050, Unlimited Blade Works

The monsters relentlessly hunted Shirou Emiya, while Saber's attempts to stop them only made them stronger. It wasn't that Saber's resolve had wavered too much. Rather...

"Clear your mind! Don't let your thoughts run wild, Shirou!"

"Yeah, easy for you to say..." Shirou snapped as another monster chased him all over the place. "How am I supposed to do that in a situation like this?!"

"Damn it..." Watching from afar while keeping an eye on Sakura, Rin Tohsaka clenched her fists slightly. "Why did it have to be Emiya?"

Was it because Emiya was the weakest one here? Rin swiftly calmed herself and analyzed the situation. If the monsters fed on fear, then it made sense for them to target the weakest and most easily frightened person first. But if this kept going, that thing would only grow stronger...

So the only option was to kill the caster as quickly as possible?

There were many forms of magecraft in the world that appeared impossible to solve, but such magecraft usually had one simple solution: kill the caster.

As a qualified Magician, Rin naturally understood that. She took a deep breath, hardened her resolve, and raised her hand toward Sakura, taking out several gems.

"Hm? Have you finally decided to attack me?" Sakura had actually been waiting for Rin to make a move in order to save her companions. It wasn't as though she had laid some sort of trap. Rather, just as she could still treat even the current Shinji Matou gently, her feelings toward Rin were complicated too—

"Sakura, stop this!" The crest on Rin's arm had already begun to glow. She gripped her own wrist. "We still have a long future ahead of us. There's no point clinging to the past and hatred. Now that you've come back,