"The Mad Dog has perished, and the Queen has fallen, hmm?"
—Yay! What a relief! Both Cú Chulainn and Master won! Thank goodness! Thank goodness—!
(Ah— (Fou is pierced through the crotch by a rainbow-colored beam and vanishes))
—Fou—!?
"All that remains is the Holy Grail... We shall obtain that in due time. It seems this Singularity is drawing to a close."
『—Is that so. In that case, I simply must pay my respects here no matter what.』
"—Hm?"
—?
(Geh—!)
『—Hello, it's everyone's reliable Merlin-san. I am truly honored to finally meet you, King of Heroes. And—Hero Princess, Gilgameshia.』
—You are...?
(MERLIN MUST DIE———FOOOOOUUUUU!!)
『Generates a seven-colored Rainbow Crusher Hammer and slams it down』
『Goha—!!!?』
—Fou—!?
"A grudge deep in the bone marrow, is it? No wonder! You have some nerve showing your face, Flower Magus! Fuhahahahahaha!!"
"—I must fulfill the promise we exchanged."
"—Karna. The covenant—I shall fulfill it now."
"Edison, are you okay!? Don't be rash...!"
"I will be rash! I am human!! This time, I will continue to be the 'Cool Edison'!!"
"—Edison..."
"I cannot betray the children following my back ever again!!"
—Fuhahahahahaha!! Unsightly, how unsightly, Edison!!
"!! —Th-This raucous laughter is—!!"
Shield of Snowflakes, Spear of Radiance
The battle in America, where the Mad King was slain and the Queen fell.
"Yaaah!"
In that battle which had largely been decided... there was still one sword clash singing a different tune.
"Haaaaaah!!"
The shield of the snowflake girl standing on the front lines was swung, and the light attack of the Son of the Child of Light flashed.
"Hmph—!!"
A single burly man repelled their attacks and spirited coordination with his polished martial arts.
"Nuoooooh!"
Wielding the spiral sword, Caladbolg, the warrior among Celtic warriors, Fergus mac Róich, caught the attacks of Mash and Connla—
"No matter what, no matter what, right here—!"
Mash was fierce. Overflowing with spirit, she swung her shield gallantly, determined to strike him down at all costs.
"I won't let you interfere with Father! I'll stop you here!"
Connla fired bullets of radiance from her slingshot. Determined not to let anyone disturb her father's battle, she intended to hold him back and seal his movements.
"—Senpai! I will—!"
—Mash was anxious.
Her senior, Rikka, was improving rapidly and becoming stronger. Acquiring both communication skills and martial arts, she was advancing powerfully—her precious Master.
She didn't yield a step to the Great President King, persuaded even Nightingale, —repelled even Queen Medb, and broke through the Magic King's schemes. Her proud Master.
Acknowledged by every hero, advancing unwaveringly without arrogance.
Her Master, who had forged a bond with Jeanne Alter stronger than even she knew.
—Am I keeping up with such a Master? ...She had lost confidence.
Could she claim to be performing well enough to be the Servant of that brilliant Master who rivaled heroes?
Was she, a Demi-Servant, protecting her?
...Did she still remain within her Master's heart?
"Haaaaaah!! Yaaaaah!!"
As if to shake off her anxiety, she slammed her shield against Fergus.
Did she no longer need her?
"Tch, aaah!!"
Was her protection unnecessary?
She swung her shield, emitting a shout of spirit.
Was she a burden...? Did she, who still didn't even know her True Name, have the right to stand by her side...?
The spirit she released to shake off her anxiety—
"Hmph!"
Was easily parried by the seasoned warrior, spinning uselessly in the air.
"Ah—!"
"Haaah!"
Struck by a blow from Caladbolg swung like a bat, she was blown away towards Connla.
"Mash-san! —Tch!!"
Connla followed up for Mash, continuing to fire slingshot blasts of light.
—I won't let you go! To Father's location, absolutely not!
Connla, aware of Cú Chulainn's Geas—'Must be defeated once by one holding Caladbolg'—had volunteered to accompany her.
—I won't let you interfere with Father. No matter what, I will protect Father's honor.
In life, Father was forced to break every vow, his pride broken, and died in the end.
—If not for the cowardly schemes, if not for the despicable acts, Father would never have lost.
She couldn't let it repeat. She couldn't let Father taste dirt, humiliation, and defeat ever again.
I will protect it. Father's honor, his pride.
I will protect it—!
"Muu..."
With Mind's Eye cultivated through training and discipline, he saw through the incoming light, dodged it, and—
"Nuuh!!"
Closed the distance instantly, slamming a shoulder tackle into Connla!
"Au—!"
Her light body was blown away, caught by Mash.
"Are you okay! Connla-san!"
Connla nodded at Mash's question.
"This is nothing! Compared to the humiliation Father tasted—!"
"Yes! No matter what, let's defeat him together!"
They called out powerfully to each other, nodding in agreement.
"...Fumu."
Watching them, Fergus scratched his head, troubled.
"...The Lord I should protect and the Queen are both gone. In that case, there shouldn't be a problem if I run towards my own greed a little. Rebellious spirit is just what I desire, after all."
—Fergus decided.
The two 'warriors' before him.
No—he swore to follow his own feelings and clear the clouds from these 'Fine Women.'
"Now, stand! No matter what, him—!"
"Now, wait. Do not be so hasty."
He stopped Mash and Connla, who were trying to enter combat immediately, by stabbing Caladbolg into the ground.
"Your mind, technique, and body are completely disjointed. Your condition is far too clumsy to cross swords. First, calm down and regulate your breathing."
"What are you saying! You and we are supposed to be enemies! I will defeat you! Definitely!"
"Yes! Fergus mac Róich! Husband of the despicable and vicious Queen Medb! —You were invited for the certain defeat of Father, but I won't let that happen! I will protect Father!"
He slowly soothed the two barking girls.
"Wait, wait, your mindset is backwards from the start. Shield Maiden, is your shield a tool for defeating enemies?"
"—!? What— It's natural for a Servant to defeat enemies!"
He calmly pointed out the impatience Mash was unaware of in her enthusiasm—no, in her spinning wheels.
"There is such a thing as the right person for the right place. If your goal is defeating enemies, a shield is far too inefficient. Shouldn't you become a Saber, not a Shielder?"
"—!"
"A shield is for protecting. Do you want to take the initiative and defeat enemies? Are you mistaking your tactics? Your impatience is showing, and it is not good. What are you rushing for?"
Fergus had once instructed and guided the young Cú Chulainn. That was why he could instantly see through the worries of young boys and girls.
Because he knew the Cú Chulainn of the past, who 'felt loneliness because he was the strongest and no one could follow him.'
"Could it be—things aren't going well with your Master?"
"Tch—! Th-That's not true!"
Fergus laughed off Mash's defensive denial as if he had hit the mark.
"Hahaha! People get agitated when you hit the bullseye! Umu, umu, I'd like to give you advice, but we are enemies after all. —If I dare say..."
Fumu, he paused.
"Why not stop keeping it inside that protruding chest of yours and speak frankly with her?"
Uncle Fergus, laughing heartily.
"—H-Haa..."
Mash's venom was drawn out by his hearty, innocent laughter, and the spirit that had been spinning out of control cooled down.
"I will try... talking with Senpai."
"Umu, honesty is a virtue. —And, Son of Cú Chulainn... Daughter, is it?"
Arms crossed, he asked cheerfully.
"Fighting for the honor of your great father is fine, but entrusting your entire reason for fighting to someone else is not admirable. You are a warrior of the Celts too. Fighting for your own sake is not a bad thing, you know?"
"...Eh, u..."
Connla was disarmed by the friendly inquiry from her opponent.
"Honor is more important than anything, but... you are far too young. No one will blame you for being selfish."
"...Th-Thank you... um..."
"...You are... an enemy, right?"
To the two dumbfounded by the warrior offering advice, Fergus laughed.
"Indeed. But—before being enemies, you and I are man and woman. It is natural to take the lead, no? After all, you two are adorable! You are still young, but I predict you will definitely become fine women!"
Hahahaha! Fergus laughed loudly.
"I simply love women! I couldn't bear to see your faces clouded, that is all. —Now, there are two of you. Discuss a little, reflect on your tactics, and come at me with body and soul. Come, I shall give you a little time."
""...Th-Thank you!""
As suggested, the two looked at each other.
"...Mash-san, are you anxious about your relationship of trust with Master?"
"...Yes. While Senpai gets stronger and stronger, I..."
"—That is wrong."
Connla thrust a denial at Mash's anxiety.
"Because you protected the Master who was once weak... Master was able to become strong. Aren't you already an irreplaceable existence for Master, who has been by her side since she was at her weakest?"
Connla's words soaked honestly into her heart.
"So, you should puff out your chest. 'I have protected the strongest Master this far, ehem!' Because after all, you are my partner, one half of Mash-Con!"
"—You're, right! ...And."
"?"
—And, she remembered.
The vow she made. That someday, she would catch the treasure of the King of Heroes.
—Then, this was no time to be rotting away.
Even if she didn't know the name of her Noble Phantasm, even if her Master became strong and went far ahead. She would surely walk her own path.
—Someday, to grasp my own results, great deeds, and future with these hands. I will fight.
If she advanced on that path unwaveringly—she believed it would definitely connect to Master's... to Senpai's future.
"—Yep. You have a good expression now!"
Connla pulled on Mash's cheek.
"As expected of a member of Mash-Con! You really are my partner!"
"...Thank you. Connla-san, and..."
Slowly raising her shield, she turned back.
"Found your own answer? Young lady."
"—The answer, not yet. But..."
Hesitation and impatience had vanished from her heart and body.
"I remembered my vow—and found my path."
Hearing that answer, Fergus nodded with satisfaction.
"—You have a good look on your face. Now we can kill each other to our hearts' content."
"I will not kill."
At Mash's words, Fergus furrowed his brows.
"Hmm?"
"—I will protect. Everything behind my back. With all my might, to the limit of my strength."
Slamming down her shield, she looked straight ahead.
"That is—my battle. Fergus-san."
"—A Shielder, eh. ...A battle befitting a young lady."
He pulled out Caladbolg and shouldered it.
"—Mash! Can you protect me for one minute!"
Connla began to heighten and knead her magical energy.
"Connla-san...!"
"'I will try fighting for myself too!' And—I will slam it into Fergus-san! My everything! —By my own will!"
...Yes. For her father's sake, she would dare to use her power 'for herself.'
To protect honor, she would give her own best.
Unless she fought a battle without regrets, above all—
"—Believing that that will protect Father's, Grandfather's honor!"
The two exchanged strong glances and nodded.
"—Leave the defense to me! I will definitely buy you time!"
"Hoh—then I have no choice but to make that one minute the greatest and best!"
Slowly raising Caladbolg—
"—I shall show you the true rainbow!—"
He thrust it deep into the earth!
—Noble Phantasm!
Mash, intuiting this, also unleashed the full spirit of her defense with all her might!
"—Connla-san! Believe in me and prepare!"
"Yes!"
From the pierced Caladbolg, rainbow-colored light erupted, churning, shattering, and blasting up the American earth—!
"I shall believe my full spirit matches that shield! —'The Rainbow Sword: Caladbolg'—!!!"
Heaven and earth, sky, great rotation. The rainbow sword-light, displaying its aspect as a terrain-destroying weapon that shattered the earth without question, raged and shone to swallow the two girls—!
Against the tyranny of that radiance—
"—Noble Phantasm, Deploying—!"
Wrapping fear in courage and determination.
She deployed 'Virtual Noble Phantasm - Pseudo-Deployment / Foundation of Human Order: Lord Chaldeas' head-on—!
"Tch, aaaaaaaaah!!"
The incoming rainbow destruction, the violent spiral sword-light approaching like a raging wave—
Bracing her legs, opening her eyes, gripping her hands, making her body a single shield, she intercepted it head-on.
—To protect the comrade behind her back.
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa—!!!"
—Holding pride in the fact that she had protected Senpai until now.
"Nuuh—!"
—To vow that she would continue to protect her to the end—!
"That is, my—"
And someday—
"The path I advance on—the battle I choose—!!"
—Believing she would reach the defense that could catch the radiance of the Star of Creation—!!
"—Splendid, young lady."
Exactly one minute of offense and defense. The swordplay that destroyed the land and kicked it aside.
The earth around Fergus was thoroughly destroyed, shattered into dust.
"Haa, haa, haa—!"
—Mash's surroundings, and her rear—were not destroyed in the slightest.
—Shield of Snowflakes, rousing with courage and determination.
Here, Mash's shield obtained even greater solidity—
"...Ah, a..."
Swaying, losing strength, Mash collapsed.
"—Thank you, Mash."
A 'Lady' with long, light blue hair hiding her forehead caught her.
"Ah—Connla, san...?"
—What was there was far removed from the child Connla.
Her tights became a light blue leotard covering only her torso. Her odd eyes turned gold, signifying divinity.
Her body, which had been immature and childlike, transformed into a peerless physique combining the tightness of a supple panther with voluptuous fullness. Her height grew to 170cm, her chest grew to a D-cup, large enough that the leotard dug into her glutes.
The design was excessively radical, pursuing ease of movement by exposing her groin to the limit, with runes representing the Great God Lugh carved on her right arm, and rings on all fingers of her right hand.
And, unbalanced with that... an innocent smile like a child.
"Leave the rest to this Connla."
—Gripped in her right arm was the divine spear of light, 'The Spear of Aurora: Brionac.' Its radiance was blinding, showing its majesty as shining divine authority.
—The current Connla was not an Archer. Furthermore, she was not even the original Connla.
This was a 'Possible Possibility.' A 'grown-up' Connla whom the Great God Lugh dreamed of, raising her Spirit Origin with all of his blessings.
—An impossible hero who, had she lived, would have united all of Ulster and whose valor was said to reach far-off Rome, surpassing even Cú Chulainn.
Through 'Double Class,' she fully released Lugh's blessing—the form of Lancer Connla.
"Oh... Cú Chulainn... to think his child was such a beauty... she is the spitting image of Scáthach...!"
Fergus stood erect with joy. The manly Fergus's Fergus also stood erect.
"—Thank you, Warrior among Warriors who guided Father... Fergus."
She gently set Mash down and skillfully wielded the spear with one arm.
"The honor of crossing arms with you—allow me to answer with the full spirit of my martial arts!"
Fergus nodded powerfully at Connla's straightforward plea.
"Oh! I cannot lose this! I must defeat you instantly, push you down, and woo you!!"
"?? —Here I go!!"
And instantly, Connla released her full power.
"—Tch!!!"
—Fergus could not follow her with his eyes.
Connla and Brionac 'became light and unified,' becoming a humanoid light speed, striking Fergus from all directions at a speed that left Fergus, no—'left the entire world behind.'
—The origin of Connla, who released the blessing of the Sun God Lugh, is 'Light.' And Connla's impossible martial arts had reached the zenith, the ultimate of a weapon wielder.
"Nuuh, fuu—!!"
Even chasing with Mind's Eye cultivated through experience and training, Fergus's body was being destroyed by tremendous speed that left even his physical reflexes and reactions behind.
—That ultimate is 'Unification with the Weapon.' Inside the light, 'Uniting with the Armament,' becoming a single streak of shining light, Connla wielded light-source spear techniques freely.
Her speed: Evaluation Off-Scale—
'—Tch!!'
In that swiftness—a peerless state where nothing could catch up.
Because it is impossible, it cannot be touched by anyone—'Light Speed' Spearmanship.
Equaling her father... truly, Ulster's Fastest—!
'I'll decide it—!!'
Drawing trajectories in all directions, eventually materializing, gathering the mana in the atmosphere into one body, reducing it to magical energy.
'Haaaaaaaaaa—!!'
Responding to Connla's voice, the spirits of America resonated, receiving the entirety of the earth into the spear and her body.
'Here I go—Grandfather, Father, I shall dedicate this blow to you—!!'
Gathering the radiance of the earth and the Sun God, bundling it herself, receiving it in one body—sublimating into—light.
'—Now—!!'
————A ray of light flashes.
『'The Aurora Spear Illuminating the Stars: Luaviata Brionac!'』
—A blow that leaves even results and causality behind.
"—Guiding fine women, and being defeated by them."
With his chest pierced, Fergus began to fade away.
"A good... conclusion. —Umu. The deed of Cú Chulainn's impossible child, I have carved it into this body."
Laughing, he tossed the Holy Grail over.
"—Umu. It was a good—end. —Medb, Cú Chulainn... was it the same for you guys? Ku, hahahaha—!!"
Laughing heartily to the end—the Warrior among Warriors, Fergus mac Róich, departed this world fearlessly and cheerfully—
"...Thank you very much. Warrior Fergus."
Releasing Brionac, Connla bowed deeply.
"If not for you—Father's success would not have happened. —My heartfelt respect for your heroic saga."
"—Holy Grail, confirmed... retrieved."
...The two engraved it in their hearts.
Generous, without jealousy, knowing no fear.
The existence of a single Warrior.
—No. You don't have to become a Demon God. Rather, don't.
...What?
I'm only turning Clan Calatin into Demon Gods. It would be a waste to turn you into something as ugly as a Demon God.
You, stay as you are, and stand in their way. Show off that figure—generous, unjealous, fearless.
—Good grief. I believed and never doubted that everything about you except your body was the worst, but...
What? That face. I won't lose.
Because—I am the greatest and best 'Woman'! A rival worthy of my trampling! I cannot afford—to lose!
—Come to think of it...
So—you stay as you are. I, and Cu-chan, will fight too. Just like that.
—I never had a friend of the same surname, huh—
Now, let's go to bed? Lend me your strength, Fergus.
—If you meet them, get along, okay?
...I love you. My Warrior—
—Learn well. What it means to socialize with women—
May Blessings Be Upon My Grandchild: Lugh Geas Gift
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: A+
Range: 1 person
Max Targets: 1 person
A Noble Phantasm that transforms Connla into a form that fully releases the blessing of the Sun God Lugh dwelling within her.
Class change to Lancer. Transforms into a figure and body befitting a warrior wielding valor.
The strongest doting-parent Noble Phantasm that exerts power far beyond limits due to being an impossible form.
In this form, Connla possesses martial arts approaching or surpassing her father, and additionally, through the power of the Sun God Lugh, enables 'Photification' of the body, allowing free movement as an entity of light. Simultaneously, she enters a state where she receives the power of the earth spirits in one body and fully receives the blessings of the Gods of Erin.
The Aurora Spear Illuminating the Stars: Luaviata Brionac
Type: Anti-Unit / Anti-Army
Rank: A+++
Max Targets: 500
Range: 1~500
Connla and Lugh's killing light spear, uniting the Aurora Spear Brionac with herself, becoming a spear of light to swallow and pierce the opponent.
A light thrust unleashed with the backup of all earth spirits, the blessing of Sun God Lugh, and Connla's martial arts which reached the ultimate of a weapon user: 'Unification with the Weapon.'
Agility-dependent damage that completely ignores defense and evasion skills. —With this Noble Phantasm, everything is decided one second after activation.
Since no substance in this world is faster than light—evasion and defense 'will not make it in time.'
Furthermore, since Lugh takes on most of Connla's magical energy consumption, this Noble Phantasm only consumes magical energy equivalent to E-rank.
It is the supreme blow of the beloved grandchild, with power raised infinitely by the backup of the earth spirits and Sun God Lugh.
—Note that if feminized, she becomes the spitting image of Aoife (who was considered Scáthach's sister) and her mother.
Since her mental age doesn't change... it results in something like a 'Scáthach rich in emotions,' so Aniki is guaranteed to have both joy and goosebumps.
Connla is a kid, but she's totally doable.
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