Their commission was suspicious.

"The scale of the subspecies Holy Grail War isn't large enough, so you should give up. And even if it were a large enough one, you still wouldn't get the Holy Grail War, because those situations are usually quite difficult. And your luck has never been very good," Merlin said bluntly.

No, or rather, Merlin was being very polite.

If it were Chen Luo saying it, he would say: "Your Tohsaka family has a long-standing tradition of dropping the ball; you'll never have a chance with the Holy Grail in your lifetime."

Well, not entirely. Matou Sakura is also from the Tohsaka family, and she is the Lesser Grail.

But the fact that it falters at crucial moments is definitely not a problem.

"Is that so? Then let's continue to educate Rin properly. Master seems to have a high opinion of Rin." Tokiomi Tohsaka sighed and said.

The Holy Grail is no longer possible. Now that the Holy Grail in Fuyuki City has been dismantled, this parallel world will basically not produce a Holy Grail for the time being, unless the Einzbern family reconstructs the Greater Grail again.

"Speaking of which, it seems that Artoria didn't come to the bar last night, which is quite strange." Since Artoria was mentioned, Chen Luo recalled some things about her.

Artoria, the foodie, has been appointed one of the Thirteen Protectors of the Bar by Chen Luo, and it's practically impossible for her position to be shaken.

Now it's not that bars can't live without Artoria, but that Artoria can't live without bars. Where else can you find a place where you can eat your fill and eat well?

“Oh, I know about that too. It’s because of the legacy issues of the Einzbern family. After all, Kiritsugu Emiya not only failed to retrieve the Holy Grail, but also abducted Illya, even causing the Holy Grail to disintegrate. The Einzbern family is very angry, so they sent people over. Just last night,” Merlin, who has clairvoyance, said.

"and then?"

"Then he got a beating from Lia. It was a truly horrible sight." Merlin couldn't help but laugh out loud.

However, given Artoria's rather upright character, it's unlikely she would kill someone.

They just kicked people out.

Furthermore, there's absolutely no need to worry about Einzbern Castle retaliating afterward, because...

"It's because the Einzbern family's magicians aren't good at direct combat, otherwise they wouldn't have chosen Kiritsugu Emiya to participate in the Holy Grail War in their place," Tokiomi Tohsaka explained.

"Furthermore, the Mage's Association has been causing trouble for the Tohsaka family recently. After all, such a major event as going to the Root cannot be ignored. They are also very curious about who entered the Root and whether they have come out." Tohsaka Tokiomi glanced at Chen Luo as he said this.

"Understood. I'll go find Zelrich later and have him sort things out." Chen Luo snapped his fingers.

Chen Luo probably knew why Tokiomi Tohsaka had come this time.

Maybe I can even get a commission.

"No need, the head chef has already taken care of it," Tokiomi Tohsaka said, shaking his head.

"..."

Damn, I lost a huge amount of money on this commission.

"Chen Luo, you shouldn't have forgotten what I said at the beginning, right? I need to find Morgan. Can you call Morgan out?" Merlin said, tapping the table.

"You want to work with Morgan on things related to Artoria? Forgive my bluntness, but there's little chance Morgan will be interested," Chen Luo said.

“Don’t worry about how old he is, just call him first. Besides, Morgan might be interested in her Pan-Human History child,” Merlin said.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

“Lancelot and Morgan have nothing to do with each other.”

“I know, but what if we summon Gawain and the others instead of Lancelot? That’s when we need Morgan’s help to increase the accuracy. Tell Morgan that if she doesn’t help and we accidentally summon Gawain, Mordred, Agrave, Gareth, and Gahoris instead, I’ll bring them here to meet our family,” Merlin said.

"You deserved to be beaten to death by Morgan." Chen Luo looked at Merlin in disbelief.

How despicable must a nightmare be to use this incident to threaten a weak, pitiful, and helpless fairy queen?

Whether Morgan is weak, pitiful, or helpless is still uncertain, but Merlin is certainly heartless enough.

"Anyway, you just need to pass on a message. Everyone must die eventually. Some deaths are lighter than a feather, while others are heavier than Mount Tai. I would have no regrets if I died for Artoria," Merlin said with some fervor.

“I can help you pass on a message to Morgan, but you have to sign a contract with me first to become a magical girl.” After thinking for a moment, Chen Luo took out a piece of paper from the Book of Contracts and said.

"Huh? What kind of Cupid are you?" That was Merlin's first reaction.

"I'm doing this to fulfill someone's wish. Someone once said that a person is most authentic when they're online. There's someone online pretending to be Magical Girl Meryl-chan, I won't say who it is," Chen Luo said.

Chen Luo still has the deputy editor-in-chief privileges for the webpage of Merlin's Magical Girl Meryl-chan.

The world has long been plagued by online scams targeting the plum blossom industry.

Now it's time to turn the fake into the real.

"...Can we change our request?" Merlin tried to bargain.

If it were just a verbal agreement, Merlin might have agreed, but the key is to sign a contract.

Merlin was aware of the binding nature of the contract.

“I don’t care, now that I’ve caught you, you’re not getting away. You’ll never be able to contact Morgan without me, because she’s currently living in the doll collection and is trying to rebuild Britain.”

Since the number of people in the doll collection is now extremely small, Chen Luo no longer cares about Morgan's messing around.

Go ahead and rule if you want, since nobody listens to you anyway.

"Alright, Merlin, just agree. Anyway, that Zelrich has already stood us up for several days. Who knows when he'll finally finish developing that magical girl armor?" Yakumo Yukari said casually.

"Look at me, I don't care at all. So what if she's a magical girl?" Yukari Yakumo snorted.

No, actually I care a lot about that despicable Chen Luo!

But as the saying goes, once someone gets caught in the rain, they should tear off everyone else's umbrellas so that others can experience the harshness of society with them.

"Alright then." Merlin reluctantly agreed to the suggestion and took the contract from Chen Luo's hand.

"jingle!"

"Chen Luo, the magical girl armor you requested has been successfully developed."

Just as Merlin was about to hand over the signed contract to Chen Luo, Zelrich walked in from outside the bar.

"..." Merlin glanced at Zelrich, then at the contract in his hand.

"Awoo!" Merlin crumpled the contract into a ball and swallowed it.

"Holy crap. This actually works?" Yakumo Yukari was astonished.

"Spit it out! I've never broken a contract like this before, how dare you!" Yakumo Yukari quickly reached out.

At this moment, the most excited person was not Chen Luo, the beneficiary of the contract, but Yakumo Yukari, who had already been through the storm.

Chapter 823 Merlin's Performance of Swallowing Gungnir

Unfortunately, despite his speed, Merlin ultimately failed to destroy the evidence of the contract.

Besides the fact that even if Merlin swallowed the contract, it would still appear completely on Chen Luo's Book of Contracts, another reason is that someone helped Merlin pry the Book of Contracts out.

Ah, it wasn't Yakumo Yukari. Although Yakumo Yukari is currently choking Merlin, it really wasn't Yakumo Yukari who pried the contract out.

It was Morgan.

Of course, Morgan didn't use his weapon; he used Gungnir, the spear of destiny.

"Merlin!" Morgan, holding a Gungnir that he had somehow kept, began trying to stuff it into Merlin's mouth.

"No no no!"

That was the scene at the time.

Merlin tried to swallow the contract, but Morgan, who appeared in the bar with a cold face after Chen Luo finished delivering the message, saw this and very kindly offered to help Merlin. Then, he used Gungnir to try to help Merlin swallow the contract.

However, Gungnir was so thick that Merlin couldn't hold back and spat out the contract.

"..." Chen Luo looked at the contract that Merlin had stuffed into his mouth and then spat out, revealing an extremely disgusted expression.

Chen Luo doesn't want this contract anymore.

But this contract also allows Merlin to transform into the magical girl Meryl.

Chen Luo didn't want to interfere with the torture Kuang Meilin was suffering.

Yukari Yakumo is choking Merlin, while Morgan is holding Gungnir and trying to make Merlin perform a gun-swallowing act.

Fortunately, since it was in a bar and the "mutual harm" rule wasn't activated, it was just a prank. Probably...

Anyway, Merlin looks miserable right now, but he doesn't feel any pain at all.

As for Merlin's other feelings? How could Chen Luo know? Chen Luo was just a weak, pitiful, and helpless shopkeeper.

If it weren't for his reluctance, Chen Luo would have directly removed the mutual harm permission from the three of them.

But in the end, Merlin's move was truly brilliant.

Bring Morgan's children from the pan-human history to the fairy Morgan and make them call her "Mom".

Who can stand this?

Just a few days ago, Morgan was still a fairy who hadn't even had her first kiss.

Not to mention the exciting thing of suddenly having 5 more children.

Presumably, Merlin was already prepared when he had Chen Luo inform him in this way.

Provocation can be very effective at times. However, it can easily lead to violent incidents.

For example, right now.

The contract Merlin signed was instantly burned away by the flames, and its contents were recorded in the Book of Contracts.

In fact, the moment the contract was burned away by the flames, it was reborn, but the unease was still there.

"You guys step aside, let me punch Merlin. Don't worry, I'll just give him one punch. Merlin, the time has come to witness the friendship between us. If it hurts, just yell out." Chen Luo patted Morgan, who was trying to poke Merlin with Gungnir, making Morgan take a few steps back.

"Wait, what do you want to do?" Merlin was taken aback.

"Don't worry, I'll only throw one punch. Do you know the 'Friendship-Breaking Punch'? I really want to know if you, you heartless bastard, have any conscience at all." Chen Luo raised his right hand.

Then, just as Chen Luo's fist was about to land, he lifted the restriction that prevented them from harming each other.

"Holy crap, that hurts!" Chen Luo kept his promise, punched Merlin, and then made his escape.

"Alright, stop crying so much. I heard that the 'Friendship-Breaking Fist' hurts more the closer you are to Chen Luo. How long have you known Chen Luo? Not even as long as I have. How could it hurt?" said Yukari Yakumo, who was sitting next to him and was also a magical girl trainee.

Not everyone knows that Chen Luo's "Friendship-Breaking Punch" is incredibly painful, and it also has a slight effect of reforming people's ways, but Yakumo Yukari happens to know a little about it.

As for how she knew, Yukari Yakumo didn't want to say more.

"You don't believe me, it really hurts," Merlin said, covering his left eye.

Merlin could tell that Chen Luo hadn't exerted much effort and that he himself hadn't been injured much, but he was in a lot of pain.

"Come on, stop pretending. Given the relationship between Chen Luo and me, I wouldn't be in as much pain as you are after taking a punch." Yukari Yakumo waved her hand and said.

"I'm telling the truth." Merlin was getting a little anxious after finally telling the truth but no one believed him.

"..."

Chen Luo can testify that if Chen Luo used the "Friendship-Breaking Fist" to hit Merlin, it would indeed hurt more than if he hit Yakumo Yukari.

This is because although Chen Luo and Merlin have only known each other for a short time, Chen Luo has done a lot of tasks related to Merlin. Moreover, since it involves Merlin's regrets, the favorability tasks are coming in like crazy.

As a result, Merlin's discounts have now reached 5.5%.

After completing another very easy task, Merlin's discount reached its limit—5% off.

Although Chen Luo has known Yakumo Yukari for a long time and they have a good relationship, the discount is only 7.0%.

The difference between the two is that Merlin's discount is 5.5%, but whether the actual favorability is 7% off is another matter.

Yukari Yakumo's current true favorability rating is indeed 7% lower.

Unfortunately, the "Friendship Breaker" doesn't consider your actual affection level; it only considers your discount level. As long as the discount level is high enough, the punch will hurt enough.

So if both of them get punched by Chen Luo at the same time, Merlin will definitely be rolling on the ground in pain for a longer time.

Therefore, it is clear that if you get too close to Chen Luo, you will suffer a lot if you offend him.

Even if you manage to dodge the "Friendship Breaker Punch," there's still a "Friendship Set" waiting for you.

"Is this the magical Valkyrie armor you researched?" Chen Luo asked, looking at the magic wand that Zelrich handed him.

“That’s right, but the magical girl is the focus, the Valkyrie armor isn’t,” Zelrich said.

"To be honest, in our world, this thing isn't that much different in terms of its expressiveness and functionality from ordinary magical girl costumes. Of course, that's only relative."

"The Valkyrie armor of Destiny does have its unique features, but due to the limitations of its power system, some technologies cannot be fully utilized. However, using magic to assist is indeed feasible."

"For example, the Valkyrie Armor I'm giving you now is equipped with the Shadow Knight Moon Wheel's super high mobility, which is generated by the emission of magical particles, resulting in extremely high initial velocity. However, it requires some skill to stop. In addition, there is the Crescent System equipped with the Shining Knight Moon Soul Armor, which can summon two unmanned attack weapons called [Self-Driven Phantoms] from the Moon Soul Phantom Module. Of course, these have also been modified."

"I've only studied these two armors. If you want to incorporate the advantages of other Valkyrie armors, you'll have to work on it yourself. I'm not going to do it."