After Kiritsugu Emiya landed, he quickly pulled out his firearms, aimed at Touko, and pulled the trigger without mercy, beginning to spray bullets.
However, all the bullets were easily blocked by Touko's shadow familiar.
Touko pushed up her glasses and looked at Kiritsugu Emiya facing her, saying casually,
"So my opponent is you? Tsk, I feel a bit underestimated!"
Zouken Matou leaned on his cane and walked calmly toward Alice and Sakura, who were currently casting spells by the sea.
"Hehehe, Tohsaka Sakura, I'll give you a chance. As long as you come with me, I'll spare that witch over there!"
Sakura glanced at Alice, who could not move due to her casting. She took a breath, her expression becoming determined. Instantly, Rin's seal was deactivated, and Sakura's hair turned snow-white.
"Little Red Riding Hood! Kill him!"
Zouken Matou showed a greedy expression as he looked at Sakura. He then tapped his cane lightly on the ground, and a massive swarm of insects appeared, rushing toward Little Red Riding Hood.
Little Red Riding Hood held her chainsaw, wearing a broken expression. Ignoring the stings of the insects, she rushed in front of Zouken Matou and revved the chainsaw.
"Vroom~"
Zouken Matou, split in half, laughed as his upper body was carried into the air by insects, while his lower body turned into a sea of bugs that began devouring Little Red Riding Hood.
"Hehehehe, Tohsaka Sakura, let me see your talent. I believe you will be the most perfect mother body besides your sister!"
As Little Red Riding Hood was gnawed into white bone, intense emotions returned to Sakura's heart. In that moment, Sakura utilized the results of the special training Alice had given her over the past two days. With a thought, she repurposed those returned emotions, and a Mermaid Princess singing a moving melody appeared in the nearby sea.
The Mermaid Princess sang happily, then spread her small hands. The seawater transformed into a giant wave that crashed down upon Zouken Matou.
Zouken Matou used his insects to lift himself higher, dodging the crashing wave. At the same time, he pointed his cane, and dozens of spikes made of water impaled the Mermaid Princess, pinning her to the sea surface.
With the death of the Mermaid Princess, even stronger emotions fed back into Sakura's heart. Using the techniques taught by Alice, Sakura used these emotions to summon an even more powerful Ploy. Indeed, having learned this technique, as long as Sakura's main body remained safe, her summons would theoretically grow stronger with every death.
The Giant from 'Jack and the Beanstalk' appeared on the beach. Standing seven meters tall, the giant raised a massive wooden club and smashed it down toward Zouken Matou in mid-air.
Zouken Matou watched the fairy-tale Ploys grow stronger and sensed something was wrong. After evading the giant, he began to attack Sakura's main body. A large swarm of insects flew toward Sakura at his command.
Sakura watched the swarm flying toward her. With a thought, the giant was instantly teleported in front of her to block the insects. Then, the shadow behind Sakura suddenly expanded, forming a thicket of shadow thorns to surround her. She spoke to Zouken Matou with a hollow voice.
"It's useless. You are not my match."
After she spoke, Sakura glanced at the giant. The giant instantly let out a wail and exploded with a bang, completely wiping out the insects on the beach.
Next, Sakura waved her hand, and the Swan from The Ugly Duckling appeared on the beach. Well, this swan was quite large, about five meters from head to tail.
Zouken Matou looked at the fairy-tale Ploys that kept dying and growing stronger, feeling a wave of apprehension. He glanced at the scarred Kiritsugu Emiya nearby and the docks hundreds of meters away where explosions echoed, then controlled his insects to turn and flee into the sewers.
"Damn it! First Tohsaka Rin, now Tohsaka Sakura—this entire family deserves to die!"
Sakura watched Zouken Matou flee into the distance. She stepped out of the shadow thorn defense and walked behind the Queen she had just summoned. Then, her entire hand turned black, and she reached through the Queen's back to rip out her Ploy's heart.
Using this surge of emotion, she instantly summoned the Genie from Aladdin and pointed at the frantically fleeing Zouken Matou.
"The first wish: bring him back before me."
"As you wish!"
Sakura looked at Zouken Matou, who had been brought back in front of her. She waved her small hand, and countless tentacles stretched out from the shadows to bind him tightly.
"The second wish: bring his true body back to this vessel."
"As you wish!"
The Crest Worm inside Shinji Matou's heart within the black mud was instantly pulled from Shinji Matou's body along the contract into Saber Alter's body by a mysterious magical power, and then transferred into Zouken Matou's body on the beach. This Ploy actually managed to drag out Zouken Matou's true body, which had been protected within avalon, using this method.
Sakura, having activated her origin, looked expressionlessly at the struggling Zouken Matou. Finally, she pointed her finger, and a shadow extended from it to connect to Zouken Matou's body.
Zouken Matou looked at the shadow connecting Sakura to him and fell into a panic, struggling even more violently.
"Let me go, let me go... I can't die, I can't die here!"
As Sakura's magic surged, Zouken Matou instantly froze. His eyes gradually became hollow and he stopped struggling, becoming like a puppet.
"I won't kill you; you are Shinji's grandfather. However, I have stripped you of all your emotions and severed your contract with your Servant. From now on, you will never feel joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness. You will live the rest of your life like this!"
Zouken Matou turned his head hollowly to look at Sakura, but since his emotions had been stripped away on a soulful level, he didn't even know what he wanted to say.
At this moment, Zouken Matou felt only emptiness—endless emptiness. Having lost even the most basic of emotional drives like desire, he climbed up from the beach and walked aimlessly into the distance.
"You have one last wish!"
Sakura looked at the Genie asking for her last wish and waved her hand casually.
"Help me... recover."
"Understood!"
With that, the Genie transformed his emotion-composed self into a surge of magic power that returned to Sakura. Simultaneously, Sakura deactivated her awakened state, returning to her black-haired self.
Sakura raised her hands in disbelief and looked at them.
"Is this my power? Sister, I finally have the power to help you!"
Touko took a cigarette from her pocket, walked over to Kiritsugu Emiya whose limbs were twisted and deformed, and stuffed a cigarette into his mouth, lighting it for him.
"Why didn't you kill me?"
"It was just Rin's request. Besides, I don't hate you. You're actually quite similar to an old friend of mine named Araya Souren. I don't know if you've heard of him, but you're both persistent bastards."
"Is that so?"
Touko and Kiritsugu Emiya smoked together, watching the fight not far away. After a long time, Touko spoke to Kiritsugu Emiya.
"Order your Servant to commit suicide. You've already lost, haven't you?"
The command spells on Kiritsugu Emiya's hand flashed. Assassin suddenly appeared by his side, instantly grabbed him, and fled into the distance.
"Ha, still hasn't given up? What a strange person. Well, I'll just leave him to Illya."
Touko stood up from the beach and brushed the sand off her hands. Suddenly, a massive pressure appeared on the scene as a giant dragon roared, bursting through the ground to reveal its massive body.
Jalter stood atop the dragon's head, smiling radiantly at everyone on the beach.
"Fafnir! Crush them!"
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