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"Hello, goodbye."
Archer only heard these two words, and his consciousness fell into darkness.
Gray ripples spread out, covering his body, and swallowed him completely before he could fully dissipate.
Caelus consumed the Archer's existence, learned the other party's identity, and obtained the memories the other party still retained from his lifetime.
"This is really an inexplicable coincidence. Before, I killed your father, and now I killed you again. What a wicked sense of humor fate has."
Caelus said this, then took Mem and his Lancelot puppet into the dark cave.
And among the late-arriving Chaldea group, Cú Chulainn frowned slightly. He covered one of his eyes, looking at the empty entrance.
"Some incredible existence really has snuck in."
"Caster?"
Fujimaru looked at Cú Chulainn, who was covering one of his eyes, with some doubt.
"It's fine, let's go in quickly. Someone has already arrived one step ahead of us."
"What! Is it another surviving Master that we haven't found before?"
"Hard to say. I have no way to determine whether that guy is the survivor you are looking for, or some kind of thing that is even more unimaginable and incomprehensible."
Caelus passed through the pitch-black cave and arrived at the Great Hollow located inside the mountain body of Mt. Enzou, which was also the location where the Holy Grail descended.
In the center of this Great Hollow, a pitch-black figure looked down at Caelus who had entered, as if looking down from a high position.
"Assassin?"
King Arthur, Artoria, dressed in pitch-black armor, looked at Caelus who had entered, her expression slightly surprised.
"It's been a while, King Arthur. I didn't expect you to still retain memories of me."
"If I were in a normal state, I would certainly not have any memories of you, but now I do remember you... And," speaking of this, the pitch-black Artoria looked at Lancelot, who was standing beside Caelus, with eyes full of complexity, and said, "What an ugly appearance, Sir Lancelot."
"My King!"
Lancelot knelt on one knee, lowered his head, and said, "I have disappointed you. I had no way to defeat 'myself.' After my existence was swallowed, I let you see this ugly appearance."
"Even now, you still want to pretend to be Lancelot. Are you trying to shake my mind, or are you deliberately provoking me, inciting my anger, Outsider!"
The pitch-black magic storm surged, as if responding to the King's roar, stirring up strong winds that hissed through this pitch-black Great Hollow.
"King! Although this body is false, and this heart is bestowed by others! The emotion in my heart comes from the real Lancelot! It is regrettable that in the last war, I could not follow the King, nor could I forgive my own sins... I know I am just a false shadow, just a puppet playing Lancelot without self-personality and emotions, but please let me fulfill the obsession named Lancelot!"
"King! It was all because of my mistakes and incompetence! That caused the seeds of Camelot's disintegration to be buried! I was not a good father, I could not set a good example for Galahad. I was not a good subject, I fell for the wife of the liege I served. I was not a good knight, because in the end, I could not protect anyone..."
"I am a failed father, I am a treasonous subject, I am also the most incompetent knight... King! Please chop off my head! For the mistakes I made in the past, for the obsession in the real Lancelot's heart, and for the meaning of the existence of my false puppet, end this ugly performance of mine!"
Watching the tearful appearance of the false Lancelot, even the pitch-black King lowered her eyes.
And at this time, the group from Chaldea walked in. Seeing the scene being staged now, everyone was stunned, completely not knowing what had happened.
And Mash, holding a large shield, just looked at the man kneeling on the ground. For some reason, she felt complex emotions surging in her heart.
And the pitch-black King, who had originally lowered her eyes, opened them again after sensing the Chaldea group's arrival. Her gaze was fixed on the Chaldea group, especially Mash, who was standing at the very front holding the cross shield.
"Sir Lancelot."
"I am here."
"Even now, are you willing to pledge loyalty to me? To pledge loyalty to me, a failed King?"
"Where my King's blade points is where our hearts follow!"
"Then become my knight again, and fight for me."
"As you command, my King."
Lancelot, who was kneeling on the ground with tears on his face, stood up. He turned his back to the Chaldea group, wiped away the tears and snot on his face, turned around, and looked at the Chaldea group seriously and solemnly.
"If you wish to fight my King, please first cross the corpse of Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table!"
"Lancelot! The strongest Knight of the Round Table!"
Olga Marie exclaimed, and then looked at Caelus, who had been standing on the side watching the show with Mem without saying a word from the beginning. She noticed the clothes he was wearing.
"You there, are you also a Master of Chaldea? What is the situation here now?"
Hearing Olga Marie's question, Caelus thought for a moment and replied, "Obviously, my Servant Lancelot is currently pledging loyalty to his liege. If you want to defeat King Arthur, you must first defeat the knight under her."
"Ha! Isn't he your Servant?! How can you still not control the Servant under your own command! Where are your Command Spells? Are they just for show!"
"Director, this is a knight's conviction. So, just as he said, if you want to solve the problem of Fuyuki City, if you want to cross this trial, please solve him first."
"This is simply ridiculous! Who recruited you! Why are there two slackers here? What about the people in Group A!"
Olga Marie was a little on the verge of collapse.
And Mash stepped forward, looked at Lancelot, who was blocking her group's path, and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Lancelot, Chaldea fights to save humanity. For the sake of humanity, are you really going to block us?"
"Child, before you is not that Lancelot who followed honor and fought for the justice in his heart, that Knight of the Lake. Before you is just a Berserker Lancelot who follows the obsession in his heart and cannot listen to any reason. The so-called future of humanity has nothing to do with me. Even if our King has already stood on the opposite side of humanity and wants to be an enemy of the world, as her knight, I am also willing to fight for her."
"Don't try to persuade him anymore, little girl. The fighting spirit emanating from this guy is no joke. Now there is no way to persuade the other party with words."
Sasaki Kojiro stepped forward. The long sword in his hand had already been unsheathed, and he looked at Lancelot in front of him.
"He has abandoned life and death, just to complete the obsession in his heart. Such an opponent must be faced with all one's strength.
Jeez, why wasn't I summoned as a Lancer? It makes me feel a little hot-blooded just watching."
Cú Chulainn also stepped forward, with a wild smile on his face, looking at Lancelot with boiling fighting spirit.
Finally, Mash took a deep breath, raised her large shield, looked at Lancelot with serious and solemn eyes, and no more words were needed.
Lancelot looked at the three people who were ready for battle with gentle eyes.
"Cross me, cross this loser, and then go fight for the future of humanity."
Pseudo-Lancelot VS Mash Kyrielight (Galahad), Sasaki Kojiro (Nameless Swordsman), Cú Chulainn (Odin)
(To be continued.)
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