Waver should have continued sleeping. Maybe, and just maybe, he would have managed to avoid the tense situation he was in.

Waver had descended the stairs to the second floor together with Rider, who had refused to leave him alone. This had frightened the young Master a little, but he was also confident that his Servant would protect him from whatever danger awaited him behind the door of the home in which he resided.

Upon opening the door, he had been dazzled by the smile of a young man. That smile had been the cause of this awkward and tense situation Waver found himself in, a smile he had seen the night before.

That smile was accompanied by a perfectly proportioned Caucasian face, with characteristic heterochromatic eyes. His medium-length hair was a charcoal black color, with a few silver highlights.

"W-what a-are you doing here?"

Waver could barely formulate the question. All the confidence he had gained from his own Servant\'s presence had vanished.

Rider did not seem to have reacted to the presence of the non-guest and seemed relatively calm, which also calmed Waver a little.

However, he did not know that Rider was prepared to defend his Master at any moment. Waver was unable to comprehend the danger he was in right now.

Drako entered the house\'s interior, ignoring both Waver and Rider, and climbed the stairs to the second floor.

"Hey, t-this is not your house!"

"It\'s not yours too."

Waver had to shut his mouth at the dragon\'s response, for he was right.

"Come on, kid. It seems that he doesn\'t want to fight, so let\'s see what\'s he has to say."

Rider followed Drako to the second floor, as he had understood that the latter didn\'t want to fight. Or at least, that was not his current intention. Depending on how the conversation continued

Waver could only nod his head and follow the two powerhouses. An overwhelming sense of weakness ran through him, feeling like a third person who shouldn\'t be in this place.

When he returned to his room, now with one more person than usual, Waver felt that this place no longer belonged to him. Drako\'s presence forced him to unconsciously regard him as the most important person in the place.

"Nice shirt."

While looking at the T-shirt in the package Rider had brought, Drako gave his impressions of it.

"Hoho!"

Rider shouted in jubilation as he pulled out the T-shirt, since he had forgotten about the package that had arrived.

"Not bad, not bad! I like it a lot. The real product looks even better than the pictures."

"...A T-shirt?" Waver asked.

Rider pulled a size XL T-shirt out of the package. On the front of the shirt was printed an eye-catching logo above the world map - "Admiral\'s Grand Tactics". It looked like one of those products that game companies published on the front page of the special edition of a magazine.

"It\'s actually not bad. After I saw Saber last night, I had a sudden inspiration too. You wouldn\'t mind if I wore contemporary clothes when I go to the street, right?"

Waver\'s Heroic Spirit hated the spiritual form and strongly preferred the physical form. Although Waver had headaches about this matter, the silver lining was that at least Rider wasn\'t thinking of going out shopping in the city. Now he was in big trouble. Waver was furious to the point of wanting to curse Saber for giving Rider that idea.

Meanwhile, Drako watched as Rider tried on his new T-shirt and struck various poses. Rider\'s happiness was too pure to interrupt this moment.

"Wahaha! Just as I wanted it - The effect of having the whole world on my c.h.e.s.t. Haha! It really makes me happy."

"...ah, ahh. Yes, yes."

Waver was extremely embarrassed seeing the gleeful Rider wearing the shirt in front of a possible enemy.

"You need pants if you want to go outside."

The detail Drako had commented on was like a cold water pitcher for Rider.

"Do I really have to wear that?"

Looking a bit annoyed, the giant who wasn\'t even wearing u.n.d.e.r.w.e.a.r held his forehead with his fist as he asked seriously.

"You must."

Drako nodded with a serious face as he struggled to keep his gaze on Rider\'s face. This situation was really awkward.

Although he hadn\'t washed his face yet, Waver\'s drowsiness had disappeared in a puff of smoke.

This inconsiderate muscular idiot, ignorant of common sense, who is as lacking in manners as a gorilla...Once Waver thought of the countless indulgences she had made for him, he couldn\'t help but feel angry.

"Let me make this clear. I\'m not going out on the town just to get super-sized pants for you. I\'m definitely not going."

"What did you just say?"

With an exaggerated look, Rider glared at Waver. But Waver wouldn\'t take a step back this time - he had established his determination with an iron will.

"Hey pacifier, are you going against my majestic feats?"

"Your majestic feats and your pants have no relation! Before you go out to have fun, show me what you can do! At least kill some of the opposing Servants!"

Watching this pair of idiots argue was really interesting to Drako. He felt like he was watching the anime in first person.

"Well, you can\'t kill Lancer or Caster."

Drako caught the two idiots\' attention again, and Waver turned pale as he understood that the dragon had heard his words.

Rider understood Drako\'s words a little more than his Master had.

"You mean Caster is dead?"

"Yes, I got rid of Bluebeard last night. No one wants a couple of pedophiles kidnapping little kids in their town, especially when you have little kids in your family."

Rider nodded, understanding the meaning in Drako\'s words. He and Waver knew about the strange disappearances of children these past few days, so they didn\'t doubt Drako\'s words when he blamed the enigmatic Caster. If on top of that his identity was that of Bluebeard (Gilles de Rais), any hint of doubt left in the minds of both of them had disappeared.

"By the way, one of my subordinates killed Lord El-Melloi last night."

One more statement made Waver shudder. His master, one of the greatest geniuses that had appeared in this century, had died on the first day of the Holy Grail War.

"You really want to end this Holy Grail War, huh. Why?"

On the previous night, Drako had declared war on all the participants of the Holy Grail War. He wanted to destroy the Holy Grail, and had threatened everyone who would stand in his way.

"The Holy Grail is corrupt, useless, and will only bring suffering and destruction. I don\'t really care about that, though. Fighting powerful individuals like you, Servants, is what really matters.

I know you\'re not really interested in the Grail, but others like the Masters of Saber and Archer would die to get it. Their hopes and dreams depend on it. Destroying the Grail is no different from destroying them. That is why I, the person who wants to destroy them, am their main enemy, and they will try to destroy me with all their might.

Fighting against you, I gain strength. I seek that strength. I have to be stronger."

Rider and Waver listened carefully to Drako\'s serious speech. He seemed to be obsessed with that strength he was talking about.

"Why do you want that strength?"

Curiosity was killing Waver. What was it that was driving this person, who was already strong enough to kill a Servant, to seek even greater strength?

"I don\'t know if you\'ll believe me, but I\'ll tell you anyway. There are beings beyond this world, in another galaxy, or even in another universe. Their goal is to bring chaos and destroy all that order has created. Although, once again, I don\'t care about that. I already said it; what matters to me is my family, and I want to be able to defend them from this coming threat."

Drako spoke sincerely, hoping they understood what he had said.

"An outside threat... that\'s a good theory..."

Waver began to ponder. He had already entered his own mage world.

Drako finally said what he had come to say.

"I came here to ask you both, will you help me defend the universe, the world, my family?"

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Remember when last time I talked about a stream writing a new novel with the readers, I have some time today so we can do it.

I\'m going to start it at 22:30 Spain hour, that is GMT+2. In other words, 10 minutes after the post of this chapter.

I think that it is going to be really interesting, so take a look!

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