"This might be the finale. Brace yourself, Fou."
"You, you! You you you you! You're such an eyesore!" Kiyohime screeched.
"Hehe, who's the eyesore?" Carmilla sneered. "A petty lizard like you thinks you can best a true dragon like me?"
Sparks flew from clashing spears and flames.
Insults and taunts soared.
Screams and jeers echoed.
"Grrr—! I'll crush you before Carmilla, you creepy stalker!" Kiyohime roared.
"Not a stalker," Carmilla said. "I'm the 'perfectly refined rear-guard companion.' Get it, you torture-obsessed fetishist?"
"Fetish? Fetish?! Mine's amazing!" Kiyohime snapped.
"Amazing… how?" Carmilla purred. "Oh, you're one of those—doing that to that, aren't you?"
"What's that?! What's that mean?!" Kiyohime shrieked. "That's it! I'm done! I'll skewer you, impale you, and pickle you in formaldehyde!"
"Try it, little girl," Carmilla said. "My flames of creation will burn you to ash!"
Ear-piercing shrieks. A hellish cacophony.
"I'll crush crush crush crush crush! I'm number one!" Kiyohime screamed.
"SHAAAAA!" Carmilla hissed.
A coquettish girl and a kimono-clad maiden stirred a hellish harmony amid human chaos—!
"My ears!" Amadeus wailed. "They're rotting—no, sliced off! What is this, a construction site? A wannabe rocker's better than this! Stop it, stop defiling sound! Fafnir's roars sound like Maria's whispers compared to this! What wretched scum—agh, no, that's banned!"
"Those two are Servants… right? I'm not wrong, am I?" Olga-Marie asked.
"Have confidence!" Roman replied.
"Same old death-metal screeches," Gilgamesh laughed. "Tyrannical enough to sever umbilical cords. I thought they'd improved, but this? Hahaha!"
"That's a saint?" Rikka asked.
"Don't be ridiculous!" Amadeus snapped. "That'd be my Day of Wrath! If they're saints, religions collapse! Atheists would overrun the world!"
"Just make contact!" Olga-Marie said. "My ears hurt! Without proof, I'm going home!"
"Rikka, you're okay with this?!" Roman asked.
"Compared to the Director's screams? Totally fine," Rikka said.
"Hey! What's that mean?!" Olga-Marie huffed.
"Look, Mash, you volunteered for diplomacy, right?" Gilgamesh said. "Try talking. If they've a shred of intelligence, they'll listen. Not that I know if they do."
He's casually shoving the worst job on her.
…I get the chest-clawing urge. Is this some magecraft? And why's the vessel so gleeful?
"Here goes!" Mash said, steeling herself. "I'll do my best!"
"I'll mediate too!" Amadeus said. "Stop! STOP! That's enough! I can't overlook this! Cease defiling sound!"
"Please listen!" Mash pleaded. "Calm down—!"
"Huh?!" Kiyohime snapped.
"Yes?" Carmilla tilted her head.
The brawl paused, both noticing us.
"What do you want?" Kiyohime said. "We're busy! Scram! I've got to settle things with this snake-woman!"
"You talk big," Carmilla said, "for a gecko."
"Grass snake!" Kiyohime shot back.
"Frilled lizard!"
"Skink!"
"Mexican beaded lizard!"
"What'd you say?!" Kiyohime screeched.
"You started it!" Carmilla retorted.
The death-metal harmony resumed. Amadeus clutched his ears, tears streaming.
"Guh… my ears are rotting… my soul's dying…!"
"Lower the speakers!" Olga-Marie said. "My brain's frying! Even dragon roars aren't this bad!"
"Maybe we should take them out…" Roman muttered.
"No saints here," Gilgamesh said. "Tch, wasted effort. But I found amusing toys."
"White snake—!" Kiyohime yelled.
"Red lizard—!" Carmilla shot back.
"Sorry, I'm gonna puke," Amadeus groaned.
Amadeus collapsed to his knees. Hold it together! Don't lose your sanity!
"What do we do, Gil?" Rikka asked, exasperated.
What to do? I don't want to dive into that blast zone…
"Seeking my aid?" Gilgamesh smirked. "Hmph."
But the vessel was different.
"Very well," he said. "I'll judge this petty squabble myself. The schedule's just moved up."
"?"
"Our business," he said. "Olga-Marie, Romani, staff, Master, Mash!"
His voice rang with confidence and certainty.
"For your efforts, I permit you to witness supreme art!" he declared. "Behold and tremble! Know the man you rely on—with your very being!"
What in the world—?
"You lot—gaze upon the king's radiance!"
The king's radiance—
My eyes caught a memory recorded in the vessel.
—I saw it, and regretted it—!
A distant memory, from some far-off abyss.
"So, pure dragon," Gilgamesh said. "Sorry for not noticing sooner."
"Why're you apologizing?!" Kiyohime snapped. "I don't need your—!"
"Take my amends!" Gilgamesh roared. "Here I go! A・U・O! Cast Off—!"
"PFFT—?!"
—Oh no.
"Been a while, wretched dragon," Gilgamesh said. "Making such kindred friends? Surprising."
Oh no… Oh no…
"Huh?!" Kiyohime gasped. "You—Gorgeous?!"
"Hahaha! Indeed!" Gilgamesh said. "You started that nickname, didn't you?"
Oh no—!
"You, snake-woman, take note!" he declared. "I am Class: Gorgeous! Gilgamesh, King of Heroes!"
Stop him, stop him—it's going to be catastrophic—!
Fafnir, the Dragon Witch, the Singularity, Human Order's incineration—all trivial!
This king—this supreme beauty—is humanity's true adversary!
I threw everything into stopping the vessel—! No use! He won't budge! What pleasure-driven power and confidence! How self-assured is this king?!
"What does this King of Heroes want?" Carmilla sighed.
Calm down, no madness, King of Heroes! They're young! Their hearts will scar! Their Spirit Origins will bear the mark! Please, King of Heroes, stop!
"Obvious, isn't it?" Gilgamesh said. "I'll end your childish spat myself. We're busy seeking saints—no time to play with you."
Uncontainable glee flooded my soul—! No, no, stop! Mash and Master are here! Please, reconsider—!
"Wait, no," Kiyohime said. "No way, right? Gorgeous, in broad daylight… no way, right?"
"Day or night matters not!" Gilgamesh said. "I am king! Sun and moon alike bow to my judgment!"
Run—! Mash, Master, at least you escape—! Please, run—!
"What are you talking about?" Carmilla asked. "You know each other?"
"Sharp," Kiyohime said. "No way, right?"
—It's over.
"Retreat—!" Amadeus screamed. "I'm returning to the Throne—!"
"Fool! No escape!" Gilgamesh roared. "Burn my supreme beauty into your souls once more—!"
"Bad feeling—! All hands, brace for impact! Maximum calamity incoming—!" Olga-Marie warned.
"What?! What's happening?!" Roman asked.
"Master, close your eyes!" Mash urged. "Quick!"
"Uh, okay!" Rikka said.
"Nooo—! Someone help—!" Amadeus wailed.
"What… what's happening?" Carmilla stammered.
The king can't hide his true nature—!
"Burn it into your eyes again!" Gilgamesh declared. "Here goes! Rank EX! Anti-World Personal Noble Phantasm—!"
Brace yourself—
"A・U・O—!"
The ultimate, worst Noble Phantasm is coming—!
"Cast Off—!"
He flung off his obstructive garments—
The king's naked form manifested—!
"Piglet—!" Kiyohime shrieked.
"Oh—Anchin-sama—!" Carmilla swooned.
"Lev—!" Olga-Marie screamed.
"Guhhh!" Amadeus retched.
"Amadeus is puking—!" Roman reported.
"Pervert! Pervert! Pervert pervert pervert! Why do you strip here too?!" Kiyohime yelled.
"Because I wish to!" Gilgamesh said.
"Shameless shameless shameless shameless!" Carmilla cried. "Have you no gentlemanly restraint?!"
"I've no part to be ashamed of!" Gilgamesh retorted.
His groin's Royal Key glowed brighter—! The Tablet of Destiny (suggestive) shone intensely—!
"Lev! Lev, help! I'm gonna die! The Story King's killing me—!" Olga-Marie wailed.
"What's happening?!" Rikka asked.
"Don't look, Senpai!" Mash said.
"I was wrong!" Olga-Marie said. "This king's one step from that! An utter fool—!"
"I'm sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry! I'll do anything! No more blood-sucking! I'll be good, save me, Father—!" Carmilla pleaded.
"Anchin-sama, Anchin-sama! It's Kiyohime!" she cried. "You came for me! Let's enter the bell together! Forever, always together, Anchin-sama—!"
"I won't stop…!" Olga-Marie said. "As long as you don't, I'll be there! So… don't stop—!"
"Director—!" Roman cried.
"…Maria… my piano…" Amadeus whispered.
"Show me—!" Rikka shouted.
"No way—!" Mash yelled.
"Hahahahahahaha!" Gilgamesh laughed. "This is my naked form! Art surpassing the finest diamonds! Praise it! Praise it—! Hahahahahahaha!"
From afar… a commotion echoed.
I'm sorry, everyone…
This is the kind of king he is—please accept it.
"That's—the Lord's radiance!" Jeanne gasped.
"Show it closer!" Marie urged. "There's a miracle there! That radiance—!"
"What's that?" Okita said. "I'm busy cleaning the latr—PFFT?!"
"I've got my answer," Shirou said. "It's fine, Rin. I'll keep pushing forward."
"Fate and Hammer's law… disrupted," Tamamo muttered.
"⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ (He's not wearing it, huh?)"
Merlin wailed, "Gahhh! I saw it! Why did I use Clairvoyance?!"
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