Type-Moon, but the Servant is Tom

Chapter 19: Tokiomi: Melancholy Tune on the Plains

"Oh..." Alexander tilted his head and then nodded, seeming to understand but not fully. He stood up and bent down to pick up his fallen sword from the ground.

However, just as he was about to pick up his sword, he suddenly froze for a moment and then jerked up in surprise, finally realizing what Waver had just said. "What? It's over?! Was I defeated?!"

"No kidding! You were easily defeated by that cat!" Seeing his servant's slow reaction, even foolish enough to only understand it now, Waver couldn't help but cover his face.

Suddenly, he felt a bit sorry for Alexander and even suspected that the blow had damaged his brain.

"I can't remember clearly. I remember I was just fencing with it, and then a light bulb appeared on its head, and... and then... Ouch, it hurts..." Alexander suddenly clutched the back of his head. For some reason, he had been feeling uncomfortable there since he woke up. When he touched it, the pain was so intense that it felt like wearing a mask of agony.

As he carefully touched it, Alexander discovered a lump the size of half a fist on the back of his head.

"Did that cat servant use its Noble Phantasm on me? But I didn't hear the release of the Noble Phantasm's True Name. But it must be that way! Otherwise, I shouldn't have been defeated so easily!"

Seeing Alexander seemingly trying to find a reasonable excuse for his failure, Waver decisively denied, "No, it just knocked you out with a single blow."

Alexander appeared somewhat incredulous that he was defeated so easily. "Really...? So, this lump was caused by that stick?"

Waver nodded in response.

Although Alexander was curious as to why Tom, whose weapon was a sword, knocked him out with a stick, in the end, he didn't dwell on it too much. What he was most concerned about now was why he was suddenly defeated. It wasn't that he couldn't handle losing, but being suddenly shattered by someone, to the point where he couldn't even remember how he lost, was something anyone would find hard to accept.

Ultimately, since he couldn't remember how he was knocked out, his attention once again shifted to Hephaestion, the Servant he was facing off against earlier. They were about to start their battle, but Bai Song and Tom suddenly interrupted them.

Now that Alexander woke up, not only Bai Song and Tom were nowhere to be found, but Hephaestion was also missing.

So, he casually asked, "By the way, what about the Servant who looks a lot like me?"

"Oh, her. She was also defeated by that cat," Waver replied.

"Really? I was actually looking forward to battling each and every Servant. It's a shame I won't have the opportunity to fight her," Alexander couldn't help but sound a bit disappointed upon hearing that Hephastion was defeated.

Being able to battle with heroes from different eras was a once-in-a-millennium opportunity. When he was first summoned and learned about the Holy Grail War and its seven Servants, his blood boiled with excitement. He had hoped to fight every single one of them. But now, it seemed like he might never get that chance.

"No, that Servant is doing just fine. After that cat beat you guys up, it ran off with the one it came with," Waver said, pointing in the direction White Song and Tom had left.

Hearing this, Alexander's forehead was filled with question marks. "Huh? What was it after?!"

Was it trying to mediate the fight? It randomly showed up and disrupted his battle with Hephastion, and then proceeded to give both of them a severe beating.

Was it trying to defeat the Servants? After giving both him and Hephastion a brutal thrashing, it simply left.

Suddenly, Alexander's pupils contracted as if he had thought of something. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and muttered to himself, "Could it be... it wants to conquer all the Servants and dominate the Holy Grail War without shedding blood?!"

Surprisingly, the more he thought about it, the more he believed it could be true.

A conqueror! That would truly make him a great king in human history!

Alexander wanted to become such a conqueror, and upon realizing that Tom was such an entity, his heart swelled with excitement.

"...That's the situation."

Listening to the real-time report conveyed by Kirei, which he obtained from Assassin, and sitting in his study, Tokiomi fell into silence. He even felt his own mind gradually becoming chaotic. If it weren't for his Servant, Saber, being by his side, Tokiomi wouldn't have the luxury to maintain his composure.

After a while, Tokiomi finally snapped out of it and said with a complex mood, "Are you saying... that the cat lifted a man into the air, spiraled up, and then descended at supersonic speed, creating a deep crater in the ground in the shape of a cat holding a man? And then the cat knocked down one of the Servants with a wooden stick that seemingly appeared out of nowhere?"

"Yes."

"And then the cat won a race against another Servant's chariot using its front paws, even floating in the air and mocking the other Servant by sticking its tongue out? Afterward, it dug its own grave, intentionally got hit and fell into the grave, and the soil happened to cover it, and it even placed a wooden plank as a gravestone?"

"That's right..."

"Finally, the cat suddenly revived, combined a tree branch with a rope, and threw it to bring down the other Servant's chariot?"

"That's how it went."

Listening to Kirei's unequivocal response, Tokiomi took a sip of red wine and looked at the ripples in the glass. These ripples were just as complex as his own feelings. In summary, there was one word to describe it allabsurd.

From the time of his birth until before participating in the Holy Grail War, he had never heard so many absurd things at once. If these words didn't come from the mouth of his trusted disciple, Kirei, he might have dismissed them with a laugh. But... the problem was that all of this information was relayed to him by Kirei. Given that, Kirei certainly wouldn't deceive him. Therefore, the issue must lie with Kirei's Servant.

After a moment of silence, Tokiomi asked, "Has your Assassin been drinking too much?"