"Mm, then—let's begin."
Rin Tohsaka placed her hand on the edge of the magic array before her.
This was a secondary magic array set beneath the Greater Grail's magic array. She had spent a full three hours constructing and modifying it, ensuring that the magic array would destroy the connected passage at the very first moment while also making sure nothing went wrong with the Leyline.
More precisely, making sure they would not be harmed.
After all, if the immense amount of mana within the Leyline leaked out, the people standing nearby would be the first victims.
The people had to be protected, and so did the Leyline. That was what she, as the head of the Tohsaka Family, needed to do.
Bzz—
The magic array lit up.
Driven by Rin Tohsaka's mana and precise control, the connection passage between the incomplete Greater Grail construct and the Leyline below was destroyed in an instant. At the moment the passage was severed, the Greater Grail's magic array rapidly lost its glow and dimmed.
Adelson solemnly sensed the current state of the Greater Grail's magic array, as well as the mana passage.
Having completed the operation, Rin Tohsaka stood up and looked at Adelson with considerable unease.
"Mr. Adelson. How is it?"
Well, she really was still rather nervous.
After all, this was the first time she had presided over such a serious and important event in her capacity as "head of the Tohsaka Family"—as the person who had personally dismantled the Greater Grail, her name would be recorded in the history of both her family and the magecraft world, just like her ancestor Tohsaka Nagato, one of the creators of the Greater Grail. How could she not be nervous?
"Hmm."
Adelson carefully felt things out, then suddenly smiled.
He said nothing.