The Fifth Holy Grail War Is Already a Mess Before It Even Begins (Continued)

"Huh? You've lost your memory? Something's not right, where am I?"

Mo Wang scratched his head, and just then, Doggy, standing to the side, thrust his gun at him.

"Damn it! How dare they ignore me!"

The Doggy's red-glowing spear was incredibly fast.

However, before the spear could reach Mo Wang, it was firmly gripped in mid-air by a hand.

"What?!"

The Doggy stared blankly at the red spear that was being held in mid-air, feeling as if it were dreaming.

"Isn't that a bit too much, Doggy?"

"Even you're like this, it seems I arrived a bit early this time?"

As Mo Wang spoke, he suddenly yanked, and Cú Chulainn felt an irresistible force, staggering forward several steps uncontrollably. Before he could react, Mo Wang's fist slammed into his face with a whistling sound.

"Bang--!"

With a muffled thud, Cú Chulainn's body flew backward like a cannonball, crashing through three layers of walls behind him before embedding itself deeply into a concrete wall in the distance. Debris and dust flew everywhere, leaving the scene in complete disarray.

"Wait a minute, Doggy." Mo Wang shook his wrist, looking at the large hole with a puzzled expression. "Why do you seem to have gotten much weaker? What? Was your Master's quality not very good this time?"

"Cough cough... bastard..."

Cú Chulainn struggled to crawl out of the wall, half his face swollen and blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. He wiped the blood away with the back of his hand, his eyes filled with disbelief. As the Child of Light of Ireland, he had actually been sent flying by a single punch of pure brute force? This was an utter insult to his warrior's dignity!

"Who... who are you?" Cú Chulainn asked through gritted teeth, his grip on the spear trembling slightly with rage.

"Huh?" Mo Wang blinked, then slapped his forehead as if suddenly realizing something. "Oh right, you don't know me now. Let me briefly introduce myself. My name is Mo Wang, and I'm this girl's Servant."

As he spoke, he lowered his head and looked at the girl in his arms.

"Although I don't know what happened, since this girl summoned me, I will naturally protect her."

Emiya Shizuko was still in shock. She looked up at the strange man who had suddenly appeared, her heart pounding uncontrollably. Although she had never seen him before, there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if they had known each other for a very long time.

"Mo... Wang?" she murmured the name, the familiar feeling making her cheeks blush slightly.

"Hey! Aren't you guys being a bit too arrogant!"

Cú Chulainn's furious voice shattered this brief moment of tenderness. His body erupted with astonishing magical power, his eyes gleaming crimson. "Whoever you are, today you will pay the price for your arrogance!"

"Gáe Bolg!"

With a roar of True Name Release, the crimson spear transformed into a streak of death, aimed directly at Mo Wang's heart. This was Cú Chulainn's deadly spear, a cursed spear that reversed cause and effect—the moment the spear was drawn, the outcome of piercing the heart was already predetermined.

However, faced with this fatal blow, Mo Wang simply sighed softly.

"I already told you, this trick won't work on me."

He held the Shizuka in one arm, and casually reached forward with the other. To Cú Chulainn's astonishment, the demonic spear that should have hit its mark was firmly grasped in his palm!

"What?!" Cú Chulainn's eyes widened, his jaw nearly dropping to the ground. His Noble Phantasm, his ultimate attack, had been caught barehanded?

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" he roared hysterically. "What kind of sorcery did you use?!"

Mo Wang shrugged. "How much time has passed? You still only know this one move?" He casually tossed the magic spear back to Cú Chulainn. "Want to try something else? Like that ' Gáe Bolg: Soaring Spear of Striking Death '?"

Cú Chulainn caught the returning gun, his expression a mixture of anger and uncertainty. The strength of the man before him far exceeded his expectations, and what was even more terrifying was that the other man seemed to know everything about him.

Just then, a clear female voice came from above:

"Enough! Lancer! Retreat!"

Cú Chulainn looked up at the source of the sound, gritting his teeth in resentment. "Tch, consider yourself lucky." He glared fiercely at Mo Wang. "Next time we meet, I'll definitely kill you!"

After saying that, his figure transformed into spiritual particles and disappeared into the night.

Mo Wang gazed in the direction where Cú Chulainn had disappeared, thoughtfully stroking his chin. "This Master is quite cautious this time..."

"Um..." the Shizuka in her arms said softly, "Can you put me down now?"

Mo Wang then came to his senses and quickly and gently put the girl down. "Ah, I'm so sorry. Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?"

The Shizuka shook his head, his cheeks slightly flushed. "I'm fine... thank you for saving me."

"There's no need to thank me," Mo Wang laughed heartily. "Isn't protecting the Master Servant's duty?"

Mo Wang was speaking with a smile when he suddenly saw that the Shizuka in his arms had already fainted.

"This is... a lack of magic power?"

"Hmm, it seems to be because it's the first time using the Avalon and summoning Servant?"

Looking at the unconscious Shizuka, Mo Wang held her in his arms and took a deep look at the now-disappeared Red A behind them.

"Hmm, I feel like things are going to get really interesting."

Chapter 457: Become the Overtime Queen, Artoria!

Was it a dream?

As usual, the Shizuka opened his eyes from his bed.

The moment she woke up, she suddenly remembered what had happened the night before.

Holy Grail War, Servant...

These things, which the scholar had previously heard his father say, were like fairy tales to Shizuka.

However, what happened last night felt incredibly real to the Shizuka.

Just as the Shizuka was beginning to have doubts, she suddenly looked at the alarm clock in the room.

"Oh no, has it already come to this?"

"It's time to make breakfast."

After getting out of bed, the Shizuka quickly changed his clothes and then prepared to make breakfast for himself and his father.

However, the moment the Shizuka stepped out of the room, she was surprised to hear a noise coming from the living room.

"Dad?"

Upon hearing the sound, the Shizuka immediately realized that Kiritsugu, who should have been lazing in bed, had actually woken up.

And he was even saying this to people.

So the Shizuka immediately and quietly walked towards the living room.

Immediately afterwards, she saw her father talking to Mo Wang.

"I never expected to see you again after all these years, Mo Wang."

At this moment, in the Emiya Family's living room, Kiritsugu was speaking to Mo Wang with a sigh.

"So you're Kiritsugu. I never expected you to actually be alive this long. I thought you'd died years ago."

Mo Wang looked with great interest at Kiritsugu, whose face was that of a weathered middle-aged man.

To be honest, if Kiritsugu hadn't changed his face, Mo Wang would have thought he was a completely different person.

That weathered and melancholic look makes it impossible to believe that he was once the fearsome Magus Killer terror into the hearts of all Masters during the Fourth Holy Grail War.

"Heh, are you saying this is also one of your prophecies?"

"In another timeline, have I already died?"

Kiritsugu listened to Mo Wang's words, his expression slightly pale.

"Well, who knows? But to be honest, I'm really happy to see you're still alive."

Mo Wang smiled and said to Kiritsugu, "But you look a lot more weathered now. Is it because you've lost your wife and children that you've completely lost your spirit?"

"You're right." Kiritsugu listened to Mo Wang's words and did not deny it.

Indeed, as Mo Wang said.

After losing his wife and having his children placed under house arrest, Kiritsugu once considered suicide.

"Actually, you're doing pretty well now, aren't you? You have such a lovely daughter, I bet a lot of people are envious of you, right?"

"Now that we can rest, Waver Velvet is probably crying his eyes out."

When Waver Velvet was mentioned, a comical smile immediately appeared on Mo Wang's face.

The thought of someone working overtime right now, probably in an even worse state than before, made Mo Wang want to laugh.

"Ah, that's true."

When the topic of Shizuka came up, Kiritsugu's face clearly lit up with a smile.

However, that smile quickly turned into a sorrowful one.

"I just didn't expect that child would actually become the Master of this Holy Grail War, and even be able to summon you."

"If I could, I wouldn't want that child to have any contact with this world at all."

"Heh, you're lying, aren't you?"

Mo Wang looked at Kiritsugu as if he were looking at a proud and arrogant father.

"If that were really the case, you wouldn't have taught that child swordsmanship and Magecraft, would you?"

"This child's Magecraft abilities are quite impressive. Even Lancer couldn't defeat her without using his Noble Phantasm. You're being a bit too modest."

Mo Wang mincing words, even without using the Avalon, the Shizuka's performance last night was something that no ordinary Magecraft could achieve.

Despite being persecuted for many years, there is no doubt that the Doggy Doggy a top-tier Servant.

As a demigod, he possessed top-tier martial arts skills among all Ireland Servant, and even when severely injured, he could Gilles de Rais Gilgamesh in the basement for quite some time.

With this level of strength, if it weren't for Gilles de Rais, and if he had a decent Master, you could easily call him the strongest Servant in the entire Fifth Holy Grail War.

Even Artoria, without the protagonist's halo, might not be able to beat the Doggy.

The only one who probably has a chance is Brother B, who could possibly pin the Doggy down.

In this situation, how could the Shizuka not be defeated by the Doggy?

What? What kind of self-defense technique did you teach your daughter Kiritsugu, to make her so formidable?

"Cough cough, I've only done a little bit of exercise, really, not much."

Kiritsugu coughed a few times and then quickly changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, Mo Wang, since you're here, it's not like this Holy Grail War is going to be like that again, is it?"

At this moment, Kiritsugu suddenly remembered that ten years ago, Mo Wang had said that the reason he appeared in the Fourth Holy Grail War was because of the Demon God Pillar.

Surely there can't be anything dangerous like that existing again this time?

The thought that there might be something like the Demon God Pillar coming again made Kiritsugu's face turn as bitter as a bitter gourd.

If what happened in Fuyuki City back then were to happen again, with his old arms and legs, he'd probably be buried alive.

"Oh, don't worry, there's a high chance that something like Demon God Pillar won't appear in Fuyuki City this time."

Mo Wang then gave Kiritsugu a thumbs-up.

"That's good."

However, before Kiritsugu could even breathe a sigh of relief, Mo Wang immediately said, "But there might be something even more dangerous."

"After all, even the Counter Force has run into problems this time."

"Who knows what might suddenly appear this time?"

"Cough cough cough! What did you say?!"

Kiritsugu, who was drinking tea at that moment, almost choked to death.

"The Counter Force is malfunctioning? Is it possible for something like that to malfunction?!"

At this moment, Kiritsugu felt utterly incoherent.

How come the level of danger actually increased from Fourth Holy Grail War to Fifth Holy Grail War?

"How would I know? But don't worry, I came here to investigate on my own initiative, the enemy shouldn't know I'm here."

Mo Wang to comfort Kiritsugu.