Chapter 1015: Could It Really Be True?
"Hey, Totrot, stop making Cernunnos uncomfortable!"
As the two were arguing, a deep, admonishing voice came from the side.
Turning to look, they saw a short Earth Clan fairy clad in pitch-black armor with a long beard that gave him a very aged appearance.
"Ector, don't tell me you're not interested either!"
Habetrot retorted loudly, her tone showing no sign of remorse—instead, she sounded completely justified.
"Well, this old man can't exactly say he's not interested..."
Ector's voice immediately weakened.
"But these things should still depend on Cernunnos's own wishes!"
Yet he continued to defend Cernunnos, prioritizing her feelings above all else.
"That's true... I suppose it is, but I still want to know!"
Habetrot shamelessly threw herself onto the ground, wailing loudly.
Her willful demeanor was almost unrecognizable compared to the Habetrot that Eiji and the others would later come to know.
"Alright, alright! I never said I wouldn't tell you!"
Cernunnos felt inexplicably embarrassed and hurriedly helped Habetrot up.
Under Habetrot's starry-eyed gaze, Cernunnos let out a deep sigh.
"Well, if we're only talking about whether what he said is true or not... then yes, it's true."
"Ooh! Ooh!"
Habetrot immediately cheered and jumped for joy.
"So that means I'll get to see Cernunnos in a wedding dress someday! Wonderful! I absolutely have to be the one to make it!"
"Could it really be true?"
Ector couldn't help but be shocked, repeatedly stroking his stubbly beard.
"Interesting! This is truly interesting! I wonder how Uther... er, I mean, Rience! Hah, I can't wait to see what kind of expression that wolf-faced guy will make. Who knows how stunned he'll be!"
The Black Knight, who had just been prioritizing Cernunnos's feelings, had instantly transformed into a gleeful bystander.
However, when he mentioned Uther, he awkwardly paused for a moment and cautiously glanced at Cernunnos's expression.
Seeing that she was still lost in the lingering shock of the future, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are you all talking about?"
Just then, Eiji walked over.
Mash followed behind him; it seemed the two had finished discussing their own matters.
"Hey, young man from the future! This old man is Ector. This must be our first time meeting, right?"
Ector stood up.
It was indeed their first meeting, yet he approached with an extremely familiar demeanor.
"The Black Knight of the Indestructible Body?"
Eiji suddenly understood.
"That's right, that's the one! This old man happens to have that epithet!"
Ector cheerfully patted Eiji on the shoulder.
"We have the Savior Cernunnos, the Fairy Knight Totrot, and the Black Knight of the Indestructible Body Ector... but where's the Sage Grim?"
Eiji scanned their surroundings.
Only Cernunnos and the other two were here—there was no sign of Cú Chulainn.
"That arrogant brat stayed behind in Londinium. Uther is about to be crowned, so he needs help with a lot of things!"
Ector laughed heartily, his laughter making Eiji's ears itch.
"Come, have a seat. Ah, who would have thought that Cernunnos would one day get married? This old man thought she'd be unlucky her whole life!"
He seemed to feel quite close to Eiji.
Caster forced a strained smile in response.
She still seemed unable to accept the future where she would marry someone she didn't know.
"Actually, we were just talking about Rainec!"
Eckt showed the distinctive grin of someone who enjoys stirring up trouble.
"Since you're from the future, you should know about the Heat Dissipation Grand Duke Rainec, right? That guy's a Returned A-Ring, so he should be pretty famous!"
"I know him. He died in the King of Mors battle."
"Uh..."
Eckt was instantly rendered speechless.
Well, that was... certainly unexpected.
"The King of Mors... that's the Great Calamity, right?"
He remained dazed for a while before finally managing to speak.
"Yes, that should be about fourteen hundred years from now."
Eiji recalled the information he had learned from Bagest.
The King of Mors was the Great Calamity that commanded tens of thousands of Mors.
This Great Calamity event occurred around the year 1000 of the Queen's Calendar.
Rainec, the then-chief of the Fang Clan and Heat Dissipation Grand Duke, actively confronted the King of Mors but was ultimately defeated and killed.
However, not long after, Rainec's second generation, Woodwose, was born. Inheriting his predecessor's power, he quickly became the Returned A-Ring Heat Dissipation Grand Duke and successfully defeated the King of Mors.
But before being defeated, the King of Mors left behind the curse of the "Black Dog that Devours Fairies," and since then, black dogs have been roaming and wandering throughout Britain.
"Even someone like Rainec... could die?"
Eckt looked dazed for quite some time, suddenly losing interest in the conversation.
His relationship with Rainec wasn't good.
That guy was arrogant and looked down on everyone except Caster, who had once defeated him. He didn't even regard Eckt and Totorot highly.
Rainec didn't agree with Caster's approach to protecting fairies, but he secretly admired her and had helped them multiple times behind the scenes.
To be honest, Eckt didn't like Rainec.
The relationship between the Fang and Earth clans had never been particularly good, but suddenly hearing that Rainec—so powerful and second only to Caster in strength—had died in the Great Calamity inevitably made him feel a sense of shared sorrow.
"Are you okay?"
Eiji glanced at him.
"It's nothing, I just have a lot of thoughts after hearing this news suddenly."
Eckt shook his head and quickly regained his previous cheerful attitude.
"Oh right! Since you're from the future, you should know about my future too, right?"
His eyes lit up, and he immediately became interested again.
Hearing this, Habenyan couldn't help but prick up her ears.
"Wait, Eckt!"
But just then, a voice decisively cut in, interrupting his question.
"Don't ask any more about the future!"
Caster looked over with a serious expression.
"If you keep asking, the more you know, the more you'll forget in the future!"
Her expression was extremely stern.
The sense of authority was so strong that Totorot and Eckt immediately fell silent like students being scolded by their teacher.
"What does that mean, Miss Caster?"
Seeing this, Mash suddenly had a bad feeling and couldn't help but press urgently.
"This is a measure to protect you."
Caster explained patiently and methodically.
"You arrived in this era through the Water Mirror, but Queen Morgan of the future did not prepare a Coffin. No one in this era can send you back to the future... In other words, this is essentially a one-way ticket. You cannot return to your own time through the Water Mirror!"
"This...!"
Only then did Mash snap back to reality, her face turning pale.
She had actually forgotten such a critical matter!
Chaldea's Spiritron Transfer requires the preparation of a Coffin to spiritronize the Master inside and transmit them to a past era.
This is a protective measure for the Master, as during Spiritron Transfer, the Master is completely converted into spiritrons and broken down into the most fundamental particles. If any spiritrons are lost, it would be like a program losing part of its bytes—easily leading to the loss of self.