Divine Punishment

"Could I take this as a kind of betrayal?"

Tokiomi Tohsaka crossed his hands before his chest. A deeply surprised expression involuntarily appeared on his face, while a trace of barely perceptible disgust flashed through his eyes.

As a very traditional, chauvinistic man, he was naturally repulsed by a foolish woman like Sola, who had betrayed her fiancé and fancifully planned to elope with a Servant.

After all, in the eyes of orthodox magi, Servants were essentially high-grade "familiars"—tools with a certain degree of intelligence, driven through magical energy.

Yes, you read that right.

Just because Tokiomi Tohsaka acted like a grandson before Gilgamesh did not mean he truly respected the oldest King of Heroes.

Quite the opposite!

He only behaved that way in order to control Gilgamesh more effectively and make him act according to his plans.

Once the other Masters and Servants had been defeated, he would absolutely use a Command Spell without hesitation to force Golden Sparkle to kill himself, then claim the Holy Grail for himself and achieve his ultimate goal of reaching the Root.

As for the trivial matter of Sola and Kenneth having no emotional foundation, their marriage being nothing more than an alliance between mage families, it was utterly ordinary to someone like Tokiomi Tohsaka, who had received a proper magus education since childhood.

After all, the mage community in this world was only so large. Every ancient family that had survived through the generations was doing everything it could to find excellent "wombs" to bear the next generation of heirs.

When he had pursued his wife Aoi, he had set his sights on the fact that she possessed the bloodline of the magus Zenjō Family, with outstanding magical factors still flowing through her body. There had been a strong chance that she