Avalon, Lost to the Mortal World—the Beginning of a Lunar Masterpiece!
"Trace on!"
Shimo Yukino murmured. Mana surged, blue arcs like lightning coiling around her right hand.
Enhanced by reinforcement magecraft, anything she held would have its essence reconstructed. She clenched the soft paper scroll in her hand as countless azure lines flowed across it with light, making the paper indestructibly hard.
The sight was nothing short of miraculous!
"Who are you people, and why are you trying to kill me?!"
She shouted angrily, demanding an answer.
Medusa put away her pity and replied flatly.
"Blame it on the fact that you saw something you shouldn't have."
"You're killing someone over something like that..." The girl was utterly furious.
"Rumble...!!"
The purple figure suddenly burst forth, nimbly stepping on every available foothold. Her long boots shattered the ground with tremendous force, sending countless stones flying and raising thick clouds of dust.
—As an ancient monster from the Age of Gods who had survived the hunts of countless powerful warriors, Medusa's command over force had long reached perfection.
She knew exactly how to kill a person in the fastest way possible.
The reason she had not crushed Yukino's head earlier was merely because she did not want her to die disfigured.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!!"
Countless attacks came crashing down like a violent storm. Chains lashed wildly through the air, raining down like droplets.
Their momentum was tyrannical and majestic. The air wailed as raging gusts swept forth.
One position after another exploded, billowing brown smoke into the air.
The girl fled in a sorry state. Though she failed to evade several chains, she roared and threw all her strength into knocking them aside, sending countless sparks flying.
The fierce battle set everyone's blood boiling!
Although her muscles ached and her joints were nearly dislocated from desperately knocking away those sharp Noble Phantasms, a bright fire burned in the girl's eyes.
This was a drowning person clawing her way upward to survive. This was the struggle of a trapped beast!
With the determination to live, even the weak could draw their blades against the strong!
"Whoosh!!"
But the instant she knocked away every chain, the Valkyrie-like figure burst forward with a kick.
Like a swimming dragon, she hung in midair and viciously kicked at the girl's lower abdomen.
"Yukino!!"
In the Heavenly Curtain World, Yukino Yukino felt her heart wrench and cried out in panic.
That was the incarnation of Medusa from Ancient Greek mythology. The explosive force of that kick was fiercer than a hundred-ton semi-truck. Yukino might be blasted into a mist of blood.
What could she do now...
At that critical moment, the girl reinforced her own body with magecraft.
"Boom...!!"
With a thunderous crash, the air shook violently, forming a visible white shock ring. Like a ball kicked during a game, she was sent flying and plowed a trench hundreds of meters long through the ground with her body!
The entire sequence flowed as smoothly as water, leaving everyone stunned by the sheer grandeur of the scene.
"Cough, cough..."
Shimo Yukino groaned, feeling pain throughout her body. She was almost overwhelmed enough to pass out.
But she did not hesitate. Enduring the pain, she rose to her feet and rushed toward the warehouse beside her.
"Please, don't be so tenacious..."
Medusa murmured faintly. Feeling the other girl's overwhelming desire to live, even the hand gripping her weapon could not help trembling. Sometimes, she wished she were nothing more than a heartless executioner.
This young child desperately wanted to live...
That brief instant of hesitation allowed the girl to run into the warehouse.
Under the nervous gazes of countless viewers, the camera slowly shifted downward.
On the floor of the dim warehouse, an eight-pointed-star magic circle glowed with azure light.
For a moment, countless experts and professors around the world sharply sucked in a breath.
Wasn't that familiar summoning magic circle the very formation used to summon Servants?
The Heavenly Curtain would not show so many shots of it for no reason.
That was it...
Shimo Yukino was one of the two Masters who had yet to appear!
Countless people around the world clutched their chests in excitement, murmuring in disbelief.
"We should have realized it long ago..."
"Her sister Haruno has deep ties to the Fourth Holy Grail War. As her younger sister, Yukino could never escape the whirlpool of fate either..."
"What happened ten years ago that dragged the entire Shimo family into the Holy Grail War?"
Who would she summon?
Would it be the Caster class...
Or Saber Class, the strongest Servant class!
The iron chains glowing with purple light attacked from behind like agile serpents!
Yukino gritted her teeth and instinctively raised her reinforced paper scroll to block them.
"Clang!"
The two weapons collided, erupting with a piercing screech of friction. Arcs of light illuminated the entire dark warehouse, but after a fleeting moment, the paper scroll exploded, turning into snow-white fragments that drifted into every corner.
"It's over."
Regret filled Rider's eyes. She had clearly been such a clever little thing.
Yet she knew nothing about magecraft...
If she had trained more deeply, she might have had a chance to escape even with Rider holding back.
On the ground, Shimo Yukino stared fixedly at the murderer preparing to kill her.
Clutching her bloodstained chest, she bit down unwillingly. "I was only just saved. I haven't even fulfilled my duty yet... Am I going to die meaninglessly like this?"
"How could I ever accept something like that?!"
The girl roared as mana rapidly gathered around her wrist.
In the blink of an eye, it formed three crimson marks with an eerie beauty.
The summoning magic circle suddenly activated. Cold air surged as an inexplicable ghostly light blossomed!
A dazzling light floated within the girl's body. Countless glowing green pathways connected together, while an arcane aura of nature adorned her beauty and took shape in an instant amid her impassioned roar.
It was an incomparably magnificent sacred scabbard, engraved with "Fairy Script" and lined with blue patterns!
It was Avalon, the strongest Holy Relic in the mortal world, a Noble Phantasm named after the Land of Fairies!
Using it as a catalyst would surely summon that undefeated king who wielded the holy sword!
An impassioned BGM began to play, as though chanting an uplifting sacred hymn.
Everything froze!
Even time seemed to come to a standstill at that moment.
Countless people were so shocked that their scalps went numb and goosebumps rose all over their bodies.
What exactly was that...
A holy aura spread from the heavens to the earth, and that lofty ideal seeped deep into the hearts of billions.
People stared blankly at the Heavenly Curtain, their souls trembling violently for reasons they could not understand.
An Immortal Legendary Chapter, a Flawless King Answered the Summons!
Not long ago, in the real world.
In southwestern England, among the ruins of a collapsed European castle.
Amid a crowd of hundreds of thousands of tourists, an elderly man with an aged face smiled as he held his granddaughter's hand.
"Mashiro, do you know where this is?"
"...No."
The blonde girl tilted her head and answered her grandfather in confusion.
Though she was a world-class painter, Mashiro Shiina's life contained only painting. Having lived in art studios since childhood, she knew little about history.
The old man stroked the girl's head and smiled affectionately.
"This is Glastonbury, a pilgrimage site associated with the famous novel Le Morte d'Arthur."
"People generally believe that Glastonbury in southwestern Greenland is the inspiration for the fairyland—Avalon. Tourists visit this place all year round to commemorate King Arthur."
"Even today, tourism here remains prosperous. Countless Anglo-Saxons who worship King Arthur come here to pay their respects."
"King Arthur...?"
Mashiro Shiina tried hard to remember, but soon gave up thinking with a blank look.
Was she someone famous?
Seeing this, the old man smiled.
"It's fine if you don't know. Just paint this place."
"Mm, Mashiro wants to paint~."
The airheaded girl nodded obediently, then set up her painting supplies with her grandfather.
Mashiro carefully observed the castle ruins before her and raised her brush, preparing to capture them on canvas.
With her consummate skill, whether it was a spinning windmill, swaying stars, or a warm breeze brushing lightly across one's face... Mashiro could record both tangible and intangible things.
Then recreate them vividly in her paintings.
That was also why she was called "the girl who fell from heaven into the human world."
However, at that moment...
A sudden change occurred!
"Rumble, rumble...!!"
As a sacred aura overflowed from the Heavenly Curtain's image, the ancient castle suddenly began to hum.
The instant the sacred scabbard appeared, heaven and earth seemed to form some wondrous resonance!
It was like an excited child after waiting through endless years.
Waiting for a gentle harbor sheltered from the wind...
Waiting for its mother's return!
The tremors in the ground swiftly reached everyone's senses, and the tourists panicked.
"Fuck, is it an earthquake?!"
A young Brit cursed loudly, feeling horribly unlucky. He warned the tourists around him and ran with them toward a safer place.
"Mashiro!"
The old man panicked as well and hurried forward, shielding the blonde girl behind him.
But in the next instant, faint radiance enveloped the skies above Glastonbury.
The Brit froze.
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