Bai tilted her head.
Sakura quickened her pace to catch up with Bai and said softly, "Lately... hasn't Fuyuki's 'atmosphere' been a little strange? There have been more 'magecraft incidents' over in Shinto..."
"Do you have any leads?" Bai asked.
"Sort of, but..."
Sakura did have a few guesses.
For example... the Holy Grail War.
The reason she had been adopted back then was to serve as a suitable Mother Body, bear the next generation of heirs for the Matou Family, and then seize victory in the Holy Grail War.
The Holy Grail War only took place once every sixty years. Only ten years had passed, so there was still plenty of time.
The Holy Grail War could be ruled out first.
That left all sorts of possibilities, but that made it difficult to guess.
"Senpai knew something was wrong too, which is why you wanted to create familiars, right?"
"...Mm, more or less." Emiya Bai lowered her head. "The flow of mana in the ley lines is far more active than usual. How should I put it? It feels as though it carries a kind of... 'restlessness.'"
Of course, she knew the "real answer."
But as a professional actor, an actor needed professional integrity.
Meanwhile, the viewers' Danmaku had begun flooding in.
[Not the Holy Grail War, my ass.]
[First, rule out the correct answer. 233]
[Fuck, has a Heroic Spirit already been summoned, so the ley lines' mana output has increased?]
"Precisely because we don't know, sometimes we need to be fully prepared. There haven't been any major casualties so far, but there have indeed been quite a few victims..."
Emiya Bai recalled the fragments of words like "war" that had occasionally flashed through her father Kiritsugu's mind. At that time, Emiya Bai had only just awakened her