After dinner.
After they stopped talking about the day, Philip started to plan the next part of their trip.
Simply put, since the auction was over, they didn't need to stay in the capital anymore, and they should leave for Boreas Castle at any time.
Eris and Ghislaine had no objections.
Especially Eris. After her failed attempt to challenge the Water God Style, she realized how weak she was. She became more eager than before to improve her swordsmanship, so she could one day beat Isolte.
Ghislaine was very happy with the change in her young lady, and even a little touched. Because of this, she respected Shirou even more for causing these changes.
Besides those two, Shirou didn't really care about going back to Boreas.
But, if Philip was going back tomorrow, he had to move his own plan up.
...
Night fell.
Shirou and Philip went back to their room.
Philip seemed tired after a long day. He lay down on the bed and fell asleep right away.
Shirou saw that he was sleeping so soundly. After making sure that Philip was really asleep, he quietly went to the window and jumped out.
Even though it was the second floor, Shirou's body was strong enough as a Sword God Style student to jump from that height without getting hurt.
After leaving the inn, Shirou went straight to the higher area of the capital where the nobles lived, without any hesitation.
During the day, besides walking around the capital with Eris, he had also been investigating the mansion of Darius, a powerful noble in the capital.
Shirou had wanted to kill that noble for a long time. Darius had kidnapped Eris and done many evil things.
Even though killing such an important person would cause all kinds of problems that were hard to explain.
It might even throw the whole Asura Kingdom into chaos.
But if Darius wasn't killed, he would definitely keep doing evil things.
Good and evil cancel each other out, and killing never ends.
If you try to achieve justice through killing, you're bound to go down a dark road with no end in sight. You might even turn into a demon yourself.
Servant Emiya's life had already proven this.
But if you don't use killing, how can you achieve true justice?
There was only one way to solve this problem.
That was to give up all sense of right and wrong, and turn yourself into a machine for achieving justice, a demon of killing.
To achieve true justice through your own corruption.
This was the lesson Emiya Shirou learned after that snowy night.
It's definitely wrong to kill to achieve justice.
But as long as you believe that you have to do it even if it's wrong, then you can keep going even on a path that no one approves of.
Darius was pure evil.
If the law can't punish him and order can't control him, then the only way to achieve true justice is through violence and killing.
Only if Darius dies will things like what happened to Eris not happen again.
Shirou had accepted this. He was willing to become a demon to achieve his justice.
However, even though his belief was strong, it was actually very difficult for Shirou to do this.
As a high-ranking noble in the kingdom, Darius's position was easy to imagine.
He must have bribed many talented people and arranged for many guards to protect him. Some of them might even be King or Emperor level fighters.
But Shirou was confident that he could do it.
Even though his own body was only an upper-level Sword God Style fighter, and he could only reach Saint level at most with the power of projection, he had more than just his own body to fight with.
"Is this it?"
After arriving in the upper-class area of the capital, Shirou immediately saw a huge mansion. The large estate was surrounded by high walls, and it was almost as big as the royal palace where the Silver Palace was located.
The high-ranking noble Darius was at the peak of the country, both in terms of his actual position and the power he controlled.
Because of this, the defense of his mansion was far beyond imagination. Shirou noticed a large number of private guards patrolling, and he could also see some strong adventurers in the shadows.
Darius had strengthened the defense of his mansion to the extreme to protect himself. He wouldn't even let a mosquito in easily.
Even Shirou clicked his tongue at the strength of the defense.
But he wasn't too worried.
Because he had already prepared himself for how strong Darius was before coming here.
"Dream Summon!"
Shirou took out the Servant card he had projected and used its power to activate the Servant power in his body again, transforming into a Servant.
After a brief cloud of smoke, Shirou's figure changed again into a tall figure with slightly bronze skin, a white cape, and a red shroud covering his right hand.
With the power of the Servant, the high walls were easy for him to climb over.
And his enhanced Eagle Eye allowed him to see through all the guards hidden in the night. No one could escape his sight.
"Let's begin."
Shirou took a deep breath, and his whole body seemed to blend into the night. He moved like lightning, disappearing from the scene in an instant.
...
A fat, bald, round-faced middle-aged man was lying on a large bed in a spacious room.
He was Darius Silva Ganius, a high-ranking noble in the Asura Kingdom.
As the noble in the Asura Kingdom who was second only to the King in actual power, and even had more power than the King in some cases, he could be said to hold the highest power in the country.
In the entire Asura Kingdom, almost no one dared to disobey him, and no one dared to challenge his authority.
As a high-ranking minister in the kingdom, he held great power and had a prominent position. However, because his desires could not be satisfied, he became more and more corrupt, twisting his power into a tool to satisfy his own selfish desires.
He would regularly arrange for his men to capture young noble girls. He would use these daughters of nobles, who were either of noble birth or had lost their status, as tools to vent his desires. After he was bored of playing with them, he would throw them to his subordinates to be abused.
He had committed so many crimes that he couldn't even remember the identities and names of the nobles he had captured. But because his position was so high and unshakeable, he didn't have to worry about being targeted by enemies.
Today was the day he would enjoy a new prey.
He had his men capture Tristina, the daughter of the Purplehorse family.
Because it was a declining family, it was very easy to do. He just sent someone to threaten them and offer them some benefits in exchange. The Purplehorse family obediently offered up their daughter.
It could only be said that declining nobles were declining nobles. Dealing with them was ten thousand times easier than dealing with the Boreas family.
Darius had sent people to capture Eris, the daughter of the Boreas family, before. But they had not only failed, but also lost a North God Style subordinate.
He was always resentful about this and thought that he would definitely get revenge on the Boreas family in the future. It would be best if he could capture that girl named Eris and turn her into his slave.
Darius was thinking about all kinds of things, and he noticed that the door to the room had been opened at some point.
His men walked in from outside the door with a blonde girl whose hands were tied and whose mouth was gagged. The girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, and she looked very afraid.
Although she had long expected her fate, her face was still full of despair and fear when Darius's fat and ugly face appeared in front of her.
"Tsk, tsk, not bad."
Darius smiled wickedly, looking at Tristina with great satisfaction.
He was extremely satisfied with this new noble girl and couldn't wait to start enjoying her.
The guards present, seeing this state of affairs, wisely turned to leave silently. They could not possibly continue to stand there disturbing Darius's enjoyment.
"Come over here."
Darius beckoned to Tristina, indicating her to walk over to his side.
However, Tristina would naturally not cooperate in such a manner. The blonde-haired girl struggled desperately, but with her hands still bound, there was simply no way for her to offer any form of resistance.
"Hmph…"
Upon seeing Tristina's attitude, Darius grew increasingly dissatisfied. He walked directly over to her and unleashed a palm strike at the girl's face!
"Smack!"
A crisp resonating echoed throughout the room.
Darius proceeded to grab the girl's hair, forcing her to the ground before he began to undo his pants, intending to personally savour this brand-new prey's first time.
"No, please don't…"
Tears streamed incessantly from Tristina's eyes, now filled with utter despair, but due to mouth being gagged, she was unable to even utter sounds of sheer desperation.
Just as she was struggling to accept impending fate as nothing more than a plaything for this obese noble, and finding herself despairing at her ill-fated destiny, she suddenly noticed something strange illuminating the window out of the room.
"Smack!"
Before the lights brightened into an extraordinary brilliance, a pitch-black arrow abruptly sliced through the night sky, pierced straight through the glass only to reach Darius's immediate proximity.
However, just as it appeared imminent Darius was on the brink of being brought to certain death, a strange and peculiar glimmer emanated from the upper-level's minister's person, forcefully resisting the approaching pitch-black arrow.
At least the arrow hadn't managed to easily penetrate Darius's body.
"Tch, as expected, there's some sort of defensive magic tool, huh?"
Standing atop of a tall tree not too far off, Shirou possessed a lacquered bow string grasped firmly within his hand, he didn't hesitate even for a split second before preparing and delivering more arrows in quick succession, launching a series of deadly shots.
While it was true it may be a magical tool, what it also undoubtedly had was some point of limitation.
Having personally witnessed Darius's vile actions, Shirou no longer harboured even the slightest bit of hesitation and decided to capitalize on the opportune moment, determined to make every effort and exhaust all means in order to eliminate Darius!
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