Kill the world, or kill a single person?
Choose.
The world
or Miyu?
The distant echoes
tooku hibiku
Of someone's footsteps
dareka no ashioto
Melt away my loneliness.
kodoku no kehai o tokashite
On a night where the falling stars
hoshi furu yoru
Streak across my vision,
shikai yokogiru hikari niwa
I entrust my wish to their light.
negai takushite
We're looking up at the same sky,
onaji sora miageteru
So I'll keep leaping across time
anata no tokoro made
Until I can reach you!
toki o koete
The constellations are calling out to each other,
yozora irodotte
Decorating the sky,
yobiau seizatachi
As I let Polaris guide my way.
Porarisu tayori ni
Even if the waves of fate pull me away,
unmei no nami ni nomaretemo
Right now, I'm coming to find you!
ima mitsuke ni iku yo
I'm here with you,
anata to iru
In this precious world spun by the stars!
mamorubeki hoshi ga tsumugu sekai
Illya's Choice
What's wrong? Why the hesitation?
They're using Miyu to save the world?
What is she talking about?
That can't be true!
Y-You think we'd believe you so easily?
Slow to make decisions, too.
Or do you still not have enough information?
Wh-What's happening?
Please calm down. This is...
Don't shout. This is only a projection.
I'll show you where this world is headed.
Huh?
Think of it as a visualization of mana.
Od is the magic every organism creates,
and mana is the magic of our world.
We mages possess mock nerves to transform this life force into magic,
Magic Circuits.
But there's a limit to how much magic one person's life can generate.
Thaumaturgy exists because of this planet,
which serves as a base and wellspring for the energy we use.
She's not lying to us.
It's exactly the same in our world.
Those are universal principles.
This planet's mana is unmistakably drying up.
B-But... so what?
Aren't mages the only ones bothered by it?
Sacrificing Miyu just so you can use your thaumaturgy is—
No.
I told you.
This world is headed toward ruin.
There are already several dry spots on the Earth's surface,
where the mana has already run dry.
Unidentified particles, which aren't mana, have begun to fill those regions.
We can't measure or observe them, much less analyze them.
But they are poisonous to all life forms.
No way.
It's only natural.
With the planet in crisis, its fundamental rules are being rewritten.
Life created under the old rules will not survive in this brave new world.
H-Hold on.
If that is true,
how do you plan to stop the mana from drying up?
A Holy Grail still uses magic to grant wishes.
You can't use magic to create more magic.
Au contraire.
It's already too late to increase the planet's mana.
So the question is how to use the mana that's left.
How to use the old world's final, grand spell
after collecting all of its mana.
We plan to wish on the Holy Grail:
"Change humanity into an organism that can survive in the new world."
You'll use Miyu's life for that?
It's necessary in order to save humanity.
That should be all you need to know.
I ask you once more.
Which will you choose?
Miyu-sama,
or humanity?
An imbecile to the end...
Illya-sama!
Where were you hiding that?
When cornered, you even use your enemy's power.
Indeed. That is a fitting Heroic Spirit for a coward like you.
Isn't that right,
Servant Card
Assassin, Hassan-i Sabbah?
My head can't keep up with all this.
The world will die if Miyu isn't sacrificed?
No one will be able to survive here?
I don't understand!
I just want to help Miyu.
I just want to save my friend!
Lift your head, Illya-sama.
Sapphire?
I can understand your confusion.
I can understand why you would stand still, uncertain of what to do.
Thinking back,
Miyu-sama must have felt the same way
when she was sent to our world all by herself.
When I first met Miyu-sama,
she was wearing clothes from who knows where, which didn't fit her.
Her body was filthy, and her hair was a mess.
Still, Miyu-sama didn't hang her head.
She looked directly at me.
Miyu...
I am nothing more than a Mystic Code.
I have no intention of objecting to your decision, Illya-sama.
But please,
look forward.
No matter how hard things get, the answer can only lie ahead.
You plan to stay hidden?
Then you leave me no choice.
To me, Sul-sagana.
Burn them down.
What's that sound?
Hmm, is that Illya-oneechan?
What did you do to Illya?
Well, Illya-oneechan wouldn't listen—
Restore Illya!
That empty shell of Illya is...
You don't need to worry!
Illya-oneechan restored herself.
Herself?
She even moved as a stuffed animal!
It was incredible!
So Angelica said she needed a lesson.
She said, "Your story will end in death."
Erica!
Do you understand what you're saying?
You plan to kill Illya?!
Huh? Death is bad?
But it's fine.
Even if she dies, she'll just become a doll.
You...
Would you mind
telling me more about that?
Illya-sama, run!
I won't ask again.
Be crushed.
This sword...
You were the one who cut this, yes?
It's too good a gravestone for a thief,
but this must be karma.
A mistake...
I was negligent in observing inside the crater.
Good grief.
You're Indecisive Illya again?
I told you not to zone out in front of an enemy.
B-But when I have to choose between Miyu and the world...
Oh, that?
Quit worrying over trivial things.
Trivial, you say?
Then answer me.
Which do you choose, Miyu-sama or the world?
Miyu.
Oh?
A world I don't know anything about or Miyu?
If those are my choices, there's no reason to hesitate.
But just as we cherish Miyu,
this world's residents must have people they cherish, too.
Casting them aside is...
You would choose one, and abandon the many?
Naturally.
One girl's life outweighs a world!
You are beyond help.
Are you sure, Kuro?
You're really okay with that choice?
You would argue that one person's life
weighs the same as all life in this world?
Weighs the same?
No.
I said that Miyu's life weighs more!
Include.
Nameless, Sword.
That's just a long weapon.
Hey! Why have those two switched sides?!
They haven't switched sides.
Their minds have been switched with something else.
Huh?
You spout nothing but useless nonsense.
What do you mean?
You said you would sacrifice the world for one life, yes?
Then why stop your sword?
Not to mention, the same goes for Miyu-sama's life.
What will you do after saving her?
Even if you make it out of this, the world is still doomed.
You will only wait to perish as this world slowly dies.
Why can't you understand that your choice is logically mistaken?
That's...
I know it is.
Oh?
But still, if you ask me
to choose between the world and someone precious to me,
I'll always choose the latter.
That's the only choice I can make!
You are incorrigible.
Challenging Gilgamesh with numbers is foolish.
Include.
Nameless, Sword.
Kuro!
What is it they keep using?
Cards that produce disposable Noble Phantasms.
They don't have much power, so please deal with them effectively.
Noble Phantasms? That can't be right.
Those things aren't even swords!
Plus, those two are...
If you hit the mark on their chests, they should return to normal.
Good grief.
Miyu's the one I came to save.
Illya, let's do that once more.
Illya?
Hey, Kuro?
You're really okay with that?
Choosing to save Miyu?
What do you mean?
Sounds like you got into a lot of mischief while I was asleep, Erica.
Really, I never expected that you would kidnap Illyasviel.
Hey, Erica?
Do you know what I find least forgivable?
I only wanted to make Miyu-oneechan happy.
It's you ruining the story!
Do you have any idea what blood and tears
I've poured into finishing this story?!
We're just two passages away from finishing the myth!
Do you want to ruin it!?
Do you want to destroy humanity!?
You, of all people—
Stop it!
Stop it already.
It doesn't hurt.
Miyu-oneechan, I'm
perfectly fine. Okay?
You endured it well, Erica.
It's all right.
Papa isn't angry anymore.
Good grief, that Angelica...
She's making a complete mess of our garden.
If Illyasviel were to die here...
Now, what to do?
Stop it!
Don't lay a hand on Illya!
You keep saying, "Stop it, stop it."
But we won't get anywhere that way.
If Illya dies, I will, too.
I won't let you, and you can't do it.
Still, if you care for Illyasviel that much,
you should watch with your own eyes.
See? Behold, Miyu.
Those are your friends, fighting and hurting each other over you.
No, Kuro, Illya!
Oh, it's futile, futile.
I'm just shifting your consciousness. Your voice won't reach them.
Why?
Why would you choose Miyu-sama?
Why choose an individual over the world?
No one individual is worth so much.
Emotion, maybe?
Isn't that the way people are?
People's feelings aren't logical.
Don't you get that?
Is there truly any value in such things?
Things that would make you choose to destroy a world?
People would sacrifice all of humanity for something like that?
That's why
I'm sure I'm probably wrong.
Kuro...
But still, I can't choose the world. I can't choose justice.
I know someone who was just like you people.
He was a man who tried to be a hero of justice,
who would sacrifice the few to save the many.
But even that man once chose to sacrifice the many for one person.
Although he knew it was wrong,
he chose to be a man, rather than a hero of justice.
Was that one person you?
I wish I could say yes.
It was my little sister.
I don't care about the world.
The most weight I can bear is two people!
My weak little sister
and our captive princess!
I can't accept that.
Humanity wouldn't willingly choose its own destruction.
That's enough! Stop it, Kuro!
I've had enough of people being hurt because of me!
No matter what words you use,
no single life outweighs an entire world!
I'm at a disadvantage against her at this range.
So there's only one tactic.
Close the distance!
Got her!
No.
That's not how you use that Card.
What's this?
She teleported just the point?
Yours was the Card I was most wary of, but that's all you can do?
Wha... Il—
Illya!
No... It can't be...
You idiot! Why would you take my place?!
Get up, Illya...
Hey... You're kidding, right!?
Join her.
What?
Huh? Illya?
It's okay, that was...
Zabaniya.
Assassin's decoy power.
Kuro, listen to me.
I just can't agree with your choice.
Huh?
Oh?
You... I'm disappointed!
Is that all Miyu meant to you?
Miyu...
Miyu is someone I don't want to lose.
She's precious to me.
But...
So are you, Kuro.
Just as you worry about me,
there are people I don't want to lose, that I won't let go of.
I'm sure everyone in this world feels the same!
So I can't choose.
I can't sacrifice everything
just for Miyu.
Yes, that's the right answer.
If there's a chance to save the world,
individual emotions don't matter.
This has been my fate, ever since I was born as the Holy Grail.
These chains of fate will never be broken.
I can't choose between Miyu and the world.
I'll...
I'll save both Miyu and the world!
Saying we have to choose is flawed from the start!
Nonsense.
It's the Holy Grail, right?
We entrust humanity's wishes and hopes to the Holy Grail, right?
So why?
Why not wish for everyone to be happy?!
Illya-sama...
What the heck?
What are you thinking?
I don't know how to make it happen.
But... But...
But,
maybe that kind of dream-like wish
is exactly what we should entrust to the Holy Grail, right?
Yeah!
Next Time
I'm touched!
Your willpower has given our princess hope!
I want you to fight with all your power.
Try and steal Miyu from me!
Hope is the deadliest poison.
To the Princess's Side