Crazy Britain:They’re All Raising Me

"... In short, that's the situation."

After following Nokkneri's army for some time, Guinevere eventually saw Nightingale and Mash, who had successfully escaped their captors.

After bringing them back to the team, and casually using a few skills to drive off the pursuers, Guinevere began explaining the events that had transpired.

"Wow, I can really feel Nokkneri's ambition!"

After hearing Guinevere's explanation, Fujimaru Ritsuka exclaimed in admiration,

"She truly is an amazing woman!"

"Yeah... If it weren't for that, she wouldn't have had the chance to become a Heroic Spirit by her own achievements..."

Guinevere murmured.

— This person's ambition is just a bit too strong. Originally, due to being possessed by the King of the North, Guinevere had felt a bit guilty for not noticing Nokkneri's feelings for him, and so he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to spend more time with her in this world... But she just went ahead and took the lead to run things on her own.

What could Guinevere even say?

If she was happy, that was enough.

"So, how's your progress with the Singularity? Anything I can help with?"

Guinevere asked.

"Oh, let me explain." Mash spoke up.

"Actually, we only arrived at this Singularity a few hours ago... Although it seems we're in some kind of parallel world situation, Mr. Guinevere, you seem to know the history here, right?"

"Yes," Guinevere nodded, "Actually, I ended up drifting into the Fairy Kingdom by chance, but my homeland is over here."

"I see, that makes things easier to explain," Mash nodded. "Right now, the Singularity is set during the time of the American Revolutionary War. Judging by the season, it's about six months before the actual founding of America."

"However, in this Singularity, George Washington, the future president of the United States, has already been killed, and the original British army has disappeared. Instead, we have two opposing forces: the Western Army, a mechanical army fighting for humanity to protect America, and the Eastern Army, a legion of Celtic warriors created by the villainess, Queen Maeve of this Singularity."

"When we arrived, our senior was injured during the battle between the East and West forces, and was sent to the temporary medical camp of the Western Army. That's where we met Miss Nightingale. We were trying to persuade her to help us save humanity, but then we were attacked by Celtic soldiers... and that led to the battle that just happened."

"Okay, I got it. So you just started your Singularity expedition, right?"

Guinevere nodded.

"I'll pass the relevant information to Nokkneri. For now, we'll move ahead... Wait, isn't someone missing?"

After thinking for a few seconds, Guinevere finally realized who was missing:

"By the way, where's Miss Keichiko? Shouldn't she be an important force on Caldea's side? Why didn't she come along this time?"

"Well... It seems that during the transfer of spiritual energy, there was some interference, causing some discrepancies," Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed. "As a result, she was teleported to the Pacific Ocean and should currently be fighting sharks."

"...Alright."

Guinevere's eye twitched slightly, but the explanation seemed reasonable.

After all, Caldea's spiritual energy transfer failures were nothing new. In the game's storyline, there were even instances where Fujimaru Ritsuka was directly teleported into the sky for a free-fall. That she was still alive was truly a miracle.

"So, how does Miss Nightingale feel now? Is she willing to help us save humanity?" Guinevere turned to look at Nightingale.

"It's simple. Once we've identified the source of the problem, we need to remove it as soon as possible," Nightingale said without hesitation. "If we don't stop this war by fixing the Singularity, more people will continue to get hurt."

With that, Nightingale quickly turned and hurried toward the medical station:

"Alright, no more wasting time! Since we've figured out the issue, we need to act immediately. Saving lives is a race against time! I need to give instructions to the medical staff on how to properly treat the wounded. Afterward, we'll set out!"

"Eh? Oh! Alright! I'll help!"

Feeling the urgency from her decisive actions, Mash quickly grabbed her shield and followed Nightingale. Only Guinevere and Fujimaru Ritsuka were left standing there, stunned.

Looking at the beautiful nurse with delicate features, so different from her game depiction, Guinevere couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration.

Indeed, in reality, Nightingale was truly beautiful, nothing like the grotesque depiction in the game.

Let me briefly introduce her: Florence Nightingale, a nurse from the UK, is considered the world's first real nurse.

Before her, nurses were often women from the lower classes, and nursing was associated with vulgarity. Due to the terrible medical conditions of the time, patients often died from infections caused by poor care. But then Nightingale appeared.

Born into an upper-class family, she couldn't bear to watch patients who could have survived die due to inadequate medical conditions. She left her luxurious life behind, enrolled in nursing school, and began learning healthcare from scratch. During the cholera outbreak and the Crimean War, she threw herself into frontline medical care, dramatically reducing the death rates of patients and soldiers. During the Crimean War, she and her team lowered the mortality rate of wounded soldiers from 42% to 2%.

If she had only been a regular nurse, she might not have become a Heroic Spirit, but after years of treating patients, she wrote works like "Notes on Nursing," where she introduced scientific nursing theories and standardized medical statistics. She became the foundation for modern nursing and nurse education. Known as the "Angel of Crimea" and the "Lady with the Lamp," her legacy is what makes nurses synonymous with angels in later generations.

In all honesty, with her achievements and contributions, she truly deserves to be a Star Pioneer.

However, sadly, in FGO, Nightingale's art is incredibly unattractive... Honestly, just about anyone could make her look better than the original artist did.

"Master, you've been staring at Miss Nightingale this whole time... Is it that you like that type of woman?"

At that moment, Guinevere suddenly heard a voice next to him.

"Ah? No—cough, cough, cough—"

Guinevere choked on his own saliva and glanced at Fujimaru Ritsuka's somewhat resentful expression, quickly explaining,

"No, I was just thinking about her achievements and respect her... Besides, who doesn't know that Nightingale dedicated her life to the medical field and never cared about her personal happiness?"

"True," Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded. "Even someone like you, a big playboy, I can't imagine Nightingale falling for you. She's such a great woman, after all."

"Not a playboy... Fine, whatever, you're right."

Guinevere wanted to argue, but then he thought of Artoria, Bavanzi, and Nokkneri, and decided to give up.

It was... strange. Although he wanted to stay loyal, in this series of coincidences, he was slowly becoming unable to clear his name.

After a moment of thought, he changed the subject:

"By the way, aren't we going to catch up?"

He pointed toward Nightingale and Mash, who were already moving ahead.

Fujimaru Ritsuka blinked and suddenly said,

"Eh? Why? Aren't you enjoying being alone with me?"

"No, it's just... I..."

Under her amber-colored gaze, Guinevere felt a little awkward. He scratched his face, opened his mouth, but forgot what to say.

In the end, he simply said,

"Forget it, I'll go see if I can help."

With that, Guinevere quickly rushed off.

"...Master really is clumsy."

Looking at Guinevere's somewhat embarrassed back, Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't help but laugh.

But she didn't mind it.

...

Soon after, Nightingale was teaching the medical station's director modern medical care knowledge. Though the director seemed to believe more in bloodletting and vomiting treatments, he was quickly persuaded after Nightingale pointed a gun at his head.

However, just as they finished organizing the medical station's tasks and were walking out of the tent, they encountered a group of fully armed mechanical guards, along with a purple-haired girl holding a strange magic book in front of them:

"Nightingale, stop right there. Where do you think you're going?"

Though she appeared petite and her outfit was cute, her voice was stern and commanding.

"You should know that unauthorized personnel are to be shot on sight, right? Go back to your treatment now, or don't blame us for being impolite."

Upon seeing her, Guinevere immediately became alert.

Helena Blavatsky, a renowned female mystic from the 19th century, a 4-star servant in FGO, affectionately called "Helena Grandma" by everyone, and the right hand of President Aides of the Western Army.

Her appearance here meant the story of the Fifth Singularity was still on track.

If Guinevere remembered correctly, the next part of the story was where she would try to force Caldea's group and Nightingale to meet Aides, and then they would have a fight due to differing ideologies, with Caldea being captured and escaping from prison...

However, since he was here, he figured they could skip the part where Caldea was defeated.

Cracking his knuckles, Guinevere thought,

"Isn't it just Karnā, Aides, and Helena together? Watch me speedrun this and crush them!"