In the conference room where tactics were discussed, Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya Kuyu were checking their weapons, while Alice Fell and Saber were observing the enemy's movements through the crystal ball.

"There it is!"

As Alice Phil spoke, the crystal ball showed the same Caster she and Saber had seen last night, but the difference was that this time Caster was accompanied by a group of children, the largest of whom was elementary school students, about a dozen people.

"Alice Phil, the enemy is tempting us. ”

Saber immediately saw Caster's plan, those children were hostages of Saber, the knight king, although Caster did not recognize Saber's identity, but presumably such a trick was also effective for Joan of Arc, who was known as the French saint.

"It must be a hostage. Alice Phil thinks the children are there to guard against traps and traps in the forest, and Saber thinks so.

"I just have to go and save people right away. ”

Suddenly, Caster looked into the empty sky, where there should be nothing but ・・・・・・・

"Clairvoyance has been seen through!"

There is no way, no matter what, the magic of clairvoyance is still too simple in the eyes of the Heroic Spirit who came into the world as Caster.

"As agreed last night, Gilles de Les has come to visit. Can you show me a beautiful young Jeanne d'Arc?"

Alice Fell hesitated, but Caster didn't care, and the two of them got one thing wrong at first, the children were not used to prevent the traps of the forest, but were used by Caster as sacrifices.

"Please take your time, I'm ready to wait a long time. ”

As he spoke, Caster unraveled the hints in the children.

The children looked around helplessly, as if unable to figure out where they were.

"Listening to the kids, we started playing hide and seek. The rules are simple, just run away from me. If you're caught by me—"

Caster swished out his hand from the sleeve of his robe, grabbing a child beside him.

"Stop!"

Saber knew that his stop would have no effect, but he couldn't help but scream.

The sound of a crumbling skull. The blood scattered everywhere, those nightmarish scenes were etched in everyone's minds.

The children let out heart-wrenching cries and began to flee in all directions.

Caster was still talking to the crystal ball, "Hurry up and run away, I'll start chasing you when I count to a hundred." So Joan of Arc, how long will it take me to catch everybody?"

Seeing this, Alice Fell decisively gave Saber an order.

"Saber, go and take down Caster. ”

"Yes!"

However, what awaits Saber is a trap that Caster has already designed.

By the time Saber went to look for Caster, there was already something else going on on this side of the castle.

"Maiya, escape from the castle with Ellie. Towards Saber they are in the opposite direction. ”

Alice Fell was puzzled by this order from Emiya Kiritsugu: "Can't you stay here?"

"Now that Saber is fighting from afar, it's no longer safe here. Because there are people who have the same intentions as me. ”

Perhaps someone really wanted to take advantage of the fisherman's profit and attack Saber's master when he left the castle. If you want to kill the Master, the best time to do so is when the Master and the Servant are going their separate ways.

"Understood. ”

As soon as Alice Fell nodded, she sensed a new signal in her magic circuit.

"What's wrong, Ellie?"

"Looks like someone else is coming. ”

At the edge of the forest at the moment, Lancer and his Master are entering the enchantment of Einzbelen.

The two men then bumped into two other figures who were also here for Caster.

Lancer immediately went on guard, and Kenneth took several steps back.

“Berserker・・・・・・”

The ones who appear here are Shirai Moon and Mikoto Misaka, who have followed the traces of the magic left by Caster.

Shirai didn't expect that Caster didn't go to the new workshop to set up defenses after abandoning the workshop, but directly abducted some children to attack Saber. So it's a little late when the quest for magic comes over.

But what I didn't expect was to bump into Lancer here.

Although he still admires Lancer and Shirai Tsuki, Kenneth, no matter what, is his own target.

"Mai Trin, Caster should be fighting Saber, you can find it by following the sound of the fight, leave it to me here. ”

"Hmm. Worried about the kidnapped children, Mikoto Misaka quickly ran inside, and here she was a little nervous.

Just now, Lancer wasn't afraid of Shirai Tsuki, and that's because there wasn't any metal around for Mikoto Misaka to move. So Lancer, who doesn't know Mikoto Misaka's strength, is not afraid of Shirai Tsuki's attack on Kenneth at all.

Because when the time comes, for the safety of his own lord, he may violate the spirit of chivalry.

However, if Mikoto Misaka leaves, it will not be appropriate for Kenneth to stay here, and the result of being tied up without worries in Shirai Moon is not good. The last time it was to pay a spell, but this time there was no spell for them to consume.

Kenneth naturally understood this and slowly stepped back.

Originally, Kenneth also wanted to let Lancer and Saber solve Caster and then drag Caster, and solve Saber's Master himself, but it's hard to say now. Since the opponent can use the method of blasting the building, it is inevitable that the opponent will not use the command spell to call back Saber when fighting him.

So let's protect ourselves.

"[Fervor, mei・sanguis] (Boil!!!)

Kenneth was enveloped in magical mercury, and while these defenses weren't great for the Immortals, they were the magic rituals Kenneth's highest defensive arsenal.

As Kenneth stepped back to safety, Lancer and Shirai looked at each other, and then enveloped Shirai with magic.

The silver armor and the dark blue crown appeared on Shirai Yue's body again, and a sharp blade with a whole body of dark blue appeared on Shirai Yue's right hand.

The red magic spear was the first to be thrown over, and was blocked by Shirai Moon with the Ice Wheel Pill, and then the yellow magic spear was dodged by Shirai Yue's twist.

[Demon-Breaking Red Rose] is indeed annoying, but [Demon-Breaking Red Rose] cannot destroy the Treasure, to be precise, when [Demon-Breaking Red Rose] uses the Treasure, it can only rely on its own sharpness.

And the [Perishable Yellow Rose] is just a curse on it.

Turning around, the blue ice blade slashed from Lancer's left side, but was blocked by Lancer's yellow spear that was withdrawn in time, and then the red magic spear smashed down from above.

The ice wall appeared above Shirai Tsuki, and although it was destroyed by Lancer in an instant, it still blocked it for a moment, allowing Shirai Moon to smoothly exit the battle circle.