"The village was first built because a family related to King Arthur's sister, Morgan le Fay, wanted to bring King Arthur back to life, to be led by the King again. But as time went on, the descendants of the village passed down from generation to generation. People gradually found that bringing back The King had never succeeded, so they gradually stopped caring so much. The idea of bringing King Arthur back became an ideal for the villagers, until Gray was born."
"Gray seems to be a distant relative of King Arthur and was born with some special ability. Originally, she lived an ordinary and warm life with her parents. But one day in 1994... that is, when the Fourth War started on our side, Gray's muscles and bones suddenly changed. Not only her face, but even her body gradually became exactly like The King. From then on, Gray was worshiped, feared, and distanced by the villagers, including her parents, as a 'child of God.' This caused Gray herself to live in a kind of unspoken 'fear' from that time on."
"The reason why Gray changed is because The King was summoned in the Fourth War. The outbreak of the Holy Grail War far away in Fuyuki City caused a real distant relative of King Arthur in a rural village in Wales to truly begin to transform in the direction of King Arthur."
"In fact, Gray herself was intentionally raised as King Arthur's body. This ritual to bring King Arthur back to life needed to combine King Arthur's body, mind, and soul into one. So, this family created descendants based on King Arthur as a model, intending to make them a substitute for King Arthur's body. And Gray is this generation's body. At the same time, King Arthur's spirit was also created in that village and kept in a secret place."
"For that village, the body and spirit could be created artificially, but the soul was the only exception. To get a soul, they had to rely on the Third Magic, so the village had never succeeded in thousands of years."
"The King's soul... are they trying to have the King, who was summoned as a Servant by the Holy Grail, go to that rural village in Wales to possess an innocent girl's body? That's ridiculous!" Lancelot was furious when he heard this.
"Of course I know that The King would never do such a thing. Those crazy villagers were destined to fail. Even a reversed, blackened The King wouldn't have such an idea," Tia said. "What's more, something even more terrible happened in that village. The world might even be destroyed because of it."
"What? Is the King's revival related to the destruction of the world?"
"The village itself can't do something that serious, but someone can. One of the Atlas Institute's Seven Great Weapons of Destruction exists in that village, and that weapon is closely related to the village's ritual. Their long-held fantasy could never succeed anyway."
"The Atlas Institute's... Seven Great Weapons of Destruction?" Lancelot was a little confused at this point. "Are they more powerful than the King's Holy Lance?"
"This... I don't know."
Tia didn't know which was more important; they hadn't been compared.
"Then what exactly happened back then?" Lancelot was even more curious.
"Gray's mother sacrificed herself to save her daughter, which caused a major deviation in the ritual. One of the Seven Great Weapons of Destruction also malfunctioned. The bug almost destroyed the village itself. Although they managed to stop the weapon's bug in the end, if they hadn't, the world would have been destroyed once."
Lancelot fell silent again.
"If I have the chance, I must have the King go and see that village with her own eyes!" Lancelot suddenly said after a moment of silence.
Tia didn't respond to this, but Tia knew that the village shouldn't be in that kind of situation now. Judging from the situations in Fuyuki City and Kanbushi City, the village must have been greatly affected as well. The ritual or anything like that certainly wouldn't exist anymore. Maybe Gray was already living a peaceful and happy life again.
Speaking of which, the incident at the Twin Towers of Izelma wouldn't happen again either, would it? The head of the Izelma family must be a very caring father to his daughter.
Even the old bug [referring to Zouken Matou], if he were alive, would probably have his mind washed and return to his original self.
Tia was thinking, and suddenly fell into some strange thoughts.
If this Alternate World is restored to the original world, wouldn't that mean Gray would fall into that situation again, and the two girls in the Twin Towers would still be in the sad situation of being abandoned at any time...?
Even though this world is destined to be destroyed in the future, the beauty of the present made Tia, for just a moment, really just for a moment, not want the world to return to its original state.
Right, speaking of which, what was I originally going to Kanbushi City for? For my future, what is my identity, what are my parents' identities...? And by the way, ask if The King's wish can be fulfilled.
Tia thought, covering her forehead and shaking her head helplessly.
"The King's wish, huh?" Lancelot had been listening to Tia's random thoughts and couldn't help but fall into memories himself.
Mifune's Mother had said to Lancelot, "Actually, you should already know the answer to this question, but you just haven't noticed it," and Lancelot still hadn't figured out what she meant.
Right, reversed, blackened?
Lancelot suddenly remembered a word that Tia had said earlier, a reversed, blackened The King, and then Lancelot remembered that Tia had told Lancelot in the past that there were many different classes of the King in Chaldea, including the normal King of the Saber class and the blackened King, and the normal King and the blackened King also existed in the Lancer class.
The King of the Lancer class held not the Holy Sword, but the Holy Lance. At the same time, the body of the Lancer class did not remain in the form of a girl, but had really grown up, and the experiences of the King were also very different.
The King's wish, isn't this proof that the King's wish has been fulfilled? The Britannia that the King wanted to save had actually been achieved in other parallel worlds long ago.
Lancelot suddenly understood this and felt inexplicably happy, wanting to tell King Arthur the news very much.
Just then, the car had arrived at a place that Tia was very familiar with, following Tia's directions.
Tia's future home.
Just as the car stopped at the door, the door was opened.
King Arthur and Emiya Kiritsugu came out from inside.
(End of this chapter)
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