Chapter 137: Watching Fate/Zero Is Just Too Awesome
[It's here, it's here! Finally, the wait is over!!!]
[Hahahaha, this is exactly what FZ is about!]
[Host, don't you dare go offline, I'm counting on this livestream room to eat dinner tonight!]
[This time it's Waver getting tortured, gotta rewatch his shameful past right in front of the little devil!]
[Can't wait to see Mordred's expression when she sees her dad getting tormented.]
[And Jeanne Alter too, get ready to see the Marshal go love-crazy.]
[I can't be the only one dying of laughter, I have to message everyone!]
[I sent it ages ago! Snacks are all ready too, ah, it's starting!]
On the black screen, the expressionless face of Emiya Kiritsugu slowly appeared.
"Senpai, is this... that Assassin Emiya-san?"
Mash sat next to Ethan, whispering her question with a puzzled expression.
"Almost the same person. But I doubt he's here."
Ethan glanced around, but the room was too dark to see clearly.
"When I arrived, I happened to run into Emiya-san. He said the doctor suddenly needed him for something."
Mash suddenly realized something.
"Ah... could it be because of you, Senpai…"
"Either way, for him, this isn't something pleasant."
That's how it was for Emiya Kiritsugu — and for a few others as well.
At that moment, the screen showed Irisviel holding the newborn Illya in her arms, a radiant smile of happiness on her face.
"Ah, that's Saber's Master!!!"
Waver jumped to his feet in shock.
"Oh? Looking closely, that's really she."
Iskandar stroked his chin as he studied the image.
"Looks like the lady from the Einzbern family. Come to think of it, didn't the Einzberns end up taking the Holy Grail in the end? Not that Golden Bastard."
"Actually, according to later records, we were all deceived."
Waver's brows furrowed again, eyes fixed on Emiya Kiritsugu, who had appeared on screen.
"The Master of the Einzbern family... must be this Emiya Kiritsugu."
"Oh? Even I got tricked?"
"Because that Emiya is an outlier among the Magus, we didn't pay him any attention."
Waver frowned deeply, seemingly a bit unwilling to accept it.
"But boy, if that's the case..."
Iskandar was the first to react.
"If the Master of the Einzbern family has shown up, then that means this Holy Grail War... is our Holy Grail War."
"The Fuyuki Holy Grail War!!!"
Waver immediately responded.
No way, this damned thing has to end right now.
"Whoosh————————!!!"
Suddenly, Waver's whole body was bound by something.
At some point, Trimmau had returned to her original mercury form, restraining Waver tightly in his seat, rendering him immobile.
"Let me go, Reines!!!"
"Onii-sama, where are you trying to go? I don't know how Master managed to find a record of the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki that even the Clock Tower didn't have, but since it's been found, we can't waste Master's kindness."
Reines smiled as she looked at Waver, giving Trimmau the order to squeeze tighter.
"Stop! I don't want to see what I was like back then!!!"
"But those are such precious memories. Come on, I'll watch them properly with onii-sama. Ah, I really want to see what onii-sama looked like when he was a little shrimp."
Reines couldn't hold herself back anymore, leaning close to Waver, both of them staring at the screen — a heartwarming scene full of sibling affection.
"Rider! You don't want to see yourself get defeated either!!!"
Seeing that Reines wasn't going to let him go, Waver turned to Iskandar for help.
"No, the battle with that Golden Bastard, I gave it my all. Though losing was a huge regret, it was a battle that left me very satisfied! Besides, I want to see how that Golden Bastard lost to Saber after I exited the stage."
Iskandar showed a look of anticipation.
On the screen, the loud schemes of Tokiomi and the Church appeared, followed by the Einzbern family's plans, the Matou family's secrets, and finally, a classroom scene at the Clock Tower.
In the frame, Lord Kayneth was holding a thesis, openly humiliating Waver in front of the class.
"Boy, look, isn't that Lancer's Master!!!"
Iskandar quickly recognized Kayneth.
"Oh? So back then at the Clock Tower, my uncle said such things about onii-sama. But what the hell was your paper even about, 'An Inquiry of Magecraft's Path In the New Century'? Ahahahaha, are you trying to kill me with laughter, onii-sama? Hahahaha!!!"
Waver struggled desperately, but with his whole body tightly bound, he was powerless to do anything but listen to Reines laughing loudly.
"Even Zhuge Liang isn't helping me anymore. What was that crap about 'You have to watch your own past no matter how painful it is, even if it makes you cry'?!!!"
"But I didn't expect onii-sama to be so tiny and cute back then. What a rare experience."
Reines looked at the projection of Waver with great interest, his face flushed red from arguing with Kayneth.
"So that's why you ended up stealing my uncles's Holy Relic and summoning the King of Conquerors, Iskandar, right?"
"Oh, boy, so that's how it was!"
Iskandar looked at the fragment of his cloak shown on the screen and spoke.
"Ahhh, I've had enough, let me out already!!!"
Waver's desperate shouts echoed nonstop through the livestream room.
The expressions of the three people on screen caused the chatbox to flood with bursts of "Ahahahaha" comments.
[Waver probably never imagined this day would come. Ahahahahahhahaha!]
[Last time it was digging up Mordred's dark past, this time it's uncle Waver's turn. I'm laughing so hard my toes are curling. Ahahahahahaha!]
[The worst part is being tied down by your little sister and forced to watch it with her. She might even ask for your feelings about that time later. I'm gonna laugh myself to death~~~]
[Waver: I should've just let that Beast VI kill me back then, none of this would've happened.]
[Now even the Iskandar knows how Waver was snatched away him from Kayneth. If Kayneth had actually summoned him back then, he might've had great stats, but the compatibility would've been utter trash.]
[Light Novel Title: After Dying From Overwork and Becoming a Heroic Spirit, I Still Can't Escape My Dark History Under My Adopted Sister's Control!]
Unlike the warm, chaotic laughter on this side, over in another corner, Mordred, who had been excited, now looked extremely displeased.
"Why hasn't Father shown up yet?! Where's Father?! Hey, Master, where's my Father!!"
"I didn't come here to watch some loud church guys scheme stuff! Didn't you say someone I knew would show up? Where are they!!!"
Jeanne Alter also yelled in frustration.
"Ah ah ah, Mordred-san, Jeanne Alter-san, please don't shout so loudly, please calm down a bit..."
Poor Mash hurriedly rushed over to maintain order.
"Uh… ladies, please quiet down a bit."
Even Arthur, standing nearby, began trying to ease their emotions.
[This side is a mess, but it's almost time—Mo-chan will soon get to see her beloved Father and her old comrades again.]
[Hard to say though… what if she sees her Father getting bullied and flies into a rage...]
[Yeah, in the Fourth War, King Arthur really was treated like crap. Kiritsugu barely even spoke to her.]
[I wonder if Proto-Saber would feel sympathy seeing Arthur suffering through the Holy Grail War in this world.]
[Probably would—especially when it comes to anything involving Merlin… those two poor kids, tormented by an Incubus and a Succubus...]
While the two of them were still bickering loudly, the first episode had already passed its halfway point, and the famous summoning scene was approaching.
"Can't believe they really found the sheath of the legendary Holy Sword…"
On the screen, Kiritsugu and Irisviel were staring at the box containing the sword sheath—used as the relic for summoning.
"——————?!"
Mordred, who had just drawn Clarent, instantly fell silent.
"Oh! Isn't that the sheath from Father's sword?! So they used that to summon Father?"
Mordred exclaimed in astonishment and delight.
Then she turned to Ethan and shouted.
"Master, what relic did you use to summon me back then?!"
"…Uh… I think… there wasn't any?"
Ethan pondered for a moment.
Back then, it seemed like Mordred had sensed Artoria's presence and manifested on her own.
"Heavens, the least you could do was find a proper relic to summon me with."
Mordred spoke, clearly disgruntled.
"How about I return to the Throne of Heroes, leave Clarent with you, and then you summon me again properly!"
Ethan looked at her helplessly.
Didn't her Noble Phantasm vanish with her?
And why did the topic of summoning relics turn into a competition too…
"Oh, so this is the sheath of Excalibur from this world?"
Arthur silently stared at the sheath of Excalibur.
"Maybe Merlin would know something about this Excalibur."
He then looked up—only to realize that the Merlin who'd been sitting in front of him was suddenly gone?!
"Hmph, running away from me again, Merlin…"
Arthur let out a long sigh.
"Guess I'll just have to find another chance to talk to her alone later."
On screen, the infamous "Gacha Servant" summoning scene finally arrived.
Beneath the moonlight, the tall King of Conquerors in a crimson cloak was the first to appear.
"Eh?! Isn't that the same Iskandar-dono? So you actually took part in that Holy Grail War too?"
Mash looked on in disbelief toward Iskandar.
"Yahaha! That's me!!! It might sound a little strange, but I really enjoyed participating in that Holy Grail War. Got to meet a lot of powerful warriors after all."
"Speaking of powerful warriors—of course that means my Father!!!"
Mordred stared at the screen with glowing excitement.
"Saber, huh. She destroyed my Noble Phantasm, so I guess I did take a bit of a hit. Especially near the end, when she came back and made this brat sulk for quite a while. Still remember that, boy?"
Iskandar gave Waver a few hearty pats on the back.
"Who told you to be dumb enough to pit your Gordius Wheel against Saber's Noble Phantasm! Wasn't the outcome obvious from the start?!"
"Ahahaha, it was just a spur-of-the-moment thing. But yeah, Saber's Noble Phantasm really is powerful—it even cut my Gordius Wheel clean in half. Still…"
Iskandar looked like he remembered something, but then chose not to continue.
"Well, I'll let you all see the rest for yourselves."
Next on screen appeared a knight clad entirely in pitch-black armor.
"Lancelot? He took part in that Holy Grail War too?!"
Having once fought against the Berserker version of Lancelot in France, Mordred immediately recognized him.
"I get it! He must've responded to Father's summoning and came because of that!"
Mordred said confidently, full of certainty.
"Ya… how should I put this…"
Waver and Iskandar exchanged glances, then both decided to say nothing more.
"Mordred, in a way, you and that old comrade of yours are a lot alike…"
"That's why people say King Arthur didn't understand the hearts of others."
"Her simps are truly terrifying…"
Next, a figure fully clad in golden armor appeared in the summoning magic circle.
"We've won, Kirei, this battle is ours!!!"
The comments on the screen became lively again.
[It's Mongrel-King!!!]
[Streetlight King! Host, when are you going to bring Streetlight King on air!]
[Congrats to Tohsaka for summoning a father to serve... ]
At the end of the first episode, finally, a blonde girl in blue armor appeared on the screen.
"Father! Father has appeared!!!"
Mordred immediately shouted loudly, her face full of excitement, then tightly gripped Clarent in her hand.
"Seeing Father like this, I really want to challenge him to a fight right now!!!"
"Mordred-san! No Noble Phantasm inside the house! Also, no swords!"
Mash immediately stopped Mordred.
"So, this is King Arthur from this world..."
Arthur stared intently at the girl on the screen.
"If possible, I really want to know more about the Excalibur she holds."
If he could talk to someone who also possesses Excalibur, perhaps he could discover something more.
At this moment, Ethan quietly slipped out.
After all, he couldn't bear to watch Reines torture Waver with the "dark history" being shown, especially since Waver had once helped him.
"Oh? Master-kun, why are you here?"
Suddenly, a white-haired girl appeared in front of Ethan.
"Merlin?!"
"It's Lady Avalon!!!"
She corrected Ethan's way of addressing her with displeasure.
"But you've already been recognized by Arthur, right?"
"Transformation is my hobby. That's not important."
Merlin smiled as she said this.
"Are you hiding from Arthur?"
"You guessed it? If he catches up with me, it might be even scarier than when the Human Order collapses."
Merlin seriously said these words.
"..."
Ethan could completely imagine that.
But after all, this was the result of Merlin's own actions.
"Yo, seems like your conversation is going pretty well."
Suddenly, on the screen that was broadcasting in front of Ethan, the image of the Beast of Sodom abruptly appeared.
It seemed like she was watching the conversation between Ethan and Merlin through the screen.
"Beast of Sodom… Looks like Chaldea can't trap you anymore."
Merlin immediately spoke to the screen.
"Isn't that obvious? We're both Beasts, yet the treatment you receive is completely different from mine."
The Beast of Sodom looked at Merlin and then laughed.
"Beast of the Stars, your relationship with humanity has become pretty good, huh."