Hello evrybody and welcome to the start of chapter 75 of the story! I'm sure some if not all of you has heard of the future special talk between Nasu and one of Honkai Star Rail producers, David Jiang. Which is pretty dope. Like, I don't wanna get expectations and hopes up but...FGOxHSR collab maybe? That would surely make noise in the gacha community and be the first time where FGO does a collab event with an IP that isn't from Fate or Nasuverse itself. All those crossover fanfics of the two fandoms becoming true. Now, about the Hoyoverse in general, shocker, I never played a MiHoyo game before. Actually, I did played a bit of Genshin around 2020 when it had came out but it didnt hold me over so I just dropped out. I think FGO wins me over because it's from a franchise I already consumed and knew of before playing the game, so its from a thing I was already previously invested in unlike Genshin or other MiHoyo games. But damn what I would give for FGO to have modern engine and gameplay mechanics of those games.

Anyway, let's start it!

DISCLAIMER: All of 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


White House, Washington D.C

"Mhmm hmm mhmmm mhmm. Aaaand splendid!" Medb exclaimed, looking at the recent bust of marble she 'made' of herself and her love while humming cheerfuly a song. "You really surpassed yourself this time Medb. Just wait until he sees this." She said to herself, hugely proud of her work. And just not so much later, the Queen of Connacht and the Celtic Empire heard the loud footsteps of Cú Alter entering the presidential office. "Oh oh! You came sooner than I expected Cú!" She smugged. "Hmmm, could it be that you were missing me that much while doing the activity?"

The huge and muscular servant didn't said anything back, visibly frustrated and grumpy with something. Medb however didn't noticed it.

"C'mon now big guy! You can admit it." She insisted, putting herself in front of Cú Alter with a smile plastered on her face. "I have THE special gift for-" Cú completely ignored her, shoving Medb aside to then walk torwards his throne on the end of the oval room and sit.

Looking to his right side, the berserkerish spearman glanced at the bust of him and Medb. Without saying anything and consumed by a sparse moment of rage, Cú Alter destroyed it with only a punch. "GRAAH!"

The broken pieces of the sculpture fell nearby of Medb's feet who sighed as she crouched down to pick them up. "Next time give prior criticism before destroying it y'know? Do you have any idea how many lashes I had to give for the prisoner slave to get this right?"

Cú Alter grumbled, putting a hand to his forhead. "Just shut up already..."

Finally noticing the clear botherness and indisposition on him, Medb approached her partner in crime. "Hey, what's wrong? Did something happened?" She went closer to him. "Did someone talked bad about me? Was it that? Was it? Wast it?" Medb kept being persistent, leaning her face to Cú's, annoying him."But you definetly took care of them for such insolence, right?"

Cú Alter hold himself back to not yell out at her. "It was...inconveniences."

With the answer given, Medb went to hug him. "Awww, someone ruined your training routine. But I'm sure you were able to deal with that smoothly!" Medb looked at Cú Alter in the face. "However had the bad luck to confront you must have pissed in their pants ahahahahahahah!"

As she laughed, Cú Alter adverted his gaze, his mind going into other places. That fight he had. The red spear that appeared to pierce his arm. That kid...

"But...to go after after people weaker than you...who can't defend themselves...for mere enjoyment. That's the true weakling's mentality!"

How that annoying and crying face of his stayed burned on his mind. It disturbed Cú Alter, provoking him. It was the entire travel thinking about that. "Yeah, surely." He responded to Medb, shoving those recent memories to the side.

And right before Medb could continue to pester him, other two celtic servants, Diarmuid and Fionn, entered the room, interrupting the moment and bowing down to their leaders.

"Pardon us the intrusion, Queen Medb, King Cú Chulainn!" Diarmuid speaked to them.

"We arrive with recent news on one of the frontlines!" Fionn added.

"Hm? So fast?" Medb said, surprised by seeing the two spearmen back already. She moved her body away from Cú Alter. "Well, to travel here so quickly it must mean you have good news for me, right?"

The two spearman looked to one another apprehensively for a brief second.

"We lament to inform you my queen but..." Diarmuid stopped in his own words.

"Hm? What's the problem? Spell it out." Cú Alter demanded, strangely patient and calmful, relaxing on his throne.

"We were defeated by the enemy and unable to take over one of their camps." Fionn revealed, not avoiding the gaze of Medb and Cú Alter despite of the shame he felt.

And Medb didn't looked exactly happy. "Haa!? Are you for real?!" She yelled. "You're telling me two damn knights of Fianna weren't able to take care of average insignificant soldiers?! That fool king Cormac must have took pity on you for having accepted such weak warriors if so!" Medb angrily berated the two.

"The queen's complains with us are by every right justifiable. We should have done better." Diarmuid replied.

"But it was by no means easy." Fionn expressed. "The enemy camp was guarded by some servants. And when we were gaining ground, another one appeard to drove us back." He explained to Medb who didn't seemed to care at all about the motives of their lose. Cú Alter on the other hand was listening to all of it quietly, not reacting explosively.

"O fecking iontach!" Medb cursed. "An Heroic Spirit decides to show up and that is enough reason for you to run away!" She stomped her heel on the ground. "How do you think our empire got as big as now eh?!"

Both Fionn and Diarmuid tried to calm her down.

"But my queen-"

"But nothing!" She shut up the two. "I swear if I had my whip right here in my hand you-"

"That's enough Medb." Cú Alter speaked, partaking in the conversation. "They got the point."

"Cú?" Medb turned around, looking at him, surprised that he decided to speak up since the big spearman wasn't a very talkative individual. Much less one to get into conversations.

"K-King Cú Chulainn..." Fionn muttered as both he and Diarmuid looked at Cú Alter on his throne.

"We need to be somewhat fair to our own men. Two chances at least." He said, getting up from his seat. "And this was your first mistake, wasn't it?"

"R-Right." Diarmuid replied, gazing at Cú Alter's figure approaching them.

"Then may this serve as a warning and encouragement to do better next time." The corrupted Ireland's Child of Light said, crouching down to the two men's level. "Waste those two remaining chances and you won't have mercy from me nor from your queen." He threatned, smilling at the two. "Are we clear?"

"Y-Yes, King Cú Chulainn!" Diarmuid exclaimed.

"We will make sure to redeem our mistakes for the glory of the Celtic Empire!" Fionn also speaked.

"You're dismissed then." Cú Alter said, letting the two smaller spearmen to walk away from the room, much to Medb's annoyance.

"Urgh! Why did you had to go soft on them? A good punishment would help more!" Medb protested to Cú Alter as he went back to sit on his throne.

"No need for that now. Fear will make sure they won't fail again." Cú Alter explained to her.

"Whatever then, I guess." Medb sighed, lifting her hand. "But we need to do something about possible new enemies." With a pink shine coming from her fingers, Medb snapped them. In no time, another man appeared on the room.

"Is there anything I can help with, my dear queen?" The man asked. He was muscular, with very short purple hair. His eyes closed. He was only wearing long black pants with green symbol designs at the end of it as well as a red cloth around his waist. His upper body was completely exposed, showing three scars on his naked chest. The man wore bandages on both his feet and arms, holding a white and green weapon that resembled a lance.

"I do have a mission for you indeed, Fergus." Medb said, saying the identity of the servant who had just entered. "I require you to wipe out any rogue servants you find across this land."

"Every single one of them?" Fergus asked.

"Yeah. Man, woman. Big, small. East, west. Slim, fat. Use your Caladbolg to destroy every last one of them!" Medb explained. "We can't let those stupid american forces have the chance to recruit them."

"So why kill them instead of recruiting them first?" Cú Alter questioned, finding Medb's logic flawed.

She smiled to him. "Because, first: I only trust servants summoned by me and me alone! And second: If we can't have them then nobody shall have them! Pretty simple if you ask me." Medb said, entirely complacent on her thought process.

"Ah ah! Still the same ol' Medb from those crush days." Fergus laughed. "I knew you'd become a great and beautiful queen one day."

"Yeahyeahyeah. I know. Just make sure to carry out with the task." Medb waved her hand, wanting to dispatch the conversation with the celtic warrior. But being of the nature she was, the queen of Connacht had an idea, looking flirty at Fergus. "Buuuttttt, if you need an incentivement to do it, I have quite the good reward for you." She said in a sultry tone, passing a finger on her own clothes. "The dream you always wanted on the previous life."

"Mhm?" Fergus stared confused at her, scratching his cheek "Oh, there won't be no need for that my queen. I kindly refuse that offer, no matter how tempting it seems." He said, shocking Medb.

"Eh?"

"Do not get me wrong Queen Medb. A woman like you surely checks on every box of my list. But as of right now I'm not in the mood for that lifestyle again." Fergus admitted. "There's no problem in slowing down once in awhile."

"...Okay..." Medb looked at him with a deadpan expression. She knew the man long and well enough to see this action of him to be considered unexpected. "Anyways, you're dismissed! Go ahead and fulfill your queen's orders!"

"Consider it done my queen!" Fergus replied, putting a hand to the place of his heart before turning around and walking away, leaving Medb alone with Cú Alter.

"Who knew he could be unpredictable?" Medb commented on Fergus refusal on her offer.

"Certainly not you by the way you think." Cú Alter told her. "And if now you want to kill all the rogue servants scattered across this country, why did you let that one join us?" He asked.

Giggling, Medb walked torwards him, sitting down on his lap and putting her arms around his neck. "Because big guy, that servant is quite special and of great use to us. Not to mention he's super powerful as well."

"On that I can't lie. He is indeed pretty strong. Fighting him as an enemy would perhaps amuse me." Cú Alter said, enjoying of the idea on his mind.

Medb smile grew a bit. "Strong or not, you'd win in the end Cú." She said. "Because you are my one and only favourite warrior. My true champion. The perfect animal that urges and thirsts for combat without feeling remorse or pity, aloof for anything else!" Medb leaned her face to Cú Alter's, passing a soft hand on his shoulder and chin. "My greatest creation of the man I love, ehehehehe."

"Conquering the east part of this country was too easy. That Washington guy was hardly a challenge." Cú Alter mentioned.

"Yep! And now we get this big mansion of his!" Medb replied. "And I'm only just beggining on the decoration!"

"Whatever makes you happy..." Cú Alter rolled his eyes to Medb's excitment.

"And do you know what would make me happier? Ending with those stupid United Western or whatever they're called." Medb said. "They're becoming an hard thorn to remove."

"What do you propose we do next?" Cú Alter asked her.

Putting a finger under her own lip, Medb pondered. "Hmmmmmmm. To have all that arsenal in order to continue resisting, something must be backing them up." Medb smugged, giving a mischiveous look at Cú Alter. "I wonder what it is?"


"Keep going everyone! Denver is just a few miles away!" Helena told to the party that had been following her and the helter skelters, trusting that she would lead them to her leader and commander of the western army.

"Uff! We've been walking for what? Three hours?" Ritsuka exhaled, feeling some fatigue on his legs already.

"Two hours and forty-five minutes to be exact." Tesla told him.

"You've been counting Tesla-san?" Mash asked him.

"Of course. Keeping track of time when going on a travel is always important even when you don't have a watch." Tesla told her. "A single step taken is equal to a second. The larger the number of steps are, the longer is the time we've been walking."

"Actually, we have been walking for two hours and forty minutes." Nightingale said, looking at a pocket watch in her hand.

"You had a watch all this time?!" Tesla exclaimed, shocked not only fo seeing the nurse with a watch but to also see his calculations got slightly off.

"That was still amazing Tesla-san! You only missed by five minutes!" Mash told to the inventor.

"Y-Yeah...I suppose." Tesla looked to the side, swallowing his injured pride for an instant. "Still, basing on what Madame Blavatsky said, I presume we will be in Denver in an hour or two."

"I sure hope so." Ritsuka said, looking at Nightingale. "Talking about traveling America, you never visited the country did you Nightingale?"

"No I didn't." Nightingale replied. "After the war, I spent the rest of my life on Britain. Such ways of leisure were not for me."

"You never stopped from improving the ways of nursing, haven't you?" Tesla speaked to her.

"What else would I be doing but that?" Nightingale replied. "By then, I'd realize how rudimentary and backwards the nurse field was. I knew I had to change that, and so I took a lot of young women under my wing and trained them to become better and professional nurses."

"Hence why you are considered the modern mother of the profession." Tesla said.

"I never thought a nurse could revolutionize society in the way an inventor like you could." Ritsuka told Tesla.

"Hey now, a genius can come from everywhere! Inventors aren't only for those associated to engineering and machines." Tesla replied. "Every occupation has a genius of their own!"

Mash nodded. "From nurses to writers, scientists and etc. Every job is important to mankind."

"Wow! For such great intellectual, you are quite modest." Helena commented, hearing the chat. "I always thought Nikola Tesla would be more of a...stuck-up douchebag."

"I do tend to have the notion of my own worth after all." Tesla said, putting his hands to his hips. "And that is of the most valuable and important engineer to have ever lived." He said, his prideful smile shinning on the teeth, much to Helena's dismay.

"Forget it. Guess he's still one in the end." The small occultist then turned her head around and spotted a lake some meters in front of them. "Oh! We're reaching a lake! Looks like I nice play for a stop. What do you guys think?"

"A blessing!" Ritsuka responded, walking torwards the lake's border and sitting on the ground.

"Those legs really couldn't hold on any longer, could they master?" Mash went to join him, sitting to the side.

"Nope. And so can't my face to be washed." Ritsuka replied, about to reach for the water with his hands.

"Wait!" Nightingale exclaimed, fastly grabbing Ritsuka's wrists before he could plunge his hands into the water.

"Huh? What's the problem Nightingale?" Ritsuka asked to the nurse taking his hands away.

"Bodies of water like the lakes are home of many bacteria that resides within them." The nurse explained. "Some can be benefitial, other can harm your body through diseases. Consuming and using it without the knowledge that it's save or not is rather risky."

Ritsuka stared at her and then at the lake again. "But the water looks clean. I think there's no problem."

Nightingale looked at him with a suspicious glare. "Let me check." She said, putting her hands into the lake, taking some bit of water. Then she approached her mouth and drinked a bit. She smiled. "Yes. It's sanitized. You can wash your face and sorry for the interruption."

"At least it's goot to know I'm avoiding dangers here!" Ritsuka joked, finally washing his face with the lake's water.

"Jeez! The rumours that I would heat about Florence Nightingale seems to be true." Helena descended from the helter skelter, walking torwards the party. "You really are a hygiene fanatic."

"Everyone should be if they wish to live longer." Nightingale said with a scary look, making Tesla who was behind her to take a step back.

"Now I see why she's a Berserker." He said to himself.

"Hi guys! Checking out if everything is fine." Romani said, appearing on his hologram. "Visualizing the map, I'd say you are about one or two hours from Denver." He said, gaining a slight smile from Tesla.

"That's good to know doc." Ritsuka told him. "By the way, how are Peko and Nala?"

"Still on bed recovering as far as I know. Hard to tell when they're going to wake up." Romani said, moving his eyes to stare at Mash. She had gone mostly silent, pensive. "Thinking about something Mash?"

Getting her name called out, Mash went away from her train of thought, facing Romani. "To tell the truth, I was, doctor."

"Like what?" Ritsuka asked her.

"I know it's a weird time to think about it but, I was remembering of what happened to Faust when we fought him back in London." Mash said, staring to Ritsuka. "I can't help but think: who or what did that to him? What made Faust transform into that monster?"

Ritsuka's mind also went immediatly to the fight they had against the posessed alchemist at the end of the previous Singularity. How hostile, monstrous and mindless he looked in that form. Far from the Faust they were used to see before. "That's a good question. I wonder the same."

Tesla, who despite his short stay on that Singularity, was also there and fought the monster. "Luckily, I was able to be summoned here alongside the memories of that confront as well with Solomon's. The cursed alchemist Faust becoming a demon-like creature...Both ironic and tragic." Tesla commented. "I too would like to know what happened in order for that to had occur."

"Solomon's work perhaps? He appeared right after we defeated Faust." Ritsuka theorized.

Romani however wasn't sure of it. "Humm, I doubt it. The readings I got from Solomon's power and mana were clear and precise despite almost breaking the TRISMEGISTUS System during its calculation. But the readings for Faust when he was in that state were just unreadable and all over the place. The two readings don't match each other."

"That Demon God Pillar that we faced back there, Barbatos, looked very concerned when it saw Faust." Mash recalled. "If Solomon had truly be the one to corrupt Faust, then why have him kill one of his own familiars?" The shielder said. "They weren't on the same side. I tcouldn't have been Solomon's work.!

"But something must have forced Faust to attack us." Ritsuka speaked. "He would never do that on his own will."

"It's a mystery." Romani sighed. "Just like the Man of Sin or the beasts Medea told us about."

"Hm?" Helena raised an eyebrow, her ears catching the conversation.

"Still not many clues on his identity?" Ritsuka asked.

"Not a single one!" The doctor said in frustration. "Despite being a title and concept of clear religious themes, Man of Sin's identity still could be anybody. Even freaking Prester John at this point!"

"Could...Solomon be the Man of Sin?" Mash asked, wondering about that possibility to Romani.

The doctor took some time in consideration. "It could be. Or it could be not." He rubbed the back of his head "Like I said, the Man of Sin could be anyone with religious connections or background. Solomon has as big of a chance to be Man of Sin as everyone else."

"But if he's our main enemy here..." Ritsuka tought. "He could be our most realest guess."

"It's normal for you to not know his identity." Helena speaked all of a sudden. "The Man of Sin is mysterious by nature."

"Do you know something about him Helena-san?" Mash asked. "Given that you are aware of the unnatural and occult, perhaps you could have a possible hint."

"I'm willing to hear you if you have." Ritsuka told her, thinking that she could have an answer.

"Well, for start, you should know that as a prophecy, the Man of Sin could either be someone from the distant past or recent present. Truly, there is no way of knowing the exact identity of such arcane figure that is only referred in Bible passages by nickname a few times. It could be a demon, an angel, a fallen angel, king, god, pope or even the most mundane of humans. It doesn't even need to be related to only christian mythos. This figure could also be associated with Islam and Judaism. That's how versatile the topic of the Man of Sin can be when it comes to religious and theology studies."

"And what exactly are you trying to tell us here?" Romani interrupted the occultist. "That he is hard to figure out? Of that we already know."

"I was only stating the obvious first." Helena responded. "His identity is a big question, that's for sure. But his characteristics are transparent and clear as day."

"His characteristics?" Ritsuka asked, confused.

"Yes. If there is one thing that you should know about the Man of Sin, it's that he discarded his own values and believes. Straying away from his original path." Helena revealed. "He is a liar who you should never believe in. He will offer nicely embellished words of miracles and paradisical dreams. But as a true fake prophet, it is all lies. A cunning deceiver who hopes to fool you with the fake promises he feeds into your minds. The only true goal he has is to create chaos and lawlessness into the world."

Ritsuka and the others listened to it carefully, Helena's words being fundamental to better understand what could be one of their enemies.

"Chaos and lawlessness. He sounds like a devious man." Ritsuka commented.

"The description fits since we are speaking of a potential fake prophet." Mash replied.

"Yeah. When delving into that prespective, I think it can give us a small idea of his identity." Romani speaked, putting a hand on his chin. "Someone who abandoned his own believes..."

"You really are a 'know it all' when it comes to those topics, aren't you, Madame Blavatsky?" Tesla commended Helena's knowledge.

"Ah, spasibo bol'shoye." Helena replied. "One cannot be a genius if she hasn't read at least a thousand books before to know about the topics that are being discussed." She giggled.

Thinking of asking another question, Ritsuka speaked up. "Excuse me, but could I make you another question Helena?"

"Hm? Sure! Go ahead and ask it to grandma!" Helena replied.

"What is your knowledge about beasts?" Ritsuka asked her.

"Beasts?" Helena tilted her head slightly.

Knowing what her master was referring to, Mash specified. "Namely about ones that reside within a man's heart or the void."

Helena's mind sparked up a bit in curiosity. "Hummm, beasts like that sound-"

"Gonna have to interrupt you there!" Romani exclaimed. "My monitors are sensing something in the middle of the lake!"

"The middle of it!?" Nightingale stared to it as she and the entire party got up from the ground, watching the waters getting more agitated and violent.

Tesla spotted some bubbles on the middle of the lake as a figure was emerging from there. "It's appearing there!"

"Combat unit! Prepare to fight!" Helena ordered to the helter skelter who immediatly drawn out their weapons.

With the group ready for what thing would emerge from the water, a giant creature made of wood splashed out of the lake, bearing a huge sword looking clad with him.

"Enemy presence confirmed!" Mash reported as the water that had been lifted from the creature's emergence rained on them. "This is a big one!"

"Not the biggest but certainly a new foe!" Ritsuka replied, this being the first time they were seeing this kind of enemy.

"i knew it..." Nightingale tightened her gloves. "These waters are harmful after all. They need to be sanitized!" She yelled launching torwards the giant enemy.

"Warn us first!" Tesla exclaimed, invoking the electric current around his robotic arm before staring at Helena. "Are you going to partake in this as well, Madame Blavatsky?"

"You bet it!" She responded, summoning a book. "The ways of the occult also got me to obtain some intresting tricks!"

"Mahatma!"

Casting a skill, Helena's book teleported above the creature's left shoulder, firing a laser at it. Tesla didn't stayed behind, shoting a thunder from the palm of his hand torwards the foe's legs, causing it to lose balance and then be launched in the face by Nightingale.

Not willing to be beaten down, the creature swinged his sword at the nurse who catched it with her bare hands, sucessfully holding it back despite the huge size.

"Transient Wall of Snowflakes!"

Giving a hand, Mash boosted the party's defense, being enough for Nightingale to push the enemy's weapon away. However, the wood creature responded quickly by swinging his sword a second time, recovering his balance fast. Majority of the helter skelters that were firing at him were destroyed in a single swoop.

"There goes majority of our unit!" Helena said annoyed before multiplying her book and make the copies fire lasers at the giant who dealt with the attacks pretty good, still on his feet and fighting.

Tesla fired a thunder from above, shocking the entire body of the opponent. Nightingale dashed torwards him, delivering a combination of punches and kicks that were blocked with huge effort of the enemy who put the sword in front of him. Mash pushed the enemy back by striking her shield on his stomach, getting to make him stumble back into the lake. However it wasn't over yet as the giant tried to stomp Mash, forcing the shielder to defend herself with her weapon.

"Nngh! So heavy!" Mash said, putting a lot of strenght to hold back the wieght of the giant's foot.

"Don't worry Mash! Have some help!" Ritsuka said, using one of his Command Seals, giving his servant additional strenght. Enough to fend off and back away the giant from squeezing her, proceeding to get hit in the face by Tesla's electricity and Nightingale following up.

"Thank you master!" Mash told to him, looking back at the monster on the lake. "But this is still far from over!"

"Hmmm, I can notice that his attack patterns are getting slower. If we keep this rythm we will eventually defeat him." Tesla said as Helena stood besides, seeming to have noticed something passing above her on the sky.

She smirked. "I think the battle has already ended."

Nightingale stared at her. "Hm? Why so?"

"Hold up! I'm detecting a new signal in the area right above you!" Romani informed, checking his monitor. "A new enemy perhaps?"

Ritsuka looked up. "Where? I don't see anything."

Feeling a presence, the giant also looked up, moving his head and eyes everywhere in the sky above, trying to spot it. But he then decided to lower his gaze, looking left and right on the lake. Turning around, the giant looked behind him. And it was right at the other end of the lake that a sun pattern of golden, orange and purple lights shinned brightly at him.

"Brahmastra Kundala."

Not even in a fraction of a second, a giant flamming ball went torwards the giant at lightspeed, not even being able to blink. "!" Upon contact, the fiery sun bursted into a huge explosion, lifting the entire water of the lake.

"Get behind us master!" Tesla said as he didn't waste time in getting stuck in awe to such formidable power, getting in front of Ritsuka as Mash also protected her master with her shield. Liberating threads of electricity from his fingers, Tesla created a wall with them, shielding the entire party from the huge wave that was about to land on them, dying on the inventor's electric wall, only allowing some small water drops to pass.

"T-That was intense!" Ritsuka speaked, having seen a huge sun obliterate and vaporize the enemy completely.

"Are you all okay?" Mash asked to the rest of the party.

"I appreciate your worry with us miss Mash, but that should be my job to concern about others first." Nightingale told her, showing to be fine. "But luckily, we all appear to be unscathed."

"That giant explosion was too sudden to even process it right." Romani commented while the dust and steam of the hot water on the lake died down. "Who could even achieve such ridicule levels of mana like that?"

"Hm, you're about to have your answer." Helena smiled to the doctor as a figure stepped out from the cloud of steam.

"Sorry for my late arrival. I hope no one got injured because of it."

Stepping out, a young looking man appeared. He had a short and a slight spiky white hair and blue eyes with red paint on his lower eyelids. His vestiment was a skintight black suit filled with golden ornments in every part of his body as some sort of armour. His chest was exposed, with a circle of small golden fragments pointing at a shinny red jewel on the center. The young man wore a spiked collar on his neck, a circular earpercing on the right ear and a floating pinkish red cloak on his back with two sun looking golden pieces attached to it. His weapon was a thin but long golden spear with a circular pattern at one of its ends. He had an intriguing and divine appearence.

"Is that...a servant?" Ritsuka asked, looking at the young man in front of them, wearing a serious and mundane face.

Tesla observed more into it. "Hmm, those characteristics..." He stared down at Helena. "He looks more powerful than your average servant."

Helena giggled, staring back at Tesla. "I present to you-"

"You must be Blavatsky's new recruits, aren't you?" The young man approached the party, cutting off Helena. "If that's the case, then it's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Karna. Offspring of the Sun God Surya and Kuru Queen Kunti."

"Karna?" Tesla frowned. "Where have I heard that name before?"

"C'mon now. It isn't that hard if you use your heads a little." Helena speaked.

"Sun God Surya? Does it mean that makes you a demigod by birth?" Nightingale asked to the new servant.

"Yes indeed. I do have divine blood and mana by my father's side." Karna responded to the nurse.

Mash immediatly guessed it. "Karna the King of Anga?! One of the protagonists from the hindu epic Mahabharata?!"

The servant smiled gently at her. "You are correct, servant of the shield."

"You guys have Karna on your side?!" Romani exclaimed in utter surprise. "A demigod!? A hindu demigod?!"

"What doing a trip to India does to you." Helena chuckled, remembering of her past life. "Due to having some deep connections with that country and culture, I was able to summon this hero and convince him to be on the side of the United Western States."

"So you are Karna's master by those words." Tesla reasoned. "An impressive feat if I do say so myself." He told to Helena.

"Then that spear..." Romani looked at Karna's weapon. "It must be the legendary Vasavi Shakti!"

"How legendary is it?" Nightingale asked, being a tad intrested.

"A divine weapon granted to me by God Indra himself, bathed with his blessings." Karna replied, showing the weapon to them. "A single blow that is able to kill gods alike. Altough, do not be fool by the appearence. The spear I am wielding as of right now is but an inferior version of the real Vasavi Shakti."

"That sounds a pretty big deal." Ritsuka commented, analyzing the lancer's weapon with his eyes.

"You have no idea. The hindu pantheon and mythology has some if not the most powerful of gods, demigods and heroes in all the pantheons due to their own connections with magic." Romani said. "Even fighting a king from that region would be an hard task that I would like to avoid."

Storing back his weapon, Karna proceeded to make them a question. "You were all heading to our headquarters in Denver, weren't you?

"True. We where on our way there to meet up with your and Helena-san's leader." Mash explained to Karna.

"Are you seeking an alliance with him?" Karna asked.

"I'd say its more about the sharing of some 'complaints' about the leader's concern to his own men and the lack of attention and care to their health conditions." Nightingale said in a cold tone, gaining an inquisitive look from Karna. "Apart from that, striking a partnership is also an objective."

"They speak the truth Karna." Helena said. "I've already talked with them. They wish to maintain the United States survival as much as our presiking."

Thinking for a bit, Karna decided what action he would do next. "Very well then. If that is true, I shall not suspect of you initially. By the contrary, I think I can escort you for the rest of the travel until you reach Denver. You still have some good kilometers to walk, right?"

"I appreciate it a lot!" Ritsuka replied with a smile.

"Expect no less acts from Karna, the Hero of Charity. Doing this is not strange to him." Helena commented, hopping on to one of the helter skelters hands. "Have you all rested well enough? We're going to be back on track!"


Having finally reached Denver, the party stared at the city surroundings as they were being escorted by Helena, Karna and the few helter skelters in front of them. The town altough armed and crowded with majorily soldiers and the robots of the army, there was also civilians in there, walking around and trying to keep their own small business functional.

"To have such number of civilians residing in here, this city must be hugely fortified." Tesla observed, making annotations while trying to see if there was a place or establishment from this time that he would recognize from the Denver he had visited in his one and a half century later.

"I trust that these people are being well treated and greatly cared of. If an epidemic broke out in here it would be a total chaos." Nightingale said, watching the aspects of the city, finding it a bit dirty to her liking.

"We always make sure that soap and bath are things that don't lack in here." Helena responded, signaling to the nurse to rest easy. "We have contingency plans for whatever tragedy may fall on this city, letting the citizens know what they must do and where to evacuate if such disaster happens."

"Was Denver originally this full of a crowd?" Mash asked, seeing how a lot of people where in here during their walk.

"From what I am aware it wasn't. This city had a lot less population some weeks ago than it has now." Karna answered. "With the territories and towns on the East having all fell down, its people decided to took refugee in here or on other locations more to the west since it gives them more security and distance from the danger that is the Celtic Empire."

"Any idea of how many servants they have?" Ritsuka asked about the enemy to both Helena and Karna.

"We dont know for sure. But I can firmly tell you that they have a lot more servants than us." Helena told him sadly. "The West only has three servants to protect the nation. Those being me, Karna and our leader."

"That sounds dire." Romani replied, having the sensation that things weren't in the West's favour.

"Well, the current american president of this era is dead and the people are living in an hard time in order to protect their country from enemies way beyond their strength. Quite apocalyptic if you ask me." Helena said, stopping in her tracks as they stood in front of a fortress huge gates.

"Halt! Who goes there?" A soldier on patrol questioned from the top of the walls.

"The loyal subjects of Presiking himself! Me, Helena Blavatsky and Karna!" Helena shouted from below to the soldier.

"We bring a group of individuals that wish to speak to our presiking!" Karna added the context.

"Eh? Strangers speaking with our leader? Are you sure its' not a trap?"

"Well, it could be. But they wouldnt be stupid enough to try that here with us around." Helena responded. "And we, generals of this army gave the group our votes of confidence! They have our permission to speak with the leader!" She justified. "Tell him to get ready to meet the new guests!"

"S-Sure Madame Blavatsky! Open the gates!"

With the orders given, the gates to the fortress were opened. As the party crossed the entrance, they noticed how many United States flags and other american imagery was on the walls of the place.

"Hmm, the leader here seems to be a huge patriotic." Ritsuka talked about it.

Helena gave a nervous smile. "Tell me about it..."

"But he's someone with a good heart deep down." Karna told to Ritsuka and the group. "Perhaps way too 'charismatic' as well. You will see him soon."

Entering the building, going up some stairs and taking some turns on the hallways, the party eventually reached to the door of the room of the United Western States leader.

"Here we are guys! Our leader is waiting right behind this door." Helena speaked to them. "Ready to meet him?"

"I'm more than ready to lecture him about health's maintanence!" Nightingale speaked up.

Ritsuka nodded. "Ready!"

Mahs also nodded. "Me too!"

"We all are Madame Blavatsky." Tesla told to the occultist. "Do open us the door."

"Understood!" Helena smiled happily, despite feeling awful on the inside. "This is about to go so wrong..."

Opening the doors and entering the room, the party was greeted by the scenario of two lines of helter skelters in each side of the room. The walls were cleanly white with big windows to the outside on it. Stars and red and white straps were hanging on each corner of the chamber. The roof was lightened up by a big number of lamps. On the end of it, there was a presidential chair with two american flags by its side.

"Hm? Why are the helter skelters positioned like that?" Ritsuka found it weird, taking another step. And then...

Fate Grand Order OST- Presi-King's March

"WELCOME, MY HONOURED GUESTS!"

The lights from the lamps went out, and the windows closed, darkening the room. It was only for a brief second however as the lamps from above begun to shine again in red,blue and white patterns, looking like they were inside a disco.

Like the entire party, Ritsuka was confused by all of this "W-What a-"

"IF IT'S BUSINESS AND PARTNERSHIPS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, YOU'VE CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!"

Helena hiddened her face in pure embaressment. "Aaaah, why are you always like this?!"

Meanwhile Karna kept it stoic, not disturbed by the small show at all.

"FOR YOU SEE, I AM A MAN OF DREAMS! AN AMERICAN DREAM! THE ONE WHO MAKES THEIR POTENTIAL BECOME REALITY!"

"T-This voice..." Tesla whispered, beggining to have some nightmares as his face had indicated.

"Where is all these party effects comming from?!" Mash asked as she saw smoke coming out of the ground.

"I PRODUCE THEM! I DESIGN THEM! I IMAGINE THEM! THERE IS NO INVENTION OF MINE THAT WAS DEEMED USELESS OR A FAILURE!"

"That way of speech...the electric current of those lamps..." Tesla slowly clenched his teeth, visibly angry.

"Eeh, is everything alright Tesla?" Ritsuka asked to his other servant.

"You appear to have visible signals of stress mister Tesla." Nightingale pointed it out. "Longer time periods of sleep can prevent that."

"AND WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE I AM THE GENIUS AMONG GENIUS OF COURSE! A TRUE GAME CHANGER FOR HUMANITY! THE KING OF ALL INVENTORS!"

A tall and muscular figure appeared from the smoke.

"NOW! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! GIVE US ALL A GOOD ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO THIS MAGNIFICENT LEADER AND SAVIOUR OF AMERICA!"

All of the helter skelter begun to clap and jump up and down, doing very robotic movements on cheering and celebrating. All of it was weird.

"GASP! YELL! SHOUT! PASS OUT IN PURE BEWILDERMENT! WITNESS THE ALL-TIME INNOVATOR!"

With the lights dying out and the windows going back to open, the room was bright once again, with the appearence of the figure that had this entire introduction now visible to the party. And that man was certainly some bizarre and outlandish individual. He was a tall man, even taller than Tesla. His body was complete muscle, using what looked like a tight red and blue superhero suit with cape and gloves resembling those that someone would see in a comic book, with two giant lamps on the man's shoulders. But despite the extreme ridicule and absurd custom the man was wearing, the weirdest thing about his appearence wasn't on the suit. Instead, it was on his head. Not of a human. But of a lion.

"..."

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Apart from Helena and Karna, the entire group looked at the weird 'human' in complete disbilief and shock.

"Is that...a talking lion?" Ritsuka pointed to the big man.

"NO! IT'S ONLY ME!" The man pointed to himself in an eccentric way. "THE ONE AND ONLY, THOMAS ALVA EDISON!"

"..."

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Silence stood in the room, with the group trying to undertsand bit by bit what the talking lion had just speaked.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT!?"

"EDISOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNN!"

The reality of the statement hit them like thunder, letting out a scream of tremendous shock. Altough Tesla screamed for different reasons.

"Eh. Told ya I would make you shout in amazement." Edison chuckled before being brutally assaulted by Tesla.

"COME HERE YOU HALF-ASSED THIEF!" The inventor exclaimed in rage.

"Tesla?!" Ritsuka reacted in further surprise.

"W-What the hell is this?! An assassination attempt!? That wasnt on the schedule!" Edison said as he struggled against Tesla. The two had to inventually be separated.

"Please calm down! Even if you dispise that was unnecessary!" Mash scolded Tesla's rash action.

"Oh, you don't even know how much I dislike this guy!" Tesla said, still pissed. "He is nothing but a charlatan! A backstabbing scoundrel with no principles!"

"Don't make me use a Command Seal on you for this." Ritsuka told the inventor, not wanting to order Tesla to frocefully hold himself just to not attack Edison.

"Jesus! What is your problem with me man!?" Edison replied to Tesla. "I don't even have the slightest idea of who you are!"

Helena approached her leader, coughing. "That man over there is Nikola Tesla sir."

Upon knowing that, Edison's eyes widened in surprise as he stared at Helena and then went back to stare at the other inventor. "Tesla? TESLA?! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ASSHOLE DOING HERE IN MY OFFICE?!" He roared, indignant.

"Oh, don't fret about it pal!" Tesla told him. "If I knew from the beggining that the leader of this army was you all along, I wouldn't even had step foot in this city!"

Edison felt the need to argue back. "Of course you wouldn't! You'd fly to here instead on pigeon wings, you pigeon kisser!"

Tesla went closer to him. "Says the freak with a lion's head! You probably like to kiss lions!"

Edison took a step further, his and Tesla's forheads clashing. "Uh, still salty even after all these years? I'll have you known that is thanks to my mind that this country is still fighting here!"

"And losing the war to no surprise! Only a moron could go so far with your pathetic direct current!" Tesla mocked his rival.

"Bah! One cannot expect for everything to go smoothly! At least we are making better progress than we would if we used your failure of alternative current!" Edison replied back.

"Jealousy suits you extremely well I see!" Tesla said agressively. "Even if I was a disable person bounded to a wheelchair, I'd still be a beter genius than you!"

"Oh Tesla! Always living in the delusion world! That must be why you never had the success I had!"

"Sorry, don't you actually mean 'theft'? You know, stealing from other inventors like always!?"

"ENOUGH!" Helena shouted, ending with the two's discussion by punching each inventor on the head. "Are you full grown adults or primary kids? Behave yourselves!"

"Thanks Helena." Ritsuka told her, relieved that the insufferable squabble between the two inventors had stopped before taking extreme proportions.

"I'd never expected that I would meet the grea-...Thomas Edison in person." Mash said, being careful with the adjectives used with Tesla was around. "Much less with that look."

"Yeah." Ritsuka agreed with her. "It's...truly something." He thought that after going to four Singularities, nothing would surprise him anymore. But it looked like Ritsuka was wrong.

"Not even in my wildest dream I'd see Thomas Edison as a walking talking lion with a body and custom of a superhero." Romani said, being of the same opinion.

"Hahaha, that's the power of creative minds like mine! Imagination for me has no limits!" Edison exclaimed, boastful.

"Yeah yeah. So creative..." Tesla muttered to the side.

"This helter skelters work for you?" Romani asked Edison. "It's that we have seen them before. They used to be Charles Babbage creation."

"And they were, my holographic visitor." Edison responded. "When I was summoned to this distressed America, I decided to borrow some of my good old friend's creations. And like any true american would do, I begun to mass produce and weaponize them for this war against the intruders. A true factory machine to protect all the citizens of this nation!"

"I see." Nightingale speaked. "Kinda funny how a republic like the United States would have some sort of 'king' as their leader." She commented the irony of that fact.

"And of course you got to steal another invention! No wonder why these robots felt like shitty and amateur work when I laid my eyes on them!" Tesla accused Edison. "You probably never even told Babbage for permission!"

Giving a rude look to his rival, Edison decided to ignore him for now before looking at Nightingale. "And who you might be? I sense that you are also a servant like us."

"The name is Florence Nightingale." She introduced herself to him. "You must have heard of me as the servant who was protecting one of your army's camps just north from here."

"Ah, Florence Nightingale!? The nurse and angel of Crimea is also here?" Edison exclaimed, smilling. "Now, ain't that a pleasent surprise. Looks like we got to meet each other after all."

"Yeah, the feeling is mutual." Nightingale said with not great intrest, showing that the feeling was definetly not the same for her. "But we aren't exactly here to drink and tell stories."

""Hum?" Edison looked confused before remembering. "Ah right! You want to form an alliance with us, of course! Great to know there's other people willing to save this beloved country!"

"And there's a lot more than just that." Ritsuka told him. "I am from an organization of the future called Chaldea and-"

"Oh oh! Time travelers!" Edison said excitedly, interrupting Ritsuka. "One of american fiction finnest ideas!"

"Erm...I'm sure the concept of time travel already existed long before that." Mash said with a drop of sweat on her face. "But as my master was saying, he and I work for an organization of the future called Chaldea. Our job is to prevent mankind's collapse by fixing space temporal anomalies that interfere with humanity's history."

"Time travel cops! An even wilder american trope!" Edison exlcaimed again. "Such creative idea!"

"Can you at least let them finish, Presiking?" Helena pleaded to her leader.

"Ups! Sorry for the interruption." Edison said, letting the chaldeans explain to him their situation and mission as well as the concept of Singularity and the current state of humanity in their present time. Paying attention to the entire thing, Edison looked a lot more serious by the time Ritsuka and Mash ended their explanation. "Oh my. That order of yours sounds pretty serious."

"All of the humanity is at stake with it. By defeating the Celtic Empire, we can save America and retrieve the Holy Grail that sustains this Singularity, taking a step closer to our goal." Ritsuka told the lion headed inventor. "Our goals here are the same. Doing an alliance will only help us one another to get what we want."

"That sounds convincing. I would be a fool to reject such an offer." Edison speaked, apparently having sympathized with them.

"That's amazing! Having an alliance here will help us both!" Mash said happily.

"It sure helps the things a lot." Ritsuka commented. "One part of the objective is already done!"

Romani nodded his head. "And now we just need to defeat the Celtic Empire out of existence, find the Holy Grail and this Singularity will go back to normal."

Ritsuka looked at the doctor. "Peko and Nala need to know this when they wake up."

"Wait." Nightingale put a hand on the master of humanity's shoulder. "I don't think it can be that easy."

"Hm? What do you mean?" Ritsuka asked to the nurse.

In reaction she signaled Ritsuka to stare at Edison. "Look at him."

And by doing so, Ritsuka saw the american engineer looking down on the floor, thoughtful. He seemed somewhat sad and reluctant while observing the tapestry of the ground.

"Hmm..." Edison let out a low but deep growl.

"That face...You aren't fooling anyone you idiot." Tesla speaked. "What exactly is going on your mind, Edison?"

Slightly moving his face, Edison stared to the party. "Say..." His eyes moved down to observe his own hand, slowly closing it into a fist. "Do we really have to save humanity?"

Such question made the party look dumbfounded, having been caught off guard by the words.

"What?! What do you mean by that?" Ritsuka asked, demanding an answer.

"But don't you want to guarantee humanity's future as well Edison-san?" Mash also questioned, not understanding they for such declamation from him.

"You've made a mistake in thinking he truly supports that." Tesla told them, giving a mean glare to the other inventor. "He never said he wanted to save humanity. A man like him wants to save something else."

"Yes, I do." Edison stared back at Tesla. "And that 'something else' is called America!" He declared.

"Eh? Excuse me, but you aren't making sense to me." Romani said. "Don't we both want to save it?"

"And that's the fundamental problem here." Edison replied. "You guys want to only save it. While I want to see America grow, become stronger, wealthy, evolve, expand!" He raised his voice. "I want this country to become the rulling power of the entire world!"

"You what?!" Ritsuka shouted.

"Edison you fool! Can't you grasp that a world like that isn't right?" Tesla rebuked his rival.

"And who decides that? You?" Edison argued back. "Are you telling me if you had the power to make your country into the only nation and superpower in the world, you wouldn't do it?"

"To your information, the United States are already one of the superpower nations from our time." Romani tried to reason with him. "There's no need for a wish like that."

"Why? Because we are barely on the podium? You can't gaze at the bigger picture! Being one of the superpowers isn't good enough! America must be the number one!" He opened his arms to the sides. "Every american men, women and child shall be blessed with a world where their dreams and aspirations come true! An economy that keeps rising nonstop! A reality where the values of this country are teached in all the four corners of the world!" He smiled wildly. "An everlasting hegemony! A true Pax Americana in every sense of the word!"

"It's no use. Edison seems to be very determined on that idea to be convinced otherwise." Mash commented on the man's fervent patriotism.

"World domination is an awful thing that benefits no one!" Nightingale told to Edison.

"Pff! Look who's talking." Edison replied, being aware of the nurse's nationality.

Nightingale didn't backed down however. "Okay and? I can still show a lot more of sympathy and care to your own men than yourself!" She exclaimed. "You talk pretty big of dreams and ambitions mister Edison. But you can't even properly manage your troops right. Is it either lack of care or competence?"

"Grrr, I always try my best to make sure every soldier in this war is proud for the cause they are fighting for!" Edison said. "Unfortunately, some will die but that's the cold truth of war and you know it! Every death here is a sacrifice for the safety of all american citizens!"

"And that translates to leaving a camp with no supplies for days?" Nightingale said. "You say you feel bad and sympathize with your own men suffering. But you actually never went to the battlefield to witness that for yourself, did you? The fear and trepidation of having to defend a small camp all by themselves, hoping that more help could come and waiting so long for it. That they could die today, tomorrow, at any given moment. That the next assault of the enemy could be their last. That each passing hour with no response, their hopes decrease. You do not know the pain of what a true soldier goes through."

Edison was already losing his patience. "Listen, the supplies and ammunition needs to be delivered equally and in an organized schedule! Think of it as a system that administrates things, vital for the army's functions."

"System? Schedule? Administrate? That is no excuse to leave your own men to die!" Nightingale shouted angrily. "Every single unit of yours should have experient medics and doctors on the field to ease their pain. A thing that can bring their collective moral help and make them believe they can survive this! Instead, I only saw a camp with lack of material and manpower to properly hold itself against the enemy! A leader like you who can't deal with such problems has no right to boast about becoming the ruler of an all powerful nation!"

"That is Edison to you." Tesla speaked up. "A man who gets blinded by grandeur but has to use others as a ladder to achieve that, getting the glory all to himself in the end." He unveil the other inventor's attitude. "His goal was never to save humanity in the first place, but to create a new one that pleases his views."

Edison launched a face of apathy torwards him. "And you must be the special one eh?" He then looked ar Ritsuka. "Hey son, do not give them ears! Think about forming the alliance that you wanted with me." He raised his voice, not wanting to lose the chance of making allies to help him out. "I picked up this broken and dispirited army and gave them something to believe in and continue fighting for when it all seemed lost to those celtic savages! I rally up their moral! My skills allows me to manufacture these helter skelters at a speed that would make Henry Ford jealous!" He extended his arm to Ritsuka. "I am on the good side here. All that I need is someone else to help. A last push to victory. I promise that a world where America rules the planet isn't as bad as it sounds. Trust me."

"But it does sound wrong." Ritsuka told him.

"We won't know unless we try." Edison tried to persuade him. "Accept my offer! If you do, the Earth will become a better place under our banner." He was still waiting with his inviting hand for Ritsuka.

Not thinking twice, Ritsuka easily refused Edison's offer. "Yeah. No thanks. I'm not letting humanity be doomed forever because of your ideal utopia." He responded, shoving Edison's hand away, much to the inventor's displeasure.

Mash thought the same. "Don't get us wrong Edison-san, but we can't conceive the idea of replacing our current world for the one you wish for. That is just unthinkable!"

"So you don't support my ideology?" Edison asked, dissapointed.

"We don't. Our mission here is only to save America from the Celtic Empire." Ritsuka responded.

"And we will carry on with that! Mash added.

Narrowing his eyes, Edison lamented. "What a shame." He lowered his arm. "It seems we'll have to be enemies then." He looked at someone behind them, doing a slight movement with his head.

Romani eyes widened as he saw the monitor. "Fujimaru! Mash! Behind you!"

Quickly turning around, the duo saw Karna pointing his spear behind them, charging his weapon. "Sorry. This is what you ended up choosing." He fired a beam from his Visavi Shakti torwards them.

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"Master!" Mash fastly put herself in front of Ritsuka ready to take the damage with her shield. Altough at the last second Nightingale and Tesla both stood in front of the shielder, willing to also protect her from the attack of the demigod in an attempt to stop it.

However, it was in vain. Karna's power was way stronger than of the two servants and Mash combined, leading to an explosion that sended them all to the ground, the shockwaves hitting Ritsuka. The moment they made contact with his body, Ritsuka felt like his soul was leaving the body, his vision going dark as his conscious faded away in a blink long before he could hit the ground. Now with him and the rest of the party knocked out, who could come up to the rescue?

To be continue...


And that was it for chapter 75!

I think this was perhaps the chapter were we had the most character introductions in the story so far. Like, we had Fergus, Karna and Edison. (Okay, short correction here, it was actually in Orleans) And there's still another character to appear next chapter. If you give it thought, Pluribus Unum might have a considerable jump on the cast size when compared to the earlier Singularities. Like there's still a lot of them to appear (Yeah, that means that all the servants that appeared on this Singularity in the game will also appear here. No one will be cut off this time)

Also, one of the things that I was thinking while writting this chapter in the meantime is, if Edison (Spoiler btw, but I assume that if you are reading this fic you already know about this curiosity) is also a manifestation of all the US presidents thoughts into saving America and make it prosper poured onto him, and FGO present timeline during the Incineration of Humanity is between the years of 2015 and 2016...does that mean Edison is 1% Obama? Not only Obama, but also Bill Clinton, the two George Bushes...wait...if we go to the NA version, were the events of the Observer on Timeless Temple arc occur during 2017-2018, does that mean...Edison is also 1% Trump?

Alright guys, I need to smoke less. That's all I wanted to say, and see you next time on chapter 76! Peace!

P.S:

Ritsuka and Mash (Open the door to King Hassan's room, being bombarded with loads of smoke)

Mash (Coughing): W-What is all this smoke?

Ritsuka (sniffing a bit): And why does it have a peculiar smell.

(Both look at King Hassan with the other Hassans all together, smoking and looking very chill and relaxed)

King Hassan: Tahiaatun contractor. Does thou craves for a blunt?

(Context Time: The terminology of the word that we know today as 'assassin' is popularly and clearly connected to the arabic word 'hashashin' . However, that word could also be translated to 'users of hashish'. The why for it is because during one of his voyages to the East, Marco Polo and other european navigators would report having encounters with the Order of Assassins and observe them taking the mentioned drug substance before performing their assassinations in order to give them higher reflexes and mobility as well as make contact with the spiritual world)

Ritsuka: Oh...that explains somethings.