Lu Mingfei is transforming into the final boss.

Seeing Jesta collapse in agony, Sigma knew it was she who had struck. Being able to communicate remotely without any aids meant being able to attack remotely; the two were interconnected. In the end, she was just a Dead Apostle to her.

A Dead Apostle of Jesta's caliber cannot engage in a direct confrontation with a Servant, let alone someone as strong as her.

It's just an insect that can be crushed with a flick of the wrist. It's utterly worthless.

"Jester! What's wrong with you!?" Tsubaki rushed over to the boy who was lying on the ground.

From her perspective, it was as if her friend had suddenly collapsed to the ground, inexplicably and without warning.

As his friend, Xiaochun had every right to care about his friend's safety.

Sigma remained expressionless, merely observing the interaction between the two. He figured the woman would arrive in a minute at most, and his task would be finished. Ultimately, his mission was simply a trust test. Although people often say that trust cannot be tested, that's only limited by the rules of human society. If someone is no longer even human, then that logic completely fails.

Let's just leave the situation as it is. Since it's all for the sake of protecting Xiaochun, she shouldn't know anything about it.

"Hey, good afternoon, you two scumbags." Lu Mingfei landed lightly on the lawn in the courtyard, looking at the couple.

"Who are you?" Kugaoka Yuzuru looked at the girl who had descended before her... No, judging from the amount of magic she exuded, she was not human. In the current situation, she should be some kind of Servant.

"Lu Mingfei, that's my name." She walked straight past the two of them and headed into the house.

Without any semblance of resistance, the couple had long since lost their so-called personalities in this dream world, their individuality no longer existing; they were merely puppets of the Pale Knight, dolls whose consciousness had been altered.

They were implanted with the concept that they had to love Tsubaki, while everything else remained unchanged... which is, false love. They treated their daughter as a tool, not as a human being to love.

Lu Mingfei loathed all parents who did nothing right. Compared to the Qiu couple, her own parents, whom she could hardly ever see, seemed so kind and gentle. Their mistake was that they did nothing, but their good thing was that they did nothing.

Of course, she is not someone who likes to compete in who is worse. There is no such thing as "you are worse than me, therefore I am a good person" in this world. The logic of human beings is based on universal moral and ethical concepts, with the judiciary and law as the minimum lower limit. As long as that line is crossed, one should be punished. This is the consensus of ordinary people.

But the couple from the Kuangqiu clan had crossed that line far too far and deserved to be punished, though she wouldn't do anything for the time being, at least not for now.

Killing the parents she believed loved by a child who knew nothing was wrong, at least that's what Lu Mingfei thought, though that was just her opinion.

She felt a certain empathy for Tsubaki Kanaoka...

"You've come." Sigma looked at the girl coming down the steps.

"Ah." Lu Mingfei nodded.

"Big brother...and this sister is..."

Unlike anyone else, Tsubaki Kugaoka could only feel warmth and kindness from her.

It was as if I had met a benevolent goddess.

"My name is Lu Mingfei. You can call me Sister Lu or Sister Mingfei, it's up to you."

Sigma had never seen this woman laugh so happily; it was beyond his comprehension. He had initially thought she was a ruthless killer, but she was so gentle. No, he should have been somewhat prepared, but witnessing such a drastic change still shocked him.

"Mingfei... Sister? Can you help Jesta-kun? He looks like he's in a lot of pain."

"Ah...that? I can't do that."

"Jester Cartore, that's the boy's real name. His true identity is a vampire who denies human history, Tsubaki," Lu Mingfei said softly.

"Eh... a vampire...?" Tsubaki knew what a vampire was; being born into a family of magicians, she knew about them. But only from books, that is, from various novels and stories; she had never actually seen one.

"You came really fast, damn dragon... no, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call you a god." Jesta lay sprawled on the floor, his red eyes fixed on Lu Mingfei. "I thought I could have more fun."

"A god!?" Sigma immediately turned his gaze to Lu Mingfei.

He was still bluffing. He wanted to run away, but... could he escape? In the face of true gods, so-called high-ranking Dead Apostles were nothing more than ants compared to humans. Whether they lived or died was just a matter of their will. Not to mention that he had been cursed by this damned god and couldn't even put up a proper struggle.

"God...?" Tsubaki looked at the older sister who seemed a bit older than her. "Jester-kun... you."

"Yes, Tsubaki, I only did this to have more fun, but that damned god ruined everything. You were supposed to be the king of this world, go out and see what the scenery is like outside."

Jesta's twisted destructive desires led him to make such a statement. Kuangqiu Chun is a responsible girl who understands good and evil. Her worldview is not yet fully formed, but she already has a sense of right and wrong. Once she sees the city outside being destroyed by her own desires, she will probably collapse in an instant.

That was what he longed for, what the Dead Apostle named Dorothea longed for: to negate everything about humanity.

Even the simple and beautiful wishes of young girls are like this.

"What it looks like outside..."

"Wait, Tsubaki." Lu Mingfei stopped Tsubaki, who was trying to run outside, with her arm.

"elder sister?"

I won't stop you from seeing what you want; that's your freedom.

But you don't have to try to solve everything on your own. You're still a child, so you need to rely on adults to some extent.

Lu Mingfei took her hand.

"You will not be alone. This planet has seven billion people and a history of four and a half billion years. As the representative of the will of this planet, I will affirm you."

"The planet's...will representative!!!"

Sigma and Jesta's eyes widened, especially Jesta's, who roughly understood the meaning of the term "planetary will."

The Moon King, who created the Dead Apostles, is the representative of the so-called planetary will. His participation in the Holy Grail War was solely to awaken the colossal alien life form slumbering in South America and destroy the entire world—nothing more. Ultimately, the Dead Apostles are merely creations designed to restrain human development. They are the concrete manifestation of Gaia's planetary will.

"Type: Earth, Ultimate One, Nidhogg, and..." Lu Mingfei gently whispered in Kuang Qiu Chun's ear, uttering names only the two of them knew.

"You can use any of these to address me. But I still prefer the name Lu Mingfei, which belongs only to me, just like your name, Kuangqiu Chun, is a name that belongs only to you."

"How is this possible!!! How is this possible!!" Jesta dragged his body, howling like a mad dog with a broken leg. "You should deny the existence of human history, the only life above all things on Earth, the only pinnacle, yet now you choose to deny your own existence for the wish of a little brat, why!!!"

Ultimate One is the physical and spiritual representative of a planet, the pinnacle of all life on it. The concept of death does not exist for them; their very existence negates the reason for the existence of other life forms on the same planet, because they are the limit of life's evolution and the sole victor in the arena of life.

Sigma didn't dare utter a single word, and he even tried his best to suppress the changes in his expression. As a mercenary, he had actually overheard this information that could change the fate of all mankind in a small room, which was as incredible as finding the launch code of a nuclear bomb while eating at a roadside stall.

Faldius and the American government had no idea what this Holy Grail War had actually produced. Sigma couldn't even imagine it.

And, did Lu Mingfei descend into this world solely for a girl...? He was skeptical; there must be other mysterious secrets they didn't know about.

"That's none of your business, you ugly dead apostle."

Okay, Chun, let's go. Witnessing the real world is also part of growing up.

"Jesta...kun." Tsubaki was startled and backed away. Her former friend was actually screaming so wildly, so insanely.

Kuo Qiu Chun barely understood what Lu Mingfei was saying. The only thing she understood was Nidhogg. She had read related picture books, which described Nidhogg as a poisonous dragon in Norse mythology that could bite off the roots of the World Tree, causing the destruction of the world, and punishing all the guilty in the deep misty land.

"Don't be afraid. Becoming a magician requires courage and wisdom that surpasses others. Isn't Tsubaki going to become a magician?"

"Yes! I want to become a magician that my parents can be proud of!" Xiaochun clenched her little fist.

"But, sister, is it a dragon?"

"Yes. It's a dragon. It's a pity I can't conjure up horns, and I don't have wings either." Lu Mingfei touched her non-existent horns.

Why?

"Because I'm still human. Gods and dragons are things of the past." Lu Mingfei smiled and patted Kuanqiu Chun's head.

Sigma didn't dare miss a single word. This short sentence contained a tremendous amount of information: she was a god, a dragon, but that was all in the past, and now she was human. In other words, it was her human side that was being summoned. Could he interpret it that way?

The Holy Grail War summons different aspects of Heroic Spirits. For example, a hero may be skilled with a bow, a spear, and a horse, and may have lived as a human before dying and being worshipped as a god. However, the Holy Grail War cannot summon his god-like side; it can only summon his past as a human, which could be when he was young, middle-aged, or old.