"A Noble Phantasm with the effect of teleportation?"
Compared to the King of Heroes, who had suddenly crossed the one-thousand-meter distance and directly taken Kirei Kotomine away, Guinevere was now really in a much more difficult position.
She did not return to the vicinity until Rider summoned her Pegasus and rammed Lancer to death, and then she was on guard with Saber against the subsequently appearing Rin and Red Archer.
There was no need for her to say anything, nor did she need to show herself.
And if Rin originally had some ideas about Emiya, after witnessing Sakura's madness at Emiya's "death" just now, Rin completely intended to give up.
Her appearance this time was simply to see if there was still any hope for Emiya to be saved.
"Can you save him?"
"I can do a bit more than you can."
Sakura was unconscious, and Emiya was also unconscious. In this situation, Rider naturally had no way to help. However, after holding out just now, Saber had already confirmed that her scabbard was inside Emiya's body, and he didn't need any extra treatment at all.
But as an opponent she would have to deal with sooner or later in this war, she still wanted to see Rin's methods.
Thus, Rin successfully walked to Emiya's side. After performing a brief check on him, she took out a ruby necklace with a pained expression.
Soon, Rin healed Emiya's external wounds and did not take back the ruby necklace, which was now temporarily just a decorative piece after its mana had been used up.
And she herself couldn't say what she was thinking. Perhaps it was just to keep a memento of a romance that had never begun.
"Master of the Red Archer, how is Sakura doing?"
Sakura was currently lying next to Emiya, and even though she had been knocked unconscious, she still wore a trace of a fierce expression.
Being asked this by Rider, Rin's heart trembled, and she grasped Sakura's hand with an inexplicable fear.
Last night, after being reminded by Guinevere, she and Archer had made a trip to the Matou House. They saw a deep pit and a terrified, extremely annoying seaweed-haired guy.
Afterward, from the ruins of the Matou House and the true situation revealed by Shinji Matou after being hypnotized, Rin Tohsaka learned for the first time what her own younger sister had suffered after being sent to the Matou House.
Remorse, guilt, and all such emotions erupted completely after Rin touched Sakura's body and confirmed that she now knew the truth of Sakura's ordeal.
"Zouken Matou!!"
For the first time, a bone-deep hatred erupted in Rin Tohsaka's soul. Even when she learned that Tokiomi Tohsaka had died, Rin had not been this furious.
Of course, that was because Rin believed Tokiomi had died in battle.
Of course, at this moment, Zouken Matou was already dead without even his ashes remaining. Rin couldn't even whip his corpse.
Just as she was panting heavily and using her own mana to slightly soothe Sakura's body so she could sleep more peacefully, her gaze fell upon Shirou Emiya, who had already risen and was now panting continuously.
"Tell me, what do you want the Holy Grail for?"
Rin's question came out of nowhere, but given the conversations before their departure, Emiya, who believed he had been saved by Rin, could answer it.
"To cure Sakura's illness?"
Hearing this, Rin's severity softened considerably, but she also noticed that only Saber was absent-minded.
As the successor of the Tohsaka family and the owner of Tokiomi Tohsaka's left-behind collection of books, Rin knew all too well that even if the Holy Grail functioned perfectly as intended, it could only grant one wish.
In other words, since Saber was Shirou Emiya's servant, if she held a different wish, Saber would instead become an enemy.
And thinking of this, Rin seemingly casually glanced at Shirou Emiya's Command Spells, and after confirming all three strokes were still there, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
For something like a Command Spell, its final stroke was generally used to make a servant commit suicide.
"Archer, let's go."
After asking and rising, Rin Tohsaka naturally walked to Archer's side. She had "saved" Shirou's life and helped Sakura regulate her body, and she was confident that Saber and Rider would not turn on her without cause.
It could only be said that Rin was still naive, and fortunately, these two were indeed not such servants.
And after Archer carried Rin away, Guinevere finally deactivated her spiritization and Presence Concealment to appear, standing to the side. She noticed the strange way Rin looked at Saber, as well as her glance at Shirou's Command Spells.
'Rin's personality is similar to what I remember, and she also has no need to achieve a wish, nor any obsession with going to the Root. Rin's thought should also be to have the Holy Grail cure Sakura, right?'
Guinevere knew very well that Rin's only obsession in participating in the Holy Grail War was to fulfill her late father's wish and win this war.
'Indeed, if Saber does not give up her wish, she can only part ways with Emiya and the rest.'
Her thoughts raced, but her steps never ceased. While Saber frowned, Guinevere walked directly to Rider's side and took Sakura from her arms.
Regardless, Sakura called Guinevere Mother, and Rider had a considerable level of trust in her. With Rider's insight, although she might not distinguish the truth of Guinevere's words, she could perhaps discern that Guinevere held no malice toward Sakura.
"With the wine and Rin's mana regulation, Sakura's condition is not severe."
As she spoke, Guinevere also allowed her bloodthirsty mana to circulate within Sakura's body, keeping the parasitic worms, which had already replaced a part of her bodily functions, trembling in fear and hiding.
"However, Sakura has already been modified by the Matou House into the New Holy Grail. Lancer's soul, which just died, seems to have entered Sakura's body, and with a servant's soul inside her..."
Guinevere didn't say the next part, because Saber, Rider, and even Emiya, who were listening, could tell it wasn't good news.
A second after Guinevere's voice fell, an undisguised servant's aura steadily crushed forward like a mad beast.
After a few more seconds, as Saber and Rider stood ready and waiting, a robust man with skin like cast steel, standing over two point five meters tall and wearing only a battle skirt, walked from the end of the road.
Perched steadily on this man's shoulder was a small girl with long eyelashes, wearing purple winter clothes, as exquisite as a doll.
Judging by appearance alone, the girl seemed to be less than ten years old.
But Saber recognized her, and Guinevere recognized her too. As for the man cast from steel, Rider took a deep breath and said in a low voice:
"The Great Hero Heracles. I've heard his name. Saber, Assassin, we're really lucky. It seems he is in the Berserker Class."
Heracles, the Great Hero who must be in the top three of Greek mythology. As the Gorgon from the same mythology, Rider Medusa knew of his even more powerful form.
Of course, in terms of bloodline, Medusa was even his senior. Heracles, the son born from the God-King Zeus and an ordinary human girl, would have to call her...
Well, what Heracles would call her, Rider Medusa couldn't figure out.
And now, her relief vanished completely as Heracles charged forward, and Saber was sent flying backward under the swing of his stone axe.
Even in the Berserker Class, Heracles was a top-tier Servant.
"Emiya, Assassin, watch the Master!"
Not counting on Emiya to fight, nor on the still-smiling Guinevere to help, Rider took off her blindfold and saw Berserker suddenly turn around, shielding the little girl who had just ordered the attack in his arms.
"Saber!"
Saber would certainly not miss her chance.