The evil spirit is everywhere and the wind is howling.

The red-clad heroic spirit held up a red light screen to block the strong wind whistling from the front.

Toosaka Rin stood behind the red-clad heroic spirit, staring blankly at the exaggerated scene in front of her that was comparable to a barrage of artillery shells.

"Is this... a battle between heroic spirits?"

Toosaka Rin murmured.

Not long after, the black energy raging in the campus gradually dissipated, and a disheveled figure emerged from it.

The originally handsome and sunny blue-armored heroic spirit now held the gun with both hands and leaned on the ground, with the butt of the gun deeply inserted into the ground, and even together with his feet, he drew three grooves on the ground, two thick and one thin, looking extremely embarrassed.

Not only that, the blue armor on the opponent's upper body was completely shattered, and the exposed strong muscles were covered with scars of varying depths.

No blood flowed from all the wounds, but instead they took on an extremely strange black color.

The deepest one was on his left chest. Through the narrow black wound, one could even see a beating heart.

Behind him, the campus gate, which originally had a beautiful view, had been razed to the ground. A huge blank gully, tens of meters wide and hundreds of meters long, lay quietly there, telling the story of what had just happened.

In comparison, the tall, dark figure opposite was still upright, standing there as firmly as Mount Tai that had stood for thousands of years.

"Lancer...lost?"

Toosaka Rin said in a daze.

Red A said in a deep voice: "It's not that simple..."

Before he finished speaking, Lancer, who was leaning on the scarlet spear with both hands, spat out a mouthful of dark blood. Then, he looked at the silent Lu Bu opposite him and forced out a pale but sunny smile.

"What an amazing gun skill!"

Lancer grinned, revealing two rows of teeth stained with blood: "But... I haven't lost yet!"

"You still couldn't dodge my fatal shot!"

Hearing Lancer's words, Toosaka Rin was a little stunned.

Tong Shen, who was deliberately protected by Lu Bu, felt nervous and quickly turned to look at Lu Bu.

I saw a bloody hole suddenly appearing on the black armor, right at the position of the heart.

Bright red blood flowed out from the holes, dripping down the armor, and finally gathered into a pool at Lu Bu's feet.

"Uncle Bu!"

Tong Shen couldn't help but raise his right hand, wanting to use the Command Spell to heal the wound.

But Lu Bu glanced at him, and the calmness in his eyes made him stop what he was doing.

"Reversal of cause and effect..." Lu Bu chuckled and exclaimed, "As expected of the Son of Light of Ireland!"

"Your spear is the only one I have ever seen. You are worthy of the title of the world's top spearman!"

Lancer laughed hard, suppressing his pain. Veins on the back of his hands bulged as he stood up from the ground, leaning on his spear.

"Sure enough, you saw through me..."

His Noble Phantasm is the GáeBolg, a powerful anti-personnel skill that can reverse cause and effect.

To put it simply, it reverses the process of 'the gun pierces the heart, so the heart is pierced' to 'the heart is pierced, so the gun pierces the heart'.

This kind of treasure, which involves cause and effect, is extremely powerful. If the enemy does not have a certain amount of luck, it is almost an unsolvable and fatal move.

Even when facing a strong enemy like Lu Bu, unless you are strong enough to reverse cause and effect, you will not be able to avoid this shot.

In the original work, Saber was able to avoid the bullet that pierced her heart and transfer the wound to her shoulder because of her high intuition and high luck. The combination of these two is the protagonist's halo in the popular sense.

But considering Lu Bu's life, his luck value is naturally not high.

Such historical achievements were entirely due to his brute force and his powerful cavalry command ability.

Therefore, after realizing that he could not avoid this fatal shot no matter what, Lu Bu simply gave up on defense and displayed his powerful strength that dominated the world in the most violent posture.

"Haha, unparalleled in the world..."

Lancer had a smile on his pale face: "It's worth the trip to get your recognition!"

Lu Bu also had a smile on his face, and the halberd in his hand whistled towards Lancer.

"Son of Light of Ireland, you deserve to die under the halberd of a certain family!"

Hearing Lu Bu's still arrogant words, Lancer couldn't help but laugh.

"Lü Fengxian, ah, Lü Fengxian!" Lancer shook his head and said frivolously, "People like you and me don't like to admit defeat, but if your heart has been pierced, you shouldn't try to be brave anymore, right?"

"Being brave?"

Lu Bu suddenly laughed, and his laughter quickly changed from a chuckle to a loud laugh, and finally returned to the wild laughter of a devil.

"It's just a fatal injury!"

"You want to take someone's life too?!"

Before he could finish his words, the ground beneath Lu Bu's feet exploded.

The dark figure, with a pierced heart, instantly appeared in front of Lancer, and swung the Fang Tian Hua Ji in his hand horizontally, slashing straight towards Lancer's neck.

The sound of whistling wind was heard, and Lancer's pupils suddenly shrank. He barely pulled out his spear to block in front of him.

"boom!"

The crescent-shaped branch of the painted halberd slashed on the scarlet spear body, and Lancer's almost exhausted body instantly flew sideways.

But before he could fly far, Lu Bu crushed the ground again and caught up with Lancer. The black Fang Tian Huaji in his hand drew a perfect arc and hit Lancer's back heavily.

“Puff——”

The halberd's blade easily separated the flesh and bones, leaving a huge wound on Lancer's waist and ribs that almost went through from front to back. His body fell to the ground like a meteorite, stirring up a cloud of dust.

Lu Bu didn't pause at all, with black and red air surrounding his body, and landed next to Lancer again.

Lancer's pupils suddenly shrank, his face full of disbelief.

He tried his best to turn his head and look at Lu Bu, but in the end he could only see a bit of dazzling cold light, which became brighter and brighter in front of him...

"call out--"

There was a sharp whistling sound in the air, and the pitch-black Fang Tian Hua Ji stabbed towards Lancer's eyes, seemingly without holding back at all.

"boom!!!"

The earth exploded, and the smoke and dust in the sky were swept up by the strong wind and filled the air around the two of them.

Toosaka Rin stared blankly at the scene in front of her, her heart agitated.

"…The Holy Grail War hasn't even begun yet, and the seven Masters haven't even assembled yet, and Lancer is leaving like this?"

Toosaka Rin murmured to herself, obviously still finding it hard to believe what was happening before her eyes.

Soon, the smoke and dust dissipated, and Lu Bu, holding a Fang Tian Huaji, stood in front of a deep pit with a diameter of five meters, staring at the pit in silence.

Tong Shen came back to his senses from his shock and quickly walked to Lu Bu's side.

"Uncle Bu, Lancer is dead?"

“…”

Lu Bu frowned and was silent for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "I don't know."

Tong Shen was slightly startled, and quickly looked into the deep pit, only to see that there was nothing at the bottom of the pit, not even Lancer's body, not even the scarlet spear of extraordinary texture, or even the fragments of blue armor were left.

"What's going on?"

"It's a Command Spell."

A calm voice suddenly came from behind.

Lu Bu tilted his head slightly and glanced at the red-clad heroic spirit walking behind him.

The red-robed Heroic Spirit said calmly, "The so-called Command Seals are by no means as simple as the absolute power of the Master to drive the Servants. The Master can use this great magic crystal that transcends the limit to command the Heroic Spirits to perform many actions that they cannot accomplish on their own."

"For example, allowing a Heroic Spirit to be instantly teleported from a very far place to the Master's side."

"An ordinary Heroic Spirit cannot accomplish this kind of thing on his own, but the Master can use the Command Seals to make it happen."

Lu Bu frowned and asked, "You mean, Lancer's master urgently summoned him back to his side?"

Tong Shen complained: "Then this reaction speed has surpassed that of humans, right?"

Even he, who had practiced martial arts for ten years, looked down upon Lu Bu's actions. The Master behind Lancer was able to react and urgently summoned his own Heroic Spirit back at the critical moment...

"No!" Toosaka Rin walked over slowly and shook her head. "No human can have the reaction ability that exceeds that of a Heroic Spirit. I think Lancer's Master should have been warned before Rider made his move, but he reacted too slowly, so he was a step late."

Tong Shen sighed and said, "That's just a coincidence!"

...is it coincidence or fate?

Tong Shen and Deng Yougang couldn't help but feel suspicious.

Lu Bu nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly raised his halberd and pointed it at red A.

"Since Lancer has left, you will be my opponent from now on!"

"Wait a moment!"

Two anxious voices sounded at the same time.

Lu Bu frowned, ignored Toosaka Rin who also spoke, and turned to look at Tong Shen.

"What is it?"

“…”

Tong Shen glanced at Toosaka Rin, sighed in his heart, then moved closer to Lu Bu and explained a few words in a low voice.

Lu Bu frowned, "You mean, this girl is your sister's elder sister... then she is your sister?"

Tong Shen shook his head and said, "My sister is adopted."

Lu Bu nodded: "So she is my adopted sister."

"That's right." Tong Shen smiled and nodded, then looked at Toosaka Rin and said, "No matter what, with Sakura as a link, we are natural allies. You have also seen the power of Uncle Bu... How about it, do you want to form an alliance?"

"..." Toosaka Rin was silent for a while, then nodded slowly, "Before defeating the other five masters, yes!"

…

…

“Finally survived!”

At night, in the Toosaka family's mansion, Toosaka Rin sat on the soft sofa and let out a long sigh.

Hong A stood at the door with his arms folded across his chest, glancing at the girl on the sofa and said, "That guy is indeed a bug in terms of combat power. Being able to temporarily form an alliance based on this relationship is indeed the best outcome for us."

"But... we still have to decide the winner in the end, right?"

Toosaka Rin sighed and said, "We can only take it one step at a time!"

At the same time, in the villa diagonally opposite, Lu Bu glanced at Tong Shendao who was making tea.

"Boy, you should know very well that I don't need allies."

"But I need it."

Tong Shen turned around, handed the cup filled with hot tea to Lu Bu, and said calmly: "If it is a head-on confrontation, Uncle Bu, you are naturally invincible, but there are many evil ghost tricks in this world, which you are not good at dealing with."

"The old monster I'm looking for is a master in this field."

"You may be able to defeat him easily, but you may not be able to kill him."

Lu Bu frowned and said, "So you want to take revenge as your goal first, and then take the Holy Grail War seriously after you have taken your revenge?"

Tong Shen nodded slightly and said, "That's right... Before that, Uncle Bu will have to bear with you for a while. Once I kill that old monster, I will let you participate in the battle between heroes without any scruples!"

“…”

Lu Bu was silent for a long time, then suddenly drank up the hot tea in the cup and put it on the table with a thud.

"It's a deal!"

Tong Shen smiled, and then as if he remembered something, he quickly asked, "By the way, Uncle Bu, are you okay with your injury?"

Lu Bu glanced at his chest, which had long stopped bleeding, and shook his head, saying, "It's okay, it's just a fatal wound, it will heal in a short while!"

Tong Shen: “…”