Three? The Support Taken Out First

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"Whoosh—!"

The howling mountain wind swept straight across the entire path, making the robes of the two groups standing halfway up the stone steps and before the mountain gate at the summit flap loudly.

Looking up at Soichiro Kuzuki, Caster, and Assassin standing before the mountain gate, Noah could not help speaking to Rin Tohsaka beside him.

"Rin, are you all right?"

Noah's question seemed completely out of the blue.

Yet Rin Tohsaka understood it.

"Don't worry about me." There was not the slightest hint of reluctance in Rin Tohsaka's voice. She seemed to have regained her composure.

"Although Soichiro Kuzuki is a teacher at our school, my relationship with him is nowhere near as good as you think. You don't need to worry about me. The only issue is that the one Servant we were supposed to deal with has become two."

"From one to two?" Having heard Rin Tohsaka clearly, Caster suddenly chuckled.

"You're wrong again, little girl. The Servants you need to face aren't two, but three!"

"Three?" Noah, Rin Tohsaka, and Saber all instinctively tensed.

"That's right, three." Caster's smile became increasingly unsettling, almost enough to send chills down one's spine.

"A Servant suddenly came to me and said his Master wanted a little girl. But your lineup was somewhat unfair, so he sought me out and planned to cooperate with me."

At this point, Caster's voice took on a trace of malice.

"So, why don't you guess where that Servant has gone?"

This time, Caster's words truly made Rin Tohsaka uneasy.

Even Saber could not help biting her lip, a troubled expression finally appearing on her face.

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