Hi everyone and welcome back to the beginning of chapter 17! And as I'm writing, outside is tunderbolt and lightning. Very very frightning.

And with that Bohemian Rhapsody reference out of the way with, let's begin 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.


What Peko was seeing was something too good to be real. And it was in fact real.

Just in front of him there she was. Nala, his sister that he swore to save and rescue from the Dragon Witch, was now standing in front of him.

"Nala, I found you." Peko's eyes started to went teary. A smile of huge joy on his face.

Nala at the start was a bit shock by seeing a sword, almost identical to hers, in her brother's sword. He was with a bit of dirt on his clothes, but there was no sign of a wound in his body. The fact that Peko was fighting seemed, a bit impossible to Nala.

But she didn't cared about that right now. What mattered is that Peko was alive and safe. The girl slowly started to smile.

"Yes you did, Peko-"

A huge sound near them made the siblings look at the wyvern that Peko had just hit get up from the ground, it's neck bleeding from where Peko made the cut.

"Wh-what?!" Peko exclaimed. "I tought it was

down for good!"

As the wyvern slowly got it's head up and almost fully recomposed, Nala sliced it's neck quickly, taking advantage from the cut Peko made earlier. "You need to separate their head from the body in order to kill them!" Nala told her brother.

"Oh, reall- Nala another one's coming!" Peko pointed at the wyvern that was previously fighting Nala, the one who remained from the group that attacked her.

"What?!" Ritsuka who had turned his attention to Mash's fight with the enemy servant for a brief case, suddenly changed his attention to Peko as soon as he heard the boy scream Nala's name. The master of humanity saw Peko and right next to him Nala. Seeing the girl here in the battlefield was truly unexpected. He had tought and made plans to rescue Nala from the castle, so seeing her here outside was a big surprise on Ritsuka's mind. "Nala, you're here!" Ritsuka screamed happily.

Nala blocked the attack from the last wyvern and her following reaction was to cut it's neck, finally killing any wyverns that where nearby them.

As the girl panted a bit and cleaned her face from the sweat, she looked behind to see Ritsuka again. She smiled seeing that it wasn't only Peko who was ok. "Ritsuka! I'm glad to see you're well too!"

Mash who was fighting the servant, was slightly hearing and womdered what was all the commotion. "What's happening Master?" She asked him before blocking another arrow from the corrupted Archer servant.

"Oh yeah! Mash's in trouble!" Ritsuka said to himself. "Help is already coming Mash!" Ritsuka shouted to the shielder and looked at Nala, nodding at the girl. "You know what to do?"

Nala nodded in return. "Sure! No need to say it!"

"Then I'll be protecting Ritsuka if any possible attack." Peko said.

Nala and Ritsuka didn't protest his decision, knowing that Peko still was still an amateur fighter and Ritsuka couldn't be left alone opened to enemies attacks.

Nala quickly runned torwards Mash and tried to hit the Archer woman with her sword, wich the servant ended up dodging and taking some steps behind, creating space between the two girls and the enemy servant.

"Nala!" Mash yelled surprised. "You managed to escape from the castle all by yourself?" She asked amazed and happy to see Nala back again.

"Well, I had some help." Nala tought back at Romani and Da Vinci. "But I'll clarify more on that later! For now..." Nala stared at the enemy servant ahead of the two. It was tragic to see someone ending up like that. Nala may have not know her personally but she knew that this servant in front of her had to be tortured and corrupted in order to work for the Dragon Witch. Only thing she could do now was ending this servant's suffering. "We need to take care of that enemy!"

"Understood!" Mash responded, now ready to fight with help.

The Archer in front didn't seem to react at all by Nala's intervention on the fight. Instead, she continued her attacks, this time shooting three arrows from her bow, aimed torwards Nala and Mash.

The shielder blocked all of them and Nala sprinted behind her, running torwards the Archer woman with her sword in hand.

"Ah!" Nala swinged her sword in the enemy's face, only for the servant to tilt her head backwards, avoiding Nala's blade and doing a rebuttal by kicking the girl in the back.

Mash immediatly went to Nala's side and tried to hit the corrupted servant with her shield from her through her blind spot. But once again the servant dodged Mash's attempt and kicked her shield, forcing Mash to take a step back. "She's agile!"

The Archer retreated a bit and now with her two enemies at a preferable distance from her, she went back to her long range attacks.

The arrows, now wrapped in dark flames, aimed at Mash and Nala again. These time they were faster, with Nala barely managing to dodge and Mash having to tank more powerful blows.

"Tsk! She's not letting us get near her!" Nala said as she went behind Mash and her shield while the archer continued to fire, almost endlessly like a machine gun.

"Does her arrows have no end?!" Mash was already doing extra effort in blocking the arrows. As every second passed, her arms were getting more tired.

Ritsuka and Peko watched, both knowing that of it stayed like this Mash and Nala would end up loosing.

"I need to help them!" Peko was about to enter the fight. If he had a sword he couldn't just stay on the sideline watching like the other times. In this situation, he had to help, even if he had no chance in winning against the servant.

"Wait Peko!" Ritsuka grabbed the boy's shoulder. "I have another plan!" He told him, grabbing a stone from the ground.

"What are you- You seriously going to try it?!" Peko exclaimed incredously, realizing what Ritsuka's plan was.

"Just you watch." Ritsuka now with the stone in hand, positioned himself like a baseball player, staring at the archer who hadn't stopped shooting. He was prepared to do a throw.

"I'm the leader and master here. I also can't just watch without doing nothing! Humanity depends of me!" Taking a deep breath, Ritsuka fixed his gaze on the Archer and lifted his left leg.

"Take...THIS!!" Concentrating his strenght on his right arm, Ritsuka threw the stone at the archer, making a movement like a baseball player would do when throwing the ball.

The stone was actually going through the air at the good speed, and it seemed Ritsuka aimed well as the stone was going into the direction of Archer's head.

"Yes! It will hit!" Peko exclaimed.

With a mere meter of distance between the Archer and the stone, the servant noticed the object that was about to hit her head and simply moved her head a bit to the side, avoiding the stone and stopping her shooting, now with her attention drawn at Ritsuka and Peko.

Ritsuka gulped. "Crap..."

The archer then aimed her bow at the two boys.

Peko's reaction was instantely get in front of Ritsuka with his sword in hand. "W-watch out Ritsuka! I-I got this!" He yelled nervous and a bit unsure if he would be able to block the blow and protected them both.

"That won't be needed Peko." Ritsuka smirked. "Her attention is onto us. Wich means..."

As the archer was about to shoot, she heard quick steps from her right and she realized the people she had just forgot in the fight. She tried to turn her bow to the direction of the steps but it was already too late as her body got smacked by Mash's shield.

"She's all open! It's now Nala!"

From her left, Nala runned torwards the Archer and successfully landed a hit on the servant's right leg, forcing her to fall on her knees.

However, the duo wasn't done yet. Mash bashed her shield again on Archer's upper body and was shortly followed by a quick cut on the enemy's left side of the abdomen by Nala's sword and the combo proceeded with another hit of Mash's shield, this time on the servant's head. The Archer woman was completely on the ground now, defenseless.

"Let's end it!" Nala stood on top of the Archer and prepared her sword to pierce right into the Archer's chest, delivering the final blow.

But it wasn't the final blow. In fact, it never came to hit. The Archer servant who seemed to be down, reacted quite fast and grabbed Nala's sword with her bare hands wich resulted in a high intensity shock wich the servant ignored.

"Wha-" Nala had no time to process what happened as she was pulled closer by the Archer and headbutted by the same servant.

At almost the same time the servant had strenght enough to kick Mash strongly in the stomach with her boot, getting out of a situation that looked impossible to escape for the servant.

"No way! They were so close!" Peko and Ritsuka saw their two other members of the group get near to end the fight, only for the Archer to surprise them.

"She won't go down that easily will she?" Nala asked to Mash as the two were getting up from the ground.

"It looks like it." Mash replied.

This time, Archer didn't waited for her enemy to get slowly back up.

As she saw the duo had just finished from standing up, she quickly runned torwards Mash specifficaly.

"Huh?" Mash had little to no time to react as the speed of the servant was incredible. Already next to the Shielder, she kicked the bottom of the shield with enough force for Mash to get opened.

"Mash!" Nala shouted as she tried to act fast. But the Archer proceeded to do a roundhouse kick on Mash's left side of the abdomen, throwing her a few meters away.

"Guurgh!" Mash coughed some blood from tge impact she had suffered. She was once again on the ground. "That was too fast for me!"

Before Mash could even start ti get up from the ground again, Archer had already an arrow prepared and ready to shoot Mash in the head.

"MASH! AHEAD OF YOU!!!" Ritsuka screamed in alarm as he saw the arrow being fired from the Archer's bow.

"!!!" Mash only had time to get her head up and see the arrow coming right torwards her. She had no time to dodge and to block either. She could only stare before the arrow made a hole in her head.

"Aaaahrgh!!!" A scream sounded in the air. It wasn't a scream coming from Mash, despite being the voice behind the scream being female.

It was from Nala, who had put her body in front of Mash after sprinting almost at the speed of light and taking the arrow in her left arm.

"N-NALAAAAAA!!!!" Peko yelled in shock as he saw his sister wounded and falling on her knees. He at that moment just cared about her well-being and runned torwards her and Mash. "Nala! A-Are you alright?!"

Ritsuka followed Peko shortly after. "Stay firm Nala!"

"Gghhg!" Nala pressed her hand on the wound Archer's arrow had just did. It hurted like hell!

"Nala hold on please!" Mash quickly went to check her friend and see the wound she suffered. "I know it hurts but you have to be strong!" Mash made pressure on Nala's wound, trying to avoid the blood from coming out.

"I knowwww." Nala clenched her teeth in pain. But like Mash said, she had to sustain that pain now. "Crap crap crap crap crap! It freaking hurts! But I did- I did to save a friend! So it was worth it!"

Peko and Ritsuka had finally reached next to Mash and Nala's side.

"Nala! Is it hurting a lot?!" Peko asked worried.

"N-No...!" Nala replied to his brother, still trying to ignore the pain on her arm.

"R-really?!" Peko said with some relieve.

"Of course it is you idiot!" Nala shouted back at Peko.

"Is it bad?" Ritsuka asked to Mash who was still making pressure on Nala's arm.

"Thankfully she will still be able to move her arm, but it will hurt if she tries to move it too much." Mash replied.

"Th-That's okay." Nala tried to calm down the group. "I-I'm better with my right arm anyways."

"...I..."

Hearing the voice, the trio immediatly turned their attention and assumed a defensive posture as they remembered one thing. Archer still wasn't defeated.

It was like that for some seconds. And some more seconds. And another seconds...

"Hm?" Ritsuka as well as Peko and Mash were confused. The Archer still hadn't attacked them. She was just standing there in front of them, without doing nothing or even moving a single muscle.

"..I...hurt..." Out of nowhere, black tears appeard from her pitch black eyes and started to roll down the Archer's face. She was crying.

Seeing this, the trio stopped being in their battles positions and just stood watching silently.

"I...hurt...a child..." The Archer's voice was full of regret and sorrow as the tears didn't stopped from falling. Deep down, even if her mind was broken to pieces, she knew. She was aware of the huge sin she had just commited.


Violet Evergarden OST- Never Coming Back

"So what's your dream Atalanta?"

"You already know the answer Medea."

"You're right. But I want to hear you say it."

"Fine then. I dream that every child in the world can have a happy life and be safe, free of any hardships. Where they can all smile forever."

"That's such a lovely dream Atalanta. I wished that it could become true one day."

"Me too Medea. I won't stop or die if a single unhappy child still remains in this earth."


"I hurt a child. I'm a monster. I failed. I'm no longer whorty of protecting children. I hate that Dragon Witch! I hate myself for not being stronger! I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate-"

And fully distracted in her own toughts, the Archer Atalanta let herself fully exposed to let her chest be pierced by Mash's sharp part of the shield.

"It's over." Mash said to the broken servant. "No more suffering to you." She took the shield out of Atalanta's body.

"Ah, I see..." The dark paint from her body started to dissapeard, allowing to show her mouth and normal eyes back again. Unfortunately, her body also started to dissapear.

Ritsuka, Peko and Nala, now with a bandage on her arm, joined Mash to witness Atalanta's last moments.

Nala and Atalanta stared at each other, with Atalanta noticing the wound on the girl's arm.

"I'm sorry..." Tears rolled down Atalanta's face. "I should have protected you. And yet I-"

"No no no. It's alright." Nala told the dying archer. "When I was escaping, you spared me instead of capturing me right on the spot. Without that, I wouldn't have been able to escape." Nala smiled to Atalanta. "So in the end you helped me. And I thank you for that."

Hearing that, made Atalanta feel more at ease, a small portion of weight on her soul dissapearing. "You truly seem like a wonderful kid." She then looked at the rest. "You all are good people. I can tell you that. So please, defeat the Dragon Witch and all the hurt she has caused."

"We will make sure of that!" Ritsuka told her.

"Good." Atalanta said with a small smile. Her body was almost gone, not having much time left. "You're the master here, aren't you?" She asked to Ritsuka.

"Yes I am." He asnwered.

"Then be sure that the two kids you bring along are safe, always." She told him.

"Understood. You have my promise." Ritsuka said.

"Mine too." Mash added.

Atalanta smiled at hearing that. She could rest knowing she wouldn't have to work for the Dragon Witch anymore and do her dirty work. "If we meet again...I'd like to..."

And she was gone before she could even end what she was about to say, leaving the Chaldea group behind.

Ritsuka exhaled. "Alright. That was the first of them. Now we need to defeat the others."

"Hm?! Peko?"

Looking behind, the master of humanity saw Peko hugging tightly his sister, tears falling down from his eyes. "I tought I'd never see you again. That I had lost you forever."

"Peko..." Nala felt surprised by the emotion displayed by her brother. He missed her so much. Nala fought the tears on her eyes and ended up hugging Peko back. "I missed you too. You scaredy cat."

The two stayed in the hug for some long seconds, with Ritsuka and Mash staying around only watching and smilling. As the hug was broken, they went torwards Nala.

"Welcome back, Nala. It's good to see you again." Mash smiled at her.

"To have escaped from this castle all alone, you surely are tough." Ritsuka said, smiling as well. "Now the team is four again."

"Yeah! And I now can fight too!" Peko said happily to his sister. "Well, not that well as you but I-"

"I'm sorry."

"Huh?"

Nala stared at Peko with a face of sorrow. "I'm sorry Peko, for all those things I said to you when we first arrived here. I was too harsh on you, when all that you wanted to do was to help." The girl then faced both Ritsuka and Mash. "I'm sorry for thinking I could handle the situation alone and let you go without me. I found out that I was wrong. That I ain't all that I tought I was and the Dragon Witch showed me that. I'm myself to blame for getting captured." She looked to the ground, lowering her head.

The smiles of Peko, Ritsuka and Mash vanished.

"But...I want to correct that." Nala stared at the three of them with a glare of courage. "And that will be when all of us finish this Singularity!"

"Now you said it Nala!" Mash smiled returned, as well as Peko's and Ritsuka's.

"Hope I ain't ruinning the reunion." Romani's hologram appeard. "Also, Nala didn't actually escaped all by herself you know?" The doctor smirked.

Nala giggled. "You're right. I have to thank you and Da Vinci too. I wouldn't have done it if it weren't for you."

"Wait!" Peko exclaimed. "Then how long did you knew Nala had escaped? And you didn't even bothered to tell us about that?!" He accused Romani.

"That makes sense actually." Ritsuka commented. "Why where you hiding this information from us doc?"

"Wait, wait, wait! It isn't like that!" Romani desperatly tried to explain himself. "We had lost contact with Nala before she exited the castle and I tried to restablish the contact again with her yesterday. It isn't like I didn't care! I just couldn't tell you since I wasn't sure if Nala had escaped or not!"

"Okay then. We believe you." Ritsuka and Peko said.

"Wow! That was fast!" Romani tought to himself. "A-anyways. It's good to have you back Nala and we still need to deal with the other servants." Romani informed them. "They are all occupied with Jeanne and the other ones."

"Then let's help them!" Nala shouted.

"Was thinking the same." Mash commented.

Peko stared at the area a bit far from his left, spotting Siegfried fighting with Vlad. The fight seemed balanced. A bit more ahead he also noticed Jeanne battling with the Berserkerish knight. She was holding her ground but the knight wouldn't stop attacking agressively. "I guess Siegfried-san can hold his own for the longest time here. Him and he's opponent are very much equalled. Jeanne is also strong, I trust her to win against that knight."

"So we should help the others then." Ritsuka said. "Alright everyone! Prepare to engage in more fights!" He exclaimed.

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

"Understood!"


Jeanne parried the attack from the violent knight and attacked him afterwards, managing to land a hit that send the knight flying a few feet away from her. However, the knight didn't seemed harmed by the blow.

"Where does he get all that resilience from?" She wondered.

"Aaaaaathuurrrrrrr!!!!" The knight screamed before jumping torwards the saint.

"Ggh!" Jeanne managed to block the knight's sword, the two standing in a clash.

"He also doesn't stop calling me Arthur. Is he perhaps confusing me for his King Arthur?"

Jeanne broke the clash and kicked the knight right in the helmet. Despite the huge blow the mad knight suffered, once again he didn't seemed to be fazzed.

"How can I defeat this thing?"

The knight himself was preparing to charge torwards Jeanne again, if only weren't fo a thing he saw.

From behind the saint, the Chaldea Group was passing on his field of vision. And upon seeing Mash together wit her shield, the knight went more wild.

"Wrrrrrooooooooooooooo!!!!" With a screechy scream, the knight went full speed torwards Mash, ignoring totally the french saint.

"What?" Jeanne saw the knight coming torwards Mash. "Mash to your left!"

"Hm? Jeanne-san?" Mash turned her head around to see why Jeanne was calling her, only to be met with the dark blue knight coming torwards her.

"Ha!" Mash put the shield in front of her, blocking the attack successfully but still having to hold on the knight's sword.

Ritsuka, Peko and Nala looked behind them.

"Mash!" Ritsuka shouted for his servant.

"Go on! I'll handle him!" Mash shouted back to her companions. "Help the others!"

Without saying anything, the trio did as it was told and runned to the fights that where happening in front of them.

"Gggh!" Mash was still clashing with the enemy's sword, his strenght being way more powerful than hers.

Thankfully to the shielder, Jeanne came to her help. "I was your adversary wasn't I?" She hit her flagpole on the knight, making him go away from Mash. "Because if so, don't try making more adversaries while in a fight."

"Jeanne." Mash stared at Jeanne and the ruler stared back at the shielder.

"On your feet Mash!"

"Ay!" The two then prepared themselves to continue their fight against the knight.

"Arhur...'


"Dodge this!" Carmilla shouted as she casted a blast from her staff torwards Elizabeth.

The lizard girl dodged the attack. "As you wish old hag." With her spear in hand, Elizabeth tried to aim at Carmilla. "Take this!" She levitated with her spear and launched herself to Carmilla with the spear.

"Try harder kid." Carmilla laughed, stopping Elizabeth's lance with her staff.

Seeing that there wasn't any point in continue her attack, Elizabeth backed off, a annoyed expression on her face. "You really want to get a beating don't you?"

Carmilla giggled. "Oh no. The spoiled and problematic princess is getting angry. How my knees are trembling in fear." She said sarcastically.

"As you should be."

"Hm-Gergh!" Blood came out of Carmilla as the sadistic woman felt a sharp object slice her back and right side of the chest. She didn't even had to turn around to see who was the one who hit her, since her attacker showed itself right in front of the female vampire. It was Nala.

"Oh! You are Peko's sister aren't you?" Elizabeth asked Nala, not counting until now to have a reinforcement to help her on the battle.

"That's me!" Nala smiled at Elizabeth. "I'll help you fight this woman. I kinda have...some sort of unfriendliness that is related to her."

"Then welcome aboard to this old hag hater's club!" Elizabeth told Nala, happily giving her a thumbs up. "Where our main activity is sending her back to the place she came!"

"Yeah. I can agree with that." Nala simply nodded.

"Hehehehehehe. Hahahahahahaha!" Carmilla started to burst into laughter, much to the two girls worriedness who quickly assumed their battle positions. "I see you're back young maiden." Carmilla locked her eyes into Nala, who pointed her sword at the grown woman. "Good. It means I'll have something to drink tonight." She saw the blood on her hand and licked her lips, tasting her own blood. "But I don't pretend to kill you yet. I'll make sure to keep you as my stock."

"Only in your dreams you freak!" Nala shouted back at Carmilla. "I'd rather die right here and now!"

"Same here!" Elizabeth joined Nala.

"Oooh, is that a challenge?" Carmilla cackled sadistically. "We'll see then." A dark purple aura appeard around her staff and shortly after, she hit the bottom of her staff in the ground.

Sudden chills got send down Nala and Elizabeth's spine. A sentiment that they were fighting some sort of monster in front of them.

"W-what's this power?" Nala asked to Elizabeth.

"Damn it! This is-"

"Torture Technique" Carmilla giggled to herself. "Now, let's see what you're capable of. Shall we, young maiden?" Summoning her next attack, Carmilla send it in Nala's direction.

Nala saw the attack. A huge iron like sarcophagus of a woman, with spikes inside!

"Wah!" Nala dodged by an inch, her heart beating fast, not imagining what would've happened to her if she got caught by the attack.

"Careful now." Carmilla laughed. "If locked inside it can hurt...a lot."


"You're Sanson. Aren't you?" Mozart looked closely to his opponent. "It's because with that new look, you appear to be more of a abominable monster than a skilles executioner. Marie wouldn't like to see this form of you I'm sure."

Upon hearing the word Marie, Sanson tried to attack Mozart, who simply dodged from his giant blade. "Mo...zaaaaaarttt!!!..." The broken servant raised his voice.

"Oh! Good to see you still remember me old friend." Mozart smiled. "Altough I admit we never talked to each other that much. You always seemed the quiet type to me."

Sanson continue to swing hks sword like a madman, with Mozart avoiding it every time. "Perhaps you were a secret admirer of mine who was too shy to speak with me. Who knows?" Mozart rolled his eyes.

"MOZAAAAAAARTTTTT!!!!" Sanson in a blind rage launched himself torwards Mozart, managing to hit him in the shoulder.

The musician himself backed off. "Kgh!" He touched his wound. "Guess I talked a bit too much." He then started playing his violin, forming small pigeons and directing them to Sanson, getting to land a hit on the corrupted executioner.

"Now then." Mozart looked serious at Sanson. "For the sake of my eyes and of Marie's soul too, I'll slay this monstruosity that Charles Henri Sanson has become!"


"Ggh!" Georgios grunted as he clashed his sword with D'eons.

Kiyohime took the chance to send a fire ball to the musketeer who was occupied with the bronze saint.

Taking a quick glance, D'eon retreated from the clash with Georgios and easily sliced the ball of fire.

"They're good." Kiyohime commented D'eon skills.

"Whatever broked their mind didn't stop them from still being a formidable opponent." Georgios said.

"Kiyohime! Georgios!" Ritsuka walked in the fight alongside Peko.

"Need some help you two?" Peko asked to the two servants.

"Well I'd say the more the better." Kiyohime told him.

D'eon took a slow steps, walking if they were a zombie, their wide open eyes not even blinking. "...Marie...My queen..." That's all the musketeer could say in their actual state of mind.

"I can't stand seeing such noble opponent be reduced to this." Georgios told to the other three. "We need to put them out of their misery."

"Agree!" Ritsuka say.

"If there's any way I can help just tell me!" Peko told to Georgios as he brandished his sword, staying close to Ritsuka.

"For now give me and Kiyohime back up." Gerogiow told the boy before going back to stare at D'eon. "Be careful for any dodgy attack coming from them!"


Jeanne Alter contemplated the flames Fafnir would spread on the battlefield, while being on top of the very dragon himself. The way everything seemed so insignificant to her from where she was standing up above was quite the joy for the Dragon Witch. Everything burning, just how she loved it.

"Okay. These must slow down those army braindeads." The witch then looked at the fight happening near the castle gates. She already knew Atalanta was gone, but it wasn't has if she cared about that good for nothing servant that tried to oppose her in the first place.

She also noticed Carmilla fighting with her younger self and Nala. Seeing the white hair girl made the Dragon Witch's blood boil a bit. She took pity and saw utility on her, and the girl repayed Jeanne Alter by escaping and leading the french army to a surprise attack on her castle. Honestly, Jeanne Alter didn't cared about what Carmilla could do to Nala if they'd win the battle at this point. As long as she stops being a problem to the Dragon Witch, she was good with that.

But the main attraction was someone else. That certain someone at this exact time fighting the mad knight with the help of one of those newcomers. The original part of hers. The half that refuses to hate those who wronged both of them. That was the person Jeanne Alter was looking for.

Smirking evily, she knew what to do next. "Time to pay a visit."


"Take this!" Jeanne hit her flagpole on the lunatic knight, with Mash shoving her shield strongly into the knight's armor.

The knight however, didn't even took a step back, staying on his ground.

The two girls were panting as they saw that no matter the attacks they'd do, the knight wouldn't look very affected by it.

"It's not even working! He's just shrugs off the attacks as if they were nothing!" Mash told Jeanne, worried that this fight may look unwinnable.

"We must keep trying!" Jeanne tried to motivate Mash. "Surely there must be some weak spo-"

"Hey!" Someone behind called Jeanne's attention.

"Wh-Ggh!" As Jeanne was turning her head around to see who it was, the saint received a punch right in her face, falling to the ground.

"Jeanne!" Mash exclaimed, before having to pay attention again to the mad knight who was about to attack the shielder.

"Well, look who it is?" A voice equally to Jeanne's sounded. Except the voice was totally perverse. "I mean, it would be a shame if you ended up not showing up. I was this close to start thinking you begun to be a coward."

Jeanne lifted her face from the ground, the blood running down from her nose, as she looked from below the person who punched her. "A vengeful maniac has less dignity, Dragon Witch!"

Jeanne Alter, who was standing in front of Jeanne ,grinned. "Says the one who accepts any punishment given to her as if she was a whore!" Jeanne Alter kicked Jeanne in the stomach. "Still not wanting to see you and I are the same? Or perhaps..." The Dragon Witched stomped the hand of the saint that was trying to reach out for the sword. "You hate me? The simple tought of you having to be related with me is so disturbing and infuriating that turns you mad hahaha."

"Jeanne!" Mash cried out the saint's name.

"You shut the hell up!" Jeanne Alter shouted at Mash as she tried to help Jeanne, only to be stopped by the mad knight. "This is none of your bussiness! Go and play with my servant some more, will you?"

"Aaaartuurrrrrr..." The knight said, this time not shouting wildly, his focus divided between Mash and Jeanne.

"Now where were we?" Jeanne Alter returned her attention back to Jeanne. "Oh right." She took out her sword. "The part where the Maiden of Orleans dies. But know this, I'll make the most slowest and agonizong death that you'll experience. My blade, slowly piercing your heart, as I watch your eyes lose it's light." She laughed. "So? What you're going to do? Pray?"

"No." Jeanne said seriously. "You just talk way too much." Moving her free arm, Jeanne was capable to call her flagpole back.

"What?!"

Jeanne Alter was forced to back off as Jeanne swinged her weapon torwards the Dragon Witch, freeing her hand and allowing Jeanne to get up.

The saint didn't waste time, summoning her sword in her other hand and unleash an assault on Jeanne Alter.

The two Jeanne's swords clashed as their battle had just started.

"Heh. For one side I'm actually happy that you won't be going down without a fight." Jeanne Alter smirked, looking at Jeanne in the eyes through the sparks of their swords. "I want to see that again you know? That hatred of yours. I want to see the side that has been buried inside of you!"

Meanwhile, Mash was still struggling against the knight. The knight just wouldn't leave her enough room to breath, tirelessly hitting his shield against Mash's sword.

"Why does he seems so relentless when fighting me? The first time was the same thing." Mash couldn't comprehend the strange obsession the knight had on her. "Who even are you?"

And so the knight continuing to attack Mash time after time until the legs of the shielded eventually gave up.

"Ggh!" She fell down to her knees, still protecting herself with the shield as the knight didn't seem to be over with his attacks. At this rate, Mash would be defeated.

"I need to do something about this!" Mash felt her arms getting weaker, not supporting the Berserker heavy attacks for any longer. "If it continues like this..." Mash tought to herself before realizing something. "Hm?"

The attacks had stop. The knight had stopped attacking.

Mash looked to the servant above her. The knight was standing still with his sword in the air, wielded by both his hands. However, he looked hesitant on wanting to attack Mash, his arms trembling, as if he was fighting with himself.

Mash could only look at the red visor of the knight's helmet, thinking what was stopping him from killing Mash now.

The Berserker knight then lowered his sword, taking multiple distorted breaths, before turning his back to Mash.

"AAAAAAAAARTHUUUUURRRR!!!!!" The knight let out a enormous screech before heading torwards Jeanne and Jeanne Alter.

"Wha-what is he doing?" Mash said to herself in confusion.

Feeling something from behind, Jeanne jumped away from the incoming Berserker that quickly descended his sword on the ground with great strenght. "Aaaaarthuurrrrr!!!"

"The hell?! Berserker what are you doing?!" Jeanne Alter was annoyed and shocked by her own servant's meddling in her fight with Jeanne. "Go back to your own fight damnit!"

But the mas knight didn't seemed to listen, instead, attempting to hit Jeanne with his sword. "Aaaaaaaaarthuuuuur!!!"

"Are you fucking deaf!? I said to go back!!" Jeanne Alter screamed in anger, seeing that her servant was unwilling to obey her.

Jeanne was trying to get as much distance as she could from the knight, wich was almost impossible since his speed was almost as fast as hers. "As he completely lost it?"

The Berserker then elevated his sword up high, ready to descend on Jeanne. "Aaaarthurrrrr!!!"

"You moron! Do I have to use a command spell on you?!" Jeanne Alter threatned.

But again, the knight didn't seemed to hear, or rather, didn't seem to care. "Arhtur Arthur Arthur Arthur Arthur Arthur!" The knight's blade shinned a dark purple aura, clearly indicating a strong attack was coming, as he lowered it with great speed torwards Jeanne.

"!!!" Jeanne put the flagpole ahead of her, ready for the impact.

"AAAAAAAAARTHUUUUURRRR "

Upon the contact, a big explosion was created and a hole was formed.

"Yeah. It seems there's no chance of calling him back..."

Mash went next to the newly created hole. "Jeanne! Are you there?!" She tried to call out for her companion.

As the fog from the impact got cleared, Mash caught sight of Jeanne and the Berserker still clashing with each other in the middle of the hole. The flagpole of Jeanne had successfuly blocked the impact but it was noticeable to spot some cracks from it, showing how strong the Berserker attack had been.

"Ggghg!" Jeanne sweated as she was pulling all of her strenght to parry the Berserker's sword.

Mash knew that Jeanne was struggling from trying to push the Berserker back "I'm coming Jeann-"

Then, flames started to surround the knight, a dozen of spears appeard from the ground and all impaled the knight's chest, bringing him away from the gound, much to Mash and Jeanne's shock.

"La Grondement Du Haine!!!"

A huge fire exploded from within Berserker's body, sending flames throughout his whole body.

"Berserker..." Jeanne Alter said as she approached her servant that she herself had attacked. "You can only blame yourself for not following my orders." She looked with disgust at the burning knight. "Those who can't follow my orders are better left dead. You fucking imbecile." Jeanne Alter spat.

"So you'd kill your own ally?!" Jeanne accused her alter.

"Hm? What's the problem in that saint?" Jeanne Alter mocked Jeanne. "Didn't we learned this in the army? Those who try to run away from the battle and refuse to follow their superior orders are deemed as traitors aren't they?" Jeanne Alter smirked sadistically. "I just used my Noble Phantasm to end up with a traitor of my side. Nothing else."

Jeanne got a bit angered at the Dragon Witch's words. "That's just-"

"A...Ar..."

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The weak sound from the knight's voice made Jeanne look up to the burning body of the knight that was starting to fade.

" A..Art..hurrr..." The knight said weakly, almost having no energy to say the name that was the only thing he could say before in a raging way. Whoever he was to keep calling Jeanne the famous birtish king Arthur Pendragon, would most likely remain a mystery.

Mustering the last bit of will in his decaying body, the knight stretched his arm out for Mash, as if he was trying to call her before death took him.

"?" Mash stared at the knight, not understanding why he was streatching his arm to her as if he wanted to hold her hand, as if he knew her for a long time.

"G..ga..l.."

Was everything the knight could say before the bright red from his helmet's visor went out and all his strenght faded, alongside his body that was then engulfed by the flames.

The Berserker whose name was unknown was struck down, not by his enemies but by the very own person he served.

Mash felt a pain in her heart. "Why...am I feeling sad?" Seeing an enemy that she never knew and had no relation with somehow was capable to make her feel anguish by seeing his last moments. It was almost enough for Mash to tear up.

"Good riddance." Jeanne Alter said, without any care in the world. "That 'thing' was broken beyond repair. Personal affairs of mine should stay with only me alone." She pointed her sword at Jeanne. "Wich means I can finish it now. With no interruptions this time." She giggled.

Jeanne's eyes were obershadowed by her hair, not replying to the Dragon Witch. Her hand closed tightly into a fist. "You really are evil, aren't you?" Jeanne stared coldly at her alter.

"Hmmm." Jeanne Alter smiled satisfied. "Yes. That anger. Release it. Show me that you're just as flawed as I am. No more saint masks to hide it."

Jeanne closed her eyes, deciding to calm down and think.

"Hate even if powerful, is also a disgusting weapon. It turns us more into beasts than men. But, negating it completely also makes us less human."

Jeanne opened her eyes, a clear objective in her mind.

"Mash..." She called the Shielder, not looking at her.

"What is it Jeanne?" Mash asked.

"Go help the others. This fight here is mine." She said seriously.

Understanding Jeanne's motives for wanting to fight alone and aware of her skills, Mash complied with the saint's order.

"Ay! Good luck Jeanne-san!" Mash immediatly went out of the hole, leaving the two Jeanne's behind.

"Smart of you." Jeanne Alter smirked. "She'd only slow you down." She put herself on battle position.

Without saying nothing, Jeanne did the same.

"Now, let's restart it."


"Nngh!" Nala felt a sharp pain on her left arm due to the wound made on the previous fight with Atalanta. She couldn't move it too much or else the wound would open again. "This wound is hurting no matter how much I ignore it!"

"Hey! Watch out!" Elizabeth screamed over Nala.

Reacting to her ally's screams, Nala saw a blast coming torwards her. Thankfully, she was on time to block it.

"Thanks!" She said to Elizabeth.

"No problem!" Elizabeth replied.

"My my. So friendly and only met some minutes ago." Carmilla laughed before looking at Nala. "You better be careful or else she'll suck your blood hehe."

"I won't because I'm not like you!" Elizabeth shouted angrily at Carmilla.

"But you will be." Carmilla said harshly. "You can deny all you want it at this precise moment but in the future, you'll become exactly what you are seeing in front of you."

"What is she even talking about?" Nala raised an eyebrow to Elizabeth.

"It's because...she's the older version of me."

"WHA-" Nala petrified in shock the moment she heard that. Looking at both Elizabeth and Carmilla, they looked like nothing alike.

Then she remembered about the two Gilles de Rais she encountered. And the two Jeannes. People really do change. For the worse in this case.

"Is this Singularity just full of people fighting their dark counterparts or something?" Nala stared aimlessly into nothing, losing herself in her own toughts.

"Hey!" Elizabeth touched her in the shoulder. "Whatever she's saying, it's a lie. I won't drink your blood or something like that. What I really want is to become an idol, not a monster."

"Keep telling yourself that brat. You can never escape from your future. It will catch you eventually and shatter the illusional dream that you're living in!" Carmilla said to her younger self.

"No it won't!" Elizabeth shouted back.

"Charisma!"

Elizabeth casted a spell to herself and Nala.

"What was that?" Nala asked to Elizabeth.

"A little help. Now come! Let's kick this old hag's ass!" Elizabeth went ahead, preparing to attack Carmilla.

"Stupid girl! If you want to continue living a life of delusion so be it!" Carmilla blocked Elizabeth's spear with her staff. "I'll kill you anyways at the end of the day!" She pushed Elizabeth back and had time enough to see Nala approaching from her right. "As for you..." She blocked Nala's sword and proceeded to kick her away. "Try not to die."

"Aaah!" Elizabeth screamed as she tried to impale Carmilla, only for the vampire to dodge it and grab the spear.

Nala went to attack from behind but Carmilla was aware and kicked the girl in her stomach with her right leg, sending Nala a few meters away.

The woman went back to Elizabeth and forcefully took the spear away from her hands, throwing her to the ground. "Now stay there!" She forcefully stomped Elizabeth's head into the ground with her high heel boots. Elizabeth tried to struggle but Carmilla was making sure she wouldn't be getting up from the ground that soon.

Nala seeing the situation, got up from the ground but before advancing her body flinched. A shar pain coming from her left arm again. Looking at the wound, she saw the bandage being soaked with a red liquid.

"Crap! The wound has opened!"

Seeing the girl distracted, Carmilla took her chance, a sadistic smile appearing on her face.

"Nice, truly splendid."

The surrounding area started to get darker and covered up by a black mist.

Elizabeth knew from the get go what this could only mean. "No! Stop it-" Her face was shoved down by Carmilla's boot.

"All lies on a plate of illusion

Looking around clueless, Nala was trying to see where the vampire attack would come.

"Where is she-" Hearing a sound from behind, Nala turned herself around to see something that made her eyes went wide in total shock.

yet the girl rests in this case..."

A giant metal sarcophagus of a woman with chains around , towering over Nala who just stood looking in fear.

The chains securing the giant cabinet broken and the iron maiden was opened, revealing the hundreds of spikes inside with the blood painted walls.

"RUN!!!!" Elizabeth screamed in dispair to Nala.

But the fear was so great that the girl was paralyzed by it, watching the giant iron maiden getting closer.

Carmilla smilled devilishly as her prey could no longer escape.

"Phantom Maiden!"

And the iron maiden closed, with Nala inside.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Elizabeth screamed in terror, watching helpless an ally dieing in front of her in a brutal way.

The dark mist was gone, going back to the normal scenario.

"No need to cry like that brat. I didn't killed her." Carmilla laughed evily as Elizabeth stared at her with tears in her eyes.

"I made sure Phantom Maiden wouldn't hit any vital points of her body, only knocking her unconscious." The female vampire smiled as a slight blush appeard on her cheeks. "Ah! This night will surely be f- BLARGH!"

Carmilla's eyes widened as she felt a huge cut on her back and coughed a huge amount of blood from her mouth.

"Jeez! People like you are truly disgusting." A voice came in front of her.

With her whole body trembling from the cut she suffered, Carmilla made an effort to look at the person who cut her. The voice being an easy giveaway. "You..." She grunted angrily.

Nala was standing in front of the vampire, the wound on her arm still opened but the rest of her body seeming completely fine.

"Ah! Y-You're okay!" The crying Elizabeth smiled upon seeing that Nala was fine.

"B-But how?!" Carmilla growled in anger. "I saw my Noble Phantasm locking you inside! How did you escaped?!"

"Simple you hag. I wasn't actually locked." Nala responded to Carmilla.

"?! W-what?" Carmilla couldn't believe on the answer Nala gave her. Carmilla then gasped. "In the fight, I saw how fast she runs. A speed comparable to the speed of sound at best. So that means in that precise moment, when Phantom Maiden was closing her in, she runned away fast enough that I couldn't spot at the naked eye?!" Carmilla was sweating intensily at the realization. "She was running at the speed of LIGHT?!"

"Hm. It seems you have already caught up to it." Nala said. "Also..." Nala looked at Elizabeth. "Thank you. Without your ear destructive screams I think I wouldn't get out of my own paralyzation. Well done." She smiled at Elizabeth.

"Hphm!" Elizabeth nodded her head happily. "Sure!"

"Now then..." Nala stared at Carmilla who was starting to lose her cool. "I guess we still have a beating to give you." She pointed her sword to the female vampire.

Carmilla's breaths were getting unstable, seeing that her triumph card was used for nothing and that if Nala really runned at the speed of light, she would have a problem. Her head couldn't keep her cool anymore. She was panicked.

"YOU DAMN BRAAAAATT!!!!" She jumped angrily at Nala. "Damn you Damn you Damn you Damn you!!!" She tried to attack repeatedly Nala but since the vampire woman had lost her calmness, the attacks were coming out as predictable and a bit easy for Nala to block them.

Seeing the situation wasn't getting any better for her, Carmilla in a mindless attempt, attacked Nala with her fingernails. Unexpectedly, she managed to puncture Nala's right side of the abdomen with her nails.

"Tsk!" Nala grunted from the pain.

"Fuhahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahaha!" Carmilla laughed maniacally. "Finally! Young maiden's blood!!!"

"NOW!" Nala shouted to someone behind Carmilla.

"Huh?" Was all the vampire woman could say before she felt a vertical slice throughout her whole body.

"You've lost hag." Elizabeth said as she appeard in front of her, her spear drenched in blood.

"Blurgh!" Carmilla coughed even more blood out as she let her fingernails go from Nala, who was catched by Elizabeth before hitting the ground.

"You okay?" Elizabeth asked Nala as she saw the small holes on her abdomen made by Carmilla's fingernails.

"Well it wasn't the worst injury I suffered today let me tell you." Nala smirked, once again trying to ignore the pain.

Carmilla, totally defeated, fell on her knees and looked at the sky above that was getting with less wyverns each minute it passed, allowing for some rays of light to pierce the clouds and shine some areas of the battlefield.

"...I see...This is the end for me..." The blood started to flow from the wound Carmilla suffered. Even her mask was cut in half and eventually fell apart, revealing the yellow eyes of the female vampire.

"Correct. Your bloodlust ends here." Elizabeth told her older self.

"But for you...it's only just starting..." Carmilla replied, giggling weakly. "How could this be..? The past...rejecting the future..."

"Because I'm never becoming a monster like you! I won't go down that path!" Elizabeth said, making pressure on Nala's wound.

"You say that but...it's only a matter of time...until you see the reality you've put yourself into...hehehe- cough" Carmilla spitted more blood. The two girls really gave her quite the blows.

"Then I'll make my best to change that reality. There's always time to change the future while in the present." Elizabeth responded, sure of her words.

Carmilla just sighed. "How...naive...Perhaps I envy you..." The vampire felt her body starting to dissapear. Before dissapearing for good, Carmilla looked at Nala one last time. "Sorry for...my behaviour torwards you...young maiden."

Nala didn't fully buyed her excuse, even if it felt genuine that she was truly sorry. "You should say that to all the girls you tortured during your life." She said with a mean face, not accepting Carmilla's excuse.

"Hmmm...you're right lány..." Carmilla lowered her head, staring at the broken mask on the ground. "What...was my head thinking...?" And the cruel countess of blood was gone, being the third Dragon Witch's servant to go down. Slowly, they were winning the battle.

"Humm...what did she called me?" Nala asked to Elizabeth, still at the lizard girl's arms, not understanding the word Carmilla used before vanishing.

"Oh! She..." Elizabeth look to the side, thinking on something. "She basically called you a clown." Elizabeth said with a convincing tone.

"Really? Well, screw her then." Nala said. "But I wonder, if I can reach to that speed again..."


"Now Sanson, those screams aren't very melodic, don't you think?" The musician played notes on his violin as he dodged the attacks from the corrupted executioner.

"Moz...aaaart!!!" Sanson screamed in his broken state.

"Well yes, that's my name. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Good to see you remember of it." Mozart joked a bit. Even if he had been hit a couple of times, Mozart also was able to deliever some good blows on Sanson. The fight was quite balanced. It could go to any one of the two servants.

"Gggraaah!!" Sanson launched an attack to Mozart again.

However, Mozart didn't even needed to try or block it, as a shield blocked the attack.

"Need any help, Mozart-san?" Mash asked to her fellow ally.

"Things are stable enough. But yes, I think a little help to accelerate the things would do good." Mozart told her, accepting Mash's help.

Mash nodded, now aiming her attention at Sanson.

"Ma...rieeeeee!!!" Sanson launched himself torwards Mash.

The shielder reacted by blocking the first swing, dodging the second and hit Sanson with the shield before he could do a third swing.

"Nice moves Lady Mash!" Mozart praised the shielder, before summoning other pigeons and sending them to attack Sanson, successfully hitting the servant.

"Is it over?" Mash asked to Mozart.

"Amadeeeeussss!!!"

"Guess this answers your question Lady Mash." Mozart said. "He is so angry at me. Perhaps I'm playing a music that he doesn't like?" Mozart wondered.

"Mozart-san please, don't make fun of a servant's dreadful situation!" Mash told him, thinking it wasn't the best time to crack some jokes.

"Make fun you say?" Mozart looked at Mash. "Lady Mash, I may be joking from outside but from the inside..." Mozart looked sadly at Mash. "...I'm disgusted by this."

Mash didn't even said nothing, letting Mozart to continue talking.

"The Charles Henri Sanson I knew, was a man with honor and humility. Seeing someone take control of him and breaking his mind and body like that, is indeed a bad joke." Mozart said as he saw Sanson slowly getting up from the distance.

"Mozzzaaaarttt!!!"

The musician closed his eyes, hearing the screams of the executioner. "Remembered what I told you that night?"

"About protecting the things we love? Yes I do remember." Mash said, wondering why Mozart was bringing that up now.

"The problem is...Sanson has nothing he loves left to protect anymore." Mozart said. "Everything he cared about in this Singularity, is long gone." Mozart remembered of Marie. "And when there's nothing left to love, the person has no purpose to keep fighting. Completely at the mercy of vile people that want to use them the way they see fit."

Mash looked at Sanson and the way his body was completely corrupted, alongside his mind that was beyond repair, completely at the will of the Dragon Witch.

"Such people like him, like Sanson that I once heard and knew about it...should never be puppets of terrible fiends!" Mozart shouted as he blocked an attack from Sanson.

"MOZZZZZZAAAAAARTTTT!!!"

"So help me Lady Mash!" Mozart turned to look at Mash. "Help me free this fallen man from his cruel shackles!"

Mash was dumbfounded by Mozart's words, but now it wasn't the time to think about that. It was time to help her ally has requested. "You can count me on!"

Mozart smiled. "Good." He then looked at Sanson. "Let's finish it for good."

Sanson, fixing the broken bones from his body, stared intensily at Mozart. His mind only tought about one thing: kill his enemies. Kill Mozart. That's all he knew.

"Amadeeeeussss!!"

As Sanson was reaching out to the musician, Mash put herself between the two, blocking the attack of the enemy. She saw the black eyes of Sanson, exactly the same ones Atalanta had before being killed. They were devoided of anything.

"Yes! Keep him occupied Miss Mash!" Mozart exclaimed, dematerializing his violin.

"What will you do Mozart-san?" Mash questioned him.

"Hold him for about seven seconds. After that, push him away with your shield and cover your ears!" Mozart instructed Mash.

"Do you really think it's going to work?" Mash doubted.

"Trust me! When it comes to music, I never let any listener dissapointed!" Mozart reassured.

"Okay!" Mash said.

Seeing the perfect condition, Mozart started to wave his hands as if he was leading an orchestra.

"Please enjoy.

Mash start to count the seconds on her head as she was tanking Sanson.

It's time for a public performance!"

Mash felt Sanson trying to push her away but the executioner was wronged if he tought he could get rid of her that easily.

"Prepare to listen!

A golden aura surrounded the area, with giant faceless angel figures carrying instruments appearing.

The seconds on Mash's head where almost over.

To the sound of a demon!"

With the seven seconds counted, Mash reunited all her strenght and pushed Sanson far away from her, proceeding to cover her ears.

"Requiem for Death!"

The angels started to play the music wich affected greatly Sanson that was hearing it's melody.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah!!! Amadeeeeussss!!!"

And with a final note, the music and Noble Phantasm of the musician was over. Mozart made a signal to Mash that she could finally take the hands from her ears.

"Did it worked?" Mash asked to Mozart.

"See by yourself." Mozart pointed ahead with his head.

Mash turned around and saw the executioner in the ground, weakly trying to get up.

"Mo...zart..."

Seeing that the enemy was greatly weakened, Mozart walked over him with a sad face. He then stopped right next to Sanson who was to weak to even try and swing his giant blade at the musician.

"You loved her too, didn't you?" Mozart said to the executioner, not expecting an answer to come from his mouth.

"..Ma..rie..." Was all he could say.

"Hmm." Mozart closed his eyes. "I tought so." And on opening his eyes, Mozart descended the fatal blow on Sanson with his baton.

The black liquid from his eyes and mouth started to dissapear, revealing the normal looking Sanson. At the same time his body started to fade.

Mash walked torwards the two, seeing another servant from the Dragon Witch about to perish.

"You knew it...all along...didn't you..?" Sanson said, his body on the ground and all of the energy gone to even look directly at Mozart.

The musician smirked. "Of course. The few times we where together on the same room I noticed how you'd look at her." He giggled.

"Amadeus...you bastard..." Sanson said a bit annoyed.

"Oh don't worry my friend! I didn't tell her about that during the time we where together in this Singularity." Mozart told him.

"My Spirit Core was...messed with...I had no control of myself any longer..." Sanson explained. "I...let myself be turned...into this monster..." Sanson started to tear up. "I could only think...of how I let down my queen..!"

"True. She wouldn't be pleased of seeing this grotesque figure of you." Mozart agreed with Sanson. "But for everyone's luck, she has a good heart. Too good for you and me perhaps." Mozart looked to the sky. "And do you know the best part?"

"Hm? What?" Sanson asked, his body almost completely fading away.

"You can apologize to her right now when returning back to the Throne of Heroes!" Mozart smiled. "Don't also lose this chance to say how much you love her. Do you hear me?"

Sanson was a bit shocked by the musician's words, but he couldn't help but let out a little laugh. "Amadeus...you really are...a weird man..." And Sanson whole body faded.

Mozart smiled even more. "Well thank you for the compliment my dear beheading friend." Mozart summoned his violin. "Because unlike you, a love of mine while always endure the test of time." He started to play the violin. "Loved by many..." He then looked at Mash. "Do you know why, Lady Mash?"

Mash sighed but showed a little smile of joy. "Yes I do, Mozart-san."

"Because when compared to me, everyone else sucks."


"Ah!" Georgios clashed with D'eon's sword, trying to land a hit on them.

"They've been trying to hit him for a long time and yet D'eon looks almost unharmed." Peko said to Ritsuka as the two watched the fight unfold.

"Hmm. Even with Kiyohime and Georgios attacking together, D'eon can still block the attacks." Ritsuka observed. "They are probably the most skilled out of the Dragon Witch's servants."

"Not for long enough." Kiyohime said. "They must have an opening or weakness. Every servant as one."

"Even so, this is a servant that lost their sanity and can still fight pretty well." Georgios commented.

"Marie...my queen...dead..." D'eon's head contracted from left to right, showing how messed up their mind has become after Marie's death.

"Hmm. Peko." Georgios called the boy.

"Y-Yes?!" Peko didn't expect for his name to be mentioned all of a sudden.

"Do you think you can help us?" The bronze saint asked me.

"I'll try to do my best." He answered.

"Ritsuka." Georgios then proceeded to call for the master of humanity. "Do you think there is a possible strategy to win this?"

"Hmm." Ritsuka put a hand on his chin, looking at Peko, Georgios, Kiyohime and then D'eon at the back. "Something that could work..." Ritsuka was thinking.

"All...of you...must...die!" D'eon jumped in the group's direction, but was stopped by Kiyohime.

"Hum, Anchin-sama, I know you need some time to think but could you be more quicker about that?" She complained a bit.

"Hmmmm a strategy to win. C'mon Ritsuka you're the master! Of course you need to think on strategies in order to win the battle!" Thinking some more, Ritsuka looked at Peko, before reaching to a conclusion. "Yes! That's it!" He exclaimed like if he was some kind of scientist.

"S-so? What's the plan Ritsuka?" Peko asked to his friend.

"Peko, can you make that ball of light you made when we were fighting Saint Martha?" He asked to the boy.

"Hum. I think so. Why?" Peko asked.

"Have you tought about making bigger until it explodes? Like a flashbang grenade?" Ritsuka asked, sharing the idea he had.

"Hum..." Peko stood a bit silent, scratching his head. "What is a 'flashbang grenade'?"

Ritsuka just felt like slapping himself. Of course Peko wouldn't know what those things were. "Look. All you need to know is that it can stun the enemy by creating a huge light and you can give it a try with those ball of light of yours!"

"You sure about it? Peko asked, not knowing if he could pull it off.

"Well I'm not entirely sure but we need to try. Alright?" Ritsuka put an hand over Peko's shoulder. "I believe in you."

Peko didn't said nothing for about two seconds, before nodding at Ritsuka. "Sure! I'll try and make one of those 'flashgang' things."

Hearing that Ritsuka then stared at Kiyohime and Georgios who where handling D'eon. "Hey guys! I have a plan!" He shouted to the two servants. "When I scream 'COVER!' you Georgios, cover yourself and Kiyohime with your cape! Understood?"

"What's that plan of yours?" Georgios asked him, wanting to know more details.

"You'll see!" Ritsuka replied.

"Well, if it's anything that Anchin-sama has planned, I automatically approve it!" Kiyohime went on board with Ritsuka's plan.

"Then you better put it in practice Ritsuka!" Georgios parried a hit from D'eon. "Or else they'll start to get the upper hand on us!"

Ritsuka looked at Peko. "Ready?"

The boy nodded. "Yeah."

Peko rised his left arm, sticking out his index finger. He took a deep breath. "Focus." Peko started to concentrate his mana into the tip of the index finger, starting to form a tiny ball of light.

"Yes that's it! Keep going!" Ritsuka encouraged the boy.

"Control all of your mana..." Peko tried to empty his mind, making the small ball of light a little bigger now.

Ritsuka was happy but stayed quiet, not wanting to break Peko's concentration.

Meanwhile Georgios and Kiyohime were doing their best to keep D'eon away from Peko and Ritsuka.

"Imagine it flow, through your nerves..."

The ball was getting larger and larger. However, as it grow, Peko would feel more exhausted, having to concentrate more mana into his ball of light.

"C'mon you can do it." Ritsuka whispered.

"Lead everything, into a single point..." Peko started to sweat as the ball of light was now on the size of a basketball. His left hand was trembling. It was visible that the ball of light was getting unstable.

"Peko! You can release it! It's good enough!" Ritsuka told him worried, not wanting the ball to end up exploding on them.

Peko however still find he could give a little more mana. Leading some unhealthy amounts of magic into his index finger, the ball of light grew sporadically, reaching almost to the same size of Peko who now was feeling his magical circuits and nerves burning inside.

"Aaaaaaaaah!!!" With a scream that couldn't be said if it was either of pain or determination, Peko fired the huge ball of light from his finger, going at high speed torwards D'eon who was occupied with Georgios and Kiyohime.

"COVER!!!" Ritsuka shouted at the two servants as he covered his eyes with his arm.

Georgios quickly put an arm over Kiyohime's shoulder and covered both of them with his long cape.

"?" D'eon, not understanding what was happening, just stood there as the ball of light closely reached them. "!!!"

It was too fast for the musketeer to dodge properly and upon making contact with their body, it exploded into a huge bright white light.

Some seconds passed and D'eon was with their vision completely witish and their ears wouldn't stop to make noise. The servant was stunned.

Taking this as an opportunity, Georgios and Kiyohime both went torwards D'eon and attacked him from each side, slicing the servant.

"Yes! We did it!" Ritsuka closed his hand into a fist in victory. "Well done Peko!"

Peko panted as his body felt tired and with no energy left, his head feeling dizzy and soft. "Y-yeah..." The boy smiled weakly. "We...did..it..." Peko then fell to the ground.

"Peko? Peko?!" Ritsuka went to his side, shaking his shoulder.

"Ritsuka what happened?" Georgios looked behind, seeing Ritsuka next to Peko's body. "Is he alright?" He said worried.

"He got unconscious." Ritsuka told him. "It isn't the first time it happens."

"He shouldn't have done that extra effort." Kiyohime said. "He has low mana. It could have ended up killing him!"

"What matters is that he has done it and did it just for us be able to find an opening on D'eon." Ritsuka smilled to the unconscious Peko. "Good job, Peko."

"Kkgh!...It...hurts...!"

All the three looked in shock as they saw D'eon walking torwards them with their body now oozing out blood.

"It...pains...me..!"

"They're still alive?!" Ritsuka couldn't believe that even after his plan, D'eon was still able to fight.

"Hmm. Not for long. With those wounds, their agility has certainly diminuished." Georgios took a step forward. "Wich means now is the right opportunity to unleash it."

Georgios put his sword in front of him.

"Make sure to not miss it." Kiyohime told the bronze saint as she went next to Ritsuka to check on Peko.

"Let me show you!"

Georgios sword started to shine.

"This is the truth of Ascalon!

An armoured horse appeard next to Georgios, the bronze saint getting on top of it and heading torwards D'eon.

"I...need...to...kill..."

Thou dragon with sin!"

Georgios quickly got near D'eon and slashed the musketeer with and horizontal cut, jumped out of his horse and slashed them again with a vertical cut.

"AS-

Georgios with his sword, then pierced it into D'eon's body.

-CALON!!"

The two cuts Georgios made previously then exploded brightly, causing Ritsuka and Kiyohime to cover their eyes.

Once the light had come back to normal they opened their eyes to see Georgios standing overca defeated D'eon, their body dissapearing.

"My queen...My prescious queen..." D'eon said in sorrow. "I...need...you..." They pleaded.

"You can rest easy now musketeer." Georgios told them. "No one will abuse of you now. You're free." He tried to comfort D'eon.

"A-ah...ah..." D'eon tried to smile and look at Georgios face. "T-thank...you..."

And they vanished in the air, no trace of the body left.

Georgios put his hands together in a prayer. "May you find peace at the end, Chevalier D'eon. And may the Lord accept you of good will."

With that, Georgios walked back to Ritsuka and Kiyohime. "So how is he?" He asked about the unconscious Peko.

"He'll eventually wake up." Ritsuka told him.

"That boy has quite the spirit." Georgios observed. "And Ritsuka, thank you for the plan." Georgios smiled at the master of humanity. "You did well."

Ritsuka blushed a bit. "W-well. It was just a simple plan! B-besides, I didn't even do that much compared to you really!

Kiyohime hugged him. "Oh don't be silly Anchin-sama. You did splendidly!"

Ritsuka laughed a bit nervously, still holding Peko on his arms. "Well, if you say so."


"Your blade is nothing short of magnific." Vlad told to his opponent.

"I'd say the same thing abkut your spear." Siegfried replied.

Both servants had been fighting for quite some time now, with both their bodies being wounded and dirty with blood, both coming from them or the adversary. The area around them was full of spears appearing magically from the ground.

Siegfried had avoided majority of them, only getting caught here and there.

Vlad was also injured with some blows delivered from the Dragon Slayer's sword, Balmung.

"Since you're the first one in a long time that gives me a challange, I'll be more than willing to share this personal secret of mine." Vlad told to Siegfried. "Intreasted in hearing it?"

Siegfried got a bit curious but still didn't let his guard down. "You're free to say it."

Vlad smirked. "Good. But I'd also like that we

continued this fight while I tell you about it. What about that?"

"It's fine by me." Siegfried responded.

"Then I'll tell you... a story about a monster's creation. About me." Vlad said as he attacked Siegfried with his spear who then blocked with his sword.

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"So, it was during my period as ruler of my great kingdom! Where everyone loved and respected his king." Vlad said, remembering the good times.

Siegfried then tried to hit the vampire, but Vlad had anticipated and dodged his sword as he continued talking.

"As you definetly know already, I'm Vlad III, the Impaler. The man who was once king of actual Romenia." Vlad smirked. "All those titles, I'd wear them with pride. After all, it showed my great feats and importance, as well as it gave the people someone to cheer on. However..." Vlad sound colded and outright villanious. "...there will be always a title I'll never forgive the people of the enemy for trying to associate with me!"

Siegfried had already concluded what Vlad was trying concluded. "I know about tha title already. It's the main reason why you became such a famous figure, much for your discontent however."

"Yes, but..." Vlad attacked Siegfried managing to scratch his cheek. "Do you know how I got that name of 'Count Dracula'?" Vlad asked Siegfried.

"If it was to guess, I'd say it was because of your ruthlessness in battle if I'm correct." Siegfried answered.

"That's partially true." Vlad said. "You see, the enemy during the war will always try to diminuish and humiliate their opponent, wheter they are men with values or not." Vlad blocked an attack from Siegfried. "So when I was captured by the ottomans, they iniciated a goal of demolishing all my feats and honrable statues I had until then. I was stripped of any titles that I had at that moment during my imprisonment, being left with only one. The Count Dracula, a title to demonize me and ruin my reputation throughout all of the known world at the time."

"And your point is?" Siegfried asked. "Sorry but why are you telling me this?"

"Because just like me, you are a tragic figure that had an inglorious end, Siegfried." Vlad pointed to the Dragon Slayer. "Mine was to die in the battlefield against my brother." Vlad said that last word with anger. "And yours was to be killed in order to stop a conflict, am I correct?" Vlad smirked.

Siegfried knew it would be of no use to lie. "Yes, you are correct indeed. It's an ending that puts me thinking till this day that I wished it could be different. However..." Siegfried jumped torwards Vlad. He tried to attack Vlad who blocked his attack again. "...we shouldn't let those endings haunt us forever!"

"Hmm. Well said." Vlad pushed Siegfried back. "Your sincerity is something to be commended. I'm blessed that this Singularity brought us together for this nice chat. I'm truly grateful for speaking to someone like you. But now..." Vlad tried to impale Siegfried's chest. "...the time to talk has ended."

Siegfried stayed on alert, preparing himself for Vlad's attacks.

The dracula swinged his spear multiple times at Siegfried, with the dragon slayer having to block everything in a short amount of time. The hits were quick. Any slip and Siegfried would suffer a blow.

"Do you love this life, Siegfried?"

The dragon slayer got a scratch on his shoulder, his mind thinking on something else for a second. He immediatly regained his concentration after and continued to block the attacks.

"Kriemhild. I'm sorry for screwing the things up. You were right. I was an idiot and perhaps still am."

Siegfried took a chance and risking it, he managed to parry one of Vlad's attacks with his sword, using his strenght to unbalance the vampire a bit and let him totally open.

"So, next time I see you, I'll apologize for being too much selfless. I don't expect for you to forgive me and perhaps you'll never will after the things I've done. But by aknowledging my errors, I feel..."

Siegfried aimed Balmung to Vlad's unprotected chest.

"...that would be a thing your hero would do!"

"Blergh!" Vlad spit out blood as Siegfried's sword impaled his chest, right in the heart.

The two stayed like that for some seconds, before Vlad started clapping slowly. "Well done...You've...won..."

Siegfried took out his sword from Vlad's chest, allowing his enemy to fall on his knees. "You fought well. But, I can't help but feeling that you were holding a bit back. Why that?" The dragon slayer asked.

Vlad smirked. "Look around you then..."

Siegfried was a bit skeptical if he should really give his back to the enemy, but after feeling that Vlad couldn't keep fighting ,he turned his back Siegfried saw all of his allies still alive and trying to reagroup, showing that all the Dragon Witch's servants, had been defeated.

"If I won against you I'd had the rest of you to fight all alone." Vlad looked behind him. "And my master is occupied with her other part right now." Vlad put an hand on his big wound. "Not that...I'm a coward who cannot fight many enemies at the same time but...what difference would it make now..?

"So you recognize your defeat then." Siegfried looked to the sky, seeing now that there was less wyverns now, not even reaching to a hundred anymore.

"Is that...I also wanted this to end..." Vlad said, receiving an 'Hm?' from Siegfried.

"You didn't liked being a vampire in the end?" Siegfried asked.

"The taste of blood is...an odd one. I don't find it horrendous nor delightful. My greatest fear when serving the Dragon Witch...was that I might had fallen to the tales of monstruosity that I once rejected. You see...all of us servants who served her...ended up not having any dignity left. Just empty and mindless husks...seeking for blood and destruction...miserables." Vlad giggled. "But I find it fitting...the Dragon Witch's existence in itself...is already miserable."

A roar from the distance catched Siegfried's and the others attention. Fafnir was still in the air, returning from his charge torwards the french army, aiming his attention at the servants and Chaldea group now.

"Well..." Vlad looked at Siegfried. "I guess that's your cue..."

Siegfried, without saying nothing, turned his back to Vlad and faced the evil black dragon, not seeing Vlad's body starting to dissapear.

It was now or never.

"Prepare yourself!"

The blood on Balmung dissapeard, being eliminated by a bright blue light.

Fafnir in the distance saw the Dragon Slayer and immediatly recognized him. The dragon seemed intrigued in having a rematch with his killer.

"The evil dragon shall fall

Siegfired put his sword way up in the air, as it started to form a tall ray of blue light, penetraing the skies above.

Vlad who still was in the process of vanishing contemplated Siegfried silently. "Ah...so this is the power of the great dragon slayer..."

And the world will reach its sunset!"

Balmung was nearly charged. Fafnir flied faster, wanting to stop Siegfried from unleashing his Noble Phantasm.

"I will bring you down

"I hope someday...we could be on the same side..."

Fafnir roared in dispair, using it as a cry to try and intimidate Siegfried. However, the hero did not flinched, the sword in his hands ready to unleash it's massive power.

BAL-MUNG!!!"

Siegfried descended his sword and beam onto Fafnir, hitting the dragon.

"ROOOOOAAAARRRR!!!!"


"What's the matter saint? Can't keep up with me? Or is your combat skills as soft as your heart?" Jeanne Alter mocked Jeanne.

The fight beetween the two was disputed, with either one having a possible chance of winning.

Jeanne didn't respond, instead concentraring on her alter's next moves.

That was until the two heard a loud roar and a light appearing from the sky.

"What is tha-" Jeanne Alter stopped talking as she saw what was really happening. Fafnir had been hit by the Dragon Slayer's Noble Phantasm. As soon as the beam from Siegfried's sword stopped, Fafnir's body was almost entirely eradicated, with the dragon fall slowly to the ground. Jeanne Alter had just lost her main piece.

"H-How?" She watched in shock and incredulity, not believing that Fafnir had fall down. "T-This can't be!" Jeanne Alter started to sweat as she looked around and saw that Fafnir wasn't the only one that she had lost. All of her servants had been defeated by Jeanne's allies. She also saw the last of wyverns being shot down by the french army, the sky now all cleared from any sign of them. This was when Jeanne Alter realized she was all alone on the battlefield now.

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!! How could these morons win against MY servants?! They are nothing but insects!"

"It seems you're back is against the wall." Jeanne told her. "What is happening now is the result of many of us never losing hope, even when the situation seemed completely lost. As long as these soldiers and allies of mine had people and things that they cared about, they would never give up until they saw those things dear to them safe!"

Jeanne Alter right eye twitched as Jeanne took some steps in her direction. "You..." She hissed in total anger.

"Your servants on the other hand never had something to held their hope onto." Jeanne said. "Being only instructed to destroy and controled by you. Some even having to be manipulated and corrupted. We were fighting an army of no will. If you really are me, then I hoped you to be a better leader than this."

Jeanne Alter clenched her teeth in fury. She was close to lose her temperament. This situation was the worse thing that it could happen to her. Her hatred for Jeanne was growing by the second.

"Also..." Jeanne remembered her mother. "Dragon Witch-No. My alter. My feelings for you really are unfriendly. So, with all honesty, I'd say I dislike you." The saint said directly to Jeanne Alter. "Perhaps, even hate you. However, that hate that you await for me to show you will remain in check, altough now acknowledge. Deep down you were right about one thing about me."

"?" Jeanne Alter rised an eyebrow in confusion. "What are you even saying, you stupid moron?!"

"I was trying to ignore my flaws as much as I could. Not wanting to accept feelings that are part of every human. My ignorance for it is why you are here now, causing all of this. I tried too much to act as a saint, forgetting how to act as a proper human first. Thankfully, I had people here that showed me how to live with those emotions. So, even if I hate you right now..."

Jeanne pointed her sword at Jeanne Alter with the flagpole on her other hand, looking to the Dragon Witch in the eyes. "Dragon Witch! I'll kill you not because of personal hate! But because of justice for all the suffering you have commited!"

To be continued...


Once again, lenghty chapter! Oh boy, my chapters lenght really like to go from 5k to then over 10k lol

Also new review from:

Brakamononga- this is a pretty good fic, feels more engaging compared to other fgo retellings. i really liked on what you did with jeanne and using stuff from the mangas. im very surprised this fic isnt more popular, btw what is the reason for you to create nala and peko and more importantly, why are they kids?

First of all, thank you for those compliments. I mean there are many fgo retelling fanfics out there so it's kinda nice to see someone think mine here is more engaging between hundreds of other fgo fanfics.

As for the terms of popularity, if it's your first time seeing this fanfic I let you know that the title was different back then, being literally the name of the first story arc/saga of the game (faceslap). And the discription is also kinda week, wich made a weak mix of attracting people's attention when it was first published back in may. So yeah, if there's a thing that I totally regret was not giving a better presentation of my fic to the general fate audience. (That and some grammar mistakes)

Now for Nala and Peko creation. Their inspiration comes from the fact that when I was a kid, a lot of movies, games and series that I'd consume the protagonists were generally kids/teens and that I feel the why for that reason is because kids/teen characters as protagonist are way easier to develop and to mold, specially when the story is about having life experiences and growing up. Not saying that an adult character can have an equally development on these stories, but I feel that having the protagonists be kids/teens allows to have more room to develop them.

It's true that I could have made Peko and Nala teens but Ritsuka and Mash already are so I felt the group dynamic would be kinda meh. Peko and Nala's growth through this story would be like the ones you'd see in media where the protagonists usually are a child.

Also, to be clear, I'm NOT a Lolicon/Shotacon. I don't have any intrest or like for that type of content and generally I'm not very found of it. If you had suspicions about me creating Peko and Nala because of ill intentions, rest easy. I don't have any intention of putting them in any sexual implied scenario since that's morally wrong and disgusting. Hope I was clear about that.

And now for the chapter (but I'll resume it briefly since this chapter is near 15k words) Every Dragon Witch servant gets defeated, Jalter is fucked, Jeanne is ready to teach her a lesson and were reaching Orleans ending.

I said on the previous chapter that we where getting the fights on this chapter, and damn if we got those fights.

Anyway that's all I wanted to say and see you next time on chapter 18! Peace!

P.S: I never played or know shit about the lore of the Guilty Gear franchise. All that I know is that the music slaps!