Synopsis: Endless Shuttle

"Lancer..."

Saber opened her mouth with a gloomy expression, but she was unable to speak due to the unspeakable concealment in her stomach.

"Huh? Is this gone?"

The King of Conqueror scratched his head. "I said do you really stop thinking about it, I am willing to share the joy of conquest with you..."

Obviously, no one in the room was going to pay attention to Rider.

Until Rope and Lancer left together, from the beginning to the end of Emiya Kiritsugu, the cautious and ruthless man did not shoot, which made Rope white worried.

I don't know if he is observing the intelligence of the heroic spirits, or whether he is afraid of the power that surpasses human beings and does not easily expose himself.

In short, the first battle of the Holy Grail War has finally come to an end.

- although not perfect.

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After the battle, Matou Kariya's situation was not optimistic.

During that battle, the foreign body inside Kariya was awakened, began to wriggle, and devoured his flesh and crushed his bones.The pseudo-magic circular marking insect in Karya's body recklessly absorbs the maximum magic power he can provide and supplies it to Berserker.

The so-called magic cycle is activated.For him, it was just the pain of being eroded by the engraved insects, making his life worse than death.

Although Berserker was injured, after becoming a spirit body from invisibility, the consumption of mana can be kept to a minimum.Even so, Matou Kariya was now suffering from irrepressible sequelae - increased heartbeat and dizziness.

"Um... ah..."

With the last bite of the engraved insect, Kariya, who was hiding in the darkness, desperately held back his screams and kept scratching his chest and throat.Kariya's skin cracked and blood was seeping, while the nails on both hands were peeling off.

"You don't look very good."

Just as his consciousness was about to collapse, a clear voice rang out.

Holding a blade-winged worm in his right hand, Rope walked slowly into this dim sewer—it was this worm that brought him here.

He looked at the inhuman Matou Kariya who was tortured by insects with pity.

"Can you hold on?"

"You finally came……"

Panting, Matou Kariya forcibly lifted his spirits and wanted to stand up against the wall, but his broken body did not allow him to do so, so he could only helplessly slumped on the ground.

"Sorry, my time as a magician is still too short. Although I tried my best to control Berserker, he still went berserk at a critical moment and didn't follow my instructions to act..."

Seeing that good old man turned into such a ghost, Rope's eyes softened.

His right hand lit up with azure blue, and the healing properties of 'water' came into play, easing the pain in Matou Kariya's body.

"It's okay, you're already doing your best to help me, as you promised. Berserker's rampage was just an accident."

"yes……"

Matou Kariya's expression gradually eased, and he looked up at the dirty slate dripping with blurry vision.

"I can feel it...it's going to be hard for my life to last until this fight is over."

"I know."

"...So!" Kariya raised his head abruptly, with unyielding flames in his eyes.

"Rope, this is my request for risking my life. I beg you to save Sakura. No matter what I do next, I will use all my remaining life to help you win this Holy Grail War."

After he finished speaking, he smiled sarcastically.

"That old guy... let Sakura go after he got the Holy Grail, just give me a false hope, I won't believe him..."

"Saving Sakura... can't you do it even if you already have a Heroic Spirit yourself?"

Rope asked the questions he had always had before crossing.

——Why did Matou Kariya have Lancelot and didn’t fight against Matou Zoken’s rule?

"Hehe, stop joking."

Matou Kariya smiled wryly, and raised her wrinkled hand.

"Look at me like this, I'm full of bugs from that old guy... I'm already his puppet..."

Rope was silent, and then slowly put his hand on his chest.

"I swear in my name that your wish will be fulfilled."

Looking at Rope's sincere eyes, Matou Kariya laughed suddenly, but was interrupted by the blood gushing out of his throat, which turned into an intermittent cough.

"Cough cough... You are really strange. You were still using words to force me to make a choice, but now you have become so sympathetic to the weak... You really don't look like a magician."

"I said earlier, I am a substitute messenger, and the magician is only part-time."

Rope stood up and looked down at the poor man in front of him being eaten by worms.

"What's more, people always have to have some bottom line, and my bottom line is that when I promise to say it, I have to do it. If I can't do it, it's like a beast."

Although Rope took advantage of Matou Kariya, he was by no means a villain who broke his promise.

"Really, that's really nice, I'll just ask you..."