The main building of the Clock Tower, with its centuries of history, collapsed in an instant.
Rin rushed out of the ruins, waving the wings composed of starlight behind her back. Then Rin straightened the crown that had gone crooked on her head and swung the cartas to slash out dozens of spatial fragments toward the ruins of the Clock Tower's main building.
"Rin-chan, that won't do!"
Accompanied by Manaka's words, a hemispherical spatial boundary unfolded. The curvature of that boundary was so perfect that it looked absolutely smooth.
As the spatial fragments collided with the boundary, they actually slid along its perfect curvature and smashed into the ground not far away.
Manaka, emerging from the ruins, skipped over to a nearby spatial fragment and pressed her fair little hand against it.
Then, as countless mysterious runes appeared, the spatial fragment was directly compressed by Manaka, who held it in her hand to play with.
"Rin-chan, this kind of thing can't hurt me!"
"Is that so? Manaka, try this then!"
Having landed on the ground, Rin thrust the cartas in her hand into the earth, her mouth continuously chanting ancient Runic Script.
Along with Rin's chanting, countless Runic Scripts flashing with holy light were carved into the ground beneath the entire United Kingdom, and the pure white Innocentius appeared behind Rin with a roar.
Having completed the magecraft, Rin gave a wave of her small hand with a heroic air.
The pure white Innocentius, composed of holy flames, instantly appeared in front of Manaka, raising a massive holy flame crucifix and smashing it down toward her.
The holy flame crucifix, representing purification, exploded the moment it struck Manaka, forming a pillar of fire that shot into the sky, engulfing and burning Manaka within it.
However, an attack of this level was just a piece of cake for Manaka. With a smile on her face, Manaka stood within the holy flames and lightly flicked her index finger. The holy flames and the Innocentius were wiped away from the world like a chalk drawing on a blackboard.
But as the runes beneath the entire United Kingdom glowed again, the Innocentius roared and returned once more.
"Manaka, unless you clear the runes beneath the entire United Kingdom, the Innocentius will absolutely not disappear!"
Facing the annoying Innocentius, Manaka continuously waved her small hands, performing various different magecrafts to kill the Innocentius over and over again. However, no matter what kind of magecraft or magic Manaka used, she couldn't eliminate the Innocentius.
Manaka looked at the annoying Innocentius in front of her with puffed-out cheeks. With a flash of light on her body, she used teleportation magecraft to arrive behind Rin. Then, Manaka grabbed Rin, who didn't have time to react, while simultaneously freezing Martha with a single look.
"Rin-chan, I'm angry! You're cheating! So I've decided..."
Then, a terrifying suction force came from Manaka's body. Rin only felt her magical energy and Michael's power being continuously drained away by Manaka.
Along with the loss of Michael's power, the runes beneath the United Kingdom also began to dim.
Suddenly, Manaka let go of Rin and gave a scream of pain while clutching her head.
At the same time, because Manaka had fallen into an unknown state, Martha, who had been frozen by Manaka, was liberated.
Martha looked at the Rin in front of her, who had a mechanical expression, and spoke.
"Michael, it really is you!"
The mechanical-faced Rin turned her head, looked at Martha, and nodded to her.
"Saint Martha."
After nodding to Martha, a flash of light appeared in 'Michael's' hand, and a longsword composed of holy flames appeared in Michael's hand. Then, Michael walked up to Manaka, who was kneeling on the ground clutching her head.
"Blasphemer! Only the Lord can be omniscient and omnipotent. You must be eliminated!"
Then 'Michael' raised the longsword in his hand and stabbed down.
Suddenly, 'Michael' seemed to feel something. He stopped the sword in his hand and lowered his head.
Sure enough, a Japanese short sword was currently held against 'Michael's' neck. At the same time, a girl whose eyes emitted a rainbow glow was standing behind 'Michael'.
"The Root!"
The short sword slashed down without hesitation. 'Michael's' face stiffened, then the holy flame sword in his hand shattered. At the same time, a surge of divine power erupted from Rin's body and flew toward the sky.
Then the girl ignored Rin, who was standing in place touching her neck with a bewildered expression, walked to Manaka's side, and gave a swipe toward Manaka with the short sword in her hand. The unknown power that had brought pain to Manaka was killed.
Manaka, having returned to normal, came before Rin with a nervous expression, shielding Rin behind her while nervously questioning the girl in front of her.
"Ryougi Shiki! Why is a doll like you here!"
The girl named Ryougi Shiki didn't speak. She just casually tossed a letter into Manaka's arms and then turned into a cluster of spiritrons and dissipated in front of Manaka.
Manaka tucked away the letter and grumbled a complaint.
"Mama really is meddlesome!"
Then Manaka took one last lingering look at Rin, who was still bewildered, and disappeared through a teleportation gate.
A long time later, Rin, who had finally freed herself from her chaotic mind, clutched her head and looked at the Clock Tower, a small part of which had already become ruins, and gave a loud shout.
"What on earth is going on!"
Martha walked to Rin's side, patted her shoulder, and said.
"You seem to have never thought about the issues with the Divinity you possess! Tiamat, Ishtar, and just now Michael. Ishtar seems to have a good compatibility with you and didn't cause much of an impact, and Tiamat's is also very thin with little effect. But is Michael's power really that easy to use?"
At this moment, Rin also seemed to recall the scene earlier at the airport where she had a conflict with the Mages Association's Enforcers. That seemed to be Ishtar's behavior in her memory, and the one with Michael just now didn't even need mentioning—her body had been controlled by Michael.
"Have I been influenced by Divinity without even realizing it?"
Martha stretched, then gave Rin a slap on the back and said.
"Alright, don't think too much. Maybe you and Ishtar are just too compatible. Anyway, in my eyes, you're basically the same as before with no changes. As for Tiamat, it's mainly the 'dragon' part, right? Aside from being a bit greedy for money, I haven't seen you act any differently. Just don't use that kind of god-summoning magecraft recklessly in the future and you'll be fine! You should know that not every god is compatible with you!"
Antarctica, Chaldea.
Amidst the endless ice plains, Fujino took the handkerchief handed over by Touko and wiped the ice crystals formed from blood off her face. Then she nodded to Servant Kiritsugu beside her.
"Thank you for the trouble, Kiritsugu. You can go back and rest now."
Servant Kiritsugu glanced at Fujino and Touko, turned into a cluster of spiritrons, and returned to the Throne of Heroes to continue his creation of a perfect world.
At this moment, a former Chaldea employee on the ground, with only a breath left, reached out and grabbed Fujino's shoe, wailing.
"Why?"
Fujino didn't answer. A burst of twisting force instantly emitted from her hand, finishing off the last former employee.
"You know too much! I absolutely cannot let you go back!"
At this moment, Touko walked over to the solemn-faced Fujino and patted her on the shoulder.
"Alright! I told you to leave this kind of work to me. You insisted on coming along, and now you're feeling uncomfortable, aren't you? Go back and rest! I'll handle the cleanup."
"Yes! Thank you, Elder Sister Touko."
Touko watched the departing Fujino and silently lit a cigarette, then casually summoned a group of shadow monsters to begin devouring the corpses on the ground.
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