"Mashu! Mashu, look! This interface! Is it a holographic projection?! And is that an automated turret? Why can they even get drinks instantly from a synthesizer?!"
Gudako excitedly tugged at Mashu beside her, pointing at the various facilities on the bridge that she had only ever seen in science fiction movies. "Why?! Why is Chaldea over here treated so well?! Forget a space battleship, our side is so stingy that we don't even have a standard means of transportation capable of stably carrying Servants! Sometimes when the Rayshift coordinates are off, we even have to hike through the wilderness for three days! This is unfair!"
Mashu was getting a little dizzy from being shaken. She tried to steady herself, pushed up a pair of nonexistent glasses, thought seriously for a moment, and answered, "Miss Gudako, please calm down. Actually... Mo Wang got all these things from who knows where. To be honest..." She paused, her face showing an expression that was both subtly complicated and entirely accustomed to it. "Compared to the other things Senior Mo Wang has taken out before... these can only be called... relatively 'scientific' and 'ordinary.'"
Her thoughts drifted back to the past—the steel Archon that had once shattered a Lostbelt with a single punch, Mazinger ZERO; the colossal robot comparable to the Main God Zeus, Heavenly Thunder - A-Zeus; and all those "toys" whose names she could not even remember, yet one glance was enough to tell that their style was completely off... Compared to those, although the Hyperion was futuristic, it at least still had the shape of a "ship." It was somewhat scientific, and looked far more "approachable."
At that moment, the main screen on the bridge clearly projected the distant scene ahead.
A towering, ancient castle floated silently against the backdrop of