Mordred sighed wearily as she swung her sword. Although she had grown and "gotten her head together", swinging it kept relaxing her. She was as nervous as Xenovia was and scared of failure. She wasn't afraid of his death, but the idea of failure meant losing what she'd fought during her second life.
"Staring at me won't take away your doubts," Mordred said, stopping to swing Clarent and turning to Saber Mordred. "Still can't get your head in order?"
Saber Mordred frowned and closed even more in on herself. "How do you manage?"
"How do I manage what?" Mordred knew what Saber Mordred meant.
"To be so... well... free," Saber Mordred said, embarrassed.
Mordred chuckled, irritating her counterpart. Having her in front of her was like having a child in front of her, and no one knew better than she did how this could be. She had also been an insecure child when she was freed from her mother's control.
"What do you think it means that a person is free?" Mordred asked.
"No one can tell me what to do," Saber Mordred replied.
Mordred nodded and, while agreeing with that statement, she still felt it was incomplete. "Freedom is a word that has a very difficult meaning. I'm not you so I can only talk to you through experiences I've experienced directly"
Mordred told her his background and revealed a promise to PENDRAGON at the end of the Sixth Holy Grail War. She would have taken care of Yuto so he wouldn't become like the Counter Guardian.
"Yuto has a particular that is both a quality and a defect. Once he promises something, he will do anything to keep his word," Mordred said.
Whether he promised to become a Hero of Justice or to bring ruthless justice to the assassins of his parents, he would support her even at the cost of being hurt or worse die. That was something they both agreed on.
"I used my head and made him promise that he would summon me if he ever needed my help," Mordred revealed.
And the fact that she was there in front of her was the word that Mordred's Yuto had truly kept his word.
"Together we lived, saw and experienced many things even though it went against everyone's mind. But it didn't matter because I was happy and I finally had a real reason to wield Clarent." Mordred handed her alternative version out a scroll that she unrolled. Mordred smiled slightly as she saw the incredulous look of her "younger" version. "This is the meaning I have given to my freedom and I am in this hell to protect it."
Saber Mordred observed the drawing. Childish as it may seem, there was a deep meaning. A cheerful family formed by a father, a mother and their daughter who played and seemed happy.
"I wondered if incest children could be happy, and before birth I wondered if it was better to entrust it to someone else," Mordred said, pinching the back of his neck before the frowning eyes of his counterpart. " It wasn't until she was born and I held her for the first time that I realized that I loved that child and that it didn't matter who the parents were as long as they could guarantee happiness. And even though I'm not the best mother in the world, I've tried to be the best for my children."
Even though it wasn't about her, Saber Mordred felt involved in it. She loved Yuto, though not to the point of her counterpart, and she cared so much for him that, if Caliburn chose her, she would ask him to rule alongside her.
And above all, she was worried about Yuto's spiritual situation. She feared that the person she knew would no longer exist by continuing the synchronization process.
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Fate/Grand Order: the Path of a Sword
FanfictionHe had won his Holy Grail War and destroyed the Holy Grail. He thought he would return to his normal life, but fate had planned something else for him. Yuto Pendragon will find himself involved in an unprecedented new Holy Grail War where the enemy...
