[] "Yes. It's me. It's a complicated situation. Stop asking why I'm smaller or I'll embarass you some more."
You sighed at her words. You should have expected this but at least she was listening, "Yes. It's me. It's a complicated situation. Stop asking why I'm smaller or I'll embarass you some more."
Jeanne jumped back in surprise as she held up her hands, "I-I was just surprised is all I mean... If you're here then... Who's the girl that's with Medb?"
So she linked up with Medb somehow?
"What was she like?" You asked with a narrowed look, "Our bodies... We switched souls somehow and I'm stuck in this form for the time being. Jeanne, I need to know if Rider could figure it out that the girl she's with isn't me."
"I... Oh no. She was robotic. Like how you were when Medb drugged you. We didn't notice the difference at all," Jeanne said as she bit her lip, "She wasn't acting like how you are now normally, but more as that soulless robotic facade you have. I would have noticed it if she were like you now but I wasn't familiar with you that way... Though Lady Scathach did have her suspicions."
"Please tell me that the Witch is on the job exposing her," you groaned as you rubbed your head.
"Lady Scathach has gone to suppress the association once more. The Clocktower's getting impatient especially with what's happening. Either way, Brie, we'll figure this out but there's something you need to know," Ruler said as she knelt down before you, "She'll most likely try and use Rider against you. You have to be ready for that."
"I haven't stopped thinking about it since I woke up. Don't worry. You folks really didn't notice?" You asked with a grimace.
"It's my greatest failing. But then again, I never knew my trusted friend and ally would succumb to darkness," Ruler said before raising her head to meet yours, "But worry not, I have Kiara's collateral Command Seal remains with me. My command spells outnumbers hers. I can counter whatever orders she gives Medb."
"But doesn't that usually need you to be in the vicinity? What if she forced Medb to commit suicide while you're not there?" Cu theorized with a raised eyebrow.
Ruler froze at that before horror dawned on her face, "Oh. Oh no."
"Ruler. Where did you leave Medb?" You asked her with a warning tone.
"So that's why she wanted me to leave. I have to go-" Ruler said before Cu grabbed her by her shoulder.
Jeanne tensed up before Berserker reached behind her head underneath the base of her braid. He pulled something out. It was a black spider with a red crystal stuck to its abdomen.
Ruler's eyes widened before Cu crushed the familiar.
"You're walking into an ambush," Cu growled as he turned to you, "Like I said, that bitch is troublesome."
"I left them at the church... With Kotomine. If I'm right then they should be relocating. They could be anywhere now," Ruler breathed as she held her hand to her lips.
"Either Minerva kills Medb now or she strings her along to lure you in. Quite the funny pickle," Cu chuckled as he looked your way.
"We can't just leave Olga like this either... I..." You began before Ruler turned to you.
"I'll go. I'll save Medb," Jeanne assured you with a determined look, "Please... Stop Olga Marie."
What difference would that make if you'll just end up doing the same upon reaching the Grail? You'll just end up letting the city burn regardless.
"Fine. Go!" You told her before Ruler turned and went off. Can she do it? You're not certain but you'll trust her.
"Done? Let's go," Cu growled as he started moving towards the Temple. You followed suit and bared your spear.
You're taking Olga down once and for all.
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You and Berserker arrived to the front entrance with Cultists spilling out into the open. You narrowed your gaze as you and Berserker rushed at them as the howled in madness. They tried striking you but a spear skewered them soon after.
Berserker rend them into paste while you were more precise in your blows. Berserker reveled in the violence while you simply cut down those that were in your way. You moved and thrust through a muscle bound man before ripping Gae Bolg out of his body and jumping to pierce his heart.
You reinforced your limbs and knocked him to the side and straight into a wall. Berserker impaled a man coming for your back before you spun your spear and ripped his throat open. You an Cu Chulainn turned to the giant double doors and ran through it.
"There's no end to them," you breathed as you ran up to a gunman and cut off his arms before driving him into the wall.
Berserker laughed as blood danced in the air, "More dummies for us, huh?"
"Just how many Cultists were affected!? Did they all take that drug!?" You growled as you jammed your spear into a woman's leg before smashing her jaw aside.
"They're comparable to mindless beasts. But that's rich coming from me!" Cu growled as he cleaved through several bodies at once.
You caught your breath before you both rushed ahead and came upon the next door. You entered a room, the final room which held the Cult of Serene Lotus' Sanctum.
There you found a man on his knees. Numerous bodies were strewn around him, numbering in dozens, hundreds even all pierced by black arrows by their limbs, pinning them into the ground. They were all alive but hurting.
Emiya got here first and he managed to non-lethally take down these many Cultists.
The red haired man was exhausted as a clash of steel erupted ahead of you. Saber was in the middle of dueling Carmilla before a pool of white power. You could see glowing white palms forming praying hands as a girl stood on top of them.
Olga looked down on you with her lone eye as the stars above twinkled. Saber pushed Assassin back but he was losing his strength. His prana was being drained from him bit by bit as time went on.
Berserker grit his teeth as he looked down at his hand and clenched.
"Berserker, kill!" You ordered as Cu Chulainn shot towards Olga where she stood above the prana pool.
However from the pool arose a shining tendril which forced Berserker to clash with it. Another tendril grabbed him by his leg and swung the Servant across the Sanctum into the wall behind you.
"You're here... But did you get smaller perhaps?" Olga asked as she rubbed the phantom pain of her missing limb, "It doesn't matter. You're far too late anyway."
Emiya slowly got up as he looked your way, "Who... Are you?"
"Your Savior," you replied as you held your spear, "Why didn't you kill them?"
"Well... They could still be saved..." Emiya breathed as he held his chest, "Can't just kill them, unless I have no choice."
"Your funeral," you told him as you got between him and Olga, "Stay behind me, old man. You might hurt your back."
Olga raised her hand and more Cultists rushed out of the doorways.
"Heroes don't dirty their hands. Fortunately, I'm not one," You told him as you held Gae Bolg.
"Don't! Please!" Emiya snapped behind you.
Sanctum
[] Use Gae Bolg. Employ Lethal force against the hostiles coming for you. Cut them down, Emiya doesn't have to do it.
[] Use Aegis. Employ Non-Lethal takedowns. Take out their limbs and leave them alive. He won't stop bitching about it later if you kill them.
