Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

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Gaia and Alaya waved to Roland, and then Roland returned to his original position.

He lay on his bed, and his original plan for the Holy Grail War was completely changed.

He originally intended to force Zieg out of the game, and then let Zieg start taking action, so as to analyze his personality profile based on his behavior patterns and ultimately extract more information.

But now we know that the so-called extraterrestrial visitor was the White Demon...

Let's finish this quickly!

After all, with the investigation into the bound beings and extraterrestrial visitors over, Roland's objectives were reduced to three: recruiting a group of gods to obtain enhancement points, resolving Artoria's inner conflict and preparing her for the future, and sending Bazett and Yuu to the Root.

These are not troublesome things.

after all...

When he invaded the Hanging Gardens, after releasing his shadow to kill Shakespeare, he sent his shadow puppet to the place where Amakusa Shiro Tokisada imprisoned his Masters and retrieved their Command Seals.

Then, when he killed Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, he also took his Command Seals.

Therefore, almost all of the Command Seals of the Red Team's Heroic Spirits are now on him.

So when Sieg brings both the red and black sides together, that's when things get interesting.

Just as Roland was pondering this question, he clearly sensed that Artoria had returned.

Then his God Group Communication also received the message at the same time.

So Roland got out of bed, tidied his clothes, and went to see Artoria and the others.

"The Greater Grail is back."

Ilya watched as the Greater Grail fell from the sky, then ordered the Einzbern people to put it away properly.

Then she and Rin Tohsaka turned their attention to the two prisoners who had also been brought back this time.

Both prisoners were unconscious.

One of them is Mordred.

Another one is that after Artoria captured Mordred, she also casually captured Mordred's Master, Shishikage Kairi.

After learning about Artoria and Mordred's situation from Meli and Bazett, Illya and Rin Tohsaka were at a loss for words.

At that moment, Roland slowly walked out.

"You are back."

Upon seeing Roland arrive, all their gazes fell upon him, including Artoria, who had remained silent from the beginning.

Roland seemed oblivious to the atmosphere around him, simply walking up to the unconscious Shishikai Kairi. He then had his shadow devour the Kairi's Command Seals, before handing them to Artoria. With a slightly bewildered look on Artoria's face, he smiled and spoke to her.

"In that case, Artoria, you shall now become Saber Mordred's Master."

"I..."

Artoria seemed to want to say something, but Roland added a sentence before she could speak.

"This is an order."

Hearing Roland say that, Artoria breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

"...I see."

....

176. Merry: Roland is too confident in himself, isn't he?

Roland made Artoria Mordred's Master, and none of the people present would have any objections, not even Artoria herself.

Oh, no, Mordred and Shiki-kai were also present, but they were unconscious, otherwise they would probably have had a lot of opinions—but they didn't have the right to voice them anyway.

After Artoria inherited the Command Seals, Mordred's contract was transferred to her under the influence of the spell.

With Artoria's magical power, maintaining a Heroic Spirit is absolutely no problem.

So Roland let her arrange for Mordred and Shishi Jie Li to be assigned to their posts.

Mordred was placed in a guest room, while Shiki was placed in the dungeon.

Afterwards, although the others had doubts, they generally saw that Roland didn't say anything and didn't take the initiative to ask questions. They quickly went to do their own things, but Mary approached Roland.

"You made Artoria Mordred's Master because of her inner conflict, right... but will this really work?"

Mary appeared to be just smiling as she raised the question, but Roland could sense the seriousness in her eyes when they made eye contact.

"Perhaps you're planning to add another layer of relationship between the two of them beyond that of family, and use this to reciprocate the kinship they don't know how to cultivate—but that won't work."

"After all, Mordred was originally Artoria's subordinate, and she even rebelled back then, didn't she?"

Hearing what Mary said, Roland shook his head slightly.

"The relationship is different."

"And what I want to achieve is not what you said. My main goal is to enable them to establish a Master-Servant relationship, nothing more."

Oh?

Mary was taken aback, and Roland began to explain to her.

"Although you also descended as a Heroic Spirit, you are essentially an assistant sent by Alaya. You may not actually be dead, nor are you a Heroic Spirit. Therefore, you are different from Heroic Spirits in many ways, and you do not understand the relationship between Master and Heroic Spirit."

"But in my opinion, the closest connection between Master and Servant is that when Master dreams, he or she will dream about things that happened to the Servant in his or her life."

"Mordred is now Artoria's Heroic Spirit, so Artoria can dream about Mordred."

"And I did something to the contract between Mordred and Artoria, so Mordred dreams about Artoria."

At this point, Roland added another sentence for Merry.

“These dreams are all from the other person’s perspective, and you can even sense their emotions. After I specifically strengthened the contract, I can even see their inner thoughts and reasons… Don’t tell me you don’t understand my purpose.”

Mei actually realized what Roland meant halfway through his sentence.

To let Artoria and Mordred see themselves from each other's perspective... Brilliant!

Just thinking about their relationship made Meili feel a sense of amusement.

And doing it this way will be very effective.

Just

"Do you think this will help resolve Artoria's inner conflict?"

When asked by Melly, Roland simply shook his head.

"Absolutely impossible."

Seeing Roland like this, Mary sighed helplessly. Roland's eyes were half open, and he seemed to be in a state of boredom.

"Can't you be a little more confident...? Guys who are too perfect are the most boring."

"This is not a matter of confidence or lack thereof."

Roland shook his head slightly.

"Artoria's inner conflict stems from multiple sources. To be more specific, there are actually five: her subordinates, Britain, Morgan, Mordred, and finally, herself."

"So even if we can resolve the issues between her and Mordred this time, it won't be able to untangle this incredibly complex knot in her heart."

At this point, Roland turned his gaze to the direction where Artoria had left.

"So this time I'm just planning to warm things up a bit... I'll use the same method again later, but next time, my methods will be much more brutal."

Upon hearing Roland's words, Mary became interested in Roland's next plan.

But no matter how she asked Roland, he wouldn't say anything.

This made Meili feel a little uncomfortable, and she also began to seriously consider something—whether she should ask Alaya for overtime work after this job was over.

Just as Merry was pondering these things, Roland spoke up.

"As for the Lion Catch, let her continue sleeping until she has finished all her dreams."

Mary nodded at the task assigned by Roland.

This was no challenge for her.

Mordred was already asleep; the only thing that could be done was to keep her from waking up and let her dream, which was easy enough for Mary.

but...

"Besides Mordred, Artoria also needs to dream, but I think she doesn't need to sleep anymore, so she never goes to sleep on her own. If I were to use my Nightmare ability to lull her to sleep, it would be a big problem. Her eyes that can see through reality are too much of a constraint on my ability when she's awake."

As she spoke, Mary shrugged at Roland.

“If this continues, and she doesn’t sleep, then only Mordred will be dreaming. Is that okay?”

"Of course not."

Roland shook his head, then walked toward Einzbernburg, leaving Merry with these words.

"Leave this to me. I can't guarantee it during the day, but it will be early morning. Artoria will definitely be asleep by then, and she'll most likely sleep until morning. That's when she'll dream about Mordred."

Hearing Roland say this, Meili was a little puzzled as to why Roland was so confident.

After all, Artoria had already given Meli some insight into her during this time.