The black knight's resentful eyes stared at Saber, causing a chill to rise down Saber's spine.
"See, she is my light, she is the one who guides me, she is the one who gives me life, she is the meaning of my existence. She was once abandoned by God, humiliated and disillusioned———— but now, she is finally resurrected. This is truly..."
Caster was ecstatic, crying and laughing at the same time. He held the crystal ball tightly with both hands and pressed his forehead against the cold surface of the sphere.
"That really is... a miracle...!!"
Caster grabbed his hair, his gaze eventually shifting from the crystal ball to the image of a boy in a black sweatshirt with brown-red hair.
"Ah, my Jeanne, I will return to you at once, but until then, I will get rid of those who stand in your way!"
Then, Caster turned off the image in the crystal ball and muttered to himself in the darkness of the space.
"This time, the old and new grudges will be settled together..."
...
Today's weather was particularly gloomy, with dark clouds in the sky and occasional thunder, as if another rainstorm was about to hit.
Yatsushirodai Elementary School.
During the afternoon recess, Shirou was sitting in his seat in a daze, with a lot of thoughts in his head, racking his brain to think about future countermeasures.
"With Unlimited Blade Works and Lancer, it's not impossible for me to go head-to-head against other Servants, but I should try to avoid it."
Shirou didn't want to end up failing because of arrogance.
The previous brushes with death were enough to make him more cautious.
In the case of a battle with other magi, Shirou did not need to use the power of the Reality Marble at all. Except for Emiya Kiritsugu, the power he had taken from Kayneth alone was enough to deal with them.
Although Kayneth was defeated by Emiya Kiritsugu in the original story, it was because he lost almost all of his Mystic Codes due to an explosion caused by Kiritsugu earlier, and in the end, only the Volumen Hydrargyrum remained.
However, the power of the Volumen Hydrargyrum is not to be underestimated, and it is still very powerful in the face of magical methods other than the Origin Bullet.
As long as he could make good use of it, he would be able to crush other magi even without exposing the power of the Reality Marble.
After all, he was also a person with Heroic Spirit-level power, and it would be too embarrassing if even ordinary magi could beat him.
While Shirou was thinking about these things, the other elementary school students around him were discussing games and anime, which seemed out of place with Shirou, who was thinking about life-and-death battles.
"Did you watch yesterday's Kamen Rider?"
"Uh-huh, super powerful, that roundhouse kick!"
"I've finally beaten the boss!"
"I've cleared Devil May Cry!"
"The Tachi is the strongest!"
"The Charge Blade is the strongest!"
"When will One Piece end?"
Elementary school students form small groups, and those who do not join a group are left alone in their seats.
If they didn't join those small groups from the beginning, they couldn't join later and would only be ostracized.
Of course, Shirou didn't join these small groups either. It wasn't that he couldn't join, but that he wasn't interested.
After all, although their physical ages were similar, the difference in mental age was so great that Shirou's usual mature demeanor seemed incompatible with them.
Ring, ring, ring...
The bell rang, and the classroom, which had been bustling, soon fell silent.
One by one, the elementary school students reluctantly left their small groups and returned to their seats.
Shirou, on the other hand, sat casually in his chair, resting his cheek on his hand and looking at the frost-covered green leaves of the big tree outside the window.
"Hey, Fujimaru-san, why didn't you even bring your school bag?"
A child sitting next to Shirou asked with some confusion when he saw the empty desk in front of Shirou.
Although Shirou once sent a child who spouted profanity at him to the hospital, Shirou was generally very easy-going.
"This..."
Hearing this, Shirou put his hand into the desk. A pale blue light flashed away, and then Shirou took out his textbook.
"... You guy, are you doing magic tricks!?"
The child felt that his worldview had collapsed inexplicably.
...
In the afternoon, when school was over, Shirou stood up and walked in the direction of the classroom door.
It's good to know magecraft; you don't need to carry a school bag, and you can stay relaxed.
Before coming to school today, Shirou put Lancer in charge of secretly protecting his family.
After all, with Saber's character, it is impossible for her to agree to attack innocent ordinary people, so this kind of underhanded tactic could only be done by Emiya Kiritsugu.
Under such circumstances, if Emiya Kiritsugu dared to target Shirou's family, it would be tantamount to seeking death.
"Hopefully, Lancer's decision to protect the house is the right one..."
Shirou muttered, then opened the back door of the classroom.
The moment the wooden back door was pushed open, Shirou's gaze met a pair of ocean-blue eyes.
"Rin?"
Shirou paused for a moment; it had been several days since the last incident.
He didn't expect to meet the girl today by such a coincidence.
"Shirou!?"
The girl exclaimed, attracting the attention of all the students in the classroom.
For a while, all kinds of eyes converged on Shirou.
"Hey, isn't that Tohsaka from Class B?"
"That young lady actually knows Fujimaru?"
"She just called Fujimaru-san's name, right? What is their relationship? I'm curious!"
"Do you mean... Are they lovers?"
Some girls who watched too many soap operas even started to scream with excitement.
Shirou sighed, feeling a little speechless. Then, without hesitation, he grabbed the wrist of the girl with the twin tails in front of him and left the classroom.
After reaching the bottom of the stairs, Rin finally recovered from her sluggish state and stared at Shirou with sapphire-like eyes, her gaze full of curiosity.
At this time, Rin suddenly remembered that she had called Shirou's name in front of all the students in the class at the door, and for a moment her cheeks turned red. She looked away shyly.
"Looks like it's a coincidence today. Do you want to go home together?"
Shirou was very calm, trying his best to ease the girl's shyness with a gentle tone.
"Hmm... Okay..."
Rin lowered her head slightly, nodding like a chick pecking at rice.
Then, she obediently followed by Shirou's side, and they walked down the stairs together.
Looking at Rin's behavior, Shirou suddenly wondered why she would become such a tsundere young lady when she grew up.
Could this be the so-called "a girl changes eighteen times as she grows"?