"Damn it! Damn it!"
On the streets of Florence late at night, a young man cursed under his breath, drenched in sweat.
He had a woman on his back.
Under the scattered moonlight, the man's expression looked utterly strained.
Giuliano had gone more than forty hours without sleep.
Simonetta's assassination attempt had failed. She had been gravely wounded, yet she had still insisted on returning. He couldn't just abandon Simonetta!
He absolutely could not abandon Simonetta!
Though his mind had already begun to blur, Giuliano clung stubbornly to that thought. Carrying the unconscious Simonetta on his back, he avoided the Prohibition soldiers wandering Florence's streets while searching for someone who might be able to treat her.
Over the past day and night, he had crossed nearly half of Florence. His legs were so exhausted that they were nearly numb, while Simonetta's breathing grew weaker and weaker. The blood she had bled had soaked into Giuliano's body, turning black and stiff.
"Why... is there no doctor!?"
Giuliano had done everything within his power to save Simonetta, yet he still could not stop her life from rapidly slipping away.
His eyes were bloodshot, his voice filled with unfocused rage and an irrepressible terror.
He did not want to lose Simonetta.
No matter what, he did not want to lose her.
"—Senpai, don't go back to sleep! Wake up, there's a Servant reaction near you!"
Mash's urgent warning rang beside Fujimaru Ritsuka's ear, instantly snapping the lightly sleeping Ritsuka fully awake.
"Lawrence—Mr. Romani! Mr. Verrocchio! Mr. Salieri!"
He threw on his coat and loudly called for his three Servants, while unconsciously slipping a gemstone into the simplified Divine Authority Seal.
That practiced motion made Mash, who had woken him, feel her heart tighten sharply.
Could a Senpai like this really, after everything was