For Fujimaru Tachibana and the others watching the Light Screen footage, the sudden turn of events had come far too abruptly.
Other than Da Vinci, no one had been prepared for it.
After all, gathering a massive crowd of refugees at one's own doorstep and slaughtering them was something unheard of throughout history.
It was not that massacres did not exist. In fact, human history was littered with countless massacres, and slaughtering entire cities or wiping out nations was practically standard practice.
What was truly unacceptable was how the refugees had been deceived into gathering outside the Holy City to take part in the so-called Holy Selection.
Then, after conducting a Holy Selection with a pass rate of less than one in a thousand, they mercilessly proceeded to physically "clear out" the remaining refugees, all while claiming it was for the continuation of humanity.
What the fuck was this?
Even Emiya Kiritsugu, in his Ally of Justice state, would have said they were being too extreme after seeing this.
Without a doubt, though everyone's minds were still buzzing, their opinion of the Knights of the Round Table, the Lion King, and the Holy City had plummeted to rock bottom.
Preserving humanity's future?
What exactly had you preserved!?
Lucius was the first to snap out of it and take action.
For the first time, the traveling knight who had always been refined, profound, and weathered revealed a somewhat ferocious expression of rage.
Drawing the sword at his waist, he rushed toward the nearest Purging Knight and, with a flash, cut off the head of the Purging Knight who had been preparing to kill someone.
After the Purging Knight's head was severed, his body went limp and collapsed, his metal armor crashing against the ground with a clatter.
Yet even as the