"Then let's start with the first one. Avenger, perhaps? That seems the most likely." At some point, a "warrior" wearing a skull mask had appeared on a rooftop near the Tohsaka residence.
No one could detect his presence.
After all, the Nameless Heroic Spirit was fighting Medusa, who had been transformed into an Avenger by the corrupted Matou Sakura. No—Gorgon would probably be more accurate.
Because at that moment, Medusa was undoubtedly a monster.
The name Gorgon suited her perfectly.
"As for the girl, I can leave her alone for now, right?" The skull-masked man looked at Matou Sakura, who was right beside Gorgon.
He wasn't a Heroic Spirit himself. In fact, he didn't even know whether he was alive or dead.
He had always wandered between life and death.
In the depths of the valley, the boundary between life and death was indistinct.
A swordsman who had long been in contact with death, dead and yet still alive.
Avenger—the word meant "avenger." In a normal Holy Grail War, such a being shouldn't be able to appear in theory.
So whenever something "strange" happened, finding the Avenger should solve the problem.
At least, that was how he saw it.
After all, who had time to think things through in life? You could just cut down the other party.
Normally, he shouldn't have appeared in the Holy Grail War.
He had no desire for the Holy Grail, and the Greater Holy Grail of the war couldn't summon him. That said, if someone used a special method and he gave his consent...
Then they could summon an existence like the one here, something akin to his clone.
Even as a mere clone, it still possessed some of his abilities.
As for why he had appeared this time—
There was no doubt: he