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When Noah opened his eyes again, his gaze upon Sakura Matou lying on the bed had become extremely complicated.
Noah truly had not expected this.
He had not expected that his scabbard had not only been lost to another parallel world during his battle with Beo, but had also ended up in Sakura Matou's hands because of it.
Back then, in order to ensure that Aoko and Yuzhu had some protection while dealing with Touko Aozaki, Noah had left Avalon at the battlefield where Aoko, Yuzhu, and Touko Aozaki were engaged in magical combat, allowing Avalon to protect Aoko and Yuzhu.
As a result, after Touko Aozaki discovered it, Avalon had been blasted away by her and fallen into the spatial rift created during Noah's battle with Beo, thus becoming lost.
It must have been then that Avalon drifted into this parallel world and was obtained by Sakura Matou when she was still a child, right?
In order to ensure Aoko and Yuzhu's safety, Noah had stored a considerable amount of magical energy within Avalon at the time.
Perhaps it was because of Avalon's inherently protective nature, combined with the fact that Noah had not only stored enough magical energy for use within it in order to protect Aoko and Yuzhu, but had also set Avalon to activate automatically. That was why Avalon, upon being touched by Sakura Matou, had merged into her body on its own and used Noah's magical energy to protect her for more than ten years?
Such a coincidence had actually changed Sakura Matou's fate, which should have been utterly tragic, and delayed it until now.
Until this moment, when Noah stood before Avalon