"Rider!"
Jeanne suddenly called out to Astolfo.
"With your Griffin's ability, you should be able to take everyone out of the Floating Garden, right?"
Jeanne's sudden words startled the panicked Astolfo, and he nodded reflexively.
"Y-Yeah...! If it's just getting out...!"
Astolfo's Griffin possessed an ability that could be called a trump card.
It was not an Anti-Army Noble Phantasm-class charge, but a hidden ability known as "Dimensional Leap."
—"Hippogriff."
That was the Griffin's true name.
As its name implied, the Griffin was a species that should not have existed. Its very existence was extremely vague; it was so ambiguous that no one could even say for certain whether it existed at all.
When the Griffin's true name was released, its nature as a "non-material existence" became especially pronounced.
As a result, the Griffin erased its own existence from the current dimension, shifting itself and its rider into an indistinct state, vanishing from sight and evading every form of observation in the world before reappearing somewhere else.
Even an attack powerful enough to annihilate gods and Buddhas could not harm a single hair on it with such an ability.
That was the Griffin's true power—the ability to perform Dimensional Leap.
The reason Astolfo had been able to remain undefeated under Atalanta's fierce assault until Semiramis summoned her away was precisely because of this ability.
If they used this ability, they could indeed leave the Floating Garden.
But...
"They have to ride the Griffin!" Astolfo hurriedly said. "It's already seriously overloaded! Even if we figure something out, we can only take everyone with us. There's no way to take the Greater Holy Grail too!"
At that, Jeanne smiled.
It was a pure, holy smile befitting the name Saintess.
"That will be enough." Jeanne pleaded with utmost sincerity. "Then, Rider, please take