Time returns to just moments ago, while Gilgamesh and the Lion King were fiercely battling.
On a tall building in the distance, Archer and Assassin were staring at each other from across the distance.
Archer stood on the railing of the rooftop, looking at the Assassin on another high building not far away, and shrugged.
"Why must you trouble me? I really hate trouble!"
After speaking, Archer leaped up, manifested a longbow in his hand, and without hesitation, fired three swords, which flew toward Assassin in a triangular formation.
A flash of light appeared in Assassin's hand, and a Calico M950 automatic pistol appeared in Assassin's hand. Without hesitation, he poured a rain of bullets toward the swords in the air, while simultaneously making several agile jumps to reach the signal tower on the high building, avoiding Archer, who was following the swords.
Archer twirled the twin swords in his hands, looking at the pistol in Assassin's hand with slight surprise.
"Modern weaponry? Are you a modern Servant? Forget it, once I take care of you, I'll know everything!"
After speaking, Archer launched a charge toward the Assassin standing on top of the signal tower. Soon, the two Servants began a fierce battle on this signal tower a hundred meters in the air.
Assassin used Scapegoat again, transferring an ordinary person from downstairs to his position to take Archer's strike for him.
Stained again and again with the blood of the innocent, a roar erupted in Archer's heart, and he roared.
"Assassin!"
Then, he threw the twin swords in his hands toward Assassin.
"Crane Wing Triple Strike!"
Facing the pair of twin swords and Archer attacking him, Assassin calmly activated his Noble Phantasm.
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"
The time in Assassin's eyes slowed down. It was not that Assassin slowed down time, but that Assassin accelerated his own time. Instantly accelerated, Assassin dodged the Crane Wing Triple Strike that should have been a guaranteed hit, flashed a few times to get behind Archer, raised a strange gun, and aimed it at Archer's heart.
"Goodbye! Bang!"
"Boom!"
It was not just the sound of gunfire that rang out, but also the clash between the Noble Phantasm of Gilgamesh and the Lion King, as immense magical energy and wind pressure struck instantly.
The origin bullet fired from the gun was deflected by the wind pressure, grazing Archer and disappearing into the horizon.
The violent magical energy and immense wind pressure crushed everything in their path; Archer and Assassin were forced to cease their battle and leap off the teetering high-rise.
In the air, Archer turned his head, looked at the masked Assassin, and shouted at him.
"Kiritsugu, it's you, isn't it!"
Hearing Archer's words, Assassin glanced at him, then, without hesitation, used Scapegoat to swap places with an ordinary person and vanished into the air.
Archer watched with a headache as the ordinary person, bewildered, wailed in the air. He used a piece of rubble falling from the building to reach the ordinary person and caught her in his arms.
After landing, Archer casually placed the ordinary person behind a sturdy pillar.
"Alright, Little Miss, you can open your eyes now."
The passerby, who had been screaming in fear with her eyes closed, opened them. Seeing the handsome Archer before her, she blushed and then hurriedly bowed to Archer, thanking him repeatedly.
Archer paid no more attention to the passerby and looked up at the sky.
"Kiritsugu, have you become an existence like me as well? Do you regret it?"
The wind pressure and magical energy dissipated, and everything returned to calm.
A crater with a radius of several kilometers appeared in Fuyuki City. Rin looked at everything around her that had been leveled, her heart suddenly skipped a beat, and a tear involuntarily traced a path from the corner of her eye.
Martha looked at the young girl before her, sighed, and asked.
"Do you regret it?"
Rin looked at Martha and shook her head, saying.
"Have you ever regretted what you've done! Perhaps it's heartless, perhaps it's cruel, but I have my goals, I have people I need to protect, I cannot stop my steps here!"
Then, Rin looked at the stunned Martha and continued.
"Me! Even if there are sad things, I never blame others, because if I blamed others, wouldn't that mean I hadn't worked hard at all! I have always been working hard, for a better future!"
"Ha!"
After saying this, Rin released the St. Georges Domain on her body, applied Reinforcement Magic to herself, lunged forward to Martha, extended both palms toward Martha's abdomen, and struck down with force.
"What I need to do now is defeat you enemies!"
Martha had no time to dodge and took Rin's palm strike head-on. A surge of energy passed through her back, and the spasms in her abdomen caused Martha to involuntarily double over.
Rin took the opportunity to deliver a high kick to Martha's chin, sending her flying.
"Gil, the battle isn't over yet!"
As she spoke, Rin's magical energy surged, transforming into a healing force that restored the abrasions caused by the collision of the Noble Phantasm of Gilgamesh and the Lion King.
Gilgamesh raised Ea toward the Lion King in front of him and struck down again without hesitation!
"Enuma Elish! The Star of Creation that Splits Heaven and Earth!"
"Holy Spear, Anchor Released! Rhongomyniad!"
The two Noble Phantasms collided once again.
Rin calmly deployed the St. Georges Domain again to resist the aftershocks. Martha, who had been kicked away, recovered with the help of Saint of the Shore and Natural Body (Sea), looked at Rin floating in the air, and curled her lip.
"Girl, your punches are quite powerful. Come on! Let us fight too!"
After saying this, she endured the still-raging aftershocks and swung a punch at Rin without hesitation.
Facing the punch of the Iron Fist Saint, even with the protection of the St. Georges Domain, Rin was knocked flying along with the domain and slammed heavily into the ground.
However, thanks to the existence of the St. Georges Domain, although Rin was knocked flying, she remained unscathed.
Rin floated back up from the ground, increased her magical energy output, shielded Martha within the St. Georges Domain as well, and simultaneously landed on the ground, activated Reinforcement Magic, and shouted at Martha.
"Let's fight!"
Martha and Rin, staying within the St. Georges Domain, began to charge at each other, simultaneously punching each other in the cheek.
Rin, hit by the punch, flew backward, while Martha only retreated a few steps.
A smile appeared on the corner of Rin's mouth. She climbed up from the ground, wiped the blood from her lip. The long-lost adrenaline made Rin, even knowing she was no match for Martha in melee combat, charge at Martha again without hesitation. What Rin needed right now was the catharsis of fist-to-flesh combat.
"Ugh!"
Rin, struck in the abdomen by Martha's punch, couldn't help but retch, but her hand, mercilessly transformed into a hand-blade, chopped at the inner crook of Martha's arm.
Boom, the third collision of Noble Phantasms occurred, and the massive roar echoed through Fuyuki City for the third time today.
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