North American Myth War (Ending)

They'll be here soon, my king. How's your body?

The restoration is complete. It'd be a bit troublesome if Arjuna betrayed us, though

If the need arises, we could always use "that."

...That's not necessary. I am enough.

Throw everything at the northern front. That'll end the war, and this world.

Right. Oh dear, I guess this is the end of playing queen.

Having fun?

Yes, very much so. That's why I intend to enjoy it to the very end.

You aren't having fun, are you, Cú?

I don't know. You can have fun on your own.

All I need to do is continue being the king you wished for. No matter what happens.

...Yeah. I love you, Cú.

Is that so?

Now, let's begin the final battle.

They'll struggle, and writhe, and try to stand up. All those who glare at us with determination in their eyes.

We'll crush them under our heels easily. Ahh, I'm so excited!

We're here...

Yes! Master, we're just one step away!

The northern front is fighting well. At this rate, we should somehow

So you've come.

Oh dear, I guess those Shadow Servants really weren't good enough.

You're

Medb. The queen who brings Celtic heroes into this world.

So you're...

Your scrap soldiers, or my cute boysI wonder which are stronger?

Sorry, but we don't have time for idle chit chat. We'll be taking you down now.

I've already calculated it. Your power, my power, my summoned warriors' power, my monsters' power...

...I'll make sure to win. After all, the one that the king trusted with everything was me, the queen!

I've confirmed enemy signatures. Analyzing the magical energy wavelengthsthis is...

A massive dragonkin! AlsoChimeras, and even Shadow Servants!?

Sheesh, she's really going all out!

It's okay. We won't lose to enemies like that after all we've been through!

Master, let's go!

I guess that wasn't enough to stop you.

...But I can't afford to lose. Come, Spriggan!

Even more of them!? Can Queen Medb really create an infinite number of soldiers!?

I would hesitate to call it infinite.

It may be infinite given enough time, but we're defeating them faster than they're being created.

You could say that we're cornering her, both in Magecraft and science.

However

H-Haha. Hahahahaha!

...Cornered? ME? Opposite. It's the opposite.

I'm the one cornering you. Come visit the White House.

Tch... She's staying out of range. So she knows that "Brahmastra" is a throwing weapon.

Let's go, everyone... Although we may not make it in time.

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...I don't know, but it seems like they're hiding a secret weapon.

Her smile wasn't because this is too easy for her, nor was it an attempt to mock us.

That was the smile of a predator.

It was an unbearably sadistic smile, made right when she destroys something dear to us.

But it's not towards us. If it was, she would have used the trump card immediately.

In that case

Yes, I understand what you're trying to say, Nightingale. However, we must still pursue her.

Now, we head to the White House!

...Ugh!

This is "Stalking Tiger," a Bajiquan technique. Kung Fu that's been refined through thousands of years.

Like how mere fistfighting evolved into boxing, we developed fights to the death into techniques.

...This nation is the same. It's not something you should stick your hands into.

Heh... Seriously... Dammit, hitting that big Grendel was a lot easier.

Parrying incoming attacks is part of the technique. Try learning some boxing skills before your next summon.

...Hah... Sorry, but I refuse.

Thinking in the middle of a fistfight is like trying to wake yourself from a dream. Isn't it?

Okay! That should do it...

Mr. Edison... You should hurry and send the troops back.

Hm?

Just have them retreat! Hurry!

What, retreat?

Hey, we're winning. What's this all of a sudden?

Who knows. You'd probably have to ask Edison to find

Wh-What!?

Aughhhhhhh!

C-Calm down! It's just an earthquake, settle down!

No, this is no mere earthquake! Augh!

Blavatsky?

Master. The White House... It's transformed...

Wh-What the hell is this!? Are you telling me that this is truly the White House!?

...Hm. Such extremely poor taste. The original White House was far more beautiful.

Hey.

...Cú Chulainn!

Queen Medb!

Hey, Demi-Servant. Don't utter my name so casually.

I'm in a bad mood, mind if I kill you?

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Leave this place. Your wickedness is no illness. You were born with it.

I'd say you're in good health. Although you're still wicked.

What?

Stand back, Medb. She's got business with me.

What are you going to do to Cú?

That goes without saying. I'm a nurse. A nurse must fulfill her duty.

Huh? With Cú? As a nurse?

In other words, I intend to treat him.

...What a simplistic reason. However, as my enemy, I intend to kill you.

An enemy is an enemy, even if they're a nurse. It's simple.

Feel free to do as you please. I'll treat you, and you'll kill me.

While contradictory, that's how we should be. One thing to say before combat.

What?

You are ill. I recommend suicide, or allowing yourself to be defeated.

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I'm not really one to talk, but you're pretty crazy, aren't you? What you're saying is pretty ridiculous.

You can't feel joy.

...Say that again?

No, that's not quite right. It's not that you can't, it's that you don't.

Becoming king didn't stop you from feeling joy. It only sealed your joy away.

...Shut your mouth, nurse.

You've trapped yourself in a cage, ceding your body to a "system" called a "king."

Since you feel no joy, you fight automatically and mechanically. If you don't do so, you can't continue being king.

Didn't I tell you to shut up!?

You talk like you've seen it for yourself. Did we have some sort of connection in our past life?

No, I haven't seen it myself. I simply know, because that's how I used to be.

I cast aside my own humanity, working only to fulfill my goal.

I had to pay a price for that, but I didn't mind.

I was fine being nothing more than a healing machine.

Of course, I can't deny that it's a twisted way of life. Nothing changed from when I was alive, working tenaciously at patient's bedside.

But still, I didn't mind. I simply wanted to help expand to the world, with an iron body and an iron will.

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The hope for medical treatment. The delight of recovery. These things were needed in the world at the time.

For that, I abandoned everything I had, but I have no regrets!

So let me ask, king of savages. Is your rule truly necessary?

What prospects for the future do you have? Where do you aim to be, after all is done?

Who knows.

You have nothing. Your deeds are like severe burns. That's whyyou and I are different.

My blood boils, for the sake of dreams. Your blood has grown thick and cold, for the sake of ambition.

That is your illness. Allow me to treat you, Cú Chulainn.

Even if I die, I must treat you.

...You done talking? Your lecture was so crazy that I actually couldn't help but listen.

Ill. Ill. Illness, huh? I see, I get it. Pretty fitting. I was used to things like curses and wounds, but

I'd never actually suffered from illness before. This what you'd call "seeing the light," iron woman.

That must mean this overbearing sense of fatigue is an illness.

If this body is healed, and this blood is purified, I might return to my senses.

But that's not possible. I think you're well aware of that.

You know, in this world there are incurable diseases that you can never recover from, right?

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Well then. Here I go!

...Let's go, Cú!

I'm Medb, queen of Connacht. I won't lose to people like you!

I am Rama, king of Kosala. This task was handed down to me, by those who have fallen.

So long as you threaten to destroy this world my fighting spirit, my will shall never falter.

In the name of my wife Sita, I swear by the name of the god I hold faith in.

I shall smite thee as an iron hammer. Prepare yourself, Queen Medb!

Right there! "Brahmastra!"

...We did it...

...

UhUgh

...Tch. You're in pretty bad shape, Medb.

Yes, Cú. I feel like I could die at any moment. But I fulfilled my role...

I really, really did it. ...Will you praise me?

Yeah. You did pretty well.

You defended your nation, as queen. You're a pretty capable woman, when you try.

...I'm glad. That's all I wanted to hear.

That was enough to save me. My wish came true.

You've finallybecome mine.

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Ahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Don't you know my name?

I'm Medb! Queen Medb! Don't you know of my greatest work, from my legend?

The "Clan Calatin!" A group of warriors to defeat the peerless hero, Cú Chulainn!

So that's your trump card? Very well then, summon them!

...Ahaha... That's wrong, so wrong. It's completely different from what you imagine!

Completely, and totally wrong!

... ...

...Wait. Is that possible? Should it even be possible!?

A Heroic Spirit can't possibly come up with something that terrifying! I mean, is it even possible through Magecraft!?

Queen Medb! This is something not even Solomon dared try!

Doctor!? Doctor, what exactly is happening!?

There's nothing strange here

The North Army!

That's right! THAT was summoned on them just now!

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...I've confirmed 28 Demon God Pillars at the northern front!

...What?

To summon an entire pack of Demon God Pillars by shoving them into the framework of "Clan Calatin!"

It's theoretically possible for a wielder of the Holy Grail. It's definitely possible... But a total of 28 of them!?

Is that really possible!?

Her wish must have been that powerful. More so than any other to date.

If it was for that man. She would offer any sacrifice. Even her own life.

Doctor, the Servants on the northern front!

...What is this!?

That's, you know... A major boss.

Why would something like that appear here!? Is our Puppy okay!?

...We've received a transmission. It seems they're fine.

In other words, the enemy sent these here to crush us instead!

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...There's no way to win. It's a whole group of Demon God Pillars.

They aren't something that mere Servants can handle. However, escaping is impossible, too.

Well, this just means we've got to give up. Li Shuwen, they'd be too much even for you.

...As I'd expect.

...This is the end.

Edison?

There's no way to win against this! Look, just look!

There's 28 of them!

Even a single one would require multiple Servants to defeat!

Edison! Calm yourself! You mustn't panic!

It seems... Justice is defeated...

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... ...Hey, lion head.

...Lion head? Lion... There's no lion here... Oh, you must mean me! Wh-What is it, horned lady?

Well you see Quit your whining!

Aah, my ear!?

It's true that we're in a pinch, in trouble, in a catastrophe! But that Puppy trusted us to do this!

If we can hold out here, we win! If we give up now, the front will collapse, right!?

That's right, but these things are on a different level. Would our attacks even be effective?

Even if they aren't effective, it's fine if we just survive! I don't care what anyone says, I won't lose!

No, I can't stand losing to them! They killed my rival... They killed my friend Nero!

Sure, that's fine, but...

Huh?

Hey you Get out of the way!

Aaaaah!?

Above you! You've got to look above you! And wipe those tears.

...I-I know that! Let's pull ourselves together and fight, Greenie!

I've got a name, learn it already! ...So, Old Man Edison?

What will you do? You can try to run, if you want.

We can still buy time, if you go now.

... ...

Now, bring it on! Clan Calatin!

I, Elisabeth Báthory will send you to your death with my hit song!

...You leaving now?

Yes, I am. I entrust the Grail to you.

Farewell, Cú Chulainn. May we meet again sometime, somewhere

...Cú Chulainn. Are you

I've always been one to take the long road. I never had much luck with good women. It never lasted.

But all the bad women flock to me. Medb was especially tenacious, more so than briar vines...

...Sheesh. The moment she becomes good, she disappears looking satisfied.

He seems a little different?

...He's more like when we met in Fuyuki...

Just slightly, but the magical energy surrounding him has weakened.

The era's ability to correct itself probably strengthened, because the one who wished Cú Chulainn into kingship vanished.

It's basically like a 0% chance became 3%... But now there's a possibility!

Listen, you have to defeat Cú Chulainn, before the northern front collapses! That's the last chance to repair this era!