At that moment, amid the ruined remains of Enzworth, Artoria, who had successfully dealt with Caster Paracelsus's remnants and was fighting with all her strength to cut down Shadow Servants one after another, could not help but be drawn to the anomaly in the clouds.
"Alice!"
The moment her gaze fell upon that familiar face above the palace, along with a figure that seemed to have regained its health, the King of Knights cried out in surprise.
Wait...!
However, as her gaze moved downward, the inky blackness staining the Clothes of Heaven and the unfamiliar feeling in her soul made Artoria's expression change dramatically. She shouted coldly.
"No, you're not Alice! Who the hell are you?!"
Pandora elegantly stepped to the edge of the cloud-top temple. Looking down at the stalemated battlefield and the Heroic Spirits of the two camps fighting in pairs, her lips curved with pleasure as she spoke quietly.
"My name is—Anastasia Lizleihi von Einzbern. I am the one who established the Holy Grail Ritual and shall grant your wishes..."
The Greater Holy Grail!
At once, following Pandora's public revelation, the Masters and Heroic Spirits who had only just realized it showed shock and suspicion, their thoughts roiling.
Anastasia was the head of the Einzbern family, one of the three families that had jointly planned the first Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City two hundred years ago alongside Makiri Zolgen and Nagato Tohsaka. A Homunculus created by the Einzbern family, she later became the foundation of the Greater Holy Grail and was known as the great magus called the Saintess of Winter.
She was not a saint in the conventional sense—some gentle, loving woman, or a pure maiden chosen by the gods. She was a saint who, for the ideals and path she pursued, had not hesitated