Chapter 867: Make Two Preparations

"Then, no time to lose, let's go now."

"Eh, right now?"

Artoria looked out the window; outside was still the city nightscape.

"It's night here in Fuyuki City, but in London it's only noon; if we go now, we can just make it to the Clock Tower to find someone and ask."

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"Alright, but I have to call Irisviel and let her know."

"Sure, I'll wait for you."

Artoria took out the pink phone Irisviel had bought for her and called the Emiya Old Residence..

"Little Liya said she's not coming home today; things must be going well between her and Broly. Looks like it won't be long before you get a younger sister, Illya."

After ending the call, Irisviel flashed a "V" sign with scissor fingers at her daughter and said.

"Little Liya? Younger sister? Mom, that's the King of Knights; by age she's over a thousand five hundred years older than us."

"So what? I'm talking about seniority; by seniority, you entered the family first, she entered after, so she's your younger sister~"

Faced with her mother standing with hands on hips, stating it as naturally as if it were only right, Illya didn't know what to say.

But anyway, as long as Mother doesn't get ideas about Broly and intend to personally put an eco-friendly green hat on her own father, the situation is acceptable.

"Let's go, I've already told Irisviel."

Artoria hung up the phone and said to Broly in front of her.

"Mm."

Broly answered, then walked over and scooped her up in a princess carry.

"What are you doing?"

Suddenly princess-carried, Artoria was a bit startled and not used to it.

"Taking you flying; otherwise, were you still planning to ride a slow iron bird over?"

"But before, didn't you wrap your tail around me and fly?"

"Before was before, now is now; before, I didn't know you might become my wife, but now I know, so my attitude naturally can't be spoken of in the same breath."

"You're a bit too pragmatic, aren't you?"

"Is being a little pragmatic bad?"

"Kiritsugu Emiya once said I'm an idealist, always dreaming impractical dreams."

"Then I'm a realist; rest assured, I'll help make your dreams come true."

"If that's the case, then everything is entrusted to you."

Princess-carried, Artoria's somewhat stiff body gradually relaxed.

She was gradually adapting to the feeling of not having to shoulder everything, of entrusting the heavy burden on her shoulders to others to handle.

And from Broly's perspective, this Miss King of Knights' Happiness Value was rising step by step.

Broly held Artoria and jumped out the window of the presidential suite to leave.

With just one acceleration, he left Fuyuki City's airspace and flew toward London.

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"Pfft, what did you say, you want to participate in the Holy Grail War? Cough cough————"

Five minutes later, Waver, sought out by Broly, directly sprayed the tea in his throat and coughed nonstop.

"Not me participating, but her participating; I'm just assisting her in seizing the Holy Grail."

Broly pointed at Artoria beside him and said.

"A Master with a resurrected Heroic Spirit, a helper who can easily thrash a Heroic Spirit on the level of the King of Heroes — the two of you going to participate in the Holy Grail, how is that any different from having the Holy Grail Ritual organizers just designate the Holy Grail for you?"

Waver wiped the tea off the table with tissues while he couldn't help but complain.

"Can the Holy Grail be designated in advance?"

Hearing his words, Broly's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but ask.

"Of course; the Holy Grail organizers aren't philanthropists, naturally they want to keep the final fruit of victory — the Holy Grail — for their own side.

True and false Holy Grail Rituals have been held until now; basically every single one has shady dealings, it's just that who can say for sure about designating the final winner.

Any Magecraft user who dares actively participate in a Holy Grail Ritual has confidence in their own strength; there's always a dark horse that bursts out and shatters the shady dealings."

"You don't need to worry about our side, because we aren't afraid of dark horses."

"Is there a possibility that the two of you, wanting to participate in someone else's Holy Grail, are the dark horses in everyone else's eyes?"

Waver looked at the confident Saiyan youth and couldn't help but correct his self-positioning.

"A Holy Grail Ritual requires seven Magecraft users to participate to complete; generally organizers invite Magecraft users of decent strength to participate, however, among the invited Magecraft users, there absolutely won't be those super-standard guys, because no force holding a Holy Grail Ritual is willing to see the final fruit borne from the ritual they painstakingly organized get plucked by someone else."

"In other words, we're too strong, so even if we want to participate in a Holy Grail Ritual, others will refuse to let us participate because we're overly powerful?"

"That's the logic."

Throwing the wet wipes into the trash bin, Waver nodded confirming this statement.

"Then what if we insist on participating?"

Broly asked.

"With your strength, probably no one can stop you, but the organizing side would likely choose to give up on the construction work for the Holy Grail Ritual because they see no hope of winning the Holy Grail War; after all, no one wants to make wedding clothes for others, and do it for free at that."

"Then what if we choose to build the stage for holding the Holy Grail Ritual ourselves?"

"That is possible, but building a stage to hold a Holy Grail Ritual is not an easy matter; manpower, material resources, and financial power are all indispensable."

"That I probably don't lack; if I partner with the Clock Tower, how long do you estimate until a Holy Grail Ritual can be held?"

"That depends on whether you can find a place suitable for setting up the Holy Grail Ritual."

"What are the requirements for setting up the Holy Grail Ritual?"

"First, a place that possesses a Great Spirit Vein."

"For example?"

"A place like Fuyuki City."

"Then can it be set up over there in Fuyuki City?"

"It can."

"How long would it take to finish setting it up?"

"Roughly,."

"How much?"

"No way. The power of the earth's Spirit Vein needs to accumulate. Fuyuki City already successfully conducted a Holy Grail Ritual last year, and at that time it consumed the Spirit Vein power that land had accumulated. To accumulate it again to the degree capable of holding a Holy Grail Ritual requires a not-short period of time."

"Can't it be accelerated?

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"It can, but the acceleration is limited. At most it would change from sixty or seventy years to forty or fifty years, and during that period a massive amount of manpower and resources would still need to be invested to interfere."

"A Spirit Vein is just energy. Can't I substitute it with other energy?"

"If that were possible, the true and false Holy Grail Rituals combined wouldn't number only that few."

Waver shrugged his shoulders.

"Then what if we switch to a place with a more abundant Spirit Vein?"

"If there's a place and manpower, five or six years should be enough."

"What, still five or six years?"

"The Holy Grail Ritual on the United States side was jointly planned and implemented by the United States Magecraft organization and the United States Government.

Those people spent over ten years, invested massive amounts of manpower, resources, and financial power, and currently have only erected the general framework of the Holy Grail Ritual. Until the time the Holy Grail Ritual truly begins, another two or three years are still needed.

You want to build a Holy Grail Ritual from nothing in another place right now. I say five or six years, and that's still considering you can find a place with sufficient Spirit Vein power, and cooperate intimately with the Clock Tower, and have sufficient manpower and enough Magecraft theoretical knowledge to support the Holy Grail Ritual's construction."

"Five or six years, huh. I can wait that long."

Artoria spoke up.

As long as she could save the country, never mind five or six years, even fifty or sixty years, she could wait.

"Don't rush, I'm not done. Besides the venue, the Holy Grail Ritual also needs seven Magecraft users to participate as Masters. If only the ritual venue is built but no one participates, that's equally impossible. The ritual cannot proceed smoothly."

"Gathering seven Magecraft users as Masters doesn't seem hard, right?"

"It's not hard. The hard part is, the Holy Grail selects Masters on its own. Although the organizers can obtain some participation slots, they cannot monopolize all slots————"

Waver followed up with a few more issues, making Broly listen with a deeply furrowed brow.

"A lousy ritual, and there's actually this much to worry about. Then how did your world manage to have Holy Grail Rituals blooming everywhere a few years ago?"

"The Root is tempting. Seeing the chance to Reach the Root, naturally a group of Magecraft users took their accumulations of many years and went to do this.

The result? The Magic Users who Reached the Root in this world are still that few. Some long-inheritance Magecraft famous families have fallen quite a bit, and there are even families that have vanished without a trace.

As far as I know, the only ones still doing Holy Grail Rituals now are the United States side."

Waver put some tobacco in his pipe, lit it, took a puff, and his face also showed a somewhat moved expression. The false Holy Grail Rituals bloomed splendidly for a while a few years ago, but once the flowering period passed, people Realized that small-scale Holy Grail Rituals fundamentally couldn't touch the Root, leaving only a ground full of withered branches and fallen leaves, and underneath buried a pile of Magecraft user bones who died chasing the Root.

The Holy Grail Ritual: either build it yourself, or go participate in someone else's pre-built one. Both have problems. The former requires worrying about all sorts of things and spending a not-short time. The latter is not welcomed by the organizers. Using force might lead to a 'one slap, two scatter' situation. Even if you truly join, forcing others to continue building the Holy Grail Ritual also feels a bit like a robber's act."

Broly pondered for a while, thought of something, and asked: "The people participating in the Holy Grail, are their wishes only to Reach the Root?"

"Uh, that's not necessarily so. I participated back then to Prove myself."

Waver denied this statement. Although most Magecraft users participate for the Root, there are also those not for the Root 0

"Kiritsugu Emiya was for world peace."

Artoria also chimed in with a sentence.

"In short, everyone has their own wish, and the majority of wishes are still things difficult for human power to achieve, so they pursue the Holy Grail to achieve them."

Waver said.

"Then, I'm saying if. If I can find a Master whose wish I can help achieve with my personal ability, and who will participate in the Snowfield City Holy Grail Ritual in the United States.

Then, cooperate with them. I help them achieve their wish as the price, let them help seize the Holy Grail, and use the obtained Holy Grail to help Artoria achieve her wish. How about that?"

Broly proposed his idea.

"Uh————"

Waver pondered for a moment, feeling Broly's idea of swapping wish fulfillment was a bit crafty.

However, considering that participating in the Holy Grail is to achieve a wish, but participants don't necessarily get the Holy Grail.

Estimated there should be quite a few willing to cooperate, unless the other party's wish is something Broly cannot help achieve and can only rely on the Holy Grail to achieve.

"It's feasible, but the Holy Grail Ritual there hasn't even started yet. Who the specific Masters are is unknown. How do you find a Master willing to cooperate with you?"

"Hmm, then I'll make two-handed preparations on my end. One side preparing the Holy Grail Ritual myself, the other side waiting for the Snowfield City Holy Grail Ritual to start, then going to find those participating Masters to seek cooperation."

Broly chatted in Waver's room for a period of time, then went to the Clock Tower Principal's office and chatted with the current Principal for a period of time.

After finalizing the cooperation matters regarding self-hosting the Holy Grail Ritual, he took out a pile of general resources from inside the Crystal Palace Space.

Gold and jewelry need no mention; Broly took it all out, and also included some Reverse World Magic Stones. And these Magic Stone supplies seemed even more welcome than gold and jewelry.

Of course, besides that, Broly also flew back to the Tohsaka Family, and invited out Tohsaka Tokiomi, this black-pot father-in-law he had once beaten severely.

After all, the only remaining branch of the Type-Moon World's Three Great Families has experience building the Holy Grail Ritual.

And Tohsaka Tokiomi, upon hearing Broly was building the Holy Grail Ritual to Capture Artoria, had a conflicted expression.

Feelings were good. In the past, he and the other three families and other Magecraft users fought to the death over the Holy Grail, but in the other party's eyes it was merely a Tool for Capturing a woman.

"No problem. The matter of building the Holy Grail Ritual is left to me. Right, Broly, when are you having kids with Rin and Sakura and them? My wife and I are both looking forward to holding a grandson!"

Of course, Tohsaka Tokiomi agreed without changing expression, merely mentioning the matter of having children — the Tohsaka Family's household still needs someone to inherit it, and the child between the other party and Rin is the most suitable heir.

"We've been doing the baby-making thing all along; as for when we'll actually have a child, that I don't know."

Broly remained stranded in the Type-Moon World capturing Gray; during this period he never stopped cultivating his other wives, but he couldn't guarantee the matter of having children either.

He contacted those who needed contacting, achieved the cooperations that needed achieving, and Broly's days returned to daily life.

The only difference was that by his side there was now Artoria, a capturable target, and moreover, after being slated to join the Crystal Palace and become his wife in the future, Artoria's Happiness Value was unexpectedly easy to raise.

As long as he brought her along when going out to play with Gray, her Happiness Value would rise steadily; if they went to eat something, the Happiness Value would rise even faster — a genuine glutton through and through.

"Pfft~"

Inside the cake shop, a laugh from Gray drew the attention of the two people.

"Gray, what are you laughing at?"

Broly asked the Gravekeeper girl.

"Nothing, just felt you two are somewhat alike."

"Alike in what way?"

Broly looked at her in puzzlement — a guy who resembles Artoria eight or nine parts out of ten, yet says he and Artoria are alike.

"The way you eat is alike; you're both the type who eat quite seriously, and moreover, the two of you give me a certain feeling."

"What feeling?"

Artoria, with cake cream on the corner of her mouth, was also a bit curious.

"It's that feeling that as long as you give you two some tasty food, you're very easy to handle."

Gray said with a laugh.

At first, getting along with Artoria, she thought it would be very difficult.

As a result she discovered that this King of Knights young lady and Broly are the same type of person — both are gluttons.

Now the three people getting along together appears quite harmonious and joyful.