"Kiritsugu!"

With Artoria's A+ speed, Alice Phil was in the castle in just a few moments. When she saw that her husband was safe and sound, she couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Great... It's nothing. ”

"What's wrong, what's wrong, Alice?"

Emiya Kiritsugu, who was ordering the war to Kuyu Maiya beside him, saw his wife rushing back with a rushing expression, and suddenly had some plans in his heart.

"Well, I just fed back some information from the enchantment of Einzbelen, and someone has already broken into the enchantment, and it seems that there is more than one. ”

Looking at her husband with some concern, Alice Phil believed that with the power of the Holy King, Saber would be fearless even in the face of two servants. But what about the Master of Emiya Kiritsugu? The Holy Grail War was originally a dirty war between magicians, and they did anything to get to the roots of the legend. Now under pressure from both sides, Alice Phil worries about whether Kiritsugu can handle it.

"Can you detect it, Alice?"

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't panic much, just asked his wife quietly.

"Huh?! Well, no problem. Alice Phil, who reacted, opened the crystal ball that was not far away.

"That's...?"

The intruder who appeared in the crystal ball was dressed in pitch-black robes, and there was an ominous evil aura shaking from his clothes. There are also red patterns on the clothes, as if they were stained with blood, looming in the jungle.

"It's Caster. ”

Artoria, who was silent on the side, said suddenly, she naturally recognized this servant who made her extremely annoyed at a glance, but she didn't expect that the first person who dared to attack her camp would be Caster, who is known for positional warfare.

"Well, is your real name Gilles de Less...", looking at the Caster in the crystal ball, Alice Phil said with some disdain, "This seems to be a guy known for child abuse." ”

"But as a caster, I actually challenged Saber head-on, I really don't know what he thinks, hey?!" Alice, who was talking, suddenly realized that Caster was not acting alone this time. There were about a dozen people behind him. Stride through the forest. These people are all underage children. The oldest of them is just an elementary school student. All the children walked as if they were sleepwalking, and Caster walked in front to lead them. There is no doubt that the children are under the control of the caster magic.

"It's a hostage. Emiya Kiritsugu looked at Caster and said lightly, his eyes hidden in the shadows made it impossible to detect his mood at this time. "Prevent us from activating the hostages of traps and traps in the enchantment"

Sure enough, as soon as Emiya Kiritsugu finished speaking, Caster cracked Alice Phil's "clairvoyance", and the surface of the hard crystal ball began to shake, and a sharp sound came from the surveillance location.

"Following last night's agreement, I have come to welcome you back, Your Highness!"

"Joan of Arc?"

Emiya Kiritsugu looked at Artoria suspiciously, as if surprised that Caster would confuse the two very different people.

"It's just a madman who has recognized the wrong person...", Artoria, who wanted to be silent, couldn't help but explain, due to Emiya Kiritsugu's gaze.

"But what now, do you need Saber to take the initiative, Kiritsugu?" Alice Fell looked at her husband again. Indeed, this is a rare opportunity, although it is unknown what kind of support Caster will rely on to dare to swagger to challenge Saber. But with her excellent magic resistance, Saber has a natural advantage over caster, and since King Arthur lives here, there is no possibility of failure.

"Can you find another intruder, Alice?" Without answering his wife's question directly, Emiya Kiritsugu turned to another question.

"Well, it should be fine. As Alice Phil instructed, the picture in the crystal ball kept changing. When the image finally stands still, a knight with two spears appears in front of him.

"It's Lancer!"

Alice Fell recognized the identity of the comer at a glance, after all, the Immortal Guild not long ago was caused by his battle with Saber.

“...... Ah, I still can't make up my mind. ”

As the crowd watched Lancer, Caster's voice came again.

"But it doesn't matter, I'm ready to wait for a long time, so you can prepare slowly. Oh, what a boring game - can you let me borrow a corner of your territory?"

Caster snapped his fingers. The children, who had been following Caster obediently all along, opened their eyes as if they had woken up from a dream. 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—"

"Oh no!" Artoria looked as if sensing something.

The sound of a crumbling skull. Brains splashing everywhere and eyeballs sliding through the air. Those nightmarish scenes were etched in everyone's minds. The children let out heart-wrenching cries and began to flee in all directions. The caster, who stood in the center, laughed happily and licked his blood-soaked fingers with his tongue.

“saber！”

Alice Phil can't stand it anymore, she's also a mother of a child. The child who had been killed and then discarded, his petite and pitiful body was just the size of his own daughter, Elia.

"Lancer is coming this way, Ellie..."

It didn't seem to see his wife's expression, and Emiya Kiritsugu lightly recounted a fact. Yes, Lancer is coming this way, and if Saber takes the liberty of accepting Caster's challenge, I'm afraid no one here can survive Lancer's blow.

Even if... Lancer is a knight, but his master is not.

For a while, the atmosphere became dull again, Alice Phil bit her lip tightly as if she was unwilling, and Emiya Kiritsugu turned her head to discuss with Maiya, not knowing whether she was deliberately avoiding her wife or really didn't care anymore. Artoria just stared quietly at the tragedy that happened in the crystal ball, no one knew what Artoria was thinking, did the so-called Divine King really have to be sacred?

"Lancer has changed course..."

Artoria's abrupt words instantly broke the silence in the hall and drew everyone's eyes to the crystal ball again.

I saw that Lancer, who was originally rushing straight towards the castle, seemed to have received some instructions, and his body suddenly froze, and then changed direction and rushed towards the northwest of the castle. As everyone in the room knows, that's where the caster is located.

"It seems that the master of the lancer cares about stigmata very much, and can't wait to get the church's bounty. In an instant, Emiya Kiritsugu thought of the bounty order that the church had soon circulated, and he also saw through the purpose of Lancer's trip.

"Saber, knock me down on Caster. ”

Raising her head, Alice Fair's eyes were filled with rare firmness and a faint anger. For the first time, she did not ask her husband's consent and forcefully ordered the girl to attack.

"As you wish!"

Artoria's answer was unusually brief. By the time Alice Phil heard Saber's answer, she had disappeared from the conference room......

The ground was littered with the torn bones of children, and the piles of corpses of xenomorphs mixed with splashes of organs and bodily fluids, kicked apart and stirred to form a chaos worse than hell.

This is what Artoria saw when she arrived at the battlefield...

On the dusty ground, the flying dust is soaked with plenty of moisture. The dampness was not caused by the rain, but by red blood. It was a disgusting stench, surrounded by a sea of blood. The smell of the monster's organs, which was pungent than rancidity, was as thick as a mist, and the air filled with this breath was no different from the poisonous miasma. Living humans will probably die of rotting in their lungs if they inhale it.

Clearly, the battle between Lancer and Caster has already begun, and the intensity of it can be seen.

Even though Artoria was already fast, it was still a little late, and the closer lancer had already taken the lead.

According to common sense, the Lancer with B-rank magic still has a certain advantage over the Caster, but this year's Caster doesn't seem to be so simple. Because the lancer on the field was faintly defeated, it was not that the lancer lost to the caster in the frontal attack, in fact, the alien monster summoned by the caster was not at all pressure on the lancer. However, when those monsters are inexhaustible and can regenerate indefinitely, things are not so simple. There is no large-scale indiscriminate attack against the army or the city-level treasure, but the lancer, who has excellent individual combat ability, is indeed helpless in the face of the infinite demon sea tactics.

Of course, if Lancer wants to leave, I'm afraid Caster is also helpless. However, whether it was out of knightly morality or the master's orders, Lancer was not allowed to retreat halfway, which led to Lancer's very passive situation at the moment.

But that's all there is to it, Artoria will not allow the enemy to reach her doorstep, and she can still be a leisurely spectator.

Damn you... caster！

Artoria's petite body was covered with armor that shone with divine brilliance, and her left hand drew the golden sword that shimmered with the brilliance of the king, caliburn, from the endless void, and appeared on the battlefield like a god of war.

“saber？！”

The lancer was not surprised to see Artoria coming, after all, no king would allow an enemy to go to war in his own territory without permission. But he didn't expect Artoria to be so simply inserted into the battlefield and stand on his side. Although he knew that he was standing on the moral high ground, Lancer didn't think it was a good reason for Saber to take action, and it was difficult for the pride of a king to allow sharing prey with others, let alone such a king of the world.

At this moment, Artoria was more like a knight than a king.

"What's wrong, lancer. Just these miscellaneous fish make you too tired to wield the spear in your hand?" The golden sword light streaked, and the surrounding monsters were instantly cut into pieces, looking at the slightly embarrassed lancer, Artoria teased.

"Actually, I'm about to counterattack, Saber, if you hadn't come suddenly..."

"You're finally here, Joan of Arc!"