#543Chapter 515 True AncestorAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 515: True Ancestor
"Tsk, the Ally of Justice, has become so defiled, hasn't he~"
Tao Pai Pai's teasing voice rang out, mockery evident in his tone.
Emiya Shirou subconsciously projected a sword, yet even its blade couldn't fully solidify into a concrete shape. He took less than two steps towards Tao Pai Pai before Rin Tohsaka pulled him back.
The girl looked nervous, shaking her head, signaling the boy to calm down.
"Look closely, that guy's state is not right…"
Rin Tohsaka used "that guy" to refer to the man with Emiya Kiritsugu's face. She didn't actually know what was wrong with him, but to stop Emiya Shirou from rushing to his death, she could only use this excuse.
However, it was true that his current state didn't seem like a normal human.
Emiya Shirou was about to step forward, but Artoria had already placed a hand in front of him.
As the Master and Servant pair of the Fourth Holy Grail War, Artoria clearly knew how strange Emiya Kiritsugu's current state was.
That abnormal recovery ability made him seem less like a human and more like some kind of demonic creature.
Emiya Kiritsugu's eyes were vacant, indifferent to Bai Cangshu's taunts.
No one understood how much of a mockery the words "Ally of Justice" were to him, nor did anyone understand how much he had sacrificed to become an Ally of Justice.
In the justice of the few and the many, he made choices again and again, yet each time he seemed to choose wrong, paying a heavy price.
On the island where his father conducted his Dead Apostle experiments, to save the girl he admired, he concealed her whereabouts, which ultimately led to everyone on the island becoming zombie-like monsters, and the island was completely purged.
Then, seeing his father, who was determined to continue the Dead Apostle experiments, he personally killed his father to save more people and prevent the disaster of that island from recurring.
One choice after another, one loss after another, the so-called justice was merely something he built with his own blood and tears.
That kind of Ally of Justice was ultimately just a boy's delusion.
"I… won't choose anymore…"
Emiya Kiritsugu's mouth opened and closed, emitting a hoarse, strange sound.
The gun in his hand remained raised, aimed at Bai Cangshu.
"Time alter—triple stagnate!"
Bang bang bang~
Almost simultaneously, several gunshots rang out, bullets sealing Bai Cangshu's left and right in a triangular formation.
Bai Cangshu's mocking smirk, frozen by Emiya Kiritsugu's Time Alter, seemed so glaring.
Pfft!
Like a bullet striking thick, old leather, a faint thud followed, and nothing happened.
Bai Cangshu spread his hand, the specially made bullet still spinning in his left palm.
[You have obtained item · Origin Bullet*1]
Bai Cangshu watched as he deliberately changed the shape of his hand, continuously deflecting the bullet's impact, thereby preventing it from directly shattering within his king's left arm.
He had indeed obtained a rather good item.
Emiya Kiritsugu's unique, specially made bullet for killing various mages and spellcasters.
It was a bullet made from his ribs, imbued with his unique magical attributes of [Severing] and [Binding].
As long as it hit a spellcaster, it would directly detonate their magical energy, causing massive damage, and the stronger their magical energy, the more pronounced the effect.
This was the true trump card of Emiya Kiritsugu, the mage killer.
Time Alter, the Emiya family's time-manipulating magic, was merely to allow him to gain the qualification to fight against most mages.
"Do you know why you couldn't become an Ally of Justice, Mr. Emiya?"
Bai Cangshu clasped his hands behind his back, his steps slow. Emiya Kiritsugu kept shooting, but the bullets passed through his body.
And this guy, despite being a Servant, had almost no magical energy?!
Otherwise, why would the Origin Bullet have no effect at all?
But if he had no magical energy, how did he manage to do such things?
He watched Tao Pai Pai casually dodge bullet after bullet; that appearance was already more terrifying than a considerable number of Servants.
Bai Cangshu walked step by step to Emiya Kiritsugu. He gripped the other man's neck with one hand, finally asking the question he truly wanted to ask.
"Mr. Emiya, tell me, was it the black mud in the Great Holy Grail that turned you into this, or…"
"A True Ancestor?"
Emiya Kiritsugu raised his head, his dull eyes seemingly recalling something.
Bai Cangshu was not in a hurry to kill him, precisely to figure this out.
Because he already knew that Ryougi Shiki had appeared in this world, he couldn't treat this world as a simple Fate world.
True Ancestors, Dead Apostles, and such things appearing in Emiya Kiritsugu's timeline were entirely plausible.
A figure seemed to appear before Emiya Kiritsugu's eyes, as Bai Cangshu's long black hair slowly rose.
Pfft!
Bai Cangshu pierced Emiya Kiritsugu's glabella with a finger, a faint current flowing in from his fingertip.
Bai Cangshu closed his eyes. He also saw a figure—a woman in a loose white sweater, with golden hair cascading down to her waist.
"An Ally of Justice shouldn't die like this. I will grant you a second life. Entertain me, Qie Si~"
The woman leaned down and bit Emiya Kiritsugu's pale neck.
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