"Rher, Sber will use his Noble Phantasm to destroy the shadow later. Don't cry if you are killed together!"

Although he was an enemy, Rin still gave him a reminder, but this made Sber feel relieved. The King of Knights accepted the betrayal of his allies, even if the alliance had not yet been reached.

"Ha, it's unnecessary. I can easily handle this kind of stuff!"

Although he said this, the King of Heroes still avoided Sber's possible attack location.

Sakura wanted to dodge but was forced to move by the sudden dense rain of Noble Phantasms from the King of Heroes.

Everything went well, Sber raised the invisible sword in his hand.

The wind was gradually released.

The wind centered around Sber quickly turned into a storm.

The golden sword finally revealed its true form, and the dazzling sword illuminated the surrounding darkness as if it was promised victory.

Just like seeing a ray of light in the long dark night, all the anxiety and uneasiness that had been lingering in my heart were swept away by this ray of light.

Yes, this is the ideal of the knight.

This is the whole crystallization depicted in the hearts of people who, despite being in a battlefield dripping with blood and being in a hell full of terror and despair of death, still firmly praise the dignity of human nature and disappear in the limited glory.

But there was someone standing in front of Sber——

"No, sber! You can't kill Sakura!"

The original Master... Emiya Shirou.

"What nonsense are you talking about... Emiya, it was because of Rher's presence that your plan could be realized. Now that Rher is gone, do you still want Sber to be trapped in it too!"

Rin glared fiercely at Shirou who was blocking Sber. His voice became louder and louder, and finally he almost roared with tears.

"But, I——"

Seeing Rin like this, Shirou was speechless for a moment.

Do we really want to kill Sakura like this? There may not be a way, but there must be!

Just when he was extremely anxious, the battle situation became unstable again.

In this fight that was close to a war of attrition, Sakura gradually gained the upper hand, but just when the Hero King wanted Sber to use the Noble Phantasm quickly, Matou Sakura suddenly froze as if she had been electrocuted.

The surrounding black mud suddenly fell silent, and even the King of Heroes' Noble Phantasm stabbed Sakura's body several times without stopping her.

Seeing this strange situation, everyone including the King of Heroes stopped and stared at the girl.

The girl who was entangled by the black curse was trembling all over, as if her body was out of control.

"You, how could you... be, how could you be... still conscious...!"

He uttered strange, sporadic words.

"───Huh───Huh, ah!"

Panting violently, the girl seemed to have something flowing under her skin.

"No, no! Stop, I don't want it, stop it!"

cried, and then—

The girl's whole body trembled as if in pain.

"Ka! Uh, ah, ha--wu..."

When she finally calmed down, the girl with her head hanging down slowly raised her head.

There was a void in his eyes.

"All the evil in this world... this little curse wants to devour me. What a joke."

A cold, familiar voice came out of Matou Sakura's mouth.

That is--
Chapter completed!