Fang Li and Minamoto no Yorimitsu's farewell was utterly uneventful.
Though it was uneventful, just as Minamoto no Yorimitsu had said, both of them would likely etch this experience into their hearts.
Fang Li would remember that he had inexplicably gained an even more inexplicable mother.
Minamoto no Yorimitsu would remember that she had gained another son, different from the son she had adopted in life.
It was that simple.
But for everyone else, farewells were often accompanied by pain.
At the very least, Semiramis no longer felt anything besides pain.
"Drip..."
Blood flowed from a gruesome wound and dripped onto the ground.
"Buzz..."
Her body's outline glowed as her existence was gradually erased.
Semiramis sat slumped in a corner of the boundless grassland, gazing at the distant blue sky.
"It's over..."
Words carrying unknowable emotions murmured from her lips and drifted into the surroundings.
As the master of the Floating Garden, Semiramis had been the first to notice Bašmu's abnormality. She knew clearly that her Treasure Tool was being eroded by it, carrying an unprecedented calamity toward humanity.
If Semiramis had wished, she could have isolated the space around Bašmu once more and neutralized its threat.
Yet Semiramis had not done so. Instead, she allowed Bašmu to continue raging, using Spatial Transfer to leave the Floating Garden at the first opportunity and come here to witness the end of the Holy Grail War with her own eyes.
In the end, the garden of Assyria's Empress had burned away entirely, the Greater Holy Grail had been reclaimed by the enemy, and even that man who had been the Master seemed to have received his due. Not only had his ambitions been destroyed, but he had died before her, bringing the Red Faction true and utter defeat.
"What an ending that