To become a king and a magician

Are you kidding me?

Natsukawa Tiger's words surprised, shocked, and terrified Meryl and everyone else, leaving them speechless.

The power that Natsukawa Tora possessed during his battle with Tiamat and Goetia was remembered by everyone present, including some veteran Chaldea employees. Originally, that was the strongest power that was only allowed to be possessed when saving the world.

But now they're saying it's okay to use it casually every day?!

“I wish this were a joke, but that’s the truth,” Natsukawa Torama said. “After gaining this level of magic and being able to stay in the so-called ‘Salvation Mode,’ Natsukawa Torama and Ash resurrected all the fairies they had destroyed, and the entire land of Britain was reborn.”

This must be the story of the holy swordsman who saved Britain 2,400 years ago, as Artoria mentioned.

The savior who saves the world is actually the murderer who destroys it—Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu really can't laugh at this twist.

"After that, the two went into hiding, letting the fairies and humans do as they pleased. Then, more than two thousand years ago, a great calamity struck. After disappearing for four hundred years, the two reappeared before the fairies who were on the verge of extinction. After eliminating the great calamity, they suppressed all the fairies together and unified the whole of Britain."

This happened 2016 years ago.

After experiencing the Spring War between the fairies of the North and South, the Summer War instigated by Queen Maibu, the Autumn War between humans and fairies, and finally the Winter War instigated by Natsukawa Torata and Ash, the story unfolds.

The long fairy era has finally come to an end.

After suppressing and unifying all the fairy clans, Natsukawa Torato and Ash announced the establishment of a new fairy kingdom. The two held a coronation ceremony in Lentinion, the place where their fate had intertwined, and married as the [Elf King] and the [Winter Queen], becoming husband and wife.

【Huh?!】

Mary's loud shout abruptly interrupted everyone's attention.

[A couple? A couple! You're saying those two became a couple?! They got married before 2016?! So many people on our Pan-Human History side are still unmarried and waiting for him here, and he just silently married the slowest runner in the Lostbelt?!]

"Ms. Meryl..."

"Such a strong reaction..."

Meryl's unusually strong reaction surprised both Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu, but they could understand it. After all, as Meryl said, Natsukawa Tora in the Pan-Human History had more than a dozen fiancées, and they had agreed to come back and get married after the Lostbelt incident was over.

As a result, not only did he not return after more than half a year, but he had actually been in the Lostbelt for more than 2,400 years. He even married a local person without anyone knowing and they had been husband and wife for more than 2,000 years.

It's no wonder that Meryl, the number one fiancée, is furious—or rather, she's throwing a tantrum.

【No, you guys wait over there. I'll transfer my spiritual energy over there right away. There are still usable baskets; this time, they're determined to smash the tiger's head to pieces!】

"Calm down, he'll beat you to a pulp if you come here too." Xia Chuanhu quickly reassured her. "You should come with everyone. Facing me now, there's no chance of winning if we don't all come together—in fact, even if everyone comes, the chances of winning are still slim."

"After all, in 2016, after I ascended to the throne as the Elf King and created the Elf Calendar, I did a lot of earth-shattering things."

Before 2016, after establishing a new fairy kingdom with Ash, Natsukawa Torata adopted an absolute tyranny over the fairies.

"First and foremost, there's the surveillance magic that's spread all over the Fairy Kingdom. To put it bluntly, they've set up nodes all over Britain, creating a huge surveillance network that includes the entire territory of Britain except for Orkney. They've left the fairies with absolutely no privacy and have complete control over all the intelligence in the Fairy Kingdom."

[They're not giving us any privacy at all! Doesn't anyone object?]

"The opposing fairy was immediately killed. By imitating Vlad III's Noble Phantasm, it used an iron stake materialized from imagination to stab the opposing fairy to death countless times until the opposing fairy could no longer give birth to the next generation. And even so, the dead fairy would be resurrected in the next instant."

This is absolutely inhumane!

Even Meryl couldn't help but say that. Killing the fairy until she could no longer produce a next generation and was completely dead, but being resurrected the moment she died, was equivalent to making the fairy experience countless deaths while she was alive—more than enough as a method of execution.

Vlad III himself would probably be impressed if he knew.

"Then there's the equally unreasonable rule of [fairy exploitation]. As mentioned before, the Great Hollow in the very center of Britain contains Cornunus, who was poisoned to death by fairies, and the Naraku Insects, who were suppressed by Cornunus, right?"

“Every year, Natsukawa Torashi would gather a thousand fairies from all over Britain, exploit them to death countless times using various means, and then use the extracted magic to activate the twelve magic spells called [Holy Lance Rungominiad] on the main gate of the royal city of Camelot, to bombard the divine body of Cornunos, thereby reducing the curse that had accumulated on it for more than ten thousand years, and incidentally, to strike a blow against that Naraku worm.”

"Of course, those fairies who were exploited to the point of death will also be resurrected and put back into use."

The excessively brutal acts described by Natsukawa Tiger filled Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu with fear.

"This...is this really something a minister would do?"

"What's the point of doing this? My brother already has almost limitless magic power, why is he still exploiting the fairies like this?"

Natsukawa Tora shook his head: "It doesn't have any special meaning. It's just to make the fairy atone for her sins. At the same time, it's also a kind of punishment for him against the fairy. Didn't I say it from the beginning? Natsukawa Tora never thought that the fairy had any value to be saved. He was just using the fairy."

"How could this be..." Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes were filled with disbelief. "...Don't the fairies resist? Aren't they dissatisfied with this kind of governance?"

"Didn't I just say that any rebellious fairies will be captured and executed immediately? Well, there was one large-scale rebellion, though."

That happened in the year 800 of the Elf Calendar. Under Natsukawa Tora's deliberate indulgence, the overburdened fairies launched a war of rebellion. But just as the fairies finished assembling their army and were preparing to send troops, the moon fell directly from the sky, killing all the fairies on the spot. Then, they were ravaged ten times by ten subsequent moonfalls.

This result directly shattered all the fairies' will to resist.

"—So, after that, there were no more fairies in this fairy kingdom who wanted to rebel against Natsukawa Torato."

"This is the current state of the fairy kingdom, a nightmare kingdom ruled and dominated by the tyranny of the Elf King."

9. I want to be Morgan's savior alone.

Listening to what the second Natsukawa Torato had to say about the current state of the Fairy Kingdom, Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash, and the Chaldea team all fell silent.

Elf King Natsukawa Tiger.

During the two thousand four hundred years they were unaware of, the Natsukawa Tiger they knew spent a long time here, making decisions and sacrifices they were unaware of, becoming the Lostbelt King who ruled this Lostbelt, and ruling Britain with his tyranny.

"why?"

After a long silence, Fujimaru Ritsuka asked the question.

"Why...why would the minister do these things? There must be a reason, right? A reason that forced the minister to do so."

"If I had to say, it would be because of Morgan."

That's what Natsukawa Tiger, number two, said.

"Morgan is a fairy from the Inner Sea of ​​Stars, sent to atone for the fairies' sins and to forge a new holy sword. However, because she was cared for by the fairies in her childhood, she chose the path of saving the fairies and saving Britain."

"And, as a child, she received everything from Morgan of Pan-Human History, and from that time she knew the future and fate of Britain."

"That was an incredibly hopeless future, and Morgan wanted to change that future, so she has been working hard for over six thousand years and has been waiting for Natsukawa Tiger for three thousand six hundred years... I think that's the main reason why he became what he is today for Morgan."

"He abandoned all of you from the past for the sake of just one person's wish."

[Scumbag]

Mary made this assessment without holding back.

[He'll have to kneel on a washboard for months when he gets back.]

"Let's talk about this after you've defeated him."

[Defeat me... Speaking of which, why did you send that communication to Chaldea 2,400 years ago? Wasn't that when you were just born?]

"Well... the reason is simple, I just don't want him to become a 'slave'." Number Two, Natsukawa Tora, said with a wry smile. "Although this is a bit strange, in my opinion, he has become a 'slave' bound by Morgan's wishes and his own thoughts because he wanted to respond to Morgan's ideas too much and because of his own inner thoughts."

"He gave up his freedom, gave up the idea of ​​returning to Pan-Human History, and chose to stay in this Lostbelt forever—at the time, I thought this was quite bad, after all, there were so many people in Pan-Human History waiting to get married, how could we let him stay here forever?"

"In the end, it was this somewhat impulsive idea that led me to send communications to Chaldea."

[At the beginning... So, your thoughts have changed now?]

"I don't know." Number Two, Natsukawa Tora, shook his head. "I'm not sure what I'm thinking right now either. I'm just sticking to one path. Anyway, you guys keep going to different Lostbelts to bring that guy back, right? As long as we have the same goal, that's fine."

"Merry, how long will it take to get everyone together?"

[At the latest, a week—but honestly, even if we gather all of us, there's no guarantee we can defeat the tiger, right?]

In terms of sheer power, Natsukawa Torato in his Savior Mode is on par with Beast, which is enough to make anyone despair. According to Natsukawa Torato No. 2, he has also made ineffable progress in magic over the past two thousand four hundred years.

A grand magic spell covering the entire island of Britain, a treasure that can be used in the form of magic... plus the most deadly illusion manifestation.

How do I fight this?

"There is still a chance."

Number Two, Xia Chuanhu, snapped his fingers. In the central circular open space of the church near the three of them, a ripple quietly appeared, and a huge block of ice gradually emerged from the empty space.

A dimly lit holy sword was frozen inside.

"Is that the minister's holy sword?"

"Hmm—the reason why Natsukawa Torama has been able to maintain the power of Salvation Mode is because he gave up everything and obtained it in exchange; simply put, it's a [contract]. So, if the contract is broken, he will be unable to use the power of Salvation Mode."

Breach of contract.

Mary pondered for a moment.

[The contract states... 'Forever relinquish the Holy Sword' and 'Abandon yourself from the pan-human history,' right?]

Number Two, Xia Chuanhu, nodded: "That's right. So, as long as we can get him to hold the Holy Sword again and make me and him one again, he will break out of the Salvation Mode and return to his most normal self—although he will still have power at the level of a god, it will be much weaker than the Salvation Mode."

"Hmm, theoretically it's feasible. But the enemy shouldn't be just Tiger, right? You mentioned those fairy knights who serve Tiger, and Morgan, who is now Tiger's wife. I don't think they'll just stand by and watch Tiger get beaten up."

Mary is right.

The enemy they face is not just the Elf King. If they want to bring Natsukawa Tiger back and turn the Elf King back into the Natsukawa Tiger they know, the Fairy Knight and Morgan are also enemies they need to deal with.

In terms of combat strength, what are the differences between the Fairy Knight and Morgan?

"Among the fairy knights, only the fairy knight Lancelot and the fairy knight Gawain are truly formidable. One is the incarnation of the dragon Albion, the fairy with the strongest overall abilities, and the strongest creature in Britain besides the Elf King. The other is a black dog fairy who can devour magic."

"Beyond their fairy essence, they are also encased in a 'shell' created by Natsukawa Torato and Morgan based on the Knights of the Round Table, called the 'Fairy Knights,' which adds to their power. In addition, both of them are blessed by the Elf King, so who knows what special abilities they will gain in real time during battle."

"It's best to consider both of them as powerful individuals capable of fighting multiple Demon Pillars on their own."

"As for Morgan... he's just a regular Natsukawa Tiger."

The words spoken by Number Two, Natsukawa Tora, silenced everyone once again.

Two fairy knights whose strength can rival multiple Demon Pillars, plus Morgan, whose power is equivalent to Natsukawa Torama in non-Salvation Mode, are the four enemies that must be defeated and overcome if Natsukawa Torama wants to return to Pan-Human History.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu both looked grim.

Seeing the expressions on their faces, Number Two, Natsukawa Tiger, offered words of comfort.

"Well, don't make that face, Ritsuka, Mashu."

"It's not time to start the battle now. Until everyone in Chaldea has gathered, you should stay on this island and rest. Unlike the main island of Britain, this is the only island that the Elf King won't monitor and can't interfere with."

"Once everyone has arrived, we'll discuss what to do next."

10. I'm back, Father.

While the group on the Isle of Ends were discussing matters...

On the main island of Britain.