Winter Forest

Night fell.

The entire Fuyuki City was deathly silent, as if a curfew had been imposed. Police cars could occasionally be seen speeding past on patrol. Apart from that, this city, which had never been particularly crowded, seemed even more deserted than usual.

Duanmu Huai was holding a meeting with everyone to discuss the situation at hand.

"From what we can tell, this Holy Grail War should be Singularity F. However, something has gone wrong."

Duanmu Huai rapped his fingers against the table.

"Something has gone wrong?"

"Exactly. I finally understand why we went to the Fourth Holy Grail War before. From a certain perspective, it's obvious that the Fourth Holy Grail War should be connected to this one. In other words, the Fourth Holy Grail War produced some kind of influence that led to the opening of the Fifth Holy Grail War."

Duanmu Huai spread his hands, and Medea nodded as well.

"Indeed. From this perspective, we changed the course of the Fourth Holy Grail War, and thus affected the original Fifth Holy Grail War... Take Sakura, for example. If we hadn't rescued Sakura, she should still be living with the Matou Family right now."

"But the Matou Family has already disappeared."

Alice Phil spoke up.

"I went to look before. The Matou property has already been sold to someone else. According to what I found out, the Matou Family left Fuyuki City after the Fourth Holy Grail War ended."

"Yet the timeline chose to repair this, just like the Great Holy Grail, which had originally been dismantled."

Mash frowned as well and looked toward Duanmu Huai.

"MASTER, are we still unable to enter the Great Hollow?"

"The other side pulled the Great Holy Grail over from another timeline. There's nothing I can do. This isn't my area of