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As if the gears were reversing, when the Age Rings on Gilgamesh's body began to decrease, the Servant's body manifested in the world began to change.
Her mature face became youthful, and her full figure rapidly shriveled.
The moment her clothes slipped off, her entire body transformed into a golden ball of light, emitting a dazzling glow.
"Eh, what a strange power. So, I'm supposed to reverse the battle?"
Through returning to the past and escaping Cybele's influence, a childish voice rang out from the sphere of light. Moments later, a small, blonde, red-eyed loli appeared before Kisaragi and Shinomiya Kaguya.
It was Gilgamesh who appeared high in the sky!
She held a shield in one hand and the Immortal-Slaying Blade in the other.
Esdeath and Medusa counterattacked the moment they noticed Gilgamesh's change, but the powers of Demon Manifestation: Demon Extract and Cybele were distorted by the golden shield in her hand as soon as they approached.
She poked her head out from behind the shield, looked at Medusa, who also had a loli-like appearance, and praised her beautiful purple demonic eyes, saying, "It's a complete Cybele. No wonder even I, clad in golden armor, would be petrified. Why was my future self so careless? I should have grabbed a few more shields the moment I noticed it."
"You are Gilgamesh?"
Kisaragi Rin asked, feeling a headache.
A small loli with blonde hair and red eyes; it certainly looked like a gender-bent version of a young Gilgamesh.
But why did she appear like this?
Kisaragi Rin genuinely wanted to know what Skill Shinomiya Kaguya had used on Gilgamesh.
"What a strange appellation, 'Gilgamesh'?"
Gilgamesh asked curiously, then took a closer look at Kisaragi Rin, suddenly blushed, and said somewhat shyly, "You can call me Gil."
"Your name is Kisaragi, right?"
"Do you want to become my Queen?"
As soon as these words were spoken, even the battle between Scáthach and Saber slowed down.
Medusa: "..."
Shinomiya Kaguya: "???"
Hayasaka Ai: "???"
Kisaragi Rin: "..."
"What kind of joke are you playing?"
Esdeath said bluntly.
You were just fighting, and now you're asking the enemy Master if they want to be your Queen. Are you trying to win this way?
Shinomiya Kaguya was also completely bewildered.
You are Gilgamesh!
Where did the King of Heroes, who called everyone 'mongrel,' go? What's with this little kid appearance?
Kisaragi Rin looked at Gilgamesh's child form, unsure what expression to make.
Gilgamesh's personality varies considerably depending on age and gender.
Gilgamesh herself was already rare enough, and Kisaragi Rin lacked much information. A child Gilgamesh was something he had never even heard of.
Now, it seems this one retains most of the normal young Gilgamesh's personality: humble, polite, and a bit of a chatterbox... But what's with wanting me to be her Queen?
The normal Gilgamesh would fancy Saber and want her to be his Queen.
And the young Gilgamesh liked Saegusa Yukika, whom he reportedly called "a flower blooming in the wilderness."
But whether it was Saber or Saegusa Yukika, they both shared one common trait.
That was purity, after all, Gilgamesh was still the King of Uruk no matter what.
Kisaragi Rin couldn't be described as pure; it could only be said that he had entanglements with quite a few women.
Now, you, a child Gilgamesh, want me, Kisaragi Rin, to be your Queen? Did you get something wrong?
"Can we switch? What if you become my Queen?"
Observing the golden shield in the young Gil's hand, Kisaragi asked tentatively.
"Eh... me, become the Queen?"
The young Gil began to think seriously, then hesitated and said, "I can, but you can only have one Queen, me."
Kisaragi Rin: "Only one Queen, but can I have a few more wives?"
Shinomiya Kaguya: "..."
Hayasaka Ai: "..."
Yukinoshita Yukino: "..."
The young Gil was momentarily stunned. It took her a while to understand what Kisaragi Rin meant. She puffed out her cheeks and said with great dissatisfaction, "How can that be? Absolutely not! I'll get angry, you know."
Compared to Gilgamesh, who called everyone 'mongrel,' the young Gil was truly adorable.
Kisaragi Rin couldn't help but look at her Master, meeting the equally bewildered gaze of Shinomiya Kaguya.
What on earth did you do to Gilgamesh?
Shinomiya Kaguya was utterly clueless; she hadn't yet developed the Ability to communicate with Kisaragi through eye contact.
Shinomiya Kaguya had not anticipated the appearance of the young Gil at all.
Of course, it wasn't that she hadn't thought of the Age Ring returning Gilgamesh to her childhood, but rather she hadn't expected the young Gilgamesh to have such a personality.
In Shinomiya Kaguya's opinion, it was as if a completely different Heroic Spirit had appeared.
The young Gil landed on the ground, looking left and right. When she saw Scáthach sweeping her spear to repel Saber and looking towards her, she even shrank her neck.
"Hey, Master, do you have any other interesting Abilities to bestow upon me?"
The young Gil asked energetically, making Shinomiya Kaguya look disbelieving once again.
You are Gilgamesh, and now you're calling me Master!
Not to mention actively asking me to use a Command Seal... Before, you would have disdained it, as if a Command Seal would defile you.
"If the Heroic Spirit I summoned from the start was this child Gilgamesh, with Master and Servant united, wouldn't this current situation not have happened at all?"
Once this thought suddenly emerged, she couldn't stop herself from continuing to think.
Summon the child Gilgamesh, unite with Hassan of the Hundred Faces, first punch Scáthach, then kick Kisaragi Rin, flatten the woman beside Kisaragi Rin, and facing the final assailant Soichiro Kuzuki, turn her back to Kisaragi Rin and say, "I am taking him today, I'd like to see who dares to stop me..."
The beautiful fantasy made Shinomiya Kaguya's fingers clench!
Unfortunately, all of this was impossible.
Because the young Gil born from Gilgamesh and Medea Lily born from Medea are completely different existences.
Kisaragi Rin's Image Splitting helped Medea separate the past Medea Lily, while Shinomiya Kaguya's Time Zero's Special Effects - Age Ring made Gilgamesh transform into the past young Gil.
The personality differences between the young Gil and Gilgamesh were too great; rather than saying it was the past, it was more like directly replacing a Heroic Spirit.
With the Star of Omniscience and Omnipotence within her, when this Skill appeared on Gilgamesh's body, she already knew what would happen if she used the Lv10 Special Effects: Age Ring.
Being replaced by her past self was something Gilgamesh absolutely could not accept, but the defeat on the battlefield filled Gilgamesh with even more rage.
"To be replaced by my past self, is that it?"
"If it can free this king from this humiliating predicament, then so be it."
With this thought, Gilgamesh, within the Time Zero domain, reduced her own Age Rings.
In the form of the young Gil, she broke free from Cybele's power.
"My future self is truly strange. Arrogant, conceited, and overly reckless with any slight advantage..."
The young Gil looked regretfully at Kisaragi Rin, who refused to become her Queen, and raised the golden shield in her hand, signaling that the battle could continue.
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