Chapter 46

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-Town of Fuyuki.

3rd POV*

"+`~!@#$&(#$^!)@#)()%#_@($(#&%*!@$(_#-34034>":}"#@43" That was what everyone heard before they suffer an immense migraine. Each person on the place dropped on the ground with the only exception being Lawrence and Shiki. Thankfully, she adhered Lawrence's words earlier, she can't fathom how a simple song would make such reactions from them.

Although curious, Shiki is not suicidal enough to try it. With everyone's senses being heightened, they experienced a new layer of agony from this performance. Being killed was better than hearing this! Even Rider had to admit that his words earlier was an understatement. This is not scary, it is horrifying! Rider started crazily shaking from the ground. His body was refusing to listen to his mind, it was paralyzed by how terrorizing the song was.

Lawrence prayed silently at the group, especially at Gilgamesh who is the most sensitive among them. As a person who enjoyed all the pleasure of life, he does not want any bad performance to enter his ear, just a slight disturbance will make him enrage. He did not try to stop Caster because he has some expectations to the performance of an Emperor. All Emperors are surely trained to learn simple art and this woman who has been pursuing it should be a professional in this matter.

Unfortunately for Gilgamesh, his gamble resulted to his current suffering. "C-Cease this atrocity! It is unpleasant!" he shouted trying to gain Nero's attention however the Emperor was too focused on her concert to even bother with him. For the first time in a while, Gilgamesh felt extreme feeling of weakness. One where he could not do anything to resist it.

There was only one instance where he felt this helpless, it was the moment when he had to watch his friend passing away under his eyes. 'Ahh, is this how I lose?' Gilgamesh thought before leaving himself to the cruel fate. He began convulsing and even foams started to drop from his mouth, his ears were being wrecked right now.

Only Lawrence was fully conscious to comprehend Nero's horrific song. He thought that if Nero were to be called an Eldritch then he would have no qualms with it. With this simple performance, she will readily gain the approval of other Eldritch. That is how terrific her performance was, he doubted whether his Doombringer presence could even compare to this.

The others could only look at Lawrence with hope in their eyes, he is still sane after hearing that song. He should be able to reason the Emperor to stop the madness. Lawrence could somehow read what they are thinking but sadly, he won't accept it. Why would he prioritize others when his Servant was the person they were trying to tell off. He plainly let Nero continue her show until she is satisfied.

The Death Song continued for another hour before Nero was finally satisfied. "Umu! What a perfect performance! It is mindboggling alright!" Nero nodded her head pleasantly happy with her show. She looked around trying to see their reactions, she only saw her master and Shiki standing on the audience's seat.

"Huh? Master? Where are the others? I made sure that nothing could escape this place" Nero asked tilting her head. "Hm? They are satisfied with your performance, they just took a short nap because the marvelous performance took their consciousness away" Lawrence smiled gently at Nero giving his reason. The group who were unconscious on the ground trembled visibly when they heard it, their expectations turned reality hearing the next words of Nero.

"Then shall I recite another one of my songs? I just created it on my mind!" Nero held the mic proud by what she heard. They were reverent to her music that they passed out from pleasure. That is the greatest compliment an artist could receive. The unexpected result gave her more confidence that she wanted to perform more.

Lawrence also flinched hearing that. "Surely you must be tired from maintaining this Reality Marble" he tried to dissuade her. "You jest master. You supply me with endless of mana, I could never get tired with that treatment" Nero smiled shaking her head, she seemed to think that Lawrence is genuinely concerned about her.

"W-Wait Nero, I think we need to return soon. Bea will be angry if her food were wasted because we are late" Lawrence had to think of another way and the only thing that could fend Nero off was the Head Maid. Experiencing Bea's training head on, Nero had to admit that she is also afraid of that proposition. "Umu! I played enough! Let us return to our house!" she said raising her hand.

The Reality Marble shattered bringing all of them to the Einzbern's garden again. Lawrence looked at the convulsing Servants and smiled wryly. "I'm sorry alright? I hope that you all can still stand up after this" he said before walking away with Shiki and Nero. The Servants could only twitch in response to his illogical words.

"By the way master, how did you like my show? Was it magnificent?" Nero twinkled her eyes looking for Lawrence's opinion. "Uhh, it is good I guess? You just need to practice more so you could perfect your art" Nero took note of what he said because in her mind, Lawrence is the highest existence above all. He is surely more professional than her when it comes to theater playing.

Shiki grabbed Lawrence's arm and walked by his side. "When are you going to end this war? We have no purpose on it anymore. I lost all interest in fighting that Golden King and Rider's army could easily be dismantled by me" she asked looking at him. If they wanted they could easily end this war however they chose not to do so because Shiki wanted to fight more. Now that her purpose is gone, they can return to their normal lives.

"Do you want to end the war already? I thought you were still having some fun there. Was not killing Assassin fun for you?" Lawrence asked because he clearly felt she was enjoying the battle earlier despite the Assassin being weaker than any of the servants. "Hnn, hard to say. I enjoyed the battle earlier but I feel like there was something lacking? Something of a big battle I say?" Shiki tilted her head not really knowing what it was.

This sentence of Shiki made Lawrence think of some things, "In the future, we could jump through time fighting against other servants and some different type of creatures. Though we might need to wait a decade before then, can you wait for that?" Lawrence stared at Shiki's eyes with sincerity. This made Shiki for a while before she answered his question. "I am never bored with you. A mere decade is nothing for us anyway" she said smiling lightly.

Nero who was being ignored by the two felt sour at this moment. "Master! Umu! Since you enjoyed my show, give me an item please! One that make me stronger!" she said grabbing Lawrence's other hand. She tried shaking him but was forced to stop when Shiki placed her gaze at her figure, the scary thing is her Mystic Eyes were opened threatening to cut her off if she continues.

Lawrence sighed patting Nero's head, "Fine. Let's go to my treasury later on" he said. To those who are wondering, Lawrence already created a treasury with the same features as Gates of Babylon. Though the items are repetitive, it is still more amazing than normal Noble Phantasms. The way he created it? He simply manipulated DarkTerror's concept of Space and Time to make a small rift that he can open and close anytime.

"Wow! Really?! Umu! As expected, master is really generous" Nero nodded her head in satisfaction. They arrived back to their house where they were greeted by a flying Anastashia. "Lawrence~! That was a wonderful showcase of power!" she commented latching to his chest. To Lawrence's confusion, there was no voice trying to cuss him out. He looked around and saw Luvia staring at him gaping.

He tilted his head not knowing why she was like that. "What happened to her? I thought any weak person could not remember what happened in the Chronosphere?" he asked wondering if they prepared something to escape the Chronosphere. Anastashia was happy hearing his question, "That is right! I took advantage of the loophole of your spell. It does not erase the memories of your comrade right? I simply created a Bounded Field and that barrier was considered to be your ally's work so anyone inside it will be also protected from the influence of your spell!" she proclaimed proudly.

This surprised Lawrence because even he did not think of that loophole. "You're great Ana. As expected of a genius" he praised her patting her head. Ana trembled from joy and just enjoyed the caressing that Lawrence is doing. "I see. How did you like the show little girl?" he asked the visibly shaken Luvia, her reality was probably breaking at this moment.

It is hard to cope with the cruel truth if it was forcibly slapped into your face. "… But Nee-sama is clearly the strongest…" she muttered seemed unsure about that. "Your sister is not the greatest. In this room, she is only the fourth strongest person, she is below among us" Shiki did not hold back and fed more truths to Luvia. "Sniff… sniff… Nooo!" Luvia was cornered so she has no choice but to run bawling with her eyes.

"Hey! That was mean! It is still my sister!" Anastashia complained by the way Shiki did it. "A sister that you did not properly teach manners. Would it end like that if your teachings were proper? She need to learn about reality fast before she could create problems for you in the future. Looking down on everyone because her sister is a genius, that is plain disgusting" Shiki narrowed her eyes at Anastashia saying that.

"Hmph, don't speak of manners when you also don't have it! You just learned after meeting Lawrence, in other words you were also a mad dog before!" The two started bickering infront of everyone. Lawrence shook his head and just let them be, instead he grabbed Nero to bring her to his treasury. A purple rift appeared as the two entered.

Their reality changed and it was replaced by a void like place. Strangely or not, Shiki felt comfortable in this kind of atmosphere before when they entered but for Nero, it was creepy. "Where is this master?" she asked grabbing Lawrence's shirt. "Hm, you could call it void. After years of searching, I finally found this place in the universe" he answered smiling.

This place is fairly important to the two of them as this is where they stayed when both of them was comatose. Nero looked around and was baffled by the number of treasures hanging around. It was simply uncountable! Some of the items even evolve and merged to create new ones, it managed to make a beautiful scenery of seas of treasures.

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