After dealing with the overworked Archer, Mo Wang and the others made their way to the foot of Ryuudou Temple.
Fuyuki City had four major tourist attractions. First was Ryuudou Temple, which had the hardest floor in the entire village.
Second was the Tohsaka Residence, which no one knew when it would be sold.
Third was the Matou Residence, which had the biggest swimming pool in the village.
Fourth was Fuyuki High School, where the hopes of the entire village were gathered.
The Matou Residence and the school weren't much to look at, and the group had already visited the Tohsaka Residence. Now, they had arrived at the last attraction.
This was also the location of the Greater Grail.
Heavy dark clouds obscured everything. Even the trees and grass seemed to have lost their vitality, the scene as bleak and gray as ever.
After a long trek, they came to a huge pit, where a massive tunnel appeared before them.
"Is the Greater Grail in there? I thought we had to climb the mountain."
Mo Wang glanced at the cave. To be honest, his memory of this place was still stuck on the time a hax-mode Shirou had cut off King Gil's arm at Ryuudou Temple.
He had completely forgotten where the Grail was located in the UBW route.
"The stone walls in this damn place are pretty smooth. Was someone digging a hole here?" Mo Wang touched the smooth stone wall, asking with curiosity.
"It should be semi-natural, semi-artificial. Probably a magecraft construction site made by some magus." Olga Marie, who was quite knowledgeable on this point, answered before Cú Chulainn could. Just then, a sound caught everyone's attention.
"Fou~"
Beside the cave entrance, a strange, white, rabbit-like creature suddenly darted out after seeing Mash.
"Fou?!"
Mash was equally surprised to see the small white beast.
The newcomer was, of course, Chaldea's mascot, the legendary Primate Murder, one of the rumored Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors, Chaldea's true tyrant, the bane of a certain Merlin's existence, mistaken for a rabbit but actually a cat-demon born of a pig-demon—Fou.
"Fou!"
Seeing the little white beast, Mash immediately scooped him up into her arms.
And in Mash's arms, Fou looked like he was about to burst into tears.
His little eyes seemed to say: I've been waiting for you guys for ages! What took you so long!
"Fou, where have you been? I thought you didn't come with us from Chaldea."
Mash was very happy to see Fou again. However, Mo Wang, on the side, was very dissatisfied with Fou's cute act.
Mo Wang snatched Fou from Mash's arms and glared viciously at the seemingly harmless little white beast.
"You little brat, you've been here for a while, haven't you? Tell me, where have you been slacking off all this time? I haven't even been slacking off, and you dare to run around outside!"
Mo Wang expressed his strong dissatisfaction with Fou's slacking and truancy. Didn't he see that without him, the team didn't even have a mascot to keep their luck in check?
They had to use this big doggo as a mascot instead.
In the original story, wasn't this guy always by Mash's side? (This is definitely not because a certain useless author completely forgot about Fou while writing, definitely not.)
"Fou! Fou!!" (You bastard Mo Wang, let me go! I'll bite you!)
Fou struggled in Mo Wang's hands, even trying to bite him.
"Hey! You little thing! You disappear when it's time to work, and now you want to bite me!"
Mo Wang said, about to teach this ungrateful little slacker a lesson.
"Senpai! How can you bully Fou!"
Seeing that Mo Wang was about to discipline Fou, Mash immediately snatched the little beast from his hands, giving him a look of disapproval.
"Fou~ fou!"
In Mash's arms, Fou looked at Mo Wang smugly, making his teeth itch.
Unfortunately, Mash was now holding this despicable tyrant in her arms. This guy was on the same level as the final boss, a super tyrant, and here he was, pretending to be a cute mascot! Shameless!
"That thing... is that the little lady's pet?"
Cú Chulainn, who had been watching from the side, glanced at Fou and couldn't help but ask Mo Wang.
"Yeah, a guy who just wanders around Chaldea all day, eating and sleeping. He's even lazier than me," Mo Wang complained indignantly to Cú Chulainn.
Cú Chulainn felt a retort stuck in his throat, unsure of how to spit it out.
Just how much of a slacker are you to be competing with a pet on who can slack off more?
But right now, what Cú Chulainn wanted to complain about more was: "Are you telling me that your Chaldea calls that thing a pet?"
"What else? Isn't that perfectly normal?"
Mo Wang looked at Cú Chulainn with a puzzled expression. Our Chaldea is full of talented people. What's wrong with keeping a small pet?
Cú Chulainn: ...
Is... is it?
Oh, no, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes.
No, no, no.
Cú Chulainn clutched his forehead.
He got it now. Every single one of these people was a unique talent.
Each one was a hidden master.
He had thought that having one monster like Mo Wang in Chaldea was enough, but he hadn't expected there to be other masters!
"I see it now. Everyone at your Chaldea is a monster, aren't they?" Cú Chulainn couldn't help but say.
"They're alright. Everyone's pretty amazing, actually. Except for the Director."
Mo Wang recalled the large family back at Chaldea. Besides the honest child Olga Marie, every single one of them was a unique talent. Demon God Pillars, a great inventor, Solomon... all old Chaldea employees.
"Hey! What do you mean, 'except for me'?!"
Hearing Mo Wang's words, Olga Marie, on the side, finally snapped.
Was she even a person? Was she even a person anymore?!
Looking at the enraged Director behind him, Mo Wang silently took two steps back.
What could he do? He was an honest child, he couldn't lie, right?
Among a group of god-tier companions, Olga Marie, the Director who had been taken out at the very beginning, was indeed an inconspicuous character.
Although Olga Marie's setting was also that of a magical genius, the facts proved that no matter how much of a genius you were, you couldn't beat a group of cheating monsters.
Thinking of this, Mo Wang couldn't help but start to feel sorry for the Director.
To have survived for so long in a place full of monsters, it must have been hard on her.
PS: Alright, the white tyrant has made his appearance. Who else did I forget? There shouldn't be anyone else, right?