King of Kings

Hum, hum, hum... Hey, Master! Got a moment?

If you do, come with me for a bit. If you're busy, cancel your plans!

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Precisely. Come on, we're off to London!

Hey, Mordred, please don't push!

Fou, mokyu, fou!?

Whew, we're here, we're here.

You're so pushy, sheesh... So, do you have something to do in London?

Yeah. Maybe it's because I was summoned here in London, but I can sense it when something unusual happens here.

Seems like you're right, Mordred. There's an unusual life-form response from over there.

Well then... Will it be a demon, or will it be a dragon? Let's find out!

A ghost, huh. I guess it was lured out by the fog that formed a little earlier.

...But...

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Never mind, it's nothing.

The blade of Clarent seems a bit duller than usual, and it's bothering me.

You're fighting ghosts, after all...

Not really. If this blade can return to its former splendor, I could cut my way through anything, ghost or otherwise.

...Well, I guess it's my fault. I kind of "appropriated" it.

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Ah, no. ...I'm just sort of, uh, borrowing it for eternity.

I mean, I was still borrowing it when I died. Thanks to that, I'm still able to use it as a Servant.

Fou. Fou fou. Afou.

Fou is saying that's basically the same as you stealing it.

Shut up, you rodent! ...Hmm?

I'm getting a life response that seems like a Servant's! Wait! But not quite?

Anyway, I'll send you the route. Go check it out right away!

Found it! This time it's...not a ghost.

But as a Servant...you're kind of lacking a face. What the heck are you?

I pose a question. Who art thou?

Huh?

I shall pose it once more. Who art thou? Reveal thyself to me.

...Hmph. I'm Mordred, a Knight of the Round Table.

Satisfied?

I know thee. Thou took up arms against thy king.

Thus, thou art undoubtedly my enemy, for I too am king.

I shall destroy thee and thereby create a new nation.

Yeah, yeah, whatever. So basically you want to kick the bucket.

If you're naming yourself king, I'll refute that.

Now and forever, the only one who can name himself king is our King of Knights.

And the only one who can oppose the king is me!

Come on then... You big dimwit!

All right, we won!

The Shadow Servant you faced... I guess it was a nameless king.

He neither carved his name in history nor achieved any noble feats.

His memory of being a king alone caused him to wander as a phantom, so to say.

Geez, what part of that is so kingly? Naming yourself king isn't going to make you one.

...Well, whatever. I got the hang of this after beating up so many ghosts.

Yes. I am not picking up anymore signatures. It shouldn't manifest itself as a Singularity now.

It's okay to head back now.

All right, let's go. Master.

It's me, got a second?

No, you idiot. It's me. ME.

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Sorry, but I'm gonna go ahead and talk. I don't care how you respond.

...So, Master. Do you think I could be a king?

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...Well, yeah.

I thought I was fit to be king. Butmy father, King Arthur, rejected me.

"You don't have what it takes to be a king," he said.

Even in death, I couldn't accept that. I thought that King Arthur loathed me.

That he despised his progeny with his older sister, Morgan, more than anything

Well, that's what I thought.

But, since then... So many things happened so quickly that I gave up trying to be king.

Listen up, Master. Since ancient times, kings have always been egotistical and selfish.

They became kings because they wanted something. Wealth, land, power, sometimes esteem.

And then they roped others in, made sweet-talk of dreams, and strove towards their illusions

But my king was not like that. He set down his life so that many could smile.

...I believe that more than any other king, the will of the King of Knights was both noble and just.

So, there's no way I'm gonna lose to some guy calling himself the "Mage King."

No way. Absolutely not

...Hey, don't you go telling anyone this, okay?

It's embarrassing. So don't you dare bring any of this up around the other Knights of the Round Table!

Okay, no tattling! No tattling whatsoever!

See ya!

Mokyukyu...

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Fou!