Chapter 316: A Glimmer of Hope (cont.)

This was good too—it saved them quite a bit of trouble.

"Waiter, please get us a quiet room."

"Yes, honored adventurers. Please come this way."

The waiter led them to the innermost room. Aya ordered coffee and tea first, then instructed the waiter to return in half an hour to take their food orders.

"Then, let's have a proper talk during this time, Artoria-chan." Aya took a sip of her coffee.

"Ugh, this tastes awful... It's blended coffee."

After just one sip, Aya disappointedly poured out the entire cup and began drinking plain water instead.

Artoria removed her helmet and took a sip of the coffee. She thought it tasted alright.

She was the type who cared more about quantity than quality.

"I'm starting to remember some things from before," Artoria said.

"Things from before?" Aya looked at her.

"Mm. Last night, I dreamed about a lot of things concerning Mom... concerning you," Artoria said. "They were vague, but I believe now that what you said was probably true."

Aya was Tiamat's vessel, and she had traveled back from the future to the past in order to save the world.

That was not entirely accurate. Aya wanted to save herself and her daughters. Compared to her daughters, saving the world was only a secondary objective.

"It's really hard to believe, but it seems that this is the truth," Artoria said. "So what do you think we should do now?"

According to Aya's information, their enemy was Beast V—the nine-tailed fox demon known as Tamamo-no-Mae.

"Beast..." Artoria murmured the weighty word.

After the Holy Lance had been unsealed, Artoria's Saint Graph had surpassed the limits of ordinary Heroic Spirits and reached the level of a divine spirit.

Yet even as a divine spirit, Artoria had still not reached the pinnacle of