Through the fabric of the emerald-green dress lay the mark symbolizing her connection to someone.
"My wish... is simply to help Saber.
I want my Saber to obtain a certain victory—that's all. I don't want anything else."
Volume Five, 239: Requiem of the Heroes
"..."
Achilles was utterly stunned.
The girl surrounded by the undead spread her arms and revealed an intoxicated smile.
He felt that he had seen her somewhere before. This girl named "Sajyou Manaka" seemed strangely familiar...
Then the hero of the Trojan War remembered.
In the distant past, in the land where Achilles had lived, there had been an existence exactly like Sajyou Manaka.
It was an existence known as a "god"—
An arrogant existence that toyed with the world, humanity, and heroes as though they were all in the palm of its hand.
Her innate omniscience and omnipotence, along with her utter purity, had shaped the girl's values, making her like a god descended into the modern age in a human body.
Achilles gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you planning... to destroy the world for Saber...?"
"Destroy the world? If necessary, I'll do it without hesitation."
Sajyou Manaka answered without a second thought.
Her expression even held a hint of bashfulness, and the air around her was filled with the delicate scent of flowers.
There was a faint trace of pride in her voice. Why was that?
Achilles knew what it was. She believed that she was doing the most correct thing possible.
"Why?"
"Because I've fallen in love with him."
"...!"
The answer was extraordinarily direct.
Simple beyond simplicity, ridiculous beyond ridicule.
The girl lived in her own world.
She had no regard for tracing things back to their origins, and to achieve her goal, she would not hesitate to sacrifice everything