(Heartfelt thanks to Liunian Cheng Shang love, Yunqi Qinggu, Wei Zhi De Yue Ding, Sha 5 What 2, and Erciyuan de Shuangxiezuo for their tips!)
Backlit Sword—"Fragarach"!
Also known as—"Answerer: Sword of Retribution"!
It was a magic sword passed down by Bazett's Fraga clan since the Age of Mythology. It was also one of the few Noble Phantasms that truly existed in the world, rather than being wielded by Heroic Spirits in the form of "fantasies"!
Its true form was merely a stone sphere, but its power—or rather, its ability—was something no one could afford to overlook.
To use it, one not only had to fill it with magical energy, but also wait for the opponent to unleash their "ultimate move," using that as the condition to awaken Fragarach and activate this counterattack-type Noble Phantasm.
Because it activated only after the opponent used an "ultimate move," Fragarach was launched later than the opponent's attack, yet it could strike first at a speed surpassing theirs!
That was why "Answerer" became the prefix of Fragarach's other name.
However, rather than saying that Fragarach could overtake an opponent who had attacked first and strike them, it would be more accurate to say that ability was merely a side effect of Fragarach's true power.
Reversing time!
Twisting causality!
That was Fragarach's true power!
Using the opponent's "ultimate move" as its activation condition, it turned back time after the opponent unleashed that move, returning to the moment before it was used and piercing the opponent's heart first!
The ability of "activating only after the opponent's ultimate move had been unleashed, yet making one's own attack hit first"—this "Answerer" ability—was simply Fragarach reversing time, killing the opponent before they used their ultimate move, and rewriting the fact of "the opponent attacked first" into "the opponent was