Chapter 691

However, there were also veterans who disagreed.

"Not necessarily; I actually think if you really let Gilgamesh play freely, he might not be much stronger than he is now; the Fifth War is an example, he earned the title of 'Broken-Elbow Gil'."

"Uh... that's actually possible; the quality of Servants in this Holy Grail War is too high, it's completely a God-tier cup, Gilgamesh flipping the boat is entirely possible."

"In many world lines of the Fifth War, Gilgamesh losing to Saber isn't just one or two instances, and little Lan's NTR hand is a natural counter; I don't know about the Emperor, but Brother Brush, as a Lancer, possesses the Protection Against Arrows, which naturally counters the Archer class. Plus Heroic Spirit Yukinoshita... hiss, too miserable, are you sure Gilgamesh isn't being targeted?"

"Saber: Bullshit, who can be more miserable than me?"

"At least you almost blew Abby to death."

"To be fair, that's not necessarily true; Abby's goal is to capture Saber, she wants her alive, so her strongest instant-death Noble Phantasm couldn't be used at all."

"Bullshit, then I can also say Saber didn't use Avalon; no matter how strong your Noble Phantasm is, can it be stronger than Ea? Avalon is just a fart."

"Stop talking, Yingdao Mai has already found the place."

………

【Yōkawa Ward.】

【The deserted street at night.】

【Several girls with different temperaments but nearly identical exquisite faces shrank their necks in the cold wind, looking at the street under the neon lights: "Miku should have disappeared around here, right?"】

【"Seriously, Ichika ran off without explaining clearly; what if she disappears too?"】

【"Don't make such assumptions, Nino."】

【The middle-aged man, who looked like a superior, frowned slightly and said helplessly: "She should have gone to find those people."】

【His daughter, Nakano Ichika, had clearly come into contact with those existences called mages during this time.】

【Suddenly.】

【"Dad, Itsuki..."】

【A surprised voice came from afar.】

【"Coming—!"】

【The middle-aged man looked back abruptly at the quiet and lonely street, but found no one.】

【The three sisters also looked around, but also found no one.】

【"Over here, why did you guys come too?"】

【Daughter Ichika's voice sounded again, but it was right in front of them; it was completely imaginable that she had approached at a speed beyond human imagination.】

【But there was no movement on either side of the street.】

【Wait.】

【A strong wind formed by an airflow struck from above, blowing the middle-aged man's meticulously groomed hair into a mess; he looked up in a daze.】

【Under the bright moonlight.】

【A sharp sword wreathed in storms and lightning tore through the night sky, like a pale blue meteor, crossing thousands of meters of sky in a few breaths, gradually decelerating from hundreds of meters high, and slowly descending.】

【A strange female voice sounded from within it.】

【"It should be here; even from far away, I can feel that disgusting magical aura."】

【In front of the four of them.】

【The brilliant meteor landed on the earth, invisible wind surged, and out stepped a beautiful girl holding a strange book, a pink-haired girl with an exaggerated figure, and...】

【"I... Ichika?"】

【The three girls froze in place, staring blankly at their familiar sister, their pupils trembling violently, as if declaring the shattering of their seventeen-year worldview.】

【Even though they had been prepared, this scene of arrival beyond common sense still gave them an indescribable shock.】

【Even if they didn't know much about modern weaponry, they knew how terrifying it would be if a creature of human size possessed such outrageous mobility.】

【And it was even a girl who looked about their age, possibly just a high schooler.】

【"Da... Dad, could it be that the people you contacted in the past were all like this?"】

【Watching the gale and pale blue lightning dissipate, clearing half the street, the usually proud Nino looked blankly at her father.】

【The middle-aged man, as the head of the conglomerate, said nothing.】

【Could he say his legs were shaking a bit?】

【God knows mages could be so intuitively powerful; he had originally thought they were just like the wizards who played with curses in medieval stories.】

【As a result...】

【He looked at the brand-new street and swallowed hard.】

【As a top student, he knew very well how exaggerated this was.】

【At this moment.】

【"Ohayou, Ichika-chan's sisters, I am Ichika's new friend Fujiwara Chika, hehe."】

【The pink-haired girl was clearly very socially awkward, giggling, hands behind her back as she circled the three sisters, eyes wide: "Eh, they really are exactly the same."】

【"Hello, I am Yingdao Mai."】

【The beautiful girl smiled helplessly at them, turned back to Ichika and said: "That's enough here; next, you sisters go back and wait for news first. If possible, I suggest leaving Fuyuki first."】

【What does that mean? Could it be that these terrifying events are just the beginning?】

【Nakano Maruo was a prefectural assemblyman after all, with a very keen sense of smell; at this moment, he couldn't care about fear, and quickly stepped forward, completely devoid of any pride as a conglomerate head, even with a hint of humility: "Hello, I am Ichika's father, Nakano Maruo. Thank you very much for coming late at night for my daughter's sake, so please, by all means, let me provide some help. It's shameful to say, but I am the current head of the Nakano conglomerate; I might be able to help you a little in other areas."】

【"A conglomerate?"】

【Yingdao Mai nodded thoughtfully, looking at the deep alley on one side of the street.】

【In her vision.】

【A faint magical aura like deep red light smoke wound all the way to the end of the alley.】

【So... is the Foreigner preparing something over there?】

【As a mage who had personally come into contact with Abigail, the envoy of the supreme evil god, she knew very well that such a crazy Servant would never know the meaning of giving up.】

【After more than a day without movement, it could only mean she was preparing a decisive trump card to capture Saber.】

【Following the traces of the magical aura, she stepped through the alley and arrived at the riverside; her gem-like magnificent eyes lit up with a purple magical array, as if observing something.】

【After a long time.】

【"Mr. Nakano, right?"】

【"Hai."】

【"Where is it about twenty-seven kilometers east of this river?"】

【"Twenty-seven kilometers? That would already be in the sea; this place is already very close to the coastline."】

【"Is that so?"】

【Yingdao Mai nodded: "Then do me a favor."】

【"Hai, Miss Yingdao, please command."】

【Nakano Maruo was completely like a subordinate, bowing his waist and head.】

【The Nakano sisters were all a bit stunned.】

【Although this conglomerate head was completely a kind old father in front of them, the image of the lowest status in the Nakano family.】

【But they had seen...】

【When facing outsiders, their father's aura was so strong, completely the face of a superior who held the power of life and death.】

【But now, almost the moment Miss Yingdao appeared, he immediately became a bowing and scraping lackey.】

【Sensing the strange gazes behind him, Nakano Maruo had tears in his eyes.】

【He seemed to hear the sound of his perfect father image shattering in his daughters' hearts.】

【But there was no help for it.】

【As the head of a force, when facing an existence that can decide one's life and death, one must have a clear self-positioning.】

【Yingdao Mai looked at the father and daughter strangely and continued: "Centered on that coastline, ten kilometers—no, fifteen kilometers—evacuate everyone as much as possible."】

【Ah?】

【Nakano Maruo, who had some confidence, shook his hand.】

【Although the edge of the city is still some distance from the coastline, the four wards included contain at least 1.7 million people.】

【"That time... what about the time?"】

【"Try to do it within forty minutes."】

【Forty minutes?】

【Nakano Maruo was about to cry.】

【This is truly impossible; it's completely a level that requires a miracle.】

【Yingdao Mai looked at him, sweating profusely, and sighed: "Chika! Did you bring the 'Bystander Dispersion' Mystic Code? Teach Mr. Nakano how to set up the forty-seven nodes according to the array; within fifteen minutes, set them up in the urban area near the coastline."】