01x04 - The Canon of Demigods

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Faldeus Dioland.

He comes from a family of Mages

that has specialized in puppetry for generations

and is one of the masterminds who set up

this Holy Grail w*r in collusion with the States.

During the Third Holy Grail w*r of Fuyuki,

someone from Faldeus's family

participated as a Master.

The Dioland Family partnered up

with a portion of the government

and tried to recreate

a Holy Grail w*r in the States.

They plundered the land most suitable for the ritual

from the guardians of that territory

and relentlessly tampered

with the Leyline.

And that place is Snowfield.

The project was halted for a time

but it quickly accelerated after they managed

to culture a piece of the Holy Grail

from Fuyuki on this land.

But in the end, it's

nothing more than a fake.

Compared to the real thing,

its connection to the Leyline is weak.

So

they decided to summon

an additional seven real Servants

using us six Servants as primers.

With a seven-day time limit to boot.

Do not look back.

DOST THOU HAVE CONVICTION?

Dost thou have conviction?

So long as thy conviction be retained,

thine shadow I am become.

I see.

So, this is the Holy Grail w*r.

To think that a Dead

Apostle was a Master

Even I couldn't predict that at all!

It's obvious that you're enjoying this

troublesome old hag.

My, my, my.

You know, being told that to my face

actually hurts my feelings.

I've only been using this body

for three years, you know!

The internal organs

are still really clean!

Care to look? Wanna see?

A girl's secret

in-ter-nal or-gans!

If we leave that Dead Apostle to do as he pleases,

we'll end up with civilian victims, as well.

I thought you braced yourself

for civilian casualties

when you decided to use

this city as the stage.

Are the States really going to proceed

with the project as planned?

That's right!

Every Master in the real Holy Grail w*r

has struck a deal with the States,

so you can rest assured, Orlando!

Besides, there are parts of the incidents from

last night that I'm not amused about, either.

What?

I mean, the ones that stood out in the end

were the Executor and the Dead Apostle!

No, no! That's a no!

The stars of a Holy Grail w*r

have got to be the Servants and Masters!

Now, let the show begin!

Did you get a playbill?

Did you get popcorn?

You gotta hurry

or you're gonna miss the

fight of the century!

Huh?

Lady Tiné!

My king! Are you all right?

What was that lightning?

The lightning itself

was my Noble Phantasm.

I set up an auto-defender

in case my friend decides to jest.

I didn't think I'd have to repel

an arrow of the likes of a bowman.

Bowman?

However, the Archer-class—

Tiné

Ride in the back.

I-Is it all right?

I can't fully protect you

from those ghastly arrows if I leave you here.

As you are my Master

it would trouble me so if you were to die.

Right.

What the hell did you guys summon?

You're going to ask that

in a Holy Grail w*r?

Disclosing the True Name means

you're disclosing their weakness, you know.

We are Mages, and we are policemen!

Existences who rope in the residents of the city

with no particular reason

should be eradicated first and foremost!

You really are square-headed.

Then I guess I'll at

least give you a hint.

The Holy Grail w*r doesn't summon

the gods themselves.

But he's an exception

as he's only half-god.

His strength is of a different level

compared to an ordinary Heroic Spirit

and in his heart,

hatred for the gods is boiling over!

You're the one who staged

the surprise attack.

You won't be begging for

your life now, will you?

Two

Archers?

His class may be Archer, but his very nature

was changed drastically when he was summoned.

So, he is now a seeker of vengeance.

Why don't we call that an "Avenger"?

I see.

Indeed, if I were fixated on victory,

I may toy around with such an idea, as well.

However

that would only be

suitable because it is I!

It is not an action that the mere likes of you

would be allowed to do!

Hah!

Looks like he has quite

the sticky fingers. Then

how about this?

No way.

The King of Heroes, huh?

So weak.

Oh?

If you're just randomly throwing weapons at me,

you might as well be throwing sand!

Draw the sword idling

in the furthest reaches of your storage.

That will make us even.

Ea might as well be my other self.

It is not a sword I use

against weaklings like you.

Prove to me that you are

a powerful opponent

worthy of an audience with Ea.

How foolish.

You would have spared yourself

from death had you drawn it.

A tremendous divine aura.

A Noble Phantasm.

Its aura is different from the gods I know

but in essence they are the same. Hmm?

Gil

Looks like you're fighting someone

that might be pretty powerful.

On top of that

another strong presence has appeared.

Huh?

That fiend is my prey!

The two of you, don't meddle with him!

Amazing.

I'm awestruck!

Did you know about this, Ayaka?

What exactly is this music?

What was I

doing again?

Man, he's amazing!

Your boyfriend!

He said he's never

touched a guitar before

but he mastered it in no time!

Oh no, he's not my boyfriend or anything.

Where's he from?

He's told us he's from England, but

I don't know, either.

Nothing about him.

Ayaka!

Look!

Isn't it great? They gave it to me!

They say we're going to do

something called a "session" now

so I want you to take a listen, as well!

This is exactly what they mean

when they say "raining on a parade," girl.

Kalion!

I see, so it's you.

Queen of Betrayal.

Archer!

As I thought.

That surely hit him.

What in the world?

He has armor that seems to be made

from the hide of a Demonic or Divine Beast.

Was that also what blocked

Your Majesty's barrage of attacks earlier?

Any and every tool crafted by human hands

will not work against that thing.

Why do you not harbor my father's power,

the power of the w*r belt, upon your body?

The power of gods is not something

to harbor on one's body.

What?

It is something to force into submission,

trample upon and control with human might!

What

is that power?

I thought I told you

to not get in the way!

Fool!

I have no ear to lend for one with such insolence

that they do not dismount before the king!

Get lost at once!

Of all things, you direct

the power of some god against me?

Your insolence knows no bounds, woman.

If you're going to bar my way any further,

I will eliminate you first, golden king.

Get in your way?

Am I not, in truth, your salvation?

What?

You and that bowman over there

stand on different levels

as Heroic Spirits.

Surely you are not so simple

that you can't even understand that.

I understand that he surpasses my best

because I died at his hands!

However, at this point,

my end is of little importance.

Answer me!

Why did you target that young child?

Though they are a child,

they are a Mage who joined the w*r.

I have no reason to be merciful!

I don't want to hear

some common and cliché reasoning.

You

You, of all people

were a man I thought could

never do such a thing!

That cavalrywoman is angry

that the bowman targeted me?

More than the fact that she was k*lled.

They don't

even perceive me as an opponent.

Gleefully pointing your bow at a child

is something you would never allow!

Songs of awe and reverence for you

echoed to the ends of my homeland!

Have you discarded

your god-praising name, O Heracl—

Silence!

A hero of that name doesn't exist!

No, he was never even a hero!

I am nothing more than a human.

I seek vengeance upon the gods.

Huh? Where are you going?

To deal with the situation, of course.

You don't have to get

so worked up about it.

I already dealt with it.

What?

Right now

my Servant is heading

there to run interference!

Huh?

I see.

You are no longer that man.

Then I shall not say I will right you

back onto the proper path.

Are you going to don it?

The power of the gods.

You, as well as the golden king

I will eradicate as enemies!

How you bark, girl!

You dare lump me, a king,

in with a mere vengeance seeker?

A favorable start.

I can certainly bring down two demigods.

Okay, that's enough.

This is a forced teleport?

That's no good, all of you.

You must cool your heads.

What are you doing, pulling out

your trump cards in the very beginning?

To think there would be even more disrespectful

agitators blighting my entertainment.

Did you think an illusion of this caliber

could deceive my eyes?

Nothing less from the King of Heroes!

I don't think I'll be able to deceive

your sharp eyes!

But what about your ears

Gil?

Who granted permission for you

to take the guise and voice of my friend?

On top of that, you try

to use it to deceive me?

Even death will not suffice as punishment!

An illusion-weaver.

You're telling me to retreat, Master?

All right. I shall abide by your orders.

Golden king, and revenger

who deceives himself!

I swear that next time, I will honor our battle

and settle things as a warrior!

You think I'd allow

such a disrespectful agitator leave, girl?

But all right.

In magnanimity, I shall grant you pardon.

Mongrel, there is no meaning for you

to hide your True Name anymore, is there?

If your objective is to

violate part of my self

naming yourself shall get you close

to that lofty goal!

My name is Alcides.

Golden king

You are a powerful monarch

such that the sovereigns I know

cannot compare

and yet, you are weak as a warrior.

Next time

I shall trample upon the power of the gods

that lay dormant in the furthest reaches within you.

Now that he has disclosed his True Name,

it's meaningless for me to hide mine.

My name is Hippolyta!

Child of Otrera and the w*r god Ares!

I am the queen of the proud tribe

known as "the Amazons"!

Golden king and his young vassal,

we shall cross paths once again!

My, my.

They all went home.

Then I guess we'll

retreat for now, as well.

My judgment has not

changed, you lowly wretch.

Even "mongrel" is too esteemed for you.

See you again, King and company!

Come find me if you desire

to truly fall from grace!

I humbly ask.

Your Majesty, was it all right for you

to not give your name, as well?

They're not worthy of

hearing my name just yet.

If they stand before me once more,

I will grant them the honor.

You weren't sleepy or anything

Ayaka?

The guitar was so loud,

I couldn't help but be wide awake.

I'm sorry about that.

Oh, no.

I didn't mean it that way.

There aren't any Mystic Codes

or surveillance systems here.

Now is the time to sleep if anything.

Huh?

So, you didn't forget

about the Holy Grail w*r.

Then what you were doing up until now

was all an act?

Of course not!

Oh, I was really touched!

To come across a melody

that has changed so much from my times

What a stroke of good luck!

Hey

What are you planning to wish

from the Holy Grail?

This is unusual for you

to ask something about the Holy Grail w*r.

If you have a reason dear to you,

I have a need to apologize to you.

Because I don't think I'll

be of any help to you.

You provide me the magical power

to materialize in this world.

No way you are not helping at all.

Besides

the reason why I seek the Grail

I'd like to know that myself.

Huh?

What do you mean?

Didn't you answer the summoning

because you sought the Holy Grail?

Thinking logically, that

should be the case

but even I, the one who was summoned,

don't know of a clear-cut reason.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't have regrets

remaining from when I was alive.

But it's not something

I'd wish upon a Grail over.

The Holy Grail is what

King Arthur once sought.

I'd like to win it and

donate it to his grave.

But it's not something I want so badly

I'd trample upon the great wishes of other heroes

or put someone else in the face of danger for.

Huh?

You're right. That's not something

I should say after being shot by you

while I was blinded

by the treasures of the Round Table.

You're speaking to

someone invisible again.

Let me introduce you. I'm going to make

the Magical Energy path a bit stronger, all right?

Huh? Hold on—

That just now

Pierre Basile.

The man who k*lled me.

Huh?

I have two Noble Phantasms I can use,

or rather, I have two aces up my sleeve.

One is the power to have the souls I chose

accompany me with their agreement.

It's hard right now to

make them materialize,

but I can have them assist

with techniques or Magecraft.

No, wait—

The other is—

- Hold on a second!

What's wrong?

What's this so suddenly?

The name of the guy who k*lled you?

That's basically telling

me your True Name!

Yeah.

I plan on disclosing my

True Name to you now.

What are you thinking?

I told you that I'll tell you my True Name

in due time, didn't I?

Right now, there are no worries

of other Mages listening in on us—

Stop it!

I told you that I'm not participating

in a Holy Grail w*r.

You and I are simply connected

through Magical Energy.

I am nothing more than a civilian!

So

save your True Name

until you find a much better Master.

I see.

You're right.

I will disclose my True Name

when I come across a great Master.

You do that.

My name is Richard!

Duke of Normandy and King of England!

Perhaps the sobriquet

"Lionheart" is more famous?