A living Saint who manifested the divine.
There had been no hotter news in the Holy Church lately.
No one had imagined that a mission originally meant only to investigate whether the Holy Grail of the Fifth Holy Grail War was genuine would cause such an uproar.
Since the Holy Grail had already been destroyed, the Church had devoted neither much attention nor much manpower to the matter, keeping it at the scale of a routine investigation.
Yet as soon as the investigators arrived in Tokyo, the local Church dropped a bombshell on them.
The holy maiden of Orléans had been summoned by a nun of the church on her own initiative, and remained in the present world even after the war ended.
When the news reached Church headquarters, it caused considerable commotion, but the upper echelons remained relatively calm.
After all, the Church had nearly two thousand years of history. It was not ignorant of the principles behind spirit invocation, and even possessed quite a few related Magic Formulas itself.
A Heroic Spirit's combat strength was important to the Church, but hardly indispensable.
Besides, the holy maiden's position was rather awkward, as her reputation had only been rehabilitated in a later era, while the nun who had summoned her, Caren Ortensia, was one of their own through and through.
The Kotomine family she came from had served the Church for over a century, and her surviving relatives, Risei Kotomine and Kirei Kotomine, were both exemplary core believers.
They had risked their lives for the Church as Executors in their youth, then continued serving it as priests in middle age. The adopted son, Shirou Kotomine, was following his father's old path, and had even brought a gifted wandering mage named Shinji Matou closer to the Church's faction.
With such reliable