Appearance!
Shirou's fake spiral sword was just too powerful. He only shot one arrow, but it was almost like lighting up the entire palace. Everyone in the Shirone Kingdom became tense.
The quickest to react at this time were undoubtedly the elite knights of the Shirone Kingdom. They almost instantly realized an attack was happening and surrounded the area immediately.
But after seeing the situation, even these elite knights couldn't help but stare wide-eyed.
Because Shirou's fake spiral sword was just too mighty.
Its exaggerated power created a very exaggerated swirl as it broke through the barrier, engulfing the entire palace.
One can only imagine what condition Prince Pax was in.
Even if he was still alive, he was probably no better than dead.
Right now, although the knights immediately realized that Shirou was exceptionally strong, they still had to carry out their duty of guarding the royal palace and couldn't let Shirou go.
The female knight Ginjer, who had been taking care of Prince Pax, had now joined the knight guard, confronting Shirou alongside the soldiers.
Shirou glanced around briefly. Although he couldn't make a very detailed judgment, he could tell that the knights were indeed much stronger than ordinary soldiers.
Most of them mainly used Intermediate and Advanced Water God Style.
For safety's sake, he temporarily put Lilia and Aisha down and had Aisha hold Avalon, which was still activating its barrier.
"Stay behind me."
Shirou said decisively.
"Okay."
Lilia and Aisha nodded at the sight of this, not daring to be careless.
After making sure Lilia and Aisha were protected by Avalon, Shirou felt relieved and walked forward, saying to the knights, "Those who don't want to die, step aside. I don't intend to be your enemy. I just want to save my family."
"..."
The knights looked at each other at Shirou's words, somewhat hesitant.
They obviously didn't want to fight such a powerful stranger either.
Especially since Ginjer had already told the others that Shirou was at least a Sword Saint-level expert and had some strange ability to break through kingdom-level barriers.
Such a terrifying being, even if all the knights of the Shirone Kingdom surrounded him, they might not be able to deal with him.
It would be better to just let him leave. Maybe there wouldn't be any trouble.
Just as the situation was becoming tense, and the knights were generally planning to let Shirou and the others leave,
"Tap... tap..."
A series of footsteps suddenly came from not far away.
Upon hearing this sound, the knights all showed horrified expressions and made way.
Shirou watched a male figure walk over from a distance.
This must be a member of the royal family.
Shirou judged.
First of all, the newcomer's clothes felt really grand. The base color was black, with gold embroidery everywhere. You could tell at a glance that it was very expensive. His features were a bit similar to Pax, but he gave off a thinner impression. His face was long, his cheekbones stood out, and he wore glasses.
"I am Zanoba Shirone, the third prince of the Shirone Kingdom."
His first words confirmed his royal family status.
Shirou became slightly more serious because of this and said with an almost formal attitude, "I am Shirou Greyrat. I've come here only to rescue my family, Lilia and Aisha, who were brought to the Shirone Kingdom due to the teleport incident. They are members of the Greyrat family. This has led to a conflict between us, but if possible, I don't want the impact of this matter to further increase."
"Oh? You're just here to rescue your family?"
Zanoba seemed to agree with Shirou after hearing his words.
But a soldier under Pax quickly said, "Prince Zanoba, Prince Pax was seriously injured by this thief and is still unconscious!"
"What did you say?"
Zanoba's glasses flashed.
In an instant, Zanoba, who was clearly just a young man, had a pressure in his eyes that couldn't be ignored. Even Shirou rarely felt the same level of pressure. It was only occasionally seen on some beings in the Demon Continent. It was the gaze of someone who had killed people and didn't consider killing a sin.
"Mr. Shirou, please explain why you hurt my brother."
Zanoba didn't get angry directly. It was more like he was asking Shirou with reason and evidence.
Shirou also answered seriously, "Because Pax captured Lilia and locked me up with a kingdom-level barrier. I hurt him to resist, which is excusable."
In reality, Shirou was completely ready to kill at that time.
It was just that Pax reacted faster, so the arrow didn't pierce his heart.
This gave Shirou room to maneuver.
Otherwise, if Shirou had already killed a prince of the Shirone Kingdom, his only option now would be to immediately take Lilia and Aisha and break through the encirclement, fleeing the Shirone Kingdom.
After all, this would mean that the two sides had formed a deep blood feud, an endless conflict.
"Pax is indeed a cunning and treacherous fellow."
As Pax's older brother, Zanoba didn't seem to be too heartbroken about Pax's injury. His words were like he was evaluating a stranger.
This made Shirou vaguely aware of the way royal families interacted with each other.
He felt that this could probably just pass.
He wouldn't have to become completely hostile to the Shirone Kingdom and could leave with Lilia and Aisha.
But to Shirou's surprise, Zanoba suddenly became extremely serious and said, "Unfortunately, even though Pax started this, and it's a problem with my disobedient younger brother, if you, sir, are allowed to trespass into the royal palace and injure someone without being punished, the kingdom's reputation will be damaged. That's why my father sent me here."
"What do you mean?"
Shirou was slightly surprised.
From Zanoba's words, he got the impression that the other person wanted to fight him.
He was very surprised that in such a small country, someone dared to have the courage to compete with a Sword Saint-level person like himself.
Could it be that Zanoba looks so young, but is actually a genius like Isolte? Has some skill reached the saint level, or even higher?
While Shirou was thinking, Pax had walked out from among the knights with calm steps.
The soldiers of the Shirone Kingdom were not at all surprised by his attitude, as if he was going to fight Shirou one-on-one. Instead, they watched the scene calmly.
This was like a matter of course for them.
"..."
Shirou couldn't understand what was going on and could only put his hand on the Muramasa on his waist, making sure he could attack at any time, no matter what the other person did.
But what he didn't expect was that Zanoba didn't show any special or exaggerated skills.
He just stood there plainly, like an ordinary person, and adopted a stance like a street thug fighting.
"What does this mean?"
Shirou couldn't understand and even thought the other person was joking with him.
But Zanoba was very serious.
He prepared himself with a posture like an ordinary street thug about to engage in a group fight, got into position, and then charged toward Shirou.
"Haaah!"
Looking at Zanoba's movements, Shirou became even more puzzled.
He even suspected that these knights were letting this prince go to his death.
Because Zanoba's movements had too many openings.
It was impossible to see any sign of professional training.
Shirou suspected that even a street punk with a lot of fighting experience could perform more convincingly than Zanoba.
While Shirou was stunned in place because he couldn't understand,
Zanoba was already very close to him.
Shirou calmly made a blocking motion, because Zanoba's performance was too inexperienced. He didn't even think about drawing his sword.
However, this relaxed state lasted until the moment Zanoba approached him, when it suddenly disappeared like clouds in the sky, because Shirou felt an unspeakable sense of urgency.
It was a kind of indescribable pressure, like the fear that humans instinctively have when facing a meat grinder.
When Shirou saw Zanoba's fist, his body instinctively felt this fear!
In the chaos, Shirou drew his sword to block it as quickly as possible.
"Boom!"
Zanoba's fist landed completely on his sword.
To describe the feeling of this blow, it was like being hit head-on by a speeding heavy truck, or facing a train traveling at full speed.
Shirou didn't even have the ability to think and paid the price for his carelessness.
"Bang!"
After smashing through two entire walls and clearly feeling an exaggerated amount of destructive power that couldn't be described in words, Shirou struggled to get up from the ground.
This isn't right.
Shirou clearly realized this fact.
Clearly just a human, but Zanoba's power was even more astonishing than the Undead Demon Lord Atofe he had encountered before.
At the same time, Zanoba was also very surprised. He looked at Shirou and murmured, "Why? Why didn't your sword break? And you can get up so quickly? Are you not hurt?"
In Zanoba's view, after his attack just now, ordinary people wouldn't be able to stand up again, let alone have their internal organs shifted.
Fragile bodies often have difficulty withstanding excessively exaggerated power.
Shirou didn't say anything about this and just revealed the armor under his clothes—
Evil Dragon Blood Armor.
Defends against all attacks below B-rank.
Translated to this world, it is equivalent to ignoring all damage below at least the Saint level, while greatly reducing high-level damage.
It was because he had this exaggerated Noble Phantasm on his body that he had come to this Shirone Kingdom with such confidence, even wanting to fight a country alone.
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