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

18. No More Tears Left to Shed

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 18: No More Tears Left to Shed

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When they saw the spirals of flame from the distance extinguished, they thought that Larry has overcome his hurdle and will soon return to their side. However, they still making their way posthaste in their final stretch for the fifth wall. Before they realized it, they have already made it there and now waiting for their friend to return. But... that day never came.

They waited... Hoping that Larry would at least return by their side... but they were answered with nothing but the sounds of rain and howling winds. Soon... they came to accept one final conclusion that they wanted to deny accepting in the first place. Larry is gone... forever...

"Ugh... I swear that each time I slept, the amount of rest I actually get decreased." Arnold said as he stretches himself as he tried to stand up in a derelict house somewhere near the vicinity of the fifth wall.

"Yeah... I think I hear Desmond's crying too. The guy has been mourning his friend's passing from the last night. It pains me too, and I think everyone is thinking the same thing..." Alfin said as she stands up from the floor that she slept on.

Both of them exit the building as the dark cloud hanging above them is raining down ceaselessly on them. This is it... the moment of truth and their final destination. The fifth wall...

"Hey... At least restore your strength a bit before doing anything." Shirou said as he hands out a piping hot bowl of stew for each one of them.

Both of them just looking at the bowl of stew that they hold in their hand without saying anything. The fact that Larry is dead still holding them from the back of their mind. It just hard to push that thought aside. This is their first casualty after having such a perfect streak for so long. It just hit them in a way that they didn't even think is possible.

Arnold sighed, he saw deaths so many times in his memory. Those bloodstained his memory of his and his ultimate end as a messenger. So many things that he couldn't sort out at all as those lingering thoughts clouding his vision. But all of those deaths were nameless, the people that he couldn't know otherwise. But to see a person that he understood and knowing so much to die like that, it felt like his heart being punched right into its dick.

"Arnold?" Alfin said as she tried to get his attention.

"Uh... Yeah... Thank you..." Arnold said to Shirou as he tried to avoid making any conversation by making all of them felt half-hearted.

Shirou just looked at Arnold in doubt, that look in his eyes is telling Shirou that Arnold has reached what is most likely a consensus of all of what he knows. All he needed is a slight push in the right direction to reach his full potential. Perhaps... even reattaining his Noble Phantasm.

"The moment of truth is near, isn't it..." Shirou whispered to himself.

Meanwhile, at the top of the highest building near the fifth wall. Kiritsugu and Richard are scouting and observe the wall and scrutinize for everything that they could use to their advantage but the longer they look at it, the more discouraged they are just by how overwhelmingly powerful it looks.

The wall isn't made out of concrete anymore. It is more like a construct made entirely out of steel. Heavy artillery array lining up for a massive volley firing, threatening to destroy anything approaching it. The autocannons and heavy-fire anti-tank cannons are built all over the place within the wall to rain down a massive hail of ballistics in a matter of seconds. A massive amount of armored units and infantry standing right in front of the wall with an amount that is so staggering that it looks like a sea of dark gray.

The ground in front of the wall was littered with any possible trap and stopper that it is plain impossible to tell just how much of them are there. If the fourth wall is like a boss fight then the fifth looks like a secret extremely difficult boss that is overdosed on steroids and cocaine and shit. No matter how one may look at it, breaking through the fifth wall is just plain impossible.

"Damn... How do we make it past them?" Kiritsugu said.

"I'm not faring any better than you, things like these are just so over the top that not even my mind could comprehend the scale at all.". Richard said as he tried to avert his gaze from the wall so that he can spare his mind from the insanity.

Kiritsugu keeps thinking, there is literally no hope for any of them to break through here but one person, Alfin. Her special power to absorb literally anything metallic and projectiles as mana and uses them against the enemy and especially powerful against an enemy like this. But it brought to him another attention, can she handle the tension? Even this is too much for even a Servant to carry and handle.

Kiritsugu keeps thinking until Richard patted him on his shoulder.

"Your Master is calling you over.". Richard said to the assassin.

Kiritsugu sighed, he knew that they can't afford to waste any more time standing idly here. But the fact that he dreads trying to go up against the fifth wall just shows how dangerous it is. No amount of courage would assure one's success at all. Unless they have something that can prevent the first strike or take down as many of the Azure Soldiers within the first attack of theirs before their opponents could do anything, they will be wiped out at the first second, he fucking assured it.

"Things just looking even far direr with each second passed.". Kiritsugu whispered for himself.

Meanwhile, at the house that the Chaldean resided temporarily. Both Kuro and Illya are exchanging information with their older sister through the communicator that they lent from their Master. The revelation regarding this mysterious material and how they might have changed this world.

"Judgment in the color of the sky... To think that is how things might have happened." Illya said.

"That's the briefest I could tell you about it, considering that all of these are remaining information of our Proper Human History in regarding this it might be subject to change depends on what you might learn about it in this world. I won't say that my information is unreliable but what you found can change the whole context by a lot." Sitonai said to her sister.

"Understood. Hope that I will still live to see you in the next few hours, sis..." Kuro said before she turns off the communicator.

They have seen the fifth wall too, and needless to say that they are already started to shake in fear whenever the image of that wall plays out in their minds. They don't need to see it in action to feel fear and worry.

Soon, they quickly dismiss that image from their minds as they attempt to steel themselves for whatever to come.

"What am I even kidding!? If I am going to face it eventually, I will at least braving it with a smile on my face!" Illya said boisterously.

"Well... If there is nothing left that I can do but accept it then I would at least do so with as much bravery that I could muster." Kuro said as she tried to force a smile on her face but can't help but worry about how they will make it through.

With a new resolution being reached, the sisters will now try to fight with all they have.

On the floor above them is Desmond who is gazing emptily to the place where the battle between the White Death and his friend occurred. But until now, it has already been proven crystal clear that his friend is no longer in this world. No amount of mourning and sobbing will bring his friend back and he knew it already... So then, why does he still feel like this?

Shirou opened the door to his room as he saw Desmond sits there while looking out at the rain outside. Seeing how broken the guy is at his friend's death, he wouldn't blame him for doing so. Shirou went through the same kind of survivor's guilt that torment him only until much later would he realized it. Such sacrifice at the time was unavoidable, seeing what unfolded in the Lostbelts and the Servants there accompanied him dying one by one as they sacrifice themselves just to clear a path for him forward to reach for his victory.

"Desmond? Are you okay?" Shirou asked.

Desmond doesn't answer at all. He was too caught up in his own emotional turmoil to pay any heed of Shirou. His fractured will is going to take a lot more in order to recover from that devastating loss to him.

"You know... Desmond... I too, do understand the loss of those who were close to you..." Shirou said as he tried to find a way to get his attention.

"What is it? I haven't seen you lost any of your family members yet here I have lost my friend already. If you lost someone else that you know then just tell me." Desmond said as he tried to be uncaring.

"Throughout the extent of 3 years worth of working at Chaldea, I see many shares of happy moments and tragedy. But Lostbelts that we Chaldeans have to deal with is another whole batch of different problems altogether. At that point, the difficulty scaled up to Herculean Tasks and not even many of us ever hope to think that we will make it out alive. The Servants that were summoned there... their blood was on our hands as the sacrifice toll keeps scaling and all of those blood that we shed ultimately lies on our Master. Those that fight together with us, those we fought against, those who were happened to standby and suffered for it,... You don't understand just how much I went through all of those times of suffering." Shirou said as he tried to suppress the emotions that are swelling up from the inside when he recalls them.

Desmond remained silent as he listened to Shirou's story.

"No matter the life that we lost, they can't return once they're gone. No amount of mourning, crying, sobbing could bring them back... Once gone, forever gone. All we can really do is just to push forward no matter what.". Shirou said.

Desmond still remaining silent. Shirou sees that only time would mend the wound in his heart but he hopes that his words would at least manage to reach him no matter what. Shirou then exit the room and closes the door but before he does so, he looked back and sees Desmond still gazing emptily, he decided to close the door and continue on.

The moment of truth is going to come. Whether he like it or not, all he can really hope to do is to make sure everyone will make it through the day. The final hurdle is ahead and there is no running left. He let out a silent sigh, hoping that this assault won't end up in disaster.

The time has come, Gudao and Pierce gathered every Servant they have left as they stand in front of the massive wall that scales beyond than how they could possibly imagine. They are still a bit distance away so they won't trigger the whole place to open fire on them.

"You know... I wish that we still have Alice..." Pierce said but he knew there is no point in weeping over something that happened already.

"Hey!" A voice said to them as they are getting ready themselves.

They turned around and see Desmond running towards them with his gears readied.

"I realized that I can't keep sulking like that, my friend would have otherwise laughed at me for how pathetic I am. I tried to save every life I could yet the idea I failed to save the closest one to me is what truly struck me in the weak spot. But not anymore, I will still keep moving forward even without him, he would have said the same otherwise." Desmond said as his voice is brimming with determination,

"So the time has come... Everyone, brace yourself... And-" Gudao about to command his Servant until he felt that he is sensing something that is sending down chill into his spine.

The temperature is dropping as everyone can feel the cold wind that is howling. The diamond dust started to form around them due to the temperature is dropping rapidly like a freefall without stopping. At that moment, they realized it as it sends an unnerving dread into their minds.

The White Death is coming back and he will finish his job.

"No... We made it so far... This can't possibly be happening!" Kuro said as she felt the fear quickly overwhelming her.

They looked back and saw something moving at them with unbelievable speed. One that is fast enough to raise the dust behind them high enough to the point the rain couldn't stop it. The Chaldeans looked down at the ground below their feet and realized that it is freezing which means they are in the White Death's path.

"Everyone! Get out now!" Gudao said as he quickly jumped away from the frozen ground.

Shirou grabbed his Master by the collar as he made it away and everyone tried to do the same. Soon, the White Death ran past them and straight into the no man's land ahead of him without stopping. Turns out, they were never in White Death's target at all but rather, he is attempting to break through the fifth wall with his own effort.

"What is he doing!? Is he trying to suicide!?" Shirou said as he tried to pick himself up from the ground.

Shirou used his Hawkeye on Simo and saw that he is carrying someone else on his back. It was Anastasia from before, seeing what the duo is trying to accomplish, Shirou realized what they truly intend on doing.

With the perfect combination of their power and their covering of each others' weaknesses, with perfect synergy and swift movements that they have. They quickly move their way out of the artillery salvo whether by evading or straight-up firing massive icicles to clash against the hail of ballistics raining down on them. The moment they got out of the storm of artillery shells, the ground units quickly unleashing their armaments on the duo mercilessly.

Simo noticed it and Anastasia quickly summoned an ice pale right beneath their position and pushed them upward into the sky. The ground infantry quickly aims their armaments upward and the wall's autocannons do the same. Anastasia quickly creates dozens of icicles shard to fire them independently from her position at the army of Azure Soldiers below her. Simo utilizes his beyond reflex as he quickly deflects and evaded all of the hail bullets rushing towards him and her.

The icicles that were fired quickly pierced into the ground below them as their near absolute zero temperature quickly froze the ground quickly and anything that was close in its proximity.

Soon, they landed on the ground with such impacts that it shook the whole battlefield, and just as quickly as they landed did Anastasia used her power to raise a massive wall of ice to cover Simo and her from the enemy's ballistic rain. Bullets and shells clashing on the wall of ice as it slowly chipping through it. However, this wall of ice isn't meant to giving them protection. In fact, he will use it for offensive purposes.

"Anastasia! Lend me your strength!" Simo yelled as he plunged his Mosin into the ground.

Anastasia nodded as she placed her hands on the Mosin, she then channels her power into it as frost started to gather into his gun. He then lifts the gun up only to reveal that same crystalline ice greatsword from before. The same kind that he used to fight back against Larry's Muramasa.

He lifted the thing up and Anastasia channels even more of her power into it as the blade itself lengthen into an unholy degree. With the length of 50 meters, it became way too unwieldy and unusable for practical combat but he isn't using it to slash anyone. No, he uses it to smash this wall of ice into a storm of ice!

Both of them gathered all of their ounce of strength together as they applied as much power as they could into the massive greatsword. With one strike, the whole wall shattered into a massive fragmentation blast that scatters across the battlefield ahead of them. Those fragments shredding through Azure Soldiers and armored units like scissors through the paper.

When the path is cleared, they quickly rushing through with a speed that breaks past hypersonic speed as the ground they moved on froze from their power. His intention is to get as inhumanly close as possible to the wall and draws in as many Azure Soldiers as possible. When they got close enough, Simo plunged his rifle into the ground as the frost quickly spreads across at rapid speed. Anastasia then reinforces the spell with her own unparalleled power that they quickly surrounding themselves with a wall of ice that stretches as high as the sky and kissed the cloud above them.

Needless to say that the Azure Soldiers started to focus fire on the wall as they quickly chipping through it with the fifth wall's might with the weaponry installed on it. Simo and Anastasia who is currently standing inside of the wall of ice that they surrounded themselves in. They nodded together as Simo kneel to the ground with one hand placed on his chest and closed his eyes to maximize his focus, Anastasia held onto his back while the wall around them is collapsing.

He knew what he planned out all along, and this is the time... to use his Noble Phantasm!

Almost night in a crimson horizon
Painting thousand lakes reds
As the enemy approaching from the east
And a tale of the pale reaper is born

All alone, a reaper with his gun
As he wanders into the wild
Tracking down and reveal their hidings
Once he is onto your trails

Enter the night with a flash in the darkness
The Pale Reaper is heading your way
Feared by his foes and revered as a hero
Hundreds will fall by his gun.

You are in the sniper's sight
The first kill tonight
Time to die!
You're in the bullet's way
The White Death's prey
Say goodbye!

Right after the last verse in his incantation, the temperature dropped sharply to the point it is bordering on absolute zero. The wall around them by this point has collapsed entirely but it doesn't matter anymore. He will drag as many of them as possible into his Noble Phantasm. The extreme cold quickly spreading through the battlefield and soon their location flashed brightly to the point it is blinding. Soon, the flash disappeared along with them... and a huge portion of enemy Azure Soldiers.

Everyone else was too baffled at what just happened as if it was some sort of fever dream that they caught. But soon they accept that this is reality and they will have to strive forward if they wanted any chance of surviving. Plus, considering the White Death has taken away a large chunk of the enemy's force, it will be easier for them to fight now that the intensity has been alleviated even if by a small amount.

"Everyone! Now!" Gudao said as he commanded all of his Servants to go first.

All of Gudao's Servants now quickly rushing to the frozen battlefield as fast as they could while the enemy's formation is still disrupted. Kiritsugu takes out a machine gun and starts to fire with it at his enemies, Shirou and Kuro fire their traced swords which are levitating in the air the moment they materialized. Illya flew high up into the sky and giving suppression fire with her Mystic Code's attack. Everyone is basically using every of their ability to their best while their enemy is still in disarray.

However, the fifth wall gets back online faster than its garrison and quickly unleashing their armaments' barrage upon the Chaldeans. Illya noticed and quickly dives down as fast as she could, she can't tell why she did something like that but her body just acts on its own without hesitation. Kuro noticed quickly used the shield of Aias to protect herself and her family.

Rho Aias

The seven petal shield appeared out of thin air once more as it quickly blocked the rain of ceaseless barrage of ballistics that is approaching them. However, they knew that not even the shield of Aias would last for a good duration considering that the enemy is capable of firepower that could destroy timeless blades. The shield is just an emergency maneuver for what is about to come.

Artillery shells landed on it exploded with such power that it felt like an army worth's of ammunition couldn't even measure up to a minuscule amount of gunpowder used for this shell. Two petals were broke upon that impact that not even many thrown spears in mythology could even pierce one. Kuro winced in pain as the damage is being transferred to her.

"Kuro! Quick, we have to do something!" Illya said as she stood behind the shield of Aias.

Shirou and Kiritsugu looked at each other then jumped immediately to action, Shirou traced as many blades in front of them and Kiritsugu quickly removed the concept of time from the blades itself. Soon, Kuro dispels the shield away as they managed to create a barrier that stood between them and the barrage of gunfire that would threaten to devour them whole.

"How do we get closer to them now?" Kuro asked as her mother is healing the injury that her right arm sustained from the damage inflicted on Rho Aias.

Soon, the barrage around suddenly stopped in the middle of the air and they looked back and saw Alfin and everyone else is approaching them from behind.

"Don't forget us like that, you know!? We are in one same team, damn it!" Alfin said as she quickly returned those barrages with such a speed that they ignited from sheer friction alone.

Gudao then grunted that he forgot his own allies who made it this far with him. Suddenly, he heard the timeless blades being cracked from the force they were forced to withstood against. Pierce quickly runs up to right directly in front of the crack and right in the next moment, the crack fractured into a large hole which bullets would have flown through it if Pierce didn't stand right in front of it. However, none of them could damage him thanks to the power of Crisis Core which basically nullifies any kinetic-based attack against him.

Alfin then quickly jumped into action as the color of her eyes turned into the color of burning ember. Ballistics being stopped right in its track as she quickly turned all of them around and return them right back to senders. This resulted in massive-scale destruction into the enemy's formation and disrupted their unity once more.

"Everyone, now!" Alfin said as she quickly steps forward.

Everyone then quickly gathers on their feet and moved forward as they tried to get as close as they could to the fifth wall. However, the ground infantry units quickly charge toward them like a tsunami as they can instinctively sense the feral rage that is so overwhelming that they could get nauseated from it. Unless they have any Anti-Army Noble Phantasm, they would get steamrolled right immediately if not doing something right now.

Shirou and Kuro looked at each other then started to breathe calmly despite their lives are hanging on the balance between life and death. They then nodded as Shirou quickly gazed back at his Master, it was then that Gudao also realized something. And right at that moment, Gudao then looked back to his fellow allies who aren't Chaldeans.

"Everyone! Let me tell you this now! Turn back and stay away as far from us as you could!" Gudao said as he tried to warn everyone else.

Pierce wanted to have his word said but Richard placed his hand on his Master's shoulder then shake his head. He then realized that if his Servant has something important to say then he decided to heed his words even if not speaking directly. Arnold then grabbed Alfin by her hand then try to move away from the Chaldean as fast as he could.

Now that they have been left to their device. Shirou then cooperates with his father once more as they together use their expertise together and created another wall of timeless blades to protect themselves from whatever may land on them. And then the siblings, Shirou and Kuro. They then stand up, positioning themselves facing away from each other. Even if not looking at each other at all, they can sense each other to the point they felt like one. That's the ultimate culmination of their siblings bond, whose connection is mere of just using one same power.

However, that bond between them is real as they have seen many hardships, went through many Herculean Tasks, facing far and many more surpassing foes that they were forced to be up against but they have never once given up and continue strive through and moving towards their deserved tomorrow. Their understanding of themselves has increased tremendously from the beginning of their summoning and even until now.

Kuro understands one thing, despite sharing the same power, she is incapable of using it to the same extent as her brother. She can't even bring her inner world out to reality unlike him because she doesn't embrace that ideal fully like him. However, she won't let it become an obstacle for her to reach the true potential of her Noble Phantasm. She will bring it out through her brother's help!

"Kuro, are you ready?" Shirou said to his sister.

"Yeah, let's do this!" Kuro said boisterously as if she is filled with conviction.

They then both closed their eyes as fleeting memory ran through their mind. To truly understand their ideal, they have to go back, go back to their origin, and square one of their ideal. Without any sheds of doubt and hesitation, they together chanted the poem of their life, the incantation of duality and heroism itself. The very oath that they have sworn to become the very hero they are right now.

Words of God: For this part, play Emiya - Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works. The bold is Shirou's voice, the italic is Kuro's voice. If both then both of them at the same time.

Our shattered dreams forged into our blades
In our eyes, lied emptiness
My memories were in flux
As your life was consumed before you
But not even Fate could hide us from Destiny

Our chances dwindled, but...
We found the light, we found... Salvation
We thought it was through death
But it was not how we expected

Wills clashed, at the feet of our souls
As the sounds of broken blades echo through the landscape
We cried in sorrow, yet in defiance
But just in time did we finally see

Our wills are Unlimited
Our broken Blades made anew
Our Works... mattered

And just in time did I realize
We were never just a sword
Even Heroes have dreams too

Because for the first time we understood
That we were never wrong
That we...
Our heroes...

Were never wrong...

Soon, the blue flame started to erupt from beneath their feet as it quickly spread out to their surroundings. By the time they finish this incantation, Azure Soldiers have pretty much nearly surrounding them along with a huge portion of armored units accompanying them. But that flame quickly spreading around and engulfs them with such intensity that it is blinding. The flame was bright and intense but it doesn't emanate any heat at all, it felt like it touches you but isn't there at all.

And soon, the Chaldean has vanished away and pretty much the rest of the Azure Soldiers that were trying to surround them. Now that there is barely anything defending the fifth wall except for itself. Now, it is just one clear path towards the wall.

"Richard? What did they do?" Pierce asked as he found the idea of them vanished by themselves unbelievable.

"Reality Marble, you did enter that place once already, right? Now? That's just you happened to be outside its range." Richard said as he getting down to position before making a dash towards the fifth wall.

Pierce noticed as he quickly gathering up speed and moves at the same speed his Servant did. Alfin quickly moves from behind to catch up as Arnold is also pursuing her. They have to take every ounce of advantages they have or there won't be any hope of surviving left for them.

Soon, the wall's armament rearmed itself and quickly unleash that same hell upon them again, Richard quickly halted himself from moving as he tried to get behind Alfin as fast as he could. With the hail of ballistics that is running towards them, with every second that is dwindling down, Alfin quickly musters everyone ounce of her willpower as her eyes turned into the color of melting steel.

The hail of ballistics stopped dead right in front of her as they just froze. Sweats started to drop from her forehead as her mind trying to handle itself from the sheer amount of ballistics that she is blocking. Thanks to the White Death's icicles that many of the trap emplaced here actually self-neutralized themselves from the sheer cold alone that they became fractured upon contact and thus giving them moving ground without worrying about stepping on a trap that would fatally cripple them.

She ignited them all up and then quickly resends them back to the fifth wall with all her might behind. The moment she did so, she kneels to the ground from the sheer stress and headache that she felt from trying to process that much amount of ballistics being fired. Even then she gritted her teeth as she is trying to hold herself up and moving forward no matter what. The returned projectiles collided with the wall with such great force that it raised a massive dust cloud from the collision.

But unlike before where she could just reflect back all of the projectiles and let it do the work, the wall's defense was greater than its armaments. When the dust cleared up, there is not even a single dent at all, it just swats all of what she sent like nothing.

Arnold swore that he could hear her heart shatters as tears started to flow from her eyes, she then created multiple chains as they burst through from the frozen ground as they rush towards the wall. They quickly cling on to any armament that it contacts with and she quickly uses all of her strength to pull them back for herself, however, they refused to budge no matter how hard she pulled. In fact, she is dragging herself towards the wall instead. That's when another fatal flaw in her plan was revealed.

The whole structure was made from steel, to begin with. The fact that she is expecting the armaments to be disconnected from the wall easily like before without considering that fact is already a fatal move in itself. If she tried to do so, she would require the strength that is needed to uproot the fifth wall in itself from the ground up and drag it to her which is impossible without the Strength of a Berserker.

Arnold realized it and decided to quickly act before she would doom herself in her futility. He quickly rushes toward the wall with all of his speed behind it and noticed that there are still some stragglers left behind from all of her attacks which is attempting to hinder his plan.

"Spirit Phaze!" Arnold yelled as he lunged forward with the angel wings sprouted metaphysically on his back as he moves forward with unreal speed.

And the thing is... he is basically physically intangible during Spirit Phaze and anything attempt to stop in his path gets destroyed without any mercy. Not even Azure Soldiers, not even the Panzersoldat or Tigers. All of them are basically just a flight of grass against the lawnmower called himself.

He cuts through all of them as he quickly rushes toward the fifth wall with a speed that not even anything here could match it at all. And then he collided with the fifth wall head-on with such a force that it is deafening to the point that it could rupture everyone's eardrums. Soon, the angel wings dissipate into feathers and then nothing. Arnold felt his headache upon that collision but when he looked at the massive dent on the wall, he realized that he got off far easier than how he should have been.

A massive barrage of ballistics can't make a dent yet his Spirit Phaze actually did something. But his head throbs badly from doing so that he would rather not do it again.

"Arnold!" Alfin said to him as she quickly shields him with the King Tiger from the oncoming firings toward him.

The sounds of bullets clashing against metal cleared his mind up as he watches the gigantic silhouette standing right in front of him. What also strikes him is the sounds of continuous gunfires like a hailstorm splashing into the flood. Pierce is using his chimerized gun while Richard is unleashing his Noble Phantasm onto the oncoming onslaught.

"Reinforcement is coming! Hold your ground!" Pierce said.

Arnold looked around and saw a massive amount of reinforcement units that are just staggering which are about to surround them. Although they don't have to deal with the wall since they were right beneath their blind spot. But no matter how powerful you are, unless you can take them all out in one single fell swoop, those Azure Soldiers would eventually kill them here. He wished that the Chaldean were still around to assist but it was only thanks to them that they got here this far in the first place.

Arnold turned around and saw something, he doesn't know if his eyes are fooling or not but he saw a really small gap that stretches to the top of the wall. At that moment, an idea flashed in his mind but he doesn't know if he should bet on it or not. He looked at the Azure Soldiers that are slowly approaching them and then his fellow allies who are trying their best to avert the situation. And then he looked into Alice, he could tell those eyes are being filled with sorrow, the fear when facing the prospect of losing after she made it this far.

Upon seeing her face, Arnold felt something resonating inside of his heart. He remembered that he felt connected to her during their first meeting but now... he felt all of his uncertainty were swept away in a mere instant. He has to do it, for everyone.

He then stood up straight and with his right hand placed on his chest. He reaches back toward the forgotten armory of his past in an attempt to find a solution to this predicament. And when he found himself there, he searched around the place for anything that could help him. He has the MP18 hanging on the wall but there won't be much use for it when he is fighting a whole army that is hellbent on killing him.

He then noticed something, the journal on his desk. He quickly runs towards it and opens the journal to find that every page is filled with all of them retelling his memory up until his very final moment. He then quickly turning the pages only to stop at the last one. The final page... contains the requiem of his final moment. At that point, he felt something run through his mind as those memories were playing again vividly despite he just read it over. Perhaps... this is the final key to reobtain his Noble Phantasm.

He grabbed the journal with him and quickly make it to the exit. The moment he opened the door, a bright light engulfed him and he just found himself back in reality. However, the journal didn't follow with him but he remembered that requiem clearly.

"Arnold! Do something!" Alfin said to him.

At that moment, Arnold steels his conviction and quickly kneels with one knee on the ground. His right hand placed on his chest as he closed his eyes. His will is clear... He will save them from the jaw of defeat.

In a forgotten land I lay
A lonely soldier with an unknown fate
Upon my dying words as I pray
Tell the words of passing hell

Relieving all I have been through
With the last communion of my soul
Rusting bullets with my own tears
Relieving all of the sorrows of my own years

Alfin quickly summoned multiple blazing portals and cannons quickly protruding them as they open fire on the rushing Azure Soldiers as dust clouds are raised and deafening sounds are heard upon each impact.

Laying low in a blood-filled trench
Killing time until my own death
On my face, I can feel the falling rain
Never seeing my friends again

Within the smoke of mud and lead
Smell the fear and the feeling of dread
Soon the time the walls fall over
Rapid fire and end of us all

Richard yells as he keeps firing his Gatling gun upon any enemy he could see. Each bullet has the power of an artillery barrage concentrated to a single bullet. Brass cartridges falling like rain as the barrels keep spinning.

Whistles and sounds of gunfires
Lifeless bodies hang on barbed wires
A battlefield nothing but a bloody grave
Be reuniting with the other side soon

Many lives of eighteen years
Drown in the mud with no more tears
A war that nobody wins
Killing time is about to begin

Pierce keeps firing his Chimera's Cry as the barrel became white-hot from the sustaining fire that it is being forced to endure. The ammo counter keeps whirling down as it is eating through ammo like a lawnmower cutting through grass.

Crucified as if on a cross
Lives that never be able to mourn their loss
The gears of war forever turning
A cycle that can't ever be ceased

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 themselves

The sounds of Azure Soldiers' footsteps are getting louder as they still advance despite being faced against a massive storm of ballistics. There is no stopping them at all, they rushing ahead as if they have no concept of fear. It was as if they were 'rage' given physical form.

As the rain of blood unveil its crimson cloak
The sounds of guns can't hide their shame
And so I meet my end here
On the land of passing hell

Dodging shrapnel and barbed wire
Running straight into enemy's fire
Running blindly as I hold my breath
Let out a prayer within a symphony of death

Only a dozen meters left. They have done the best they could to halt the horde of Azure Soldiers but once again, they aren't Alice. There isn't that much hope for them to fight against the fifth wall through raw power alone. It was almost as if they are about to resign themselves to Fate but Pierce with his magecraft alignment still refuses to give up no matter what. His origin and affinity are what driven him this far and thus he knew the fine line between determination and insanity very well. Pierce gazed back at him to tell Arnold to not give up. With the very depth of his soul, he let out the final verse in his incantation-slash-requiem.

Seeing their spirits soaring across the wind
Beyond the horizon and end of the world
Friends that I have sworn my final vow
Live, to tell the words...

of Passchendaele...

Something chilling went through everyone's spine upon the moment Arnold muttered the final verse. It was as if the air froze itself but it isn't the temperature that was dropped but rather... something inside them just falls over. It was as if they have become down to earth and became unsure of themselves upon hearing it.

Soon, fogs started to appear as it quickly robbed everyone of their vision clarity. They lost their sense of distance and can't tell how far is something ahead of them is. The Azure Soldiers that can run across 20 meters in not even a second and yet for some reason, they still haven't reached any of Arnold's allies at all. It was as if the concept of space and distance just completely shattered upon that final verse.

Soon, there is only dead silence remain along with emptiness. Everything's gone, all of the Azure Soldiers, even the fifth wall itself. It was such an emptiness that no words could ever describe.

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Absolute Zero

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Somewhere in Simo's Reality Marble

A swift slash rends through the Panzer as it quickly got bisected into two parts immediately. Soon, Simo landed right behind it as it collapsed into the ground.

"Tsk, there are still a lot of them and they are surely more persistent than how I thought.". Simo said as he plunged the ice greatsword into the ground.

The temperature is -270 degrees Celcius, bordering on Absolute Zero. Normally it wouldn't have reached this temperature if it weren't for Anastasia's help which making the temperature dropping far more drastically. At this temperature, anything would have been frozen to the point it would collapse on itself from the sheer cold.

And yet those Azure Soldiers still capable of fighting in such a temperature. Although any armored unit would have collapsed on its own internal structure from the sheer cold and thus making requiring them abandoned.

"Watch out!" Anastasia said as she detected something behind her.

Within a blink of an eye, she is already behind a squad of Azure Soldiers and all of them have a bullet hole right in the back of their heads. Simo's gun barrel is smoking as those soldiers then collapsed into azure ashes and became indistinguishable in this blizzard.

What truly taking his time here isn't how hard it is to fight them but rather how far apart each of them is and how he has to search for them to take them down. He could tell that he dragged a lot of Azure Soldiers into this place but he has yet to find all of the main force here.

"By the way, where is this place? I have never seen this much mountain range here at all." Anastasia said.

"Your eyes probably playing tricks with you, there isn't much mountain here in the first place. Just trees and hills stretching as far as I could see. Much like how I remember the Winter War that happened." Simo said as he looked around.

He wanders his gaze around the snowfield as he looks for any more enemies. He could feel that something is approaching him, slowly making its way silently so that it could pounce on him.

He turned his back and saw it in motion right in his very eyes. The King Tiger is about to land right on him as he then calmly flickered out of his way as it plows through the snow.

Soon it came to a stop as he appeared right behind it once more. It stood up and turned around to him with its eyes flashing red at him.

"Tsk... Guess something just still persist in this storm... Fine, I shall take you down personally myself." Simo said as he pointed the Mosin-Nagant towards the King Tiger.

The King Tiger then roared as it aimed the main cannon towards Simo and fired without hesitation, he evaded it with ease but the shell continues to fly past him and then struck into the forest behind him. The explosion was so huge that it destroyed many hectares of forest in one shot. Simo turned around to assess the damage briefly before continue to focus back to his fight against the King Tiger.

He fired a shot to see if the cold temperature actually affected the armor or not in which the bullet bounced off its armor as if it was nothing. Simo, however, noticed the slightest detail when the bullet landed on the King Tiger and saw a really small crack on its armor. Normally it wouldn't even do anything but now, it is actually becoming more brittle due to the extreme cold it is being forced to endure.

Seeing this is their chance, Simo dipped the Mosin Nagant into the snow and just right before the King Tiger unleash its machine guns. He quickly evaded its barrage while keeping the gun dipped in the snow before pulling it out. Soon, the crystalline greatsword is back in their hands once more.

"Let me help you!" Anastasia said as she placed her hands on the greatsword as she enchants the blade.

They have no time for even the smallest brief resting. As long as the King Tiger still there, they won't have any moment to even have an idle banter. Taking down the King Tiger as fast as they could is now a priority above everything.

Simo quickly rushes toward the King Tiger while holding the greatsword one-handed as it skids across the snow. Anastasia meanwhile using Viy to find any possible weakness in the King Tiger. She then noticed the fracturing lines along the body of the King Tiger as it is highlighted in blood red for her.

"Right leg!" Anastasia said to Simo.

The King Tiger then focus fire on Simo as he then flickered away from the King Tiger's sight and appeared right beneath it as he quickly swings the blade as hard as he can with Anastasia's guidance. The greatsword broke in a mere instant upon contact but the armor plating on its right leg got shattered along with the blade itself.

Simo quickly moves away from the King Tiger after landing that attack as he can tell he enraged it after landing such a strike like that. It quickly turned around and then aims its tank cannon right at where Simo is. A shell quickly fired and moves toward him at hypersonic speed as Simo then flickered out of its way immediately. The shell impacted the ground and exploded with more than enough force to make the whole mountainside collapse into a cliff.

Simo appeared right behind it once again as it quickly turned around to fire its armament at him once more. Simo however quickly get out of its sight as he activated his camouflage in order to throw off its tracking vision. With this skill on, even if he stands right in front of it, it will never notice him.

"Deep breathe... Concentrate... The moment I take off for another attack, the camouflage will wear off. Anastasia, where will I have to attack next?" Simo asked as he tried to remain as still as possible.

Anastasia still has Viy activated as she is seeking any weak point on the King Tiger, normally the King Tiger wouldn't have such a thing on it but thanks to the temperature being near Absolute Zero is making its armor more brittle and prone to destruction than it normally is.

"Left leg!" Anastasia said as she pointed out one of its current weak points. There are more of them but crippling its mobility would help tremendously for them.

Simo then dashes as quickly as he could towards it and the King Tiger quickly aiming its machine guns at them. Even a single bullet of its machine guns would shred a Servant into pieces and thus blocking is out of the question. Anastasia could move fast but not fast enough to evade those machine guns and thus she has to rely on Simo's Agility. Plus, she finds it more comfortable around his back than anything else.

He then flickered his way like a specter and appeared right at the left leg of the King Tiger. Simo quickly slashes the crystalline greatsword as fast as he could before the King Tiger would shred him apart with its armament. Right just at the last moment, he quickly spins around and swings the greatsword as hard as he could with a backhanded strike and shattered both the sword and the left leg's armor.

The King Tiger roared once more as it quickly tried to grab him but he has already flickered away from it the moment he swung the greatsword. It then started to spray its armaments everywhere, thinking that it would at least strike him somehow. Unleashing its cannon and machine guns haphazardly without caring, thinking that collateral damage would do something but Simo and Anastasia knew better than that.

They appeared behind its back once more and Simo plunged the broken blade into the snow as it quickly repaired itself in a mere instant. The King Tiger turned its back around and quickly unleashes its armaments at Simo the moment it notices him. Simo quickly moves while not even showing signs of motion as if he was just a mirage.

Simo then rushes forward and then makes a focused thrust right into the knee of the King Tiger and then pulled the hilt of the blade out which is the Mosin-Nagant that he used. With a sudden obstacle in its mechanism, the King Tiger became unable to function properly as the crystalline edge still stuck in it thus making it unable to move its leg properly.

"NOW! Mirage Edge!" Both of them said at the same time as they changed their stance into the back left.

Suddenly, as if they have moved with such speed that it is unbelievable, they created afterimages of themselves lining up behind them while each of them is holding the greatsword in each different stances. And as if the planets aligned, all of those afterimages attacks right at one same time with such synchronization that they overlapped upon each other with each somehow managed to inflict physical effect despite being afterimages.

And the real one is the one doing back left as they quickly pulled an upward slash that pulled both of them into the sky and they soon landed on the snowy ground right after that attack. With the combination of Simo's unparalleled Agility and Anastasia's mystical power, this is something that can only be done with their combined power.

The power of that attack shattered the entire armor hull of the King Tiger and completely destroyed its armament, leaving open its internal mechanism, the engine, hydraulic presses, anything really but one thing that struck them is the azure fume that is leaking from the damage they inflicted. They don't know what it is but they would rather not pushing their lucks.

The King Tiger suddenly roared and quickly stood up and charging madly towards them. They noticed that the engine started to have lights breaching out of it and that is when they realized one thing.

"Watch out! It is going to self-destruct!" Simo said as he quickly steps back.

And before it could reach them, Anastasia chanted something and soon the ground ahead of them cracked open and the King Tiger then fell right into it. Soon it crashed into the bottom of the ravine and then exploded with a force that is enough to shake the ground that they are standing on. But other than that, things seem to be fine now.

"What did you just do?" Simo asked as he finds what just happened.

"It just a Noble Phantasm that I used to do mischievous 'pranks'. Normally like making a crack on the road or a pebble on the way, I can't crank it up to deal actual bloodshed but this here is a special circumstance. The King Tiger's weight can't support its own on the broken ground like this and thus I just simply crack open a small crack on the surface and I just happened to strike right into the weak spot that would create a ravine like this." Anastasia said with a smile on her face.

"Yeah... Just happened..." Simo said sarcastically as he finds it unbelievable to even believe in what Anastasia said.

Things seem fine now but Simo felt something... Something that he can't shake his mind off, like something, is waiting for him to let down his guard and then kills him swiftly.

He flickered away and just right at that moment, a blade almost decapitate both of them together. Simo appeared right in front of it and saw that his suspicion is confirmed. The fact that the King Tiger is set to self-destruct and the fact that he didn't see anything eject from it tells the whole story to him.

"Grand Cross... If it weren't for the fact that this isn't the first time I have experience with these kinds of monstrosity taking shape of a human, I would have died long ago. Good to know that my judgment wasn't wrong." Simo muttered to himself as he raised the greatsword at the Grand Cross right in front of him.

The Grand Cross closing on him first as it tried to kill him as swiftly as possible. Simo blocked the attack but the greatsword in his hand shattered immediately against the Grand Cross's attack and thus he quickly flickered away from it to avoid getting hit. He knew a Grand Cross's strength is terrifying in itself but he would never fathom to even have a close look at it at all or should he receive it at all.

He quickly appeared a distance away from its back and activate his camouflage to buy more time for him. Quickly dipping his broken blade into the snow, the greatsword itself is fixed in a mere instant but what use does a weapon has if it broke upon the first contact?

"Simo, let me help you with this one.". Anastasia said as she placed her hands on the greatsword.

Soon, the color of the ice crystalline greatsword turned from light blue into deep azure. He could feel the cold emanating from it despite the surrounding is already near Absolute Zero. Just one touch and you will instantly be frozen and collapse from the sheer brittleness you have become. If everything else is just a normal sunny day, this thing is a frozen apocalypse.

"Just be careful, if you broke it, there will be no fixing it.". Anastasia said before she got cut off immediately

The Grand Cross managed to notice him and quickly zero in to slash him. Simo raised his guard with the greatsword and the unbelievable happened. The greatsword is actually able to block the Grand Cross's attack. The sheer cold of the greatsword then started to spread into the Grand Cross's saber as the blade in its hand shattered when it tried to force the blade on him. Even the fragments felt like it could pierce through him as he tried to find a perfect moment to fall back.

The moment the saber was rendered useless, the Grand Cross tried to grab him by his neck. Never once he felt such intense rage and hostility at such a close quarter like this. Not even Berserker Class Servants would have this kind of rage building up like this. Simo quickly disengages and flickers away from the Grand Cross as fast as possible.

Reappeared right at the back of the thing a bit distance away from it, Simo reaffirms his stance so that he can combat against the Grand Cross more properly. Like at the next moment, the Grand Cross charges toward him with the speed that snow soars apart with the sonic barrier broken the mere instant. Simo and Anastasia's minds quickly synchronized as their bodies acted immediately on their own before they could process anything.

"Counterstance!" Their minds thought as they quickly attack right at the opening on the Grand Cross's body that is highlighted with blood-red thanks to Viy's ability.

And by some miracles, they sustained no damage from it during the whole process of doing so when they blitz through the Grand Cross with one swift attack. And then an ice blast occurred right when the Grand Cross is behind them.

"Anastasia? You used an ice spell on it, right?" Simo asked.

She nodded which honestly surprises Simo that she has such high-reflex despite not being much combat-oriented like him.

"This isn't over yet! Keep focus!" Anastasia said as Simo quickly spins around and swung his blade right at the Grand Cross which just lunged at him.

"Keep the pressure up! Don't let it reaffirm its stance!" Simo said as he swung the greatsword repeatedly at the Grand Cross with such fluid movements that no momentum is wasted.

Anastasia assists by using applying ice spells on every basic attack that Simo does so that the damage inflicted will be enhanced compare to normally although the blade itself is already capable of freezing anything upon contact.

Suddenly, the Grand Cross grabbed the greatsword by its blade and toss both of them away along with the greatsword. Both of them quickly landed on their feet but the greatsword is a distance away from them after that throw. The Grand Cross then started to lunge towards them like a mad dog.

Simo quickly turned around to check where the greatsword landed but that Grand Cross is going to tear them apart if he wasted any more seconds standing around here. Anastasia tried to at least stall for even a few more seconds by summoning multiple walls of ice that stood on the Grand Cross's way. Its rage completely blinded it of any reasoning as it smashes through the walls of ice despite it could easily go around it.

Simo quickly saw the hazy image of the greatsword within the blizzard as he quickly flickered towards it and grabbed it just right in time as he blocked the Grand Cross's attack with it which pushed both Simo and Ana off the hill.

They landed once again as the Grand Cross pursued them. Taking the initiative, both Simo and Ana quickly spin around and pushes their power into the next attack which created a shockwave. However, Anastasia's power and the blade's property turned that shockwave into three crystal edges that are rushing towards the Grand Cross while leaving traces of icicles behind them.

The Grand Cross thinks that it could just destroy whatever is in its path but the crystal edges that are rushing towards it aren't like the ice walls. The moment the Grand Cross smashes the crystal edges in one fell swoop, the remaining energy quickly discharged into an extreme cold that instantly ensnared the Grand Cross into encased in ice.

Anastasia quickly drops from Simo's back and quickly grabbed the greatsword and getting into the sword fighting stance once more with Simo. They did this once already when fighting Larry so there isn't going to be anything surprising about it to them anymore.

"Let's dance, asshole!" Simo said as he and Anastasia quickly rush towards the encased Grand Cross with all their might.

They together rush in with a focused thrust as they quickly spin around and wind up their momentum. Right when the time is in their favor, they together jumped and quickly pulled an overhead strike right into the Grand Cross with all of their strength behind. That attack shattered the ice that encased the Grand Cross and successfully staggered it into a dazed state.

"Final blow! Zero Ascension!" Both Simo and Ana said as they quickly charge toward the Grand Cross while both of them together wielding the greatsword.

They together in unison as they quickly slash the Grand Cross repeatedly in perfect momentum that no amount of movements were wasted. And right in that final blow, they use both of their strength and thrust the Grand Cross right into the crotch area and they quickly position themselves for the finishing blow. Anastasia then summoned an ice pale right below them as the force pushes them up into the sky while they are still holding onto the greatsword. The pale then shattered upon itself the moment it accomplishes what he supposed to do.

The result, the Grand Cross got bisected into half as the corpse then falls into the snow as they then ignited into an azure blaze. Simo and Ana then landed on the ground and they watch as the blaze unfolding right in front of them. Not even Absolute Zero could extinguish away that flame of hatred.

"At least we are no longer have to deal with something like this anymore. After taking on such a monstrosity like this, anything else is just pale in comparison." Simo said as he shrugs.

He keeps staring at the blaze in front of him until Anastasia nudges him to grab his attention. Simo turned around and saw what Anastasia is telling him.

"Huh? No wonder we didn't find much of them on our way." Simo said as he finds it unsurprising in the slightest.

Turns out, Azure Soldiers do have the slightest trace of intelligence but most of the time they are completely clouded by the sheer feral rage they display all the time. They have regrouped with each other and now a massive army that was dragged by him into his Reality Marble is about to charge towards him.

"You know what, Anastasia? How about we finish this whole ordeal for once and for all?" Simo said to her.

She nodded just as the army of Azure Soldiers in front of them is about to charge toward him like a herd of enraged bulls. Simo then gives her a hand as he quickly crouches and then Anastasia runs toward him and then leaped into his hands which he placed them together as he then pushed her high up into the heaven above. The Azure Soldiers opened fire on him in which he then simply flickered away from them after he gives Anastasia the boost she needed.

Anastasia when she pierced into the cloudy sky above her, she then quickly summoned her familiar, Viy. She started to levitate in the air as she keeps mumbles its name repeatedly to the point that one would mistake it for borderline psychotic obsession.

Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy Viy

The foggy familiar behind her started to having its eyes flashing as she keeps citing its name. It then created two prisms of absolute zero ice as Anastasia then opened her eyes and threw them down towards the Azure Soldiers below her. The soldiers keep trying to shoot her down but none of those bullets managed to even reach the altitude she is in right now.

The two prisms then collided into the ground as they then burst right at one same time. Right at the next moment, the place that the Azure Soldiers just stood on is now a massive ice crystal, one that is so high that it pierces heaven itself. The thing is that unless somebody stood far away, none will understand just how large that ice crystal she just created.

The whole mountainside as wide as dozens of kilometers in radius is completely encased in ice and its height reaching high enough to have a modern fighter jet to crash into it.

Simo appeared again with the distance he is away from it is about more than a hundred kilometers. With his Mosin prepared, he will activate his Noble Phantasm, separately from the greatsword that he and Anastasia used together. If he really wanted to kill the Chaldeans back then, he would have used his Noble Phantasm while they were unaware of it. But now this is a whole different story, the one that is a secret but to him and Anastasia.

The sky darkens as everything started to turn into nights. The wind howls as the blizzard became even stronger. Soon, darkness engulfed the whole place as the only thing they can sense here is just raw and bitter coldness that pierce through their flesh and bones.

An azure flash appeared within the darkness. Simo's right eye is flashing as if set ablaze, he looked down upon the ironsight of his rifle as he aims true at one singular target. He doesn't even need a scope or anything like that. That's just how good he is.

He pulled the trigger and a bullet was fired. It moved with an unreal speed that breaks the sound barrier the moment it leaves the muzzle. However, the bullet disappeared before it could make any real distance.

No... It disappeared not because of anyone's intervention. Simo deliberately let it like that because it is also a part of his Noble Phantasm.

In the next instant, a deafening sound of something shattering occurred. The massive ice crystal that its size reached heaven just shattered like that along with anything that was encased inside it. One hundred kilometers were cut down like that in just an instant.

The thing is... It doesn't matter what his enemy is. It doesn't matter what is on its way. It doesn't matter what the environment would do to it. That's what his Noble Phantasm does, it warps the bullet straight into his target, completely ignoring the distance between him and his target. He could choose where his bullet will reappear in its line of fire, it could be a few meters in front of his enemies, or literally right at between their eyes, or... right inside their head. It doesn't matter who they are, death awaits them.

Soon, the darkness cleared up as it soon revealed the aftermath of Simo's Noble Phantasm. Ice fragments all large and small chunks scattered across the field but he could tell that there is no longer any trace of Azure Soldiers left. He looked up at the cloudy sky and saw Anastasia slowly descending from the sky gracefully as if she is an angel. Well, she fits the description of one if he has anything to say.

Simo sighed and then flickered right to the area below her. He then put all of his strength into his feet as he jumped towards her. The moment he reached her, he quickly caught her in his grasp as Simo then bridal carrying her as they together fall toward the ground. They soon landed on the snowy white field although the blizzard still raging on.

"Guess that we managed to fulfill our roles, hope that the others are able to make it." Simo said to Anastasia.

Needless to say that they have their own 'personal' time with each other in this world.

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Twin Unlimited Blade Works

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The dusty miasma covered the atmosphere as they quickly enter their Reality Marble. With the combination of their power and this is their first time doing so, they have no idea how things will go despite already knowing the basics and theoretical gist of it. According to many Casters, they theorized that if the siblings were to combine their power, the Reality Marble's property will change to fit both of its users.

"So this is it... The power of the siblings." Gudao said as he stood around in the middle of nothingness surrounded by this dusty miasma.

Soon, the atmosphere cleared up and he started to see the Reality Marble clearly with his own eyes.

It was a starry night with two moons hanging from above, he could see the faint trace of the gears in the background but the stars outshone all of them. Blades, lances, spears... everything... They are plunged into the ground as if they were memorials belonged to their respective heroes. All of them are still in pristine condition as if they just recently placed here as they left their mark in this world.

This world is a memorial in itself, a tribute to all of the heroes who put their life on the line for humanity's survival.

Suddenly, a spear nearby him started to pull itself out of the ground, and then a figure started to materialize nearby it. He noticed that spear, there was no mistaking its red color. It was the Gae Bolg that belonged to Cu Chulainn.

It was just a shadow Servant which bears the only similarity in appearance. But he could tell that Shadow Servant is acting pretty well for a pale imitation as it quickly charges toward the group of Azure Soldiers that it detected and slaughtered all of them with a single whirl of its spear.

"Right, can't forget that I'm not the only one here in this Reality Marble.". Gudao said as he quickly tried to search for the high ground so he can have a much better vision of what is going on.

He reached for the top of the hill and saw the whole battle unfolding right in front of him. Weapons of all kinds from common and mundane to the legendary and mythical scattered among each other in this graveyard. The twin is fighting against a massive army of Azure Soldiers which has encircled them. However, they aren't losing at all, they are in fact holding their ground significantly better than before.

Both of them quickly summoned the swords surrounding them in their world and raining them down upon their enemy as Shadow Servants started to form and take arms against the Azure Soldiers. Due to the limitation of their nature, they can't use skills or Noble Phantasm, they just attack anything that they were commanded to by Shirou and Kuro. Even one Shadow Servants could hold their own as long as they don't get overwhelmed by the sheer number.

And away from the center of the ongoing conflict are Kiritsugu and Iri who are trying to stave off the Azure Soldiers and reducing the intensity of the center conflict by aggroing the force away from their children. Kiritsugu swinging the Natalia as he severs through the enemy like a hot knife through butter as Iri heals off any injury both he and she sustained.

Shadow Servants, that seems to be the difference compared to the normal UBW but if he thought it would be just that until Shirou said something.

Oath of Enma

Suddenly, the katana from beside him root itself up and flew towards the conflict that is going on. A figure formed nearby it and quickly took hold of it. A Shadow Servant, he knew that much already but something unexpected happened. Color started to flooding in and soon, that Shadow Servant became a full-fledge Servant as if they were summoned to this place directly.

Benienma, the Tongue-Cut Sparrow. She is part of the Chaldean Culinary Team which Shirou is also holding a major position. A proactive introvert, lazy yet dedicating. She is a bit more of a swordswoman than a young girl despite her own appearance of one. She is earnest and respectful towards everyone, no matter whom she is talking to. Despite having the air of a fair and cool-headed judge, she is a deeply loyal sparrow and will always hold dear all of the favors of the others done for her.

She quickly turned into a sparrow and flew through the horde of Azure Soldiers and gone undetected through them. In the next second, the Azure Soldiers that were on her path were diced into pieces as they collapse into azure ashes. That sparrow then flies to his position and then returns to her original form.

"Hey Master, dechi... I didn't think I would get here at all. This is that Red Archer's Reality Marble, right? But I don't remember it being the night sky with two moons hanging above with stars flashing like this..." Benienma said to her Master.

"Wait... You know me!? I thought this world and the Shadow Border are separated! I mean you were summoned independently from the FATE summoning system yet actually keeping the memory!?" Gudao said in surprise.

"What are you talking about? Did your lack of nutrients finally got into your mind? I am that same Benienma cooking meals for you along with many other Servants! How could you forget me like that!" Benienma said as she pouts while angrily said.

This is a revelation that Gudao didn't even remotely expect. The Servants summoned here actually keeps their memory of their times in Chaldea, or rather... they were summoned directly from Chaldea!

"Enma! How did you even get here?!" Gudao asked as he shook her by the shoulder.

"How would I know!? All I know is that I was cooking dinner for the Servants and then I suddenly felt drowsy and before I realized it, I just collapsed into the ground and slept like a brick. And the next second, I find myself holding my own sword and flying towards the enemy!" Benienma said to her Master.

This... has turned into a complicated situation. He doesn't know what is going on anymore, things just seem to become more outlandish over time as he spent more in this Reality Marble. He knew that if both the sibling combine their power, it would become stronger but never would he thought that they could do this at all.

"Master! Watch out!" Benienma tried to warn her Master of an ambush but she couldn't react in time.

"Huh?" Gudao said as he turned around and saw a Tiger about to jump at him from the back.

However, he never needs to fear in the first place as the Tiger is immediately destroyed by a cleaving slash of azure flame.

"Dost thou need my help, contractor?" An old intimidating voice said to Gudao.

A large figure wearing a religious hood and wearing a skull mask on his face, the azure flame can be seen in his eyes as staring straight into is to look into the void itself. That old man is the personification of death as his presence reeks doom to anything that he deems to be exterminated. That old man is the Old Man of the Mountain or how Gudao called him King Hassan.

"King Hassan!" Gudao said in surprise to see him here right now.

"It seems that there was no need for an explanation. I shall heed whatever thou ask, contractor." King Hassan said as he focused his gaze and an approaching Tiger got burnt to crisp from the fire pillar erupting right from beneath its feet.

Realizing the control that Shirou and Kuro have over the Twin Unlimited Blade Works, the potential is limitless when it comes to them, to turn a Shadow Servant into an actual one is already unbelievable in itself but the fact that they managed to turn this world into the only gateway for the Chaldeans to take action is even more commendable.

Gudao decided to bet one of his Command Seals to bolster the power of this place, there can't be anything wrong with being too cautious but Benienma placed her hand on Gudao's then shaking her head, telling that there is no need to do so in the first place.

He watched as more and more Servants started to show up, it was such an ultimate battle of grand proportions. Napoleon appeared with his massive-ass cannon as he laid bombardment upon the horde of concentrated Azure Soldiers. Sigurd and Brynhildr appeared as they together cleave through the enemy's force singlehandedly with overwhelming power. Even if facing against armored units, the Primodarial Runes that they have easily make short works of all of them.

"Thou art a Dragon!" Saint George said as he activates his Noble Phantasm and directs it to the King Tiger and turned it into technically a 'dragon'. However, this is a perfect setup for the Dragon Slaying Trio. Sigurd, Siegfried, and Sieg.

Sigurd then quickly punches dozens of shortsword within his possession and then punches Gram towards it with all of his might. Siegfried prepared his stance as he activates Balmung and light blue aura started to emanate from it. Sieg then activates his Noble Phantasm as he slowly levitates up into the air and he quickly engulfed by a bright light that flashes from his chest as he quickly transformed into Fafnir, the dragon that Sigurd and Siegfried slew in their respective legends.

The shortswords cleave through the Azure Soldiers in its path then collides with the King Tiger, Siegfried then thrusts his Balmung as the aura turned into a massive blast that obliterates anything its path, Sieg then breathes fire down upon the enemy below as the flame incinerates anything as it quickly rushes toward the King Tiger which is being immobilized by the rune that Sigurd inscribed on those shortswords. Gram then pierced into it as Sigurd zero in as he put all of his strength into his punching fist.

And right at that moment, the three forces collided and caused a massive blast that created a pillar of discharging energy soaring up to the sky. To have three Servants using their Noble Phantasm at the same time sounds extremely wasteful and overkill but when it comes to Azure Soldiers, there is no such thing called overkill.

Artoria quickly skirmishes the battlefield as she rode on the back of her trusty Dun Stallion as she takes down any Azure Soldiers that was on her way with the Rhongomaniad, it seems that she didn't expect herself to get into this world at all but she doing well for someone who got thrown unexpectedly here.

"Sis! Are you alright?" A familiar voice said to her.

Arthur approaches her as he made his way, it seems that he took control of himself while he is about to get overwhelmed by a bunch of Tigers when he came about and thus seems to be in the worse for wear but still fine nonetheless.

"Said the person who is having bruises across the body but yeah... I am fine." Artoria said to her 'brother'.

Bullets started to fly towards them as they quickly took cover, even when many Servants were gotten here, the amount of enemy is still too staggering that he felt really weirded out despite facing much larger armies in Lostbelts.

The Dun Stallion started to panic as more ballistics started to land nearby it, Artoria quickly calmed it down before it would act rashly in panic. At that moment, she decided that it is better to have it hid away for now. Horses got outstripped from the modern battlefield for a reason, you know.

"You know the rule and so do I.". Arthur said.

Artoria nodded as she quickly draws her Excalibur out and so does Arthur with his, they together looking at a large battalion of Azure Soldiers charging down this path as they were standing on its way.

Arthur then unbinds his seals from the sword while Artoria is simply charging her mana into it. Soon, their swords illuminated brightly as they bask everything surrounding them with that royal light of them. They then change into their appropriate stances while the enemy in front of them is rushing in like a horde of feral hounds. Even when facing such adversaries, they still remain steadfast no matter what.

When that moment comes, they together swing their swords at one same time.

"Ex-" Arthur said as he prepared to time his swinging moment.

"-cal-" Artoria said as she follows up.

"-li-" Arthur said as the moment is coming for both of them.

"-bur!" Both of them yelled at the same time as they together used their Noble Phantasm.

A beam of light came forth from each of their swords. Two beams of pure light intertwine around each other as it quickly rushes toward the battalion of Azure Soldiers that are charging mindlessly towards their death. The two beams blast through them as they obliterate anything in their path, even the King Tigers that were among them.

The two beams then fused with each other then quickly discharged into two pillars of pure light that is visible across this Reality Marble. They did this together once but never would they lost that fascination they have when doing so.

Meanwhile, Illya is raining down bombardments of prana beams with her Mystic Codes in the air as she is doing everything in her capability to assist everyone in the best way she could do. However, air superiority doesn't matter that much to those Azure Soldiers as they could somehow still accurately firing at her.

Suddenly, she saw something strange down beneath her is happening. The frozen trail of something as it is moving through the Azure Soldiers if she could make it out correctly. She then realized that there is only one person who fits that bill in which she knows. Sitonai...

Illya then dives down right back at the ground and landed right at where the epicenter of the freezing and her intuition was once again confirmed. It is indeed Sitonai, she is fending herself against a huge group of Azure Soldiers that is surrounding her just now. Her polar bear named Shirou is also fighting alongside her as it claws through them effortlessly as if they were paper against scissors.

"Sitonee-chan!" Illya said as she tried to get her elder sister's attention.

Sitonai turned around and see her sister but quickly turn her attention back to the fight that is unfolding around her right now. Illya realized that it is also a bad time to even distract her sister like that and thus quickly assisting her in the fight against the enemy around them.

"Sitonee-chan, how did you get here? I thought that we can't summon you in because of the EKS but here you are, fighting alongside us while still at full power like this." Illya said to her sister.

"Don't ask me as if I am the only mythic Servant here! Are you blind or what if you can't even notice the chaos unfolding right now!?" Sitonai said to her sister as she cleaves an Azure Soldier with her sword.

A Panzer quickly got close to them as it is about to swipe both of the sisters. However, it is immediately scrapped by another force that it didn't detect. A crimson hue lingers around its wreckage as both the sisters look at what just happened just now.

"Miss me?" Miyu said to her sisters as she is wearing a magical girl outfit, just like Illya. The difference here is that her outfit is sapphire blue while Illya's is pink ruby.

"Miyu!" Illya said as it has been very long since the last time she saw her.

"So this is our battle, huh? Been a long while since we ever get to fight alongside each other like this." Miyu said as she readied her Mystic Code.

"Yeah, been a long while too.". Illya said as she also readied her Mystic Code.

They together get into position and then quickly jump into action. Sitonai along with her polar bear quickly mowing down the infantry units on their way, while Miyu takes down the armored unit with the Gae Bolg that she has from the Class Card.

"Lancer! Include!" Miyu said as the Gae Bolg appeared in her hand the moment she said them.

She then applied the causality reversal effect as she let the spear loose automatically the moment she finished the incantation. The spear does the rest of the job as it moved by itself and impaled the Tiger and pierced through the heart of its operator immediately. The force also tore the Tiger apart as it turned into a heap of scrap immediately in the aftermath and the thing is, Miyu didn't even need to spend that much mana for something like that.

However, she knew that this isn't the last of them yet and she quickly switches out to her Mystic Code, Sapphire. She swings the Mystic Code as it quickly created multiple prana shockwaves as they cleave through the Azure Soldiers. Illya assists her by also using her Mystic Code and try to fend away as many of them as possible.

Sitonai meanwhile riding on her polar bear and using her bow to shot down as many of those Azure Soldiers as she could while evading the torrents of ballistics with such reflex that is not even humanely possible. A Tiger about to aim its cannon right at her but Sitonai acted faster than it and she quickly maximum draws her bow as the bolt quickly becomes saturated with her power.

Even before it could fire its cannon, Sitonai let loose the arrow and it quickly punctured through the Tiger and an icicle quickly rose up and then impaled it as it lifts the Tiger into the sky. Sitonai quickly commanded her bear to climb the icicle as she draws her sword and quickly put all of her might into the finishing slash which split the whole Tiger in half. The Chaldean team was struggling to put up a good fight against it and here Sitonai just finished it off effortlessly like that. Having divine power surely is such an advantage that hardly that many Servants could measure up.

"Who wants some!?" Sitonai said as she cavalry charges toward the battalion of Azure Soldiers as she quickly eliminates them where they stand.

And back to the magical duo, their dance of ruby and sapphire is proven to be such a massive synergy that none of those Azure Soldiers managed to put up a good fight that lasts even longer than a second against them. However, that doesn't mean they are indomitable. The moment this dance of their ends, the Azure Soldiers will counterattack immediately. They can't keep up this dance without straining their minds greatly as they felt the stamina inside draining away with each time they swing their wands at their enemy.

"Miyu... I can't keep this up..." Illya said tiredly as she tried to keep the show going.

"We can't give up yet, somebody must be coming to help us..." Miyu said as she tried to suppress the lethargic feelings swelling up inside her mind.

With their stamina reserve drained, they couldn't keep thinking straight and their surrounding awareness dropped to the point that even a Panzer could sneak upon them. Just as it about to hit both Illya and Miyu, a saving grace has occurred to them at that last moment when a blast of concentrated energy wrecked that Panzer immediately.

They turned around and saw a familiar figure that they can realize who that person is with a simple gaze alone.

"Good grief... Thank the heaven that I made it here in time." Waver said as she takes a smoke of his cigar while suddenly being in the spotlight after what he just did.

The enemy open fires on him but with his Mystic Code on, he evaded all of them while still calmly smoking on his cigar while retaliating at the same time. He takes out his tactician feather fan and proceeds to swing it at his enemy. The moment he did so, a large gale blown all of them in one fell swoop as he quickly clears up the enemy units around him.

His discerning gaze fell upon his enemy as he analytically planning out his way to clear up the entire regiment by himself alone. It will be proven difficult but not impossible. He then situates himself as if he just sits on an invisible chair as multiple yin-yang sigil plates appeared around him as he quickly unleashes multiple energy beams from them as they quickly shredding through those Azure Soldiers.

"Still too many, it would take forever if it keeps going like this. I won't die but it will take too long to be efficient. I need a way to somehow that I could-" Waver thought before he was suddenly cut off when he realized a shadow is appearing right at his position. He looked up at the sky and then quickly getting on his feet immediately as a massive sword the size of a tower just landed right at his position.

He knew what it was, it was that same sword back then when Shirou and Kuro used to make a bridge that would cross the ravine during their journey. The Ig Alima, it mostly just a hollow blade considering its property but it will still prove to be devastating in the right hand.

"Miyu! I have an idea but you may not like it!" Illya said as she looked at the massive sword.

"Anything is better than keeping up this dance!" Miyu said tiredly as vapors rise up from her sweaty body.

Both of them quickly flew towards the handle of the Ig Alima and took hold of it. The sisters quickly tried to pull the massive sword out of the ground in which it may appear impossible but Servants' power is often deceiving that one would hardly believe their capability.

The sisters managed to uproot the blade out of the ground as they quickly performed an overhead swing with it down towards the enemy below. In the next second, the sword impacted the ground and caused a huge tremor in the process.

"Girls! Watch where you are swinging!" Waver said to them as he tried to warn them of their own recklessness.

"Sorry!" Illya said to the tactician right below them at the ground.

The sisters then landed on the ground, still holding on to the gigantic sword. They together yelled in unison as they swing the massive sword in an arc-shaped path and Waver just happened to be in its way. However, he calmly backflips over it just when it about to reach him. Everything else though gets splattered immediately by it like a fly swatter striking its target. The splattered body parts scattered across the starry sky as they then turning into azure ashes as if they were stardust.

And just like that, they decimated the Azure Soldiers around them although the same could probably be said to the Ig Alima as it broke on their last swing. At least it fulfilled its duty to the very end.

"At least we're safe although I am so tired that I couldn't even stand properly.". Illya said as she is shaking pretty bad that she could just fall over at any second.

"Take a good rest because you will need it although I didn't believe that you could just swing such a huge sword like that. Even if it is just a hollow blade" Waver said as he just finds it unbelievable at what just unfolded in front of him before.

"To be fair though, Onii-chan and Kuro did trace them and place them really easily because it is a hollow blade. If it was at its true form, it would have been a different story." Miyu said.

Suddenly, she remembered why she even came to Illya, to begin with. She then tried to stand straight without shaking as she hands over her Mystic Code to Illya.

"Illya, you will need this more than me. I can fare well enough without it but the hurdle ahead of you will be tremendously impossible without this." Miyu said as she hands over Sapphire to Illya.

"Wuh? Wait... I can't take this from you!" Illya said as she said in panic when Miyu is willing to hand over one of the most important items to her.

"Sigh... Alice... You forgot about that already?" Waver said to Illya as he reminds her about the biggest predicament they are in right now.

"Oh, right..." Illya said as she realized the duty that she has to fulfill and then begrudgingly accept Miyu's transfer of Sapphire to her.

"Don't worry. Even without Sapphire, I can still use the Class Card to my advantage and thus I am far from being powerless. But you on the other hand will be facing a much greater threat than how Chaldean used to deal with it. Even more than the Beasts themselves... This is the only way I could help you..." Miyu said with a determined look in her eyes.

Illya tried to suppress the tears from flowing as she quickly accepting the Mystic Code that Miyu has given to her.

"I recommend you to catch up with Shirou and Kuro, considering how many of those Azure Soldiers they dragged into here. They will be needing the majority of the Emiya family members and the only exclusion I could make is Sitonai and Miyu. So do your job because this will determine whether or not we will make it through." Waver said as he emphasized the importance of Illya's duty.

Illya nodded as she quickly flew away, leaving Waver and Miyu behind as they stand on this mass memorial.

"Oh god, I forgot. Sitonai! I'm coming!" Miyu suddenly realized as she then quickly used the Class Card and transformed into the Heroic Spirit written into the card.

Lancer! Install!

In a flash, she transformed... Although not exactly into the precise Heroic Spirit but rather donning in their clothes which is stylized for the user and give them the power of said Heroic Spirit. Her is Cu Chulainn as she wears a rather revealing spandex suit. She then moves toward where Sitonai is with a speed that easily makes Waver eats dust.

"Sigh... Such sisterly bonds, aren't they?" A feminine voice said from behind Waver.

Feeling an overwhelming power behind him but he doesn't display anything that is remotely called fear because he is in fact already aware who it is.

"Nice to see you here... Void Shiki..." Waver said unamusedly as he lights up another cigar.

"Hmm... It seems that we are finally getting closer to the ultimate truth, aren't we?" Void Shiki said with a smirk in her face, to have her display any emotion other than the deadpan expression is a challenge that not even many heroes would dare to do.

"Said the omnipotent god who is willfully lazy, I bet that you foresaw all of this happening, right?" Waver said as he smokes on his cigar.

"You may be right or maybe not. But if there is anything I regret during this event that is happening right now, it just that I have to stay out of the possible the only fair fight I ever get in my existence." Void Shiki said as she closed her eyes and feeling the wind blows across the memorials.

"Sike... And here I thought you have something else to say but the fact that you said it is a fair fight for you definitely not making me more relaxed here." Waver said as he tried to shun those thoughts away.

Waver turned around suddenly as if his instinct is telling him something but there is just only Void Shiki standing there. It's strange, he always feels like being observed but most of those times, they were too faint to tell but during this whole operation in this WW2 Singularity, he felt like someone is watching his every step with great scrutiny even if there is nothing around him.

"So you noticed it too." Void Shiki said calmly even though there is this nagging feeling linger around them.

"What?" Waver felt too starkly shocked that he couldn't believe that Void Shiki is confirming that there is indeed something that is watching over them.

"Let me tell you though, this observer has been watching over us ever since the beginning of Chaldea itself. Back to its first day when our Master is still an inexperienced greenhorn." Void Shiki said as she summing up the story so far.

Waver hears attentively to what Void Shiki has to say. The fact that there is something spying on them since the beginning is really worrying.

"Don't worry though... The gaze that befalls on our Master isn't of ill-intent, malice, cunning, or anything like that but rather of someone who is really invested in him. To go to massive lengths to ensure his safety. Their invisible hands are what has shielded him from so many situations that would have otherwise killed him prior to this point." Void Shiki said.

"I don't know... That sounds like you to me..." Waver said with a bit of doubt.

"Of course... It isn't me but rather someone whose power has the same origin as mine... Their power... is directly connected to the Root..." Void Shiki said with a bit more serious expression because this is involving someone who was just like her.

"Dear...fucking...lord..." Waver said as the scope of the situation suddenly got enlarged to the point that it is unbelievable.

What will they do with this newly earned knowledge? But Waver felt extremely tense to the point that he tried to find any way to wrap it over his mind but up to no avail while Void Shiki is still standing there looking up to the two moons hanging above her.

"Fate... must have driven us here..." Void Shiki said while her attention was captivated by the moons.

Meanwhile, Illya is still flying through the night sky while below her is a raging battle between the Chaldean Servants and the Azure Soldiers. The amount of power used and the destruction level is something she has never seen before. She would think that the Reality Marble would give away before this battle would end and she just realized what would happen to all those who were summoned here?

Illya wanted to think about it but she decided to shun those thoughts away. She needs to get back to her family as fast as she could. If there is anywhere she knows she could head to, it would be the hill where Shirou placed the weapons of those whom he believed and trusted on that hill of swords. It is really hard to even miss that mountain in the first place because it is the only landmark in this world.

Suddenly, she felt something isn't right as she looked up and saw a hail of swords about to rain down on her. She quickly evaded out of its way but she felt rather shaken by the sudden attack like that. However, she noticed that she wasn't its intended target but rather she was just standing in its way down below. She just knew that the only one capable of doing so in this world is just her brother and there is no way that he would harm her deliberately.

Quickly weaving her way to the Hill of Swords, she then found all of her family members standing on top of it. It seems that they were waiting for her although how? That she doesn't know.

"Illya! Thank the heaven that you're still alright!" Shirou quickly embraces her tightly as he could just right when she got near them.

"Onii-chan... At least look where you sending out those swords... You just almost hit me with them." Illya said unamusedly.

"Either way... You said that you found a way to end this whole fight decisively, right?" Kiritsugu asked his son.

"Whether it could end them all or not... That I don't know but I know for sure that this will wipe out nearly all of them and the Chaldeans will exterminate them on spot. I honestly don't know how many of them I dragged here exactly but I could tell that this will swiftly clear all of them out." Shirou said.

"So what do we do to activate what you said?" Kuro asked.

"Honestly, that depends but I guess that is whatever makes us bind together in the first place.". Shirou said with a smile on his face.

"That's just too cryptic to follow.". Iri said as she doesn't quite follow what Shirou meant.

Words of God: For this part, play Fate/stay night - Last Stardust

Shirou then raised his right hand to the sky just like what he does when he summoned a whole barrage of swords to rain down upon his enemy but this time there is nothing. Everyone else is just looking at him wonder what they have to do exactly. Kiritsugu steps forward and then placed his hand on Shirou's shoulder. And when he did so, a star in the sky flashed as something just seems to fire out of it.

That flash of light then quickly rushes toward the ground as the moment it collides with the ground. It blew up into a massive energy blast that obliterates all of the Azure Soldiers in its area of effect. The Servants who just witness that blast were left dumbfounded by what just happened just now.

"Teach... What just happened?" Achille said as he stopped suddenly when that energy blast occurred.

"I don't know... But considering that it flashes from the star. I presume it must be something like my Noble Phantasm but that is stretching it..." Chiron said as he also stopped while still holding himself in combat stance.

"Sitonee-chan? What was that?" Miyu asked as she is confused about the blast that occurred.

"Beats me, I'm not a god that rules over constellations nor do I have a constellation for myself.". Sitonai said while still riding on the bear.

And then another flash from the stars above and that flash then struck into the ground and suddenly there isn't even a trace of any Azure Soldiers there left. It is clear that it must be something that this Twin Unlimited Blade Work is clearly capable of.

Cu Chulainn meanwhile is clearing up a battalion of Azure Soldiers right now when suddenly another flash appeared and that flash blasted his location and leaving behind a large crater as it obliterates any Azure Soldiers there. However, he is still unharmed despite being in its blast.

"Huh? I'm alive?!" Cu Chulainn said as he has gotten onto too many close calls that he got surprised that he got out unharmed by what seems like it could kill him.

Back at the Hill of Swords, Irisviel then placed her hand on her son's shoulder as she then placed her trust in him. As a mother and an ally that he could place his full trust in.

More of those stars started to shooting down towards the ground. The Servants can't help but instinctively dodge them although there are clearly many times that those shots landed on them but didn't even harm them at all. At worse, they would just get their vision completely flashed and turn white but pretty much any threat beside them is gone when it did so.

Seeing those flashes raining down upon the ground below, all of them were like stardust. Carrying the wishes and prayers as they soar up to the sky and fade away to who knows where. It was his wish to see all of these hells to be undone and the bond that he made with everyone in Chaldea here has led to this ultimate culmination of all of his experience.

The memorial will only become larger with more Heroic Spirits he came across. But his hands will never wield any of them.

His sisters look toward the rain of stardust in front of them. They looked at it as the sight came into their eyes, they watch as time seeps away like sand in an hourglass.

They then reach out to his hand as they held his hands tightly. With their eyes closed, they together pray with him as the stars raining down.

The Servants eventually stopped trying to evade them. What's the point if they can't be harmed by it and the fact that it did the job for them when it comes to clearing out the Azure Soldiers. They just stand there and watch the light show around them as they embrace the light of the stardust itself. They not gonna lie about this but, it felt kinda warm to be doused in this light.

Soon, the stars all around them quickly charge up for one final salvo. And soon, they all fired together into one large blast that engulfs everything in its bright light. All of the Servants there just stand watch as that wall of light approaching them before being completely engulfed in it. It then started to reach for the Hill of Swords and the family just stand there as they close their eyes and bracing for it.

And then there is only the white color that painted the entirety of this world. White... like a scars-covered heart of glass.

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Price of A Mile

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The rain ceased, they were staying under it for so long that they felt strange without the rain pouring down on them. Alfin tried to find anyone around her and yet she is as lost as everyone else despite they were just two feet away from each other.

She then dispels the King Tiger that she rode on just now as Alfin then started to run aimlessly in the fog without a clear idea of what to do. Is this what it was like to Arnold? To be blind at every corner of judgment without knowing anything better?

She keeps running around as she realized that she is stepping on something mushy and wet and splatters with each step of her. She looked down and realized that it was mud. The fog started to clear up and rain started to fall on her. Soon, she realized just what this place is.

Words of God: For this part, play Price of a Mile - Sabaton

The memory that she witnessed as a specter to Arnold's past. The land scarred by war completely and absolutely destroyed beyond all hope of restoration. There was no hope in this place, only death and fears and the carnage of the industrialized manslaughter.

She started to shake in fear as the horror of war is unleashed into her eyes. She remembered it clearly now, this was what Arnold went through back then as a messenger. Now, all of it will unfold right in front of her.

She realized that the Azure Soldiers also got dragged into this place and even one thing that she can't even believe her own eyes, even the fifth wall itself got dragged into this place too. Due to its own weight, it is slowly sinking down into the mud of this forsaken battlefield.

With the stench of death emanating everywhere, she felt instinctively disgusted by the sight despite she alone has committed what can be considered even worse than this.

"Hey! Over here!" A voice called out to her.

She turned around and saw Pierce, Desmond, and Richard running along in this muddy trench as they approach her.

"Good to know that you two are still fine but just what is this place?!" Alfin asked after knowing the condition of her two fellow allies.

"This is like the same that you saw in that Red Bowman's Reality Marble. Each Servant has different Reality Marble and not one of them has the same kind. You need a warped view of the world to have such a thing in the first place. What you see in Red Bowman's RM is a forgotten battlefield with blades plunged into the ground. This one... is the battle of Passchendaele retelling through Arnold's memory." Richard explained as he looked around the place.

And then something caught their attention as they turned around and saw a massive amount of Azure Soldiers charging toward them. Even when the mud is knee-deep, they still charging at them like a rabid hound seeing only its prey ahead of them without caring about anything else. The fifth wall still opens fires at them despite it is slowly sinking to the depth of hell.

Hail of ballistics started to fly at them and they quickly take cover. But that was unnecessary for Arnold has also come to help them. He stood above the trench, his stance is firm and tall, there is not a single shred of uncertainty in it. His figure looks heroic and powerful and Alfin looks at him attentively as if the hero of her life has come for her.

His cloak on his back blew across the wind as it soars through this forsaken battlefield. His WW1 soldier's attire was bleached gray by the passage of time. His messenger cap has seen many days of suffering with him even till his end. He just looks that plain simple yet his aura is telling a much bigger picture. The determined look in his eyes even if jaded by the cruelty of his past and his end.

With a single command as he raised his arm to the dark sky above him, discarded machine guns around them that they didn't notice start to fly from the ground up, and then the artilleries and then any heavy firepower weaponry also follow suits with his. The hail of ballistics came closer as he unleashes his own salvo against them.

Like rolling thunder, his own barrage managed counter against the fifth wall ballistics as he quickly unleashing them upon his enemy. They stood there in position and keep firing independently from him. The Azure Soldiers that are also dragged into here now appeared as they rushing down the no man's land. Thousands of steps were heard as thousands of machine guns unleashing their fires down upon them as the sounds echo through the field.

Mortars raining down upon the muddy field as they scar the ground that was once a green fertile land. The cruelty of war has no bound as the extent of its damage is beyond any man's imagination at that time. By the time they realize that... there is no hope of restoration for what they did.

The mortar shells' explosions created many craters and the rain turning all of them into sinkholes. Many Azure Soldiers think they could just charge head-in without stopping as they fall into it and then unable to get out. They eventually sink into the mud and soon they were completely gone into the mud itself. It was the same fate that the soldiers in his time have the misfortune to suffer.

Alfin looked into the no man's land in front of her. Never has warfare feels this gritty and dirty like this. At least in WW2, your death may be swift and painless but here? A single shot and you will feel tremendous agony and then infection from how dirty all of these trenches are and soon you rot and left to be forgotten in the mud. That's just all there is to be for a WW1 soldier, there is no glory to be won.

The machine guns shredding through the enemy's infantry like how he remembered those images of what unfolded during those killing grounds that were forced into his mind. But he gritted his teeth as he knew those Azure Soldiers aren't anything that is remotely human but they are just rage given a physical form. But the similarity of what is happening back then and now just paralleling each other.

Half of a million lives... gone... for just six miles of ground. Six miles of unusable, worthless ground that was torn apart by war... That's just how much worth all of those who died there really measure. Not even worth a patch of ground smaller than the eyes that used to be so full of hope...

And as those lives cling onto their wish to see the next day, crawling their guts through this muddy hell. The generals only further distance themselves from the reality of war. Lives that were lost as the only thing that is increasing is the death toll. Those mindless killings were carried on as every man was stuck in a perpetual cycle of hatred. Unable to break the bind as there is only death no matter the decision they make. If they don't kill, others will.

In the end... Just what is the purpose of it all...

What's the price for a mile?

Arnold magically takes out multiple pigeon cages from behind his cloak as he releases all of them. Those pigeons then flew towards the sky above them and soon disappeared behind the cloud. The only remaining trace was a plume of feather dropping behind.

Arnold stares at the no man's land as the Azure Soldiers charging toward him. He stood there and wait as if he already knew the outcome. Suddenly, an artillery barrage then befalls upon the no man's land with such intensity that is unbelievable. Millions of shells are raining down like a storm upon the battleground ahead of him. It was as if he just ripped open the sky straight to Verdun and used the ballistics that was used there and brought it to this place.

Thousands of feet marched to their beats as he remembers the cry of despair. Knee deeps in mud, stuck in a trench with no way out...

Thousands of feet marched to their beats as the army on the march. Long way... from home... Paying the price with young men's lives...

The artillery shells hammering on the torn ground of Passchendaele, obliterating anything it lands on. Panzers, Tigers,... nothing can withstand such intense barrages like this. Even if they can endure, the shells will tear apart the ground it stood on and soon they will fall into the sinkholes that the shells created and will helplessly try to escape only to inevitably disappear to the muddy earth.

Although the Azure Soldiers are easily dealt with, the fifth wall is the biggest problem they need to deal with sooner or later. Its armament could throw a wrench to the whole plan and unless they find a way to deal with it swiftly. They might be going to be stuck here for a long time unless they get rid of the fifth wall.

The shells that are hammering on the fifth wall don't even seem to make a dent in it. The sounds of explosive shells detonating turn into rolling thunder as they could hear the sounds of the explosions despite the barrage of ballistics that Arnold is unleashing right now on the charging Azure Soldiers.

The fifth wall still stood there, indomitable. It was as if it is taunting them of how weak they are. No matter how much power Arnold may throw at it, he won't be able to beat it at all. Waiting for it to sink into the mud will take too long. They need an ingenious idea, one that will turn the table upon the whole thing.

Both Pierce and Richard want to assist Arnold but they felt completely outclassed by what Arnold is capable of right now. Their help would just be too pale in comparison to him.

Alfin, however, is looking at the wall attentively. She doesn't know if this will work or not but she has to try or there won't be tomorrow left for them. She focuses attentively on the fifth wall. It was a construct made out of steel, there is no denying it...

"Hold on..." Alfin suddenly realized one thing, one fact that could have turned the whole tide together.

Steel... It was Alfin's greatest affinity... If that is the case... perhaps...

"I have to do it... Even if the whole world turns its back on me, I have to strive forward no matter what. This... is my final solution!" Alfin thought as she focuses her power.

Her eyes' color turned into ember as she quickly activating one certain magecraft that a certain Red Bowman has taught her. Projection. She reads over the fifth wall's design as it laid out like a blueprint in her mind. She quickly reads over them, all of the materials consisted except the mysterious element mixed into it. The armaments built into the fifth wall and its structural design and mechanism. She read all of them like a book as she quickly formatting them into the most cost-efficient recreation.

She then crouches to the ground as she placed both of her hands on the ground as if channeling the mana in this Reality Marble. She doesn't know if it will have any adverse effects on Arnold's mental health if she tampers with the mana flow here but she still has to proceed with it if she wanted any chance of taking down the fifth wall.

Siphoning the mana from the Reality Marble, the cost may be huge but there are simply no other alternatives. Arnold then started to feel that he is getting more tired as he turned around and saw Alfin is doing something. Before he could speak anything, Alfin opened her eyes and it shines with the color of ember. A tremor spreads throughout the ground as he felt something is rising up from the ground.

Something burst from the ground. No, it isn't just something... It was-

A massive array of walls rose up from the ground. Each of them is a carbon copy of the fifth wall itself. They lining up with each other as they quickly combined into a whole united fortress made out of steel. All of the armaments aimed towards only one target, the fifth wall.

Fighting fire with fire, if you don't have anything that is capable of fighting against it then think of something that is capable of doing so. And Alfin thought of one solution, itself.

Due to her inability to reproduce whatever element in there that was used to bump its power up, she decided to substitute with her own mana, just like what she did with the Metal Gear's railgun. However, it is one thing to put mana into a railgun compare to this massive construct. Her own mana won't be enough to patch up the difference between her copy and the original.

Alfin keeps pumping more of her mana into it but she felt that she will faint before reaching the threshold required for full power.

"I shall lend you a hand.". Richard said as he reaches out to her with his hand.

Alfin then grabbed it and Richard suddenly felt his strength being sapped as he quickly kneels to the ground from the tiredness. He knew that she would sap his mana for the solution she intended to use but didn't expect it to be a lot like this.

"Tsk... You have my strength!' Desmond grunted as he quickly pitches himself in by grabbing her hand.

And thus Desmond's stamina is also sapped as he quickly kneels to the ground from the tiredness he is facing. Arnold even if he helped, would have been meaningless as his Magic stat isn't even that high and thus he won't be able to contribute much in the first place.

But... even then... He still has to help. He placed his hand on her shoulder and brace for the sapping of his strength. But... he felt nothing. Nothing happened.

It was at that moment when Alfin stood up as she raised her right hand towards the fifth wall. Both Richard and Desmond let go of her as they breathed heavily from how lethargic it was when their mana is being sapped by Alfin. Her eyes are blazing like what happened when she uses the full extent of her Soulburst Forge.

"Fire!" Alfin shouted as the whole wall unleashing their armaments against the original.

A massive barrage was unleashed, one that not even Arnold could believe at all. The attack of her fifth walls combined with his artillery barrage is pushing the fifth wall down into the mud. Although none of their attacks actually dealing any damage the force that their barrages landing on it is speeding up the process greatly. Because destroying the fifth wall through brute force is impossible, they will instead push it down into the forgotten nightmare scape of the past.

Slowly, the mud started to engulf the thing. The wall still tries to fire its armament no matter what even if the whole world will fall on top of it. But just because it can try doesn't mean it would do anything. Plus, what Arnold will send to it isn't just brute force alone.

Arnold then threw a pigeon as it soars through the sky and pierces through the dark and raining sky above it. And then... something started to drop from it. It is definitely not an artillery shell, at all.

It then impacts right on top of the fifth wall and then releasing some sort of yellowish gas as it quickly spread throughout it. Anywhere the gas touches, everything corrodes. Soon, the fifth wall started to creak up as the corrosion pushing the wall's mechanism into the breaking point. And then... a huge and deafening explosion occurred as everyone can't help but instinctively duck when they see it.

The top of the fifth wall is in ruin as he can see the blazing wreckage clearly. He must have corroded even the ammunition and it caused serious malfunction when it primes those corroded shells.

Those were mustard gas, the very weapon that has claimed Arnold's life back then. Now... he used it as his weapon against the very adversary he is facing right now. With the mustard gas's corrosion. Each blow from their artillery barrage became a lot more damaging than before. The weakening structure of the fifth wall only serves to exacerbate the inevitability as it slowly sinking into the mud.

After who knows how long but definitely not even half an hour passed, the fifth wall soon disappeared into the mud in its blaze of 'glory'. Everything then ceases to be, no more conflict, no more war, no more gunfire, no more tears...

They did it... They did what is thought to be impossible for so long... The emotions that swell inside them without a means to even portray into actions or words. All they really did... is just letting their hearts crying out in whatever manner they wanted to be. Pierce and Richard hugged each other tightly as if they were father and son. Desmond simply tipping his helmet as he simply letting out a whisper for only himself.

Alfin and Arnold... they didn't believe that they actually did it. Through their united effort, they managed to take down the fifth wall. Arnold looks toward the empty no man's land ahead of him as a tear dropped from his eyes. It wasn't a tear of sadness or anything but it was one that belongs to the memory, the quote that his friend left behind...

No crying until the end...

He sobbed, that it took him this long. It took him... to transcend death and reborn as a Servant... just to finally cry with all of his heart knowing that he did all he could to the very end. Suddenly, he feels something warm in his hand as he turned around and saw Alfin is holding his hand. She too... cries in overflowing emotions.

Clouds of dust started to scatter up from the fabric of this world, their times here are coming to an end. Everyone looked at each other as they reached their conclusion with their own acceptance. Their vision slowly turns white as this world vanishes away... Arnold was the last to take a last glimpse in his Reality Marble and in his final second here, he whispered.

Live... to tell the world, the words of Passchendaele

Everything then turns white as his world came to an end.

...

...

...

He opened his eyes as he found himself back in the reality again. The fifth wall in front of him is gone, not even a trace remained. The path ahead is filled with a massive dense fog that he couldn't make out what is beyond it.

Arnold turned around and saw everyone else standing there as they were trying to realize just what has happened just now. Only the sounds of rain and clearing of winds remain, they stood there wondering what they should do now that they made it this far finally.

The Chaldeans, Pierce, Richard, Desmond, Simo, and Ana. And then he and Alfin. When it finally hits them that they have finally made it through, they looked at each other and thinking how they should speak to break the tension here.

"So... we did it..." Gudao said solemnly as he looked at the gaping opening at where the fifth wall once was.

Everyone then steps toward the entrance to their final frontier. They don't care what was happening between them anymore. All they knew is that things will finally come to an end. Their journey's end...

They stand beside each other, some were revered as a hero, some feared as a tyrant but that doesn't matter anymore. They have been fighting side by side with each other for so long that the chemistry and any bad blood between them don't matter anymore.

Arnold took another step forward and then... Suddenly, he felt something throbbing inside of his head. His head felt like being hammered on constantly as he held it from the tremendous and agonizing pain he is going through. Feeling the rushing tides of blood in his veins as the migraine only turns for the worse.

The memory of his past quickly playing out through his mind. From the beginning to the motorcycle chase, to those armored tanks, to his final stand, and then his sacrifice. All of them playing out vividly in his mind as he wanted to smash his head into the ground so that he can relieve himself from this pain. His vision turned black briefly before all of them suddenly ceased.

At that moment, Arnold was crouching suddenly looked straight into the nothingness in front of him. It was the final piece of his memory. The one that shines its clarity upon the final memory of his. But that truth... was the one with a bitter taste.

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Revelation
Descendence into Darkness

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Arnold woke up... He felt like his body was brought from the brink of death and he felt so weak and his body is aching so much that he would rather die. He takes a look at his surroundings and realized that he was lying on a bed, or more exactly... a hospital bed.

He looked into his palms and realize that he still has a clear vision despite his eyes might have possibly corroded by those mustard gases. He takes a deep breath and feels actually refreshed despite he remembers that his lungs were on fire back then.

"What happened? I thought..." Arnold thinks as he looked down into his own palms.

And then he turned around and saw a girl. She looked familiar as if he saw her somewhere before. There is some sense of familiarity that he can't quite tell what it is.

The girl looked sad as she just sits there looking at him with a melancholic feeling. Arnold can't quite handle this suffocating atmosphere that he decided to break it while he could.

"May I ask who you are?" Arnold asked the girl.

"You don't remember me? I am your sister!" The girl said to him as she can't believe that he has forgotten about her.

Arnold was confused... He then remembered about the letter he received back then from his sister. So this is her and this is the first time he saw her if this memory indicates it correctly. But why? Why does he felt like he has met her already?

And then Arnold looked at her face, it reminds him of something. That jawline and eyes... It then dawns on him of who she is. She's... Alfin's sister. How? Why is she here? And why is she calling Arnold her brother? Isn't her only younger sister is the only family member she has left by now?

And then it hit him... if she is his sister... Then... He is...

"Sis? What's your name?" Arnold asked in fear of what he may think is the truth of who he is.

"My name is Paula Hitler... You know that right?" The girl said to him with a straight face.

Arnold went silent, so it is the truth... He is Adolf Hitler after all... From a brave messenger into a tyrant that thrown this world into a nightmare. This is what he truly is?

There's no denying it anymore, Arnold is truly defeated at this revelation. To learn that you were never a hero in the first place is just a massive gut punch right into his weak spot. He felt his heart fractured and his will completely shattered.

Arnold then just let himself go as he gazed into the ceilings. The sky outside is clear, a complete far cry from that battle where the rain and mud mesh into blood and tears. Those bloodstained memories still haunt him as he can't get rid of those horrors away from his mind. He turned around and saw a newspaper placed on the stool nearby him.

He grabbed it and checked the content for himself. The publishing date was November 13, about three days after the end of the Battle of Passchendaele. The paper released some of the war statistics and classified contents. But the biggest headline was the announcement of the defeat of the Wehrmacht in this battle itself.

"In the end... Nothing changed..." Arnold thought as he flips through each page.

On each page, there are pictures of the aftermath of the war. The statistic said that the German casualty was about 220,000 soldiers. When he looked at the images, the black and white color in it suddenly turned into colors in his eyes. An inhumane slaughter, a complete butchery, an absolute bloodbath... Those bloody images still flooding into his traumatized mind. He wanted to avert his eyes away but he can't let the past weigh on him like this.

Just as he is about to turn to the next page, one particular picture struck him in a way that he felt strange. That picture, he focused on it as he is trying to search for something that is hidden there. Within the hazy image, he found someone who looks out of place there but the dubious quality of the picture makes that person completely unseen unless focused attentively. Carrying a strongbox in their hands, he felt that box was too unusually strengthened to the point that he felt it was deliberately kept there to never see the light of the next day.

And when he looked around more, he noticed something else in the picture. It is him being carried away in a crutch by the medic, that's most likely how he managed to be alive now.

He turned the pages more as he searches for more of those pictures until he suddenly stopped. At that moment, Arnold's mind shut down upon laying his eyes upon it.

The picture that devastated Arnold's last vestige of hope, is the one that shows a close-up shot of a destroyed A7V tank. He remembered its serial number plated on it and the one in the picture shows the exact same thing. The memories of his friends flash in his mind as the time he spent together with them playing out only serves to put more fuel for the fire.

Arnold dropped the newspaper to the floor, there isn't anything left that he holds dear remaining in this world. Even if his sister is there, her presence is meaningless to him. At that point, the whirling emotions inside him completely break loose as he claps his face with both of his hands as tears just seem to not cease flowing at all. His sacrifice, everything he did, all was for nothing.

He just sits there, lamenting his loss and how there is nothing left for him.

His childhood tore him apart once, and then this war did it again. And soon... the world will be torn apart, because of him.

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Bitter Taste of Truth

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Words of God: For this part, play The Bitter Taste of Truth - Ace Attorney

Arnold keeps crouching there, completely baffled by what just unfolded in that last piece of memories. The truth of his identity and who he is... The truth completely broke him as he then knelt to the ground and smash the ground with both of his hands.

"WHY!?" Arnold yelled as he can't control his own overflowing emotions.

Is this what Alfin has to go through when she learned the truth about herself? An insurmountable sense of denial completely washed over her as she is helpless against it?

If it wasn't for him being by her side all of the time. She could have lashed out against others and potentially become what Hitler would have been otherwise. In another word, history repeats itself.

Arnold tried to pull himself up but his legs refuse to do so. He screamed internally as he tried to find any way to vent out all of this existential crisis, depression, frustration. But no matter what he does, those raging emotions still consuming his mind no matter what.

He then realized that the reason why he is so invested in Alfin in the first place is that... Hitler also has a serious case of narcism. It might explain why he felt such resonance with her, the feelings of love for someone like her. It is because both he and Alfin are Hitler is why they felt such compelling attraction and unbounded love like that.

Realizing just how much of a farce of a hero he is, he was never one, to begin with. At this point, Arnold doesn't mind if he would just collapse right now and be done with it and-

He felt someone is hugging from the behind which snapped him back from his thought back into reality. The familiar warmth he felt, it can only be one person...

"Arnold! Please! Don't!" Alfin hugged him as tightly as she could as if she doesn't want him to throw his life away much like how she was back then when she learned of her truth.

Arnold keeps kneeling like that as tears keep flowing from his eyes. He squinted in order to keep it from flowing but it was pointless no matter what. He remembered back then, how much that he vowed to give her the happiness she desired. And now, how ironic... He managed to save her from her own depression but he does jack shit about him when facing his revelation.

Everyone stood there, waiting for whatever Arnold may try to do. Suspicion was already amok by now but never once did they feel so tense. They together preparing their stance, prepared to react to whatever Arnold may do. This kind of suspicion that was once placed on Alfin is now on Arnold. One false step and we will have a bloodbath.

Arnold stood up as Alfin letting go of him. He took a few steps forward before grabbing a knife from his imaginary weapon racks. At that moment, Alfin rushed towards him in fear of what he may try to do to himself.

"Arnold!" Alfin shouted as she quickly rushes toward him as fast as she could.

A single slash was heard. Alfin stopped moving when she heard it as she looked at him in sorrow. Arnold... he looks like somebody else now.

But the knife was still as clean like nothing happened. Alfin let out a sigh of relief that things still haven't turn for the worse... yet. But then when she thinks about it, her mind dawns on the fact that he might have cut something else.

Arnold turns around. Everyone suddenly gasps as they see a single change that changed their perspective. He shaved away his mustache into the toothbrush one. Just a simple change in facial hair and you can literally hide whoever you are as long as nobody knows what you were before. But in Arnold's case, he reveals who he truly is.

It was as clear as day... Arnold... is Hitler.

"This... is who I truly am.". Arnold said as he drops the knife from his hand. The knife then disintegrates into nothingness before it could touch the ground.

"Arnold!" Alfin shouted as she jumped into his embrace. She refuses to let him mulling over like this.

Alfin held him as tightly as he could. She doesn't want to let go of him in fear that he will suddenly disappear.

"Alfin..." Arnold whispered to her.

"Arnold... It doesn't matter if your feelings for me are forced or not. It doesn't matter what you did in the past. What truly matters are what makes you the person you are today. Because I could tell you that you advanced far more than how actual Hitler would ever get. And... my love for you is real." Alfin said to Arnold straight to him.

"Alfin... I..." Arnold said as he felt too emotional in order to put them into words.

Both of them held each other as tightly as they savor the warmth of each other. They don't care if they received the scorning eyes or not.

Arnold was a soldier and thus he was forced to have a composure made out of steel. Because of that, he is hardly swayed by feelings and emotions but that strength would eventually become a weakness if forced to constantly endure trauma without away to relieve them. The moment he cracked, it will be like a biblical flood.

Alfin whose mentality is mostly of a child but forced to have a maturity of an adult. It is because of that, she can easily express her emotions and letting them loose upon moment's notice.

"Can you be done with this sob story already? It doesn't matter if you are Hitler or not. We already have Alfin confessed herself being one so don't waste our time with drama already..." Gudao said straightforwardly.

"Trust me, we have more blood on our hands than you at this point.". Kiritsugu said unamusedly.

"That's it? You really forgive me like that?" Arnold said as he tries to gather back his composure.

"I mean... Does it really matter anymore at this point? We have taken out the fifth wall and thus it will be a clear path to whatever is the land beyond here." Gudao said as he just wanted to get over this already.

Arnold probably should be realized by this point that if they are willing to accept Alfin for who she is, the same would be to him.

"But still... that leaves us with one more question. If there are two Hitlers here, then who is exactly controlling the Third Reich? Is it another Hitler? Or someone else?" Pierce asked the one question that nobody is sure whether to bring it up or not.

"Who knows? But all we can do is just strive forward." Gudao said as he moves toward the fog ahead of them.

While Gudao is moving past Simo, Simo felt something. Something is urging him to search for whatever is in the Gudao's pouch. Without realizing it, he has already given in to his own instinct and stealthily grabbed something out of it without any of the Chaldean noticing. And by the time they did, Simo was already 20 meters behind them.

"Simo? What is that?" Anastasia asked.

In his hand is a blue orb of sorts. He doesn't quite understand what it actually is but he still checks around just to make sure that it won't trigger in his hand.

"HEY! What are you doing with the Fra-" Shirou said as he quickly charges toward them.

Anastasia in her panic quickly grabbed the orb only to accidentally triggers it. The orbs then suddenly turned into a dagger as it flew towards Shirou.

"Oh for-" Shirou cursed before he got pierced by it.

Well... That's what supposed to happen but Arnold jumped in the way and pushed Shirou out. However, because what Anastasia applied on the orb was negligent at best. Its power is severely limited but that is such a bad move that is supposed to be prevented.

"Watch out with that thing! You could have killed someone with it!" Shirou yelled at the duo who was responsible for misusing such a Mystic Code like that.

"Hey! Are you alright?" Arnold said as he lends a hand to Shirou.

"Yeah... I'm-" Shirou said before he realized something is horrifically wrong.

"Huh?" Arnold was confused by the expression on Shirou's face as the man is staring in disbelief towards one location.

Arnold looked down and saw... a gaping hole in his chest...

"Fuck..." Arnold said before he collapsed to the ground face flat.

And somehow... they just made another mess just right before they enter the fifth ring. Everyone quickly gathered at what just happened and Desmond quickly tried to treat his injury but considering it was right at his chest, they thought that they lost Arnold when that happened but the guy managed to wake up and get back on his feet in literally just a minute after treatment.

"I think we have the right to have a listen to what this thing is..." Richard said.

"Sigh... The orb that you two just activate carelessly is the Fragarach. A Noble Phantasm that is made to retaliate against attacks or more specifically, Noble Phantasm activation. If used as a normal attack, it is mostly negligible at best but used as a counter against Noble Phantasm attacks and the Fragarach's true power will be unleashed. That's when it would flat out kill you very quickly." Shirou said.

"Hold on... You said that it would activate its true power against Noble Phantasm's activation..." Desmond said.

"Yeah? So what's wrong with that?" Gudao said unamusedly.

"You... You could have saved Larry while he is still fighting the White Death... The Fragarach... it could have saved him! So then... Why?" Desmond said as he pieces the information together and realized the bigger picture.

Everyone then stares at Gudao, wondering why he didn't use it despite in such a dire situation like that. It could have ended the conflict in a swift manner because those ice hellscapes were created by the combination of Simo's and Anastasia's Noble Phantasm. Even that is much admitted by even them. If Gudao has the Fragarach with him then... why didn't he use it to take them down at all

"There has to be a reason much greater than this..." Pierce said.

And then suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind. What if...

"What if... the Chaldeans figured out Arnold's identity even before he uses his Noble Phantasm?" Pierce said.

"If that's the case and considering the actual Hitler's tendency to backstab. The Chaldeans must have thought that Arnold would betray them eventually and thus will get rid of him when he did so." Simo said.

"How ironic, that fear of betrayal ended up making him betray even before Arnold would have such a thought came across his mind," Richard said.

"Chaldean Master... I thought... that you would have believed each other. So then... Why!? Why didn't you save him!?" Desmond said as he grabbed Gudao's by his clothes' collar. But not lifting him up in order to threatening, such a thing is impossible with a man like him

But the looks in his eyes are telling that he is in a lot of pain, he felt betrayed. Betrayed by those who he believed would be able to save the world.

And at that moment, they didn't know they just opened a Pandora's Box...

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Servants Profile

The Messenger

Class: Archer

True Name: Adolf Hitler (Arnold)

Str: C+| Agi: B++ (A++)| End: B| Mana: D| Luck: E| NP: B++
-Wise up!-

Passive Skills:
-Independent Action C++: It is possible for a Servant to stay in the world for one day without a Master's connection. In Arnold's case, as long as he has a duty to carry out, he won't disappear until after his duty is fulfilled and after two days

-Magic Resistance E: Due to being a Modern Servant, he basically can't resist magical-based attacks without fatally crippled if what hit him isn't a Master's attack.

-Riding B: Allow the user to operate 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, he cannot ride the likes of Phantasmal Species such as Monstrous Beasts.

Personal Skills:

-Valor C+: A valiant surviving soldier of what would be called one of the deadliest conflicts in human history should speak some volume of his bravery. Considering that he is a Servant mean he is a famous soldier in modern times. Raises Strength slightly and grants minor resistance to mental interference if up against adversary.

-Ironsight Reflex A: Due to the nature of his job back when he was human, it is obvious that such an extremely dangerous job with a very high fatality rate beyond eve foot soldiers would demand excessive skills in both reflexes, marksmanship, and decision making. This skill also allows its user to evade extremely fast projectiles or blows repeatedly without putting great strains on his mind. It also allows the user to attain greater accuracy during the use of firearms even in precarious situations. Also, double as Intuition. (Wise up!)

-Iron Trauma C: Due to his survival in the cruelest and most savage war where inventions were made to kill as much as possible. This skill allows him to survive many or otherwise fatal attacks and quickly recover upon receiving aids

Noble Phantasm

|Rider of Torment|
The Messenger's Deliverance

Rank B | Classification: Vehicle, Anti-Unit

One of the inventions borns during the era where horses are considered outdated due to the advancement of ballistic technology. This motorcycle has seen the same suffering that its rider also has. Upon being summoned and used by its beholder. It will raise its rider's Agility parameter by another full rank with modifier remains unchanged by this NP.

|Battle of Passchendaele|Wise up!
Price of A Mile

Rank B++| Classification: Anti-Army

A Noble Phantasm that is the ultimate culmination of all of what Arnold went through and grown as a soldier in the battle of Passchendaele. This Noble Phantasm invokes a Reality Marble that is a retelling of the Battle of Passchendaele. Arnold when activated this Noble Phantasm, will have complete control over what is innately summoned in his Reality Mable with the exclusion of the enemy and entities dragged into this place.