Einzbern Castle.
The morning sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows, spilling onto the soft, large bed.
After an entire night of being tended to by Hansen's divine power, Sakura Matou—
No, whether it was the Matou Family or the Tohsaka Family, those two surnames that carried darkness and pain were already things of the past.
Sakura was sleeping peacefully.
Those terrifying scars had vanished, and her previously withered, purplish hair had regained a hint of luster.
Although her complexion remained pale, her breathing had become steady and long.
Hansen sat by the bedside, holding a wooden comb he had just requested from Irisviel, gently combing through the little girl's somewhat messy hair.
Although, as the Monster King, such delicate work was a bit beneath him, watching the little one's increasingly peaceful sleeping face gave him a sense of accomplishment in this "raising" process that wasn't half bad.
Suddenly.
Hansen's combing motion paused slightly.
In his eyes, which had been gentle moments ago, a flash of platinum divine light instantly flickered.
His gaze seemed to pierce through the castle walls and the layers upon layers of forest barriers, seeing the pitch-black miasma rapidly approaching in the distance.
As well as the pathetic wretch following behind the miasma, coughing up blood while laughing maniacally.
"Oh?"
The corners of Hansen's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a playful smile.
He did not stand up, merely continuing his work, gently tucking a stray lock of hair from Sakura's forehead behind her ear.
"Were you drawn here by the commotion from last night?"
At this moment, rapid and heavy footsteps sounded outside the door; it was Saber's instinctive warning of danger as a warrior.
Hansen set down the comb and looked at the forest outside the window, which had been peaceful until a violent, black killing intent startled the birds into the sky.
"However, this stray mad dog seems to have chosen the wrong target to bite."
With a soft huff, Hansen's attention returned to the sleeping girl on the bed.
The firelight in the fireplace danced, dispelling the cold, damp air unique to Fuyuki City.
The room was extremely quiet, with only the occasional sound of wind and snow whistling outside the window.
Having been washed of grime and dressed in clean pajamas, Sakura looked like an exquisite porcelain doll covered in cracks.
Even in deep sleep, her brows remained furrowed, and her pale little hands gripped the bedsheets beneath her tightly.
As if the moment she let go, she would fall back into that hell filled with insects.
"What a dilapidated body."
Hansen's gaze swept over the girl's body like an X-ray.
Although he had roughly erased all the Crest Worms with his divine power last night, the traces left by those disgusting creatures were etched into her very marrow.
Her original Magic Circuits had withered and necrotized, her vitality was overdrawn, and even her soul had been stained with a sickening color by that filthy worm magecraft.
From inside to out, she had been branded by the Matou Family.
However, in front of the current Hansen, nothing was irreversible.
He slowly raised his right hand, and a drop of brilliant liquid brilliance condensed at the tip of his index finger.
This was [Imaginary Divine Power] condensed into liquid form, containing the vast and formidable life potential of his [Ultimate Evolution].
"Open your mouth."
Hansen commanded softly, as if his words were law.
In her sleep, Sakura subconsciously parted her pale lips slightly.
The drop of platinum liquid fell, and the moment it entered her mouth, it transformed into countless tiny streams of light, rushing frantically through her throat, blood vessels, and meridians, surging into every part of her body!
"Ugh—!"
Sakura's body tensed abruptly, emitting a painful yet suppressed groan.
What appeared to be an invasion and destruction was, in reality, a violent rejection and reorganization of "breaking and then rebuilding."
In Hansen's microscopic perception, the Magic Circuits inside Sakura, which had been riddled with holes from the worms' gnawing, were currently undergoing a domineering cleansing.
The traces of water-attribute magecraft belonging to the Matou Family were forcibly erased, leaving not even a scrap behind.
The imaginary number attribute talent belonging to the Tohsaka Family was infinitely magnified, purified, and then sublimated.
"Since it is an imaginary number, let's do it more thoroughly."
The Imaginary Space was also under the control of the [Authority of Dimension]. With a thought from Hansen, the mark of his divine power sank deeply into the girl's newly born circuits.
This was no longer the clumsy trick of a Magus borrowing natural mana through Magic Circuits.
This was engraving circuits of divine power directly onto a mortal body!
"Hum—!!!"
A strange fluctuation erupted from Sakura's thin, small body.
The Magic Circuits that had originally adhered to her body were completely shattered, replaced by a brand-new energy transmission system as complex and precise as a star map, and filled with a violent aesthetic.
If she had previously been a coal-burning steam engine, now she was a miniature nuclear fusion reactor.
In the EVA world, Hansen had already had many experiences using divine power baptism to transform mortal bodies.
Although there were slight differences in the details this time, the actual execution was natural and effortless, something he was well-versed in.
"Hoo..."
As the last bit of impurities was expelled from her body, Sakura's furrowed brows finally relaxed.
Her skin became translucent, like the finest suet jade, with a faint divine radiance faintly visible flowing beneath her skin.
That previously withered purple hair was now as smooth as a waterfall, with the tips even tinged with an imperceptible silver-white.
Just then, the door was gently knocked upon.
"Mr. Han Sen, I have brought the clothes."
Irisviel pushed the door open and entered, followed by Saber, who looked vigilant but whose eyes also revealed concern.
However, when the two saw the scene on the bed, their movements froze.
"This... is this that child?" Irisviel covered her mouth, her ruby-like eyes filled with disbelief.
As a homunculus of the Einzbern family, she was the most sensitive to mana.
How could the person lying on the bed now be the dying castaway from yesterday?
That was simply a breathing mana vortex!
That mana concentration, pure to the point of being heart-stopping, was even more exaggerated than her, the lesser grail!
"You... what did you do to her?" Saber was also stunned.
She could feel that the aura emanating from the girl's body faintly carried a trace of the pressure similar to what Hansen had exuded the previous night.
That was an existence of a higher order, one that transcended humanity.
"I just trimmed the branches that had grown crookedly, and applied a little fertilizer while I was at it."
Hansen retracted his hand nonchalantly, as if he had just done something trivial, and turned back with a faint smile: "Hmm, that's about it."
"Is that so?!" Saber felt her common sense regarding magecraft being rubbed into the ground. "Even Medea, the witch of the Age of Gods, couldn't accomplish this level of Magic Circuit reconstruction!"
"Don't compare me to that second-rate trash." Hansen stood up and took the dress from Irisviel's hands. "It's too demeaning."
Saber: "..."
So angry, but unable to refute it.
(Caster (shaking with rage):???)
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