Wish

"Ah! No! Nooo!"

The petite, adorable Miyu looked utterly helpless at that moment. Faced with Mo Shuying's outstretched hand, she deeply felt her own powerlessness. That feeling of being at someone else's mercy reminded her of the past, and tears could not help welling up in her eyes.

However.

"Little girls shouldn't carry things like this around. They're dangerous."

Mo Shuying's voice reached her. Miyu froze, then cautiously opened a sliver of one eye to look at him.

Mo Shuying held two cards between his fingers: the Rider and Lancer Class Cards Miyu possessed.

"My cards! Give them back!"

Miyu reached out to grab them, but held up by Mo Shuying, she could not reach any other part of him.

Even Mo Shuying felt that he was being a bit of a bully, and to an elementary schooler at that. But this feeling...

He found that it actually felt rather good!

After putting away the two cards, Mo Shuying took the Archer and Caster Cards beside Illya as well. He casually set Miyu down, then moved his feet, his body already speeding away. Before long, he recovered the stray Saber Card.

At that moment, Mo Shuying held five Class Cards in his hand. Including the one within his own body, he now possessed six of the seven cards.

"Illya! Wake up, Illya!"

Freed from Mo Shuying's restraint, Miyu ran to Illya's side and called out to her.

This space was already collapsing. Having lost its guardians, the space itself would soon cease to exist.

Mo Shuying glanced at the girls and was just about to go over and say something when suddenly—

"Bang!"

The ground beside Miyu shattered, and Blue Sapphire flew out from underground, asking anxiously.

"Lady Miyu, are you all right?"

"I'm fine, Blue Sapphire. Where are Luvia and the others?!"

"Luckily, they hid underground at the last possible moment and narrowly escaped disaster. Lady Miyu, what is going on with that person?!"

Blue Sapphire noticed Mo Shuying, her tone wary.

"I don't know! He seems to be a Heroic Spirit too! He took all our Class Cards!"

"What?!"

Blue Sapphire cried out in shock. Had they stumbled into a nest of Heroic Spirits today?

Seeing Blue Sapphire appear, Mo Shuying understood that he no longer needed to worry about the girls' safety. He gave a slight smile and said,

"Little girls should stay away from dangerous activities like this in the future. You could get hurt. I won't deal with you today, but if you get any ideas about me or my spoils, you'd better be prepared for the worst consequences. Goodbye."

As he spoke, Mo Shuying's figure began to fade. Before his words had even finished, he had completely vanished.

Out of their sight, Mo Shuying returned barefoot to his own separate space, leaving behind several injured girls and a separate space on the verge of collapse.

Once the separate space on the other side collapsed, the damage to his own side would be repaired as well.

"Lady Miyu! This place will not hold for much longer. We need to evacuate quickly."

Blue Sapphire reminded Miyu. Miyu nodded, grabbed Blue Sapphire, and transformed in an instant. After digging out the unconscious Tohsaka Rin and Luvia, Miyu opened a passage and returned to the real world with the three of them. Soon afterward, that separate space collapsed as well.

The moment Mo Shuying returned to his own space, the Voice of the World rang repeatedly in his ears.

The first two announcements concerned the deaths of the two guardians. The monster attacks that followed would become stronger and more numerous, but it was the final Voice of the World that made Mo Shuying raise an eyebrow.

"Guardian Assassin has obtained more than one Class Card. Notice: if a guardian can gather all seven cards, one wish may be granted upon completion of the Holy Relic."

"A wish? So it really is Dragon Ball. Gather seven Dragon Balls and you get one wish. Damn, this is the bargain-bin version."

Mo Shuying took out the five cards he had just acquired again, his eyes burning. He did have one wish. Though he had once merely been an otaku, his family had been harmonious and happy. He had never wanted to transmigrate. If possible, he wanted to go back.

"Looks like I'll have to give it my all. Right, which Heroic Spirit is left? Oh! There's still a Berserker! Berserker! Hah, who knows whether it's still that big black guy."

The big black guy Mo Shuying spoke of was someone whose mere thought gave him a headache. With a demigod's body, he possessed peerless strength. He had once braved twelve trials and become a Great Hero admired by countless people.

He was Heracles.

Not the rhinoceros beetle. He meant a fierce man over two meters tall, covered in muscle, who could blow apart a small mountain with one punch.

Mo Shuying glanced at his own recently bulging muscles, the corner of his mouth lifting.

"Still far from enough, far from enough..."

Just as Mo Shuying was sighing over it.

"Bzzzz~"

A new storm had already appeared. A huge vortex opened, and one withered tree monster after another, each over two meters tall, swayed out from within.

"Hmm? Visitors."

The monsters interrupted Mo Shuying's thoughts. After sensing their auras, he gave his assessment.

"So weak."

After witnessing a real battle between Heroic Spirits, Mo Shuying found that he was no longer very interested in these "minor mobs."

But he could not simply ignore them. In the end, he vanished with a Blink, waved his hand, and summoned two Swift Wolves the size of water buffalo. With practiced ease, he strapped Gas Canisters to them.

"Go on."

After opening the valves, Mo Shuying patted the Swift Wolves on their rumps. Then, with their eyes filled with madness and excitement, the two Swift Wolves gleefully charged out! It seemed...

They had fallen in love with explosions.

Outside, one day later.

Tohsaka Rin and Luvia stared silently at the projection released by Blue Sapphire.

In the image, Mo Shuying picked up the cards, said a few words in Huaxia, then disappeared.

As top students of the Clock Tower, knowing several languages was no issue. Both Tohsaka Rin and Luvia knew Huaxia. After watching the projection, they looked at each other and said,

"He seems to be a Heroic Spirit from Huaxia."

"Huaxia has Heroic Spirits who wear tracksuits?"

"Th-That isn't important! Look at his height and build! He's probably Berserker, one of the two remaining Classes! Damn it! We worked so hard for so many days, only for that guy to swoop in and steal the prize! I'm furious!"

Tohsaka Rin was utterly enraged. Beside her, Luvia frowned and said,

"Heroic Spirits of the Berserker Class are driven mad. He should not have been rational enough to speak with us like that. Also, judging from the way he left at the end, I suspect he was Assassin."

Tohsaka Rin found that reasonable as well, but she had never seen an assassin with muscles that developed. Was he planning to strangle his targets to death with his muscles?

"What do we do now? Are we still investigating?"

This failure had dealt them a heavy blow. Illya still had not recovered, and she had even begun to fear battle.

"Of course we continue. We've come this far, so how could we give up? If it comes down to it... we'll call for reinforcements."

Luvia bit one of her fingernails, her eyes filled with reluctance as she spoke.