[h2]The [i]First[/i] Caster, Anno Stop Being Imprecise[/h2]

Sadly, it seemed that their plans  left little time to continue trying to get to know the Greek hero... not that she seemed to be responding well to it in the first place. Maybe she would have to step back and try a slightly more [i]measured[/i] approach after this. Perhaps try to make a meal with whatever Chaldea might have available... if there was an opportunity, hunt something before returning and cook a meal with that...

Even a genius emperor such as herself had to cast aside such thoughts when going to confront a monster of this magnitude. Long-range bombardment as a distraction... it would obviously be helpful to have something in mind before going on, and what better than to once again show her superiority to Apollo? Naturally, there was a distinct lack of a chariot to help, but a laser to equal the sun... yes, if she took the idea of firing many beams of light and concentrated them on [i]one[/i] spot, then even that mutt would take notice!

Until it hid itself with a wall of ice. A small matter, though, as the blonde's perpetually-levitating stance ([i]not[/i] because of height!) rose slightly higher and her gesture pointed at it. Focus the beams and burn through, it would still work for certain...!

Work it did--at least on breaking through the wall of ice, the concentrated lasers spearing through and causing the wall to melt around. Unfortunately, whatever lay beyond was [i]not[/i] particularly hampered by the magical force heading its way, breaking through enough firepower to represent the majority of Nero's reserves and penetrating through its own wall with a pace to suddenly leap upon Saber--

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[h2]Alter-Ego[/h2]

Quite what anyone might have been expecting to intercept Fenrir and its enormous bulk couldn't be said, but what [i]did[/i] evidence itself was a blur of white; a ball spinning from the edge of the cavern and ramping off a small ledge and smashing into the enormous beast--though even though the ball was itself far bigger than a person, the sun-eater dwarfed it. But when it hit, there was a thunderclap, and the white figure spun off to land on its feet--and the beast's charge was thrust aside, staggering and forcing it to find its footing again.

As for the source of the ball? Now revealed to be a white bear, its "owner" was walking forwards towards Keisuke, firing frozen arrows into the summoned beasts. A small, doll-like girl dressed in pink, but with a serious expression--"Saber's here as well?"