A Not So Evil God In Fate/Grand Order

Fujimaru's passionate speech left them without any words to retort. One by one, the Japanese Master's Servants plus Artemis stopped their aggressive stances. When they saw this happen, the others did the same too.

Seth's Servants and the remaining two had to admit his courage was commendable. Not every Master would stand up for what they believe against one of their kind. After all, no matter how good your relationship with them was, if they thought you were in the wrong, they would not hesitate to not listen to you and would go out of their way to defy your orders. Of course, there were alternatives to prevent that from happening, like using a Command Spell, but that would only work to damage your relationship with them.

The young man visibly relaxed after heaving a sigh of relief. He was expecting this to happen the moment the others found out about his identity, but he didn't know if he would be able to calm the Servants, his own mainly.

Cu Chulainn had warned him this could happen, so he told him to prepare in the eventual case they discovered who Seth was. And he was right. If it weren't because he knew beforehand, Fujimaru was sure he wouldn't have been able to cope with the situation.

Looking back at that moment, Caster DID emphasize it. So much so that he felt his ears would start bleeding were he to hear another word.

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Cu Chulainn and Fujimaru had just exited the Cafeteria. They were heading to the Simulation Room, where Caster would put his Master under some harsh training against some weak monsters. They had to work those muscles somehow.

The Japanese youngster was waiting for them to arrive and begin the simulation to ask something to Caster. Although not personally, he learned the unfortunate way that Kuro could hear from far away. He remembered Caster making some remark about him and some female Servant here in Chaldea. He didn't get to listen to the name as he appeared just on time to kick Cu Chulainn right in the b.u.t.t, though. Considering Kuro was on the other extreme of the building last time he saw him, it was a pretty big hearing range and an impressive speed too if you asked him.

Hopefully, once they were there, he wouldn't be able to hear. Fujimaru didn't exactly know how the simulation worked, but by Dr. Roman's words, it was something similar to Rayshifting. Again, hopefully, that would save his b.u.t.t from being kicked.

"Caster, can you make some sort of soundproof barrier around us?" As soon as Cu Chulainn inputted the settings for their training, Fujimaru asked him for an extra precaution. You can never be cautious enough, after all.

"Sure thing, just give me a minute or two. Why would you want me to do that, though?" It was something easy to do, but the request confused him a bit.

The Master waited until Cu Chulainn finished setting up the barrier to respond. "To tell the truth, I have wanted to ask you something for some time now."

The Sage Of The Forest realized this was not a trivial thing. His Master didn't have the look of a lost lamb among a pack of wolves like he usually had. This time, Fujimaru seemed to have a more serious attitude. "Ask away, as long as I can answer, I'll do it."

Taking a deep breath, the young man looked directly into Caster's eyes. "...I know I am not the brightest person out there, but I couldn't help to notice how good you and Kuro get along. That's why I want to ask you, do you know who he truly is?"

Cu Chulainn's eyes widened for a second. He certainly didn't expect his Master to ask something like that. He left him in a tight spot on how to answer.

In the end, he just sighed while scratching the back of his head. "Why do you want to know that? It's not like it's going to change anything, you know? I would better leave it at that if I were you."

"Please. I know that I shouldn't be praying into others' matters and that maybe Kuro is hiding his name for a reason, but I just feel it's not fair for someone who has helped Chaldea for so long to be treated as a stranger by us. When you hide under someone else's name, you end up forgetting who you are. That's why, please." Who knew he would use the words she used to say. And to think he called them cheesy before. Must be fate. 'Sister...'

The only thing he could do right now was bowing to him in the hope he would reconsider it and give him a satisfactory answer. He didn't want, nor would resort to a Command Spell. That was just forcing your will into someone, and he didn't like that.

"Look, it's not that I don't want to tell you. It's just that it won't change anything for the better. What's more, it will only make matters worse." It was not like he wanted to see his Master begging him, but nothing good could come out from him telling Fujimaru about Seth. "Besides, it's probably better for you to consider him a stranger. Knowing his name might create the opposite effect you want to achieve."

"Please...!" He didn't raise his head but kept bowing instead. It seemed he wouldn't move from that position unless Caster finally told him what he wanted to know.

"Forget it, I am telling it for your good, Master." Cu Chulainn wouldn't bulge, something that left Fujimaru helpless. At this point, his only alternative was to stay there and do nothing, making them coming here meaningless.

The Japanese Master stayed like that for a good couple of minutes. No matter what the blue-haired man said or did, he wouldn't move from there. Cu Chulainn was an impatient guy from birth, even if that trait showed less in his Caster form, and this guy was not making it more manageable.

"Are you seriously going to do this? Sigh. Fine, I will tell you. However, don't mention this to anyone, or I will sever my contract with you, and you can say goodbye to any help I can provide. I am just telling you because you are an idiot, but at least you are the good type and not the dangerous one." Caster couldn't believe his Master was doing this, but thinking about it a little more, it wasn't surprising. He was precisely the type of fool who would try to befriend a demon, assuming it still had a kind side to him.

This time, it was Fujimaru's turn to sigh. He didn't know how to feel about being called an idiot, but he got what he came here for, at least.

"The one you call Kuro, his real name is Seth, a God from a foreign land. There, happy?" There was no point in adding suspense, so he directly answered without much care.

"Seth? God? Not a Divine Spirit?" Fujimaru was visibly confused by what Cu Chulainn said. He didn't know any God with that name, and as far as he knew, every one of them had been degraded to a Divine Spirit, just a shadow of their former glory.

"His circ.u.mstances are a bit special. It's fine if you don't understand them. As for his name, you not knowing about it is not strange. He is not that well-known for the common folk outside of his place of origin." Even though Seth is a relevant figure in Egyptian mythology, not many people know of him as they would do with others like the Greek Gods or some of the Norse ones. That's why his Master's confusion didn't surprise him at all.

Seeing Fujimaru with a face that urged him to continue, Cu Chulainn scratched his cheek, trying to see if he could explain to him in a way the young man would understand. "Let's see... Maybe you are more familiar with the name Osiris, are you?"

He nodded at his question. "Yes. Although not much, I have heard about him before. He was a God who was also a King of Egypt if I recall correctly."

"That's right. Well, Seth is Osiris' brother. There are many circ.u.mstances involving those two, ones I don't know if you are aware of, Master." He wasn't someone who would explain something the other party already knew, so it was better to make sure if he did or not.

This time, Fujimaru shook his head. His knowledge of mythological beings was scarce. He often read some books containing information about his Servants to know them better, but that was all. "I am sorry. I was just a normal person until all of this happened, and we didn't require to know all of this stuff."

Cu Chulainn understood this, but it was not on him to divulge more information. "If you want to know more, go, and research for yourself. I am sure you will find more than what I can tell. I'm warning you, though. Not everything of what you will read is true. Which one it is, and which one it isn't, I will leave it to you to decide."

"I see...I will do that. Thanks, Caster. And sorry for the trouble I caused you." Fujimaru was apologetic. Even he knew that it must have been an annoying thing to do.

"It's all right, but remember what I said. Nothing of going around disclosing what I told you, not even to Seth, got it?" An additional wouldn't hurt, just in case that his Master had been distracted when he did so the first time.

"You can count on that." The consequences aside, he didn't want to betray the trust his Servant deposited on him. He, under no circ.u.mstances, wanted to be that type of person.

After receiving his confirmation, Caster finally could do what they came here for, train. To say Cu Chulainn was harsher on the training would be an understatement. It seemed he wanted some sort of "revenge" because of Fujimaru's curiosity.

The original idea that crossed the young man's mind when his Servant told him to research was to do it immediately after the training session, but that became impossible when he could barely move after it was over.

Only after taking a good shower and resting on his bed for a few hours was he ready to begin. Chaldea didn't have a library —None that he was aware of, at least— so he had to ask some members of the staff to see the records they had. Kind of like a Wikia entry.

As usual, the staff members were glad to be of help and asked him which Servant's history did he want to see. Fujimaru told them he wanted to do it himself because, on this occasion, he would read more than one at a time. He felt terrible for lying to them, especially when they always were kind to him, but he already promised Caster, and he couldn't exactly go back on it either.

They were very comprehensive, allowing him to view the records on his own. Although Lev's betrayal still weighed in their mind, they also understood there had to be some trust if they wanted to succeed in a mission as big as the one they were doing. Besides, to them, Fujimaru was a very likable person, so there was no reason not to trust him.

Once he knew no one was watching, the Japanese youth began his research. He was not used to high-end technological stuff like this, so he took a bit of time to find what he was looking for: who was Seth.

At first, it was some general things like his name, what he was the God of, and his role as the protector of the Sun God Ra. 'This explains his powers. The Doctor said he was not a Servant, and that there could only be cases like Stheno where Divine Spirits lower their Divinity to be able to exist as one. But he seems to be getting stronger, wouldn't that contradict his statement? And didn't Caster refer to him as a God and not a Divine Spirit?'

For every answer he found, two new questions would appear. Knowing that the only solution would be to keep looking, Fujimaru read further into the records. However, that was when he reached his dark, stained history.