Hope. Hope is the one thing that Saber Alter is missing that overshadows everything else. Everything else she lost was nothing in comparison to the difficulty of losing her hope. The loss of her hope is what twisted her into the savage and cold woman the curses have transformed her into. You imbue the concept of hope itself into the dragon, and then observe as something... strange, begins to happen before your very eyes.

Just as the dragon is about to finish its attempt to eat you, it seizes up, and starts glowing a bright white. No, it starts transforming into white energy! The entire dragon soon begins to slowly shift into a huge ball of pure white energy, and within it, a silhouette appears. A silhouette of a woman with... translucent wings. For some reason, you can tell that the featureless silhouette is smiling directly at you, but before anything else can happen, the world is suddenly snatched away from you.

You feel yourself being thrown to the ground, and you look up to see Saber... Alter? pointing her sword at your throat. She still doesn't have an ahoge, but she sure does look different. Her hair color has returned to it's natural hue, her eye color has become a bright blue, and her dress has turned pure white. The biggest change however, is the set of translucent and delicate looking wings projecting from her back. Like the wings of an especially delicate butterfly.

[Status Updated!]

"What did you do to me, Magus?!" The woman roars at you in anger, and you can see out of the corner of your eyes your allies, unsure how to respond to this sudden attack from the woman who was only moments ago unconscious. They must realize that an attack on her at this point would end with you getting the sword she wields stabbed through your throat. Well, Excalibur seems different as well, actually. The sword itself is pure white, just like her dress.

"Calm down, Saber! I... tried to get rid of the curses that made up your body, by... restoring the concept of hope to you... Or that might not be quite accurate, I actually gave you... power over hope." The realization of just what you did makes you pause for a minute. It seems that by giving her such a power, she has somehow managed to transform into a fairy, like her sister.

Part 26