"Why?"
Hearing Kuang San's answer, Fiore was stunned for a moment, but before she could say anything else, she felt a flash before her eyes, and then she was taken away from the battlefield by Kuang San.
"Yoshino, I leave it to you!"
"Okay, Sister Kuang San!!"
Hearing this voice, Fiore was surprised to find that a girl wearing a green coat and looking as cute as a French doll was walking towards her. She raised her right hand and then brought it down hard.
"Ice puppet!"
As the girl called, a huge rabbit emerged from the ground, and then Fiore saw the girl jump behind the rabbit like a rabbit, and then she stretched out her hands and merged her hands with the huge rabbit. Then the rabbit quickly rushed towards the puppet in the distance.
The biting cold air turned into a pure white beam that burst out from the rabbit's mouth and blasted towards the puppet. Wherever the white beam engulfed, everything turned into ice. Even the "paradise" under the puppet's feet was the same. The originally vibrant plant paradise was completely frozen in the blink of an eye, and the puppet's movements began to slow down. Hard ice crystals quickly emerged on its body, spreading and expanding.
It was like shackles that began to prevent it from moving.
"I never thought you would have such power."
CASTER, who was standing on the puppet's shoulder, was also obviously a little surprised, but soon, he began to chant in a low voice, and magic circles took shape around CASTER. As he moved, dazzling lights appeared one by one on the puppet's body that was originally frozen. It was obvious that CASTER seemed to be activating something...
But the next moment, CASTER suddenly raised his hand, and a circular protective magic circle quickly took shape, but unfortunately it was too late.
“Swoosh!!”
The black iron arrow flashed past, easily piercing through CASTER's unformed protective magic circle and piercing his chest. CASTER lowered his head, looked at the arrow piercing his chest, and chuckled.
"Is that all? But my dream... has been fulfilled, so let's work together... to turn this world into a paradise!"
As CASTER spoke like a curse, his body gradually turned into light particles and dissipated into the air.
"What a pity! Who told you to be a CASTER? I am an ARCHER."
In the distance, Xiao Hei proudly put down the longbow in his hand and stared at CASTER whose vitals were pierced - from a certain perspective, Xiao Hei is indeed very similar to Fang Zheng. When facing the enemy, they will not rush forward to die in a fit of rage, but will seize the opportunity to give the opponent a fatal blow.
More importantly, Xiao Hei is not ashamed of this, but...
"This is wisdom. Wisdom. Do you see it? Illya?"
Turning his head triumphantly, Xiao Hei looked at Illya with a smile.
"That's why I told you, don't just rush in and die when you meet the enemy. That's why big brother will treat you like a child."
"Aren't you a child too, Xiao Hei?"
Hearing Xiao Hei's boasting, Illya asked back unconvinced, while Xiao Hei smiled and raised a finger.
"I'm different, right? If I want, I can ask my big brother to turn me into an adult right away. I'm different from Illya who only knows how to watch Little Red Riding Hood."
"What's wrong with Little Red Riding Hood? Sister Yoshino also likes to watch it! Besides, what kind of dirty thoughts are you having in your head, Hei-chan..."
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Xiao Hei chuckled and came in front of Illya.
"So, tell me, what dirty thoughts do I have?"
"Eh? This..."
Illya had never expected that Xiao Hei would be able to turn the tables, and her face immediately turned red with embarrassment.
"That's it..."
"Which one? Why don't I understand what you are talking about, Illya? Why don't you tell me what obscene thoughts are?"
“Really!”
Illya waved the wand in her hand vigorously.
"Don't talk about these nonsense things at this time. We haven't confirmed whether the enemy has been eliminated yet!"
"Don't worry, my arrow just now was very accurate... eh?"
As she spoke, Xiao Hei looked towards the battlefield proudly again, but then she was stunned.
Xiao Hei's arrow did pierce CASTER's chest and completely destroyed him. Logically, since CASTER himself was dead, his Noble Phantasm should have disappeared as well. However, contrary to what Xiao Hei imagined, CASTER's Noble Phantasm puppet did not disappear. It still stood there, and then... its eyes suddenly burst into bright light.
“——!!”
With a startling roar, the ice that bound the giant puppet instantly burst, and then the puppet stretched out its right hand and grabbed at the void beside it. The stones and soil on the ground mixed together to form a giant sword. Then the puppet picked up the giant sword and slashed at Shion in front of it!
"ah!!"
Faced with the puppet's sudden action, Shion was also startled and quickly distanced herself from the puppet. At the same time, Illya and Xiao Hei were also horrified.
"Xiao Hei, you idiot, didn't you say you would destroy it?"
"I did destroy CASTER, who knows what happened?!"
The two complained to each other, and then rushed to the battlefield quickly. Xiao Hei raised the black bow in his hand, aimed at the enemy in front of him and kept pulling the bowstring. Soon, sharp arrows whistled out and hit the body of the puppet. However, these arrows that were enough to cause fatal damage to the servants did not hurt the puppet at all, and did not cause any damage to it at all.
"Ice puppet!"
At the same time, Yoshino, who had escaped the puppet's sudden attack, also turned in the air and faced the enemy again. As she shouted, sharp ice spikes quickly emerged in the air around the frozen puppet and shot at the enemy again. But this time the puppet seemed to have finally learned a lot. It roared and swung the giant blade in its hand, smashing the oncoming ice spikes into pieces.
"This guy is really difficult to deal with. It seems that I have to be serious."
As she spoke, Kuang San flew into the air, and then a huge clock appeared behind her.
"Come out, Emperor Keke!"
Who are they?
Watching the girls fighting in front of her, Fiore stood there blankly, not knowing what to say. Although she didn't have doubts about the girls around Fang Zheng at first, as a magician, it was normal for him to have his own assistants, students, and even relatives. Moreover, this was the Holy Grail War, so it was normal to bring people he trusted to fight, but... these girls were too powerful!
But what Fiore couldn't figure out was the identities of these girls.
The girl who kept shooting arrows to restrain the puppet like ARCHER, and the girl who was wearing light clothes and waving a magic wand were obviously servants. Because Fiore felt the same aura as her own ARCHER on them.
But Miss Tokisaki and Miss Yoshino were a little puzzling to her. They were not Servants, nor did they look like Heroic Spirits, but they also did not feel like humans. After all, in Fiore's memory, she could not remember what kind of magician had the power to fly in the sky and hide in the ground at will, turn everything into ice, or stop time.
And what exactly is the power they manipulate...
"It seems I'm not too late."
At this moment, Fang Zheng's voice came from the side. Fiore turned around in surprise and saw Fang Zheng standing beside her, staring at the puppet. Not only that, beside him, Fiore also saw Red ARCHER and RULER... Why are they here?
"For some reason, I am now the MASTER of ARCHER."
Noticing Fiore's puzzled look, Fang Zheng explained.
"As for Ruler, when we left the forest earlier, we saw her running this way, so we brought her along."
“I see…”
Although Fang Zheng said it simply and easily, Fiore, as a woman, had a keen intuition and noticed that the expressions of Red ARCHER and RULER behind Fang Zheng were a little subtle. Red ARCHER looked helpless and submissive, while RULER looked at Fang Zheng with caution and vaguely wanted to keep a distance from him.
"Although I have heard about this from Kurumi, but..."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng looked at the violent puppet in front of him.
"What on earth is going on here?"