Cooking Nikitich!

Lightning bolts incoming!

I know! Bring it!

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D-direct hit on Nikitich!

Scanning her Spirit Origin to assess the damage. Senpai, please have a healing Mystic Code ready!

This is nothing!

Heh. A lightning bolt or two is nothing to a true Bogatyr.

That goes for you too, foreign Bogatyrs of Chaldea!

Now pick your jaws up off the floor and stand tall!

Hey, can you blame us!? I still don't get how you're standing, let alone unharmed!

Such a huge lightning bolt from a Phantasmal with a Holy Grail should be enough to vaporize a Spirit Origin!

Hell, we only got caught in the blast and I'm still recovering!

Oogh... I-I'd be dead right now if not for my mushrooms...

Thank you, my special sacrificial substitution mushroom. It took eight hundred thousand QP to raise you, but you did your job well...

Farewell, my beloved mushroom! Farewell!

Are you seriously saying goodbye to a mushroom!? Also, is there anything those mushrooms CAN'T do!?

What do you care, kid? I'm out of stock now, anyway! Now go on, get out of here! There're no mushrooms for you here!

I don't want any!

Hehe, I like the energy. As long as you have the spirit, most things will work out.

H-hey, yeah, you're right! As long as I keep my spirits high, there's mushroom for positivity.

Did you just say "mushroom"?

Yes?

All right, let's go! Come, my faithful steed!

Okey dokey, Boss♪ Ride in style!

I'm going on ahead! You two stay here, keep your spirits high, and figure something out!

Nikitich has just taken flight on her, uh, steed! It looks like she's engaging the enemy again!

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You got it!

Roger dodger!

Listen up, Manitou Mimicry, lord of this minute Singularity!

No more of the fury and confusion you bring! There's no room for Mystics in this land!

It's time for you to go back to sleep!

Hoo boy, it did NOT like that♪

Although, what exactly ARE you going to do, Boss? You can't use your lance in that Spirit Origin, right?

Nope! Doesn't really work well with this body. So instead of me just using my lance...

...the three of us are going to take it down together!

Hm? What's that sound? Is something else headed this way!?

Whoooooooooa!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Hey, cut this out! Or at least get us out of its way before it slams us into that damn bird!

How'm I gonna do that without any wiiings!?

The only reason we're kind of flying right now...

...is 'cause my special mushrooms are expelling spores to propel us like jets!

There's no way to steer or stop!

Gaah, dammit! Guess we'll just have to use those Heroic Spirit Mystic Codes that let you walk on air.

No, never mind. It's too late for those! All right, fine!

Nikitich! We're gonna keep going like this! Got it!?

Fine with me!

Wash away sin, and gaze upon the sun. Come, three-headed dragon!

Zmei Gorynych!

Cruaidín Sétanta!

...High-density magical energy signal confirmed. It's the Holy Grail!

Hey, we did it.

Phew! Then using up my special mushrooms was worth it!

The Holy Grail that had been embedded deep inside, uh, Manitou Mimicry's Spirit Origin must have emerged after you defeated it.

Great work, everyone. Your minute Singularity mission is complete!

Locusta, would you go ahead and use your custom Mystic Code to retrieve the Grail?

Oh, that thing you gave me before the Rayshift? Sure.

Great, thank you. I'll start bringing you back right now.

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Same to you!

Likewise!

Hm?

What's up?

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Oh!

Wh-wh-what is it?

Don't ask us. You're the one acting like a cat that just munched on an onion.

Are you nuts? That'd kill it!

Oh. What about grapes then?

That's no better! Stop trying to kill that poor cat! What'd it ever do to you!?

Huh!? I wasn't trying to kill anything! Besides, you're the one always picking on dogs!

Anyway, I'm not Okita, so stop treating me like her!

...What are you even talking about!?

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...Okay.

I know we're supposed to go back now...

...but do you think we could wait just a teeny, tiny bit?

A teeny, tiny bit?

A teeny, tiny bit!?

Yeah. Singularities don't disappear the instant you retrieve the Holy Grail, right?

So if we still have some time until it's repaired, there's some business I'd like to take care of.

Business?

Yes. ...By the way, Mash.

You said a lot of Servants were compatible with this minute Singularity, right?

Yes, that's right. While not all of our Servants could go there, most of them were highly compatible.

And of course, you three were selected because your compatibility rating was the highest.

Good! All the more reason!

There's something I want to do here... No, something I HAVE to do here!

Fujimaru!

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Here, in this Singularity...

I want to make dragon hot pot!

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Hm? Did you not hear me? I said...

I want to make dragon hot pot!

...Huh?

Oh dragooon. Where are you, dragon!?

I'm sorry to say this after you followed that powerful magical energy signal we detected into the mountains...

...but I'm still not sure if it belongs to the kind of dragonkin you're looking for. I'm sorry, Nikitich.

Don't worry about it. I'm the one asking for a big favor.

Hehehe. Come on out so we can make you into hot pot, dragon!

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So, dragon hot pot...

Can't say I know much about that. I'm guessing it's some kinda cuisine?

Do you even have a brain rattling around in that skull? Have you got any idea what'd happen to you If you ate something as dense in magical energy and Mystics as dragon meat!?

One bite, and you'd be a goner! The light of wisdom would shine from your eyes... Your heart would glow with its own Magical Reactor Core...

You'd be reborn into a new all-powerful being wrapped in impervious armor except for your one weak point: the leaves on your back!

So no, I'm thinking this dragon hot pot is just a big pot made from dragon scales.

Oh, yeah. Makes sense.

You gotta figure dragon meat must be pretty tough. The scales, I bet, would be even tougher.

Is she right, Nikitich? You want to make a pot out of dragon scales?

Nope. I'm cooking hot pot with dragon meat!

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Yep! But making a pot from dragon scales is an interesting idea!

Waaahahahaha. Hear that, kid? She thinks my idea is interesting. Eat it!

Why you little... Ah, whatever.

All that aside, I have to wonder. I know humans can't eat dragon meat, but can Servants?

That's...a good question.

Also, I forget. Can you actually bring stuff back from Singularities?

Yes, as long as you do it in small quantities! It does use up a lot of processing power, though, so

So you don't recommend it, huh. Well, I guess we can at least bring back enough meat to fill a bag.

No.

Hm?

We're making our hot pot out of a whole dragon. It's so yummy!

Damn.

S-so, um, does that mean...

...you're going to make a big hot pot with dragon meat right there in that Singularity, Nikitich!?

That's right!

It's not a special occasion or anything. I just thought it would be a good idea.

This minute Singularity has Phantasmals AND almost every Servant can Rayshift here.

That makes this a perfect opportunity.

You'll see.

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...Heh, you're a perceptive one.

Yep! Got it in one.

I want to give them a present.

My darling Yaskayas have grown up so much, but I haven't been able to do anything for them.

We're all hollow shadows that happened to have gathered in Chaldea. I don't know if there's any point to our coming together.

But whether there is or not...

...they're still my Yaskayas. My children.

And if this all just one big dream we shadows are having...

...I still want to show them I love them.

Nikitich...

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Aha. Okay, I see how it is.

You want to make something real yummy for your daughters, since you haven't seen them in a long time.

Exactly!

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Yeah!

Hey, Boss! There's a pack of something headed this way from real high up!

They're out for blood too, so we've got a fight on our hands!

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Right! I'm picking up multiple hostiles on approach from high above! Please be careful!

All right, let's do this. I hope one of them is a nice, big dragon.

Either way, we'll just have to beat 'em first! Let's go, Locusta!

Huh? Don't treat me like your partner.

Yeah, yeah!

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Yeah!

Here they come!

Those were wyverns.

Hmmm. I guess they're technically dragonkin, but I don't know...

What do you think, Lady Nikitich? Wyvern hot pot just doesn't have the same ring, does it?

Nope, but I'm not about to waste good quarry.

These will still make for good eating. I'll dress them real quick and have my steed carry the meat.

Aw man, do I have to? All that looks really heavy...

We're only gonna be able to hunt AND dress these things so many times.

Singularities don't usually stick around too much once their Holy Grail's been collected, right?

Yes, that's true. So even if it is just a minute Singularity, I can't recommend you stay there very long.

Hehehe. Looks like you're doing something interesting. I wouldn't stay more than half a day if I were you, though.

Let's see... It's mid afternoon, so make sure you're back by...dawn tomorrow!

Half a day, huh. Hehe, that's plenty!

Uh... You really think we can eat this much meat in only half a day?

Sure, this is nothing! I can put all this away just on my own, no problem.

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What a hearty appetite! I love it!

Well I, for one, would be happy to humbly assist you. Hehehe, maybe I'll make a mushroom and wyvern sauté!

Did we bring any butter? We can see which people like more: your dragon hot pot or my mushroom cuisine!

Hahahahaha, I like that!

Okay, next up, we're going to look for something with lots of magical energy!

The battle is over! Great work, everyone.

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Hmm... Can we really make dragon hot pot out of this?

These qualify as dragonkin, technically. They don't look like a good fit for hot pot to me, though.

What a coincidence. I was just thinking the same.

They did have an almost divine air about them, but... Hmm.

Their meat isn't quite right.

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I think this would taste better oven-roasted than boiled.

A stone oven! A stone oven would be perfect for this! Hehehehe, I could make the best tandoori naga you've ever tasted with that!

A few hours slow-roasting this in a stone oven, and it'd go perfect with mushrooms!

Perfect...with mushrooms? Don't you mean mushrooms would go perfect with it?

EXCUSE YOU!?

Master, did you hear this idiot blaspheming!? The sacred mushroom, the very foodstuff of the gods, a mere GARNISH!?

Ugh. Nothing worse than a kid who doesn't know what anything's worth. I should feed you a toadstool to end your ignorance forever!

You keep calling me a kid, but you're not much bigger than

Hm?

That didn't take long. Nikiti! Master! We've got another enemy!

Strong magical energy signal incoming! It's definitely hostile!

It's only a single entity, but it looks like it's very big! Please be careful!

Yes, I know. It's definitely big.

It must have followed the scent of its fellow dragonkin here. Which means

I see it as well! Confirming it's a very large dragonkin!

Please be careful, everyone. This is no ordinary foe!

Not a problem. Sure, it's very big...but it still only has one head!

I've already taken down a three-headed dragon, so this should be nothing!

Let's go, Master! Sétanta! Locusta! My steed!

We're going to defeat this dragon...and then, we're going to use it to make delicious hot pot!

Get it, Nikiti!

I. Can. Do. This!

...Hostile signal terminated. The battle is over! Great work, everyone!

Phew, we did it! Man, I'm exhausted!

I guess we have been fighting a lot of battles back-to-back. I didn't mind, though. It was a good challenge.

Well, I guess it might've been kind of tough for a more cultural Heroic Spirit to keep up with, but me? Nah.

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Hm?

...Could you knock it off with the whole peppy jock thing? I can't stand it.

What're you talking about!? And what do you mean, jock!?

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Exactly. I finally have the ingredients I wanted.

Hehehe. Time for the dragon-slayerthat's meto show you just how tasty dragon can be!

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Thanks, but actually you are going to sit this one out.

You can watch, though! Maybe one day you'll make your very own dragon hot pot.

But as for what you can do right now...

Hmmm, okay, you can set the table. I'll take care of all the dressing and cooking.

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That's final.

It's not just for the Yaskayas. It's for you too.

You seem to be resistant to poison, so you should be able to handle dragon meat...

...and I want to do something to show I love you, too.

You're on a journey, one you're determined to see to its end.

You may not be my child...

...but I love you all the same, Fujimaru.

I loved you long ago when you were little. I love you now as you push on to finish your journey.

I love you when you fight. I love you as the last Master of humankind.

Before, when I swore my dagger to your service, I spoke to you as a Bogatyr.

I wasn't very loving to you then, but today is special.

You should remember now and then what it's like to be loved.

Hahahahaha. See? What did I tell you!?

I did put a lot of work into it, but...what really makes a great meal is...

...enjoying it with good company!