Fate/stay night (フェイト/ステイナイト Feito/sutei naito) revolves around the main protagonist ShirÅ� Emiya, a young male high school student. When ShirÅ� was a child, his father told him how he had failed at his life ambition to become a "Hero of Justice". ShirÅ� affirms to his foster father that he intends to devote his life to achieving that distant ideal, much to Kiritsugu's chagrin.