"Are we really going to cooperate with them? Don't forget, the last time we went there, we almost didn't make it back."
After the battle with the Einzbern Family, Shirou Emiya and the other two held a simple strategy meeting.
At present, there were basically only three factions left in the Holy Grail War: Kirei Kotomine's faction, the Matou Family faction, and the three of them.
Since they did not know that Gilgamesh had already been taken out by Yoru Machi, Rin Tohsaka and the others still believed that Kirei Kotomine and the Church were currently the strongest faction.
Next came Yoru Machi's group. With two Heroic Spirits, Medea and Medusa, as well as Yoru Machi's own strength, which was no less formidable, they were fully qualified to contend with Kirei Kotomine's side.
Lastly came the few of them. How should they put it? If Archer Emiya had not died, they should also have been qualified to form a three-way standoff with Yoru Machi's group.
But now... Saber had regained the glory of having all A-rank parameters. She was extremely powerful, and as Archer Emiya had told Rin before his death, Saber had now retrieved Excalibur's sheath, the EX-rank Anti-World Noble Phantasm—Avalon—from Shirou Emiya.
Her parameters were all A-rank, while her Noble Phantasms were A+ and EX-rank. Offensively, she possessed the "Excalibur," whose firepower was second only to Enuma Elish. Defensively, there was even less to say—Avalon was absolutely the strongest defensive Noble Phantasm, without question.
Her parameters were flawless, and her Noble Phantasms were powerful enough. One for attack and one for defense, the current Saber had virtually no weaknesses and could even be said to be stronger than ever before.
In Rin Tohsaka's view, even if Saber encountered the Great Hero Heracles from before, her chances of victory