Chapter 189: The Girl Who Escaped from the Shadow, The Unchanged Heart of Salvation
() After killing several Ringwraiths, Zheng Zha felt the pressure. However, after Zheng Zha used Destruction, the situation began to turn around. However, the more the Ringwraiths were killed, the more powerful they were, causing them to fall into a conflict.
At the critical moment, the elf used the light of life to drive away the ring spirits, and Zheng Zha managed to kill two of the ring spirits despite being injured, and then was surprised to get a stunning nightmare horse.
Chu Xuan and his party, who left first, also encountered a ring spirit. After losing one person, Zhao Yingkong entered the second level, understood the move of local psionic energy to enhance explosive combat power, and successfully killed the enemy.
It's called - Wind-Slashing High-Speed Sword! (In other words, it's very similar to the demonic burst move in the big sword)
After some rest, they met the protagonist, the ranger Aragorn.
In the souvenir from Gandalf he brought, all the teams headed to Rivendell, the capital of elves, at the same time.
And when they were about to reach their destination——
"Why don't we see how they struggle, captain, do you think such a thing would be more interesting than killing?"
"Watching the struggle and possible growth of the weak? Haha... This is a great and interesting thing. Watching the fruit slowly grow from green to mature, and then smash it into pieces..."
East America Team——Zhao Zhukong is here!
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As if she had been suppressing it for a long time, the black image under Sakura's feet was like a burst balloon, and several shadows suddenly spurted out with asphalt-like black mud, turning into the greedy mouth of a giant beast, roaring and trying to kill the sister in front of her.
And her from here swallowed.
However--
There was a long low groan.
"Glory——"
Faced with Sakura's sudden outburst, Felicia expressed brief surprise, but...it was just surprise.
The lightning flashing in her hand suddenly increased several times. Facing the suppressed black mud beast, she launched her strongest attack.
"————The Glory!!!!!"
The wind stopped, time froze, and space... was broken.
The shining thunder tore apart the black shadow and black mud and completely purified them, while also sucking in Matou Sakura behind.
The moment the thunder's impact arrived, the girl whose entire soul and body had been invaded by darkness seemed to have let go of something. She smiled brightly at Rin and Felicia, and then disappeared into the brilliance of the thunder.
Are you relieved? Not yet.
In this amazing smile, Felicia felt what she really meant——
I will return.
Things... are far from over.
"cherry--"
When everything finally calmed down and the first ray of morning light broke through the darkness of the night sky and illuminated everyone's faces, Shirou, who had been hiding behind him, finally reacted.
"Asshole, you - you actually, actually killed her, that was Sakura!!!"
While calling Sakura's name, the boy angrily rushed towards Felicia who was standing with her hands closed.
"Trash, if you have time to sell your voice here, why not take care of yourself? Sakura's biggest target is you..."
After kicking him away with a contemptuous kick, Felicia turned to look at Rin.
"Sakura's goal? Wait...wait? You mean Sakura isn't dead yet?"
Shirou, who was lying on the ground in despair, suddenly jumped up and looked nervously at Felicia, who turned sideways.
"Hmph, I don't know if she had a long-term plan to be a clone when she came here, or if she escaped while we were unaware... Anyway, what was eliminated in the end was just the embodied clone of that woman, and the real body no longer knows where to go.
Already."
Seeing Shirou's happy expression, Felicia coldly interrupted his fantasy.
"There can be no next time. If she appears again, I will never give her a chance to escape. It would be a shame for me if it happened again."
Ignoring Shirou's ups and downs, Felicia looked at Rin who had not spoken since Sakura was young.
"Sakura's matter has come to an end for the time being, but we don't rule out that she will come again, but before that, we have to ask someone."
"Ah, someone, who?"
Rin just woke up from his daze and did not understand what Felicia meant.
"That guy seems to have been keeping us in the dark. There's no way he wouldn't have discovered a surgery of that magnitude!"
Felicia still didn't name this person, but she pointed out what he had done.
"Kotomine Kirei! That fake priest, why-"
Rin didn't say any more, she had already thought of this man's abnormality.
Zouken made the Black Holy Grail by burying the fragments of the Holy Grail scattered in Sakura's body during the war ten years ago.
Komine Kirei removed the marking worm from Sakura's body.
Although it was a small amount, the marking worm was still taken out and healed Sakura's body.
We have already reached this point, there is no reason why we didn’t realize it.
And he can be regarded as the supervisor of the Holy Grail War for the time being. He was the master who stayed until the end of the last war.
Then, he should have noticed something strange about Sakura's body!
There’s no way that man doesn’t know what’s inside the Holy Grail───!
"Asshole, rher, let's go over and ask for clarification!"
With the anger of being deceived, Rin yelled loudly.
"No problem, but before that, there is one more thing to do."
Felicia's eyes stayed on Illya.
"Ilia?"
Rin followed Felicia's gaze and saw the pure white girl who had been silent.
"That's right, Sakura's target is Illya. If we go out, we can't take her with us as a burden, but we can't let her escape from protection. She is quite a troublesome existence."
Felicia said as if she was helpless.
"Trouble, then rher you——"
A trace of fear appeared on Rin's face.
"Okay, don't use such a scary expression. If it's just magic, I have other ways to deal with the search. Neither Ste nor Sakura who took Sber would have thought of this situation."
Felicia whetted Rin's appetite.
"r——her..."
Rin narrowed his eyes, the black energy behind him began to emerge, and the little devil's nature began to explode.
"Okay, okay, have you heard that the first place is the safest place. As long as they can't feel Illya's breath here, they won't think that we will hide Illya here."
Felicia talked about countermeasures.
"Gubu Xuanxu? It sounds good, but how to solve the aura problem? Although it can prevent the dispersion of magic power as long as it is not used, Sakura, as the Holy Grail of Darkness, has a special response to Illya, the real one?"
"This is up to me!"
…
After some actions, Felicia nodded with satisfaction.
"Okay, this will be no problem!"
"Rher, just like this...is it really okay?"
Rin and Shirou looked at Felicia with expressions of disbelief. In front of them was a cabin buried underground that looked very sci-fi. Illya was lying in it as if she was asleep.
"Don't worry, it's no problem. This life-support device is enough for her to live safely for about ten days, and it can completely isolate the induction. It's not like we won't come back once we leave. What's the problem?"
Felicia was confident in restoring the temporarily excavated basement to its original condition.
"Okay, that's it for Illya. Next we have to go to church. Rin, let's go."
Seeing that Shirou and Rin were still worried about their clothes, Felicia reluctantly walked out.
"Wait for me, rher!"
Although it was a bit unbelievable, I could only believe her at this moment, Rin thought, and followed her.
The two of them went out. Felicia opened the door of the car that had never been returned and got in. Rin no longer felt the psychological pressure at the beginning and sat directly in the passenger seat.
The church is in another town. Since there is a car, don't walk.
"Wait a minute, Tohsaka—I'm going too!"
But just when Felicia was about to start the car, Shirou called from behind.
"Are you aware of killing her?"
Felicia asked through the car.
This sharp question hit the boy's heart hard, making him feel dazed for a while.
"I'm not going to kill her, I'm going to save her.rher, I will protect Sakura until the end. No matter how things change, I will choose Sakura. No matter how desperate things are, how can it be easy without trying?
Make a decision!"
Shirou's voice became louder and louder, almost roaring at the end.
"Look, as long as there is more than a 30% chance, I will allow you to do whatever you want."
After a moment of silence, Felicia said these words softly.
"Really, that's great!"
Felicia's words made Shirou's eyes light up with hope.
"We will win, and we can definitely save Sakura. I have already thought about it. The shadow and Sakura are like the connection between master and servnt. Use Master's Noble Phantasm! As long as I project that Noble Phantasm, we can definitely save her.
It’s cherry blossoms!”
Felicia narrowed her eyes, as if thinking, and finally——
"You're right. I agree with you for the time being... However, since you said so, you must complete it yourself. Is there any problem?"
Felicia made concessions and also made a final confession.
"No problem, I will definitely do it!"
Shirou patted his chest and became the sunny boy again, the boy who never gave up.
"Then get on the bus, it's getting late..."
The engine sounded and the car sped off, carrying the three people who had a heart for saving.
Shirou, your efforts... I'll just watch it, don't let it disappoint you too much.