Soon afterward.
After bidding Souichirou Kuzuki an affectionate farewell, Medea voluntarily dissolved herself without resisting any further, and the Command Spells on the back of Souichirou Kuzuki's hand disappeared.
He glanced at it impassively and shook his head.
Lu You returned to normal and walked over. He smiled. "Want to try the new ramen shop nearby? I was planning to go tomorrow."
"Is everything all right over there? Didn't you say your teacher was there?"
"The battle's already over. As long as the old man won, that's enough. Even if the others went now, they wouldn't find an opening, so I'll stay out of it."
You've already gotten plenty involved, all right? You took out a whole team-a Master and his Servant.
Souichirou Kuzuki thought this silently.
He did not refuse, either. The two headed toward the ramen shop. He also had a few things he wanted to ask Lu You about.
On the first day of the Holy Grail War, three Servants died in battle.
A thin mist shrouded Fuyuki City that morning. Sunlight spilled through the clouds, making the traces left by last night's battles look especially glaring.
Kirei Kotomine stood in the church basement, facing a row of extinguished candleholders.
He held three dimmed fragments of an unknown crystal, remnants left by the Servants who had died last night. As the overseer, he could recover them.
"Three Servants, in a single night."
His voice was calm, even tinged with a certain pleasure. That pleasure came not from the changing state of the war, but from a deeper question.
"Why did the Holy Grail connect the Terrestrial Realm with other worlds? What exactly caused this change?"
He rubbed his chin in thought.
Large-scale battle fluctuations had erupted in that area last night. Although he had already investigated