Somewhat inexplicably, Richard joined us.

Most people are still very satisfied with this great knight who admired Artoria and was able to be our companion.

After all, his powerful strength is not for fun, he can rub out the holy sword with what he has at hand, plus seven servants who are invincible together-

As far as the current combat power is concerned, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the strongest foreign aid.

Of course, the only one who is dissatisfied with this is probably Nero.

Upon learning that Richard had become our companion, Nero learned afterwards that he had almost made such a fuss that he had demolished the tent......

For the Roman emperor, Richard, who had been a usurper, was unforgivable, and she was deeply suspicious of the other party's motives for joining.

In the end, it was my repeated assurances, and the promise that I would always supervise Richard, that reassured Nero a little.

"As compensation, the performer will have to go out with Yu three more times!"

After I smiled wryly and nodded my head to Nero's request, the crisis was resolved.

Nero, who was elated, turned his head and went to study the famous "dating holy places" in Rome, and even left the disposal of Pope Leo completely behind.

Either way, Rome was restored to its original order, and Nero became the sole emperor of Rome again.

Pope Leo, at the suggestion of Joan of Arc, was confined to a church room to study the Scriptures of God, guarded by heavy soldiers.

Every three days, Joan of Arc personally examines Leo's transformation until he becomes fully devout and free.

Similar to the previous battles, no one was hurt this time, and it could be said that the ending could not have been more perfect.

Of course, there is another fragment of the Holy Grail, the tool that Pope Leo used to summon Black Chastity.

This Roman chalice fragment, like the Saxon one, is a separate part of the chalice that truly contains the blood of the Son.

So passively, we're also starting to collect the Holy Grail shards.

I don't know if I'll be able to get all the pieces together and fix the real Holy Grail in the end. But if you can, maybe your wish to save Artoria can be fulfilled by making a wish on the Holy Grail.

This is the true Holy Grail, and it is definitely not a pseudo-concept formed by the spiritual veins of modern Fuyuki. Once its effect is activated, both the inhibition and the root cause must be aside.

In Rome, we spent about half a month in peace.

Until that day.

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"Contractor, I sense a new Heroic Spirit!"

Joan of Arc hurried into the council chamber and shouted to me.

"Huh?"

Hearing this, I, Nero, and Artoria looked up at her at the same time.

"Don't be in a hurry, tell us where we are?"

Artoria whispered softly, took a glass of milk from the table and handed it to Joan of Arc.

"Hmm...... Thank you, Knight King...... I remember that I like to drink milk......

Joan of Arc's face flushed slightly, and she also took the cup handed by Artoria unceremoniously, and drank the milk in it unpleasantly.

After that, Joan of Arc seemed to calm down.

"New Heroic Spirits, in Egypt."

Joan of Arc looked at us and said in a calm tone.

"Egypt? In Yu's impression, there shouldn't have been too many heroic spirits there that are enough to be praised by the whole world, right? Nero's brow furrowed slightly, "Could it be that which pharaoh has descended?" ”

"Not only the pharaoh, but also the most famous female pharaoh!" Joan of Arc smiled and said, "She had an ambiguous relationship with the Roman Empire. ”

As a Heroic Spirit with the ability to adjudicate, she is able to detect the identities of other Heroic Spirits. Although she is limited to the rules of the world itself and cannot directly say the other party's real name, she can tell the key information so that we can say it with our own mouth.

"Hmm...... It can't be that woman, right? Nero's face suddenly became a little ugly.

"Hmm...... The female pharaoh, extremely well-known, and inextricably linked to Rome, can only be that woman......" Artoria also nodded slowly.

"That...... Who do you think of? I'm not very familiar with Egyptian history, so I'm really not very familiar with it......"

Seeing that the three beautiful girls were all confident, I scratched my head in embarrassment.

"So Shirou, you really should learn a little more about world history." Artoria shook her head at me amusedly, "Well, you may not be familiar with the female pharaoh, but you must have heard of her other title. ”

"—Cleopatra."

At the same time, Nero took her words very well and smiled at me.

"Ah...... So I have an impression! It dawned on me," I remember...... Is it called Cleopatra? ”

"Yes, the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, known for her beauty and wisdom, was known as Cleopatra, and there are a large number of literary works in later generations with her as the protagonist." Artoria nodded, "After the fall of her dynasty, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire until the end of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. ”

"What beauty and wisdom! That's a complete poisonous woman, the kind that people and gods abandon! Nero, however, protested loudly and dissatisfiedly, "The performer must not speak for it!" ”

"How...... What's wrong, why are you so angry? "I'm a little confused.

It stands to reason that although Nero was the Roman emperor, he was quite far from Cleopatra's life, so there should be no intersection.

"O contractor, don't you know who Cleopatra's most famous lover was?" Joan of Arc smiled at me.

"Forehead ......"

I understood in an instant, and I was embarrassed to see Nero whirring and whirring.

Cleopatra's most famous story during her lifetime was that she fell in love with Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic.

Julius Caesar is said to have landed in Egypt in pursuit of the rebellious Roman general Pompey, and fell in love at first sight with the twenty-one-year-old queen Cleopatra. After that, Caesar not only changed his plan to return and stayed in Egypt for several years, but also gave birth to a son.

Because of the existence of this Cleopatra, Egypt has been sheltered for a long and stable time.

”…… If it weren't for that woman's intention to seduce Yu's ancestor Caesar, and with the help of the ancestors, how could the ancestors have been blinded, blindly pursuing the throne and being assassinated by the Senate, from everyone praising war heroes to traitors? Nero said angrily, "It's all to blame on that woman, she was the one who killed the ancestors!" “

Nero was the last descendant of Julius Caesar, and history largely attributes Caesar's death to the seduction of Cleopatra.