How Are There Two Grails?

"Indomitable Soul of Garibaldi! GET☆DAZE!"

There had been no mishaps in Archduke Garibaldi's soul imprisonment. The imagined struggle to snatch his soul from the Astral World never occurred.

Indeed, judging by the fact that he had obtained the Crimson Behelit, the Archduke had been a God Hand candidate chosen by the rules, his status exceptionally exalted.

But a candidate was still merely a candidate. In a winner-takes-all situation, the Archduke had failed to survive the ritual and died prematurely, so he clearly no longer held any value as a God Hand.

The Archduke had indeed been fated to become the first God Hand among the Knights of the Round Table, but he had happened to encounter someone capable of changing fate—

Marshal Cheng!

Though the "Sun Walker" bloodline Cheng Tian had assimilated from Remilia did not seem particularly remarkable, the fundamental power within it, capable of interfering with "fate," would quietly play a crucial role when least expected.

The Zodiac Meteor, which had originally been unable to penetrate the ritual barrier, was nudged by fate and struck its weakest point.

And with only that one crucial turning point in fate, every future Archduke Garibaldi would have faced underwent a drastic change.

If the Zodiac Meteor had not shattered the barrier, no one outside could have interfered no matter what they did. The ritual would ultimately have succeeded, and the Archduke would have become a true God Hand.

The strength of the BOSS they would have faced then would not have been remotely comparable.

But now, Garibaldi, whose ritual had failed and who had fallen on the spot, could only stare wide-eyed at Vega, Geese, and the others inside the Ghost Gauntlet.

As the true core of the entire ritual, Garibaldi's death signified the complete failure of the Eclipse of the