I am a Type-Moon comic artist!

It was 92! It's already 2012 here!

The gap is huge, whether in terms of technology, convenience, or entertainment.

In just over two years, she has completely succumbed to the allure of modern technology!

"Um... how about you stay in this world and don't leave?"

“Ha…” Kurokawa Kazuya seemed to understand something and sighed slightly: “Then forget it. I can’t stay here for long anyway… But my Stand is very convenient. Crossing a world is as easy as stepping through a door. We can meet anytime in the future.”

"really?"

"Yes, really." Kurokawa Kazuya nodded, then suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Do you need me to bring your cat over for you?"

"Huh? Hana?" Kurokawa Kazumi's eyes lit up slightly. "But Hana must have grown up a lot by now, after all these years."

"Hmm, I don't feel any change."

"Ah, that's true. It's only natural that my brother hasn't changed much since he's always with Xiaohua."

"..." Kurokawa Kazuya couldn't think of anything to say for a moment. Did he... often spend time with that cat?

To be honest, he was too lazy to even keep it; he'd already given it away because he found it too annoying...

But... well, let's just say that's how it is.

"By the way," Kurokawa Kazuya frowned slightly as he looked at the room's layout, "do we need money?"

"Yes! Yes!" Kurokawa Kazumi nodded hurriedly and said, "I'm really short of money!"

There's no need to be polite. After all, he's my brother. What's wrong with asking for some money?

"Hmm." Kurokawa Kazuya nodded. "Well, directly giving money might be a bit difficult. I'll go get you some gold and gems or something... never mind."

Suddenly it occurred to me that if I were to use his abilities, the two identical things would annihilate each other.

Although I don't know if the rules of this JOJO world will still apply in this world, it's better to be careful: "Give me your pocket money, and I'll help you invest in stocks."

"Huh?" Kurokawa Kazumi blinked, somewhat confused.

"Don't worry, you'll understand when the time comes."

......

"I see. Is this the year 2004?" Kurokawa Kazuya wasn't in a hurry to create too many parallel worlds. After dealing with Kurokawa Kazumi's matter, he came back and checked the time. Finding that it was still early, he decided to take advantage of the time before Shiki got out of school to explore the parallel world in front of him.

After thinking for a moment, he used the money he found on the ground to take a taxi to a city—Fuyuki City.

In many worlds, this is the starting point.

Different changes occurred during the Third, Fourth, or Fifth Holy Grail Wars, creating parallel worlds.

This parallel world should be the same.

Since it's Fuyuki City, there should be some clues, right?

Clues to what is happening in this world.

In the Type-Moon universe, whether it's Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Faith in the Dark, Magical Girl Illya, Fate/Grand Order, etc...

Fuyuki City will be different in every parallel world.

What happened, what world this is, and what will happen next—once you arrive in Fuyuki City, you'll be able to make a general assessment.

It is now 2004, and the Fifth Holy Grail War in some worlds took place around this time... Of course, this is not the case in the world of Kurokawa Kazuya, which is a little earlier.

The Great Fuyuki Fire occurred after the Fourth Holy Grail War, so it's FSN.

The third Holy Grail War should have ended with Faker, as the Greater Grail was taken away.

Magical Girl Illya... This involves two parallel worlds. Nothing happened in Fuyuki City, or rather, even if something did happen, it could be in the world where Magical Girl Illya lives, albeit subtly.

There's a big ditch in downtown Fuyuki.

That is the parallel world from Magical Girl Illya.

If Fuyuki City has only ever hosted one Holy Grail War, it would be FGO.

In short, Fuyuki City is like the center of the world.

Thinking you're capable enough to come here and determine the world line, that's perfectly fine.

And Kurokawa Kazuya is the one who has confidence in himself.

Avalon ensured that he could be resurrected eleven more times.

D4C guarantees that he can quickly escape by traveling through parallel worlds, no matter what danger he encounters.

His high level of magic resistance meant that most spells were useless against him.

What's there to be afraid of?

Just go for it, there's no problem with that, right?

"Alright, let's stop here." Seeing that the vehicle had arrived at a familiar place, Kurokawa Kazuya asked the driver to stop and got out. He looked around and let out a soft sigh.

"Well then... let's investigate the current situation in Fuyuki City."

The next moment, his expression turned slightly serious as he saw a familiar figure dressed in casual clothes walking towards him: "Who...are you?"

The blond man looked at Kurokawa Kazuya and said, "I shouldn't know you, but I feel a strange sense of familiarity with you?"

"..."

Kurokawa Kazuya was somewhat stunned, never expecting to encounter this person here.

This hero king, Gilgamesh!

However, since he's wearing this outfit now, and according to the investigation, the current time is 2004... does that mean this world is a timeline within FSN?

Chapter 307 FSN Worldline

Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

This is the third time we've met.

The first one was summoned by Kurokawa Kazuya using a Command Spell.

The second enemy was encountered in the previous Holy Grail War.

The third time is now.

"I'm surprised too." Kurokawa Kazuya smiled. "I didn't expect to meet you here again, King of Heroes, Gilgamesh."

“Oh, are we very familiar with each other?” Gilgamesh said with great interest.

It has been almost ten years since the last Holy Grail War.

I never expected to encounter something so interesting right now, with the Holy Grail War about to begin.

Gilgamesh cheerfully raised his head and looked at Kurokawa Kazuya, saying, "Tell me, you bastard. If it's interesting, I'll spare your life."

Kurokawa Kazuya didn't care; after all, that was just his personality.

If you're always worried about so many things, it can shorten your lifespan.

"It's nothing serious, I've just seen it in other worlds."

“Parallel worlds... I see, that makes sense.” Gilgamesh nodded. If he had just been summoned, he might have brought some memories from the Throne of Heroes.

However, ten years have passed.

He had absolutely no idea what the other versions of himself had been doing during those ten years.

"Doesn't seem to be a mage or anything. What? Traveling to parallel worlds has become so easy, hasn't it?"

"Well... it's better to just think of it as me having mastered some kind of special ability."

“Goo…I see.” Gilgamesh nodded. “With humanity at its current level, even with continuous development, it’s still hundreds of years away from reaching that level. However, since you know of my existence, you must also know about the Holy Grail War, right? Did you come here…for the Holy Grail here? If so, you are my enemy.”

"Of course." Despite saying this, Gilgamesh showed no intention of making a move. He smiled and said, "I've said before that I'll spare your life if you amuse me. I'll let you go this time, but next time it won't be so simple."

Kurokawa Kazuya watched Gilgamesh leave unhurriedly, slightly surprised: "Isn't he interested in parallel worlds? Well... that makes sense. Valhalla is an independent entity. Gilgamesh must be tired of seeing different parallel worlds by now."

I didn't expect to have already determined the timeline as soon as I arrived here.

but...

FSN has quite a few world lines.

The Saber route and the Rin Tohsaka route are alright, but the Heaven's Feel route... is a bit dangerous even for oneself.

Of course, I'm not referring to the English servant, nor to Sakura or anything like that, but to the black mud.

If a human accidentally touches that thing, who knows what will happen?

However, these are actually still under control.

What's most upsetting isn't any of that, but rather the slice-of-life FSN worldlines.

For example, Carnival Phantasm, or The Menu for the Emiya Family... and so on.

To achieve this kind of everyday world line where everyone survives...

The simplest scenario would be this: Shirou Emiya takes on seven opponents and utterly dominates them. If they're not satisfied, he keeps fighting without killing anyone; it's just a series of humiliations.

After finally defeating everyone, they happily dismantled the Holy Grail, giving it to all the Servants as a source of magic power, while everyone else remained.

so...

Just kidding, of course.

Achieving this type of ending is really quite difficult.

"Hmm? In that case... maybe we could play around with it." Like, creating a world that resembles a certain timeline or something...

But upon closer reflection, I realize I'm not strong enough...

Um...

"Perhaps we can ask Gilgamesh for help."

Thinking this, he quickly walked in the direction Gilgamesh had left, and then saw Gilgamesh taking a walk.

"Hmm? What? I've been kind enough to spare your life, and you still have complaints?"