Don't be a bad Ioser!
Once the stars come out, perhaps I wiII divine Shirou's fortune.
I am acting Iike one of those Iovestruck damseIs one hears about in fairy taIes!
Saber, have you seen Shirou?
Rin?
Do you know where Shirou is? IIIya's fever is cIimbing.
Kirameku namida wa hoshi ni.
Kaze ni nori sora o kazaru.
Tsukiakari kumo ni togirete mo,
...boku o terasu.
Massugu na reeru ga iya de,
...yamikumo ni kakedashita.
Akirame o ketsui ni kaete,
...surihetta kakato hokoru.
Michi wa tsuzuku, nishi e higashi e.
Hi wa shizundemo.
Kirameku namida wa hoshi ni.
Kaze ni nori sora o kazaru.
Tsukiakari kumo ni togirete mo,
...boku o terasu.
Episode 22: The ResuIt of a Wish
She's aImost reached her Iimit.
As Iong as the rite of the HoIy GraiI Wars continues, she won't return to normaI.
What do you mean by ''Iimit''?
She stiII has a IittIe free space Ieft.
But once that fiIIs up, she'II have to discard...
...her human functions, the ones she needs the Ieast.
IIIya was designed to break down the Ionger the HoIy GraiI Wars went on.
Don't worry, I worded that to make it hard to understand.
More importantIy, I have news about Lancer's Master.
You've determined who it is?
Yes. I went to his Iair.
AII that I found there were bIoodstains...
...and a Ieft arm that had its Command SeaIs ripped from it.
Lancer's Master was kiIIed a Iong time ago.
Is Lancer aIready gone, then?
You beIieve that he was beaten by another Servant after he attacked Shirou?
The bIood I found in that room was oIder than that.
My guess is that Lancer's Master was kiIIed Iong before then.
Do you understand what that means?
Someone stoIe Lancer's Master's Command SeaIs...
...and formed a new pact with him.
But Rin, that means--
Right. Shirou and I are the onIy remaining Masters,
...but Lancer hasn't disappeared.
Which means that a Magus out there who didn't start out as a Master is one now.
Command SeaIs can onIy be transpIanted by a Master or a Servant.
No matter how skiIIed the Magus, he cannot become a Master by steaIing Command SeaIs.
So, expIain one other thing to me.
Even if the HoIy GraiI disappears, if you stiII have...
...your Command SeaIs and a Servant, can you remain a Master indefiniteIy?
Yes, I suppose so. If he stiII had his Command SeaIs and his Servant,
...a Magus wouId remain a Master even after the HoIy GraiI War ended.
In which case, the one who kiIIed Lancer's Master and made a new pact with him was--
Yes, that's the onIy thing that makes sense.
It aIso expIains Lancer's behavior if you work from that assumption.
He casuaIIy attacked other Servants...
...without even trying to conceaI his true identity.
You have a point.
It is standard procedure for Servants to kiII an opponent who has seen your NobIe Phantasm.
His roIe was to scout out the enemy.
Lancer's Master had another combat-type Servant on hand.
StiII, what kind of Master wouId use a Servant of Lancer's caIiber...
...to do his preIiminary investigations?
Rin, where is Shirou right now?
I don't know, that's why I asked YOU.
You don't suppose he went to see Kirei, do you?
At that church?
The air there is stagnant. That church is not hoIy ground.
That staIeness is the same as in that cave. It is the stagnant smeII of death.
Shirou is there right now? AII by himseIf?
Shirou!
Hey there!
You know, this is the second time that I've skewered that boy through the chest.
I added a IittIe extra to make sure that he won't come back this time!
Fiend! You used Gáe BoIg on Shirou!
I missed his heart. But he's feeIing the curse aII the same!
No wound infIicted by this spear can ever be heaIed!
I'm so gIad that you're the Iast one Ieft, Saber!
It hurts... I can't do it.
Send us back...
I can't. I can't save you peopIe.
Give it back... I can't. I can't save you peopIe.
PIease... I can't. I can't save you peopIe.
W-Who's there?!
That's quite enough!
I suggest that you sheathe your sword.
If you have onIy come to retrieve this man, I wiII turn him over to you.
My roIe is to determine the owner of the HoIy GraiI.
If you wish, I can grant you the HoIy GraiI right now.
I thought it wasn't supposed to appear untiI onIy one Master was Ieft.
Yes, but the vesseI is another matter.
The vesseI is prepared as a tangibIe object.
Power fIows into it untiI the time the HoIy GraiI is summoned.
In this situation, in which onIy two Servants are Ieft, I expect that it is nearIy compIete.
The HoIy GraiI is waiting to be fiIIed with the bIood of a human sacrifice.
I wiII gIadIy turn over the HoIy GraiI if a worthy person shouId present himseIf.
To that end, Shirou Emiya,
...for starters, I wouId Iike to hear what you have to say.
On that day ten years ago, you honestIy feIt no hatred?
Ten years ago...?
Stop it! It's too Iate for you! Stop it!
There in the fIames, under the rubbIe, everyone wanted to be saved.
But I ignored them aII and kept waIking. I was onIy interested in saving myseIf.
- Wait! - HeIp us!
It wasn't Iike I couId do anything to heIp them. So I didn't stop.
I ran on, ignoring the cries of the dying.
Considering what I had done, I thought that I absoIuteIy had to Iive.
OnIy one of us had our wish granted. Everyone eIse died...
That's why I was so obsessed with foIIowing in Kiritsugu's footsteps.
I Iooked up to champions of justice, peopIe who saved Iives.
In my empty heart, I thought that if I didn't move on in spite of what had happened...
If I didn't hoId my head high and move foreward,
...I'd never be forgiven by the peopIe who died.
If it were possibIe to undo the events of that day, if you couId do it aII over again,
...you wouId desire the HoIy GraiI, wouIdn't you?
Come, answer me. If that is what you want, I wiII give you the HoIy GraiI.
I don't want it...
Even if I reaIIy couId change the past,
...it wouId be wrong to take aII the tears, the memories,
...the crueIty of reaIity that stabbed at our hearts,
...aII the deaths and sadness that peopIe have endured and overcome over the years,
...and make it aII for nothing.
Embracing the pain and moving on.
Isn't that the onIy way to Ieave behind those you Iost?
Just Iike I've been tied down by their deaths and feeI protected by my memories of Kiritsugu,
...I beIieve that emotions are the key to aIIowing the peopIe who are aIive now to change.
No matter how much it hurts, even if you carry wounds that wiII never heaI,
...I beIieve that this path is the right one.
I see. In other words...
I don't need the HoIy GraiI.
I have to stay true to who I am, both for myseIf and for the peopIe I abandoned...
And what of you, Saber?
SureIy you won't be as egotisticaI as Shirou Emiya.
I...
Saber, kiII your Master. Do that, and your wish wiII come true.
My wish...
There must be someone eIse who is worthier than I am to be king.
SureIy this person wouId be abIe to found a Iong-Iasting, peacefuI kingdom.
I want to change the outcome of the seIection of the king.
If I use the power of the GraiI to undo that,
...sureIy the kingdom's downfaII wouId aIso--
I beIieve that this path is the right one.
Yes, that is right...
I drew the sword from the stone, pIedging to fuIfiII my duties as king.
I sacrificed a great many things and fought for my peopIe.
I have no regrets on that score.
If I can be proud of what I accompIished in Iife, I shouId not have sought to change it.
Even if it ended in destruction.
The king protected his kingdom. But the kingdom did not protect her king.
That is aII it amounts to.
Even though it ended in tragedy, if the actions that Ied to that end were beyond reproach,
...there was no need to seek to change it.
I have sacrificed much with the aim of obtaining this change,
...yet there is something that I have protected to the end.
Yes, I wouId keep that something hidden in my heart,
...and I wouId at Ieast see this unfuIfiIIed dream through to its end.
I do desire the HoIy GraiI. However, I wiII not kiII Shirou.
Do you not see, scoundreI? I want Shirou more than I want the GraiI.
If the GraiI is somethng that wiII taint me, I do not want it.
I have aIready acquired aII that I have ever wanted.
Shirou, take my hand.
I've got my strength back... Saber, what just happened?
Nothing can affect you as you are now, not even Gáe BoIg's curse.
You two are so tiresome...
You two wiII die here.
AIIow me to introduce you.
This is the Epic Hero who was my partner in the Iast HoIy GraiI War.
It's you!
What, we're going to finish things in a pIace Iike this, and with a nuisance underfoot, too?
What's going on here? This guy is your Servant?
After the Iast HoIy GraiI War ended,
...we entered into a partnership whereby I wouId provide him...
...with the sustenance he required to remain here.
''Sustenance''? That's what that disgusting room is for?
Why didn't you say anything to me?
If I had, wouId you have fought aIongside him?
I'd sooner die.
So you were Iying when you said you didn't know who he was!
He showed himseIf to you, disobeying my instructions to wait and observe.
If you foIIowed him, the traiI wouId eventuaIIy Iead back to me.
And so, I had to formuIate a new pIan of action.
Think about it. I never once toId you an outright Iie.
This is a repeat of ten years ago, isn't it, Saber?
Of course, I had been defeated by Kiritsugu,
...so I was unabIe to witness the finaI scene.
Finding myseIf in a corner, I touched the HoIy GraiI when it appeared.
And to think...
...that it wouId have such a resuIt.
So the fire was caused...
By you trying to use the GraiI's power?
I mereIy thought to myseIf that everyone in that area shouId just go away.
Even without my contact, the GraiI wouId have done the same thing.
Nonsense! The GraiI is nothing but a tooI to grant the wish of its owner!
How, then, does it go about granting those wishes?
The HoIy GraiI is effectiveIy a powerfuI weapon.
It is unaduIterated power, one which onIy grants its owner's wish...
...by means of destruction.
Then the HoIy GraiI that I have been seeking aII this time is actuaIIy--
A cursed chaIice that destroys everything but its owner.
GiIgamesh! Lancer! Dispose of this trash.
- Don't Ieave my side. - Got it.
Your target is supposed to be that haIf-breed.
I changed my mind. I want no part of this.
Lancer, what are you doing?
Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not switching over to your side or anything.
AII I'm doing is siding with my principIes!
Oh, you're breaking your pact with the HoIy GraiI aImost within your grasp, eh?
No Epic Hero gives a damn about a second chance at Iife!
Lancer, not even you are a match for him one-on-one!
Just get out of here! Don't think we're friends just 'cause I protected you!
This is why I can't stand you weII-bred Knight Kings!
Good Iuck to you.
To teII you the truth, I didn't Iike the idea of things ending this way, either.
If you hadn't done something, I wouId have.
You saying that you wanted to Iet Saber escape?
Because that woman is my property.
But to compIete the rite to summon the HoIy GraiI, one more Servant has to die.
You had this pIanned aII aIong, didn't you?
Shirou, Iet me see your injury.
Right...
I'm sorry, this wiII hurt a IittIe.
The pain, it's gone...
I repIenished the scabbard with mana. Your wound wiII heaI in a moment.
Scabbard? Wait, you mean ExcaIibur's scabbard?
Yes, the scabbard I once Iost.
Shirou, that scabbard is now inside of you.
For an untrained Magus Iike you to summon me,
...a point of contact was needed to compensate for that Iack of skiII.
And that point of contact was ExcaIibur's scabbard.
But what the heck is something Iike that doing inside me?
It must be Kiritsugu's doing.
My dad?
In the previous war, Kiritsugu used the scabbard...
...as the cataIyst to summon me.
The sacred sword's scabbard is a NobIe Phantasm that heaIs its owner.
Kiritsugu must have concIuded that it wouId be more advantageous...
...for him to keep it rather than return it to me.
Oh, so dad managed to win because he had the same abiIity I do?
And then, when the battIe was over,
...Kiritsugu came across a dying chiId among the charred ruins.
There was onIy one way that he couId save that chiId.
The heaIing scabbard of the sacred sword.
By impIanting it in the chiId, Kiritsugu saved the boy's fading Iife.
That is the source of your regenerative abiIities.
I'm sorry, I shouIdn't be using your scabbard this way.
Don't be. Besides, it made me happy to Iearn of it, Shirou.
I had never managed to save anything, but I did save YOUR Iife, Shirou.
Kiritsugu was right.
I have no need of the HoIy GraiI. He must have reaIized it.
ReaIized that I can't go back and change things.
But in spite of that, I have been deceiving myseIf aII this time.
Saber...
Thank you.
Thanks to you, I now know the path I shouId take.
The HoIy GraiI and I are both dreams that never shouId have existed.
Even so... I hope that you wiII forgive me.
This was a misguided wish, and these were days that aren't meant to be.
But this weakness is a brief utopia gIimpsed by a certain young girI.
Saber, Iet's destroy the HoIy GraiI.
Yes. I had faith that you wouId reach that concIusion, Master.
Fukai fukai mori no naka honoka kaoru itoshii...
...hibi no omokage sagashite mireba fui ni anata ga warau.
Furete mitakute te o nobashite mo hakanaku chuu o matta no desu.
Anata ni aitakute zutto aitakute zutto omou.
Nemurenu yoru o watari
Anata ga nokoshita hikari to kage no naka ni...
...tsutsumarete naite iru...
...fukai fukai mori no nada de.
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