[ The thing is, Sakura has already realized she is probably "doomed" here. As soon as she caught a glimpse of that light... she knew, somehow, that it was the antithesis to whatever new "Shadow" has risen up within her. Just as she knew Shirou and Rin had prepared the perfect counter to her powers and abilities.
If she had been better prepared... if she had melted a number of cyborgs down and swallowed the "Umbra" into herself, Sakura thinks her power might have rivaled what it had been during her first time with the Shadow. At that time, her power had been described as limitless. And then she might have had a chance. But then again, perhaps not. That light she sees... it's like the opposite of a curse, isn't it? Again, the perfect counter.
Even if she is going to lose, she will at least spend what remains of her energy and fight until the end. In a last desperate move -- not really strategizing or planning so much as just acting out -- Sakura bundles the energy of her shadows, releasing them all at once. Towering shadows rise and essentially explode outwards in different shapes, sometimes bursting forth as splatters and whorls of darkness. To get through and touch her, one will have to tear through the winding, whirling curtains and ribbons thereof. ]
Why?
[ It's an open-ended question, perhaps. But a simple one.
Why intervene? To what purpose? Just... general heroism, maybe? Another... to save the world...? ]
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If she had been better prepared... if she had melted a number of cyborgs down and swallowed the "Umbra" into herself, Sakura thinks her power might have rivaled what it had been during her first time with the Shadow. At that time, her power had been described as limitless. And then she might have had a chance. But then again, perhaps not. That light she sees... it's like the opposite of a curse, isn't it? Again, the perfect counter.
Even if she is going to lose, she will at least spend what remains of her energy and fight until the end. In a last desperate move -- not really strategizing or planning so much as just acting out -- Sakura bundles the energy of her shadows, releasing them all at once. Towering shadows rise and essentially explode outwards in different shapes, sometimes bursting forth as splatters and whorls of darkness. To get through and touch her, one will have to tear through the winding, whirling curtains and ribbons thereof. ]
Why?
[ It's an open-ended question, perhaps. But a simple one.
Why intervene? To what purpose? Just... general heroism, maybe? Another... to save the world...? ]