To become a king and a magician

"Yes, it's me."

Sitting on a small rock, Satsuki Aika, swinging her smooth legs, smiled as she spoke.

"Long time no see! I'm so glad you still remember me. I'm Reiryukan Misaya. Now I can skip the introductions—"

"Bang----!"

Before Aika Sajō's voice had even faded, Misaya Reirōkan suddenly raised her hand and aimed it at her. A jet-black magic bullet immediately shot out from her fingertip and flew straight toward Aika Sajō!

"Snapped!"

As if extinguishing a tiny spark, facing Misaya Reirōkan's sudden attack, Aika Sajō simply waved her hand casually, and the fist-sized magic bullet instantly dissipated in mid-air like melting snow.

Shaking her head in distress, Aika Sajou sighed, "The first thing you do when facing the benefactor who resurrected you is not to express gratitude, but to repay kindness with enmity?"

"How dare you call yourself my benefactor!"

Misaya Reiryukan's beautiful face instantly contorted with anger and rage!

"Have you forgotten what you did to me? Because of your curse, I—"

"Shut up."

As if she couldn't take it anymore, Aika Sajou directly uttered the Word of Power, and the coercive magic words instantly silenced Misaya Reirōdō like a mute.

With a slight twitch of her fingers, she manipulated the black mud to form chains that bound Misaya Reiryukan and brought her before her. Saya Aika laughed and said, "Misaya, I don't want to hear your anger, nor do I want to understand your thoughts, and I don't want to respond to your unreasonable behavior."

"The reason I resurrected you is actually because I hope you can do something for me."

(work?)

Misaya from the Linglong Pavilion couldn't help but frown.

Sajou Aika wants me to do things for her? This woman, whom she perceives as omniscient and omnipotent, wants me to do things for her?

"Actually, I didn't want your help. After all, I'd rather torture those shameless vixens who seduce Saber myself. But unfortunately, if I leave here now, I might be surrounded and attacked immediately."

Although it is an incomplete form, Ayaka Sajou is ultimately a beast, a great calamity that threatens human history. Once she manifests, she will be greeted by one heroic spirit and guardian after another. Gaia aside, people from Alaya will definitely come.

Sajō Ayaka is certainly not afraid of the Guardians; they are merely scavengers in human history. However, she has expended a great deal of power to come to this world and is currently in her weakest period ever. If she were to face a Guardian in this state, she might not be annihilated, but she would likely suffer severe injuries.

Fortunately, the underground cavern she chose as her landing point was enveloped by her power, forming an almost completely isolated alien space. As long as she was there, she would not be disturbed and could peacefully absorb the power of the earth's veins to recover.

That being said, that's not actually the real reason why Ayaka Sajou stayed here.

Not enough power? Don't want the Counter Force to interfere? Don't want to be disturbed by the Guardians?

Sajō Aika doesn't care about any of this. Whether in the past or present, there is only one thing she cares about: her prince. As long as she can see her prince again, as long as she can throw all the vixens around him into the Chaos Tide, she doesn't care about anything else.

It was precisely because she cared about Arthur that Aika Sajou decided to stay here for the time being—now was not the time for her to meet Arthur.

Just like how girls spend hours getting ready before going on a date, Aika Sajou felt it was necessary to prepare herself properly so that Arthur would see her at his best when they met again!

What troubles her is that she doesn't really know how to dress herself. Although she is connected to the Roots and can be said to be omniscient and omnipotent, that is more reflected in magic. In daily life, there are still many things she doesn't understand.

So she revived Misaya Reirōkan.

So...you want me to teach you how to dress?

"Mmm! Misaya, you're a girl who's called a JK, so you must be very good at this, right?"

Like a studious child, Aika Sajou nodded vigorously, holding her notebook and pen. Seeing this, Misaya Reirōdō felt a sudden, inexplicable anger rise within her, a fury erupting uncontrollably from the depths of her heart!

Who is Aika Sajou?

She was the culprit who killed her father, placed a fatal curse on her, ruined her life as a magician, and turned her into a monster who died in extreme distortion. Reiryukan Misaya felt only hatred and loathing for her, and even when she died, she still hated her.

But what's going on here?

Just to learn how to dress up, Sajō Aika, who has a blood feud with her, resurrected her? With such a ridiculous reason?

"What a joke! How much more do you want to humiliate me, Aika Sajou!"

She grabbed Ayaka Sajou's collar and roared angrily at her. Reiryukan Misaya's eyes were filled with cold fury, but in the next instant, she was once again bound by black chains!

Looking at Reiko Misaya hanging in mid-air, Sajo Aika laughed and said, "You really are short-tempered. Now I'm starting to doubt whether you know how to dress. Girls with bad tempers are often not very feminine."

"Never mind, having you help me dress up is just one of the reasons for bringing you back to life."

"One of them?"

"Well, actually, I wanted to ask you to help me, since I'm unable to move around easily, bring someone over. That person... no, that vixen's name is, Natsukawa Tora."

28. I want to go back to my past life.

After lunch, on the way back to the base, Xia Chuanhu walked forward in silence, his mind replaying what had just happened.

Asking about wishes—this was merely a casual remark by Iskandar, just a casual question, but for Natsukawa Torato, it was so important that he couldn't calm down for a moment.

What is my wish?

Why did I travel through time?

What do I want to do?

What am I living for?

I......

"Master."

Suddenly Arthur's voice rang out, jolting Natsukawa Tiger, who had been in a daze, awake: "Arthur, what's wrong?"

"You almost crashed into a telephone pole."

"Ah... I see. It's really troublesome that I can't see the road."

Natsukawa Tora straightened the slightly crooked sealing cloth and leaned to the left, but ended up bumping into the wall.

Seeing that something was clearly wrong with Natsukawa Tora, Arthur quickly stepped forward to support the swaying man: "Are you alright, Master? You've been acting strange since earlier. Are you sick?"

"No, I was just thinking about something, I'm fine..."

"Is it about what Rider just mentioned?"

"Ah."

Natsukawa Tora nodded: "You're somewhat confused about your future, aren't you? I want to live, that's my truest wish, but if I really survive the Holy Grail War, can I really go back to the life I had before?"

Perhaps not. Just as veterans face many inconveniences when returning to peaceful life after the war, having experienced such a major event as the Holy Grail War and awakened his magic circuits and Mystic Eyes, Natsukawa Torato subconsciously began to doubt whether he could continue living the same life as before.

As the saying goes, entering the world is easy, but leaving it is difficult. Once you step into the abyss of the magic world, it is absolutely impossible to completely extricate yourself.

"I think it should be fine."

Arthur smiled and patted Natsukawa Tiger on the shoulder.

"If it's you, Master, wanting to return to your previous life shouldn't be a problem."

"Why do you say that?"

“This might sound strange, but I think… Master, you’ve probably already done something similar before,” Arthur said. “And since you’ve already done something similar, I think it should be perfectly fine for you to do it again, Master.”

Have you done something similar before?

It seems that this is indeed the case.

He was a transmigrator, leaving his original world and arriving in a world that was somewhat familiar to him, but mostly strange. In this world, he was an outcast, with no relatives or friends, no place to go, and no place to belong.

However, six months after arriving in this world, he had already adapted to it.

Just as Arthur said—leaving one world and going to another—he has done something similar before, so it will just be doing it again, although the difficulty will be somewhat increased.

"That's true."

Natsukawa Tora let out a long sigh: "Speaking of which, it seems a bit too early to think about the future. The Holy Grail War has only just begun, and Sajou Aika hasn't even shown up yet... It's even uncertain whether I'll survive in the end."

"You will survive, Master. I will do everything in my power to protect you."

“Go tell that to Ayaka Sajou—Arthur.”

"I know."

Carefully shielding Natsukawa Tiger behind him, Arthur gripped the holy sword enveloped by the Wind King's barrier, vigilantly watching for any movement around him.

It's too quiet.

It's noon now. Even though Fukayama Town isn't as bustling as Shinto, it's still the city center, and the streets are definitely not so quiet that there isn't a single pedestrian.

"A barrier to dispel idlers...a magician, huh?"

Slightly lifting the sealing cloth to allow himself to see the flow of magic, Natsukawa Tora said, "Pay attention to the left, Saber, the magic is stronger there."

"Oh? A Mystic Eye that can sense the source of magic? That's quite an impressive thing."

A spirited female voice rang out on the quiet street, followed by the sound of high heels. A woman in a black coat and white shirt walked out of a small alley on the left.

(Huh? This person...)

Looking at the newcomer through his half-open eye, Xia Chuanhu suddenly felt that she looked somewhat familiar, but for a moment he couldn't quite place her. Arthur, standing to the side, was also stunned for a moment upon seeing the newcomer, his face and eyes filled with astonishment.

"Long time no see, Saber, King Arthur. It seems you've found a decent Master this time."

“Excellence cannot be judged by magical skill. Master’s strengths lie elsewhere,” Arthur retorted. “What surprises and puzzles me is why you are here? Lancer’s Master… Misaya Reirōkan.”

The visitor was none other than Misaya from the Linglong Pavilion.

Trying his best to keep Arthur out of his sight, Natsukawa Tora quickly glanced at Reiryukan Misaya with one eye.

(She is... Reiko Misaya? Isn't she a character from FP? A parallel universe counterpart—no, judging from Arthur's attitude, she should be the one from the FP timeline.)

(But why is she here? Isn't this the actual Fourth World War? What unknown timeline have I stumbled into?)

One question after another surfaced in Xia Chuanhu's mind.

Just as Natsukawa Tora was looking at Reiko-kan Misaya, she also turned her gaze to Natsukawa Tora.

(Natsukawa Torara, the current Master of Saber whom Sajō Ayaka asked me to bring to her, is he. He's wearing a simple Mystic Code with a sealing effect on his eyes... I see, the Mystic Eyes? It seems he can't control them very well.)

(But his appearance...)

Looking at Natsukawa Tora, Reiryukan Misaya suddenly recalled the woman's image. Although they were of different genders and their appearances were not exactly the same, at most only about 70-80% similar, for some reason, Reiryukan Misaya felt that he and she looked very alike.

And that woman named [Sajō Ayaka].

Noticing Misaya's gaze, Arthur immediately shifted his position, shielding Natsukawa Torata behind him: "Answer my question, Lancer's Master, why are you here? I remember you already—"