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

Fujimaru Ritsuka, who had extracted a great deal of information from Yuuto's words, had three questions in her mind.

Huh? Goetia is dead?

Huh? The attack on Hitoshi-shoku was resolved?

Huh? I've become the savior?

What exactly happened while I was asleep?!

With many questions in her mind, Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't help but turn to the side and subconsciously look towards the place where Goetia had been standing.

She saw Goetia, who had shed her demonic skin and was now lying on the ground like an ordinary human, slowly dissipating into particles of light.

Perhaps it was because he thought of Tiamat, who is also one of the evils of humanity, and Yuwatari once said that evil is also human love?

Fujimaru Ritsuka hesitated for a moment, then got up and, accompanied by Yuuto, carefully walked towards Goetia.

After all, the possibility of being defeated is small, but not impossible.

Mashu, who had just woken up and been abandoned, quickly got up, grabbed her shield, and followed.

……

Lying on the ruined ground of the temple, Goetia's lifeless eyes stared at the gloomy sky.

They lost.

but why?

How exactly did they lose?

I don't know, ......

It was as if a crucial part of my memory had suddenly been missing. Although none of my seventy-two consciousnesses knew the reason for my failure, I felt no resentment whatsoever.

All seventy-two consciousnesses within the body reached a consensus, acknowledging and accepting their defeat.

This is the only possibility.

But, still the same sentence.

why?

Snap... Snap...

Hearing the approaching sound of footsteps rubbing against the ground, Goetia, who had temporarily stopped searching for the reason for his failure, turned his head slightly and saw Fujimaru Ritsuka standing next to him.

"Is there something you need, Fujimaru Ritsuka...?"

It was still that same voice, like a cacophony of many different people's voices. Goetia watched quietly as Fujimaru Ritsuka and Yuuto followed behind them, along with Mash.

Although he didn't know the reason, he had already accepted his defeat and now had no intention of 'drag someone down with him before he left'.

"If you're just here to mock my failure, you'd better hurry, this temple is about to collapse..."

It's incredible. If it were him before, he probably wouldn't have felt any emotional fluctuation when saying these words.

But now it was different. As Goetia spoke these words in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka and Yuuto beside her, a strange emotion welled up in her heart.

Is that... an obsession...?

Feeling his endless lifespan gradually slipping away and death drawing ever closer, he seemed to finally understand humanity at that moment.

Is this lifespan? Is this life?

“I won’t laugh at you,” Fujimaru Ritsuka replied.

However, Goetia simply closed her eyes and did not respond as if she had not heard.

At that moment, the temple began to tremble.

The stone wall collapsed, and the surrounding giant tentacles turned into shattered stones and fell down.

Seeing that this space was about to collapse, Fujimaru Ritsuka stopped and Yuwatari raised his hand and threw out a card, summoning two [Dark Zebras] to quickly take them away from the center of the temple.

I wonder if Goetia will ever appear in his human form again...

On the way back to the Chaldea evacuation point, Yuuto, riding on the back of the Dark Zebra, couldn't help but feel uneasy.

After considering it, he decided whether to take action himself or let Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others take action if Goetia really reappeared in its human king form.

But soon he found that he no longer needed to hesitate on this issue.

Because it was time for him to leave the stage.

However, his departure time had actually come long before the duel ended, but he had been holding back until now before he could no longer resist.

Seeing his own body and the [Dark Zebra] he was riding begin to turn into golden particles of light, and feeling the speed at which the [Dark Zebra] was running, Yuuto looked at the Chaldea evacuation point in the distance, and could only helplessly shrug at Fujimaru Ritsuka and the other person whose expressions had changed drastically.

Oh wow, I'll send it.

Despite their attempts to slow down the Dark Zebra they were riding, Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu still fell to the ground due to inertia after Yuwatari suddenly left the scene.

Fortunately, Mashu's shield cushioned their fall, so they weren't seriously injured.

This pain is really, really painful...

After rubbing her knees and elbows through the Mystic Code, Fujimaru Ritsuka gained a new understanding of the defensive capabilities of this Mystic Code, which was supposedly no longer designed to protect her.

The constantly collapsing ground behind them spurred them to quicken their pace toward the evacuation point coordinates issued by Chaldea.

Communication with Chaldea was restored long after they left the center of the temple.

Dr. Roman, who could be heard breathing a sigh of relief, first congratulated them on successfully defeating Goetia and resolving the catastrophe of the burning of humanity, and then immediately urged them to leave the singularity as soon as possible.

When the two arrived at the evacuation point, they couldn't help but stop.

Oh, don't get me wrong, Goetia didn't attack in her human king form. Standing in front of them was Tiamat, who came to greet them.

Tiamat, who had been waiting for a long time, waved to the two travel-worn figures standing not far away and spoke softly.

"Ah~ (Mom's here to pick you up~)"

Volume 4 Fate/Apocrypha

Chapter 127 Genius!

"Hey hey! I'm back again!"

In the dark space, Yuuto, who had returned less than a day later, greeted the system pop-up window he had just seen not long ago.

Ever since he learned that this thing could communicate, he decided to explore the system to see what else he didn't know.

The first thing to do is naturally to start with saying hello!

【…】

Seeing that the pop-up window only displayed a string of ellipses that looked like it was loading, and there was no response to his greeting, You Du didn't care. He patted off non-existent dust from his body, looked around, and said.

"To be honest, I've wanted to complain about this for a while now. Couldn't you have made this place a little brighter?"

The ellipsis in the pop-up window remained silent, but the entire space suddenly lit up, as if the surrounding darkness had been replaced, and You Du appeared in a pure white room.

Yu Du: "..."

Okay, okay, it's either pure black or pure white. Your system's aesthetic is really quite minimalist...

Even if you just copy this skyscraper for me, I'll consider it an effort on your part!

Feeling like he was being brushed off, You Du waved his hand.

"Alright, alright, just follow the procedure..."

In an instant, it was as if the passage that had been blocked for many days was finally cleared. The ellipses that had been hanging over the pop-up window for so long disappeared, replaced by those familiar words.

[Congratulations on passing the third area. Would you like to proceed to the next area?]

Please note that due to the cost of the designated area, the area the fourth area will travel to, as well as the deck used, will be fixed.

This condition had been mentioned before the transaction, and Yu Du, already aware of and accepting it, nodded and chose to open the next area designated for him by the system.

He wanted to see where this system planned to send him.

【Great! Now please select the deck you wish to use in the third area!】

Despite being presented with a choice, Yuuto was actually only presented with one deck.

"Blue-Eyes White Dragon?" Yuuto looked at the fleeting image of a white dragon on the card back with some surprise. "This is the deck you recommended to me?"

why?

Could it be because his playable deck includes Dark Magician, and he just used the Egyptian God cards, that the president mistook him for Yami Yugi and chased after him?

Haha, just kidding.

After all, this is a deck assigned by the system, not a deck that popped up for him to choose. How could it possibly have anything to do with President Kaiba?

Could it be that he would actually come into the system for a dark game whose authenticity is uncertain?

"..."

Hmm... It just doesn't seem so reasonable that something as outrageous as this would be considered reasonable by Kaiba, the president of Kaiba Corporation, who would chase someone all the way to the underworld just to play cards.

Shaking his head to dismiss the absurd speculation in his mind, Yuuto selected the Blue-Eyes White Dragon deck, ready to see what class he would be assigned to this time.

Assuming that each class he is assigned to is unique, if we disregard the fancy classes in FGO and only consider the seven classes in a normal Holy Grail War, it seems that there aren't many classes left for him...

As for Haku, he doesn't fit the Assassin role, which requires stealth. Saber and Lancer might be suitable, but they aren't really a good fit either... Will he be assigned to Berserker after this?

Yuwatari started to worry that his mind might be affected by the berserk state...

On the bright side, perhaps his berserk state will directly transform him into a dueling mind?

The deck you selected is 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon'.

[Initiating the designation of the fourth world... Designation successful.]

The specified result is: Fate/Apocrypha

[Personal panel is being generated... The result is as follows.]

Real name: Yuwatari

Class: Avenger

Repeated (omitted)...

【Inherent skills】

Deck: Blue-Eyes White Dragon: A+

When summoned as an Avenger, the deck will be replaced with a deck primarily composed of Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards.

Duel Monsters Frontier EX

The special abilities granted to heroes who become turning points in Duel Monsters history transform the seemingly impossible into the achievable in a duel.

Alchemy Card: A+++

[Class Skills]

Magic Resistance: B

Props crafted. Cards: EX

Avengers: Excalibur

The skill is merely a means of proving one's qualifications as an Avenger, summoned solely because of the Avenger class, and does not actually affect the individual.

However... if the conditions are met, it might make me an avenger who, even if the other party runs to the underworld, will literally do everything in my power to come to them and seek revenge.

Forgotten Correction: EX

The ability to not forget memories is actually a symbolic ability, even without this skill one would not forget the memories one possesses.

Self-Recovery (Magic) EX

Once in the real world, one can continuously replenish one's own small source of magic power through the surrounding large source of magic power until leaving the field. Even without signing a contract with the Master, there is no need to worry about insufficient magic power supply.

Yu Du: "..."

Avenger... Let's leave that class aside for now. After all, there's already a Ruler Jeanne d'Arc in Fate/Apocrypha, so having an Avenger to go against Jeanne d'Arc isn't too far-fetched.

But your Avenger EX class skill is totally talking about Seto Kaiba, isn't it?

And this condition definitely refers to the incident where the president lost to Yami Yugi in a card game!

After all, who else besides him could come up with technology that could travel to the underworld just to find people to play cards with?