To become a king and a magician

“Summoning magic…” Natsukawa Tora paused for a moment, “I hardly use that anymore, I almost forgot about it if you hadn’t mentioned it.”

"Huh? Why?"

"Because we don't need it."

Natsukawa Tora pointed to the scene outside: "The objects of my summoning magic are fairies and elves, but in this fairy kingdom, there are fairies everywhere that I can use. I don't need to summon magic to make them serve me... Moreover, there is no situation where I need to summon conceptual spirits."

Concept sprite.

This refers to the kind of spirit that Natsukawa Tora summoned in his battles against Tiamat and Goetia. Since it was unknown whether it existed, we tentatively assumed that it existed and then forcibly realized that assumption, thus creating the spirit.

For example, the Sun Spirit when fighting Tiamat, and the Time Spirit when fighting Goetia—both of these are conceptual spirits, spirits imagined by Natsukawa Toramaru.

(The summoning magic that helped you so much in the past is now almost forgotten? In some ways it hasn't changed, but in others it has, brother.)

Grey looked a little dejected.

"..."

After reading Grey's inner thoughts, Natsukawa Tiger paused again, staring at his hands for a while as if hesitating about something, before gently rubbing Grey's head with his hand.

"Huh?"

"I used to do this, didn't I?" Natsukawa Tora withdrew his hand. "Although I don't feel anything, my memory tells me that when you look down, it's best to pat your head like this. But I only realized you seemed a little down just now because I read your mind. If I offended you, I apologize."

No, it won't.

Grey blushed slightly, smiled, and lowered her head: "Thank you, brother. You really haven't changed."

"Perhaps, I don't even know if I've changed—I've found another me."

Enlarging the view on the map and focusing on the southwest of Britain, Natsukawa Tora pointed to a city on the map and said, "This is Salisbury, the stronghold of the Wind Clan, and the other me is here."

The Wind Clan.

One of the six major clans in the Fairy Kingdom, all its members are beautiful fairies, and Aurora, the clan leader, is also a rare and beautiful fairy.

If we're just ranking by beauty, Aurora's looks would probably be in the top ten in all of Britain.

That being said—

“That must be the ugliest place in Britain,” Natsukawa Tiger said. “It’s more like the upper beam is crooked, so the lower beam is crooked too. To unsuspecting outsiders, it does look quite beautiful, but in essence, it’s all show and no substance.”

"That's what my brother says... Is it really that bad?"

Natsukawa Tora nodded: "You should know that every year I gather a thousand fairies from Britain to squeeze their magic power, right? Actually, those thousand fairies are the thousand most deserving fairies that I selected after observing them through surveillance magic."

“Then every year I would choose Aurora, the clan chief of the Wind Clan, and torture and kill her thousands of times before I would let her go and bring her back to life.”

It should be said that it was a grudge. Among the six clan leaders, Xia Chuanhu hated Aurora the most.

Beheading, poisoning, burning, drowning, dismemberment, rotting, dismemberment, disembowelment... Every year he would use every method he could think of on Aurora—this continued for about 1,500 years.

After all, no matter how great the hatred was, it had lasted for so long that he no longer felt much. So, starting more than 500 years ago, even though Aurora was still on the list, Xia Chuanhu no longer used the old method. Instead, he made her undergo the same exploitation process as the other fairies.

"Speaking of which, are you going to go and arrest him yourselves, or should I send someone to escort him back? If you're going, I can arrange for guards."

“About this… let’s go ourselves.” Atalanta said after thinking for a moment. “It’s not good to stay here with you all the time. Besides, we want to see the fairy kingdom under your rule for ourselves. After all, we’ve only heard about it from another version of you, so it might not be very true. Sorry to bother you, let’s go back, Gray.”

"Okay. We'll be going then, brother. See you again sometime."

After saying that, Gray left with Atalanta.

Watching the two leave, Natsukawa Tora put away his map terminal.

(Authenticity... another thing I mentioned is 100% authentic. Atalanta, Grey.)

(I doubt there's a single fairy in all of Britain who doesn't resent me.)

(More than this, I never imagined that another version of me would go to them—)

Natsukawa Torato recalled the situation in Salisbury that he had just witnessed through the surveillance magic.

That was the scene of Natsukawa Tiger No. 2 talking to two women dressed as martial artists on the street.

(So, will you also join the ranks of those who oppose me?)

(Miyamoto Musashi, Tomoe Gozen.)

37. Mo Zai, are you a simp?

Number two, Natsukawa Tora, is in Salisbury.

After receiving this information from Natsukawa Torato, Atalanta and Gray immediately took it back and told the others.

But when the two returned to their room, they saw Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others chatting happily over there...

"Artoria?"

"Huh?"

Caster and Artoria turned around simultaneously when they heard Atalanta call their names. Then Artoria asked, "Atalanta, are you calling me or me in the Lostbelt?"

"Yes, all of them. By the way, is this you from the Lostbelt? The one Tiger Number Two mentioned?"

Caster nodded: "Yes. Nice to meet you, Miss Atalanta, Miss Grey. I am Artoria Caster, Artoria from this world. Please take care of me."

"Hello, Miss Caster."

Grey nodded slightly.

Atalanta frowned and asked, "Why is Tiger's daughter here?"

“I heard that Ritsuka and Mashu were here, so I wanted to come and find them. I caused them a lot of trouble on the Isle of Ends, and I felt I had to apologize,” Caster explained. “However, when I got here, I found out… that besides Ritsuka and Mashu, there was another me and another me’s daughter… It feels a little strange.”

After all, Artoria and Castor look exactly alike, without the slightest difference. It's like looking in a mirror. No one knows what kind of interaction will occur between the two of them when they meet.

As for Mordred's situation...

"What's going on? What's going on? Two empresses? And the other empress seems to have a really good temper? Completely different from the blue empress! An angel? Is she an angel? Huh? So there are gentle empresses after all?"

After being greeted kindly by Caster, the child looked utterly bewildered and squatted to one side, muttering to himself.

Even though they have reconciled, in Mordred's mind, the image of Artoria as a "strict father" is still deeply rooted and not so easily changed.

Now that she sees this gentle, cheerful, and angelic Artoria, it's no wonder she's mentally traumatized!

(It's quite a chaotic situation, leaving one unsure how to react.)

Grey could only smile silently at the situation.

At that moment, Aozaki Aoko asked, "By the way, have you obtained the intelligence? About Tiger Number Two."

“Ah, yes, I already asked my brother.” Grey quickly relayed the information she had just received, “They said it’s in Salisbury… but we were in a hurry and didn’t write down the exact address.”

"Hey? Is everyone going to Salisbury?"

Castor was a little surprised: "I know how to get there. If anyone wants to go, I can lead the way... Ah, but I have to ask my father's opinion first. I just ran away from home once before. If I don't tell him before I go out this time, I feel like I'll really get a good spanking."

Spanking?

Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze instinctively shifted to the buttocks of the two Artorias. Although it was only a small part, it seemed that Caster's was larger.

"Miss Caster, were you hit too this time?"

“No, no, it was just a week of confinement,” Custer said. “More importantly, are you all really going to Salisbury?”

Aozaki Aoko and the others nodded: "Because we're going to find Tiger Number Two... uh, to use a name you can understand..."

“The Guardian of the Holy Sword,” Fujimaru Ritsuka explained. “We’re going to Salisbury to find the Guardian of the Holy Sword. He seems to be there now, and we have something to discuss with him.”

"Huh? Has the guardian of the Holy Sword left that island?"

Castor's mouth dropped open in surprise, then, as if remembering something, he paused for a moment before immediately standing up: "Alright! I'll go ask Father and Mother for permission to go out with everyone! Please wait here for me!"

"Miss Caster, wait a moment—"

"Wait a minute—" Before Mashu could finish her sentence, Caster had already dashed out of the restaurant.

Watching her run away, Aozaki Touko couldn't help but sigh, "They're both Artoria, but this one seems to have more of a girlish charm. Could it be because she's still young? I remember she's only sixteen."

"I probably wouldn't have been like that at sixteen... Although I was only fifteen when I pulled the sword from the stone, I should have been more mature than her because Merlin taught me every night, right?"

Even Artoria herself wasn't entirely sure, since it was just her own impression of herself. Only Merlin and Kai probably knew what she was like back then.

Aozaki Aoko slapped the table: "Alright, alright, let's get back to the main topic. Now that we have the information, let's decide who should go find the person?"

"Huh? Aren't we going together?"

“That would be too conspicuous, and besides, it wouldn’t be appropriate for everyone to go together… To put it bluntly, one of us needs to stay behind as an inside man, to report on what Tiger is planning to do while we’re gone—or something like that,” Aozaki Aoko explained. “The number of people going to find Tiger Number Two should ideally be around four, right?”

"Then I'm going!"

Mordred was the first to jump up from the ground and raise her hand to volunteer: "Since the Queen Mother is going, I want to go too!"

“I want to go too.” Grey raised her hand as well. “I want to see what’s going on outside, and I also want to have a good talk with Miss Custer.”

That makes two people.

Two more are needed.

Aozaki Aoko thought for a moment, then shifted her gaze to Mashu and Fujimaru Ritsuka: "Ritsuka, Mashu, why don't you come along too?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka: "Us?"

Mashu: "It's possible... but why us?"

"There's no particular reason, I just think the two of you are a good match... Also, regarding Ritsuka's Ten Commandments, although I think Tora actually saw them a long time ago, it's better not to keep them by his side all the time."

"That's true..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka touched the ring on her finger.

“I’ll make the magical artifact for long-distance communication. Hield, give me a hand,” Aozaki Touko said. “It should be finished by noon tomorrow at the earliest.”

"Alright, then let's set off tomorrow at noon—if Castor doesn't come by then, I'll go with you all."

"understood."

38. Suddenly there were more than a dozen mothers.

In some ways, transportation within the Fairy Kingdom is actually quite simple.

Although it has been developing for two thousand years, there are no villages or towns in the fairy kingdom. There are only a few cities as the gathering places for fairies. Apart from that, the entire land is a pure, undeveloped area.