Anna walked ahead with her head lowered, a hint of unease in her heart.
Ah, she was about to see Sister Euryale.
The possibility of being teased was not something Anna would care about. What concerned her more was the [mission] regarding why the three goddesses had come to this Singularity.
Indeed, for the safety of this Singularity, the Counter Force had done everything it could to send down several powerful Servants. Lemoni was one of them, but—
It was not enough.
Against an enemy known as a Beast, no number of Servants would be enough. That was simply the kind of enemy a Beast was.
Yet the number of Servants this Singularity could accommodate was limited. With the Incineration of Humanity having occurred, the Counter Force had also weakened alongside humanity's decline. What it could accomplish was extremely limited.
So—
Anna looked at the scythe in her hand and wore a wry expression.
Her weapon in this Singularity should not have been this scythe at all. It should have been... hm?
Where were Sister Stheno and Lemoni?
Noticing that two people had fallen behind, Anna instinctively turned around to look for them, and then—
".Ah?"
Anna froze at the sight in the distance.
But though she had frozen, her feet kept walking on their own.
Then Anna stepped into empty air and fell straight into one of Eridu's small streams.
Splash—
Anna fell into the water.
"Anna?" Merlin was startled by Anna's commotion and quickly pulled her up. "What's wrong? You should watch where you're walking, you know?"
But Anna ignored Merlin.
Her eyes and arm trembled in unison as she pointed toward the utterly shocking scene.
"What happened—holy shit!?"
Merlin was so startled that he nearly fell into the water too.
In the two's field of vision was,