After bidding farewell to Jeanne d'Arc Alter, the group returned to the stronghold to rest and recuperate.
What follows is the final battle. While replenishing the status of the servants and Lawrence recovering his own magic power, Fujimaru Ritsuka consumes a large amount of sugar and water.
"How to defeat that guy."
Wiping the corners of his mouth, Fujimaru Ritsuka stood up, breaking the somewhat silent atmosphere in the stronghold.
"During your previous journeys, you must have fought many 'warcraft', right?"
Moriarty asked.
"Yes, we have encountered monsters similar to Warcraft at almost every singularity, but if we want to say that the one with the most is probably the seventh singularity, which is the Mesopotamia singularity."
Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded and looked at Moriarty: "The main ingredients are Tiamat and Tiamat's descendants."
"Any questions?"
"The Wolf King should not be called a monster. From its roots, it is an ordinary wolf, a wolf that has nothing to do with magic."
Moriarty talks eloquently.
"I know you want to say that the Native Americans at that time called Rob the Devil, but that's just a rumor."
"He is just an ordinary wolf, an ordinary creature, an ordinary phantom, that's all."
"Is it because of hatred?" Fujimaru Ritsuka frowned.
"yes."
Nodding, Moriarty continued.
"Hatred that will not be forgotten for decades or hundreds of years will create such a monster."
He looked into Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes and looked directly at Fujimaru Ritsuka.
"Don't you think it's scary?"
"Faced with an ordinary wolf, we have to face it with vigilance that we don't even have to face with a monster of war."
"...Hate, is this what it is?"
After silence, Annuo, who was sitting in the corner of the stronghold, sighed.
"In front of it, I can't say the words 'it's an ordinary wolf' anyway."
"Yes, you have never been so embarrassed when facing the top fantasy species... It's really terrifying."
Artoria also sighed sincerely.
"At that time, wolves were extremely harmful to the livestock industry in western America, so people took up guns and hunted wolves on a large scale."
"But people never thought that the reason this was happening was that they were building their ranches on wolf territory."
Moriarty continued.
"However, it would be difficult for people at that time to survive if they did not develop the breeding industry."
Holmes took over his words.
"This is the era we live in."
"Human development is bound to be accompanied by the violation of nature, ravaging the land with cars, covering the sky with soot, and filling the ocean with sewage. I don't know when the awe of nature was replaced by confrontation."
"For us, nature was our former god and our former opponent. But now, everything has changed. There is no winner or loser in the confrontation. Looking back, those precious animals are no longer there, and both humans and nature suffer.
"
"When we turn around and want to protect nature, we don't know if it's too late."
"Robert the Wolf King was one of the many victims of that era."
"Human Sacrifice."
Fujimaru Ritsuka's expression was filled with immense confusion and pain.
"......I--"
Wolf King Rob's pain was inflicted by humans.
Even Wolf King Robert is the epitome of an era.
It is the epitome of an era when humans commit evil and crazily kill nature. This is why it, as an ordinary wolf that has nothing to do with mystery, has become a phantom.
Its existence represents the creatures and nature that humans have occupied, killed, and slaughtered for their own survival.
Yes, it will exist, the very representation of nature that was killed.
"It...must be painful, right?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka clenched his hands tightly, and the veins on the back of his hands were exposed.
"Pain?...You mean the Wolf King?"
Moriarty had a look of astonishment on his face.
Lawrence, Anno, Artoria and Holmes had no other expressions.
Only Moriarty seemed extremely shocked.
"...You don't understand, Moriarty." Lawrence shook his head gently.
"You say I don't understand?" Moriarty looked at Lawrence.
"You are the representative of evil. You know evil and do evil."
"It is precisely because you understand your own evil that you become even more evil."
"Only in this way can you be Professor Moriarty."
"Unlike Artoria over there, she is evil who exists for the sake of order, so you won't really understand why the child Ritsuka would say such a thing."
Lawrence stood up, his face still a little pale, and sat on a higher chair.
"What is [Avenger]?"
Lawrence held his chest and took a breath.
"That is an existence that feeds on hatred and revenge."
"Even if you know all the truth, you still can't avoid the distortion of the mind."
"For the sake of hatred and revenge, they will not have anything else in their eyes. As long as they can achieve the goal of revenge, they will move forward regardless of anything else, without mixing anything else."
"The same goes for Joan of Arc Alter, and the same goes for Hesse Robber."
The same is true for myself, and the same is true for Noerla.
This is true for any Avenger.
"Even if I turn into ashes on the way forward, I will never stop."
"[Avenger] is such an existence."
"It was never-ending anger and hatred."
"So, killing Avenger is not defeating the enemy."
Lawrence smiled helplessly and stroked Fujimaru Ritsuka's head.
"But to liberate the Avengers from hatred."
Fujimaru Ritsuka remained silent.
However, it can be seen that she is restless and struggling.
She knew everything Lawrence said, so she could understand why Joan of Arc Alter stopped Hesse Robber at that place.
"......I see."
Moriarty showed an expression that seemed to sigh, sighed, and smiled.
"I understand. The motivation for crime is hatred, so Avenger will exist."
"So, how do you want to defeat the Wolf King?"
Moriarty looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with great interest.
"Robert, the Wolf King, is someone who will not step into a trap."
"...Do you still remember how the wolf king Rob was killed in the Sidonian Animal Chronicles?"
Da Vinci's voice rang in the communication.
"...Leonardo, don't-" Lawrence stopped him with a somewhat unbearable expression.
"...Blanca."
Fujimaru Ritsuka has already given the answer.
"Put the body of Rob's wife, Blanca, in the trap."