I am a Type-Moon comic artist!

"Hmm...it looks pretty good."

Touching the finished wall, Kurokawa Kazuya felt a slight stirring in his heart—

A ripple traveled out from his hand, spreading along the wall and outwards in all directions!

Sizzle—

"It's done! I'm getting the hang of it!"

Kurokawa Kazuya said with delight, "It was worth spending a lot of money to renovate this room."

That's good. With this, even if this really is the Type-Moon world, even if a magician really comes, it doesn't matter! It doesn't matter which magician comes! I don't need to hide, I can just wait here!

Kurokawa Kazuya smiled and walked up the stairs with an apple in his hand: "Speaking of which, everyone's thoughts are different... For some people, the thought of actually coming into contact with something as dangerous as the mysterious, something that could endanger their lives, is terrifying, but I'm different... Even if I have no ability, I'll still go for it, even if it means dying. I want to see the mysterious with my own eyes."

In his previous life, he had tried to find out the same thing, but unsurprisingly, he failed.

When he first arrived in this world, one of the reasons he went to the Tohsaka and Ryougi families was this: at that time, he was in a daze, almost driven only by instinct; the mismatch between his soul and body left him with only instinct.

and!

What was Instinct doing at that moment? Instinct led him to the Tohsaka family, Instinct led him to the Ryougi family!

The pursuit of mystery was itself an instinct deeply ingrained in his soul.

And now, everything is ready... If this world is Type-Moon, then this is the final test. What if... what if my *Fate/Zero* is released and still receives no response...?

So I need to find a way to erase the things that Sakura Tohsaka in that manga would never experience in reality, and I've already prepared a method.

But even if Fate fails, it shouldn't be my final test...

A world devoid of any mystery... how despairing, how boring.

Sizzle—

Kurokawa Kazuya thought for a moment and tossed it—the apple, rippled with moisture, stuck to the ceiling—

"Let me see—the actual effect!"

Kurokawa and Miya ran downstairs and randomly found a spot.

"Whoosh—Ripple Dash—!"

Sizzle—

Ripples spread out from Kurokawa Kazuya's feet—then along the floor, up the wall, and then—up the wall!

brush brush --

thump—

"Okay! So how's the situation?"

Kurokawa and Miya ran upstairs.

The apple that was stuck to the ceiling by the ripples has fallen down!

Kurokawa Kazuya picked up the apple from the ground; several fine cracks could be faintly seen on it.

Kurokawa Kazuya withdrew the ripples, and the next moment—the entire apple split open, forming eight perfectly even segments.

"Finally... a complete success, the Ripple Fortress!"

In that instant, Kurokawa Kazuya used ripples to travel from the floor all the way upstairs, and with the splashing ripples, tore the connection between the apple and the ceiling, and—incidentally, cut the apple in half!

He had practiced this skill in his dreams for years... years of practicing control over ripples, and finally, he successfully used it in reality.

He roughly deduced what would happen if the mages from Fate came knocking on his door...

Of these, Kenneth poses the greatest threat. His Mystic Code, Moon Essence Fluid, might not be able to withstand it... no, the chances of him being able to are very low. Even the fortress that has completed this ripple is no exception.

Then there's Tokiomi Tohsaka...

His gem magic also poses a great threat to him. Ordinary flames shouldn't be able to ignite this room that's been permeated by Ripple, but as for the flame effects of his magic... we can't just rely on what's shown in the anime.

Then there's Zouken Matou...

His insect magic probably wouldn't pose much of a threat to me, but that's just an estimate... and considering he came all the way from Fuyuki, he couldn't possibly have brought too many of his insects with him, so there is a threat, but it shouldn't be that great.

Finally, there's Emiya Kiritsugu.

This person is actually the least threatening to me, whether it's a long-range sniper shot or anything else... I can sense it and dodge it.

Unless he planted a bomb under his house or something, but—that's not such a simple matter... If someone wanted to start construction under their own house, there's no way they wouldn't have noticed.

As for his Origin Missile...

I'm sorry to say, but I'm not a magician. In other words, even if I were hit, I would only be injured, though the injury might be more serious due to the power of the gun. And that's assuming the gun hits me. If it misses, then there's nothing more to say.

Now that his Ripple Fortress is complete, there is nothing safer than this, and he will not move it or anything, trying his best not to affect the people around him.

"So... next—all the plans will begin one after another."

I'll try again tonight to see if I can get the abilities from my original comic... Of course, real superpowers are probably out of the question; I've already changed the settings several times and failed each time.

Originally, I planned to set up a system where "superpowers" could be traded, and even that "superpowers" could be bought with money.

It was completely useless.

Furthermore, the system includes free access to martial arts techniques available in libraries and online.

Of course, I wanted to make it strong from the start, like... the best technique, which is why it became so widely known. Well, although this is a kind of bug, I can't worry about that now.

As expected, it failed.

What I learned in my dream is useless in reality.

Then... he lowered the standards of his cultivation technique time and time again.

He had already completed the new settings—

In the setting, the food is still made in mainland China, but this time it has a unique way of being consumed. It allows one to absorb the life energy from the food and store it in the body, with no other effects except for prolonging life.

However, when using this method of eating, the digestion speed will increase significantly, and you will eat a lot.

Then they set the world to have very expensive fresh food.

I tried setting it to cheap before, but it failed.

This time... it should make more sense in the comic, I wonder if it will be successful.

Chapter Sixty-Four: Fate Series Begins

A new day—

Unlike usual, Kurokawa Kazuya would normally be drawing manga at this time every day.

But not now—

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He's eating!

Eating like crazy...

The food identified by the ripples has already been consumed in quantities several times the usual amount, and they're still eating—

The table was already covered with food scraps.

"Hoo—" Kurokawa Kazuya let out a heavy breath, then suddenly stood up!

"Ripple Dash—!"

Chi-

In an instant!

Unlike before, when he used ripples to project light into the room, it only produced a faint glow, but now—

The whole room lit up! It turned into a golden room—

"Hmm...not bad, really not bad. The amount of ripples indicates a massive increase in my life energy. Finally, I've succeeded with this technique!"

After confirming in his dream world that he had mastered the technique, he immediately committed suicide and woke up.

After making breakfast for my younger sister and sending her to school, I left. I used the ripple effect to judge the freshness of food and bought a whole bunch of it. Just now, I felt like I really couldn't eat anymore.

That means you've only eaten half of it.

As for the rest... they're no longer usable because they've been sitting for a day. If left until tomorrow, they won't be fresh anymore, and their life energy will be lost on a large scale.

According to its own design, this "Gluttonous Devouring Method" is most effective in the first three times, greatly increasing life energy. After that, the effect will gradually decrease. Although it can still increase life energy, the effect will be much smaller.

The reason for the reduced effectiveness is that within these three days, a person's life energy will reach its limit. After that, it's no longer about increasing life energy, but rather about exceeding the upper limit of life energy!

He himself didn't want to add so many restrictions, but all those without restrictions failed.

Five days have passed since the room was renovated.

It's been two weeks since the serialization meeting for Fate/Zero, and the next issue will feature the manga in JUMC.

He kept adding restrictions to this technique, changing the comic's settings, and even at one point believed that "original comics wouldn't grant him abilities beyond common sense." And then finally—he succeeded today!

"This is amazing! This feeling... If this continues, my life energy will one day reach the level of Kars, the ultimate life form from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2."

Generally speaking, it won't happen. At most, it will achieve the effect of DIO's ripples when he fights DIO in his dream.

Because that's already the limit of the human body, the limit of the life energy it can withstand, but this "Gluttonous Devouring Method" can increase that limit! It can continuously break through the limits of the human body.

That is to say-

Given enough time to increase one's life energy, one day one will reach the level of the ultimate life form Kars, capable of emitting sun-like ripples that can instantly melt a human body!

"Hmm, the current Ripple is already at Jonathan's level, right..."

Based on the people he had met, he categorized the ripples into several levels.

First, there's his previous self, whose Ripple was defined as one. Then, Jonathan, who had just started cultivating Ripple, had two. Baron Zeppeli's Ripple was four. After receiving Zeppeli's life energy, Jonathan's Ripple was five (there was some loss during the transmission process, plus Zeppeli only had half a body at that time). Finally, there was the Ripple that reached the limit of human potential, which was ten.

If you calculate it this way, you should now have three ripples.

It's almost at Zeppeli's level.