The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 362 What exactly is a Chaldean succubus? (Tactical lean back)

"Thinking about it carefully, giving my seniors a hint about the 'hypnosis' function seems a bit useless~."

After reminding Emiya, BB, looking somewhat resigned to life, squatted below the phone screen, propping her face up with one hand while drawing a lonely little circle below with the other.

"The girls around him all seem to have an overflowing level of affection for him, averaging more than just friends. If he just put in a little effort, he could easily win them over, right? No, even if he just takes it slow and uses his super nice personality, he'll attract them eventually..."

Imagine a fantastical character who combines superhuman strength, immense wealth, and unparalleled boyfriend qualities—a veritable impossible triangle. How many girls would dislike such a character?
Fake hypnosis, real hypnosis.jpg
……

While BB was disheartened by the effectiveness of the beta app, Emiya was still struggling with Erii, trying to explain his previous behavior.

"Actually, what just happened—"

Faced with Erii's questioning look, Emiya hesitated, racking his brains for a tactful explanation:
"Uh, this is a little obedience test! Erii, you heard about the meeting, right? To be honest, the prototype for the assimilation of the Heavenly Voice has just come out, so now I'll conduct a little test!"

"Mmm," Erii nodded in agreement almost as soon as Emiya finished speaking, whether she had thought about it seriously or not. "I understand, I will listen to you."

"No, you don't understand!... What I mean is, this hypnosis... no, this sample testing process is different from when you usually listen to me. The biggest standard for obedience testing is that you need to obey my instructions directly without thinking or judging—"

Erii nodded again. "Yes, I understand. But that's how I listened to you before, wasn't it?"

Emiya: "..." You're invincible, kid.

Erii blinked innocently. She couldn't understand why Emiya had suddenly fallen into a deafening silence on the battlefield. Was it because she hadn't done well enough that he couldn't give her a proper evaluation?
The girl's thin lips trembled slightly, and she pouted with a hint of displeasure.

Seeing that Erii seemed angry because of the misunderstanding, Emiya said, "No, actually I think it's fine, there's nothing to be dissatisfied with..."

"...Then just give me the order!"

Erii's delicate eyebrows were arched and slightly raised. This posture was somewhat reminiscent of her sister Nono.

You're such a traitor! I was supposed to be the one hypnotizing you, not the one being hypnotized making demands. Who's hypnotizing whom here?

Emiya was about to make a quick, instinctive comment, but when he saw Erii's stunningly beautiful face and her long, flowing black and white hair, he couldn't help but pause in surprise.

Erii has made progress over the years. Like Nono, she has been learning how to fight while also working hard with Charlotte to learn magical techniques to master the Servant power within her.

The version of Uesugi Kenshin as a war god is undoubtedly at the level of a god. Even if Uesugi Erii's body is equivalent to a demigod-level vessel, it is not enough to unleash her full power.

Five years ago, to prevent damage to the vessel, Uesugi Kenshin only dared to switch personalities with Erii and personally take action. However, judging from the current situation, Erii seems to have quietly improved her control and can now directly use the power of the divine servant without Uesugi Kenshin's personality emerging or secretly assisting her? She even seems to be handling it with ease?
Just as Nono said, Erii has made great progress!

Emiya reflected that he hadn't even realized he had neglected certain aspects of her growth.

“It was my oversight, Erii,” Emiya smiled. “You’re doing very well now; you’ve grown a lot.”

"Of course." Erii, with her upright posture, straightened her body and puffed out her chest. Her large and ample breasts, even through her clothes, formed a noticeable and beautiful rounded arc in front of Emiya, showing off with a touch of pride.

"..."

Was this what we were just talking about—growth?
However, Emiya did not appear too dull or pretentious in the end; he had guessed Erii's thoughts to some extent.

So he opened his arms and hugged the girl tightly.

As a reward for her efforts.

"!"

Erii, who rarely felt embraced by Emiya, felt the warmth, and her lips curved into a clear smile. A deep feeling of happiness surged and echoed in her heart.

Yes, happiness.

Even the boundless noise of the battlefield could not disturb his thoughts.

Time seemed to rewind to the battlefield of the Holy Grail War in Tokyo more than five years ago. Erii, following Emiya, experienced running away from home for the first time, facing unprecedented enemies, witnessing the complex and diverse world outside, hearing the "truth" of the world from Emiya for the first time, and...

And now, for the first time, I'm saving the world with him.

Erii leaned against Emiya's chest, her mind churning with a thousand thoughts, yet also rosy memories. The past surged like a tide, each detail burning with passion, each thread as tender as a lingering affection.

Sweet thoughts, like savory juice, gradually flowed back.

Erii then recalled how she hadn't been able to accompany him to the final battlefield of the Holy Grail War five years prior, nor had she been able to be with him throughout his journey to the YAMAL. A feeling of "regret" began to brew and erupt, forming an intense and unbearable surge of emotion—

Erii decisively hugged him back, and at the same time raised her face, staring at Emiya as she pressed her lips tightly against his.

Perhaps she wasn't such a greedy girl; she was very simple. She just didn't want to go back to being without his companionship, hoping he would give her a warm embrace, experience the almost bewildering happiness of being held tightly, and let the raging tide called love overwhelm her.

"Hey...! Look at this couple, passionately embracing and kissing right here on a battlefield full of enemies! Even Bradamante, that infatuated fangirl, wasn't this unreserved when she was chasing Ruggiero, was she?"

Just as Erii was starting to feel breathless, she heard a distinctly threatening aura and mocking voices coming from afar...

It's an enemy Servant!
Erii's eyes widened in an instant, intending to break free from the embrace and rush over to fight the enemy.

However, Emiya did not let go of himself.

"I'm here, don't worry."

She heard Emiya speaking in her ear, his warm breath tickling her ear, but her heart felt warm.

"How dare they be so arrogant, even to the point of despising the battlefield?"

Approaching from the opposite direction was a handsome young man with blond hair, holding a strangely shaped, blunt sword with no edge or sharpness, as if a piece of the tip was missing.

Emiya, who was extremely sensitive to swords, immediately recognized it with sharp eyes, "The Sword of Mercy, Katina?"

Katina is a famous holy sword in European legend, originally wielded by Tristan, one of the Knights of the Round Table, and its name means "shortened".

The tip of this sword is said to have been broken off by an angel, making it one of the most famous "swords that never sharpen" in the entire history of the Middle Ages. It possesses great power but is unable to kill anyone due to its blunt blade. Of course, now that it is a Noble Phantasm, it must have special effects and cannot be truly incapable of fighting.

The Cartier was later acquired by the British Royal Family and became a royal symbol. However, it was also once owned by one other person, namely Ogier, one of Charlemagne's Twelve Knights.

This Ogier was no nobody; he was said to be a Danish prince, blessed by six fairies from childhood. Just as Charlemagne is often depicted as the King of Hearts in playing cards, Ogier's image was also made as the Jack of Spades.

"Good insight! But there's no reward!"

Augier's golden hair flowed like that of a nobleman, but his attacks were decisive and ruthless. "Take this!" With a swift movement, the Servant's figure rapidly approached, and Katina's transparent sword light instantly enveloped several paths in front of him.

"Useless! -- Huh?"

Emiya thought to himself that his Susanoo could provide super defensive capabilities, but the sword light from Katina was completely harmless. Even though it was aimed at him, it caused no impact or damage without triggering the Susanoo armor.

It was like a gentle breeze caressing your face.

Just as Emiya was stunned, Ogier suddenly spoke up, "Our most benevolent, virtuous, and powerful Emperor, grant me a merciful heart and a sharp blade, and that no one will be killed without a blade!"

A pricking sensation arose in my mind!

So that's how it is. Katina has no physical lethality; it attacks with its mind!

The Sword of Compassion truly lives up to its name.

However, Emiya still couldn't help but frown. He felt like he had been bitten on the head by a mosquito. He waved his hand, forming a sword with his fingers, and a golden divine sword's sharpness was projected out!

Augier's expression changed drastically. He urgently manifested the power bestowed upon him by the Great Emperor, declaring, "I dedicate everything to the great Caesar Charlemagne—"

As soon as he finished speaking, divine sword energy erupted, and a deafening roar exploded across the vast battlefield.

Almost all the soldiers saw a blinding golden light flash by, and then the fiercely attacking paladin army was mercilessly cleaved in two. Countless heavily armored and wielding heroic soldiers evaporated on the spot, turning into blue light particles that scattered.

At the same time, a narrow rift valley stretching for tens of kilometers from the city of Toledo suddenly appeared out of nowhere, as if an invisible finger of a god had casually sliced ​​through the earth.

"..."

This commotion was far more dramatic than the fire caused by Jeanne Alter and other Servants, as well as Erii, almost silencing the entire battlefield.

Emiya dispelled the sword light in his hand, and suddenly felt something was wrong. He subconsciously shifted his gaze to the bottom of the rift valley.

"Huh? Not dead?"

Emiya lightly touched the ground and leaped into the valley with Erii in his arms.

"Cough cough...So that's why..."

Ogier's body was almost entirely unharmed, yet a conceptual-level power was continuously repairing his nearly shattered form. "So you are the enemies my king spoke of, the Observatory (Chaldea) from beyond the heavens, are you?"

"..." Emiya did not answer. He was pondering what had just happened, as if some additional force had intervened.

According to Astolfo's intelligence, a paladin can only obtain one "Holy Baptism" ability, so there must have been a defensive force that intervened from a great distance just now, hindering the sword wave of the Ama-no-Murakumo sword that he casually unleashed.

Although we couldn't completely stop it.

As for the Holy Baptism ability on Ogier, judging from his rapid recovery, it is a self-healing ability.

"Not going to answer? Well, as expected of a formidable enemy recognized by His Majesty!"

When Augier stood up, he had fully recovered. "Unfortunately, His Majesty's holy baptism preserved my body from damage, and unfortunately, my Noble Phantasm renders physical attacks within its area of ​​effect ineffective—"

He held Katina aloft; the power of this merciful blade was to create mental attacks that resembled slashes without causing physical damage.

In other words, within the domain of his Noble Phantasm, others cannot inflict physical damage, but Ogier can launch mental attacks and kill the opponent's "spirit"!
Erii, who was being held in someone's arms, widened her eyes slightly after hearing this, her expression as cheeky as Astolfo's ability to perform "dimensional jumps" continuously!
Light burst forth from both sides simultaneously.

"Lost Edge Sanctuary!" *2
"Huh??" Augier suddenly looked up.

He was shocked to find that Emiya suddenly had an identical Katina in his hand!
"How is this possible?"

"Didn't you show it to me? So I tried to build one myself."

Sorry, but your sword is my sword!
Emiya's calm tone left the other person momentarily questioning their existence.

Ogier: "..."

"Not attacking? Then I'm going to go for it."

Emiya raised the fully loaded Catapult with one hand, "Holy Sword, sharpen!"

boom!
Despite the absence of any atmospheric disturbances, a blinding and terrifying mental shock transformed into a sword beam that instantly collided with the light of Ogier's hastily launched Noble Phantasm, engulfing the opponent in an instant.

The aftershocks of the magic spread outwards, shattering rocks and turning the narrow valley into a basin... Tsk, I subconsciously used it as a divine artifact, and the output was a bit excessive.

Of the twelve paladins present in this era, one is now missing.

Emiya lowered his head, and Erii rubbed her head against his clothes like a little girl who hadn't grown up, causing her red hair to become slightly messy. She was still smiling sweetly, her thin, vermilion lips were warm and alluring, and the saliva from their kiss was still lingering at the corners of her mouth, making her look incredibly beautiful.

His fighting style is... like a "chicken-embracing kill"?

After a while.

Having successfully halted the Paladin army's offensive, Emiya and his companions had achieved part of their objective. Although they were considering whether to engage with the indigenous coalition of this era, the first priority was for the group to regroup.

"Boring. There isn't even a decent enemy, and the heroic soldiers are no match for fire."

"Who isn't? And I have a feeling—the truth about these heroic spirits is even more disgusting than the current situation."

When Jeanne Alter, who always has a disdainful expression, and Mary Alter, who always has a world-weary expression, returned as a team, they suddenly saw Emiya waving at the other girls and saying something about an obedience test.

"What is this? It seems to be related to us?" Jeanne Alter asked in confusion, turning to look at Mary Alter.

"Obedience test"... does that refer to these Servants?
"Why are you looking at me? If you're really curious, you can come over and find out. I've noticed that you've been looking at Emiya differently ever since he took over the position of bishop. Could it be that you've fallen for him?"

"Tsk... I didn't!"

Jeanne Alter muttered to herself, subconsciously quickening her pace forward. When she met Emiya's gaze, she inexplicably found herself agreeing with Black Mary's assessment...

Strange... why does it suddenly look so pleasing to the eye...?

(End of this chapter)