"Unforgivable!" Talent like mine that could shake the whole world, wiped out just because some authority acted arbitrarily—there's no justice in that. But not a single person sympathized with Waver's anger.
The Mage's Association has already rotted to the core.
He's jealous! Afraid of the talent I've been hiding. What infuriated Waver most was that the man treated his paper so brutally, tearing it to pieces in public.
Watching the scraps flutter through the air, all that remained in Waver's heart was rage.
"Hey, did you hear? Instructor Kayneth, to add another glorious line to his vain resume, has decided to take part in a magecraft competition being held in the nearby Far East."
"No way. Seriously?"
Just then, Waver heard this rumor. After that, Waver began digging through information nonstop, and when he finally got what he wanted to know, he was shocked by what he found.
With the wish-granting machine "Holy Grail," which contains immense mana, as the stake, heroic spirits are made to appear in the modern world, and by driving those heroic spirits, combatants fight to the death.
Titles and authority—none of it matters. A true contest decided solely by strength.
It was indeed somewhat barbaric, but it was also a simple and fair way to determine superiority.
And by a twist of fate, Waver stole the Holy Relic that his instructor Kayneth had intended to use.
A fragment of the cloak of the King of Conquerors, Alexander Iskandar.
In the end, Waver set out with the Holy Relic, longing for the remote mountains of the Far East—Fuyuki City.
"So you really did find King Arthur's scabbard." Inside the Einzbern castle, the previously expressionless man looked at one of the biggest BUGs in the FATE series and one of the strongest Noble Phantasms, "The Ever-Distant Utopia" Avalon, and said flatly.
This man had a name that carried considerable weight in the magecraft world—the Magus Killer, Kiritsugu Emiya.
One of the strongest conceptual armaments: as long as it's equipped, it continuously heals its owner and can even halt aging.
In one route of FSN, it even blocked a strike from Goldie Gilgamesh's Sword of Rupture.
"Artoria Pendragon—I will use this to summon you." Kiritsugu clenched his right hand hard, the Command Spells stamped on the back of it, and said.
"I will save this world."
A hero of justice?! Shirou Emiya's ideal came from his adoptive father, Kiritsugu Emiya, but the way the two of them went about it couldn't have been more opposite.
One was extreme realism, the other extreme idealism.
In the Tohsaka mansion, to avoid letting his wife and daughter be affected by the Holy Grail War, Tokiomi Tohsaka chose to have his wife, Aoi Tohsaka, take his daughter, Rin Tohsaka, to stay temporarily at a temple in Zenjo.
"Kirei, I really can't bring myself to like you!" As expected of Rin Tohsaka—relying on her sharp intuition, she more or less saw through Kirei "Mapo" Kotomine even before the Holy Grail War began.
But Rin, Mapo isn't just unreliable—he's a very dangerous man.
"Does Sakura need to go in and say goodbye one last time?" Outside the Tohsaka mansion, Meruem held Sakura's small hand and watched from afar. "Maybe it'll be hard to see them again in the future."
"No, Meru... let's go. They have nothing to do with Sakura anymore. My only family is you, Meru." Sakura looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar mansion and said lightly.
Meruem gently lifted Sakura and set her on his not-yet-broad shoulder. "Sakura, if you want to say something or do something, then go do it. With me, do you still want to hide it?"
"Mom... Rin..." After hearing Meruem, Sakura stayed silent for a long time, only staring quietly at the Tohsaka mansion. At last, just as Rin and Aoi got into the car and were about to leave, she called out softly.
"Let's go, Meru. Let's go home. I'm tired already."
"Yes, my princess."
"Hm?" Rin and Aoi never noticed Sakura's presence all the way until they left, but someone else standing beside them did notice Meruem.
"What is it, Kirei?" Tokiomi Tohsaka asked.
"Nothing. Perhaps it was just my imagination," Kirei said in a formulaic tone, but inwardly he was thinking something else—That man just now was dangerous.
"Kirei... come with me." The Holy Relic for the Servant Tokiomi Tohsaka intended to summon—the fossil of the skin of the Primordial Serpent.
This day was no ordinary day for Fuyuki City, because tonight, seven heroic spirits summoned by magi were about to appear.
Place the Holy Relic on the prepared magic circle; as long as you recite the corresponding incantation and establish the contract, you can summon—heroic spirits—from heroes who died in ages past.
"Come forth, guardian of the scales!"
"Heh heh, starting today... all of Fuyuki City is going to get lively." Standing atop the roof of the Matou family's new home, sensing several powerful energies around Fuyuki City, Meruem said calmly.
"That one over there is the Tohsaka family's... Gilgamesh. As expected of the oldest king—he just feels strong." "And that one over there is Waver's King of Conquerors, right? Compared to Goldie, he's not inferior at all." "Kayneth and Kiritsugu probably still need a few more days before they show up. And Kirei will wait until Tokiomi summons Goldie. That leaves one more: the Bluebeard summoned by the serial killer Ryuunosuke."
"Wait... who is that over there?" Suddenly, Meruem snapped his gaze toward the other side of Fuyuki City. A presence had appeared there that had never existed in his memories.
Meruem's memory couldn't be wrong. That could only mean that a figure not belonging to the FZ storyline had appeared at that location.
It was also a quite formidable power.
Kariya Matou, who was supposed to summon Berserker, still hadn't appeared even now...
"Hmph, so it really is you, you old worm... You actually took over Kariya Matou's body, and you still won't give it up, even now. Or do you really think I can't find you?" Meruem closed his eyes, then opened them again not long after, and said.
As long as Meruem wanted to, no one in Fuyuki City could evade his search unless they used an extremely sophisticated barrier.
Don't forget Meruem's abilities: aura-based scouting that can sense an opponent's strength, and the ability that can perceive everything about the opponent—En.
"But... even if you summoned a Servant, so what? This is getting more and more interesting. The winner of this Holy Grail War can only be me."
"I am the Ant King, Meruem."
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