Xingtie: Can’t you just let me focus on completing the commissions?

"Oh! I swear, if you continue to disgust me with that awkward translation style, I'll definitely 'kick' your ass hard with the Piercing Duke's Noble Phantasm."

Chapter 020: This concerns everyone's fun, you won't have any complaints, will you? (4/4)

"name?"

"Sambo Koski, friend, could we find a sheltered spot? Old Sambo, I can already feel the cold wind seeping into the seams of my clothes."

"Are you cold?"

Emiya looked at his friends, who all shook their heads. Emiya then looked at Old Sambo with displeasure and said...

"How can you, a grown man, be so shameless? Two young girls were bare-legged and didn't complain about being cold, they just endured it."

"Hey everyone, stop messing with me! If you keep going, my fever really won't hold... Achoo..."

[Mood value from Sambo +13]

Old Sambo was already starting to regret it. He had originally been searching for some useful supplies on this snowfield when he suddenly saw an aircraft descending from the sky. So he decided to hide on the aircraft's likely route to observe the group of people coming.

who knows……

The group had just reached the snowdrift where he was hiding when one of them suddenly pulled him out of the snowdrift like a radish being pulled up, and even tried to use him as a means of transportation.

"He looks kind of pitiful, let's not bother him, Emiya."

"Little March, do you know who you're sympathizing with?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Mr. Emiya smiled and took out a mask from his personal storage. The moment he saw the mask, Old Sambo's expression became extremely interesting; his face turned bright red, like a duck being choked.

"you you……"

[Mood value from Sambo +42]

"Why has he suddenly become like this? Teacher Danheng, please take a look, is he really in trouble?"

"Calm down, March. That mask should be the mask of the Fat Fool, one of the tokens of the 'Pleasure' believers."

The cold-faced little blue dragon understood what Emiya meant, and then explained to March Seven,

"Followers of 'Pleasure' often disguise themselves as ordinary people, secretly orchestrating events from behind the scenes to make them more complicated and dramatic, but in essence, they are just seeking amusement."

"What Mr. Emiya means is that this Mr. Sambo should also be one of the Masked Fools. The change in his expression is just because he was made a joke by Mr. Emiya in advance."

"I see... I was worried for a while."

Hearing Teacher Danheng's thoughtful explanation, the little pink-haired girl's sympathy vanished without a trace, and she even had the urge to kick him a few times. If she hadn't discovered his identity in advance, wouldn't she have been kept in the dark by him as a joke?

"However, after hearing Teacher Danheng's explanation, I'm so angry... Emiya, since he said that it's uncomfortable for the cold wind to blow into the seams of his clothes, then take off the rest of his clothes so that he won't feel uncomfortable if the cold wind gets in."

“Good! You are too kind, March 7th.”

Mr. Emiya offered his heartfelt praise, and Professor Danheng seemed to be getting impatient and was about to stop him when A-Xing suddenly spoke up.

"No, it's not appropriate to take them all off."

"...It seems so."

After a belated realization, Xiao Sanyue's compassion returned. After a moment's thought, she decided to symbolically remove one of Sambo's clothes to teach him a lesson. However, Miss Xing's next words made her feel like her cerebellum had atrophied.

"Just leave him with his underwear; if he takes it all off, it will make him look like he's in a real hurry."

What's the rush?

Miss Xing's light golden eyes gazed at her best friend. For the first time, a strange smile appeared on her usually aloof face, a smile that made March Seven want to punch her. Her small mouth opened slightly, and a single utterance came out...

"Men's..."

"Aaaaaaahhhhh! Don't say it!!!"

The sound, like a kettle boiling, echoed across the entire snowfield. Mr. Emiya looked at Miss A-xing in silence. Although children may imitate those around them, where did this lewd joke technique come from?

First, exclude train crew members...

So, the only ones left are those from my old employer, Star Core Hunter.

Ah Xing seems to be a product of inheriting the genes of four people.

If we're talking about what's inherited...

First, we have to rule out Ah Ren; that cool guy would never make a lewd joke.

Secondly, Kaffa is a serious and unsmiling type.

Sam himself is even more naive than Miss Xing.

So……

It seems there's only one culprit left.

"You have committed heinous crimes, Wolf Baby."

……

Sambo's clothes were not taken off in the end. Teacher Danheng was too kind and forcibly dragged old Sambo through the snow, asking about the planet along the way.

Old Sambo seemed to have lost interest because Emiya had taken out his mask, so he didn't hide anything and told everyone what they wanted to know.

For example, this planet does have a core that has caused harm for hundreds or thousands of years, and the cold waves are brought by the core.

For example, only one city remains of native human settlements, named "Belloberg," meaning "the place of Kripper's protection." The highest leader of the organization ruling this place is the High Guardian, a unified military and political administrator. Holding the sole military power of the Silvermane Iron Guard, the High Guardian's authority has, through generations of power shifts, extended to the entire city.

天子，兵强马壮者当为之。

The Great Guardian of Beloberg is actually the last "King" of this planet.

If these outsiders wanted to do anything on this land, they would inevitably have to deal with the existence of this king.

What is the current Grand Guardian's reputation?

"His political achievements are not bad, but the closure of the mining area a few years ago and the confinement of a large number of miners in the lower part of Beloborg caused some public opinion. Now the lower city of Beloborg is completely separated from the surface. Later, the miners' families held a protest and clashed with the Silvermane Iron Guards. It seems that because of this situation, the High Guardian has completely cut off the possibility of the lower city returning to the surface and has sent heavy troops to guard all the traffic routes."

Upon hearing this, Emiya's eyes lit up, and he quickly replied,

"Alright, let me go to the lower city and find a few foxes to howl a few times. Then we'll go to the lower city to support its administrators, and then march our troops directly to Luoyang and seize her position as the Great Guardian!"

"We don't have any foxes around here anymore."

Old Sangbo looked as if he had aged decades, and said weakly,

"Besides, isn't your goal the star core? Why don't you just take the star core and leave?"

"Brother, I am also the Masked Fool."

Hearing Emiya utter these words with such confidence, Old Sambo cried out, on the verge of tears.

"Brother, isn't the job of an anonymous shopper respectable enough? Please, don't mess around in my old Sangbo's area."

[Mood value from Sambo +25]

Seeing the emotion points added to his account once again in the notification box, Mr. Emiya's gaze towards Old Sambo became even more affectionate, and he gave Old Sambo the warmest response.

"If you do something, you should love it. Since Ah, the old man, has specifically chosen me to be this masked fool, how can I betray His trust?"

"Brother Sambo, for the sake of everyone in the tavern, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you."

"This concerns everyone's fun, you won't have any complaints, will you?"

Chapter 021: Words can't change people; a baseball bat is more effective. (1/4)

"Emiya, you're not really planning to support a rebellion, are you?"

"You can consider it."

Walking along the path to Belloberg, March 7th cautiously approached Emiya and asked,

"Wouldn't that kill a lot of people?"

"Whether it's an armed coup or a palace coup, the transfer of power has never been without bloodshed and sacrifice since ancient times."

“I understand that, but…”

"You mean it's not good for us to push things along, right?"

"……Correct."

"So, if we don't push for it, who will fire the first shot? If no one fires the first shot, how long will the current situation continue? How many more people will die in the process? How long will we be stuck here by the star core? You can say I'm being reckless... but sometimes, when you want to do something, you don't need to care too much about what others think, as long as you feel it's right."

Emiya Shirou gazed at March 7th, his pale gold pupils unusually serious.

"With only one city left, the resource situation on this planet is already predictable. There is very little arable land, so staple foods such as grains are bound to be scarce, and meat... it can be imagined that it will mainly consist of types that can be farmed. If nothing unexpected happens, we might even be able to drink soup made from earthworms and silkworms here."

"Under these conditions, a large number of miners are imprisoned in the mining area without any supplies being transported. They are often buried alive."

"Moreover, the miners there were originally from the surface city. Because of the Great Guardian's transfer order, many families have been torn apart. If there are elderly people at home, or even if their parents have passed away, the lower levels will not know."

"If the Great Guardian truly lacks a 'crucial' reason, her actions essentially earn her the label of a tyrant and a tyrant."

He was naturally aware of Cocolia's situation; she had been bewitched by the Star Core and had now essentially become its puppet.

But even so,

She personally issued the decrees, and those innocent victims were practically sent to hell by her own hands.

From the perspective of her being a victim as well, some people might forgive her, such as Bronya or Sylva, but... from the perspective of the innocent victims, if this Great Guardian doesn't die, public anger will never be quelled.

"Of course, this is just my personal opinion. You may think I'm being a bit radical, but I'm just expressing my thoughts. We're not sure if the Great Guardian will become an obstacle for us. If she is a wise and understanding ruler who is willing to cooperate with us to solve the problem of the Star Core, then that would be a win-win situation."

but……

Mr. Emiya knew it was impossible, because that woman had almost completely become a puppet.

While it would be a suitable solution to let Bronya smoothly take over, as a member of the vested interests, Bronya is essentially not qualified to empathize with the people of the Lower City, even though the setting of her supposedly coming from an orphanage in the Lower City was forcibly added later.

but,

This setting alone only demonstrates the legitimacy of the inheritance.

In Emiya's opinion, this setting is just a perfunctory exercise. Bronya in this world didn't do anything at all and just got the position of Grand Guardian for free, which seems too natural.

Having already made up their minds to rebel against the Great Guardian, they actually went to the person in question to ask, only to be almost brainwashed and dragged away by the person in question.

Incomplete betrayal is the same as no betrayal at all.

If Li Yuan had such a simple and honest second son back then, he would probably be laughing in his dreams.

"Don't think too much about it now. March is also your pioneering journey. Use your own eyes to observe everything and then make the choices you think are right. You don't have to force yourself to agree with others. Even I won't ask you to follow my ideas."

"However, in the end, when you insist on your own ideas and are unable to effectively carry out that action, perhaps you can call my name."

"If I can agree with your ideas at that time, I will do everything I can to help you."

Gazing at Shirou Emiya's promise, a strange glint flashed in Mitsuki's eyes before she smiled brightly again.

"Who knows, you might end up begging me to help you, Emiya? If that Great Guardian is really a bad guy, I'll secretly shoot her with an arrow and get revenge for those she's bullied."

Emiya smiled and said nothing more.

After traversing the vast snowfield, looking down from a precipice, the group finally saw the silver fortress nestled amidst the ice and snow—the last surviving settlement of human civilization on the planet Yalilo VI.

Beloberg.

This name has been used to represent the native civilization for centuries, and even the name of the planet Arillow VI, which was once recognized by interstellar civilizations, has long since disappeared from regular records.

The reason is simply because of a tiny star nucleus.

This is why it is called the cancer of all worlds.

"If you brothers and sisters want to enter Belloberg, perhaps I, Old Sambo, could make a call for you and get you some temporary identification documents?"

Bellobog has not seen any extraterrestrials for centuries, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a pure local indigenous civilization. There are no other human settlements outside the city, and any stranger who wants to enter Bellobog will inevitably be questioned.

"I suggest we go directly to the lower city area."

Emiya gazed at the snow-covered city from afar. His clairvoyance allowed him to clearly see that many middle-class people were enjoying a leisurely life on the city streets.

"Dealing with the officials in the Upper City and Beloborg will be very troublesome. As a military and police combined agency, the Silvermane Iron Guard is directly under the command of the High Warden. If we rashly enter this city, we will probably be sent to prison or to the High Warden immediately."

“There is a possibility that an unfamiliar visitor from outer space could be controlled for one or two years. Just a statement confirming our potential threat would be enough to get us detained.”