Achilles
After the Holy Grail War ended, Achilles was traveling alone.
Well, it could be seen as traveling while also climbing mountains, meditating on rocks, and performing ascetic practices to empty his mind.
"Haa…, feels somewhat empty."
Realizing no one was left by his side, he felt a void in his flank.
"This is all my karma…."
He killed a beauty in a duel, told Hector his weakness until the very end just to win, and nothing went right.
He thought about going to see Medea, but it was difficult to visit because of her appearance full of dark circles.
It couldn't be helped, as it seemed that poking a sleeping lion would cause even him trouble he couldn't handle.
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Semiramis
After being damaged in the Holy Grail War.
Semiramis and Shirou Kotomine were resting somewhere in the mountains.
"Haha…, I never even imagined it would end like this."
"Have you let go of your lingering attachments?"
"If I say no… that would be a lie. I prepared for 60 years. At the moment of defeat, I became unable to hold a wish for the Grail…. I never imagined he would use something that doesn't even seem like magecraft."
"I see…, foolish. One thing I was curious about. If things had gone well according to the original plan, what did you intend to do after deceiving me?"
"I could only apologize, and if that wasn't enough to convince you…."
"Would you have killed me?"
At Semiramis's words, Shirou spoke.
"Of course not…. I was thinking I would have no choice but to offer my body."
"So my Master is nothing but a fragile, tender child. You're a fool, you…."
"Maybe so."
Shirou smiled bitterly and looked at the sky.
"Such a foolish wish of yours will not come true."
"Indeed. Frankly, I wished for a world where everyone is happy, everyone is good, everyone is perfect. But he denied that. He seemed not to know his exact wish, but judging by what he roughly knew, he was a half-hearted person. Even if the plan succeeded, I had gambled on the unknown of whether the human mind could withstand it. He easily defeated me, though he did regenerate my left and right hands. I returned to the beginning. I seem too tired to wait for the next Holy Grail War like this. Assassin."
"You may call me Semiramis."
"Haha…, Semiramis, would you listen to my story?"
"Yes…, speak."
"During the Third Holy Grail War, the Einzberns used a trick to summon Avenger and Ruler. Among them, he should have been a devil among devils, meaning a soul hostile to me, who created all evil and all kinds of evil deeds and calamities, including death, pain, worry, falsehood, ferocity, disease, tribulation, as well as ignorance, plague, disorder, etc. But he was just an ordinary young victim. Believing all humans are good. They pushed a young man into evil and sealed him in some cave, they said. The young man suffered, resented, and met his end…. As time passed, he came to understand and forgive them, it is said. Clearly, the object of resentment… I couldn't understand the statement that over time, he could forgive them. Bearing all evil, the innocent young man was close to a good person. His essence, as an Avenger, his ferocity seemed not to have disappeared, but compared to a Heroic Spirit, he was the weakest, worst Heroic Spirit, yet he seemed so beautiful. If Avenger hadn't been the first to be eliminated and had survived, perhaps I wouldn't have held such a wish either."
"I see…, two fools were summoned."
"Haha…, fools… Frankly, maybe so. A Heroic Spirit who wanted to save humanity and a Heroic Spirit who just wanted to be born normally…. Maybe they were fools."
Semiramis looked at Shirou and hugged him.
"Now you are my possession."
"I should welcome that."
At Shirou's words, Semiramis blushed and shouted.
"You just can't let a remark slide!"
"Well, fine. Since I no longer wish for the Grail anyway…, I guess it's okay to be with my Master."
"Hmm, don't say Master, call me Semiramis."
"Then, can I call you Semi-ra?"
"Isn't that a nickname that's gotten too close?"
"Is that so?"
Even so, Semiramis wasn't displeased.
"But that's not bad either."
She was a tsundere.
Afterwards, the story of Shirou and Semiramis ended here.
"Hmm…, I feel like I forgot something, but it's probably not important."
For reference, the two didn't know that Caster had been bound in chains by the author Servant before the garden was destroyed and was eliminated during that process.
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Chiron
"Huff… Huff…. Can't I rest just a little? Chiron."
"No. Great effort is needed to move legs that haven't been used for a long time."
Fiore was currently receiving Spartan training from Chiron.
Training that would make one lose their spirit.
To be precise, it was rehabilitation, but at some point it became Spartan.
"Mikon? You're working her to death."
"I believe it's best to gently loosen muscles and bones first, and then train afterwards."
"Are you planning to make me like Heracles!?"
"No, that's…. Heracles is just special…. But I will train you to the utmost and make you the best."
"I never wanted that!?"
"Instead of time to shout, move more."
Clearly, Chiron is a good teacher, but as for training, he was a teacher who trained harshly.
Thanks to Medea's help, with recovery, regeneration, or anything prepared, she was recovering faster, but it wasn't the rehabilitation Fiore wanted.
'What kind of hardship is this!!!!!!'
Well, the meals during the process were delicious, so she couldn't complain, but it was still tough.
Especially the Red Archer's cooking and the food made by Benienma were the most delicious.
How exquisite the taste was….
Just imagining it made her mouth water, and Fiore was driven insane.
Grrrr.
"Ah…."
At the physiological phenomenon of hunger, Fiore was embarrassed, and Chiron stopped the rehabilitation.
"Let's rest now, eat later, and then continue."
"Hueeeeeeh!?"
Fiore made a strange sound, but she was in a mood to really cry.
She came for rehabilitation. Receiving training as if she came to a hellish gym, wondering if the plan was to make her a warrior, not a mage, made Fiore's mind dizzy. But since her stomach called out hunger wanting to eat, she held onto her sanity by spinning her happiness circuit and waited for mealtime.
And she just wrapped meat, vegetables, and rice in lettuce and munched and swallowed.
Like someone starved for ten years, Fiore, who was eating, only came to her senses after a minute passed.
Well, during that process, Fiore came to her senses and ate slowly with a red face. Among it, when Akira said, "You were very hungry, huh?" her face became beet red.
For reference, the homunculi were eating separately.
The limit on the number of people at the table was great, and the number was large, so they were struggling to accommodate many homunculi by expanding space and increasing rooms. (Including Akira, Medea, Artoria Pendragon, Mordred, Lancelot, Tamamo-no-Mae, Benienma, Li Shuwen, Bazett Fraga McRemitz, Fiore Forvedge, Chiron, Gorde Musik, Siegfried, 15 people were eating.)
Through Li Shuwen and Chiron's training, the homunculi's combat power became even stronger, and among them, some seemed to have become elite, strong homunculi.
It was difficult to give names to the homunculi, so except for particularly strong or special homunculi, they weren't given names.
Because it was too confusing and difficult to remember that many people.
'With this level of military power, there's no need to worry about Fiore.'
Thanks to that, Chiron had no worries.
With Medea, specialized in magecraft, and everyone else specialized in close combat or long range, and the homunculi, there would be no madmen invading this place.
To use a metaphor, it was a defensive fortress.
The traps set by Medea, when activated, left no hole to escape, and if you went out, you would either explode and become a corpse or disappear without a trace; one of the two.
The magical energy was also strangely pure, making it an optimal space for magecraft training.
Thanks to that, Fiore's training and rehabilitation were possible quickly.
'Well, mages are mages, but these days mages have excellent combat skills… It's only natural.'
For reference, Chiron had seen Rin and Ruby with Clairvoyance before, and the two, though mages, fought well in close combat.
'If ordinary mages can do that much… I felt I had to train her, so I had no choice but to teach with a harsh heart, but she's following along well.'
Chiron looked at Fiore. Fiore, feeling that gaze while eating, choked on her food and had to hit her chest and swallow water.
"Phew… I almost died…. Chiron, because you were looking at me with that creepy smile, this happened!"
Thus, Chiron was scolded by Fiore, but Chiron felt slightly wronged.
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