Hello everyone and welcome back to the start of chapter 63 of the story!
And here's a tip of advise for you guys now that November is here: never ever go outside in a cold November morning without something warm to cover your head. Or else you'll experience the most freezing pain in the brain during class. Do not recommend.
Also, count on FGO to make an event like Grail Front where you think 'Hm, it's just a new Grail Front event, I can probably skip i-" AND BANG! Ptolemy (Both Young and Old are cool af) Zenjubo (that Sniper Monk from Traum), THESEUS and another Pretender Class servant, Typhon. And here I thought it would still be a long way to have Theseus on the game when I was writting Okeanos a few months back lol. It amazes me how FGO has events like these that can go extremely unpredictable in a good way.
And with that said, let's go into the chapter!
DISCLAIMER: All the Nasuverse characters belong to Nasu and are property of Type-Moon, with the exception of the OC's that belong to me, the author
"Faust! You're back!" Peko exclaimed in pure joy, seeing the alchemist again and fine.
"About damn time you finally appeard!" Despite the way of talking, Mordred couldn't lie she too was happy to see Faust again, smiling to him.
"Blame the city. Almost every street here looks the same." Faust replied to her. "Fortunately, the sounds from your fight weren't that far from where I was walking at the moment."
"At least you picked a good hour to come back." Nala told him. "Things have just got harder here."
"I can tell by the size of the thing I'm looking at." Faust responded, staring at the giant Helter Skelter the group had begun fighting, putting aside all of the homunculi in the room plus Paracelsus himself.
"Another one hand to help would be appreciated now." Ritsuka told to the alchemist.
"I accept the offer." Faust responded, turning his head around to smile at the master of Chaldea. "In the name of your future, correct?"
Ritsuka smiled back, nodding his head. "Correct."
"Infamous alchemist and mage Faust. A pleasent surprise in seeing you here." Paracelsus speaked to the other alchemist in the room. "The chance that I couldn't had of meeting you in my first life, I got to have in this second one."
"I could say it's also my first time meeting you, Paracelsus." Faust responded. "I can't lie, that I also had a bit of a desire in getting to know such famous alchemist amidst our circle at the time. You've done amazing feats from the news that I could hear."
"Likewise." Paracelsus smiled gently, as if he was talking to a friend. "A true shame that we never got to study in the same university altough."
"Hm, same lifestyle but different paths." Faust responded, sharing the same sentiment of Paracelsus, wondering if his life would have changed at all if he had met the other alchemist during his scholar years.
"Hey now, stop being buddy-buddy with the enemy and save that wizard scientist convention of yours for another day!" Mordred called Faust out, not liking how he talked sympatheitcally to Paracelsus since they were in the middle of a fight.
"S-Sorry about that!" Faust responded, having been caught off guard by the knight's words. "We alchemists tend to be a bit talkative with one another."
"That clearly shows." Peko commented.
"Can we leave him with you then?" Mash asked Faust. "We will deal with the Helter Skelter and the homunculi."
"Sure." The alchemist responded, preparing his staff. "If there's a thing I knew about his craft when alive, is that his ability for creating magic jewels is one of the bests amongst all mages." Faust locked his gaze at Paracelsus. "I'll have to be careful of that."
"Ohoh! A battle between two renowned alchemists? Now that is an intresting concept for a fight!" Shakespeare exclaimed. "A battle of wits to determine wich of the two is the most capable of using their expertise on the alchemy field to the fullest! We might want to take the front seats for this!"
Faust stared slightly surprised to Shakespeare's presence and words, being the first time he was seeing the poet. "And you are supposed to be another stray servant, right?"
"Correct you are my scholar friend! Salutations from William Shakespeare himself!" Shakespeare greeted Faust, who got a bit overwhelmed by his eccentric personality, changing his glare to Ritsuka
"You aren't the only one." Ritsuka responded, thinking the same about Shakespeare whole way of behaviour.
Mordred stepped forward, about to run torwards the giant helter skelter. "Now let's make our weapons do the talking instead!" She jumped torwards the enemy.
"I agree with the mythical knight. The time for conversations has run out." Paracelsus replied, showing a pair of jewels in his hand.
Faust immediatly recognized what type of jewels those were, quickly stretching his arm to warn his allies. "Everyone watch out!"
Paracelsus jewels suddenly exploded, the violent winds blowing against Chaldea group and the servants.
"khg! What was that?" As the dust settled down, Nala and the rest saw an enormous barrier of some kind of solidified liquid in front of them.
"Paracelsus did this?" Ritsuka asked in surprise.
"Faust must be on the other side with him!" Peko exclaimed, seeing that Paracelsus had trapped the other alchemist by creating some kind of artificial arena.
"Good! He worries with his fight, that we worry with ours!" Mordred replied, slicing down two homunculi. "Let's take care of the rest!"
"Agreed!" Mash responded, looking at the rest of her group. "We have to dispose of them quickly if we want to help Faust!"
Ritsuka nodded alongside Peko and Nala before looking at the two kids. "Understood! Peko! Nala! That giant helter skelter is a bigger danger so go help Mordred take it out! Me, Mash and Shakespeare will deal with the homunculi!"
"Okay! Good luck!" Peko said.
"Roger that leader!" Nala added.
"Eh!? Do I really have to break a sweat? Can't I just be the narrator?" Shakespeare looked displeased in having to fight.
"Just make sure to support Mash in taking out some homunculi!" Ritsuka answered him.
"Hmmm, okay. I can get behind being part of the support cast." He said, standing next to Ritsuka as the two plus Mash where about to confront the homunculi around them.
As all that was happening, in the middle of the circle formed by the artificial barrier, Faust had just recovered from the explosion, containing barely any scratches.
"This is..." Faust gave some light knocks on the material, figuring out what it was. "...a form of crystalized mercury."
"Correct. A silver water solidified. Such is the wonders of alchemy." Paracelsus told him, appearing behind Faust. "But of that you already knew."
"I assume you want me to join your group due to my magecraft abilities as a experienced alchemist as well." Faust said, going straight to the core of Paracelsus motive for having looked out for him.
"Yes. A brilliant mind like you would fit well among us. Also, we are needing some new members now that we suffered Mephistopheles, Jack the Ripper and Jane Toppan's losses. That, and bring the royal twins to our base." Paracelsus responded Faust who started to get ready to fight.
"I see. Sorry, but I have no intrest in joining you. I already am affiliated to someone." He told to the enemy. "And I too won't allow you to capture those two siblings. Why do you even want them at all?"
"I'm afraid that you will have to take that information out of me by force." Paracelsus opened up his hand, creating a dagger with jewels from it out of thin air. For a simple person, it might was just a random magical dagger, but with someone with the knowledge of Faust, knew what that things was truly.
"The Azoth Sword?! So you were really able to pulled it off!" Faust said in a state of both astonishment and bewilderment. "Like I feared! He's amongst the greatest of mage alchemists!"
"I indeed was able to. As a desire for a better world." Paracelsus stared solemnly at his own weapon, before pointing it at Faust. "And it shall be with the aid of its mystical power that we will achieve it!" He shouted, throwing a sharp water projectile torwards Faust.
"!" Reacting quickly, Faust pointed his lamp dark light to the projectile, vaporizing it with the burning heat of dark flames.
"Great reflexes!" Paracelsus congratulated Faust. "However, if you are fighting with fire, I shall do the same." Swinging his sword to the left, Paracelsus sent a wall of fire as his next attack.
In response, Faust conjured an alchemy symbol on his own feet, summoning earth pillars to shield him from Paracelsus flames. As the pillars had took out the damage for Faust, he quickly overheated the earth, liquifiding it into magma and fire it torwards the other alchemist. "You may be an incredible alchemist but that doesn't mean you are the only one who knows how to use the five elements!"
Putting his dagger up, Paracelsus used the wind as a shield to deflect and disperse the magma that was coming torwards him. "By all means I never thought that. I'm aware you are as capable of doing using it as I am. Altough I've heard the rumors of the path you decided to went down later in life."
"..." Faust didn't comment on that.
Paracelsus smiled comprehensively. "I won't judge you by that. I'm sure you had your reasons. Many are the mages that lose their way. It's an harsh profession that may costs us greatly, but we both are aware of it."
"The reasons I did weren't for the best." Faust responded with a bit of self-hatred. "Honestly, I'm not an alchemist that should be held in such high regard."
"Then come to our side." Paracelsus offered his hand, trying to solve the fight with dialogue. "If it's atonement that you want, we can offer you that in the form a brand new and pure world."
Not saying anything for some seconds, Faust stared at Paracelsus hand before refusing it. "I already told you..." The alchemist pointed his lamp to Paracelsus, firing a laser at the other alchemist who crafted a solid wall of mercury to protect himself from the attack. "I don't have any intrest in joining you. With or without atonement."
"Fine. If that's what you wish, who am I to cage a man's freedom?" Paracelsus invoked five shinning marbles around him.
"Elemental!"
"You give me no choice but to kill you instead. Your vast knowledge is too dangerous for us if you stay with our enemies." Paracelsus molded the mercury into some sharp blades and directing them to Faust.
"Höllenfahrt!" (Gives one ally Noble Phantasm Generation Up, Arts Critical Damage Up and debuffs the enemy with Noble Phantasm Damage Down)
Having used a spell on himself in response, Faust released a cold breeze torwards the solid mercury, slowing the blades down and breacking them into small pieces of ice, falling to the ground. "You can try and cast everything you have against me Paracelsus! I'll answer back the same way!"
"I have no doubt that you will Faust." Paracelsus responded. "In terms of our alchemy, it can be considered we are on the same level. The factor that can make the difference will come down to the fifth element: ether." He activated Azoth again, staring to his enemy. "Which one of us will draw out the best of it? And which ether will run out first?"
"To your right!" Mordred shouted, coming in aid to Peko by clashing with the helter skelter's giant fist as the boy had slashed down an homunculus.
"T-Thanks Mordred! I didn't saw it coming!" Peko replied to the knight.
"Get a perception of the battlefield then! We are fighting more than one opponent here!" Mordred talked to him as she overpowered the enemy's fist and pushed it away.
"Coming through!" Nala past quickly by Mordred, taking the chance of the helter skelter being opened to jump torwards its head and slash it on the side. "Yah!" As she landed back on the ground, the helter skelter took some steps back, being a bit stunned by the girl's attack.
Peko targated one of the robot's mechanical legs and shot it, creating a hole in it as the robot fell to one knee. "Take that!"
"And that!" Mordred appeared next to the enemy quickly, slashing greatly the other leg, forcing the helter skelter down on its two knees now.
Nala charged again torwards it. "Now for the final hi-hrgh!?" However, the girl hesitated and retreated when it saw the helter skelter freeing huge amounts of hot steam from its steel body. Mordred and Peko were also forced to step back.
"It can't just accept death and go away already, can't it?" Mordred expressed her distaste in seeing the helter skelter still putting up a fight, becoming more agile on its movements despite the massive structure it had.
"And it seems we will have to try find an opening again!" Peko exclaimed.
"Or create one ourselvs through force!" Mordred replied, charging her sword.
"That idea sounds more cool! We'll go with that!" Nala commented, charging at the same time as Mordred, the two dodging and avoiding any bullets that the helter skelter would shot at them as well as its big iron cane. It appeard it was being easy, with Nala slashing the enemy again. "Right on the spot!" She said happily.
"Eh, with an opponent this big, the surprise would be you not hitting him at all." Mordred told her with a bit of taunting.
"Hey! What matters is that I hit it, didn't I?" Nala responded back, a little angry at the knight's words.
"Yeah." Mordred chuckled, looking to the side. "You could say that Shortie." She then saw the giant arm of the helter skelter swinging torwards them, right behind Nala's back. Mordred was about to react and ready to stop it from hitting the two of them.
"Luminary Route!"
Peko shot a bullet behind the two girls, avoiding them in order to hit successfuly the helter skelter's arm, creating a bigger hole in it.
"Better keep the chat for later when the enemy is truly defeated!" Peko told the two, asking for focus from both of them.
"So in about two or three attacks. We're gonna send this huge piece of scrap back to the trash!" Mordred replied with a confident smirk. "Shortie! Run in front of me! You'll charge first!" She ordered Nala.
"Ha?! Since when I'm taking orders from you?" Nala responded.
"It's called a plan! Not orders you midget! I hate taking those as much as the next person!" Mordred talked back, cooling down the girl's temperament a bit. "And you give us cover from the back Shortie N.2! Understood?" She asked Peko.
He in return nodded. "Y-Yeah!"
"Great!" Mordred smirked before staring back at the giant Helter Skelter. "Now with me!"
"Yah!" Mash had just defeated another homunculus has more were heading torwards her and Ritsuka and Shakespeare as well.
"Oh oh! What a fierce maiden! Deliquete yet battle experienced and dangerous like a spring rose with spikes!" Shakespeare narrated Mash's actions with utter emotion and devotion while observing the shielder fighting.
"Remind me what your role is supposed to be again?" Ritsuka talked to the servant, urging him to help Mash, snapping Shakespeare out of his narrative mindset.
"A thousand pardons! I got a little carried away with the words again." He smiled to Ritsuka before activating a spell from his book.
"Enchant!"
With the small boost Mash had gained, she finished from taking down another three homunculus in a row. "Thank you for that Shakespeare-san!" Mash thanked the poet.
"Just doing my role maiden of the shield. Applauses only when the play is done." Shakespeare replied back.
"It still isn't over!" Ritsuka said, using one of his Command Seals on Mash. "Here's more help Mash!"
"Thank you master!" Mash told him, changing her shield posture before charging at the homunculi again.
"Simply amazing." Paracelsus speaked. "You got me well Faust." He speaked to the other alchemist as some drops of blood fell from Paracelsus chin, having his torso been pierced by three sharp ice thorns. "However, you didn't go unscathed too."
Faust looked at Paracelsus, panting and with a stake of solidified mercury stucked right into his waist. "Even when I got to hit him he hits me back. I can also use the elements but he does it in a way I never saw an alchemist use it before. Kgh! You really are one of the best Paracelsus." Despite the pain, Faust mustered a smile, ignoring the injury on his body. "Such way you mold and bend the alchemy and spells...I bet the mages at the Clock Tower probably wouldn't stop talking about you and your expertise."
"As wonderful as it sounds, being the center of Clock Tower's conversations isn't the fame one would like to have as you might know." Paracelsus responded to him.
"Y-Yeah..." Faust grabbed the mercury spike with his hands and started to remove it from his waist. "At least I am grateful they never went after me. Would you know, being an introvert has its advantages." He said, going for a final effort in taking out the last part of the giant thorn. "Gghggraaaaah!"
"Impressive. You choose to take it out the hard way when you could have simply just made this." Paracelsus touched the ice spiked with his Azoth weapon, melting them away from his body. "Someone like you would have done the same. Unless, you're already running out."
Faust closed his teeth in reaction. Paracelsus was quick to notice it.
"Altough it is true our mana is basically endless the moment we become servants, our bodies can get weaker if we overuse to much mana, as our physical beings become that: manifestations solely made of mana." He summoned up a jewel, covered into a layer of wind. "Like I've predicted, this battle would be decided by our ether's capacity." Paracelsus launched the wind jewel torwards his enemy. "And yours must have almost run out Faust!"
Despite the difficulties, Faust still fought back. Creating an alchemy symbol on his own cape, Faust swinged it, liberating a strong wind in front of the incoming jewel, with both attacks nullifying each other in air. "Don't count me out yet!" Faust shouted, staring to the other alchemist. "I still have more spells to show!"
"I have no doubt in that." Paracelsus told him, dropping another jewel in the ground, resulting into countless giant stone chips to rise from the floor, heading torwards Faust like a violent wave and forcing him to defend himself by crafting another symbol on the ground and with the touch of the end of his staff, summoning a giant metal wall to stop the attack. "But the true question is, how many will you be able to cast?"
"Attack on its left!" Mordred shouted to Nala who was in front of her.
Taking the knight's advice, Nala jumped torwards the left arm of the helter skelter, dodging the giant weapon. In that moment, her eyes observed the cables that attached its arm to the main body. "There!" Charging up her sword, Nala cut the main cables, separating the helter skelter's arm from the rest, turning it completely useless.
Having taken a major damage, the helter skelter turned its body around, aiming the gun at Nala, prepared to shot her.
"I'll have to dodge it!" Nala stared back, preparing herself to dodge whatever how many bullets the helter skelter would fire at her.
"Exactly like that!" The voice from Mordred sounded, with the knight appearing behind the helter skelter, slashing the cables of its right arm, turning the giant robot into an armless enemy. "Almost done!"
"Good one Mordred!" Nala said, with the two now in mid-air and ready to land the final blow on the enemy once they landed their swords on it. However, the helter skelter was about to activate its defense systems by releasing steam again, much to Nala's annoyance. "Dammit! It's about to do that thing again!"
"Eh, that's what it would like you to think." Mordred smirked. "Aim for the head Shortie N.2!" She yelled to Peko who was on the ground, pointing his finger to the helter skelter's head.
"Hope it works!" Peko responded, before firing a light bullet targetted at the helter sketler. With the bullet reaching near the enemy's head, Peko pulled his thumb down, making the bullet explode upon contact with the helter skelter's head, obliterating it.
"Now's our chance!" At the same time, both Mordred and Nala descended at an insane speed torwards the core of the helter skelter, piercing it with their blades. With that, the giant enemy couldn't do anything besides go into self-destruction and explode into pieces, freeing a huge cloud of smoke.
"Nala! Mordred!" Peko shouted, having seen the explosion occuring near the two while he tried to protect his face and shove the smoke away. "Are you okay!? Nala! Mor-"
"Sheez! No need to yell like that! We're still breathin and kickin." Mordred appeard from the smoke, much to Peko's relief.
"Phew, you're okay then. But where's Nala?" Peko asked, not seeing his sister anywhere.
"Hey! Put me down! That's no way of grabbing someone!" Nala shouted, behind Mordred's back, being held upside down by the knight's hand on her leg.
"Ups! Sorry bout that. Gonna do as the princess ordered." Mordred released her grip from Nala, letting the girl fall head first into the ground.
"Ow! That hurt you prick!" Nala said angrily, immediatly getting up from the floor.
"Not as much as those blows we just did on that huge piece of metal." Mordred replied back, happy for the victory against the giant helter skelter, It was one less opponent they had to worry about.
"Yeah. That thing is done for." Peko talked, thinking about the rest of his allies that could still need some help. "We should help the others in the meantime!"
"Same thought here." Mordred said to the boy.
"Let's hurry up then!" Nala commented, with the three going onto the next battle their companions were still fighting.
"These strange creatures multiply like rabbits!" Shakespeare said as he observed Mash killing another group of homunculi only to have more appear to fight her.
"We're going to stay here till tomorrow if it keeps up like this!" Ritsuka speaked, seeing that even with his and Shakespeare support, Mash wouldn't be able to clear out all of the homunculi alone.
"Needing a couple more hands?" Nala asked to Ritsuka, with her, Peko and Mordred arriving to the area.
"Was thinking about that." Ritsuka replied, happy to see them.
Mash heard the conversation that was happening behind, glad that more help was here. "Yes please!"
Wanting the situation to go even more on their favour, Shakespeare turned the pages of his book. "Then here's a little something for all of you!"
"The Globe: The King's Men!"
Powered up by the poet servant's skill, the group was able to dispatch of the waves of homunculi without much trouble, eventually ending up with all of them inside the warehouse.
"Was this all of them?" Peko asked, taking some time to breath as he saw that there was no longer any homunculus nearby to fight with.
"Seems so." Ritsuka responded, noticing the same thing. "Guess we defeated all of them."
"Thank god. My arms were about to get beyonf tired from all the swinging and slashes." Nala replied, resting a bit.
"But Faust-san must still be fighting, isn't he?" Mash asked them about Faust situation with his own battle against Paracelsus, shortly before hearing an explosion coming from the solid wall of mercury.
"Here you have the answer." Mordred speaked.
"Let's go help Faust! He needs us!" Ritsuka exclaimed, with everyone nodding in approval and heading to the local the fight between Faust and Paracelsus was happening.
"Wait! Are we going into another fight already!?" Shakespeare shouted in pure disbilief, getting a little behind the rest. "What kind of pace is that?!" Getting no answer, he ended up sighing and going along with them. "I forgot what it was like to not have control over the flow of a story."
"Hm!" With a smooth movement of his staff, Faust used the lamp's dark light to shine on Paracelsus jewels, making them explode into several fragments before reaching him.
Paracelsus however used that to his advantage by turning the jewel fragments into flames, creating a fire rain to fall upon Faust who summoned a barrier of water to protect himself from the attack. With no time to lose, Paracelsus launched a fluid of mercury to crystalize Faust's water, trapping him inside for a second before Faust breaking it apart with the wind element and using the pieces of mercury to throw back at Paracelsus, who dodged and blocked every single one except for a small one that scracthes his cheek. Whatever one of the alchemists would do, the other would always give an equivelent response.
"Heh, and who would have thought that a fight between alchemists could be this entertaining?" Paracelsus sounded happy despite the injuries. "Even if I wasn't much of a fighter when alive, I have to say...you are pushing up my limits."
"Is your ether running out by chance?" Faust asked with a smile, seeing that he was being able to push Paracelsus to exhaustion despite he himself being tired out too.
"If I had to inspect myself, I would probably say yes. This fight isn't going to last much longer." Preparing for a final attack, Paracelsus summoned five jewels of different colours and converged them into one before pouring it into the blade of Azoth. "It was a good battle against a great alchemist. Even if I am to die now, I feel that this short span of my new life was worth it just to meet you. Nevertheless, you're the one who will perish here Faust!" Paraclesus shouted, charging his special attack. "Prepare to face the power of all the five elements that compose nature!"
"Ggh! Bring it then!" Faust replied, taking a defensive posture from what was about to come.
"Let me show you...my light"
"The True Ether guides me...
...my obsessions, the form of my thoughts-"
A circle of pure concentrated magic started to spin around Azoth as Paracelsus pointed his Noble Phantasm at Faust.
"Magic Sword of the Element User: Sword of Paracelsus!"
Firing a powerful beam from his weapon, Paracelsus had unleashed his Noble Phantasm at full power.
"!" Seeing the mighty power of the Azoth being released at him, Faust didn't waste any second to activate an alchemy symbol beneath him, using the roughest elements of alchemy to creat the strongest steel in order to protect himself from Paracelsus beam. "Can this be enough?" Was the thought that passed by his mind as he witnessed Paracelsus Noble Phantasm coming quickly, making an huge impact the moment it touched Faust's defenses, erupting an explosion so strong that it fractured the barrier of mercury that surrounded the two alchemists.
Taking deep breaths, Paracelsus tried to recover some of his energy as the area they ended up fighting was now entirely filled with smoke. "The victory was mine in the end." He said between breathing. "You were a great opponent and alchemist Faust." He closed his eyes, unsummoning the Azoth from his hand. "If it wasn't the opportunity, than I hope in the next one we can work together."
Yet, to Paracelsus absolute shock and bewilderment, a figure emerged from behind the black smoke curtain, catching him completely off guard.
"Wha-"
"I could say the same about you, Paracelsus!" In a sudden movement, Faust appeard in front of the other alchemist, with his arm immediately piercing the Saint Graph of Paracelsus, damaging it critically.
Paracelsus coughed in pain, dumbfounded by the sudden attack. "B-But how...how did you-!" Staring down to the arm Faust had used to pierce him, with his eyes widenning in a terrorizing surprise. It was damaged. Paracelsus had damaged Faust's arm with his Noble Phantasm, that was for sure. But, what startled Paracelsus was the appearence of the arm. It didn't look natural. Not entirely humane. "I-Is that...the result of your..."
Not saying a thing, Faust removed his own arm from Paracelsus body, having left a fatal wound on him.
"I see..." Paracelsus voice trembled a bit as he held an hand to his wound. "That...was the price you paid for that knowledge...And I thought that creating the Elixir was a curse...ghrgh!" Paracelsus coughed more blood and fell to the ground. "I...I'm sorry for what happened to you...I wasn't aware your fall from grace...was this large..."
"You don't need to. I caused this on myself." Faust responded to him.
"Faust! Are you alright?"
Hearing the voices from his allies approaching, Faust covered his injured arm with a bit of his cloak as the smoke dissipated, with the Chaldea group, Mordred and Shakespeare reaching him.
"Yes, I'm fine. You defeated the rest of the enemies?" Faust responded.
"Every single one." Nala told him.
"We thought you might could have been having some difficulties against Paracelsus." Ritsuka explained to the alchemist.
"But guess you don't need it by the looks of it." Peko added, seeing the defeated Paracelsus on the ground.
"However, since the dude is still breathing..." Mordred approached him, ready to do some questions. "Answer me this: who are the other two leaders of your little group?"
"I...cannot tell you..." Paracelsus denied giving an answer to Mordred.
"Eh? You want to do this the hard way then?" Mordred asked, preparing her fists.
"He's already down! Punching him in this situation wouldn't change a thing." Faust prevented Mordred from attacking Paracelsus, trying to get some informations out of him by dialogue. "But since we defeated you and your creatures, you should at least tell us something about this Project Demonic Fog of yours. That sounds fair, doesn't it?" Faust told him.
"I suppose..." Paracelsus responded.
"Then what was those containers you and King Artoria had when we fought you at the asylum's entrance?" Mash interrogated him. "Is it important to that project?"
"They are containers of mana circuits..." Paracelsus responded. "Mana circuits of patients from that asylum wich Toppan would remove them alongside Jack the Ripper to then put it in containers and give it to us."
"For what? What's the purpose?" Peko made another question.
"To feed the machine...The machine that is releasing all of this Demonic Fog in London..." Paracelsus revealed to them, with everybody's curiosity rising after hearing that.
"A machine you say?" Mordred speaked.
"Then that is the source from where the Demonic Fog comes from." Ritsuka concluded.
"Now if only we knew where it is located." Peko said.
"Where is that machine? Is it close from here? Far away from here? In a building? Underground?" Nala made a lot of questions to Paracelsus.
"And does that machine has a name?" Ritsuka made other question.
Peko also did another. "And it can do other things besides creating the Demonic Fog? Is that the device you're using it to destroy this Singularity?"
"Hey now! That's a sea of questions you lot are doing!" Shakespeare exclaimed, telling them to slow down on the interrogatory. "Doing that is nothing more but a utter convolution of riddles. We should try to maintain things simple and clean to follow."
"Plus, his time has ended." Faust said, noticing how Paracelsus body was vanishing away.
"Once again...my plans for a better world couldn't be realized." Paracelsus lamented, seeing his own body dissapeard. "But if I'm not able to, then perhaps it means someone else will. That someone being you, people of Chaldea." He smiled to them. "I hope...you get to build the future I always dreamed of for humanity..."
"We will save it. That's for sure." Ritsuka told to the defeated alchemist.
"Aah, then I can go back to slumber again..." Paracelsus said, staring at them, specially Faust, one last time. "Knowledge...such a blessing...and a curse..." He muttered the final words before vanishing, having give a crucial part of information to the Chaldea group and their allies from the origins of the Demonic Fog. With the battle over, it was now time for them to rest, recover and go back to the headquarters of Jekyll's house.
"Hm? A machine is the cause for all of this fog?" Jekyll said, having heard the explanation from the group that had returned back, with the pleasent return of Faust and new addition of Shakespeare.
"That's what Paracelsus told us. Nothing else." Ritsuka responded to the scientist, explaining to him, Hans and Romani the events that happened on the docks.
"That's a bummer. All that we need to know now is the location of that supposed machine that is emanating the fog." Romani commented.
"What matters the most here is that my theory was correct. The Demonic Gog was indeed the cause of the servants getting summoned to this Singularity." Hans said happy to see his theory was true in the end.
"And the Demonic Fog comes from the machine." Peko added, thinking more about it. "Wich means..."
"The Holy Grail you're seeking for must be in that machine!" Jekyll exclaimed.
"It explains how the Demonic Fog has the capability of summoning the stray servants then!" Mash speaked.
"It's so endearing when we get to connect the dots of a narrative isn't it?" Shakespeare said amused despite not having the slightest idea of what they were talking about.
"Ggh...Did you really needed to brought him here? Was he the only stray servant around?" Hans protested, finding Shakespeare personality annoying.
"We decided to give ya a friend. Don't you like it?" Mordred responded with an irritating smirk.
Nala was doing the same. "I'm sure you two are going to get well splendidly hehe."
"You two witches..." Hans cursed silently at them.
"All that reaction due to my presence? Are you perhaps a hater of mine?" Shakespeare asked to the smaller writer.
"No. I just find your style to be very obnoxious. Ah, and your books a little overrated, that's all there is to say." Hans responded to the other writer.
"Oh my, those words strucked me like a dagger to my heart, coming from another writer. But criticism isn't always bad." Shakespeare said, his mood staying the same. "It is like medicine. It may taste bad but it is good for one self and actually helpful. To hear the cheers you must first hear the boos. So I gladly accept any other flaw in my writings that you want to point it out to me Mr. Andersen."
"Wow! He took that insult really well." Ritsuka thought.
"Urgh, how did you get to be so upbeat having the career of a writer?" Hans asked to Shakespeare, a bit surprised and bothered by the taller writer servant smile.
"Oh, you got it wrong. I'm as destroyed by the overload of work as you are dear friend." Shakespeare told him. "The secre is to always put a mask, pretend it and deal with the pain."
"That's...concerning to say the least." Nala commented, a drop of sweat falling from her head.
"You sure you are okay?" Hans asked Shakespeare, having the same concern as Nala.
"Never been better." Shakespeare responded. "Now, I've heard you had your own office here Sir Andersen. Care to show me where it is so that I can analyze your writing myself?"
"H-Hum sure. Whatever you say." Hans responded, not expecting that request. "Let me just warn you beforehand that it differs from yours in terms that our writings come from different periods, so some expressions and styles might be foreigner to you."
"The unknown branches of literature never frightened me! Show me the way friend!" Shakespeare replied.
"I'm not your friend..." Hans hissed before leading Shakespeare to his office, the two leaving the room.
"Hope that with the new guy around here he stops bothering us as much as he did." Mordred commented.
"That or we either got two insufferable people to live with now." Peko said.
"But going back to the questions about the machine and Paracelsus, did he said anything about why his group wants Peko and Nala?" Romani asked to the group.
"Oh, we forgot to ask about that one." Ritsuka scratched the back of his head. "Sorry about that."
"No problem. You did a lot for today and it's about to get dark outside." Romani told him. "All of you are deserving a good rest now."
"You just spelled out my thoughts doctor." Jekyll responded. "Me and Fran have prepared the beds and some rooms for you to sleep here tonight. You can relax now. We will resume our search and topic about the Project Demonic Fog tomorrow."
"A night of good sleep would do well." Mash said with a smile. "We're all needing it."
"No doubt. I feel like yawning at any moment now." Nala responded, feeling the weight of the long day she had upon her just like the rest of her group.
"Fu fou!" Fou appeard behind Mash, expressing the same feeling.
"Leaning my head on a pillow is probably what I'm needing the most now." Ritsuka said, stretching his arms.
"Yeah. So much thing happened in such a short time to process everything in my head." Peko also speaked.
"Then that's my cue. It was nice seeing you all fine." Faust said, starting to step out of the living room.
"Are you leaving?" Ritsuka asked Faust.
"Why does it surprises you? I told you all that after this one job was done I would separate myself from you." Faust reminded them of what he said earlier this day.
"But does that mean that you have to go now? Fran also made a bed for you." Jekyll told the alchemist.
"Then you can go sleep on it. You need more of it than I do." Faust replied back.
"I know Hans and that Shakespeare guy are probably insufferable to stand around with but it isn't like you can't just spent a night here." Nala said.
"True. It is probably more dangerous to go outside at this hour. The monsters probably come all out to the streets." Peko added.
"I appreciate the concern, but I already told you I can take care of myself." Faust replied.
Mash also tried to convince him to stay. "But what if the rest of the enemy group appears to-"
"Let him be." Mordred told her. "If he wanna go alone so be it. We ain't changing his mind by saying otherwise." Unlike everyone else, she was okay with Faust leaving, knowing that making him think the opposite would just be a waste of time.
"M-Mordred." Mash stared to the knight, surprised by her stance.
"Thank you for respecting my decision." Faust told Mordred. "But like I said, it doesn't mean this is the last time we'll see each other or I'll stop working with you. It's just, I prefer to do somethings alone."
"I understand it. If that's what you want then we shouldn't stop you." Jekyll said to him sadly before showing him a smile however. "At least I'm happy we didn't lost you and you're okay. Just make sure to stay in contact with us if you find something around the city."
"I'll sure do. Thank you for the hospitality you gave me in the meantime as well." Faust replied, smilling back at Jekyll. "Eitherway, I should be going now."
"Take care this time, will you?" Ritsuka talked to Faust before the alchemist could exit the house.
He in return gave a short laugh and a relaxed smile. "I will. Don't worry. Today was a good day when I got to meet you and your bunch Ritsuka." He said, staring at Chaldea group. "You're all good people. Take care as well." He said, leaving the house by the entrance door.
Standing on the balcony of the first floor of Jekyll's apartment, Ritsuka, stood there, sitting on a chair while staring at the dark street in front of him, barely illuminated by the lamps whose light wasn't that strong to brighten fully the entire area.
"Aren't you going to sleep Ritsuka?" Peko asked to his friend, standing on the balcony's entrance that separated the outside from the inside of the bedroom of the house.
"I will Peko. I am just waiting for sleep to get me eventually." Ritsuka responded, moving his head to stare at the boy behind him.
"By standing there just observing?" Peko questioned, stepping on the balcony and walking torwards him.
"It's an effective trick. You should try someday." Ritsuka adviced.
"Humm...okay?" Peko replied, not sure about the credibility of that method. "Perhaps I could too spend some time staring to the view here."
"You're welcome." Ritsuka said, with Peko sitting to the chair to the left of Ritsuka's chair, with the two now silently gazing at the street and houses in front of them for some minutes. In that time, the silence stayed, with no sign of any monster or human appearing to break the quietude the two boys were having. That was, until Peko decided to broke it.
"Have you ever regretted doing something?" He asked to Ritsuka, catching the master of Chaldea off guard.
"Hm? What did you said?" Ritsuka asked back, not having heard it clearly.
"If you ever regretted doing something. Has it ever happened to you?" Peko asked him.
"Humm, it has happened quite a few times on my life already. But why are you asking that?" Ritsuka replied.
"..." Peko shied his stare away, not getting the courage to say it.
However that wasn't needed, has Ritsuka was able to realize for himself what was the problem. "Are you still thinking about her? About Jack the Ripper?"
Peko simply nodded. "Yeah."
"You really didn't want to kill her." Ritsuka understood Peko's sentiment.
"I really didn't." Peko said, lifting from his chair. "I wanted to find another way to deal with her. One that didn't involved killing her yet..." Peko closed his fist in frustration before calming himself down. "Yet that wasn't possible. We had to kill her, didn't we?"
"Unfortunately." Ritsuka responded. "I don't know if we would be able to make her stop with the killings."
"I know she was a serial killer who killed for fun but, in the end, I think she was only a lost kid who was looking for someone that could comfort her." Peko expressed. "When I saw her face...The face of all those children before Jack died, I could only think how unhappy and desolated they were. How abandoned they must have felt by everyone in this place!" The boy said, feeling a pain on his chest. "All of those things that Jack was feeling. And I made it worse when I told her the truth about not being her actual friend she was looking for so long! I-I wanted to defeat her! But I feel like I've done way worse to her."
"I get it what you're trying to say Peko." Ritsuka responded, looking at him. "But the bad thing about doing regrettable stuff is that. You don't get to unmake it or repair it. However, if it's true that Jack and the other children were all waiting for Oliver, then you did the right thing by putting an end to her."
"Hm? What do you mean by that Ritsuka?" Peko asked, not understanding what Ritsuka meant by that.
"If Jack had lived after that, she and the other kids would all be waiting endlessly for Oliver to come back. Or even worse, she wouldn't be able to accept the fact Oliver was never in this Singularity to start. She and the other kids would never get the wish of seeing their friend back. You freed Jack and everyone else from that burden Peko. Not only you stopped her from hurting others, you stopped Jack from hurting herself even more." Ritsuka explained to him, wanting Peko to not feel terribly guilty about Jack's demise.
"Then you're saying killing her was actually a mercy." Peko said, comprehending what Ritsuka was saying. "Still, I wished we could have done it differently with her." Peko said. Even with Ritsuka's words, Peko couldn't shake the image and words that all those poor children told him on their last fight against the serial killer. Deep down, Jack was nothing more but a misguided and lonely kid who wanted a tiny bit of company in her life and had the bad luck of being taken advantage of people with bad nature. "What do you do when you get in a situation like this Ritsuka?" He asked to his friend, hoping for any helpful advice.
"Well, how can I put this into words?" Ritsuka smiled and laughed a bit timidly, not knowing how to answer properly to that. "But, when I do things that I might regret and doubt if they were good or nothing, I generally tend to hit myself in the face."
"WHAT?!" Peko yelled out in shock.
"G-Giving some soft slaps on my face! That kind of hitting!" Ritsuka specified better, not wanting Peko to get a wrong idea of him.
"A-Ah, I see." Peko said, giving a weak smile of relief.
"But that's what I do when I get doubts of some of my actions. I fear that doing something I regretted doing, means I'm not being myself anymore." Ritsuka responded with all honestly, staring at his own hand. "That I'm losing my way. Losing myself, unsure if I should be doing this or that."
"Ritsuka..." Peko observed his friend, seeing his face get slightly down and pensative. It was clear to Peko that Ritsuka also had his flaws, and as an amateur leader, hat could weight on him greatly.
"Which is why we need to face our problems face to face and it always help to have someone else by our side!" Ritsuka immediatly went back to a cheerful smile, putting an arm around Peko's shoulder and pushing him closer.
"H-Hey! You're too close!" Despite the protest, Peko smiled and laughed alongside Ritsuka, enjoying to see his hapiness and attitude. The two eventually sat back on their chairs, staring again to the streets in front of them.
"Oi Peko." Ritsuka called his friend, still staring at the view.
"Yeah?" Peko answered, not moving his head to stare at Ritsuka as well.
"If I come to start having doubts and regretts, will you, Mash and Nala be there to clear them out?" He asked.
Peko gave a small chuckle in response. "Of course."
On the rooftop of the same building, Nala was sitting just outside, trying to observe the moon behind the cloudy sky. She wondered when it was the last time since the people of London ever had a day of a full clean sky where they could gaze at either the sun or the moon.
"Aren't you supposed to be in bed by now?" Mash appeard from the opening that would lead to the rooftop.
"Just checking if the surroundings are clear." Nala responded the shielder.
"I think Mordred is already doing that job." Mash giggled, easily detecting Nala's lie.
"She didn't told me." Nala replied, trying to improve her lie.
"You can stop lying. I won't be angry if you say the truth." Mash sat next to Nala, with the two now getting a large view of several rooftops from buildings and houses of the city. "Tell me, what where you doing here?"
"Hmm, just thinking." Nala replied.
"About?" Mash insisted, knowing that the younger girl didn't gave her a proper response.
"Stuff. Plenty of it." Nala responded.
"Really?" Mash asked with a incredulous smile, finding Nala's response to her question weird.
"Hmmm, actually, just thinking about one thing really." Nala said, putting her back against the roof. "About Jack to be more precise."
"Thinking about Jack the Ripper? Why so?" Mash asked genuinely curious.
"It's that there's barely any flowers in this place." Nala replied, gaining a puzzled stare from Mash.
"Flowers?"
"Yeah. And that makes me think, has Jack ever saw what a flower is? What it looks like?" Nala explained more of it. "Just thinking that there are kids here who never got to see that somehow makes me a bit upset. Flowers are pretty Mash! Everyone should get to see many during their lives!"
"I-I get it Nala. But don't you think you rised your voice a bit unnecessarily high?" Mash replied, pointing out to Nala's sudden increase of her voice tone.
"Sorry about that. It's just...my mind can't help but think perhaps Jack could have been a good friend." Nala told her.
"Huh?"
"I know. It sounds absolute crazy to think about that. But during the time where I was alone with her, she looked to act like a normal kid and not of an insane psycothic murderer. For that moment, she genuinely seemed like someone who I could have been friends with." Nala admitted, thinking back to when she and Jack interacted together. And despite being enemies, Nala doubted that Jack ever saw her as one before their last battle.
"Then you think that in the end, all that Jack wanted was to have some friends." Mash said, analyzing and thinking about Nala's words.
"Yeah. Yet this city really does suck." Nala said, staring at London from the rooftop. "I'm kind of mad knowing that I could have had a friend if it wasn't for this awful place she grew up in! A place with no flowers! No blue sky! No parents to take care of their kids! Full of terrible people! Who can grow up in such conditions and still be smilling? I might have hated Jack for some things she did, but I hate this place more for being the reason she was like that!"
"I feel that Nala. I really do. But unfortunately that's the reality of this period." Mash told her. "History of humankind contains everything, even the awful aspects of it."
Nala ended up sighing sadly. "I just think despite of everything, Jack should have got to see what a flower is like as well as having true parents. She deserved a normal life."
"Many of the children here deserved one." Mash replied before thinking about changing topics. "Speaking of which, I also never got to see flowers up close that much until recently."
"What?! Really?!" Nala exclaimed in shock.
"Yeah. I barely got to see the outside world. Meaning that I also never saw what the blue sky really was like before our first mission." Mash revealed to Nala who was impressed by the information.
"So you were kind of a shut-in?" Nala asked, trying to see if he undertsand it well.
"Eeeh, you could say that I guess." Mash stared to the side a bit embaressed. "I-I'm sorry if my life doesn't sound that much intresting! I really must be a very uninstresting friend to talk to." She said with a nervous and desmissive smile.
Nala however thought otherwise. "You're joking? I honestly find you cool Mash!"
"C-C-Cool?" Mash replied in surprise.
"Just because I might have wanted Jack to have been my friend, doesn't mean I thought of you as boring. Like, you know a lot of things, fight pretty well and you're cute! What more I could ask for a friend with those traits? I mean..." Nala showed the shielder the bracelet of seashells on her pulse. "Why do you think I decided to do these with you?"
Mash blushed a bit, getting a little overwhelmed. "T-Thank you but I don't think I'm all that."
"Heh, whatever you say. I'll keep thinking otherwise." Nala said before having an idea. "Speaking of which, are there any other things you would like to do when all of this is resolved?"
"Well, besides going to a shopping mall..." Mash rubbed her head, thinking about it. "There was other places that I too would like to go."
"Then tell me." Nala said with an happy smile. "I'm all ears!"
Now on the ground right on the outside of the entrance door of Jekyll's appartment, Faust was standing there, eyes closed as if he was trying to communicate with someone.
"Oi, what are you still doing here? I thought you had scrambled away some time ago." The voice of Mordred caught the alchemist by surprise as he opened his eyes to stare at her.
"Trying to see which route is safe to wander on." Faust told to the knight.
"Tsk! Didn't you said you knew how to take care of yourself?" Mordred replied back.
"Just because I do, doesn't mean I can't take some safety measures." Faust responded.
"Yeah, safety measures. Right. I've been checking the surroundings and there's no monster nearby, so your scaredy ass can go withtout getting frightened." Mordred told him, sitting on a bench near the entrance of the house. "But if you're willing to have a chat, I can make you some company." She said, unsummoning her armour, now being only in her normal clothes now.
Taking the invitation from the knight, Faust sat on the opposite end of the bench. "What is it that you want to talk about with me?"
Mordred went straight to the root of Faust's question. "There's something bothering you, isn't it?"
Faust got slightly dumbfounded by Mordred's words. Despite looking like a knucklehead brute, the knight was perhaps more observant than he originally thought. "What makes you think that?"
"That fight against the other wizard dude. The way he stared at you and said those words in his final moments. He saw something about you that we aren't aware off, right?" Mordred said, expressing her thoughts about it.
"It was just an alchemist talking to an alchemist. Nothing more to it." Faust replied. "I thought that you weren't the type to fuss around other people's private topics."
"And I'm not. But when you have a guy around you who is always with a face that saw his dog dying majority of the time, you can't help but wonder what's going on inside their heads for once." Mordred replied to him, thinking there was something behind Faust's behaviour.
"Not everybody is a dumb happy face loudmouth you know?" Faust told her. "I'm just like this."
"What a sad way of being." Mordred responded, closing one of her eyes.
"You can say that, but I'm aware of your legend Knight of Treachery." Faust called Mordred by her knight's title. "I know certain topics about your life that if I said it out loud now you'd definetly punch me."
Mordred smugged at him. "See how you know it well?" She then looked at the lamp right next to them. "Yeah. There's also things about me that I wouldn't like to remember or talk about. That genuinely angers me just thinking even for a second. Specially now that shithead is here, as if it came back to haunt me somehow. That's why I always tend to not give a crap about the things I've done in the past. Because if I do, I'll get the same long face you're wearing with annoying people asking me 'what's wrong?' 'what is it?' 'is everything okay?' and yada yada."
"Then if you know how it feels like, why are you interrogating me nonetheless?" Faust questioned the knight, thinking she was contradicting herself.
"Because like I said, you don't seem to be very good at hiding things that are troubling you from other people." Mordred said before laughing. "Or perhaps I'm just being paranoid. Who knows? I might be questioning you, but you're still free to go to wherever you like." She said to him. "As long as I don't catch you- Hm? You've also came here to join us?"
"Who are you talking to?" Faust asked before turning his head around and spotting Frankenstein right next to them, holding something in her hands.
"Urr, ahrr." Frankenstein grunted torwards Faust, giving him the object in her hands.
"Is it for me?" Faust asked to the artificial human who responded with a nod and another grunt. "I see. Thank you Fran." Faust grabbed the item and looked at it. It seemed to be another symbol.
"What is that?" Mordred asked, trying to figure out what was that thing Frankenstein handed to Faust.
"Another alchemy symbol. One of good luck." Faust told her before staring back at Frankenstein. "You made this for me?"
In response, Fran made more grunting noises. "Err wharr."
Faust couldn't figure out what she meant by that. Thankfully, Mordred seemed to understand perfectly the other girl's language. "She's saying it was made by her and Jekyll. As somekind of gift to protect you during your time at night on the streets."
Faust couldn't help but smile a little at such thing. "What a beautiful gift then. But are you sure you want me to keep it?"
Frankenstein replied by nodding her head and giving some soft knocks on the alchemist's chest, surprising him.
"It's a gift idiot. Of course she wants you to keep it." Mordred rebuked him, thinking it would be cold from the alchemist to just deny the gift they made for him.
"Sorry. I was never a person of receiving such simple gifts. Maybe it's just unusual for me." Faust speaked, putting the lucky alchemy symbol around his neck. "But I'll keep it. You can tell Jekyll I appreciate it." He told to Fran who smiled and grunted again.
"She's saying that's a great thing to hear." Mordred told what Fran was saying to him.
"How can you know and understand what she's speaking by just making noises? Is that some kind of magic skill you have in your Saint Graph?" Faust asked to the knight, actually impressed by Mordred's ability to understand Frankenstein.
"Nope. I think it's pretty simple to listen to her actually." Mordred responded.
"How so?"
"Natural gift. That's all." Mordred smugged. "You thought just because you are a Mr. Nerd Who Knows It All, you actually knew and could do everything?"
"Heh. Guess not." Faust smiled back at her before staring at the ground. "Even when I thought I mastered everything, there was still things out of my reach. And the things I learned, I soon became bored of them. The world of alchemy gave me everything I had to know, and once I completed it, I wasn't sure of what doing next, or what I could use my skills for." He then rised his head, staring to the path in front of him. "There are things about me and the world that I would like to get rid off. Flaws that I would like to forget about myself. I should rather change them, but I don't know if I have the capability for it."
Frankenstein grunted inquisitively, approaching the alchemist who stared back at her.
"Such creations like yourself Fran, is what humanity should strive for and seek." He touched her hand, feeling the artificial ane mechanical components that made the skeleton and flesh of her body. "But I fear we mages will never reach to a mutual goal." He then stared at Mordred. "If there was a possible way to eliminate all of the world's-huh?"
He saw Mordred touching her own ear with her finger, removing it. "Oh sorry, where you in the middle of explaning something? I wasn't hearing."
"Were you intentionally ignoring me?" Faust asked with a dissapointed glare of unbelief, with Fran making some grunts, saying how rude that was from Mordred's part.
"Hm? No I wasn't. My ears just stop functioning when I get bored." She responded.
"Then you were ignoring me." Faust said with an incredulous face.
"Well, ignoring or not, here's a piece of advice for ya: stop thinking about the fuck ups you did in the past. You won't change them by constantly lamenting about and thinking about them." Mordred gave a piece of her mind to Faust. "Instead learn how to live with that...or be at peace with that since we servants aren't properly 'living'."
"Do you think it is that easy?" Faust argued.
"It won't be easier if you never tried." Mordred responded, with Fran nodding in agreement.
Faust thought for a bit about the knight's words, bringing his hands close to his chin. "Hmmm, if you say so. I might give it a try-ow!" Faust flinched in pain as he got punched in the shoulder by Fran who grunted a bit agressively at him. "F-Fran?"
"She' saying that you HAVE to try instead of might trying it." Mordred speaked for the artificial human girl. "Which I fully agree with. Don't be a puny dumbass and try it out for once instead."
"You think so Fran?" Faust brushed his shoulder as he asked to Fran, who nodded at him.
"Hm hm!" She sounded.
"Fine then. I'll be sure to do it. Perhaps that's the change I need." Faust told her with a smile, headpatting Fran. "Well, I think it was a nice conversation. I never tought I could have one with the kinds of you."
"Are you calling me stupid?" Mordred replied, not liking of what she heard from the alchemist's mouth.
"E-Eh no no! I'm just saying that you are surpsingly a nice person to talk with! That's all!" Faust corrected himself, not wanting to face the anger of the Knight of Treachery.
"Keh. I thought so." Mordred told him before showing a small smirk. "Better be on your way already then. I would say you to have caution while walking alone but nerds like you aren't too foolish for that."
"Y-Yeah. It's kinda like that." Faust replied with a timid smile before regaining back his posture and coughing a bit. "Very well then, I'll go now. See you a next time. Stay well, Mordred, Fran and everybody else." He said goodbye to the two who waved goodbye at him.
"Heh. Likewise you idiot." Mordred told him, watching alimgside Fran the alchemist walking away, dissapearing into the streets of the dark night.
"Thou hast spent a full day with them and yet were inpat to usher them to us"
"I am sorry my master. The situation wasn't appropriate to proceed with the approach. More so with other servants around those two."
From the dark confines of a dimly illuminated alley, Faust apologized and explained himself to a mysterious figure covered in shadows and a dark ragged cloak. He had failed to do what was requested of him for now.
"Furthermore, the young human needs to perish. His survival and existence is of a great nuisance to us. We will overlook thy mistake of having saved him. Altough beware of attempting such bold act a second time."
"I understood my master. The human from Chaldea cannot live. I won't commit the same mistake again." Faust told to his lord, staring with some nervousism and silent dread at them.
"Recollect thy goal as our servant O cursed alchemist." The figure told Faust, their slight decrepit and molder body hidden behind the darkness. "We care not for what side thou opts for in this conflict solely contained in this Singularity, as long as thou keeps the two children secure and bring them to us."
To be continued...
And that was it for chapter 63!
A chapter mainly centered around Faust to make up for his disapearence throughout an entire month. Also, looks like there is a secret about him that we are yet waiting to know. Not only that but *shocker* he's also working as a secret agent to an unidentified third party. (Whom if you memorized their pattern of language and talking you most surely know that this character has appeard a couple of times in the story before already)
And another thing about this chapter was of course the bonding time between the members of the Chaldea group. Because when there's nothing going on, always take that as a chance to develop the bonds between characters. And Paracelsus is out of the way. Another one down and three more to go.
That's all I wanted to say, and see you next time on chapter 64! Peace!
P.S:
(Kama is seen setting up a trap at the entrance of the cafeteria)
Kama: Ehehe. Everything is set. Now all I have to do is hide, wait for that stupid airhead (Nala) to enter the cafeteria, stumble on the thin rope at the entrance and fall face flat on that cake I put up front! Her face will be priceless! I'll bully her for entire weeks with that!
*Some hours later*
Kama (eating a piece of the cake as she is losing her pateince): Tsk! Why the hell she hasn't come out yet?
Peko: Hi Kam-
Kama: Shut up and tell me where your sister is already!
Peko:...Okay. She's still in our bedroom...
Kama: WHAT?! (Angrily walks torwards Peko and Nala's room, knocking impatiently on the door) How is it even possible she didn't stepped out of her room yet?
Nala (opens the door, her body covered by a blanket and staring at Kama with sleepy eyes): Hi there Kama yawns how are you?
Kama (incredulous): How am I? I've been waiting for you to show up at the cafeteria stupid! What is taking you so long?
Nala (still smilling with a relaxed and lazy face): Today is Sunday, my lazy day. So I decided to spent the entire day in the comfort of my bedroom doing nothing.
Kama: YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!
