My youth story, a crossover anime, turns out, is FGO!

"As expected of Nobunaga, he managed to win over the Master so quickly!"

Feeling that his alternate identity had found an owner, Makoto Aoki was almost moved to tears.

Old Sword, look at your efficiency compared to Oda Nobunaga's. You arrived so long earlier, but you're only a little bit ahead of others. It's such a waste of your handsome face!

Of course, Makoto Aoki selectively ignored Oda Nobunaga's threat, after all, as long as he could get the Master and the source of magic power, what more could he ask for?

Indeed, in Makoto Aoki's view, the Master of his alternate identities is like a power bank. Perhaps given Old Saber's personality, he would trust his Master implicitly, but in reality, the true Master of his alternate identities is still himself.

Not to mention Oda Nobunaga, given his personality, he would directly kill any Master he didn't like. In the original Holy Grail War in the Imperial Capital, he killed his Master as soon as he was summoned. He could easily compete with Jack the Ripper and Silent Hassan for the title of the fastest Master killer.

This might be why he found five Masters as backup options; if he wasn't satisfied with one, he could switch to the next.

"However, the contracts between these two Servants are not very stable... There's no way we can really have close contact with them."

That's right. A kiss alone creates a weak contract, and the Master's control over the Servant is minimal. Even the conversion of magical energy isn't very efficient, since Masters are non-magicians who need bodily fluids as a medium. In the original story, Medea formed a contract with Souichirou Kuzuki, who wasn't a magician, and they actually consummated their marriage... However, his two aliases didn't do that.

Old Sword is probably due to his own personality; he almost never attacks Eriri. Oda Nobunaga himself doesn't really care, and he wouldn't mind even if he slept with Nakano Miku. However, the key point is another matter.

Ultimately, both Servants are actually disguises of Makoto Aoki, containing a portion of his own consciousness. That's why they can't do such a thing, because Makoto Aoki's true love is Gudako!

Makoto Aoki was worried that if Gudako found out, would this be considered starting a harem? Kissing was one thing, but actually doing *that* was too much.

Honestly, if this were a game, it would be a classic case of a NTR (Netorare/Neo-Kimi) plot, and players would be furious. What, I painstakingly completed this character and now I have a true love for her?! FGO has had similar incidents, most notably involving Saber and Taikoubou. Saber was somewhat better off, with his voice lines salvaging the situation, but Taikoubou… well, Sakurai, you deserve to die! It's one thing to have your original waifu, but to drag in a Daji (a character from a popular Chinese novel/anime series) is just ridiculous!

However, in reality, I believe those girls could understand. Historically, both of them had wives: King Arthur's wife Guinevere and Oda Nobunaga's wife Saito Kicho, and both of them were quite loving with their wives.

“These aren’t my concerns!” Aoki Makoto shrugged. “The main point is…”

The black-haired boy said with a serious expression, "The enemy is leveling up too fast!"

That's right, the first opponent is the Demon Boar, a monster infamous in Celtic mythology, capable of slaying the hero Diarmuid. Now, there's the Sea Monster, a mini-boss that, in the original story, required a castle-destroying Noble Phantasm to defeat.

And then what? Won't all human evil appear?

Human evil is an existence that requires multiple Servants to defeat, or even more than multiple Servants, at least a Breakthrough-class Servant or a Grand Servant is needed.

The Grand rank is bestowed by the world, meaning that even if Makoto Aoki summons the Grand Servants from the original work, they would only be ordinary Spirit Origins.

Of course, the most important thing is that those that are too unconventional cannot be summoned yet.

"Awareness?"

Makoto Aoki watched the numbers representing awareness on the screen rise sharply and felt a little helpless: "Are humans really just perverse? They only know pain when they are actually hurt."

He had been far too cautious before. The biggest incident he caused was actually the Demon Pig incident at Toyonosaki Academy, but because no one died, it was easily suppressed by the Japanese government.

"Perhaps I made a mistake."

Makoto Aoki reflected that the protagonists in the pseudonym stories he used to read were all people who enjoyed themselves and didn't care about the lives of others, which was the most efficient way to gain recognition. But Makoto Aoki... sorry, even as a plagiarist, he still had the mindset of an ordinary person.

However, constantly nipping crises in the bud prevents the development of sufficient awareness to address future threats. It's important to remember that awareness can be exchanged for spirit veins; the higher the awareness, the stronger the Servants Aoki Makoto can summon. Ultimately, summoning even a god-level Servant like Kukulkan would be no problem. (Also, forget about Space Rin; based on her lore, she could easily defeat even Chaos.)

"I... need to be cold-blooded, need to be cruel."

Makoto Aoki muttered to himself, as if he were hypnotizing himself.

After all, there will always be sacrifices when you cause trouble, and only through sacrifice can people remember you more. Makoto Aoki and Old Sword have solved no less than ten monster invasions, but this time, from the perspective of rescue, it was more of a failure that brought Makoto Aoki a lot of recognition.

Makoto Aoki suddenly smiled bitterly. Perhaps his mindset had already changed long ago. Otherwise, when choosing Archer, he would not have abandoned Emiya and chosen the more domineering and ruthless Oda Nobunaga instead.

While Oda Nobunaga's high profile in Japan certainly contributed to the success, if it were Emiya, he would likely fall into the same predicament as the old sword, unable to secure a contractor for a long time, unlike Oda Nobunaga who could directly coerce him.

Now, Aoki Makoto can open a third guise at any time depending on the crisis, which is also the reason why Oda Nobunaga is so efficient.

After a long while, Makoto Aoki opened the chat software and clicked on the profile picture of his only friend.

Makoto Aoki: Ritsuka.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: Congratulations on defeating the sea demon, Makoto-kun. What happened?

Fujimaru Ritsuka is always so perceptive.

Makoto Aoki: Ritsuka, if I do something that will cause many, many people to die and affect even more innocent people, should I do it?

The black-haired boy's fingertips hovered over the screen. In the end, he was just an ordinary person. He had lived in this world for more than ten years. If he could be carefree and treat it as a game when he first transmigrated, now he could no longer treat those passersby as cannon fodder NPCs.

They are flesh and blood too; they feel pain and cry, and they have family and friends.

Killing a thousand random passerby characters is not simply killing a thousand NPCs, but rather the fact that one person was killed, repeated a thousand times.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: Is it really necessary to do this? Are you willing to do it no matter what it takes or what you have to give?

Makoto Aoki: Yes.

Because he wasn't sure he could win again, he had no choice but to desperately try to become stronger by any means necessary.

Now, Makoto Aoki can only rely on his own strength.

Even if Fujimaru Ritsuka disagrees, he has to do it. He'll probably be very sad, though, since he likes Gudako so much and really doesn't want to leave her with a bad impression.

In fact, he had already made up his mind before contacting Fujimaru Ritsuka.

Now, he is simply confiding in the only person who knows his true self and everything he has done.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: Then let's do it.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: No one else can understand what you feel, Makoto-kun, not even me. But there are always ideals that can only be achieved by trampling on all nations, and there is always a future that can only be achieved by unifying everything, and that applies to me too.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: Makoto-kun, I'm not as kind as you think.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: To save my everyday life, I cut seven Lostbelts. To save one world, I destroyed seven worlds.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: I never thought of myself as a savior. I just wanted to survive. I just... couldn't stop.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: Makoto, you are the savior, but you are also just yourself. After all, your ultimate goal is to save the world, but the methods are always different. It would be too unreasonable to criticize you for that.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: But you must also be prepared. Carrying the lives of others is an extremely painful and heavy thing. When saving others, please save yourself first.

Fujimaru Ritsuka: But until the very end, I hope you will not forget your original intention and only seek to have no regrets.

……

His fingers remained on the keyboard for a very long time, and then Makoto Aoki suddenly burst into both tears and laughter.

As expected of Fujimaru Ritsuka, as expected of the girl he likes.

Therefore, even just to get close to her, I have to do everything I can.

How can one be a savior without overcoming all hardships?

Makoto Aoki: Okay.

Makoto Aoki: I will definitely save this world for you!