At dusk, Iori and Sakura had planned to stay at school to watch the battle between Dog Bro and Red A, as well as Artoria's descent, when they received a message from Medea.
"Things have changed. Return at once!"
The message was brief, but following the principle that the fewer the words, the bigger the problem, Iori did not dare let his guard down and hurried back to Ryūdō Temple.
After their conversation that night, Medea had agreed to join Iori's side. However, when he asked about her wish, she merely smiled and said they could discuss it later. Iori did not press the matter.
As a mage from the Age of Gods, she had already investigated Fuyuki City's ley lines and chosen Ryūdō Temple as her new base.
It was not that Iori had been unaware of it before, but ley lines were truly useless to him, so he had never changed his base.
But now that Medea was here, he immediately moved there with Sakura.
Drawing upon the ley lines, Medea had set up a surveillance network over the entirety of Fuyuki City.
One night a few days earlier, she had found a red-haired woman with one wrist severed in a corner somewhere and brought her back.
The moment Iori saw the woman, he had some idea of who she was.
He hesitated before asking, "Where did you find her?"
Medea noticed something off in Iori's tone and answered with some confusion, "Right beside the Twin Towers. She was probably one of the Masters in the Holy Grail War before, but now that she has lost her left arm and her Command Spells, she has already been eliminated."
"However, I suspect the person who attacked her was someone she knew, so I saved her to see whether