"Though I don't know what's going on—does that glittering guy seem to be on our side too?"
Cu Chulainn, who had barely gotten any screen time until now, was finally able to catch his breath. He swept Ibaraki Douji's bone blade aside with his spear and looked beneath the black tower.
The Holy Grail War had long since ceased to be a proper Holy Grail War. He was well aware of that.
But no matter what, he was still Ireland's Child of Light. Even if it was not for his own wish, he was willing to offer his own strength in the face of such a threat to humanity.
Chaos filled Ibaraki Douji's eyes. Without a care for anything else, she swung her flaming bone blade and smashed it toward Cu Chulainn once more.
However—
Clang!!!
This time, what stopped her bone blade was not Cu Chulainn's red spear.
It was—a long ge.
A tall general with a dark-purple face rode a bone horse, thrusting out his long ge. Though he was clearly an evil ghost, he gave Cu Chulainn a sense of reassurance.
"A general under that old man's command, huh—ha! This is what I love about the Holy Grail War!"
Cu Chulainn spun the spear in his hand and licked his lips, his face brimming with excitement.
"Whether it's fighting heroes and great men from every nation and every era to the death, or fighting shoulder to shoulder with them—either one gets the blood pumping!"
Whoosh—
Cu Chulainn charged forward no slower than the ghost general Liao Ye beneath Huo Ao You Ning, who rode a bone horse. Ibaraki Douji, who had seemed evenly matched with him just moments ago, was immediately forced onto the defensive.
The same scenes were unfolding elsewhere.
The ghost general Wei Hao, with