Mordred was a character who stirred complicated feelings.
In modern history, she had launched a rebellion, leading Camelot's old nobility in revolt and nearly dooming the Kingdom of Camelot and Britain's legacy.
Yet she was also someone who inspired pity and regret.
The Holy Grail War's Light Screen footage revealed the side of Mordred that history had never recorded, letting people learn that this alchemical being created by Morgan the Enchantress, inheriting the bloodlines of both the enchantress and King Arthur, was in truth merely a child yearning for her "father king's" recognition.
When she died, her actual age had only been twelve. It was simply because she was an alchemically created artificial human that she had grown so quickly.
Though she was a troublesome tsundere girl, Mordred truly had been a good child. It was only under the pressure of countless factors that she had been forced down an extreme path.
Because Camelot had not fallen in the history of the real world and Britain's legacy had endured, although Mordred's crimes had been grave and history books had branded her an ambitious rebel, that was all she was.
However, in the Light Screen footage, on the first timeline, the disaster and chaos caused by Mordred had utterly buried the Kingdom of Camelot.
To the people of that Kingdom of Camelot, her crimes were utterly unforgivable and unacceptable. She was a grievous sinner who would forever bear the hatred of countless people.
Thus, even Lucius, who was good-natured and showed little negative emotion toward the other Knights of the Round Table even when he did not approve of them, displayed undisguised hatred when facing Mordred.
It was hatred, fury, and disgust in the truest sense—a rage that wanted to cut Mordred down on the spot.
For Lucius, even his words