After hearing Yuan Shikai's words, Jeanne d'Arc and Ishtar were instead quite surprised. This did not seem like his usual style.
Perhaps there were other solutions. It had not yet come to the point where they needed to sacrifice a companion.
Or perhaps Yuan Shikai had already thought of a way, and this was all just to scare the other side.
Chaldeas: "Oh! Have you finally made up your mind to kill even your companions? This is the inferiority of the Old Humans."
"To protect yourselves, you can casually abandon companions who have lived and died alongside you. For profit, you can betray your word and stop at nothing. I was born to free humanity from such inferiority."
Yuan Shikai: "Chaldeas, your failure is already inevitable. Why insist on something so unrealistic?"
Chaldeas: "This is not insistence. This is my mission, the mission bestowed upon me from the moment I was born."
Yuan Shikai: "Nothing is absolute. Now let me show you that there is still a way to make you leave voluntarily: kill the vessel."
The Mystic Eyes Train suddenly rose from underground. Sigma and Ao Run emerged and took out the God-Slaying Crossbow.
Then they handed it to Ao Run and had her throw it toward Yuan Shikai in the sky.
The God-Slaying Crossbow landed smoothly in Yuan Shikai's hands.
Sigma and Ao Run immediately returned to the Mystic Eyes Train, which promptly dove back underground.
The entire process took less than ten seconds, to prevent the other side from launching a surprise attack and taking them hostage.
The previously unremarkable crossbow erupted in brilliant radiance the instant Yuan Shikai caught it.
Yuan Shikai possessed the ability to use any Noble Phantasm, so naturally, he could use the God-Slaying Crossbow as well.
In Sigma's hands, the God-Slaying Crossbow