FGO America Summary

America Chapter.

Chapters 1~2:

1)
Scene opens with Rama getting his ass kicked by Alter Cu while complaining about his dishonourable evil powers and the pile of bodies nearby that Cu slaughtered. Cu just shrugs and says that fighting’s about killing the enemy and that’s all he cares about, stabs him with Gae Bolg, but is surprised Rama (barely) survives, when Geronimo and his cowboy/robot gang show up. The small fry stall Cu and get slaughtered, but Geronimo and Rama manage to run, although Cu points Gae Bolg’s curse will kill him soon anyway.

Medb is watching the fight and musing about how different Cu is from when he was alive and laughing about it. Cu isn’t even listening though.

>Cu Alter: [Stabbing/squelching sounds] “Alright, that makes thirty of them… what was that, woman? Work’s done so I’ll take a nap. Wake me up if anything happens.”

Anyway, the gist is Medb is leading an army to conquer murrica. She’s got a Bubbly Idol/Amoral Psychopath thing going.

>Medb: “Kill those who oppose me! Kill those who do not oppose me! The foolish citizens, their foolish leaders, none of them are needed! The United States of America will be wiped out, and thus our nation will be born!

Geronimo is working with the resistance, but they’re predictably getting rolled over.


2)
Cut to Chaldea, where the “thing” wakes up again with the same line as it did before Okeanos (“Today as well I wake up at the same time”, in fact, most of the starting lines are the same.) Roman shows up to do a morning checkup, and says that if it keeps developing this will, “this sterilized chamber” will soon no longer be necessary. Roman asks it if there’s anything it wants, it answers that what it really wants is to see the outside world with its own eyes instead of VR projections, and Roman apologizes while looking sad, asking it to reconsider since its body would not be able to stand being exposed to the outside.

You finally wake up, “having seen a weird dream”, which pretty much seals the deal about this being Mashu’s memories seen through the Master-Servant. Apparently, you’ve been crying.

You go see Roman and find him examining Mashu. He asks you to let her take a break from the front lines, but she refuses, so he shrugs and tells you both to take it easy. You get called to the observation room, and decide to go, but just as you leave, you comment (to Fou) that you missed the chance for consultation. Seems you went there to ask Roman something. First time since Okeanos that Generic Voiceless McInsert shows some volition.

3)
Briefing starts, and Roman suspects that while you happily gained a lot of information in London, it might have been fed to you on purpose. Though you both agree the most important lesson you learned is “don’t fucking try to fight Solomon.” As Solomon said he doesn’t give a shit if you keep going after the Singularities, you can expect him to not intervene this time as well. Also, Roman and Da Vinci theorize that having killed three of the 72 Demons might be meaningless, since Solomon can probably re-summon them at will.

Also, Da Vinci confirms himself to be a Caster. Not that anything else would have made sense, but after Berserker Nightingale...

Anyway, after confirming that nobody has a fucking clue how to beat Schlomo, Roman changes the topic and says you’re going to North America this time. He says that while the country has little value from a magician’s perspective, its influence in recent worldwide historical development rivals that of Rome. That said, there is some magic tradition and legends in there, mostly to do with outlaws.



4)
You appear right near a Celt/American battle and Mashu at first thinks the robots (called “Hard Word Mk2”) are Babbage’s, though you point out they’re kinda different. One of them assumes you’re Celt reinforcements and attacks you. The Americans retreat and the Celts go after you instead. You beat them, but something hits you and you blank out.

You half-wake up listening to someone by your bedside talk about “Patient 99’s” injuries, their tremendous severity, how he’s lucky to even be alive, and how the arm needs to be cut out. That last part makes you jump up going “HOLD THE FUCK ON” and find Nightingale tending to you. She smiles and tells you not to worry, but to brace for the pain while you try to convince her to stop the operation. Mashu barges in and tries to stop her, but Nightingale says that she calls the shots in the wounded ward and that she’ll shoot her if she tries to intervene. Then fires a warning shot for emphasis.

Nightingale fires off into a crazy passionate speech about how she’ll save your life at all costs (the way she puts it, she’ll “snatch your life [back] no matter what”, whether you like it or not), and Mashu realizes she’s a servant when she mentions the importance of proper sanitation (an anachronism.) Mashu finally convinces her to step aside and uses a magic scroll to heal your wounds instead.

Seems you had been hit by a bullet hail and taken to the American resistance camp. Nightingale tells Mashu to go away if she’s done and storms off to look after other patients. Roman pops in and you discuss how those robots are definitely too similar to Babbage’s and that this army is weird as fuck. He tells you to try and recruit friendly stray servants as usual, but everyone cringes when thinking about dealing with Nightingale’s temper, with Mashu pointing out she must be a Berserker based on her demeanour.

>Mashu: “You’re acting like it’s someone else’s problem, doctor.”
>Roman: “Sorry, I’m bad with pushy nurses.”

You ask her to join you, and Nightingale says that she must stay with the wounded, but you convince her by pointing out that solving the Singularity will simply reverse the damage for everyone at the same time. The Celts attack and Nightingale goes out to fight them alongside you. She actually tries to cut your arm one last time (already in the battlefield) until Mashu tells her to take a damn look at you and see that you’re fine.


5)
Fionn and Deermud come to fight you after you trash the soldiers, taking the time to wank one another, and McCool keeps making Diarmuid uncomfortable with how nonchalant he is about their past.

>Fionn: “As expected of my subordinate, your eyes are like those of a hawk.”
>Diarmuid: “You are too kind. It is nothing compared to your wisdom.”
>Fionn: “Hahaha, how humble. But your sense of beauty is definitely accurate. The fact that you chose Grainne is proof of that.”
>Diarmuid: “…no, eh, that, uhm….”
>Fionn: “Sorry, I’m joking, I’m joking! Alright, to battle!”

After you beat Diarmuid once and Fionn heals him.

>Fionn: “As Expected of the Ladykiller Diarmuid, you’re bad against female opponents huh?”
>Diarmuid: “No, that, uhm…”
>Fionn: “Uhahaha, joking, joking! You’re so sensitive! But do not worry, you’re against two strong, beautiful women, it’s no wonder your spear might seem blunted. I will join you as well.”

After the fight, Nightingale runs off as she senses someone injured. No, really, she senses injuries like she’s got a Nurse Sense or some shit. Geronimo barges in with reinforcements forcing the Celts to retreat. Fionn doesn’t care about the lives of the nameless soldiers because they’re as random monsters, and says that they can get endless numbers from their Queen (he phrases them as though she births them, but they’re probably just illusions like the pirates in Okeanos.)

As they are retreating, Fionn calls out to Mashu and tells her that if he defeats her, he’ll take her as his bride. Mashu’s like “eh?” and Diarmuid lags behind for a bit to tell her that it’s just one of Fionn’s pranks and not to take him too seriously before he fucks off.



6)
Chapter 3:
Billy and Robin are working together against the Celts, and Billy insists they go by “Green” and “Thunder” since
1) They're both "Archer"
2) Servants are not supposed to reveal their names and
3) It sounds all cool and outlaw-like.
Robin thinks it’s lame, and besides both can easily guess the other’s identity given their skills and appearances.


Back in the resistance’s Reused Roman Camp CG, Nightingale is busy instructing Rush, the camp doctor, on modern medicinal techniques, making the guy un-learn bullshit like bloodletting or using mercury chloride.

At gunpoint.

>Doctor Rush: “B-but, the latest medical treatments are-“
>[BANG]
>Nightingale: “That treatment or this gun, which one do you think is more modern? Don’t make me say it twice.”

She also tells him to attend to people based on nothing but severity of wounds rather than status or rank, or she’ll shoot him right in the face. Oh, by the way, the doctor’s first name is Benjamin. Look it up.

>[Exiting the tent]
>Mashu: “I heard a gunshot.”
>Nightingale: “Must have imagined it.”
>Mashu: “No I didn’t. that was definitely a gunshot.”
>Nightingale: “It was with the reverse of the blade.”
>Protagonist: “Ah yes, shields can do that too.”

This is actually a running joke since Orlans, when Mashu tried hitting the panicked attacking soldiers “with the reverse of the blade” even though she’s carrying shield, leading to situations where people claim to use “the reverse of the blade” even though they’re carrying a weapon for which that makes no fucking sense.


Helena is in the camp and she chastises Florence for leaving her post, saying that their “King” will not approve, and Nightingale answers that the “King” doesn’t get to boss her around. They look like they’re about to fight, so Mashu butts in.

Helena welcomes her and explains the situation. America is split into its eastern side, now controlled by the Celts, and the western side controlled by the “King”. Mashu tries to recruit her to help destroy the singularity and she tries to recruit you to help the King’s army (with the implication that the King’s final goal is eventual world domination.)

You both refuse and try to leave, but Helena decides to bring you in by force and calls in her robots. Mashu again notes they look like Babbage’s, and Helena says that while Babagge’s robots were created by using the Grail’s help, these were created by pure science. Or, to borrow her King’s words

>Helena: [Quoting] “’Electricity is without a doubt better than steam, you moron!’”

You beat the robots, so Helena calls Karna instead, and Roman shits his pants when he realizes who he is. Karna uses Brahmastra and the chapter ends.


7)
Chapter 4: KING - OF - PRESIDENT (no, really, that’s the title)

You wake being transported by Helena after getting Brahamastra’d and saved by Mashu guarding you. You were all only hit by the resulting shockwave, but it was enough to knock everyone out. Helena says she’s loyal to the King because she owes him a favour from when she was alive, and besides, the Celts are just killing everyone who isn’t a Celt, so surrendering to them isn’t an option.

>Roman: “So this time it’s a gathering of Celt servants. Judging from the legends, the whole bunch are loose-screwed natural-born Berserkers.”

Helena wonders if you’ve got some tiny guy in your pocket upon hearing Roman, and then wonders if it’s something from Graham Bell, warning you that the King will get really pissed off if that’s the case.

You reach the castle the King built as a temporary fortress (since they lost the White House) and are ushered inside. To explain the next pun: “President” is “大統領 (dai-tou-ryou)” which uses the kanji for “big”, “ruling”, and “territory” respectively. Here it’s “大統王 (dai-tou-ou)”, replacing the “territory” kanji with the one for “king.”

>Robot: “Announcing His Excellency the President King!”
>Mashu/Roman/Protagonist: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
>???: [Offscreen] “Ooooooooooo! Finally the time to meet those angels has come! How long have I yearned for this moment! I had decided to meet them after beating those Celt bastards, but speeding it up is fine! Hum, speeding up appointments is fine! Compared with delaying a payday, this is much better!”
>Helena: [Cringing] “…haaah. He still hasn’t cured that habit of monologuing while pacing around. Can’t he at least lower his voice while he does it?”
>Mashu: “That’s a monologue!? That volume is beyond a human’s capacity!”
>???: [Lionface appears at last] “What a great day! Welcome everyone, and congratulations!”
>Mashu: …
>Protagonist: …
>Nightingale: …
>Roman: “Eh? Hahaha, is the monitor broken? It’s showing some kind of creature…”
>Lionface: “I will say it again. Everyone, what a great day!”
>Helena: “Big surprise, wasn’t it?”
>Mashu: [Sighing] ”Uhm, no, it’s fine. It was certainly a surprise, but I’m getting used to this sort of thing… So, you are the West region’s leader?”
>Lionface: “It is as you say! I am the one burdened with the task of driving off the Celt invaders! The King who controls this America! A Gentleman Servant who rears other Servants, President King Thomas Alva Edison!”
>Mashu: Eh?!
>Protagonist: !?
>Nightingale: ...s-sorry, I was left speechless.

Edison then welcomes Nightingale in particular, complimenting his looks, saying that he admires her conviction and that they’ll make great strides in medical care if she cooperates with him. And also that it’ll look really good in the publicity billboards.

You interrupt to ask about him looking like a fucking lion and Edison just shrugs it off, saying that he is definitely a human, since his consciousness and intelligence remain the same. Roman guesses he was turned into that shape when being summoned for some reason, and Mashu is a little distressed that you’re all going along with this crap so easily. Then Edison guesses Roman must be using some communication device from the future and they get sidetracked talking about it.

Turns out Edison took control of the scrambled remains of the patriot armies and evened the field with his machine soldiers, but is lacking enough commanders (Servants) to help fight the enemy Servants. He’s also established a production line that works 24/7 making more machine soldiers, though he also set up a welfare and recreation system for the sake of the workers who run it.

>Edison: “There is no hard work without leisure! We will play three times as hard as a normal person, work three times as hard as a normal person, and keep winning three times as much! That is the new America I envision!”

Problem starts when Edison says he has no intention of fixing the timeline. He wants to get the Grail and use it to speed up development of the era and progress into a new future, and he doesn’t care if the regular timeline gets devastated as a result. Nightingale rejects him, claiming that all he’ll do is lead to further loss of life, and Karna interrupts to stop the fight.

Edison then gives you three minutes to think about whether you’ll side with him or not. Roman advises you to take his offer for now, claiming that dealing with the Celts is more urgent and you can deal with Edison later. You still decide to oppose him though, so he sets his robots on you, and the number is so great that they overwhelm you, toss you into prison and the chapter ends.


8)
Chapter 5.

You awaken in your cell. They let you keep all your equipment and weapons (this’ll be important in a moment), but it seems that Helena somehow cut/neutralized the magical energy link between you and your Servants, so they have no strength to break out.
Helena asks you why you were so stupid so as to reject Edison outright, even though “the gentle-mannered man from Chaldea” (Roman) pointed out you could simply go along and then betray them along the way.

-You can answer that it was “for Edison’s sake”, in which case Helena understands, saying that Edison grew sick of legal disputes during his life, how he’s an extreme zealous patriot and that he’d be seriously hurt by betrayal (so it was better for him to oppose him outright). Helena describes him as a sort of child-like simpleton who’s driven by naïve patriotism and thanks you for being considerate.
-Or you can answer “for Nightingale’s sake”, and Helena realizes that Nightingale would never consent to abandon or backstab an ally under any circumstances. Same way, she praises your consideration for others.

Helena goes away telling you to wait because “help is on the way.” Nightingale shoots the lock on her cell (since she can use her gun even without her strength) and tries to break out despite Mashu’s protests that firing the gun in that closed space will get them injured by the ricochet.

Chief Disappointing Skillset shows up from out of nowhere, smiling and telling you to keep the noise down. Roman freaks out since he gives out no readings whatsoever, which is apparently due to “borrowing [that guy’s] Noble Phantasm” to hide himself from Karna. Since his real name is almost unknown, he introduces himself as “Geronimo”.

Although he is also mainly fighting the Celts, he’s opposed to Edison as well, so his resistance is actually a third player in the war. He opens your cell at last, and it seems the magical energy flow goes back to normal as soon as you exit, but he says you need to force your way out ASAP before Karna catches on.

As you flee, Nightingale points out to Geronimo that in the proper timeline he is defeated in the war, and asks him if he’s okay with fixing the Singularity even knowing that.

>Geronimo: “I don’t mind. Victory and defeat are no more than points in the flow of history. If this age were to be destroyed, the blood that I shed, the blood that my brothers shed, it would turn to nothing.”

You meet Karna on the way out, and Geronimo tells you to call on any Servants who have advantages against Lancers, and then to attack him all at once with their NPs. It apparently works and you flee before he can recover. Karna mumbles that your escape might help prevent a tragic conclusion, so it’s implied he went easy on purpose.

9)
Chapter 6.

You reach a deserted village Geronimo’s gang is using as a hideout. Turns out his main interest was asking Nightingale to help cure Rama, who’s still convalescent after having his heart literally crushed to a pulp.

DW were too lazy to make an “inside a house” CG, so the whole scene takes place on the street as if they had just dumped Rama by the road.

>Nightingale: “I have never seen a wound like this before, but I will do my best. Fear not, boy, I will drag you back from the very depths of hell if need be.”

Her first plan is to cut his arms, legs and basically anything except the lungs since his smashed heart can’t pump blood to the rest of his body (She’s really got a thing for amputation, doesn’t she?), but Rama complains that he wouldn’t be able to fight if she did that.
Basically, Nightingale is focused primarily on “saving lives” at all costs, without much concern for what state the patients will be left in afterwards.

>Nightingale: “What are you saying? There is no greater joy than being alive! As an existence that has taken root in this world, you have a duty to continue living!”

Mashu interrupts to ask who he is, and Rama starts happily introducing himself until he starts wincing the pain and just tells you to go read the Ramayana if you want more details. Overall, he’s something of a cheeky brat, though nowhere near as bad as Mordred. Nightingale is beating herself over being only able to delay his death, and Rama finally reveals that it was Cu Chulainn who put him in that state.

Some wyverns attack because apparently the Celts have them as scouts now. Somehow. Making new enemy assets is expensive y’all.

Afterwards, Nightingale realizes that she lacks the power to save Rama, but refuses to give up so long as he has the will to live, so she asks you if you know of any way to do it. Roman easily identifies the curse as being the problem, and that it’s a miracle Rama is still alive at all.

>Roman: “This miracle must be possible since this is Rama, the protagonist of one of India’s two great epics.”
>Rama: [Grinning] “Hmm, go on, praise me more-Owowowirhurtsithurts!”

It’s not just a matter of resilience, Roman says that Rama’s continued survival is flat out going against logic and the rules of nature. By all accounts he should be dead, but he is somehow fighting against the fate-reversal curse. Nightingale gets impatient says that Rama is definitely alive (and shoots her gun for emphasis) and tells him to get to the point.

Since charging into the Celt army to kill Cu Chulainn and destroy Gae Bolg (one option to stop the curse) is too risky, you need someone who can help exorcise it, preferably someone who knew him during his life. Rama then says that his wife Sita might be able to do it, and that he knows for certain she’s somewhere in that world.

Everyone agrees that you need to find her, so you set off with Nightingale picking Rama up, followed by him bitching embarrassedly about being carried like a princess and Mashu blushing about it looking kind of adorable. Nightingale gives precisely zero fucks, saying that she’s used to rough patients and to not make her use her belt.

>Geronimo: “Uhm, as expected from the angel feared by-I mean, yearned for by all soldiers.”

Roman then mumbles depressed about the fact that Rama is married despite being so young (what with him being a 30-year-old bachelor), and then there’s a really vague dialogue with Mashu where she says that the doctor “at one time must have had the experience of being married.” You freak out in surprise, Roman freaks out about her bringing that up, and then Geronimo interrupts before she can say more.

They turn back the topic to Fionn’s comment about their queen “birthing endless soldiers” and Edison’s mass produced robots, and Roman says that since standard attrition tactics would be useless against both, their only hope is assassinating the leaders in one strike.

>Geronimo: “Well said, Doctor, you are surely a magician of worth. You sound unreliable just from your voice, but your head sure is good.”
>Roman: “Even Geronimo is judging me like that, do I really give that bad an impression…?”
>Fou: “Fou, fou!”
>Mashu: “Doctor, Fou is saying ‘that’s correct.’”

Anyway, you conclude that you need more help to plan the assassination, and the chapter ends.


10)
Chapter 7: YOUNG GUNS.

While on the way, Geronimo confirms that the other two Servants he said he had enlisted are both Archers who specialize in guerrilla warfare and then you start discussing the Celts. Although they are all clearly aiming to seize control of the land, the scattered battalions work without coordination between them like savage tribes, and Rama confirms this by telling you about the carnage he saw while fighting Cu Chulainn.

>Protagonist: “…by the way, are you okay like that?”
>Rama: “I was opposed to this! But this iron-tough nurse-!”
>Nightingale: “Please do not excite the patient. This is just a hastily-prepared device for transporting injured patients. Instead of a bodybag, it’s a Ramabag.”
>Rama: “Gh… to be carried on a woman’s shoulder… such humiliation…”

Geronimo explains that most civilians have been forcibly conscripted to work in Edison’s mecha soldier factories. Roman cringes at the despotism, though he acknowledges that it’s better than being killed by the Celts, and that it at least grants them refuge.

You’re sighted by some Celt scouts, so you rush to cut their escape. All of you.

>Nightingale: “I will purge the root of the disease! Time for the medical examination, let’s open up your chest!”
>Rama: “You’re gonna fight while carrying me!?”

After the fight, Rama and Mashu try to ask Nightingale to tone it down a bit and not charge ahead on her own, but she just shrugs it out citing that patient protection is her jurisdiction. Mashu equates her blind zeal to Mad Enhancement, and everyone wonders if she’s like this because of the class attribute or if she was really like normally.

>Geronimo: “Uhm. It’s one thing if she’s like this as a Servant, but if she was like this when alive… what a terrifying thought…”

You approach the besieged town where the two Archers are fighting, and suddenly Nightingale (+Rama) charges ahead again.


In the town, Robin and Billy realize that reinforcements have arrived, except…

>Billy: “Say, Green. Is Geronimo a pistol-brandishing woman carrying a kid on a medical bag on her back?”

>Rama: “Weren’t you listening to anything we were saying!?”
>Nightingale: “I was! Hygiene is the cornerstone of medical care! I will disinfect the whole place at once!”

Everyone catches up and you dispatch the last of the enemies together. Then some weird lion-ish monster thing called Souleater shows up and attacks. Nightingale’s first thought upon seeing it is to feel distressed at how unsanitary it must be and how much disinfectant she’ll have to use afterwards.

After the battle.
>Mashu: “Nightingale-san, are you alright? Your wounds…”
>Nightingale: “As a nurse, I understand my body better than anybody. I can move and recuperate on my own.”
>Protagonist: “You’re bleeding.”
>Nightingale: “What of it? The blood I spill in the battlefield is equivalent to the blood that they spill. I’d be happy to spill my blood in place of others."

Robin and Billy introduce themselves, and if you ask if they’re alone, they mention that some of the villagers are hiding nearby and have some wounded, which prompts Nightingale to dash off.

>Geronimo: “Like a coyote smelling blood…”

Billy and Robin are on board with the assassination plan since they both specialize in dirty work, but Geronimo says you still need more help, preferably Sabers and Lancers since both are Archers. Roman starts doing wide scanning trying to find other stray servants, and Robin hesitatingly tells you that he met some before he teamed up with Billy.

>Robin: “If it’s a Saber and Lancer… well, it’s a Saber and Lancer, but it’s some Ultra problem-children, alright?”
>Mashu: “Mad Enhanced? Or maybe Anti-Heroes?”
>Robin: “One’s definitely an Anti-Hero, but I could communicate with both. But… ah, damnit, you’ll understand when you meet them. Don’t blame me for this later, alright?”

So off to find them you go.

11)
Chapter 8: MY FAIR LADY.

Scene opens in Reused Versailles Throne Room (Celt Version) where McCool is reporting his defeat to Cu. Cu shrugs and sends him back to work warning him that he will overlook up to two failures, but three is the limit. This slightly disappoints Medb, who hoped he’d react all beastly-like. Cu replies that that’s stupid, since he has to act like a proper king.

>Cu: “I will forgive negligence once, narrow defeats twice, but on the third time the weaklings should brace for their fate.”

Fionn and Diarmuid leave and Fergus comes in.

>Fergus: “Ahh, Medb, how are you? Having problems with your night companions? If that’s the case, I’d love to take over.”

Medb laughs and says that’s not a problem and Cu explains that he wants him to rendezvous with a dispatched force to ambush your party.

>Medb: “Thanks you Fergus. When you get back, should we spend the night together?”
>Fergus: “Uhm, nah, I’d better not. Since I’ve got a second life, it might be okay to indulge myself, but it might be best to practice abstinence for once. ‘To dedicate oneself entirely to the fight’ and so, don’t you agree?”

Cu then goes on a tangent about how he doesn't care and how he’ll not rest until he’s reduced the land to a wasteland, which on the whole seems to kinda disturb Fergus, but he keeps it to himself and says he’s off to work.

>Medb: “Do your best~! I love you Fergus!
>Fergus: “Hah! As a woman, you’re the absolute worst aside from your body, but from a man’s perspective you’re the best!”

Medb muses a bit more on how Cu is unlike himself, since he’s now mostly a cold practical tyrant who does everything dispassionately unlike his usual battle-loving self, but that she loves him all the same. He in turn just thinks she’s a pain in the ass.



Cut to your party walking about. Robin is whining about how much he doesn’t want to meet these people and how he’s somehow unable to get away from whoever this is no matter where he goes. You ask him if it’s perhaps an ex-girlfriend and he’s like “FUCK NO.”

You reach another town, but are suddenly attacked by Celts.

Robin realizes the enemies are strangely weak, and cringes as he guesses what it is. You dispatch the last of them, and Geronimo starts hearing a sound. Billy says the sounds are individually beautiful, but turn muddy when combined, like how using many vibrant colors at once eventually merge into black. Then Mashu realizes that she’s heard this sound before.

…It’s fucking Liz singing her retarded pop music love song.

>Mashu: ……
>Geronimo: ……
>Billy: ……
>Robin: ……

Me too guys, me too.

>Elizabeth: [Insert absentminded self-fellating about how much of a genius performer she is]
>Mashu: “Master, I think there’s something you should say.”
>Protagonist: “Me!?”
>Mashu: “Yes, there’s only one thing to be said. Go on!”
>Protagonist: [To Liz] “Aren’t you embarrassed to have popped up so many times already?”
>Elizabeth: “Tch- who’s the one slandering an idol all of a sudden!? It’s not like I wanted to be summoned you know, this isn’t like some splendid world tour…! Oh, it’s the Puppy again. Ah, and the green mouse too.”

So yeah, she remembers both previous chapters and it seems both her and Robin remember Extra.

Incidentally, this town is where Broadway will be in a few centuries, which is why she is there. She’s planning on charming everyone around to create her own stage, movie theatre and so on revolving all around her. Seems she didn’t notice that the people crowding around weren’t fans, but rather the Celt soldiers suffering in agony due to her song, which is why they were so weak before. Mashu actually gets uncommonly stern about making her realize her song is a weapon, not for leisure, and tries to recruit her.

>Mashu: “Why don’t you let us help you spread your fine art(-ish abominable song) by lending us your aid?”

She agrees, and Robin says the next stop is a forest where you’ll find the Saber he mentioned.

>Protagonist: “What kind of Saber is it?”
>Robin: “Let’s say… that one wouldn’t lose to this Lancer here.”

So off you go.

12)
Chapter 9.

You move on to meet Robin’s other annoying old acquaintance amidst him whining that he really doesn’t want to, and finally approach a deserted town where Nero (Bride) is. She’s… trying to shoot a movie, though obviously without crew or equipment, so she’s essentially just babbling to herself in the middle of the street.

>Nero: “Fufufufufufuuu~ Alright, the foundations are done. Unfortunately, the only thing that could be shot with this backdrop is a Western, but with my incomparable performance, even a Western should earn an Academy Award! With Myself as the Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Sound Engineer and Lead Actress… What a magnificent sight even if there are no cameras!
>Nero: “Hmm, what should I do? The time for me to test myself in the art of summoning has come! With my genius, I should be able to summon some big-shot… Eastwood or Scott perhaps.”
>???: “Hooh, Hollywood eh? You thought up some interesting stuff.”
>Nero: “Who is it? I am busy, if you do not have some cameras with you, go away.”
>Fergus: “Sorry, my name is Fergus, formerly of the Red Branch army. Truth be told, I’d love to pretend to be a cameraman and put the moves on you, but there’s some complicated circumstances at play.”

Then he apologizes and says he’s there to kill her. He’s apparently taken out three other Servants on his way there, though he notes she’s on a different rank from those.

>Fergus: “You’re to be the fourth, basically.”
>Nero: “Umu, I see. But it’s a pity, great knight Fergus mac Roich. The fourth will be you.”

Fergus grins and gets ready to fight her, but she interrupts him.

>Nero: “Oh? It seems being mistaken is your destiny. You’re really unlucky.”
>Fergus: “Huh?”
>Nero: “Are you coming, No Face King!?”

Robin leaps out and attacks Fergus. Nero knew he was nearby because she’s “sensitive to the presence of an audience.” Basically, she’s such an attention whore that it gives her a sixth sense to onlookers.

The rest of the gang pops up, and Nero gets confused because you look familiar yet she can’t remember from where. Mashu realizes that it’s because you met her while she was alive, and her memories were wiped out when Septem was restored to the normal timeline. Nero doesn’t sweat it and just welcomes you, and you all face Fergus.

After you beat him, Rama quickly asks him if he’s seen Sita, and he answers that he knows she is to the west in Alcatraz, and that even though tossing her there was Medb’s command, he didn’t really like doing that.

>Fergus: “Indian heroic Spririts have such beautiful eyes… and besides…”
>Mashu: “?”
>Nero: “?”
>Liz: “?”
>Fergus: “There are so many beautiful women here aside from the Queen. Dying like this isn’t so bad, hahahahah!”

After he dematerializes, Liz starts picking a fight with Nero claiming they have a score to settle since “three years ago” (CCC came out in 2013) regarding who’s more talented. Nero says that she’s busy setting up her plan to build her own Hollywood right there, and she bonds with Liz over their idiotically similar dreams.

>Geronimo: “I think I understand the reason for Rome’s decline…”

Mashu gets Nero on board by pointing out she won’t be able to build her dream theatre with the Celts rampaging about, and Roman says he’s detected a Leyline nexus nearby where to set up the usual summoning circle, so you head there.


13)
Chapter 10.

You set up summoning circle in the forest, and Da Vinci pops up as usual to chat while it’s being connected. Starts by saying that he has little relation to the country… and then some vague stuff I don’t really get very clearly. Is it a reference to the Da Vinci code and how he doesn’t like being linked with that? Don’t quote me here, I might be completely misreading this. These are the lines:

いうか。どこの世界に自画像に暗号を仕掛ける阿呆がいると思う？
そしてそれを自分に押しつけられた気持ちがキミたちに分かる？ ねえ分かる？

The rest of the chat is about America, the meaning of the chapter title, how the country is like a personification of archetypical human contradictions (believing in God while struggling to be the strongest on Earth and so on) and how the development of the country veered the hell away from anything remotely supernatural. However, “being unrelated” doesn’t mean that they “don’t know” about these things, so a Grail War might even be possible in there, although that’s “a story from a different, far-off world.” Essentially just a Strange Fake plug.

Everyone then settles for the night. Nightingale pokes Rama’s wound as a threat from him to keep quiet and rest when he starts acting tough. Liz tries to take Robin’s cape to use as a blanket and he yells as her to piss off already (she had previously asked for a towel to wipe her sweat, and you had told her to use Robin’s cape as a towel, so he’s getting sick of it.)

>Liz: “How stingy. Weren’t you raised properly?”
>Robin: “I don’t want to hear that from a peasant-exploiting Noble!”

Robin and Billy go off to get some firewood, and Nightingale keeps examining Rama, saying the necrosis in his heart is advancing rapidly and he only has a few days left. She tries to double his dose of painkillers, but he refuses saying that he’d like to be able to move in an emergency, and that the pain should be his punishment for losing against Cu and the lives of those who were sacrificed so he could escape. Nightingale then calls him a fool who’d be shaming those men’s sacrifice by not caring properly for his health, since those men were wounded to protect exactly that, and he bows down and apologizes.

You’re off watching the stars with Mashu, who fires off into a touchy-feely speech about being able to see this scenery of the virgin lands, talks about the struggles and labour of people to build their lives and so on, and how happy she is to be able to see these things that she had thought about but never understood while in Chaldea. She thanks you for helping her see all this, then a panicked Fou darts out being chased by Nero who’s trying to brush his hair. Nero then tells you that Geronimo is calling everyone together, but you’re interrupted by a band of America’s characteristic roaming bands of Skeletons, Zombie Pirates and floating evil Eyeballs.

Geronimo plans to infiltrate Washington along with Nero, Robin and Billy to assassinate Medb, while Mashu and you accompany Nightingale and Rama to look for Sita, since you’re the backup plan in case the assassination plan goes tits up. Nero says goodbye to Liz, and they both get fired up about setting up a huge stage when they meet again and having a showdown to decide who the best idol is.

>Protagonist: “How will you do the judging?”
>Mashu: “I don’t think they’re listening.”

Liz then gets sent along with you because her singing attack wouldn’t be appropriate for a stealth operation, but she asks Nero is she’s okay getting involved in an assassination scheme.

>Nero: “Ufufu, unfortunately I better be there if it’s an assassination. If you want to know why… it’s because I, Nero Claudius, am a consummate veteran in assassination plots! The intrigue-filled life of an emperor, to kill or be killed, to serve or be served poison, to ostracize others based on what you hear, to be ostracized based on what you say… Umu. It may be sad to say it myself, but I am perfectly suited for assassination tasks! …you may applaud now.”
>[Applause]
>Robin: “This isn’t something you should be bragging about, your Majesty.”
>Nero: [Seriously] “…yeah, I know. I don’t feel like boasting either, but as an Emperor, I should be able to play the Assassin for a while.”

Then she blows her moment of sobriety by saying she also needs to go with the other group… because Rama keeps encroaching on her character style since they both use the same fancy first-person pronoun (余)

>Rama: “That’s it!?”
>Nero: “What do you mean 'that’s it’? It’s important not to mix-up characters!”
>Liz: “Hmm, can’t be helped. It’s a decisive matter for the group.”
>Rama: “’Can’t be helped’?! You’re gonna agree that easily!?”
>Protagonist: “It’s important to keep the characters’ personalities distinct.”
>Rama: “You too!?”

Everyone goes their respective ways and you set off for Alcatraz.

Geronimo’s group discusses the assassination plan, how their chances are slim but none of them have any intention of dying, and Billy asks Geronimo if he’s really okay with helping America. He again answers that’s it’s not about helping America, but smiles and says that he doesn’t mind the idea of making them feel indebted to him, saying that it’d be fine if he held onto that guilt even if his memories will be wiped out when the timeline is restored.

The topic of Sita pops up as you walk. Rama has to meet her at all costs, as he still feels regret for having vanished her, even if he had been put in a no-win scenario due to the suspicion of his subjects. Liz starts calling him trash when she hears about it, but Rama only nods and says she’s right, but that’s all the more reason he has to meet her. Liz says they have to hurry so that this Sita can give Rama a good slap and the chapter ends.

14)
Chapter 11: THE ROCK.

You arrive to the coast of Alcatraz and try to borrow a boat from Old Guy Not Morgan Freeman, though he warns you that there’s a dragonkin living in the island. After some grumbling from Mashu and Liz about being sick of fighting them in Orleans, you set off at once since Rama won’t last long.

Beowulf is acting as warden and sends the wyverns after you, while Sita feels Rama’s presence from within the prison. Cue monotonous waves of wyverns.

Elizabeth asks Rama how he’s hanging on, and he says he’s just focused on meeting Sita as soon as possible.

>Liz: “You’re thinking of your wife while we’re all fighting frantically over here?”
>Rama: “I can’t help it since I can’t fight myself! I’d like to fight if I could!”
>Liz: [Smiling] “No, it’s fine. It’s the opposite, I think it’s great. I thought you’d be some sort of playboy, but you’re actually a great prince aren’t you? Leave these small fry to me, I’ll make sure you can meet your wife soon!”

More wyverns. Nightingale is wounded, and Rama apologizes for having her take wounds for his sake.

>Nightingale: “Be quiet. My Number 2 most hated thing is incurable diseases. Number 1 is patients that don’t want to be cured.”
>Rama: “Shouldn’t that be the other way round?”
>Nightingale: “No. Incurable diseases may one day have a cure; that is why doctors and nurses continue squeezing their brains in search of knowledge. To cure even killing. To kill and kill and kill and kill every disease. Yet what’s needed above all is the willpower of the patient. If the patient does not want to heal, it will be impossible to cure him no matter how many doctors there are. I will cure you. I will cure you so that you can move at will. I will cure you so that you can whisper your love to your wife. I will cure you so you can hold your sword once more. For that purpose, what’s needed above all is for your body, your cells, to be determined to be healed. If you feel you are losing your willpower, you must cheer up. Otherwise, I will kill you.”
>Rama: [Grinning] “Hah, you are a Berserker for sure!”
>Nightingale: “Is there a problem?”
>Rama: “None. I understand. I will heal, I will heal for sure! That is my wish! I cannot die until then!”


Tyler Durden finally comes to fight you as you approach the gates, and Nightingale asks to be allowed to see a prisoner in order to cure Rama.

>Beowulf: “Hey hey, aren’t you here to fight?”
>Nightingale: “Nonsense. Why would a nurse come here to fight? A nurse’s battle is only against illnesses and wounds.”
>Beowulf: “That’s right, isn’t it? A nurse who takes lives would be crazy. But isn’t the truth that you’re crazy?”
>Rama: “He might be an enemy, but I agree. Going crazy without going crazy, that’s the sort of contradictory woman this Head Nurse is.”

Then he introduces himself, calls down a huge dragon and you fight them. You kill the dragon, and then Rama tells Nightingale to let him down, telling her to trust her as Doctor and Patient.

>Nightingale: “Very well. Correction though, I am a Nurse, not a Doctor.”

Rama then uses Brahamastra in a surprise attack and tell him to step aside and let him meet his wife already. Beowulf laughs about how from Rama’s perspective, he’s probably just some lowlife scum keeping his beloved imprisoned. He seems largely amused to be playing the scoundrel villain.

Beowulf is pretty nonchalant about losing and tells Rama to go see his wife, assuring him that nobody’s put a finger on her and then takes off. Rama rushes inside, but loses strength and collapses just as he reaches Sita.

>Rama: “I wanted to meet you. I wanted to meet you. I really, really wanted to meet you. I’ll be fine so long as you are here.”

Mashu explains the situation to Sita, and the topic of Tara’s curse (that Rama and Sita never meet again, go read a book) pops up. That’s apparently why Rama collapsed: the curse, still in effect, will not allow them to be together, and Sita is sure that she will have vanished somewhere by the time he wakes up.

>Sita: “But it is alright. That is alright. Rama-sama might not be able to see me, but I at least could grasp his hand once more. That alone… that alone is a blessing.”

She recognizes how much he fought to meet her, how he never took another wife and how she is fully aware of how much he loves her, so this is enough for her and holds no resentment for having been vanished.

Nightingale cures Rama’s wounds with Sita’s help to an extent, but Gae Bolg’s curse still persists and prevents him from regaining his strength. Sita then says that she will sacrifice herself to remove the curse completely.

>Sita: “You need strong warriors, do you not? Then Rama-sama, my beloved husband, will be the world’s strongest ally.”
>Nightingale: “I will pass on the curse to you then. Are you ready?”
>Sita: “Yes.”
>Nightingale: “Though I was single all my life, I understand the feeling of devoting oneself for someone else’s sake. It was short, but I am proud to have been able to speak with you. Goodbye, Miss Sita.”

>Sita: “Rama-sama…. Even if it’s a little, I’ll be able to help you in your fight. For that reason alone I am happy. I love you… I really love you.”

Rama wakes up, looking fairly resigned to the whole thing.

>Rama: “Ahhh, right. This might be a weird Grail War… but this is destiny.”
>Nightingale: “The girl grasped your hand, kissed you and poured her tears of love for you. That is why you are able to stand.”
>Rama: [Smiling] “Thank you for those words, Nightingale.”

Now healed, Rama pledges his sword to you all in gratitude, and you all head back east to fight the Celts.


15)
Chapter 12.

Robin’s finished scouting around Washington and informs the rest that the Celts are planning a parade. Geronimo and Nero realize that whoever’s the Celt leader will likely be the most conspicuous person at the parade, so it’s a good chance to pull off the assassination plan. The plan is to approach unnoticed by using No Face King and isolate the enemy inside Domus Aurea so they won’t be able to call reinforcements. The parade starts and they identify Medb as the leader, so Robin and Nero get to work.

Medb immediately calls for help, and Cu appears inside the theatre.

>Cu: “It was an audacious move, but you made a mistake. The one you should have been aiming for was not Medb, but me.”

Geronimo thinks he must be the owner of the Grail, but Cu shrugs and says Medb’s the one who has it and that he doesn’t care. Medb reveals that she wished to “make Cu-chan a king” who would stand beside her as a tough, evil ruler, so he can always be called to her side using the Grail’s power, even inside a Reality Marble.

>Nero: “Hoo, a king then? Then as Emperor, I ask you: how do you intend to rule?”
>Cu: “I will fight, kill and dominate. That is all.”

Cu says he will simply devastate the land until nothing is left and Nero calls him nothing but a beast. Cu says he’s fine with that and Nero says that she refuses to recognize him as a king. Medb says that the only requirement to be a king is to be strong, since the weak’s only purpose is to be subjugated and serve the powerful.

>Nero: “Hah. I might like lions, but mad dogs are another story. You are nothing but a lion-deceiving bitch.” (in the female dog sense)
>Medb: “That’d right, I don’t mind being a bitch. I don’t mind at all.”

The she goes on about how she fell in love with Cu because of his strength and the fact that he was the one guy she couldn’t charm. Everyone then starts to fight, and then Arjuna shows up.

>Medb: “It’s not like I lacked confidence in you Cu-chan, but I prepared one more knight just in case.”
>Cu: “…I’ll take on the woman. You handle the small fry.”
>Medb: “Did she make you angry?”
>Cu: “No, that’s your problem. Since she calls herself an Emperor, it’s my duty as a King to fight her.”

>Arjuna: “I do not wish you to suffer. I will carry out my role as quickly as I can.”

Geronimo and Nero tell Robin to flee using his NP while the rest buy time and their battle starts.


Meanwhile your party is making their way out of Alcatraz when Fionn and Diarmuid show up.

>Fionn: “Mashu-dono, have you considered my proposal? I am serious this time. I wish to make you mine. That is, I want you to be my wife.”
>Liz: “A proposal!?”
>Mashu: “Ho, uhm, sorry but I must refuse. Given the circumstances, there’s no way I’d accept.”
>Diarmuid: “Well, that’s to be expected. In any case, we all respect Mashu-dono’s courage.”
>Fionn: “Ohhh, she has caught your eye Diarmuid? Hahaha, perhaps you are planning to run off with her under my nose?”
>Diarmuid: “Su-such a thing… not at all, there’s no way I’d be planning anything like that! I am simply admiring Mashu-dono’s bravery!”
>Fionn: “Hahaha, relax, I’m joking, I’m joking, please don’t worry about it! I’m the one who should apologize, I just can’t help myself. But that’s enough with the jokes. I hold no grudges from the time we were alive. There is no greater joy for me than to fight alongside you as we once did. ”
>Diarmuid: “…of course! Of course, my lord!”

Cue waves of Celts. Diarmuid goes “wait, what the fuck is a nurse doing in the frontlines”, but Nightingale answers that he and Fionn are like patients with strong fevers, and that if she can cure them, then she’ll at least save them. By killing them.

>Diarmuid: “Uh… the reasoning is nonsense, but the conviction is genuine… alright, I retract my previous discourtesy.”



Once you beat them, Fionn laughs and says he’s fine with it since he got to fight as much as he wanted, though Diarmuid is dissatisfied.

>Diarmuid: “This time… I thought we could win…”
>Fionn: “Ahhh, well. To be frank, whether we win or lose never mattered to me.

Fionn felt constantly burdened and held down by the tasks of government, to the point of feeling like he was stagnating and dirtied.

>Fionn: “I envied you who sacrificed yourself for love. That was probably it.”
>Diarmuid: “My Lord…”
>Fionn: “To fight alongside you, crudely and greedily seeking victory… I am satisfied. Though it’s a pity I couldn’t get Mashu-dono.”

Mashu apologizes for not being able to return his feelings, but Fionn just laughs about being rejected Then he turns to Nightingale and asks her if she won’t cure her own wounds. She answers that she has no time for that, and that she cannot be cured anyway. The only thing in her disturbed heart are her patients, and that the only way to cure her would be to make sure there are no more wounded needing aid in the world.

>Fionn: “Hmm. It might be broken, but it is beautiful. Such conviction shines like a dazzling jewel. If we are summoned again, I would like to help you realize your dream. And then, how about becoming another candidate to be my wife?”
>Diarmuid: “You’re just like always.”
>Fionn: “Hah, good! If I can remain my youthful self until I die, this summoning has been worth it. Good bye then, strange protectors! If we are connected, we may meet again!”

The Ambiguously Gay Duo then smile and vanish at last and you get a call from Robin reporting that the assassination plan went tits up. You set up a meeting point and the chapter ends.


16)
Chapter 13.

The battle is still going on inside Domus Aurea. Arjuna easily repels Geronimo’s NP and kills Billy. Geronimo tries to reason with him and asks him why the fuck he’s helping Medb, but Arjuna just evades the question with “stuff happened”. Medb pipes in just to gloat about how they’re done and “the guys that went towards Alcatraz” will be handled by Beowulf and Fionn, but that even if they fail, dealing with them won’t be a problem for Medb since she has the Grail. Geronimo then mocks her.

>Geronimo: “It is true that you were chosen to hold a great power, but in truth, that is only one among seven. Holding the Grail marks you as warriors of great worth, but that is not unique. They already retrieved four* of them. Even if we fall here, they will surely continue the fight.”
*yes, he says four. No, I don’t get it either. Maybe someone miscounted. The line is ”彼らは既に、四つの聖杯を回収している。”
Then he makes a prediction as a Shaman, that she will die soon, and Medb kills him in anger before ordering Arjuna to chase after Robin.

Domus Aurea collapses and Nero admits defeat, but she asks Cu to answer something before he kills her. She says that it’s fine if he wants to be a despot or a supreme warlord or whatever, but it’s clear that he’s not enjoying it at all (literally “you haven’t even moved an eyebrow.”) It’d be different if he were working for the sake of his people, but why is he being a tyrant when it’s pretty clear he doesn’t want to? Cu again shrugs and says that he has no reason, that he has no goals, he’s not seeking anything. He’s just gonna keep going until his strength is exhausted.

>Cu: “That is all. My fate is to die on the battlefield.”

Nero says that he’s mistaken and that this doesn’t fit him at all, but Cu shrugs again and kills her.

Meanwhile, your party reaches the rendezvous point, but some Celts caught up with Robin, so you team up to take them out.


Robin relays the news and Liz gets depressed about Nero’s death since they finally had the freak chance of being summoned at the same time again. Roman points out it’s pretty amazing Robin managed to escape on his own, and Robin explains he had help from someone.

Cue flashback.

>Robin: “---damnit! Stay put!”
>Arjuna: “That is my line. Sorry, but you have been caught. Your bow is lacking in grace. As another Archer, let me give you some lessons.”
>[The attack is intercepted]
>Scathach: “…you are well trained, but lack spirit. That’s simply like a little boy’s stick.”
>Arjuna: “Who are you?”
>Scathach: “I have no need to answer. I’m just a God-killer who happened to be passing by.”

Cu and Medb catch up, and Cu tells Arjuna to fall back since “that woman is beyond your power.” Arjuna is reluctant, but finally obeys.

>Scathach: “Good, good, he’s an obedient boy. Completely different from you, Setanta.”
>Cu: “Don’t call me by my childhood name, it gives me a headache. Can’t believe you were summoned too…”
>Scathach: “I’m the one that should complain. You fool, is that the way to talk to your teacher?”

>Scathatch: “I can’t even look at you in this state. Yet, fool that you are, a pupil is still a pupil. I should at least show you the mercy of beheading you. Answer, Cu Chulainn, what has possessed you?”
>Cu: “…”
>Scathach: “I see there’s no need to answer. But this is not the place to kill each other, I have to help that green calabash escape, and you’ve got that Medb woman as baggage.”

Scathach then casts a rune to give her territory advantage and escapes, with Cu staying behind saying that it’d be too risky to chase after her.


Flashback over. Scathach introduces herself to the party. She says that while she usually would not be possible to summon, the obliteration of human history obliterated her country as well, which made it possible to summon her as a Heroic Spirit, for which she is kinda-sorta thankful.

>Scathach: “That idiot pupil is looking even more stupid than usual. As his teacher, I should be the one to collar him back again.”

She says she’s like to help, but she’s not sure she can beat Cu like he is now. She says that the best plan would be to take the Grail back from Medb, but not to count on her to do it, because if Scathach were to fight her, she’d probably end up destroying the Grail along with Medb and then they wouldn’t be able to restore the timeline.

More wyverns and Celts attack so you stop to fight them.

A wave of Shadow Servants appear, but suddenly Li Shuwen shows up and murders the lot of them. Scathach compliments his technique and demands to know his name, Li introduces himself and demands to fight her to the death. She finds it amusing, and he apologizes for the selfish request, since he can’t help himself wanting to try his spear against hers.

>Scathach: “What great potential to be toyed around wi-*Cough* I mean, to be trained.”

She tells him that since she agreed to serve you, he’s gotta do things in the proper order, so he’s gotta fight you and Mashu first. Mashu’s not too on board with fighting him for no reason, but Li asks her to think of him as a Celt instead and the battle starts.

Mashu fights him to a standstill, and he compliments her before telling Scathach to please forget the previous challenge.

>Li: “I might be just a scoundrel who lives detached from society, but I don’t want to see this world I love being destroyed.”

So he asks her to stay alive until they get a chance to fight once this is over. Then he warns you that “that King of Inventors guy seems to be possessed by something.” Mashu asks him to join you, but he says he’d rather go alone, though he says you can count him as being on your side and then takes off.

Nightingale agrees with Li’s opinion that there’s something weird about Edison, so she starts seeing him as a patient and wants to go take a look at him again.

>Nightingale: “It might be necessary to apply to blunt-force anaesthesia to make that blockhead wake up.”

After a bit discussion, everyone agrees to go and beat some sense into Simba and the chapter ends.


17)
Chapter 14.

En route to beat the shit out of Edison, you run into a random village being attacked by Celts, and Robin wonders if you can capture some of them.

>Liz: “To torture?”
>Robin: “To interrogate!”

According to him, such “prisoners of war” will be necessary if they intend to charge directly into Edison’s stronghold. You go capture one of them, and Robin tells you to let him handle things from there on.
Later on you run into one of Edison’s robots.

>Mechanical Soldier: “Halt. Identify yourselves.”
>Robin: “INDUSTRY AND DOMINATION!”
>Protagonist: “Robin-san!?”
>Mechanical Soldier: “INDUSTRY AND DOMINATION! President King Edison is a good company president!”
>Robin: “Good company president! Incidentally, Second Lieutenant Anderson Komadori of the Twenty-sixth Commando Unit! GOOD TASTE NEWS! I have captured an enemy solider and am currently transporting him to the stronghold!”

So you can guess what his plan in. The stuff in all caps is in English. By the way, a “komadori” (駒鳥) is a bird better known as Japanese Robin, thus the pun. The robot buys the story and lets him pass.

>Roman: “Say, Robin-san. What’s with that greeting? Do you like talking like that?”
>Robin: [Blushing] “I didn’t want to do that, damnit! But it’s just how those robots greet each other.”

Mashu wonders about the word “domination” and if that makes Edson a bad guy, and Roman points out it can also be interpreted as “conquering the country’s challenges.” Scathach approves of that sentiment, but gets pretty outraged at the machine soldiers and how crude and mindless they are as warriors. Roman points out how it’s still the best Edison could have come up with, given that training warriors to match the Celts would have been impossible.

>Scathach: “Hmmm. Well, if we’re talking about the Celt warriors, it’s not like they use their brains either. They’re mainly muscle-heads… Muscle-heads Vs Machines… yeah, that’s actually be a well-evened match.”

Robin then says he wants to hurry so you can bring down Edison, and Nightingale corrects him how they’re going to “cure” him, not bring it down. At gunpoint.

>Robin: “Alright, alright, just put the gun away!”

And then you fight a Bicorn outta fucking nowhere and the chapter ends.

18)
Chapter 15.

The robots at the castle aren’t as lax with the security so you need to break through. Nightingale tries to push her way through by shouting “Move away, there are patients waiting!” (and also by literally kicking people out of the way) but Edison suddenly hijacks Roman’s transmission.

>Edison: “You bastards, have you kneeled before the Celts even though you are heroes!? What’s more, my Madonna, the Angel of Crimea! I thought your conviction and mine could assist each other! What disappointment! I have not been this sad since the unemployment rate increased over 3 percent!”

Nightingale assures him you haven’t betrayed him, but Helena points out that since they heard you failed to assassinate Medb, your survival looks suspect and makes them believe you probably surrendered to her side. Liz then lashes at her for even suggesting it, and this at least convinces Helena that you’re just losers rather than traitors.

>Edison: “Then why such bloodlust? Angel of Crimea, why point your gun at me!?”
>Nightingale: “’Angel’. I’ve been called that before, but I can’t imagine any greater agony than being compared with such a sweet and gentle creature. There is a reason for confronting you like this, King of Inventors.”
>Edison: “Huh? So you have at last acknowledged my brilliance?”
>Nightingale: “You are ill. You must be treated at once.”

I forgot to mention this while back, but back in the scene where you first meet him, Edison got a minor pang of “something” than Helena said was a headache. Helena here seems to know what Nightingale means, but Edison just gets angry and demands to know what she means.

>Nightingale: “Be quiet. The sick should not be rude when given their diagnosis. If you want to be pampered, get your mother or wife to do it.”

Her diagnosis is basically that Edison’s fucked up in the head somehow, tells him to wait quietly while lying in bed, and then shoots at something* which inexplicably restores Roman’s control of the radio.

*Roman’s only addressed as a featureless voice by other characters, so there’s no actual holographic projection in reality, his sprite just signifies that he’s talking via radio. I have no idea what Nightingale even shot at here.

>Mashu: “Shooting a gun can help reverse hacking! Let’s make sure to remember this, Master!
>Protagonist: “Please forget that…”


Karna is waiting for you inside, and though he admits that Nightingale is likely in the right, he is afflicted by the disease of “Loyalty” and so has to at least try and stop you.

>Karna: “That King of Inventors begged for my help. He kneeled before a useless person like me. That is enough for me to oppose you… also, he reminds me of someone I knew. Foolish even while wise. Haughty yet at the same time full of humility. One I once called a friend, a king who once helped me. That friendly man and Edison are very much alike. There is no way I can betray him.”

You fight him, with Liz getting exhausted yet refusing to pull back against another Lancer, until Karna is called back by Edison. He tells you that he will be waiting in the throne room, and then excuses himself.

You break into the throne room and challenge Edison.

>Nightingale: “I can’t say I see the ‘brilliance of your wisdom’, but I understand how amazing the machines you made are. That is beside the point though, I am here to diagnose your illness.”
>Edison: “I don’t understand, Nightingale! Why are you conscious in spite of being a Berserker, yet insist on treating me as if I were some stupid witless beast!?”
>Liz: “Well… you are a lion right?”

Cue fight.
Afterwards, Edison refuses to surrender and announces “secret transformation technique" to become the electrical beast “Thomas Mazda Edison”, but Karna stops him by throwing away his medicine, telling him he has “no need to walk down that ruinous path.”

Nightingale stops Edison by saying his plan is irrational since he should know he has no chances to win. Medb can keep creating soldiers indefinitely, so all Edison can do is keep fighting until he dies. He created his mass-production lines to counter this, but he slowly became obsessed with simply holding his ground above all else.

The greatest disturbance of all, however, is in himself: the lion body. Thomas Edison shouldn’t have such strength, so his power had to come from somewhere else, and that is what made him into a “King” and filled him with unchecked ambition.

>Mashu: “The grail?”
>Nightingale: “No. The Grail is something with ‘grants desires’, it does not ‘gives birth to desires’.”

There’s a sort of force/makeshift Throne (of Heroes)/floating wraith collective formed by the wills of every President of the USA in the same way spirits arise from local folklore, and this force empowered Edison since it was better to call forth and empower one person with proper worldwide renown. Edison’s being possessed by the accumulated ambition, and it’s messing with his head (and shape.)

>Nightingale: “That is the disease. We are not just America. If we do no heal this world, we will not be able to save it. ‘E Pluribus Unum.’ A country born from the convergence of people from many nations, children of every and all nations as equals. Therefore, it is your duty to save the world. If you turn your eyes away from that and attempt to save only your own country, you will suffer.”
>Edison: “Uh… guh…”
>Nightingale: “Also, if you were to do that, you’d lose to your fellow genius inventor Nikola Tesla.”
>Edison: “GAOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?”

Edison collapses.
>Helena: (“That’s the worst thing she could have said…”)
>Karna: (“I wish she’d have taken it a bit easier…”)

Mashu checks on him and confirms he’s still (barely) got a pulse, having convulsions on the floor.

>Nightingale: “His life is not at risk. Edison, answer: what do you wish to do?”

Edison gets up and admits that while he was empowered by the Presidents, being unable to find a rational path to victory led him to losing his way.

>Nightingale: “The first step to curing yourself is recognizing the illness. It is okay if you lost your way, you simply need to get back to the starting point.”

>Edison: “To start over after all the civilians I have had to victimize… What a harsh reality… what should I do from now on?”
>Helena: “It simple, you just need to go on being yourself. If three thousand tries is not enough then try three thousand and one. No matter how many failures, never losing your spirit, standing as your usual calculating self… Is that not your way of life, Thomas Alva Edison?”
>Edison: “Blavatsky… I am grateful, you are indeed my friend. But… I am just a loser cat. A coward, a criminal king. For me to guide this country once more would be…“
>Karna: “You are mistaken Edison. You might have lost your way, but your aim was true. To help people whose names you don’t even know, to shine a light upon this world. That ambition you hold is benign, I assure you. No matter how many times you indebt yourself to others, no matter how much you may hate yourself, even if evil deeds come from your cowardice, unlike us Heroic Spirits that can do nothing but defeat an enemy, your inventions will help all of mankind. No matter what you say, in the end, you will surely shine a light upon this world.”
>Edison: [Blushing] “Karna-kun…”
>Karna: “It is time for you to awaken, King of Inventors. There are yet many resources inside that brain of yours.”
>Edison: “…I should let my beloved friend Babbage know through morse code… I will not surrender until the time of bankruptcy. And so… and so! No matter how many times he dies, the President King will stand once more! The dream of a prosperous world will revive! Karna-kun! Miss Blavatsky! I will trouble you once more!”
>Helena: “It’s okay, we’re friends after all.”
>Karna: “That is true. It might be impertinent of me, but I speak as a fiend.”
>Edison: “I have always been blessed by good friends.”

Edison then thanks you as well and you welcome you into your team.
>Edison: “Thank you. I had forgotten a very important thing: always beside the President himself is a Vice-President with even greater capabilities than him. I am Thomas Alva Edison, the one to bear the foundation of prosperity for this country! This time, I will create a grand invention to save the whole world!”
>Protagonist: “So basically… I’m being named Vice President?”
>Roman: “Congratulations! Although if this were a movie, you’d be the first to leave the stage.”

And so he joins the party.

19)
Chapter 16: The Council of Elrond (yes really, that’s the title)


Everyone’s planning how to fight the Celts.

>Edison: “Alright everyone be seated and let’s think!”
>Liz: “Yes! Here, teacher!”
>Edison: “Yes, Elizabeth? What is it?”
>Liz: “Let’s invade them head on and beat those guys up!”
>Edison: “Super Rejected!”
>Liz: “What, why!? Alright then, how about I us my song to calm and heal them all-“
>Nightingale/Rama/Robin: “REJECTED!”
>Liz: “But why!?”
>Protagonist: “Those guys lack the refinement to appreciate your singing.”
>Liz: “…oh, well. I suppose that can’t be helped then.”
>Protagonist: “Better put that off until Death Metal is invented...”

Liz apparently is under the impression she’s singing cute Idol Pop music.

Anyhow, Edison reviews the situation. The losing condition is if all territories fall to the Celts, which is why Edison created the machine soldiers to counter their hordes. However, that tactic’s reaching its limit and they’re slowly being pushed back. It was previously impossible for Edison’s armies to defeat the Servant-led Celts, though the situation’s changed now that you all joined up and they lost Fergus, Fionn and Diarmuid. However, their remaining commanders are all top-notch Servants, and they also have monsters and Shadow Servants to help, so a full frontal attack is still impossible.

The conversation turns depressing as nobody has any ideas, so Edison decides to take a break and have you fight some virtual simulations he created just to stretch your legs. If you’re wondering why he’s got a VR system that perfectly mimics Servant combat it’s because LOOK A THREE-HEADED MONKEY.


Back from the break, Edison points out there’s two possible strategies. First is again trying to assassinate Medb, but Scathach points out that her ability to call her Servants to her side with the Grail as soon as she feels danger would make that tricky, especially since that plan already failed once.

>Nightingale: “If an ambush is impossible, then attack them head on.”
>Scathach: “That’s right. Truth be told, Nightingale’s suggestion is probably our best shot.”

As Rama explains, you will take advantage of your superior Servant numbers to split your forces, robots and Servants, into two armies that will attack simultaneously from the North and South, forcing the Celts to split their attention. Whichever breaks through first will then rush to the capital while the other group keeps the bulk of the Celt forces occupied.

Balancing the two groups is vital, so Scathach wonders how best to do that. Liz interrupts and tells you to do it, saying that nobody’s got more experience than you handling large groups after all the fights in the previous Orders. Everyone agrees and you ask them for some time to decide on the formations, so the meeting breaks up until the following day while everyone prepares.


Late at night, you’re taking a walk and run into Nightingale, who decides to join you. She says Edison’s “illness” is better and that he’s no longer being warped so much by the wills of the Presidents, but that there’s still the world left to cure. You say you’ll do your best to fix that, and she (gently) scolds you for thinking of it as something you have to bear alone, saying you’re all in this together.

>Nightingale: “A great effort is needed for sure, but that’s no reason to burden yourself beyond your means.”

She says it’s getting cold and you should go back, but then you’re attacked by yet more of America’s characteristic roaming pirate zombies.


The following day, everyone’s ready to go and Scathach comments on Nightingale’s habit of labelling everything as diseases and patients. They briefly chitchat about Scathach herself and her “condition”; with her saying she doesn’t consider herself to have “overcome death” so much as become just a different flavour of lingering undead spirit.

You announce your plan: the north Army will be led Robin, Edison, Blavatsky and Elizabeth. You are going from the south along with Scathach, Rama, Karna, Nightingale and Mashu. The north group is supposed to keep the Celt forces occupied, while you are meant to use the opening they generate to force your way into Washington.

Elizabeth complains about not going with you since she wants to take revenge for Nero’s death, so she tells you to be sure to beat up Cu Chulainn in her stead. Robin then says he’s got prepare some stuff in advance, seeing as he’s the expert in harassment tactics. Edison then takes a moment to thank Karna for all his help.

Lastly, Edison thanks you for all your assistance and how much you helped him improve in such a long time, and you answer that it was alright since it was Edison.

>Edsion: “Oh, you’ve read my biography then? It was aimed at children, but it sure made me look cool huh? So as to live up to that biography, I swear to accomplish this mission!”

Robin and Liz say their goodbyes as well, and Scathach decides to fight you one last time to make sure you’re all in top shape.

>Scathach: “Alright, that’s a good warmup.”
>Mashu: “I don’t think you’re supposed to get nearly killed during warmup…”

Scathach tells Rama to guide their troops in her stead, since she’s going to go on her own to do recognisance and try to pin Cu Chulainn and the rest from the back while you attack from the front. Rama tells her not to be reckless, but she tells him not to worry since she’s not gonna go down easily.

She takes off, and Karna asks to be put in the vanguard, since he plans to zero-in on Arjuna so that they both keep each other occupied. Rama gives you some final words of encouragement and you all finally set off.

20)
Chapter 18.

Medb informs Cu that Fionn is dead, but he answers that he doesn’t care and would rather focus on the living rather than the dead. They are informed of your army’s movements, and Cu guesses what your plans are, making Medb panic since she’s not sure they can fight back. Cu just keeps his cool and tells her to prepare, since they’ll need to us their “full strength” to win.

They plan to send Beowulf to fight the northern army, realizing that it’s a diversion and the real danger is the southern one. Since Arjuna will likely be deadlocked with Karna, Cu decides to go as well to fight the rest, wondering if Scathach will show up too.

>Medb: “Do you want to fight her?”
>Cu: “No. I am the King. A king cannot fight selfishly. I am a mechanism to bring about the formation of this country. Just a weapon to massacre those who oppose us. ”

Then he goes off and Medb just squeals about how cool he is.

>Medb: “Come soon, believers in justice and miracles! I will give you an unsightly death!”

Cut to your march where you encounter enemy forces and Rama takes the lead commanding the soldiers to take them down.

21)
Chapter 19.

You reach an open plain where Rama plans to meet the approaching Celts. A scout reports that the Celt army has been sighted twenty kilometres away, being led by a brown-skinned man wielding a large bow. Rama confirms that Karna has been told and then starts mumbling about Arjuna, and whether Karna has any chances of victory against him.

>Protagonist: “He will win.”
>Rama: “Huh, how curious. Even if it’s an assertion from our Master, you probably have no basis whatsoever to say that, don’t you? [Grinning] And yet, I feel like he can win now.”

As predicted, Arjuna sends his troop ahead and challenges Karna alone. Rama encourages the soldiers on your side, and you finally clash with Arjuna’s battalion.

Cue waves of stuff. Rama orders his soldiers to deploy the Electrical Net Launcher against the Wyverns, and one of them corrects him by saying the name is “Edison Style Electric Net Launcher,” to which Rama replies by telling him to cut the petty bullshit and just launch the damn thing. A Celt warrior interrupts Nightingale while she’s tending to the wounded so she offhandedly smashes him to a pulp telling him not to bother her.


Arjuna talks about how he always searches for Karna whenever he’s summoned, and that he is very lucky to be summoned at the same time so they can fight at last. Karna agrees, saying that he’s also “infected with the same incurable disease.”

>Arjuna/Karna (At the same time): “But that is fortunate.”
>Karna: “In this world there are no gods, no cruse, no destiny.”
>Arjuna: “Thus I can pursue my desire to settle things with you. The wish has now been granted, so I have no interest in saving this world. If it is destroyed, then so be it. Yet you are trying to save it…”
>Karna: “Of course. So long as there are those who wish to live, I shall be their protector. That is why I was granted this power. My father, as long as I live, may the sun be everlasting.”
>Arjuna: “’Then I shall be by the side of destruction.’ If you are goodness, then I will be evil. We are equal. And since we are equal, this time I will choke the life out of you!”
>Karna: “Arjuna, do you not know of the proverb that ‘curses will come back to harm you’?”

>Karna: “We share an unfortunately unbreakable bond, but we have known each other longer than anyone. Therefore, in deference to that fate, let us make a promise. When it comes the time for you to shoot me, do so fulfilling your duty as a Heroic Spirit. Use the Roar of the Blazing God, the Agni Gandiva, to save the world.”
>Arjuna: “Very well. But you will have no excuses for being defeated.”
>Karna: “Oh? I do not fight in order to be defeated. Upon this spear, upon this flesh, upon the names of Father and Mother I swear to claim victory.”
>Arjuna: “I too then swear, upon Father and Mother as well as my siblings, that I will claim victory. This coincidence was granted after so many thousands of years; I will let neither demon nor angel none stand in the way!”

But that’s none of your business, ‘cause the Celts also have another giant dragon you have to fight, so you do that.

21)
Chapter 19.

You beat the dragon, and Roman reports that the northern flank is doing fine.

Karna and Arjuna continue what everyone’s shocked faces assure us should be an amazing battle, but is actually just loads of “Ahhhhhhhhhh” and intensely constipated faces because the format this stuff is written in doesn’t allow for jack shit in the way of descriptions. According to Nightingale, Karna is winning slightly, though Rama points out that it’s to be expected given the advantage of a spearman over an archer in close combat. He says that by all rights Karna should have a much more obvious advantage given their setup, and the fact that he’s only winning slightly speaks of Arjuna’s skill.

Still, Karna finally gets the upper hand and is about to deal the finishing blow, but then…

>???: “Spear of Gouging Massacre – Gae Bolg.”

Cu Alter shows up out of nowhere and stabs Karna in the back with his Noble Phantasm.

Arjuna is fucking pissed, but Cu tells him to shut the fuck up since he never authorized him to indulge in personal duels to begin with.

>Cu: “Just be thankful I didn’t impale you from the back as well, Blessed Hero.”

You recognize Cu as the Caster from Fuyuki, but he says he has no such memories. Rama asks him where Scathach is, and he casually answers that he beat her already and then charges at you.


You repel Cu, and he complains about the strength of Mashu’s shield, saying he doesn’t know any legend like it, but then shrugs and says that there’s no need to worry so long as he beats you. He attacks with what is probably Impaling Barbed Death (Written as 死棘の魔槍 , literally ‘Death Thorn Devil Spear,” though what is usually translated as Impaling Barbed Death is刺し穿つ死棘の槍.) Mashu thinks she might not be able to block it, but Fou jumps ahead and…

>???: “I was just taking a small walk while dozing off for a bit and ended up in a wasteland country… Is this a continuation of that dream, or a mere phantom? Oh well, either one is fine. Good morning and good day, gentlemen. Everyone’s reliable advisor, Merlin-san has entered the stage.”

Merlin says that he’s not supposed to be there since he’s still meant to be “trapped in that tower in the middle of paradise”, but just felt like popping out to give a hand even though he’s not yet supposed to get involved with you.

>Merlin: “Let’s just leave it at ‘we’re so lucky a wonderful onii-san came to help us!’ shall we?.”

>Cu: “Where the hell did you come from? Are you sleepwalking or what?”
>Merlin: “Of course, it’s my forte. It’s like a strategy to confuse the enemy. Oh, and congratulations on your coronation, Cu Chulainn. For the day when Ireland’s great hero would settle on a throne to come... Dear dear, fate is such an inscrutable thing.”
>Cu: “This presence… you’re an Incubus, aren’t you? Ah, and an oracle as well… To get in the way with such foul play… Is that alright, Magician? Doesn’t this wound your dignity?”
>Merlin: “I’m the kind of guy who adapts to the situation. I don’t have any pride or rules of speak of anyway.”

Merlin begins to flicker out as he says he’s waking up from his nap, so he apologizes and says that the rest is up to you.

>Merlin: “We will meet again someday, in a slightly different future. Please give my regards to Cath Palug.”

Taking advantage of the distraction caused by Merlin, the still-living Karna uses Vasavi Shakti, but it’s not enough to kill Cu in his current state and the effort exhausts him at last. Cu says he’ll retreat to heal his wounds, to which Nightingale replies that he cannot be healed of his real ailment.

>Cu: “Heh, it’s just as you say, bloodstained holy woman. The day of my healing will not come in all of eternity. I will continue as the king until the day I am defeated and rot away. If you will come, then come. We will fight in Washington.”

Arjuna (reluctantly) stands in your way and Rama attacks him, but Nightingale stops him (by shooting at him) and asks Arjuna if he will not submit himself to be treated for his illness. He doesn’t understand, and Nightingale reminds him of their duties as Servants. In his final moments, Karna stuck to his role to defeat Cu Chulainn, so she urges Karna to abandon his grudge and focus on what he should do.

Arjuna doesn’t take it well, but she just keeps pushing it, saying he lived all his life regretting having shot “his old enemy” and wishing he could rectify his actions. Arjuna admits that he has no reason to fight you anymore, though he’s just pissed in general and wants to vent his anger. Nightingale says she has no problems fighting him if that’s the case, and you agree. Rama is all like “Hahahaha, Master can I just get a word for just a second-THIS IS ARJUNA YOU STUPID FUCKS!” but then goes ‘fuck it’ and agrees to fight.

>Arjuna: “You have my gratitude. Well then, let me introduce myself. I am Arjuna, I shall grant you the honour of falling before my bow!”


You defeat him, and Nightingale asks him if he is wounded.

>Arjuna: “Indeed, and quite so. Thank you for indulging my whims.”

Mashu asks him to join you, but he apologizes saying that he can’t but that he needs to absolve himself for his wrongdoings. He asks if you believe him and you say you do, for which he thanks you before leaving.

Nightingale remarks that Arjuna’s never honest about his feelings, but that he’s obviously not ill-hearted, and Roman comments on how the memory of having shot “that one arrow” must have tortured him all his life.

Anyhow, with the path cleared, you move onto Washington.

22)
Chapter 20.

Rama is driving everyone as fast as he can towards Washington to take advantage of the northern army’s distraction, but Mashu is worried about Cu saying he already beat Scathach. Mashu thought things would be fine so long as she was around even if you were defeated, but now wonders if they have any chance if even she couldn’t win.

Scene shifts to a flashback of Cu and Scathach using Gae Bolg on each other, with the Noble Phantasms cancelling each other out, plus some friendly banter about how they’re both hanging in there before Scathach gets serious.

>Scathach: “Still, having to kill you seems like something out of a dream.”
>Cu: “…”
>Scathach: “’Ahhh, I wish I had died first.’ I felt that sort of regret back then, but I don’t feel like being killed by the current you. I liked you better the way you used to be.”
>Cu: “I have no need to shoulder your responsibilities, my path lies only straight ahead. I have no time for stop-overs or carrying someone else’s burdens. I will take the shortest route to becoming king, and I shall take the shortest route to subjugate all before me!”
>Scathach: “For whose sake? Medb’s? She might have used the Grail to install you as King, but that is not your own wish. ”
>Cu: “Why do you think that? Do you really believe I don’t want to be king?”
>Scathach: “You never once said any such thing during your life.”
>Cu: “Yes, it’s just as you say, master. I never thought of becoming king while I was alive. But this is a wish that was born afterwards. That is often the case with Servants, isn’t it?”
>Scathach: “So it’s backwards? Because you became a king, you wished to be a king? What a stupid contradiction. You might have become one, but you don’t show anything like a king’s spirit. So you need to destroy everything. Certainly, if you reduced this land to an uninhabited wasteland, there’d be no one who could raise objection to the king.”
>Cu: “Yeah, that’s fine. Than conclusion sounds good. After all, heroes are full of contradictions to start with. It’s not for Medb’s sake, I swing this spear for my own selfish desire. Your plan to stall for time ends here. Time to settle things, Scathach.”
>Scathach: “Idiot. You’ve been thinking some complicated stuff even though you’re a moron down to the marrow. But very well, I have no more questions. Open ye doors, ‘Door of the Death-brimming Evil Haunts – Gate of Skye’.”
>Cu: “A Noble Phantasm gate to the Country of Shadows…!”

Cu realizes that Scathach knows she can’t beat him, so she’s trying to kick him straight into the land of the dead. He summons his Curruid Coinchenn NP and tears a hole through her stomach to stop the activation of the Gate.

>Scathach: “…so you’ve gone that far. That power is enough to devastate the world…”
>Cu: “That’s right, I will destroy the world in this way.”
>Scathach: “I don’t understand, cu Chulainn. Fighting was your greatest joy while you were alive, and you lived beautifully following that principle. Why then have you taken such an ugly shape?”
>Cu: “Ugly, is it? That’s what a ‘King’ was to my eyes.”
>Scathach: “…haah. You really are that much of an honest idiot…”
>Cu: “Goodbye, Scathach. May we never meet by chance like this again.”


Turns out Scathach survived by jumping into her gate herself, taking refuge in “the other side of the world.” She patched out her external body, but she says she’s still missing about 90% of her internal organs.

>Li Shuwen: “That’s a problem, you can’t fight like that.”

Not sure if this is inside the aforementioned gate or what, but either way, I have no fucking clue how Li got to wherever the fuck they are.

She tells him that if they fight, it’ll be marking the end of the age, so until then she asks him to help you. Or rather, the northern army, since she’s confident the southern army will do fine so long as you are there. He agrees and tells her to remain there until the end, saying that he’ll come back to fight her for sure.

>Li: “Yours is the divine spear that has mastered the deepest secrets beyond human reach. I’d go mad it were to disappear before I could test myself against it.”
>Scathach: “How insistent, but I guess I can’t refuse if you’re this devoted to it. Very well, hold onto that fighting spirit. That is, if you think a fool who was defeated by her own pupil’s spear is good enough.”
>Li: “Haha. That doesn’t count as being defeated, your objective was something else from the start, wasn’t it?”

Li is basically just doing whatever she asks for a chance at fighting her.

>Li: “I shall see if my divine spear can lead to the true God… but first we have to save the world, huh? Haaah, and all I wanted to do was fight strong people. The world sure is a harsh place.”
>Scathach: “That is a heroic Spirit’s fate.”
>Li: “Hahaha, that’s true.”



Back in the northern flank, Robin has apparently cut the enemy troop numbers by 60% with his guerrilla tactics, and yet there’s still metric fucking shitloads of them coming to fight him and Liz. He informs her of Karna’s death, but asks her not to tell Edison since it’ll break his heart.  Edison and Helena get ready for the clash of troops, and then Beowulf shows up at the front of the Celt armies.

>Beowulf: “Eh? The kinda-sly Archer and an emaciated Lancer? Where’s those guys that beat me before!?”
>Liz: “Not here. Also who’re you calling emaciated!?”
>Robin: “Hey, I got praised a bit.”
>Beowulf: “Ahhh, yeah, I’ll praise you. Those traps cost us sixty percent of our numbers. But I will claim victory with the remaining forty.”
>Liz: “Oh no. A crude, thick-skinned, shameless guy. And to make matters worse, an unshaven tattooed muscle head… Incomparably vulgar! You take care of him.”
>Robin: “Yeah yeah… or so I’d like to say, but seriously, I’m going to die if you don’t give me a hand.”
>Liz: “How sloppy…”
>Robin: “I’m useless at anything that isn’t long range combat, guerrilla tactics or poisoning, you know.”
>Liz: “Alright, then fire your arrows from the back. Here I come, half-naked man!”
>Beowulf: “I’d be thankful if you’d at least call me Beowulf, emacia… Slender Lancer-san!”

Edison wants to try and help, but he and Helena have their hands full dealing with army, so Beowulf starts to get the upper hand.

>Robin: “Damnit, I’m really bad with this type!”
>Helena: “EriEri and Robin are getting pushed back!”
>Li Shuwen: “Then let me help.”

Li shows up and joins the fight.

>Li: “I am the divine spear, Li Shuwen. It’d be the highest of honours to fight the great Beowulf.”
>Beowulf: “What a big entrance, ’divine spear’ uh? Li Shuwen… ah, I know you.”
>Li: “Well, I am simply called like that, that’s all. You are the famous Beowulf who killed the monster Grendel bare handed, right?”
>Beowulf. “Ahhh, that’s right, ‘the one that does not need two strikes’. Does not need two strikes! What an exaggerated bluff.”
>Li: “If it is nothing more than an exaggeration, would you like to try me out?”

Li challenges Beowulf to fight him barehanded, Beowulf agrees, and everyone else just kinda shrugs and lets them go at it.

>Helena: “I really don’t get how men think.”
>Edison: “What? There’s women boxing as well. Getting absorbed in a good fistfight is part of a warrior’s instinct… well, I’m just an inventor, so it’s not like I know the details very well.”
>Helena: “Haah, is that so.”

Back at the southern flank, you’re attacked by Shadow Servants. After cleaning up, Rama talks about how he’s not completely sure if they can win or not, but that he’ll do his best anyway.

>Rama: “You know what Master, I like you. I like Mashu and Nightingale too. And I like these soldiers that listen to my commands despite the fact that I look like a kid. And from the bottom of my heart, I love Site who entrusted me with her life. Since I like you all, I want to protect you. Since I like you all, I will not yield to fear. Simple, right? After all, heroes are born from such small thoughts as those. Since I turned back in to a child, I’ve been able to grasp that once again.”

23)
Chapter 21.

Cu has finished recovering from his wounds and is preparing to fight you, though he grumbles about Arjuna turning his back on them being troublesome.

>Medb: “In that case, should I bring ‘that’ here?”
>Cu: “No need, I’m enough by myself.”

Cu orders his forces to be focused on the northern flank, hoping to smash all enemy resistance at once after he defeats you personally, and finally moving on to devastate the earth. Medb is kind of sad that her whole King and Queen make-believe act is gonna end either way since she had a lot of fun.

>Cu: “Fun?”
>Medb: “Of course it was fun. It was fun all the way to the end. Didn’t you enjoy yourself, Cu-chan?”
>Cu: “Bah. It’s fine if you have fun by yourself, I’ll just go on being the king you wished for.”
>Medb: “Ahhh, Cu-chan, I love you.”
>Cu: “That so.”

So the two just sit and wait for you to come, with Medb squealing about how fun it’ll be to smash your face in.


You reach Washington, and Medb comes out to meet you along with a giant Dragon, Chimera and several Shadow Servants

>Roman: “It’s one hell of a spread!”
>Mashu: “It is alright. After all we’ve gone through, those enemies won’t even delay us! Master, let’s go!”

Then she calls a Spriggan, but you beat that one too. Nightingale tells Medb that she’s backed into a corner, but Medb just laughs and tells her it’s the other way around before retreating into the White House and calling you inside. Nightingale says you must chase her quickly, since she gets the feel that Medb’s got a trump card they don’t know about yet.



At the north flank, Beowulf and Li Shuwen are still fighting, and it seems Beowulf’s having problems.

>Beowulf: “Argh… Shit! I never had a problem hitting that big-ass Grendel…”
>Li: “Dealing with incoming attacks is one form of skill. It’d be best if you brushed up on boxing techniques before your next summoning.”

Beowulf’s fistfighting is basically all strength, so while he’s fucking tough, he’s also kind of shit at actually landing a hit against anyone who isn’t a goddamn giant and actually knows martial arts.

Beowulf suddenly realizes something’s up and pulls back. Edison thinks they’ve won, but Helena tells him to call his troops back at once. The earth starts rumbling all of a sudden and the scene goes black.


Your party reaches the White House and just kinda stare at the redecoration for a bit.

>Rama: “That’s some really bad taste… the real White House was beautiful…”

You enter and face Cu and Medb, triggering the usual exchange of hostile greetings before Nightingale fixates on Cu, saying she’s there to fulfil her duty as a nurse and that she wants to say one thing before they fight.



>Nightingale: “You cannot embrace joy.”
>Cu: “…eh?”
>Nightingale: “No, that’s wrong. It’s not that you cannot feel joy, but rather that you won’t. Becoming a king did not stop you from feeling joy, but you sealed that emotion.”
>Medb: “Be silent, nurse.”
>Nightingale. “You sealed yourself inside a cage and turned your body into the mechanism called ‘King’. Without feeling joy, you fought automatically like a machine. If you hadn’t, you would not have been able to continue as the king.”
>Cu: “You speak as though you’d seen itbefore. What, do you know me from a previous life?”
>Nightingale: “No, it’s not like that. I know this because I lived my life like that as well. I threw away my humanity and focused solely on my objective. There was a price to pay for doing that, but it was no problem for me. To act as a pure healing mechanism was enough for me. I won’t deny it was a twisted way of living, but I did not mind. I continued moving through the world with my steel will and body.”
>Cu: “…”
>Nightingale: “The hope for healing, the joy of recovery, these are the things that world needed. I abandoned everything for that objective, and I hold no regrets! But I question you, King of Savages, what need is there for your conquest? Do you have any prospects for the future? How will you know when you’ve achieved it?”
>Cu: “…who knows?”
>Nightingale: “You have no idea, do you? That is the same as a burning wound. After all, you and I are different. My blood burns when I think of my dream. When you speak of your aspiration, your blood is cold and muddy. That is a disease. Allow me to cure you, Cu Chulainn!”

Cu actually agrees, laughing about how he’s used to curses and wounds, but not to being ill. He agrees with her that he’s warped, but doesn’t believe there’s any way to cure him, so he decides to cut the chat and the fight begins.



You finally beat them, and Rama launches his Brahamastra again.

>Cu: “You’re in bad shape, Medb.”
>Medb: “Cu-chan… I’m goinf to die, but… I fulfilled my role, didn’t i? So please, will you praise me?”
>Cu: “Yeah. You did well. You protected your country as its Queen. You’re a woman who can do whatever she sets her sights on.”
>Medb: “I’m glad… I wanted to hear those words. Just that is enough to save me. My wish was granted… to finally make you mine.”
>Protagonist: “Your ‘role’?”
>Medb: “Hahahahaha! Do you not know my name? I am Medb! Queen Medb! Do you know of the masterpiece engraved into my legend? Its name is the Twenty Eight Monsters, Clan Calatin! The warriors assembled to defeat the great hero Cu Chulainn!”
>Rama: “So that’s your trump card! Very well, summon it at once!”
>Medb: “Haha, you’re wrong! Completely wrong! It’s nothing like what you’re thinking!”

Everyone just kinda wonders what she’s going on about, until Roman starts shitting bricks as he realizes what she means and he detects it happening. Using the Grail and the Clan Calatin summoning ritual as the base, Medb summoned twenty eight of Solomon’s Goetia demons into the northern flank battlefield.

>Liz: “What is this thing!?”
>Robin: “Evidently, the Last Boss.”

Beowulf advises them to run, since they have no hope of winning, but chuckles as he says that Li doesn't look the type that’d give up willingly, to which Li nods as if saying he’s unfortunately right.

>Edison: “It’s over…”
>Helena: “Edison?”
>Edison: “There’s no way we can win! Just look at it! There’s twenty eight of them!”
>Helena: “Edison, calm down! You mustn’t panic!”
>Edison: “Justice… has been defeated…”
>Helena: “…”
>Liz: “…Hey, Lionhead.”
>Edison: “Lion? Lion… ah, you mean me! What is it, Horned Lady?”
>Liz: “QUIT WHINING!”
>Edison: “Ugh, my ear!”
>Liz: “Sure, we’re in a pinch. It’s a huge, huge pinch! But those guys are relying on us!”

Robin agrees, but wonders if their attacks will even do anything. Liz says they should keep trying regardless so long as they live, since she has to do it for Nero’s sake. Robin interrupts her and yanks her out of the way to avoid one of the demons’ attacks, telling her to keep her eyes up and dry her tears later.

>Liz: “Alright, alright, I’ll pull myself together, green!”
>Robin: “Just memorize my name already!”

Robin tells Edison that he’ll buy them some time if he wants to run away and the scene shifts back to Washington.


Medb finally succumbs to her wounds and disappears at last.

>Cu: “Never had luck with good women, or I’d be forced to part with them too soon. Meanwhile, the bad ones would just coil right around me, and Medb especially was as insistent as a thorn. Tch, the moment she seems to turn into a good woman, she goes and vanishes…”
>Rama: “The atmosphere… seems a bit different…?”
>Mashu: “It’s like when we met in Fuyuki…”
>Roman: “The magic coiling around him has weakened, if only a bit. Perhaps, the restoration force is strengthening after the disappearance of the one who wished for him to be king. A 0% chance became about 3%, but it’s a possibility! Alright, defeat Cu Chulainn before the United States is destroyed! This is your last chance!”


24)
Chapter 22: SHIELDER, MASTER, SOLDIER, NURSE.

>Cu: “Alright, let’s kill each other.”

Despite him slowly regaining bits of his personality, Cu is still mainly in his heartless king mode and refuses to surrender. He says he’s bound by his oath (‘geis’ in ruby) to Medb, saying that as terrible a woman as she was, she really was completely hung up on him and her wish that they rule as an evil king and queen. Whether he’s actually bound by a geis or just being his usual Cu Chulainn self about returning others’ favours isn’t really clear, though it sounds like the latter.

Anyhow, he says he’ll tear you to pieces for getting in his way and the battle starts… in front of the White House again, even though these fights are clearly happening inside. I guess they made that CG before realizing that it would be getting very little use. By the way: no, there is no explanation for the big-ass Gae Bolg sticking out of the ground. It seems that it was just part of the Celt redecorating.

After the fight, Cu grunts and digivolves into his Curruid-exoskeleton form and attacks you again.


Back in the northern flank, Robin tries to use his Yew Bow on the demons, but it doesn’t really do much, though Liz keep singing at them without giving up.

>Liz: “Manager, get me some water. My throat’s running dry.”
>Rob: “I’m your manager now!?”



The battle’s looking helpless, and Edison’s still slumped in despair.

>Helena: “Edison. Mister Edison. You understand, don’t you?”
>Edison: “…”
>Helena: “Stand up. Stand and fight. Aren’t you an American? A pioneer holding an axe and rifle in place of a sword? You refused to rely on the power of the occult despite believing in its existence. That is why we became friends. Let us stand with them. To reject the unknown while holding hope for the future is your saving grace, isn’t it? So then…”
>Edison: “…”

One of the demons launches an attack right at Liz, and there’s a flash of light before she realizes that she’s unharmed.

>Liz: “Eh? I’m okay?”
>Edison: “To stand and fight is difficult, isn’t it?”
>Helena: “Yeah, it’s hard.”
>Edison: “Yet forging past great despair is precisely what makes a hero. To force such a burden on a Little Lady such as you would be a disgrace to all Americans! Huhahahahaha! Behold, the gallant figure of the True King of Inventors! W-F-D! WORLD FAITH DOMINATION!”

Liz is impressed by Edison’s NP, though she insists her Live Performance shines even brighter. Helena is relieved he snapped out of it, but still wonders how long they’ll be able to keep up with only five of them.



The fight against CuChulainnmon continues as he transforms again, with Rama complaining about how they’ve driven him into a corner and yet it doesn’t feel like they have at all.

>Rama: “As expected of the Child of Light, maybe the world’s strongest spearman! But there’s no way I’ll lose!”

Roman urges you to hurry up since the northern flank won’t last long, and the age will probably reach its point of collapse if the demons eliminate them.

>Cu: “Not yet! This won’t be enough to defeat me!”
>Rama: “Master, your orders! We have no choice but to trust the guys at the northern flank!”



The northern group looks about to fall as the demons wound Robin and Helena. Li complains about it being really tricky to fight enemies that big and Edison finally tells everyone to fall back while he buys them time.

>Liz: “What are you doing you idiot! I... can still…”
>Edison: “No, don’t move…! Any more and you’ll…!”
>Liz: “Desertion… betrayal… back-talking… those are the things I hate above all! I… still…”
>Edison: “Can’t be helped… Blavatsky! Please take care of them! Noble Phantasm Rampage! W-F-D!”
>Helena: “Wai… a suicide attack!?”
>Edison: “Do not stop me! There is no other way!”

>Edison: “Even if it’s just a bit, I have a duty to protect you! Not as the President King! Not as the King of Inventors! Not as Thomas Alva Edison! I will do it as a human being! As a human will live and exploit this land in the distant future, this is my duty!”

He says goodbye, telling everyone to believe in you, but a huge flash of light suddenly interrupts him. Everyone stands perplexed for a moment, and then…

>???: “HAHAHAHAHA, how unsightly! How unsightly, Edison!”


>???: “After all, an ordinary person like you isn’t qualified to stand against me! Hang your head down and disappear at once!”
>Edison: “This… this annoying voice… that pointlessly loud laugh… Impossible… you are…”
>???: “It so! The true genius tasked with clearing the path to the stars, my name is…!”
>Edison: “Hysteric! Mister Hysteric!”
>Tesla: “Nikola Tesla!”

Edison is, let’s say, less than pleased, and can’t believe Tesla is helping him.

>Tesla: “What nonsense! Whether I’d be summoned a hundred or a thousand times, I would never think of helping you! I am here to save this age, and to put you in my debt!”

And also to make up for the stuff he was made to do in London.

>Tesla: “Edison, it’d be fine if you fell back before the beauty of this great thunder! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
>Edison: “Grr, to think you took vocal training just to do that unthinkably loud laugh! Fastidious as expected of a genius! But cut your crap, Tesla! You’re nothing more than a weirdo! True genius is universal! Your words are just the prattle of a guy who stayed single his whole life!”
>Tesla: “Nonsense. I had no women during my life, that’s all. A true genius is to be lonely. You’re nothing but an ordinary person after all.”
>Edison: “I am not ordinary, I’m a company president! I’m sick and tired of looking at you geniuses, like Bell-kun! I’m a company president who’s skilled at employing geniuses like you! You can’t understand that because you’re a dumb idiot!”
>Robin: “Edison’s regressed into a little kid!”



>Helena: “Alright, alright. Hey, you geniuses, can we deal with reality now? No matter how much electrical power you have, you won’t be able to take down these monsters.”
>Tesla: “That’s true. ‘That strange man’ didn’t summon me to defeat those monsters. I am here to seal them.”
>Edison: “…an electrical cage.”
>Tesla: “Ah. As expected, with enough hints, even an ordinary man like you would realize it. Stay out of my way then! ‘Human Legend, Advent of Thunder and Lighting! System Keraunos!”

The attack isn’t enough however, and Edison teases him before using his own attack, which also fails.

>Tesla: “Tch.”
>Edison: “Tch.”

Reluctantly, the two agree to cooperate and coordinate their attacks.

>Edison: “Noble Phantasm activation!”
>Tesla: “Descend, oh lightning!”
>Edison: “Bestow the light upon the world locked in darkness!”
>Both: “W – F – D! / SYSTEM KERAUNOS!”

Tesla reminds Edison their job is only to keep the monsters sealed, and Helena detects a massive accumulation of Ether.

>???: “Divine territory expansion. Area fixed. Divine punishment timeframe set. Estimating time for magical energy convergence and acceleration. Begin countdown.”
>Robin: “Arjuna!”
>Arjuna: “If you would, please take refuge at once. I will try to limit the range as much as possible.”

Helena’s impressed to see a divine-made weapon, but Robin realizes what’s up and yells at everyone to get the fuck away.

>Arjuna: “By Shiva’s rage, your life will now be severed! ‘Back Hand of the God of Destruction - Pashupata!”



Arjuna Dragon Slaves the shit out of everything in the vicinity, but restricting the attack’s range costs him his own life.

>Arjuna: “Karna… at last, your feelings…”

And finally disappears. Edison and Tesla realized they’ve won, while Robin looks kinda bothered at the difference in power.

>Robin: “Even though we’re both archers… man, the world is big.”

Li Shuwen promptly fucks off to deal with his pending business. Edison laughs about their success, with Tesla telling him not to get a big head since he was just backup, and the two start quarrelling.

>[Punch]
>Edison: “Oops, my hand slipped.”
>[Shock]
>Tesla: “Oops, my lighting slipped.”
>Edison: “…”
>Tesla: “…”
>[Fistfight]

>Liz: “They started fighting…”
>Robin: “Ahh, leave them. The war’s over, they can hurt each other all they want.”
>Helena: “It turned into some ridiculous spectacle, like a William Hearst article.”

Helena laughs about the two being good people who’ve wielded their intelligence for the sake of improving mankind.

>Helena: “Do you understand Beowulf? From the start, you people had no chance of success.”
>Beowulf: “So it’s not an age of strength then? How sad.”

Helena tells him that this is the age of those wise men and eccentrics who have followed their passion to bring happiness to as many unknown people as they can, instead of the showy heroes of old.

>Beowulf: “I see. My strength isn’t needed here then.”
>Helena: “Indeed. Goodbye, Beowulf. Though you may be summoned by [protagonist] some other time.”
>Beowulf: “Hahahahaha! Yeah, that sounds much more fun!”
>[Beowulf disappears]



Roman announces that the northern army managed to destroy the demons and, on your part, you’ve finally driven Cu Chulainn to his last breath. It looks like things are about to end, but Cu uses the power of the grail to incarnate into a Goetia demon. Everyone is already exhausted from the successive battles so it looks like you’re screwed, but Nightingale uses her NP and recovers all of your party’s wounds before Cu finishes transforming.

>Cu/Halphas: “One of the twenty Seven Pillars, rank Thirty-Eight. War demon Halphas. War shall not disappear from this world. Weapons shall not disappear from this world. Human beings are destined to continue fighting as though the gears of a clock.”
>Nightingale: “No! No! I deny it, and I shall declare it another thousand or ten thousand times! A time will come when the number of lives saved will surpass those lost, and the gears of conflict are finally brought to an end! No, I will make it so! That is my duty as a Servant! Move aside and let this world move forward, demon! Were I to die ten thousand times or more, I will not surrender!”
>Cu/Halphas: “I am the bringer of strife. I have no need for those who wish for peace!”

And so the battle starts… incidentally, I had been picturing everyone filing politely out into the front yard every time they fought and then quietly back in again before they continued snarling at each other, and now I also have to ask where the hell in the White House is there a room big enough to hold one of these goddamn demon things.



With the demon dead, the battle is finally concluded. Mashu laments all the sacrifices that had to be made, but Rama tells her that this is what Servants are for so she shouldn’t mind it, and that they should see off the fallen with a smile.

Scene shifts to the northern battlefield, where everyone is ready to say goodbye.

>Liz: “I’m tired! France, Rome and now America! I wish these encores would be more reasonable.”
>Robin: “Wait, you’ve been summoned three times already!? What, was there some ‘local naive girl’ popularity boom or something?”
>Liz: “Who’re you calling naive!? Say it again and I’ll smash you with my microphone, you shameless man!”
>Robin: “Yeah, yeah. Still, our Master seems to be doing well. This was the fifth one, wasn’t it? What a carnage to go through.”
>Liz: “Ehhh, still a long ways of from my ideal master. But still, I don’t mind someone who continues to reach for the stars with all one’s heart! Well, goodbye, Robin. I’ll be going on ahead.”
>[Liz disappears]
>Robin: “Yeah, good work. I wonder when I’ll be called again. Better study what traps will be effective for the age and place…”
>[Robin Disappears]


>Helena: “Mister Edison, the world is saved!”
>Edison: “True… this is a relief. We are E Pluribus Unum, a country born from many. An entity created not of America alone. To fall into despair and think of only this land… that was likely my first misstep.”
>Helena: “Isn’t that okay? In the end, it’s precisely because of that opposition that they rushed to preserve this country. You often stray from your course, but end up finding the correct answer, don’t you?”
>Edison: “…I see.”
>Tesla: “Hmph. This is because you’re an ordinary real-combat type. You challenge things blindly without truly grasping the theory and end up facing pointless burdens.”
>Edison: “Speaking only of empty theory is so like a certain somebody, huh?”
>Tesla: “Mh?”
>Edison: “What?”
>Helena: “It’s time to go back you two. Try to get along.”

Helena grumbles a bit about the pair of autists, laughing about how troublesome geniuses are and then vanishes.

>Edison: “Dear dear, to think I’d join hands with you to save this country.”
>Tesla: “That sort of thing could never have happened in our lifetimes, but I guess that’s what Servants are like, ordinary one.”
>Edison: “Hm. If I were to be summoned again, I would like to fight for [him/her] again. Along with Karna and Blavatsky, as a proper Servant…”
>[Edison disappears]
>Tesla: “It might grate on my nerves, but my conclusion is the same as the ordinary guy’s. It’s the truth though, if I had the chance, this lightning god would like to fight for humanity’s sake… well, if they had summoned me earlier, there wouldn’t have been any problems. I guess this is just luck…”
>[Tesla disappears]


Everyone’s saying goodbye at the White House too.

>Mashu: “I want to show my respect once again. It was your voice that made us all stand firm once more. Thank you very much!”
>Nightingale: “There’s no need to thank me, that was our contract from the start. It seems like the treatment has concluded. Not one person, but the entire country had a very large wound.”
>Protagonist: “It was thanks to you.”
>Nightingale: “There’s no need to thank me, but I will humbly accept your words. In return, I would like to listen to one thing. How about a handshake mister/miss? Whenever a patient is discharged, shaking their hands is something of a secret joy of mine.”
>Protagonist: “You have an unexpectedly cute side.”
>Nightingale: [Blushing] “…cute isn’t the right word. This happiness is part of a nurse’s etiquette… to make such a mean joke, you’re terrible, Master.”

An earthquake shakes the whole place up, and Roman tells you to grab the Grail and get out soon since the Singularity is collapsing. He tells you to be proud of your victory, and pretty much repeats what Rama said about seeing the fallen off with a smile.


Before you go, Nightingale says her wish is to eradicate the existence of hospitals, which is to say, make it so that all the medical care anyone would need could be found in their homes, by eradicating diseases and wars. She says she will not lose her will no matter how long it takes to accomplish that, and throws Mashu the usual round of last-minute words of encouragement.

>Nightingale: “Miss Mashu, dreams and wishes are two different things. My wish is not a dream. When using a word like dream, people tend to mistake it for something far away. To stare firmly at the endless reality, clearly understanding the numbers and fighting decisively to open the path towards their wish. To trample over the weeping, smashing through resignation, that is the only way for humans to move forward.”
>Nightingale: “Master, I put my faith into you, as you are similar to Sydney Herbert. Support Miss Mashu so that there be light in your path. Goodbye the, I look eagerly to the day we see each other again.”
>[Nightingale disappears]

>Rama: “*Cough* I’m the last then, Mashu, Master. My wish hasn’t been granted yet, but I have much to boast off after these fights. We managed to save Sita, and in record time for once. But most of all, I got to meet you. You are as precious to me as Sita or my little brother Lakshmana. If I could become your Servant again, that’s be the greatest of joys. The, as I have proclaimed, we shall meet again!”
>[Rama disappears]

Scene shifts to a forest with a disappointed-looking Li Shuwen standing alone.

>Li: “No good, I guess.”
>[Scathach appears out of nowhere]
>Scathach: “No, I wouldn’t say that.”
>Li: “I’m surprised.”
>Scathach: “I’m that sort of being, a Servant that can survive taking even a fatal wound. I’ve gotten some skills having lived so long and they come in handy. But my pupil [Cu Chulainn] is really the strongest. With the proper timing, he could destroy me.”
>Li: “I expected to hear that.”
>Scathach: “Well then, there’s only one remaining promise to keep.”

Scathach says he kept his side of the bargain and the Grail has been taken as she wanted, though she says they should settle it with a decisive strike.

>Li: “I don’t mind. After fighting Beowulf, one more attack is my limit anyway. Your proposal suits me just fine.”
>Scathach: “I suppose. It’s a pleasantly bitter way to disappear.”
>Li: “Crossing blows with the famous lady of the Country of Shadows is a one-in-a-lifetime chance. Besides, just one blow isn’t a problem. Do you know of my nickname, Scathach?”
>Scathach: “Ah, that’s right. Your nickname is the unstoppable killing blow that all warriors pursue. Very well, if you ‘need no second strike’, I will also wager everything on this attack.”
>Li: “Then…”
>Scathach: “…So be it.”
>Scathach/Li: “FIGHT!”


The scene fades and you find yourselves back in Chaldea. Roman congratulates you again on securing the birth of the United States and subsequently human history. He tells you to go back to your rooms and rest until he can figure out the next objective, so you go out.

>Mashu: “Senpai, can I say something? It might be impudent of me to say this since so many sad things happened on this trip, but I had fun. Going around various ages with Senpai, meeting different people and heroes… going to America this time and meeting that land’s heroes like Geronimo-san and Billy-san, and witnessing Nightingale-san’s terrifying conviction. Our enemies, whether good or bad, were all striking people. It’s amazing. It’s something nothing but a magus would be able to do.”
>Mashu: “Our travels will not remain in history. They are journeys that will remain only in our memories. I want to treasure this memories forever.”
>Protagonist: “I think so too.”
>Mashu: “I will go now. Ah, but although you’re tired, don’t go to sleep yet. Have a shower to relax your body first before going to bed.
>Protagonist: “Alright, see you tomorrow.”

Mashu says goodbye, yet suddenly starts bleeding.

>Mashu: “Sen… pai… strange, I…“
>Protagonist: “…Mashu?”

She collapses, and the screen fades to black.