Chapter 1168: ·The Return of Sajou Manaka

"..."

The members in the group wanted to retort, but they found themselves unable to refute Goetia.

The Mage's Association in the *Fate/Prototype* world was truly courting death with a vengeance!

Even though the First Holy Grail War had nearly brought about total catastrophe, and even though they had learned part of the truth from Sajou Ayaka, they still chose to turn a blind eye.

They would not listen, they would not believe; the omnipotent wish-granting machine must exist.

Sajou Ayaka must have been hallucinating; what could a child possibly understand?

That was the mindset of the Mage's Association.

In fact, only one week after the First Holy Grail War ended, they began plotting the second, successfully restarting it in a mere eight years.

Good grief, that was two years shorter than the ten-year interval in the *Fate* world—were they really that impatient to find their own deaths?

【Tokyo, the great underground cavern.】

【Something was stirring here.】

【Struggling to awaken from a death-like slumber, it was the massive lump of flesh and mud that, eight years ago, should have been completely obliterated by a single strike of the holy sword.】

【It had not vanished; while the overwhelming light had indeed temporarily blasted it—then on the verge of becoming a terrifying beast—out of the underground space, the Evils of Humanity do not run dry!】