(Broke two million words! Throwing confetti!)
(Thank you very much to 'Ten Nightmares,' 'Wufeng Haotian,' 'You Bi Ji Yue,' 'Voice of Kinship,' and 'Bai Yue op' for the tips!)
Looking at Sakura Matou lying on the bed, asleep with an unusually peaceful expression, Noah sat directly on the edge of the bed and reached out toward her.
"Smack—!"
Just as Noah was about to touch Sakura Matou, a slender hand suddenly shot out from the side and tightly grabbed his wrist.
Noah was not surprised in the slightest. He merely turned his head and looked to the side.
There, Saber, clad in armor, stared intently at Noah with gemstone-like eyes.
That gaze seemed intent on seeing through Noah completely, as clear and shimmering as the surface of a lake.
Noah did not avoid Saber's gaze. He met her eyes and looked back at her with an utterly calm expression.
At that, Saber's lake-clear eyes rippled once more.
After a long while, apparently concluding from Noah's behavior that he would not do anything to her Master, Saber slowly released his wrist, though her gaze never left him.
Clearly, although she had tacitly allowed Noah's actions, Saber did not completely trust him and was still wary of him.
That was hardly strange.
After all, Noah and Sakura Matou were both Masters.
As long as they wished to win and obtain the Holy Grail, Masters were destined to kill one another.
And compared to dealing with Servants, whose power far surpassed that of ordinary humans, dealing with Masters was obviously much easier.
As long as the Master was dealt with, the Servant would lose both the anchor that allowed them to manifest in this world and their source of magical energy. Unless they possessed the Independent Action skill, a Servant who lost their