Lancer Cú Chulainn looked at the group across from him, then curled his lip.
Kirei Kotomine, meanwhile, bowed to White and stepped aside.
"You're letting us pass?" Artoria shielded White behind her.
"That's right. The final ultimate entity has yet to be completed. It is a Beast without a 'heart.' In search of one, it will continue expanding until all of human history is devoured, or its core is filled. But since the heart is right before it, completion is close at hand," Kirei Kotomine said.
"White won't be devoured by that thing!" Artoria said.
"It makes no difference." Kirei Kotomine looked at White. "Coming here amounts to the same thing. New life will always bring completion."
To Kirei Kotomine, it was all the same.
"Just as you offer your aid without discrimination, I too bestow blessings upon new life without discrimination." Kirei Kotomine looked at White.
But White closed her eyes. "You're beyond saving. And I have no intention of saving you."
"Of course." Kirei Kotomine did not mind. He lowered his head and looked at his chest.
The black mud that had replaced his heart had vanished. Yet transparent magical energy remained.
After the sword had been stabbed into it earlier, it seemed to have taken its place.
"The world... is transparent. Even so, I still chose this side."
This man, too, held fast to his belief in evil.
White looked at Sigma and Bazett. The two of them nodded at her as well.
"Artoria, let's go." White had no intention of staying behind either.
"Mm."
White turned around.
"May your sins be judged."
Kirei Kotomine also turned around, facing Bazett and Sigma.
White and Artoria continued forward.
The two kept advancing.
Beyond the Hill of Swords lay a cliff at the very end.
"It is not tethered