In the luminous screen, the video continues.
[End of the Fourth Holy Grail War]
The scene of Artoria raising "Excalibur (Sword of Promised Victory)" high above her head reappears.
["In the name of Emiya Kiritsugu, I command with a Command Seal—"]
["Destroy the Holy Grail..."]
["Return with the third Command Seal..."]
["Saber, destroy the Holy Grail..."]
["Stop!"—Artoria cries out in pain after fighting until her face is stained with blood...]
The light of the Holy Sword instantly devours the Holy Grail before her.
The immense power causes the polluted Holy Grail to suffer devastating damage, and the sound of explosion echoes...
The materialized evil, along with immeasurable magical energy, turns into black mud and devours everything around it...
The raging fire burns the city...
[Bullet Comments]
[Goldy: ...You're getting in the way of me marrying Saber...You worthless mongrel...]
[Elise Utsumemiya: Although it's satisfying to see the Holy Grail being destroyed...this scene is too tragic...Still, it's the god of death's...carnival...]
[Alguiwen: My king... Even though I was prepared and understood that the Black Holy Grail needed to be destroyed...seeing this guy betray me on the spot really infuriates me...]
[Mordred: Father...I really want to kill that Emiya Kiritsugu...]
[Gareth: Even I can't bear to watch this scene directly...]
[Aozaki Touko: However...although the Holy Grail has been completely contaminated...what exactly did Emiya Kiritsugu experience in that short time? At this moment, his eyes are utterly tragic...]
[Natalia: That level of magical collapse has reached the scale of a gas leak, and the destruction of the city is inevitable...I'm also very curious—what did Kiritsugu see? After emerging from the Holy Grail, he was completely broken...]
[Mash: Perhaps...with this Holy Grail War—the Fifth War—and Emiya Shirou's life...this secret might finally be solved!]
[...]
While everyone was half in doubt and half sighing...
The video on the luminous screen once again returned to the timeline of the Fifth Holy Grail War:
[Although the regular Holy Grail War requires sixty years to accumulate magical energy...]
[Due to the Fourth Holy Grail War, Emiya Kiritsugu failed to make a wish, and the Holy Grail's magical energy was not completely consumed... Thus, ten years later, the Fifth Holy Grail War was brought forward...]
[Tohsaka Residence]
[After crossing the barrier of time and space, Artoria knelt exhaustedly on the blood-soaked Hill of Camlann. Surrounded by deathly silence and desolation, she stared blankly at everything, as if her soul had been taken away.]
[The camera gradually zoomed out, revealing a frozen time and space where all actions and emotions were suspended at that moment.]
[On the Hill of Camlann, at the moment she finally signed the contract.]
[On the hill, another Artoria appeared—or rather, the original Artoria...]
[She maintained the posture from the moment of signing the contract, tears gushing like a spring. Her gauntlet was stained with the enemy's blood, and the spear in her hand was deeply pierced into Mordred's heart.]
[Faced with this figure identical to herself, Artoria could no longer suppress her inner grief and bowed her head, sobbing.]
[In this space where time stood still, she let her tears flow freely, without needing to hide or remain strong.]
[Because here, no matter what she thought or did, it would not be recorded by the torrent of history. She removed the halo of kingship and revealed her true self.]
["Woo..."]
[The sound of wailing was particularly harsh in the silence.]
["I'm sorry..."]
["I'm sorry...I truly do not deserve to be called a king..."]
["One day, I will find the Holy Grail and use it to make up for all the mistakes I have made, to start everything anew..."]
[——If only I had never chosen to pull the sword from the stone...]
[As she lost herself in memories, the voice of the magician in white robes seemed to echo in Artoria's ears, just like that moment.]
["If you draw that sword...in the end, you will no longer be human..."]
[...]
[In this eternal moment, Artoria was immersed in endless regret and self-blame. Time seemed to have lost its meaning, and her tears seemed endless.]
[However, in that blood-red sky, a strange light suddenly flashed.]
[Artoria slowly raised her head. The light seemed to bring her new hope, illuminating the confusion and perplexity in her heart.]
[A blinding white light enveloped everything—a familiar sensation for Artoria]
["Servant, Saber, answering your summons."]
["I ask of you...Are you my Master?"]
Under the moonlight, Shirou Emiya, sitting on the ground, stared in a daze at the sword-wielding girl who had suddenly appeared before him.