Shinji Matou at Your Service

Thousand-Handed Divine Ability is Shinji's current strongest form, aside from the Ragnarok and the Magic Perseus Fist. Based on the ultra-high level of mystery of magic and the power to convert it all into strength, it almost instantly suppressed the two titans.

Shinji walked out of the temple, feeling triumphant.

Let's see you two fight now, let's see you ignore me.

—Okay, they are great, at least much greater than Shinji.

His triumph lasted just ten seconds before the fully exerted Thousand-Handed Divine Ability was broken free by the two.

"Shinji! What are you doing!!!"

"Are you an enemy too, human!?"

Arcueid and Altera's voices carried a hint of anger, and boundless pressure swept towards Shinji, like a violent storm and surging waves.

Under the highest pressure of the solar system, Shinji gritted his teeth and held on. He remembered what Shirou had told him: as long as he remained steadfast, his information body would not be affected.

Ignoring physics, purely psychological, yet truly effective.

Not afraid, not afraid, not afraid.

Ignore them, ignore them, ignore them.

I must stand firm, I must stand firm, I must stand firm.

After some self-encouragement, the immense pressure from all directions quickly became less terrifying.

The pressure remained the same, like a raging storm, but what constituted him was no longer fragile flesh and blood, but an incredibly hard diamond.

No matter how the wind blows or the waves crash, he remains unmoved.

Feeling the change in his body, Shinji secretly clenched his fist.

Good, a man should be this firm.

With his strengthened body, Shinji's confidence also grew.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong? Without a word, attacking without understanding the situation, if that's not stupid, what is? Oh, right, you're not human, so stupid True Ancestor? Stupid titan?"

"You're the stupid one. Calling others stupid makes you the real stupid one."

Although Arcueid's body had become larger, her personality hadn't changed—simple and straightforward.

"She is an enemy. Enemies should be eliminated."

"That's right, enemies should be eliminated."

Altera agreed with this statement, the red glow in her eyes flickering, ready to be released at any moment.

"Calm down, both of you."

Shinji extended his hands and clapped them strongly.

A row of palms appeared in front of each titan, blocking their view of each other.

"You say the other is an enemy. May I ask, do you know each other?"

Altera shook her head, and Arcueid replied, "No."

"Deciding someone is an enemy without knowing them?"

"Although I don't know her, I just know she's an enemy."

Arcueid, being only 800 years old, hadn't experienced the catastrophe 14,000 years ago. Her perception was influenced by Gaia.

Altera's attitude was simpler: "She harbors hostility towards me, so she is an enemy."

"Damn it, Are you Aqua?"

Shinji's eyelid twitched.

Single-celled creatures are great in many ways, but when their brains short-circuit, there's no way to bring them back because they only have one neural pathway, and it's straight, without any turns.

When two simple neural pathways connect, there are only two possible outcomes: First, they head in the same direction, speeding along together and letting loose; second, they head in opposite directions, neither giving way, resulting in a head-on collision, leaving them battered and bloody.

Arcueid and Altera belonged to the latter.

"Alright, now listen to me. This is a misunderstanding. We didn't expect to enter here, and we're not here to fight you. Arcueid is hostile towards you because she's influenced by the planet, but that's not her intention, nor is it mine."

"The planet?"

Hearing Shinji's explanation, Altera's expression softened somewhat. She knew very well what her embodiment of destruction had brought to that blue planet, and it was only natural for the planet to resent her.

"You haven't done anything wrong. One day, I will return to Earth and destroy all life and civilization, including you."

"Hey, hey, did you hear that?"

Arcueid used her hands to tear a crack in the blue arm blocking her view.

"Let me finish."

Shinji clenched his left fist and swung it in the air. A blue fist of magical energy appeared above Arcueid's head, giving her a sharp knock.

"That was the order of the Wandering Star of Predation, not your will. And you said it yourself, it's one day, not now. When that day comes, I will see you as an enemy and kill you by any means necessary. But for now, we are not enemies, and I do not wish to conflict with you. I prefer to sit down and have a calm conversation instead of fighting."

"You are a strange human."

Altera stared at Shinji with eyes ten times larger, as if trying to see him entirely. Despite knowing her true nature, he was willing to deal with her in ways other than destruction. She had never met anyone like that before.

"Thank you for the compliment."

Shinji gave a gentle smile. Precisely because he knew her nature, he could interact with her this way. If it were her unknown siblings, he wouldn't be so calm.

"So, do you accept my proposal?"

"It's a good proposal, but I refuse."

"Why?"

"An enemy is an enemy and must be eliminated."

A brown palm swung out, shattering the magical barrier in front of her. Arcueid immediately entered combat mode, and the atmosphere, which had just calmed down, grew tense again.

"So troublesome, it seems I'll have to use a slightly rougher method."

Shinji sighed and materialized his feathered shoes.

At the same time, a terrifying shockwave swept through the stone chamber once more, more violently than the last time, with even more dramatic results. The central temple was shattered by Arcueid's body, while Altera was embedded in the stone wall.

Just as the two struggled to get up, preparing for the next collision, Shinji appeared between them, raising his left hand, the engravings on his arm glowing brightly.

"By command spell, I order you, Arcueid, to sit down and stay still."

The force of the command, accompanied by a red light, descended. Arcueid was not a regular Servant, so the command spell's restraint on her wasn't that strong. However, Shinji had added his Magic to it, making the order reach her soul.

Magic, a miracle the planet couldn't comprehend, not even U.O. could be exempt. Arcueid stopped moving, her eyes glaring at Shinji with a fiery intensity.

Altera, who had already made her stance clear, didn't stop. A red light, no less intense than the solar flames, shot from her eyes, aimed straight at Arcueid's head.

In the nick of time, a blue light intervened, blocking the path of the destruction beam: it was Shinji holding the Shield of Athena.

Although the Shield of Athena was a divine artifact capable of blocking even Zeus's thunder, it was still too weak compared to Altera, who had defeated the primordial god of nature. In less than a second, the shield shattered, but the destruction beam was deflected by its reflective surface, missing Arcueid.

Seizing this opportunity, Shinji, whose arms were almost shattered, activated the command he had prepared.

"Log out!"

As the command was issued, Shinji and Arcueid's bodies turned into the smallest particles and disappeared into thin air, leaving Altera alone, staring blankly at the devastated stone chamber.

"Why did you leave?"