How did you bunch of silly group members also time travel?

"Ah, right, I forgot I haven't finished reciting the incantation yet!"

"Take your one-way ticket! You have to come today, whether you want to or not, the train doors are welded shut!!"

Scáthach felt a flash of light beneath her feet as a Servant summoning circle, imbued with her memories, appeared beneath her.

Even now that she's been captured and her brain is being crammed with junk information, Scáthach still couldn't help but chuckle bitterly when she saw this. She never imagined she'd have to use this spell to summon the dead one day.

The light flickered, and the environment changed.

Soon, Scáthach arrived at an unfamiliar warehouse from the lifeless Land of Shadows, where a woman exuding intellectual beauty and a little girl crouching to one side with her head in her hands were watching her.

Scáthach rubbed her temples; her headache had subsided, and the junk information that had filled her mind had calmed down. Information about the Holy Grail War then surfaced in her memory.

Naturally, Scáthach also realized that the intellectually beautiful woman in front of her was her Master!

“Servant, Lancer, you…” In the blink of an eye, Scáthach was surprised to find that her Master had disappeared!

It disappeared right under her nose!

She only realized that her Master had run up to her side when she felt two soft mounds press against her right side and a pair of hands hugging her thighs!

"Master, what are you doing!? Hey! Wait!! Don't lick—"

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Chapter 44 Lancer is not Lancer, yet he is Lancer

"So, Master came here on a one-way ticket, and he won't go back even after he runs out of Command Seals?"

The Servant summoning ceremony has ended. After a friendly exchange, Shirou went back, and now the three members of the Ruyuki family are having lunch.

Well, what Ruoxue found rather regrettable was that her 'Servant' Scáthach was a bit far from her, sitting opposite her at the farthest point on the dining table.

What a pity, he was clearly her 'Servant', they should have gotten closer to each other.

"Master, please don't look at me with those strange eyes." Scáthach, who was directly opposite Ruo Xue, noticed Ruo Xue's gaze and her body trembled involuntarily.

Because of that friendly exchange this morning, she's now bare-legged.

Scáthach genuinely didn't know that after the Age of Gods ended, the truth of the Land of Shadows gradually dissipated into the mortal world, and it should have been highly unlikely that someone in her modern world would be so fanatical about her.

and…

Her long, golden hair was tied up and secured behind her head with a hairpin. Her beautiful face was very neat, with regular features. The frameless glasses on her nose added an intellectual beauty to her appearance. It was really hard to understand how such a person could do such a thing.

As a result, the pants she had worn for a long time are now unwearable, and she will never be able to wear them again.

“Ah, it’s nothing to worry about.” —Scáthach thought it was not a trivial matter.

"I can sense that the connection between me and my master isn't very strong. We don't even need a magical energy supply, and my Command Seals are basically useless. It's just that in the Holy Grail system, my master and I are linked together, forming a Master-Servant relationship and occupying one of the seven slots." — I am not your master.

"So, Xiong Luoli, did you just bring the person here directly?" Ruo Xue asked Aika, who had been maintaining her composure.

Upon hearing this, Scáthach also turned her gaze to the little girl.

If Scáthach hadn't experienced the true power of the Root before being brought here, she wouldn't have believed that a seven or eight-year-old girl could accomplish a feat no one in the Age of Gods had ever achieved: reaching the Root and being able to control it.

This unexpected event surprised, disbelieved, and excited Scáthach!

“Miss Scáthach, please don’t look at Aika with those strange eyes,” Aika said with a smile.

Everyone felt that this sentence sounded familiar.

"I'm sorry for the late introduction."

"Queen of the Land of Shadows, Miss Scáthach, I am Ayaka Sajō, the most beloved disciple of my master. Please take care of me!"

As she spoke, Aika even gave a proper bow to the Yamato Nadeshiko! Her behavior was dignified and composed, not like a bratty child, but like a young lady who had lived in seclusion for a long time!

Ruoxue shivered!

"What are you doing, little bear! Be normal, I'm scared!" Ruoxue, hugging her arms tightly, quickly moved away from the little bear beside her, and moved her feet around the table, trying to get closer to Scáthach.

Seeing this, Scáthach also shuddered and silently moved her chair closer to Ayaka.

"Hmm! Master, please don't misunderstand. Aika's profession is, after all, that of a young lady. It's only natural that she knows some manners~" Aika found it very amusing and chose to join the battle, her little hands gripping the chair as she moved with Ruo Xue.

At this moment, a strange scene unfolded in the living room.

Ruo Xue moved her chair closer and closer to Scáthach, who moved her chair closer to Aika without making a sound. Aika's chair lifted off the ground and floated a few centimeters, moving closer to Ruo Xue at a speed that maintained balance with the other two.

For a moment, the living room was filled with the sound of chairs moving, which was quite eerie! "Stop! Stop playing! Everyone stop!" In the end, Ruo Xue, who was a little dizzy from spinning around, couldn't hold on any longer. The fight ended with Aika leaning against Ruo Xue and Scáthach leaning against Aika.

As a researcher specializing in climbing technology, Ruoxue's physical fitness is still too weak (laughs).

"Anyway, it's definitely the same person as Master, right? After all, he didn't die." Ruo Xue changed the subject, and Aika nodded in affirmation.

She directly rescued this purple-haired B from the Root for her master's sake, so how could it not be the real person? It's not a Heroic Spirit or Servant projection, it doesn't exist.

“Master,” Scáthach felt she had to say something, “no matter what, our contract only lasts for the Holy Grail War. Once it ends…”

"Speaking of the Holy Grail War, Ayaka, do you know what time period it is right now?" Ruo Xue glanced at Scáthach, then ignored her.

Scáthach's eyelids twitched, but after rubbing her smooth legs slightly, she said nothing and gently moved away a little.

She still has a red mark on her thigh that hasn't faded...

She was also quite curious about what kind of information a seven or eight-year-old girl, whom her Master trusted so much, could possess.

"Ah, don't worry, Master! Aika doesn't know how she could possibly lose this Holy Grail War!" Aika proudly puffed out her chest!

Although it may seem arrogant, both Ruo Xue and Scáthach actually agree with it.

After all, Scáthach is a living, breathing demigod at the peak of her powers.

The Servants summoned in the Holy Grail War are merely projections of Heroic Spirits in the Hall of Heroes. Their abilities are limited not only by their Masters but also by their class. Even with class adjustments, they are ultimately not Heroic Spirits at their peak.

Leaving aside Ruo Xue for now, with a bear loli named Ai Ge and the demigod Scáthach, it's truly impossible to know how they could lose.

"But we can't just make promises like 'flying dragons are coming right up to our faces,' Aigo."

"Don't worry, don't worry, Master. As Aika can 'see,' Saber is still Saber, still watching the snow. Director Ken and his wife are on their way. The duet between This World's Pot and Father Joy has only just begun. We were the first to summon our Servants~"

"I see. So that means I can go through every single classic scene in fanfiction with all my energy." Ruoxue pushed up her glasses.

"Ah, no, when Master came over he said Lancer, right? The brush got knocked off?"

"Master, Master, you still have those two skills, you're still Lancer, and you still got Director Ken to wear the green one." Aika glanced at Scáthach, who was standing quietly as a beautiful girl, and looked at the red marks left on her plump thighs. She then looked down at her own thighs and clicked her tongue softly.

Scáthach raised an eyebrow, inwardly lamenting that such a young age had already learned to be jealous and competitive; the world was truly going to the dogs.

But the point is, what's so good about the Master being an intellectual beauty in public and a perverted leg-licking maniac in private? It makes no sense at all. Besides, you're a magician who has reached the Root, have some dignity!

"As for Miss Scáthach..." Aika glared at Scáthach, as if she had accidentally seen something strange.

“Although Scáthach is Lancer, she has not actually taken over Lancer’s position. In the Holy Grail system, she belongs to Caster. After all, we summoned Scáthach by exploiting a bug, Master.”

indeed.

After all, Scáthach is not a Heroic Spirit at all; she is the Queen of the Land of Shadows, a living, breathing queen.

Yes, it's still a living, breathing thigh that you can lick, warm but can't become a spirit!

Where did the second flash go in Chapter 45?

It was the same dining table, and the same lunch.

After a brief discussion and obtaining some largely useless information, the atmosphere at the dinner table fell silent once again.

"Ahem!" Ruoxue coughed and said seriously:

"Since we were the first group to summon a Servant, we'll have plenty of free time to play around with now."

"—Master, is there anywhere you'd like to go?"

"Huh?" Scáthach was taken aback, never expecting the topic to suddenly turn to her.

These two are talking and joking around on their own, as if they don't exist, only glancing at her when they have some desire for her, right?

emmmmm…

Scáthach suddenly felt so tired. She shouldn't have agreed to the summoning, otherwise she wouldn't be in this predicament now—although this summoning was a one-sided forced summoning and she had no choice but to agree.

"Master, since we have such a good opportunity, why don't we make some arrangements as soon as possible and seize victory quickly?" All she wanted now was to end this Holy Grail War as soon as possible and wish for an opponent who could kill her.

To be honest, Scáthach felt annoyed after spending so little time with these two people. They really know how to make others feel bad!

It's even more uncomfortable than being alone in the Land of Shadows!

"Ah, I almost forgot, Master's wish is to die in battle."

“I am not your master.” Scáthach reflexively refuted Ruo Xue’s address this time. “Although I don’t know where you got that from, Master, my wish is indeed to find an opponent who can kill me and kill me in battle.”

"impossible."

Scáthach raised an eyebrow, disagreeing with this statement. "Master, the world is full of wonders. Even if I am very strong now, there will always be geniuses in the world, like Ayaka, who is a prodigy. It's impossible that there is no one in the world who can kill me, right?"

Besides, there's the Holy Grail; if we don't have it, can't we just make one?

Moreover, if Ayaka weren't a warrior, but just a seven or eight-year-old girl, Scáthach would have wanted to engage in a life-or-death battle long ago.

"No, that's not what I meant. I meant... well... I meant that it's something you couldn't possibly do, Master!" Ruo Xue gave up trying to explain.

"Why?" Scáthach didn't ask any further questions, just one sentence.

This is when Aika comes to the stage. Aika has always believed that the main character is always the last to appear, and now is the time for her, as the main character, to make her appearance!

“Let me answer that, Miss Scáthach.” Head held high, chest out, sitting up straight!

"There are very few people in this world who can kill you, and they are all 'very busy people,' so you usually can't find them."

"It's alright, as long as we use the Holy Grail..."

“The Holy Grail is even less likely to work.” Ayaka’s smile widened, giving Scáthach an ominous feeling.

She wasn't stupid; she hadn't thought much of it before, but now that this had been mentioned, Scáthach immediately realized there was something wrong with the Holy Grail.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. If the Holy Grail really had this function, wouldn't it be better for the seven magicians to fight among themselves or use it together? Why bother summoning Servants?

While it may seem like the risk is spread out and the probability of winning is increased, the chance of making a wish changes from 100% after a victory to 50%. Isn't that strange? It's not in line with the magician's nature at all!

Therefore, it is necessary to utilize Servants!

Thinking of this, Scáthach's eyes sharpened, and even she, usually so calm, felt a surge of anger! "This Holy Grail is corrupted. The details are too long to explain in detail, but all you need to know is that it has been corrupted by the evil of this world, so it cannot grant the right wishes," Ruo Xue interjected.

However, in order to prevent Scáthach from having any unrealistic expectations, Ruo Xue continued:

"However, even if the Holy Grail is not tainted, as a Servant, one has no right to make a wish."

“Master, Command Seals are ultimately just a system developed by modern mages. They rely on the magic power of the Greater Grail to restrain Servants, and they are useless against top-tier Servants.” Scáthach believed that the Master deliberately left behind Command Seals to make him commit suicide.

This is the most normal thought.

But then I thought about it again and realized that it wasn't right. Just like before, there was no need for the seven Masters to summon Servants.

"...Then Master, can you tell me why?" She sighed. This time, her long-lost curiosity made her confide in her Master, this pervert.

Scáthach has a feeling, whether it's a misperception or not, that this is just the beginning.

"It's very simple. Servants are merely optional batteries for activating the Holy Grail." There's not much to say about the truth of the Holy Grail; everyone basically understands it.

The Holy Grail is not actually omnipotent. The claim that it is omnipotent and can grant any wish is just a propaganda slogan for Heroic Spirits. Although for magicians, being able to open the gate to the Root is indeed omnipotent.

But to open the door to the source, the magic power accumulated over sixty years of spiritual veins is enough; otherwise, there wouldn't be only five magicians in the world.

Therefore, the Holy Grail requires more magic power and more batteries, and Servants are the batteries chosen by the original three starter families.

When the Holy Grail War finally ends, the Servants who act as batteries will naturally be put to use. As consumables, their final function will be to feed back into the Holy Grail, providing it with energy until the gate to the Root is opened.

"...So that's how it is. These three starter families are really audacious." Not all Heroic Spirits are so stupid. Once this is discovered, the disintegration of the Holy Grail War would be the least of their worries.

"Fortune favors the bold," Ruoxue shrugged, not really caring.

Although only seven batteries are needed, it doesn't really matter. The ultimate goal of the Holy Grail is to open the gate to the Root. There is no such thing as a wish-granting machine that can grant all wishes, and Servants are indeed not qualified to make wishes, since it was locked from the beginning.

"Don't count on the Holy Grail; it sounds unreliable."

"I'm more interested in you, Master, than the Holy Grail, and even more interested in whether I can get some magical materials like Mithril and Adamantite from those newbies who are just there to make up the numbers!"

"So, it's time for us to eat!"

"..." Scáthach choked on her own words, unable to comprehend her Master's logic.

It's like someone discovering that the person they've been spying on is actually their mother—the ups and downs are too abrupt.

"Why aren't you eating, Master? Is it not to your liking?"

"Master, I think it's because Miss Scáthach doesn't know how to use chopsticks."