Chapter 80 - Dhampir of the Holy Grail (1)

Anything that you recognice is not mine!

This is a side story of four chapters about Mordred and Shirone-chan!

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"Damn, that was spicy."

Two people had snuck into the vampire party. Unlike everyone who had attended the party, who had done so dressed as medieval nobles, these two people had their appearances hidden in layers.

"So that's the girl Master was talking about. The Fifth King."

The speaker, the taller of the two, did not hide the contempt contained in her words when she said "Fifth King".

"I'm not going to lie, she's a cutie. She must be your sister's age, Shirone. Still, a pretty face isn't enough to be a king. It's obvious she's nothing but a puppet for that filthy vampire."

"Hmm-mmm"

The person next to her, Shirone, nods her head.

"Sephiroth Graal... The holy grail of this world... So it is that child who has it." Mordred muttered to herself.

"Drako-nii said it's her, so it has to be her. There's no way Drako-nii's wrong."

Mordred raised her eyebrows and looked at Shirone, her playful gaze fixed on little Nekoshou's sincere eyes.

"You seem to trust your older brother very much. You haven't seen him or your sister in six months, do you miss them?"

Mordred asked Shirone. The little cat nodded slightly.

"I miss them very much, but it was my own decision to follow you, teacher. Kuroka-neesama is very strong, and so is Drako-nii. I have to work very hard to be able to fight by their side in the future."

Shirone clenched her fists as she spoke, her determination well appreciated by her teacher.

After six months of training in England, Mordred was increasingly proud of her first and only disciple. She trained seriously, not skipping any of the training and always giving her all.

Of course, Mordred put limitations on the girl's training. She was only 11 years old! The training was, of course, tailored to her age and physical ability. Mordred was not an insensitive person, and she was not going to force Shirone to have a hell of a workout.

Still, the training Shirone had undergone during this time had been very effective. Her hand-to-hand combat was amazing, and she had impressive explosive strength even by Mordred's standards. The problem was that she could not help the little girl with magic, Mana Burst being the only spell she could teach the little cat, and she could not help her Senjutsu training either for obvious reasons.

They had arrived in Romania after receiving a message from Drako. He had informed them that Grigori had found the location of the Sephiroth Graal, the holy grail of this world.

Sephiroth Graal, one of the 13 Longinus.

According to Drako, Grigori did not appear to wish to interfere in vampire territory. They had confirmed that the bearer of this Sacred Gear was none other than Valerie Tepes, a Dhampir born from the union of the fourth king of Tepes and one if his human's concubines. She had been about to be executed for saving another Dhampir, who possessed a peculiar Sacred Gear called Forbidden Balor View that was capable of stopping time, but the Holy Grail manifested itself to save her life. The vampires of the Tepes faction had already lost a powerful weapon to fight against the Carmilla, so they were not going to kill a powerful weapon like one of the 13 Longinus.

After waking up her Sacred Gear, Valerie disappeared for a while. She only reappeared after the fourth king of Tepes mysteriously disappeared. The surprise came when she proclaimed herself the fifth king of Tepes, and more surprising was that everyone accepted them as if it was natural that the events took place in such a way.

But Mordred understood this when she saw what had happened before. This girl, Valerie Tepes, was nothing more than a puppet for her brother Marius, the real ruler.

The reason Mordred and Shirone were there was that Drako had informed them of this thinking that Mordred would be curious about the holy grail. He had told them beforehand that this holy grail did not have the same function as the holy grail of Fuyuki or that of any other war in the world from which Mordred came.

The reality was that Drako wanted to keep Mordred busy for a while longer since he did not yet want to go to the world of Type-Moon. He just felt that it wasn't time to go yet, that he still had to do something else.

For that reason, he sent this information to Mordred. Just as Drako thought, Mordred was attracted to the idea and had Arthur Pendragon, the current heir to the Pendragon house, buy two flight tickets to Romania for the next day.

They had already arrived a week before, but they had been gathering information and looking for the place where the vampires resided. After the umpteenth torture of Mordred, one of the vampires confessed that they were going to have a private party where the new king would participate.

Thus, Shirone and Mordred had come to this place and had witnessed what had happened between Valerie and Marius. Neither of them had liked it, and they had felt a lot of satisfaction when Valerie hit Marius' cheek.

They had both found what they had done with the Dhampir afterwards repulsive, however. They both had bad experiences with being locked in cells and experienced with them. Mordred for her childhood under the care of Morgan Le Fay, the original one, and Shirone for the time she spent in the Naberius house.

"Teacher, we're going to save her, aren't we?" Shirone asked. Her little body was slightly shaking.

She had her head down, so she couldn't see the expression that Mordred had at that moment.

And that expression, it was very frightening.

The vampires of the Tepes faction were about to suffer the wrath of the Knight of Treachery.