"Ha ha! So you were the final Blackhand all along. What exactly are you plotting against Senior Emiya?!"
Old Man Matou had been crushed to death before her eyes, and a massive wound had opened across Matou Sakura's chest. Yet she acted as if she were not the one injured, her face twisted with morbid excitement.
Flooded with mana, her wound healed at a visible rate. Her gaze at Xu Yue was likewise filled with malice.
"Your instincts are truly sharp."
Xu Yue gave Matou Sakura an approving look.
"It's nothing. Shirou Emiya is one of Alaya's favored workers, after all. He has his own mission. We just need to wait for him to arrive."
As he spoke, Xu Yue raised a hand and seized a black paper-cutout figure that had been sneaking up on him.
Black Sakura had never given up trying to ambush Xu Yue.
After failing once again, Sakura looked up at Saber and Rider, whom Xu Yue had captured.
Without hesitation, she swallowed them with her shadows, empowered them, and enslaved them.
Then Black Brother B, Black Saber, and Black Rider, who had already been consumed before, slowly rose from the shadows behind Matou Sakura and confronted Xu Yue.
Yet even with three powerful corrupted Heroic Spirits at her side, Matou Sakura did not attack rashly. Instead, she retreated several steps, seemingly waiting for something.
Xu Yue likewise showed no intention of attacking. He merely turned to look at the twisted Holy Grail that was descending.
His masterpiece, modified and enhanced by his own hand.
"What? Do you want me to go over to her side too?"
Medea spoke coldly.
"No. With Golden Pikach over there, that side has enough. The rest can be handled with Mana Crystals. Just stay here."
Xu Yue glanced sideways at