Chapter 047 [Inverted V] 47
"Servant Caster Lansemero - may I ask, what do you wish to tell me?"
The person who released a projection from the gate of the Throne of Heroes while no one was paying attention and slipped out to answer the call was Lancer Mello - or rather, it cannot be said that he slipped out when no one knew. After all...
"I thought you all knew that affinity is easier than relics to establish a connection with Heroic Spirits through summoning rituals and allow Servants to complete their existence in the real world?" Because the gate of the Throne of Heroes suddenly opened, Lancermello waited for Fujimaru Ritsuka who rushed to him with Noah in the Da Vinci workshop. "Do you think I'm the kind of person who would sneak out?"
"…I can't say, but Deputy Director—" Fujimaru Ritsuka lowered his head in grief, "We didn't pay much attention to your appearance at the final anomaly. Then, when we completed the conquest of the Seventh Newsbelt and faced off against New Chaldea in front of the Wall of Humanity…"
"You're behaving the same way again - seriously, Dr. Roman knows he shouldn't be using this method to solve the problem!!!"
"Should I not be here at this time?" Roman, who had just left the control room after his shift change, stood at the door of Da Vinci's workshop and waved his hands helplessly to the people in the workshop. "But I still have to remind you of a possibility - what if it is the same situation as that of Wodeym and Kirshtalia in the Fifth Newsbelt?"
“But…” Fujimaru Ritsuka hesitated for a long time, and finally refuted the possibility mentioned by Roman under Noah’s extremely disapproving gaze, “The possibility that the holy relic or the protector is the same entity is too small, isn’t it!?”
When Lancer Mello materialized as a Caster, she saw two familiar figures standing in front of her - and the familiar Command Seal pattern on the back of the Lord's hand also made her raise her eyebrows in surprise; however, it seemed that the two people in front of her were more frightened by her materialization.
"Is it a homologue... or is it the same situation as Mr. Emiya?" The purple-haired girl subconsciously asked the orange-haired girl, Suzu, for an answer the moment she saw Lancermello. "Senior?"
"I don't know either... But, there are more important things for the time being!" Lansemello looked at his lord who stepped forward and stood in front of him, "Miss Caster——"
"Are you trying to tell me not to mention my real name?" Lanser-Melloi blinked, and the gold gradually covered his entire pupils. "I have 'seen' this rule, as well as your two code names, Master - so, can you tell me what your wish is? I left the Throne of Heroes and came here because I heard your wish."
"No, I hope you can answer a question for me first." No. 48 took a deep breath and looked straight at Lansermero. "When did you become a Heroic Spirit?"
"...So that's how it is. Your wish is related to 'another me'." Lansemello smiled softly. "I became a Heroic Spirit in the fourth singularity, the Dark World Magic Mist City of London. I have the qualifications to become a Grand Servant. And my true name as a Heroic Spirit is Avalon's Ghost."
"I wonder if what I said is enough to dispel your doubts?"
Lancer Mello saw that the eyes of No. 48 and Shielder were shining with the same hope as before.
"Please save her!"
The commotion of the Heroic Spirit Summoning caused a great deal of commotion in the 48th Main Castle. The two were preparing to take Lancermello back to the castle tower, but they were blocked by many people along the way.
"...You are still as good at dealing with situations like this as before." Lansemello watched No. 48 lock the door with a serious expression after sending away the attendants. "Although you are not the lord of our place, no matter what - I think everyone will be willing to fulfill your wish for you."
"To me, this is the best compliment - but I never thought I could really knock on the door of the Throne of Heroes." No. 48 smiled and stuffed the suitcase containing the Spiritual Base Atlas into the locker, then sat down opposite Lansermello. "After all, this world is no longer the place where I was born - but this is also a good place, after all, far away from the Association."
"Congratulations on leaving the association." Lanser-Mello looked at the room they shared with relief. "It doesn't look much better than the dormitory in Chaldea. Your room is always full of gifts from others, and now you live with Shielder... Let's not talk about this for now. What happened to the 'other me' you know?"
"In truth, we don't know what's wrong with her," No. 48 reminisced, telling Lancer-Mero what she knew. "It's just that we haven't seen her for a long time - and her honmaru has been insisting that she's just sick... I visited there once before the summoning."
"I saw her valet showing signs of evolving towards the Time Traveler - my intuition told me that her situation was not good, so I chose to summon the Servant after I came back."
"It sounds like it's within the scope of Asclepius's job." Lansemero raised his eyebrows. "But since I was the one who responded to the call, it must not be something that the God of Medicine can handle - for example, although it looks like an illness, it's not. In addition, can I know when your journey ends?"
"This will affect the range of reference events I can choose when explaining to you - and, I think... the sooner this matter is resolved, the better... right?"
No. 48 immediately took Shielder with him to visit the Zero Main Maru, which had just closed its doors to welcome visitors. Like most of the Servants, Lancer Mello chose to transform into a spirit and follow the Lord of Guardians, preparing to sneak into the Zero Main Maru in secret to confirm the specific situation of the Judge who was his counterpart.
——No matter which Fujimaru Ritsuka it is, they can receive equal treatment among the Chaldea members in all worlds.
The same thing happened to Zero Honmaru, who had just closed the door to say farewell in front of No. 48 not long ago. Even though they had rejected her once and advised her to stay away from here, they would not really stop her outside when No. 48 knocked on the door again. Lancermello took advantage of the moment the door opened and slipped in with the convenience of spiritization and isotope.
As soon as he entered the Honmaru, Lancermello sensed that the situation of his counterpart was not good - from what he had learned from the Clairvoyance, the spiritual power circulation in the Honmaru would change with the state of the Judge; and the sluggish spiritual veins in the Honmaru clearly indicated that the Judge's condition was precarious.
Lancermello confirmed that No. 48 and Shielder were still talking to the swordsman who opened the door for them to buy time, and turned around and rushed towards the location of the Judge. This Judge of Honmaru, her counterpart, was indeed in the castle tower, but no one knew what had happened to lead to the current situation...
Relying on the characteristic that the isotope can be identified as the same person, Lancermello easily entered the castle tower where the judge was located without triggering the alarm or alarming the swordsman belonging to this Honmaru on the way - but when Lancermello saw the scene in front of her clearly, she had to admit the difficulty of this matter.
——It was the only end for the fairies who had appeared in the fairy country Britain in the past and lost their name "goal".
——Morseization.
Lansemero used her clairvoyance to search for the past of her peers that would be helpful in dealing with the current situation, while she was thinking about everything that happened in the fairy kingdom in the past. Her master had not experienced the journey in the anomalous zone, so she had to think of a way to make her master understand these concepts in the shortest possible time...
Mors is a fairy that has lost its name "target" - and normal fairies will be quickly corroded by Mors poison if they are even slightly touched.
Lancer-Mero carefully avoided the Morse-transformed body of her counterpart, but the scene of her becoming a fairy knight that she tried her best to forget popped up in her mind. It was during a gap in a disaster, when the savior Ash had just led the fairy knights to repel a wave of Morse and was taking a short rest during the rare breathing time...
And Lancermello, or rather, Rikolis who had not yet been given the name of Savior Ash——suddenly became Morse at this time.
Tetrot was worried that Licorice might have been infected with Mors poison during the previous battle with Mors. However, Lancermello and Savior Ash, as Paradise Fairies, knew the reason why Licorice showed Mors transformation at that time.
The Paradise Fairies are the original source of the Holy Sword. Once the original source is lost, only the empty shell will remain. This means that they will become the insane monsters "Morse" at any time and anywhere.
As early as the Fifth Newsbelt, Lancermello had given his share of the Primordial to Hephaestus as material for forging divine weapons, in exchange for a divine bow that would allow hunters to shoot down the moon. It was not easy for him to persist until this moment in his empty shell.
So the savior Ash gave her a name, and used the name to frame her body that was about to collapse, so that she, who should have turned into Morse and disappeared from the fairy history long ago, waited for the ending when Queen Morgan died and the primordial "itself" was handed over to her as the fairy knight Bedivere.
"Give a name... ? But this is only a temporary solution - the name will fall off one day, and this world obviously can't withstand that level of change." Lancer Mello looked at the isotope whose face was left without Morse transformation, and remembered the report on Shibuya's anomaly submitted by Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Oh, by the way, since there are Fukujin around... then, how about synchronizing with the One-Eyed One-Legged God?"
The three people at the door had obviously been in a stalemate for a long time - the swordman who came out to answer the door did not expect that No. 48 and Shielder would be so determined to meet their Inquisitor this time, but he had no good way to refuse the two of them, so he could only stand in a stalemate with them at the door without saying a word.
It was at this time that Lancermello returned to No. 48.
"Confirmed, I can handle this problem, Master."