"Good morning. Did you sleep well, Senpai?" Mash comes in greeting to her Master. He groans and gets up groggily hearing the lilac-haired girl waking her up.
"Well enough." Nexus responds in a casual manner completely natural that he wasn't affected by his first attempt of sleeping.
"I'm glad to hear that you got plenty of rest." she feel relieved to hear that as Fou barked energetically. "Fou is pretty fired up. I'm sure he's had more than enough sleep and breakfast. There's no telling what it'll be beyond the Rayshift so please get enough sleep."
"Yeah yeah." Nexus starts getting up from his bed stretching.
"Also, I want to ask something, about that dream…" she asked to him.
"What about it?" Nexus looked at Mash. He has the basic knowledge of Servants having mental connections to each other and could see dreams.
"Well, Da Vinci says that Masters and Servants under contract could see each other's dreams. I'm not sure what that means but I didn't happen to see one."
"Well I get the gist of seeing Servants' dreams from their pasts. But if didn't see anything then there's no problem at all." he assured to the girl. "Before we get started. I would need to go somewhere first."
"Oh, right. You said that you'll be having a match with Saber Alter, right? Are you going to be alright? Should I come?"
"No worries. She's been asking for this to fight me one-on-one. I would be unfair if I had someone for support. So I can't disappoint her. I kept my words and I'm not going to ignore that." Nexus committed to his decisions since she would be looking forward to see the capabilities of how far her Master's strength has grown.
"I understand. I'll be here outside the simulation and cheering for you. Do your best, Senpai." Mash encourages her upperclassmen as Nexus nods in acknowledgement.
"Yeah." he responds exiting from his room making his way towards the battle simulation. Once he enters, he meets Dr. Roman and Da Vinci inside.
"Oh, good morning, Nexus." Dr. Roman greeted.
"Yo." he gave a casual salute to them and goes to Da Vinci. "Is everything ready?"
"Yup, all of the preparations for the battle simulation is up and ready. We adjust the simulation to make the place durable for anything destructive of what you could do and Alter over there." Da Vinci pointed over to the visual of the simulation field. "She's been waiting for you."
"How long?" Nexus asked to her.
"Ever since you woke up. She didn't want to miss you coming here early. So she insisted that she would greet you in combat." Da Vinci answered to him. "We also made some adjustments changing the field to your likings."
"I see." Nexus noted. "Well for starters, let's just leave it the way it is, for now. Sound good?"
"I don't mind. We'll be watching from the monitors. Let us now once you're done."
"Alright." he enters through the simulation. He walks onto the white floorboards spacious enough to be a landscape. Nexus finally meets the tyrant king in stationary position resting her palms on the pommel of her sword.
"So you come into my presence, my Master. It seems that you kept your promise after all." she said while her eyes were closed. "Hm, satisfactory. Then, let us begin…" she pulls her sword out and gets into combat stance and flashes her golden eye ready for battle. "From the beginning when you struck my Noble Phantasm out, I've always caught my interest in you, Nexus. I'm grateful to have a Master like you. But I would want to witness your strength of your powers once more with my full strength. And prove himself that I shall acknowledge you as my Master."
"Well I can't prove anything simply for some tattoo. Might as well get on with it." Nexus takes his stretches. He stretches his arms first and then stretches his legs for warm-ups.
"Alright, so, who's gonna start? Me or you?"
"As the saying goes. Strike first then give tongue." Artoria Alter said as she makes a dash to land a preemptive strike but Nexus fades out dodging her attack. He fades in behind her delivering a kick but she expected that and attempts to counter rotating her sword at him but expects this and fades out again. She attempts where his next place would and instinct tells that he's below him and uses an overhead slash at him. Nexus blocks the sword from his left forearm creating an impact throughout the field.
Nexus then shifts his arm to a knife hand pushing the sword sideways and roundhouse kicks her to the distance. Artoria Alter recovers landing her feet and makes another dash to him and stabs him and everyone were shocked to see him stabbed. "Disappointing, and here I have high expectations of you. But you landed the first strike at me, so that's commendable for you."
Nexus didn't feel any pain at all. He simply just smirked at her and was dispersed into flames. The Black Saber widens in shock to see this. "A clone?"
"Don't be so sure of that." She looks to see Nexus above her with inflamed fist. Artoria Alter avoids it just as his fist smashed the ground into exploding blaze. He suddenly dashes out from the flames and sidekicks to her. She blocks it with her sword only to be met when her sword was glowing orange from Nexus' kick and explodes on impact.
"To think that he forced me to dodge from those flames and suddenly force me to block on his kick and planned it to explode it in contact." Saber Alter thought to herself skidding to stop herself and smirks at this. "He's giving me no time for me to think what my next attempt would be. Or maybe those eyes of his predicts my movements and preemptively counters it. Could they be Mystic Eyes?" she wondered in thought as Nexus never explained about his eyes.
Suddenly she felt the ground shaking. The ground starts to shift itself as the floor she's standing at losing her balance and jumps out. While she's mid-air Nexus flashes to Alter using his left arm enhanced with lightning element. Saber Alter makes a counter and enlarges her sword swinging at him as they collide onto each other repulsing each other from the impact. She raised her hand firing a dark beam and then Nexus counters it firing an electrical beam from his hand and both beams collided on each other exploding. However, Saber Alter takes her opportunity to preemptively attack on him and uses her instincts landing on the shattered debris in midair using as a springboard and dashes to where Nexus is. She takes it only to be met with an x-block from him and then he delivers a stamp-up kick to her body. She rolls herself in midair and both fighters lands to the ground.
"You've put beyond my expectations, Nexus. You really are strong. But, this is far from over. Because this time…" she starts gathering her magical energy from her sword and sets her position to her back right. "…I shall hold nothing back. You might have overcome this once. But now that I'm at my full strength, we shall see if you can still keep up." her dark emits with dark energy violently beginning to deploy her Noble Phantasm.
Excalibur Morgan!
She throws her sword in an upward slash releasing a giant mass of magical energy coming towards Nexus as he prepares himself.
'I'm not sure if I still got this for a while. But I would need to keep myself sharp if I don't. It needs to be now or else I find myself incapable.' he thought to himself closing his eyes.
'Fire in my right hand.' his right hand glows with orange hue of fire.
'And lightning in my left." then it crackles with electrical energy with the flames.
'Focus on the elements individually…' as both the elements generate focusing to his right closing to his fist. 'Merge…"
The beam comes close to him. His right arm grows both lightning and fire violently but composes into his fist into his fist to make an attack.
'And, release!' Nexus' eyes shot open revealing heterochromatic eyes. Orange on his right eye and electrical-blue on his left as he makes a dash towards the giant mass of beam. He then throws a punch to the Noble Phantasm in contact resounding a massive shockwave where dark meets the combined elements of fire and lightning. It makes a breakthrough piercing through its way to the target. Everything was over in a flashing light. Once it dies down there was nothing but debris around it and two figures close to each other. Where Nexus' stopped his fist making contact to Artoria Alter's armor ending the match.
She doesn't move and leaves a satisfied smile. "I lost." she admitted her loss to Nexus and stands in front of her. "I have now seen how strong you are. You must gone through great measures to prove yourself."
"I didn't train myself for anybody's cognizance. I only did it so that it's necessary to prevent anybody that harms to those I care about." Nexus said to his Servant thinking it for a while.
"I see, then…" she suddenly pulls the hem of his clothes down and kisses him and slowly parts. "I shall be your sword that destroys anything in your path. I accept you as my Master, as well as my lover."
Nexus slightly chuckles at this as he already saw this was coming but didn't complain about it. "Isn't a bit too soon for a confession?"
"I don't mind. I do like those that are strong both outside and the inside. However, you don't seem flustered from that kiss. Did you happen to have experience?"
Nexus thought it over into his head from hearing that. "Well, I do happen to have experiences with kisses and others."
"Others, huh…you assume that you have bedded with women before?" Artoria Alter asked curiously from Nexus' experience of relationship.
"Well, I don't want to spoil the secrets now, do I? Besides, I don't brag over it nor do I take pride in it. Whoever that intends to accept who I am wholeheartedly, then I'll return it to them."
"So you take others' feelings than yourself, I see…" Saber Alter muttered to herself and Nexus signals them raising his hand that they're finished. The whole simulation has now been reformed to its rightful place and the two exits the battle simulation.
"Welcome back, Nexus." Roman welcomed them. "Man, I have to say. That was crazy. I know that the both of you were strong but I never thought that you would go overboard almost destroying the simulator." he said tiring as he wouldn't be surprised from Nexus now that he knows his powers and could be considered as the strongest Master known to them only.
"Hey, that's just how I roll." Nexus answered as he turns to Mash but was already leaving from the simulation. He sighs aware of what she's feeling right now. "She saw it, didn't she?" he said to them which he meant about the kiss and they nodded.
"Yeah, ever since she saw that. Thoughts couldn't process through her mind. And then she just struts and leaves." Da Vinci said. "You know, you should really make up to her."
Nexus sighs dejectedly from this having no choice but to put up with it. "Guess I have no choice then, huh? Well, better set up something for breakfast."
Da Vinci lifted her eyebrows in wonder. "Set up for breakfast? I didn't expect someone like you to cook since you don't look the type to be one."
Nexus shrugs at this understandably since he had most assumptions from people that he could cook. "Meh, it's not like most of the staffs could handle the cafeteria. So, I might as well make something for breakfast. Oh right I forgot. First, I should get to summoning more Servants. Just want to make it more roomy."
"Roomy?" Da Vinci asked questionably. "I didn't know you wanted company."
"I just wanted to make sure we can have all the help we can get."
"Okay." she chuckled. "Then, let's get you to the summoning system." Da Vinci then directed Nexus to the FATE system and he was standing in the summoning circle.
The genius Servant then gave him 30 pieces of Saint Quartz on his hand. "Here's your quartz for the summoning. Three is one but 30 gives you to summon multiple Servants at once." she explains to the black-haired magus and looks at the quartz in his hands.
"I see." Nexus looks at the quartz in his hands and he walks forward to the summoning circle. "Let's see…uh…" he thinks scratching his head on what the summoning ritual is.
"Silver and iron to the origin. Blah, blah…fill, fill, blah, blah…" Da Vinci sweatdrop from his chanting thinking that he's just doing it purposely or that he doesn't care at all.
"Is he really intent on making a ritual for this?" she asked to herself.
"Here is my oath. Yadda, yadda, yadda…alright is this even necessary? Who does these kinds of rituals anyway? You know what, f*ck this. Come on out and get your ass to work!" Nexus declared as the circle was amplified from his prana channeling as a beam of light sprouts forth.
"In the end, I don't think that he would any incantation at all considering his mana is abundant." Da Vinci commented after she was observing his magical energy. 'Although, concerning from his mana. It's massive. Not just the quantity, but also the quality. It's unbelievable. Just what is he?' she pondered this to herself. "If he had such skills like that then he would be considered as a Heroic Spirit at that point. He also have the qualifications to be a Servant. But why is that? Does he have any history?'
As the pillar of light dies down. A figure immerses from the steam and steps forth revealing a young woman.
"Servant, Ruler. Jeanne d'Arc." a familiar voice calls out from the shadow that is now introduced as the Servant Ruler, Jeanne d'Arc. Her blue eyes opened and she saw a familiar pair of black eyes and smiled. "It seems that I finally get to meet you now, Nexus."
All that Nexus could respond was a defeated sigh. It's not like he hates to see her again. It's just the fact that summoning her was a bit too soon and that she just came up just after they finished on Orleans and that it would be troublesome of her declaration she put on there. He just didn't expect that Jeanne would come so soon. "Geez, even though I summoned a Servant. I never thought that it'd be you when we got through Orleans." he muttered to himself shaking his hand on his face.
"Now, now. There's no need for you to act like that, Nexus." Jeanne reassured to Nexus. "Now that I'm contracted to you. I will be helping along with your journey saving humanity. Also, I wouldn't forget what I said back then."
Nexus down casted in silence knowing what she meant. "There's no need for you to do that. You'd only be wasting your time over pointless stuff."
The blonde Servant shook her head in disregard. "No, it's not pointless at all. I'm doing this because I want to." Jeanne said. "I'm not sure how you lived in your past life. But I do know that you carry a great burden in you. And you've gone through so much to where you are now. That's why…" she took her Master's hands and held it together. "You don't need to do everything on your own now. As your Servant, I'll be by your side so that you won't feel lonely anymore."
Nexus looks at her for a moment. "Who said that I ever felt lonely?" he said to Jeanne giving a confused look but didn't argue about it. "Well, whatever. Do whatever you want. It's not like you'd give up so easily once you've made up your mind."
"Yes. I'm looking forward to it, Master." Jeanne said with a smile as Nexus senses another surge of prana on the circle with another pillar of light comes up.
Another Servant reveals to be a tall, slender, woman with long purple hair wielding chained daggers with the ring on the end. It reminds him of that shadow Servant back from Fuyuki. She was wearing black attires with purple trims knee socks all the way up to her thigh and a purple belt choker. The woman has a marking on her forehead and wears a blindfold.
"Servant, Rider. Medusa." the woman announced herself as Medusa. "If you require a sacrifice, do feel free to treat me as you wish."
Nexus eyes at her silently. "Treat you as I wish, huh?" he mumbled to himself. "Alright." He silently walk towards to Medusa going to her height and she was caught off guard for someone to be slightly taller than her. Without notice, he immediately removed her blindfold off revealing her pair of lavender eyes.
"Kyah!" she shrieked from his sudden action. "Y-You can't do that, Master!" she quickly covered her eyes. "If you caught sight of me, you'll be turned into stone." Nexus ignored her warning as he takes her wrist and looks into her from his black eyes to lavender for a brief moment. Surprisingly to her, he isn't effected by her Mystic Eye of Petrification that not even those with high magical power could be resisted.
"How? How are you not affected by my Petrification?" Medusa widens her eye speechlessly looking at his eye.
"My eyes are immune to every optical effects that are used from the outside. Basically, you can't petrify me from your eyes." Nexus explained to her. "It's a shame to live through that, since you have such beautiful eyes." he said bluntly making the others flinch from this as the purple-haired Servant blush and looks away in embarrassment.
"Wh-Wh-Wh-What are you saying!? I don't have anything appealing to me due to my height." she stutters flustered from the black-haired magus's remark.
"Is your height the only thing you're self-conscious about?" he sighed as he casually puts his hand on her lavender hair gently stroking. "There, now you don't need to think about your height if someone's petting you, right?" Rider kept silent as she was embarrassed being petted on so suddenly.
"Hoh, after your summoning, you've now decided to make another woman smitten with you? You truly are a womanizer." Da Vinci teased making Rider blush even more hearing that.
"Just where did you get that assumption? Also, why are you calling me a womanizer? Do I look like someone that takes the initiative?" Nexus said.
Da Vinci tilted her head questionably. "You're not?"
"I'm not." he blatantly retorted.
"Geez, you're such a spoilsport." she pouted.
"I see, to think that you're bold to make another move at a woman. Surely, you don't value your life, Master." Saber Alter threatens with a dark aura emitting from her sword.
"It's not what you think, Alter. And I'm sure I wouldn't value much of my life since I can't die."
"There you go saying such things." Jeanne said. "Listen, you shouldn't think that your life is meaningless. Even though you can heal yourself, you should at least value your own self. Because there are also people that concerns your well-being."
Nexus looks at her for a moment supposedly knowing that the others like Mash, Roman, Jeanne, and perhaps his Servants that cares and intends on helping them. Thinking about it almost stresses him out as he sighs dismissively. "I don't need to hear such troublesome words." he walks past her leaving FATE. "Also summoning is over, isn't it? Then, I'll go whip up something."
"Eh? Senpai, can cook?" Mash shocked not knowing that Nexus have the skill to cook despite his looks.
"I do cook on my travels a lot. But I could at least make something decent for our guests here before our briefing."
"Eh? But, Master. Us Servants don't need to eat since we don't starve." Jeanne said.
"True. You wouldn't starve to death. But that doesn't mean that can't taste it." Nexus responded. "Besides, there's someone else who's been expecting for what I do." he peers at Artoria Alter as she nods in affirmation. He then sighs in exasperation. "Well, just wait in the cafeteria, alright?" and he walks out to the door.
"Here. It's not much, but it'll suffice." he places plates of eggs and bacon.
"I'm still surprised that you could cook, Senpai. You just look like the type that doesn't cook at all." Mash remark before rephrasing her words to be less harsh. "Uh no, I don't mean that in a bad way. It just surprised me."
"Is that so?" Nexus said not bothered from that. "Well I do get the impression from that. I didn't feel like doing labor work. But I had to do something back then. Also, I just feel like to fix something simple for the others."
"Something simple, is it?" Jeanne wondered. "If that was the case…" she looked at the pale-blonde woman with three burgers in front of her. "Why is it that Saber has burgers?"
Nexus scratches his head to think of a proper explanation. "Artoria Alter preferably wants to have something that contains high calorie since she had a lot of mana consumption from Orleans. Probably the fight with Lancelot putting her Mana Burst a whole lot and our fight. Couldn't blame her, since I saw her mana to be so low." he explains before he gives his statement.
"Although, it's not much but I hope the meal is decent enough for your take. If it's not, then give it to me. I'll take care of it myself."
Once everyone had their meal, everyone went to the command room. "I'm surprised, Senpai. I didn't know that you have experience in cooking. But I also didn't expect that the food you made to be so good." Mash commented.
"All I made were just a couple of eggs and bacon along with some burgers. But that's all there is. I just I made it decent enough. I wouldn't call my cooking to be that good." Nexus said modestly.
"That's not true at all, Nexus. The eggs and bacon were delicious when I remembered back home. It has a nostalgic feeling." Jeanne acclaimed.
"Yes, it was a nice simplistic meal." Medusa nodded in agreement smiling.
"That's right. I was expected no less from my Master. The burgers were delightful from your commendable skills. I was right to make you as my cook." Saber Alter nodding approvingly.
"Who said that I'd agree to be your cook? Anyway, let's just get back to what we're doing." Nexus changed the subject once Dr. Roman comes in.
"Oh good morning, Nexus, Mash." Roman greets the two as he sees a few new people comes in. "I see that you summoned a couple of new Servants. Although it was surprising that you summoned a Servant class Ruler."
"Honestly, I find it unexpected for Jeanne to come here. I don't know it's probably because of popularity poll since they want Jeanne to come along with me. Don't know why, but that's how it is." Nexus shrugged.
"What are you talking about, Nexus?" Jeanne asked confusingly.
"Nothing. It'll be a pain to explain for you so don't think too much of it." Nexus naturally brushes it off. "Well, what do we got Doctor?"
"Right, well. We've already set the Rayshift so your next destination is to the 1st Century Europe. Specifically Ancient Rome, where the great empire grew from Italy to the Mediterranean Sea."
"Ooh Ancient Rome. That sounds like fun! I sort of want to go!" Da Vinci said enthusiastically wondering how much she can research of the Roman era from its history, technology, or tradition.
"I'm sure you have analyzing to do. So please partake your Roman pleasure for some other time." Roman scolded.
"Geez, I've always wanted to have a chat with the Roman Emperor. Especially Caligula or Nero. I bet we'd have a lot in common." Da Vinci pouted. "Well at least I'd enjoyed the food Nexus made. Even for a genius like me, he was quite generous to offer me a meal for a break of my work."
"Like I said. It wasn't anything special." the black-haired man said modestly before going back to Roman. "So, where to?"
"Imperial Capital Rome. It's also called Rome so it's geographically similar than last time. The location of the Holy Grail is unknown and there may be historical shifts."
"And you're sure we'd be at the accumulated point in Rome? Cause I honestly expect that there'd be a glitch where we could be at some random point." Nexus said.
"Well possibly. But we're not sure where the Grail is and observation precision seems unstable."
Nexus sighs exasperatedly but decides to stick with it. "Well, whatever. I'm sure we'll be able to find it eventually. So don't stress over it."
"Right, you really are reliable." Roman remarked going back to summarize the objective. "As how the First Singularity goes, reach and fix it. Retrieve the Grail or destroy it. I wish you the best of luck. And come back safe."
"Don't you worry about it, Doc." Nexus reassures him. "Besides, you got the comms to watch over, anyway. Is everyone ready?" he looks back to his Servants as everyone nodded with affirmation. "Alright." he turns back walking towards the Coffin.
[Unsummon Program start. Spiritron Conversion start]
[Rayshift starts in 3,]
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[All procedures cleared. Commence Grand Order operation]
"Let's begin." The portal now shines a light opening a vortex pulling towards them into the blinding light to AD 0060, the Roman Age. When a time Roman Numerals were all trendy.
"Teleportation was a success, Senpai." Mash confirms the situation where everyone are located at the grassy hills savoring the moment of feeling the natural world.
'I guess she was never allowed at the outside world, huh?' Nexus thought watching Mash enjoying herself on the natural world for once. Well, not like he could complain about it since he's more than aware of the fact that Roman knows why she isn't allowed to be outside nor to interact with most people. Guess the only thing she could look at was through the screen of the outside world. Just thinking of it stresses the hell out of him.
"Is there something wrong, Nexus?" Jeanne asked curiously.
"No, nothing." he responded nonchalantly as Fou popped out from Mash's chest. "I guess you've also decide to come along, huh?" he wasn't going to ask why he would come out of there but decides to brush it off.
"It looks like we do have a ringed sky, after all. Guess we're in the right time." Nexus said looking up.
"So this is what it looks like when there's a Singularirty?" Jeanne said looking at the sky.
"Yeah. You could've mistaken it to be a giant halo to pray the gods for our safe journey."
"Really? Then…" Jeanne begins to kneel down praying to the sky.
"Wait, you took that seriously? That joke was supposed to be intentional." Nexus corrected.
"Eh? It was a joke!?" Jeanne said in shock not noticing that he was just teasing her.
"It's surprising that you're just going along with it." he remarked going back to his comm. "You getting this, Doctor?"
The beeping monitor comes in from Roman. "Yes. Although as usual, we can't get a good look at it. But we'll continue to investigate. You guys should just focus on what you're doing."
"Yeah, about that, Roman." Nexus starts off turning to Roman. "It doesn't seem to me that we've landed Rome or perhaps the entrance to Rome, at least. Care to explain?" he asked giving him the look as the doctor looked at their location again.
"Eh? I'm sure I fixed your teleport position. Probably a suburb area."
"Are we in the right era?" Mash asked.
"Yes. It's definitely the 1st Century where the Singularity is. During the reign of the fifth emperor, Nero Claudius, that's for certain. But I still don't get why we're so far from the capital."
"Maybe they're too busy having a battle of some unexpected outcome somewhere rather living in a prosperous world of Rome. We are at an irregularity timeline here. Look you can just see those groups over that hill fighting." Nexus pointing at the two forces fighting casually.
"Eh!? There's a battle going on over there!?" Roman said shockingly. "It can't be. There were no full-scale wars near the Roman capital in that era."
"It's a Singularity. Things like these happen when history rewrites itself. But for now, let's head over there fast. Mash, Alter, Jeanne, Medusa, let's go." Nexus said dashing out over the hills with his Servants following behind since they don't need to hold back their speed to wait for their Master.
Once they arrived at the scene two forces are clashing. However, the difference in numbers are overwhelmingly larger than the others. There isn't any terrain environments to overcome the number of forces since they're fighting at the capital nearby.
"Well, for one. It's going to be one-sided if this keeps up." Nexus remarked looking at the scene. It seems that the larger forces wears regalia of crimson and gold while the other wears the same color palette but a different design. "I'm guessing that the smaller ones are the Romans." he guessed clearly at a disadvantage in numbers.
Although if they were at a disadvantage, they would've been obliterated already and invading Rome from the start. The possibilities are mostly that they may have some strategy to scale the numbers in-between from a tactician or a certain vanguard that keeps conceivable number of kills. However, if they had some strategy, there would've been some shifting from the numbers and battles. Not that battles in war would change at an instant but there are some progression of forces moving from one side to the other. His only guess would be the vanguard, although a vanguard could also be considered as a tactician too but in any case Nexus decides to get a closer examination on the battle with his Universal Eye for farsight. Upon closer inspection, he could see a person very distinctive than the other forces.
The person he's seeing is a young woman with pale skin, blonde hair, and bright green eyes swinging a red sword with black designs whose height wouldn't be accepted on extreme roller coaster rides or water slides but she's at a decent height. She was clad with red and white dress with gold trims and transparent skirt. Although, from her design of dress, it seems that she isn't bothered much to show much of her exposed skin, especially from the rear.
'I suppose that the vanguard there doesn't mind fighting with such risqué clothing in the battlefield, huh?' thought Nexus. To what reason her taste of style is does not concern to him. He isn't the kind to judge on people's taste of style no matter how exotic it is. And there are some times that he appreciates their outfit and likes it. Nexus would remember that time in Dún Scáith when he points out her sense of style and that it shows her curves to which she interprets that if he is interested in her body. In the way that a question can never be avoided, he admits it and claims that he has no shame of it. After that…
"Wait why am I thinking about it at this time of day?" Nexus said to himself giving his Servants confused looks. He waves it off not to worry about it now back to the red woman. It seems that she's leading several smaller forces and that she's facing a horde of soldiers on her own. From what he could see that she has exceptional battle skills from a human. Yes she is human and not a Servant. He couldn't see any magical energy from her just biological organs and her steady breathing.
"It's remarkable that Nero could hold out a battle for this long." Nexus said as he could guess that the short woman is no doubt the fifth emperor Nero Claudius. With battle skills like those, it's significant for a historical figure to make an impact of the battle. Even just a little.
"Eh!? Wait, Nexus! You're saying that's-" before Roman could start asking how the black-haired magus knows that woman was Nero he cuts off for his call.
"Let's go." he said in a calm matter dashing through to the horde of army and the others follow through. He takes one spot over the large army and makes an entrance from his punch creating a wide shockwave blowing the area around the soldiers. They were caught off guard on both sides especially the woman clad in red had to look over what was going on from the enemy forces going into unsteady form as several other spots are having the same problems. However this was no time to think for the Emperor. As long as they even the odds there's need for her to be concerned. Supposedly, they could be reinforcements she called from the capital but they sealed it off to prevent anybody coming in and out.
As the other Servants engages against the regalia forces, Nexus focuses on his own surrounding from his enemies. In a blurring speed, the black-haired man swerves left and right striking his enemies anywhere that comes nearby him. Utilizing his Universal Eye gives him an advantage to perceive the surroundings of his enemies' next moves and counters them with one-hit to two-hit combos. He could sense an arrow coming at his way dodging it and grabbing the shaft. His eyes shift into orange infusing the arrow into fire as he throws it back at the archer creating a wave of explosion dealing number of forces within the area. As the soldier delivers a swing at Nexus, he was thrown aside from his blazing back-spinning kick.
He was backing away trying to analyze how many are left and could sense a familiar presence back-to-back. He didn't need to look back because he knows that it's his Servant, Artoria Alter.
"How is it going against forces far from your country?" Nexus asked amusingly.
"They're the same as most of these useless grunts. However, fighting against a foreign force than mine did bring some stimulation, at least." Artoria Alter stated. "It is quite a pain using the flat of my sword, though. Your orders?"
Nexus could guess that she's not satisfied but was holding back a little ever since France. As for her Master, it wouldn't be bad if he could at least return the favor for her. "They're enemies. Go wild. Don't let anyone escape."
The black knight smirked in satisfaction. "Yes, my love." as both of them blurs out dashing into their side beating the enemies. Nexus goes in one delivering a punch creating the flames to combust in impact. The forces were ordered to take over Rome but didn't expect some monster that could wield fire in physical combat as he takes them down one by one. Then Nexus decides to wrap things up spinning both of his legs creating a large wave of flames at the soldiers around him. He wipes hand as he could see that all of the forces are defeated leaving them in cinders.
"Well guess that's everyone." Nexus declare as he doesn't sense any hostile presences before looking back to his Servants. "How is everyone?"
"Enemies have been subjugated. No problems, Senpai." Mash confirmed.
"I've taken care around here too, Nexus." Jeanne waved happily with the enemies she dealt with all grunting in pain.
'How can she give a smile with all of those guys beaten down?' Nexus thought but shakes off going to how Medusa's doing. So far, there were no problems as she already dealt her area.
"No problems." she answered.
"Good to know, now then…" he looks into the Roman soldiers cautious of their appearance unsure whether they're enemies or not. It is expectant for Nexus to see their reactions like that. However, the red swordswoman ordered her men to sheathe their swords and conclude that the battle is over for now as she brings her attention to them.
"You there! Are you reinforcements from the capital?" the woman in red demanded given from her short stature it's no doubt that she's definitely the fifth emperor as Nexus guessed. "I thought it was sealed off… No matter, I commend you! It doesn't matter if you were once my enemy. I am merciful, so I forgive you." she gives her regard of their assistance driving the enemy out from their capital, for now.
"More importantly, I praise the way you fought just now. A girl to brandish a weapon larger then herself. And not to forget a man formidable wield fire from his arms and legs. Umu, I must say I like you! You showed such aberrant beauty!" she nods her head in approval. "Very good, I shall allow you to fight my side along with such beauties. Revel in the ultimate honor! Still, you people dress in a strange fashion. Aren't you showing a little too much from a girl who is a foreigner?"
'Aren't you one to talk?' Nexus retort in his thoughts but kept it to himself since he doesn't to cause any troubles for her. He clears his throat as he should respond in a coherent manner not to expose on anything drastic. "It's nothing special. We're merely just travelers."
"What perfect timing!" the emperor exclaimed feeling relieved instead of anxious. "Do you serve Boudica? Her movements sure are shrewd."
He lifted his eyebrows mentioning that name. 'Boudica? Why would she mention of someone who just trampled her kingdom' from what he could tell. Boudica was the queen of Britannia holding a grudge from the Roman Emperor that conquered and defeated, especially to Nero. 'Could probably be a Servant if it was the case.' he thought considering that there were forces about to invade Rome so soon.
"At any rate, this victory belongs to us. I will reward you handsomely! Oh, do forgive me but I currently have nothing but my sword so it'll have to wait."
Nexus shook his head. "It's nothing special. We're simply just passing by. There's no need for you to give your gratitude."
"You have modesty. Umu, I like it! It will be taken care once we're back in Rome! Follow me!"
"Wait, didn't you hear what I just said? There's no need for you to do that!" Nexus exclaimed ignoring the fact that rewards were unnecessary. He sighed exasperatedly as he starts to follow her lead to where their next objective would be.
Sorry about the huge delay there. Graduated high school, now going into anxiousness, depression, well you get the idea. I just didn't get this done for a long time and start up a YouTube channel for a living…you know what you're not here to read about my blabbing. As long as you enjoy this chapter and hope that I could write on more chapters in the future. Probably…
