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When Medea led Lily out of the bathroom from the other direction, what she saw was Medusa, who had already changed into a yukata, removed her eye mask, and was reading a book on the soft chair by the window.
Knowing the power of Medusa's Mystic Eyes, Medea shifted her gaze, pulled Lily aside, and while wiping her wet hair with a towel, asked, "Medusa, where did you go just now?"
"Oh, I didn't see Sister Medusa."
Lily, who had already seen what she would look like when she grew up in the bathroom, also said.
Medusa turned to the next page of the storybook in her hand and calmly replied, "There's a hot spring in the mountains near Ryudoji Temple. I went there for a bath."
Hmm... she did indeed discover a hot spring at Ryudoji Temple. As for whether she went or not, Medusa felt no psychological pressure about telling a small lie.
"Oh, a hot spring, you didn't tell us about such a place." Lily took the towel from Medea's hand and said with an expectant look.
"I thought you would go bathe with Master."
Though she spoke with doubt, she had no self-awareness that she had just been lying in Master's bathtub.
Medusa's lips curled slightly upwards, feeling a sense of joy like sneaking a midnight snack.
...This.
Medea didn't think much of it, but she increasingly felt that Esdeath was a bit too much of a hindrance.
Originally, Medea had indeed planned to scrub Master's back and do some unfinished business from the afternoon, but Esdeath was watching like a tiger, so she had to give up the idea of bathing together and entered another bathroom with Lily.
As long as Esdeath was still around, it was truly difficult to have a more intimate relationship with Master.
"Later, when I borrow the Demonic Hell Sanctuary from Master, I'm going to thoroughly deal with you."
Medea thought, grinding her teeth.
In terms of authority among Heroic Spirits, strength ultimately held the majority. Medea knew very well that she would have a hard time winning a one-on-one fight against Esdeath.
By helping Master transform the Banner of Demons into the Demonic Hell Sanctuary, which combined potential, defense, and offense, Medea certainly entertained the idea of using the equipment to deal with Esdeath herself.
After all, Kisaragi Rin had already said he would let her use the equipment, and Esdeath couldn't casually unleash her Noble Phantasm because of Scáthach.
As long as she held the Demonic Hell Sanctuary, Medea felt that her offensive and self-preservation abilities would greatly leap forward. Fighting an Esdeath without time stop, if not easy, would at least be a fifty-fifty chance.
As she thought this, Lily nudged Medea excitedly and suggested, "Let's go to the hot spring together tomorrow!"
"Alright."
Medea agreed, and out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Esdeath also finished bathing and came out.
Wiping her hair with a towel, steam was still rising from Esdeath's body. However, the key point was not this, but that her yukata was worn a bit revealingly.
Her fair, tender shoulders gleamed with water, and the places that should have been restrained had almost broken free from their shackles. The yukata was held in place entirely by the sash that highlighted her waistline.
"Why are you all looking at me?" Being stared at by Medea and Lily, Esdeath displayed curves they couldn't possibly match and continued to ask, "If it's about the hot spring, I want to go too, but who will keep watch tonight?"
Although Heroic Spirits don't need to sleep, it was clear they all wanted to sleep with Master.
During the Holy Grail War, keeping watch was a necessary task. Lily and the two Masters were incapable of keeping watch, so the duty could only fall to one of the remaining four Heroic Spirits.
"I'll keep watch."
This difficult question didn't last long, as Medusa calmly took on the task.
"Thank you for your hard work."
Medea thanked her, and her favorability towards Medusa increased slightly.
At the moment they were about to sleep with Master, the sound from the TV played, and the atmosphere unexpectedly became peaceful. Lily pondered for a moment, realizing this was because Master wasn't here.
Looking around at the expressions of the Heroic Spirits, Lily couldn't help but ask, "So where did Master go?"
At these words, silence fell over the entire room.
...Right, where's Master?
Esdeath also asked.
"It's probably unlikely he hid in the Workshop and won't come out tonight, right?" Medusa said, clearly enjoying the drama.
Lily glanced at Esdeath and Medea, thinking to herself that it wasn't impossible.
"Impossible. Every time Master enters the Workshop, he always explains things first, and then comes out quickly."
"No matter what, it's currently the Holy Grail War. The flow of time in that space is too fast, and we have no means of contacting Master. If he stays inside, and something happens in Fuyuki City, unpredictable situations could easily arise."
Medea's heart first tightened, then she immediately dismissed this possibility from a rational perspective. She began to sense through magic, and finally, her face slightly flushed, she remained silent for a while before saying, "...Master is currently with Saber."
...
"Kisaragi-san, as long as I can save my kingdom, I will accept any conditions!"
"Are you really able to accept any conditions?"
...Mmm, really!
"Let me touch your ahoge."
"No! This is the only thing I cannot allow! The ahoge is a symbol of being a King; it is something that absolutely cannot be touched by others!"
"Didn't you say any condition?"
...Only this condition is unacceptable.
In the pavilion at Ryudoji Temple, Saber secretly arranged to meet Kisaragi Rin and was now bravely resisting Kisaragi Rin's condition while covering the ahoge on top of her head.
Kisaragi Rin sat on the other side, and by shifting his gaze back, he could also see Yukinoshita Yukino, who had secretly come over, wanting to check what Kisaragi Rin and Saber were doing.
"Petite Saber, if you're not even willing to sacrifice your ahoge, how can you talk about saving the ruined Britain?"
Kisaragi Rin looked at Saber and sighed inwardly. Saber's idea for participating in the Holy Grail War was to obtain the Holy Grail and return to the Day of Selection of the King, so that she would no longer pull out the Sword in the Stone to become King Arthur, but live as an ordinary girl, while Britain would be led by a new King Arthur towards a future that would not be destroyed.
However, even if the Holy Grail wasn't the black holy grail that would twist all wishes into world destruction, but rather the Fuyuki City Holy Grail that could theoretically grant wishes, this wish was still impossible to achieve.
After all, if Saber's wish came true, then over a thousand years of history after the destruction of Britain in the Fate World would be negated. If a butterfly can cause a hurricane, let alone her desire to change Britain's history.
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