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Alice's question made Noah pause slightly with the teacup just about to reach his lips.
Just who was the so-called Last King?
This question should actually have come up much earlier.
It was simply that Noah had already formed a guess regarding the Last King's identity.
"Anyone who knows of the Last King calls him the last king to manifest in this world—a god who will appear during the end times."
Noah drained the hot tea in his cup, set it on the table, and looked directly at Alice.
"Gods who appear in the end times can be found in all kinds of mythological systems. But a king whom Lancelot would serve as his master? There can only be one, right?"
"The legendary king of Britannia, Arthur, hailed as the King of Knights." Alice spoke the name of a figure familiar to virtually everyone.
"That king does indeed meet all the conditions."
In Le Morte d'Arthur, a book recording Arthur's legends, there was a highly famous epitaph.
----HIC JACET ARTHURUS, REX QUONDAM REXQUE FUTURUS—Here lies Arthur, the once and future king----
It meant that the legendary king would not remain merely a ruler of the past. The king of knights would awaken in the future world and descend once more as king.
This was not merely empty talk.
In the Britannian legends of Celtic Mythology, Arthur was gravely wounded in the final battle of his life. He was sent to Avalon, known as the Isle of Fairies, where he fell into slumber to heal his wounds.
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