It should have been around four in the morning, at the center of Fuyuki Bridge, bathed in the dim moonlight, a magic circle drawn with someone's blood began to activate.
In the dazzling radiance, a red-haired boy appeared in the center of the circle, half-crouched.
The first thing he did was take out his phone and check the time.
Two minutes past four.
Two to three hours until sunrise.
Shirou let out a sigh of relief.
Alaya hadn't lied to him. The flow of time here was slightly different from other worlds.
This way, if any problems came up again, he could deal with them calmly.
As for the burning Fuyuki City, one could say it had temporarily come to an end.
By forcing Lev Lainur Flauros to hand over the Grail, the burning of Fuyuki City in Singularity F was stabilized.
This method, without a doubt, was equal in weight to the harsh task Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others faced in repairing Singularities.
But it had to be done.
In a sense, the root of the incineration of human order began with the birth of the organization to safeguard it, Chaldea.
If Lev had never seen Chaldea's experiment regarding Demi-Servants, he might have thought humanity still had a chance, and would have chosen to commit suicide in 2015.
So, if one thought seriously about it, Chaldea itself was the true culprit behind everything.
If one wanted to solve the problem at its root… The simplest way was what Shirou was doing now, maintaining the burning Fuyuki City of Singularity F.
When it burned completely to nothing, maybe everything would end.
It was simple: as the final victor of the Holy Grail War within the burning Fuyuki City of Singularity F, as long as Shirou didn't die, the burning Fuyuki City of Singularity F would continue to exist. Until it was fully consumed.
Because history had been altered.
In the true history of FGO, the winners were the old Director and Solomon as Caster.
So, in order to "correct" history, the proper victor should have been Caster Cu Chulainn.
But because of his interference, Dog-Bro exited early.
And in the end, Shirou won the Grail War, and wished to save Olga Marie.
Which meant, history hadn't been corrected.
For them, Shirou's act of maintaining the burning Fuyuki City would become another Singularity.
As for how long it would take Roman to realize this fact, Shirou didn't know.
Besides, thinking that everything would be solved once it finished burning didn't feel very realistic.
After all, in FGO, it was never clearly stated what the true reason was that Saber could maintain the burning Fuyuki City.
For example, if the incineration of human order really could be sustained until the end by Saber, then her attitude toward Chaldea shouldn't have been so gentle. At the very least, it should have been like her Sakura-route fight against Heracles, that would have been normal.
At the very least, colder.
So Shirou wouldn't pin his hopes on such uncertain factors.
Helping Fujimaru Ritsuka overcome this Singularity, and choosing to maintain it afterward.
Aside from being friends with Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash, most of Shirou's reasons were his own selfishness.
A two-pronged plan.
Before the incineration of human order truly reached into this world, Shirou would search for a way for Fujimaru Ritsuka and his own world to survive together.
If he couldn't find one, even at the very last moment, then he could only apologize to Fujimaru Ritsuka.
After all, the most important people to him were here.
So maintaining Singularity F, the burning Fuyuki City, was the time Shirou was buying for them, and for himself.
During this time, he would search for a way to resolve the incineration of human order.
And also see if Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others could find a way.
If truly not, then they would each have no choice but to fight for their own worlds.
After sorting his thoughts out more or less, Shirou checked his own body.
Completely unharmed. As for the curse and the injuries caused by the constant draining of his body, all of it had been repaired.
It was equivalent to wiping out all negative status effects in one go.
The reason such a thing had happened was because, "Avalon."
At Shirou's call, miraculous radiance bloomed from his hand.
The distant land of ideals.
In her final moments, Artoria had quietly entrusted her scabbard to the boy.
She probably knew the boy wouldn't cherish his own body, so this scabbard might bring him some help.
And the fact proved true.
The moment the scabbard came to him, it had an immense effect.
It had practically saved half his life.
Looking at Avalon, he let out a small sigh, "You really had me pinned down, Saber. Giving me a gift I couldn't refuse."
After standing there for a while, Shirou put Avalon away, entrusted it to the system, and left Fuyuki Bridge.
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