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[Light Screen Bullet Comments——
[Eriri Spencer Sawamura: "Director Kayneth, well... it looks like you're a loser in love, too. Huh? Why did I say 'too'?"]
[Otto Apocalypse: "How tragic. Keep your head held high, Mr. Kayneth. I trust you will get back on your feet."]
[Utaha Kasumigaoka: "Is this what they mean by 'the most venomous is a woman's heart'? Even if Kayneth isn't very likable, he was genuinely devoted to her. Never mind not helping him in his time of need, she actually blames him for using a Command Spell to save his own life?"]
[King of Heroes: "So that's it. Is it because of that curse? Hahahahaha—What laughable emotions. A curse that even that white-haired doll could resist has infatuated her to this degree."]
[Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald: "Sola..."]
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Upon seeing Sola's true thoughts and actions on the light screen, Kayneth's emotions were incredibly complex.
Truthfully, within the community of magi, Kayneth was an absolute rarity, a model of morality.
The values of magi could no longer be described as merely fragmented; the vast majority treated their wives as tools for procreation, existing only to continue the family's magical lineage.
But Kayneth was different. He genuinely loved his fiancée, a trait as rare as a phoenix feather in the magus world.
But now... watching the scene on the light screen, Kayneth knew that he and Sola could never be together. After personally witnessing Emiya Kiritsugu's methods, his pride as a Lord of the Clock Tower had evaporated.
He no longer blamed Lancer; after all, a passive skill was not something the Servant could control. Nor would he blame Sola; coming from a family of magi, it was understandable that she would think that way.
More than worrying about these things, Kayneth now just wanted to withdraw from the Holy Grail War as soon as possible, dedicate himself to his magical research, and strive to one day become a Grand—
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[Light Screen Projection——
The part about Lancer was merely a brief interlude. The real battle was only just beginning.
At the end of the banquet, Elysia was the first to rush to the city center to investigate the situation. Even though Lancer was closer to the monster, Elysia still arrived on the scene before him.
In the waters of Fuyuki City, a giant, mountainous creature of flesh swayed. As the monster's appearance came into view for the audience, its disgusting form was simply abominable.
Some people with weaker stomachs were ready to vomit up last night's dinner. If it was this bad through a screen, one could only imagine what it was like for Elysia on site.
She looked at the mountain of flesh, her expression clearly a bit unnatural.
Alright—Elysia swore that compared to this flesh monster, Honkai Beasts were downright adorable. How could they not be, with their pure white bodies and the alluring pink lines on them, making you just want to hold them in your arms and play with them?
Unlike this thing. Forget playing with it; just getting close was enough to make Elysia dizzy with disgust.
Really, a Sanity-draining thing like this should be sent straight to Dr. Mobius's laboratory. For it to appear in a place like this was just too repulsive. Fighting it would surely result in mental contamination from its bizarre appearance.
Although Elysia thought this, this was still the city center. To prevent the disaster from escalating, she had to completely eradicate it before the mass of flesh could grow any larger—
No sooner said than done. As if by magic, a pink bow and arrow appeared in Elysia's hands. Just as she had when defeating Gilles de Rais, she drew her bow like a full moon and shot toward the heavens.
In an instant, a pink barrier completely enveloped the entire meatball and the surrounding open space of Fuyuki City. Immediately after, countless crystal flowers bloomed across the area.
A continuous stream of pink arrows rained down on the meatball monster from all directions. The crystal flowers shattered, creating concussive blasts and attacks.
At this moment, Elysia's true power was revealed to the viewers of the light screen.
Last time, against Gilles de Rais, Elysia had completely suppressed him from start to finish, not even giving him a chance to release his Noble Phantasm before she took him out.
But this time was different. Elysia's highly spectacular moves were displayed for all to see, so flowery and beautiful they hardly seemed like a means of offense.
This was Elysia's usual style of attack. Why would a girl's fighting style need to be so intimidating? Of course, it had to be gorgeous and cool—
Well, this was very Elysia. Unlike the attack methods of Kevin or Kalpas, Elysia's style was always so flawlessly beautiful.
Under the astonished gazes of the audience, pink arrows struck the meatball monster one after another, and crystal flowers continuously bloomed and shattered. Logically, even if the monster didn't die, it should have at least been injured.
However—every time a piece of its disgusting flesh was blown off, it regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even when the crystal flowers converged and detonated, destroying nearly half of the monster's body, it was still able to fully recover in just a few seconds.
This regenerative ability was terrifying. Not even Wolverine could heal like that. And regeneration aside, the problem was that the magical energy around it showed no signs of weakening. Are you kidding me? Does mana in your Type-Moon world not obey the law of conservation of energy?
No matter how worried the bullet comments got, the meatball monster was, at this moment, practically invincible, rendering Elysia's attacks ineffective.]
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[Kiana Kaslana: "What is this? It can't be killed? Does that mean Elysia is going to lose?"]
[Durandal: "It's not immortal, its regenerative ability is just too astonishing. There is no such thing as a creature that cannot be killed. If Elysia can completely destroy its body in a single instant, she might be able to slay it."]
[Conan Edogawa: "Destroy its entire body in an instant? With a body that size, I'm afraid only a nuclear weapon could do that."]
[Ai Haibara: "And you expect the Japanese government to have one of those? Besides, using a nuke in the city center is completely impossible."]
[King of Heroes: "Give it up, mongrels. Modern weaponry will have no effect on it. Besides, destroying its body in an instant is no difficult task for that woman—it's just that..."]
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It's just that to kill that thing, merely destroying the body isn't enough, Gilgamesh thought. Destroying the body can only banish the Outer God, but the mind-shattering magical energy it leaves behind will not dissipate.
Under the influence of that mana, the entirety of Fuyuki City will become a no-man's-land within a few short years.
Those things, from beginning to end, exist only to disgust humanity.