Shirou was now flying a plane straight at the Hanging Gardens. Anyone who wasn't blind could see that.
But Semiramis remembered perfectly well that Shirou himself could fly, and that he was even faster than Red Faction's Lancer, Karna.
Otherwise, he would not have escaped last time.
So the question was: what made a man who could fly stay on board a sluggish hunk of metal and charge at an aerial fortress packed with firepower?
Love?
Give her a break. If Shirou had that much love in him, he might as well use it to generate electricity!
Not to mention he did not have any in the first place!
That made the answer obvious: this plane itself was highly unusual!
The Black Faction Servants currently revealed were Archer, Saber, Berserker, as well as Rider, who was hovering outside the Gardens' attack range, and Ruler, who kept talking about fairness while having already completely joined the Black Faction.
By that count, two Servants had yet to reveal themselves—Assassin, who had attacked Semiramis before, and Alter Ego, whose name was unknown but whom Amakusa Shirou Tokisada had called the "ninth class."
Thinking about it, there was a fairly high chance that Assassin and Alter Ego were hiding inside the plane beneath Shirou's feet.
As long as she shot down this plane, Assassin and Alter Ego would be in serious trouble.
This was several thousand meters in the air. The acceleration from a natural fall was no joke. If something fell from here, even a coin would hit with the force of artillery—provided, of course, that the coin had the volume of a shell.
"This really is... quite a spectacle," Shirou muttered as he looked at the densely packed mass ahead.
There were at least four digits' worth of these winged people. When