Olga Marie: Do you think you're a top-tier magus?
Mo Wang: I think I am.
A week ago, Mo Wang might have been a slacker and a good-for-nothing.
But after a long period of "hard work," Mo Wang could now proudly declare that he was, indeed, a top-tier magus.
What's that? You're asking why this "magus" only knows two spells?
Well, let me ask you this.
What kind of spells do you think a top-tier magus should know?
As he was now, even with just Reinforcement Magecraft, Mo Wang could beat any magus—aside from a True Magician—into a pulp.
If I can already beat them down, why am I not a top-tier magus?
"You!" Olga Marie wanted to scold Mo Wang, but the words died on her lips.
"Alright, alright, my dear Director. Right now, we should hurry to the ley line. I'm sure a prestigious magus from a renowned family like yourself wouldn't hold it against a guy like me who barely knows a few spells, right?"
"By the way, Director, I'm completely clueless about these ley line things. I'll leave the leading to you. No problem, right?"
Mo Wang said to Olga Marie with a cheerful grin.
He had plenty of experience dealing with white-haired tsunderes like her.
Handling this kind of person was like dealing with a haughty cat. As long as you went along with what she wanted, she'd convince herself.
"Hmph! That's only natural. I'm a magus from the Animusphere family, not some hedge-mage like you." Hearing Mo Wang's words, Olga Marie's angry expression vanished. She turned her head away, and if one looked closely, one could see that her face was a little red.
"I told you to pay attention when I was explaining this stuff, and now you see? You don't even know what a ley line is."
"Leave the leading to me! You just focus on taking care of Mash, you hear me?"
"Senpai, that's amazing! You managed to calm the Director down just like that!"
Mash looked at the now-placated Olga Marie with astonishment.
Everyone in Chaldea knew how difficult the second Director, Olga Marie, was to get along with.
Not only was her temper like a powder keg, ready to explode at any moment, but she was also incredibly hard to approach.
In Chaldea, besides a select few, almost no one could get close to the Director.
And Mo Wang had managed to calm her down with just a few words.
"Heh, relax, relax. The Director is just under a lot of pressure. She's actually a good person."
Mo Wang said with a smile.
Actually, if he were in her shoes—having the burdens of both the Clock Tower and Chaldea thrust upon him by his father, being a magus without the talent to be a Master, and having to endure the scorn of others—he'd probably explode at the slightest... well, exploding was unlikely. With his personality, he'd probably slack off even harder than he did now.
"Let's go. The Fuyuki ley line should be right around here."
Olga Marie composed herself and said to the other two.
Soon, they passed through the streets and arrived at one of Fuyuki's ley lines: the Tohsaka Residence.
The moment he saw the Tohsaka house, Mo Wang instinctively took out his phone and started taking pictures.
"Senpai, what are you doing?"
Mash was completely baffled as she watched Mo Wang taking pictures of someone's house.
My Senpai is always doing things I can't understand.jpg
"No, no, Mash, you wouldn't get it. You have to understand, the house in front of you is a famous pilgrimage site. A long time ago, a certain high-jump champion and a certain wannabe hero had a pretty spectacular performance here. It's a must-see spot for any Holy Grail War tour."
Mash: ?
What on earth was he talking about? She understood every word, but when they were strung together, she couldn't make any sense of it.
"Don't mind him, Mash. You know he has these weird episodes all the time," Olga Marie said from the side, already used to it.
Even at Chaldea, this guy was always spouting nonsense that no one could understand.
It was like his brainwaves weren't on the same frequency as a normal person's.
"Director, speaking of which, the Tohsaka family is also a prestigious magus family, right? If we went inside and looked around, do you think we could find any rare items?" Mo Wang stroked his chin as he looked at the mansion, asking Olga Marie.
"Don't get the wrong idea, Director. I'm not trying to steal anything."
"I just figured that since we're in a Singularity and no one else is around, no one would mind if we borrowed some useful items from the Tohsaka house, right?"
"I think you should just give up on that idea," Olga Marie said, ruthlessly shutting down Mo Wang's little scheme.
"Not to mention that important items are unlikely to exist in a Singularity, even if they did, they wouldn't be in this house."
Olga Marie recalled for a moment. "Although the Tohsaka family is a famous magus family, they fell into decline a long time ago. As I recall, the current head of the Tohsaka family has even been reduced to working part-time jobs to make ends meet. I find it hard to believe there would be anything of value left in this house."
"Wow, Director, you really don't pull any punches."
Although Mo Wang knew Olga Marie was right—after all, the Tohsaka family had been basically broke since the Fourth Holy Grail War.
Not to mention, their family's magecraft was in the tier of spells that burned the most money.
The kind where a single use would cost you at least a few hundred thousand yen.
Mo Wang had originally wanted to go in and see if he could find an Azoth Dagger, or the pendant used to summon Archer.
But now that he thought about it, those two items were probably with Shirou and Rin, so there was no way he could get them in this broken Singularity.
It seemed his plan to sneak into the Emiya residence and steal Avalon was also a bust.
But Mo Wang didn't mind too much. After all, those things weren't of much use to him.
Even if he did find them, he'd probably just keep them as collectibles.
He might not even be able to take them out of the Singularity.
But just because he couldn't take anything out this time didn't mean he couldn't in the future, right?
Mo Wang was already thinking about what kind of collectibles he could swipe next time.
Speaking of which, he seemed to recall that Gilles de Rais had already dug up Joan of Arc's grave, so that was probably a no-go.
But maybe there were other graves in France that he could dig up?
Maybe he should do some research when he got back and see whose graves were available for... excavation.
Mo Wang had already made up his mind. When he got back, he would make himself a "Tomb Raider" nameplate.
Then, he would teach these people a lesson on what a professional tomb raider was!