In the middle of the air, Negi that flew up with his wand chanted spells and launched magic towards Joseph.
"Rastel Mascir Magister Septemdecim Spiritus Aeralis Sagitta Magica Aer Capturae!"
The magic arrow that use to capture enemy that Negi launched precisely hit Joseph. But somehow when the magic hit his body, Negi magic suddenly vanished.
"Negi why your magic has suddenly vanished?" Kotaro said, who sat on the back of Negi's scepter.
"I don't know," Negi said. "It seems he uses some kind of barrier or something that can eliminate my magic."
"Negi that demons doesn't use barriers or magic to eliminate your attack just now," Shirou said who was floating using one of his magic swords. "But he used Asuna-san's Magic Cancel."
"He used Asuna power to eliminate Negi attack," Rin said who was behind Shirou. "The necklace on Asuna's neck must be the catalyst that used by the demon to using Asuna Magic Cancel."
Asuna was tied separatedly from the other girls, and she was tied right on the stage under the World Tree.
"Is that so?" Negi said. "I really didn't notice!"
"Same here!" Kotaro said with a slightly flushed face.
"Shirou Emiya, Negi Springfield, Rin Tohsaka and Inugami Kotaro, finally the four of you has come," Joseph said.
"Demon! Release my friends!" Shirou shouted.
"Shirou-kun!" Shouted the girls who like Shirou.
Shirou looked at the girls who were inside the barrier his face turned red, because the girls only wore towels.
"W-why all of you all just wearing a towels!" Shirou said.
"This is not our fault!" Asakura said while covering her chest that was slightly visible. "We were kidnapped while we were bathing in ofuro!"
"Negi-sensei!" Yue and Nodoka shouted.
"You two are fine!" Negi said. "That's good!"
"Hey Joseph!" Kotaro shouted. "Give Chizu-nee back!"
"I already told you," Joseph said. "If you want your friends back, you have to fight me!"
"If just fighting what you want that means everything will be easier!" Kotaro said who was getting ready in a fighting position.
"Kotaro, retreat!" Negi said. "I'll fight him!"
"What are you talking about Negi!" Kotaro said. "You are weak in close combat right! How could you possibly win!"
"Kotaro you also lost when you fighting that demon!" Negi said. "So let me fight him!"
"Well, the two of them are still children," Rin said. "Shirou, you take care of the demon named Joseph, so that Negi and Kotaro take care of the slime who has confined Sakura and the others and leave Asuna to me!"
"Okay!" Shirou said. "Kotaro! Negi! Stop fighting!"
"What's wrong Shirou-nii / Nii-san?" Negi and Kotaro said.
"Your level is not enough to fight the demon," Shirou said. "So, your job is to fight the slimes that captured our friends, I will be the one who take care that demon!"
"But Shirou-nii / Nii-san!" Negi and Kotaro said.
"Shut up!" Shirou said with some killing intent. "Do my order now!"
"Okay!" Kotaro and Negi said with cold sweat dropping from their head.
Kotaro and Negi ran towards the girls to fight the slime, while Shirou walked towards Joseph.
"So you will fight me, Shirou Emiya," Joseph said. "Though I hope that all of you fight me together."
"If Kotaro, Negi and me fight you in the same time," Shirou said. "You surely will defeat Negi and Kotaro first and then you will fight me, because they are both weaker than me, surely they are the ones you are after, so I told them to fight the slime so that they are both not in danger!"
"Hoooh, you really are a very good person," Joseph said. "Thinking of other people's safety more than yourself! I really want to know, how do you fight against me!"
"You'll see it soon!" Shirou said. "Trace On!"
Shirou projected Kanshou and Bakuya then shot towards Joseph, the battle between Shirou and Joseph has began.
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"Negi, you are weak in close combat, right?" Said Kotaro who ran beside Negi.
"That's true!" Negi said. "But now my weakness in close combat is gone! Kotaro himself is a feminist who can't hit women right?"
"No problem!" Kotaro said. "Even though the slime girls are monsters! For me it doesn't matter as long as they aren't humans!"
Kotaro hit one of the slime who was about to attack him, and the slime was ejected backwards, but in an instant the body part of the slime that was damaged, due to the blow from Kotaro healed itself in an instant.
"Your blow is pretty good Inugami Kotaro," said the Slime who was attacked by Kotaro. "But unfortunately physical attacks won't work on me!"
"Shit that was cheating!" Kotaro said.
"Aniki be careful! There is a humanoid slime is attacking from your left side!" Camo said.
"Calm down Camo!" Negi said. "Cantus Bellax!"
Negi deflects the punch from the slime using his right hand makes the punch from the slime does not hit him. The slime once again attacked him this time by lengthening it hand but once again Negi deflected it and struck back with a punch using both of his palms.
"Soutosho!" Negi said.
"Oooh!" Kotaro said. "Negi what technique did you use earlier!"
"Chinese Kung Fu!" Negi said.
"Ha ha ha ha!" Kotaro said. "Finally you can also fight close range very well, but it looks like it will be very difficult to defeat the slime."
Kotaro and Negi began to run close together when the slime started to attack, both of them pressed because of the speed and attack of the slimes.
"Right," Negi said. "Physical attacks doesn't work and those slimes have such incredible speed that even my magic can't hit them this will be a long and troublesome battle! "
"You two talk too much!" Said one of the slime who attacked Kotaro and Negi. "Prepare to die!"
Kotaro and Negi who in their hearts intended to help Shirou fight Joseph began to think that they would not be able to help Shirou fight Joseph.
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"Asuna, are you alright?" Rin asked, trying to remove the necklace that was the catalyst for Magic Cancel from Asuna's neck.
"I'm fine Rin-san," Asuna answered. "But every time the demon named Joseph using my Magic Cancel, my body felt extreme pain."
"It's only natural," Rin said. "Because your power is used forcefully and not by your own will."
"Can you take the necklace off my neck immediately Rin-san?" Asuna asked.
"I'm trying," Rin answered. "But he has a strong seal on this necklace, it takes time to get it off your neck."
"How much time do you need Rin-san." Asuna said.
"A few minutes at the fastest an hour if the seal too complicated," Rin said. "So please be patient, Asuna."
"Okay," Asuna said.
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Shirou attacked Joseph with a barrage of attacks with incredible speed using Kanshou and Bakuya. Because Kanshou and Bakuya were not magic attacks but were purely physical attacks so Joseph could not resist or eliminate Kanshou and Bakuya, plus Shirou's physical abilities that were above Joseph made him only be able to avoid attacks from Shirou even his whole body became full of wounds caused by slashes and slashes from Kanshou and Bakuya.
"Hah, hah, hah, I came here to find information about who you really are Shirou Emiya," Joseph said, who clearly looked exhausted from fighting Shirou. "I thought you were the same as Negi Springfield attacking using magic and spells but I didn't expect you to fight with a pair of twin swords made from a basic projection magic! In theory it should also have vanished under the influence of Magic Cancel which enveloped me, but strangely that sword didn't disappear at all! "
"Kanshou and Bakuya are made from my special ability," Shirou said. "Of course it can't disappear just because of Magic Cancel."
"You really are some interesting opponent to fight Shirou Emiya!" Joseph said. "I will be even more serious against you!"
Joseph collected the dark elemental magic energy in his right hand after he retreated back at a distance far enough from Shirou so that Shirou did not have time to attack him when he gathered energy for the magic he would release towards Shirou.
"Demonic Sculash!"
Joseph threw a punch that was strengthened with dark elemental magic using his right hand, and the energy attack from his fist was flying right at Shirou's body.
Shirou could feel the danger in Joseph attack. Shirou took out a light green sword with a black pattern.
"Trace On! Sealing Sword Rune Save!"
Joseph's magic attack was wiped out with just one slash from the Rune Save.
Joseph's eyes widened when he saw that his strongest destructive attack was broken with just one slash of the sword.
"Hahahahahahaha!" Joseph said. "You are really full of Shirou Emiya's surprises! I never thought you could bring out an anti-magic sword in the legend! Really extraordinary. I'm starting to understand what your abilities really are! "
"Shirou! I have succeeded removing the necklace that became a Magic Cancel catalyst from Asuna's neck!" Rin shouted. "Now that demon can no longer be able to use Magic Cancel!"
Hearing Rin's word of course Shirou knew that he could use a sword that had magic power.
"Great Rin!" Shirou said. "If he doesn't have Magic Cancel I can be even more serious!"
"Tch!" Joseph said. "The ability of Rin Tohsaka is beyond my expectation, it looks like I have to use all my strength to finish this battle."
Joseph's body began to change shape after he finished speaking, and he returned to his original form.
Long curved black horns grew on his head, his body grew taller and his hands turned longer than his legs. His face turned into a mask without a nose there were only two eyes and a very wide mouth.
"You forced me to use this ugly form, Shirou Emiya!" Joseph said. "Now you will really die!"
Joseph gathered magic energy in his mouth and launched an attack far greater than the Demonic Sculash he had issued before.
Shirou prepares to swing the Rune Save again, to stop Joseph's attack. But suddenly Joseph was behind Shirou and holding Shirou's body made Shirou not move his body at all.
"I won't let you use Rune Save!" Joseph said. "The petrification I released just now uses all the magic energy I have! We will die together! Shirou Emiya!"
"Shirou!" Rin shouted.
"Shirou-kun!" Asuna shouted.
"Shirou-kun!" shouted the girls who had just been freed from the barrier made by the slime after Kotaro and Negi defeated the slime.
Even Negi and Kotaro who had finished fighting the slime felt shocked and worried when they saw Shirou being hit by Joseph's Petrification.
"Shirou-nii!" Negi shouted.
"Nii-san!" Kotaro shouted.
Shirou's body was immediately attacked by Joseph's petrification and it was impossible for him to evade because Shirou's body was held very tight by Joseph from behind.
"I did it!" said Joseph, who was slowly stiffening because of his own petrification. "I have eliminated, a threat that more frightening than Negi Springfield."
"You know Joseph," Shirou said whose body was petrified just like Joseph. "I'm impressed, you think of me as a dangerous threat, is that white-haired young man who ask you to come here to investigate me?"
"I'm impressed even when you are about to die, you can realize the identity of the person who sent me here," Joseph said. "You're right Fate Averruncus, what you call a white-haired young man is my boss and he is the one who told me to test your abilities."
"So it's like that huh?" Shirou said. "Thanks for the information."
After he finished speaking Shirou body turned into a pool of water. And it made everyone who was worried about Shirou feel really surprised when Shirou turned into a puddle of water.
"What happened!" Joseph shouted. "Why did he suddenly turn into a puddle of water! Does he have the same technique as Fate Averruncus?"
"I don't have the same technique as the white-haired young man," said Shirou who suddenly appeared from behind Joseph. "But my body that was hit by your petrification attack was only the Mizu kugutsu I made using the Ensui ice sword which I projected before you held me from behind."
"Using water clones in an instant very quickly without getting noticed," said Joseph, whose body was almost perfectly petrified. "You are truly extraordinary Shirou Emiya, one last sentence from me to you and your friends, beware of Fate Averruncus he has a rotten plan for you and for Negi Springfield."
Joseph body turned completely into stone, right after he said his last words. And he wast loses because of his own attack.
"Geez, what a formidable enemy!" Said Shirou who still held the Ensui sword made of pure ice except for the handle. "If I hadn't used Ensui, things would have been really bad."
"Shirouuu!" Rin said while hitting Shirou's head as hard as possible. "Don't ever make me worry like that again!"
"Oooow!" Shirou's words grimaced in pain because his head was hit by Rin. " I understand that you are worried about me, but don't hit me that hard! "
"You deserve the punch Shirou-kun!" Asuna said. "Don't you know how worried we were when we saw you being petrified by the demon!"
"Seeeenpai!" Shouted Sakura who was hugging Shirou so tightly that she even pressed her chest against Shirou's face. "Sob Sob I thought the senpai was going to die earlier, please don't make me worry like that!"
"Sakura!" Shout Saber. "Release Shirou right now!"
"Tohsaka Sakura!" Luvia said. "How dare you put your chest on Shero's face! Only I can do that to Shero!"
Luvia quickly pulled Shirou's body towards him and pressed his chest against Shirou's face.
"Edelfelt!" Rin shouted. "What did you do to my Shirou!"
Rin pulled Shirou from Luvia's chest and pressed her chest against Shirou's face.
Meanwhile the other girls didn't dare to approach Shirou because the atmosphere was too hot between Rin, Sakura, Luvia and Saber.
"We should not approach," Konoka said. "Or we will get harm."
Kazumi, Asuna, Setsuna, Gu Fei nodded at Konoka's words, even though they all wanted to help Shirou.
"The battle is over for us," Negi said. "But it looks like it hasn't finished for Shirou-nii yet."
"Hmm, Hmm," Kotaro said, holding Chizuru on his back. "Shirou-nii-san really has a problem with those Onee-san."
All the big commotion that happened that night ended with Shirou suffering from pain all over his body plus nosebleeds that seemed to never end.
author Note: The fight was made a little different from the one in the manga for story needs, Ensui is the ice sword used by Tokiya Mikagami in the manga Flame of Recca. The Mahora Festival Arc will then begin and will be a longer story than the Kyoto arc.
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