No matter how worried Fujimaru Ritsuka was about Mash, she knew this was not the time to hesitate.
The Spirit Origin Shadow that ensured Fujimaru Ritsuka's basic combat capability was not by her side. If Mash did not become a Demi-Servant and fight using Galahad's power, all of them would die here.
Buzz—
A light enveloped Mash. Moments later, it faded, revealing Mash clad in purple-black leather armor, a massive Round Table shield in her hands.
That reassuring figure was the form of the Demi-Servant who had accompanied Fujimaru Ritsuka through countless Singularities, saved humanity, and stopped the Incineration of Humanity.
However.
"Hey! Are you sure she's okay?! Mash looks like she's in a lot of pain!"
Munier noticed Mash's strained expression and warned Fujimaru Ritsuka.
"Master, I'm fine. Prepare for battle!"
With a somewhat weak hand, Mash adjusted her shield and looked ahead.
The confinement room's door had already been violently blasted open. Standing in the doorway was—
A woman dressed in white, with a strange halo behind her back. She held a glowing weapon in her hand, while a hood concealed her face.
".A magical energy signature... a Servant?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka watched the woman nervously, brushing the back of her right hand with her left.
This battle was bound to be difficult. Frankly, Mash was in no condition to fight at all right now! But the problem was that Mash was the only strength they had left to rely on.
Still, while this strange person before them possessed magical energy on par with a Servant's, the feeling she gave Fujimaru Ritsuka was strange.
She did not feel human.
But she did not feel like a Servant either.
Instead, she felt somewhat like... those beings they had encountered in the Singularities, born through the power of the Holy Grail?