Acheron: Huh? The Assassin class? Me?

"You never told me!"

"You never asked, so why should I tell you?"

"...I'm going to explode! At the very least, let me pinch you back!"

"Smack!" Chen Li threw him over his shoulder, patted his butt, and ran off to ask Old Worm for a good review.

No one who had him forge a Miraculous Item for them could refuse to give him a good review! No one!

"Ababa!"

Ritsuka Fujimaru looked up at the sky and fell into deep thought.

Only beauties deserved the strong.

Chen Li! I hate that you're such a blockhead!

Wait, was he just thinking something utterly outrageous?!

"Although the Holy Grail has turned black, we still have to take it no matter what."

While Chen Li was forging Miraculous Items, Kiritsugu Emiya, Irisviel, and the others had also arrived at Ryuudou Temple, the storage site of the Great Holy Grail.

A Holy Grail War without a Holy Grail was not a complete Holy Grail War.

"So it really was corrupted..." Artoria felt a complicated mix of emotions at the sight.

She had joined the Holy Grail War for the Holy Grail, only to be told that it had been unusable from the very beginning?

"Sigh, then we have to mention how the Einzbern family summoned Angra Mainyu, a Heroic Spirit of the out-of-spec Avenger class, during the Third Holy Grail War. After this young man, known as All the World's Evils, was defeated, he directly wished upon the Holy Grail to corrupt it. From then on, the Holy Grail could only grant wishes in ways that led toward evil," Chen Li explained.

Artoria turned to look at her Master, Irisviel.

As for Kiritsugu Emiya? They were not close!

"We knew nothing about this," Irisviel said, shaking her head.

"As expected, something fake