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MMMS 116

The warriors on the scorching sand had long since lost even the strength to cry out.

The battlefield trembled beneath the weight of annihilation.

The King of Conqueror raised his sword high—the Sword of Kupriotes catching the light one final time—as he charged headlong toward the youth.

The King of Heroes bared his teeth, golden armor flaring like a dying sun, and brought down his demonic blade with a snarl, unleashing a storm of destruction—over five hundred Noble Pha...

MMMS 115

“Yes… yes… not an illusion,” she murmured, smiling through her tears. “Hehe… Ryuuto speaks like such a grown-up now.”

She giggled, warm and bittersweet. “Back then, all you could say was ‘Mama… I’m hungry…’”

“Do you… not like who I’ve become?” he asked quietly.

Tiamat didn’t answer at once. She buried her face in his hair and drew in a long, trembling breath. “I love you the most.”

‘So please stop squirming against my back l...

IBHJ 1387

After what felt like hours of scanning and drifting through the vast nothingness, Shirou leaned back in his seat and shook his head.

“No sign of anything. Let’s pull out, Tiamat.”

“Understood,” Tiamat replied, exhaling as if she'd been holding her breath the entire time.

The Golden Universe was already suffocating in its own way, but this place—this silent, starless abyss—was worse. It felt wrong, as if they were trespassing in a space that had never been meant...

IBHJ 1386

“Once, this planet—this entire star system—was a pinnacle of civilization. Advanced. United. But then came the plan of life… and the founding of the Empire.”

His voice turned bitter.

“And that… destroyed everything.”

“Life’s… evolution?”

Shirou’s voice was quiet, sharp with curiosity.

The village chief nodded solemnly.

“Yes. Once, we were just like the ordinary villagers Lord Shirou has met. Simple. Fragile. But then…” He loo...

IBHJ 1385

The village chief collapsed to the ground in a heap, coughing blood. But he didn’t cry out in pain.

Instead, trembling, he raised his head.

“It’s not true! I swear—it’s absolutely not true!”

The armored angel loomed above him, unimpressed.

“Not true?” he sneered. “You think I’m blind?”

He kicked again—hard, brutal, aimed for the gut.

The chief folded under the impact with a gasp.

“There’s more,” the angel said coldly. “...

IBHJ 1384

Over the following days, Shirou shamelessly set up camp inside the stone-walled ruins, completely absorbed in the murals that lined the cave. He questioned anyone who passed by. Every carving, every glyph, every fragment of myth—he studied them like sacred texts.

And slowly, he pieced together the worldview that shaped this planet’s understanding of the cosmos.

The story was simple. Archetypal.

A myth forged in terror and awe.

According to their beliefs, the darkne...

MMMS 114

That night, Ryuuto lay beside his mother on the hay-strewn bedding inside the cave.

When he stirred and cracked open his eyes, still half-lost in sleep, he felt something warm curled around his waist. It was her tail—Tiamat’s long, serpentine tail, gently wrapped around him like a silken rope.

Again.

He’d told her not to. More than once. She’d promised—again and again—that she wouldn’t do it anymore. And yet here they were.

With a quiet sigh, he sat up an...

MMMS 113

Clang.

The sharp sound beneath his feet pulled Ryuuto from his reverie.

He glanced down.

A golden chalice had rolled against his foot. Ornate, regal. Not the hand-carved stoneware they used at home, but a treasure—pure gold, its surface etched with divine patterns that caught the sunlight like fire.

He bent slightly, eyes narrowing.

Even someone like him, who had no fondness for flashy ornaments unlike Mother, had to admit—it was a beautiful cup.

But wh...

MMMS 112

Ryuuto didn’t respond to Iskandar’s question.

Instead, a dagger appeared in his hand—a strange, gleaming thing of cruel elegance. Its surface shimmered like oil on water, refusing to reflect the world around it.

Gilgamesh’s eyes narrowed.

Even if he wanted to forget, he couldn’t. Not that blade.

Erosion.

The same cursed weapon that had once sliced through his wrist like silk.

Ryuuto held it lightly as if cradling a relic.

“Gilgamesh,” he...

IBHJ 1383

Over the course of several days, through patient, deliberate questioning, Shirou began to piece together fragments of knowledge about the planet.

It was primitive. A world whose civilization hovered somewhere around Earth’s Stone Age—tools of bone and stone, fire carried in baskets, myths whispered by firelight.

The monstrous insect he’d slain earlier was known to the villagers as an earth demon, one of many. These creatures weren’t anomalies—they were an infestation. Th...

IBHJ 1382

“Gurgle gurgle… chatter chatter…”

The villagers spoke rapidly, gesturing animatedly with their hands, their painted faces lively with expression—but their words meant nothing to Shirou. The sounds tumbled past his ears like water over stone, strange and ungraspable.

He glanced sideways at Tiamat.

She gave him a small, confident nod, then reached up and gently patted his back.

Her eyes glowed with a subtle violet shimmer as she whispered:

“【Message C...

IBHJ 1381

“Answer my summons—Tiamat!”

Shirou shouted loudly.

The summoning circle beneath the starship pulsed red—and in an instant, the vast vessel vanished like a mirage. In its place stood a child, no older than six, her violet eyes wide with confusion.

Tiamat blinked, staring down at her small hands. “I… I stopped functioning. So how am I…?”

She turned them over slowly, as if they didn’t belong to her. “I look like Master…”

There was disbelief i...

IBHJ 1380

In that moment, beneath the Golden Emperor’s feet, the titanic insect stirred.

Its many eyes—closed in feigned slumber—snapped open, each one glowing with unnatural light. From its gaping mouthparts, countless black spikes erupted like spears, lancing upward with ferocious speed.

A coordinated ambush—executed in perfect silence.

Spikes capable of piercing dimensional barriers tore through space toward the figure standing on its skull.

The Golden Emperor didn’...

MMMS 111

"Come then, Beast. If you don’t want to die here, draw that sword."

Ryuuto didn’t move. He tilted his head slightly, like he was trying to remember something. "Ah... you mean Ea."

That one name told him everything. Gilgamesh had Noble Phantasms that could restrain Ea—or at least thought he did.

Which only made Ryuuto more stubborn.

The more you try to force me to draw it, the less I want to. That petty, almost childish thought dug in like a splinter.

"Sorry...

MMMS 110

This wasn’t just a battle anymore—it had become a war.

Three against thirty thousand. And after more than thirty grueling minutes, they’d only managed to cut down less than two thousand.

The tide never stopped. The enemy forces, now numbering twenty-eight thousand, pressed in like a storm without end, forcing Ryuuto, Morgan, and Artoria into a constant, desperate struggle. There was no chance to breathe. No opportunity to retreat. Only more steel, more hooves, more killing.<...

IBHJ 1379

Shirou aimed the starship toward the heart of the golden fleet—

not to flee—

but to light a match beside a powder keg.

Dodging. Evading. Never counterattacking.

All of it had been calculated.

He had done everything to conserve energy—waiting for the moment he could fire a single, decisive blow. Not to destroy the fleet, but to sever that root line—the one he’d seen stretching through reality like a vein of destiny.

Now, that line was gone.

A...

IBHJ 1378

For as long as anyone remembered, the Golden Universe had ruled the stars.

Its supremacy was an axiom—undisputed, undeniable.

But now, that truth was unraveling…

…because of one starship.

"Where did it come from!?" the commander roared, voice cracking through the bridge like a whip.

No one answered. There was no answer.

All they could do was watch as the silver Tiamat ship twisted through their formation like a needle through silk—then vanished into...

IBHJ 1377

"What a pathetic excuse for an invader."

The commander of the golden fleet narrowed his eyes, lips twitching into a contemptuous smile as the Tiamat starship accelerated toward them.

"He dares charge us head-on? In our territory?" He scoffed. "End him."

"At once, Commander."

The order pulsed through command channels like a neural spark, and the star-scattered fleet came alive.

Space lit up.

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.

A storm of beam fire erupted from every dir...

IBHJ 1376

After that brief surge of adrenaline, Shirou didn’t feel tired anymore. He stayed in his seat, chatting idly with Tiamat as they cruised forward. Before long, the wormhole’s endpoint loomed into view.

A final ripple—then they emerged.

Silence greeted them.

They’d arrived in a dead star region—completely empty, not a single sun or planet in sight. But what caught Shirou’s eye wasn’t the absence of stars. It was the color.

The space around them shimmered in...

MMMS 109

“Found him.”

It only took ten seconds. Artoria drove her lance through three cavalrymen in a single thrust, their bodies thrown from their saddles like broken dolls. She reached out to Morgan through their shared link.

Gilgamesh. Northwest.

Ever since Rhongomyniad had become her main weapon, her Spirit Origin had begun to shift—closer to that of a divine spirit. Along with it came a faint Clairvoyance, just strong enough to pierce the haze of war and catch a flash of g...

MMMS 108

It wasn’t a fairyland or some peaceful paradise. This was something raw, something vast—like the kind of scene only heroes were meant to witness. A war that felt too large for the world to contain.

The King of Conqueror raised his banner high, bold and defiant. He wasn’t just remembering the glories of old—he was dragging them into the present, anchoring them here. Warriors who had once crossed deserts and oceans with him now rode at his side again, called back by bonds that eve...

IBHJ 1375

A heavy boom rocked the ship, jolting Shirou awake. He sat up fast, blinking off the haze of sleep.

“What happened, Tiamat? Are we at our destination?”

[No. We’re still in hyperspace. But something ahead is attacking us, Master.]

Tiamat didn’t take her humanoid form. Her voice came through the ship’s core systems.

He frowned and stood, brushing a hand through his hair. “Show me. Open the display.”

[Understood.]

The screen at the front of the c...

IBHJ 1374

“RUMBLE.”

The ground convulsed as violent tremors rocked Mount Enzou. Jagged chunks of stone thundered down from above, and the ancient cavern—once a resting place for the remnants of the Greater Grail—buckled under the pressure. Within seconds, the entire structure gave way, crumbling in on itself until nothing remained but a mountain of shattered rock.

Then, with a sharp boom, a blinding pillar of light surged up from the ruins and shot straight into the Vortex Gate hang...

IBHJ 1373

Even with her connection to the Root—an eye that could pierce all truths—Sajyou Manaka still couldn’t see through the shield.

Its origin was hidden from her.

All she could make out… was a faint silhouette. A figure standing tall beyond comprehension. Radiant. Divine.

What is that…? she thought.

But whatever it was, she couldn’t touch it.

"I don't know what's happening," Mash said, standing her ground. "But I absolutely won’t let you hurt my Master."...

IBHJ 1372

“How can this be?”

“The Emperor’s Arm vanished?”

“Impossible…”

Future Gaia and the others stared in disbelief, their voices overlapping in confusion. But Artoria said nothing. She gazed toward the place where the starlight had fallen, her expression softening with a quiet, knowing smile. ‘So you’ve found someone worthy of that shield.’

Mash slowly opened her eyes.

The beam of destruction blazed just ahead, its heat and force still terrifying...

MMMS 107

The open ground before Einzbern Castle stretched like a battlefield waiting for blood. Artoria's white stallion snorted, steam rising from its nostrils as she adjusted her grip on Rhongomyniad. The weight of the lance felt right in her hands, familiar as breathing. Morgan flanked Ryuuto's left, her staff crackling with residual mana from the bombardment, while Irisviel took position on his right.

"Let's settle this, you two." Ryuuto stepped forward as the golden warship and its dark com...

IBHJ 1371

Her protective mud scattered like smoke. She hung there, suspended by the spikes that had pierced clean through her, her face twisted in agony she couldn't voice.

"You shouldn't have come." The Beast's voice carried something that might have been regret. "Your rebellion, your search for meaning, even this rescue attempt—Master saw it all coming. You can't escape this fate. I can't either. No one can."

The streams of human malice around them suddenly reversed course, flowing upwa...

IBHJ 1370

The cave yawned before them, a black mouth carved into the hillside that seemed to swallow the afternoon light. Mash shifted her weight, shield ready at her side.

"This is it?" she asked, glancing toward Manaka.

Manaka studied the entrance, her usual cheerful demeanor replaced by something more focused. "From here, we need to watch ourselves. Stay close."

"Yes. But are you sure it's in there?" Mash gestured toward the cave mouth. "It looks like a normal cave."

The entr...

MMMS 106

In far-off Macedonia, a young king had done the unthinkable—overthrown his own father and seized the throne. Within months, he was tearing through neighboring kingdoms like wildfire, his sights set on something even bolder: the mighty Persian Empire across the water.

The defenders who stood against him were no cowards. These were warriors who'd die before they'd let foreign boots march through their home soil. They came at Iskandar's forces with everything they had—honor, fury, and ...

MMMS 105

"You said you spent the night in Artoria's room, right?"

"Yeah, that's right."

So she could back up his story.

“…That’s odd.” Irisviel's pout deepened.

Because the thing was, this wasn't just one woman's scent. It was two distinct ones, layered together. Still, there was no way Ryuuto could explain that he'd spent twenty minutes that morning sandwiched between Morgan and Artoria in what could only be described as a very thorough kissing session.

"...I see...