"Of course I want you to withdraw from the Holy Grail War. Isn't that obvious?"
Wearing the expression of a villain, Karn chuckled as he said to the Heroic Spirit Shirou Emiya, "A girl of seventeen or eighteen, in the bloom of youth-what a shame it would be if she died in the Holy Grail War. Wouldn't it be better to just withdraw, go to school like a good girl, and enjoy her life?"
As he spoke, the four blades of lightning showed signs of expanding again, their electrical arcs growing increasingly active, as though they would erupt the next second.
War was about using every means available to win. Karn felt he was already being very merciful; after all, this was the Holy Grail, a shortcut to the Root, the goal every mage pursued.
They were fighting over something so precious, yet the mages participating in the war seemed to have no resolve at all. They were simply playing house. Perhaps the only ones with real resolve had been Kiritsugu Emiya and Kirei Kotomine in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
The Heroic Spirit Shirou Emiya said coldly, "Where are your Masters? You've joined forces to eliminate the other Masters first, but they don't dare show themselves?"
"What? Archer, he's not a Master?"
The restrained Rin Tohsaka asked in shock. She had always assumed Karn was a Master, never imagining that he was a Servant too.
Did that mean two Masters had teamed up against her?
Damn it, she had only summoned her Servant a day ago. How had she already attracted the attention of two Masters? Was it because of the Tohsaka Family's reputation? Or grudges left over from the previous Holy Grail War?
"Both of them are Servants. I just don't know whether their Masters are watching from