His belief that he would continue to save many people as a Heroic Spirit did happen, but it was throughīeing made to clean up after human actions and forced to take many lives to save humanity as a whole, instead of 'saving everyone' - protecting humans without having to cause deaths of humans as he would have liked to. However, the “World” ironically gave him the duty as a Heroic Spirit “to slaughter all humans at a particular location when mankind is at the threshold of complete self destruction”, a “Counter Guardian”. Although he died of betrayal, he did not hate mankind.

Although he desperately fought to end a war, he was in turn branded as the mastermind behind that war and subsequently executed because of the betrayal of his allies. He believed he could save both the lives of the dying people before him and save even more as a hero after his death. Confronted by a calamity which had the potential of killing one hundred people before him, he decided to 'make a contract' with the World to become a hero capable of producing miracles and become a Heroic Spirit after his death. In his early thirties, he had to make a life changing decision. He later gained some understanding of such beings as targets of the Counter Force upon entering the Throne of Heroes. He at some point encountered and fought beings similar to Angra Mainyu, but he was forced to retreat when he was unable to act against them. Sometime in his twenties, he received his signature red overcoat as a gift from Ciel of the Church. He stubbornly trained himself while pursuing his dream of saving mankind, but later fell into despair upon realizing that his abilities were insufficient in fulfilling his goal. Shirou Emiya won the Holy Grail War along with his Servant Saber, eventually going on to work as aįreelance magus to pursue his dream of becoming an Ally of Justice. After the end of each of the three routes in Fate/stay night, the possibility for Shirou to become Archer still exists, but the chance of it happening is close to zero. The jewel he owns is the actual catalyst used for his summoning rather than the one that Rin still has at the time of his summoning. He is summoned because he still has the jewel pendant that Rin used to save his life after Lancer stabbed his heart. He acts as a Counter Guardian for the world as payment for the contract. His true identity is that of Shirou Emiya (衛宮士郎, Emiya Shirō ?) of an alternate timeline from that of Fate/stay night who made a contract with the world and became the Heroic Spirit EMIYA (エミヤ, ?). Archer is not a proper Heroic Spirit in the sense of other heroes.

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