Sakura Matou desperately held Shirou Emiya back.
Shirou tried to break free, but he touched Sakura Matou's injuries, causing pain to wrack her entire body as she trembled.
Only then did Shirou finally come to his senses.
They could deal with Matou Shinji later, but Sakura Matou's injuries needed treatment as soon as possible. So Shirou took her back to Taiga Fujimura's house and carefully tended to her wounds. At the same time, Zouken Matou, who had been following Sakura Matou in the form of a flying insect, secretly crushed the... medicine inside her earring.
Zouken Matou Was No Longer Human
There was no need to say what happened next.
The two of them had long been deeply in love with each other, and everything seemed to fall naturally into place.
Shirou forcibly kept Sakura behind, refusing to let her return to the Matou family.
Sakura was somewhat worried that Zouken Matou would come looking for her and might even harm Shirou. Yet Zouken Matou never contacted her, as if he had forgotten about her. Although Sakura knew that was impossible, she still tried her best to forget those painful memories and cherish every happy moment she spent with Shirou.
It was not until Matou Shinji came to her door and took her away that the despair following hope became truly profound.
Setting aside his character and morals, Zouken Matou's attainments in magecraft were indeed extraordinary, and his mind was exceptionally sharp. In previous Holy Grail Wars, one would first defeat the other Masters and Servants before obtaining the Holy Grail. Yet he had done the opposite, using the connection between the Lesser Grail and the Greater Holy Grail, as well as All the World's Evil's attraction to extreme malice, to link Sakura Matou to the Greater Holy Grail in