Kinship Across Ten Thousand Years

"In short, one Servant and one god have temporarily joined our side, correct?" Roman's voice sounded somewhat weary.

Although Doris had explained that she had never entered that so-called Mount Olympus, and that for various other reasons she had not entered the reverse side of the world, only awakening after being swept into the Singularity, Roman still found it unbelievable.

Not counting Doris, Chaldea had actually encountered three gods already.

The demoted and summoned Stheno and Euryale, as well as Artemis, who had been summoned in place of Orion's Saint Graph.

Yet the shock those three Servants had given Roman combined did not compare to what Doris had brought him.

"If I follow you, I should be able to see my child Oceannus, right?" Like a child afraid of losing her candy, Doris looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with a gaze he hardly dared meet.

Fujimaru Ritsuka did not know what to say. He merely nodded.

A mother had learned of her son's death, then carried that grief on for tens of thousands of years.

Fujimaru Ritsuka did not dare imagine how heavy and suffocating the emotions she bore must have been.

She only knew that those emotions would have been enough to crush her, enough to destroy her.

And yet, the mother before her had shouldered such feelings and protected that island until now.

But Doris, divine spirit Doris.

Your son is now our enemy—the enemy of humanity's proper history.

Though it was the truth, no one could bring themselves to say it aloud.

But...

If doing so could fulfill Doris's wish, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought that perhaps they should take her along—to find Blackbeard, to meet that Oceannus. Even if he was an enemy they could not defeat, that was fine.

Just then—

"Yo, lads—there's the island up ahead!" Blackbeard