The Polluted Holy Grail

"Illya?" Artoria said blankly, her hands unconsciously tightening around the holy sword.

In her eyes, Illya had merely touched a card and fallen unconscious.

After waking up, her personality had changed drastically, and she had opened her heart to the enemy.

Wasn't this blatant brainwashing and corruption?

She would rather die than face such an outcome.

Illya keenly noticed that something was off with Artoria. After thinking for a moment, she understood what Artoria was imagining.

If the memories she had just seen had not left her so deeply saddened, she might have burst out laughing.

But she was in no mood for that now. She said to Artoria, "There was no brainwashing. He only showed me some memories. That person truly has a reason and a wish to save me."

"Besides, even if I don't believe them, what difference would it make? With their strength, even if you and Berserker joined forces, you still wouldn't be their match. We might as well trust them once."

As she spoke, Illya looked at her somewhat hesitantly. "But in this Holy Grail War, there's no way you can obtain the Grail. The Grail was already polluted by Angra Mainyu during the Third Holy Grail War."

"During the previous Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu probably destroyed the Grail because of this. That was also why the Einzbern House regarded him as a traitor."

"What?" Artoria staggered back a step in terror. "The Grail... was polluted?"

She let out a mournful cry. "Why? How could this happen?!"

Iori looked at her and sighed, but he understood as well. Artoria's wish was not something that could be shaken through words alone. Even in the original story, it had taken several days and countless battles before, in one particular ending, she truly accepted Britain's destruction, chose to