Otherwise, you can find another savior.

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If we were to define this still-developing Beast principle, it could probably only be called "salvation."

In order to save this one and only important being, he was willing to become a god, but in the process he lost his way, mistaking the means for the result, and ultimately became a disaster that could endanger humanity and the world.

It is both divine and bestial.

“So… I have a favor to ask,” Shio said.

“Why use such wording?” Morgan was exasperated by his politeness, because it meant he had to say something very important.

"Just because you almost lost your life protecting me, I ended up like this." tide Jian hugged Morgan. "If I really lost you, I don't even know what I would become."

“You will not become the Beast, nor is it necessary for you to become the Beast.” Morgan gently stroked his back and comforted him softly. “The previous teasing was just teasing. My husband is indeed an insatiable ‘beast,’ but not in this sense.”

“Then you’d better keep a close eye on me, my wife,” Shio said.

“If I don’t keep an eye on you, who else can I expect to keep an eye on you… although I can barely keep an eye on your womanizing ways anymore,” Morgan complained jokingly, then playfully nibbled on his earlobe.

"Uh..." tide Jian was speechless for a moment.

Then, Scáthach grabbed his other ear, causing him a sharp pain.

“He’s leaving everyone else out there, spouting his own heartfelt words,” Scáthach cautioned. “He’s showing a bit too much favoritism.”

Morgan smiled smugly, released Shiomi, and then Scáthach hugged him.

"Master, you've worked hard in the previous battle." He quickly and earnestly comforted him, carefully stroking his master's hair and back.

However, this situation did not last long.

Because Artoria and Skadi are still in line behind them.

Although it wasn't a production line operation, Morgan couldn't help but chuckle at the way he earnestly comforted the others. However, not wanting to make the atmosphere awkward, he tried his best to hold it in and pretended to look around at the scenery indifferently.

"Uh... an orange?"

Skadi, who was last in line, hugged for a while, and before the spirit transfer back to Chaldea began, he opened his arms again and asked Orange.

"Of course I want to." Orange hugged Xijian generously, nuzzling his ear and hair affectionately.

Aoko was so surprised she couldn't close her mouth, completely unable to connect the Orange in this moment with the older sister who was speaking rationally just a second ago.

"Although it may sound strange to say this as an outsider and a former enemy, I personally really think that Miss Orange's relationships with men are not exactly commendable." Arisu revealed an indescribable expression, tinged with pity.

"Don't overthink it. Tianxi and I are just ex-lovers. It's just that we have to work together now for some reasons. It's not like we've cut ties and never see each other again. It's only natural to rekindle old memories." Chengzi understood this very well. She was going to sit in the special position of ex-girlfriend. "By the way, my relationship with Tianxi started before I went back to Misaki."

“…Wh…what?” Aoko was shocked.

After all, my older sister really couldn't see any signs of this back then.

Although we didn't catch up much back then, we started fighting as soon as we met.

"She already has a boyfriend but does that kind of thing... Miss Orange is really despicable." Ayumi showed a disgusted expression.

tide Jian ignored him and asked about something else.

"By the way, what happened with your sister's first love ending?"

"Want to hear it now? It's—"

"Stop, stop, stop, big sister! You can't tell outsiders about this!"

The farewell was made all the more lively by Aoko's childish and disruptive antics.

Final Chapter One Tea Party

"Teacher, regarding the 2001 singularity report, I'd like to know a little more about the section on the Fifth Mage—"

In the lounge, Olga Marie opened the unlocked door and instinctively began to explain her purpose to Shio, but her words abruptly stopped midway.

Because she saw Shiomi, Sakura, and Karen sitting together on the carpet, looking at something.

Sakura and Karen were leaning on Shiomi like children, chatting and laughing, and didn't immediately notice Olga Marie.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Father and sisters are looking at old photo albums."

Bavan Shi, who was the first to notice someone arriving, reached out and took the documents from the director's hand. "Why don't you come later? Or is it urgent now?"

“No…it’s not in a rush.” Olga Marie took off her shoes, walked to the carpet, sat down, and moved closer. “Why did you suddenly decide to look at the old photo album?”

tide Jian looked up: "It's nothing, just a sudden whim."

“During this trip to the 2001 Singularity, Father met Sakura and Karen from the past,” Bawan Shi laughed happily. “So he couldn’t resist inviting Sakura and Karen to look at the old photos together.”

“I see…” Olga Marie leaned closer.

She had only turned two pages of the photo album when she saw a vintage group photo on the left. Judging from the background, it looked like a church. She instinctively asked, "Whose photo is this?"

“This one? This one is—” Shio pulled out the photo.

"It was the last photo we took together, with the help of a priest at church, on the day I was adopted by my father, as a farewell and a memento." Sakura tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

In the photo, she is holding Shiomi's hand, while Karen is being held in Shiomi's arms.

Tokiomi Tohsaka stood less than a meter away from them.

Karen looked bewildered, while Sakura gazed at Shiomi with a mixture of unease and curiosity.

“Adoption…” Olga Marie remembered.

During Singularity F, Shiomi also mentioned the general situation. So the only man in the photo that she didn't recognize should be Tokiomi Tohsaka, the head of the Tohsaka family in Fuyuki at the time and Sakura's biological father.

“Speaking of which, the old priest who took the photos was Karen’s grandfather.” Shio smiled wryly. “Unfortunately, he passed away a year later.”

Karen shook her head silently: "...I don't even remember what my grandfather looked like."

“You were only three years old then, so you could only remember so much.” tide Jian shook her head, trying not to delve into the topic of Kotomine and his son. “You were so tiny in my arms, like a little doll.”

“Because Dad is very tall.” Karen hugged Shiomi’s arm. “Even now, when Dad holds me, I look like a little kid.”

"But would a magician's family really be willing to give their child to a teacher with no background?" Olga Marie thought to herself, still somewhat surprised.

Sakura nodded: "I also find it a bit unbelievable."

"That's because Sakura's biological father... didn't actually not love his child, which is why he sent Sakura away. It's just that a human magician's magic path can only have one inheritor. If a child who can't inherit the magic path has mediocre talent, that's fine, but Sakura's talent is so outstanding that even if she doesn't come into contact with magic, she will be uncontrollably drawn into things related to magic." Bawan Shi answered Olga Marie on Shiomi's behalf at this time.

“That’s how it is.” Shiomi shrugged. “After that, she continued to live in the Tohsaka family, and they didn’t show any signs of avoiding Sakura.”

"Moreover, Tokiomi Tohsaka's magic circuits were destroyed in the Holy Grail War, and he even had to ask his father to teach Rin Tohsaka basic magic." Kallen helped Shiomi put the photo back, pointing to a photo on the right.

That was the Miwa River Summer Festival the year after the Fourth Holy Grail War.

A souvenir photo of Sakura, Kallen, and Rin together.

Each of the three people had a copy.

“That’s so nice…” Olga Marie couldn’t help but express her envy.

“If it’s the summer festival, Mary can come to Japan for sightseeing after the world crisis is over,” Shiomi extended the invitation.

Olga Marie nodded hesitantly, "Yes, okay..."

What she actually envied was that Rin Tohsaka, despite having family-inherited magic skills, could naturally go and learn from other magicians.

Speaking of which, Princess Reines El-Melloi of El-Melloi also had Shiomi work as her governess for a few years.

So Olga Marie couldn't help but wonder if, had Shiomi become her tutor, Trisha would not have been killed because she went with her on the Mystic Eyes Collection Train.

Even so, he might not even have the chance to get to know Trisha again.

At least the other person is alive, that's better than anything else.

"...Mary?" Shiomi's voice pulled Olga Marie back to reality. "What's wrong? Why do you look so complicated? Are you tired because you've been so busy lately?"

Olga Marie blinked, quickly wiping away her tears: "No, I'm just a little touched..."

"Touched?" Sakura was surprised.

“Father… Marisbury had high hopes for me, but he didn’t care much about me and rarely talked to me.” Olga Marie rarely spoke about her family affairs in front of outsiders.

Even though he was her own father, Olga Marie rarely called Maris Billy "father," but instead addressed him by his first name.

It's not that I'm being disrespectful; it's just that addressing someone this way feels more natural and natural to me.

“Most magicians’ families are like this… Before this spiritual transfer, I heard from Mashu that Ophelia was similar. She didn’t have a good relationship with her parents, but she had to spend every Sunday with them.” Shiomi shook her head with a wry smile. “Making time for strengthening parent-child bonds feel like being in prison is a magician’s specialty.”

Olga Marie also gave a wry smile: "That person only cares about Chaldea and the mission of Animusphia's thousand-year legacy. Even when I see my father, I can't say anything except about work."

Then, this father mysteriously committed suicide one day, leaving Animusfia's entire business to his 20-year-old heir.

"I'm sorry, I only came here to talk to the teacher about work, but it seems like I suddenly started saying some very heavy things to everyone, which has disturbed your atmosphere."

Realizing she had said a bit too much, Olga Marie suddenly blushed, bowed to them, and prepared to leave, but was stopped by Bavan Shi.

"You just said you're not busy, so why don't you sit down and have a good chat? Let's not talk about us, after all, Father would be happy to listen."

"……Um."

Olga Marie, who was asked to stay by Bawan Shi, was taken aback for a moment before sitting down again with a shy smile under Shiomi's warm gaze, continuing the tea party without tea.

The deduction that Epilogue 2 does not exist

"In the end, we were all called here for a so-called 'work test,' and all we got was to test this kind of board game?"

While verbally criticizing Aozaki Touko's workshop, Morgan was actually engrossed in playing the board game she had created.

"This isn't your average board game. It's based on Aoko's experiences right after she inherited the magic," Orange retorted in a nonchalant tone. "Because the main events take place at night, I named it 'The Night of the Wizard'."

"Back at the Kumano Onsen Ryokan, I heard that you used your own sister as a model to make dolls to attack her and her companions." Scáthach held up Aozaki Aoko's chess piece. "Now, has this perverse sense of humor become even more extreme?"

"Of course. I'm planning to give this to Qingzi later. After all, she's been single for so many years, she must be very bored." Chengzi said with a smile, but it was a hurtful thing. "It'll be good for her to reminisce about the past."

The only downside is that Aoko isn't here, so there's not much of an effective attack.

"It seems everyone has gained something from this hot spring trip to the singularity to varying degrees." Artoria threw down the dice, then took a few steps forward with a chess piece named Shizuki Sojuro and entered the amusement park area.

“Oh, now it’s time for the battle,” Orange said. “Each side will roll a 20-sided die three times, and then the sum will be used to calculate the bonus and penalty.”

"Then we'll compare sizes?" Skadi asked, holding Kuonji Yuzu's Go stone.

"No, the main event is yet to come."

Artoria, Scáthach, and Skadi each rolled the dice, and after each rolled a different number, the pieces on the board suddenly came to life and began to fight each other fiercely.

This is why Orange asked them to help with the testing.

Her board games are semi-autonomous games that operate through magic.

"Leaving aside the subject matter, just from a creative standpoint, there are indeed some ideas. You've used your expertise in puppetry on chess pieces. On the surface, they're chess pieces, but when a mechanism is triggered, they become little puppets to fight." Morgan thought for a moment, "If ten points is a perfect score, I'd give it nine."

"The Great Witch is really demanding," Orange replied jokingly.

The battle on the table was going to continue for a while, so a few people gathered around, some standing and some sitting, watching the show and chatting.

"If this singularity isn't resolved successfully, Morgan's existence will be affected, and he'll disappear, right?" Skadi asked worriedly, her thoughts drifting from the board game to the singularity.

"After all, it didn't really turn out that way, so who knows?" Morgan was quite calm, since history had already been corrected, so there was no need to worry about it anymore.

Unless we do it again.

“If you, my Servant, had disappeared in 1999, my beloved student… would have been in great pain afterward, wouldn’t she?” Scáthach continued along the lines of the hypothesis, “and wouldn’t even be able to remember why you disappeared.”

"Then, in order to solve the problem, he participated in the Fifth Holy Grail War and tried to summon Morgan again, but it was someone from the Pan-Human History side who came?" Orange continued to deduce based on her understanding of Shiomi.

Artoria was taken aback: "Isn't this Queen here a bit too dangerous? Even if Tianxi is cautious enough, she might still be bewitched because they look exactly alike, right?"

"And then... it's still the same as always?" Skadi couldn't help but sigh. "You can't eat meal replacements as regular meals."

“But it will satisfy your cravings, right?” Scáthach laughed merrily. “And most likely, once she realizes this, her beloved disciple will maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with Morgan of Pan-Human History, becoming a couple in name only.”

"Finally, they entered Chaldea again, and even resolved the Burning of Humanity, but after the White Paper arrived, for various reasons, they ended up in the Lostbelt of Britain." Orange exclaimed with a final thud, "And then they reunited smoothly?"

“It’s simply destiny.” Artoria said with an expression as if she had just heard a good story.

“But this will also cause problems, right? If Morgan from the pan-human history doesn’t disappear, wouldn’t there eventually be a situation where he’s competing with himself from different histories?” Skadi said, glancing at Scáthach.

Because their fundamental natures are different, the situations of Scáthach and Scáthach cannot be applied interchangeably.

After all, it's not hard to see from the past that Artoria occasionally mentions that Morgan of Pan-Human History is a much more contradictory witch than the Morgan in front of us.

Grey, one of the examples of that contradiction, is now also in this Chaldea.

“That really makes me curious,” Scáthach nodded repeatedly.

"It's better...not to be curious," Artoria shook her head.

At that moment, Morgan slammed her hand on the table, a forced smile on her face.