"Mm... huh...?"
The girl blinked and slowly regained consciousness.
"You're finally awake. Honestly, this is why I say everyone from the Tohsaka Family is good for nothing but dragging people down..."
Rin Tohsaka ignored Luvia's complaint. As she stood, she brushed the snow off herself and asked, "Where are we?"
"Looks like we got separated from Lord Shirou."
Yvette lifted her blindfold and gazed into the distance through her glowing Jewel Eyes.
"This place has already transformed into some kind of other world. My Mystic Eyes of Detection are completely useless here."
"'Principle Blood Ring'..."
Rin Tohsaka muttered under her breath.
The reason the Twenty-Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostles were enemies of human history—their principles.
They absorbed the so-called "World Egg" from magical theory, the seed of the physical laws known as the Texture Rule.
A principle was not simply a transcendent power. It was said that depending on the characteristics of the life-form that possessed it, the principle that manifested would also differ.
Unlike an "Inherent Barrier," which only eroded the world for a short period, it was a supreme mystery capable of completely transforming the world into an otherworld.
"We have to get back to Shirou as soon as possible...Anfang!"
Rin Tohsaka suddenly raised a finger halfway through her sentence.
As she chanted the spell, she released a Magic Bullet formed by compressing an extremely high concentration of curses.
The Magic Bullet flew away and vanished into the blizzard. Then came the sound of something being shot down.
Luvia glared in that direction and shouted, "Who's there?!"
Several seconds later, more than a dozen figures emerged from the blizzard.
Rin, Luvia, and Yvette all held their breath.
The reason was the intense smell of blood—without exception, these people were Dead Apostles.
The one leading them was a