Yesterday evening, Artoria and Mordred finally defeated the fifth boss in the "game"—a gigantic giant corroded by the power of the Abyss into a decaying skeleton.
The two of them had tried a total of forty-seven times before finally defeating their opponent with great difficulty.
Then, the reward that dropped was a "Command Spell."
Holding the Command Spell, Artoria summoned Mordred in her apartment this morning.
After that, she took Mordred outside.
That outfit was actually Artoria's. Their builds were nearly identical, so Mordred could wear it without any issue.
At first, Mordred had wanted to dress a little more lightly on top for ease of movement. After all, in anime, the less you wore, the stronger you were.
But Artoria naturally rejected such unscientific nonsense. She said girls needed to know how to respect themselves; wearing too little was just letting others take advantage of them, and it looked indecent. So she forcefully made Mordred wear a T-shirt instead.
When she was called a girl, Mordred's expression stiffened. She looked like she wanted to say something, wanted to get angry, yet did not want to get angry at her beloved Father King.
Seeing this, Artoria gave it some thought and realized that Mordred was a "peculiar" person who hated being called a girl and also hated being called a boy.
This had to do with Mordred's upbringing and the obsession in her heart. It could also be said that King Arthur had set a bad precedent by disguising herself as a man.
Thus, Artoria very seriously told Mordred that she was a girl, but there was nothing wrong with being a girl, because girls could become kings too.
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