Chapter 43

"No, that's where the Greater Grail is nurtured, so we can't mess around over there. Besides, Mount Ensō is guarded by the Tohma Family, and if Tohsaka Tokiomi finds out about this, it'll become troublesome." Fu Yuan said while shaking his head.

Tohsaka Tokiomi's Tohma Family was the clan that administered Fuyuki City.

This family held jurisdiction over all the land in Fuyuki City, and anyone wanting to develop the city had to purchase land from the Tohma Family and obtain their consent.

Fu Yuan didn't want to invite trouble, so the ley line where Great Source Mana converged could not be chosen at Mount Ensō.

"If we can't set it up at Mount Ensō, we'll have to search for another ley line instead. Searching for a ley line is quite exhausting, you know."

Fu Yuan glanced at Scáthach, who had spoken those words, and said earnestly, "I'll reward you."

"Really?" Scáthach revealed a breathtaking, beautiful smile, looking as though she had spotted a delectable prey that had voluntarily jumped into her arms.

"Really. After all, I'm the one asking for your favor, so offering a reward is a given. I just hope the reward you want won't put me in too difficult a position." Fu Yuan said.

If you want to obtain something from someone else, you have to pay a price; that was only natural.

Moreover, there was still a year and a few months until the start of the Holy Grail War, and Fu Yuan wanted to strengthen himself within this year, so he required a place blessed with a greater concentration of Great Source Mana.

Originally, Fu Yuan had wanted to go to Mount Ensō to cultivate, but because that place nurtured the Greater Grail, the Tohma Family had already laid down layers of magic barriers there. Since he didn't understand magic barriers and had no way of entering the convergence point of the ley line to cultivate,

"The reward I want is very simple; it won't put you in a difficult position." Scáthach's pretty face displayed an eager fighting spirit. "Have a match with me. As long as you satisfy me, I'll help you find another place below with a ley line."

"To satisfy you..."

Fu Yuan recalled Scáthach's seductive, "insatiably yearning" expression from earlier, and he hurriedly shook his head. "No way. Who knows what counts as satisfaction to you? If you're never satisfied, wouldn't I have to keep fighting you endlessly?"

Fu Yuan didn't know how to satisfy someone fierce and ravenous like Scáthach, and unless she was an enemy, he only wanted to spar with a light touch.

Besides, Fu Yuan also quite wanted to spar with this Queen of the Land of Shadows; Scáthach's spearmanship, capable of slaying gods, could definitely temper him thoroughly.

"What do you think of this, Scáthach? We'll spar for half an hour, stop after thirty minutes, and then you'll help me search for a ley line." Fu Yuan proposed.

"Only half an hour?" Scáthach furrowed her delicate brows in dissatisfaction. "We won't even finish our warm-up exercises in half an hour, will we?"

"Then one hour! One hour and not a minute more! Any longer and I'll be worn out." Fu Yuan said helplessly.

"Fine." Seeing Fu Yuan "showing weakness," Scáthach had no choice but to nod reluctantly and accept his proposal.

By now, Scáthach had made up her mind: during the one-hour battle, she would directly launch a fierce, aggressive offensive, forcing Fu Yuan to the point of counterattacking, and then accept his terrifying counterstrike while her blood boiled and her fingertips trembled.

Ah~ this is impossible, just thinking about the upcoming battle made Scáthach heat up uncontrollably.

"Let's start now." Scáthach slightly pulled at the bathrobe she was wearing, while Fu Yuan shook his head. "No, I'm going to take a bath."

"We'll fight after your bath?"

"No, after my bath I'm going to sleep. I'm not fighting you tonight; I'll fight you tomorrow morning." Fu Yuan hurriedly ditched the battle-obsessed Scáthach and began walking toward the bathroom.

You've got to be kidding me!

Fu Yuan certainly didn't want to fight Scáthach when his true qi was overly depleted!

Once this Queen became fanatical in battle, she wouldn't know when to stop, so Fu Yuan had no desire to fight her for a full hour in such a state.

Watching Fu Yuan's retreating figure, Scáthach wore a slight expression of "unfulfilled desire."

"Forget it, tomorrow morning it is. It's not like I'm short on just this little bit of time anyway, right?"

Originally, Scáthach thought time would fly by and the tomorrow she anticipated would arrive quickly, but enveloped in excitement and expectation, time always gave people a sense of dragging on very slowly...

Subsequently, the nighttime hours passed slowly amidst Scáthach's restless heart.

Finally, early morning arrived.

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Imperial Princess of the Root · Saotome Uta

The place where Fu Yuan and Scáthach sparred was still Mount Ensō.

Within that battlefield shrouded by a magic barrier, Fu Yuan and Scáthach had another spar, and this time, Fu Yuan utilized the power of Shadow Knight: Moon Halo.

As for the outcome of the spar...

Only Fu Yuan and Scáthach knew that.

However, Scáthach had a flushed face and an expression of extreme satisfaction; it seemed Fu Yuan had thoroughly satisfied her fanatical desire for battle during that hour.

After finishing the spar, Fu Yuan brought the languid and bewitching Scáthach along to begin searching for a ley line suitable for habitation.

Since Mount Ensō was the convergence point of all ley lines in Fuyuki City, as long as they followed the vines and dug up the melon here, they could find the ley lines extending outward.

Normally, such ley line detection work required carrying all sorts of magic crests, but Scáthach didn't need any; she was fully capable of finding the ley lines hidden beneath the earth on her own.

Fu Yuan and Scáthach continuously followed the extending ley line forward, and the two of them eventually stepped into Fuyuki City, where they found a mansion located atop the ley line's terrain.

That was a mansion combining modern and Japanese styles, featuring a Japanese-style courtyard and cooling platform alongside modern architecture.

The location of this mansion was on the corner of Fuyuki City's residential district. Although its location was somewhat secluded, that was also rather nice—it was sufficiently quiet.

The most important thing was that this mansion happened to be up for sale.

This was the residential district of Fuyuki City, which happened to be in the midst of development, so due to development and construction, there were countless buildings up for sale here.

Fu Yuan, who was not short on cash, directly purchased this mansion situated upon the ley line. He subsequently hired a construction crew to renovate the mansion and alter every aspect that displeased him.

After purchasing the new mansion, Fu Yuan took Scáthach and set off for Germany to complete the Main Quests assigned to him by the Honkai System.

When Fu Yuan and Scáthach left Fuyuki City to catch a plane, a young girl came all alone to Fuyuki City in the Far East.

Bathed in the morning sunlight, the girl's pale-yellow shoulder-length hair rippled with crystalline luster in the sun, and her delicate strands were so soft that even the sunlight could easily pass right through them, making her exceedingly beautiful.

The girl wore a noble emerald-green foreign-style dress, which perfectly accentuated her soft, slender body curves. Although she retained a hint of greenness, she fully displayed the tender youthfulness of a young maiden.

The girl had pale, nearly transparent, jade-green eyes. Because she had arrived at the place where her "lover" resided, her crystal-clear eyes swirled with the joyful hue of being in love.

Bathed in the sunshine, Sajyou Manaka was sparkling, resembling a charming flower blooming under the glory of the sun.