Shuten Douji, one of Japan's Three Great Yokai, the oni king of Mount Ooe.
Minamoto no Raikou, progenitor of the Settsu Genji, a third-generation descendant of the Seiwa Genji, master of Raikou's Four Heavenly Kings, and also
the one who had defeated Shuten Douji.
Those two now stood together, and both had become Heroic Spirit Swordmasters. Honestly, this was an outcome no one present had ever anticipated.
Even Sakumura, after confirming that the evil oni he had slain was Shuten Douji, had not connected her to Minamoto no Raikou.
Looking at the scene before him now, he somehow found it darkly humorous.
"Honestly, you really are mean-spirited."
Shuten petulantly gave Minamoto no Raikou's arm a light slap.
"Don't tell me you were the one who revealed my True Name? I certainly didn't announce myself before that, did I?"
"Oh my, I wouldn't know."
Minamoto no Raikou shot Shuten Douji a glare.
"You two are calmly discussing that at a time like this? Isn't that rather presumptuous?"
There was a trace of anger at being looked down upon in Miyamoto Musashi's eyes.
But then—
"Ritsuka, you knew these two?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded, feeling somewhat unwell.
"Rather than knowing them, I knew their counterparts."
"They were both Servants whose Spirit Origins had once been confirmed in Chaldea. Before I was transported here, I even met Miss Shuten Douji once. As for Miss Minamoto no Raikou, although I didn't meet her, I heard that she and Mama Bear seemed to have held an afternoon tea that day and invited others to attend."
"I never thought I'd see them here."
Heroic Spirits being summoned as Servants in different places and at different times was, in fact, entirely reasonable and common.
But seeing Servants he had once known under these circumstances was not something he