"Rider, withdraw from the battlefield. I'll take over from here."
At the top of Yggdmillennia Castle, a blue-green light flashed in Chiron's eyes. His personal skill, [Clairvoyance], allowed him to see everything in the forest with ease.
Rider's Spirit Origin was already exhausted after activating four Noble Phantasms at once. Continuing to fight would hurt their prospects in the battles to come.
"All right. Don't let your guard down. That woman is Saber's queen."
Before assuming spirit form and retreating, Astolfo revealed the enemy Servant's identity to Chiron.
Hearing this, Chiron couldn't help glancing at Siegfried, who was panting amid the lava.
For once, his judgment had been wrong. Red Berserker's self-destructing strike wasn't merely A+ rank-it was the far more terrifying A++ rank!
The cursed Holy Sword had naturally cleaved through the blast head-on, but Siegfried had no way to avoid the remaining shock waves and took them squarely.
Although his Noble Phantasm, the Armor of Fafnir, reduced the damage by B+ rank (80), Siegfried could only endure the rest with his A-rank endurance. Then...
[Rally].
Restored to full health, Siegfried looked back toward Chiron, waiting for the next order from their highest-ranking commander aside from Lancer-Chiron himself.
Yet just as Chiron was about to coordinate the next stage of the battle, something happened that none of them had expected.
"Saber, leave Rider's position to me. You go take..."
Chiron gave his instructions, but Siegfried could no longer pay attention to the rest. Through the other end of their Master-Servant Contract, Gordes had delivered more urgent news:
"Saber, Rider has run away with that Artificial Lifeform!"
After Siegfried repeated Gordes's words, Chiron sighed inwardly.
It wasn't that he couldn't understand Astolfo's compassion, as a hero, for the weak who suffered injustice.
But choosing to flee with that Artificial