I made some changes to this chapter since I forgot to put on this scene so bad. So If you're just here then enjoy.

They run towards through the interior of the castle slaying every skeletons and zombies on the way that were guarding.

"Let's hurry! If we're too slow, she'll summon another Servant!" Jeanne mentioned.

"Well guess we don't need to let that happen, huh?" Nexus said as he lifts every one of his Servants up behind him. They all let out a shriek of surprise from the magus's strength to carry several Servants at once. "Let's get going!" he said his words increasing his speed dashing to where Jeanne Alter would be. He shifts his eye locating Jeanne Alter's magical energy but there happens to be someone else in front of the door. He could figure out that Gilles is there and stops to where he is putting everyone down.

"It has been a long time, Holy Saint."

"Gilles!"

"Who knew that you'd show yourself here in Orleans. I am impressed." Gilles complimented. "However! However! Why is it that you stand in my way? You come here destroying everything, and now you intend to kill Jeanne d'Arc! She is the true Jeanne d'Arc! She is the true darkness that is reveled within her!"

"Then as the light, I must face her." Jeanne declares her answer to confront her counter self to prevent any further disaster from her hometown as he clenches her banner pointing towards to Caster as everyone goes into battle. The frog-eyed Servant opens the book with human-leathered cover as the purple mist starts to spread around them. Shapes then starts forming with an image of tentacle-like creatures around them.

"Looks like someone made preparations for this gathering." Nexus said as they charged in on them. As the first tentacle creature jumps on Nexus, he grabs one of its tentacles and throws at them behind him.

Artoria Alter swings her sword in a circular motion cutting them into two slicing and cutting them into bits whatever it gets her and then another jumps to her left but she disintegrates them projecting a dark beam from her left hand.

Mash swings her shield swatting the creature off and then smashing it down to end it. Three more comes behind her but was saved when torrents of flames were burnt from Kiyohime. Jeanne stabs at one down from their mouth-hole. She swings to the other and then stabs downward. More creatures start to increase on numbers.

"What's with all of these giant starfish? It's dripping all over my clothes!" Elisabeth complained killing the tentacle-like creatures.

"So filthy. Master, please protect me." Kiyohime said hiding behind Nexus.

"D-Do your job as a Servant, okay?" Mash retorts.

"Alright, stand back." Nexus said to them with his eye shifting black to pale-blue. He inhales his breath and blows an icy wind at the herd of the monsters freezing them. He then shifts back to Earth slamming the ground to his fist creating a shockwave around him shattering all of the frozen creatures into icicle fragments leaving no monsters for Caster to summon now that the mist was cleared.

"Curse you, curse you, curse you! Then I shall take you on!" Gilles was infuriated now that he couldn't summon any minions but to use his familiar. "Come Prelati, grant me your power!" the magical reading increases tenfold emitting intensity through his area.

"I guess that's a Caster for you." Nexus remarked.

"You go on ahead, Master! We'll hold this Servant off!" Kiyohime stepped forth to Gilles.

"Right, go settle the score with the last boss!" Elisabeth agreed joining in.

Nexus gives a nod. "Alright, meet you girls in the altar." he calls to the others to come but sensed Jeanne being hesitant of something. "Jeanne, you made your mind up so it's no time for you to hesitate."

"R-Right, I'm sorry. Let's go!"

"Knock, Knock." Nexus said his greetings kicking the door out revealing Jeanne Alter to be interrupted from the summoning.

"That was faster than I thought." Jeanne Alter thought loudly. "I didn't even have the time to modify the spell"

"Dragon Witch." the original Jeanne called to her alias in front to her counterpart.

"You finally arrived, huh? Gilles is -alive, but delayed. That's fine. Everything's ready anyway." she mentioned sensing Gilles behind the group and somebody else are handling him.

"Dragon Witch, there is something I want to ask of you." Jeanne starts the conversation before they engage to fight.

"It's too late for that." Jeanne Alter cuts her off not wanting to hear anything from her irritated self.

"Just a simple question. Do you remember your family?"

This made Jeanne Alter look at her not expecting to hear that type of question even the others were confused except Nexus. "What?"

"I asked you a simple question. No matter how vivid my battles are, I remember far more of my life as a simple country girl. Even my dark self should remember those peaceful days. No, it's precisely because she remembers them-that the hatred and betrayal brought her such pain."

""Remember those peaceful days," huh? Guess she's lucky enough to have one." he black-haired magus muttered to himself from Jeanne's point of view of remembering family. It's not because that it was neither good nor bad, it was because that it didn't concern him at all to reminisce a family. He wouldn't even consider to be born with one nor would he ever intend to look for one. Society rejects the facts into both what he is and who he is that nobody would ever offer a hospitality to him. Nexus could care less about remembering a family of someone that never accepts him.

"I…" Jeanne Alter tries to get the words out of her mouth but can't seem to remember it. He could assume that an Altered Servants would be counter opposites of the original one but doesn't possess identical memories to each other. Those that have different personalities, possesses different memories as to what they were as of now.

"You don't remember, do you?" Jeanne concluded concerned of her counter self not having the memories of a family within her at all.

"Shut up! What does it matter? Whether I remember or not, I'm still Jeanne d'Arc!"

"That's right. it doesn't matter if you remember. I shall not defeat you with anger, but sadness."

Jeanne Alter was pissed at her giving her a look of pity and couldn't take it as her summoning circle starts to glow. "My Servants!" she calls out to them glowing pillars of light and several silhouettes steps in that takes on the shape of Servants as more and more comes in.

"These are… The Servants we saw in Fuyuki! And so many of them!" Mash exclaimed.

"So these are the copies that portrays an image of us, I see. Let us cut them." Saber Alter said coldly readying her sword.

"I didn't have time to summon normal Servants, but I can summon as many of these as I like."

"Really?" Nexus wondered in thought if her words were truthful but could probably be bluffing to intimidate her enemies as the Shadow Servants surrounds them.

"Master, they're coming!" noticed Mash readying her shield up.

"Yeah, let's go." Nexus responded landing the first strike on the Shadow Servant in front of him crashing towards the wall. Another swings to his side dodging at every strike the Shadow Servant does to attack Nexus. He strikes the wrist of what it was holding elbows to his torso and then delivers an uppercut. Once Nexus jumps, he delivers a spinning axe kick down at it. While he was airborne, he sensed an arrow shooting at him dodging and weaving at every shot controlling the air around him. He shifts the arrows' directions and made a widespread shot at ever Shadow Servants to damage them.

Everyone cleared out not seeing any Shadow Servants to spawn. 'Guess she was bluffing after all.' Nexus remarked as they focus onto the white-haired Ruler.

"Ugh…so they broke through that swarm?" Jeanne Alter said as she clicked her tongue now that she doesn't have much magical energy to manifest more Shadow Servants.

"We're going to settle this now, Dragon Witch." Jeanne declares as she steps forth clenching the saint-flagged banner facing Jeanne Alter.

"Will despair win or hope win. Which of us can surpass the other?" Jeanne Alter clutches her dragon-flagged banner staring with golden murderous eyes into resilient blue. "Let's see if you can surpass me-Jeanne d'Arc!" both Jeannes dashed forth as each of their banner clashes to the other.

Jeanne Alter attempts the first strike at the lower leg but Jeanne blocks it countering it. Both the original and Alter clashes each of their strikes into their banner. They block each of their attacks and counters one another to get the upper hand but neither of them is going to let them. Both of them jumps off eyeing each other anticipating what their next move should be.

"It seems like we're in a stalemate. Honestly, I'm surprised." Jeanne Alter said commendably. "Despite having your powers limited, you still managed to hold your ground. Interestingly enough, I wonder how long you will manage to hold onto yourself."

"My endurance wasn't from my own self. It's the fact that someone had faith in me and that the people that are with me supported me. As long as there's someone who puts faith in me, I won't ever feel discouraged to myself and to not lose."

"I see. How unsightly." Jeanne Alter scoffed at her baseless assumptions as she couldn't believe that the people she was betrayed still puts faith into her. This made it irritating for her to believe in such ignorance as she starts to hold her cross sword. "If you really think if someone puts faith in you to triumph." Jeanne Alter pulls it out rising it up gathering up magical energy. "Then we'll just have to burn the main source now, wouldn't it?"

Jeanne widened her eyes horrified what her meaning was.

This is the howl of a soul filled with hatred-

The white-haired Servant directs her sword to her target before calling her Noble Phantasm.

La Grondement de la Haine!: Roar, O' Rage of Mine

Fire erupts from the floor running towards to the target. Nexus' eyes triggered instinctively seeing what the outcome is. The flames were coming fast as it nears to the group. But it wasn't the Saint she was targeting, its flames were targeting to someone else and it was Nexus. Torrents of flames surrounded Nexus as he was in a pinch and saw that this would happen but pretty darn late at that as everyone looked in horror that Nexus was being targeted.

"Senpai!"

"Master!"

"Nexus!"

He could hear them until it was deafened by violent flames sprouts into pillars around him covering himself. Nexus feels the floor he was standing began shifting unevenly as he could expect what's coming next.

"Oh son of a-" before he could say his last words the floors were instantly sprouted of the first dark spears impaling into him and then another, and another, and another until several of them dig deep through his torso sticking out behind his back. The flames died down and everyone sees the display of their Master being impaled from several spears horrifically. The spears then disappeared and Nexus flops down to the ground facing down like a dead corpse.

"Senpai!" Mash rushed to his side and Black Saber along kneeling down to help him. "Doctor, please check Senpai's condition, hurry!"

"A-Alright!" Dr. Roman checked the vitals on Nexus' condition and he went silent. "I-It's no good, the wounds it caused him are too fatal and it would be impossible to treat him in this condition he's in."

"No…" Mash uttered shakenly as she couldn't bear to see her master to die like this.

"Then do you have anything better to do, you bastard!" Saber Alter barks angrily at Roman and he yelps from her intimidation but gets an understanding of it as there's no possible way to save Nexus even with minor healing spell.

"Hahahaha! How's that, rotten Saint!" Jeanne Alter laughed witnessing the death that Jeanne was helped by getting himself killed in the process and couldn't be saved. She shadowed the eyes from her bangs gritting her teeth shaken for what she did. "Someone that had faith in you has now end up in a bloody pool of corpse! It's a pity he had to die but he won't move any longer and is better off dead! Are you still gonna keep going after all of this?" Jeanne Alter provoked to the blonde Ruler trying to suppress her shaking that was impulsive that her Master was killed and couldn't save him. Until a cough of blood was heard, her shaking stopped looking at him.

The two Servants were shocked to see him cough out blood and was slowly breathing. He slowly gets back up. Everybody including Jeanne Alter was surprised looking at the man being burned and impaled several times in the process and is still kicking. Mash offered him to help but he held his hand up knowing that he could get up on his own.

"Nexus…?" Jeanne muttered his name.

"I-Impossible…"

"Doctor, I think Senpai is alive!"

"Ehhhhh!? Nexus is alive!? How!? Wait the injuries…"

He slowly gets his balance back up groggily. He almost fell but quickly regains his balance as he clutches onto his bloody torso. "Gargh, those things hurt like hell, huh?" he groaned as they were witnessing that made them speechless. He was breathing heavily as the holes on his stomach starts to close in until all of the damages were completely healed.

"They're regenerating? All cells are green. What is going on here?" Dr. Roman said confused seeing the conditions coming back into its normal state.

Nexus exhaled and took a deep breath now that the bleeding stopped and the wounds are closed they couldn't believe what they just saw.

"You… can regenerate yourself?" Jeanne asked to Nexus.

He chuckled at this since one of his secret is out now. Well, he knew it would come to this eventually so he might just explain it to her. "I guess you figured that out, huh." Nexus said and sighed at this. "Well, what you just saw was me getting up and kicking. I didn't any healing magic in me at all. It's just the part of me that keeps me self-sufficient and regenerated no matter how many punishments I take, it'll grow back."

Jeanne hears his explanation unnervingly as she asks her next question. "Exactly how long have you had that?"

"Heh, well probably for a long time? Hard to tell now that I've lost count." Nexus said sheepishly acting like he couldn't remember at all. His Servants gave the look of concern. For someone to possess regenerative healing for a long time, who knows how painful it was for him to go through being traumatized. But it didn't look like Nexus had heaviness like that at all.

He brushed himself off after his recovery. "Well, lady. You just didn't happen to kill me after all. Hell, I don't think that you can kill me with those. But you got me going Jeanne Alter. Since you attempt to kill me…" he blurs himself and instantly comes in front of her.

"I might as well repay the favor." everyone see Nexus to recover and then out of nowhere lunges a deadly kick to her. She barely blocked it with her banner pushing back from the impact. Jeanne Alter regains her balance and the black-haired magus engages her in a savage barrage of punches and kicks at her that leaves her in a defensive position. She needs to find a spot to counter as he kicks her, she dodges and lunges the spear of the banner to his face. But Nexus dodges sideways barely losing a bit of his hair.

'Tch, too slow. I need to improve my eyesight after this.' he thought to himself irritatingly as both of them hold their grounds clashing to their own attacks. Nexus uses ice to immobilize her movements but was instantly burned by her flames. He dodges her horizontal swing leaning back and spins a 180 degrees kick releasing a razor wind to her face. She dodges it giving some distance and pulls her sword summoning several shadow swords above Nexus. Jeanne Alter gave its commands and Nexus swerves himself dodging the raining swords as he gets close to the white-haired Ruler. However, the Ruler counters him when they both counters each other with the same kicks.

Nexus backs off from seeing this and makes caution to Jeanne Alter making a smirk. "Heh, surprised, Magus?" she said to Nexus confidently. "After seeing your movements. I had to make a change of myself to match so that I wouldn't have a hard time fighting you, thanks to the Grail."

"She could modify herself? Is that her skill?" Mash shocked.

"Self-modification. A skill that can remold their own body or merge others' body parts. For her, I believe it would be the first." Nexus said anticipating what her next move would be. Honestly, he could say that would the most versatile skill out of all the skills. Someone that could read one's movements and then modify itself to match them. It could have similarities of adoptive muscle memory or those that could copy movements from his eye. He went back to his combat with Jeanne Alter striking and blocking one to another continuously.

"There's something I want to ask. Why is it that you take the Saint's side. Surely, you don't like humans as much as I do." Jeanne Alter inquired to the young magus while kicking but he blocks the attack and counters.

"What makes you say that?" Nexus responded while the both of them are fighting when she was referring to the term "humans".

"It looks to me that you never intend to save those humans at all, back then. Or perhaps that you're not human at all and they scorned for who you are."

"True, it's not like I'm everybody's favorite. But what's the problem? At least they won't bother me." Nexus retorts casually.

"Then, why? Why is it that you take the Saint's side. Why do you stand against our vengeance to those people. Is it because you believe that she's the real Jeanne d'Arc. And I'm just a fake of someone that shouldn't exist!?" Jeanne Alter exclaimed delivering a heavy strike on Nexus but he blocks it with bangs shadowed over his eyes.

"Is that your reason killing Jeanne d'Arc?" he said in a hushed but piercing voice. "Real? Fake? Don't give me that crap. Real or fake are nothing more but subjective terms. It doesn't matter you're real. It doesn't matter that you're fake. Have reason to be your true self. Have reason to be in someone that are opposite to your own self. Those kinds of bullcrap doesn't matter to me at all. I don't give a damn whether you're real or fake. It doesn't matter to me at all." the ground was shaking with intensity and he grips on the banner tightly and pulls close towards her.

"BECAUSE THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS YOUR EXISTENCE!" he shouts kicking her into the air.

"YOU HAVE MANIFESTED HERE! AND THEN YOU LEAVE YOUR MARK HERE!" Nexus pulls his arm in a flaring blaze and punches her and then phases to her.

"YOU FEEL THAT EVERY BONES AND BODIES ARE YOURS!" he does a barrage of punches and kicks in midair with lightning element as he increases his speed and strength. He then finishes rolling kick enhanced with lightning and kicks her down crashing to the floor. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER SHE'S THE REAL ONE! OR THAT YOU'RE THE FAKE ONE! IT DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL! he shouted angrily before fading out and fades back in to where she could see each other eye to eye. White-blue meets with golden eye as he raises his electrical fist making his final move.

"BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE FEELING NOW! IT PROVES THAT YOU TRULY FELT THAT WHETHER IT'S IN THE INSIDE OR THE OUTSIDE! THIS PROVES THAT YOU'RE REAL AND THAT YOU EXIST!" Jeanne Alter looks at him in shock from his words and then Nexus finishes by smashing her down to her stomach and then creates a massive explosion of electricity blinding throughout the altar forcing the other Servants to cover their eyes. Once it dies down, they slowly look back as they see Nexus standing there with Jeanne Alter in front of him lying there motionlessly.

"I see…that's how it is, huh..." Jeanne Alter muttered as she didn't want to waste the energy to get up. "To..be defeated by the owner of the Holy Grail…and then to be lectured by an enemy. How pitiful..."

"Oh, what a pitiful sight you are, Jeanne!" a voice said coming towards the altar which happen to be Gilles.

"Gilles…" she uttered his name now that he is here and the other two Servants came running towards in the throne room joining Nexus.

"Okay what the hell just happened? Didn't you say you could handle him?" he looked towards the both.

"It wasn't our fault! He suddenly dashed back to the room where you barged in and made a break through it!" Elisabeth protested.

"It's like he noticed something troubling and had to get back quickly." Kiyohime said.

"Got back quickly? Did that mean…" he looked back to the woman that he kicked and Gilles went to her side.

"Do not worry, Jeanne. Now that I, Gilles de Rais has come, you can rest." he assured to Jeanne Alter. "I will take care of everything. You will never die. You're just a little…tired… Close your eyes, and rest. It will be done once you are awake."

She heard Gilles words and eased all of her muscles and lays down. "Yes…you're right. If you fight for me, I can rest. It's a shame really… that Master…for him to lecture me about existence rather than thinking about being real or not...I wonder...I wonder...would we see each other as the same if I were contracted by him..." she slowly closed her eyes dispersing into a golden light leaving the Grail on the floor.

Nexus looked behind at Caster in silence not saying anything as he picks up the Grail to finish what she started guessing what all of this exactly means. "It wasn't her that possessed the Grail… It was you, wasn't it? You simply wished for her as your ideal type of Saint."

"Exactly. She herself was my wish. The Holy Grail itself."

Everyone was surprised that Nexus could guess that from his intuition and Saber Alter wasn't surprised considering that his intuition isn't usually wrong from someone's aspect.

"You wished to the Jeanne that you wanted her to be, didn't you?" Nexus continued.

"Yes, my wish was to revive her from the bottom of my heart. But the Grail rejected me. From its omnipotent power, it said it couldn't do it."

"Well it wouldn't be considered as an omnipotent now, does it?"

"It was only for her! Instead I created the new you, Jeanne! The Saint I believed in! That I longed for! I created her! Jeanne d'Arc-the Dragon Witch. The Grail itself!" Gilles exclaimed all of his frustration wishing that he wants the Jeanne that he believes in as everyone else forsaken her but refuses to accept that.

"…I see. But she never learned that, did she?" Jeanne said feeling sympathy to the Caster to believe her unanimously. "But even if you revive me, I would never become your Dragon Witch. It's true that I was betrayed and mocked. It could only be described as a tragic end. But I could never hate it. It's where you and the others lived."

"…Your words are far too kind." Gilles thanked her at least taking her words for granted. "However it made you forget one thing. Even if you hated this country-I MYSELF HATED THIS! Because I swore I would destroy it for its betrayal!"

"Gilles…"

"You will forgive. But I will not! Not God! Not the King! Not even the nation! I'll destroy them all. Kill them all. That is the wish I made upon the Grail! DO NOT GET IN MY WAY, JEANNE D'ARC!" he screamed in angrily as he opens the book as Nexus was seeing magical energy overflowing from him as the floor begins to cover the purple fog once again. He sees the mana gathering around him and begins to chant of a ritual. They expected for the tentacle-monster minions to come but nothing comes except for the tentacles begins to swallow Gilles down.

"Everybody, heads up! We got a big one coming!" Nexus called knowing what's coming would be huge as an enormous giant sea creature sprouts out reaching to the roof. The Gigantic Horror is revealed from Caster's Noble Phantasm Prelati's Spellbook: Textbook of the Sunken Spiral Castle and giant tentacles surrounding Nexus and the others with the giant.

"LET US FINISH THIS JEANNE D'ARC, SAVIOR OF FRANCE! I'LL DEVOUR YOU AND EVERYTHING ELSE WITHIN IT!" Gilles voice resounded as he is hidden within the Gigantic Horror and their tentacles starts to swing at them.

"Dodge!" he commanded as everyone avoided its strikes in different directions. Everyone dodges and swerves the movements of the mass of its tentacles. Nexus kicks through one of them with fire cutting it but regrew itself. "So, it regenerates, huh?" he wondered in thought looking towards the others trying to cut, crush, or burn them to get out of their way. But every time it damages, it regrows new limbs.

"It's no use Master. No matter how many times we try to kill it. It just grows back!" Mash said tiredly. "If this keeps going. We won't be able to defeat Caster not in this state that he's in."

"What's with all of these!? I know that those tentacle freaks are weird. But these are the worst! They just grow back every time I cut them that it's gross! I don't want them to ruin my skirt!" Elisabeth complained.

"This is indeed troubling." Artoria Alter admitted. "Consecutive strikes won't work against them. We need something that can obliterate them at once not to give them any time to regenerate."

"Can't you use your Noble Phantasm for that?" Mash requested.

The golden-eyed Saber shook her head. "It would be effective enough to kill it. But mine runs through dark magical energy. The energy that Caster is giving could be the same thing so it'd be pointless to work against it since it would only get stronger if I used it."

"I guess I have no choice…then…" Jeanne slowly grabs her cross sword that is the Sword of St. Catherine but was stopped by Nexus gripping her wrist to prevent her. She could tell what she's going to do from Nexus' eyes and didn't like it. "Please let go, Nexus. It's the only way to stop Gilles' rampage."

Nexus sternly looks into her blue eyes. "There is no need for you to sacrifice yourself to end this. I'm not letting you go over that same end. And besides, what makes you think that it's the "only way" to stop."

Jeanne widened her eyes but then goes back sighing. "I see…I suppose that I wouldn't be surprised for you to have a trump card."

"Exactly. And comes with a free charge." He returns to the Gigantic Horror in front of him and slowly opens his two hands inflames with orange-eyes. "Hey meat dildo! Feeling a bit cold under the waters?" he provoked the monster gaining its attention to him.

"I got something to warm you up from that dragon's breath." he said saving from that excessive fire absorption he was taking back from Fafnir. He generates enough flames as it starts to generate massive amounts of fire but contained within his two hands.

"Burn." he said sharply releasing a giant beam of fire at the giant creature covering the whole thing. All of its tentacles and the host was being burned in the process and shots through the entire castle wall bursting out through the structure into the distance.

Everybody outside stopped when they saw the blast coming out from the castle of its destructive power it displayed.

"What a tremendous power!" Georgios gasped. "Is that a Noble Phantasm?"

Siegfried looked at the burning beam convinced that it wasn't coming from a Servant. "No, that's our Master. He must have confront something big if he was using that." he smirked.

"The Master!? For a magus to have such power like that!? How incredible!" Georgios stunned convinced that Siegfried didn't lie and was stunned on how powerful that mage was capable of. He probably thinks that someone like him could combat against several Servants at once and they would have a hard time dealing with him.

"Honestly, I think to myself that he gets a bit too overboard on his actions." Amadeus commented with Marie giggling next to him.

"It's fine, isn't it. He's having fun after all."

"I don't know whether he could call it fun or outrageous at the same time." Wolfgang groaned seeing through all of Nexus' actions to be crazy outside of normal concepts. "Well, at least it was lively traveling with him and the others."

"You're right. The more the merrier. I enjoyed my time being as a Servant. It might be fun to get summoned with everyone contracted with him."

"Well I don't see any problems with that. Although, Sanson would be annoying but I'll manage somehow." Amadeus reluctantly agreed for everyone to be with Marie but would hold that off.

Back in the castle, or what's part of it, was desolated from the blast as there are no signs of tentacles anywhere completely annihilated from the flames except Gilles lying flat on the ground completely covered with soot and cinders. Also parts of his bodies were charred and clothes were burnt showing weak signs of magical energy.

"Impossible…" he muttered as Nexus gets close to him to make sure he's not making any signs of movement. "Even with the power of the Grail, I still…fell…I'm…still…" he tries to recover but all his body were numb and he couldn't feel any movement responding to him as his legs were incinerated along with his left arm.

"Gilles. Enough." Jeanne stopped Gilles coming towards him and kneels down next to him. She looked at Nexus hopefully and he nods saying that it's fine. She thanked him going back to Caster. "Get some rest. You did good. Believing a naïve little girl, you even liberated this town. No matter who you are now, I believe in who you were back then. Until the very end, I have no regrets. My death will light the way for someone else. That's all I ever wanted."

'Let death be a guidance for someone else, huh?' Nexus mused to it looking back. 'Every death I see are nothing. What makes it different to guide someone if they keep losing the ones they love?' he sighs heavily looking at the two.

Jeanne offers her hand to the person who believed in her. "Let's go back. Back to where we belong."

Gilles sighs slowly not accepting the offer and turns his head away. He doesn't deserve to take this kindness for granted from what he had done. It was his sin. He chose this and needs no forgiveness. "…Jeanne. The only place where I would belong…is Hell…" he said his words slowly disappearing into the golden light revealing the Holy Grail once more.

Nexus picks it up and Dr. Roman opens the comm. "Grail recovery is complete! The timeline restoration is about to start!" he announced as he starts making preparations for them to go back home. "Rayshift preparations are ready! It's time to go back."

"Understood, Doctor." Mash responds.

"Hmph."

Nexus didn't say anything and walks away with the Grail along with his two Servants.

"You're leaving? So soon?" Jeanne asked them and Nexus stops his tracks.

He chuckles. "Sorry, I'm not much of a festive for victory. We got work to do." he looks back to them smiling. "It's a pleasure working with you. It's been…a trip."

"Oh, you do?" Elisabeth said looking sadly. "Hmmph well, I've achieved my goal, so that's fine. You handled yourself fairly well, Puppy. Goodbye." she says her farewells and disappears now that the irregularity has been recovered, all of the allied Servants are no need and they have done their task.

"Oh, this is goodbye? Don't worry Master. No matter where you go, I'll follow. That's what love is, after all. Farewell." Kiyohime vowed to herself and disappears.

"I don't that's what love should be like. But have it your way then." Nexus said his words casually as he could see the other Servants from the outside disappearing one by one. "Guess their job is finished...for now."

"Jeanne!" someone calls out running towards the throne room that reveals to be the younger Gilles seeing Jeanne d'Arc.

"Gilles!"

"What happened? Wait, you're alive?" he questioned but didn't delve into it now that Jeanne is here. "France is in ruins but with you alive it's more than enough."

"No, that's not true."

"What?"

"This world is nothing but an ephemeral dream. I died, and you mourned. That is history, an unchangeable fate. But if fate intersects with you and I, we'll fight together… I can feel it. This is only temporary."

"Even in death, you still care for this country…forgive us, Jeanne! We…France betrayed you!" Gilles confessed his sins to her along with the other soldiers followed him.

"It's all right. let's at least leave this world with a smile." Jeanne told them.

"Master…" Mash said to her Master.

"I know, let's go home. Mash, Artoria Alter." he turns as the space starts to distort and forms a portal leading back to Chaldea.

"Mash, Master, and also Saber. I expect that my meeting with you, our battles, even the lives we lost… All of this will disappear, won't it? That makes me a little sad." Jeanne said.

"I guess so. They wouldn't remember what happened here. But at least it goes back to the way it is. That's more than enough." Nexus said.

"True, it's a joyous thing that they'll return to our time. But there's something that makes me even more sadder." she looks up to the mage's black eyes of calmness but she can tell that behind those eyes are filled with grief. "It's you."

Nexus didn't show any retort of anger into her since it's pointless to cover it up now that the Ruler's intuition was inarguable.

"For you to express something in your view of hatred. It's saddening that you must have experienced such things that made you hate someone and you carry this burden of grief more than yourself."

Nexus didn't say anything as her view of him was true to the extent and the Servants looked at him with concern. "Does it matter? This is how I live for and I intend to carry it. There's no need for you to be mindful of that."

"Senpai…"

Jeanne stood there silent for a moment but lifts her head up. "It's fine. When the time comes, I'll be there to help and save you."

Nexus scoffs doubtfully. "I don't need any saving. Also, if you're going to make an assumption like that, you're going have to get real lucky for me to summon you. So don't get your hopes up."

"No, I'll be sure to be here for you. I can't just leave someone to carry such grief and to live through it. My intuition can be pretty good."

"We'll just have to see about that."

"I'm praying to it, Master." Jeanne responded as the golden particles begins to disperse herself. "I'll be seeing you, and thank you. Even if everything disappears. I'll sure to remember that I'm not through with you." and she disperses and everybody enters to the wormhole and into the light.

"Welcome back Mash, Nexus, and Saber! Good work!" Dr. Roman greeted to the three. "Thanks to you, the first Grand Order was completed and we got the Grail. The Rayshift was still at an experimental stage, yet you both did a fine job. You are now full-grown mages and Chaldea is very proud of you!"

"Calm down, Doctor. We just finished the first one. We have to worry about the other six." Nexus tells the doctor celebrating too early for this.

"Fou! Fouu!" Fou squeaked coming out from Mash's shield.

"Fou made it back too. Are we sure it's not a lucky animal of some sort?"

"I think the more appropriate term for him that he has "exceptional" qualities." Nexus answered as he would expect the little creature to have some features that are beneficial to him.

"Oh, welcome back." Da Vinci said walking towards them holding a note pad. "Here's your latest observation records so take a look." she hands over the records to Roman and his eyes widened in shock seeing the results. The 15th century France has been restored to its normal timeline.

"Still no sign of that pine tree, though." Nexus mentions not seeing Lev Lynor anywhere from his sights. 'He may be somewhere else in the other Singularities.'

"Right, he has more than enough power. If we end up being in the same timeline as us, he'll act." Dr. Roman agreed.

"Well, we'll just have to see to it then." Nexus stretches his arms from the work he'd done.

"I bet you want a warm bed and shower, right?"

"Nope, not just yet."

"Eh?"

"I made a promise to have a little sparring match from someone's offer." he looked towards Artoria Alter and smirks.

"It seems you haven't forgotten, haven't you?"

"You asked for a fight with me, right? I might as well see to it. Roman, you have a training simulator, right?" Nexus asked Roman.

"Y-Yes, we do happen to have one. It'll take time to make preparations for it so you can wait until tomorrow."

"I see, well I guess I'll just get back to bed then." he exits the command room walking through the halls with Mash and Artoria Alter by his side.

"Good work, you two. The sparring is gonna hold for a while so bear with it, alright?" Nexus asked to Black Saber.

"Very well, I might as well recover my strength until the battle. Do not forget."

"Don't worry about it. I'll remember." he pats both of their heads from their hard work of aiding his battles and restoring the Singularity. Nexus noticed Mash being silent for a moment thinking of something.

"What is it?" he asked to Mash directly.

"Ah, no, I was just thinking about Gilles de Rais. I read about his history, or so I thought. His heart broken by Jeanne's death and ends up becoming a murderer for hundreds of children. He wanted to destroy France even then he still wish for Jeanne d'Arc to live. That was the source of his rage, his hatred. A pure rage that could destroy a country." Mash explained solemnly to witness a concept of hatred and has never understood.

"Raw feelings are powerful, aren't they? They can destroy the world."

"Not all feelings could destroy the world." he said to the lilac-haired girl.

"Eh?"

"Everyone has their own kind of hatred. The hatred of those that angers them and gets over it and the hatred that is uncontrollable driving themselves beyond insanity. It changes them to who they are when something scars into their minds and that they can't accept it. They just want to punish to those responsible from their own jurisdiction. That's just how they become. Sometimes you redeem them, sometimes you don't and you would know what to do. They're humans." Nexus explained to Mash on how people would change from the sources that makes themselves to have hatred that cannot be controlled and transforms that are contradictory to their own character.

"Humans, huh… I don't have much experience about it. I don't have deep feelings, or a heart that can handle them. But I'd like to learn them."

"What's the rush? If you wanted to learn about feelings, then why try so hard when you're actually doing it."

"Eh?" she was confused not understanding what Nexus meant.

"You displayed your opinion about someone and your point of view on the basis of hatred. You get flustered when I take the time to pat your head. And you displayed on something what you want to do. That's the part of being human if you feel like it."

"I see…" Mash whispered thinking around it if what Nexus. "Also, Senpai. Don't mention something so embarrassing." she pouts at him mentioning about headpats.

"See, you're doing it." he chuckles turning towards the door to his room. "Well, we did something that no one can but managed to pull through. Get some rest, cause we got work for tomorrow."

"…Senpai?" he stopped when Mash called out to him.

"What?"

Mash went quiet for a moment hesitant to ask him but wishes to hear his answer and asks away. "Did you ever had any hatred to someone?"

He pause for a moment hearing that question and decides to answer truthfully. "Yeah, there were a lot of things that I hate. Things that I hate. People that I hate. And things that are bounded to fates that I hate the most. I won't deny that the things I have done from my own hatred towards them. But that doesn't mean that I would ever use it to destroy everything. It's pointless. I live to it. I don't regret it at all. Good night." he said his words to her opening the door to his room and closes behind him.

He goes to his bed and sits on it. Nexus releases a deep sigh and lays down. "Finished the first one now we got to deal with the other six." he said talking to himself. "Things are going to get hectic around here soon." he slowly closes his eyes.

"How long has it been since I've had a bed to sleep one?" he slowly drifts away to his sleep and suddenly hear rasping noises coming from his ear. Images begins flashing to his eye. The destruction of the world, people dying, screaming. Chaos flashes before his eyes of explosions, buildings crumble, piles and piles of corpses forming, and then sees the battlefield where both armies laying on the ground motionlessly. Shards of weapons sprawling across the field. Everything was desolate, no signs of survivors anywhere as the scene moves down on the dead corpse revealing two bloody hands in front of the corpse.

Nexus gasps suddenly getting up as the scene has ended breathing heavily. He control his breathing and was sweating from all of those scenes. He exhales slowly and puts his hand on his face in a stressful manner.

He sighs tired from seeing visions. "This again. I really need to manage these if I'm ever going to get a decent sleep."

Okay, now that I have finished this singularity chapter, I'm going have to ask you this question now. Do you want Gudako in this story? I'll be setting up a poll for this just to make sure you get this note. After that, I want to know which Servants should Nexus summon. Let me have your opinions on the reviews and thank you for reading this and I'll be seeing you later.