Hello everyone and welcome back to the start of chapter 35 of the story! AND last one of Septem. Admit it, you weren't expecting the next chapter to have come this soon, but hey I got free time and decided to use it for finishing writting the last chapter. So as much as it pains me it's time to say goodbye to our roman friends for now.

So get ready, get in a comfrotable position to read and let's start it!

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.


There he stood. The man that had caused them trouble back in Fuyuki and killed Chaldea's previous director, Olga Marie Animusphere, right in front of their eyes while revealing his true self and hidden agenda. Lev Lainur had finally decided to step back from his hidden place and show himself to the chaldeans as well as the servants from this Singularity. His smirked contained arrogance and mockery, truly fitting for the man he was.

"Lev Lainur." Ritsuka said, a slight anger escaping from his mouth.

"He was the man I was about to tell you." Altera told the Chaldea group. "I fought him off in the east for quite the long days. I'd say he is a powerful mage, but I can sense this man is anything but human."

"Did he knew we were here all along?" Peko said, wondering since when Lev noticed of their arrival to this Singularity.

Nala was about to charge torwards him but was stopped by Mash who put an hand on the girl's shoulder as she took the first step.

"Calm down Nala." Mash told her. "I know what he did and also want to make him pay for that, but we can't fight mindlessly against someone like Lev."

"You remember the way he smiled as Olga was about to die, dont you?" Nala cleenched her teeth and stared at Lev in anger. "I may have known her for a small time, but that won't ever make me forget the way this bastard killed her!"

Lev frowned sadly at Nala's comment. "Hm? Still crying and lamenting over that wishy washy excuse of an director?" He then grined at the girl. "I mean, it makes a tiny bit of sense. After all, you almost saved her for what I can record. Heh, you only have yourself to blame. Who knows what the outcome could have been if you had just performed better that time?"

Feeling extremely insulted and outraged by Lev's sneer, Nala was about to launch herself at him if it wasn't for Mash forcefuly holding her back. "Let me go Mash! I need to kick this fucker's ass!"

"Chill out Nala!" Peko told to his sister as he tried to calm her alongside Mash.

"And the other one has also make it this far." Lev said the moment he saw Peko. "I felt there was definetly a change in you since the last time we have met. However, I can still notice doubts from the weak kid I saw for the first time. You may have got different, but inside you are exactly the same!"

"You are wrong if you think I'll listen to whatever nonsense you're speaking!" Peko responded to Lev, trying to not pay attention to the insults and depreciative comments he would to at him.

"You truly are scum, aren't you?" Ritsuka called Lev out, making the mage stare at him.

"Ah, and of course, the most useless and weakest master of Chaldea as well as it's last one, Ritsuka Fujimaru." Lev said with venom and disdain. "Honestly, for a pathetic human like you, your luck must be astonishing." The evil mage grinned. "But we all know that nothing lasts, not even what initialy seems like an infinite well of luck."

"The same goes for you!" Ritsuka responded. "There was more things than sheer luck that made me and the rest reach to where we are now. I definetly won't last forever, but I'll make sure I and humanity lasts more than you!"

"Keh! Do you really think you can still save humanity? Does any of you think that?" Lev stretched his arms open with a big and terryfying grin on his face. "Humanity has already been extinguished fools! There's no life outside of your base! Nothing! You moronic beings are only delaying the inevitable!" He then calmed down his own spirits. "But it's true that I will dissapear eventualy, but not before our plan comes to fruition."

"So it's undoubtly true that you were the one that gave the Holy Grail to Nero and manipulated her." Dr. Romani said through his hologram, showing unfrandliness to a man who was once his colleague.

"Hm, you are partialy right about that dear 'friend'." Lev said. "I was indeed the one who gave te grail to the stupid girl after my original scheme to this Singularity had failed to met it's expectations." He then stared at Romulus with a gaze of annoyance. "You good for nothing servant."

"You should have thought of summoning another servant that didn't had deep roots with Roma, you filthy mage." Romulus responded. "One thing I'll never do in my life, is to hurt my nation!"

"Tsk! Servants and their stupid morals." Lev snickered at the founder. "However, the idea of handing the Holy Grail to Nero Claudius was never mine."

"What?!" Romani exclaimed, surprised and shocked at Lev's revelation.

"You weren't the one planning to plunge this Singularity into chaos?" Peko asked, shocked as well.

"Then who was it?" Mash questioned the mage.

Lev was more than willing to give them the answer. "As I tought this Singularity was nothing but a failure and ready to leave it to it's own devices, someone or rather something approached me and whispered to my ear. It told me that a great evil could arouse if I handed the grail to the hands of a conflicted and darkened soul." The evil mage smiled to Nero who was still at the ground, trying to contain more tears from rolling down her face. "And oh if the results weren't excellent! Way better than I could have ever hoped for! We were this close to collapse this Singularity in a matter of a month!" Lev laughed maniacaly.

"Can that be the 'it' that Nero was referring to?" Nala pondered.

"Perhaps." Ritsuka told her. "So Lev possibly isn't working alone..."

"Ah, I wished I could have met that voice again and tell it how grateful I am for their advice." Lev said, remembering the time he met it. "And there was something else about it. Something more in there...It's power may be the same or even greater than our main body." Lev wondered.

"What are you even talking about?" Romani demanded more answers from the evil mage.

"Sorry, but that is all I am going to tell you." Lev told him, before looking at Nero on the ground. "Hehehe, I still can't believe how easy it was to fool the emperor." He started walking torwards her. "You can all say there was manipulation but I actually let her be the moment I gave her the Holy Grail after saying all those fake words. I didn't even needed to use a spell or anything!"

Nero started to sob and cry again, humiliated by Lev's words that were all true. "He is right..! It's all true what this man is saying..! I let myself go by the simple words that sounded appealing to me...I am a fool!"

Lev continued to taunt the fallen emperor. "Such foolishness to have believed in such thing without a second of hesitation! You were so full of yourself that you even told your advisor to shut up when he told you about the possible dangers, Nero Claudius!" Lev laughed as he'd saw Nero consistent crying while she covered her eyes with the remaining arm. "Even a child would have more precaution than you! But those promises. Those dreams. It all sounded so beautiful to you, didn't it?!"

"Yes! You are right! I'm stupid! Gullible! I got blinded so much by the possible power of the grail that I ignored any warning!" Nero critizised herself as the sobbing wouldn't stop.

"And then, you almost destroyed Rome in your insanity. That would have been the perfect end for this Singularity and it's imbecile emperor!" Lev grinned. "You wanted applauses and love, didnt you Nero Claudius? Then bravo!" Lev started to clap and laugh as he got closer from Nero. "If everyone now despises you, you at least have earned yourself a fan right here hahahahahaha!"

Eventually, Lev got next to Nero and watched her weeping with a satisfied smile on his face. "Aw, do not worry anymore dear emperor." Without warning, Lev violently stepped on Nero's stomach, causing shock on everyone.

"Blrgh!" Nero coughed blood from Lev's step.

"I can bring your suffering to a close." Lev said with an evil smile as he drew a wodden wand from his hand and was about to descend it on Nero's body. "RIGHT NO-"

But before Lev could go for the kill, Romulus acted quickly and grabbed Lev's pulse, stopping him from finishing off Nero.

"Hm?" Lev stared at Romulus with bothersome. "Do you know what you are even doing?" Lev asked him. "It's not even the fact that you won't obey me as your master. But yes to the fact that you are protecting a person who was about to destroy everything you have built." Lev told him. "Are you dumb enough to not see what you are doing?"

"I know and I'll still protect her!" Romulus exclaimed, causing Nero to lowly gasp from hearing the founder's words. "It doesn't matter if they are good or not, a progenitor should always protect its children!" Romulus then used his strenght and shoved Lev away from Nero, causing the mage to fall back.

"If you want to destroy Roma, you'll have to get through us first!" Romulus yelled as the other servants and the Chaldea group went to join him and prepare their weapons against Lev, entering into a battle pose.

Nero weakly and slowly stood on her knees as she saw all her previous enemies now standing in front of her to go against Lev. "You...why?" Nero couldn't understand why they would do this for her. She had just tried to kill them not long ago.

"Don't misunderstand me. He may be protecting you but I am not. I am doing this for other reasons." Boudica told coldly to Nero who then lowered her head, knowing that Boudica herself would never do something for her.

"But if you die this Singularity crashes and humanity is extinguished." Altera said. "And I don't think it's still time for that."

"For the sake of what we and the upcoming historic figures accomplished to shape humanity in its current form, we won't let that happen!" Caesar said, preparing his sword.

"Humanity cant die yet! Not until me and Julius have our cruise voyage!" Cleopatra exclaimed, causing Caesar to blush a bit.

"H-Honey, is that really your motive?" He asked.

"One of them." Cleopatra answered. "There's no way that I'm also letting those young people get no future as well."

"And we won't accept it too!" Ritsuka speaked to them. "Alright everyone, one last time here. Ready?"

"To punch his face? Always!" Nala responded.

"We will make sure it won't be like the first time!" Peko said.

"We must do this for Olga and the other deceased Chaldea staff members!" Mash said. "We are all ready master!"

Romani was about to say one last thing before they would battle. "Remember, we defeat Lev, retrieve the grail and then-"

"Are you talking about this grail Roman?" Lev said with a smirk as he showed them the Holy Grail in his hand.

"Crap! When did he got that?!" Romani exclaimed. "Quick! Don't let him-"

"TOO LATE!" Lev shouted as he forced the grail into his chest. "It's already consumed! Now, time to reveal myself." Lev's body started to tremble abnormaly as his human features would slowly dissapear and transform into something more horrendous. "Say goodbye to Lev Lainur! He no longer exists! What is before you now is the identity that had long possessed the man's body!"

"What's happening doctor?" Nala asked Romani as they all saw Lev transforming.

"My scanners are detecting signs of high mana energy! Watch out everyone! This is about to get like that one time in France!" Romani warned them.

As soon as the doctor said that, a giant red pillar made of what seemed meat and totally covered by creepy unnatural eyes appeard in front of them, replacing what was once the human formed of the man known as Lev.

"Transformation complete. Incarnation finished. Demon God Pillar of the Seventy-Two Demon Gods: Flauros. First of the Information Center." The thing had revealed itself.

Romani thought he had heard it wrong. "Did he just said seventy-two demon gods?"

"What's that?" Peko asked, not knowing what that name meant exactly.

But before the doctor could answer, the now Demon God Flauros attacked them. "Die, Chaldea!" The pillar said, shooting down lasers from its eyes.

All the servants were able to dodge while Mash protected her team with the shield.

"Whatever it is we must defeat it right now!" Mash told them. "Then we get the grail and this Singularity is resolved!"

"Understood! Do you think it has any weak spots?" Nala asked.

"Its body must be the weak spot." Peko said. "I think we only have to hit it!"

Unfortunately for them, Flauros had grown more tentacles.

"Guess it won't be that simple now." Ritsuka said.

"The objective is still the same." Nala told him.

"Alright. From what I saw with the fight you had with Jing Ke dodging lasers shouldn't be too hard for you Nala." Ritsuka told the girl. "Can you also dodge lasers Peko?" He then asked to the other sibling.

"I'll try my best!" Peko responded.

"Then you and Nala go on the front. Mash, you accompany them in the rear. All of you will help the others defeat Flauros!" Ritsuka ordered his group.

"And what about you master?" Mash asked Ritsuka.

"I'll cover myself behind the debris. Don't worry about me. Just go and defeat Flauros and retrieve the grail!"

The three all said yes and went ahead while Ritsuka protected himself behind the wreckage. Not only that but he also treated the wound on Nero's arm, dragging the emperor to the cover.

"W-Why?" Nero asked him. "Why are you all doing this?"

"Because we fight for the things we love! Romulus and everyone is doing that!" Ritsuka responded to her. "Don't you also have something you wish to protect?"

Nero didn't know what to say to that question. "Something I want...to protect?"

"This is all pointless! Your efforts mean nothing!" Flauros said as it tried to hit the servants.

The servants themselves would slice Flauro's tentacles and avoid the attacks. The speed that it shooted the lasers and moved it's other members was fast, but thankfully it was at a velocity that a servant could keep up with. The only bothering thing is that no matter how many tentacles they would cut, more would end up appearing.

"Is there an end to these damn things?" Boudica said as she cut a tentacle.

"No matter how many they are, we must continue!" Romulus told the rest of the servants.

"Ya!" Nala blocked one of Flauro's lasers and cut another tentacle.

"Take this!" Peko yelled as he fired a light bullet torwards Flauros, hitting the Demon God Pillar. "Hit i-gh!" Peko groaned in pain as he felt a shock in the arm he had just fired the bullet.

"Peko!" Mash protected Peko from an incoming attack from a tentacle. "Your arm still isn't in full condition! Don't try to use it too much for now." The shielder advised him.

Meanwhile, Nala was dodging from all the tentacles she could. However, all that running and moving eventually caused the wound she had sufered on her heel to reopen. "Agh! Damnit!" Nala cussed as the open injury caused her to stumble and about to be attacked by one of Flauros tentacles.

"Watch out girl!" Cleopatra kicked the tentacle away, saving Nala as Mash and Peko went torwards her.

"Are you okay sis?" Peko asked Nala, seeing the wound on her heel.

"I-I'm fine." Nala said, trying to hide her fatigue from her brother. "This will be until the end!"

Mash on the other hand knew that both Peko and Nala were having trouble to keep going. "They are reaching their limit. I'm starting to feel tired too. We used so much of our energy and mana against Nero that we don't have much left to fight this enemy now!"

"If you can still stand then fight with us!" Caesar told them as he drove the tentacles away.

"We won't lose after everything we went through!" Boudica said, slashing other tentacles.

"Hahahahahaha! That is all meaningless! Just accept your doom once and for all!" Flauros told him, as it observed the enemies still trying to kill it by cutting more and more tentacles that would constantly appear. Flauros then spotted Ritsuka hidding behind some debris. There it was something that could end things quickly. "And now, the first of you shall fall!"

Flauros directed one of it's tentacles to Ritsuka, appearing right in front of the master of humanity.

"Senpai!" Mash yelled, seeing her master in danger.

"Ritsuka watch out!" Peko also shouted for his friend.

"Dodge!" Nala screamed, worried with the situation Ritsuka was put in.

Seeing that the tentacle appeard way too fast, Ritsuka couldn't have time enough to avoid it as it was about to pierce him in the chest. "Cra-"

But like Flauros had said before, Ritsuka luck would seem to continue. Nero pierced the tentacle with her own sword, stucking it to the ground and killing it off with already pushed effort.

"N-Nero?" Ritsuka said surprised, the help of Nero comming at him completely unexpected.

"Gghhh! I want to..." Nero took several breaths from killing the tentacle. What Ritsuka had told her made the emperor realize something. "It's true. I indeed want to protect something right now! I will never use my position to harm it again! That is not what Seneca wanted! That is not what I want! As an emperor, I shall do what they are suppose to do!"

Fate Extra/CCC OST- Everything Is In Her Hands

"Master of Chaldea." Nero called Ritsuka, looking at him with a somewhat new determination in her eyes. "Right now, I want to protect Rome!"

Ritsuka's reaction was a firm nod with his head. "Then let's do it!"

Flauros seemed frustrated by what it had saw. "What is this? Do you wish to become more pathetic than you already are O Imperial Fool?"

"No." Nero responded shortly, starting to run torwards the battlefield. "What I wish, is for you to leave our empire alone!" Nero shouted as she slashed a tentacle in the middle. "I have disgraced my ancestors for long enough!"

"Hahaha! Your empire? The one you were about to destroy for selfish motives?" Flauros taunted her. "Die now so that your mouth doesn't speak anymore profanity!" The Demon God Pillar fired more lasers from its eyes torwards Nero.

Romulus came to her aid and blocked the lasers. "We romans may not be perfect, but there's an ideal that never gets out from our collective mind."

"Every duty we do, is for the glory of Rome!" Nero replied back, continuing running forward.

"I care not for your nonsense talking! Die human!" Flauros shouted angrily, shooting more lasers at the emperor.

This time, it was Caesar who blocked them. "I see you are finally understanding what it means to be an emperor."

"True. I was so blinded before. Now I see what really matters when rulling an empire."

"They are only defending you because your existence is pivotal in this specific time! Don't expect them to be forgiving you!" Flauros yelled at the emperor, summoning a tentacle to attack her.

Nero slashed it immediatly. "And I don't! Nero yelled back. "I'm not expecting to be forgiven, not even in my death. There's something more important than that." "Rome is more important than any kind of redemption for me!" Nero tried to dodge the laser and tentacles that would come torwards her. "I just want to do what is right while I still can!"

The rest of the Chaldea team was watching Nero's attempt to reach Flauros, impressed by the emperor's sudden determination in saving what she wanted to destroy. Even Boudica was surprised by Nero's action. The redhaired never thought she would see Nero fighting and sweating for a motive that seemed noble.

"It's real. You are truly a moron Nero Claudius!" Flauros said, hitting Nero with a laser. The emperor fumbled and fell to the ground. "Your whole being as a person is laughable." Flauros prepared more tentacles to attack her. "I'll be sure to remember of your ridiculous figure when I feel like laughing. Farewell!"

To the Demon God Pillar sadness, Cleopatra fend off the tentacles, protecting Nero. "Hope you aren't planning on dying!"

"No. Far from it." Nero moved her head to looked at Flauros. "I was able to distract it."

"Hm? What are you talkin-" Flauros felt a presence to his right, and as it's eyes looked to see what it was, the Demon God Pillar saw Altera charging her Noble Phantasm. "Crap! N-NO! Dont do it!"

"I will destroy the target."

Altera said in an emotionless tone.

"I won't take life.

Only destroy your civilization."

"WHY!? YOU AREN'T EVEN H-"

War God's Sword: Photon Ray!"

Activating her futuristic looking blade, Altera launched it's powerful beam to Flauros, hitting strongly the Demon God Pillar.

With the beam of Altera's sword gone, all the tentacles stopped attacking and started to disintegrate in the air as well as the Demon God Pillar itself. From inside the vanishing pillar, Flauros had went back to the human form of Lev Lainur. Even in the human body, Flauros could feel the immense hurt from Altera's Noble Phantasm, clutching it's own chest while panting.

"Y-you...damn hum-"

Peko didn't waste time and fired another light bullet torwards Flauros/Lev, that came close to the face, taking off bits of skin from the evil mage's body. "We won't let you get away!"

Flauros muttered as it let the Holy Grail fall from the ground. The Demon God acknowledge that it had lost and this Singularity was long gone from doing any more chaos.

Even with her heel injured, Nala still sprinted torwards the Nala. She had the intend of ending this enemy right here and now. "You're finished!" She shouted, swinging her sword torwards Flauros. The Demon God was capable of avoiding it, with the girl's sword only slightly cutting the chest. Nala would go for more but her heel reminded her that she couldn't go anymore, making Nala to slip and fall on the ground as Flauros took more steps back.

"This won't be the end Chaldea!" Flauros shouted to them. "Your mission won't be accomplished! We of the Seventy-Two Demon Gods won't allow it! Next time we meet, it will be your final moments!" And with that, the Demon God vanished from sight.

It was now over. Chaldea and the servants have defeated any enemy remaning on this Singularity.

Peko and Mash walked torwards Nala after Flauros had dissapeard. "You almost got it. It was so close sis." Peko told Nala, helping her get up.

The girl sighed. "Just like that time." She said sadly, before showing her brother and Mash the Holy Grail in her hand. "At least that scumbag didn't run away with this."

"And that's what matters." Mash smiled to the two siblings. "Our mission here is finally done."

"And for real this time." Ritsuka said as he approached the trio. "We live to fight another day guys!" He smiled, doing an high five with Peko and Nala.

"An entire day in bed will come in handy." Peko said. "I'm exhausted."

"Same here." Ritsuka said.

"Fu fou!" Fou appeard again in front of them.

"At least someone still has energy to celebrate." Mash smiled at the animal.

"Here Ritsuka." Nala handed the grail to Ritsuka. "As the leader, you should carry it."

Ritsuka smiled to her and headpatted the girl. "Thanks Nala. But you three also did more of the work."

"So what? I also have to recognize the good work of our leader right?" Nala smiled.

"Heh. Guess you are right." Ritsuka said.

"And so everything will go back to normal once again." Peko told them. "I can tell this time was more intense than the first one."

"Hope it doesn't go anymore intense than this." Ritsuka said to Peko.

"It probably will." Nala responded him.

"But that doesn't mean we won't get stronger as the Singularitties get harder." Mash said. "We will also evolve along the way."

"That's right Mash." Ritsuka told her. "Whatever they throw at us, we will fight it!"

"Couldn't have said any better." The hologram of Romani speaked to them. "One by one we will eventually reach our goal. Now wait a minute while I'll prepare the Rayshift. See you soon!" And with that the hologram of Romani dissapeard.

Altera walked torwards them. "So you humans have finished your job here." She said to them. "Guess it's time for the goodbye. A shame that we-"

"ROOOOMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Romulus appeard behind Altera, hugging her tightly alongside Caesar, Cleopatra and Boudica. "You all did well! Thank you for having been such great allies!"

"T-Thank you Great Founder, but could you please undo the hug?"

"S-So this is what my hug felt to you Boudica?"

"K-Kinda. But I'd took yours at any time over his."

With the satisfaction of the victory completed, Romulus unmade the hug, letting go the servants he had in his grip. He saw how unresponsive Altera was to the hug. "Quite the different reaction you have there, ruler of the huns. Did my hug displeased you?"

"No. It wasn't that. I'm just not used to that type of human interaction. It felt new to me." Altera responded, giving Romulus a small smile.

"Oh, I see. Well, there's no problem in that." Romulus smiled back before looking at Chaldea. "Do you alson want a group hug?"

All four of them tried to politely refused.

"No thank you. I think we wouldn't be able to handle its sheer power alone." Peko said to the founder.

"Not even just for a second?" Romulus asked.

"I think that saving Rome is already a big celebration for us." Ritsuka explained to Romulus.

"The young mage is right Great Founder." Caesar said to Romulus. "The fact our loving city remains on its feet is a wonderful joy to me already."

"And your joy is also my joy Julius." Cleopatra told him, grabbing her partner's hand.

Boudica headed to the Chaldea group. "Thank you for everything you did. I am grateful to you." She smiled.

"We should be the ones thanking you Boudica-san." Mash told her. "We couldn't have done this without you. Without any of you." The shielder then sensed Nala pocking her shoulder.

"Does that also includes her?" The girl pointed at Nero who was alone in the distance, trying to ignore their conversation.

"Hmmm, I know she was our main enemy but still..." Mash said, not knowing if she should acknowledge Nero's help or not.

"I too am aware of her actions, but then seeing her against Flauros..." Peko said. "Altough I don't think that will make me forgive her that soon."

"Same." Nala added. "But I guess it showed she feels some kind of remorse."

"And it seems genuine coming from her." Ritsuka replied.

"Whether you forgive her or not, it's up to you." Romulus told the group from Chaldea. "I won't force you to decide."

Ritsuka then looked back at Altera. "Also, you said you were never used to human interaction? That's weird."

Altera tried to explain. "Well, its that-" But then her time had run out. Her body alongside every other servant was starting to fade away. Their roles have been finished and now they would return back to the Throne of Heroes. "Hum, it came sooner than I expected." Altera said. "But for short, let's say I am someone who sees if the civilizations are worthy or not to keep existing."

"Does that mean humanity is?" Mash asked to the fading servant.

"I can't exactly tell at this moment. It is too soon to decide." Altera responded.

"So you are giving it more time." Peko said.

"Hm, you could say that. Humanity is a civilization with huge flaws but also with positives. Downsides and upsides. So I can't really tell if it's good or bad. But let me tell you, that fighting for its survival is definetly a good thing." Altera told them, finding it amusing how hard the humans would fight for their existence.

"Then will you help us again if we meet a second time?" Nala asked her.

"Maybe." Altera gave her answer. "For now, I did what I tought it was the most fair thing to do. Now, I shall say goodbye to all of you."

"Even if it was just for some minutes, it was good to fight side by side." Romulus thanked her. "I appreciated your services in joining us on this battle."

"Likewise, founder of Rome." Altera responded.

Before vanishing completely, Altera looked to Peko and Nala.

"Why are you looking at us like that?" Peko asked her.

"Yeah, do we have something on our face?" Nala asked to the servant as well.

"No, it's nothing like that. It's just, your faces look peculiar." Altera gave a small giggle. "So that's what they call twins?"

"Yeah. Interesting don't you think?" Ritsuka told her.

"Yes. Life is indeed full of those aspects." Altera said as her body had now completely faded away.

"Guess we are the next ones." Cleopatra said as she and Caesar were also about to fade.

"Goodbyes aren't really pleasurable. At least this time I get to go in a more painless way." Caesar said while he looked to the Chaldea group.

"We've seen it before. It isn't our first and it probably won't be our last." Mash told him.

"So, how did it felt to be in the company of the great Julius Caesar himself?" Caesar asked them with a smile.

"Despite looking a lot different than I thought, you really do carry that charisma I think he would." Ritsuka responded. "So I say you have met my expectations despite the beggining."

"And I never heard about you or Cleopatra or any of you before. But after this, I'm certain it won't be easy to forget you." Peko said, his mind never knowing who these great people were before, but now knowing why they were so famous.

"Yep. It was fun to hang out with you." Nala told them.

"I say the same." Cleopatra replied back before staring at Boudica who wanted to talk with her.

"Thank you for speaking with me when I would spent all those days mostly alone. You were a great friend Cleopatra." Boudica said to the egyptian queen.

"No sweat. Girls look out for other girls after all. I was just doing my job." Cleopatra said. "Until a next time Bou."

"Same to you Great Founder." Caesar said to Romulus. "I know it's sounding repetitive at this point but, it was a honour to have served you."

"Same here. Roma shall never forget you my child." Romulus said, and the founder and ex-dictactor shook hands.

"Now before we go, here." Cleopatra threw a piece of jewel to the Chaldea group, going into Mash's hands.

"Why are you giving us this Cleopatra-san?" Mash asked her.

"A farewell gift. Also, to remind you of this adventure. Aaaand to also spend it on others stuff ig you want to." Cleopatra told them.

"Hum, you know that right now there isn't any life outside of our base right?" Nala told Cleopatra. telling her about the situation Chaldea and the present world were in.

"Then use it to make a collar or something that the girls of your age are into these days I don't know." Cleopatra said before waving goodbye alongside Caesar. "Hey Julius..."

"Hm? What is it Cle-" Caesar was surprised when Cleopatra kissed him...in the mouth. The ex-dictactor was completely speechless and blushing red while everyone else didn't know what to say.

"H-Humm...Cough...V-V-Very well everyone!" Caesar said with a shaky voice and a trembling smile. "Master of Chaldea! If you want to call us for help, feel free to do it! But not now please. Because..." Caesar took out the sunglasses from his pocket and put it on his face. "...we are going to the Bahamas."

"WHOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cleopatra exclaimed all joyfuly as she and Caesar dissapeard.

"Those two were really made for each other." Ritsuka said.

"And I hope it stays like that." Mash commented.

"Master, Mash, Peko, Nala." Boudica called them, smiling to the group. "Once again, thank you for helping me. I'm glad I became friend of people like you. And also..." She looked at Romulus. "Perhaps not all romans are as bad as I initialy thought. Thank you for making me see things of another angle."

"Now your tribe can finaly live in peace." Peko said. "All that anger and sense of revenge, it must be gone now."

"Yes. You have got what you wanted Boudica. You can now have a well deserve rest knowing that your people won't be persecuted anymore." Ritsuka said.

"I for sure want to believe that. We...My husband, have fought so hard to have be let alone. Just to think after so much pain and suffering, it has finally ended." Boudica smiled to the sky, trying to hold back her tears. "I can't even know how to thank you properly for this."

"You've already did Boudica-san. By becoming master's servant and maintaining your promise of not killing Nero, you showed you cared about us." Mash told her.

"That is already a big enough thank you." Nala said.

"And despite of our nations relationship, I too am deeply grateful for your aid, warrior of Britannia. Despite what you may think, many romans would be fascinated by your fighting spirit." Romulus told her. "I bid you farewell."

On the back, Nero reluctantly approached them, to specificaly talk with Boudica. "B-Boudica..." She said in a ashamed tone.

Boudica in return gave Nero a cold stare. "I hope I made myself clear with this fight. You undertsand what you have to do now, don't you?"

"Y-Yes. I'm sorry for what I have done." Nero said with her head down.

Not feeling satisfied with the answer, Boudica grabbed Nero by the collar. "If you truly are, then promise me you will never chase my people again! Do that again, and I will come back to finish the job! And I won't have mercy to take only a arm out of your body!" Boudica said agressively to Nero, wanting to make her point across.

Ritsuka and the others were about to intervene and calm Boudica down but Romulus put his arm in front of them, telling them that there was no need for that.

Nero started to tear up. "I-I promise..."

"Say it again!" Boudica shouted.

"I promise! I promise I won't chase or cause harm to your people again! I'm sorry! I am sorry for what I have done!" Tears were again falling down her face. "Your people will live freely from now on!"

"Good." Boudica said as she let Nero go off from her grip. "Take care of yourself and treat your people nicely as their emperor." She told Nero before going back to the Chaldea group and Romulus. She ended up sighing. "I'm sorry you had to see this. I just wanted to make sure."

"No problem. I understand." Ritsuka said while rubbing his head. "Eitherway, goodbye Boudica." He smiled

Boudica smiled back. "Godbye to you too, my friends." And she also vanished into the air.

Now only Romulus remained. And as the Chaldea group was also about to say goodbye to him, they saw the founder heading to Nero.

The emperor cleaned her tears as the shadow of the founder stood above her. "I'm...not worthy of being Rome's emperor. I failed. I failed all of you."

"Failing is part of living. And altough the crimes you commited were severe, you still have some years to try and fix things. So look forward, and think about what can still be made while the time remains." Romulus told her.

"But I can't! I'm not perfect! Far from it! I will never be able to redeem the things I did!" Nero said with scorn for herself.

"No emperor is, was or will ever be perfect. We just try our best. If you truly love Roma, then you will make up for the mistakes you have caused it." Romulus bowed down to look at Nero eyes. "And as a reminder, take this." Romulus extended his arm to give Nero the cloth of the she-wolf and the two babies. "It represents the values and principles of Roma. Never forget them."

Receiving it, Nero looked at the cloth. She could tell the small piece of cloth had a great meaning behind it. She looked at Romulus and nodded her head. "Understood, Great Founder."

Smiling at her, Romulus got up and went back to the Chaldea group, about to give his goodbyes.

"You really care about her, dont you?" Nala said to the man.

"As the founder, I must take Rome on the right path to always be standing." Romulus told her.

"Even if it will eventually cease to exist?" Ritsuka asked him.

"The legacy of Roma will always live on. Be it in history books or on other things." Romulus responded him with a smile.

"But still, Rome, the empire. It will all come to an end." Mash said sadly.

Romulus laughed "Who's to say that? You might return to Roma sooner than you think."

"Why's that?" Peko asked him.

"Have you never heard these words boy?" Romulus stretched his arms, doing his iconic pose. "All roads, lead to Roma!"

Hearing that, Ritsuka couldn't help but smile. "Now that's something I haven't heard in a while. I hope indeed we do meet again."

"Same, people of Chaldea." Romulus smiled to them. "And as for you, the leader of the group, you did a fine job at doing it. Roma honours you as its children!"

"See ya Romulus!" All the four said, staring at the dissapearing servant who smile shinned as brightly as the empire he had created.

"GLORIA AD ROMA!" Where the final words of it's founder as he had vanished.

Right after that, the hologram of Doctor Romani appeard again. "Rayshift is prepared guys. Get ready to return."

But before they could leave Rome once and for all, Nero wanted to say something before they left. "Hey." She called their attention.

"What do you want?" Nala questioned her a bit rudely.

"I'm sorry for the way I treated and behaved torwards you. You wanted to help but I was too far gone to see it. I wished things could have gone diferently beetween us." Nero apologized to them for everything she had done ever since they had come here.

"I wished too." Peko said. "But the problems here ended up being cleared anyways."

"And now you see were you have wronged." Ritsuka told Nero. He felt that Nero had been humiliated and shamed enough, so there wasn't need to still be treating her roughly.

"I put my own desires in front of Rome's. I was so obsessed in only satisfying myself that I ended up twisting and mixing my own needs with those of Rome. In the end, I think I only cared about myself." Nero said in sorrow.

"I am not an emperor to say how someone should do their job but I think that a leader should always put it's people as priority." Mash smiled before smiling to Nero. "But I understand how difficult those type of titles can be for certain people, leading them to do bad things in hard times."

"I know, and I will make sure it won't happen again." Nero told her. "From now on, I'll do my job as an emperor right!"

"Good to hear that." Nala said. "You can have time for yourself but also look out for your own empire. An emperor is nothing without it's people after all."

"Unfortunately, I guess there are a lot of things that I can't change now." Nero said, looking at all the destruction she had caused in Rome.

"Don't worry." Ritsuka told her. "This Singularity will soon fix itself. All the buildings you destroyed and evil deeds will dissapear. Even that arm of yours will grow back."

"But that doesn't mean you can do the things you did again." Peko warned Nero. "This time, make sure it will be different."

Hearing that, Nero's eyes widened. "D-Does that mean he..."

Ritsuka knew whom Nero was talking about. "Yes. I think so."

Nero closed her hand with the cloth and put it close to her chest. She felt blessed to have heard such thing. "Then I...Then I'll make sure to not waste this second opportunity!" She exclaimed. "I'll make sure to use it for good and make my people smile for real this time!"

The Chaldea group smile as they started to levitate. The Rayshift had begun. They were returning now. It was another adventure closed. Another Singularity completed. And altough it may seemed hard at the beggining with having no support in the middle of it, they eventually ended up making other allies and save Rome from the brink of destruction and save Nero from herself, stopping Lev Lainur's plans that had now revealed himself as a Demon God named Flauros. Now it was time to rest and leave the most famous empire that mankind has ever known.

And altough leaving in neutral terms, they still waved goodbye to Nero, in hope that next time they'd met, it would truly be on the same side with the same goals. The emperor also waved goodbye, being left alone to inspect herself. She had learn a valuable lesson. One she would carry for the rest of her life even in the darkest of moments. Now, she had to think of what to do next.


"Welcome back!" Romani welcomed their return alongside Da Vinci and the rest of the staff.

"I think this calls for a celebration!" Da Vinci said happily. "Aaaaaaand I made the cake this time!"

"Meh. I think I only eat it after taking a bath." Nala said, feling tired.

"And a sleep." Peko added.

"With an extra sleep." Ritsuka also joined the two.

"Hey, you know how time consuming doing this thing was right?!" Da Vinci complained. "I even made bluebarry cake and other ones in the case you didn't like the strawberry one!"

"Thanks Da Vinci, but my back needs to be in a bed right now." Peko told the italian inventor. "Still, I appreciate it."

"Same." Nala commented.

"Fine then. I think it's more than deserved." Da Vinci said, smiling to the two. "But you must tell me if tha cakes are good or not afterwards, understood?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Yes ma'am."

Romani saw that Mash was awfuly silent. "What are you thinking about Mash?"

"The things Lev Lai- or rather, Flauros said. That whole talk about Seventy-Two Demon Gods and him being one of them." Mash responded.

"True. I also couldn't quite understand that." Peko said. "And we couldn't get more answers from Flauros."

"And that it is also not working alone I guess." Ritsuka said. "I wonder what voice it was referring to. Maybe another 'Demon God' ?"

"But Flauros acted like it didnd't knew it." Nala responded. "Hurgh, guess that will remain a mystery for now."

Da Vinci put a finger on her own chin. "Hmm, I guess I've heard something about the Seventy-Two Demon Gods before. I'll have to research about it."

"I know we all want to know what we are fighting against, but right now all of you should rest." Romani told them. "Director's orders."

"Well, I won't oppose it." Nala said with a smile.

"Fu fou!" Fou appeard in front of them and runned in circles all happily.

"Oh yeah. Did you also made a chocolate cake Da Vinci?" Peko asked her.

"It was one of the first ones I made." Da Vinci responded.

The boy crouched down to face Fou closer. "Did you heard that Fou? You will have your chocolate after all."

"Fou Fou!" The animal exclaimed and jumped lively.

"But I hope he doesn eat the rest while we are taking a break." Ritsuka said.

"That would be terrific by just imagining it." Mash joked.

"For me it's all good as long as it isn't the strawberry cake." Nala said as she picked up Fou. "Do you hear me?"

"Fou!" Fou made his animal noise, much probably giving confirmation that he indeed heard it.

"Then we are good." Nala put the animal back in the ground and Fou started to run out of the room.

"He is really looking forward to it." Peko said before feeling his back getting heavy all of a sudden as Nala had leaned herself in him without warning. "W-What are you doing sis?!" He exclaimed, completely flabbergasted.

"My heel is hurting and walking to our room with the feeling of pain every step I make wouldn't be nice, so please be a good brother and carry me, will you?" Nala smiled to him.

"But I'm also exhausted!" Peko told her.

"But you can walk perfectly and I cannot." Nala smirked. "So pleaseeee."

"But I-"

"It's starting to hurt again Peko." Nala frowned sadly. "I think I wont be able to ho-"

"Ok! Ok! I'll do it!" Peko said as he was now carrying Nala to the exit. "But that means you will have to admit bluebarry is better!"

"Hmmm, how about I take a bite of the bluebarry cake instead?"

"Deal!"

As Ritsuka and Mash watched the two siblings walking away, the master of humanity looked at the shielder. "Do you think Nala will keep her end of the deal?"

"Who knows Senpai? I just get happy when I see those two acting like that together. Is that how siblings behave like?" Mash asked him.

"I can't tell you because I never had one Mash. But yeah, it's more or less like that." Ritsuka said.

"Then it must be a wonderful thing." Mash said with a smile. "I wished I had one too." Mash then frowned. "I'm still sad that we had to leave Nero alone at the end of the Singularity. I wished we could have prevented her from going in a downward spiral in the first place."

"Still, we enjoyed some moments on the Singularity, don't you think?" Ritsuka asked her.

"Yes we did Senpai. I also think it helped me have more understanding of things that I wasn't aware before." Mash told him.

"Glad you see that way." Ritsuka told her before stretching his body. "Man my body feels sore. My muscles don't stop feeling a slight pain."

Romani had an idea. "Then how about Mash gives you a massage?"

Both Ritsuka and Mash blushed at the idea of the doctor that came out of nowhere.

"Roman you idiot!" Da Vinci slaped the back of his head. "How can you say it so normaly and relaxed?"

"Hey! I'm just giving suggestions!" Romani responded her.

"But aren't you the doctor?" Da Vinci questioned him.

"But I have things to do right now!" Romani explained.

As the two argued, Ritsuka and Mash didn't knew what to say.

"W-Well...if Senpai doesn't want it I-"

"No, there is nothing wrong with that." Ritsuka said, smiling clumsly to her. "Do you know how to do massages Mash?" He asked her.

"Humm, not exactly." Mash responded, feeling a bit embarassed.

"As long as no bones are broken I'm okay with that." Ritsuka joked a bit and the two walked out of the room.


Walking down the stairs of her palace, Nero saw everything coming back to normal. The buildings were immaculate as ever as if they hadn't been destroyed by the flames. The people were walking, talking and laughing in the streets, as if a great fire hadn't just happened. Even her arm had went back to normal like the master of Chaldea had said. But what Nero really wanted was to see that person again.

And as she exited of the palace's entry gates were her soldiers had returned, she looked to path ahead and there he was. The person in the distance waiting for her. It was true, he had come back, turning his head around and giving a warm parental smile to Nero. The emperor felt a pain in her throat as tears would appear in her eyes. She had missed him so much. She was worry that she might never saw him again. But thankfuly, he was there, waiting for her while still bringing his bag of scrolls that contained the man's writings and works.

Nero runned torwards him and gave the man a strong hug, letting herself cry in his chest. The old philosopher hugged in return. She was save now.

"Let's go, My Praetor. Rome needs the shine of it's emperor's smile."

Second Singularity: Eternal Madness Empire: Septem- Foundation Restored

To be continued...


And we've ended Septem. Man, 35 chapters, and we already finished the two first Singularities of the story. Phew! I'm going to be honest that when I started back in May I wasn't seeing myself nearly a year later going this far with my fanfic. But hey, will and good mood does that to you.

And so my rewrite for the Singularity has been completed. If I did a better writing than the og version of Septem in the game when it launched back in 2015? Idk, I did what i think it needed to be better in some aspects when doing the general rewritting for this Singularity. And I still hold respect for the official FGO writers and don't want to be here pretending that I can do a better work than them. In the end, that's how I wanted more or less Septem from the og version could go. Like, even in the best written chapters we still wish that somethings could have gone differently. (Except Babylonia and Atlantis, those two are perfect undeniable masterpieces and everyone that disagrees should be sent to the Shadow Realm. Avalon Le Fae I'll see for myself this summer)

But we have finally moved on from Second Singularity and slowly, but surely, we are going further.

AND IMPORTANT MESSAGE NOW. Like it was at the end of Orleans, I'll take a one week break from the story before coming back to write it. Easter is also close so I wanna rest for this vacation week. So don't expect any update on the story for the first week and a half of April.

But with that said, see you next time on the Third Singularity, Okeanos and chapter 36 of the story! Peace!

P.S: Also I may release a oneshot during next week.