073, Is That You? Kiritsugu Emiya?!

Animusphere was no fool.

In the night, Rimuru watched Animusphere's departing back, glanced indifferently at the coffee that had gone cold, then chuckled softly and continued writing his letter.

He understood clearly that if the Holy Grail's wish were fulfilled through malice, Saber would very likely turn against them and become someone opposed to making that wish come true.

And since Saber might turn against them, while Animusphere—cold and ruthless by nature—did not care about anyone involved in this Holy Grail War, then as far as he was concerned, as long as he could obtain the Holy Grail, everyone else could die.

Naturally, he made his request to Rimuru.

In truth, he could have simply ordered Saber to kill herself. But as Rimuru's collaborator and colleague, the proper respect between Lords still had to be observed.

As for Rimuru, he naturally refused the request.

Ah, speaking of which, who still remembered that Rimuru was a Saber fanboy?

Still, though he had refused Animusphere, the other man had given Rimuru a reminder.

"I can tell you genuinely want Saber to get her hands on the Holy Grail."

"But are you sure it's because you want her dream to come true, rather than..."

"Wanting to see what she looks like after that dream has been shattered to pieces?"

Both Animusphere and Rimuru understood perfectly well that the Holy Grail could not fulfill Artoria's wish.

Rimuru knew because he understood the Holy Grail's nature. Even an uncorrupted Holy Grail could not perform a miracle that changed the world, and it could not even send Saber to a parallel world, much less now that it had been corrupted.

As for Animusphere, as a master of the Astronomy Department skilled at observing history and the future, he deeply understood that history's very existence meant it