Kuzuki Souichirou: Do You Want Gentle or Fierce?

Mages, mages again—of course they were mages. Those mages never did anything decent!

Mages were just like Mystery: complete heretics, things that had to be wiped out.

Of course, that referred to normal mages. Mages like Emiya Shirou, Tohsaka Rin, Kayneth, and Waver were oddballs among mages—abnormal existences.

The legendary bizarre breed—that was exactly what people like Emiya Shirou were.

Now, mages had a notoriously foul reputation in the real world, and it was only getting worse. How bad it would ultimately become depended on what happened in the Light Screen footage.

In fact, Mystery's side was already lamenting that there was no mage society to be found in this age.

After all, the mage world was simply full of freaks. Even if they knew it was Mystery, in pursuit of the so-called path of magecraft, a great many mages would probably throw themselves into Mystery's embrace without hesitation and become its lackeys.

What a pity...

Within the Light Screen footage, Medea's memories continued. The Witch of Betrayal betrayed her Master once again, and the result was that her mana was depleted, leaving her incredibly weak.

In the end, Medea collapsed at the foot of Mount Enzo on a rainy night.

Amid the bleak and mournful BGM, the Witch of Betrayal had already prepared herself to make her exit.

Medea bitterly mocked this summoning of hers, then sighed mournfully. She no longer wanted to go on.

Yet at that very moment, that man appeared.

The man who, to Medea, had become more important and precious than her second life.

Kuzuki Souichirou.

Holding an umbrella, Kuzuki Souichirou stood before Medea. No emotion could be seen on his expressionless face or in those lifeless eyes.

But Kuzuki Souichirou spoke. "Excuse me, do you need help?"

And so, with that question, Medea