How come the Ace of Cups isn't considered the Holy Grail?

Such a question only appeared in his mind for a moment before he dismissed it.

What a joke! He clearly saw Gilgamesh riding the Vimana out of the city to fight the enemy this morning. How could that Archer be shooting arrows into the city at this time?

So... it's another Servant?

Realizing this, Yuuto immediately pulled Ayaka Sajou, who had come to his side after the duel, behind him, took out a card, infused it with magic, and threw it out.

"Hope! Luna Shield!"

The shields arrived before the person even stepped out.

The interlocking metal plates formed a crescent-shaped shield that blocked the view outside the window. Almost instantly, the three people in the room heard the sound of something heavy hitting the shield.

"hiss……"

A man gasped, causing Youdu to involuntarily touch his nose and feel a phantom pain.

Good grief, did it just crash face-to-face?

Just as You Du was thinking this, he saw the wall by the window suddenly break open, and pieces of rubble flew towards them, but without exception, they were all blocked by the other Moon God Shield.

Peeking out of the window, which was intact, and then looking at the dilapidated walls, You Du's lips twitched.

This really proves that saying true.

When the protective strength of the main gate exceeds that of the adjacent wall, then the wall becomes the new main gate...

"Ouch, that hurts..."

The dust kicked up by the broken wall did not obscure the figure of the person who came in. Jesta walked over the rubble without a care and went into the house, where he bent his broken nose back into place in front of everyone.

"Crack!"

It sounds so painful...

However, Jesta's actions also led Yudo to speculate about his abilities.

Hmm... Being able to smash through a wall in one go and move at high speed through some means shows that he has outstanding physical abilities. Secondly, even though he broke his nose, he just casually snapped it back together, which means that he has regenerative abilities.

He looks a bit like a vampire... but this guy doesn't seem to be afraid of the sun?

While she was pondering this, Jesta had already finished restoring her nose. After glancing briefly at Yutari and Ayaka Sajou, she simply ignored them.

It's just a human and a Servant. Although I don't know how this Servant managed to make Assassin leave the stage, judging from his act of summoning a familiar, it must be the weak Caster.

His strength is negligible; he's someone I could kill with a flick of my wrist. There's no need to pay him any attention.

"Oh! My dearest love! I'm so sorry I'm late!" He turned and opened his arms to the fallen Kyoko, speaking in a tone as if reciting opera lines:

"Let me reintroduce myself here! My name is Jesta Caltorre, and I am a Master who affirms everything you do—"

"And as a non-human apostle, I will plunder everything from you!"

A dead apostle?!

As soon as he finished speaking, the three people present reacted in different ways.

Kyoshiko and Yuwatari, who knew what Dead Apostles were, showed expressions of shock and surprise, respectively. Ayaka Sajou, who did not know what Dead Apostles were but vaguely sensed that something was wrong, looked bewildered and wary.

"Impossible! My Master should already be—"

"You've already taken care of it, is that what you're trying to say?" Jesta grinned maliciously and interrupted her, finishing the sentence for her. Then, just as he opened his mouth to say something more...

With a flash of silver light, his head, bearing the expression of a bloodthirsty beast, fell from his neck and rolled to Kyonobu's side.

Kyoko & Jesta & Ayaka Sajou: ?

It seems that some puzzling situations have arisen?

Chapter 263 Dead Apostle? Dead Apostle.

What happened?

This sentence kept echoing in Kyoko's mind.

To be honest, when Jesta revealed that he was her Master, Kyoko was completely stunned.

Because she clearly remembered that when she was summoned, she should have personally killed the Master who summoned her; she even crushed the Master's heart herself using [Zabaniya]...

How could her Master still be alive?!

Moreover, she remembered that her Master should be a middle-aged man with long hair, and he looked completely different from the white-haired young man she was seeing now!

It wasn't until he revealed that he was a Dead Apostle that Kyoko's attention shifted away from the question of whether he was her Master.

Dead Apostle...

This existence is mentioned in the legacy of the Assassination Order.

They are known as Destroyers. According to records, they are monsters that appear at the beginning of any war between the Order and the heretics, and indiscriminately slaughter regardless of their allegiance...

The first great war featured a monster that bred countless wild beasts within its body; the second great war saw another monster rampage through the war for three days and three nights; and the third great war was fought and killed by both sides by yet another completely different monster.

Those who bring death in vain... these are the monsters known as 'Dead Apostles'.

And now this being is right in front of her, claiming to be her Master—this is unbelievable!

Before Kyoko could feel remorse for using the magic of this evil monster to imitate the techniques of the great pioneers, she saw Jesta's head roll in front of her.

Kyoshiko: ?

what?

Upon seeing Jesta's headless corpse, the emotions that had arisen in Kyoko's heart became somewhat disjointed due to the sudden death of her target, leaving her with a choked feeling that she couldn't quite bring herself to cry.

"How can it be!"

Only then did Jesta, whose head had just fallen to the ground, realize that he had been beheaded.

With only his head remaining, his body lay on the ground, but his head still seemed alive, his expression changing from a sinister grin to shock as he shouted in disbelief.

By shifting the camera angle, he could see Hope, wielding two swords, standing behind his fallen body. It seemed that the blow that beheaded him must have been delivered by Hope.

But the cut was too fast, so fast that he didn't even feel any danger before the blade sliced ​​across his neck in an instant, as if completely ignoring his cervical vertebrae, smoothly and completely severing his head.

He's a dead disciple!

It denies human history and exists solely to corrupt humankind!

Whether it's a man-made treasure or a treasure created by a god for humankind, they can deny it!

It has nothing to do with strength; it's simply a matter of mutual restraint and mutual generation.

Just like the mouse and the elephant in the game of Animal Chess, no matter if the elephant is a mammoth or a Gina, as long as it is in this game, it will be eaten by the mouse.

Of course, if it is a treasure created by a god for a god, then that's a different story.

That is why Jesta was so shocked that he was beheaded by a summoned familiar.

Could it be that the two swords in that familiar's hand are treasures created by the gods for the gods themselves?

Are you kidding me? !

You're giving something this precious to a familiar?!

Who could have predicted this?!

Jesta stared intently at Hope and Yudu standing behind him, his eyes filled with a mixture of confusion and anger, making him look as if his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.

Seeing this, Yu Du couldn't help but exclaim, "How can someone still be alive after having their head cut off? It's truly astonishing how resilient the Dead Apostles are..."

It was this thing that was just a head that reminded him of an old friend with blond hair whose head could walk on tentacles.

You wouldn't be able to steal someone else's body and survive, would you?

Judging from the conversation between Assassin and him just now, it seems that he really did die once?

That won't do. Just in case, we have to make sure this guy is completely dead...

Yudou waved his hand, and before Jesta could say anything more, Hope swung his knife and pinned his head to the floor.

This time, Jesta truly felt the entire process of the knife easily piercing his skin, cutting through his flesh, and stabbing straight into his brain.

He didn't say anything more, remaining silent as if his thoughts had truly been cut off by the knife.

Yudo didn't care whether Jesta was faking his death or not. Regardless of whether the guy was really dead or not, once he turned him into a card, even if he was faking his death, he would become really dead!

"I never thought that what I casually mentioned before about turning a whole vampire into something would actually come true one day..."

Yuwatari muttered to himself as he looked around. Apart from Ayaka Sajou, who seemed to be frozen in place for some reason, he didn't see any suitable containers in the office.

That's true. Who would bring a huge iron pot that could fit an adult male into to work?

It seems he's going to dig out his long-unused bare-handed training from the corner and let it bask in the sun today... Hopefully, Ayaka Sajou's magic is enough for him to wreak havoc!

Yuuto flung out a fusion card in front of him, conjuring a vortex of orange-red and blue in mid-air. He then had Hope pick up the head on the ground and throw it into the vortex.

"Wait--"

The rapid, short sounds proved that Jesta was indeed faking his death, but unfortunately, he was swallowed up by the vortex in an instant, and his words were never heard again.

Kyoko watched as Yuwatari threw the rest of Jesta's body into the mysterious vortex, her expression somewhat complicated.

Well... wasn't this Dead Apostle's death a little too abrupt?

Is this still the monster she remembers who rampaged through the war for three days and three nights?

At this moment, the Command Seal's power was almost completely exhausted. Kyoko, filled with doubt, transformed into pure magic and disappeared from this world, leaving behind only a blood-red, teardrop-shaped gem.

"Oh, it fell, it fell! Let me see what it is!"

Yuuto casually tossed the vampire crystal he had been keeping into the vortex, then walked over and picked up the items dropped by Kyoushinko to examine them.

[Fantasy Bloodline: A]

[The ability to recreate the miracles of the past 18 Hassans through the free transformation of the physical body is a skill the fanatic acquired during her lifetime, an innate talent, and this is the crystallization of that talent.]

"Bloodline... I feel like it should go well with vampires and stuff, let's throw it in together!"

He tossed the water droplet gem into the now completely dark red vortex, found a chair, and sat down, quietly waiting for the alchemy to finish.

With two A-grade materials, Vampire Crystal and Fantasy Bloodline, plus a Dead Apostle, the Vampire stats are practically overflowing. He simply can't think of any way to go wrong with them.

On the other side, having witnessed Jesta being swallowed by the vortex, Ayaka Sajou silently sat further away from Yuwatari and the vortex, feeling somewhat nervous.

Come to think of it, she doesn't seem to know anything about Saber's past...

But judging from the way he looks now... could Saber be some kind of 'mad scientist'?

Is it too late for her to say she wants to change her Servant?

Chapter 264 Team Name: 'A Monster of Twenty-Eight'

Orlando Reeves, the police chief of Snowfield City and also the Master of the pseudo-Caster, who is one of the participants in the Holy Grail War, is feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Not only because he had recently received a report from his subordinates about 'multiple suspected heroic spirits reacting in the Northern Valley,' and one of them was the fake Archer Gilgamesh who had appeared the day before yesterday and left an extremely large crater in the southern part of Snowfield City.

After all, he knew a little bit about the situation. At that time, an unidentified servant launched a blatant attack on Gilgamesh, who was staying at the casino hotel, from outside the city in broad daylight. The attack even shattered the windows of their police station due to the aftershocks.

Although no one has died in the city yet, some people have been injured by broken glass.

Based on the information he extracted from that old man Francesca, the Servant's class seems to be a special class called Avenger, independent of the seven classes.

Now their police station has received another report from the public that something has smashed a large hole in the wall of an animal hospital from a distance at extremely high speed.

Fortunately, no one was on the second floor at the time, so no one was injured.

but……

From a distance, at extremely high speed, easily shattering the wall...

This familiar description made Orlando frown.

Is it that Avenger from outside the city who has made his move again?

Damn it, what is he trying to do?

Gilgamesh has already gone to fight him, hasn't he?

Taking a deep breath to calm himself, and after snapping out of the question of 'why that servant continued to attack the city,' Orlando began to think about what was so special about that animal hospital that made it worth attacking.

A sudden attack on an animal hospital... Could it be a Servant's stronghold there as well?

Thinking that the place might be occupied by a pair of Servants and Masters and used as their base, he instructed his subordinates to gather the team he had assembled for this Holy Grail War, called the "Twenty-Eight Monsters (Clan Calatin)".