“So, everything is over?” “…Yeah. This is it. There’s nothing left.” “I see. Then our contract is at an end. I became your sword, defeated your enemies, and protected you. …I am glad to have fulfilled this promise.” “…Yeah. You did well, Saber.” Nothing more needs to be said. Saber is far away, and I do not run to her. The morning sun rises. The halted wind begins again. A gold that seems to last forever. In it… “In the end, there is one thing I must tell you.” She says in a voice filled with determination. “…What is it?” I reply like always with my best bluff. Saber’s body wavers. She is facing me. She looks straight at me and in a voice without regret… “Shirou I love you.” Says those words. Wind blows. I close my blinded eyes and open them again. I don’t think there’s any surprise. I kind of saw this coming. That… …Our parting would be like this. An open field fills my eyes. As the wind blew, the knight disappeared. Just as she appeared. Leaving no trace. “Yeah it really is just like you.” There are no regrets in my voice. I squint at the rising sun, keeping everything I lost close to my heart. I stare at the horizon, wishing never to forget, and for it to never fade away.
@@loos123 His backstory is appropriately sad. He was randomly chosen by his village as the embodiment of Angra Mainyu. He was then placed in the center of town and would act as the scapegoat for all of the villagers’ sins. The tattoos you see on him are the curses the villagers’ leveled at him etched onto his body. He was tortured and later killed in a ritual to remove his village of sin.
"To confess, I've been admiring Tohsaka Rin for a long time. And this is a problem, but I liked you even more after Italked to you. So I didn't want you to die, and I jumped down even before I realized it." "!! H-Hey now. Don't say it so directly! You'll create misunderstandings if you talk without thinking!" "I won't create misunderstandings. I really do like you."
- He was born defective. His birth was some kind of mistake. He concluded that if his existence was a mistake, it was best to disappear. And he went to bid goodbye to the woman before he died. He made her his wife as an experiment, so it's his natural duty to go tell her of his end. The woman loved Kotomine. Kotomine tried to love the woman. That's all there is to this story.
The end came relatively quickly. "I could not love you." That's all the man said in the room made of stone. The dying woman smiled. She was unable to stand up, because her body was now compose of just skin and bone. "No. You do love me." With a smile, she took her own life. There was no way to stop her, and stopping her was meaningless.The woman had a fatal disease. She would eventually die. He knew that when he chose her. The woman, covered in blood, looked up to the man and smiled. "See. You're crying." He wasn't crying, of course. It's just that the woman saw it that way. The woman used her death to prove to him that he could love, and that he deserved to live. The man silently left the room and broke away from the teachings of God.
"He cuts off his thought process whenever the answer flickers in his head. It's something that should be hidden forever. The woman's death was meaningless. Her devotion couldn't change him. But the man didn't want to consider her death to be worthless. So he stopped searching for answers."
You know the writing's good when you actually feel deep sympathy to a psychopathic, heartless (literally in one case), murderer. Even though he literally could not love someone and finds committing atrocities the only thing to be fun, that didn't stop him from caring about the person he should most in the best way he could, from a philosophical standpoint.
Before I could finish, my father laughed. He made a face like he didn't even need to hear the rest. After breathing in, Emiya Kiritsugu said… "Yeah ---- I'm relieved." He quietly closed his eyes and ended his life.
by far the saddest scene this plays on is: "But Saber - Thanks. You saved me so many times." ...The weight of my dagger disappears. Silent to the end, the dark swordsman sinks into the black shadow, eyes fixed on me.
I'm not the biggest Saber fan, but I was on the verge of tears for that goodbye. They swore an oath to carry their roles to the end of the war. I revisited that sad scene a few times like I usually do for the extremely emotional parts of the game. This one made me appreciate her even more.
*me given choice to kill saber- let's her live* "If you had killed saber, I'd be dead." Well shit. *Replay-kills saber* *30 minutes later- Shirou uses rule breaker on Sakura* ... WHY DIDN'T YOU USE THE FUCKIN RULE BREAKER ON SABER YOU MORON
‘Are you going to betray?’ Someone tells me to remember. Wasn’t I going to become a superhero? My body is wracked by contradictory thoughts. A superhero that will let many people die tonight for Sakura’s sake. A selfish superhero. Kiritsugu threw away his own wishes to pursue what he believed in. A powerless human that helps others just because of self-interest. The fire ten years ago. Because I was the only one who survived, I lived on, swearing never to let such a disaster occur again. All the time until now. The idea I believed in for ten years is piercing my heart. Asking if I am betraying it. Will I betray myself, who cried and tried to live on, ignoring the voices of the people who died helplessly? The atonement. Am I going to betray my previous self, who had to cling to that atonement to continue living? “Yes” No apologies will ever bring me forgiveness. I can’t make amends for this crime. I’m throwing myself away. Even if my life turns out to be a fake after losing what I’ve believed in until now… “I will betray them.” I’ll choose what I want to protect. In the future. If Sakura’s smile is there, I won’t even care if I have to live by deceiving myself. …There’s nothing wrong with it. I need Sakura. Sakura needs me. For the first time… I wish to protect one life instead of many.
"……Geez. I can't be complaining about Shirou." A faint voice. It's the voice she's always dreamed of. The voice of Tohsaka Rin that's relentless, but warm and kind. Rin thinks to herself. …It's nothing special. She just realized when it counted the most. Right when she saw Sakura up close, she realized she couldn't kill her. "……Geez. I'm stupid." …She's dumbfounded. Her foolishness must be absolute if she doesn't realize it until the very last moment. She should've realized it earlier. …But Rin's convinced that it can't be helped. "…Yeah, it can't be helped. I can't ignore a slouch. I like orderly schemes, and it irritates me when people aren't repaid for their efforts." And first of all… "I like you, Sakura. I've always watched you, and I wanted you to smile. …Yeah. I wanted to believe that you had it better the more I suffered. I was so preoccupied with that, so I didn't even have time to think about if it was painful or not." She embraces Sakura with love. A once-in-a-lifetime embrace between sisters. She softly embraces her sister, who pierced her stomach, and holds her there like a treasure. "Neesan" ……Her warmth fades. There's no complaint. Tohsaka Rin regrets, not her death, but her inability to save her sister. "I'm sorry I'm a selfish sister. …And thanks. I'm glad you always wore that ribbon."
This song playing at Fate route Day 14 was so good! “That makes me realize. She’s strong, yet so weak. Her gallant figure must be proof that she could live without anybody’s help. But she’s also so weak that my hand might go through her if I reach out. She can’t do it alone, but she defends her pride until the end. ---That’s why… It was the same for me, watching stars that cannot be reached. …She stares at the distant set sun, as if she knows nothing else. I can’t leave her alone. If I lost, then it was a complete loss for me. It made me swear to myself that I would never let her make such a face.”
"It's more painful for you right? So let's go home. You can complain once you get home." ...That's why I wanted to go home as quickly as possible. She doesn't have to act that strong. Tohsaka can let everything out once she's back in her own room at home.
*His heart of iron was proof that was a man of tin* *Like this the long journey would continue* *In exchange he felt less pleasure,fortunately he was not a greedy man,he was happy to be rewarded once in a while* He yearned for something beautiful. He saw many people and towns. Beautiful things existed everywhere. ....but,he could not encounter the starlight he had parted with on that day. The reason his journey did not end was likely not because he lacked a goal. It was because he had not yet found what he was looking for. *But,It was a satisfying life* -Last Episode Realta Nua
Yeah. Honestly mind of steel and SLH hit so hard arguably because of how the Taiga dojo is presented afterwards. No Matter how sad the ending, the dojo is there to cheer you up with silly music and stupid antics. But in those two endings the tone is still sad and serious.
@@r.k845 The whole Mind of Steel ending was creepy and the tiger dojo after it reeked of hopelessness. Ik people don't like the vagueness of the ending, but that made it scarier for me.
For me this is always the sad flashback OST “Turns out being a hero is a limited time thing.” “...then I’ll become one in your place.” “I see. That’s a relief.” “The man I called my father closed his eyes as his life ended.”
...So this is one end that cannot be changed. She worked so hard, and was resented, and betrayed. No one ever realised that she loved the people more than the country, and she was always the merciless king. She was never rewarded or understood. On the red hill of swords, the solitary girl who was always betrayed is about to face death -
Just don't understand how Ufotable came to the decision of not putting this track into the Fate UBW anime when this scene came up at ep14 :( I was looking forward to the combination of this scene and the track together so much!!!
Here's a piece of the visual novel, same dialogue, same OST. Enjoy...... 12th day: Foreigner's cemetery/Tohsaka Rin (VII) …My wound hurts. The sweat on my forehead drips down to my eyes and my vision wavers. “Haa…… guh.” Even walking hurts my wound. It hurts every time I take a step, and my strides are getting shorter. “…Emiya-kun?” She turns back to me, as I am falling behind. …Then. Tohsaka suddenly looks at me seriously. “Let’s rest for a bit. It should be hard for you even to walk.” “Huh…? No, I’m fine. I can bear this. We need to get home as soon as possible.” To the Emiya or Tohsaka household. It doesn’t matter, but we should get Tohsaka back to her home ground. “Don’t worry about my wound. It’s not like there’s poison in there.” I ignore Tohsaka’s stare and keep walking. “!” …How pitiful. My knee’s about to give out right after I say so. “See! You’re pushing yourself too much. It’s suicidal to fight against Kuzuki with that wound of yours. Take a rest. They won’t come after us.” “…I’d assume so, but let’s go home as quickly as possible. It’s not that painful.” “Hey now…! Don’t say it’s not painful when you’re bleeding so much! I don’t know why you want to go home so bad, but we should rest for now, right!?” She scolds me. …Oh, so she’s not back to par yet, huh? Her usual coolness isn’t there. She’s very emotional, so her anger will be unstoppable if the brakes give way. “Are you listening to me!? You’re not like Kirei, so it’s troubling to have you leave a trail of blood after you! First of all, why did it end up like this!? I know I told you to go to the church, but couldn’t you tell it was dangerous right away!?” “…Hey now. I was able to tell right away. I knew something bad was happening the moment I saw the church.” “! You should’ve gone home right then, you idiot! Not only that, but you came in with that wound of yours and used projection again! It’s natural for your wound to get worse! And you’re saying it’s not painful!? Geez, what’s wrong with you!? Why would you push yourself so hard…!!!!?” Tohsaka roars out without stop. …But well… It really isn’t that painful, and “It’s more painful for you, right?” “” “So let’s go home. You can complain once you get home.” …That’s why I wanted to go home as quickly as possible. She doesn’t have to act that strong. Tohsaka can let everything out once she’s back in her own room at home. “What?” “!” She wipes her face like she made a mistake and turns away. “Ahehum…” I-I can’t think of anything to say. That was… “…I can’t believe it. A guy made me cry.” She murmurs while looking down. Then. “…! T-Tohsaka, your hand…! You’re holding my hand…!” “Shut up. Take responsibility, you idiot.” “Ehhold on, my wound’s hurting…! Don’t pull on my LEFT hand…!” It’s the foreigners’ cemetery. Tohsaka walks over to the grassy area and finally lets go of my hand. “Hey, Tohsaka. We don’t have time to be playing around” “Sit down. Just sit down for now.” “……” She does not let me object, so I sit down. “And turn your back to me. Don’t turn this way, okay? I’ll get really angry if you look at my face.” I hear a sound behind me. “……?” We sit down on the grass with our backs to each other. …I don’t get why she’s doing this. Tohsaka is silent, and she told me not to turn around. I don’t have anything to do, so I look up at the sky. “” I gasp at how big it is. Is it because I’ve been underground so long, or is it because the sky is clear tonight? Anyways, the winter night sky is so beautiful that it makes me forget about my wound. The warmth of Tohsaka’s body on my back doesn’t bother me either. I look up at the black sky, forgetting about everything for now. How long have we been sitting like this? The silent girl starts to talk in a calm voice. “I’m just talking to myself.” …I see. I can’t reply if she’s just talking to herself. I’ll keep staring at the night sky.
@@ASNS117Zero Just Reading the dialogue is very wholesome and while hearing this sound just brings the "Ever Present Feelings" like literally. The Writer is a genius together with the Track composer combined with it, making it more than just a Master Piece. Thank you too also for having the same thoughts.❤
Every time I heard this in Fate Route during Shirou's reminiscence dreams about Saber, I didn't understand the melody to it's fullest. I knew it was supposed to be a tender reminiscence track, but on the last reminiscence scene for Saber, it clicked as an incredibly sad and emotionally provoking reminiscence theme, despite it's incredibly simplistic melody. I almost cried during that scene. To all the composers of the F/SN soundtrack, thank you for a wonderful experience in sound.
I kinda feel a bit nostalgic listening to this song and seeing this picture. It makes me remember all the emotions I had when I was reading the visual novel for the first time. It kind of makes me want to go back to it and read these fantastic stories all over again. My favorite route will always be Heaven's Feel, while I will admit that the Unlimited Blade Works route did come pretty close to being my favorite as well. As for the Fate route, I will admit that it was good as well, but the other two routes just blew me away. However though it was quite the experience reading all three routes, and I would love to have the time to sit down and read them again. Long live Type-Moon and their wonderful creations.
@@agravain9006 same. Also tsukihime as i binged them both during my highschool vacation. I remember not knowing what to do with my life after finishing both
stalwartarjuna I plan to fix this fuckup myself once I can get a hand on them BD's dammit Ufotable, making me add the music myself, damn lazy bastards..... (I call the arguably greatest animation studio out right now lol)
I haven't heard this in like a decade since I played the VN, but then it popped into my recommendations. VN music really sticks with you after hearing it for so long during a playthrough.
i'm almost cry when shirou said it's harder for you right? so let's go home!". and rin answer "i can't believe it, a boy make me cry" they are the best couple in fate story now and forever more
After this illusion (ver piano), this is the most iconic OST in the VN. It's... Perfect. So melancholic, so... I'ts really a Ever-present feeling thing.
@@MrInuhanyou123 no, rather than obvious ending like Realta Nua, the OG version of fate route only has vague ending & considered sad actually Shirou could be became a hero but will he meet saber or not, no one can actually answer that
*Yeah...i am certainly a fool who does not understand the value of his own life I was wrong about what's most important for me. Since that day, that seat has been empty. ...But i'm grateful for that abnormality. Because in that empty seat... ...is sitting someone i want to save from the bottom of my heart.* "But Saber. This wouldn't change even if i valued my life above all. Your more beautiful than that. There's nothing inside me that can take your place."
This visual novel really has inspired me. There is just something about Type Moon's vn's that make it great. I don't know how to describe it. Playing through a type moon vn is just an experience everyone should have. Thank you for putting a 20 min loop of my favorite OST in the vn. Every time I think of Fate Stay Night, I remember this OST. Thank you so much!
Rin is a crying little bitch and a fucking weakling. but hey she's strong enough to take down caster a world class magus and also strong enough to bear the corruption of the holy Grail in which Saber (King Arthur) with her legendary sword wasn't able to accomplish because the plot demands this Bullshit
@@hayden8571 say what? Angra Mainyu wasn't being summoned on UBW or Fate so it's plausible to understand that the corruption pool wasn't as strong when Rin or Shirou entered it, Rin managed to kill Berserker one time and survived a Kotomine beating, Caster fight wasn't meant to be a magic vs magic fight so it's logical for Rin to go hand to hand since she has said that she needed to learn how to defend herself without magic prior the Caster fight. So if you hate Rin just hate her and don't bring "facts", it's more fun to hate a character without a reason than hating the character and fabricate stuff to support said hate.
Everytime i hear this reminds me of how good a VN can be and all the feelings you get while reading all the characters story and how bad the consequences that a grail war causes can be
I dont know how many years its been since I read the original visual novel, but this BGM has never left my mind and I need to re-listen to it once in a while.
Yeah, exactly! Whenever I say stuff about preferring Rin with Shirou people take offense, like I don't care for Saber. She doesn't really need Shirou in a romantic way, but the other two girls do. I feel bad for Sakura and all... but I don't really want him with her either. Rin is there for Shirou in every single route, and saved his life right at the beginning. Plus... Archer. I just can't help but love Shirou with Rin.
"Demo....Sa..ber....arigato....." ~But Sa..ber....thank you...you saved me many times~ -Shirou Fate HF Route, "And I feel the faiding of a body that once protected me this whole time"
It just got used in Fate/Kaleid Liner, I actually posted that I suspected it had been used when the episode with it first ran, but couldn't be sure. Now that the full OST is out, it is indeed Ever Present Feeling, the new version is named Shoujo Wa Omoide
Yeah, but Prisma*Ilya was made by Silver Link. Since Ufotable often works with Yuki Kajiura is not sure if they will use the tracks from the game. They shoud do it, though, since the Soundtrack from the VN was remade for the VITA release.
Emiya was in Fate/Zero and to avoid spoilers for others I'll just say the song is a lot more relevant in F/SN than it is in F/Z. I wouldn't worry about it.
Sunderland302 Yeah Fate/Zero had remakes of Emiya and Excalibur. The F/SN remake will almost without a doubt have versions of those and This Illusion no matter what however, so the real question is what else will get ported over. Honestly, I'm really hoping for Die Lorelei and maybe The Mighty Wind.
How did I miss that? In which part of /Zero plays Emiya? I remember Sword of Promised Victory being played in the battle of Mion River, though I can't remember Emiya being played, could you post a link please?
Fate/Stay Night really is something special, I never played/read something like this before. It really pulls you in and let's you feel with the characters. You feel their fear, their hope and their love. And then there is this song, with its simple yet beautiful melody. It really adds great emotion to the scenes, especially those where SPOILER Shirou and Saber fight Gilgamesh and before Saber disappears. /SPOILER Thank you for uploading this great piece of music!
Please don't fade away Can this moment stay? The night sky shines only for one star A feeble light that flickers from afar Like seeing stars through a clear telescope You can’t touch their shine But do not lose hope That distant dream that you’ve long to see You’d stand all alone on the cold hill Gazing forever under the dim dusk veil Close your eyes quietly Listen to your heartbeat Bittersweet kind lies Drip from your jewel eyes One by one tears fall like forlorn snow Such beauty, only seen through sorrow A glory sprinkled in gold fairy dust But like a dream This scene can’t last Gentle hues shiver under the moon As rain drenches your brisk-pale face May this ever-present feeling be your light Throughout the darkness And this winter night Bright lonely star Fate shakes your heart
This bgm is so beautiful and makes me recall so many of this game's plot, that it almost makes me cry. It is a very fitting song for all the revelations that the characters had in the game regarding their lives or their personal feelings, such as, Shirou's feelings, Kotomine Kirei's feelings and so forth, it's a very memorable piece that's almost too pleasing to the ears... calling almost nostalgic feelings, if our real lives had any kind of BGM, this would certainly be one of them.
When reading the visual novel, this was the song that I looked forward to hearing, it fit so well with the feel of the novel, that it just seamlessly tied everything together. For the record: Illya/Rin>Saber>Sakura
@@MrThecrazyzombie not me sadly.Though I watched hours of gameplay of the fate route my fav route cause it features artoria :) I plan on playing the visual novel soon once I get my own computer cause now I share a computer with my dad and I got no money :( .I am also plan on playing th Tsukihime VN cause I loved the manga and the manga only features the arcuid route if I'm not wrong
Haha... Anyway, the reason is that the first time you hear this song is in the Prologue when Rin save's Shirou's life from being stabbed by Lancer. Also, the cover art for Eleison (the Code ZTS album with their Fate/stay night remixes) shows the same scene of Dark Saber having been stabbed by Shirou. It does make sense. :P
I don'n know why but I want to cry. Why has Saber been betrayed when she was alive? She not deserved such a terrible end. That music reminds me that time inevitably moves. When I hear that music I hate time and all changings in my life...
She pushed away from her happiness in the hopes of keeping everyone else's, this weight she put on her like the sword in the stone, could not be pulled off her by just anyone as she strayed away from those who could not hold the same ideal to make a utopia real, resulting into a regret causing her to chase a miracle repeatedly, who knows, maybe each of the times she chases it the regret remains and transport into the original Kiritsugu pushed away from his humanity to do what he thought needed to be done (sacrificing one for the whole) but in the end, he ended up sacrificing himself and everything he had hoped for in the process Heroic Spirit Emiya, wandering an infinite empty land as every step means another blade carving deeper into his regrets, unknown to his beginning as well as his end one would think to obtain the miracle that could free them from this fate is one of the only ways to save them from the unfair deal they made. but, all it takes is a young boy with an ideal that drives him into an unstoppable force to move this object chaining them, even if he can remove it for a few moments but as long as this boy can find anywhere in time(I am referring to Shirou or someone that can do what he managed to do with them begin found anywhere in time)those stuck in such an unjust fate, the chains can keep on begin moved to
Heavenly music, this unknown "feelings" that has been touching me resounds over my soul imagining my self being "Present" in the middle of the moon light inviting me in the soft landscape. How I wish this would last. It would be the most dreamy night "Ever". No wonder this song is called "Ever-Present-Feeling" (Don't mind me, I'm Expressing my self being lost in my thoughts while listening in the middle of the night)
Anybody remember the bit right between Kotomine thrashing Shirou and Shirou finally getting some hits in? God damn this song hit hard there. Poor guy couldn't even remember her name, but right before he comes up swinging "Get lost. Sakura can't smile if you exist."
DAMNIT! Still a well done scene but DAMNIT MAN. Ever-present Feeling needs more use! Now I doubt strongly we'll see Light and Darkness in the manliest fist fight ever.
I come back every so often only for my feeling to take such a disastrous hit, making me genuinely feel sad yet quite hopeful. If you feel any similar, know that you're not alone
He was born defective. His birth was some kind of mistake. He concluded that if his existence was a mistake, it was best to disappear. And he went to bid goodbye to the woman before he died. He made her his wife as an experiment, so it's his natural duty to go tell her of his end. The woman loved Kotomine. Kotomine tried to love the woman. That's all there is to this story.
