A Not So Evil God In Fate/Grand Order

A few seconds after the thunderstrike that obliterated Eric disappeared, the others came to their senses, and the dark clouds dispersed. It was overkill, no matter how you looked at it.

"Was it necessary for you to do something like that? We had the numerical advantage, you know?" EMIYA asked after a sigh. He could at least have told them he was going to use such an attack.

"Consider it something personal; I don't like his kind very much," Seth responded briefly. There was no point in thinking about it anymore now that the enemy was dead.

Fujimaru scratched his cheek with a forced smile. He had hoped to sort of proving himself in this battle, but it seems that ended in nothing. Well, there is always the next time, he thought.

"I thought I was going to visit Davy Jones' locker for a second there. How the hell can someone do that?" First, that guy calling himself Poseidon, then those damn superhumans that deflected bullets as natural as breathing, and now, this guy summoning lightning. The world had truly gone crazy.

Bombe, her right-hand man, was a hundred percent in agreement with his captain. He was so speechless that if Drake hadn't hit his head, he would have forgotten to breathe.

"Even we aren't sure..." Mash commented from the side, sharing Drake's feelings. Until now, they didn't know what EXACTLY Kuro was, and he hasn't bothered in telling them either.

Stheno wanted nothing more than to tell others his identity, so she can have some revenge for the horrible treatment she has received until now. She was a Goddess, the one supposed to make people's life miserable, not the other way around!

"Now that Master has dealt with the enemy Servant, what do we do now?" Sanson understood that they wouldn't get anywhere talking about what the black-haired man had done, so it was better to think about their next course of action.

"You guys said he was a Viking, didn't you? Then it's already decided, we just have to plunder his ship." Drake said as a matter of fact. It seems she would need to teach them the way of a pirate soon enough.

"Don't we have your ship already? Why would we want another one?" Fujimaru asked with apparent confusion on his face.

"Guess I should've explained it better. We aren't going to plunder the ship itself, but the things it has inside. Vikings had some sort of travel log where they wrote everything they saw using pictures. Topography, certain locations, weather, and more. If we get our hands on something like that, we would have a better clue on where to go." Even if it didn't look like it, the pink-haired woman thought things through. When it came to matters of the sea, she was incredibly knowledgeable.

"That would be a great help without a doubt. Although, that only applies if Eric Bloodaxe came to this island on a ship. If his summoning took place here, the possibility of there being a ship is almost zero." Zhuge Liang thought a step further, which was seen as some sort of negative thinking by some of them.

"If you are looking for a Viking ship, it's right ahead of us," Seth said while pointing forward. After the smoke coming out of the crater disappeared, the others could see it too.

"Well, I suppose luck is on our side today." EMIYA for once felt his luck wasn't screwing him over.

Without delay, they quickly went to the ship. It was a bit far from the shore, so Seth had to swim and bring it back. Safe to say, he wasn't thrilled about it, considering what has happened before with that damn octopus.

Drake was the first to hop on; she was excited to discover new treasures. The rest followed, hoping to find what the pink-haired woman said.

Inside the ship, they found gold, jewels, all kinds of weapons, and what they were looking for, the traveling log.

"Bingo! See? Told ye." Drake grinned as she showed it to them. She then began to read it from top to bottom. Although it was a bit difficult to understand what each thing meant, she could do it just enough to get a general idea.

"As expected of Boss! Now we can finally return to the ship." Only God knew how much Bombe wanted to stay away from this place and these freaks. He missed the Golden Hind already.

"Does it say something of importance, though?" Seth asked, completely ignoring the coward pirate. His thinking was similar to Zhuge Liang's. There was the possibility of that book having no information at all if that guy just got here.

Fortunately, Drake's answer was a positive one. "Yeah. We now have information on the surrounding islands. It's not much, but it's better than nothing."

"We should get moving then. We explored every part of this island already, so I don't think there is anything left for us to do here." There was a reason why Sanson seemed to be in a hurry lately. He wanted to seek, in a way, for some sort of redemption after the events in Orleans.

He might be just a copy of the original, but his values were mostly the same. The Assassin Servant didn't want to be seen only as an Executioner but as Charles-Henri Sanson, someone that went beyond a mere "job."

It was also the reason why he hoped to meet Marie again, to apologize appropriately. To put it simply, he was a Servant that had and continued to have many regrets from his time alive.

"I agree with Assassin. We need to move to the next location and see if there are more enemies to destroy." Altera, same as Sanson, didn't see any reasons to stay here any longer.

"Doctor, is there any more enemy signals in the surroundings?" Mash, seeing as everyone agreed in leaving this island, asked Romani for any sightings of possible foes. She didn't want to endanger her Master's safety just because she was not cautious enough.

"Nope, nothing at all. You can safely return." Having received the okay signal from him, the Chaldeans and company returned to the ship without any issues.

The atmosphere around the Golden Hind was very relaxed, so it was safe to assume other pirates didn't attack Drake's crew while they were not here.

As soon as the pink-haired woman got on the ship, she ordered to set sail. The next island registered on the traveling log was a couple of hours away, so the sooner they parted, the better.

"We will arrive at our destination in a few hours, but that doesn't mean you can go and hump like rabbits in my room, you hear?!" Drake made sure to remind Seth and Altera not to do anything funny while she was busy navigating. She was going to keep an eye on them, but it wouldn't hurt to give a warning.

The crew laughed at the situation, while the others froze out of speechlessness. The Chaldeans were directing their incredulous gazes at the two, something that caused Altera to redden and immediately take out her weapon.

"We did not do such things! To begin with, Master and I aren't in that kind of relationship!" She spoke loud and like a bullet, something unusual in her. If no one did anything soon, she would use Photon Ray and blow the ship to pieces.

"Altera is right. It was just a joke I came up with at that time. I only used your room to sleep and nothing more. She was just making sure nothing bad happened while I was doing so." Cu Chulainn always says his sense of humor sucks, and judging by the looks he was getting, it seems he is right.

Saber repeatedly nodded, trying to make Seth's words more believable. What the two had wasn't something as simple as that. It went beyond physical p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e, like they have known each other for much longer than they truly have. Although if the opportunity arose... 'No! Shut up my inner demons, don't try to tempt me!'

To outsiders, the Scourge of God seemed to be performing some sort of play with all the facial expressions she was making in just a few seconds.

'Good grief, this is why trying to be funny doesn't go well with me.' Even after both their explanations, not everyone was convinced. However, he didn't bother with it anymore. At this point in life, he didn't care at all what others thought of him, much less a bunch of little kids. The same couldn't be said for Altera, though. Still, he would compensate her for all the trouble he caused tonight, or so he hoped.

Master and Servant would have to deal with the judging stares for a while. It didn't help that Fujimaru was avoiding eye contact as if trying not to get involved, this stuff was out of his league for the moment.

It was going to be a long trip.

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After traveling for some hours, they finally arrived at their destination. Seth used his power over Wind to give favorable conditions for the ship to go faster and finish this stupid situation where everyone was looking at him and Altera as if they were an exotic animal.

Coming from EMIYA, who had shared some of his stories he could remember when he was human when they were together with Cu Chulainn, was not something funny. It was the typical case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Leaving that aside, along the way, they met some pirate ship that was immediately shot down by them. Even so, Seth couldn't help but feel like their Jolly Roger was familiar.

He may have seen it in one of his many reincarnations. That topic was confusing to him because he practically did not remember much about them. Only when something "triggered" would he do it. The fact nothing happened might be due to him seeing it just once and barely at that.

Mash sent visuals to Romani and Da Vinci so they could analyze it, so there was not much point in thinking about it.

"We will arrive shortly, so make sure you are ready to disembark." Once the island was in sight, Drake spoke to the Chaldeans. Seth got off from the gunwale and looked at the piece of land.

It was so big it looked nothing like an island. They would take days to cover it completely, going by his estimations. On a different topic, the black-haired man found the presence of Servants on it now that they were close enough.

The "interesting" thing was, one of the presences had an incredible resemblance to Stheno, and it seems the Goddess felt the same way if her widened eyes were anything to go by, meaning that he was not wrong in that.

'It doesn't feel like Medusa who I met in Fuyuki, so that leaves Euryale, huh? The other...him? Another one who suffered at our disgusting hands, I see...' Seth felt some empathy to their kind because, despite being a God, he had a similar fate to them.

That may be the reason why he sided with humans instead of Gods and, in particular, to those they screwed over. It was not for some mindblowing reason, but just because they imposed a fate on him that he didn't want. There's nothing good about being a God. In the end, you are just a machine with a purpose that you need to accomplish, no matter what, with little to zero free will. Of course, it varied from individual to individual, but that was the general rule.

It was not like he was out of blame when it came to making humans' live hell, though. His reign of terror was enough proof of that.

Being a God, he didn't have the same set of morals as humans, but that didn't mean he didn't know shame. He won't go around proclaiming himself as some sort of benevolent being because simply, he isn't.

Coming out of his thoughts, Seth jumped off the ship with Stheno on his shoulders. The purple-haired girl just kept looking at Euryale's direction as sneakily as she could.

"Do you want to go? To where your sister is, that is." The Egyptian God took out the gag she had been having on since arriving here.

Stheno was a little surprised by his actions and words. She didn't expect him to know that her sister was here or take out the gag for the matter, but even so, she still answered. "Yes...please."

To reunite with the other her...how wonderful would that be. It has been...so long.