"Ah, 'Emiya Sakura' does sound better." Sakura chuckled. "When all was said and done, I had no attachment to Matou or Tohsaka to begin with. Mages... mages... were nothing but a bunch of scum. Old Worm, you disgusted me."
"Assassin!"
"Yes, Mage!"
Matou Zouken no longer wanted to waste words. In any case, he needed to suppress her first.
However, when Cursed Arm charged forward, Sakura turned into a black shadow.
"Magecraft?!"
Everything she had said before had merely been to stall for time.
And now, Sakura appeared within the shadow behind him.
Countless shadow blades burst from the ground, and swarms of insects took flight.
"What?!"
Matou Zouken cried out in alarm.
Sakura's target had not been escape, but Matou Zouken himself.
"This time, I'll make sure to kill you—"
"She dived directly through the Imaginary Number Space—"
Matou Zouken was greatly shocked.
This move really was formidable.
After entering the Imaginary Number Space, Sakura's greatest gains had actually been improvements to the proficiency, duration, and range of her Imaginary Number Dive.
When encountering it for the first time, even Servants found it difficult to detect.
Running away was the worst option.
On the contrary, with no Servant of her own, the best choice now was to attack Matou Zouken's true body while he was off guard.
Matou Zouken was extremely weak right now, and he still had to provide Mana Transfer for a Servant.
So... there was a chance!
However—
"—!!!"
A crushing pressure descended from above.
"This is?!"
So heavy.
She was completely suppressed and sealed.
"Things like Holy Relics inherently contain Mystery." Matou Zouken's body gradually recovered, even coalescing into a human shape.
He still looked very weak, but things were somewhat different from what Sakura had expected.
"Sakura, you are still too young."
"You had