[h2][center]Kumozaki Keisuke[/center][/h2]
The sudden "generosity" of the new Caster caused Keisuke to pause for a moment, half unsure of what to make of the act before deciding that looting the corpses of the risen wasn't exactly all that bad of an idea. Sure, it wasn't exactly... Ethical, in any sense of the phrase, but without anything else to do to get them any actual food (and given that the snacks that Nero had packed didn't exactly count for all that much in terms of nutrition), it was... Well, it was better than nothing.

It took a little bit of waiting, of course, but eventually Skuld had managed to get enough weapons and armor (that looked to be of half-decent quality, though getting them into the town without excessive wariness was a trial all its own) to trade for some goods. The merchants, of course, were happy to oblige, as even if they weren't in the best of shape all of what they had been given could be remade into something better. Probably.

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It had been a few hours since they had finished purchasing whatever it was that they had needed, and given that Siegfried was currently being given a place to stay on behalf of the townsfolk for protecting them, the group had all ended up... More or less relaxing and preparing for the skirmish to come. That in and of itself was fine, at least, but with the sun starting to set it was only a matter of time before combat would begin anew.

[h2][center]Tomoe Gozen[/center][/h2]
As she watched the sun slowly begin to set, the Archer took a deep breath before picking up her bow from where she had laid it down earlier. If what Siegfried had told them held true, then it would only be a matter of time before the undead would come to assault the city's (now reinforced) walls. Of course, this was a siege regardless of how one phrased it, and that only meant that her role as the rearguard was all the more important.

"Master, should we be heading out soon?" she asked, looking towards Keisuke before receiving a slight nod in return.

"It's... Just about sunset, so that'd probably be for the best. Siegfried?"

"My wound from earlier has recovered thanks to those pastries from earlier, so I should be ready for combat. Let us depart."

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Almost as if on cue, the setting sun heralded the rise of more of the undead from beneath the snow, but what caught the Archer's eyes was the ghastly blue flame that was slowly encroaching upon their current position. The culprit was obvious enough, given what had happened the night before, but what was more intriguing was the fact that the Servant was now being flanked by wolves; not only that, but the undead rising from the earth seemed to be far greater in number than the hordes that they had decimated the night prior.

"Hm. Do you think this is a response to our arrival last night?" Keisuke asked, calmly surveying the snow-covered fields with a stern gaze.

"Almost certainly. In any case, let us begin tonight's trial," the Saber responded, taking a deep breath as he leaped off the town's walls and into the horde of zombies before beginning to cut his way through. As if on cue, the Servant in the distance also began to close in, the wolves by her side in close pursuit.

"No fancy stratagems or trickery? How fortunate," Tomoe remarked, a glint in her eye as she began to fire away at the wolves in an attempt to lessen their numbers before they reached the walls. The zombies, at the very least, she could leave to the others to clean up for the moment.

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