Fate: Typemoon - My Dragon Knight

In the world of Type-Moon, the ultimate goal of a magus is to reach the "Root." The Holy Grail, as a path to the Root, is sought after by magi. Among them, the "Founding Three Families," who are great nobles, have invested the most effort, but none have achieved a breakthrough.

200 years ago, the "Founding Three Families"—the Einzbern family, the Tohsaka family, and the Makiri (Matou) family—began to cooperate and successfully developed a method to obtain the Holy Grail. However, the Grail can only grant one person's wish. The original cooperative relationship instantly turned into a bloody war.

In these 200 years, three Holy Grail Wars have occurred, but all have failed due to various problems. Finally, the time has come to 1994.

Let us turn our gaze to Great Britain. Here, 1500 years have passed since the era of King Arthur. The development of the times has meant that most of the abilities that could only be achieved by magic have been replaced by technology. Industry has brought a different kind of beauty to this world. As the starting point of the Industrial Revolution, Europe, especially London in Great Britain, has retained some of the style from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This style, combined with the modern era, has formed London's unique architectural style. In this period, London is still an international metropolis that attracts a large number of people. Of course, with a few exceptions, most people still prefer to live in densely populated places. After all, humans are social animals.

So, a certain event, which was like a miracle, was not seen by anyone.

At a lakeside in the suburbs, surrounded by trees, the tranquil lake water reflected the moonlight from the sky. At this moment, the full moon seemed to grow larger and larger in the lake's reflection. At the same time, everyone in Britain discovered that an almost impossible aurora had appeared. But while everyone was captivated by the aurora, the calm lake water emitted a dazzling light. However, this dazzling light lasted only for a moment, as if a door had been opened, something kicked out, and then immediately closed again.

If someone had been staring at the lake surface, they would have seen a figure pop out when the lake water lit up. But although ejected from the lake, the clothes on their body were not stained with a single drop of water. From the attire, the clothes worn by this person had a somewhat medieval style, yet did not lack modern fashion. Some of the decorations on the clothes were even made of genuine precious gems. Light-golden hair, light-blue eyes; the person exuded an air of refinement not found in ordinary people.

"Ouch—!! That bastard Merlin!!"

That's right, this person who looked as if he had been kicked out of the lake was none other than Aslan. With the progress of the times, most of the existences on the Reverse Side of the World were still living old-fashioned lives. Thus, Aslan had grown more and more fond of going to Merlin's place, where he would work with Merlin to find ways to set up an internet connection and create a display screen within the tower to play games and watch modern programs. It was because he could live such a life that, after the modern era arrived, Aslan had developed a somewhat better impression of this old rogue who was always hiding in his tower.

However, despite Aslan's improved opinion of Merlin over the years, he had never expected that the bastard Merlin hadn't changed at all in over 1500 years! As expected, he was still just as deserving of a beating!

Aslan had received a message from Merlin, saying that a new program had started in the human world that he would probably like. That was why he had gone to the watchtower in Avalon. But as a result, just as he arrived at the tower, before he could even sit down for a glass of water, he was kicked out directly by Merlin—kicked out of a window high up in the tower!

It was only as he was being kicked out that he heard Merlin's explanation, something about how he had seen an unimaginable crisis in their world, and that his relationship with the Fae wasn't very good. The only one he could trust was Aslan. So he was entrusting Aslan to go to the human world and see what was going on.

No wonder that bastard had been making him watch modern documentaries recently. It turned out he was trying to get him to adapt to the new era as much as possible.

Aslan rubbed his head. Before he could even react, the lake surface lit up again, and his luggage and Melusine were thrown out directly from the water. Melusine, due to the dissipation of True Ether in the outside world, was temporarily suppressed into the form of a small metal dragon doll. If it weren't for the fact that this doll was perfectly formed and could also talk, probably no one would think it was a living being. In fact, the current Melusine was also a bit confused. Putting aside how she was suddenly thrown out by that old geezer Merlin, her current body's appearance was enough for her to ponder for a while. In the eyes of a modern magus, this form was probably an alchemical familiar created using high-tech means.

Appearing along with the package and Melusine was a butterfly. This was clearly a familiar sent by Merlin.

Suppressing his furious mood, Aslan raised his finger, letting the butterfly land on his hand. At the same time, he received Merlin's words. He wanted to see just how this old geezer was going to try and explain himself!

With the input of magical energy, Merlin's image appeared in mid-air, still with that same punchable posture.

"Yo~ Looks like you've arrived in the human world. Ah, don't worry, this is, of course, a pre-recorded image. Although it's my first time doing this, I'm still somewhat confident in sending people from the tower to the human world. In the package, there's a fake identity I made for you. I believe that with your abilities, Aslan, you'll be able to live a very leisurely and comfortable life in the current world. But please don't forget that your mission is to investigate what kind of problems our world will face. After all, we depend on this world for our existence. If something were to happen, we can't just stand aside. That's all. Right now, I still need to keep my promise and stay in the tower~"

Although he knew that what he was seeing was just a pre-recorded image, Aslan still threw a punch at it. But Merlin seemed to have known Aslan would do this. In the image, he had left a motion of rubbing his cheek. "Alright, alright, I know acting first and explaining later was wrong of me. But since you've already thrown a punch, you'll investigate properly, right?"

With that, Merlin's image completely disappeared, and the butterfly made of magical energy also vanished without a trace.

Aslan clenched his fists, then picked up Melusine and his luggage. "Merlin—!! You just wait! Next time we meet, I'm using my Noble Phantasm on you!!"