Adelson Driven Mad

"What happened here?" Manlio ran over, staring in shock at Mash lying in Fujimaru Ritsuka's arms and Norla collapsed beside her.

Behind him followed four Servants.

Aside from Sakata Kintoki and Carmilla, who had returned to the Beckley's villa to rest after being injured, and Henry Jekyll, who had taken them back, there was one more Servant.

A strange Servant mounted on a black horse whose face looked like a skull.

"Are these the Servants you encountered in this Singularity?" Roman's small holographic screen hovered beside Mash. After giving Mash a worried look, he turned his gaze toward Manlio.

"Yes, this is Mr. Manlio, Mr. Sakata Kintoki, and Mr. Henry. But this one is..."

"There is no need to invoke my name, Master of Humanity." The Servant wore a helmet that concealed his face. From the voice, she seemed to be a woman—and somehow, a familiar one?

"This time, I did not manifest as a king, but merely as the fang of destruction that clears the obstacles before Britain—a weapon that arrives with thunder." She removed her mask, revealing a face that many people knew all too well. "Our goals are aligned, and I require aid as well. So take me with you. Mordred?"

Mordred moved closer to the Servant on the black horse, her eyes wide. "You're... Father!?"

"I see. So you are my child." The Servant—the King of Britain, independently summoned to this Singularity as a Lancer—looked at Mordred.

He dismounted, rubbed his head, and smiled calmly and gently.

"Very good. As a Knight of the Round Table, protecting Britain is an honor. You have done exceptionally well." As both a father and a king, Arthur spoke thus to the knight who had died protecting him in life.

"F-Father..." Mordred was instantly moved to tears.

"...So, Father, were