Ficool

Chapter 58 - Chapter 58: The Fourth Holy Grail War is Outdated!(5)

Tohsaka Tokiomi.

Currently, he's the character I dislike the most among those from Fate/Zero.

There are trash like Kirei, but at least Kirei is aware that he is trash. There's a difference.

On the other hand, Tokiomi is absolute garbage who thinks he did nothing wrong, even blaming Kariya instead, and takes the attitude that it's actually good if his daughters fight each other because someone will reach the Root.

Overshadowed by the impact of other characters, he's personally a ve~ry unlikable character.

Of course, among Servants, there's Diarmuid who has double standards, but anyway. That's why I decided to deal with him. I don't intend to kill him. I don't enjoy killing either... just some proper discipline should be enough.

"So, Kama-chan. I'm counting on you for the proper discipline."

"Hmph, if Master bows and scrapes so much to ask me, I should grant it~ I'm a merciful goddess, right?"

"Yeah, yeah~"

Well, I know that's just her personality.

"How long do you think it will take for Sakura to wake up?"

"She's a child, and her physical condition is terrible. Considering her mental state too, she'll probably wake up tonight."

"I see. Then there's no choice. Uuun~ So I'll go in the evening... We still have time, so should we eat something first?"

In Japan, many cafes also serve meal-type dishes. In Korea, it's ve~ry rare, but in Japan, it's common, they say. Shall we go to a cafe and spend some time?

We need someone to watch over Sakura...

"I'll stay behind."

"Artoria? Why?"

"Sometimes, I too want to take on a protective role like this!"

"Such a trivial reason."

"Right, how tactful to obediently step back from a date with my husband."

"Haa?"

"Why are you provoking her again, Morgan..."

Caster of Fuyuki endured it and took on Sakura's nursing care, while we went out.

We arrived at a cafe and decided to have a simple meal.

"She eats a lot."

So she changes age with those things one by one...

Thanks to Morgan's illusion magecraft, the staff doesn't perceive such supernatural appearances, but is it okay to do this outside...? Really, seeing this, maybe this is the lowest intelligence among the Sakura Faces.

"Sometimes when I see Kama, I completely forget what the original Sakura was like..."

"Parvati?"

"Should I say Parvati resembles her the most? Honestly, the one who resembles her the most is Parvati. Durga=Kali doesn't resemble her at all, and BB only resembles the playful personality somewhat. On the other hand, with Rin, you can see Rin's personality entirely."

"That's true."

In a way, the Sakura Face is probably the most distant from the original.

Illya looks at Kama with a feeling of treating her as a child younger than herself. Well... her actual age is like that, and there seems to be a difference in mental age as a goddess too? For some reason.

"By the way, Kali was complaining of considerable fatigue until recently?"

"Ah... well, she was a farming Servant, right? She's not doing it now though."

If the enemy class was Saber, I always used Caster of Fuyuki and Kali. Good NP gain rate? Her performance was good, so I used her often. They don't call it the wrath of Hindu gods for nothing. She was so strong that I relied on her every time. No matter how much she's the goddess of destruction, the wrath of the gods, in the end, she's just a farming Servant.

"When I see ones like Skadi protesting, begging to be put to work again, she grinds her teeth?"

"... It's because I don't have Skadi with Kaleidoscope."

Skadi... It's been a while since I used Quick. Maybe with Kaleidoscope. But honestly, if you're going to farm, Arts is better, right? Or a Berserker with good damage output. Quick's gain rate isn't that great...

Well, I'll probably get Skadi someday.

Kama eats the menus that came out...

"Ugh..."

"Hey, aren't you full?"

"As expected, all greed."

"... Just one clone chance──"

"Rejected. Don't waste clones on eating..."

"Hng... Then I'll have it packed and eat it later."

"Yeah, yeah~"

"Husband is always soft on Kama."

"Well, she's cute, right?"

She also left only the adult brandy cake, and it's not like we're throwing it away... For now, she's a child, you know. In appearance, that is.

Thus, we spent time eating at the cafe... and evening came. The place we headed to was the Tohsaka mansion. And as planned, we broke through barriers and such, and Kama went inside. And then...

"Hooh, this time it's a different form, isn't it."

Gilgamesh revealed himself on the roof. The King of Heroes smiles while looking at Morgan. Morgan asks for my understanding and moves using a water mirror, immediately engaging in battle with Gilgamesh.

"This is..."

"He must intend to come out openly now."

Numerous Hassans revealed themselves in the mansion's garden. But...

"Achoo~"

Cracklecracklecrackle!!!!

"... Pity."

Just like that, all the Hassans were sent to the Ice Age. Illya, pretending to sneeze playfully, freezes everyone solid, to the bone, with her Noble Phantasm. Hassans who can't even defeat Gift Gawain are on a completely different level from a Divine Spirit.

"Another Divine Spirit has increased... Witch from another world, do you truly think that is acceptable."

"Don't speak carelessly to my husband, King of Heroes."

"Husband, you say..."

What are they talking about? If this continues, he might pull out Ea and all of Fuyuki might fly away. No, maybe it's okay since Fuyuki's tiles withstood even the collision of Ea and Excal...

"You lot bestow affection upon a mere jester's vessel to an excessive, even excessive degree... Thanks to that, that is essentially it, is it not."

For a moment, it seemed my eyes met Gilgamesh's... Is it okay?

As long as Kama does her job well.

==========================

Inside the Tohsaka mansion, Tokiomi was hurriedly preparing to leave the mansion. The moment he headed to the first floor with his disciple Kirei, quickly packing only the important mystic codes to leave the mansion...

"Ara~ Where are you trying to run away to like a rat?"

A girl blocking Tokiomi's path as he descended the stairs. Her appearance was that of a child Tokiomi knew very well.

"..... Sakura?"

"Surely, you're not trying to run away from me...? Father."

"Sakura... that form, just what...?"

"Ah, thanks to you, I became like this. Should I thank you for that? But... the things I experienced are unforgivable, you know? Thanks to you, I was gang-raped by bugs, you see."

"Gang-raped by bugs...? ... No, you are not Sakura."

Tokiomi was momentarily confused, but soon realized as a Master's eye that she was a Servant whose parameters he could see.

"Matou Sakura... well, not the person herself. I am Kama. A goddess who descended using this body as a vessel?"

"Kama... from Indian mythology? Impossible. Summoning a Divine Spirit... it's impossible!"

"By the standards of mediocre mages like you..."

As Kama grinned and spread both hands, black orbs appearing in the air began to move rapidly, destroying the mansion's interior. Soon, they began to strike and destroy even the stairs where Tokiomi was, and Tokiomi descended with Kirei's support.

"Impossible... Using Sakura's body, you manifested a Divine Spirit...?"

"Is that what's important? Do you think everything I say is false? Tohsaka Tokiomi. What happened to Sakura is the truth. In the basement of the Matou mansion, she was gang-raped by bugs, and her spirit was being destroyed. A child not even 10 years old. And you, hearing that, feel nothing?"

"... I didn't know the Matou's methods were like that. But, it must be their way of raising a mage. I cannot interfere with that."

"Ha... That's utterly laughable. Mage training? Your head is really in the clouds, isn't it? ... I can feel it, not my emotions, but the emotions of this vessel. The resentment and hatred toward you..."

"Eht...!"

Overwhelmed by the immense and powerful killing intent and magical energy, Tokiomi knelt and slumped down. It wasn't a level a mere mage could withstand.

Kirei felt awe while observing the enormous divinity and power emanating from the Divine Spirit with Sakura's familiar form before him. Twisted, very twisted, unstable beast-like magical energy. It felt very attractive to Kirei.

"Ah... Aah!"

Tokiomi hurriedly fled with all his might and came outside the mansion. Believing that his Archer, Gilgamesh, called humanity's greatest hero, would surely kill even Kama, he came outside with desperate effort, but...

Plop... plop plop...

"A fairy, of all things..."

"I told you. If I can reach your treasury, I can calculate and close it. How does it feel to die by your own treasures, O King full of arrogance? You lacked the conviction I have. The years lived and the conviction are different. King of Heroes... Unlike you, I am a queen who fought risking everything to achieve a dream denied even by the world, for my child whom everyone denied. Our levels of resolve are different from the start."

"Ha... Haha, how amusing... Queen Morgan. I acknowledge it, you are strong... However, in the end, you chose to save a single child instead of a nation... How blind. Shining in a way unbefitting of a fairy. I wish the gods would see you and learn..."

Sssss...

Gilgamesh, his treasury ultimately sealed, met his death at Morgan's hands. The compatibility wasn't good... Morgan, not a simple mage, but one who maintained the Lostbelt alone for thousands of years, was as absurd an existence as his treasury.

"Ah, aah..."

Tokiomi slumped down as he witnessed Gilgamesh's defeat before his eyes. The King of Heroes, who should have been undoubtedly the strongest, was defeated by a single Servant. In a way, he was also a victim of power balance.

"My oh my~ You ran all the way here?"

And Gudako walked slowly toward such a Tokiomi. He then activated his status screen and took out a mystic code. It was...

".... Th, that, could it be...? Exactly as recorded in the ancestor's records..."

"Ah, the Jeweled Sword."

Tokiomi knew the moment he saw it. The pinnacle a jewel mage must reach... the Jeweled Sword.

And then...

"I'll show you magic~ Ta-da."

And then, Jeweled Swords (the real ones) fell in droves from the air, piling up in the garden.

"Uh, uh uh...."

Seeing such an absurd sight—the family's long-cherished desire, which they couldn't even grasp a clue of over generations, piled up like trash—Tokiomi fainted from shock.

"Hmph, this is the infinite Jeweled Sword. If it's Master, he can bring countless Jeweled Swords... Damn it. Stupid 3-star."

"Master, even if they're mystic codes, don't just take out Jeweled Swords carelessly..."

"They're just 3-star mystic codes, right?"

"That's when a Servant uses them! Each one of these is real, so they're dangerous, you know?"

"Eeh... Then if we set them all off at once, would it be like a nuclear explosion?"

"Don't do something like Zhen Gong would."

Illya sighed and handed them back to Gudako one by one to be retrieved.

"Hmm, are you going to end it like this?"

"Let's just end it. I don't intend to kill him. To begin with... he's not even worth that. No need to dirty our hands further."

"Is that so... I just feel dirtier for no reason. I should go back and eat cake~"

Thus, Gudako's group left Tokiomi as he was and returned to their lodging. At the lodging, Sakura, still asleep, and Artoria were waiting.

"Did you resolve it well?"

"Well, since I went~ With this goddess of love, Kama, here, anything is resolved perfectly!"

"Ah, yes."

Artoria reacted indifferently as if accustomed and moved on. Kama pouted at that reaction, looking displeased, and tried to open the fridge to eat cake. But...

The adult brandy cake she was looking forward to was gone.

"? Ah, was that perhaps Kama's? I thought it was mine and ate it..."

"How could you eat it all without saying anything!!!"

"I, I was just hungry..."

"Do you know how much I was looking forward to it... This is too much!!!"

Immediately switching to her adult form, Kama got angry.

""She made her cry...""

"No, it's just..."

"Caster, Caster... At least you should have asked before eating. This is your fault."

"I'm sorry!"

Caster truly lived up to being Caster.

More Chapters