Although she was in the real world, Matou Sakura looked like an adult at this moment.
The staff's magical power seeped into Sakura's body, and her hair began to glow with a silvery-white radiance.
"This world is vast, yet this world is small. Every one of us struggles to live. If we become a malignancy and completely erase ourselves, what meaning would such a life have? When humanity no longer longs for tomorrow, humanity itself will cease to exist."
Matou Sakura's gaze was incomparably resolute.
"Then, let's begin!"
Sakura thrust the Stellaris Staff fiercely into the ground.
A massive Magic Circle began to unfold. Centered on the Stellaris Staff, it spread across the entire black planet.
"O stars of the heavens, gaze upon the earth."
The pitch-black universe began to reveal a certain radiance beneath the chant.
"Hmm?!"
This time, the shadowy mage was finally moved. He activated celestial magecraft once more.
The entire starry sky was once again covered by meteors.
"—O holy sword, if humanity has become a malignancy, then such Humanity's Reason is no longer worth defending. Therefore, I shall bring down this sword for this planet, even if this is not the planet's wish."
Beneath the Shinto Building, Artoria also raised the holy sword in her hand—
And Thus, the Milky Way Was Born
The wielder of the holy sword raised the Holy Sword of the Star.
Even if this was not what the holy sword wished for.
Yet at this very moment, the light of that holy sword was more dazzling than ever.
"Excalibur!"
A blazing beam pierced the heavens.
The meteors were swept away in an instant.
Matou Sakura raised her staff once more.
"O stars of the heavens, gaze upon the earth."
The countless stars flickered.
One point.
Two points.
Then more points.