Endless radiance transformed into a flood, filling the sky with blinding light. It was as though another sun had risen over the earth, its brilliance intertwining with the midday sun overhead.
"This light! Is this My King's judgment?"
Lancelot suppressed his instinct to dodge and raised a hand toward Artoria. Beneath his helmet, his lips moved slightly, and then he revealed a faint smile filled with apology.
In the next instant, the flood of light swallowed everything.
"..."
Artoria slowly lowered the Holy Sword and stared at the direction in which Lancelot had vanished, her gaze complicated. Faced with a blow unleashed by the star-forged Holy Sword, even a Heroic Spirit as powerful as Lancelot could not leave behind the slightest proof that he had ever existed.
She paused for a moment, then turned and left.
Now that she had found a way to save Britain, she would return to the past after waiting a little longer and save everything.
By then, whether they were the people or the Knights of the Round Table,
they would meet again in the Sea of Stars,
and rebuild the kingdom of her dreams.
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Elsewhere.
Time rewound slightly.
Aozaki Touko crossed her long, slender legs and looked at the three members of the Matou Household with amusement.
Not long after she discovered that Lancelot had been summoned, she had already determined that he had been summoned by the Matou Household. The source of that information was none other than Emiya Kiritsugu.
Not long after she ordered Emiya Kiritsugu to investigate, he found several useless cameras at the battlefields where Lancelot had appeared. Their positions were extremely well concealed, and they clearly had not been installed for ordinary security purposes.
Following the clues, he quickly traced them back to the Matou Household. He