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After hearing that, Emiya couldn't help letting a bit of sarcasm slip into his voice.
"No way. No way at all. There's no way someone genuinely believes that ignoring their own child's wishes and giving them away is 'for their own good.' Even if you think that's true, do you really think the child would feel the same?"
Rin's irritation flared even more.
"You bastard, whose side are you on?"
Emiya answered without hesitation. "Sakura Matou's side, obviously."
"What?" Rin stared at him like he had just betrayed her.
Emiya remained calm. "Honestly, I arrived in this world at the beginning of the Fifth Holy Grail War. If I had come during the Fourth, Sakura Matou would be called Sakura Emiya by now."
Sakura Matou's eyes widened as she looked at him.
Rin snorted, ignored Emiya, and turned to Sakura.
"In any case, come with me, Sakura."
Sakura Matou stayed silent.
Emiya spoke again. "Even if your sister is a bit of a tsundere, she's sincere toward you. The Matou family is finished. You should give up on this Holy Grail War. I'll cleanse your body, then send you to ShirĆ Emiya's house. You can live with your senior."
"And maybe even have a child someday."
"Doesn't that sound pretty good?"
At the mention of ShirĆ Emiya, Sakura Matou visibly wavered.
"You... plan to give me to my senior?"
"You've grown up with very few people who were kind to you. If I don't send you to ShirĆ Emiya, who else would I send you to?" Emiya said. "You don't want to go with Rin Tohsaka, do you?"
She didn't.
Her parents had given her away ten years ago.
She had spent a decade in this worm-filled hell.
Now Rin Tohsaka wanted her back.
What would that make of the last ten years?
She couldn't accept it.
She would rather die than return to the Tohsaka family and become Sakura Tohsaka again.
But going to her senior's place...
That resistance wasn't nearly as strong.
"I understand," Sakura Matou said quietly, nodding.
"If you can keep your promise, I'll agree."
Emiya snapped his fingers.
"Deal. But before I send you to ShirĆ Emiya's house, there's a bit of surgery first. Medea."
Beautiful butterflies gathered behind Sakura Matou.
They formed Medea's figure.
Medea raised her hand and pierced Sakura Matou's heart.
Puch.
With a dull sound, she pulled a writhing insect from Sakura's chest, tossed it to the ground, and crushed it underfoot.
The five-hundred-year-old magus, Zouken Matou, died without even realizing what had happened.
Rin Tohsaka stared as blood poured from Sakura Matou's chest and her body collapsed.
Her eyes widened in disbelief.
She was about to scream-
"Relax. She's fine," Emiya said.
The Dragon of Greed emerged, biting into half of Sakura Matou's body.
An overwhelming life force surged forth, instantly repairing her shattered heart before death could take hold.
Her body stabilized.
"Medea. Your turn."
"Leave it to me, Master." Medea knelt and began cleansing Sakura Matou's body, purging every remaining worm.
After a while, Sakura Matou slowly opened her eyes.
"I... I was just..."
"Sakura! Are you okay?" Rin rushed over and grabbed her hands.
Tears nearly spilled from her eyes.
She had been scared.
In truth, for a magus, a pierced heart wasn't necessarily fatal.
ShirĆ Emiya himself was proof of that.
At the start of the Holy Grail War, he had witnessed Archer and CĂș Chulainn fighting at school.
Then CĂș Chulainn pierced his heart.
Thinking him dead, he left.
Rin arrived afterward and repaired his heart with Jewel Magecraft.
That was why CĂș Chulainn had to hunt ShirĆ a second time.
"I'm fine, Tohsaka-senpai," Sakura Matou said.
Seeing Rin's concern warmed her heart slightly, but her expression remained distant and restrained.
After standing up, she realized her body had never felt this good.
All the pain.
All the sickness.
Gone.
"Thank you for helping me," Sakura Matou said, bowing slightly to Emiya.
"Don't mention it." Emiya waved his hand. "Now that Zouken is dead, the Matou family is basically finished. You should call Medusa back."
Sakura Matou nodded and activated her Command Spell.
Medusa appeared beside her and immediately took a combat stance when she saw Emiya.
"Calm down, Anna. I'm not your enemy," Emiya said quickly, raising his hands.
Medusa froze.
"Why... why do you know that name?"
Anna was the name she had used as a child.
Before she became Medusa.
"It's complicated. Just think of me as Anna's Master in a past life," Emiya said.
That wasn't a lie.
In another world, he had summoned her.
Along with Medea, Alter Saber, Merlin, Arash, Berserker CĂș Chulainn, kid Gilgamesh, and even the adult Saber who ruled the North Pole.
Though whenever he summoned Merlin-
He usually fed him to Anna.
Medusa's expression softened slightly beneath her blindfold, though she didn't fully relax.
"Rider, he's not a bad person," Sakura Matou said. "He helped me. Don't be hostile."
Hearing her Master's words, Medusa finally lowered her guard and put away her weapons.
Medea, watching from the side, also dismissed her magecraft.
Bang! Bang!
The window shattered as Artoria and Archer burst into the room.
"Are you alright, Master?"
"Are you okay, Rin?"
They spoke almost at the same time.
Emiya and Rin both shook their heads.
"The plan went smoothly," Emiya said. "From now on, Sakura Matou and Medusa are our companions."
Artoria and Archer already understood this and accepted it without much reaction.
Emiya turned to Sakura.
"Do you plan to go to ShirĆ Emiya's house tomorrow morning, or after the Holy Grail War ends?"
Archer looked at Sakura, his expression complicated.
Sakura was silent for a moment before answering.
"I'll go after the Holy Grail War ends. I don't want to drag my senior into something this dangerous."
Emiya smiled.
"It's actually not that dangerous. The Holy Grail War is basically over."
Rin immediately shot him a suspicious look.
"You're not planning to turn on us, are you?"
"Don't be ridiculous," Emiya said flatly. "Do I look like that kind of person?"
He hated burning bridges.
He preferred happy endings.
Even if tragedies were more famous, more enduring, and more artistically valued-
He hated them.
So he rejected tragedy.
Rin finally relaxed.
At that moment, CĂș Chulainn's fierce voice rang out from outside the Matou mansion.
"GĂĄe Bolg!"
His Noble Phantasm activated.
The spear that reversed cause and effect pierced straight through the heart of Hassan of the Cursed Arm.
Instant death.
While reversing causality sounded terrifying, many Servants could block it.
Artoria could.
Gilgamesh could.
Even Archer could.
But not Hassan.
Especially not Hassan after losing his Master.
With that strike, Hassan of the Cursed Arm was eliminated.
Soon after, CĂș Chulainn entered the room, spear in hand.
"Yo. Everyone's here. How'd the talk go?"
Emiya smiled.
"All done. Let's head back to the castle."
He opened the door, and the group returned to the Einzbern castle hall.
Leysritt and Sella didn't welcome them, nor did they stop them.
They simply prepared black tea.
Rin took a sip and asked, "So how do you plan to summon the Holy Grail? Everyone's still alive."
Normally, the Greater Holy Grail descended when only one remained.
But now, only Gilgamesh and Hassan were gone.
CĂș Chulainn. Medea. Artoria. Medusa. Archer. Heracles.
All still present.
"How is the Greater Holy Grail supposed to descend?"
"You don't need to worry," Emiya said. "Medea will handle it."
He trusted her completely.
An Age of Gods magus.
Hecate's disciple.
This kind of problem wouldn't stop her.
Medea smiled at his confidence.
"Leave it to me. Making the Greater Holy Grail descend isn't impossible. It just takes time."
Rin considered it.
"If that's the case..." She didn't mind waiting.
She was still young.
Sakura didn't mind.
Illya didn't mind.
So Emiya gave Medea the go-ahead.
Over the next few days, Medea often stayed in the Great Cavern beneath RyĆ«dĆ Temple.
Emiya would occasionally help.
And whenever he did-
Medea never hesitated to order him around, demanding all sorts of rare materials.
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