"Sister Durandal, it's so sweet! Sister Durandal, you should try some."
Sitting in a dessert shop, Medea, who had changed into new clothes, and Durandal were affectionately enjoying desserts.
Of course, Takatsuki paid the bill.
Using the money he got from selling gold cheaply earlier, Takatsuki bought new clothes for both beautiful girls and also bought gloves for himself and Durandal to cover their Command Seals on their hands.
"Durandal, how strong are you now, or rather, do you want to fight other Servants?"
Sitting across from them, although there was a cup of ice cream in front of Takatsuki, he had no desire to eat it.
Durandal thought for a moment: "If I could, I would like to fight those heroes, but isn't your goal to win? Just follow your ideas."
"Of course, but victory is just the result. We can still choose the method of victory ourselves."
Takatsuki nodded and looked at Medea: "So, Medea, do you have any wishes?"
"Me? I have no wishes."
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"If you have no wishes, why did you respond?"
Takatsuki couldn't understand. If you didn't respond, couldn't I have summoned the Medea with a wish!
"I just came because I saw someone needed help."
Generally, if a Holy Relic is not placed for Servant summoning, then the Servant summoned will be the one with the best compatibility with the summoner.
However, if a Holy Relic is used, the summoned Servant is fixed, but a Servant is merely one aspect of a Heroic Spirit. Thus, when a Heroic Spirit is determined, there is a high probability that the summoned aspect will be the one with better compatibility with the Master.
Facts proved that Durandal and Medea indeed had good compatibility, as Medea before meeting Jason was merely an innocent and lovable little girl.
"Is that so? Then I already have an idea for the next step. Let me confirm again, Medea, can your Noble Phantasm really heal anything?"
"Hmm, but it's not healing, it's repairing. The effect of All Spells Must Be Healed is similar to time reversal, but it's not the same, as it's useless against death. But apart from death, everything else is fine."
"Is that so? Then our next plan is to save a little girl."
"???"
After confirming that the current Medea was completely Lawful Good, Takatsuki finalized the next plan. Looking at the confused duo, Takatsuki began to recount the greatest tragedy of this Holy Grail War.
"You all know, don't you? The Holy Grail War we are participating in was established by the big three of Fuyuki City. These big three are the Tohsaka, who provided the ley lines, the Einzbern, who created the Holy Grail, and the Matou Family, who developed the Command Seal system."
"In this world, most mages are organized by family, and they consider their family bloodline and heritage to be the most important things. So, it can be said that most mages are inhumane."
Takatsuki looked at Durandal, these words were for her: "You'll understand when you interact with them later."
"Getting back to the point, the current head of the Tohsaka is Tohsaka Tokiomi. Tohsaka Tokiomi has two daughters, Tohsaka Sakura and Tohsaka Rin. Both have extremely strong talents, but because the Tohsaka's inheritance can only choose one person, and Tohsaka Tokiomi didn't want to waste his younger daughter's talent, he made a decision: to adopt Tohsaka Sakura into the Matou Family."
"This action is very normal from a mage's perspective, but what he didn't know was that the Matou Family's magic had changed many years ago."
"Matou Zouken, the current head of the Matou Family, and also the head of all previous generations. He once pursued the ideal of saving the world and tried every means to survive, but hundreds of years passed, and his original ideal was long worn away by continuous reincarnation. Now, all that remains is the obsession to live on."
"He modified the Matou Family's original magic, turning it into insect magic that manipulates insects. Those insects were improved by him, and even his body is composed of insects, with his soul hidden in one of them. To cultivate these insects, he captured many ordinary people as breeding grounds for the insects. After Sakura was adopted into the Matou Family, in order to transform Sakura's body into the form he needed, he threw the six-year-old Sakura into the insect pit, allowing Crest Worms to enter her body and gnaw at her."
"How could this be!"
Medea covered her mouth in shock. She had only been listening to it as a story, after all, there were people in her era who would stop at nothing for immortality.
But she hadn't expected the other party to be so cruel as to harm an innocent little girl.
Durandal, meanwhile, had already slammed her hand on the table: "We're going there immediately!"
Durandal slamming the table and speaking loudly attracted the attention of other customers nearby. Fortunately, Takatsuki had chosen a relatively secluded spot with few customers to avoid drawing attention.
"Guests, is something the matter?"
The waitress noticed the commotion and walked over.
"Nothing, nothing. My friend is just a bit emotional. Could you please bring us two more desserts, the same as before?"
"Certainly, please wait a moment."
After sending the waitress away, Takatsuki calmed Durandal down.
"Don't rush. This has been going on for a long time, over a year. Normally, since it has already happened, even if we rescue her, we won't be able to undo much. But…"
Takatsuki looked at Medea, who, no longer interested in her dessert, shivered.
"My Noble Phantasm! If it's my Noble Phantasm, I can heal Sakura's physical injuries, but… if it's as Takatsuki said, I can't do anything about the mental ones."
"That will just have to take time. In any case, our current goal is simple: break into the Matou Family, deal with Matou Zouken, and rescue Sakura. The best outcome would be to also subdue Berserker."
Takatsuki tapped the table: "So, do you have any questions about this objective? If not, I'll begin detailing the action plan."
"Um, I have a question."
Durandal raised her hand: "You keep talking about Noble Phantasms. What are they?"