Not everyone could receive a happy ending where all were reunited. The most fitting outcome was a battle in which everyone hurt and hated one another.
For someone covered in blood like me, burning at the stake was the most suitable ending.
Even if people saw my pitiful state and laughed at me, even if I was mocked and cursed at, I did not mind in the slightest.
Then pray. All I needed to do was pray, to look up at the sky. In the end, it was merely the death of a dull and insignificant country girl, nothing more than a trivial matter destined to be buried in the current of history sooner or later.
And I still thought that way, even now that I had become a "Heroic Spirit" through the faith of countless people. I was still nothing but an unbelievably dull country girl.
But then again, this Holy Grail War was far too unusual in every respect.
The number of summoned Servants alone easily exceeded ten. Two factions formed from seven Servants each fighting against one another was already an extraordinarily strange situation. Even so, an anomaly occurred when I was summoned as Ruler, forcing me to manifest through the body of a girl named Laeticia.
The root cause of this situation was the most extraordinary existence in this Holy Grail War: Amakusa Shirou Tokisada.
I, who should have been an arbiter, was no longer a spectator in this war. I had become someone who existed to determine victory and defeat.
And there was another greatest anomaly in this Holy Grail War.
Though he had not been given a name and his life was exceedingly brief, he struggled desperately to survive. An artificial life-form possessing both the beauty of a gemstone and the twisted nature of