Earth Princess? No, it's Fujimaru Ritsuka!

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"Eh?!"

"This light is..."

Sajou Aika was slightly taken aback.

The intensity of the ground battles was unimaginable.

Even the solid divine walls were shattered into quantum particles, and the great temple that Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't break through was completely destroyed.

"Ritsuka..."

The girl looked nervously at the light tearing through the ground and murmured to herself.

"Is Ritsuka alright?"

Because she had deliberately shut down her future vision, she didn't know how Fujimaru Ritsuka was doing. The only thing she could figure out was that the all-consuming Noble Phantasm must have come from the direction Ritsuka was fighting.

"Hehe...hehehehehehe!"

"That's wonderful, what a good girl." A laugh that annoyed Sajō Aika rang out.

"Let's all take a bath together in the [black mud] of the bathhouse~~ take a bath~~"

"Hmph~~Hmph~~"

"With Saber~~"

???

"Could it be that she has regained consciousness?"

"I don't know. Anyway, my Noble Phantasm has always been activated."

Shakespeare shook his head; she should still be in the theater where the performance was underway!

"Oh dear, what are you talking about? I've been perfectly sober the whole time~~"

The eerie girl clapped her hands, as if singing a lullaby.

"Let's go to heaven together... and be happy, hehehehe..."

They were both stunned at the same time.

The girl suddenly started talking in a strange, almost frightening way.

Looking at the creepy smile on the face of [Sajō Aika] prototype...

Shakespeare sensed something was wrong: "Hey! What is she planning to do?! I feel a chill run down my spine before the storm!"

"How should I know!"

"Aren't you and her the same person? If you are the same person, you should be able to understand her thoughts!"

No...absolutely not.

Even Aika Sajou herself couldn't understand what this person was thinking.

She admitted that she was indeed somewhat detached, but she still couldn't understand the other person's thoughts.

"I must have overstimulated her earlier. Instead of calming her down, it drove her even crazier. This is... this is... I feel like creative inspiration is flowing in!"

Shakespeare said with great emotion.

Even in this bizarre and eerie scene, he still remembers to write down the girl's sorrowful eyes in the book.

"Seeing happiness in other people's eyes brings an indescribable bitterness... This is the state of a princess whose prince charming is stolen by the ugly duckling!"

"Stop your creative impulses, she seems to be about to do something."

Sajou Aika watched as the prototype swayed and spiraled toward the large hole blasted out by Meteor Ichijo.

"La la la~~"

Sajou Aika [prototype] sings while spinning around.

The ethereal voice echoed within the tomb, the sound and its echoes converging into a terrifying melody.

"Kill them all!"

"Whoohoo~~"

"Living, fresh meat~~"

"To become a walking corpse~~"

"Spin, Great Holy Grail!"

Her voice is very good.

But the singing was unusually terrifying.

"The Greater Grail? Could it be... that she buried that beast... along with the Greater Grail, in this spirit tomb?"

"No wonder... As fellow princesses of the Root, I cannot see through her intentions... so I only know what she did, but not exactly how she achieved it..."

This is the gap.

If Sajō Ayaka embodies the mentality of "it's okay for humans to live, and it's okay for them to die," then...

So the prototype is the mentality of "All humans should die, don't bother me and Saber".

Is this because she went crazy after being robbed of Saber by a tacky character like Ayaka Sajou?

In other words, they've stopped acting altogether.

“Ah…hahahaha…”

"Saber is the kind of character who's incredibly unfashionable. I guess I've been overworking lately? No, Saber has to be mine. Something that isn't mine is absolutely unacceptable... Saber, you absolutely cannot betray me~~"

The crazed girl spun around until she reached the hole blasted open by the treasure.

Then, it seemed as if they had stepped into empty air.

"Ouch~~"

The girl let out a scream.

Then he fell headfirst down.

Sajou Aika and Shakespeare, who had been expecting something, looked at each other in bewilderment.

It was a bit unexpected; I wish this idiot had just fallen and died.

"What happened? We're completely baffled. Beautiful lady, could you enlighten us?"

Shakespeare peered out, gazing at the interconnected veins and the deep, dark caverns of the mining city, and stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"Who knows... I'm not sure either."

Sajou Aika could feel the intense surge of true ether rising wildly inside, with residual magic scattering starlight that slowly floated at the deep cave entrance.

If one has good eyesight, one should be able to see a black slurry constantly bubbling within a magic circle glowing with a ghostly blue light. This slurry resembles flesh and blood, or magma, much like the sinful city that the Supreme Being sent angels to destroy in the distant past.

"It's the Greater Grail."

"What?!" Shakespeare exclaimed in surprise.

"It is the Greater Grail deep beneath Tokyo. She transferred this thing to the Spirit Grave, then fed it with the mysteries of the Spirit Grave and filled it with the souls of Servants who appeared in the Singularity, which is why the [Beast] grew to this size."

"This is a body comparable to a god, capable of destroying the entire history of humankind; and she possesses a soul connected to the origin, comparable to a god... So the result of the two merging into one is—"

The birth of the [Beast].

Destroyers born from food.

A monster without reason.

Sajou Aika had no interest in such trivial matters.

Her only worry now is how Fujimaru Ritsuka is doing.

I can no longer sense her magic, nor the dazzling star breath emanating from her body... Could it be that she is already dead?

Sajo Aika didn't want to believe it from the bottom of her heart.

“We’ll go with them.”

Said Sajo Aika.

"Ah, am I going to follow them too? If there's nothing else, I'll head back now..."

"At least you still have value as a disposable meat shield."

Sajō Aika's cold gaze made Shakespeare very nervous.

He then realized that the seemingly ordinary girl in front of him was actually the same person as the madman who had just tried to destroy everything.

"Alright, we understand... Really, love is such a thing~~"

Shakespeare found it really troublesome.

Sajō Aika hates trouble, or rather, she's the kind of person who doesn't care about anything... even if the world were to end, it wouldn't matter.

But now, she has to go and see it no matter what.

If Fujimaru Ritsuka really died in an accident... then Sajou Ayaka will have to find a way to revive her.

The center of the Greater Grail.

Mashu and Hans Christian Andersen were the first to arrive.

Here, Andersen first conducted a preliminary investigation.

As he observed the surging black mud, he kept writing something in his notebook.

"It's confirmed, this is the Holy Grail."

Hans Christian Andersen said, "Although it is completely different from the Holy Grail in our minds, in a sense, it is the kind of wish-granting machine that can grant wishes in legends."

“Since it’s the Holy Grail…that means the culprit behind this singularity is…” Mash paused for a moment, then suddenly realized, “I understand, that’s it, right?”

"Don't get it yet. Really, that's completely wrong, Kyrielight."

"Yes...yes! Mr. Andersen!"

Hans Christian Andersen sighed, pushed up his glasses, and said impatiently, "Based on my deduction, this should be the Greater Grail in Tokyo... and the Grail that disrupted the singularity was actually a magic cube, which should have already been absorbed by this Greater Grail as nourishment."

"Growing up so quickly must have been due to the environment. You saw it too, right? Those empty shell Servants we encountered before were probably Servants that had been devoured by the Black Mud Grail."

Hans Christian Andersen felt a chill run down his spine.

The surging black mud clearly showed signs of hunger, and even seemed to have a particular fondness for mysterious beings like Servants. In a sense, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a Servant nemesis.

Mashu asked nervously, "Miss Aika said that if this monster continues to grow, it could become a monster that overturns human history—is there any way to prevent it?"

"Even if you ask me... I'm just a writer-type Servant. Shouldn't we find a hero-like being to destroy monsters? Don't let a fairy tale writer save the world, you idiot!"

Before Andersen could finish speaking...

Then they realized that something had suddenly fallen from above.

Whoosh~~!

Let me get it.

Then, with a splash, it plunged into the surging black mud and melted completely.

Sajou Aika [prototype] sinks into the black beast, flesh and blood dissolving.

"So warm, so warm, Saber... Come here, Saber, come take a bath with me~~"

"Eh?!"

Mashu blinked.

"That just now looked like... Miss Aika..."

It should be Ayaka Sajou, right?

But... she seems different from the person I met before. Could she be another woman, Ms. Sajō Aika from a parallel world?!

Before she could guess the definite result, the black mud in front of her suddenly began to stir restlessly.

The black flesh that had been expanding outwards gradually contracted and converged, merging with the mud. The twisted monster began to take on a bizarre shape, resembling a dragon's head that was gradually about to emerge. In this dragon-head-like state, there seemed to be countless strange lips, like wriggling maggots, opening and closing as the flesh twisted.

Gollum~~

Gollum~~