A Priest in Gotham: Starting Out by Taking In a Little Boy
Chapter 136

The Plan to Kill Superman

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"The turtle talked?" Everyone except Roland stared in surprise.

"Could you answer my question first?" Miriel asked slowly.

"This isn't the Lands Between. It's another world." Roland began explaining the situation to Miriel.

"I see." Miriel had mixed feelings and fell into thought.

"Let's get going." Roland called to Superman and Batman. "Jeanne d'Arc is coming with me too. It's time to give Lex Luthor a little taste of France."

"Yes, Master." Jeanne d'Arc nodded. "Are we going to take part in a Holy Grail War?"

"The Holy Grail War hasn't started. If you want to see the Holy Grail, though, I can arrange that. Not the Lesser Grail, either—the cup that held Jesus's blood."

"What?" Jeanne d'Arc froze. It took her a long moment to recover. "Master, please don't joke about that."

"Who's joking?" Roland spread his hands. "I may not have much else, but I've got plenty of Holy Relics."

"Oh." Jeanne d'Arc glanced at the stake. Had that been the Holy Relic used to summon her?

Once aboard the Batwing, Jeanne d'Arc looked around with curiosity. The Holy Grail gave Servants the knowledge they needed to live in modern society, but things they had never experienced still felt unreal.

Artoria might have understood a Motorcycle as a warhorse. Jeanne d'Arc knew how planes worked, but she still found this one fascinating.

"Speaking of the Holy Grail War, do you know how to perform the Ritual?" Roland asked. As far as he knew, it required three things: a ley line with sufficient Magic, a Lesser Grail, and a Heroic Spirit and Command Spell summoning system.

In Fuyuki City's Holy Grail War, the Tohsaka Family had supplied the ley line, the Einzbern Family had made the Holy Grail, and the Matou Family had developed the Command Spell system that

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