In this world, Su Yun's identity was that of an international student from the Flame Kingdom, while Heavenly King International High School was one of Yingzhou's top international schools, attended by students from all over the world.
That's right, Yingzhou—the full name was the Yingzhou International Trade Autonomous Region.
Because of its geography, Yingzhou had become an open region. Compared with the conservative mainland, it was brimming with an international atmosphere.
Of course, these "settings" were just background details. For Su Yun, they meant little beyond reminding him how different this world was.
After crossing into this world, the World Consciousness had paid him in advance by handing over all the Fantasy Power it possessed. It had also made him young and handsome, maxing out all his attributes and bringing him to the limits of an ordinary human.
At the same time, it had seamlessly enrolled him at Heavenly King International High School.
It was because of this school that Su Yun had realized he was in a crossover world. Many people he'd once seen only in anime were everywhere on campus. When he'd first seen them, he'd even felt as if he were looking at characters stitched together from different series.
A fifteen-year-old international student, Artoria, suddenly shivered. She felt as though some ill-intentioned person had set their sights on her, and the inexplicable sensation made her glance around.
As expected, she saw nothing. Everyone was listening attentively to the lesson, while the culprit had already averted his gaze.
At that, Artoria furrowed her brow slightly, feeling even more uneasy.
On the surface, she was merely an international student from the Holy Britannian Empire. In truth, though, she had another identity: she was a member of the Holy Britannian Empire's royal family. Her real name was Artoria Pendragon, a direct descendant of King Arthur.
Raised in the royal family, she'd faced all sorts of schemes and machinations from a young age. Though she was far down the line of succession, she was still eligible to inherit the imperial throne, so all kinds of trouble naturally found its way to her.
That was why she'd been sensitive since childhood. She also had an extraordinarily sharp Instinct, and whenever someone watched her with ill intent, she sensed it immediately.
If Artoria could have seen her own hair, she would have noticed her signature ahoge suddenly stiffening and turning toward Su Yun, as though pointing at him.
Seeing it, Su Yun's face twitched. As expected of Saber. Even without supernatural powers, that ahoge can act like a human radar and automatically lock on to targets.
This is so unscientific.
But it doesn't matter!
Su Yun wasn't worried. Soon, Artoria's ahoge wouldn't have time to look for him, because in the next minute, the next thirty seconds, the next ten seconds—
The world would change in the next second!
Whoosh!
At that very moment, enormous Light Screens appeared above every place and location across the world.
In an instant, people everywhere were startled, and many fell into a panic.
After all, this world had endured far too many unknowns and terrors. It was only natural that people assumed another supernatural phenomenon was occurring.
But people soon realized something was off: words had appeared on the Light Screens.
The text differed from region to region, appearing in each area's corresponding language. It was clear that the words on the screens had been made readable to everyone.
What appeared was a passage that seemed to be talking to itself, yet also recounting something buried beneath the dust of history.
[The mysterious, the chaotic, the mad—these things have never been far from humanity, nor from this world.]
[Humanity has forgotten those from the past who wielded supernatural powers and erased the history of their existence.]
[The evil, the righteous, the kind, the mad—all supernatural beings had their traces erased by the decisions of certain people.]
[Now Mystery has resurged, but humanity has lost its supernatural powers, leaving it helpless and passive in the face of the supernatural and the mysterious.]
[What sorrow. What irony.]
[Humanity is always making the same mistakes.]
[But the world does not.]
[Humanity erased the stories of those Savior heroes, but the world still remembers.]
[So it is time. Time to reveal the truth buried beneath the dust of history.]
[The legendary tales... of the supernatural beings...]
People found themselves reading the words aloud or silently.
As a result, after finishing the passage, most wore bewildered expressions. Their first reaction was to assume it was fake.
They thought it might be a prank, a new publicity stunt from a film company, a mirage, or simply a hallucination.
Almost no one believed the words on the Light Screens were real. The opening sounded just like countless movies and was far too clichéd.
But quite a few people knew the Light Screens were real, and that the words they displayed might be true as well.
They were in places of particular importance, such as a country's highest government offices or the private estates of certain wealthy magnates.
These places didn't allow strangers or outsiders inside, and security was strict. There was no way this could be a prank.
Whatever people suspected, they soon set those thoughts aside, because the Light Screens changed again.
After displaying the text for about two minutes, the screens showed something new.
Following a stretch of darkness, an ornate title appeared.
[This is the Holy Grail War of the King of Eternity!]
Many people who had studied British history were stunned at the sight.
The terms "King of Eternity" and "Holy Grail" had already made the person's identity clear: the ancestor of the Holy Britannian Empire, revered throughout the West as the King of Eternity.
At Heavenly King International High School, no one was more shaken than Artoria.
The Pendragon Family was a direct line of King Arthur's descendants. Though a thousand years had passed and many foreign bloodlines had entered the family, there was no doubt that they were King Arthur's direct descendants, and thus possessed the Holy Britannian Empire's strongest claim to legitimacy.
Everyone in the Pendragon Family took pride in this, and Artoria was no different. She deeply admired the legendary Holy King, her ancestor, and had always yearned to become as great a ruler as he had been.
Now she was seeing a Light Screen that seemed to be some kind of supernatural phenomenon, and it was about to show the story of King Arthur. Naturally, Artoria was filled with shock and amazement.
Of course, she was also furious that her family's pride had been insulted.
But the girl soon forgot her anger. Bewilderment and astonishment once again filled her mind.
Because when a new image appeared on the Light Screen, she saw...
"Is that... me?"
In the image, on a beautiful Scottish plain, stood a girl with golden hair, wearing a specially made suit of white armor designed for a woman.
Beneath the armor, she wore a blue dress. The armor fit perfectly over it, forming a complete armored gown. Clad in it, the girl stood on the green plain like a knight from a dream.
A gentle breeze stirred the girl's hair and armor. Her stern face, naturally commanding without a hint of anger, gazed straight ahead. She held both hands in front of her, resting them on the hilt of a Golden Sword planted in the ground.
She looked like a girl of only fifteen or sixteen, yet she radiated the bearing of a king. Her spirit was bold and heroic, and she inspired awe without needing to show anger.
The girl looked exactly like Artoria. Even the ahoge atop her head had been faithfully reproduced, making it seem as though the girl in the video were Artoria herself!
After all, the girl in the video was Artoria.
Her full name, however, was Artoria Arthur Pendragon!
Arthur was her kingly name!
[This is—King Arthur!]
As the words appeared, the camera rapidly pulled back, revealing a hundred-strong elite force of knights kneeling on one knee before the girl king.
Behind the elite knights stood tens of thousands of well-trained soldiers!
There was no doubt that these were King Arthur's famed Knights of the Round Table and his mighty, undefeated army!
In an instant, Artoria was stunned. Everyone who knew her was just as dumbfounded, staring at the scene on the Light Screen with their mouths agape, as if to say, "I don't understand what I'm seeing, but I'm deeply shaken."
Meanwhile, Su Yun, the culprit behind it all, watched the Fantasy Power count on his system panel surge rapidly from single digits. A pleased smile curled at the corners of his mouth.
As expected, his theory had been right. Though it had cost him what little Fantasy Power he had, making an anime character suffer a public execution in front of the entire world was a high-investment, high-return strategy!
An endless stream of Fantasy Power was being generated and gathered!
Come on! Keep it going! Let the public execution get even more intense!
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