Type-Moon's Problem Child from Collapse

Just as he was about to snipe those bastards behind him from extreme range, he turned around and found they had already vanished.

That only made him angrier!

"Good thing I reacted fast!"

The white-haired man, who had nearly taken a trip to death's doorstep, clutched his chest in lingering fear.

Good thing his instincts hadn't dulled.

"So this is the Greater Grail?"

Fu Yuan stared at the Greater Grail, which had begun leaking Black Mud early due to the premature destruction of the Lesser Grail, as well as the completely submerged Ryudoji Temple.

"This... is The Evil of This World?"

Su Mei suddenly piped up, sounding distinctly surprised. This was it? This was all?

"..."

Fu Yuan felt like she was changing the subject, yet also like she was speaking in complete earnest. For a moment, he did not even know whether he should respond.

Su Mei took the opportunity to look through the new knowledge Fu Yuan had acquired earlier. How should she put it?

Just as expected—this was all?

"Ah! You're so annoying!"

That disgusting sensation of being watched surfaced again. Fu Yuan completely snapped and directly entered his Chaos form.

Then countless Spears of Constraint and Chains of Constraint shot toward the direction he sensed.

Then, under Fu Yuan's furious and helpless expression, they missed!

"..."

Su Mei was puzzled. If she could not see her Junior Disciple Brother's memories, she might have thought he was hinting at her.

But just how fast would someone have to react to dodge that?

As for whether they were simply too familiar with such attacks?

Impossible!

How could anyone become familiar enough with this kind of attack to dodge it and still not be dead?

Even a single inch-force strike from Fu Yuan was already incredibly powerful!

Although he had entered his Herrscher state ahead of time, it did not matter. Fu Yuan merely vented all his anger on the Greater Grail's system.

At the very least, he smashed the core system responsible for absorbing mana to pieces!

As for this Black Mud, it looked utterly pitiful beneath the Divine Grace Barrier.

And its counterattacks, honestly, were hardly worth mentioning!

It was simply too weak. Did this thing deserve to be called The Evil of This World?

If it had not even reached the level of a Beast, how could it be called "of this world"?

Its temptations of the mind had almost no effect on him.

The cruel multiple-choice question was smashed apart with a single punch.

Too weak!

Everything was about to end. Fu Yuan's body was also slowly fading, but until the Greater Grail was destroyed, the Holy Grail War would continue.

So long as the Greater Grail remained intact, the Holy Grail War would not end, and Fu Yuan would not disappear.

A rather interesting cycle.

The Fourth Holy Grail War Ends...

The Black Mud representing evil thoughts continuously transformed into Honkai energy that did not look like much either. Once its quality reached a certain level, it first replenished his own expenditure before activating Divine Grace.

After all, if the sixty years of accumulated mana were not handled properly, the problem might become even greater than in the Original Work.

Then the cycle repeated... It was a little boring.

In less than half an hour, more than half of the mana accumulated over sixty years had been consumed.

Even though the Greater Grail had already weakened, the Holy Grail War had not ended yet, so Fu Yuan was currently at full strength... It was a little boring.

In a while, he planned to use An-Utu and destroy this Spirit Core while he was at it. Just thinking about going to the Hall of Heroes made him feel miserable.

As for seizing the Third Magic and returning to Collapse...

He thought about it for a long time, but in the end, he still did not dare...

He was truly afraid that he would return to find nothing but ruins...

And their corpses...

"No!"

After sensing that extremely ominous emotion, Su Mei began to panic.

Fu Yuan: "?"

Fu Yuan thought that idea was pretty good. Otherwise, working for someone else would be far too tasteless!

"...You can use Divine Grace... and slowly wear it down."

Su Mei wracked her brains for reasons as she spoke whatever came to mind, trying to tide things over first.

"...!!! You're a devil, aren't you?!"

Fu Yuan had thought Senior Sister might come up with some brilliant argument or try to persuade him, but instead she was telling him to slowly die!

"This way... we... maybe, yes! This way, perhaps we can watch another sunrise!"

The excuse Su Mei came up with on the spot was clearly not very good, but at this point, Fu Yuan did not say anything more.

"...Fine."

He precisely controlled the accumulation of magical energy while maintaining the consumption of Divine Grace.

Even if there was the slightest error, the remaining magical energy would not be able to cause any harm.

As dawn approached, Fu Yuan clearly sensed something unusual.

Its rank was extremely high!

The moment that anomaly appeared, Fu Yuan distinctly felt rejection—a sense of estrangement from human civilization.

It was annoying! So annoying that Fu Yuan wanted to snatch the thing over and viciously get back at Alaya.

But he did not move, because dawn was near.

When both the Holy Grail and he had weakened to a certain extent, Su Mei appeared beside Fu Yuan. Then, ignoring Fu Yuan's clearly gentle gaze, she activated her Noble Phantasm.

Salvation:

Rank: EX

Type: Anti-Fu Yuan Noble Phantasm

Range: 0

Maximum Targets: 1 person

Effect: Sacrifice oneself to save another.

A Noble Phantasm sublimated from a legend. Requires "Fu Yuan" to be on the verge of death, after which the user sacrifices herself. Due to the nature of the Spirit Core, during activation, all abilities except skill-based ones may be used.

After the Noble Phantasm is used, "Su Mei" dies, and Fu Yuan enters a state of slumber...

Facing Fu Yuan's unmistakably pleading gaze, Su Mei chuckled softly twice, then kissed his forehead.

"No, no!"

The instant the Noble Phantasm activated, Fu Yuan understood everything, but there was nothing he could do.

Then, the phantoms of the two of them completely merged together. At least for now, Su Mei was the dominant one.

Feeling a state of power she had never attained even while alive, Su Mei was clearly quite satisfied.

A strange aura from behind rushed straight toward them the moment the change occurred, while Su Mei calmly assimilated the Holy Grail and the scattered magical energy in the air.

At the same time, she somewhat awkwardly controlled Chain to deal with the attacks from behind.

As for why she did not use a sword... not everyone had the talent to reach the Tai Xu Five Essences... She could not use the Void Sword God.

So she might as well directly use the power of a Herrscher.

Then she began to activate the Stigma on her body—not her own set, but the one Fu Yuan had been born with.

And this time, the target of the transformation was the Third Magic. Calling it a transformation was somewhat exaggerated, but under the effects of the Stigma, the Third Magic was not going anywhere anyway.

That sense of estrangement clearly grew stronger, but Su Mei only found it interesting.

"Heh! Helpless rage."

What were you going to do now, consciousness of humanity?

The sense of estrangement grew even stronger, while the several figures who had arrived were blocked outside by Chain, left raging helplessly.

Alaya was extremely annoyed! Extremely annoyed!

The Third Magic consumed very little of the planet, and its impact on humanity was merely so-so. But with that mysterious Honkai added in, its effect on the planet became even smaller, while its impact on human civilization became enormous!

Every one of its little puppets was useless, unable to solve even this kind of problem. It had wanted to borrow an employee from Gaia, but Gaia fucking refused!

Well, damn! Their friendship of so many years was gone!

Just because the Third Magic did not affect you much, you decided not to care!

What the hell were you even doing as a planet?!

At the moment dawn broke, Su Mei used Fu Yuan's CPU to completely understand the Third Magic. But just as she had expected, she still could not survive...

But it did not matter. Fu Yuan would no longer casually seek death.

The logic was simple: if Fu Yuan died now, then everything Su Mei had done would become a joke.

It would negate everything she had done.

Even for the sake of the Third Magic, Su Mei had willingly allowed The Evil of This World to run rampant.

And rather interestingly, when Su Mei used Fu Yuan's body to become a Magus, both the sense of alienation from human civilization and the useless pests that had been endlessly entangling themselves outside all vanished.

In the end, Su Mei calmly watched the rising sun and felt its rays... They were a little dazzling.

Yet she unexpectedly did not dislike them.

"Live on!"

Those were Su Mei's final words, and also her final wish.

Before losing consciousness, Fu Yuan heard only those words as well.

When the Third Magic appeared, the Holy Grail system seemed to sense something.

It autonomously stored the endlessly drifting magical energy. Laughably, the magical energy stored in just this short while was nearly equal to that accumulated over the previous sixty years.

Unfortunately, Fu Yuan had been carried away. Members of the rescue team began searching the ruins for survivors.

"Big Sister, there's someone over there."

The rescue team had just pulled Child from the last stretch of ruins and was preparing to wrap up.

Although Child himself was covered in injuries, he still pointed toward the distant temple.

The rescue worker fell silent. Ryudoji Temple had been the source of the explosion; even if anyone was there, they could not have survived.

But not wanting to crush the child's innocence, he still led several people over.

"Captain! There really are survivors here!"

"Rescue them, quickly!"