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Gilgamesh eyed Enkidu, riding the Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm — Vimana — a golden chariot of gods and kings.
From the other side, Enkidu lifted his gaze and looked back at Gilgamesh.
Slowly, both began laughing as if there was an irony only they were privy to, amusing them.
"Let's do this, old friend," Gilgamesh said, smiling. "I want to… feel it. What it meant to live by your side… Let's go all out."
Mana boiled around the Archer-Class Heroic Spirit.
On the ground, there wasn't a Master or Servant who didn't feel the pressure, a magical heaviness weighing their shoulders.
As Gilgamesh held his throne's arms in anticipation, Enkidu looked away from him, his gaze again landing on Dark Sakura.
"If a fight you want, Gilgamesh," Enkidu said serenely, "then I can fulfill that wish. It's not like I hate fighting… but… I need to take care of the matter at hand first."
Gilgamesh's smiling face crumpled.
He looked down and eyed the low lives, his eyes momentarily pausing on Berserker and Black.
He had always known what fate Sakura held within her.
So, seeing her finally become a dark, evil entity didn't bother him at all.
However, he instantly guessed the reason for Enkidu's presence, relating it to the Dark Sakura.
"Do these people amuse you?" Gilgamesh asked, resting his right cheek on his hand. "If not… let me take care of them as fast as I can…"
A chill ran down everyone's spine.
The entire sky lit up with golden circles from end to end, as if hundreds of holy stars had materialized there.
From each circle, a Noble Phantasm slid out, pointed at all.
Berserker growled, grabbing Dark Sakura. Black was still holding onto the Rule Breaker, his Lucky Intuitions warning him to let go. Medea slammed her staff, making purplish spell circles appear around the four of them.
Lancer cursed under his breath, pouring all his Mana into Gáe Bolg.
Kirei eyed Gilgamesh oddly, stroking the Command Seals on his hand.
Betty Shaw panned the Video Camera toward Enkidu and Gilgamesh, capturing the lit sky.
And, between Black's group and Lancer stood Rider, protecting a dying Shirou whose eyes reflecting none but the changed Sakura.
When the first attack came, it made everyone realize how futile and slow their preparations had been.
Booooooooooooooom!
Golden rain showered from the sky.
Everything was happening simultaneously.
All weapons were raining down simultaneously.
And everyone was getting butchered simultaneously.
Despite his current Agility, Berserker could barely see the weapons, tink-tank ringing off as he deflected a few. Then, with a bombastic squelch, a spear impaled him, nailing him to the ground.
One spear followed the other, and soon Berserker could barely be seen within the golden halo.
One sword hacked off Black's arm holding the Rule Breaker.
A halberd cut off Medea's staff and left leg, blood splattering everywhere.
Ainz Ooal Gown blocked the most attacks, but he was getting pushed back. A hammer then struck him with the force of a meteor, and one of his ten rings shattered as he used the immensely powerful spell within it to barely survive.
The golden rain left Betty Shaw alone… for a moment.
Soon, as he captured one Noble Phantasm after another, the lens of the Video Camera cracked.
Yes. Betty Shaw's Glitch — Cameraman — was breaking.
It didn't mean it was completely broken.
All it could do now was to count on the cards already played before Gilgamesh's arrival.
"… And…" Betty said, gritting his teeth. "Would you agree, guys, that — tch — it's time for Shirou to show why he is the Prime Character of this timeline? Yes? Thank… Ugh! Thank you!!"
Right under the bleeding Contestant, Lancer parried dozens of Noble Phantasms, too, but the fact that he could parry them without suffering mortal wounds meant Kirei's Command Seal had worked.
Rider had no such umbrella of safety over her, though.
Despite using her Mystic Eye of Petrification on the weapons, she couldn't hold them back for long, just like Gáe Bolg earlier.
With bloody squelches, spear, sword, needles, and barbed maces struck her figure, blasting her away, exposing Shirou behind her.
Shirou had no idea what was going on.
Why were these people here, and for what?
Why did Sakura look like that… Why must she suffer even now?
If he were being honest with himself, then he could see himself dying in the next few seconds. But, how would honesty change the scene playing itself in front of his eyes?
Was Black hurting Sakura or saving her, despite the obvious dagger plunged inside her chest? If he was saving her, then why didn't it feel like saving at all?
Questions after questions rose in Shirou's mind as swords fell, running through him and pinning his body to the ground.
Blood seeped out of Shirou's mouth.
Then, as if time had paused, he saw it happening —
— A massive longsword appeared right behind Sakura and…
"SAKURA!"
Booooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!
A golden light, much holier than Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasms, much more magical and powerful, erupted from Shirou's body.
A giant spell circle, holding various runes and hinting at ancient rituals, manifested under him.
Then, as the spell circle lit up, fueled by the golden light coming out of Shirou's body, a storm erupted.
The storm was so powerful that it became a typhoon.
One by one, it blasted all the weapons raining down, and pushed back Gilgamesh's chariot and Enkidu's Chains of Heaven.
The magical gusts of wind sent Black, Medea, and Berserker's remaining body parts flying.
It blasted Ainz Ooal Gown, Betty Shaw, Lancer, and Kirei as well.
Only Dark Sakura remained on the field, levitating midair, with Rule Breaker in her chest, Black's bleeding arm still holding it.
Then, slowly, a figure began materializing between Sakura and Shirou, who somehow had healed completely.
The figure was of a woman, wearing armor over a blue dress, her golden hair dancing wildly as the typhoon died.
She pointed the invisible weapon she wielded at Shirou, eying him down with her green eyes.
"I ask of you—" The Saber-Class Heroic Spirit asked, "—are you my master?"
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