["You, are y to steal the Holy Grail from me just to spout this nonsense?"]

  [Artoria was furious at Gilgamesh's audacious and humiliating remarks.]

  [Before she could recover, awo ons from his Gate of Babylon pierced her.]

  ["I didn't ask for your opinion."]

  [Gilgamesh smirked faintly, his tone filled with arrogance.]

  ["This is my decision. Now, let me hear your response."]

  [Artoria, her resolve unshaken, replied firmly: "I refuse!"]

  [In an instant, another bde struck her, f her further down.]

  ["You're quite stubborn for someone who looks so shy."]

  [Gilgamesh taunted, his tone filled with mockery. "But no matter, no matter how many times you make mistakes, I'll five you."]

  ["Answer me again."]

  Tohsaka Rin: "I said it before, this guy is a plete scumbag!"

  Tohsaka Rin: "What marriage? This is just an excuse to abuse someone weaker than him!"

  Ishtar: "What's his guy used to pull stunts like this back when he was younger."

  Iskandar: "Gilgamesh, I had started to think there was some merit to you, but clearly, I was wrong."

  Gilgamesh: "Hmph, the opinions of a mongrel mean nothing to me."

  The First Emperor: "No matter how vast your treasury or how strong your power, it ot pensate for the pettiness of your character."

  Gilgamesh: "What did you say, you insignifit ant?"

  The First Emperor: "Only a barbarian would find satisfa in such base acts of cruelty."

  Gilgamesh: "Very well. It seems someone has fotten their pce."

  Gilgamesh: "I'll take great pleasure in showing you how insignifit your so-called empire is before my might."

  The First Emperor: "e and try. I'll be waiting."

  Gilgamesh: "Hmph!"

  [As Gilgamesh prepared to strike Artoria again, Emiya Kiritsugu appeared on the nearby stands.]

  ["Kiritsugu!"]

  [Artoria's eyes lit up. Despite her pain, she immediately signaled for Kiritsugu to use the and Seal.]

  [If she could receive an order through the and Seal, she could regairength to fight against Gilgamesh.]

  [Kiritsugu did indeed begin to use a and Seal, but the order he gave left Artoria in plete shock.]

  ["By the power of the and Seal, Saber, destroy the Holy Grail!"]

  ["What did you say?!"]

  [Artoria's voice was filled with disbelief and anger. She had no idea what was happening.]

  [Her body, however, could no longer resist the and. She stood up abruptly, the treasures embedded in her body ejeg themselves as her wounds healed.]

  [Excalibur appeared in her hands, and the Holy Sword began to glow with radiant power as it aimed at the Lesser Grail.]

  ["Why… why is it you, Kiritsugu?!!!"]

  [Artoria roared in rage, her voice eg across the battlefield.]

  [The events of the Holy Grail War had already left her devastated. The Holy Grail was her st shred of hope.]

  [But now, Kiritsugu had ordered her to destroy it with her own hands.]

  ["Foolish mongrel, do you io ruin my wedding? You idiot!"]

  [Gilgamesh, equally eurned his attention to Kiritsugu, prepared to attack him directly.]

  ["By the power of the third and Seal, Saber, destroy the Holy Grail!"]

  [Kiritsugu used his final and Seal, reinf his initial order.]

  [The repeated and doubled the power c through Artoria's body, f her to obey.]

  ["Stoppp!!!"]

  [Artoria, uo resist, let out a furious, anguished cry as she raised Excalibur high and swung it down toward the Grail.]

  [The overwhelming light of the Holy Sword enveloped the eage in an instant.]

  [Even Gilgamesh, with all his arrogance, was uo withstand its might and was blown back by the radiant power.]

  [At the very st moment, a siear fell from Artoria's eye.]

  ["Our bond was limited to three and Seals. How could I possibly uand his heart?"]

  ["I couldn't even grasp the iions of the person closest to me."]

  ["Perhaps this is the punishment I deserve as a king who 'does not uand human nature.'"]

  [The blinding light of Excalibur illumihe darkness pletely, and with it, King Arthur's form disappeared into nothingness.]

  [King Arthur, exit.]

  [The correswer is D.]

  [gratutions to Waver, Chihiro, Artoria, Iskandar, La, Hassan of the Hundred Faces, Emiya Kiritsugu, Irisviel, Zhang Jiao, Red Hare, El-Melloi II, the First Emperor, and Sigurd for earning 3 Saint Quartz and advang to the round.]

  [The rest of the partits who answered incorrectly will lose 1 Saint Quartz.]

  Kayh: "Well, Emiya Kiritsugu… though I detest you, I have to admit, I respect you for this decision."

  It wasn't something everyone could do, rejeg the ultimate wish-granting device.

  Kayh: "If it were me, I doubt I could turn down the Grail so easily. I'd probably try my luck, thinking it would work out somehow."

  Tohsaka Tokiomi: "I feel the same. I'm not sure I could have made such a choice."

  Iskandar: "This man is truly decisive."

  The First Emperor: "Such decisions are the mark of someoh real ambition."

  Gilgamesh: "Hmph. What a pathetid empty clusion."

  Artoria: "..."

  Waver: "I didn't expect all of this arguing and fighting to end like this…"

  Chihiro: "Doesn't it make all the battles we saw feel a little… pointless?"

  Waver: "...Yeah. So many people lost their lives, all for this. It's not worth it."

  [The video resumed.]

  ["That… that's!"]

  [As the smoke cleared, Kiritsugu looked at the destroyed Lesser Grail. Relief began to show on his face, until he saw it.]

  [A massive, gaping hole appeared where the Lesser Grail oood, but the destru of the Grail had dohing to stop the phenomenon.]

  ["No way!"]

  [Even Gilgamesh, who had been thrown into the rubble by Excalibur's bst, stared in stunned disbelief.]

  [Bck mud began surging from the hole, an ominous torrent that rapidly spread throughout the stage.]

  [Gilgamesh's body was caught by the mud, and it began to pull him in.]

  ["This… this is impossible!"]

  [Kiritsugu, utterly shocked, watched as the bck mud began to spread beyond the stage, surging toward Fuyuki City.]

  [Within minutes, half of the city was engulfed in fmes aation, reduced to a sea of fire and ash.]

  [Kiritsugu staggered forward, his mind bnk as he stumbled into the burning city, desperate to save anyone he could.]

  [But no one could be saved. Not a single civilian survived the disaster.]

  ["Ahhhh!!!"]

  [As Kiritsugu k among the bodies, his scream echoed through the burning ruins, filled with despair and anguish.]

  [The video paused.]

  [Question: What is Gilgamesh's ultimate fate?]

  [A: Exit, returning to the Throne of Heroes if defeated.]

  [B: Be corrupted by the mud and turned into a dark servant.]

  [C: Take on physical form and remain in the world permaly.]

  [D: terattack, successfully defeating Angra Mainyu.]

  [Please answer within five minutes. Exceeding the time limit will t as forfeiting.]

  Kayh: "So this is the truth behind the burning of Fuyuki."

  Waver: "Damn it… how could something like this happen?!"

  Artoria: "So, all we fought for was… this?"

  Her voice trembled as she stared at the s, her heart heavy with the weight of tless lives lost.

  Kiritsugu: "..."

  Irisviel: "Kiritsugu…"

  Tohsaka Tokiomi: "Such terrifyiru… This is the true nature of the 'Evil of the World.'"

  Kayh: "It's undeniable that this thing has the power to wipe out humanity."

  Chihiro: "Director, that's a bit of an exaggeration."

  Chihiro: "There are still plenty of powerful figures—mages, spirits, aies who could stop it if they chose to. The problem is, would they care enough to act?"

  Kayh: "True… but most of those figures would probably stand bad do nothing, even if this caused irreparable damage."

  Chihiro: "Exactly. That apathy is the real danger."

  The First Emperor: "Hmph. This is why I despise such so-called 'mages.'"

  Waver: "But didn't you gather many 'mages' to create elixirs during yn?"

  The First Emperor: "That was a necessary promise to pursue immortality."

  The First Emperor: "In the end, those people took advantage of me, treating me like a fool. Especially Xu Fu."

  The First Emperor: "If history taught me ohing, it's that you only rely on yourself."

  Chihiro: "There's an old rumor about Xu Fu settling in Japan, isn't there?"

  The First Emperor: "I'm well aware, and I've already found the remnants of their work."

  Chihiro: "Wait, what?"

  The First Emperor: "Yes, just retly."

  Zhang Jiao: "Are you saying Xu Fu left successors behind?"

  The First Emperor: "No, Xu Fu died long ago, but I've discovered someone tinuing their research."

  The First Emperor: "What disgusts me is that instead of pursuing the elixir of immortality as I ahis successor dared to research methods to kill immortals."

  Zhang Jiao: "Kill immortals? Do immortals actually exist?"

  The First Emperor: "The records left behind are fragmented, but they do include refereo enters with so-called immortals."

  Kayh: "Immortals, you say? I didn't think such beings truly existed."

  El-Melloi II: "The world is vast. It's not impossible, though such cims are rare."

  Tohsaka Rin: "You're all going off-topic! Shouldn't we be fog on the question instead?"

  Waver: "ht. The video was so overwhelming I fot about the question."

  Tohsaka Rin: "Half the time has already passed. Hurry up and make your choices!"

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