บท 50: Booking Trip and Attending Magus Bussiness
This time around you should be excited as this fic is back. (This makes three actives fics, I am trying to kill myself, lol) But anyway, this one will be secondary and will be getting chapters in rotations with my Godslayer fic, while the primary one is my ATG fic.
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After returning from 'Holidays' it was time for proper holidays, Morgan being the Queen, she led the pair of knights to a travel agency to book the cruise she was thinking of when they were in a different timeline.
"So…why am I needed here?" Artoria asked as she was dressed in a black suit, the same style as she was in the previous war. Saber Alter was next to her and she was dressed in the same style as well.
The pair looked like twins. Well, more like triplets as Morgan had the same face as well, though she stands out the most from her long pale blond hair to chilly blue eyes. The Fairy Queen was dressed in a professional-looking suit.
"I know the difference between Tyrant and Queen. Queen listens to her subject's opinions, while Tyrant does not.
You are here to give me your opinion."
Artoria stiffly nodded, though she was confused.
"...But, I have no idea about 'Holidays' and how to 'book' them."
"I don't care."
*Sigh*
The blonde knight sighed, she should have gone with Ren to the Clock Tower, maybe sitting around and listening to magus moaning about issues would have been better.
"What our dearest sister means is that she wants opinions since none of us has any idea about this," Alter said with a casual tone as she was looking around for a fast food joint.
The Fallen Knight is memorising the routes, she can't constantly demand food from her Master. The more she does the more she feels in debt.
"...Then why didn't we bring our Master with us? He is the one from this era." Artoria pointed out with a frown.
"Because we can't rely on him for everything," Morgan said with a matter-of-fact voice.
"I suppose, but this is not our expertise." Blonde Knight pointed out.
"Artoria, you do realise you can't use this excuse anymore?" Morgan said with an amused smirk, she then flicked her hair and proceeded to say some more.
"It should not be my work either, but we are no longer in our original timelines and we are not occupying our original positions. We all are reborn and now we have to adapt."
"It appears our older sister is happy to speak this much."
Morgan's eyebrow twitched when she heard that tease, she almost summoned her staff and smacked the cheeky brat with it.
*Hmph*
"It's the truth and get used to it, our pasts are long over," Morgan said with a knowing tone, she knows this the best, her past doesn't even exist. It was completely erased.
Artoria slowly nodded. As her gaze went around, she could see buildings of glass, there were a lot of people with all sorts of backgrounds…
This is supposed to be the Roman city of Londinium, in her time this place was just an average size town. But in the time she is right now this place is a massive city with millions of people.
Eventually, the trio arrived at the holiday agency.
Artoria could see pictures of places, there is a huge map on the walls with pictures stuck to precise locations.
'Amazing… the world is such a large place! The grail didn't explain anything!'
The pair of Artorias frowned at the same time, they felt cheated!
'No wonder Rider was so obsessed with rebirth, he most likely realised how big the world is.' Artoria remembers the Banquet of Kings quite vividly, and the ridiculous wish of Iskandar.
Part of her finally understands.
As the pair walked to the map, they saw a red dot which said, 'You are here'.
'Britain…is so small!'
She never thought her homeland was so small! It's a puny island compared to the rest of the world!
While the pair are ogling the map Morgan was the most professional and walked over to the agent.
"You must be Missus Ashwell?"
"Yes. We talked over the phone, and I wish to book a cruise around the world."
"Of course, we have some pre-prepared routes, you can customise certain things as well."
The agent proceeded to motion her to follow.
Soon enough the Fairy Queen needed to use all of her mental capacity here, as she was learning geography at the same time she was pretending to be knowledgeable and at the same time paying full attention to what the agent was saying.
"There are two routes for this, one could take a route around Africa." The seller pointed to the map which goes around Africa, towards India.
"Or you could start with the one which goes to the United States, then the Caribbean and eventually around South America."
"You know you are me, do you think this is strange? How has the whole world been searched out like this?" Artoria whispered to her alter form.
"I know, you are still fresh after the war, I already had time to adjust, you won't believe the whole truth about our Britain." Alter whispered back.
Morgan who could hear everything perfectly could only try to ignore this useless chatter of her so-called little sisters.
"So it falls to either take right or take left?" Morgan pondered as she looked at the map.
"Indeed, either way, you will be seeing the same things."
"Only the difference is which is first and which one is last." The Fairy nodded in understanding.
"Yes."
The Dark Witch pondered some more.
"You two, what do you think?"
"Ehh?"
"Hmm?"
The pair got caught red-handed, as they ignored the whole thing.
"I am asking what do you think?"
The pair of Artorias looked at the map, they saw lions, on the big continent of Africa.
"In which one will we see lions first?" Alter said randomly, she did see them in Zoo recently, but now she wants to see them in the natural wilderness.
"Lions?"
"Yes." the pair of Artorias nodded at the same time, while Morgan was rolling her eyes as she was standing at the side.
"Well, if you take the one which takes you around Africa first, then we could arrange a Safari when the Cruise has docked."
"Great, then take that one!"
*Phew*
'This one was a close one!'
The pair of Sabers sighed at the same time.
"Since there is not that much difference, I agree with what the pair have chosen." The Fairy Queen with a regal-like tone got the attention of the agent.
"Very well, now let's arrange the rest of the trip."
For some reason, the pair of Artorias felt some dread rising in their guts.
They have not realised but they will be discussing ALL of the pit stops and what they can see.
~~~~~~~Ereshrin~~~~~~
'So this is the Clock Tower, modern Mages…' The Blonde Goddess turned Servant and looked curiously around. Her Rin side was quite gushing about this place as she was thinking of attending this place after the war.
"Take your time, we are not in a hurry."
"Oh? My thanks, Sensei, Rin wanted to attend this place, so part of me wants to explore this as well." The Mesopotamian Goddess nodded at Ren with a smile.
"I see, then do so. Though I am curious about how your personality operates. I know that it was a merger since I did so with compatibility in mind for perfection."
She had a thoughtful look for a second.
"I don't know how to explain this in human words. The majority of my experiences as a Goddess are blurred out as a human's mind doesn't need so much useless information.
Core principles of Ereshkigal are kept which are merged with that of Rin Tohsaka. What emerges from that is Lancer Class Servant Ereshkigal.
So this means, I love nature because I never saw proper wilderness before, the upper world was always the domain of Ishtar."
"Hmm, more or less what I thought, good, you will be pleased then, since we will be going on a world cruise soon. So you will see the entire world."
Her eyes glitter in happiness as she realised what this means!
"S-So this is where Morgan and your Sabers went too!" The blonde Lancer exclaimed. Now she knew where those left all of a sudden! They are booking a cruise!
"Indeed. Anyway, let's enter." He motioned for her to enter the room.
What was inside was like a parliament or a senate?
The Goddess recalled this from Rin's studies, those memories sure helping her out now.
'It's already in session, so we are late?' The blonde for a second felt bad for forcing her Master to be late like this! He wasted time showing things to her. And because of that, they were late!
"Lord Ashwell! You are back?"
"Don't mind me, continue." Her Master motioned for them to continue.
Though everyone was slightly spooked for seeing him back AND seeing her.
'Do they realise what I am?'
"This…Lord…"
"Oh? Is it something related to me?" He asked curiously, sure enough, they saw his eyes turn pitch black…
He was gazing at the timeline.
From the looks of it, everyone started to sweat buckets.
'Naughty-Naughty, humans always do something naughty behind one's back. Especially Magus people.'
"Call Reines. It appears you people tried to take Archibald's wealth without my consent." Ren said with an annoyed tone after stopping with his timeline gaze.
"B-But Lord! She is just a child! Such resources should be split evenly! And when she is of age we can return it!" One of the lords said with a sweaty forehead. He is trying to weasel through this.
"Would you?"
"..."
*..."
"..."
"Would you return the properties you take from Archibald's Family?" Ren asked with a serious tone as he leaned into his throne, one could see his eyes were nearly glowing.
Ereshkigal could Sense sheer dread coming from the 'fellow' lord who was at the forefront of her Master's gaze.
"...this…well…"
"Don't lie to me, It's pointless."
"...I would! With some consideration and a trade!" The Lord said with a stuttering voice.
"Then no. Lord Archibald was part of my political party, so his property remains where it is."
"Lord Ashwell, you can't decide so arbitrarily!"
"Oh? And what are you going to do about it? Want a duel?" Ren proposed with a friendly tone.
Ereshkigal grinned for a second, as she saw how sensei is messing with these uptight Maguses. She could see the opposing faction pale.
"...On second thought…"
"Yes. You should rather reconsider. In the meantime, can someone call Reines for me?"
'Can't you just use your time power thingies and do it yourself?' The blonde Lancer asked with a cheeky tone via their mental connection.
'Yes, but this time around I can make them squirm until she comes here over.' He said that with an amused tone, as he turned his gaze to her and smiled.
"Of course! One moment Lord Ashwell!"
One of the Magus just rushed out to be an errant boy for her Master.
"In the meantime tell me what is going on?"
"...Didn't you just use your True Magic to figure this out?"
"I did, but I have no idea IF you all figured this out?" Ren motioned leisurely as he summoned a cup of tea from his Gate.
"After all you might have done this wrong and done this pointlessly?" Now he was treating them as if they were idiots.
"...Fine."
"After you left somewhere Lord Archibald was assassinated in his suite."
A soft sigh escaped from her Master's mouth.
"Truly, I was the only one who was prolonging his life, the moment I left this timeline his life expired."
The rest were quite clueless as to what he meant.
"Don't mind me, one can't have perfection everywhere." Once again he mumbled something to himself before motioning to continue.
"Investigation turned up without clues as to who did it."
"Hmm, this is quite self-explanatory who did it," Ren said with a lazy eye roll.
"It is?"
"Yes. His fiance was cursed by his Lancer when he was part of the Holy Grail War. His Fiance fell in love with Diarmuid who had his love spot.
You might not know but Lord Archibald left the war quite quickly, his fiance didn't like that her Lancer died like this."
Everyone looked at each other, from the looks of it, a bunch of people knew what went down, but they pretended not to know, now the Sorcerer is back and whatever scheme they have just got destroyed.
'Hehehe… let's see what they do now!' The Goddess internally giggled at the expressions everyone had.
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