[Damn, what a nice thought.] [So that's what Tohsaka Tokiomi was planning.] [You know, if Old Worm really was the one stirring things up, this plan wasn't without flaws.] [He always dropped the ball at the crucial moment.] [Even if Old Worm really was behind this, it was hard to say. Old Worm had lived for five hundred years; it would make more sense if it were an ordinary magecraft family.] [Seriously, who the hell would know that the head of the Matou Family was a five-hundred-year-old immortal freak?] [So we're just persecuting Tokiomi like this?] [Enough already, none of this was Tokiomi's fault.] [The envoy was pretty shady too, wanting the Matou Family's Magic Crest.] [Tohsaka Tokiomi: Watch me work the board!]
"Then I'll go prepare the evidence first," Risei Kotomine said. "If Matou Old Man doesn't respond before the ultimatum—"
"—Then we'll proceed according to plan. We'll 'subjugate' the rule-breaking Servant."
Tohsaka Tokiomi's plan was a success!
Although Sakura had been adopted into the Matou Family.
If Matou Old Man himself lost his power... then things would become uncertain again.
And if Matou Sakura inherited the Magic Crest by then... perfect, absolutely perfect!
There could be no more wonderful ending than this!
Every faction in the Holy Grail War had already begun to act.
Emiya Kiritsugu was no exception.
"So Saber's Noble Phantasm can deal with that red Servant?"
Emiya Kiritsugu was speaking with Irisviel on the balcony.
"Yes. Saber acknowledged that the red Servant's Sword Skill surpassed her own. But the Noble Phantasm that opponent deployed earlier cannot withstand the Knight King's holy sword."
"Mm." Emiya Kiritsugu was deep in thought.
The red Servant called herself Saber, but that was certainly wrong. After all, the genuine article was on their side.
"An illegal summoning?" Emiya