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But relying solely on her intellect, Mikaela felt she wouldn't be easily tricked into revealing information by Holmes.

"Eh~ that's unexpected. I thought you chose not to Chaldea because of Roman." Holmes looked at the suddenly transformed Mikaela without much surprise, as people with transformation abilities are not uncommon.

He also possesses something that allows him to transform into other people.

"I don't belong to this world. Right now, I'm just helping the Counter Force work." Mikaela said calmly, biting her pipe. "Once the Grand Order Incineration is over, I will leave this world and return to my hometown."

"I'm also a detective who helps others. How about we work together for now?"

Holmes chuckled, his smile resembling that of a harmless owl.

Mikaela looked at the other person with disgust, a strange feeling rising in her heart—the feeling of being watched.

Clearly, this famous detective has set his sights on Mikaela for some other reason.

Chapter 333 Communication

Chapter 333

Mikaela and Holmes walked in the desert.

"Oh, I see. So the King of Magic is King Solomon?" Holmes smiled. Along the way, he had gathered a lot of information from Mikaela.

However, most of the information is already known, such as what the King of Magic's true form is.

A detective like him doesn't care what the other person's true identity is; instead, he's thinking about why the other person initiated the Grand Order Incineration Plan, and... why it was terminated in 2017 of all years.

In order to investigate this, Holmes traveled from London, the Fourth Singularity, to the Sixth Singularity.

"..." Mikaela, who had transformed into Victorious, looked at the detective speechlessly, perhaps because her brain had become smarter.

Mikaela could vaguely sense that Holmes seemed more interested in her than the so-called King of Magic, but as for why he was interested in her...

If we exclude the most basic physical attraction, then the only reason she could attract this great detective is because she is from another world.

Moreover, Holmes seemed to know Goetia quite well, and he felt that he should have died in that battle rather than been spared by Goetia.

Indeed, during the Fuyuki Singularity, Goetia and the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars fought with the resolve to kill themselves. This is evident from Goetia's willingness to personally intervene and annihilate Mikaela.

Why? Because Mikaela is a living person, not Heroic Spirit.

Living people have unlimited potential, and given that Mikaela had accumulated a very powerful force at the time, if Mikaela had been allowed to continue developing, perhaps she could have actually stopped Goetia in the final battle.

However, due to a small accident, Mikaela transformed into King Solomon, causing a misunderstanding between Goetia and the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars, which led Goetia to stop its attack.

Mikaela still has some doubts. It's understandable that the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars worship King Solomon, given the setting of the Nasuverse.

The Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars were created by King Solomon.

But what about Goetia? Could he also be a huge fan of King Solomon? That's obviously impossible.

In the final chapter, when King Solomon appears and declares his intention to stop Goetia's plot...

Goetia was shocked and angrily rebuked Reif for being blind. Then she told King Solomon, "Even if you are my father, I will still kill this guy today, even if it means betraying my own family!"

However, afterward, Mikaela thought about it and realized that things were not so simple; Goetia seemed to have imagined something strange.

He considered himself King Solomon, and his purpose was for the future Lostbelt events, so he said a few arrogant words and left with the seventy-one Demon God Pillar.

The great detective is lingering here, seemingly hoping to extract some information from me.

"Do you have that much free time?" Thinking this, Mikaela looked at Holmes calmly and said, "Aren't you supposed to be completing someone's investigation? What are you doing following me around?"

"It's okay, we're going the same way."

Holmes chuckled and said, "You're heading in the same direction as me. Besides, I'm planning to leave some surprises for the Chaldea here so they can better deal with this Singularity."

"... No need. I'll deal with this Singularity before they get here." Mikaela looked ahead. Still in her Victorious form, she casually picked up her pipe, put it in her mouth, took a small puff, and said calmly, "Besides, you know I'm not stupid. Just say what you have to say."

"This Singularity is no simple matter; the one in the Holy City is unimaginably powerful."

Holmes looked Mikaela up and down, and said with a rare seriousness, "She alone is enough to sweep through this Singularity, but for some special reasons, she did not take the initiative to attack."

"You know a lot." Mikaela glanced at Holmes a few times. Had the other man just arrived at this Singularity? Where did he get so much information?

"This is the basic deduction, my friend."

Holmes smiled and said, "I must have investigated everything before I dared to come here. Otherwise, a detective like me would easily die if I faced those powerful Heroic Spirit."

Although Holmes claimed to be nothing more than a weak detective, Mikaela inwardly scoffed.

A conman, a weak and helpless detective? Are you kidding me?

Where is your all-powerful Barton technique?

Although Mikaela wasn't a story-driven player, he did pay some attention to Holmes when he played the game.

The other party is different from Victorious.

Victorious is truly useless in every way except for her brain.

Holmes is capable of using his brain and engaging in high-intensity combat, but he is very low-key, and Chaldea also has quite a few Servant who are capable of fighting.

Therefore, in the eyes of Fujimaru Ritsuka Mash, and others, Holmes is probably just a brain-trained Heroic Spirit, the kind that is completely incapable of fighting.

"Alright." Seeing Mikaela's 'disdainful' expression as she smoked her pipe, Holmes sighed helplessly. In a way, he preferred intelligent people who were easy to communicate with.

Because this kind of communication is not tiring, but in a sense, it is useful if you want to get information from these smart people.

However, it was very difficult. He tried to get information from Mikaela using several different linguistic techniques, but she saw through all his actions and only gave him information that he already knew.

Holmes now understood that the reason the other person transformed into such a blonde, blue-eyed girl the moment they saw him was because they knew he wanted to get information out of her, so they had taken precautions to prevent it.

Faced with Mikaela in this state, Holmes felt a bit of a challenge, but he didn't give up. Instead, he continued to ask with a smile, "By the way, why did you help Chaldea?"

"...You ask too many questions." Mikaela sighed. To be honest, she didn't want to be associated with Holmes.

However, since the other party was stubbornly sticking to her side, she didn't have a better way to get rid of him for the time being.

"Nothing much, just a simple inquiry."

Holmes chuckled as he spoke, seemingly about to say something more, when suddenly his brow furrowed slightly, and without a word, he grabbed Mikaela and ran toward a nearby sand dune.

"Huh?" Mikaela let the other person pull her along, and looking into the distance, she asked in surprise, "Is this a battle between the two sides?"

Not far away, a group of well-dressed knights were fighting against the Sphinx.

"More than that, it's more like a probing attack. The one inside the Holy City isn't going to fight the Pharaoh King to the death yet," Holmes said calmly.

Chapter 334 Lancelot

There was only one sphinx, and he seemed extremely angry as he attacked the knights surrounding him.

Dressed impeccably, like knights with little life left, they blocked the sphinx in formation.

"Everyone, Lord Lancelot will be here soon. Please hold on a little longer."

One of the leading knights spoke very seriously, his voice hollow and not that of a living person; clearly, these knights were products of alchemy and Magecraft.

"Yes!"

The other knights showed no sign of confusion, as if their mission was simply to stop the Sphinx and allow Lancelot to come and destroy it.

The Sphinx roared and attacked the knights, but they stood like a wall, keeping him inside.

The two sides were deadlocked, and the small team of knights was too few in number to do anything to the sphinx.

The Sphinx was unable to break through the knight squad's defenses and could only let out a roar that had no meaning. However, judging from his behavior, even if he could escape from here, he would not leave but would fight to the death with the knight squad that had insulted him.

"We must leave quickly; this is a dangerous place." Holmes felt that the others needed to get away as soon as possible.

"Kindness."

Mikaela agreed with Holmes that if they stayed there, they would likely be in danger.

Although the Lion King and Ramesses II did not have their real final battle until later in the story.

However, both Holmes and Mikaela knew that while the Lion King and Ramesses II would not fight to the death at this stage, small-scale battles were inevitable.

Holmes didn't want to be observed by others; he was just a detective investigating the truth where the 'dark forces' couldn't see him.

Holmes's intuition told him that following Mikaela might bring unexpected benefits and gains.

As a famous detective, Holmes was very confident in his own abilities.

Just as Mikaela and Holmes were about to leave, a man with purple hair and wearing knight's armor appeared on the battlefield and killed the sphinx as soon as he appeared.

"Thank you all for your hard work." The man looked at the other knights and said a few words of thanks, but he knew that these knights would not have any extra feelings to respond to him.

"Yes."

The knights nodded slightly, and like robots, they skillfully put away their weapons and shields. They looked at Lancelot with meticulous attention and said, "The enemy, the Sphinx, has been annihilated. Please issue the next phase of orders."

"The next phase? Let's return to the Holy City for now. The Mountain People have started rioting again." The man said, but soon he seemed to notice something, his gaze sharpening as he looked at Mikaela and Holmes and shouted, "Who?!"

(...)

Holmes looked at Mikaela speechlessly. "Can't you even hide your aura properly?!"

"..." Mikaela gave Holmes a deep look, as if to say, I have just come out of seclusion, so my aura is definitely not easy to hide.

However, it was she who was exposed, not Holmes, so Mikaela walked out confidently at that moment.

"Child?"

The purple-haired man paused for a moment, staring at Mikaela, who was dressed in a Gothic Lolita dress and holding a pipe.

However, a look of confusion quickly flashed in his eyes. What was going on? Why did he see the shadow of his My King in this little girl?

Golden hair, emerald green eyes, and apart from being a bit short, he didn't have the iconic ahoge (cowlick) on his head that symbolizes 'king'.

They also share a similar temperament with Wang.

"What's wrong?" Looking at Lancelot, Mikaela calmly took out a card and said, "You called me out here and you just stared at me like that?"

"...Excuse me, beautiful lady." Lancelot sensed no hostility from Mikaela and sheathed his weapon.

"Beautiful lady?" Mikaela raised an eyebrow slightly, but looking down at herself, she remembered that she was indeed a 'lady' now. She calmly said, "Fine, I am indeed a woman now. Do you want to fight me?"

This wasn't the first time Mikaela had fought Lancelot, but the previous two times she had fought him in his Mad Enhancement state. This time, however, he was perfectly rational.

"Fight? Why do you say that?" Lancelot smiled gently and said with great elegance, "As for a beautiful lady like you, as long as you are not my enemy, I will never be your enemy."

Lancelot's implication was clear: he didn't want to fight Mikaela because she was beautiful and bore a resemblance to the king he served.

So if he could, he wouldn't want to fight Mikaela.

Lancelot had just summoned Mikaela because he sensed a faint Servant aura emanating from her.

Why is it described as "almost there"? It's because Mikaela has just absorbed the Medusa Spirit Origin, so she naturally has the aura of Servant on her body.

Essentially, Mikaela is now a living person, not Servant. Because she couldn't hide her presence, Lancelot discovered her.

"Oh." Knowing that Lancelot wouldn't fight her, Mikaela said calmly, "Then let's leave it at that. I don't want to fight you either. Let's pretend we didn't see each other."

If possible, Mikaela doesn't want to fight Lancelot because Lancelot is very strong, extremely strong.

As the Round Table's First Knight, Lancelot is extremely powerful. Currently, on the Lion King's side, only the Lion King can reliably defeat Lancelot.

With the sun's bonus Gawain and Lancelot will probably only be able to fight to a draw. As for how long it will take, it all depends on the situation.

"That won't do, miss. You're not a refugee, so as a knight, I would like to invite you to visit our Holy City." Lancelot looked into Mikaela's eyes and said sincerely, "Our My King would certainly welcome Servant like you."

Besides sweeping away Ramesses II's Sphinx forces, Lancelot also has the task of Servant have appeared in this land.

After all, the Lion King knew that although he was very strong, he was not invincible.

Therefore, she needs to win over the Servant have appeared in this land; it would be best if they agree to her plan.

But if they oppose the plan and help others to sabotage their own plans.

The Knights of the Round Table and the Lion King will absolutely not allow those Servant to leave.

"Oh."

Mikaela agreed, and said calmly, "I will visit your king in a while, but not now."

"Is that not possible?" Lancelot's gentle smile faded slightly, and he sighed, "Miss Beautiful, I think you should consider my opinion."

"There's another one around here, and she's not as easy to talk to as I am."

Chapter 335 Mordred