The sudden presence made Noah freeze slightly. Then his expression changed, and he abruptly rose to his feet.
"----!"
It was not just Noah. Saber and Archer, who possessed the skills of Instinct and Mind's Eye, also sensed that something was wrong. The tense atmosphere between them stalled slightly, everything freezing in the air.
The first to move was naturally Saber, who was closest to Sakura Matou's room and was even standing right outside its door.
"Whoosh----!"
Saber spun around without hesitation and charged straight into Sakura Matou's room.
"Bang----!"
In the next instant, an explosion-like muffled boom rang out from the small apartment room. A shockwave blasted the door away, kicking up a violent gale that swept into the living room outside.
Before Rin Tohsaka could even react, Archer raised his pair of black-and-white short swords and stood before his Master, blocking the raging wind completely.
Though Noah was the farthest from Sakura Matou's room, he was the least affected. Almost at the same instant that the explosive boom and violent gale burst from Sakura Matou's room, he flashed forward, braving the fierce wind as he rushed inside.
A miserable scene filled Noah's vision. Thick smoke filled the air, while the entire room was being ravaged by violent gusts and shockwaves.
At the front of the devastated room, where the window should have been, a massive hole had been blasted open. Fragments of the wall were still falling.
As for Sakura Matou, she had already vanished from the direction of the shattered bed. Even Saber, who had rushed into the room, was nowhere to be seen.
The moment Noah saw that, he instinctively understood what had happened. He sprang to the wall with the gaping hole and looked down below the apartment.
Sakura Matou's room happened to face away