That night, Aoi's parents' house looked very quiet from the outside.
Unlike the last time Tokiomi had seen it, the building was now bigger and no less luxurious than his family's home.
It was strange, he didn't even know when Aoi had renovated her parents' house. Not only that, it was impossible for that much renovation to be done in the few days before the war started.
Had his wife been preparing to live with her affair and thought he would die?!
Tokiomi's face looked green.
He hoped he had misunderstood and there was another reason why Aoi had let another man live with her.
"Tokiomi, do it quickly before this King loses his temper." Leaning against the car, Gilgamesh folded his arms with an indifferent look straight ahead.
At first he wanted to attack right away, but Tokiomi begged him to let him confirm something first.
Gilgamesh knew the man was uneasy about his wife's infidelity.
That was why he agreed because he thought it was entertaining to watch.
"Your Majesty, please be patient. Before I go in, we still have to wait for Assassin to confirm whether there is a trap or not."
Tokiomi knew Gilgamesh's need for entertainment, and he felt helpless.
He considered his family's problems his entertainment.
Gilgamesh said no more, which meant he agreed to wait.
On the other side.
Assassin, one of his manifestations or incarnations had jumped the fence of Aoi's parents' house.
And with Presence Concealment (A), the ability to hide his presence as a Servant. With an A rank, it was almost impossible for a Mage or even another Servant to detect him, unless he started attacking.
This made him excel at information gathering and surprise attacks.
He slowly walked in the front yard of the house and just when he thought there were no traps.
"...!"
A magic circle shone under his feet as if he had stepped on a mine. Instantly, several chains came out of the void and wrapped around his body.
Electric shocks coursed through his body until he could not help but cry out in pain.
Outside the gate of the house, Tokiomi and Gilgamesh did not hear anything. That was because Medea had also set up a soundproof barrier and even an illusion.
People outside would not be able to hear and see what was happening inside Aoi's parents' house.
"You must be an assassin. To die because of that... You are weaker than I thought."
On the rooftop of the house and against the backdrop of the brightly shining moon, Medea looked at the dead Assassin with a cynical smile.
It seemed like she had worked too hard to set up those magical traps this afternoon, she was a little regretful.
Back to the other side.
"One of my incarnations died, your majesty. Caster seems to have set up magical traps around the house."
Another Hassan appeared and reported what had happened to one of his incarnations.
Tokiomi frowned, "You're sure it's really Caster?"
"Only servants of the Caster class are capable of creating magical traps powerful enough to kill my incarnation."
"Caster is really still alive? She's teaming up with Saber and even Berserker... This is bad."
The Fourth Holy Grail War was more complicated than he thought.
It seemed like it wasn't just him who was planning to cheat and secretly cooperate with the other masters
Tokiomi felt that their situation was not favorable.
Gilgamesh sneered and said, "Tokiomi, you still seem to underestimate my power. You think we have no advantage just because three Servants are working together?"
"Your Majesty, you are confident to defeat them alone?"
As for Assassin?
His combat power was too low, he was only suitable for information gathering and assassination.
"Of course! I am the King of Heroes, the oldest King of mankind. If you hadn't acted like a coward before, I could have killed Lancer, Berserker and Rider simultaneously."
Really?
Tokiomi realized that he had underestimated Gilgamesh too much.
Even so, he still hesitated and worried that his wife and daughter would be exploded along with their enemies.
Seeing Tokiomi's hesitation, Gilgamesh was bored and annoyed to the point that he wanted to immediately order Kirei to kill him.
"Your Majesty, I..."
Tokiomi was about to ask Gilgamesh to intervene on the condition of not harming his wife and daughter.
But just then, the gate to the house suddenly opened and a blonde woman in knight's armor walked out.
Artoria looked at the three people in the distance indifferently.
"Which one of you is Tokiomi Tohsaka? You don't have to bother sending assassins to sneak in. My master invites you to come in and meet your family."
"This..." Tokiomi was shaken, he did not expect a master from the enemy side to invite him.
From what he said, was he threatening him with his family!?
Damn it.
Before he could answer, Gilgamesh laughed and stepped forward. "So you are Saber? Your master knows how to entertain me. I am the King of Heroes Gilgamesh and you are?"
Artoria raised one eyebrow, she gripped Excalibur with both hands and surprised everyone with the revelation of her identity.
"I am the King of Knights, Artoria Pendragon of Britannia."
Especially Tokiomi, although her name was somewhat different from the one mentioned in the legend, the woman in front of him was none other than the legendary King Arthur!
Was she the one who created the golden pillar several times before?
She is so powerful!
Gilgamesh, are you sure you can defeat her?
"Hahahaha! You are a King but you are a woman?"
"Gilgamesh, you look down on me just because I'm a woman?"
Artoria was not happy, she wanted to immediately unleash her Excalibur's ultimate move on the King of Heroes.
But given Eiji's order to buy as much time as possible, she refrained for now.
"That's right, only a man can be a King and the women are only there to serve him. However, you are like a treasure that attracts this King's attention, how about you become mine and join my collection inside the Gate of Babylon?"
From Gilgamesh's point of view, he was being generous and making a good offer to Artoria.
But Artoria felt insulted, her expression became very cold.
In the original work, something like this actually happened. Upon learning of her identity as the King, Gilgamesh became attracted to her, not out of genuine love, but because he saw her as a beautiful and challenging "treasure" to be conquered or possessed by him.
Artoria's answer is of course still the same as in the original work.
"I reject. Gilgamesh, you insult my dignity as a King! Tokiomi, will you come or not?"
After rejecting the King of Heroes and displeasing him, she turned her gaze to Tokiomi.
Tokiomi wanted to compromise but Gilgamesh again laughed.
"You reject me? A woman like you? How dare you! Tokiomi, I've changed my mind. You stay here and refuse the invitation from Saber's master."
"If I can't get his servant, he can't get what he wants either!"
What about my wife and daughter?
Tokiomi swallowed this question.
But under everyone's gaze, a magic circle appeared under his feet and he was teleported to another place.
At the same time, Medea stood just below the gate of the house and her figure was half covered in shadow. People could only see her lips forming a mocking smile clearly.
"Heh, you think it's up to you, King of Heroes? You're too arrogant."
"Caster... You mongrel, you dare to kidnap my person right in front of my eyes?"
Anger overflowed in Gilgamesh's red eyes, he didn't care where Tokiomi was teleported to, but he felt humiliated by Caster's actions.
The Gate of Babylon opened, ripples of gold appearing behind it.
Assassin did not remain silent either, he and his other incarnations ran towards Artoria and Medea.
Medea was initially a little surprised that Assassin was still alive. But it did not matter, seeing the black masked figures jumping up and down on the rooftops of the neighborhood and running around on the street.
She extended one of her hands forward and immediately, the magical traps within a radius of 50 meters around Aoi's parents' house were activated simultaneously.
More than fifty incarnations of Hassan were bound by magical chains and could not move.
It was a mistake if people thought she only set up those traps in the yard.
"Bunch of ants, you're just an eyesore! You think this King needs your help just to kill two women?"
"Know your place!"
Still, Artoria and Medea were a little surprised by Gilgamesh's actions. Paying no heed to the Assassin, he fired a shower of Noble Phantasm from the golden ripples behind him.
All the incarnations of Hassan that were in the place were killed in the explosion. However, seeing many Noble Phantasms flying towards them— Medea waved her hand and activated a magic barrier to block the attacks.
Aoi's parents' house was enveloped in a blue colored barrier but on one side, explosion after explosion crashed into it and started creating cracks.
"Tsk! The Gate of Babel is so cheating. How many Noble Phantasm are stored inside?"
Medea complained and gritted her teeth to strengthen her magic barrier. Otherwise, they and everyone in the house would be blown up.
She glanced at her ally, the King of Knights. "Why are you doing nothing? Help me!
"Well, even if you say that, can I get out of this barrier?"
Artoria glanced at the magic barrier that was being bombarded by Gilgamesh in confusion.
Medea was stunned for a moment and said, "You can! This barrier only works on one side. The people inside the barrier can pass through without any problems."
She was a Magus of the Age of Gods, she had mastered many high-level spells including a barrier whose function was not to harm her allies.
Hearing that, Artoria did not hesitate to raise Excalibur high and level with Gilgamesh.
"Hahahaha! Let's see how long you can withstand the power of this king, Caster! You, Saber and all those who oppose me will die!"
Gilgamesh laughed, his Gate of Babylon continuing to cast Noble Phantasm as if it were a worthless object.
His father was the King of Uruk, Lugalbanda, who was considered a demigod or closely related to the gods. His mother was a Goddess, Ninsun.
As their son, he was a Demigod, or rather, two-thirds god and one-third human.
This combination gives him super strength, vast knowledge, and a transcendent status unrivaled in the world, allowing him to bridge the worlds of humans and gods.
In the Fate universe, his divine rank reached A+. That was very high, although his rank slightly decreased to a B due to his hatred towards the gods who killed his best friend, Enkidu.
In other words, not only did he possess countless treasures, Gilgamesh had greater magical power than Caster.
However, the cost to use the Gate of Babylon was actually only for activating it, not for each projectile fired, making it a very energy-efficient attack with high destructive power.
Eiji's Gate of Babylon was the same, its user had so far never drained 1% of his energy even though he often coated each projectile fired with magical energy.
"Ex—calibuuur!"
"Hm?"
Gilgamesh heard Artoria's shout and saw the pillar of golden light that pierced the sky in front of him.
Instead of fear, he grinned. A black drill-like weapon with red stripes emerged from the golden ripples beside him.
It was Ea, the strongest Noble Phantasm inside his Gate of Babylon.
He grasped it with one hand and pointed it at the pillar of light swinging towards him.
The weapon spun and made a humming sound that made Artoria and Medea curious.
What was Gilgamesh doing?
"Enuma Elish!"
Ea's attack produced a black wind that tore apart reality itself because it was an Anti-World Noble Phantasm.
When it collided with the golden pillar of light Excalibur produced, it created a powerful explosion before negating each other.
Gilgamesh was a little surprised by that.
He thought the attack from his Ea was stronger than Artoria's Excalibur attack.
How could it end up negating each other?
Unless...
The other party's magical energy was much stronger than a Demigod like him.
"Interesting, you are attracting more and more attention to this King, Artoria! You are a more beautiful treasure than I thought, you deserve to be my wife!"
"Stop fighting, I won't kill the people you want to protect including your master and in return, marry me!"
"???" Artoria and Medea.
Does the King of Heroes have a problem with his brain?
They were fighting and suddenly, he proposed to a woman.
Artoria of course refused, especially after she had another man in her heart. Ehem, who is that?
By the way, when is he coming?
The attack had used up almost all of her magical energy, Artoria was panting and feeling weak. She needed an energy refill right away.
She and Medea would not be able to withstand Gilgamesh's attack for much longer, especially if he used that weapon again, Ea.
[Yare-yare, I only allowed my two women to face the enemy for a while, because I dealt with Tokiomi first.]
[But, I didn't expect that...]
His inner voice was heard by all the heroines except Rin.
Medea complained, who do you call your woman, Eiji?
However, unlike before, Artoria blushed when she heard him say such a thing.
"Who is the one who dares to want my woman? Oh, it's you, King of Mongrels."
"King of Mongrels? Mongrel, there's a limit to being arrogant in front of the King of Heroes!"
Veins bulging on Gilgamesh's forehead, his anger surged again. His red eyes stared straight at the figure of a man who was faintly visible from behind the smoke of the explosion that had not yet subsided.
Immediately, a whirlwind blew around him and his face that was so handsome that it rivaled a demigod like Gilgamesh came into view.
With gleaming silver hair, blue pupils with white flower patterns on the irises— his dashing figure stood not far in front of Artoria and Medea.
It was none other than Eiji.
Tonight, he was only wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and accentuating his muscles, long black pants and gray slip on shoes.
He looked like a handsome CEO who had just gotten off work. Any woman including Artoria and Medea could not help but stare at him in a daze.
"You shouldn't be a Servant, what is your identity?"
Gilgamesh was not happy to see a man more handsome than him, the woman he wanted was even staring at him with a mesmerized look.
Was this king's charm even inferior to hers?
The man said Saber was his woman before.
He felt humiliated but more than that, how dare anyone other than himself say mongrel and he did it to call him!
"Oh, you don't think I'm a Servant? The King of Mongrels is indeed different from ordinary mongrels."
"You have good eyesight."
Eiji smiled slightly, there was amusement on his face. This time he was no longer misunderstood as a servant.
He praised the man whose body was filled with the color gold.
Gilgamesh's face darkened. Instead of being pleased, he was humiliated. As if reflecting his emotions like an active volcano, the ripples behind him widened further and seemed to cover the entire sky behind him.
It was even larger than when he was showing off in the old buildings district.
Eiji was not intimidated by the sight in front of him and casually introduced himself.
"I am Eiji Seiya, master of the Saber and in this world... I can be called a Magus."
"So that's you? Hahahaha! Congratulations, you are the first person to anger this King with just your words. Be prepared to suffer the consequences, it is your honor that this King bestows death on you, O ordinary Magus of this Age."
"That is your path to death!"
Gilgamesh said all that with bulging eyes and immediately, the second wave of Noble Phantasm rain appeared.
More than a hundred Noble Phantasm flew towards Eiji at a higher speed than before.
However, a surprising thing happened. All the Noble Phantasm that was about to hit him suddenly stopped in midair.
Artoria and Medea were shocked.
"Mongrel... What are you doing?! How can you stop my attacks like that?!"
Gilgamesh widened his eyes with an expression of disbelief.
From the beginning until now, Eiji had both hands stuffed into his pants pockets.
He didn't make any movements, even though his Tenseigan was activated, he wasn't using it either.
What happened was purely just because he...
"You're noisy, stop barking. Haven't you realized it yet? Then, how about if I do this?"
All the Noble Phantasm in the air turned around and looked at Gilgamesh. In the next instant, they flew towards him at a speed that exceeded sound.
"?!" Gilgamesh panicked, he put aside his pride to stop folding his arms, his arrogant posture crumbled and he reacted too late to block those attacks using another Noble Phantasm at the Gate of Babylon.
He could only raise Ea in front of his chest to at least increase his defense.
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
The King of Heroes was swallowed up by the explosions his own treasures generated.
It was undoubtedly a terrible humiliation for him.
His pride was stepped on by Eiji.
"Aaaaah! How dare a mongrel like you use this King's precious treasures against himself!"
"Now that I remember, you're an ant who somehow has the same thing as me!"
"A cheap imitation!"
After the smoke from the explosion dissipated, Gilgamesh had blood on the corners of his lips, his hair and golden armor dirty with dust and dirt.
To him, it was already very bad.
A few days ago, he remembered feeling energy fluctuations similar to his Noble Phantasm (It was when Eiji fought Arthur Proto).
He thought it was just a feeling, but it didn't seem so.
"Cheap imitation? Gilgamesh, you're overestimating yourself. As the owner of the original, you weren't even able to react with the speed of my previous throw."
"For a King who is unable to protect his subordinates and is injured by his own weapons, your arrogance and pride are really like a teenager with eighth grade syndrome."
Eiji mocked the King of Heroes and behind him, familiar golden ripples appeared and covered the entire sky on the other side. It was the Gate of Babylon.
Artoria and Medea were dumbfounded.
Eiji had the same Noble Phantasm as the King of Heroes?!
The women who were watching the livestream just exclaimed and marveled at how cool their man was.
However, many of them had long known Eiji had the same power as the King of Heroes.
Gilgamesh's expression became even uglier, a comparable rage at seeing his best friend die at the hands of the gods overflowing in his eyes.
"Take back your speech and kneel before this King before you regret it! Otherwise, I will show you that a cheap imitation is no match for the real thing."
"I will kill you and all the mongrels in this city!"
He flew up into the sky, the Ea in his hand spun again and countless Noble Phantasm emerged from the golden ripples behind him.
The King of Heroes was completely berserk and ready to use his full power.
He couldn't stand Eiji's words that were so insulting to him.
His pride was badly hurt.
That man even had an imitation of the Gate of Babylon, losing to him was completely unacceptable.
He had to make him know his place was inferior to him.