"What's wrong? You look very happy."
The silver-haired, brown-skinned Heroic Spirit Girl leaned against the corner of the wall, tilting her head as she studied her grinning Master on the bed, rather surprised.
"I can hardly wait to welcome this competition."
Kneeling on the bed, Sayo Ayaka held her hands together before her chest, receiving a stray beam of cool moonlight spilling in through the window. Her golden eyes overflowed with anticipation as she murmured.
"Why? Didn't you say the Holy Grail War was nothing more than a boring game? Why are you suddenly interested in it?"
A trace of confusion surfaced on the Heroic Spirit Girl's cool face. She seemed unable to understand her Master's abrupt change.
"Before this, I only joined the competition because of Ayaka. That idiot would have a hard time surviving the Holy Grail War without me."
Sayo Ayaka thought for a moment before answering casually.
"And the Grail itself means nothing to me."
As the nearly omniscient and omnipotent Root Princess, she could easily fulfill most wishes with a mere wave of her hand.
Therefore, the so-called omnipotent wish-granting machine beneath Fuyuki City held little appeal for her.
Moreover, having vaguely glimpsed the brutality and high casualty rate of the Fourth Holy Grail War, she had not wanted the Sayo Family that came to Fuyuki City to become embroiled in it. So she had secretly taken measures to cut off that possibility.
However, an accident had occurred in the process.
This Holy Grail War did not have one faction, but two.
She had prevented the first, yet failed to forestall the second that arose from the anomaly.
Her younger sister, Sayo Ayaka, had somehow become one of the seven Masters on the other side.
Though she spoke of the human world as dull and