All the past memories flooded his mind. It was a story of desperately fighting for the most important person on a snowy night. Its name was "Oath Under Snow."
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"Am I back?"
As a flash of light flickered, Emiya Shirou's figure appeared in this seemingly ruined space. On the uneven ground, fragments of magic-infused swords had not yet completely disappeared. Even without seeing Angelica, Emiya Shirou knew that only a short time had passed since he left this world.
"Does time flow almost negligibly in this world?"
Easily reaching a conclusion, Emiya Shirou immediately used his magecraft to sense if there were any magical surveillance spells nearby. He found nothing.
"I suppose even if there were any before, they would have been completely destroyed by that one sword strike!"
Angelica's final attack, a full-power strike unleashed by the Enuma Elish, directly pierced Emiya Shirou's Reality Marble, surging through this space. Under such terrifying power, any magical surveillance would likely have been pulverized!
"This makes things much easier!"
Looking at his surroundings, Emiya Shirou immediately cast an invisibility spell. Just then, the box beside him suddenly shook.
"Oh no, I forgot about Atalante!"
Realizing this, Emiya Shirou quickly opened the box beside him. The next moment, a green figure quickly shot out of the box.
"It seems our experiment was a success, Atalante!"
"Yes, it was indeed a success."
Stretching herself casually and observing her condition, Atalante earnestly described her feelings. "I lost consciousness from the moment you started traveling until just now. As soon as I heard your voice, I knew the experiment had succeeded!"
Moving her body, Atalante began to observe her surroundings. The scene before her felt exceptionally familiar. "Is this...?"
"That's right, as you guessed, this is my former hometown, Fuyuki City!"
"So this is it!"
Emiya Shirou hadn't told Atalante where they were going before, but even so, Atalante was extremely familiar with this place. Because she often saw it in Emiya Shirou's dreams. In fact, as a Servant, Atalante didn't need to sleep. Not needing to eat or rest, Servants were terrifying fighting machines. However, many Servants retained the habit of resting, and the same went for eating.
Just like when Atalante was captured by Emiya Shirou, she didn't rest until the very last day, and then she dreamed of Emiya Shirou's past. But after the Holy Grail War, she seemed to have fallen in love with sleeping. In her dreams, she often saw Emiya Shirou's other pasts.
The victor of the Holy Grail War, the "Bow of Orario" from the Dungeon, the "Copy Swordsman" of Hagun Academy. His past stories were extremely interesting to Atalante. Therefore, she, who often entered dreams, naturally had a deep memory of this battle, which held a significant place in Emiya Shirou's memories.
"I'm back, it's been a long time, my world!"
Looking at everything before him, Emiya Shirou sighed with emotion, then his eyes suddenly sharpened.
"While returning to this time period is indeed a pleasant surprise, now is not the time for sentimentality."
"I have more important things to do now!"
With that, Emiya Shirou immediately started to walk out.
"Let's go, Atalante! We have more important things to do now!"
"Yes!"
Stepping out of the cave, Emiya Shirou and Atalante quickly disappeared from the space, gazing at the lingering night. Unfortunately, in his urgency, he didn't notice. Above Mount Enzou, a golden figure was watching him. And in her eyes, there was deep confusion. Why had his change been so profound in just a few minutes?
Angelica didn't understand.
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Running continuously through the snow, towards his home, Emiya Shirou was now at full speed. Passing through various familiar scenes, Emiya Shirou soon arrived at his doorstep. Ignoring the puppet lying in the snow outside the wall, Emiya Shirou quickly rushed into his house.
"Sakura!"
Looking at the girl lying on the ground, Emiya Shirou quickly cast a spell to collect her remaining soul. As streams of light flowed around, soon, numerous fragments of Matou Sakura's soul began to gather into the orb in Emiya Shirou's hand. This was a magical item Emiya Shirou had spent a lot of effort creating at the Mage's Association.
Using it to contain Matou Sakura's soul was undoubtedly the best choice. As the surrounding streams of light continuously converged into the orb, the previously glowing courtyard gradually fell silent.
"The first step is complete!"
Looking at the orb holding the girl's soul, Emiya Shirou's face was full of smiles. This feeling of recovering something lost was truly joyful.
"Next, I just need to repair Sakura's soul and then use puppet magecraft to create a suitable body for her!"
The puppet magecraft Emiya Shirou learned from Touko Aozaki, although called "puppet," produced a body that was absolutely perfect compared to Matou Sakura's former body. And this was a miracle that only Touko Aozaki had been able to achieve before. Now, Emiya Shirou was another.
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With this miracle, Touko Aozaki also achieved a state of immortality. No matter who killed her, she would awaken anew in one of the bodies she had hidden around the world. And now, Emiya Shirou, having learned Touko Aozaki's puppet magecraft, also learned homunculus technology from Gold. Although Gold's family was not as famous as the Einzbern family, in terms of technology, or rather, homunculus creation technology, the gap wasn't that big. With Emiya Shirou's magical talent, learning these things was simply effortless.
In fact, Loki's original blessing wasn't that powerful, but after becoming a Servant, under the interference of the Moonlit World, his blessing transformed into a more powerful inherent skill. And it was this change that caused this blessing to undergo an extremely powerful evolution. This made Emiya Shirou's talent in magic nothing short of a miracle. And it was this miracle that made Emiya Shirou's plan to save Matou Sakura a
reality, not a delusion.
"Thank you so much, Lord Loki!"
Looking at the moon in the sky, Emiya Shirou couldn't help but recall various things related to the Loki Familia.
Perhaps Loki considered her blessing just a fleeting whim. But for Emiya Shirou, it was extremely important help. Joining the Loki Familia was arguably the most
important decision Emiya Shirou ever made in his life.
Waking from his memories, Emiya Shirou looked at Matou Sakura's corpse lying on the ground and used magic to preserve it. After all, to perfectly create Matou Sakura's body, he still needed Matou Sakura's former body as a standard. After he had completed everything, he finally looked at Atalante, who had been standing by his side. At this moment, both her head and shoulders were covered with quite a bit of snow.
Stepping forward to brush it off for her, Emiya Shirou smiled and said, "Let's go, Atalante! Let's go home together!"
With that, Emiya Shirou led Atalante into the house next door. He was finally back, Emiya household!
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