Type-Moon: Sakura Matou Rewrites Destiny

It was just that... Sakura had never imagined Marisbury and Kischur Zelretch's target would be Zouken Matou...

No matter what, she could never have guessed that.

But that was fine... If their target had been Sakura, she probably would have hesitated over whether to wade into the Clock Tower's muddy waters.

After all, once this battle was over, Sakura herself would have a great many things to deal with in the short term, plans to launch and preparations to make...

But now, a brand-new opportunity and a brand-new idea had appeared in Sakura's mind.

Naturally, Sakura could not hand Zouken Matou over and let Marisbury and Kischur Zelretch take him to the Clock Tower.

But... making a "Zouken Matou" and sending him to the Clock Tower as an advance scout... would not be much of a problem.

After a series of negotiations with the two Clock Tower Lords, Sakura had sold "Zouken Matou" for a rather good price.

Soon after returning to the Matou Residence, Sakura brought out "Zouken Matou" and watched them leave with a "smile"...

"Orochimaru, is there any problem with your clone?"

"Rest assured, Sakura. With Tokisaki's help... they will not notice... But you must give me what you promised as soon as possible..."

"I will."

Orochimaru did not need to remind her of that. Sakura would also obtain the Einzbern family's "assets" for him as quickly as possible.

After all, what came next would not only require Orochimaru to master the Magecraft System. If "Zouken Matou" could not be equipped with a mature Magecraft System soon, he would probably be exposed before long.

Thus, after Kischur Zelretch and Marisbury boarded a plane to London with "Zouken Matou," and Fuyuki City had completely returned to its former peace...

Sakura, who had also sent off the Tohsaka family and watched them depart for a temporary stay at Zenjo Villa, turned around and headed straight for the Einzbern castle on the outskirts of Fuyuki City with Orochimaru and Kurumi.

The once-grand castle had already become a field of ruins... The traces of battle remained clearly visible... Even Kiritsugu Emiya's corpse, which had begun to rot, was still lying where it had fallen.

The reason the three of them had chosen this place as their first stop before going to Einzbern...

Was entirely because... before they could go to Einzbern, they needed to find where the Einzbern family was now.

Though they were also one of the Three Founding Families and also creators of the Great Holy Grail.

Compared to the Tohsaka and Matou families, the Einzbern clan was not only more famous in the Magecraft world, but also far more mysterious.

As a family founded by a former disciple of the Third Magic User, the Einzbern clan actually no longer possessed any true humans...

The entire Einzbern family was now merely a gathering place of homunculi ruled by an artificial intelligence called Yubstach Haider, a lingering shadow left behind to fulfill the Einzbern clan's long-cherished wish...

Thus, apart from participating in the Holy Grail War, they had almost completely severed contact with the outside world. Other than occasionally sending out homunculi to sell alchemical products and patents in the Magecraft world to obtain supplies and maintain operations, the outside world could barely find any trace of them.

"Orochimaru, your Impure World Reincarnation..."

Orochimaru stood with his arms crossed, the stench of blood that never seemed to leave him lingering around his body. He looked at Sakura with snake-like eyes and shook his head.

"I cannot do it, Sakura... Turning an idea into a method, then arriving at a result, has always been a long process..."

Hearing that Orochimaru had still not restored the Ninjutsu of Impure World Reincarnation, Sakura was not surprised.

Or rather, Sakura had already been prepared for him to say that when she asked. After all, restoring all those forbidden techniques of Orochimaru's in this Type-Moon environment, where none of the necessary conditions existed, would not be easy.

Having failed to get the result she wanted from Orochimaru, Sakura did not grow discouraged. She had already prepared another plan and turned her gaze toward Kurumi Tokisaki.

Faced with Sakura's gaze, Kurumi Tokisaki naturally would not disappoint her.

A crazed smile appeared on Kurumi's face. A tidal wave of magical power surged from her body as she raised her twin flintlock pistols... and fired The Tenth Bullet.

Memories of the past were extracted, then injected into Kurumi's mind...

Having directly acquired all of Kiritsugu Emiya's memories from before his death, as though she had watched a movie called Kiritsugu Emiya, Kurumi's expression immediately turned ugly...

"This man... what a twisted life..."

Hearing Kurumi's words, Sakura, who knew what Kurumi had seen, could not help speaking after hearing her sigh.

"Not just this man... Sister Kurumi... this world called Type-Moon... is twisted too."

"...So, Sakura, do you intend to change the world?"

"No, Sister Kurumi. I am not that great. The reason I want to change it is only for myself..."

"But regardless of your starting point, you are still working to make this world better, aren't you?"

Smiling, Kurumi habitually pulled Sakura into her arms as though hugging a doll. She gently rested her chin atop Sakura's head, inhaled the pleasant scent of Sakura's shampoo, then spoke to Orochimaru.

"Senior Orochimaru, please help this man make a grave... Though he was a twisted man... the one at fault was this world..."

"No problem!"

A smile of undisguised delight spread across Orochimaru's face. His gaze had never left Sakura and Kurumi. Then he brought his hands together, used an earth-style technique, and sent Kiritsugu Emiya's already somewhat decaying body deep underground, drawing a full stop for his tragic life.

"Let's go. Sister Kurumi has a rough address now, so do not waste time... Let's set out as soon as possible..."

Northern Europe, somewhere deep in Norway's mountains, in a place rarely visited by human beings.

Pure white snow was almost the only color in this region.

Lonely, hugging her knees.

Illyasviel von Einzbern sat beside a window covered in snow. She had received news several days ago that both her parents had "died" in the Holy Grail War. Having lost all vitality, she stared blankly at the drifting snow outside, mechanically repeating two words over and over.

"Liar... Liar... Liar..."

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A Trip to Norway, Pressuring Einzbern...

Footsteps crunched continuously beneath their feet as they trod through the thick snow.

After flying from Fuyuki City to this icy land of Norway, Sakura's group finally found the Einzbern family's current location more than ten hours after arriving in this frozen wilderness, using the memories "contributed" by Kiritsugu Emiya.

Supported by Orochimaru as she stood atop a treetop.

Sakura frowned as she looked over the nearly identical Norwegian forest stretching as far as she could see.

"I can't see anything at all... The Einzbern family really isn't easy to find..."

Sakura was not surprised that she had failed to discover Einzbern.

After all, in the original story, Kiritsugu Emiya had repeatedly returned here after the Holy Grail War in an attempt to take Illya back, yet he had not even managed to see her...

Although Kiritsugu Emiya was not a proper magus, merely a magecraft user, Sakura's group did not exactly have any normal Magi either.

Faced with the deeply hidden Einzbern family, Sakura was not surprised in the slightest that they could not find them for the time being.

Ahem.

After clearing her throat, Sakura, who had observed the area for half the day without finding even the slightest trace of Einzbern, simply could not be bothered to keep looking...

"Yubstach Haider! The head of the Matou Family—Sakura Matou—has come to discuss matters concerning the Great Holy Grail. Please come out and meet me!"

Sakura's clear, nimble voice echoed through the forest.

Yet after a long time, that damned artificial "idiot," Yubstach Haider, still gave no response, and Einzbern remained nowhere to be found...

"Refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit... Orochimaru, please!"

Holding Sakura with one hand, Orochimaru leaped down from the treetop.

After receiving Sakura's "order," Orochimaru swiftly brought her back down to the ground.

Then, after his cold, snake-like eyes swept over the surroundings, he smiled and activated Ninjutsu...

In an instant, the mountain forest shook and trees collapsed...

One earth-style Ninjutsu after another began to be unleashed continuously by Orochimaru.

Without question, it was a stupid method. No one could say when they might strike it lucky and find Einzbern amid this vast mountain forest...

But without question, as long as the Einzbern castle had not grown legs and run away, Einzbern would eventually be exposed once Orochimaru plowed through this entire area with Ninjutsu.

As Orochimaru began continuously destroying the mountain forest with earth-style magecraft.

Inside the Einzbern castle, currently hidden within a barrier, hundreds of homunculus maids with nearly identical faces, like a set of multiples, stood tensely in the castle Garden. They gripped swords, spears, and other weapons, their expressions grave as they watched Orochimaru and Sakura wreak havoc several hundred meters away.

"The visitors mean trouble!"

Standing atop the castle walls and watching Orochimaru and Sakura from afar, Yubstach Haider's humanoid terminal, a tall white-haired old man, showed a grave expression in his eyes but did not act for a long time.

It was not that Yubstach Haider did not wish to deal with Orochimaru and Sakura, the intruders. Rather, Yubstach Haider had determined that they were simply no match for Sakura and Orochimaru...

Though the Einzbern clan was a prestigious family with no small reputation in the Magecraft world.

Reputation did not equal strength, and Einzbern had never excelled at combat magecraft.

If ordinary Magi had come, or even a squad of Executors, Einzbern might still have been able to fight using the advantage of this castle workshop and its hundreds of homunculus maids.

But against Orochimaru, who displayed strength on the level of a Servant... Einzbern truly had no way to deal with him.

Time passed bit by bit... Sakura and Orochimaru drew ever closer to the Einzbern castle...

Finally, when another earth-style Ninjutsu from Orochimaru skimmed past the barrier and directly overturned a vast stretch of land.

Knowing that the next attack would inevitably expose them, Yubstach Haider raised his hand and dispersed the barrier, revealing Einzbern before Sakura and Orochimaru.

"Heh, you've finally stopped hiding..."

Looking at the exposed Einzbern, Sakura naturally understood what had happened.

They had merely been driven into a corner.

Therefore, Sakura naturally had no pleasant expression for Yubstach Haider, who had finally shown himself voluntarily.

However, she did not choose to launch a direct attack on Einzbern.

After all, if words could solve the problem, why tire herself out...

She quietly gave Orochimaru a signal.

Then, after standing in the biting cold wind for several hours and becoming extremely irritated, Sakura directly used Teleportation with Orochimaru. Without the slightest hesitation, they landed in the Einzbern castle's courtyard and calmly faced the encirclement of hundreds of artificial maids.

"Yubstach Haider... I have truly experienced Einzbern's way of treating guests."

The homunculus maids surrounding Sakura and Orochimaru opened a passage.

The tall humanoid terminal came before Sakura...

After closely examining Sakura, the homunculi and terminal, like Einzbern's location itself, finally spoke with a chill reminiscent of these icy mountains.

"You come with ill intent. How are you guests..."

A crafty expression flashed over Sakura's face as she raised her hand and pointed at the ground.

"Guests who arrive are guests..."

"Then let us consider you guests. Guest of the Matou Family, state your purpose."

As an artificial intelligence, Yubstach Haider naturally would not continue engaging in a war of words with this little girl who had become heated out of irritation. Having analyzed Sakura's current emotional state and determined that she was extremely "unstable," Yubstach Haider bluntly skipped the subject and began asking Sakura's purpose.

"My purpose... What do you think we came all the way here in this freezing weather for... Naturally, I'm here to take over your Einzbern family!"

The instant Sakura's words fell.

Hundreds of maids immediately assumed combat stances.

One gleaming sword, spear, and halberd after another was instantly aimed at her and Orochimaru.

"Do you intend to resist? Yubstach Haider... You should be able to analyze the current situation, shouldn't you?"

Yubstach Haider stood silently in place, as if it had crashed... For more than ten seconds, it gave no response at all...

Only after those ten-plus seconds did Yubstach Haider begin moving again.