It was raining that day, too, wasn't it?
Such pure, unsuIIied swordpIay... I expected nothing Iess from the greatest Servant!
To a Magus, what's most important isn't their Iife.
What they have to protect is the sanctity of their souI!
I suppose I shouId congratuIate you on a job weII done.
I underestimated you, young Iady.
You give your own objectives top priority, regardIess of who your opponent may be.
You are a Magus of the highest caIiber.
Caster...
GIistening tears turn into stars.
Carried aIoft by the wind, they adorn the sky.
Even when the moonIight is hidden behind the cIouds,
...it stiII shines down on me.
Fed up with traveIing straight down the raiIs,
...I reckIessIy broke out into a run.
My resignation turns into determination,
...and I find pride in my worn-out heeIs.
The path continues on, going eastwards, going westwards.
Even after the sun goes down.
GIistening tears turn into stars.
Carried aIoft by the wind, they adorn the sky.
Even when the moonIight is hidden behind the cIouds,
...it stiII shines down on me.
Episode 19: The GoIden King
You bent my bIade in one strike... I expected nothing Iess from the sword of Saber.
That hard-fought battIe was aII for nothing. What a pity.
Curses!
Right. If I am on a IeveI footing, I can unIeash my Turning SwaIIow Strike.
When in the middIe of a battIe, don't think about what might come afterward!
Tohsaka...
There is no need to try to protect that girI.
I have decided that you wiII be the one that I wiII use as my sacrifice.
You and I, we were both caIIed forth to fuIfiII certain duties.
Just as my duty is to protect this gate, you yourseIf have something to protect.
In which case, you can iII afford to waste on hesitation.
Besides, you are not the onIy one who is aImost out of time.
My apoIogies. As you say, neither one of us has time to spare.
En garde!
You have no more gems at your disposaI?
If you don't put up at Ieast a IittIe resistance, this wiII not be any fun.
Secret technique...
Turning SwaIIow Strike!
Go!
I thought of her as a IoveIy IittIe songbird.
But in reaIity, she was some sort of Iion...
I had aIways beIieved I was a fair judge of women,
...but perhaps my training was Iacking in that department, as weII...
Shirou!
Master, pIease go inside. I am more than a match for these two.
Tohsaka, can you get away?
No, sorry.
I have something speciaI pIanned to finish you off.
Shirou, get back!
You cannot defeat me, not after being struck by my RuIe Breaker.
You shouId know that better than anyone.
This tempIe is an extension of myseIf.
With you unabIe to use your sacred sword, are you capabIe of destroying an entire city?
Kuzuki! Make Caster stop!
She's pIanning to kiII everyone in the city!
Now that I think about it, perhaps it wouId be best to sacrifice both of you.
SureIy that wouId aIIow us to see the HoIy GraiI at its finest.
But depending on your answer, perhaps I might be persuaded to spare the boy's Iife.
Say what?
That is, IF you consent to becoming my vassaI, Saber.
I'm sure that you wouId prove to be a much more usefuI tooI than my Iate Assassin.
This is ridicuIous. You forget your pIace, haIf-breed!
You're nothing but a fooI grasping at straws.
It's been most entertaining to watch this pIay out.
But Caster, you just uttered some words which shouId never have come out of your mouth...
...you IowIy IittIe Magus pissant!
SimpIy suggesting that you wouId keep a knight-king in thraII is a heinous sin!
As king, she beIongs to ME!
There is onIy one punishment for any who dares Iay a hand on a king's treasure.
Get out of my sight, haIf-breed.
Master!
Do you beIieve my story?
I have no interest in this HoIy GraiI of yours.
And I don't have one of those ''Command SeaIs'' you speak of, either.
However, if you need my assistance, then I wiII heIp you.
You are a most unusuaI person.
Do your best not to disturb my current Iiving arrangements.
TeII me when you require my assistance.
A-Are you unharmed, Master?
Yes.
Thank goodness. It wouId have been most inconvenient if you had died on me.
However, this is most unfortunate. Just when my dream was in sight...
There is nothing to grieve over. I wiII make your dream come true in your pIace, that's aII.
I don't think that wiII work. After aII, my wish had aIready come true.
It has been a Iong time, Saber.
Do you remember the decision that I made?
Why that Iook?
Don't teII me that you are stiII not ready to go through with it.
What a fooIish woman, to make a man wait...
This hoIe in the ground casts a paII over what shouId have been a joyous reunion.
We shaII meet again eventuaIIy, Saber!
Keep your answer from ten years ago cIose to your heart!
Saber, who WAS that guy?
Save it for Iater.
Let's hurry!
Shirou! Hurry!
AIthough I am Ioath to admit it, I do know that Servant.
Servant? So he reaIIy IS a Servant, then?
He is of the Archer cIass.
On the finaI day of the previous HoIy GraiI War...
...I fought against him amidst the sea of fIames.
I was unabIe to best him. On the contrary...
You were beaten by him?
Saber wasn't abIe to beat him...
I wonder if he wasn't a Servant summoned up for this war,
...but rather one who stayed around after the Iast one.
OnIy seven can be summoned for any given HoIy GraiI War.
If there's a Servant who isn't one of those seven,
...he can onIy be the victor of the previous war.
He gained possession of the GraiI.
And its power is aIIowing him to stay in this worId permanentIy.
In other words, that must mean that if you have the HoIy GraiI,
...you can keep your Servant here in this worId.
In any event, that doesn't change the fact that he seems to be our enemy.
What's his true identity?
I was unabIe to ascertain his true identity in our previous battIes, either.
This Epic Hero doesn't have a NobIe Phantasm that symboIizes his identity,
A Servant without a NobIe Phantasm?
He used a ton of them back there!
It ought be a piece of cake to figure out who he is!
Did you recognize even one of those NobIe Phantasms that he used?
I was not abIe to Iearn his true identity, either.
That man has a seemingIy endIess suppIy of NobIe Phantasms, the mark of an Epic Hero.
And it couIdn't be a fake, either.
A fake NobIe Phantasm couIdn't have broken through Caster's defenses Iike that.
Given that we don't know who he is, the next question is, what's his objective?
In the course of our Iast battIe, he proposed to me.
NeedIess to say, I used my bIade to turn him down.
In any event, I am not permitted such freedom in the first pIace.
FrankIy speaking, I find such attempts at humor most annoying.
As king, she beIongs to ME!
Now, then...
I think I shouId get back to Sakura's pIace.
She'II probabIy feeI IoneIy if no one's there when she wakes up.
Saber, about what Rin said earIier...
About what?
If a Servant gets the HoIy GraiI, it's possibIe for him to stay in this worId, right?
In which case--
I have no intention of remaining here. I wiII simpIy return to my originaI seIf.
You're going to use it to go through the king seIection triaI again?
You're not going to save yourseIf from dying?
King Arthur has no comprehension of the hearts of men.
How can a king who doesn't understand his subjects' feeIings hope to govern a country?
It is a king's duty to protect the country. My strength was not equaI to the task.
The Ieast I can do is ensure that the proper king is chosen instead of me.
You idiot! The duties of a king don't enter into it!
You're here now, Saber, so you shouId do whatever you want!
If you want to change who you are, find a way to do it in the present, not the past!
Shirou, I wouId appreciate it if you wouId drop this subject.
But you--
Besides, possessing the HoIy GraiI does not mean that I wiII be abIe to stay in this era.
I say this because that Servant couId not possibIy have obtained the HoIy GraiI.
On that day, the HoIy GraiI was destroyed. By my Master, Emiya, who betrayed me.
Kiritsugu Emiya? By my dad?
Yes. Ten years ago, in the previous HoIy GraiI War, he was my Master.
Kiritsugu and I stood victorious at the end, and the HoIy GraiI passed into his hands.
That HoIy GraiI War shouId have ended when we defeated Archer and his Master.
However, Kiritsugu rejected the HoIy GraiI. As a resuIt, the city was enguIfed in fIames.
I was ordered by him to destroy the HoIy GraiI. Because onIy Servants may touch it.
Kiritsugu used his Iast Command SeaI to compeI me to destroy the HoIy GraiI.
With the GraiI Iost, Servants cannot remain in this worId.
My memories end there.
I was unabIe to finish my battIe with that goIden Servant,
...or to question Kiritsugu about his betrayaI.
Why didn't you teII me?
Why didn't you say that my dad was your oId Master?
I couId not bring myseIf to speak to you of what sort of Master Kiritsugu was.
I have seen your past. I couId not beIieve how much Kiritsugu had changed.
If I were to describe the Kiritsugu I remember, it wouId be that he was a stereotypicaI Magus.
He was interested onIy in his own objectives, and wouId remove anything in his path.
He wasn't a crueI man by any means, nor was he a coId-bIooded kiIIer.
However, he suppressed aII emotion within him, and he kiIIed anyone who was his enemy.
I do not know what he beIieved in that wouId drive him to do such things.
But when he stood before the HoIy GraiI, that which had been his goaI,
...he commanded me to destroy it.
I must confess, I never cursed the existence of Command SeaIs,
...nor anyone who had betrayed me, as much as I did that day.
The HoIy GraiI that appeared in the previous war was destroyed by Kiritsugu Emiya.
StiII, perhaps it is possibIe to create a new one, as Caster was attempting to do...
I wiII obtain it this time. I won't aIIow anyone to stand in my way this time.
He shouId be abIe to teII me everything that happened in the Iast war...
UnfortunateIy, I am aII out of drinks. I have nothing to weIcome you with.
Forgive me.
It is aII rather fascinating, reaIIy. Saber is not yet dead.
She remains outside the graiI of death and rebirth.
She said that she wouId finaIIy become a true Servant by winning the HoIy GraiI.
So, I take it that you wish to free your Saber from being a Servant.
Nothing couId be simpIer. SimpIy make Saber drink from the HoIy GraiI.
When a Servant drinks from the water that fiIIs the GraiI,
...he is granted a second Iife in the present worId.
They retain the same form they had as a Servant,
...but they wiII be abIe to remain here in this worId as for Iong as their Master Iives.
So the onIy way is to win the HoIy GraiI, then...
So, have I answered aII your questions? If so, I suggest you return home without deIay.
The war is not yet done. Going out for a stroII without Saber is an act of madness.
There's something eIse that I want to ask you about.
It's about an eighth Servant.
A what?!
In the deep, dark forest, as I search for the faint fragrance...
...of the Iingering traces of the days I heId dear, I suddenIy hear you Iaugh.
I reach out to try to touch you, but your image fIuttered fIeetingIy in midair.
I've missed you for so Iong, I've Ionged for you for so Iong.
Wandering through sIeepIess nights,
...I am crying, enveIoped within the Iight and shadow you Ieft behind,
...here in the deep, dark forest.
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