Chapter 159

As we trekked into the forest beside the fort, I noticed Akuta Hinako and her Servant was right behind me as Jeanne walking beside me telling me some random information about the surroundings.

Once we entered the forest, we had to deal with another group of undead skeletons but rather than the hundreds strong army that come previously it was a paltry couple dozen at most so Berserker Tamamo ran ahead to show Fujimaru how awesome she was seeing as we had her defending the masters previously.

"Alright I think we can settle down here for now. First please tell me your names." Jeanne said respectfully as she sat down on the ground with her flag laid over her lap.

After a quick rundown of our names Jeanne focused on me as began to explain her circumstances.

"I am extremely confused as I have been summoned as a Ruler class Servant but there is no Grail War for me to mediate as well as how the Grail or whatever has summoned me has left me bereft of the knowledge that is common during its summons. Not only that but all my stats have been lowered a full grade if not more along with my ability to discern the names of Servants and the Command Seals inherent to all Rulers never appeared with me."

Jeanne sighed and blushed with a wry smile as she continued to speak. "I am merely lucky that I was summoned here in France so at least I can speak the language."

Mash then went onto mention how the soldiers previously called her a Dragon Witch and funny enough if Artoria and Morgan weren't holding up the rear of our group I imagine they would have flipped seeing them as well, especially Artoria in her Alter's from of armor.

"I have materialized a few hours ago today, so I am not such as to what is going on really?" Jeanne said helplessly to Mash's questions before continuing. "But it seems that there is another Jeanne D'Arc here in this world. A Jeanne who murdered my lands king and slaughtered the city of Orleans."

Olga then went onto say how the slaughtering of Orleans signified the collapse of France in Human History as it was the first nation to declare human liberty and equality, with many other nations following suit. Having France destroyed would stagnate human history and civilization for another hundred years.

After Jeanne freaked out about the random female voice coming from our wrist bands we got back onto topic after Olga and Romani were introduced.

"I see... So human history has been incinerated. My previous worries about my evil twin now seem so trivial but now I. I just wish to right this history I guess..." Jeanne said sadly with her head bowed towards the ground.

With how I was sitting across from Jeanne as she was speaking, I was easily able to reach over and began patting her head making her squeak in surprise. "Jeanne even if you are an incomplete Servant, I know you plan on going to Orleans in order to kill that false Jeanne, correct?"

Jeanne blushed from my brief head patting but did thankfully seem to be a bit more relaxed as she nodded. "Yes, it's my duty as a Ruler, no as Jeanne D'Arc the saint to cleanse the evil she has perpetrated." She said strongly.

I looked back to the rest of our group and saw that they seemed to be pretty well rested I called out. "Orleans is solid half day march from here according to the maps, should we attempt to get there and simply solve the Singularity in one fell swoop?" I asked the group as unlike Singularity F with the three great families that ran the Grail Wars, properties to loot, I didnt see a point in running our self's ragged like the duo Fujimaru and Mash did in Canon as they were always heavily outgunned in the beginning of Singularities so they couldn't do anything until they rallied all the native Servants that were roaming around.

Ritsuka and the other masters firmly nodded in assent to my plans with the more blood thirsty Servants like Ashwatthama basically assuring the coming mission was assured.

"It's a pity we don't have a rider class Servant so we can make good time though." Kadoc grumbled as we began our trek to Orleans in order to deal with the 'evil' Jeanne.

"Or you can simply exercise more so you can walk for a couple hours young man... Back in my day you wouldn't even survive my tests to receive my teachings if this is the willpower you have." Scathach scolded Kadoc and the group stopped as Kadoc's servant Anastasia whirled on the violet haired woman and the surrounding airs temperature plummeted from a warm balmy spring to a frigid winter.

"Do not insult my master..." Anastasia said coldly with her familiar Viy, her doll's eyes began glowing a harsh light blue in warning to us all as the Russian Princess stepped in front of Kadoc.

"Enough!" I yelled out flaring my black flames in frustration as I gripped my sheathed sword that was hanging on my waist. "Scathach you have no right to critique a master that isn't your own, and Anastasia you are a princess don't fall into the prodding of others as your master is fully capable of verbally defending himself... Now march!"

As I was yelling at the two of them, I realized something rather crucial. I was going to need to demonstrate my powers as if it was Ashwatthama who got into an argument with someone it would have already devolved into blows as he would likely see another Servant insulting his master as an insult to himself.

So, I needed to establish myself as the head of the pecking order and thankfully with the battles coming that would be easy.