User blog:EmiyaShiki/The Final Anomaly - Coronal Time Shrine, Solomon. The Meteor Rain of Extreme

Prologue
Malisbury: Good Work, Caster. With this, we have completely eliminated all 6 of the Masters.

Victory belongs to us. Once I order you to kill yourself with a Command Spell, the ritual will truly be completed.

Once we have filled this great grail with the soul of the 7 servants, the light to the Core of Magecraft towards the Roots will be lit.

With that, the 3rd magic will be brought into shape.

The 3rd Magic is a materialization of soul.

Once humanity manages to unshackle themselves from their vessel, they will be liberated from the pain known as the concept of [finite] and head to a new stage.

And you will be offered for that cause as a sacrifice. Do you understand, Caster?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Of course, I nodded. Human’s salvation and growth is not my responsibilities.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘If he wishes for the growth of humanity of that era, I won’t have any reasons to stop him. Just like the time I was still alive, I will just do what I was expected for.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Ultimately, the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City will not spare any Servants alive.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘All Servants would be disposed of. Even the victor such as me, is fated to meet my death in the hands of my Master’s Command Spell.’

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malisbury: --Nah just kidding man, Caster. Sorry, I think I got too carried away myself.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have no intention on offering the sole victor and the sole assistant of mine to the Great Grail. I will not use any Command Spell. Plus, it won’t work on you anyway.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I WILL NOT ACTIVATE THE GREAT GRAIL. Who cares about the 3rd Magic anyway?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I, of the Animusphere, who rules over astronomy shall pursue the Roots on my own accords.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I will not simply heed to theories came up by other Mages. The miracle that the Einzbern had proposed….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I never once had the intention to heed their bullshit about materialization of souls nor the humanity’s growth.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘That was a surprise for me.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘It is unknown if Malisbury himself is aware of this, but that was his first and perhaps, the last joke he ever made in his life,

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘And his mind, is really different from what I have seen, and one could say that I couldn’t foresee what he was thinking at that time.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Then I asked. “Then what would you wish for?”’

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malisbury: The only thing I wanted was the Wishing Device part of the Holy Grail. And my wish is pretty obvious.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The completion of Chaldeas. Truth to be told, that ‘thing’ in Chaldea is still incomplete.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s just something we built to satisfy all the sponsors modelled based on the Earth. Its function is still far from what it was expected to be.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just like this Great Grail, Caster. It may be completed by theory, but it doesn’t have the essential ‘fuel’ to operate.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This Great Grail may need Servants’ soul to operate but, my Chaldeas has an even more realistic problem in hand.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In order to operate Chaldeas, I will need a nation’s worth of generator running for half a year.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And to think that it requires a national budget worth of funds. Talk about our properties,

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Tiger Child’s Sea-Oil-Paddy Fort Seraphix, and the Atomic Generator I bought from France that day.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That won’t do. It simply means that I don’t have enough money.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">….Sigh, laugh at me if you want.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To think that I would not wish for immortality nor the Root in front of this Magical Core created by divine geniuses,

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But rather, I’m going to wish for [A tremendous wealth] like a plebeian!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Malisbury asked me to laugh, but I don’t see anything funny there.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘It was his life to realize a miracle. It is not something he should be asking from the Grail.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Quite the opposite, he wished to shorten the time. Perhaps, his own life span.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘He has decided that within this 10 years of operation, he has to operate Chaldeas no matter what.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘So, in order to operate it faster, he participated in this Fuyuki Holy Grail War.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Not even once he ever indebted himself with other Lords for this quest, and he never got interfered by his fund dilemmas,’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Without leaving any trails, without using any premonitions, he invested himself into this [Shortcut].’

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malisbury: Thank you, Caster….. I knew you’d understand.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you are willing to say that, then we can make this a secret just between the 2 of us.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We can just make it as if the victor of the Fuyuki’s Holy Grail War is Saber and her Master.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…..Cowardly, it’s an act of hiding expected from a coward indeed. But if I don’t do that, the other Lords would catch my tail sooner or later.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I will activate Chaldeas no matter what it takes. In order to retain the Order, I need that no matter what.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If that happens, Professor Ref’s Siva would not only achieve the lights of the future, but that of the past too.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With this, even Ley-shift would not stay as an empty written theory.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Why would the end of the Age of God come? Why is the Order getting unstable ever since AC?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Once we get ahold of Ley-shit, we would be able to further investigate the mystery and the reason of that.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘He is among one of the most dangerous ones among the Magus. Or to put it simply, he lacks of moral.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Yet, the burning compassion of love towards humanity within him is yet, an unwavering truth.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘I then agreed on his cause.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘That the Great Grail would not be used to reach the Root but to fulfil an [individual’s] wish.’

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malisbury: To realize one’s own wish, huh?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What an irony. To think that this war has ended up like that of the propaganda of the organizer.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘True, as I agreed in laughter. That’s because Malisbury had laughed in a jolly manner too.’

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malisbury: So then, Caster, what are you going to do now?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘?’

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malisbury: I mean, this ended up just like how the propaganda of the Einzbern went right?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[The victor of the Holy Grail War is entitled to one wish] And both Servants and Masters are no exception.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I wished for a tremendous fortune. What about you?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Of course I can’t help you to change your past or something like that, but I can at least ‘re-interpret’ your history though? Or would you like to reincarnate and enjoy a 2nd life?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘A question that I never once thought of has cometh in front of me. I got petrified in surprise. My wish. My wish. My wish.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘I never had the freedom for that, and so, I answered that I have nothing to wish for.’

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">???: Wait- I have a wish, too.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You really-- I really can wish for anything right, Malisbury?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malisbury: Why of course. Except for your Master, Malisbury Animusphere’s life that is.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">My only contractor and at the same time, my only friend, Caster. No…. I mean, King of Mage, Solomon.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If it is that you wish for, it should be the right one. Proudly state your wish.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">???: --

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘I remembered grinning a little that time.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘It was then, the world was engulfed in darkness.’ <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;border-width:initial;border-style:none;padding:0cm;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Staff: Doctor? Still sleeping? Doctor?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Hm…? I fell asleep!? Holy--- I’m sorry everyone! How can I—At this kind of time!!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Did you manage to pinpoint the route to the anomaly that Solomon resides in!? We only have more or less one day here man!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Staff: It’s going smoothly.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If it goes according to plan, 4 more hours until Chaldea makes in contact with the Last Anomaly.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The space is adjusting itself to match with the Master’s Ley-shift.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We can always purge the Eastern Research Department to abort from the anomaly after 72 hours of connection.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We can always transfer them to our regular timespace, Chaldea of 31/12/2016.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: I see. So then, everyone. You may take your final break here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Though it’s only 4 hours, you can take a nap, binge eat, chat all you want, or make a record…. Anything.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please relax yourself with some refreshments. While you are at it, I will be checking up on the situation here.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Staff: Understood If there’s anything during your duty, please don’t hesitate to call us, Doctor.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*Staff then leaves*

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Welp, it’s the finale, huh? It’s been almost a decade after getting employed here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It felt long yet short somehow. To be honest, I still can’t grasp ahold of the reality now.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: Fou FOu Fou

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Oh, you are here, Fou. Thinking back about it, you sure are a mysterious being.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You only showed yourself to Mash before MC even arrived here. Yet, what brings you here in front of me?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just when I thought you were the same as Merlin, beings that only think of humans as food and I also thought you never show interest to living beings.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: Fou. Fou, Fou. Fooouu!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Hmm….. I can’t seem to understand what you are saying. But I used to understand though… I wonder why…..

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Welp, I more or less got a gist on what you wanna say to me. ‘Is this okay?’ You say?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Welp, even the internet’s Magi*Mari scolded me too. ‘STOP HIDING SECRETS!’, she said….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But well……..

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But to be honest, I’m not really trying to postpone this stuff and then again, it’s not something I can really tell people and plus, I still can’t grasp ahold of the reality here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Why am I here in Chaldea? What was I doing before I got into Chaldea?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And I really…. Can’t explain what’s happening here and there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If I told them ‘Nah, I just wanted to try saving human or something’, it’d be lame don’t you think?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: …….

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Oh, but I can explain why I managed to be the top of the Medical Department at such a young age though.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And of course, that’s because I studied just like an average person. I was assigned this post simply because I am competent.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: …Fou. Fou…..

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Now that I think about it, I haven’t been doing anything else other than studying and researching here, huh?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I had a premonition that the end of the World is coming. It’s just like those ‘déjà vu’ kinda nightmare.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I somehow know that the premonition is real…. Yet I don’t have evidence to debunk it nor to prove it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">My only clue was the creation of Chaldea. All I felt was the fear that obligated me to try to do anything at all to prevent that.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That is why I have been running for the past 10 years. Running in agony…. And before I came to, 10 years have passed, I did everything I could.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…… And the answer is coming to us now…. I’m scared… But I’m happy at the same time.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Once this battle is finished, all of my insecurities will be gone. I can finally use my freedom as I see fit.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: ….Fou. Fou, Fou.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Hm? Why are you tapping on the Demon Pillar’s data?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oh, I see. You are looking out for the MC, huh?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Welp, as for Solomon’s identity, I…. more or less knew the truth. Kingu was a really good sample case for me.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I think the Solomon in London could be an impostor but at the same time, I don’t have any materials to deny it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There are different sides to a Heroic Spirit. Like how a Hero can be summoned as a Saber or Lancer at the same time.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And so, the Solomon that tried to exterminate humanity could be of a different substance from the Solomon of the legend.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If it’s the real Solomon, and not the Solomon, ‘Ancestor of Magecraft’, we would have been done for by now.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The only future shown in this Grand Order was the destruction of humanity…. I used to be oblivious upon understanding that…….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But it’s different now. If I made no mistake, that Solomon has ONE weakness.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">….Yes, only one.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If he’s the real Solomon, and at the same time, the imposter-

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There is a void that that Solomon will never be able to get his hands on…… I…. am afraid of that void.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s not about whether ‘if we can make full use of this opportunity or not’.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s just that…. I don’t know what I would be thinking in front of that void by then

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: …Fou….. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;border-width:initial;border-style:none;padding:0cm;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: --- I saw a dream. I saw the scenery of a familiar yet peaceful town.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Unknown Man: Hey Mash. You look fine today. I guess tomorrow’s gonna be as peaceful as today.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Unknown Woman: Oh, Miss Kyrielite, why’d you hold up that shield? The town is just as peaceful as usual here.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Man: Yep. We finally arrived here. A utopia with no war, no starvation, no racial discrimination.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Woman: There’s no longer a need to hate someone. You don’t need to fear anymore! That’s because,

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Man: We are finally liberated from the hollow of life. We can’t be any happier now.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Woman: Where life is forever, where the world is infinite, where tomorrow never falls, we have finally achieved the ‘eternity’.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: ………….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">……I don’t….. Understand what do they mean by ‘happiness’.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">King of Magecraft, Solomon. The scenery you showed me here…. I feel nothing but fear over it.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Solomon: Why fear?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To be liberated by the fated life span, to be liberated from the fear of death, to be liberated from all sorts of insecurities.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s a world created based on as true as possible towards the concept of a human’s happiness. And why would you fear it, Mash?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A promised tomorrow. A day that keeps going on….. A life where you don’t need to fear when ‘tomorrow’ cease to exist at any time.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That should be your salvation.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Just being able to live’. I thought you’d understand how magnificent is that.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: ……No, I’m sorry.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I don’t know why would you appear before me…. But I know you are doing this out of concern towards me.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And it pains my heart to deny you. But I must correct what is wrong….

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Solomon: -Understood. You may speak now, Mash. I’m rather interested in the conclusion you have come up with.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: I know you are preaching the magnificence of eternity and lamenting on the concept of ‘end’. However, I am sorry.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I don’t understand the reason you lament. I don’t understand the charm of eternity.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That’s because, death is given equal to everything. It is a fact that a life will end eventually.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There may be no sadness inside of eternity but--- To live for eternity does not guarantee happiness too.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Solomon: Why is that? The townspeople here are all happy. Don’t you think eternity is the truest path to the way of happiness?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: No, that is false. That’s because…. Their smiles…. Are different.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Solomon: …..their smiles are different? That blissful and satisfied way of life is false, you say?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Yes. A smile is meant to surpass and move on from sadness. It’s because humans know time is limited, that is why they will not stop smiling.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But this world’s smile is different. They simply smiled because there’s no reason to be sad.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That is not a ‘smile’ but a mere muscle exercise.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The joy of life only resides in living beings…… King of Magecraft Solomon.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I shall answer the question you have given me last time now.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There is no such things as humans that ‘lived out of fear of death’.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We are merely living because we want to live. Because tomorrow is so distant and that is why we run with our lives towards the future.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s not a journey to run away from death, but a journey to surpass death itself.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And so, please-- Do not reject my wish to ‘live’.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Solomon: ---I see. The other me asked you that question, huh?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Why would you fight if you know your life is going to, or have, ended’.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘Why would you still cling to life? Even after acknowledging that there’s no hope for your future’.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So those words, is your answer?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">……Unfortunate. Really unfortunate indeed. It seems like the only ones that would be happy with that is you.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have heard about you from Demon Lord Flauros. A short-lived artificial being made by humans, how would you live?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I took you as a case sample and observed you but I’m done with you now. My concerns towards you are all exhausted.,

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s no more space for you to prolong your life now. Since you rejected eternity, you will have to die now.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Die like the trashes you are along with Chaldea.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As a struggler for life, as a brave warrior that trampled over various life and death.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Why, you asked? That is because everyone have recognized you as such.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…………………………………………..

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">………………… I feel quite sad for that. You were supposed to just be as powerless and average as a human…….

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*Alarm Rings*

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: … It’s time.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: Yo, MC!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well, I thought it’s time for you to wake up and this is Da Vinci-chan who’s giving you a morning call!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ok, cut the formal greetings. My call this time is more towards…. Private to be honest.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The control room’s fully prepared. Once you and Mash arrive, we can start the Last Order anytime.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well but before that, I have one favour to ask from you…. Well, more like, I’m being quite naggy here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">During the break, we have updated Mash’s medical condition. Well, let me get straight to the point, her body is reaching her limit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Both her life span and her battle expiration.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Her life does not remain long and, she’s only allowed to join in a battle for only ONE more time.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well I just wanted to tell you that. I was tasked to be a messenger to you by Romani, you see.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And the, here’s the real deal:-

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Romani wanted to look out for her and tried to ask you to keep this a secret from her. But I’m not as naïve as that.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Because-

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: I think Mash knew.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: …I see. If you say so, then it must be true.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That’s all from me. About the briefing for the battle for human’s future, welp, let’s make it clear.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The little time you have for you to arrive to the control room, use it wisely so no regrets are left.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Well then, see you at the Control Room! Ciao!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*Walks out*

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Good morning, Senpai. So you just woke up too?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have just gotten up from my nap and just finished my physical check.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you are heading to the control room, please allow me to join.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Or would you like to have a light breakfast in the canteen…… Senpai?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: ……

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: It’s normal to feel pressured at this kind of time. Even I am getting nervous too.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I don’t feel insecure. Because this is what we have been doing all the time, isn’t it?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From Fuyuki until the age of Mesopotamia, to be honest, I never had any confidence in those missions.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But Senpai, you should be more troubled than me and yet, you managed to clear a path as usual.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And so, no matter what kind of heavy mission it is, even if it’s a duty that would involve humanity’s survival,

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As long as MC is my Master, Mash Kyrielite will not have any doubts at all.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC, you can be said as Chaldea’s, and my proud Master, that’s why.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: Mash….

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: Fou, Fouuu!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Good morning, Fou. Have you come to pick us up from the Control Room?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: Fou. Fouu…………

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: (Fou is staring at me…?)

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: ……FOu. FOu, FOu.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: ? Fou?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: (….I see)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash, you should stay back.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Thank you for your concern. But that is impossible.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I am Senpai’s assigned Servant here. Ever since the collapse of the Control Room until now……

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If Senpai wishes to fight, then I will fight too. Even if it’s going to shorten my already short life span.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: Mash…..

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: ……..

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Yes. And this is not supposed to be something you should be troubled over with.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Though I may have been brought up in a rather unique background compared to others.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I have not even once thought that my life is tragic at all. Though Doctor may have been trying to look out for me…….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I will never regret my life at all. I have nothing to be sad of at all.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If there’s something I should be sad for, that’d be the fact that I can no longer see the ‘what comes next’.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I am happy indeed. Everyone has been treating me well.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Though I may have only been left with a few months of time, I am still going to embrace it proudly.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: But that--

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: I consider myself to have lived a pretty rewarding life to be honest.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That’s because I managed to look at the world outside. I never had a future to have stepped outside of Chaldea.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But it’s all thanks to Senpai that I got to know the color of the sky(Opening theme reference, anyone?).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This whole year of journey has been an irreplaceable treasure of mine.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">….So please…….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Allow me to participate in my final mission.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The King of Magecraft Solomon has once said that life has no value at all. There is no meaning in human history at all.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I will reject that as hard as possible. Even if my life is going to be lost, or forgotten,

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have learned from the journey that the accumulation of people’s life until today is the ‘present’ we have now.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…..Indeed, I don’t understand any sadness in life. I don’t understand the pain that King Solomon has been referring to.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I do know the joy of life. It’s what Senpai, Doctor, and everyone in Chaldea,

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And all the people we have known throughout the history have been teaching me.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So please, allow me to accompany you till the end, Master.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To prevent the extermination of humanity, to show the value of human- to retrieve back our future.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: Thank you, Mash…. Let’s go!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Understood! Mash Kyrielite shall prove her full support here!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: Fou, Fou!!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*We then head to the control room*

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Just in time. Morning, MC, Mash.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Physical, Mental, both stable. It seems like you both are in a perfect condition.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oh wait, your mental readings seems to be slightly higher than usual…? Is there anything good happened just now, Mash?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Y-yes. I just got especially lucky to be able to see Senpai on the way here.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: Everything’s seems to be getting better and better.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Ah, that’s what you call a jinx huh? In a daily life nothing out of ordinary, you will succeed once you do that……

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s like a little charm that anyone can do anywhere. True, even such a trivial luck is quite vital here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">……Oops, my bad. It was my bad to easily get distracted into chit-chats.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We are getting near to the finale. Gotta get serious after all.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Master MC. Mash Kyrielite.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We have finally pinpointed King Solomon’s headquarter, an anomaly that resides outside the trajectory of time flow.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chaldea shall advance to stay in contact with the Anomaly. We shall be entering the enemy’s territory alongside with the whole of Chaldea.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Though we shall infiltrate the enemy territory with Leyshift, we still need you to walk by foot halfway.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This will be quite different from the usual search for the Grail. The transfer between Chaldea and the enemy’s territory can only be done by that way.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Which means--

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*Boing*

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: Which means, it’s literally a Shocking Landing Assault! To think that we are going Normandy this time again, there’s an extent to how reckless you can be!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: Ah, the usual one!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: Yes! Thanks for the lively reaction! Welp, I don’t care about any military rules or heavy atmosphere anyway.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Sigh, I knew you were going to say something like that…….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Welp, can’t help it then. I’ll give up the serious mood here then. Da Vinci, can I leave the explanation to you?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: Leave it to me-*

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ok, as I said, it’s a Landing Assault. It will be slightly different from all the Orders we have faced until today.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We don’t need to search for the Grail. The operation itself is quite simple but you have 3 tasks here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1st, crash the castle, 2nd, destroy King Solomon, 3rd, return here alive.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: crash the castle, huh?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: And…. To return here alive?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: Yup. According to Siva’s result, we managed to grasp the basic components of the enemy’s singularity.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The anomaly itself is a tiny world- Something like a Craft of Space.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you say Chaldeas is like a diminished model case of Earth, then the enemy’s territory would be that of a space.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Welp, talk about space, theres not much of any celestial beings there. To make a proper comparison, that deformed space’s scale to the real space is like a body cell to a human themselves.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What you should be paying attention on would be the fact that this universe only has one life. Well, put that aside.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The centre of the singularity has an immeasurable amount of mana reading spiralling over there. That is undoubtedly King Solomon’s throne.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That throne would be your destination but as of now, the route to that throne has been blocked.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To put it simply, the Castle Gate has been closed. Welp, it’s the heart of the castle, of course it’s going to be protected.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And that is where you come in- To wreck the whole territory up.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The whole territory itself is a life, and there’s energy being flown into the core.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So, I’d like you to destroy the source first. Then the Castle Gate would easily crumble.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: So we will have to destroy all the facilities around it to cut the mana supply…. And that is why you call it a Castle Crash, huh?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: Exactly! From the observation here, the enemy territory has a few forts here and there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Your job is to destroy it or render it silence and cleave a path open to the throne.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After that, you will fight the naked King Solomon and come back to Chaldea.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But with your own foot.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Our Ley-shift can only manage to transport you to the entrance somehow.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That is why I call it a Landing Assault. What a pain.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Once Solomon does, so will the singularity and that is where--

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: We will have to race against the destruction of the singularity?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: !!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That…. Is indeed different from what we have experienced. It would be the first time for me to escape from a crumbling enemy base.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Da Vinci: Well, unless you are an excavator or something, you won’t really experience that in real life.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And hence, destroying Solomon is merely the appetizer. The main course would be your return.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So you 2, stay focused and keep on until you finally arrived at the entrance ok?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Once the 2 of you have successfully returned to the Ley-shift coffin, Chaldea will transport back to our regular timeline.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And then our battle ends. And the battle will end in a note of humanity’s victory.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Right, Romani?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Of course. That’s what we have been doing up till now.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…..To infiltrate the enemy territory, destroy the 7 forts, assault the throne and defeat Solomon.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After that, we will be expecting the whole area to crumble and that is where you will have to escape to the Chaldea’s access point and return safely.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…. That’s all. Any problems?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: What do you mean by the space is a life itself?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Welp…. Hmm…. It’s an extra information so I don’t mind telling you.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Remember Fuyuki’s Great Grail? The beginning of the Holy Grail War and the Core of Magecraft that became the reason for it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That was made through the dismemberment of a Magus’ body.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He is a genius among geniuses. A miracle among miracles.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Magic Circuit of such Magus was extracted and used as the base of the system.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A body in form of a cosmo, may turn into space itself in some special circumstances.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And this singularity is of such. It is a cosmo made on the basis of a certain Magus’ Magic Circuits…..

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An individual being that can exist outside the trajectory of timeline. A reality marble that can sustain itself as long as mana still flows within….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That is the truth of Solomon’s base. And that is why, I had to name it such

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Coronal Time Shrine, Reality Marble Solomon.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…………………..

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fou: ………….

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: Dr.Roman?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: Sorry for being so pathetic….. It seems that I’m the only one who’s not prepared yet.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But it is no longer so now. Your indomitable eyes just filled me with determination, MC.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As the reserve-commander of Chaldea, I shall order you to enter the Coffin.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We don’t have much time left. If this Chaldea reaches the year 2017, Humanity Restoration would be pretty much impossible.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is a resistance we started from the depth of defeat. Humanity got slaughtered without even realizing Solomon killed them.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It is the longest yet, most constructive murder plan organized by Solomon ever since BC931.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So please, foil this whole ridiculous plan. A file of hollow theory should be burned off outside of people’s awareness.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MC: *nods*

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mash: Yes. Leave it too us, Doctor Roman. I shall return to Chaldea with Senpai!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr.Roman: I’m relieved upon hearing that.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 2 of you won’t lose to Solomon.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Then let us begin the Last Order.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ley-shift Program Start.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Our enemy is King Solomon. The victory condition would be his destruction, and your safe return!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Announce A: Unsummon Program Start. Molecular Convert Commence.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ley-shift Countdown 3…2….1……

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Process Clear. Last Grand Order. Commence.