Chapter 80 - The Correct Rules.
After all the crazy events and problems that happened today, the sun went down as it announced the end of the day. Everyone was still on their nerves from today, but the church and magic association worked very fast as most of the normal people got their memory deleted by magecraft in different ways across the world.
They used devices, bounded fields, familiars, long-range spells, even the creatures against humanity like dead apostles didn\'t interfere in the process.
What was left of the people that remembered what happened, asked their friends about it, but they only looked like crazy, even any information they posted online got deleted before they received a visit from a familiar to take their memories.
As organizations that rule the world from the bright side with their fortune and from from the dark side by magecraft, the magic association and church worked very fast and cleared the situation, but they couldn\'t just forget about Fuyuki city just because Zelretch told them so, if they did, then they won\'t be stubborn believers and crazy magi.
First of all, they send some investigation agents to Fuyuki to check the situation before anything else, then the church decided to call the source directly to know about the situation, after all, they have an insider in the Holy Grail War, which made their temporary ally (Magic association) confused because they also supposed to have an insider in the that war, except they lost all the connection with her.
"Yes, yes, I understand" Meanwhile, in the church of Fuyuki city, Kirei was holding a phone as he was talking with someone from the church.
"Tohsaka heir can\'t be a help for us, this is a war and she\'s one of the participants, and after all what we saw, I don\'t think she has time for this" Kirei didn\'t say a single lie in his words, even changing the truth a little will be discovered by the other party, so he\'s just answering what he knows while maneuvering around the questions with a lot of information. It also seems that the other party is busy and in a rush.
"I\'ll keep you informed about this war while waiting for the reinforcements" Kirei received some orders from the church as he chose to follow them without any question.
"In these troubled times, we need to strengthen our beliefs and remember that the Lord will always guide us" Kirei said calmly as the person behind the phone seemed to be pleased before hanging up.
Putting the phone aside and lowering his hand, Kirei closed his eyes and started to think about what he\'ll do now.
"What wrong, fake priest? Having some trouble?" Cu was leaning on the wall of the church with his back while looking at Kirei with a grin on his face.
"Or maybe someone will see what you did" Cu sarcastic tone continued as he was making fun of Kirei, even if he knew that he wouldn\'t achieve any effect.
He\'s angry about the fact that everything that happened, from Servants\' battle to world destruction and this \'Master\' of his, didn\'t allow him to go and join the fun.
Cu felt that he missed the party of a century that even the age of gods didn\'t have, so he isn\'t feeling well now.
Like Cu thought, Kirei didn\'t change his expression when he heard his words before he looked at the window as the snow that was melted by Solomon\'s light beam, started falling again.
"Lancer, go and check the surroundings" Kirei said before he walked away and entered the back of the church. He needs to do something quickly, especially when he can\'t call Gilgamesh now.
Cu looked at Kirei leaving before he clicked his tongue and left the church. He doesn\'t want to stay here a single second and he might find some Servants to talk about life(Fight) in this night.
Meanwhile, in Leo\'s mansion that was covered in green light and a ton of magecraft spells to block Clairvoyance. Leo, Merlin, and Archer were in the same room as a slightly heavy atmosphere was around.
After reaching the Mansion, Leo went to secure his mansion from the stalker(Solomon) with his power as he modified the mansion slightly to block the Clairvoyance effects, even if he doesn\'t know if this will be able to block Solomon\'s one.
Merlin also runs around while throwing some spells here and there and looking at the different beasts in Leo\'s mansion. All beasts with spirits powers liked Merlin. Wind cat, DIOchu, even Palkia who is always in the mansion hidden space, liked Merlin. Well, as a magus who knows spirits a lot, this wasn\'t surprising.
Archer went into a random room and put the fainted Rin on a bed before leaving and closing the door behind him. Archer is working with the logic of if they wanted to kill us, they would have done it a while ago, so it\'s okay for now.
Nero wanted to look around the mansion, especially when she went and saw Leo\'s beasts running around, so she dragged Ritsuka with her, even if Leo felt that she is planning something, but when he saw her looking at DIOchu dio\'s face without freaking out, he didn\'t have anything to say.
"Now, can we talk about the important things?" Archer crossed his arms and looked at the two Clairvoyance assholes in the room.
"Oh? Are you sure you want to enter this subject?" Leo sat on one of the chairs in the room as he held the sleeping Fou in his arms.
He\'s now sending some of his mana to Fou to help him recover faster while petting his head, so no one can know about his hobby. Perfect plan, as expected from Satan.
"Of course, wasting any more time will reflect badly on us, especially when we are working together now" Archer shrugged his shoulders as he didn\'t seem nervous at all.
"Did you recover your calm this quickly? You\'re not fun at all" Leo sighed as his words made Archer\'s eyebrow twitch.
"Although your actions until now are not of the Devil, but I have to say that you\'re really an asshole" Archer said the truth about the situation, even if his words always seem to carry sarcasm in them.
"Of course, I\'m an asshole" Leo said calmly as Archer and Merlin looked at him with the look of \'Are you okay?\'.
"What with your look? If I\'m going to be a jerk and an asshole then I\'ll admit it directly, it\'s not like I\'ll say I\'m a good guy or a gentleman" Leo summoned his coffee cup before he said "Even if I\'m Satan, I have standards and shit"
"*Sigh* What a weird day" Archer sighed at one of the most bizarre days in his life.
"It seems you are not only calm, but even taking it easy, huh?" Leo felt his dignity as Satan and a Beast is being questioned by these people around him.
"Why wouldn\'t I be? It is not like you\'ll just kill us randomly and I also want to thank you for showing me that my ideal was a complete lost cause" Archer sighed again as he said while closing his eyes.
"Ideal? You mean the justice partner? Well, it\'s a stupid ideal from the start that only the fools will go after, but what to say, each one of us in this Holy Grail War is a fool in his own way" Leo shrugged his shoulders as he didn\'t care a lot of this topic.
"The Land of Steel, huh? It\'s really a frightening future. Is this why you don\'t want to do anything?" Merlin spotted something weird about Leo\'s cup, but he couldn\'t detect it, so he just asked this question.
"I told you, Merlin, what you\'re living and looking at now is just an \'If\' scenario created by the Counter Force to delay their demise, but they forgot something" Leo glanced at Archer before he said " Humanity won\'t change and they will cross all the obstacles even us Beasts"
"However, no matter how much they struggle, their ending won\'t be on the hand of an alien god, Cthulhu, or a Beast. It\'ll be with their own hands" Leo said the reason why he finds his advent as Beast completely meaningless is because he doesn\'t see the point of attacking something walking to his own demise.
How many different developments happened in this world, Beasts, Alien gods, True Ancestors, but humanity always overcomes them, however, their ending will always be because of their actions.
"Ah, I have to say that is completely correct, which shows how pathetic my actions were" Archer let out another sigh as he was thinking about his past self in this world.
"Hm? That\'s kind of strange. You\'re actions and ideal is indeed stupid and meaningless, but at least it\'s not pathetic" Leo said some words that made Archer open his eyes and look at him with a weird gaze.
"In that journey of yours, you gathered a lot of sins, but you also had a ton of blessings, even if you want to deny it. Kings and Heroes, who the history was cheering for, all of them built their legends with blood on their hands" Leo looked at his reflection on the cup as he seemed to be able to see a young man walking in the desert.
"I don\'t think this makes you all that different from them" Leo took a sip from his coffee and looked at Archer\'s surprised eyes as he chuckled a little.
"Don\'t get me wrong, you and even them are completely sinners, who should visit me in hell to talk about life. After all, in my species(Angel and Beast) way of looking at things, a sin is a sin no matter how much you try to justify it" Leo chuckled again as he felt this topic is more interesting than looking at the flaws of humanity all the time.
Archer stared at Leo for a moment before he leaned back on the wall with his eyes closed and said " Oh? Then what does this make you?"
"Me? I\'m the biggest and worst sinner of you all, so cry all you want because I\'m number one here" Leo said as he had some pride in this thing which is very weird.
"Who\'d cry for that? I\'m just particularly annoyed for thinking that the Devil is more pleasing than gods now" Archer said with an annoyed tone in his voice which made Leo laugh.
"It seems that I\'m doing my job properly in the end" Leo said as he took another sip from his coffee.
"Now, now, what do we know about the Fourth Holy Grail War situation?" Merlin saw the interesting conversation end, so he took the topic into another direction.
"Not much, even Alaya doesn\'t have a lot of information because her direct connection was canceled, except some faint connection with humanity" Archer said what his boss Alaya told him because he\'s the only one that can have a direct connection with it.
"Even with Clairvoyance we don\'t know anything, be it in the present, future, and past. Some big things are happening in the back and I don\'t like it" Leo looked at Merlin before he said " And how you don\'t know anything? I\'m pretty sure you were stalking your king in that war from Avalon"
"Of course, I was stal-*cough*- watching over her, but it was like a dark screen appear when something irregular happened there, but the situation didn\'t change much which surprised me" Merlin was confused because of that for a moment before an idea popped in his head before he said " I remember her in the kings\' talk *Sigh* It was a disaster, I must say, but I wonder what you\'ll say in her condition"
"Hah? I\'m not a king, so why should I care, but you should have taught that king of yours to launch her Noble Phantasm in other peoples face more. Who the hell will tell me what I\'ll do or not?" Leo waved his hand as he didn\'t want to think about the stupid king Arthur of Merlin.
Merlin couldn\'t help but nod at these words, a king is a king, each one is different and each one has his majesty. If you\'re a king, you can\'t allow another king to tell you that your way is wrong. The moment his king started doubting herself because of the other two kings words, she lost that battle, their respect, and even her identity as a king in their eyes.
Leo didn\'t know that his asshole thinking is working very well with the king system of this world, but Merlin was focusing on something more important.
"Does that cup have the concept of infinity?" Merlin looked at the sign of the snake biting its tail on the cup.
"Ah, this? Well, I took this concept from the Ouroboros dragon, but I didn\'t know what to do with it, so I just put it here temporarily. It was worth it though" Leo told the story behind his infinite coffee cup.
Archer stared at these two talking about the infinite concept as his eyebrow was twitching when he heard that Leo got it in exchange for some sweets before he said " Can we return to the topic?"
"Like I said, you\'re no fun at all" Leo sighed at these words as his words made Archer exhausted again.
"But to think about it, will your king be summoned this time?" Leo put his hand on this chin as he asked the most important question that made Archer widen his eyes slightly.
"No idea, a lot of things changed now" Merlin also felt this is a very important question.
"What do you mean?" Archer asked before Leo answered instantly" With all these enemies running around, I don\'t see a chance your past self will survive for long… If he\'s alive now"
Survive for long… If he\'s alive now… These words kept repeating in Archer\'s head as his brain lagged for a moment before a strange feeling of wanting to celebrate appeared in his head.
"Yeah, probably he\'s dead now" Leo said again as Archer almost jumped from joy before they all stopped and looked at the side.
A strange wave of mana rushed to the surroundings as the calm night was filled with the mana again.
Every Servant and magi in the city felt this mana as it meant one thing… Two Servants are about to fight now.
"Well, the Holy Grail War should be done in the night, but to think he\'ll follow the rules" Leo grinned as he was looking at a far place with his Clairvoyance.
In a forest next to the mountain area where Alcides was, Gilgamesh and Enkidu were standing there as their mana was flying in the air.
Two old friends and epics are meeting face to face while everyone seems to forget that the Holy Grail War is supposed to be done at night.