The Reality Marble dissolved, and he spoke while letting out a deep breath.
"Haa… Haa…, I barely won. I didn't think you'd be fiercer than a beast."
Achilles was now injured to the point where dying immediately wouldn't be strange, but as a great hero, he was enduring without dying.
"Hmm, is that so? It seems the blue spearman is dead."
At the thought that a new enemy had appeared, Achilles couldn't move.
"Haa? What, a new enemy?"
"Sorry about that. A new enemy. It's time to become an ally now. 『Rule Breaker: All Contracts Must Be Broken』"
A dagger was stabbed into the man in red clothes, and the contract was forcibly severed.
And Achilles knew about that Noble Phantasm.
'Medea's Noble Phantasm!?'
However, already mortally wounded and unable to move, before his consciousness faded… the man in red clothes said.
"But I won't permit elimination. What's lost must be utilized, or so they say."
And so, Achilles's consciousness faded.
And by the time he opened his eyes again.
"I declare. Your body shall be by my side, my fate shall be with your sword. If you follow the will of the Holy Grail and obey this feeling, this reason, then answer. Follow me and answer my call. That fate, whether you will offer it to me or not!"
First, although he confirmed he was healed, at the point of being surrounded by heroic spirits, he had no choice but to give up resistance and accept a re-contract.
It was literally a situation of being trapped in enemy territory, with no resistance or anything, so he decided to observe the situation.
"In the name of Rider Achilles, I accept that oath."
"Welcome. Rider, no, I'll call you Achilles."
"Fine…."
Achilles could only look at his bewildering Master.
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Enemy Archer
In conclusion, Archer had no choice but to abandon Berserker and leave.
Rider's signal disappeared, and seeing the connection with Rider severed via the priest's telepathy, it seemed he had been eliminated.
And hearing he was eliminated not by the Black faction, but by another faction, Archer had no choice but to be even more wary.
Due to a person presumed to be a Lancer from a third existence and his vision being completely blocked, he couldn't even confirm what happened. It's said the connection was severed.
He used a Command Spell, but Achilles didn't return, only wasting the Command Spell, and it's said Achilles couldn't even return.
Having lost two Servants and suffering only great losses, the Red team was conclusively forced to fall back.
"Achilles, you got done in…. you fool…."
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Meanwhile, when morning came, Achilles ended up eating the food laid out on the table.
'What is this? Is this another world?'
In an atmosphere where something felt odd, he could only eat, and Achilles was in a bewildered situation.
In the end, since everyone was eating without a word. He had no choice but to eat too.
Since he was the person who killed one of their allies, it felt awkward to start a conversation.
After finishing the meal, the person presumed to be the Master appeared and said.
"I'm Akira. Achilles, you'll have to help our faction."
Achilles pointed at the white-haired man in red clothes with his finger and said.
"Haa…, that aside, that Noble Phantasm the black tea guy was using?"
"A person specialized in replicas, you could say an incarnated one?"
"Haa…, I see. I thought Medea was here, but it seems not."
"She's alive though?"
At those words, Achilles tilted his head.
"????"
"She incarnated?"
He began to fall into even greater confusion.
"What!? She's alive!?"
"Yeah, is it strange that she's alive?"
"No! It's not strange that she's alive, but how?"
"If you think she incarnated in another Holy Grail War, will it be easier to understand?"
And then Achilles could realize.
There was no rule that the Holy Grail had to be just one.
Therefore, Medea's incarnation was understood.
"Ahh, is that so? That aside, what's your purpose, Master? Even if it's a wish, you have a Grail. Isn't there seven Servants and incarnated Servants here?"
"Call me by name rather than Master."
"Ahh, right, Akira."
Having a different atmosphere from a typical Master, Achilles understood even less.
He didn't look like a hero either, and had a strong feeling of just an ordinary person, so he couldn't understand why he had intervened in this battlefield as a third party.
"Holy Grail retrieval or Holy Grail destruction."
"...."
It was too simple a reason, and he was a magus unlike a magus, having no desire for the Grail, and just Holy Grail retrieval and destruction… Even from a great hero's perspective, he could only laugh.
"There must be a reason, right?"
"Kotomine Shirou, was it? He is probably a survivor of the 3rd Holy Grail War and a Ruler. Conversely a saint, but essentially a twisted person, though he dislikes people, the essence of a saint who loves humanity is closer to an avenger, but still a person with conviction. The wish he desires is to apply the Third Magic to all people. To deny that, we fight, and as for the other faction, I guess you could say there's just one crazy magus we need to deal with."
"You, are you well acquainted with that priest guy?"
Akira denied it.
"No, I don't know. I only interpreted from what I know, so I'm not well acquainted, but in a way, you could say he's a person with a twisted wish?"
Achilles also had no choice but to acknowledge Akira's words.
His conviction wasn't wrong, but there was also the possibility that his wish might be mistaken, but denying him might be too harsh.
"I won't mention Cú Chulainn. From the start, the moment he went to the front line, dying wouldn't have been strange. Well, the next time he's summoned, he'll probably get beaten to death by Bazett…. Well, shall we move on for now?"
Achilles didn't know this Bazett person, but he had a预感 that if Cú Chulainn were summoned again, he would likely die without resistance.
"Fine, I'll acknowledge you as Master, but I also have the right to refuse, right?"
"Of course. Well, I won't ask someone who doesn't want to fight to fight."
In conclusion, it sounded like the Master meant he wouldn't force it.
"But if it's an unavoidable fight, then I'll have no choice but to fight."
"Hmm…."
He did his best to accept Akira's words, but it's an unavoidable matter.
Considering the contract with his previous Master was severed and a re-contract reconnected the path, this is beneficial in its own way, and hearing that Medea incarnated in this faction made him think he wanted to meet her once.
"That aside, Medea isn't here? Where is she?"
"Japan, Fuyuki."
When Achilles realized the region was different, he could only click his tongue.
"Tch, can't be helped. Did only half the incarnated Servants come?"
"Right? Leaving only a third behind and coming is the correct answer, perhaps?"
"Right, dealing with 'sis' is a bit awkward, but can't be helped."
"Ah, let's abduct Atalanta too!"
At those words, Achilles began to worry about his original faction.
'I've met a strange Master….'
And the Servant combination too….
"Achilles!!!!"
"Whoa whoa, we're allies now, calm down!"
For some reason, it was a combination that aged him 1,000 years.
"That aside, it seems you didn't expect me to come like this?"
"Ah, originally the plan centered around you, Achilles…. Who would have thought the black tea guy would bring you."
"Ahh…, is that so."
Is it fortunate…. or maybe he's come to hell.
It's a connection, a bond, but the term 'ill-fated bond' fit better.
"That aside, Hector, where did you put your helmet and come here?"
"Ahh? That? I guess I should think it's not there anymore, maybe the Throne judged it unnecessary."
'『Hector of the Shining Helmet』 unnecessary? Are you an idiot…. Thousands of years have passed, and the name still remains. Doesn't he know it's an image of this man's glory?'
"Ah~ I can guess what you're thinking, but fighting you who's become an ally is a bit… so you know, give me a break. There's a Troy (Master) here, so I have to protect them."
And he became convinced.
That this guy is a hero called the strongest when it comes to 「protecting」….
In that process, he doesn't desire honor, nor is he a warrior who flaunts power, he has no interest in glory or such, and he only now realized he's a man who fights to protect.
And this guy, to defeat me, even treated his own life as expendable and sought an opportunity until the very end.
"Haa, is that so…. So you were a hero for something."
"Cough cough, that's a bit cringey?"
"Right, on this occasion, cringe and die."
"Grrr."
And Hector said with a smile.
"Can I let the kid go?"
Threatened by Hector, Achilles could only answer with a mixed expression, smiling.
"No."
It could truly be seen as a dog's fate.
"Achilles!!!!!!"
No, it might really be a dog's fate. To the point that seeing acquaintances and connections, ill-fated bonds I know appear, the situation was so despairing it made me think the Olympian gods had cursed me.
'Sis…, save me….'
He was an Achilles who never imagined he would miss his sister's face at a time like this.