Fate/Grand Order story · Events, Apocrypha/Inheritance of Glory
Section 4: Confrontation: Dual Swords and Cavalry
Apocrypha/Inheritance of Glory. Hill of Morning Dew
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1. Before the battle
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Agreed. But at least while we were fighting them, it was clear they were enemies.
And since it wasn't possible to talk with them, fighting was the only choice we had.
Still...don't you think it's strange?
Normally, no one can so much as scratch me unless they've got divine blood...
...but those guys practically beat me black and blue back there.
Yes, I see what you mean.
It's possible there's more to Atalante and Spartacus's legends than we know...
...but there's absolutely no way Frankenstein could secretly have divine blood.
Her origin is too modern, and the circumstances of her creation rule it out entirely.
Maybe so, but I can still feel the spikes from that mace of hers when she smacked me with the thing!
That would've caved in anyone else's rib cage.
Are you still alive, Achilles?
Last I checked. How 'bout you, Teacher?
I am, yes, as you see. Though I am considerably worse for wear.
I'm afraid it was all my golems could do just to hold back one of the enemy Servants.
Are you okay, Mommy?
What about you, Jack? Are you hurt?
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Hmm. We think we're hurt a lot... Yeah, we're really hurt a lot...
But we're okay! We made fog and used it to get away!
I'm glad to see you're all alive.
We don't think we are all alive, Mr. Custodian.
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What do you mean...!?
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Yes, that's right. We need to hurry back to the fortress!
You see, we actually faced eight Servants.
And somehow those Servants included both Jack and Avicebron.
That was certainly a surprise.
It was odd, I must admit, to be fighting a stronger version of myself.
Curiously, Shakespeare was nowhere to be seen.
Oh no. You don't mean...
Then, the Caster of Red may have gone to fight Shakespeare...!?
I thought I was a goner!
You're still alive!?
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Hahaha, welcome back! I'm thrilled to see you're all safe! Though not as much as I am to BE safe!
I say, is something wrong?
You all seem quite disappointed. Don't tell me you were hoping I was dead!?
No, no, nothing like that.
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Hahaha, be at ease, Shakespeare. We are, of course, all relieved to see you are safe.
But, Mr. Chiron, didn't you say we would have to redo all the fortress's defenses if he died?
I also recall you saying you would need to keep Master safe, now that the enemy has taken us by surprise.
Hahahaha, only in the hypothetical sense, I assure you.
Well, if the truth must outand we all know it mustI was quite sure I had breathed my last when I came under attack!
Thank goodness I'm so weak!
How do we know you're the real Shakespeare?
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Oh dear, not this trope! You don't really think I've been switched out for my evil doppelgänger, do you!?
Hmm, then again, he was me in every sense, a perfect facsimile, so I may not be altogether credible here...
That is, aside from the fact that he never said a word, and was shrouded in a most ominous aura...
Still, were one to suggest I might become a more complete version of myself by defeating...myself, I could hardly gainsay them.
Uh-oh. I seem to have talked myself into a corner!
O world, thy slippery turns, indeed!
Dismember, dismember♪
(Gulp) The child fairly radiates excitement...
Well, even if that does turn out to be the case, I see no great cause for concern.
After all, if our assumptions are correct, the Servants we defeated last night should soon come to our side.
Yes, that's true. Very well then, Shakespeare, please remain close to me until the new Servants arrive.
One question, Professor: What fate might I meet should I decline to do so?
I hope it does not come to that.
Transient version of him though you may be, it would still pain me to fill the world's greatest writer with arrows...
Heavens, you're quite serious, aren't you? Understood!
All right, now we just have to wait for the resummoning.
Does this mean...things are going well?
I'm not so sure.
I have the sense that matters are progressing according to the enemy's plan.
What about you, Sir Sieg?
...Yes, I agree.
I feel like our enemy is going to come at us even harder, enough to negate our newfound advantage.
Not to mention that it seems all their Servants have gained Divinity somehow...
Those other versions of us were really tough. If they're even stronger next time...we might not be able to beat them.
Even so, our job hasn't changed.
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Sir Fujimaru is right.
No matter what they may come at us with, this is the only viable strategy we have.
We will just have to have faith that our opponent's strength is not without limit.
Very well then, Sir FujimaruNo, on second thought, perhaps I should address you as...
...our Master.
We will be counting on you once again in the next battle as well.
Rider, it was fine with me. Once I had fallen, I wouldn't have needed to spread my wings and fly any longer...
...Captured.
Hero of Greek mythology, provider of wind, retainer to Artemis, hero of the Argonauts, hunter of the Calydonian Boar, noble beast.
Atalante.
It'll take more than cutting off my legs to stop me.
...Captured.
Giant of a man who shattered the shackles of oppression, smiling rebel who lay waste to all around him, indomitable monster of the coliseum.
Spartacus.
Come...with...me.
...Captured.
Dr. Frankenstein's greatest legacy, girl revived with lightning, patchwork body, doll with a heart of fury.
Frankenstein.
Establishing all three Servants' Spirit Origins.
This is not the end. I won't let it end. I'll never let it end.
I brought you something to eat.
It seems like there's more food now than last time?
Oh, yes, I thought we might eat together. Assuming you don't mind, of course.
Is this for two people?
Yes, if it's not too much trouble...
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Good. ...I'm glad. All right, shall we?
I hope it tastes okay? I can't tell myself.
It's delicious.
I'm glad to hear that.
When the Greater Grail first came into my possession, I never thought I'd one day use my power as its Custodian for something as simple as cooking.
...I've never actually cooked before, you see.
Chiron looks like he knows his way around a kitchen, but he's got plenty of other things to worry about.
You mean you can't taste anything?
Not very well, no. Not unless it's really sweet...and even then, just barely.
So the only way I can cook is to use my power as the Greater Grail's Custodian to grant a wish.
...But I figured a little wish-granting would be okay, especially if it was done to help you.
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I see, I see.
Chaldea... The Incineration of Humanity... Seven Singularities... Rayshifting...
Shadow Border... A world of white nothingness, as far as the eye can see...
Chaldea... The Incineration of Humanity... Seven Singularities... Rayshifting...
Chaldea... The Incineration of Humanity... Seven Singularities... Rayshifting...
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...It sounds like you have more than your share of troubles in your world, too.
Don't worry, though. I promise you'll be fine.
Whatever happens here, I will use my power as the Greater Grail's Custodian to send you home. You have my word on that.
So please, just think of this as an unusually long dream.
If things take a turn for the worse, all you have to do is wake up.
Thank you.
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Don't thank me. I'm the one who dragged you into all this, after all.
But never mind that. I'd love to hear more about your world. I'm especially interested in what you were like before you became a Master.
You know, come to think of it...
You don't talk like you do when you're a dragon.
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Oh, that? Well...
Nobody in my world had ever summoned a Master before, so...
...I gave it some thought and figured I should try to act...appropriate for that form, I suppose?
In hindsight, I guess I might've sounded kind of silly, though...
I mean, all that faux Old English and such...what was I thinking? It's embarrassing!
Please...just do me a favor and forget all that?
Ah!
Somebody's attacking me in the courtyard!
Let's go!
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Ughhh... Ughhh!!!
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Uuugh!
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Looks like she's trying to tell you those are her flowers...
I think...she wants you to get off the flowers...?
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I, uh, I see. I'm impressed you understood her.
Nonetheless, that dragon is my real body, and I'm afraid I can't move it right now.
You can, um, just shove it into a corner if you want? I'm afraid that's the best I can offer. Sorry...
Ugh... Uhh...
Hmm. So that means... Yes, it would seem this dragon is an oppress
No! No oppressors here!
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Oppressor... Not an oppressor... Hmm, that's a difficult question.
After all, I came to this land to fight, to overthrow my enemies.
So would it not follow that the dragon IS a symbol of the oppressors here?
Uhh...
...He's not an oppressor? Very well, then I shall wait.
The oppressors are sure to come. When they do, that is when I shall act, and my songs of triumph ring forth.
In the meantime...I will wait here, in this flower garden.
Good night, sweet rebellion.
Ugh!?
There, there.
Easy now.
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Zzz...
Ugh... Uhh...
So they've both fallen asleep, huh... Oh well, they should wake up once night falls.
Anyway, if they've both been summoned, then she must have been as well...
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Achilles, was it? Do I have something on my face?
Are you the same Atalante my old man told me about?
...Ah, I see. So you're Peleus's son.
I remember beating him in a wrestling match once.
That was a good match.
Atalante, I'm sorry to impose, but would you help me build the trap for tonight?
Your skills as a huntress likely make you far better at placing a trap in a forest than I.
Very well.
...I must ask, though: Why was I resummoned?
Actually, was I even properly summoned to begin with?
If we are inside the Greater Grail now, then what am I supposed to do?
I believe we are meant to fight in order to keep the Greater Grail safe. Even if we were indeed enemies in the original war.
...Well, that is no matter. I have had plenty of other former enemies become allies before.
You and I were both Red, so I guess we were always allies.
So, the immortal Achilles is my ally now, huh? Usually I would find that encouraging...
...but if all our opponents have Divinity, that does not offer much of an advantage.
Perhaps, but even without his invincibility, he is far more powerful than any of them.
...Indeed, it is quite fortunate that Achilles is not on their side.
Especially since we are the only ones on our side with divine blood at the moment.
I must say, it is an odd feeling to know that a copy of myself fights for our enemy...
Achilles, be sure you do not drag my corpse around the fortress.
I'm not gonna do that!
If I was ever going to do something like that, it'd be as a Berserker!
Haha, I was just kidding.
...Since I am based on the data from before the Great Holy Grail War began, my Spirit Origin has no recollection of this...
...but I imagine we must have exchanged similar quips before, given that we were both part of the Red camp.
Yeah, we probably did.
You know, I was hoping I'd get to meet you someday. My old man used to talk about you all the time.
...Stop that. It is embarrassing.
Ah, youth is such a splendid thing...
I do not believe Servants are either truly old or young. ...Hmm.
Is something wrong?
No, there's just something nagging me about Shakespeare.
Did you find some evidence that he is an imposter?
No, nothing like that.
What troubles me is that the enemy version of him decided to come to the fortress.
If it had been any other Servant...
...we might have faced eradication.
All right. ...Let's go!
Good luck! May fortune smile on you all!
I doubt you'll need us on the front lines anymore, so I'll stay here and await your return.
Along with my golems, of course.
Okay Mommy, let's gooo!
Atalante.
We're counting on you!
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That must be Rider...Astolfo's Noble Phantasm.
His hippogriff can pass through any kind of attack.
In that case, we just continue to attack until it rematerializes. Come, Chiron!
Right there with you!
There you are, oppressors! So you've decided to take cover in the night and strike at us from the shadows, have you!?
That will not protect you from the destruction of my love!
Good mooorniiing, rebellion!
Well, you've certainly got greetings covered...
...All right, let's split 'em up like we alwaysHuh!?
...It seems Chiron was right about the enemy appearing within the fortress.
Assassin...I mean, Jack the Ripper.
Yes, yes! We're here, Mr. Custodian. What is it?
Can you tell me what the enemies you saw looked like?
Okay. Let's see...
There were two Sabers with heavy armor, and a Lancer who seemed kind of girly...
Hmm. Maybe he was actually a Rider?
If he was short, then he couldn't have been either of the two Lancers.
Then he must've been the Rider of Black.
...I see.
Oh, we also saw a few things that looked like Shadow Servants.
We were there too, so we think...they're probably leftovers from last time or something?
How strong were they?
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Not strong at all! They were easy!
We can dismember all of them for you in no time!
All right, then we take out any enemies that make their way here, and continue to protect the Casters.
Since we expected something like this might happen, we shouldn't have anything to worry about.
Fujimaru, go ahead and tell us what to do!
Ugggh!
We're counting on you, Mommy! Okay, time to go ripping!