"Huh?"
Under the collective are you serious right now expressions filling the room, Shirou Emiya spoke calmly.
"There's sothing important that soone among us already knows very well."
"But they've chosen not to say it."
"I understand the caution behind that choice."
"But I think it's better to bring it into the open."
The atmosphere shifted instantly.
"What is it, Senpai Shirou?"
Sensing a major reveal, Fujimaru Ritsuka hurriedly asked.
Shirou Emiya slowly swept his gaze across the room before speaking.
"Gorgon, the Goddess of Vengeance, is not our final enemy."
"The one truly pulling the strings is soone else."
He paused.
"Isn't that right?"
"rlin."
"And King Gilgash."
The mont their nas were called, the two who knew the truth turned their heads in opposite directions.
Both wore identical expressions.
I know absolutely nothing.
"What!?"
"Gorgon isn't the final enemy?"
"There's soone else behind everything!?"
Roman reacted the most strongly.
As the commander overseeing the mission to restore human history, intelligence mattered more to him than anything.
They were already in the most dangerous Singularity.
They had fought this far.
And now he was being told they didn't even know who the real enemy was.
This was hard to accept.
"rlin!"
"What exactly is going on!?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka's gaze shifted between the two insiders before locking onto rlin.
Low-hanging fruit first.
rlin sighed inwardly.
Under Ritsuka's serious stare, he finally gave in.
"Shirou is right."
"Our final opponent isn't the Goddess of Vengeance who borrowed Tiamat's Authority."
"It's the real Tiamat herself."
"...What?"
Ishtar's eyes widened.
"That's impossible."
"Mother is the Goddess of Creation."
"How could she return?"
"That's exactly why she didn't descend as a Divine Spirit."
rlin continued.
"She's coming in a far more terrifying form."
"A Calamity."
"A Beast of Suppression that devours human history."
"Sothing that normally requires seven Grand Class Servants to oppose."
"She is one of the Seven Evils of Humanity."
"She bears the Principle of Regression."
"Her Class-"
"Is Beast II."
The room fell completely silent.
Now that the secret was out, rlin laid everything bare.
"From the mont I was summoned, I sensed her existence."
"So I used a Dream Cage to force Tiamat into deep sleep."
"But at best, that only delays the end of this Singularity."
"To this day, we still haven't found a way to defeat her."
Roman reacted imdiately.
"Then where is she now?"
"In the ocean outside the Persian Gulf."
"...There?"
"That certainly suits her status."
As Chaldea resud frantic calculations and analysis, the royal hall itself sank into heavy silence.
The na alone carried too much weight.
The Goddess of Creation.
Beast II.
Whether it was the goddesses, rlin, Gilgash, or Ritsuka and Mash-
No one spoke.
Shirou Emiya broke the silence.
"The reason I'm laying everything about Tiamat on the table now..."
"...is because she's about to appear."
"And not in the way we expect."
"That's impossible."
rlin frowned.
"Based on my calculations, she should remain asleep for much longer."
"You're right."
Shirou Emiya nodded.
"Under normal circumstances."
"But what if she's startled awake?"
"...Startled?"
Realization flashed through rlin's eyes.
"You an-"
"Gorgon."
"Exactly."
Shirou Emiya's tone was firm.
"Gorgon's Authority-the Womb of the Hundred Demonic Beasts-wasn't copied from Tiamat."
"It's synchronized with her."
"If Gorgon is killed, Tiamat will have effectively 'died' once as well."
"And out of fear of death..."
"...a lightly sleeping Tiamat will inevitably awaken."
The implication settled heavily.
"And when that happens," Shirou Emiya continued, "Tiamat will attack directly."
"And you, rlin-"
"You'll die."
rlin, who was sustaining the Dream Cage from within Tiamat's consciousness, wouldn't even have ti to escape.
Once she woke, he would be erased instantly.
"So this operation has to be divided into two parts."
"One."
"An assault on the Blood Fort Temple where Gorgon resides."
"And two."
"Preparation for Tiamat's revival."
"And the demonic beasts she'll personally create once she awakens."
He exhaled slowly.
"Given our current manpower, we're short."
"That's why..."
"I'll handle Gorgon alone."
A pause.
"Against her-"
"I'm enough."
Silence followed.
Then Gilgash finally spoke.
"Slaying the Goddess of Vengeance by yourself."
"Are you certain?"
Shirou Emiya smiled.
"Of course."
"I'll win."
"To be honest, during our last battle..."
"If I hadn't been worried that killing her would wake Tiamat-"
"I would've ended her before Kingu even arrived."
"It's not like I lack Noble Phantasms specialized against immortality."
"Very well."
Gilgash nodded once.
Then he turned toward Quetzalcoatl.
"Kingu will be yours."
"Winged Serpent."
"Leave it to !"
Quetzalcoatl's smile turned dangerously enthusiastic.
"I'll take very good care of him."
"In that case-"
Gilgash raised his hand.
"The Gorgon Counter-Operation eting is concluded."
Then, without pause-
"Now."
"We convene the Tiamat Counter-Operation eting."
"Yes!"
...
After extensive discussion, the next phase was finalized.
Not a plan to defeat Tiamat.
Not yet.
There simply wasn't enough information.
They could only speculate.
For example, Tiamat's Authority would undoubtedly surpass Gorgon's in efficiency.
She would create even stronger demonic beasts.
Using his "intuition" as a reference, Shirou Emiya warned that the enemy might possess flight capabilities.
That single point forced a major revision of the original plan.
Of course, he couldn't exactly say his information ca from ani.
And even he treated it as reference only.
Blindly trusting it would be suicide.
Once the planning concluded, everyone left the Ziggurat to begin final preparations.
As rlin walked toward the Chaldea Embassy, Shirou Emiya spoke quietly.
"rlin."
"Tomorrow's battle-watch my side closely."
"When I give the signal, imdiately release Tiamat's Dream Cage."
"And then run."
"As fast as you can."
"If you wait until Gorgon is dead..."
"You won't escape."
"We can't afford to lose soone like you right now."
rlin stopped for a mont.
Then he smiled.
"Don't worry."
"How could I die..."
"Before walking with all of you to the very end?"
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