Why was the Grail filled with water? Of course, it was because Waver wanted to take this opportunity to observe whether the water inside the Lesser Grail would undergo any changes.
He had already learned the truth about the Grail from Zuke and understood that the inside of the Grail was actually filled with black mud called "All the Evils of This World," completely polluted.
So he wanted to see whether the material inside the "Lesser Grail" connected to the Greater Grail would also be somewhat affected, so he filled it with some water intending to observe.
Who knew that when Reines came back, without a word, she would drink all the water in the Lesser Grail because she was thirsty.
The only fortunate thing was that probably because the current "Lesser Grail" wasn't at the proper manifestation location, it hadn't connected to the Greater Grail, so the water it held wasn't contaminated.
Otherwise, if Reines had just drunk that water down, the consequences would be unimaginable. No one knew what would happen if a human swallowed "All the Evils of This World."
Zuke did know that if Heroic Spirits were eroded by "All the Evils of This World's" black mud, they might become blackened or might obtain "incarnation" and transform into beings with physical bodies.
But what consequences humans would face, he truly didn't know. Probably like Kiritsugu Emiya in the original work, they'd suffer torment from curses.
However, the water Reines drank obviously wasn't contaminated by "All the Evils of This World," so after checking herself and finding nothing abnormal with her body, she felt relieved:
"Really, don't just casually leave such an important thing on the table. It looks just like a decorative water cup."
"Sorry, sorry, it's my fault."
What could Waver say? He could only apologize repeatedly. After all, it really was because he didn't take the Lesser Grail seriously, only noticing after Reines picked up the Lesser Grail and finished the water.
However, this was also unavoidable. After all, the process of Zuke maturing the Lesser Grail was too simple. He just held the cigar in his hand, then after a flash of golden light, the Lesser Grail appeared—the entire process took barely a minute, making it really hard to feel respect for it.
"So where is Mr. Zuke? Has he already left?"
After complaining about Waver, Reines asked again while looking around the hall.
Forget about Zuke—even the ice sculpture of Heroic Spirit EMIYA that had been placed in the corner of the hall had disappeared. One could imagine he had already become fodder for the Lesser Grail.
Zuke had indeed already left. Although the completion of the Holy Grail War was only one step away, Zuke still wanted to first figure out what new functions his "King's Army" had gained.
So he left the Fate/Stay Night mission world and went to the Dragon Ball world, planning to use Garou for some testing.
After returning to Planet Saiya, Zuke directly pulled out his battle power detector and used the built-in communication function to ask where Garou was.
Soon, he learned that Garou and Raditz were training at a certain training ground, so he immediately rushed over.
Although from his perspective, he had only been away from the Dragon Ball world for a few hours before returning, in the Dragon Ball world's view, Zuke had already been away for two days.
So when Zuke found Garou and Raditz at the training ground, he saw that Raditz had already learned the principles of the Kamehameha from Garou and was working hard practicing.
"That's right, that's right. Pour all your ki into your hands, then imagine the feeling of releasing it."
Garou stood with his hands behind his back, a rather nasty smile on his face, pointing and commenting at Raditz who had assumed the Kamehameha stance with both hands.
"You should have seen Lord Zuke use the Kamehameha's magnificence. You need to imagine yourself unleashing that level of power."
Seeing Garou's nasty expression, Zuke knew this guy's true nature was starting to show again—in the original work, this guy's personality was quite nasty.
It's just that before on Planet Saiya, he had been beaten down quite badly by the Saiyans, so for quite a long time he had been very well-behaved.
But now, after being enhanced by Zuke, his strength had improved by leaps and bounds. Plus, he had learned the Kamehameha that other Saiyans didn't know, so he immediately became smug.
Facing Raditz who could originally suppress him, Garou's performance was naturally extremely proud, acting like a know-it-all teacher.
Although Raditz was dissatisfied with Garou's smug attitude, in order to learn the Kamehameha, he could only suppress the thought of beating Garou up and obediently continue learning.
However, for Saiyans who had never been exposed to "ki" and only knew about "battle power," unleashing the Kamehameha to its maximum extent was still quite difficult.
Although Raditz could now also release energy blasts, the power was still somewhat different from the Kamehameha.
Just like in the original work, when Raditz first went to Earth and saw Kakarot use the Kamehameha, his battle power would increase.
A complete Kamehameha could unleash power higher than one's battle power number.
"Alright, Garou, stop bullying kids over there. Come here."
Zuke walked into the training ground and spoke to Garou who was still teaching Raditz.
Garou, who originally had a smug expression on his face, paused upon hearing this, looked at Zuke who had entered the training ground, and his previously somewhat proud expression instantly disappeared.
He quickly ran to Zuke's side, scratching his head with an awkward smile:
"Lord... Lord Zuke, what's the matter?"
Although his strength had improved quite a bit and he could act smug in front of Raditz, a Saiyan brat, Garou was very clear that his power gap with Zuke was still an insurmountable chasm.
Moreover, all this strength of his was given by Zuke. If Zuke was willing, he could take back that portion of energy from his body at any time.
"I told you before, right? This is another world, but you've been active on Planet Saiya this whole time."
Zuke looked at Garou and showed him a strange smile.
"Are you interested in going to see other places? This universe has many interesting locations."
That's right. Zuke planned to use Garou to test the new function of "King's Army"—that is, the ability to let people brought in by "King's Army" go to areas outside its sphere of influence.
In the Dragon Ball world, currently only Planet Saiya was within "King's Army's" sphere of influence.
He planned to use Garou to test whether people brought into the Dragon Ball world by "King's Army" would have any abnormalities after leaving Planet Saiya.
If everything was normal, then Sitonai could also leave the range of his house in the daily world.
To be continued…