a distance. He did not want to kill him. Instead, he planned to let the Boreas family question him.
However, the cunning of the North God Style was still unexpected. He actually had thoughts of escaping in the middle of the battle, which forced Shirou to directly shoot him to death.
Although it was the first time he had truly killed someone, Shirou's heart did not have too many ripples. This may have been because of Servant Emiya's influence, or it may have been that he had already made up his mind.
Because he firmly believed that he was walking on the path of justice.
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