That night, Haruto learned about Scáthach's reward.
Limited Bunny Dress - Scáthach
She looked at the thin purple clothes while wearing purple rabbit ears.
Haruto spoke no nonsense and started to fight for three hundred rounds.
He went straight to the topic and began filling the magic.
Artoria (Liya) quietly watched from the next room at night, with a hint of redness on her face and a complicated look in her eyes.
Scáthach had been taken down by her own master. The next one would be herself.
As a king, she certainly did not reject the concept of having multiple wives and concubines, and it could be said that she held a great affection for Haruto.
He was powerful and mysterious, capable of physically resisting the existence of Noble Phantasms.
Not to mention his looks, which would overwhelm any man he encountered.
She had heard many things from Irisviel and knew that Haruto was very kind to every woman with him.
In the eyes of Sakura, Illya, Irisviel, and Caren, Haruto was their savior.
Thinking of this, she didn't seem to have any feelings of resistance.
The corners of Liya's mouth were slightly upturned; maybe this was good. The life of being a king was already tiring, so why not choose to be a woman and live as Haruto's wife?
Thinking of this, Liya no longer hesitated and faced her own feelings.
Thanks to this, this version of Artoria had given up the holy sword and taken up the holy spear. Compared with the Artoria of the holy sword, she was more reasonable and calm.
In terms of personality, she was also calmer than Saber Artoria, without the stubborn ideals of the holy sword's wielder.
The next day, noon.
Haruto got up and looked at Scáthach, who was lying beside him.
He smiled contentedly. When he played the game, he had always liked this elegantly dressed queen.
And now that the queen was about to become his wife, he felt very proud as a man.
Although Scáthach was a Heroic Spirit now and did not need to rest, she seemed to feel that she had lived for so long without enjoying a normal life. In her era, she was either killing gods or on the road to killing gods every day.
Since she hadn't enjoyed the life of an ordinary woman, she decided to enjoy it now.
Of course, teaching apprentices was her only hobby. In the beginning, she taught apprentices in hopes of training someone who could defeat and kill her.
But now, Haruto had the ability to defeat and kill her.
However, Haruto could never kill Scáthach, so he kept her by his side. He told her about the infinite worlds and took her to see the scenery of other realms.
When she learned about the wonderful worlds outside of this one, Scáthach expressed great interest.
Being able to fight against the powerhouses of other worlds became Scáthach's new goal, and she no longer sought death.
So now, Scáthach taught her apprentices purely for fun, helping Haruto train the three little lolis—Illya, Sakura, and Caren—in martial arts.
Haruto was, of course, very happy to be able to enhance their combat power.
Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered Shiki. Although Shiki had the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which were very powerful, the attack distance was a problem. If she couldn't get close to the "lines of death," they were useless.
If she underwent Scáthach's training, it should make up for Shiki's shortcomings.
"Well, that's the decision." He would move to Fuyuki after a while, as the Holy Grail War would start in two months.
He would move there and let Scáthach practice martial arts with the girls. After all, it was normal for magi to know martial arts—just think of Tohsaka Aoi or Artoria Saber.
Then, he lightly kissed Scáthach's forehead, got up, and left.
Opening the door, he saw Liya standing with her back against the wall.
Liya also seemed to be taken aback by Haruto's sudden opening of the door. Her eyes were a little flustered.
Haruto was curious to find Liya standing there. She couldn't have been standing there listening all night, could she?
Haruto looked at Liya with a strange expression. No way—was the dignified Lion King actually eavesdropping?
Liya was a little flustered by Haruto's stare; she really had listened all night. But how could such a thing be admitted?
Liya's eyes darted around; she had to divert Haruto's attention.
"Irisviel asked me to wake you up. It's already noon." Well, perfect—Liya thought that Haruto probably didn't know she had been listening all night.
"Really? Then let's go. Scáthach is still resting." Haruto didn't think much of it and left with Liya.
The two walked quietly and silently.
Liya gritted her teeth, as if she had made up her mind.
"Haruto!" Liya stopped and called out to him.
"What's wrong, Liya?" Haruto stopped and turned to look at her. He noticed that today, Liya no longer called him "Master," but addressed him directly by his name.
This was a good sign; the title of "Master" felt like an unfamiliar title anyway.
Looking at Liya, who seemed to be hesitant to speak, Haruto thought of something interesting. It seemed that Scáthach had a great influence on her yesterday.
After the battle yesterday, Scáthach admitted that Haruto was her husband. Liya had asked her, "You are just a Heroic Spirit now. You can't be considered human. Is it really right to do this?"
Instead, Scáthach didn't care and said: "When the time comes, you can get the Holy Grail and receive a physical body. If Haruto's combat power can't win the Holy Grail, then no one is qualified to get it."
"Why go back to the Throne of Heroes? Isn't this kind of life better?"
"And even Alaya is his woman, so what is there to worry about?"
In this way, Liya had been halfway persuaded.
"I've decided." Liya's eyes filled with firmness.
"I want to stay. I hope you can give me more advice." Liya looked at Haruto and said with a smile on her face.
"Sure enough, she figured it out." Haruto smiled and said, "Ah, I'll give you plenty of advice, King Arthur, Artoria Pendragon."
Haruto opened his arms and hugged Liya directly.
Liya was startled by Haruto's sudden movement, and her body stiffened.
As the King of Great Britain, although the Knights of the Round Table under her were all male, she had never been intimate with a man.
This was the first time she felt such strong masculinity. Her heart seemed to be a little intoxicated.
Then Haruto kissed Liya's lips lightly.
"Not bad, very sweet."
Then, he went to the living room with Liya, whose face was completely red.
He then announced that they were moving to Fuyuki in a few days to prepare for the Holy Grail War.
There were still a few days before the war began.
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Fuyuki Airport
A young man with black hair got off the plane in a panic.
He was a magus from the Clock Tower, Waver Velvet—one of the participants in the Holy Grail War.
This time, in order to prove himself to his mentor, Kayneth, he had stolen his mentor's heroic relic: a fragment of a cloak.
This cloak once belonged to the King of Macedonia, the Conqueror Iskandar—the legendary Alexander the Great.
As in the original story, Waver hypnotized a couple and asked them to rent a house to him.
Waver arrived at the rental house and began preparing for the summoning of the Heroic Spirit.
However, not long after Waver left the airport, another plane landed with a different group of people.
A man with blond hair and a woman with bright red hair.
It was Kayneth of the Clock Tower and his fiancée, Sola-Ui.
Kayneth was so angry that his student had stolen the relic that he could only find something else to replace it later.
He summoned the chief warrior of the Irish Fianna Knights from Celtic mythology—"The Radiant Face," Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, also known as Diarmuid of the Love Spot.
The warrior who, in mythology, had betrayed his monarch for love.
However, the difference this time was that Sola-Ui was not attracted to this charming man.
After seeing him, Sola-Ui remarked that he was ordinary—not even one-tenth as impressive as Haruto.
Yes, during the half-year that Haruto lived at the Clock Tower, Sola-Ui had naturally seen him.
After seeing Haruto, she was deeply attracted to him. She had repeatedly proposed to the head of her family to break her engagement and seek Haruto instead. However, at that time, the Sophia-Ri family had already negotiated a marriage with Kayneth's family.
She couldn't change it. Consequently, she didn't give Kayneth a kind look on any given day.
Kayneth didn't care either; he firmly believed that as long as he won the Holy Grail War, his fiancée would change her mind.