Chapter 1445 He's Nothing
After Haru and Jeanne woke up, they went back in the evening, and the moment, they arrived at the villa, the Magus and the homunculus quickly gathered around both of them and let out a sigh of relief.
Haru didn't feel surprised by their reaction since the condition of the Black Faction was at a disadvantage, and they were afraid for Haru and Jeanne to suddenly leave them.
Then both of them were led to a room, where everyone was already waiting for them.
"You two are finally back."
Fiore said, then stared at Jeanne and Haru, wondering why she felt that both of them seemed to be closer than before.
"Sit down, please."
Haru stared at Fiore and could see a fantigue in her eyes.
After becoming the patriarch of the Yggdmillennia clan, Fiore worked so hard that she didn't have a wink of sleep before.
Besides Fiore, there was Caules and Chiron, there was also both Sieg and Astolfo in this room.
"Hello!"
Astolfo greeted both Haru and Jeanne cheerfully and said, "Did you two have fun with your date?"
"……"
The atmosphere turned quiet and awkward at that moment.
Jeanne lowered her head to hide her blush, on the other hand, Haru only smiled and didn't care much.
Raikou couldn't stay still and appeared silently between Haru and Jeanne.
"They're not dating," Raikou said.
"…"
"Cough! Cough!"
Chiron gathered everyone's attention on him and asked, "Are you the Ruler? I am sorry that I was not able to greet you before." He then winked at Haru as if saying leave everything to me.
Haru nodded and felt grateful for Chiron at that moment.
In the last battle with Achilles, Achilles suffered a lot of injuries and since then he had maintained his astral form to heal his body until now so that was why he had only met Jeanne right now.
"You're the Great Sage, Chiron, right?" Jeanne nodded, smiled, showed respect, and said, "I have admired your name for a long time."
"My name is nothing great." Chiron acted humbly and said, "I also didn't expect to meet the famous saint in this Holy Grail War."
"Are you alright, Chiron?" Haru looked at Chiron and said, "Your fight with your disciple wasn't going to smooth, right?"
Chiron sighed and said, "He has become much stronger than I have thought. In the end, if he wasn't being forced to return then my situation might be worse than it is now and I have felt that there is something wrong with the masters of Red Faction."
Chiron's words caused everyone's attention on him again.
"What happened?" Caules quickly asked Chiron.
"It is just my guess, but…" Chiron's expression was quite heavy and said, "I am afraid that Achiless's master has been replaced."
"Achiless's master has been replaced?!"
"I guess, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada has seized all the Command Spells of the masters of the Red Faction, and became the only master in the Red Faction, right?" Haru said.
"What…?!"
Everyone was shocked.
Jeanne's expression turned heavy and she frowned deeper.
According to Chiron's story, Achilles suddenly knelt down in pain during the duel and complained angrily.
"That priest…! How dare he do such a thing?.?!"
Achilles yelled out those words angrily, and when he was summoned back, using a Command Spell.
Those actions led to a conclusion that all the Command Spells on the Red Faction had been obtained by Shirou.
"Just like what Kasugano-kun has said, Shirou Amakusa might have become the only master in the Red Faction," Chiron said.
"If we want to defeat the Red Faction, then we need to defeat Amakusa Shirou Tokisada no matter what!"
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada.
When this name was mentioned, everyone's brows wrinkled together.
"Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, a saint from Japan, right?"
Fiore cast her gaze at Haru and then Jeanne, before asking.
"Ruler what do you think of Amakusa Shirou Tokisada?"
After all, both Jeanne and Shirou believed in Catholicism so they wanted to know Jeanne's view regarding Shirou.
However, Jeanne felt a little embarrassed.
"I don't know much about Amakusa Shirou Tokisada. Although I am also a Catholic believer, I only have relevant knowledge about the Holy Grail War, I don't know much about him."
After a servant was called out to this world, no matter who it was, they would be given the general knowledge of the current era, but that was only general knowledge, although both Jeanne and Shirou believed in Catholicism, her knowledge only limited to Shirou's information such as history and deeds in the past, not the character and his reason to obtain the Holy Grail.
"Isn't that quite normal?" Caules pushed the frame of his glasses and said, "Jeanne d'Arc is the most famous saint in the entire world. In comparison, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada is just a little saint in Japan, there's no comparison between the two."
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada became a saint only because he performed miracles that no one else could do since he was born.
Treating a disease with just a touch.
Healing injuries.
Walking on top of the water.
All of those miracles could be done easily by the most common Magus in this world and there was nothing special about it, however, when people five hundred years ago saw all of that, they felt that it was a "miracle" itself.
For this reason, Shirou was regarded as a saint, became the spokesperson of the Catholic Church in Japan, and worshipped by a lot of normal people.
After that, the shogunate issued a ban on religion, and Shirou led a large-scale rebellion.
Shirou might be won first, but after that, he lost being trapped inside a castle then made the majority of his believers die in hunger.
In conclusion, even though Shirou was a hero, his reputation wasn't good.
The army that Shirou led was nothing more than 30,000 believers that had never trained and only a group of poor people, and his so-called miracles were nothing more than a Magecraft to deceive those people.
In the end, Shirou died of hatred.
With all of those things, judging the rank of the hero, Shirou was only a third-rate hero at best.
"So…" Astolfo raised her head and asked, "The saint called Amakusa is weak, right?"
Compared to the top servants such as Karna, Raikou, Achilles, Chiron, and Semiramis, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada was at a small appetizer.
However, of course, as a servant no matter how weak Shirou was, he was definitely stronger than an average servant, but in terms of combat ability, he was definitely a small fry compared to most of the servants on the Holy Grail.
Even in the Third Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, Shirou relied on his privileges as a ruler, strategy, and trick to survive until the end, and stepped away from the victory.
Even if Shirou was an enemy, there was no big deal, however…
"I don't know why, but I feel that person is dangerous."
It was Sieg who said such a sentence.
"On that day, when Rider and I were rescuing the homunculus during the war, even if I didn't face Amakusa Shirou Tokisada directly, but when he appeared on that hanging garden, I saw his appearance and I felt that we shouldn't treat him lightly."
Sieg's words reminded Fiore, Caules, and Chiron of what happened that day.
On that day, the priest named Amakusa Shirou Tokisada led the servants of the Red Faction, standing on the hanging garden, under the eyes of everyone, and stole the Holy Grail from the Black Faction.
Frankly, Shirou did nothing in that battle.
Shirou didn't join the battle, nor did he do anything shocking, his actions were minimal during that war.
However, Shirou controlled all the servants of the Red Faction and became the leader of the Red Faction. Even though he was targeted by the Black Faction, he always smiled, and never wavered until the end.
"Although that heroic spirit is weak in strength, even though his strategy isn't quite profound, there's one thing that makes him worthy of being called a hero…"
Chiron took a breath and said, "That's his faith."
It was because of such a strong faith that Shirou could persist for sixty to seventy years, waiting for the Holy Grail War, then stealing the Holy Grail to realize his obsession.
It was because of his strong faith that Shirou was able to stand out among many powerful characters and control the situation.
Without this faith, Shirou was nothing.
Haru only shook his head, thinking that they were trying to exaggerate Shirou since in his eyes, Shirou was nothing.
When Shirou appeared in his room back then, if Haru didn't want to see how beautiful Semiramis was, then he had already killed Shirou a long time ago.
Semiramis might be beautiful, however, Haru had enough of such a dangerous woman. He had Raikou, Esdeath, Kirari, and a lot more, thinking back, he realized that a lot of his women were very dangerous.
Haru also understood the reason why Shirou appeared in his room back then was to stop him from discovering what had happened on the basecamp when Shirou stole the Holy Grail inside the Fortress of Millennia.
Haru had seen how beautiful Semiramis was so after this, he wouldn't show mercy. He then turned toward Jeanne and asked, "Jeanne, you have the privilege of using a Command Spell twice on every servant on the Holy Grail, right? So can you use your Command Spell to command the servants on the Red Faction?"
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