"Betty!" You call to your Servant, and to your great relief, she manifests her physical form in front of you. "Could you create something to explore that building? I have just a little too much faith in Shishou's magecraft, and I can't help but feel like there are going to more than a few magical traps that have remained active even with the building in this much of a state." You highly doubt that any firefighter actually took the risk of heading inside the abandoned building as they were fighting the fire that has consumed the place. After all, as an officially abandoned building, why would they have any reason to suspect people were within it?

"OK, Master!" Betty quickly summons up an odd looking figure, it's vaguely humanoid, though its entire body is spindly, with thorn like spines running across the entire surface of the creature. Instead of anything resembling an actual head, there is a transparent octahedron, almost as if it were made from glass. Something resembling an eyeball seems to dwell inside the creatures "head".

Without any warning, the creature suddenly breaks into a sprint and dashes right into the burned out wreck. Mere instants later, there's a flash of purple light and a crunching sound. You don't need to wonder what might've happened to the strange stickman like creation of Betty's for more than a few seconds, because a fragment of angled glass that looks almost exactly like a half of the bizarre creature's head comes shooting out of the front door of the workshop. Good grief Touko. You really weren't messing about with this place, were you? Of course that does beg the question of just who would be able to deal such damage... Even though the traps are of course attuned to not activate on you or anyone you designate as having permission, they activated regardless. "Betty. Send another one in."

Betty is a little more reluctant this time, but she obliges, creating something similar to the first though this one is even spindlier, having some weird sort of triple joined back and charging into the building on all fours. This time there's a shine of flashing red light, before you hear a distinctly different sort of crunching noise to the first time. The building then jettisons the body of the invader outside once again, allowing you to inspect the damage done to the beast. This time, the building doesn't seem to have almost entirely incinerated the strange beast of Betty's creation, instead, the body of the creature has been crumpled up into a ball, no larger than a basketball and almost completely smooth. There's a black goo leaking from multiple cracks running throughout it. You find yourself incredibly glad that you decided not to explore the building with somebody less expendable. Sakura and the Servants with Magic Resistance would probably have been alright though... probably.

Part 14