"In this cold world, only this manga can warm my heart. I must free everyone in this world from the shadow of the yellow-skinned rabbit! I will show them true manga!"
While uttering such grand declarations, Takatsuki frantically drew manga in his room.
His inherent LV5 drawing skill, coupled with Kishibe Rohan's special drawing bonus, made Takatsuki more adept at drawing on paper than on a digital tablet.
Of course, there was a reason he cooped himself up in his room to draw.
Don't misunderstand, it wasn't because he was being punished for being unfaithful, but rather, when he saw Theresa being misled by the yellow-skinned rabbit's manga, he realized that he needed to save others in this world. He couldn't let them simply be poisoned by the yellow-skinned rabbit; he needed to make them realize that beautiful girls were the world's treasures.
And the first work was set as Fate/Stay Night. After all, compared to the Fourth Holy Grail War in Zero, Takatsuki felt that starting with the Fifth Holy Grail War's plot would more easily attract readers from various groups.
Of course, his choice to draw this was not without reason.
Being grounded was one aspect, but a more important reason was that he wanted to popularize the concepts of the Holy Grail War and Servants.
"Takatsuki, Takatsuki! I succeeded!"
The pen in Takatsuki's hand trembled, and a large blot of ink stained the drawing paper in front of him.
This piece of drawing paper was completely unusable.
Without a word, he turned the drawing paper into ash and turned to look at Hestia, who had burst in.
Hestia was holding a golden cup in her hands.
"Did it succeed? How is it?"
"Hmph, just look at who I am. With Ikelos's divine blood you provided, and that guy not being in this world right now, I can naturally control the divine power within it."
Although she said this, Takatsuki looked at Hestia's somewhat pale cheeks and knew it wasn't as simple as she made it sound.
"Hestia, your hand…"
Before Takatsuki could finish, Hestia subconsciously covered a spot on her hand.
"Sigh, you. Didn't I tell you not to rush?" Takatsuki sighed, realizing something, and reached for Hestia's hand: "Let me see."
"I didn't want to disappoint you. It's easier to control with my divine blood added, and because of that, it's a blessing in disguise. Your Lesser Grail is different now."
Hestia said somewhat timidly and somewhat boastfully, then offered her hand for Takatsuki to see.
"Don't worry, in this world I can use divine power, and I won't die. The injuries will heal quickly."
As Hestia said, there were no scars on her hand; after all, she was no longer in the state of sealed divine power as she was in that other world.
Although she was a deity not very skilled in using divine power, her divine rank was still there. Her divine power would automatically heal without her needing to control it.
"Takatsuki, I believe what you said before, that this thing called the Lesser Grail can grant wishes. This thing seems to be able to convert energy into any form, but it seems to be missing something?"
Hestia looked at the Lesser Grail in front of her and said, but she wasn't skilled in these things, so she wasn't clear.
"It still needs a ritual. These are just the preliminary preparations."
Takatsuki looked at the Lesser Grail and thought of what happened after he was grounded.
After being grounded, he calmly reflected for the first time in a while, beginning to consider what he should do in this world.
Among them, what Takatsuki most wanted to do was fulfill the promise he had made to others before: to revive the dead.
However, at present, he had nothing and no ability to do such a thing.
Then he thought of the Holy Grail War.
Although there was a certain element of trickery in his conversation with Aozaki Touko, it was not entirely unfeasible.
Because Throne of Heroes was truly his, but only after possessing Throne of Heroes did Takatsuki realize that even Servants couldn't manifest freely, even if Takatsuki prepared bodies for them.
But there was a way to bypass this restriction.
That was spiritual mediumship.
However, Takatsuki did not plan to use spiritual mediumship, because this magic was incomplete. Spiritual mediumship was derived from Servant summoning, the latter being a magic to save the world, while the former was an ultimate degraded version.
The Servants in the Holy Grail War were so close to Servants not because of this magic, but because of the Holy Grail.
So Takatsuki naturally thought of the Holy Grail War, a Holy Grail War he would construct himself.
During his half a year in Type-Moon, he copied all the documents held by the big three, especially those of Einzbern.
As he expected, after they left, the head of the Einzbern family shut herself down, permanently sealing Einzbern.
Of course, this couldn't stop Takatsuki.
Takatsuki entered the castle and took all those materials, and now they could be put to use.
Moreover, he still had the Third Magic. Although he couldn't completely replicate the Holy Grail War, he could create something similar but not quite the same.
So he found Hestia, who was also idle at home, and proposed this plan.
Hestia was also very interested and suggested using divine blood to fill the Lesser Grail.
However, Hestia, as a deity, had limited divine power, and most of her divine power was contained within her divine blood. Hestia originally intended to use her own divine blood to fill it.
Because she also wanted to support Takatsuki in using this Holy Grail to help others.
But Takatsuki refused. He took out the divine blood previously collected from the divine blood supplier and gave it to Hestia to charge the Lesser Grail as a substitute.
That's how the current scene came to be.
"Later, a ritual is also needed. Divine power is just one part of what I envisioned. I don't want the Holy Grail War to end in one go; I plan to hold it every few years. It would be too cruel to make you bleed every time, Hestia. Next, we'll find a place with abundant energy to place the Lesser Grail and let it absorb energy, using that energy as the main body of the Holy Grail itself."
Takatsuki thought for a moment. There was indeed a lot of such energy in the Original World, but after some hesitation, he still said, "Not Honkai Energy."
It wasn't that he looked down on Honkai Energy, but rather that Honkai Energy, which would eventually be phased out, was truly unsuitable.
The Original World had Imaginary Energy, the Sea of Quanta, and even the Earth Vein had its own magical energy. It was even possible to directly draw magical energy from the Greater Source; there was no need to use Honkai Energy.
"In that case, I'll inscribe some Runes on it and give it some blessings," Hestia said after some thought.
"Can you do that?"
"Of course, I am a deity, leave it to me."
Saying this, Hestia began to inscribe Runes on the Lesser Grail under Takatsuki's gaze.
And while the two were preparing for the future Holy Grail War, another event occurred on the other side.
Two people who should have had no intersection met here.
But the moment they saw each other, an overt and covert struggle began between them.