A Villain's Journey Begins in the Type-Moon World

After saying that, Wang Chong kissed Ghost Shark's lips directly. Ghost Shark's body trembled violently at first, but then seemed to calm down completely, letting Wang Chong do as he pleased.

After a long while, Wang Chong finally released his grip, smiling as he asked, "How is it? Are you satisfied now?"

Ghost Shark was slightly out of breath; this was indeed the first time she had experienced such an intense kiss. Her eyes were filled with a dazed look, as if she was still immersed in the sensations of what had just happened.

In the Eye of Depravity, Ghost Shark's favorability rating had now reached over 80 points. Wang Chong wasn't surprised by this; when the other shark took the initiative to kiss him, he knew very well that this little shark was very affectionate towards him.

"...Can I kiss you one more time?" When Specter spoke again, Wang Chong chuckled. He repeated Specter's request almost three times before finally satisfying her.

It's clear that marine life seems to particularly enjoy kissing. Wang Chong couldn't help but recall a rumor about an orca apologizing.

"...I came here to get treatment and eat delicious food, how did it suddenly turn into this?" Ghost Shark, who had finally calmed down, began to reflect on the series of events that had just occurred.

"So, does this mean we've become boyfriend and girlfriend?" Ghost Shark then looked up and asked.

“Yes, that’s it,” Wang Chong affirmed.

"..." Ghost Shark glanced to the side, whether out of shyness or deep thought, but she quickly looked back at Wang Chong and said:

"Okay then, my boyfriend... Hmm, it feels a bit strange to call you that, I'll just keep calling you by your name."

"So are we going to sleep together now? I've heard that in this kind of relationship, you have to live together."

“I really want to live with you, Skadi. But… is it really okay that you ran away? Skadi doesn’t know about this yet, but what if she wakes up and doesn’t see you…”

Wang Chong paused, not continuing. "Mei has me, Yonglin, you're empty, your Lin is here, is it..."

“That seems to be true…” Ghost Shark nodded, got up from Wang Chong’s bed, and said, “Then I’ll go back first. Let’s sleep together again next time if we have the chance.”

So, Wang Chong saw Specter off. After Specter had completely left, Wang Chong shook his head and said, "I feel like there were so many unexpected things happening today. I hope Arcueid and the others didn't get impatient waiting."

……

Five days passed quickly, and Wang Chong managed to tidy up his backyard in an orderly manner.

Artoria and her companion officially joined the Reunion Movement, each leading a ten-person squad to confront Ursus. Their first battle was remarkably successful, achieving a feat of fighting against a hundred enemies single-handedly.

Similarly, due to Artoria's outstanding achievements, Arcueid's position was freed up. Wang Chong then used the pretext of learning different fields to transfer Arcueid to work in the field of foreign affairs assignments.

In this way, Arcueid's quiet return to the world of FGO will not arouse suspicion.

As for the special forces team, besides their daily training, Wang Chong was also gradually cultivating relationships among the members. Whether it was Surtr, with whom he had a clear relationship, or Specter and Honeysuckle, with whom he was secretly pursuing each other, their feelings were consistently developing in a positive direction.

Especially Ghost Shark, ever since that night, he would find opportunities to sneak into Wang Chong's bed and drink sweet wine.

Good news, Ghost Shark's blood thirst is cured. Bad news, Ghost Shark JY is poisoned.

Although Skadi hasn't noticed yet, given enough time, even the oblivious Skadi will probably sense that something is wrong with her best friend.

As for the officially recognized couples within the Reunion Movement, Frostnova and Talulah remained as sweet and close as ever with Wang Chong. Especially on the second day after his return, Wang Chong generously rewarded and indulged his two girlfriends who had worked so hard to cover his tracks.

As a result, on the third day, neither of them could get out of bed for the entire morning. When someone came looking for them, they both claimed to be unwell and said they were resting, but they were discovered to have spent the night in Wang Chong's house. This caused quite a stir of gossip within the Reunion Movement, forcing Talulah to get up and temporarily quell the storm.

Fortunately, most of the core members of Reunion were happy to see the relationship between Wang Chong, Talulah, and Frostnova develop.

Everyone was just like the relatives during holidays, urging her to get married.

Finally, there's the matter of Huang. Ever since Huang was abducted into the Reunion Movement, she's been filled with curiosity about the organization's inner workings. Wang Chong didn't confine her, seemingly wanting to let this big cat have some fun.

At most, they would send Alina and Ines, one openly and one secretly, to monitor the other.

Alina's role is to openly guide Huang on tours and introduce the Reunion Movement's philosophy. When necessary, Huang can also participate in logistical work related to helping infected individuals.

Of course, the real task Wang Chong gave Alina was to subtly change Huang's thoughts and awareness, so that she would still appear to be a Rhodes Island operator on the surface, but inwardly she would be deeply attracted by the concept of integration.

Alina was adept at education, whether it was disciplining children or brainwashing the Empire's soldiers. With her political acumen, Alina always handled everything with ease.

Ines's task was simply to monitor Huang's whereabouts and report back to her. For Ines, it was merely a matter of marking a location.

Moreover, there are Ursus spies everywhere now. Without the leadership of the Reunion Movement, if an infected person wants to escape, the first thing they will face is Ursus's army of 100,000.

Wang Chong wasn't worried at all that Huang would run away; his only concern was that this big cat, who loved to wander into secluded corners, might accidentally stumble upon his good deed.

For example, now that it's late at night and all is quiet, he plans to take Arcueid and Artoria back to the Type-Moon world. After all, a whole day has passed since they disappeared, so he has to go back and give Chaldea some explanation.

As a result, the big cat didn't sleep in the middle of the night and kept running towards us. Helpless, we had to ask Ines to notify the patrol team to take the big cat back inside.

Chapter 83: Explanations to Dr. Roman

"I kind of regret bringing this big cat with me."

Hearing the noise coming from afar, Wang Chong shook his head and said.

"It's a minor issue. Alright, let's hurry up and open the dimensional gate to go back. I'm eager to see what Chaldea is like. Oh, and you mentioned that our home is connected to a singularity. We can go check it out first."

Arcueid exclaimed excitedly: "Mei, you, me, me, me, I, you, Lin, are here, are you here...?"

"After all, the time at home is now tied to Terra, right?"

“Yes, but we need to hurry. After all, one hour over there is equivalent to five hours here, so we can’t stay too long.” After Wang Chong finished speaking, he opened the door of the Dimensional House, and the group immediately went inside.

……

Sisters~ I missed you all so much~

After touring the Orleans Singularity area within the Dimensional House, Arcueid followed Wang Chong to Chaldea with great satisfaction. When Wang Chong gathered everyone together, Arcueid embraced all the female Servants she hadn't seen in a long time.

"These two must be the new sisters, right? Hehe, they both look quite cute." Arcueid greeted Kiyohime and Marie Antoinette, who had just joined the group, warmly.

Kiyohime seemed a little uncomfortable with Arcueid's overly enthusiastic personality, and would occasionally glance at Wang Chong to indicate that she wasn't good at handling such situations. However, Mary got along very well with Arcueid and quickly became friends.

Wang Chong also took the opportunity to get some fresh air and visit the Chaldea members to see how things were going.

"Ah? Mr. Wang Chong, you've finally come out of your room. I heard from them that you seem to need some rest and have to stay in your room. You haven't even eaten the three meals that were sent to you, which made Ritsuka quite worried for a while."

Upon arriving in the area of ​​Sheba, they found Dr. Roman still adjusting the parameters. Dr. Roman showed a hint of joy upon seeing Wang Chong and said...

"Well, I've rested enough. But rather than resting, I'd say I'm exploring something," Wang Chong said slowly.

"Huh? Exploration?" Dr. Roman asked, puzzled.

"I have a special ability: the people I kill will have their original true spirit devoured, allowing me to gain their memories."

Wang Chong lowered his voice and said:

"Therefore, whether it was killing Gil or the Demon Pillar, I learned something that I don't want anyone except you and Da Vinci to know. Including Ritsuka and Mash."

"It looks like this is going to be two very bad news. I understand. I'll find a suitable room to discuss this and call Leonardo da Vinci over."

Dr. Roman nodded and said.

……

Dr. Roman was very efficient and did not take up too much of Wang Chong's time. He summoned Leonardo da Vinci and selected a suitable room for discussion.

"So, to put it simply, I'll get straight to the conclusion... Solving the seven singularities cannot save humanity. This is the truth I've gleaned from the Demon Pillars and Gil's memories," Wang Chong said with utmost seriousness.

"What? How could this be? But how is this possible? Humanity has indeed been restored, the singularity has indeed been smoothed over, and history should be back in its correct place. Could it be that we've all been doing useless work?"

Dr. Roman exclaimed in surprise, "If this conclusion is true, doesn't it mean that everything Chaldea has done has been meaningless?!"

No wonder Wang Chong didn't let anyone else, especially Ritsuka and Mashu, know about this. It was undoubtedly a devastating blow to morale.

"It's not a wasted effort, Dr. Roman. Ultimately, it all comes down to something I heard... The singularity is not the cause of the complete incineration of humanity. Rather, it's a process that needs to be maintained through continuous incineration."

Wang Chong slowly said, "In other words, we have solved the singularity, but we have only re-established the historical connections. However, the root cause of the burning of human reason has not been resolved."

“I understand what Mr. Wang Chong means. What really needs to be resolved is King Solomon and those seventy-two demon pillars, right?” Leonardo da Vinci asked, having understood Wang Chong’s implied meaning.

"Indeed, the true culprit behind the burning of humanity is King Solomon, not the singularity. The singularity's role is to 'maintain' what? Maintain what? Naturally, it is the burning."

Wang Chong said, "If we use the analogy of human reason as firewood, the burning of firewood represents the burning of human reason, and the one who starts the fire is King Solomon. The singularity is the process of continuously adding firewood."

"You mean the function of singularities is to continuously burn away human reason?" Dr. Roman quickly realized what Wang Chong's analogy was and asked.

"That's right, the burning of humanity has never been completed, but has always been ongoing. The function of singularities is to interrupt the connection of history, so that humanity is always in a state of repairing the connection. And King Solomon can use this self-healing function of humanity to repeatedly burn humanity."

"That's right, the burning of humanity has never been completed, but has always been ongoing. The function of singularities is to interrupt the connection of history, so that humanity is always in a state of repairing the connection. And King Solomon can use this self-healing function of humanity to repeatedly burn humanity."

"Therefore, even if we solve the singularity, it will only make history completely interconnected, but we still cannot prevent the fact that human reason will be burned."

"However, although resolving the singularity did not prevent the burning of humanity, it does not mean that what we did was meaningless. Rather, it simply halted another of King Solomon's conspiracies."

"Another conspiracy? Isn't the destruction of humanity his conspiracy?" Roman couldn't help but wonder.

"Roman, don't you understand yet? If King Solomon only wanted to destroy humanity, he would have achieved his goal the moment he burned humanity. So why is he going to such lengths to create singularities and burn them repeatedly?"

However, Leonardo da Vinci had already seen through the logic behind this and explained:

"Let me borrow Mr. Wang Chong's analogy of firewood. If you just want to destroy a piece of firewood, you can simply burn it and leave it alone. But if you need to add firewood repeatedly, then the other party needs to obtain something else from the firewood—that is, 'heat'."

"As firewood is continuously added and burned, it generates a continuous stream of heat, which the person who starts the fire obtains to warm their body."

"So, Roman, now that we know that firewood is human reason, burning is human reason burning away, and the one who lit the fire was King Solomon—what else is there that we do not know?"

"'Heat' and 'to warm the body.' That is, what will be produced by burning and what King Solomon will do with these things. In other words, another of King Solomon's schemes."

After being reminded, Dr. Roman quickly realized what was happening and answered seriously.

"That's it. Informing you both of this means we need to understand more directions now. Besides resolving the singularity, the most crucial thing to saving humanity is to deal with the forces under King Solomon and investigate the conspiracy behind them."

Wang Chong slowly said:

"That's why I didn't come out all day. I spent the whole day walking along the timeline of history to verify the authenticity of the information I received."

"I see. No wonder there was no sound in the room. It turns out you've already left Chaldea, Mr. Wang Chong," Dr. Roman said in realization.

"Yes, and after that, I will continue to travel through the river of time. There are too many places to investigate, especially without coordinates, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Whether it's investigating conspiracies or finding those demon pillars and destroying them one by one."

Wang Chong slowly said:

"Therefore, I may be away from Chaldea from time to time for the foreseeable future. I will trouble you two to cover for me. After all, this matter is not suitable to be made public for the time being. If I gain any information, I will inform you as soon as possible."

After hearing Wang Chong's explanation, Dr. Roman and Leonardo da Vinci exchanged a glance, then nodded and said:

"Then I'll leave it to Mr. Wang Chong. We'll also try our best to speed up the process of deciphering the specific spacetime coordinates of the next singularity."

"While we don't yet know the details of the other timelines, these seven singularities are at least the most likely places where we can find clues."

“Yes, everyone has their own mission to complete. Everything is for the sake of restoring humanity and saving the world.” Wang Chong stood up and then said, “Then, I’ll bring you this intelligence for now. I may be gone for a long time. But I will come back from time to time to check on the situation.”

"Are you leaving now?" Dr. Roman couldn't help but ask.

"No rush, let's meet with Ritsuka first. I also need to properly reassure my family members. By the way... where is Ritsuka now?"

Wang Chong was about to leave the room when he turned back and asked.

Chapter 84: Rin Tohsaka's Thoughts

"...The practice area should be in this direction. Hmm, I didn't expect Ritsuka to be taking magic lessons with those kids." (The last line appears to be a nonsensical string of characters and doesn't translate directly.)

Based on what he had just learned from Dr. Roman, Wang Chong began walking towards the magic practice area.

"Phew, host, this way we won't have to worry too much about traveling between the two worlds. We have suitable excuses and reasons on both sides now," the system said in Wang Chong's mind.

"In the end, it's because the time difference between the two worlds is too big. It's not so bad in the Type-Moon world, since we can meet every day or two at most. It's just that we travel faster, so it's easy to fool people."

"But it's different in Terra. They either stay there for a few months or disappear for a long time. It's really hard to make up for it."

Wang Chong shook his head and said:

"Now, I need to send more suitable Heroic Spirits over there to help me speed up the conquest of the Terra world. After two months there, and once I've completed the conquest of the Second Singularity, the Reunion Movement will have enough time to build up its strength and launch the Great Revolution."

"Once we bring the entire ice plains under our control, we will be able to completely seize a portion of that world's power, allowing the magic of the Type-Moon world to flow into that world. At that time, Artoria and the others will be able to regain their full strength and fight to their hearts' content. Conquering all of Ursus, and even all of Terra, will only be a matter of time."

"Hmm... It's good that you have plans, host. And I also have good news. As one world gradually comes under your control, it can converge with the time flow of other worlds you control."

The system slowly said:

"At that time, the problem that the host is worried about will become smaller and smaller."

"That would be best." Wang Chong nodded, and then finally arrived at the magic practice room.

Pushing open the door, you can see Ritsuka fighting Illya and the others to a standstill.

Hmm... Ritsuka, an adult, actually managed to hold her own against the kids in magic. It has to be said that when Ritsuka was first recruited, she was a complete novice, knowing almost nothing about magic tricks.

Wang Chong looked around for a while and found that only Illya, Sakura, Fujino and Ritsuka were having a great time, while Rin Tohsaka and Kallen were studying on their own.

"Rin, why didn't you go practice with Ritsuka and the others?"

Wang Chong looked at Lin and couldn't help but ask.

"Uh... Teacher, you're finally out? Before you asked this question, did you consider that you haven't been keeping up with our progress for quite some time?"

After putting down her book, Rin Tohsaka looked rather unhappy and said...

“Indeed… I haven’t taught you for a long time. For a long time, I’ve either let you do whatever you want or handed you over to Semiramis or Sajou Aika for instruction.”