London, thanks to Summary Anon

Protagonist: "Are you grouchy?"
Mordred: "Of course! Being in a bad mood is my default state! I'm a murderer who's as far from sainthood as can be!"

Mordred is a mixture of annoying mouthy little brat with a sort of needy "take me seriously as a bad guy but also like me except I'm not gonna act like I want people to like me but I do" vibe in everything she does. Her mental age is pretty readily apparent, though her kinda-self-awareness stops her from being outright annoying.

Also compares fighting the Picts with the movie Alien. No fucking idea how that works. Mashu thinks that was a joke, but then Mordred gets flustered saying she wasn't kidding.

...aaand then she just gets pissed and decides to attack us for not fucking reason.

Still not as much of a self-absorbed drama whore as Lancelot though, so there's that.

(She kinda flips the "oh, no, I was training you!" thing at the end, but admits she was rampaging if you chose to scold her. She re-purposed her sudden random outburst into something useful, but it still came out of nowhere and in the middle of fucking hostile ground.)
(Also, she gets flustered after someone calls her "Sir Mordred")


>Andersen: "Did you somehow think a child who sits around reading rare books at a time like this was normal? Whatever your magic-sensing skills may be, your ability to judge people is the lowest of the low, Saber. You should read more books. I recommend the series in the E aisle shelves. It's packed with loads of those dreams, adventures and bad ends you seem you'd like."
>Mordred: "W-who the hell are you!?"
>Andersen: "Andersen. Hans Christian Andersen. Caster Class. If you want to know more, read my books."

Just met the little cheeky cunt and I already like him.

Also, this is all happening while Nursery Rhyme is hounding their asses, so it's nice to see our brave band of world-saving heroes has the attention span of a magpie.

>Mordred: "Shut up! Please shut up! I want to cut you up even more than that magic book!"
>Andersen: "Really? Not only are you clueless about the magic book, you also can't distinguish between friend and foe? Amazing, an endangered savage species! Your head must be packed with mashed potatoes!"
>[Mordred lunges at him only to get intercepted by Mashu]

The little shit-talking motherfucker is such a breath of fresh air, especially when mixed with Mordred's bratty ass.

Shakes is summoned, spends two seconds to ascertain that he's a wandering Servant, and immediately starts spinning overdramatic poetry about the heart-wrenching tragedy of not having a convenient Master to piggy back on while slacking off eating popcorn and watching the story.

Suppose it makes sense for him to be an unbearable drama queen.

Mordred was super stocked about the possibility of a STRONG ENEMY showing up, since they had theorized Servants might pop out of the mist at any time.

She is not pleased.

Turns out Shakes and Andersen are both super-interested in the Ark of the Covenant, not because of its religious or mystic significance, but because of the world-ending power if opened and the destruction it can case. That is, the pair of fucking bad-end-loving assholes would just love to hear about a tragedy of that magnitude.

>Protagonist: "Actually, I've seen the Ark."
>Andersen and Shakes: "FOR REAL!?"
>Shakespeare: "Ehem, my apologies for raising my voice. But that aside, I am enormously interested in this! Specifically, what tragic hilarity, what sort of bad End overflowing with comedy came about?"
>Andersen: "..." (<-Quietly straining his ears.)
>Andersen: "..." (<-Silently prepares some black tea.)
>Andersen: "..." (<-Spreads jam on his scones.)


I skipped through most of the plot in London so I could be ready for this event (Dantes), so I’m slowly going through the remainder of it, and this bit was just hilarious. It’s while you’re searching for the entrance to the Clock Tower and are attacked by a bunch of those enchanted books. You beat them, and then Andersen and Shakespeare suddenly look conflicted.

>Andersen: “…………………..”
>Shakespeare: “………………..”
>Mordred: “Haha, what is it with the author pair? Not gonna keep babbling like until a while ago?”
>Andersen: “I’ve been holding back until now, but… bah, enough. Ahhh, it feels good! This feeling is the best!”
>Mordred: "Eh?"
>Shakespeare: “Book burning! How irresistible! Alas, how wretched… and yet, there is such a sweet silver lining! What irresistible wickedness, what unforgivable barbarity! Although there ought to be nothing but sorrow in such an act, in this moment Myself feels that silver lining, the sweet sensation of corruption! Oh God!”
>Andersen: “As far as I care, I’m fine with there not being any works by authors other than me! In fact, let’s burn even my own books!”
>Andersen: “A world without books! I would need not grieve the number of masterpieces a lifetime wouldn’t be enough to read!”
>Andersen: “A world without books! I would need not curse when faced with unreadable trash!”
>Andersen: “A world without books! I would no longer be chased by deadlines.!”
>Shakespeare: “What a forthright comrade you are! Alas, those words have moved my very own heart!”
>Fou: “Fou…”
>Mordred: “What the…”
>Jekyll: “How... uhm… truly…”
>Protagonist: “Authors are such twisted beings…”

So basically Shakespeare is getting off to it because it’s sacrilegious, and Andersen is just… being Andersen.


It's interesting how Mordred drops the occasional offhanded reference to Arthurian lore from time to time, like how she thinks it's funny that people think crows are the personification of Arturia. It also made me remember why Lancer Arturia calls herself the Wild Hunt.

Also, Brân the Blessed gets name-dropped as they go through the tunnels under the Tower of London.

Arthuria Lancer is also called Wild Hunt, because she was namedropped as one of the phantom pilots of Drake's various ships that are summoned during her NP.

Drake apparently summons all the captains of the Wild Hunt for a few moments; such as Cain and Odin. If she had a better master, she might be able to maintain them a bit longer.

>モードレッド
>ロキとの間にな。とんでもねー女巨人だ。けど、嫌いじゃないな。
>なかなかいないぜ?そんな厄介なもんばっか生む女
>いや、殴り甲斐がある。面の皮もさぞ厚いだろうし、とことんめった斬りにできるよな?

Uh, anybody here with better moonlevel than me can help me with this line? 'cause Mode Red here is kind of making no sense. She starts talking about Angrboða (the mythical giantess, not the machine) saying that she sure gave birth to some troublesome shit, but that it's not like she's opposed to that.

The implied reference is fucking obvious even before Roman and Mashu decide to explain it to you, but then her second line fucking lost me. She suddenly says that "blows would be effective, and that [it/she] could be hacked into pieces" with no context.

What the hell is that? Is she saying she doesn't mind Angrboða because she could easily kill her with brute force as opposed to Morgan?
(Reply: She's saying she sounds worth brawling with, not that blows would be effective. Then she wonders if she can cut skin that thick.)
Oh, right, I was reading 甲斐がある too literally.

So yeah, Mordred wants to beat up Angrboða just because. Now I'm wondering how she really gets along with Morgan.
(Reply: She says she hates her in Apocrypha. She wants to beat Semiramis, even if it kills her, because Semiramis reminds her of Morgan.)

Solomon Fight: http://i.imgur.com/UUe6DfT.jpg

(Afterwords)
>[Mordred is thinking about shanking Shakes for shits and giggles now that everything is over and they're about to vanish anyway]
>[Kintoki and Tamamo just come strolling in and Tamamo whines about him walking too fast]
>Andersen: "Mordred, it's fine if you want to kill him, but listen to me first. Kill the fox first. I can tell at a glance that she's trouble."

Sasuga Detective Conan, his bitch radar is STRONK.