In the messy basement, Lu Minghao stared blankly at the broom Rin Tohsaka had thrown to him. His big eyes blinked as he watched Rin Tohsaka's disappearing figure on the stairs. Was this guy really so carefree as to ask her to clean? Wasn't she afraid that by the time she woke up, the house would be gone?
“Whatever, I'm too lazy to argue with such a tsundere.”
With that, Lu Minghao casually tossed the broom aside. Anyway, with Rin Tohsaka's tsundere nature, when she woke up tomorrow and saw the basement as messy as ever, she would at most grumble a few times and then throw the matter to the back of her mind.
“Right, I still don't know what my attributes are after becoming a Heroic Spirit.”
After randomly finding a discarded wooden crate to sit on, Lu Minghao began to check the attributes of his Heroic Spirit body. Honestly, compared to Lu Minghao's original power, the power of this Heroic Spirit body was simply weak to the extreme.
True Name: Lu Minghao
Class: Caster
Strength: A
Endurance: A
Agility: A
Mana: EX
Luck: A
Magic Resistance: A
Riding: C
Personal Skills: Shadow Control (The ability to freely control and dominate shadows)
Gravity Manipulation (The ability to freely manipulate and change gravity)
Undead Summoning (The ability to summon the undead using corpses as materials)
Flame Control (Integrated evolution of abilities such as Fireball, Explosion, Fireball Barrage, etc., the ability to freely manipulate flames)
Slime Constitution (Immunity to physical damage, the ability to freely change the shape of the body, no need to breathe or sleep)
Inherent Skill: Magic Controller (Freely control and use magic of various attributes, and greatly enhance the power of the magic itself)
Physical Super-Enhancement (The ability to passively absorb one's own magic power to comprehensively enhance the body's strength, toughness, endurance, and power)
Noble Phantasm: King of Evil (EX): From the abyss formed by pure 'evil', awaken your own legion of evil.
“I should say, as expected of someone who descended with the Caster's Spirit Base, all abilities are centered on magic. However, with all attributes A except for Riding, plus EX-level mana, it's still no problem to fight in a broken Holy Grail War.”
Looking at the attributes of his Heroic Spirit body, the expression of disdain on Lu Minghao's face was clear. However, disdain aside, the power possessed by this Heroic Spirit's body can be said to be the strongest Heroic Spirit in the entire Holy Grail War.
As for the Noble Phantasm, it was completely a substandard version of his ultimate skill 'King of Evil'. It only retained the ability of the Abyss of Evil, probably a similar ability to Conqueror's King's and Shirou Emiya's Unlimited Blade Works.
The strongest Evil Erosion and the ability to absorb 'evil' to enhance oneself were completely not retained. In Lu Minghao's view, it was trash.
“Whatever, things have come to this, so I can only make do.”
After saying that, Lu Minghao lightly exerted force and jumped down from the wooden crate, completely ignoring his Master's order to clean the basement, and walked directly towards the stairs.
Before long, Lu Minghao opened the door and walked into a room full of girlish atmosphere. Rin Tohsaka, who had lost too much magic power due to summoning a Heroic Spirit, was completely unaware that Lu Minghao had entered her room. The sound of even breathing constantly echoed.
“I must say, as expected of the two-dimensional wife of a bunch of people on the internet before my transmigration, she really is good-looking.”
Walking to the bedside, Lu Minghao sized up the sleeping Rin Tohsaka. When she was asleep, she was much cuter than her usual tsundere self. Currently, due to the limitations of the Command Spells, Lu Minghao had temporarily given up on the idea of changing Masters.
Anyway, all he needed was the All the World's Evil contained within the Holy Grail. Who the Master was didn't matter at all. Of course, it would be much more convenient to have an obedient Master.
“Next, it's up to your performance, my Master.”
Lu Minghao reached out and pulled up the blanket that Rin Tohsaka had kicked off, and said softly as he looked at her cute face. If Rin Tohsaka didn't hold him back in the next actions because of her inexplicable pity, then Lu Minghao wouldn't mind letting her become his Master.
He could also give her the broken Holy Grail, which was useless to him, as a souvenir.
However, if Rin Tohsaka held him back because of her pity, then even with the limitations of the Command Spells, Lu Minghao would not hesitate to get rid of her and change Masters. It was just that the price of doing so would be a bit high.
Finally, after taking a look at the sleeping Rin Tohsaka, Lu Minghao slightly regretted that his Heroic Spirit body didn't have the setting of replenishing mana. Otherwise... he wouldn't be leaving this room tonight.
Downstairs, Lu Minghao casually set up a magic barrier and turned on the TV to watch. This was the first time he had come to the modern world after his transmigration. It would be a lie to say that he didn't miss technological creations. At the same time, Lu Minghao had to be thankful that his race after transmigration was a Slime.
Otherwise, he couldn't imagine using grass leaves or other messy things for going to the toilet every day in the Rimuru world. It was simply a nightmare.
“So boring, should I go out and kill a few pitiful eggs for fun?”
On the sofa, Lu Minghao looked boredly at the news being broadcast on TV. Honestly, Lu Minghao was quite unaccustomed to this kind of peaceful and uneventful feeling. By the way, Lu Minghao wanted to try the abilities of his Heroic Spirit body.
“If I want to do it, I'll do it.”
In the next second, Lu Minghao's body sank into the shadows, intending to go out and find some fun to play with.
.........
Half an hour later, the Tohsaka's house door was opened again. Lu Minghao, yawning boredly, walked in. Just now, he had wandered around Fuyuki City, which was famous for the explosion of underground gas pipes, and completely failed to find any signs of Heroic Spirits.
Probably because the seven Heroic Spirits of the Holy Grail War had not all been summoned yet, the Holy Grail War had not officially started, causing the Heroic Spirits to hide in the dark one by one.
As a result, after wandering around, Lu Minghao only encountered a few members of Japanese-style Yakuza organizations in an alley. However, those so-called Yakuza members were now sleeping very peacefully.
“Whatever, if I remember correctly, tomorrow the so-called righteous hero Shirou Emiya will summon the last Heroic Spirit, Saber, and the Holy Grail War will officially begin. I'll have a good time playing then.”
With that, Lu Minghao sat on the sofa and watched TV boredly, starting to pass the time.
Early in the morning, when the sunlight shone on Rin Tohsaka's sleeping face through the window, her tightly closed eyes slowly opened. Because she had consumed too much magic power last night, even now Rin Tohsaka, who was still a little dizzy, just sat up in a daze and subconsciously picked up the school uniform hanging by the bed to change her clothes.
“Hmm? It's already this time. It's completely beyond the point of being late. I might as well skip class today.”
At this time, Rin Tohsaka, who had just picked up her school uniform, noticed the time on the clock on the wall, and only then did she realize that she was completely late. Even the morning classes at school were almost over, so she simply decided to skip class today.
“However, I still haven't successfully summoned Saber, but instead summoned Caster.”
As she spoke, Rin Tohsaka looked at the Command Seal on the back of her hand, which had already faded a bit, a complex expression on her face. Recalling Lu Minghao's undisguised killing intent from last night, Rin Tohsaka still felt subconsciously afraid.
However, it was fortunate that she had chosen to use a Command Seal to bind him at the first moment. Now, there shouldn't be any problems.
After a moment of silence, Rin Tohsaka returned the school uniform in her hand to its original place and walked out of the room in her pajamas, swaying slightly. Due to the excessive consumption of magical energy last night, she was still incredibly sleepy even now, but she had no choice but to get up.
"Yo, are you awake, my Master?"
On the sofa, Lu Minghao looked up at Rin Tohsaka, who looked sleepy, and raised his hand in greeting, then looked back at the news being broadcast on TV.
"Caster, what are you doing?"
"Watching TV, isn't that obvious at a glance?"
"But?"
Faced with Lu Minghao's idiotic look, Rin Tohsaka's originally sleepy brain cleared up a lot. She walked aggressively to Lu Minghao and snatched the remote control, turning off the TV.
"Caster, can you explain why you, as a Heroic Spirit, are so skilled at using the TV?"
"Are you stupid? When Heroic Spirits are summoned, they have the most basic information of this era in their minds."
"......."
After hearing Lu Minghao's explanation, Rin Tohsaka fell into silence, seemingly remembering that there was indeed such a thing.
"Hmph! Let's go, I'll take you to get acquainted with the city today!"
The next second, Rin Tohsaka tossed her head and snorted with a proud expression. Since she didn't have to go to school today, she would definitely take Lu Minghao to get acquainted with the city first, to prepare for the upcoming Holy Grail War.
"I know, also, Master, I have to remind you, tsundere is outdated now."
After speaking, Lu Minghao ignored Rin Tohsaka's reaction and stood up on his own. Rin Tohsaka, who was furious on the side, glared at Lu Minghao and turned to go back to her room to change clothes.
A few minutes later, Lu Minghao and Rin Tohsaka, who had already changed clothes, walked onto the street together. At this time, Lu Minghao's clothes had been changed to a modern style. If one didn't know Lu Minghao's identity as a Heroic Spirit, they would only think of the two as young lovers skipping class for a date.
Under the golden sunlight, Lu Minghao followed beside Rin Tohsaka, looking at the familiar world of steel and concrete. Pedestrians on the street were constantly walking by in a hurry. Looking around, they were all humans, without any of the messy races from the previous two worlds.
"It really is a nostalgic scene."
Subconsciously, Lu Minghao couldn't help but sigh. Since being reincarnated, this was the first time he had seen such a familiar scene. Especially when he saw the crowded street not far away, Lu Minghao couldn't help but move his palm, wondering what it would be like to throw a big fireball into it.
"Caster, what do you want to do?"
Beside him, Rin Tohsaka noticed Lu Minghao's restless palm at the first moment and quickly grabbed Lu Minghao's palm, raising her head to question him.
"It's nothing, Master, why are you so nervous? You wouldn't think I want to throw a big fireball into the crowd, would you? Don't worry, a kind person like me wouldn't do such a thing."
"......."
Looking at Lu Minghao, who gave himself away without being asked, Rin Tohsaka became more vigilant and directly pulled Lu Minghao's hand, walking towards a less crowded street not far away.
For the rest of the day, Rin Tohsaka took Lu Minghao all over Fuyuki City. Until night fell, Rin Tohsaka stood on the edge of the rooftop of a building, looking at the brightly lit city below with one hand on her hip.
"Caster, how do you feel? Have you decided on the construction location for the magic workshop yet?"
The next second, Rin Tohsaka turned her head to look at Lu Minghao and asked. Having prepared for the Holy Grail War for ten years, she knew very well that in order to maximize Caster's power, a magic workshop must be built.
Rin Tohsaka spent the whole day taking Lu Minghao all over Fuyuki City, firstly to familiarize him with the terrain, and secondly to determine the construction location of the magic workshop.
"That thing is completely unnecessary. As your Master, you should know all my abilities. I don't have the skill to build a magic workshop at all."
"Huh?"
Rin Tohsaka, who had been full of confidence and looking at Lu Minghao with anticipation the second before, revealed an unbelievable look on her face after hearing that he didn't have the skill to create a magic workshop. How could she not know about this at all?
Then, Rin Tohsaka remembered that she was too tired last night and didn't have time to check Lu Minghao's attributes, so she hurriedly looked at them now.
"This... what is this? All stats A except for Riding, and there are so many skills, even the Noble Phantasm is EX rank?"
A few seconds later, Rin Tohsaka raised her head and looked at Lu Minghao in front of her, stuttering as she began to ask questions. She never expected Lu Minghao's attributes to be so outrageous, and what was up with those A-rank Strength, Agility, and Endurance?
You're a Caster (Magician), right? How did you get attributes that would make a warrior cry?
"Alright, just know that I don't need that magic workshop thing. Rather than waiting for others to come to me, I prefer to kill them first."
Looking at Rin Tohsaka, who was so excited that she was stuttering, Lu Minghao waved his hand and said indifferently. With his weak chicken attributes, if his main body was here, he could contaminate and erode a large area without even needing to look at them.
"The... strongest, without a doubt, I summoned the strongest Heroic Spirit!"
On the side, Rin Tohsaka completely ignored Lu Minghao's meaning at this time, walking back and forth excitedly, constantly muttering to herself, only feeling that this Holy Grail War was stable.
"Huh, which one is the mongrel king?"
Looking at Rin Tohsaka, who was completely immersed in her own world, Lu Minghao walked to the side helplessly. It was at this time that Lu Minghao noticed the figure walking on the road below, with his hands in his pockets, looking arrogant, with golden short hair and an expression on his face as if everyone owed him money.
Most importantly, Lu Minghao sensed a strong 'evil' on him, as if that body was completely composed of substantial 'evil'.
And in this Holy Grail War, besides Gilgamesh, who has the titles of King of Heroes and Mongrel King, who else could have these characteristics?
"Caster, what are you talking about?"
At this time, Rin Tohsaka, who had slightly calmed her inner excitement, walked to Lu Minghao's side and asked curiously. Just now, she only vaguely heard Lu Minghao seem to say the word mongrel. Incidentally, Rin Tohsaka also followed Lu Minghao's gaze and looked down, but found nothing worth noting.
