063, Medea, Dead

Amid Rimuru's mockery and sneers, the disguise covering Fujimura Taiga, who was bound beside Medea by magical threads, began to turn murky and melt away, eventually becoming a bizarre doll.

Seeing this, how could Medea not realize that Archer had fooled her yet again?!

She abruptly raised her head and glared at Rimuru with hatred. "You..."

Her throat moved a few times, but in the end, she could only grit her teeth and force out two syllables—

"Despicable!"

"Tch, so this isn't when you thought victory was in the bag?" Rimuru cast her a faint glance and said coolly, "Foolish foxes always smugly believe they have spotted the hunter's weakness, never realizing it was bait deliberately laid out by the hunter. Rather than calling me despicable..."

"You're simply too stupid."

"Ri... Rimuru, I don't understand..." Shirou Emiya braced himself against the ground and said in disbelief, "So you knew all along, didn't you... You knew she would target Taiga, knew that the hostage in her hands was fake..."

"You planned all of this?"

"No, I know what you want to say." Facing Shirou's accusation, Rimuru gave a self-righteous chuckle. As he walked toward Rin, he said, "In truth, I merely made thorough preparations and went with the flow."

"Whether fox or rabbit, once driven into a corner, they will resort to anything—spotting every weakness their opponent might exploit and setting traps to wait for them to bite is the wisdom a hunter should possess."

"Shirou, before blaming me, why not think about why I could notice dangers that you could not? Even I, who had no concern for Fujimura Taiga, knew to protect her, yet you had not the slightest awareness of it?"

"Even now, you treat the Holy Grail War as a game. Do you think everyone is as