Chapter 052 [Inverted V] 52

"By the way, may I ask..." Kotobuki Toushirou looked at the two people who accepted the Watcher's kindness and started to set up the summoning array. Standing on the hillside below, he asked them, "How many people from Chaldea are attending the banquet?"

"The total number of employees is 63..." Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head to ask Mash for his opinion, "But it's obviously much more than that, right?"

"So I suggested to you that you add some restrictions to the Throne of Heroes." Mashu put down her shield, stepped back a few steps and watched the blue summoning array appear in front of her. "There must be a lot of people who want to join in the fun at the Throne of Heroes - not to mention those from other regions, in Japan alone, there is also Miss Ibuki who created the Arctic Summer World."

"Not to mention the concentration of the original owner of the sword."

"Ah... that's right." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled guiltily, avoiding Kotobuki Toushirou's gaze, and gave a subtle answer, "Well, anyway - prepare enough for more than a hundred people first? In fact, if possible, the more the better... After all, the Knights of the Round Table have always been a frequent guest on the list of freeloaders - those knights are really big eaters... Especially the Knight King, who is an especially big eater!!!"

"It is the dragon's hearth after all." Mashu followed Lingji's wishes, smiled helplessly and spoke to protect the image of the Knight King.

"It's rare for the Honmaru to be so lively." Inside the castle tower, the watcher was getting familiar with his new android body while changing into a black Western-style uniform that had been in his closet for a long time. "Let me think... How long has it been since I last wore this Clock Tower Magic Association uniform? Ah... It seems like I've been wearing kimonos since I moved to this world."

"But tonight is a party with Chaldea, so I have to change into the clothes I used to wear as a magician."

Although it snows most of the time in Xiaoxue and Hantsubaki, the snow can be stopped as long as the judge wishes. Just like now, the snow has accumulated to a certain thickness, and the swordsmen in charge of setting up the banquet are already moving out the small stove for cooking hot pot, and the watcher stopped the snow in the main castle.

"The snow has stopped." Yagen Toushirou had just returned from the battlefield to Honmaru after completing the mission of the new event announced by the Government of Time with the First Division. He found that the light snow that was still falling before he left had stopped. "It looks like some guests have arrived - I wonder what's going on at the venue."

"Yakuken, you thought you could postpone your departure." Tanto, who was wearing a cute departure uniform like a female idol, poked Yakuken Toushirou, then turned around and whispered to the person in charge of all Honmaru's recognized funds who was calculating the expenses of the banquet, "In the end, Kotobuki-san announced the departure list in front of everyone."

"It's just eighty rounds of war expansion, nonsense." Yagen Toushirou sneered, turned around and looked at his brothers who were obviously whispering behind him, "A few years ago, didn't we dig through Osaka Castle in one day, and Edo Castle also emptied all the treasures in one day... To be honest, it's just eighty rounds of war expansion, why can't we wait until after the banquet is over?"

"The Lord probably wants to show some normality." The two katanas that came to pick up the people stood together in the corridor. "After all, something happened when C16 first came to visit. I remember that the first unit went out to Ikeda-ya in the middle of the night, and when they came back, they ran into No. 48 getting up for the night. An Ning was almost scared to death by the blood on her body."

"Ha... After all, wearing the blood-stained Shinsengumi haori, it would be really easy for Yasuda to be mistaken for your original owner, Okita Souji, right? And it was late at night..." Yagen Toushirou casually pulled a bandage to clean his shoulder armor and walked towards Kashuu Kiyomitsu and Yamato-mori Yasuda, "Oh, right - the battle is over, the first unit is disbanded on the spot."

"As expected of members of the First Standing Unit, you ran eighty laps without even your sword gear getting damaged." Kashuu Kiyomitsu sighed, and followed Yamato-no-kami Yasunari behind Yagen Toushirou. "The two of us have been playing less and less - you see, the lord doesn't even send us out on expeditions anymore."

"Hey, don't complain to me about this - go talk to Kotobuki-san if you have the guts." Yagen Toushirou turned around and looked at the two helplessly, "After all, you know that if you are not mobile enough, you can't get ahead of the Tracing Army, and even a single hit from the Tracing Army's guns could kill you half your life."

"Besides, the incident with Kotobuki-kun is in the past...but don't you think the lord has PTSD?"

"PTSD...what is that?"

“Okay, is the spirit particle communication stable now?” Fujimaru Ritsuka turned on the communication after Kotobuki Toushirou left, and let the projection be displayed on the summoning array newly built at the spirit vein node. “If it is stable, I will start summoning - of course, the channel may be crowded... because there are no restrictions on the Throne of Heroes, I am not sure who will want to come -”

"There's no problem with the communication. Those on duty tonight will come back directly after dinner and go back after a break." Roman clapped his hands, signaling everyone to focus their attention on him. "Special reminder - everyone in El-Melloi's classroom, please don't move around randomly when you get there, otherwise your teacher will be troubled."

"Lord El-Melloi II has been coming to the infirmary for a month to get stomach medicine. I would like to remind Flat Escardes, Yvette L. Lehman, Tosaka Rin, and Luvia Celinta Edelfelt not to bring the habits you have in El-Melloi's classroom outside!!!"

"By the way, Sven Gurashet is not included in this list because he has already graduated."

“Well, let’s summon and open the passage first.” Lancer-Mello smiled, watching Fujimaru Ritsuka extend his hand with the Command Seal above the summoning array. “I will find a way to keep the passage open all the time—you just need to knock on the door of the Throne of Heroes.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded, exchanged glances with Mashu who was standing beside him, took a deep breath, closed his eyes and recited this spell that he knew by heart -

"Declare."

Your body is under my command, and my fate depends on your sword.

If you wish to follow the call of the Holy Grail, obey this intention, and act in accordance with this principle, then you should respond.

I swear hereby.

I am the one who has accomplished all the good deeds in the world.

I am the one who spreads all the evil in the world.

You are the seven heavens entangled by the three great spirits of speech,

Coming from the Wheel of Restraint, the Guardian of Libra—! 』

The empty snowy ground was instantly filled with people. The Chaldean members were only a small part of the crowd, and most of them were people who had come out of the Throne of Heroes to join in the fun.

The Pan-Human History Department provided them with records of the male Okita Souji and the male Oda Nobunaga, as well as their own Gutu Gutu special point permanent team members, and the Heian-kyo human and demon parties led by Minamoto no Raikou and Abe no Haruaki respectively... In addition to these, there were also many servants from other regions who came simply to eat for free.

Hotoshiro Toshiro, who had just notified the kitchen to increase the amount, hadn't even reached the foot of the hillside where the cherry trees grew when he noticed the sudden increase in the number of people attending the banquet due to his excellent reconnaissance ability. The silver-haired clerk turned around and walked back without changing his expression, while silently adjusting the estimated number of people attending the banquet that he had previously informed the kitchen team up a lot.

"Ah, so many people are here." The Watcher walked out of the castle tower, but did not go downstairs directly. Instead, he stood on the balcony and looked in the direction of the cherry blossom tree. "This Chaldea, Marisbili and Olgamari are still alive - ah, the explosion did happen, but later they captured the guys from El-Melloi's classroom to come and help?"

"Well, let's go down and say hello anyway."

Fujimaru Ritsuka hurriedly stopped the group of Servants who came to join in the fun, and finally persuaded them to stay where they were and wait for Kotobuki Toushirou to come back and pick them up; the Chaldean staff seemed to be much less troublesome than the Servants, but in fact they were not much better - the magicians relied on their original bodies to stay in Chaldea, and directly used the projections entering the Zero Main Maru as data collecting instruments, and were busy analyzing various data of the Zero Main Maru.

So in such a chaotic situation, Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu seemed to be waiting for reinforcements, and finally waited for Kotobuki Toushirou, who had left earlier, to come back and lead the way to the banquet venue for them - this finally made the Servants and magicians calm down and stop creating more chaos.

The directors had obviously reached a consensus before they came over, and now they were working together to block Roman to a less noticeable position; while Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu, who were walking in front, were worried about a problem that they could not avoid - almost all the Heroic Spirits born in Japan in the Throne of Heroes had come out in droves...

There is no doubt that a meeting between the Sword Men and their former Masters is inevitable - but Fujimaru Ritsuka does not want to know what impact her Servants will have on these Sword Men.

"The Shinsengumi civil war is already settled, and the Oda shogunate is not a big deal..." Fujimaru Ritsuka told Mashu about the foreseeable gloomy future in a sad tone, "But look at the group in Heian-kyō, the mysterious Ranmaru X from space, and the two from Yamatai - I think I'm going to die first."

"This is too exciting, I can't stand it - and who knew how big the difference between the two filters would be!?"

"Senior, please calm down..."

When Kotobuki Toushirou brought them to the banquet venue, the Watcher also arrived here. He sat in the corridor and waved to everyone, saying the most important thing to note about this vacation - "Real names can be made public, but after you leave, they will forget your real names. Don't be shy, please enjoy your rare vacation here."

"Isn't this just like looking in a mirror?" Lansermello sighed, walked out of the scattered crowd, stood behind Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash, and smiled at the watchers opposite who were also wearing the uniforms of the Magic Association. "Nice to meet you, the me from another world - we are Phoenix Chaldea. After crossing the Human Burning and Human Frozen, we came here."

"Thank you for your invitation." Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash were also rushed to eat, so Lansermello walked through the crowd and sat down next to the Watcher. "Of course, it is consistent with what you know - I will record all the stories according to your requirements. As long as you are willing to tell me about your past."