A Not So Evil God In Fate/Grand Order

"Altera?! What are you doing here?!" Orion shouted, surprised someone that was practically a copy of the White Titan that wiped most of the Gods was before her now.

"What a silly question. Where there is civilization, I manifest, nom. That's the way it is, nom." Altera responded while eating dumplings with her free hand. This one here seemed to be more expressive than the one at Chaldea.

"The Avatar of Destruction?! Why can't you just leave Rome alone? You and our Great Founder could get along well." Ceaser got up from the ground the moment he heard the name 'Altera' finally freeing poor Caligula from being crushed to death.

"No can do. My existence revolves around bringing Rome to its knees, and I will do so. However, this time I came for a different reason, nom. And that is to...destroy your festival!" She said after a dramatic pause.

"You are certainly a pain. You destroy everything you see without remorse. You can't even hold something in your hands without destroying it!" Orion exclaimed, making both Altera and Seth frown.

'That decides it. No more playing nice for you, Artemis.' Seth thought while retracting his sword, ending the clash between fake and authentic Saber.

Altera didn't think much about it and decided to answer to the Archer woman. "I do make distinctions. There is good and bad civilization. I only destroy bad civilization."

"There must not be many good civilizations in your diary, then. Hm? What are you doing, Charles?" Orion asked, perplexed by what Charles—no, by what Seth was doing.

"I'm changing sides. Can't you tell?" Seth moved to Altera's side and faced the Chaldeans and Romans with an indifferent gaze. The Scourge of God looked at Seth, feeling some odd familiarity now all of a sudden. It was this familiarity that gave her a sense of 'you can trust this person' that allowed her to remain calm even with a potential enemy just centimeters away from her.

"What? Are you betraying us?" Mash couldn't believe what she was seeing, especially when Charles saved her life just a few moments ago. This sudden change of attitude didn't make sense.

"I'm not betraying you. To begin with, I was never on your side. I was merely a third party in all of this. Although we can still be allies, the only requisite is for you to defeat Orion, or should I say the Moon Goddess, Artemis?" Saying Fujimaru and Mash were shocked would be putting it too lightly.

"ARGGHHHHH" She may not be exactly Diana, but the madness the moon induced on him was still real. If the enemy were someone other than Altera, he would probably have joined them.

Artemis sighed. "I don't know what made you change your mind, but there is no point in hiding it anymore. He is right. I'm the Goddess of the Moon Artemis. The fact that I could get here was thanks to your offerings in this Moon Festival. It was what awakened me. Doing a ritual where you offer things to something in particular with a summoning system nearby is not a good idea if you don't want troubles."

Now many things made sense. Still, it didn't make them easier to understand. Stheno was a particular case, but a high Goddess like Artemis was another completely different.

"She is the one who barged in that Chaldea of yours and stole those stupid sweets. So, what will it be? Will you side with the right side or the wrong one?" Seth asked one last time to know of their decision. It was not a simple question to fit in the mood. He was testing them to see if they would choose the correct option in the future, even if that went against their morals.

"I'm sorry. I know what Orion did was wrong, but the whole point of this was to take back those sweets so everyone in Chaldea could enjoy a little even when the whole world was destroyed by who knows who. That's why I can't fight together with someone that wants to prevent that." Fujimaru was clear on this, and he wouldn't budge.

"Splendidly said. I will lend you a hand, Rome and Altera are natural enemies, after all. I wouldn't count with Caligula, though. He has his troubles with the moon." Caesar moved from the side to where the Chaldeans were. Berserker stayed in the same place, crouched while holding his head.

"If Senpai decides to help Miss Artemis, then I will too!" The moment her Master took her hand at the moment of the accident in Chaldea, she decided to follow him in everything he did, so her answer was pretty much obvious.

"You guys are the best♡!" All of their support touched Artemis, who ironically flashed a smile as radiant as the sun itself.

Seth faintly smiled. 'That naivety is your greatest strength, Ritsuka. However...' Suddenly, his calm aura changed to become something more chaotic and evil. Pushing Altera behind him, he raised his sword. "That is the incorrect answer."

Everyone felt a suffocating feeling, but Fujimaru had it worst. Every time he tried to breathe, the air just wouldn't come in. He eventually fell to the ground, unconscious, with his eyes still open.

Mash followed him with her gaze, she wanted to help him, but her body wasn't reacting. The only thing it did was shake from fear. She had never experienced this feeling of impotence, of facing something that even without fighting made you afraid to the point you just froze there.

Saber, Jeanne Alter, Romulus. They didn't compare to the innate fear the young man that acted like a carefree person throughout their journey was instilling on her.

Artemis widened her eyes. "You are...!" Before she could finish, Seth brought his sword down, sending a dark wave forward, and erasing her from existence. She wasn't the only one that disappeared, though. Caesar, Fujimaru, Mash, and Caligula also suffered the same fate.

"If they were your allies, nom, why did you kill them?" Altera asked, stuffing another dumpling as if it was popcorn to enjoy the show.

"Don't talk when you are eating. You will only dirty yourself." Seth shook his head before cleaning her cheeks that had some leftovers of sweets.

"I only killed the Servants; to the remaining ones, I just gave them a scare." In their journey to stupidity, Seth could find out that Artemis was extremely weak and that she wasn't hiding her Divinity like he initially thought, but she simply didn't have any. That allowed him to kill her reasonably quickly.

"I see... You helped me destroy a bad civilization, nonetheless. Here, your reward." Altera tried to give him a dumpling, unaware of how much he detested those sweets at this point.

"I don't want them. I have had enough of that migraine-inducing thing." Seth rejected her intentions before undoing his transformation.

"That appearance fits you better." Saber commented after seeing the real him. There was no outward change in her expression, though. It looked as if she already had a hunch that wasn't how he looked in reality.

"I suppose bad guys have to look bad." He said without much care. However, Altera shook her head. "That was not what I meant." She tried to explain more, but Seth put a hand on her shoulders, interrupting her.

Crouching a little to eye level, he looked intently at her. "We may not hold something in our hands without destroying it, but we are the ones that begin creation. We are even more necessary than the ones that build. These words, never forget them."

A small light began to shine in Altera's eyes. 'The one there is lucky. I...envy her.' She thought as particles of light were surrounding her. "Please say those words to her. I am sure she will be happy to hear them."

"You can count on that." Seth watched as Saber disappeared utterly, and released a sigh in the process, just in time for Dr. Roman to talk to him through a communication device he had in his pockets.

"Hello? Are you there?! What happened?! Mash and Fujimaru just popped out here out of nowhere and seemed to have suffered a trauma!" Despite Romani's urgency, Seth was not that worried. If worse comes to worst, he would just erase their memories.

"How do you expect me to know? I told you if you could Rayshift me slightly far from them, but I ended up in the ocean instead." He was still pissed at Roman for acting arbitrarily, so giving him a little guilt would surely appease his thirst for revenge.

It seemed to work as his mood plummeted down even more. "I am sorry...I'm Rayshifting you back, wait a minute. I will also get the supplies, although the mood is not that great here." He said after a sigh.

True to his words, Seth was Rayshifted out of there after a few seconds. Reappearing in the Command Room, he looked around to see the worried faces of Dr. Roman, Da Vinci, and the staff.

"Welcome back. We already took Mash and Fujimaru to the infirmary. Do you have anything that can help us to know what happened?" Caster asked with a depressed voice. She felt responsible for not being able to ensure their safety or offer some kind of support.

"When I got there, they were already gone. I'm as clueless as you are. I'm going to see how those kids are, and if I can help them. You go prepare your festival or something." He didn't say more and just went out.

"Please...!" Romani vowed, feeling more responsible than anyone here. It wasn't only due to what Seth said, but it stemmed from the fact that two kids just got hurt due to his incompetence. Especially one of them, whom he felt guilty toward since the beginning.

The Egyptian God looked at him from the corner of his eyes. However, he didn't say anything. He would let him sort out his feelings on his own.

As he walked through the halls, Seth felt a palpable air of gloominess. He barely met any people during his walk to the infirmary. Most of them must be in their rooms or working to distract themselves.

When he finally arrived, he saw Sanson there, doing everything he could to help them recuperate from their experience to no avail.

Quickly noticing his Master's presence, Assassin greeted him. "Welcome back, Master. I'm sorry, I can't do much. I am only able to put them to sleep as they start screaming when they wake up."

"You did enough. For now, take a rest. I will call you if I need anything." Complying with his orders, Sanson got out from the infirmary, leaving only three people there.

The first thing he did was cover the vigilance cameras with magic. It was a similar trick to what Artemis did before as not to get spotted by anyone while she did her work of robbery.

Once he did that, he observed the two kids who were waking up just at that instant. The moment they did so, they screamed while holding their heads with all the strength they could muster. If no one did anything, their minds would break.

Seth simply walked toward them and put both index fingers in their foreheads. Immediately, they returned to sleep. "Get used to this feeling. Despair is but the tip of the iceberg in your journey. If you want to persevere, do everything in your hands to succeed, no matter how the world will see you for that." After saying this, he let them rest.

In his opinion, experiencing that helplessness now was better than doing it late. That he may have gone overboard? Perhaps. However, at his core, he wasn't human. His values were fundamentally different. He may have experienced thousands of lives as a human, but they wouldn't amount to the time he spent as a God.

Now, only time will tell if that was the right thing to do or not. Yet...one thing wouldn't change, and that was the fact that a man mentally prepared a child for the cruel, unforgiving, outside world.