Chapter 175: Artoria and Mordred!

Finally, the picture came to the sixth episode of the anime

At the beginning of the animation, Mordred's memories directly show everything about Mordred. Mordred's rebellion against Arthur is more like a "fate". She has been burdened with the fate of destroying Arthur since birth, but when she sees Arthur's perfection, she had the idea of ​​being loyal to Arthur, including when she executed the soldiers who betrayed Arthur, she said "Do you have any complaints against the perfect king?" It can be seen that she is fascinated by this perfection.

Then in the next shot, the knights of the round table are discussing something with Artoria, but Mordred stands aside, neither talking to others nor taking off her helmet. Her mother, Morgan, told her not to take off the helmet, because her face was exactly the same as Arthur's, and she might reveal her identity early, so she has always suffered from loneliness and the contradiction between betraying Arthur or being loyal.

After Morgan explained her life experience to her, her happiness and joy are unimaginable--I am the heir of that perfect existence, and I have a blood relationship with the one I admire--if I explain my identity to him, Let him see this face, will he take me seriously and admit that I am his son?

With this in mind, Mordred directly called out to Arthur, took off her helmet, and explained her situation to him. As a result, Arthur refused—refusing to recognize Mordred as his son, and refusing to pass on the throne to her.

Mordred's longing had been shattered—to be denied by the existence she adored and loved was like the collapse of the only spiritual pillar she was born with. So she accepted her mission of destroying Arthur and embarked on the road of rebellion. Because of her own particularity, Mordred grew up very fast, and she was only ten years old when she fought Arthur in the final battle. She was a real child. Arthur has never reused her, and arranged her at the end of the round table.

No one praised her, no one supported her, no one acknowledged her.

So it is understandable why when Mordred shouted to Arthur: "I will destroy you", there were tears in the corners of her eyes. In the end, the "father" before dying actually wanted to touch her face—the brightest light in her own world. 

Of course, she died before that.

Seeing this, Iskandar looked at Artoria in front of him again, "Well,,, can I ask you a question? You are a girl, right?"

Artoria: "Are you scolding me?"

Iskandar: "That's not true, I'm just curious, how did two girls give birth to Mordred?"

Artoria: ??? How do you ask me to explain this kind of question? Could it be that I was also in a daze at the time, so I didn't know anything?

"I refuse to answer this question." Artoria chose not to explain, but obviously, everyone around her is still very interested in the relationship between Artoria and Mordred. But Artoria is obviously not ready to think about how to answer these people, so she began to lower her head and meditate at this moment.

"I…did I really do something wrong? If I admit Mordred's identity, maybe…the ending will be different."

Artoria has always been like this, no matter what happens, she will take the responsibility on herself, the case of Lancelot and Guinevere is the same, and the case of Lindred is the same.

But is Artoria wrong?

Alexander thinks that the way of handling things is inappropriate, but if she is wrong, it doesn't count.

Throughout history, no one has truly passed the throne to an illegitimate child. Artoria's decision was not wrong at that time, but she failed to understand that Mordred doesn't desire the throne; what the child wants is Artoria's love, and nothing more.

Alexander dared to say that if Mordred and Artoria had revealed their identities at that time, if Artoria hadn't been so indifferent, even if she just showed a gentle smile, or stretched out her hand to Mordred's head, Mordred would have transformed from a great enemy to her greatest shield.

"Artoria, let me ask you, if Mordred is willing to return to your camp, will you accept her? Or refuse?" Artoria thought about it for a while. After she watched the anime and experienced everything, she really felt that there is something wrong with her attitude towards Mordred, maybe, if her attitude towards Mordred changes, everything bloody will not happen.

Thinking of this, Artoria couldn't help showing a smile. Alexander knew that this smile was a smile of relief, which meant that she had already fully understood what attitude she should use to treat Mordred, so at this moment, She showed a charming smile to Alexander

"I would welcome Mordred back."