Seeing that Medea didn't keep bringing up Kuzuki Souichirou, Rowan immediately let out a sigh of relief. After all, what he'd done here really wasn't exactly honorable.
But then again, while he had cut in ahead of Kuzuki Souichirou, he had also saved Medea's life.
So that made them even.
With that thought, Rowan stopped feeling quite so guilty.
Serie had no interest in romance. After finishing the Fate anime, she became even more curious about the magic of the Fate world and pulled Medea aside to continue discussing magic.
Medea was also very curious about the magic from Serie's world. Since both of them were masters of magic, their exchange went extremely smoothly.
Seeing this, Rowan led everyone else out of the room so they wouldn't disturb the two women's conversation.
Once they were outside, Nico Robin asked curiously, "Boss, you're technically a Master in the Holy Grail War now. What do you plan to do next?"
Rowan already had a plan. He said calmly, "First, kill the King of Heroes. That guy is trouble."
After being contaminated by the black mud, Gilgamesh was not only arrogant and contemptuous of everyone, but also extremely powerful. His Gate of Babylon was especially troublesome. If they didn't deal with him first, it would be hard to proceed with anything else.
Robin agreed completely with Rowan's thinking. After watching Fate, she had gained a deep understanding of how rotten Gilgamesh's personality was.
Clearly, he was someone who believed himself supreme above all. There was absolutely no way he would submit to anyone.
Recruiting the King of Heroes was basically impossible.
So he could only die.
As for how to kill him, that required careful planning. After all, the King of Heroes was very strong, and each of his Noble Phantasms was more absurd than the last.
Fortunately, during the Fifth Holy Grail War, the King of Heroes seemed to have had his brain damaged by the black mud, becoming somewhat idiotic and doing plenty of outrageous things. That gave them an opening.
That night, Rowan brought the group back to Fuyuki City.
However, they didn't check into a hotel. Instead, they went straight to Ryuudou Temple and occupied it.
As for the monks of Ryuudou Temple, Rowan dismissed them all with gold.
Of course, some of them didn't want to leave, such as Ryuudou Issei.
He was the son of the temple's head priest. Ryuudou Temple was his home, and also the property he was supposed to inherit in the future.
Now a group of strangers had suddenly shown up and wanted to drive him out of his own home. How could Ryuudou Issei possibly agree?
Not even money would work.
Left with no choice, Rowan mentally hypnotized him and had Ryuudou Issei take the money and leave with his father.
At that point, only Rowan's group remained in Ryuudou Temple.
Medea and Serie joined forces and turned Ryuudou Temple into a tightly defended magecraft workshop. They set up all kinds of magecraft inside, so densely layered that just looking at it made one's scalp tingle.
If it had been anyone else, building such a secure workshop would have taken quite some time.
But Medea and Serie were both top-tier experts. Building a magecraft workshop was child's play for them.
In just one hour, the workshop was complete.
Unfortunately, aside from Rowan, who knew a little about magic, everyone else present was a complete outsider. They had no idea how impressive this was.
If the people from the Mage's Association saw it, they'd probably kneel on the spot.
It was outrageous. Truly outrageous.
Once the workshop was complete, Rowan used farsight magic and quickly found the King of Heroes wandering through the streets.
According to Fate, this guy had apparently treated Fuyuki City as his own territory for the past ten years.
Every night, he would patrol Fuyuki, and he seemed to enjoy it.
Finding him was almost too easy for Rowan.
But after his gaze swept over Gilgamesh, he didn't linger on him for long.
Because he was worried Gilgamesh would notice.
After all, what he was about to do wasn't exactly glorious. But there was no helping it. Gilgamesh was far too broken a character, so in order to kill him, Rowan had no choice but to use a little trickery.
Inside Ryuudou Temple, he nodded at Yamato.
Yamato held her kanabo. Conqueror's Haki erupted and wrapped around it, black-red lightning exploding outward.
Then Rowan raised his hand and opened an air door.
The door opened directly above Gilgamesh's head.
"Thunder—Bagua!"
In the next second, the kanabo, coated in Conqueror's Haki, smashed viciously down toward Gilgamesh.
"Who dares?"
Gilgamesh's reaction was extremely fast. He noticed almost the instant the air door opened.
But Rowan and Yamato's coordination was even faster. Almost the same moment the door opened, Yamato's kanabo was already smashing toward Gilgamesh's head.
By the time Gilgamesh reacted, the kanabo was only a few centimeters away from his skull.
What could you do with that tiny distance?
The answer was simple—
nothing.
Gilgamesh could only watch as the kanabo slammed into his head with a dull bang.
His head exploded instantly. Blood splattered everywhere, and he died on the spot.
Seeing this, Rowan immediately let out a breath.
One-hit kill.
Gilgamesh's headless body swayed a few times, then collapsed to the ground with a thud.
However, his corpse did not dissolve into motes of light, because after being contaminated by the black mud at the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War ten years ago, Gilgamesh had gained a physical body.
A physical body was different from a spiritual body. It wouldn't disappear after being killed.
So Rowan opened a door, dragged Gilgamesh's body back to Ryuudou Temple, and buried it in the ground.
The reason he was able to kill the King of Heroes so cleanly this time was mainly because Gilgamesh had been too careless.
He had long since treated Fuyuki City as his own territory and never considered the possibility of being ambushed.
If Gilgamesh had been even slightly on guard, Rowan would never have succeeded so easily.
Unfortunately for him, ten years of peaceful life had dulled his vigilance. That was why Rowan was able to finish him in one strike.
After killing Gilgamesh, this Holy Grail War was basically no longer going to have many waves.
Rowan swept his gaze across Fuyuki City, searching for traces of the other Heroic Spirits.
At the moment, Emiya Shirou had not yet summoned Artoria, so they still had to wait on that.
As for Cu Chulainn, the mad dog, he had already been summoned. His Master was Kotomine Kirei.
Of course, anyone with some understanding of Fate knew that although Cu Chulainn's current Master was Kotomine Kirei, the person who had originally summoned him was someone else.
Bazett Fraga McRemitz.
She came from an ancient Irish magecraft family and was a carrier of the Fragarach tradition. She belonged to the Mage's Association's Sealing Designation Enforcement Division and was also a descendant of the Red Branch Knights, the same order Cu Chulainn belonged to.
Her nickname was "the human weapon."
During the Fifth Holy Grail War, Kotomine Kirei recommended her to the Church, so the Church sent Bazett to participate. She even successfully summoned Cu Chulainn.
Bazett had some past acquaintance with Kirei and held a favorable impression of him, so she had absolutely no guard against him.
Kirei used that exact point to ambush Bazett after she sent Cu Chulainn out on patrol.
He stole ownership of Cu Chulainn from her.
When Cu Chulainn returned from patrol and discovered that his Master had changed, his sky collapsed.
But the problem was that Kirei had already stolen Bazett's Command Spells. No matter how unwilling Cu Chulainn was, he could only grit his teeth and obey Kirei's orders.
As for Bazett, though she was ambushed, she did not actually die. In her near-death state, she formed a contract with Angra Mainyu and became trapped in a four-day looping illusory world.
During that time, in the real world, her body was rescued by Kotomine Kirei's daughter, Caren Hortensia, and sent to the Twin Towers in the new city for recovery.
After going through many loops, Bazett realized something was wrong and finally ended the cycle. After faking death for half a year, she successfully woke up.
Eventually, she left the Mage's Association and temporarily stayed at Emiya Shirou's house.
But at this point, Caren Hortensia had not appeared in Fuyuki City.
Because she only came to Fuyuki after the Fifth Holy Grail War, after Kotomine Kirei died, when the Church sent her there. That was when she found Bazett in her fake-death state.
Right now, Bazett was still lying in the haunted mansion, waiting for rescue.
So Rowan found the haunted mansion where Bazett was lying, brought her back, and handed her over to Medea and Serie to treat.
This woman was fairly strong. If she got a suitable Devil Fruit and underwent proper training, she had the potential to become an Admiral-candidate-level fighter. Becoming an Admiral-level combatant wasn't impossible either.
She was worth saving.
Aside from Bazett, Medusa had also been summoned, but control over her currently rested in Matou Shinji's hands.
Heracles and his Master Illya had also arrived in Fuyuki City and were currently at the Einzbern castle on the outskirts.
However, they seemed to have just arrived and were currently cleaning the place.
The last ones were Heroic Spirit Emiya and Assassin Hassan.
Neither of them had been summoned yet.
From the current situation, Tohsaka Rin seemed to be preparing to summon EMIYA tonight.
As for Assassin Sasaki Kojirou, Medea had originally planned to summon him now, but Rowan rejected the idea.
Mainly because Rowan felt Sasaki Kojirou wasn't strong enough.
If they were going to summon an Assassin, they might as well summon a powerful one.
For example, Grand Assassin King Hassan, the Old Man of the Mountain, would be excellent.
If that wasn't possible, Scáthach, Queen of the Land of Shadows, would also work. That way, she could have a master-disciple match with Cu Chulainn.
Rowan had Medea draw the summoning circle for a Heroic Spirit, deciding to personally summon an Assassin.
Standing at the edge of the magic circle, he poured mana into it and said calmly,
"Counter Force, right? Let's discuss something. Do me a favor and help me contact King Hassan, the Old Man of the Mountain—or Scáthach."
"If you do me this favor today, then if you run into trouble in the future, I can help you out."
"If you refuse me today, then when I gain planet-busting power in the future, I'll come back and reason with you properly."
"In short, hurry up and come to me, my Heroic Spirit."
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