Everything was going to hell around me. Rin was just as incapable of subtlety as I remembered but if before she would use a Gram on me just because he forgot that it was the birthday of the first time we met (her words as I honestly did not have a clue if it was really that day or her just wanting to attack me for who knows what reason, tsunderes on her level are as impossible to understand as Ea) now this version of Rin was using a Noble Phantasm of sorts to launch magic strikes that, if hit, would likely create wholes in my body then and there.

Honestly speaking, if not for Avalon constantly healing me I would likely be much worse for wear than I currently is right now. And that is not saying so much since he was having to avoid not only her but an infuriating amount of traps that keep coming his way with nearly every step he takes.

"I need to remember to give Captain Yami a new Katana as thanks, without his help I would be screwed by now, literally." I said to myself as I used ki to detect when a spear sprung from the ground and nearly screwed my heart out just as I finished avoiding another strike from Rin.

"Hey, hey, hey, use an attack already or I going to bore to death here, to your death that is." She said with sadistic glee as she started raising her amount of magic strikes without a care before her grimoire turned its page. "Divine Magic: Divine Gem Wall."

As Rin said that a wall made of gems appeared in front of me just five or so meters of distance. I see, she intends to box me and force me to stop.

Well, she is out of luck.

Using a mana burst I flew at the wall and with my physical stats raised by Arondight I used the wall to redirect myself as I jumped against my current momentum and flying right at her at high speeds.

"Huh?" She said surprised before smirking. "Divine Magic: Gem Sword of the War Goddess." As Rin said that a sword made of... yep it is a sword made of a huge diamond.

CLANG

My Arondight and her weapon hit one another, our two weapons are of equal level and as the two hit one another they both break as both are not real weapons and just constructs and while mine is based on a powerful Noble Phantasm hers is, apparently, a godly weapon made of a diamond, the hardest substance on the world. However, even so there is no real problem since I already have a plan for this.

As her movement to stop me manage to stop me in place for a second it was enough as the pages of my grimoire turned and I readied by next magic.

"Mythical Weapon Creation Magic: The Lord of Execution Kazikli Bey" As I said that a spear appeared in my hand, the spear in question is the basic manifestation of this specific noble phantasm belonging to Vlad Dracula, a Romanian hero who screwed 20000 of his enemy soldiers to terrify the opponents into leaving. A terrifying man who became known as a monster by his actions, synonymous of a vampire despite not being one, but still saving his people and thus could be thought off as a hero.

Its true effects are to create spears, a total of 20000 of them to be specific in anywhere including inside the body of an opponent but that is not how I will use this. I am not going to hurt Rin, I refuse to do this, so instead, I do this-

As we are close I use the spear in my hand to create stakes from all around us to lock her in place as there is one around each joint of her body, making them unable to move properly or at all. It would not stop her for long but a moment is enough as I only intended to stop her for a second as I focused to create spears from the inside of her own weapon/Noble Phantasm and effectively destroyed it. Considering this is a magic instead of an actual artifact she can remake it without much of an issue but just by stopping her for a second she already cannot do much of anything as her magic is forcefully dispelled by my spear.

"Wha!?" She said but despite sounding surprised she doesn't really seem mad, instead, she looks happy as she reinforces her body as her grimoire pages turn. "Good try, but what will you do against this? Divine Magic: Perfect Gem Boby."

As Rin said that her body glowed a bit and she moved despite the stakes supposedly stopping her in place, breaking them like if she was a berserker breaking out of chains.

"Now, what will you do? Entertain me more, heir to the Sea God." She said but I turned my gaze to the side and could not look straight at her right away.

I mean, how can I look at her right now?

"Huh? What is it? Never seen someone so pretty before? My beauty blinded you?" She said smugly while throwing her perky breasts (seriously, my hormones are crazy!) forward in pride.

"... Not quite." I admitted while looking back directly at her face without taking my eyes off her eyes. She took a step back when she saw me looking so serious at her eyes only.

"W-What is it? Why are you looking at my eyes so intensely like that? Is it because they are pretty?" Rin asked.

"Well, your eyes are indeed pretty but I am looking right at them because I don't know where else to look now." I admitted, at the first part she was quite happy to hear and a bit embarrassed but the second one made her curious, until she looked down.

Let's just say that the stakes managed to avoid hurting her body by very, very little and that by moving she ended up breaking the stakes as her body became invulnerable but everything else she was using wasn't and that her moving forced the stakes to scratch and rip away everything else.

Meaning, she is stark naked right now.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"... KKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She yelled as she crouched down to hide her own body, a part of me got a bit sad at the loss of the eye candy but the rest of my consciousness beat that part of me away with righteous anger at the thought.

She is a friend, only a friend even if she doesn't remember me right now.

Maybe I could see if I have a way to jolt her memories back, but how should I go about doing that? Maybe Asta's anti-magic could work, it is worth a try but to find him will be hard, he doesn't have any magic trace and in a labyrinth-like place like this dungeon is finding him will be hard.

And so I stood there without knowing what to do, well except for one thing really.

With my magic, I created a copy of the mantle of Hades without the ability to turn invisible by modifying it slightly, as soon as I had this at hand I threw it at her.

"Use this, at least with this your modesty is protected." I said while still looking to the side, even if I was paying extra attention with ki to sense if she tries anything.

I heard a shuffle of clothes and after waiting a second more I turned and saw her using the cloth like if it was a towel after bath.

"... Thanks."

"... You are welcome."

The mood continued strange like that until I saw her shaking a bit before yelling.

"IF YOU SAW MY CLOTHES BEING DESTROYED AT LEAST GIVE ME A WARNING!" I was going to answer but she reacted first. "Divine Magic: Bull of Heaven Gulgalana!"

She created a being I never saw before, it was a bull of four meters tall, just as tall as the passageway we were. The bull was made of electricity, the body is completely dark, it has blue horns, four spine protrusions, and two golden colored stripes. I heard of it before, it is probably based on Gulgalana, a divine beast that was the familiar of Ishtar and one of the biggest challenges of that annoying golden bastard.

This one is probably just a construct and it obviously is limited in size to the size that is available around us, but it still is dangerous.

"Gulgalana, go and kill him for me!"

Rin yelled.

"Isn't that too much?" I could not help but yell back as I saw Kyogre flying forward and expanding before hitting its body in a tackle against Gulgalana.

"Shut up! Because of you, I can't marry anyone anymore! What will you do about my maiden heart?! You will take responsibility!" She said as her grimoire shinned and turned its pages. "Divine Magic: Divine Boat of Heavens Maana." She said as that accursed bow appeared in front of her.

I could only sigh, hoping things don't grow any more chaotic.

"MY MAJESTY!" A voice could be heard from the distance as... Is that Klaus sitting on a giant blue stallion made of metal and coming my way?

Not knowing what to say I could only stare in shock as he came to me but could not stop in time as he ended up rolling me over.

"My majesty, I am so sorry!" He said as he got out of the blue stallion and looked me over while I winced in pain, I could not avoid being hit by him due to how fast he came and not expecting him to actually hurt me. "Oh, you fiend how can you hurt his majesty Shiro-sama like that?!" Klaus said, ignoring that he was the one who ended up rolling over me.

"But it was you that-" Rin tried to say as Klaus continued.

"Silence, I know what I've seen and you are an evildoer that will be punished properly! Prepare yourself." Klaus said, his cheeks a bit red from embarrassment from the fact that he truly is the one that actually hurt me, but I chose not to say anything as I looked to see if anyone else was about to roll me over when I noticed a blond version of Rin not so far away trying to hide just as terribly as I remember her being able to while speaking.

"Cool, not that I think that of course." Blond-Rin said.

Sighing I could only ready myself for the continuation of this combat. If this Rin is the same as the one I remember, then she is likely to rampage for a while before going somewhere else to sulk at the offense before starting to set up her personal revenge.

Sigh, even here she is a bit of a handful to deal with.

But, I am more worried about Sakura. Her state there, it is not natural. I can just hope she doesn't get injured or injure someone else, she is a sweet girl in the end and hurting others always cause her to feel pain inside.

At another location, Sakura was currently facing the two senior magicians from Azure Deer, the high-rank magician Hans Cristian Andersen, and the vice-captain, Da Vinci. Sakura was not really moving much as her cape moved about, from it hundreds of insects were coming out without stop as she didn't really change her magic for quite some time due to she not really needing to do so. It was an efficient and powerful magic after all.

"How much longer?" Hans asked with some sweat rolling down his forehead as he continued holding up his barrier. As soon as Shiro was caught and taken away and the attack started Hans and Da Vinci moved without any communication as both knew perfectly well what should be their next action. Hans has used his Writing Magic: Words of Protection in which he had to write words related to protecting one after another to create a barrier, the fewer repetitions of words the stronger the barrier and the longer it would last.

He had used it to protect himself and Da Vinci as she prepared her own arsenal.

Da Vinci's magic, Innovation Magic, was probably the strongest and weakest magic there is. She can create any magical artifact as long as she has it well defined in her mind with all aspects, in theory, she could even prepare a magic artifact that could defeat the magic emperor or any other captain making her one of the strongest magic knights ever.

The problem is that only when the image is perfectly described in her mind without any incongruence as well as having another minor inconvenience. It was due to that that she usually always went out with Hans, his protection magic was amongst the strongest in the entire nation and, with it, he could cover up for her while she readied the most ideal magic artifact for whatever situation the two were in. Hans was also amongst the best when it comes to buffing and debuffing others even if he was terrible in the offense, he was the definition of a pure support type.

"Ready." She said excitedly as she came from behind Hans, if before she looked like a beautiful woman in her late twenties now she looked about 19 years old with a jetpack in her back and flamethrowers connected to her arms. Her magic had the inconvenience that she would look younger the stronger the magic item she used is, it is said that if she were to look like an 8 years old or so girl it means that her magic artifact is strong enough to let her fight in equal terms with Julius or any other national leader but that would also mean her physical capabilities would be reduced so she'd still need support. Aiming both hands forward she activated her magic. "Innovation Magic: Super Flaming-chan."

Yeah, she also had a terrible naming sense.

But her magic artifact was anything but terrible, her Super Flaming-chan released a torrent of all-encompassing flames that quickly started consuming not the bugs but the magic energy they were made off. She didn't know if the familiar bugs were actually fire-proof or not so, knowing they are made of magic, she made her Super Flaming-chan aim right at this fact.

But seriously, the name sucks.

Sakura, seeing her familiars being devoured by flames, did not show any reaction in her eyes as she changed the pages of her grimoire.

"Familiar Creation... Magic: Stone Maggots" Sakura said and from in front of her the ground shook as worms made of pure stone and of about 60 centimeters tall started appearing from the ground. Da Vinci aimed her weapon at it and fired, but it didn't do much as the worms continued moving forward and they started appearing in the ceiling and the sides as well.

The mouths of the maggots were closing in and the two magicians started getting a bit worried about it.

"I guess we have to go with plan B." Da Vinci said, her weapon wholly inadequate for the enemy ahead. She was someone who could be the strongest when she had time to prepare but in the fly she is just not that good. They could still fight, true, but there is still plan B.

"... Fine, we know what we want here anyway." Hans said as he prepared his next magic. "Writing Magic: Swiftness of the Wind" As he said that both himself and Da Vinci shinned in a blue color before setting off to plan B.

Run away to fight another day.

"..." Sakura stood there a moment longer before she dispelled her magic, the smaller than one-centimeter maggots that were controlling the rocks around them to make them look like they were that size dissolved just like that.

She did not care about anything but completing her mission, even her life was not as important to her as her uncle Moris has told her to do something and she would do it. Anything else was not important by sheer comparison, if she had to kill 10000 to get there she would and if she did not have to she wouldn't, she was little more than a machine right now as the magic stones implanted in her made sure to leave any pesky emotions out of the way of what she had to do.

If things on Shirou's end were bad, then the things on Asta and Yuno's end would be considered just as bad if not worse.

The two boys, each having sustained an unimaginable amount of injuries on their persons respectively, stood on one side of the field, panting unevenly. Asta more so as he stood with his legs spread apart and his massive black rusty greatsword held in front of him, his arms heavily scratched and bruised from the battering he had endured. A trail of blood ran down the side of his face, with his eyes remaining as sharp as they ever were as he glared forwards/ He lost a portion of his clothes, such as the right leg of his pants, the left arm of his shirt and some of his Black Bulls cape ad been shredded so far, but despite his heavy injuries he still remained standing. Yuno looked to be on a similar note, although his injuries almost served to be like a mirror to Asta's with his Grimoire floating on the opposite side of him too.

Before them, on the other side of the room, stood mars, staring down at them with blank, cold and unyielding eyes, the feeling of condescendence radiating from his very being. He stood atop a pile of crystal, his Grimoire floating by his side. Normally the two would have been able to get close to him, but their current circumstances prevented that from happening. Such circumstances consisted of these tall, humanoid Golem-like creatures made out of crystal, forming a rather large, expansive army which, whilst nearly mindless if it weren't for their master controlling them, kept the boys from getting close. Asta would try to rush through directly, since he was the type of guy who rushed into things headfirst without taking much consideration of strategy, only to get knocked back every time. On the other hand, Yuno fared a little better since his Wind Magic afforded him some ranged attacks, however, the Crystal Golems kept on resurrecting themselves with constructs always blocking his sneak attacks against Mars himself.

Needless to say, both boys had a tough situation on their hands.

Oh yeah, and each Golem right now had been all covered in flames no less whilst they set about advancing upon the two younger magic knights. So yeah, a swell time these two weren't having, one could say.

Currently, Asta growled in frustration, swinging his blade around in a wide arc. This allowed him to slice through an approaching Golem which had tried to strike him down without much effort before he had to jump to the side to avoid a fist from another Golem. Landing on the ground, he raised his Sword up to block a fist aimed for his head, throwing it upwards before twisting clockwise a full 360 degrees, bringing his sword down on the fiery golem and pretty much slicing it clean in half. "Grrr, this is getting us nowhere…" Asta growled under his breath. "This won't end unless I get to deck that asshole over there in the face..." Whilst he would be regarded as an idiot outside the battlefield, thankfully once he got INTO the fight his true intelligence shone through. As such, he didn't think it wise for him to continue swinging his sword around like this since it wouldn't be harming Mars any.

As he thought about this, Asta quickly noticed another Golem approaching him from his front right, with another coming from the opposite direction. As such, he quickly formed a strategy in his head, let them get in close and then slice through the two of them. His sword would be large enough for something like that to happen, after all, he had done this before during the beginning of this fight on a stroke of pure luck (although if one asked him he would highly disagree and call it his 'greatness shining through for his sister Lily).

Just as he made to jump forwards to strike at the approaching Golems however, a torrent of flames the size of a small house almost hit him from the back. Fortunately, he managed to swing his sword in an upward slash to cut through it easily enough, but the bulging vein on his forehead pretty much symbolized his 'happiness' at almost being turned into an Asta-kabob. As such, he shot a glare towards the perpetrator, multiple tick marks over his head with his eyes white to show his anger.

"Yuno, you idiot! Look what you are doing!" he yelled, his teeth that of sharks.

Yuno glanced over at him, looking at Asta with a face which pretty much stated 'nonchalance' in the purest manner possible. As someone who generally didn't show much emotion, kind of like a machine in a way. he served as Asta's complete opposite. Whereas Asta remained loud and boisterous even in the face of danger, h kept his composure as cool and collected as the breeze which served as his weapon. He knew well how his Rival acted due to this, their opposing natures serving to tell them apart as easy as taking candy from a baby. As such, he knew just how pointless it would be to argue his case with the hotheaded idiot, hone who'd remain convinced it was his fault to the very end, even if he tried to explain how he had only deflected it towards his direction accidentally. Though it wasn't like he worried about the guy, he had the strength to spare.

In the end, after deadpanning against him for a moment, Yuno turned away from him to face their approaching enemy, his Grimoire at the ready as gale force winds began spiraling around his arms.

"I don't know what you are talking about." he stated bluntly without any tact, only triggering the fiery Asta's rage further.

"Liar!" Asta yelled, which was more like the way he speaks all the time really. But, he was not wrong.

Yuno, upon seeing that his wind magic wasn't that effective against the enemy's crystal soldiers by itself has decided to try something slightly different. By directing the wind he made the flames on the soldiers larger to the point where he broke the crystals. This was why he was surrounded by an inferno of flames, but he made sure to circulate some air around him at all times to keep the flames out and what sweat he had he used his wind to dry just to look good.

That is why he was looking smugly at Asta who was sweating profusely, that is, until he noticed that Asta had defeated 37 soldiers while he had defeated 36.

"..." Yuno looked at Asta a moment longer before redoubling his efforts while chanting in his mind 'I will be the magic emperor; I will be the magic emperor' over and over again.

Mars, who was looking at both of them, moved his grimoire's pages.

"Crystal Magic: Nemean Armor." As Mars said that an armor made of crystals covered and protected his body. Not only that but he also continued "Fire Magic: Flame Claws of the Phoenix" With that his hands were further covered with a secondary group of armor, this time only gloves made of pure fire with the fingers elongated and looking like solid fire.

These two magics, when combined, could improve his physical aspects many times over. It was a remarkable combination really, combining the defense of the Crystal magic and the offense of fire magic with boosts to the user's specs. With it Mars darted to the center of the action, pouncing at the 'easier' target, meaning Yuno.

Yuno's magic was strong, that was undeniable, but Asta's sword was an anomaly as it was negating magic after magic far too easily and Mars didn't know how to deal with it properly. In terms of 'abnormality' Yuno would be classed as the least abnormal of the two because of the previously mentioned aspects surrounding Asta's capabilities. 'You will go first...' he thought, eyes wide as he attempted to thrust his right hand towards his chest.

However, before he could hit the black haired mage, Yuno found himself being pulled to the side curtsy of him manipulating his wind magic, ending up close to his rear right flank. This dawned on the Mage, and Yuno quickly a capitalized on this in the following second. He abruptly focused his magic into his right hand, making it assume the form of a sword before he gripped its 'hilt' tightly, slashing at Mars' side. Sparks flew around as the Armor was nearly cut through by the attack, but unfortunately for Yuno, the Armor stood strong in the end.

This caused Yuno to frown as he jumped back, avoiding a reverse swipe from the man's right claw, before he unleashed a torrent of wind to blast the guy back when he attempted to thrust his left claw to try and impale him again. As he did this, Yuno noticed several Golems launching large blasts of flame at him, so he quickly created a cyclone around himself and had the flames follow the generated current, creating a shield made out of both wind and flame as a result. This didn't last though, as he quickly made the whole thing erupt into one massive wave of wind and fire, shattering the Golems around him whilst also knocking Mars back even further. This wasn't the end of Yuno's offensive though, especially when his Grimoire began to glow as it switched to the relevant page. "Wind Creation Magic: Wind Blade Feather"

Around him, multiple blades shaped like feather formed form his Wind, getting launched at Mars from the front. Mars, of course, generated some Crystals from the ground in front of him to block them, then kicked them to launch them as projectiles back at Uno who flung his arm to the side to generate a wind gust which deflected them as well. These projectiles impaled several fiery Golems, causing them to stumble as Asta finished them off. He did so by smashing through their heads multiple times at once, leaving behind destroyed crystals in his wake.

Speaking of Asta, the moment he saw Yuno fighting Mars, his furry increased twofold as he jumped in., heading straight for Mars with a furious yell erupting from his vocals... making one wonder just how much they must ache from yelling all the time. "Hey, no trying hog all the glory, Yuno!"he bellowed, swinging his sword in a horizontal arc towards the guy's closest shoulder.

'...'

Mars just noticed Asta advancing with a cool head as he drew back, not willing to let that blade touch his armor as he feared it might shatter and making a new one would cost him energy. He noticed that his army of golems failed to keep Asta at bay. It looked like he wouldn't be able to use his army for much longer if this kept up, so he had to finish this quickly, thus, with that in mind, he mentally sent them the order to destroy Asta as soon as possible.

His Golem Army began to rapidly advance onto their position, to which Yuno and Asta continued fighting him whilst occasionally destroying those of the Golems which got too close for comfort. They met their ends either by the massive swings of Asta's Sword, or the ranged attacks coming from Yuno's Wind Magic abilities.

Unfortunately for Mars, things were slowly getting worse and worse for him, as the more they fought, the smaller his Army became, since Asta's blade proved once and for all that it would not yield to the hands of any magic, annoying as it might be.

It carved through the opposition to its edge without any kind of prejudice, making it so that it looked like some kind of all-devouring cleaver. Not to mention that, thanks to Asta and Yuno's teamwork (well, more like the two kept trying to one-up one another which conveniently helped them gain an upper hand, so calling it 'teamwork' would be stretching it a little too much), he kept having to waste energy to keep them at the ideal distance of him.

In the end, he got a bit annoyed despite the crystals that were repressing most of his emotional responses, so he started to improvise.

At that moment, he began unleashing a wave of Crystals at the two, wanting to finish them off right then and there. Asta and Yuno could only see a wave of crystals that almost covered the entire hall they were in and advancing at them, all crystals with pointed tips and ready to screw and cut them into ribbons. Yuno, seeing this, sent multiple streams of air that he turned into hurricanes with fine manipulation of air, making massive holes in the wave of crystals but it was not enough. That was when Asta, taking advantage of one of the holes Yuno created, entered it and rushed forward until he busted through the other side. Yuno, in turn, took advantage of this and rushed through the hole Asta helped to complete and kept the hole wide by using the wind to force it open.

Mars, seeing this, decided that he had to take things further or the result might not be positive for him. With that, he turned the pages of his grimoire.

"Crystal Magic: Laevathein."

He called out when the weapon manifested itself overhead. It had a crystalline base, as well as sported a size which could split this entire room in half, the blade looked magnificent and huge in proportions... in essence, not a sword which one wanted to get hit by, which had been the intention behind its creation.

Asta however, gave no such fucks as he charged at him, howling one loud war cry which shook the entire room with how loud it had been, yet Mars and Yuno had their attention focused too much on the battle to note that. The formed brought his hand down as the massive crystalline sword swung downwards, striking forth like the hammer of the heavens themselves, intending to smash Asta into a bloody pulp.

On the other hand, said sword wielder howled as he clashed against it, his Anti Magic Sword briefly pausing in its momentum when the huge form collided with it... before it simply slammed right through the weapon, allowing Asta to continue his charge unimpeded once again. Raising the sword, the loudmouth made to strike Mars down, said man howling as he male to throw a magic-enhanced punch at him...

Only for a purple haired female to suddenly appear right before him and launch a magic attack against him, one which took the form of a swarm of flies the size of a human's hand. The attack got aimed towards his torso area, and she intended for it to knock him back away from Mars...

"Move it, lady!"

… Sadly, Asta refused to let this chance skip by, so instead he just twisted into a spin, deflecting the attack with his blade before swinging it into her side without holding back, causing the girl to gasp as she got sent flying through the air, spinning like a wheel. Not giving her more attention, Asta closed in on Mars, and when he tried to resist him, the loudmouth bypassed his last weak strike before slicing him diagonally across the chest.

Asta sighed in relief as he saw that he managed to hit both Mars and the purple haired woman with his sword. He was about to relax when the buzzing of insects started sounding all around him. Looking he saw that hundreds of tiny flies around him. he tried to stand his arms when he noticed he couldn't and as he tried to see why he noticed that he had been bitten by one of the bugs, it was when he hit the purple haired female and the bug's bite had a strong anesthetic effect that numbed his arms instantly.

He looked up and saw how all of those bugs were darting at him and he was getting worried about how to deal with them when a tornado started spinning around him and blocked the bugs while protecting him.

"You really are hopeless, Asta. I had to save you again." Yuno said as he stood close by, his face as smug as it can be while looking at Asta.

Asta could not reply as he focused on getting the feelings on his arms again. It took about 10 seconds but the effects of the anesthetic wore off and with this, he was free to attack again and it was just in time since a sword made of crystal hit the barrier and almost cut him in half if not for him managing to raise the sword in time.

Yuno, meanwhile, had to evade as multiple shots from fleas almost pierced through him if not for him evading just in time.

Looking at this both could see that Mars and Sakura were standing back up, the two had hands in their heads like if a headache was coursing through their heads but the gems that were put inside their bodies forcefully kept them moving despite a repressed part of their minds starting to awaken.

Asta and Yuno were ready, they would not back down in the slightest and they would keep fighting.

BABUMP

They would win this fight!

BABUMP

BABUMP

They began to move again, not noticing two pairs of eyes that were stirred awake by the divine energies in the dungeon looking at the two with high interest.

It was at this moment that an explosion rocketed the walls that had stood firm despite the magic flying rampant, the dashing duo of Asta and Yuno could only stare in awe as the figures of a giant bull made of a storm with golden horns and Kyogre broke the wall, the epic fight the two could see with these beasts and the fight between Shirou and Ishtar was enough to make the two shocked, the proportions of that fight were much higher than what either could do at the moment.

And yet, the most shocked one was Sakura. As she saw Shirou and Ishtar she could remember the dreams she had growing up, the only bright spots in all her life that existed despite the gems that locked away her emotions and made her little more than a doll when she was awake. In those dreams she remembered seeing Ishtar, she was bossy and liked to order people around but as the two came to know one another again after years with the help of Shirou she could remember the care Ishtar, no, Nee-sama showed her.

And as for Shirou, he was her light, perfect in every way and he was understanding to her always and cared for her always, he was gentle, kind, strong, valiant, nice, perfect, he, he was her.

"... sempai?" Sakura said, the gems inside her working overtime to restraint the emotions that had been released momentarily after the impact of Asta's sword in her.

And, despite the chaos of the battle and the intensity of it all, despite the distance and despite her words just now be more a whisper that even those right by her side should not have been able to hear, Shirou turned his gaze at her and as their eyes crossed her confusion seemed to dissolve even as the gems continued doing their best to turn her back to a broken doll.

His gaze, as he looked at her carried care for her wounds, worry over her situation, gentleness like none could hope to match, and resoluteness to save her despite anything else. It was just like her dreams, he had the same gaze that always made her feel that she was cared, that he was HER hero.

"Sempai!" She shouted, but as she did so the gem inside her entered its safety measures, forcing her to pass out while sending a signal to her caretaker.

On Luck and Lotus' battle, the situation was not going well for either of them. Luck's speed and power were superior by an overwhelming margin but his power was being seeped away rapidly by the smoke around him that was draining him of his energy. Meanwhile, Lotus was also annoyed as his energy too was being seeped away as his body was constantly being hit by Luck and despite his magic being quite powerful, it spent a lot of energy to form and reform his body after an impact.

They were about to pass out together when Lotus felt the signal gem in his body sent him the worst possible message.

"No, it can't be." Lotus said as he turned and ran away, not carrying in the slightest even as Luck followed him. He knew perfectly well what that signal meant. He had to go and rescue Sakura before it was too late. If he did not have her back in his custody within the next ten minutes then not only her but everyone in the area would die as she had a magic bomb implanted in her body to the case her emotions were recovered as Moris could not risk her going back being herself.

His plans revolved in her continuing as his puppet, after all, she was probably the most important person for Moris in this dungeon and if she was to awaken her memories and emotions Moris would rather have her die than risk it. She was that important for the Diamond kingdom, she was, after all, the first and only heir to the throne, the most useful puppet of Moris after the king himself.