FGO Singularity 1950 Germany- The Road to Paradise

by ColinHayworth

A story in an alternate WWII singularity where its mystery still reigns and the mana were unusually dense for its age. It has allowed all those who were beyond 1900 to become heroic spirits as long as their deeds are beyond any comprehension of human beings. And now this is where all those who remains to reach the truth of what happened

14. Departure in Regret

Warning: This fanfic dealt with probably controversial themes and you may find it not suitable for you. If you still decide to read, then stay strong and brace yourself for what you are about to read. This story here happens in Arc 2 and thus may contain some spoilers.

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Chapter 14: Departure in Regret

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Arnold's soon closed his eyes and soon he drifted into his sleep. Within that floating emptiness, his mind searches for the lost fragments of his past. He knew his story hasn't ended yet and so he wanted to look to the very bottom of it. When he did so, he saw a glimmering light from a distance and soon he reached out for it.

The light soon engulfed him and he is transported to another fragment of memory.

The blinding light died down and soon he found himself in... a cellar? Why does he reach out for Alfin's memory of all time? Isn't he already witness till the end of her story?

Words of God: For this part, play Kirby Canvas Curse - Drawcia Sorceress - itoki hana

Or was it truly ended there at all?

Arnold takes a look around the cellar to see if there is any difference, he could list up quite a few just from a glancing view. The paintings are gone, most likely have been burnt up and she soon never motivate herself to draw any more art. The place is bloody humid that it is just suffocating despite there's a window there and-

It is raining... How long was it since the last time something happened here?

He then walked downstairs and soon he heard a loud thud from the ground floor. He then quickly made it down there as soon as possible and noticed that someone is lying there while having shortness of breath. It's Alfin's mom!

"Don't tell me she contracted some illness?!" Arnold thought as he watching her gasping for air in pain.

He then looked at the surroundings and noticed that the place has been decaying for it is not maintained for a while, and then the final evidence came to his sight. it is Alfin but she is older now, having a closer appearance to the Servant's version of her. The outbreak of the past wouldn't literally last for a massive amount of time and thus Alfin's mother must have caught by a different disease than the one that took her brother away.

"Mother, what's wrong!" Alfin quickly approaches her to check what's wrong.

Alfin doesn't have that much medical knowledge and the fact that she might also likely have dropped out of school after murdering her father also bolster that fact. Her sister has also noticed and they together carrying their mother into her room. The house that they live in is running down and the fact that their source of income also severely jeopardized after their father's death. But despite that fact, they still live with each other happily, until now that is.

"Sis, I will get a doctor to check our mother's condition. Please watch over her in case something turns for the worse." Alfin's sister said to her.

Alfin simply nodded and her sister then runs out of the room, most likely to get a doctor somewhere nearby. Alfin meanwhile quickly tried to find any way to help, but she doesn't know what to do. She tried to check her mother's condition and decided to at least undress her first. When she finally did so, she falls back in shock to see the illness that plagued her mother. Arnold also sees it and also have that same reaction.

She is suffering from cancer and its symptom is too obvious for anyone to dictate otherwise. No matter what you tried to say about that lump swollen on her chest, that thing is obviously cancer. Having an illness like this is obviously death, there is no possible treatment for this in this era. And to make that matter worse, she might have that thing from much earlier and deliberately hiding it from her daughters. Now, when the thing has reached its final stage, death is the only thing that could free her of her suffering.

Alfin cries, she doesn't know what to do in a time like this. She doesn't want her mother to die for she is the last vestige of hope for her in this cruel world. Tears that won't stop falling from her eyes as she keeps bawling at her on the soon-to-be death bed.

Arnold can't do anything but to look at the depressing sight in front of him. Until he heard something from downstairs and Alfin seems to notice it too. He quickly got down there and Alfin also does it too.

However, the moment he got close to the door, his body went stiff from the sheer aura of dread and malice that is being emanated. Whatever that is, it is definitely not the doctor or Alfin's sister at all. Alfin seemingly ignores all of those warnings and opened the door. When she did so, a single word runs through Arnold's mind

Shit

The door opened and shows a man dressed in black priest clothes and wearing a hat with red silk circled around it and a red scarf around his neck and a dark side bag that contains something. Arnold wanted to slam the door off but he is intangible in this memory and thus he got no choice but to see how Alfin will react. He noticed her hesitation as if she doesn't sure if this is a good idea or not.

"I'm a Jewish doctor who is specialized in treatments of various diseases, I noticed that someone from your house is running and looking for a doctor. I guessed that somebody here is sick or something. Can I take a look so that I can at least keep her alive until the proper help come?" The mysterious man said to Alfin.

Arnold knows too damn well that is a lie, such extreme malice and dread that his intuition picked up have never failed him even once in guessing others' underlying motives. But... how could Alfin possibly know that he is lying or not? She is facing two choices, risk having the mysterious man check up on her mother or leaving her mother to her death.

Arnold knew that nothing good is going to come out of either of these. Suffering is always at the end of each of her memory and the world would be damned if anything involving her not ending in tragedy or heartbreak.

"I understand then... She is on the first floor, please do anything you can to cure her of whatever disease plaguing her." Alfin said to the man reluctantly.

"Then please wait patiently, and do not enter the room without any good reason." The man said to her before he heads there himself.

Arnold knew that is what going to happen, but he can hardly blame her for doing so. But he can't help himself but notice that devious smile hidden in that man's face. Something bad is going to happen, he just knew it for sure. He quickly followed upstairs and tried to enter the room that Alfiin's mother is placed at. But... he can't phase through it anymore. That man... did he locked the whole place and barred entry of anything spiritually?. When did he get everything set up this quick!? Alfin also tried to get in but she can't due to the knob refused to budge.

Having no choice but to wait for the whole thing to play out, he knew that this is going to end really messy. Soon, he sits there while time is flying by, the waiting is killing him and he felt that he can't just keep this on any longer.

In two hours later, somebody returned home, he watches as the door sprang open with two people. Alfin's sister and the doctor that she brought along. He looks a lot more like what you would think of when you said 'doctor'. White hair and beard, wearing a coat and a rosary on his neck and unusually muscular.

"Where's the patient, I need to check her up!" The doctor asked as he tried to quickly find where the patient is.

Alfin's sister point to the room on the first floor and the doctor quickly gets to the door of the room. He tried to grab for the knob but before he did so, he stops suddenly like something just changed his mind. Arnold also got to the door of the said room and the extreme aura of malice is sickening that it is nauseous. No wonder that even the doctor got into the state of mental overload.

The doctor then suddenly runs away and exits the house, both Alfin and her sister watch in shock of how he decided to run away like that. Not only Alfin's sister's effort all fall into waste but Alfin has also potentially unleashed the possible horror that is about to befall on them. Arnold felt the malice from the room is growing even more and he started to fear of how things will turn out.

Suddenly, some people burst into the house and quickly mobilize towards the entrance of the locked room. They are dressing priest clothing and wearing rosaries. In their hands are long and rapier-like blades with extremely short hilts. Alfin and her sister are in confusion of what is going on, not even Arnold can process what is exactly happening right now.

And the doctor from before also returned with a serious expression, completely different than before. He then slowly approaching the door with caution and seems to mumble some sorts of incantation or something.

Suddenly something burst through the door and knocked the doctor away, within those split second, he managed to block it with the same blades that Arnold saw from other priests and reduced the damage inflicted greatly. Although it did nothing about the knockback he received and thus burst through the wall and created a massive hole in the aftermath. Arnold who was close by noticed that it is a tentacle of sorts as it sloshing blood everywhere.

Alfin and her sisters are watching horror as that 'thing' wiggles around then retract into the room. Alfin's sister fainted from the overwhelming sight of it and the other priests quickly take her away to safety. Alice is in a state of great confusion about what is going on right now. The same could also be said to Arnold for he isn't understanding a single bit of what is going on. Are they exorcists or something? What the hell in this accursed world is that man!?

The exorcists quickly throw their blades into the door and then saying some sorts of incantation. The door then burst into flame and quickly turned into ashes.

"Dead Apostle sighted, prepare to exterminate!" One of the exorcists said.

At this point, the line between reality and fantasy is completely blurred. It is like suddenly stepping into some sort of twisted horror story without even knowing when or anything at all. Everything just suddenly getting painted in blood and tears.

Almost like some sort of delusion, Alfin slowly back off and then runs off into the back. Arnold tried to process everything that is unfolded and then he looks at the inside of the room, all he could say is: "Dear lord..."

Not even the reality of war is as disgusting as this, the whole room splattered in blood and gore. Bloody tentacles splurted out of Alfin's mother's corpse as it strangles the exorcists like nothing. That mysterious man now Arnold knows as Dead Apostle is feasting upon the blood of those people who tried to fight against him. Alfin's single action results in the death of those people.

A man got tossed outside the room with a massive neck bite wound that is bleeding nonstop. He then fell down the stairs and lies unconscious there, dead is all but assure for him. Arnold can't do anything at all because he is still a spirit here, and he further cursing himself for always being useless. He doesn't even know what on earth is the monstrosity right in front of him. Monster? Demon? Vampire? Whatever it is, it is definitely not human!

The doctor that got knocked outside quickly bursts through the hole again and resulted in massive wreckage, he charging inside with the blades held between his fingers in each hand in 'fan formation'. The tentacles quickly lunge at him with great speed but the doctor quickly throws them right at their shadows and suddenly they were paralyzed and unable to move.

Closing down the distance between him and the Dead Apostle, he quickly threw those blades at the Dead Apostle but the DA deflected them with the bloody claws for his hand.

The doctor and the DA clashes with each other repeatedly, sparks of blood fly everywhere in this bloodstained room. The tentacles that keep burst up from the corpse of Alfin's mother tried to kill the doctor by piercing him through the heart. However, he is ungodly dexterous that even when surrounded, he can still keep up.

Arnold looked at the whole room in complete shock. At least in his war, the blood and gore would soon disappear into the mud. But here? Those things are as clear as red paint on an empty canvas.

How long did the battle go on? One hour? Two hours? Three? He doesn't even know anymore. The world around him just started to slow down as the doctor can't keep up the fight extensively against the like of Dead Apostle. Soon his arm got shackles by the blood tentacles, the victory all seem to belong to the Dead Apostle.

"You are sure is a level above those Exorcists that you brought along aren't you, because after all, you're an Executioner in disguise so that you can hunt me after you learned of my presence." The Dead Apostle said mockingly at the doctor.

The doctor doesn't say anything. In his eyes, the Dead Apostle in front of him is a heretic that has to be exterminated. He tried to break out of the tentacles' grip but the Dead Apostle started to grip his throat with the bloodstained claw of his. The doctor felt that the claw will pierce into his throat's artery if any second will pass any longer.

And just like that, the Dead Apostle smirked for believing that victory is his, only for one thing he didn't expect completely turned the table against him

*BANG!*

A massive hole burst through the Dead Apostle's chest. Completely surprised at how there is something is actually capable of hurting him, the doctor took advantage of it and quickly break free out of the tentacles' grip and quickly pin the Dead Apostle against the ground.

And at behind the brawl that is going on, was Alfin. In her hands... are the double-barrel shotgun. The very same one that her father killed her dog... The thing is one of its first kinds and it received bloodlust of a madman and a kill list with only an innocent in it, now with a sinner added along. Alfin is staring unto the brawl that is unfolding in front of her, with eyes as empty as the abyss.

The doctor impaled the Dead Apostles as many of those blades as possible. The Dead Apostle tried to command the tentacles to kill the doctor but all of it for some reason just stood there like nothing. His command fell into the deaf ears as he was soon immobilized after being impaled by dozens of them. All of them are stabbed with actual purposes behind, he is preparing an exorcising ritual in order to banish the Dead Apostle right immediately.

He stood up while his clothes are stained with blood, he begins the chanting his banishing incantation. The Dead Apostle screams in horror as he is about to face true death. It is only a fitting end for a monster driven by bloodlust and finds the suffering of other humans entertaining. Alfin stood there and looked at the Dead Apostle in the eyes. The Dead Apostle stares back and suddenly scream even in more horror. Her eyes that are so empty it makes even the innocents confess.

Soon a blinding light blasts from where the Dead Apostle is being pinned down. And that monster is no longer exist in this world anymore. The doctor then proceeds to approach Alfin and putting his hand on her forehead. He's...

He's erasing her memory of the event transpired here! Alfin quickly screams as she tried to desperately stop the doctor from removing the memory of her mother. It was a battle of inner worlds. Where she desperately tried to pull her mother away from the doctor who is also pulling away from Alfin, the thing can be described like a tug-o-war with Alfin's mother being the rope.

But just how much can Alfin measure up against an experienced Executioner? The man decided to be serious with it and pulled Alfin's mother away from her. She fell to the ground as her vision of her mother and the doctor faded away into nothingness. She keeps staring into it, the nothingness as if to find any reason left to even live in this world.

Blood started to appear everywhere, she looks into her hand and started to hallucinating blood on it. She tried to wipe them away but it is still there, she started to cry as it was her very own action that resulted in this whole mess. She not only made her mother went through the most violent and horrible death one could possibly think of, but she also has caused so many lives lost in all of those hours. If she didn't let him in, the only thing that happens would be her mother's death, there won't be anyone who gets caught into this mess.

Soon... she finds herself stands in an ocean of blood and Arnold for some reason is also drawn into it too. She looked up to the sky with her bloodstained face.

And then... he heard something snapped. It was the same feeling he felt when Alfin murdered her father in cold blood. Soon, the sky has fallen into fragments as this fever dream is about to reach its conclusion.

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He woke up and realized that the whole room is completely cleaned, not a single drop of blood, not even the corpse that has tentacles sprung all over it like a goddamn eldritch horror. Nothing... It was... completely wiped clean as if nothing had ever happened.

Alfin is lying there motionlessly like it was all of a bad dream to her. She then wakes up and then suddenly looked around, Arnold has a bad feeling about this. Her memory of that event, it wasn't wiped completely. The bond of her with her mother is too great to be separated by any form of thaumaturgy. She quickly rushes out of the room and tried to find where her mother is. She threw the whole house upside down as she desperately searching for her.

And she then came across her sister who was supposed to have fainted if the original event is any indicating. Alfin asked where is their mother but only to be answered with.

"Our mother? I'm afraid that she died of cancer this afternoon. The doctor told us that it has reached its final stage and her life is within hours of closing to death. We said goodbye to our mother, right?" Alfin's sister said to her.

It is a massive contradiction to what she remembered. Of course... they would also wipe the memory of everyone who was involved, even her sister, even her...

Something in her mind cracked, Arnold swore that he could hear it. He wishes that his mind not playing trick but the possibility that her sanity is cracking up is becoming more apparent

"Don't tell me... She is going insane!?" Arnold thought as he observes her carefully.

Alfin then knelt to the ground, and then she laughed hysterically. She has truly gone mad from the death of her mother and what transpired. She loathes this whole world to her very soul. Her sister can only gasp in horror as she witnesses her sister breakdown in front of her.

Suddenly, Alfin rushes out of the house, running while the rain outside is still going on. She just runs anywhere her legs could carry her, she has no destination, no hope of the future, nothing in mind. She runs for the sake of running away from the tragedy that happened.

The night that she ran away, was as dark as her fate...

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Uneasy Feelings

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Arnold wakes up completely exhausted, never once have a nightmare were this horrifically. People sleep so that they can energize themselves, not making their next day completely miserable. He scratches his eyes for a bit to clear his vision and he suddenly sees Alfin closes up. So close that he has a panic attack despite having no mental difficulty that results in it.

"Arnold? Are you alright?" Alfin asked.

Arnold tried to slow down his breath and calm himself down. But when he thinks about it more and more, he realized that he is receiving a lot more of Alfin's memory than his. It is precisely because of it that he felt so uneasy about what is going to happen. Something will unfold and it will involve Alfin by a huge factor. It also surprises him that this is also the same girl who loathed the world with her whole life.

He stood up and checked the surroundings, the sky is cloudy again and the rain has also started to fall. It is midday now if the light is any indicating.

He looked at the allies who are with him even until now. Desmond seems to have his right leg filled in with a prosthetic sent over by the Chaldea and he seems to use it well as if it was his own original leg.

"Thanks for your help, I would never think it would be possible for you to sent over something like this." Desmond said.

"Don't worry about it. It is just simply our way of making sure that everyone would make it to the end." Gudao said to Desmond.

And he looks to a different direction and seeing that the unusual family is having their time together. Seeing them makes him think about the bloody mess that was called Alfin's family and her downfall from it, literally.

"Onii-chan! Can I have another serving?" Illya said to her brother.

What they are cooking on is just simply a campfire and a pot of assorted ingredients and hung above it. It just so simple like that but he remembers that his time in actual war is no different. Seeing them happy like this makes him feel that things could have gone better for Alfin but fate decided to make her its toy and soon discard her when it got bored of her.

Arnold sighed, he wonders how things will play out from here onward. The line of fantasy and reality is long gone and he got no choice but to accept that things can only keep turning for the worse without any stop. All stops are pulled, he is in this together with everyone else.

He looked up at the sky once more as if searching for any higher power being looked down on him like some sorts of entertainment but once again, the rain is the only answer being given. He got tired of stretching these whole suffocating feelings of his and wanted an answer to this.

The seawater has drained away completely, everyone can now move towards the fourth wall and begins the next operation.

"Hey buddy, it looks like you aren't feeling well, aren't ya?" Larry said as he pats on Arnold's shoulder.

Larry isn't wrong, he never has once felt so tired and uneasy like this before. He may find himself confident enough to face the task head-on but he can't shake off the anxiety of something really horrible that might happen. There is nothing more anxious than having a prediction of something and then suddenly having no answer to it.

"I'm fine... Just don't tell the others of what is going through my mind right now." Arnold said to Larry.

Larry usually would pry further because he knows that having such underlying factors isn't going to help anyone. But he ain't risking his actions to remove them if it only results in more and so he decided to respect Arnold's privacy instead.

"Okay, everyone? Shall we go now?" Gudao said.

And so everyone continues their journey, the 4th wall's size is so large that it can be seen on the horizon. Knowing what is about to unfold, everyone puts their trust in Alfin, knowing that she has the capability to solo against the garrison of the wall itself.

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The Bell Toll For Thee

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Soon enough, they reached the fourth wall. After having the majority of its force suddenly got annihilated last night, this place is strengthened beyond everyone's imagination in order to recompensate for the loss that they were forced to endure.

So much artilleries, they will completely replace the whole rain that is landing on them right now for each drop with a shell. The land right in front of the wall is filled with tons of anti-tank spikes and tank blockers. They have completely replaced the whole patch of ground with littering steel.

And if that isn't enough, they have stationed a whole ton of Tiger right in front of the wall and so when anything tried to invade will pretty much get destroyed before reaching them.

In other words, just like what the third wall is but overdosing on steroids. Attempting to take this wall down will require the force of hundreds of Servants and casualties will obviously occur.

"Alice... Will you be alright?" Arnold asks anxiously, fearing that this might going to be her end.

"Don't worry, Arnold... Just like the previous time, I will still prevail against them no matter what." Alfin reassures her partner.

And just before she actually moves forward a single step, something pulled her back. She turned around and saw Alice holding her from moving by the shoulder.

"Alice?" Alfin asked if there is anything wrong.

"Alfin... Let me handle this..." Alice said with an expressionless face.

Alfin not particularly understands what Alice is trying to do. But after witnessing how she fight in last night, it might be better to leave it in her care.

"Fine... I don't know what you are going to do but I doubt it is going to not result in complete annihilation on a massive scale." Alfin said as she worries that Alice is going to create a massive catastrophe that in the aftermath that they are going to deal with it instead of the wall.

"Alice... Just don't go overboard with your power, please..." Arnold asked Alice to not use drastic measures.

Alice simply nodded and then moves forward, she then slightly levitates and slowly moves toward the wall. Needless to say though, the wall garrison quickly reacts in drastic measures and quickly flooded the space in front of her with an ungodly amount of ballistics before a second could pass.

She still having an uncaring look on her face as if all of those are just like dust on the wind. She blinked and those things just vanish, not a single trace remained. The power scaling of her is just too ridiculous for any possible word in human's dictionary to convey. Even the Chaldeans behind her are dumbfounded to witness an extremely small and minuscule fraction of her power in action.

Also, all of those spikes and tank stoppers are gone too, it was as if she has the power to erase anything at her sights at will. Now those Tigers are rushing at her with subsonic speed which is an action completely undisplayed from before as if there is something allowed them to do so. But no matter what they may throw at Alice, none of them will invoke any form of emotions from her.

She then lands on the ground and crossed her right arm across her face, she closed her eyes as she chanting somethings. Mana started to swirl around her own feet with potency completely trumps over even Divine Spirits, there was so much being emitted that the ground around her is shaking violently like when the meteor that wiped the dinosaurs away is localized at the mere 2 meters radius around her.

Azure aura wrapping around her right arm as it started to form something around it. Soon a blast of aura was unleashed, pushing the air around her away like a 'category 5' hurricane. And on her right arm is what can be called a massive gauntlet made for the titan, forged entirely out of True Ether and illuminating in azure and she is wearing it like some sorts of exoskeleton built-in weapons in video games. And one more important thing, it is fucking huge, so huge that even a King Tiger looks like a vertically challenged person.

"Akashic Arm!" Alice said the name of the technique before rushing forward.

She then charges toward them and before anyone could process their eyes' frame rate. And all of the Tigers charging at her is all annihilated into nothing. The speed she did so might have also broken the theory of relativity itself.

One more thing, to say that she annihilated them is a fucking huge understatement of great measure. Annihilation is the process of unleashing all matter-energy due to the interaction of matter and anti-matter. The result is nonetheless mutual destruction with a massive amount of energy unleashed in the process.

After all of the Tigers were wiped out, she then looks at the wall. In just a moment later, she then snaps her fingers and suddenly, all of the heavy weaponry blew up in azure flames. All of them, Tigers, King Tigers, heavy artilleries, anything. All went up in flame and turned into ashes.

Everyone became astonished at her power. Her power being displayed like this almost making things look like that she wrote how this entire world work.

The remaining infantries are now mass charging at her, so many of them that it makes it looked like the whole war is being unfolded right in front of everyone.

"Void Field..." Alice cast something and then everyone's expression suddenly turned into something else.

She is about to unleash something extremely destructive that she has to use Void Field on everyone else to prevent friendly fire. The last time she used it is when the V2 Rocket is about to detonate. Now, she is using it to protect everyone else from her attack's effect. Just what on earth would warrant her to cast it on her friend like this?

The ultimate defense NP that she cast, she is about to do something that would wipe the whole place away or even erase it all from this world. Everyone looks in anticipation of what she might do.

The army of Azure Soldiers charging towards her like a tsunami that would engulf even the most fortified city, it was as if the only thing that drives them is madness and feral rage. Even then, Alice still has that emotionless face of her against the army that would make even Servants felt that they are going to enter their last battle.

She took out a bell in her pocket, one that is small enough to fit in her palm. She calmly holds it by her two fingers and then slightly ring it. Due to everyone else is under the effect of Void Field, they didn't hear what it sounds like exactly. And it is best for them to never know that at any time in their lifespans as long as they still want to live.

The soldiers suddenly collapse and they started to trip over on top of each other, they started to dissipate into earthly dust itself. Not even azure ashes, just dust... Soon the dust completely filled the atmosphere, replaced the whole feral rage of azure into earthly gray dust.

Everyone became completely astonished by how she has such a powerful Noble Phantasm like this. The fact that the Nazis made such a careless work when it comes to containing her is just going to show how incompetence most of them are.

Soon, the Void Field wear off and Arnold quickly came to hug her. Although he may have suspected that she may have ulterior motives but he finds that is at least a concrete proof that she is actually truly within his side.

Considering that the fourth wall's garrison sent everything at them and still got defeated like this. The whole place is now desolated without any trace of enemy remain.

"At least the path is clear for us to go. Alfin, you get the honor of taking down this wall-slash-fortress." Arnold said to her after letting Alice go.

Alfin nodded, she quickly created the blazing portals around her and bring out the biggest caliber she has. Shirou seeing it reminds him of Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon but he decided to just brush it off as coincidence. They may have some similarities but the difference is still too great.

However, before Alfin fired any of her shots. The ground shook violently, that everyone lost their balance. This sudden turns of events quickly threw everybody off guard as they realized that this isn't the end yet.

"What's going on!? Why is there a tremor right now?!" Larry asked as he tried to balance himself.

Soon, the tremor stopped, leaving everybody in a state of disarray. They quickly pulled themselves up and tried to discern the source of the tremor based on what they could discern from.

And then they directed their gazes towards one humongous figure from the distance, one that its size is so large that the fog enveloping the place couldn't make its presence any less obvious. Soon, its figure pierced through the fog and shows its true appearance.

"I think it is safe to assume that London has indeed fallen." Kiritsugu lets out his words as he witnesses the absolute size of the massive archaism he sees.

"And the Mage Association too..." Shirou follows up with his father.

The archaism they witness right now... It is built with the Clock Tower as the body of it. The London Overwatcher... that is what they decided to dub it at the moment.

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The Overwatcher

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The thing is estimated to be about 50 meters tall which the actual clock tower is 40m at most. But considering what the Nazi has under their sleeves, it is not out of the realm of possibility that they might have somehow managed to amplified its power with mana to an ungodly degree. It moves on a quadrupedal base and the clock itself is replaced with what appears to be a mechanical eye that acts as a monitor or something. And surrounding it is a barrier which is guessed to be used as protection against any attack that might possibly be used against it. Seeing it, they knew that there is no easy way out against this.

Arnold knew his hands are tied if he is up against this. He has no Anti-Fortress NP nor anything has enough power to counter the like of this. But then he suddenly realized, Alfin has the solution or even Alice.

"Watch out!" Gudao yelled as somethings quickly approach them.

Arnold breaks out of his thought and noticed a massive barrage of missiles are rushing towards his position and everyone else's. His feet tried to quickly jump out of its way but he realized that the things are locked-on at him, they are going to hit him no matter what-

Trace on! time alter zeroth stagnant

In the next instant, the whole hail of homing missiles was completely blocked by the timeless blades. After that, everyone quickly checks on each other's condition so that they can quickly decide what to do next.

But for some reason, he felt his 'heart' beats slightly faster when he heard the word "zeroth". If he remembers anything correctly, he was never a scholar or a mathematician, he was a soldier. A life that is thrown for somebody else's war. He doesn't even know if there is any hope of a good future left for him there. But then, why? Why does he get so attracted to a number zero like that?

Division by zero is a fallacy in itself. In which it is an attempt to fill in a nonexistent value. In other words, a value that never existed, to begin with. Zeroth stagnant is another word for the removal of the concept of time itself. To lock it in place and it will never gain any value or experience but it will never change either, no matter what force was applied to.

Breaking out of his thought again, he knows that he has to do something. Another hail of missiles inbound and he once again has to hide behinds the timeless blades themselves. To stuck in a deadlock without a solution to breakthrough, he knew well that somebody will have to take action or that London Overwatcher will approach them and crush them underneath its foot.

After the barrage ceased, Alfin jumped out first and turned towards the Overwatcher and quickly crouched at the grounds and creating two blazing portals around the ground and side by side where she is positioned at. Tripoded machine guns rise up from it and stacked on top of each other, she then drew out her pistol but there is one thing about it caught his eyes, the pistol was forged in gold.

Now, this started to make Arnold think something was amiss. After the end of her latest memory fragment, he sees her running away from her house after the tragedy that takes place there. But what on earth happened between there the last part of her childhood and her now? Why did she become a warlord of all things? How did she amass enough wealth to forge a pistol entirely out of gold!? These burning questions needed an answer and he doubts he would receive it at all.

She then fires her pistol and the rest of the machine guns fired at where she aimed her pistol at. The missiles were quickly shot down and detonated in mid-air before it could do any damage to others. At this point, quantity over quality is the only way to go.

"Arnold! Follow me!" Alfin said to Arnold.

Arnold quickly tried to run out of the barrier's cover and he turned back towards the London Overwatcher. He noticed that something is charging within its 'eye' and realized that it is about to do what he is about to say.

"Everyone! Get out of the cover now! It is about to unleash an unblockable attack!" Arnold said to everyone who is trying to take cover.

The moment he let out those words, everyone there quickly jumped out of the cover and quickly run away from it as far as they could. Arnold and Alfin follow the suits and jumped out of where the Overwatcher might shoot at.

Soon a laser shot out of the 'eye' of the Overwatcher and it annihilated everything in its path. Not even the timeless blades managed to withstand it. Arnold who is still dazed from the sheer blast of the laser tried to focus his vision so that he can stop the shellshock effect itself. And then he heard someone reaching out to him.

"Arnold, get here now!" Alfin said to him while she is sitting on the front seat of a... car?

Arnold decided to not ask the detail right now. Alfin might possibly have a solution and thus he quickly jumped on it. The car looks like an extremely old model, at least by modern age standard. An MG42 is installed on the back of the car so that he can fire at anything that tried to pursue them.

After Arnold got on it, Alfin quickly full throttles the car as it moves away from the Overwatcher as fast as possible. Although the ruined road makes it hard to do so, the Servant's modifier at least managed to make sure it can withstand all sorts of non-Servant harm.

"So where do we go now!?" Arnold asked.

"We'll head for a mountain, if I had enough mana or raw materials, I can unleash the full potential of my Soulburst Forge and my true Noble Phantasm." Alfin said to Arnold.

Arnold heard what she said but for some reason, he felt a hint of sadness in it. He then started to fear that the full power of her Noble Phantasm will consume her away in the end. He fears that she will sacrifice herself just so everyone can have their chance.

The Overwatcher, of course, didn't overlook them because after all, that thing is a weapon of mass destruction, made to kill the most and effectively as possible. It fires a salvo of homing missiles at them in an attempt to kill them.

Arnold detected the missiles and quickly uses the machine gun to shot them down before it reaches them. The sheer firing rate of the machine gun alone is staggering that it felt comparable to the Final Conda. After he managed to secure their safety by shooting them all down, he let go of the trigger and sees the barrel of the gun heated up to the point the air around it started to warp.

Arnold feels that something bad is going to happen, the further he traveled the louder the voice inside his head telling it. He knew that he is heading towards a very hard decision but seeing Alfin gazing emptily but still focus on her actions, he knew that it is inevitable but to deal with it when the time has finally come.

Reaching the closest mountain on the distance which is 1 kilometer from the wall and ironically back at where the Beast dug up the whole place, this place's surroundings was also a densely populated area but now completely abandoned. Apartments, warehouses, industrial complexes, everything she needed is here. Due to their car is not an off-road type, it was a struggle to reach there but not too much time was wasted doing so. When they have finally reached the top of the mountain, Alfin got out of her car and then walks forward.

Arnold tried to do the same but before he started to stand up, Alfin said to him.

"Arnold, you stay in that car..." Alfin told Arnold.

Arnold stopped suddenly when he heard it, confused at what she is trying to mean here. However, when Alfin finally turned her face around, Arnold saw those lines of tear flowing on her cheeks. Her words are filled with sorrow that one can't help but feel down. He started to remember one sentence she did say before.

Can you even imagine an outcome for a life that never knew love, that didn't end in heartbreak or tragedy?

Those words ring true even right now, she was too far gone in her original life and the same can only happen to her no matter what he may try to do. As he stranded deep in his thought, he noticed that Alfin is approaching closer and then she placed her hand on the car's hood.

"Farewell, Arnold... May you forgive me for what I am about to do..." Alfin said as she pushes the car downhill.

The moment those words reached Arnold, he entered a state of disbelief. He could have jumped out of the car just to say that he cared about her and won't let her go but he was in too great shock and all he can do is to stare at nothing while the car slides downhill on this mountain.

In about a minute, he reached the mountain foot and when the car reached its stop for about another minute, Arnold steps out of the car. The happy emotions within are all gone from the moment Alfin let out those words to him. Once again, he was too weak to express his emotions and feelings of her and now Alfin's livelihood is now in fate's hand once again. Arnold steps up to the front of the car and then slams his face on the car's hood.

He hated himself for being too weak when it truly matters, and he can't help himself but curse at his own weakness. Now, he is going to lose her, the person that Arnold's truly cared the most. He doesn't care if she has a troubled past, or she has become something atrocious in the future. What she needed right now is love and affection and he won't stop at anything to give her that very gift she deserved.

The ground trembles, Arnold knew that she has tapped into the full potential of her power. If he remembered correctly, her power involves turning mana and raw scrap metals or any material into weapons, vehicles and anything related to warfare. What is she going to do? He doesn't know exactly but this is no time for him to bawl his eyes over himself and what happened anymore. He needs to act now if he wanted any chance of a hopeful tomorrow.

Getting into the front seat of the car and hold the wheel, he may have driven a motorcycle but never once a car. He tried to remember the best of how Alfin did it and follow any of it. It was a difficult task for he is trying to test out everything he could in a given limited time. Soon he managed to find the gas pedal and quickly drives his way out of this place as fast as he could. While the whole surroundings slowly turning into blazing smithereens and moving towards the top of the mountain. He is driving away from it for he remains any longer, even the car he is in would return to its owner.

After getting down the basics, he managed to drive skillfully enough that he is capable of drifting through sharp curves. His destination is everyone else's location and the Overwatcher is rather hard to ignore for that thing is capable of attacking anything in its detection range, not necessarily on its eye's sight alone. A salvo of homing missiles soon finds his position and quickly pursuing him.

"Damn it..." Arnold cursed as he suddenly finds himself doing two things at once.

They said that if you sit on two chairs at once, you will fall between them. Multitasking reduces overall effectiveness but if he just focuses on driving or shooting alone, he won't get anywhere far at all. Betting on the multitasking and hope he can do it effectively, he quickly grabbed for the MG08/15 from the imaginary weaponry rack that transcends beyond the law of physics. And then he fires the machine gun one-handed at the missiles.

Although the erratic firing pattern due to shooting and drive at the same time didn't allow him to use the machine gun to its full effectiveness and thus some missiles managed to get near him, his sharp turning and drifting allow him to avoid them by a hairbreadth. Not that it allows him to escape unscathed though.

Not only facing just missiles, but the laser also destroys the road and creates massive trenches that make him have to resort to many unsavory improvisations in order to get through with the car. He could have abandoned it and just run on foot with virtually no loss, but something inside his mind is telling him that he should try to bring this car at least to anyone who could discern the model of it.

Soon, the car started to show signs of running down, some parts are broken, some are just straight-up gone or too damaged that it would hinder and stuff. The fact that it managed to run despite critical damage just to show how powerful Servant's modifier is.

"How long do I have to keep this up!?" Arnold thought as he started to reach the limit of his mind.

Suddenly, he saw a figure donned in a red shroud and white hair and the woman with white dress and hair as white as snow, there is no mistaking it, it is Shirou Emiya and his mother. The Master is nearby too. Arnold then tried to press the brake pedal and then pedal just pushed into without resistance, Arnold's expression suddenly turned into something else as he realized that the brake has been broken.

"Get out of the way!" Arnold yelled to get the two's attention.

Without fail, those two quickly jumped out of the way but Shirou threw a blade into the back wheel of the car and forcefully stopped it. The moment it came to a complete halt, the whole car fall apart instantly.

"Wow, to think that you can afford car." Gudao said sarcastically.

"Now isn't the time to make jokes, Master Gudao. Hey, red bowman. Can you tell me what model is this car is?" Arnold said as he steps out of the broken car.

Shirou then checks the broken car and he soon finds the emblem. It is a circle with the small V and large W in it. Anyone who is familiar with cars could tell what model.

"Oh, it is a Volkswagen. To think that something like this still exists amidst this ruins" Irisviel said confidently without even checking the car.

Suddenly, Shirou's mind flashes as a revelation went through his mind. He started to piece every single piece of information together and he started to see a much bigger picture. The Volkswagen that Arnold brought has given Shirou the final piece that will shed light on the shadow of Alfin's identity. Shirou turned towards Arnold and then approach him menacingly. He then grabs Arnold by the collar and started to interrogate him.

"Arnold, you are the only person who goes along with Alfin well enough. Tell me about anything that might involve her backstory, her background, anything!" Shirou said as he held Arnold's by his shirt collar.

Filled with sudden dread, he quickly said every single detail regarding Alfin's backstory and her upbringing. What Arnold said only to confirm Shirou's suspicion.

"Uhm, what's wrong?" Arnold asks for the menacing look of Shirou makes him felt that there is something hidden about her.

The tremor started to reach this place, it is not just suddenly but also as powerful as when the London Overwatcher started to emerge. Everyone's gaze suddenly turned onto one single direction. The mountain where the Beast used as his strong point and now it is shaking like a volcano that is about to erupt.

Shirou then let go of Arnold then turned toward the mountain and then he only said in annoyance.

"Second Magic... is a bitch," Shirou said.

A massive tank started to break through the mountain itself, it is so huge that not even any of the buildings around it could measure up to its size. Hell, it is so huge that even from a kilometer away, the thing felt like it was extremely close to them.

Arnold can only look in awe as he witnesses the monstrous size of it. If anything, it is the only thing that could possibly fight against the London Overwatcher. Shirou however only looks as if his suspicion is confirmed. What worries him isn't the massive tank itself but rather its controller.

"Alfin..." Arnold whispers as he focuses his eyes to see her.

She is standing on top of it, a massive main gun whose caliber could destroy a fortress in a single shot, a massive array of cannons and artilleries were built alongside the platform of the tank itself. The monstrous size of it can allow it to outright destroy a whole encampment just by running over it alone. And Alfin, the only emotions he could felt from her right now are just melancholy and sorrow. As if she has accepted that the moment she unleashes it, it will also be her end.

And then it strikes him, the reason that she doesn't want to use her Noble Phantasm until now is not because of the fact that it will kill her or anything but because the moment she uses it, her true identity will be all there for everyone to see. Any person who has basic knowledge in history can instantly tell her who she is. And she is...

Arnold's head suddenly ached, it felt like his head is being butchered by a guillotine repeatedly without stopping. He screamed in agony but nobody is there to help him for they were too occupied by the massive unit of a tank itself. Arnold's mind suddenly drifted away from the consciousness and soon he finally understands who Alfin truly is.

It was such a cruel fate that no amount of words can ever describe.

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Revelation
Path of No Return
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"Where... am I?" Arnold said as he stumbles around as his vision begins to clear itself.

When he is finally able to see the surroundings clearly, he found himself in a train station. Despite still being a phantom in this world, he can still feel the temperature. The place is cold, the kind of cold that would cut through your flesh and bone. The outside is raining ceaselessly. When was the last time this place wasn't being gloomy with rain and stuff?

The whole train station is empty, so empty that even he finds it strange. It was as if he is the only person here, and so he decided to look around for anything. Just what exactly does this place connect to Alfin?

And then he noticed that someone is moving towards this place. He then quickly heads out to the checkout stand so that he can take a better examination of the person. On closer look, it is Alfin! And her appearance is a lot more similar to the Servant form that he knew. He got near her just when she is about to write her name on the form. Her name is Alfin, right-

Adolf Hitler. That is what written in the form.

The moment he gazed upon those words, not even disbelief would cover it all. If this is some sort of cruel and twisted joke, it is definitely not funny at all. 'Alfin'... the person who placed all of his belief and faith in... is what would become of mad dictator resulting in a massive amount of deaths from mass genocide and massacres. 'Alfin' the person whom he fought together till now, is what would be represented as a sinner who has no deserve of redemption. 'Alfin'...

He wanted to cry, the truth that his partner is the man who resulted in WW2, the slaughter of roughly 60 million casualties. What was he fighting for!?

Suddenly, he remembered back in the past when he swore his oath for 'Alfin'. He remembered it clearly now, all of it was laid out but he didn't even see it.

The world enraged you for its abandonment of you and in return, you threw it into a nightmare

You wanted a paradise, made out of your idea of what you know is beautiful. A world that can't be forgotten.

When he thinks about it the other way, it was obvious who Alfin really is. Now he just laughed at himself for being too gullible.

'Alfin' or more exactly, Adolf Hitler is now walking towards the boarding lane. Arnold just sat there in front of the checkout stand while crying away his turmoil of emotions.

I'll make a masterpiece that has every color but pain and tears...

He then stood up and wipes his tears away. He has already sworn that he would give her the love and care she deserved. Why should he care about who she is and letting the unwounded future to dictate how he should treat her? He has already sworn that much, he knew that he can't back down no matter what. He won't let the cycle of hatred continue and somebody would have to break it. Even more, the Alfin that he knew is capable a lot more than this, she isn't a slave to the hand of fate.

The train quickly came aboard and Alfin steps forward into the cabin, Arnold quickly pursues her and tried to enter. However, the moment he got to the door, he no longer can phase through it. The door decided to lock when he truly needed it.

"Let me in! LET ME IN!" Arnold yells as he tried to force open the door itself.

The train then started to move and Arnold determined to force the door open but then he tripped over his own feet and accidentally let go of the handle. Not wanting to sit still anymore, he jumped down into the track and chase the train, the moment he reached the light outside of the tunnel, his vision became overwhelmed by it.

And now, he got everything he knew about 'Alfin' but his decision has never changed. In fact, they are strengthened. For the hardest choice require the strongest of will.

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Determined Belief.

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Arnold has returned back to reality, still having the eyes of disbelief for a moment. He quickly cleared his mind and decided on his course of action. Now that he learned the fact that once Alfin used her NP, her true identity will be all there for everyone to see. He may be able to forgive her but everyone would all just pour all of their disdain and hatred on her and at that point, she will eventually break and lash out on everyone else.

"I have to prove to them that she isn't the Adolf Hitler that they knew. But how?" Arnold thought as he tried to figure out a way for her if they manage to win that is.

"Shirou! Can you tell what that gigantic tank is?" Arnold then quickly asks Shirou if he knew anything. Because after all, it was Shirou who managed to figure out her identity first before Alfin used her NP.

"That thing is the P1500 Ratte, a huge superheavy tank made with the purpose of destruction of strongholds and fortresses. Its main cannon is an 800mm artillery capable of huge damage to the terrain. Various anti-air guns, cannons, artilleries were built into it to ensure it can fend off against any smaller targets. There is one thing though, that thing wasn't supposed to exist at all in the proper history. But she managed to hammer the nail of fallacy into reality itself and bring the thing into this world. Just from that alone, I could tell that she is Adolf Hitler. I should have known from much earlier." Shirou said with a disgusted tone.

Arnold already knew that Alfin is Adolf Hitler, but he wanted to clear away the discord in everyone's heart if he wanted any chance for anyone to work peacefully with her.

Meanwhile, Alfin begins to command all of the armaments on her gigantic tank to open fire on the London Overwatcher. The main cannon fired first and soon everything else followed. The main cannon shot broke through the barrier and allowed everything else to do damage. The battle between them is nothing short but the clash between gods, even if Gudao has witnessed something like this multiple times, he would never once get used to something of such huge scale like this.

The Overwatcher fired a continuous salvo of missiles at 'Alfin' in order to take her out but the cannons and anti-air guns quickly shoot all of them down. 'Alfin' begins to focus her sight on the missile batteries attached side by side to the London Overwatcher. Of course, she will ignore the indecipherable element within at the cost of reduced effectiveness but that if anything that can improve her firepower, she will take it no matter what.

"Steel, Lead, Liquified Oxygen..." Alfin slightly mumbles as she reads out the composition of the Overwatcher's missile batteries.

"Recreating internal structure, creating ammunition feeding systems, direct mana into ammunition conversion..." Alfin thought as she tried

And soon, the missile batteries came out of the blazing portals she created. She learned Projection from Shirou and used it to the best of her own ability. Using its weapons against itself, she quickly fires them towards the Overwatcher which now only to further increasing her firepower.

The Overwatcher started to notice the increased damage received and decided to break the stalemate by firing its laser at her. Alfin noticed that it is beginning to charge and she quickly commands the main cannon to fire.

"Changing firing mode, aim directly at the eye!" Alfin said out loud as the cannon itself begins to point directly at the Overwatcher's eye.

The next moment, both of them fired at the same time, the main cannon of Alfin's tank is no longer of a fortress-busting shell but a highly concentrated beam. Both of them clashed with each other and its clashing light ended up overshine the actual sky, the force of their clash alone tear the whole city in front of the wall apart and all of it soon ended with a flash that blinded everything.

In the aftermath, the whole vicinity of 1 kilometer around them was razed into the ground but both of them are still standing strong. But now its barrier shield has turned back online and will block any incoming ballistics that doesn't have enough strength to overpower it.

Alfin grunted, firing that shot is consuming and its shield got back online but she has to keep this up or else, all of what she has fought for will be for nothing. She quickly retraced the missile batteries and fires them so that she can counter against the Overwatcher's missiles.

A battle of attrition, whoever drained all of their resources will be the loser. The moment you are fighting fair, you are losing. A decisive victory has to come from the brightest idea executed by the most decisive of mind.

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Blade of Severing

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"Is everyone alright!?" Kiritsugu yelled for any signs of survivor after that extremely powerful blast that brought ruins to the area they are in.

Everyone around Kiritsugu managed to pick themselves up from the ruins. Despite being Servants, the gale is too powerful that even Servants got blown away by it.

"Damn, never once would I thought something ridiculously powerful like that could exist but once again, any mythological Servant is. It just that we are the only ones who could answer the call of this world." Larry said as he dusts away the filth on his white coat.

Desmond also pulled himself up from the rubble and he has also noticed the massive tank from the distance, he too felt shaken seeing something out of fiction like that but their existence alone has already blurred the line long ago.

"Dear Lord... Never in the wildest dream of mine would I think of something like that." Desmond said.

"Hold on! Where's Alice" Desmond also soon follows up when he noticed that someone is missing.

"Forget about her! She could wipe the floor of the 4th wall's garrison. If she dies to that thing, I would blow my head apart with this gun already." Kiritsugu said as he quickly directs everyone in the direction he guided.

Kiritsugu also looks back at that gigantic tank. Seeing the clash between it and the Overwatcher, he knew that a battle of attrition isn't a good idea when it comes to against an opponent like that. He thought through every single possible way to take it out early. Like maybe if he is able to sneak into it when the barrier is down, he can bust the thing apart from within.

"But how would I exactly get into within it? Bah... I'll think about it once I got every card on the deck." Kiritsugu thought as he quickly departs for his Master.

Servants that are contracted by their Master can talk with each other telepathically. The reason they use military radio communicators is that telepathic communication can be traced by mages of high enough expertise. Although it is unknown if the Nazi has anything to remotely wiretap their communicators since theirs are disposable in the first place.

"Master! Where are you right now!?" Kiritsugu communicated with his Master telepathically.

"Get to the roof of the building! We from there will send a signal for you" Gudao said to his Servant.

Kiritsugu grunted and then told everyone to jump to the rooftop to receive his Master's signal of his location. Soon, something flew up to the sky and quickly detonated in the sky. Based on where the explosion occurred, he roughly guessed the location of his Master

"Got it! Head towards the west direction and keep running, we are right on the path I designated for you. That is where they are stationed right now!" Kiritsugu said to everyone else.

When they received it, he quickly told his allies who are nearby him to quickly head west from where the bolt was fired from. Everyone then quickly carries their path from the top of the buildings. At least that they will make it there in no time.

"Kiritsugu! The clash! They are about to do it again!" Larry said to him as the P1500 and the Overwatcher about to fire its energy beam at each other again.

"Huh?" Kiritsugu turned around suddenly towards where the clash is happening and once again, the blast is so powerful that gale created from the clash ended up knocking things over again. Everyone was blown away from the sheer power that was unleashed.

"Gah... Damn it... I need to end this whole charrade now." Kiritsugu grunted as the blast knocked him into a half-demolished building.

Slowly pulling himself up again. He found Larry also leaning against the wall as he tried to push his dislocated bone back to where it belong forcefully. Desmond is holding head as he the blast dazed him and landed directly on the head didn't help at all.

Another bolt exploded from outside, they might have also been knocked away from the blast too and they do it again just to update their location for Kiritsugu.

"Get up everyone! We shouldn't be spending any more time here!" Kiritsugu as he pulls everyone up from the ground.

Stray missiles started to land where they are now, the Overwatcher started to receive enough damage that its sensor system started to malfunction and aims randomly at anywhere it sees. Kiritsugu realized the emergence of the situation and decided that he has to carry everyone by force if they wanted to survive.

time alter double accel

Kiritsugu chanted his spell and he quickly moves with the speed twice of what he used to, grabbing both Desmond and Larry by the shirt and jumped away from the building before it collapsed completely.

Running with the speed unprecedented, despite Desmond and Larry sees how he fight. To feel it is a different matter in itself, they felt too unusually fast that they can't believe it.

Soon, they reached their destination with everyone else there, Pierce, Richard, Kuro and Illya and everyone else. They are the last to meet up.

"Thank god that we are actually able to meet up here without any trouble." Gudao said.

Rho Aias!

The rendezvous point got razed down to the ground, Shirou's Rho Aias is the only reason that they still continue to talk at all. The collateral damage between the P1500 and Overwatcher started to become too much for everyone else's safety. It is crystal clear that they will have to end this fight sooner or else.

"So what's the plan?" Gudao asked for he decided to put his more of his faith in his Servant than his judgment right now.

"I intend to destroy the Overwatcher from inside, I have an idea but that will require all of the cards I have to be available for me to use." Kiritsugu said.

Everyone then looks at Kiritsugu and wonders what he means but his family knew clearly what he is implying. Something that only his family is capable of creating and allows him to do what he intended.

"Jii-san, you know what you are trying to do here, right?" Shirou asked as he started to retract the shield away and build a wall of blades on top of them.

Kiritsugu approaches closer and chanted his spell on the blade in order to lock them in time. And then he nodded, Shirou then also have a smile on his face, knowing that his father has moved on from a lone wolf to a man who is willing to trust others.

"So... are you willing to do this?" Shirou asked.

Kiritsugu nodded, he is the man who let his actions speak his words. Shirou knew what he asked is just redundancy and so he decided to proceed with the first step, the knife of his father, the basis that will create the weapon that would severe anything. The knife itself is a scourge of any magus, a single slash of it and you can say goodbye to any effort you made as a magus for that thing will cut and imperfectly rebinds their magic circuits and thus short-circuit them when they try to use their power.

He remembers the day when he first met his father, a man who knew naught of his family for his memory is muddled to the point he can't remember anything but bloodshed. Their first clash against each other happened during Shirou's earliest deployment in Fuyuki's 4th Holy Grail War Singularity where he is tasked with the objective to prevent the war with the least amount of candidate casualties as possible.

When he first clashed against him, it was a nightmare that he has to quickly overcome, soon he used every single detail and memory regarding him of how he fights and utilize them for the victory against him. How? He traced his father knife and lengthened it into a sword. When his father used his NP on Shirou and about to land the final shot, Shirou stabbed himself and pierced into Kiritsugu and rendered him incapacitated until the Singularity's end.

That memory was unforgettable and he would never let it escape his mind until the day he dies which he avoid to the best of his capability. With the knife in his hand, he uses Reinforcement on it and lengthened it into the size of the sword that he used against his father in that faithful encounter. And now it is the most important step, Conceptual Removal. The magecraft that involves the removal of a concept of something while still allows it to remain functional and whole.

He only learns of it when he received the Memorial Essence of the version of him that managed to receive premonition of 5th HGW. Removal of concepts allows a weapon or object to act without said concepts apply, like you can remove air resistance, water resistance, heat transfer,... etc. and thus depending on the situation, certain concept removals can easily be 'game-breaking'.

He removed the concepts of binding from the knife and thus it can only severe, that is what he intended to do so. A building or mechanism has no need for severing and binding, it is only destructive against living beings.

"Kuro, Illya... Can you lend me a hand here?" Shirou asked his sisters who are standing near him.

Both of them nodded, Shirou when he received that response, he decided to trace the most powerful blade he could. The Excalibur, without his Master's Command Seal. However, having three Servants pitching in their mana would allow the tracing of it possible without an additional external power source. The blade soon forms within their hand and soon the Excalibur came into existence as it laid on the hands of the three siblings, basking in the light of glory.

"Okaa-san, please hold on to it and don't let go of Jii-san either." Shirou said as he hands the Excalibur to his mother.

"Understood, you know that not even in death did I even let him go, right?" Irisviel said as she receives the sword from her son.

"And Jii-san, this is the most important factor that will determine your survival after this or not. For the love of anything that is still good in this world, don't ever separate from each other..." Shirou said to his father before handing out the most important part.

Shirou placed his hand on his chest and something started to come out of it, a golden mystical light glows on his chest and what came out is a scabbard made out of gold and blue enamel, one couldn't help but feel at peace when they laid their eyes on this scabbard.

"This is the Avalon, Artoria shows it to me recently so that its image couldn't fade away from my mind. As long as it can feel the presence of the Excalibur nearby, its regeneration capability should be active no matter what." Shirou said confidently while holding the scabbard on his hand.

That's how Shirou managed to regenerate rapidly after getting shot multiple times by the infamous machine gun that it was even called the Buzzsaw by the Beast. He managed to outwit him by having an ace under his sleeves. He knew that he can't bring any Servant that isn't modern but that doesn't mean he can't bring their equipment with him. Shirou's existence is the only gateway between the mythological and the world that prevented any manifestation of Servant that isn't modern.

Kiritsugu takes the scabbard and infused it into him, Irisviel then held onto him from the back and he felt extremely revitalized despite when through all that craps moments ago. Hell, he believes that he might be able to take onto a whole new limit itself. And strange enough, Irisviel despite carrying a sword with her, is still as light as a feather.

"However, I'm not done yet. This blade of severing needs a finishing touch. What I'll be doing is Conceptual Transferment." Shirou said as if he is about to do something heretical.

He traced two weapons or more exactly, a pair of it. This pair of reverse grip weapons fashioned in the style of beast's fangs and claws. Iri felt like she is going through some traumatic events as she laid her eyes on them, and who could blame her for that? These weapons are Tawrich and Zarich, they were ceremonial weapons that were used as worships of real daemons. They were more of a sword breaker than a weapon that is used to rend flesh. They belong to Angra Mainyu, the incarnation of All the World's Evil or more of a representation of it though.

Despite not exactly went through it, she still has the memory of her being corrupted by him and turned into a tool of ensuing disasters. Now, she is simply a wish granter who is fighting alongside her family. But never ever in her current life would she willing to interact with that person unless the situation requires. It's ironic though since the guy is actually chill and just enjoying whatever was brought into his plate. Anything is better than his actual life as a human before becoming an Avenger though.

Shirou then proceeds to transfer the curse from the pair of cursed weapons into the sword-turned knife. The edge started to have a sanguine color of blood, the blade started to have a dark aura proliferating around it. It is no doubt that it has turned into a cursed sword, a weapon made for death and destruction alone.

"Natalia..." Shirou muttered as he examines the cursed sword.

Kiritsugu shuddered... Shirou knew about his past detailed, although he should have expected much considering that is his son but he really didn't talk about that to everyone else so the fact that he knew is what makes it surprising.

"Shirou... Where did you learn of that?" Kiritsugu asked.

"I don't know how to put it but it is somewhere within the Memorial Essence that I received along the line. One of it was you telling your backstory detailly to me and thus I came to know the woman called Natalia, she was your mother and a mentor. She taught you the basics of magus hunting and you two together spent a large fraction of their life in order to hunt down targets and earning huge buck as mercenaries." Shirou said.

Kiritsugu simply nodded, he has no denial about that. All of what Shirou said is true.

"That was until a faithful day when a Dead Apostle with his expertise in insects that allows him to create a vast amount of ghouls by using his zombie bees. Any town that was misfortunate enough to be his target would be turned in a ghost town with the dead roaming inside. Your mother was tasked with that job and killed him during the flight before he could do anything but the experimental subjects broke out of the confinement during the conflict and thus killed all of the passengers with her being the sole survivor of that battle." Shirou said.

Kiritsugu nodded, everyone else is looking at him in uncertainty. Until this far, all of everyone's backstory is tragic and they don't find any reason it would be different to him. He isn't blaming them but he doesn't felt like having his past to uncovered for everyone to see.

"Those ghouls on the plane would have caused a massive and wide-scale apocalypse if landed on any airport and thus you decided to shoot the plane down along with your mother in it. That was why I chose her name as the namesake of this weapon, the severing tie of your own hands by the misfortunate circumstances." Shirou said as if he felt regretful for choosing that name in the first place.

If all of them somehow manage to become a normal family and a normal life, Natalia would be the grandmother and she would no doubt dote on her grandchildren a lot but that life just never seems to become real no matter what.

Kiritsugu turned his gaze to the ongoing clash between the P1500 and Overwatcher, both of them seem to be severely beaten up as he can tell the smokes coming out of both of them. It will become mutual destruction if any of this stretch any longer. Kiritsugu grabbed 'Natalia' the Blade of Severing and prepared to act as soon as 'Alfin' overpower that barrier.

"Sing Out, O' White Grail" Irisvield chanted as she activates her Noble Phantasm, she did so so that both Kiritsugu and her can withstand the effect longer. To survive a fatal attack no matter how powerful it is just extremely useful when permadeath is accounted for.

"The moment she did so, I'll have to use the most powerful time alter I could possibly do so. This is going to be painful..." Kiritsugu thought as he dreads the idea of applying time alter of higher multipliers on himself. Double accel is most reliable, triple if he may find it required but any higher and it will be just detrimental to himself. With Avalon and Song of Grail in effect, he will be able to endure for a long time.

The P1500 fired its main cannon again and might be for the last time because Alfin is exhausted and basically on her last leg. Kiritsugu now knows that he only has one chance and he can't mess it up no matter what. Steeling his determination, he activated the power of his mage crest and go for the riskiest gambit.

The shield is down and Kiritsugu chanted his spell. One that will put him into a wringer that not even being tortured by 4 torture masters of Chaldea can compare.

time alter hex accel

The world slowed down to the point everything became standstill, but there is one sensation that both Kiritsugu and Iri felt. Pain, so much of it that one would faint instantly. Their bodies at this speed would have ripped itself apart by hundred thousands of times but Avalon and Iri's healing are preventing it from taking effect, although it does nothing about the pain.

Kiritsugu quickly moves toward the Overwatcher as fast as he could. Within this nearly stopped time, both of them are indomitable. Nothing could possibly stop them like this, anything tried to do so would have been diced into dust before they realize it.

Achieving subrelativistic speed, cutting down 2 kilometers within lower than a microsecond. Anything in their path was erased in instant. They were peerless for anything attempt to fight against them like this would have died before they even realized they died. Virtually unstoppable except for the best of the best in terms of speed alone, 50 meters will be cut down in a mere nanosecond.

Running vertically against the London Overwatcher, he lashes his Natalia against the body of the London Overwatcher like a madman while screaming in pure agony of the hex accel effect. Time is almost irrelevant to him that he felt no weight of gravity pulling back, nor anything that could stop him when he moves beyond any of the speed that makes many Servant except the niches.

The curse within Natalia takes effect instantly as it automatically severe anything it came into contact even if the blade itself didn't reach through the whole body of the London Overwatcher. Kiritsugu's slashes if counted would have easily reached millions before he even went through the first 10m. Both Kiritsugu and Irisviel cry in pain as their tears froze the moment they disconnect from their bodies. If they managed to survive this, they will lose their entire sense of external pain as a result of this.

"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Kiritsugu yelled in a voice that just sounds completely unholy that you would have thought it was a completely demented person saying it but no, it just a person who is completely overtaken by the pain he felt.

When he finally reached the eye of the Overwatcher, he spared no second thought of slashing it into pieces. However, there are two things about it. First, it has a high enough magic resistance to avoid instant severing considering that it is the core after all. Second, though is more of a thing that would apply to anything existed really. Nothing short of gods survives a subrelativistic slash, nothing. Not even the core of the most powerful mechanical killing robot.

Kiritsugu completely consumed by the pain as he diced the core into millions of pieces before the last one-tenth of the nanosecond went out. After ensuring its destruction, he disables the effect of time alter and soon both of them were ripped apart by great force when time speed suddenly changes back to normal. They would have died for real as in ripped apart into a bloody mess if it weren't for Iri's Song of Grail which prevented their death by time dislocation scaled by 16.

The entirety of the London Overwatcher now crumbled into dust, just like how Alice's bell wiped the floor of all of those Azure Soldiers. Alfin who is too exhausted to have any care left. The P1500 has fulfilled its purpose and soon turned into blazing smithereens as it dissipates. Soon, the whole thing is gone with the wind and Alfin started to fall lifelessly through the air.

In her state, she is now vulnerable to death by fall. But nobody is willing to save her because after all, who would save a dictator that resulted in widescale destruction and genocide? They are all focused on Kiritsugu and Irisviel who together dealt the final blow that killed the London Overwatcher. They braced for the couple for safe return and ignore the girl who let them have the chance to finally defeat it.

It was just like how much she expected, the moment her true identity came out, nobody would ever save her. In fact, they would rather dance over her dead body and celebrate that somebody as horrible like her is gone.

Alice is standing from a distance and watch as Alfin falling from the distance. She sighed, everybody has forgotten about her. Even Arnold...

"That's fine... This is the last day I could accompany them anyway..." Alice said.

A man with toothbrush mustache appeared right beside her, just his appearance alone basically scream Adolf Hitler no matter how much one would try to say. He seems to be her guardian based on how he acts right now.

"Alice, your test trail of reobtaining your humanity seems to not going well so far. But the results are nonetheless passing. Since this test is completed, we will then return to the lab so that the final step can be complete." The man said to her.

The idea of being 'Adolf Hitler's test subject doesn't sound so nice but she seems to accept whatever he is saying.

"Understood, I just hope that they can do well without me. I just felt bad for them that I didn't get to say a single goodbye." Alice said.

"Don't worry, if they can destroy the London Overwatcher. They have the full capability to reach us. Now, we shall return." The man said as he presses something in his hand.

Both of them then teleported away, leaving the Chaldean team with one less member and a powerful one at that. Now, it seems like Void Shiki's premonition has become reality and the clash between Alice and her former allies seems to be nothing more than inevitable itself.

Things just seem to be a lot direr now.

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Swore My Vow That I Heard The Angels Cry

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Words of God: For this part, play Gate of Steiner - Steins;Gate

"Catch them, now!" Shirou said as he wanted everyone to act in order to catch his parents from falling.

Larry giving Shirou the boost that he needed in order to catch his parents and soon he managed to catch them and landed safely on the ground. Desmond quickly checked them up so that he can ascertain their conditions.

"Thank god that they are still okay, they just simply lose their consciousness after they accelerated themselves by 16 times. I'm surprised to see that they are still remaining in one piece." Desmond said after he checked their conditions.

Their gaze then turned towards Alfin, her fall seems to be much slower than how they anticipated but she has already on the last leg and thus anymore injury would be a killing blow to her. They don't know if they should save her or not but the fact that she is a power-hungry dictator has pretty much snuffed away any chance of her being saved.

But Arnold who is with them. He felt his heart is beating rapidly as if it is about to have a heart attack. He wanted to act now but he still haven't cleared up the discord between them and Alfin yet. But the situation has never followed with his plan in the first place and so he got no choice but to act arbitrarily on his own.

Deployed his motorcycle and he quickly gets on it and rides as fast as he could. His action is completely unprecedented to the others that they don't have the chance to stop him. Riding through the vast plain of emptiness, he knew he needs some sorts of ramps just to catch her in midair. He knew that he can't even jump that high without others' help. It just completely nonsense to them as to why he is trying to save her.

Arnold's mind desperately searching for anything that he could use as a ramp until he noticed a rundown building from a distance but it is too far away from her that it isn't reliable to use at all. Hell, it would miss by a huge margin even if he deliberately aims toward her.

But does he have a choice left to say about this matter? He is the only person who is willing to save Alfin despite knowing her true identity. He throttles the motorcycle and drives his way to the ruined building. Moving with the speed that makes F1 car looks like a snail, his mind pushes everything into limits as the only thing in his mind is Alfin alone.

When he finally reaches their vicinity, he made a hard U-turn by drifting on his own motorcycle. It doesn't matter if he just crashes into multiple buildings at once but once his path is aligned again, he will throttle the motorcycle at full speed so that he will have enough momentum in order to have the motorcycle to leap at Alfin's location.

When he finally did so, a trail of dust followed behind him as the motorcycle moves toward Alfin but it was just like how he expected it, he still going to miss by a huge margin. At that moment, his mind decided to choose one final decision. He jumps from the motorcycle in order to reach Alfin.

"Alfin!" Arnold said to her in order to wake her up but she isn't responding.

He held onto her tightly, not wanting to let her go. He started to fall faster as the gravity only serve to accelerate his falling. Alfin is in an extremely fragile state, even the slightest harm could kill her. Fear started to overtake him as he started to get closer to the ground. Within that moment of crisis, he decided to force his mind into a state of clarity even if it is the most difficult thing to do so right now. Within the shadows of fear itself, he found the dying ember of bravery, one that will allow him to tell the truth so that all discord can be erased. Within that last second before death, he chanted.

Swore my vow that I heard the angels cry

So this senseless madness can finally end

Pray to God that no more will die

So they can finally see the truth for itself

And at that moment itself, something completely unbelievable happened. Something that not even in his own wildest dream can even imagine, his falling completely halted, he seems to illuminate in some sort of light while he is bridal carrying Alfin. He heard the sounds of something flapping and then he looked at the side only to become surprised at what just happened to him.

He has wings now, a pair of angel wings at that, they not connected to him but rather just metaphysically attached. He slowly descending while carrying her so that she won't die from any more harm. The entire scene is almost as if this is something that came right out of the Church's scriptures. The others find themselves completely dumbfounded at what Arnold just did that they forgot about Alfin's true identity.

Arnold landed on the ground gracefully, not even a single dust got thrown from his landing at all. The wings behind him disappeared the moment he landed and soon he just a normal Servant that everyone knows. But even then, he still not letting go of Alfin because he is still in too great shock and fears that his friends will now personally kill her.

Shirou, Kuro, Kiritsugu, Illya, Irisviel, Pierce, Richard, Larry, Desmond... they are looking at him in contempt. But his mind suddenly drawn to one thing, it isn't the look of disgust that caught his attention, it was someone missing...

"Alice! Oh god! Where is she!?" Arnold said as he realized that fact.

Everyone's attention suddenly drew towards it instead. To lose sight of someone like that is a really huge mistake on their parts. They watch as Arnold desperately calling out for her, as if not wanting to lose her right now.

At this point, hardly anyone could carry a grudge anymore. They see too much things for a single day and the information overload started to take a massive toll on everyone's mind. Out of everyone here, Shirou is the only person who decided to sort out everything information he received right now.

"If Alfin is truly Adolf Hitler then... who are we exactly fighting?" Shirou said as he realized that second possibility.

As if their whole mission has been turned upside down. Everyone is now filled with uncertainty, Alfin's revelation has not only not solving any of the mystery but only increase more of those questions. Who are they exactly fighting? Why is Adolf Hitler fighting alongside them? Why does Arnold obtain something almost as if it came out of mythology? Who is Alice exactly and where does her power come from? What is the meaning of her absence? So many questions with no answer to resolve.

Their future is uncertain like the path ahead of them.

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Servants Profile

Hitler's Incarnation (Wise up!)

Class: Rider

True Name: Adolf Hitler (Alfin) |Wise up!

Parameter:

Str: B| Agi: B | End: B | Mana: A+| Luck: D| NP: A++
Wise up!

Passive Skills:

Riding B: Can use most vehicles and animals can be handled with above average skill, even vehicles that did not exist in the time period one was alive in, for they are no exception. However, cannot ride the likes of Phantasmal Species such as Monstrous Beasts.

Personal Skills:

-Animal Communication D: Born from her own love with animals and close affinity with them at a young age and even until now. She could understand what the animals are trying to say to her even if no one else could understand

-Soul-burst Forge A+: The ability to turn pre-existing scrap metals or mana into the user's predetermined shape and structures and inner working mechanism. This includes firearms, melee, tools and everything of all sorts consists of metal components. Other components can be created with the user's mana with increased cost.

-Blitzkrieg A: A Noble Phantasm that is more or less sublime from sharing the usage of strategy with one particular Servant. However, it is displayed as a skill instead. If its user can land a decisive blow on the enemy, the attack will deal far more damage than it would normally do. There are some conditions that allow it to amplify its power. Strike hard and hook where it is hurt.

An additional '+' if the enemy is under the effect of a defensive Noble Phantasm

Another additional '+' if the enemy is known to be particularly strong in their legends.

Another '+' if the enemy is known for having a particular weakness that can be exploited.

If all three are conditions are fulfilled, the skill will boost to EX and any decisive blow will be an instant kill no matter what.

Noble Phantasm

|Crystalization of War Knowledge|

The Mind of Superior Technology

Rank E - A+++| Classification: Anti-Unit to Anti-Fortress, Army

During WW2, German's military hardware was developed at a ridiculously fast pace that they have inadvertently created many new inventions that were meant to boost warfare to its maximum strength. First jet fighter, first rapid-fire personnel machine gun, first long-distance ballistic rockets, first assault rifles, and many more...

This Noble Phantasm allows Alfin to recreate them as long as she has the mana required to recreate them. Rope ladders, knifes, radio sets are classified as E-rank, pistol-caliber weaponry are ranked as D-rank, rifle-caliber weaponry as C-rank, anti-armor guns as B-rank and heavy autocannons, field artilleries, armors as A-rank. Some classified weapons and experimental among Alfin's arsenal are classified as greater than A itself and the P1500 Ratte are at the top of A+++ for the most expensive and powerful at the same time.

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Maiden of Void

Class:?

True Name: "Alice?"

Parameter:

Str: Unk| Agi: Unk | End: Unk| Mana: EX| Luck: EX| NP: EX

Passive Skills:

Magic Resistance EX: There is something inside her that makes her Magic Resistance went off the chart, literally. She can't be harmed by any sorts of magecraft no matter how old it is or what type it is. Might actually negate even Divine's curses.

Personal Skills:

Unclouded Eyes EX: The ability to ignore every notion that is deemed unnecessary to her perception, this includes illusions, mental hindrances, darkness,... She basically laid out everything for all to see, even the barest truth of this world.

Noble Phantasm

|Void Field|

Boundary of Nothingness

Rank EX| Classification: Absolute Defense

A Noble Phantasm that involves the act of separating the user and the targets from their plane of existence by isolating them into a higher dimension. It can be used repeatedly without repercussion, apparently. This form of protection can protect its user and chosen target from attacks up to fifth-dimension.

|Bell of Oblivion|

The Toll of Nothingness

Rank EX| Classification: Anti-Army

A bell that is so small that it fits Alice's palm perfectly. It has a jet black color and having ornate carvings on it. The moment it rings, anyone but its user who are misfortunate enough to hear it will crumble into dust immediately, no matter how high their magic resistance is.