"What... are these!?"
Sakura felt that bone-piercing chill, and a surge of fear welled up from the depths of her heart. She instinctively took a step back.
Compared to the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons Shuten Douji had summoned with mana, the ghost soldiers and ghost generals Xiang An had summoned seemed... even more terrifying?
Rider, Xiang An, King Yama...?
Matou Shinji felt his body tremble slightly as fear filled his heart.
He understood where that fear came from. If Xiang An was King Yama, then he naturally represented the concept of [death]. And the concept of death was humanity's most fundamental and primal fear.
All three thousand ghost soldiers were cavalry. Their bones gleamed with reflected light, looking exceptionally sturdy. The soldiers wore armor and carried uniform long halberds, riding skeletal warhorses clad in barding. Following behind Xiang An, the white ghostfire in their eyes flickered. They were clearly evil ghosts, clearly terrifying, yet they left everyone awestruck—awed by that majestic, overwhelming force that seemed capable of crushing everything in its path.
What drew even more attention were the four dense blue-black auras behind Xiang An. The mana emanating from them could even rival that of some Servants.
"Those are..."
Shirou Emiya stood frozen in place, staring blankly in confusion.
What... were those?
"They are Rider's four generals. They fought alongside him under his command in life, so naturally, even in death, they continued to follow their lord."
At some point, Xiang An had produced two crimson daggers from somewhere.
"West—the Vanguard General, the Upper Ghost General Zi Juan, Cauldron Boil Has Ferocity."
From the mist behind Xiang An's left side emerged a green-faced, fanged general dressed as a female commander, holding a spear.
"South—the Left General, the Side Ghost General Wei Hao, Suffering Has Demons."
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