"Be careful, Senpai. Looks like we have no choice but to fight."
After realizing that the person before them simply would not listen, Mash gave up trying to persuade her. She raised her shield and sent the foremost Sphinx flying.
Boom.
The Sphinx that had been sent flying crashed straight through one of the temple walls. The scene felt strangely familiar. Mash might have had a petite build, but she could wield such an enormous shield and bat aside a monster even larger than herself. Ritsuka was not surprised by this in the slightest, but the woman who called herself a pharaoh looked utterly shocked.
"A pharaoh... Why would there be a pharaoh here?" While Mash and the others fought, Roman fell into thought. Naturally, he knew about pharaohs, but it was strange for one to appear here at this point in time.
Because the sandstorm contained immense magical power, Chaldea could still maintain contact with Mash, but its detection systems had malfunctioned due to the magical interference. They had no way of knowing whether the pharaoh before them was a Servant.
"Do you believe us now? If we really wanted to kidnap you, this would have been the perfect opportunity."
While Roman pondered the matter, Mash and Ritsuka worked together to defeat every Sphinx before them. They were far stronger now than they had once been.
"Who's to say this isn't part of your scheme?" Although the self-proclaimed pharaoh seemed to have begun believing Mash and Ritsuka, her words remained rather unforgiving. This pharaoh seemed to have something of a tsundere streak.
"Pharaoh, I can prove that what they said is true. The ones who kidnapped you were mountain folk."
Just as Mash and Ritsuka looked helplessly at the pharaoh before them, unsure how to make her believe them,