Beast II (ビーストⅡ, Bīsuto II?) is a Beast-class Servant who appears in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
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Identity
Beast II's True Name is TiamatWP (ティアマトWP, Tiamato?), one of the Primordial Deities in Mesopotamian MythologyWP/Sumerian MythologyWP.[1][2] Tiamat is an Earth Mother Goddess, a branch of ÇatalhöyükWP's forgotten goddess.[3] Along with AbzuWP, she was manifested of the Sea of Dawn (黎明の海, Reimei no Umi?) -- an Ocean of Void (無の海, Mu no Umi?) that lies below the UnderworldWP of Ereshkigal, said to have once been under the administration of the god EnkiWP.[4]
In Sumerian Mythology, the gods were given birth from the pairing of Tiamat, who is the salt water, and Abzu, who is the fresh water. Afterwards, the gods, whom are their children, waved their banner of revolution against the primeval father Abzu and acquired supremacy over the world. At this moment, Tiamat gently approved the deeds of her children. It is proof that her love for her children has won over her love for her husband.[1][2]
However, the gods pointed their blades even at Tiamat, their mother. Tiamat, in her grief and disorder, gave birth to 11 Magical Beasts as her new children, and they altogether had a showdown with the gods. At the end of the conflict, Tiamat and her 11 Magical Beasts were torn apart. It is said that the gods tore up her corpse into two, forming heaven and earth from it, and thus, had established the ritual for the creation of the World of Man.[1][2]
Tiamat was “a womb discarded after the Genesis”, becoming the origin of Sumerian Mythology. She was turned into a “Mother Sea” and was put to use as a breeding ground to produce life, but once the earth’s environment stabilized and after the ecosystems were established, she was banished to the World of Imaginary Numbers (虚数世界, Kyosuu Sekai?) (a World on the Reverse Side (裏側の世界, Uragawa no Sekai?); an imaginary space that has no life and is not even a Parallel World) as something unnecessary. (Seeing that the ecosystem was already established, there is no need for her, one who designs life randomly, and it is said that regarding the course the lifeforms who acquired intelligence conforms to, she was nothing but an impediment by now.) Hereafter, Tiamat has been waiting in the mirror world for a chance to return back to her original world.[1][2]
Appearance
As of obtaining the Holy Grail that Goetia stored within the heart of Kingu, the Sea of Life (生命の海, Seimei no Umi?, localized as "Primordial Sea") initially manifests a human-scale corpus known as Femme FataleWP (ファム・ファタール, Famu Fata-ru?) -- roughly 160cm in height, clad with arm and leg restraints. Gilgamesh refers to this as Tiamat's Cerebral Corpus; it is suggested to represent whatever remains of Tiamat's mind or consciousness. Upon partial awakening, the Cerebral Corpus is stained in red and black in a manner reminiscent of Dark Sakura.
Following the annihilation of the Cerebral Corpus, the Sea of Life manifests Tiamat in the form of a Titan (巨人, Kyojin?) -- later demonstrated to be capable of flight by the use of her Wing-Horns (角翼, Kakuyoku?). However, in the circumstance that Tiamat faces a severe threat, she enacts Self-Modification (自己改造, Jikou Kaizou?) and Saint Graph Dilation Operations (霊基膨張工程, Reiki Bouchou Koutei?) to assume a Sphinx-like Draconic Corpus (竜体, Ryuutai?) -- referred to as her "true appearance". After the Draconic Corpus is imposed with the "Concept of Death" (死の概念, Shi no Gainen?) by the Old Man of the Mountain, da Vinci confirms that Tiamat's Saint Graph Core (霊基核, Reiki-Kaku?) is situated within its brain.[5]
To clarify, Tiamat's assumed appearances are, with the exception of her Draconic Corpus, said to express her existence as a Divinity (神性, Jinsei?, lit. "Divine Nature"). However, the assumption of her Draconic Corpus is described by Romani Archaman to entail an unveiling of her complete and unadulterated existence -- moving him to distinguish it from Tiamat's other states as "the very Corpus of a God" (神の体, Kami no Karada?, lit. "Flesh of God"). Though Tiamat's combat capabilities and defenses are indeed the strongest upon assuming her Draconic Corpus, Jaguar Man comments that this is in reality Tiamat in her weakest, most vulnerable state.[5]
Owing to Tiamat's Authority (権能, Kennou?) over the Sea of Life and her capacity for Self-Modification, she is capable of freely remodeling her physical existence as the needs demand, and therefore is unrestricted to the appearances described above.
The Black Mud of the Sea of Life is also included in Tiamat’s height.[1] Her height matches the area of the Indian OceanWP.[2] However, given that the mud is made up of Imaginary Numbers, her weight cannot be measured.[1][2] Essentially the same as zero.[2] On the other hand, its volume grows to be infinite. In short, it is a 4-dimensional pocket.[1][2]
Personality
Something like a personality cannot be confirmed from her. Whether Tiamat has lost her ideals, or whether she has no reason since the beginning, it can be interpreted as either way, but one cannot surmise the reason. Although she simply birthed, raised and loved her children, which was viewed as her only meaning in life, she has set out to fight against humanity, of whom they decided that for the sake of denying this meaning, they have declared “you are not needed.” Her behavioural ideology when becoming a Beast is extremely simple; she runs under the extremely primitive system of “If I do not kill humanity, I will be killed.”[1][2]
Concerning Tiamat's motivation and attitude towards the Master, he/she is one of seven billion humans. Naturally a target for obliteration. As far as human beings are concerned, Tiamat is a repulsive aggressor (invader), but concerning Tiamat too, human beings are terrifying aliens (extraterrestrials).[1][2]
Because Tiamat cannot conversate, her pronouns are unknown.[2]
Role
Fate/Grand Order
Babylonia: The Absolute Frontline in the War Against the Demonic Beasts
While Beast II achieved her return to this world with the collapse of the Human Order Foundation and due to the power/distortion of the Holy Grail, she was however in the middle of a deep slumber. Setting aside the fact that Merlin's magecraft kept her asleep, once Beast II was attacked by Chaldea, she woke from her sleep and setted out to clean up humanity in accordance with her primal instincts.[1][2]
Although there is resentment/hatred/sadness for being abandoned for having already served her purpose, there is also a conduct in indulging in the “joy” of coming back to repaint the earth’s ecosystems once again as the mother of everything.[1][2]
Her Class was determined by her real nature mentioned above. The Primordial Goddess and the likes are but false titles. Deserted by the humans, that being is one of the great disasters most rejected by human history. That name is Beast II. One of the seven Evils of Man, the beast that carries the principle of “Regression”.[1][2][5]
Also, the title called Femme Fatale was something given by Beast I (Goetia). Goetia successfully saw the true nature of Beast II’s core, so he bestowed a title meant for a Woman of Destiny rather than one meant for a Mother of the Gods (Magna Mater). At the bottom of her hatred towards humanity, there is also joy towards humanity for becoming a mother, as well as love towards humanity, them being the children of her first-generation children. For this reason, Beast II binds herself. A mother’s love is something necessary for growth, but it is something unnecessary for adults. In order for humanity to advance to the next stage, they must overcome the “original woman”.[2]
Other appearances
In Fate/Extra CCC, Tiamat was mentioned in BB's Potnia Theron Skill. It is the authority of the Earth Mother Goddess whom BB compiled and absorbed from the abyss of the Moon Cell. It is the embodiment of the power of creation possessed by the mother goddesses, originating from a forgotten goddess approximately 8000 years ago (the goddess of Çatalhöyük), and branching to Tiamat, among other goddesses.[3]
Abilities
Tiamat has no Noble Phantasms. The form of her brain, which is her core, has nothing that can be possibly said to be a Noble Phantasm.[2]
Class Skills
Authority of the Beast
- Authority of the Beast (獣の権能, Jū no Ken'nō?) is an Anti-Humanity (対人類, Tai-Jinrui?) Class Skill that enhances the skillholder's capacity to harm Heroic Spirits, Divine Spirits, and all organisms birthed of the "Mother's Womb". This Skill is held not solely by the 2nd Beast, but shared amongst all the Magical Beasts birthed of her womb.[1]
Independent Manifestation
- Independent Manifestation (単独顕現, Tandoku Kengen?) is a Class Skill that lends the capacity to manifest independently within the temporal reality. Within seven days of manifestation, the Indian Ocean is smothered black; and Tiamat incessantly spawns Magical Beasts to the end of devouring humanity. However, as the body of the 2nd Beast is the ocean itself, it cannot make landfall. Therefore, the role of annihilating humanity is delegated to her children.
- At a Rank of B, this Skill is furthermore a declaration of the holder’s presence across all of space-time, and thereby grants immunity against existential threats by way of time paradox or the instantaneous imposition of death.[1]
- In the 7th Singularity of Fate/Grand Order, the 2nd Beast overcomes her restriction against landfall by use of Self-Modification -- altering her horns into wing-like appendages and taking flight. Upon the eradication of the Sea of Life within her immediate environs by the Divine Authority of Quetzalcoatl, she is able to spontaneously regenerate her domain by dispensing tides of the Black Mud from the base of her feet.
Self-Modification
- Self-Modification (自己改造, Jikou Kaizou?) is a Skill that permits the 2nd Beast to remold her Saint Graph by use of the Black Mud of the Sea of Life. Growing from the scale of her standard Saint Graph (Femme Fatale), the 2nd Beast can assume the form of a Draconic creature of over 60 meters in height. In this form, the 2nd Beast obtains immunity against any attacks of a Rank of A++ or lower.[1]
Personal Skills
Sea of Life
Kingu states that the Black Mud of the Sea of Life is the substance known as the Mud of the Grail.
- The Sea of Life (生命の海, Seimei no Umi?, localized as "Primordial Sea") is a Personal Skill that expresses the Divine Authority of the 2nd Beast as "the Sea From Which Life Itself is Sprung" (命を産む海, Inochi wo Umu Umi?). Being that the Sea cycles the True Ether of the Genesis of Earth (地球創世記, Chikyuu Souseiki?), the supply of Magical Energy available to the 2nd Beast's Magical Energy Reactor (魔力炉心, Maryoku Roshin?) is within the boundaries of the domain, unlimited. The movement by which the Sea of Life extends its domain is referred to as the Chaos Tide (ケイオスタイド, Keiosu Taido?).
- The substance of the Sea of Life is a Black Mud (黒い泥, Kuroi Doro?) that acts to pollute Saint Graphs (霊基, Reiki?, lit. "Spiritual Foundation"), fundamentally remaking any organism that enters unto the Sea a "Child of Tiamat" that bears an arbitrary selection of the following skills: Self-Modification (自己改造, Jiko Kaizou?), Environmental Modification (生態変化, Seitai Henka?, lit. "modification of environment / ecology"), Environmental Fusion (生態融合, Seitai Yuugou?, lit. "fusion unto environment / ecology"), and Unit Mitosis (個体増殖, Kotai Zoushoku?, lit. "Reproduction of Individual Entities"). Upon emergence from the Mud, the Children of Tiamat are imposed with a cellular-level Geis — a Nitrogenous BaseWP Contract (塩基契約, Enki-Keiyaku?) — automatically rendering them as enemies of Man.[1] Servants are no exception to the process.
- In the 7th Singularity of Fate/Grand Order, Kingu refers to the Sea as the Primordial Organism (原初の生命, Gensho no Seimei?, lit. "the first life") and the Sea of Chaos (混沌の海, Konton no Umi?) -- further stating that, amongst practitioners of Magecraft, the Black Mud is the substance referred to as the Mud of the Grail (聖杯の泥, Seihai no Doro?).
Nega-Genesis
- Nega-Genesis (ネガ・ジェネシス, Nega Jeneshisu?) is a Skill of the same variety as the 6th Beast's Nega-Messiah (ネガ・メサイヤ, Nega Mesaiya?). It is expressed in the manifestation of a generation of a Conceptual Bounded Field (概念結界, Gainen Kekkai?) that rejects the evolutionary course (進化, Shinka?) and the Genesis of the Earth (地球創世, Chikyuu Sousei?) expressed within the proper continuity of the History of Man (人類史, Jinrui-shi?), consequently proffering a nullification against the Noble Phantasms of any Servants generated as an output of the above processes.[1][2] Specifically speaking, a barrier takes root against the Noble Phantasms of Servants with the attributes “Human” and “Star”.[2]
Monstrous Strength
- Monstrous Strength (怪力, Kairiki?) is a Skill that permits the augmentation of its holder's Strength, borne of the holder's nature as a monster. In the circumstance of the 2nd Beast, this Skill is expressed at its highest level. As of assuming Draconic form by way of reshaping the Black Mud of the Sea of Life, the 2nd Beast attains the Strength of a Titan.[1]
Hypothesized Capabilities
Paradox Restoration
- Romani Archaman and Gilgamesh hypothesize that Tiamat's existence as the Mother of Genesis (原初の母, Genshou no Haha?) renders as a Law of Nature (自然の法則, Shizen no Housoku?) the "fact" that she is "the first to be born into the World, and the last to die." That is to say, so long as other life exists within the same "World" as Tiamat, she may definitionally be incapable of dying.
- Romani Archaman terms this capability "Paradox Restoration" (逆説的復元, Gyakusetsu-teki Fukugen?) -- and for the purpose of neutralizing the phenomenon, Gilgamesh plots to entrap Tiamat within the Underworld (冥界, Meikai?, lit. "World of Death") domain of Ereshkigal, making use of its nature as a "World" wherein the only "life" that is properly recognized to exist are those existences subjectively defined as "the Living" (生者, Shouja?) at Ereshkigal's whim. Furthermore, as the domain was in part originally created to restrain and confine rogue gods, the Sanctions of the Underworld (冥界の刑罰, Meikai no Keibatsu?) exert a strong Anti-Divinity effect by default, and would therefore hypothetically weaken Tiamat.[5]
- In practice, however, it is unclear that Paradox Restoration is indeed one of Tiamat's actual capabilities, or whether the actions taken against her were in fact effective in neutralizing the phenomenon.
Development
Creation and Conception
Kotetsu Yamanaka is the character illustrator for Tiamat.[1][2] Kinoko Nasu is the scenario writer for her character.[2]
It is a digression, but Tiamat was taken into consideration as a boss of a raid event when planning “Fate/Grand Order” in 2014. She is an anthropomorphism of the sea, someone similar to a generator that produces powerful Magical Beasts, and she was depicted as an unequalled beautiful woman that dissolves into the chaotic mud. During the moment Beast II appears, “Fate/Grand Order’s” image… becomes a fun Starship TroopersWP. It is also a service character that makes a homage to Dark Sakura of “Fate/stay night”. Revising that design is for some reason, two times more appealing, as long as you can see “Ah, it is a genealogy of that Dark Sakura.”[2]
Comment from Illustrator
"I joined together rivers/harvests and destruction (clear streams and sludge) growing wild as in the color image (of the black + red stripes) of Dark Sakura. I aimed at a simple silhouette of a little girl with gigantic horns + hiding her breasts.
Monster Form: For the MAP plan and on the occasion of expressing her parts, I crammed as many details of gigantic structures in order to potentially put them for another use. (I was thinking something like walking on a road above her horns.)"[2]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 This reference needs to be fixed. Use "FGOSP4" instead of "Grand Order".
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 Fate/Grand Order material IV - Tiamat, p.374-395, translated by Clyton at Beast's Lair.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
[] Fate/EXTRA CCC - BB (Moon Cancer) Matrix Class: Moon Cancer
Name: BB
Master: None
Noble Phantasm: Cursed Cutting Crater (C. C. C.)
Keyword: Advanced Level AI, Khakkhara of Domination
Strength: ★, Endurance: ★, Agility: ★, Magic: ★, Luck: ★
Golden Grail: EX, Self-Modification: EX, Potnia Theron: EXKeywords 01 - Cursed Cutting Crater (C. C. C.)
An attack on the world by BB in control of the Moon Cell.
Also called the spiritron imaginary pit.
A World Purge through event rewriting that makes maximum use of the EX skill "Conception of All Animals" BB has acquired.
The goddess who is the mother of earth mother goddesses that created earth is, in other words, the 'root' that created all creation. This anti-world Noble Phantasm outputs that information through an ultra-precise 3D printer and crushes the present world with the world the user desires.
The space eroded by BB becomes imaginary space and a curse that consumes reality. "CCC", as the name suggests, is a cursed pit that bores out reality.
In addition to scattering all objects inside on an atomic level and reconstructing them, it is capable of overwriting and reprinting information in fields such as luck and coincidence. While theoretical, it is also thought possible to distort the time axis by interfering with gravitational fields and rewrite the law of cause and effect.
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When used in combat, BB's familiars, the shapeshifters, engulf the target and, after turning into a sphere, are wiped out of existence along with the target and the whole dimension.
Normally, a structure in which sense of values can be shared cannot be created in the Far Side of the Moon, which is an imaginary space. What established BB's internal world as the Sakura Labyrinth was the power of this Noble Phantasm.
02 - Advanced Level AI
Artificial intelligences configured according to their programs.
In this age, they are treated as things that "function as programs", but "do not exist as actual beings". In other words, things that "are" right in front of your eyes but "are not". They are merely mechanisms for smooth progression of human lives.
The same applies in the SE.RA.PH. They are virtual lifeforms that are created along with the commencement of the Holy Grail War and disposed along with its conclusion.
Humanoid virtual lifeforms at the SE.RA.PH include NPCs that perform single objectives, AIs who have been granted capabilities for self-judgement, and advanced level AIs who have been entrusted with capabilities for self-judgement and management of sections.
Advanced level AIs are beings made to efficiently promote the Moon Cell's primary objective of "human observation". As perfect reproductions of humans, they have been programmed with even souls, but the souls only "exist" and their contents are colorless.
Virtual lifeforms made in the SE.RA.PH are reset with each round of the Holy Grail War. NPCs and AIs return to zero, but advanced level AIs retain just their personas while their records are reset—as if they never existed.
When the Holy Grail War is over, the only one left alive is the Master standing at the top. This applies not only to the Masters but also to the virtual lifeforms made in the SE.RA.PH.
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It appears that BB, like Sakura, is an advanced level AI entrusted with management of Masters' health. However, as she is rampaging for reasons unknown, the methods of "managing the Masters" have become extreme.
03 - Khakkhara of Domination
The teacher's pointer that BB carries.
A device that lets her make full use of her authority as an advanced level AI. Although limited to the Far Side of the Moon, this allows BB to modify the spiritron laws within the SE.RA.PH.
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"Ten Crowns of Domination" worn by the Beast of Babylon converted into a teacher's pointer.
This is the male principle corresponding to the female principle of the seven-headed beast, and its true nature is a phallus (erect rod).
The symbol of the king of the world who was granted throne and authority by a great dragon and received the right to, for 42 months, spit out as many insolent words as desired and desecrate all things.
The beast's heads were the seven hills of the Roman Empire... Capitolium, Palatium, Aventinus, Esquilinus, Caelius, Quirinalis, Viminalis. In other words, they meant the Roman Empire itself, and the ten horns symbolized the emperors... Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasianus, Titus, Galba, Otho, Vitellius.０１ - C. C. C.
ムーンセルを掌握したＢＢによる、世界を犯す攻撃。
霊子虚構陥穽とも。
ＢＢが獲得したＥＸスキル『百獣受胎』を最大限に活用した、事象書き換えによるワールド・パージ。
大地を創造した地母神たちの母にあたる女神とは、即ち、万物を生み出した「根源」である。
この宝具はその情報を超精密立体プリンターとして出力し、使用者の望むままの世界で、いまある世界を握りつぶす対界宝具である。
ＢＢに侵食された空間は虚数空間となり、現実を蝕む呪いとなる。『Ｃ．Ｃ．Ｃ．』はその名の通り、現実をえぐり切り取る呪いの大穴なのだ。
その場にある物体を原子単位までばらばらにして再構成する他、運不運、偶然といった場の情報を書き換えて再出力する事もできる。
理論上の話になるが、重力場に干渉すれば時間軸を歪めて因果律を書き換える事も可能とされる。
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戦闘に使用した場合、ＢＢの使い魔であるシェイプシフターが対象を包み、球体化したのち、対象と共に次元ごと消滅する。
本来、虚数空間である月の裏側において、価値観を共有できる構造体は創造できない。
ＢＢの心象世界をサクラ迷宮として成立させていたのも、この宝具の力である。
０２ - 上級AI
プログラムによって構成された人工知能。
この時代では『プログラムとして機能しているが』
『存在として成立しないもの』とされている。
つまり、目の前に『有る』が『無い』もの。
人間の生活をスムーズに進めるための機構にすぎない。
それはSE.RA.PHにおいても同様で、彼らは聖杯戦争開始と共に作られ、終了と共に廃棄される仮想生命体とされる。
SE.RA.PHにおける人間型の仮想生命は、単一の目的だけをこなすＮＰＣ、自己判断資格を与えられたＡＩ、自己判断資格とセクション管理を任された上級ＡＩがある。
上級ＡＩはムーンセルの主目的である『人間観察』を効率的に進めるために作られたもの。
人間を完全に再現しており、魂すらプログラムされているが魂は『有る』だけで、その中身は無色のまま。
SE.RA.PHに作られた仮想生命たちは、その回の聖杯戦争が終了するとリセットされる。
ＮＰＣやＡＩはゼロに返るが、上級ＡＩはパーソナルだけ残し、その記録はリセット————無かった事にされる。
聖杯戦争が終わった時、生き残るのは頂点に立ったマスターだけ。
それはマスターだけではなく、SE.RA.PHに作られた仮想生命たちも共通なのだ。
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ＢＢは桜と同じく、マスターたちの健康管理を任された上級ＡＩと思われる。
しかし原因不明の暴走により、『マスターを管理する』 方法が極端なものになってしまったようだ。
０３ - 支配の錫杖
ＢＢが持つ教鞭。
上級ＡＩとしての権限をフルに使用できるデバイス。
月の裏側限定ではあるが、これによってＢＢはSE.RA.PH内の霊子法則を変更する事ができる。
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バビロンの獣がかぶる『十の支配の王冠』を教鞭に変えたもの。
これは七つの首の獣が女性原理に対応する男性原理であり、その本質はファロス（まっすぐな棒）だからである。
大いなる竜から王座と権威を与えられ、さらに４２ヶ月の間、どれだけ不遜な言葉を吐いてもよく、あらゆるものを冒涜する権利を与えられたという世界の王の象徴。
獣の首はローマ帝国の七つの丘……
カピトリウム、パラティウム、アウェンティヌス、エスクイリヌス、カエリウス、クイリナリス、ウィミナリス、すなわちローマ帝国そのものを意味し、十の角はその皇帝……
アウグストゥス、ティベリウス、カリグラ、クラウディウス、ネロ、ウェスパシアヌス、ティトゥス、ガルバ、 オト、ウィテリウス……を象徴している。Skills 01 - Golden Grail [EX]
The golden grail that BB owns. Also called the Holy Grail.
A negative grail that grants its owner's impudent and selfish wishes.
The grail held by the great whore of Babylon who appears in the Revelation to John. Though it is a fake Holy Grail, it is for that reason that it has become a "genuine" Holy Grail that grants the desires of humans regardless of right or wrong.
To the Christians who considered honorable poverty a virtue at that time, a grail molded from a symbol of wealth like gold no doubt had connotations of corrupt wealth, avarice, and vanity of trying to adorn oneself.
As the grail held by the great whore of Babylon who personifies the Roman Empire, this grail clearly symbolizes treasures on earth, which is the inverse of the Christ's words "Do not store up treasures on earth."
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"I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns."
According to the Book of Revelation, this is the description of the beast of destruction that appeared in the Holy City and the woman straddling that beast. A huge beast with sevens heads like a hydra appeared from the sea and landed at the Holy City. This beast and the woman, while two, are as one, and it is impossible to think of them separately.
As the woman was said to give birth to all evil, those who were imprudent or greedy could not resist her allure and became corrupted by that grail.
On a side note, the red Saber who calls herself the emperor was regarded the same as this beast and viewed as an enemy by the believers after her death.
02 - Self-Modification [EX]
A skill that allows restructuring of oneself.
AIs made by the Moon Cell were given an absolute command: "You must not improve own function."
However, BB, who escaped from that yoke due to her breakdown, began to expand her own functions. To boost her calculation power, she preyed upon/disassembled NPCs, AIs, and finally, Servants with black noise, then used as her own memory.
Though they are like appendix building additions that do not heed self-collapse, as the result, BB has changed into a hyper level AI with enormous capacity.
That condition resembles a city on reclaimed land that continues to build while submerging or Frankenstein's monster.
03 - Potnia Theron [EX]
Conception of All Animals.
The authority of the goddesses that BB compiled and absorbed from the abyss of the mooncell.
It embodies the power of all creation possessed by the mother goddesses—originating from a forgotten goddess approximately 8000 years ago (the goddess of Çatalhöyük) and branching to Tiamat and Cybele, Ishtar, Inanna, Anat, Astarte, Gaia, Hera, Artemis, Aphrodite, Demeter, Athena, etc.
Many are depicted with mural crowns. This is because many of these goddesses were also guardian deities of cities.
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The symbols of this authority include holes opening the earth and the sky (caves and the moon), whirling tides and waterspouts of the sea, calderas of the volcanoes, etc., and from these, evils that bring all manners of death are birthed. However, after these evils have spread death, they promise certain good harvest and fertility. This authority is none other than the power of bringing death as well as giving life.
The earth mother is worshipped by the people and protects them as a guardian deity, but at the same time, she is the very sacrifice that nurtures them with crops born from her body and beasts of the fields and the forests.
The earth mother nurtures men with her flesh and blood, kills men as time passes to restores herself with her own nourishment, and once again nurtures men with her restored flesh and blood.
This process is the cycle of the food chain, and this cycle of life and death can be said to be the true nature of the earth mother. With this authority, most of the goddesses gave birth to countless monsters and giants, posing threats to gods and men, or they gave birth to heroes, thus protecting people.
As representative examples, Tiamat and Gaia became threats, while Hera is a mother of heroes.
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Those born on this earth cannot defy the authority of the mother goddess, as that would mean rebelling against the very system of life. However, when they leave this earth, head to space, and end the childhoood as intelligent lifeforms, they will have broken this authority.
The wish of Çatalhöyük is the coming of that day.０１ - 黄金の杯：[ＥＸ]
ＢＢが持つ黄金の杯。聖杯とも。
持ち主の厚顔で自分勝手な願い事を叶える負の聖杯。
ヨハネ黙示録にある、バビロンの大妖婦が持っていた杯。
偽聖杯であるが、偽の聖杯であるからこそ、正邪問わずに人間の欲望を叶える“本物の”聖杯となっている。
当時の清貧を美徳としたキリスト教徒にとって、金などという財の象徴で形作られた杯は、まさしく汚れた富と強欲、そして己を飾ろうとする虚偽を意味するものであった。
ローマ帝国の化身であるバビロンの大妖婦が手にする杯という時点で明瞭であるが、この杯はキリストの「地に富を積んではならない」と言う言葉を反転させた、地上の富を象徴している。
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“わたしは、赤い獣にまたがっている一人の女を見た。
この獣は、全身至るところ神を冒涜する数々の名で覆われており、七つの頭と十本の角があった。”
これは黙示録曰く、聖都に現れた滅びの獣と、その獣にまたがっていた女の描写である。
七つの頭を持つヒュドラの如き巨大な獣は海より現れ、聖都に上陸したという。
この獣と女は二つで一つであり、切り離して考える事はできない。
女はすべての邪悪を生み出すものとされ、短慮なる者、欲深き者は彼女の誘惑に逆らえず、その杯によって堕落したという。
余談ではあるが、皇帝を名乗る赤いセイバーはその死後、信徒たちにこの獣と同一視され敵視されたという。
０２ - 自己改造：[ＥＸ]
自身を改造するスキル。
ムーンセルによって作られたＡＩには“機能を向上させてはならない”という絶対命令が備わっている。
しかし、故障によりそのくびきから逃れたＢＢは自己機能の拡張を始めてしまった。
計算能力を高めるためにＮＰＣ、ＡＩ、はてはサーヴァントまで黒いノイズで捕食・分解し、自らのメモリとして使用。
自己崩壊をいとわない後付け増築だが、結果、ＢＢは膨大な容量を持つ超級ＡＩと化した。
その有様は沈水しながらも建築を続ける埋め立て地の都市か、フランケンシュタインの怪物のようでもある。
０３ - 百獣母胎：[ＥＸ]
百獣母胎。
それはＢＢがムーンセルの深淵より編纂し、取り込んだ女神の権能である。
約８０００年前のすでに名の失われた女神（チャタル・ヒュユクの女神）より発し、 ティアマットやキュベレー、イシュタル、イナンナ、アナテ、アスタルテ、ガイア、ヘラ、アルテミス、アフロディーテ、デメテル、アテナなどに派生した、母なる女神の持つ万物を生み出す力の具現である。
多くは城壁冠の形をとってイメージされる。
これはこれらの女神の多くが、同時に都市の守護神でもあったからだ。
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大地や空に開いた門（洞窟や月）、海の渦潮や竜巻、火山の火口などに象徴され、そこからあらゆる死をもたらす害悪を生み出す。
ただし、その害悪は死をまき散らした後、確かな豊穣や多産を約束するもの。
この権能は死と同時に生を生み出す力に他ならない。
大地母神は人々によって崇められ、それらを加護する守護神であると同時に、その身から生まれ出る穀物や作物、野や森の獣によって人々を養う犠牲そのものでもある。
大地母神は自らの血肉によって人を養い、そして時を経ればその人を殺して自らの糧として己の血肉を回復し、またその回復した血肉で人を養う。
この過程は食物連鎖の円環そのものでもあり、この生と死の循環こそが大地母神の本質と言っていい。
ほとんどの女神はこの権能で、無数の怪物や巨人を生んで神々や人の脅威となり、あるいは英雄を生み、それから人々を守った。
その代表例は、脅威となったならばティアマットやガイア、英雄の母ならばヘラである。
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この大地に生まれたものは、母なる神の権能には逆らえない。それは生命のシステムそのものに反逆する事だからだ。
しかし大地を離れ、宇宙を目指し、知性体としての幼年期を終えた時こそ、この権能が打ち破れる事だろう。
チャタル・ヒュユクの願いは、その日が訪れる事にある。Setting 01 - Spiritron Imaginary Pit
Spiritron Imaginary Pit.
The official name of this stage.
Formerly just an imaginary number space for storing malignant information, "this place" was established as a real number space in the present, past, and future by the fact that BB had reached the Moon Cell core. It was reconstructed by her hands into the “far side of the moon” where even Masters can exist.
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With the power of the primordial goddess at hand, BB succeeded in quantifying the "nothingness" before the birth of life. She transformed into the master of the imaginary number space where both time and space and ambiguous.
Although the Moon Cell cannot be hacked no matter how much time is taken, BB took over it by placing herself in "unlimited time".
02 - The remnants of peaceful days
During the preliminaries, when Kiara liberated her free will, she was unable to control that status condition and went into overload.
Since NPCs can only do routine work, they ignored self-destructing Sakura as something "non-existent", and since the Moon Cell's check only takes place at the end of the day in the preliminaries, Sakura was at risk of termination.
Witnessing this condition, [Kishinami Hakuno] called out to her, "Are you okay."
The observation that she "is here" by another let Sakura recover the unconscious on the verge of termination, and due to the nursing afterwards, she gained an ego that clearly "wanted to be here". Her self-termination was averted.
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What happened afterwards no longer need to be said.
When the next day comes, everything will be erased by the Moon Cell. Wanting to continue this one day miracle, Sakura used her advanced AI privilege to repeat "the day she came to know [Kishinami Hakuno]" for 69 days.
However, as days passed, Sakura became distressed by her self-contradiction as an AI and the facts surrounding [Kishinami Hakuno].
"Masters participating in the Holy Grail War will all die except one. No, to begin with, [Kishinami Hakuno] is..."
Sakura continued to be distressed by her selfish desire to continue the loop for eternity and her feelings for [Kishinami Hakuno]. In conclusion, she chose to seal the 69 days worth of memory... the "love" she acquired, so she could return to being a normal AI. AIs cannot delete records. Because of that, she moved the memory to a backup frame to reset herself.
She believed that to be the most correct choice for [Kishinami Hakuno].
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But even if recollections of the mind are lost, memories recorded by the body live on. Though she should have forgotten everything and returned to being a normal AI, she was shaken by unidentified emotional values every time she talked with [Kishinami Hakuno].
Meanwhile, the backup to whom the memories were transplanted couldn't tolerate herself like that, and she decided to act as BB the rebel who destroys the Moon Cell's system for a certain objective then made her move.
The timing when she seized the Far Side of the Moon was "the Holy Grail War: the end of fifth round ~ before the start of the sixth round". The four who were not eliminated yet—[Kishinami Hakuno], Leo, Rin, and Rani—and the irregular, Jinako, were kidnapped to the Far Side in the middle of the Holy Grail War while they were still alive.
Masters Matou Shinji, Gatou, and Julius were moved to the imaginary space "0.00001 seconds before" the moment the firewall terminated them after their defeat from the Holy Grail War, prolonging their instants of life.
In either case, C. C. C. is a dream by BB. If the dreamer disappears, the world ought to return to the reality where nothing happened.
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On a yet another side note, everyday scenery of the prologue that [Kishinami Hakuno] saw in the nightmare was an artificial paradise modeled on the discarded 69 days.
After pulling [Kishinami Hakuno] to the Far Side, BB placed the digital body in the old school building, put it in a deep sleep, and locked them in an unwaking dream.
Normally, they would have lived peacefully in the looping everyday life, but the strong bond with their Servant or [Kishinami]'s will rejecting the peaceful everyday caused cracks in the artificial paradise, and [Kishinami Hakuno] came to notice the abnormality.
To put [Kishinami Hakuno] in a deep sleep once more, BB reset the school building and tried to remake the dream, but [Kishinami Hakuno] escaped the reset as well and leaped into an even deeper part of the imaginary space.
It was a bottom deeper than the bottom of Id. "Death of the collective unconscious" beneath the unconscious. What saved [Kishinami Hakuno] who leaped into a region even BB cannot reach was the voice of the Servant whose fate was shared with theirs.
Thus, the contract was sealed, and [Kishinami Hakuno] woke up in the old school building left in the Far Side.０１ - 霊子虚構陥穽
霊子 虚構 陥穽。
この舞台の正式名称。
悪性情報を貯蔵するだけの虚数空間だった“ここ”は、ＢＢがムーンセル中枢に到達した事実をもって、現在・過去・未来において実数空間として成立。
彼女の手によって、マスターたちでも存在できる“月の裏側”として再構築された。
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原初の女神の力を手に入れたＢＢは生命が生まれる前の『無』を数値化する事に成功。
時間も空間もあやふやな虚数空間の使い手に変革した。
どれほどの時間を要しようがハッキングできないムーンセルだが、ＢＢは『無限の時間』の概念に自分を置く事で攻略した。
０２ - 日々の名残
日々の名残：
予選中、キアラの手によって自由性を解放された彼女はそのステータス異常を制御できずに過負荷を起こした。
ＮＰＣたちはルーチンワークしかできないため、自壊しかけていた桜を“無い”ものとしてスルーし、予選ではムーンセルのチェックは一日の終わりにしか行われないため、桜は消滅の危機にあった。
その異常を目の当たりにした岸波白野は彼女に呼びかける。大丈夫か、と。
桜は“自分はここにいる”という他者からの観測を受けて消滅寸前だった無意識を持ち直し、その後の看病によって明確に“ここに在りたい”という自我を獲得。自己消滅から免れた。
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その後の事はもはや語るまでもない。
翌日になればすべてムーンセルの手によって消されてしまう。この、たった一日の奇蹟を続けたがった桜は上級ＡＩの特権を使用して
“岸波白野と知り合った一日”を６９日間、繰り返した。
しかし日が進むにつれ桜はＡＩとしての自己矛盾と、岸波白野を取り巻くある事実に苦しむ事になる。
“聖杯戦争に参加したマスターは、ひとりを除いてみな死亡する。いや、そもそも岸波白野は————”
桜は幸せな時間を永遠にループしていたという我欲と、岸波白野への思いに苦しみ続けた。
結論として、彼女は正常なＡＩに戻るため、６９日に及ぶメモリー……獲得した“愛”を封印する道を選んだ。
ＡＩには記録を消す事はできない。
そのため、バックアップの機体にメモリーを移動させる事で自らをリセットしたのだ。
それが岸波白野にとって、もっとも正しい選択と信じて。
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だが精神の記憶は失っても、肉体が記録した思い出は生き続ける。
すべてを忘れ正常なＡＩに戻ったはずの彼女は、岸波白野と話すたびに正体不明の感情値に揺れ動かされる事になる。
一方、メモリーを移植されたバックアップはそんな自分を許せず、ある目的のためムーンセルのシステムを破壊する反逆者・ＢＢとして自らの方針を定め、行動を開始した。
彼女が月の裏側を掌握したタイミングは、現実時間で“聖杯戦争 五回戦終了～六回戦開始前”。
まだ敗退していなかった岸波白野、レオ、凛、ラニの四名、そしてイレギュラーのジナコは聖杯戦争の途中、生きている状態で月の裏側に拉致された。
間桐シンジ、ガトー、ユリウス、といったマスターは聖杯戦争で敗れた後、ファイヤーウォールによって消滅する“0.00001秒前”に虚数空間に移動させられ、一瞬の命を長らえていた。
どちらにせよ、Ｃ．Ｃ．Ｃ．はＢＢが見ていた夢である。
夢を見ていたものが消え去れば、世界はもとの、何事もなかった現実に戻るだろう。
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また、余談ではあるが岸波白野が悪夢として見た冒頭の日常風景は、捨てられた６９日間をモデルにして作られた人工楽園である。
ＢＢは岸波白野を月の裏側に引きずりこんだ後、旧校舎にその電脳体を安置させ、深い眠りに落とし、覚めない夢の中に閉じこめた。
通常ならループする日常の中で平和に過ごすのだが、サーヴァントとの強い繋がり、あるいは、安寧の日常を否定する岸波の意思によって人工楽園に綻びが生じ、岸波は異常に気がつくのだった。
ＢＢはもう一度岸波白野を深い眠りに落とすため、校舎をリセットして夢をやり直そうとしたが、岸波はそのリセットからも逃れ、虚数空間の更なる深部に飛びこんでしまう。
そこはイドの底のさらに底。
無意識の下にある、“集合無意識の死”である。
ＢＢでさえ手を出せない領域に飛びこんだ岸波白野を救ったのは、運命を共にするサーヴァントの声だった。
かくして契約は交わされ、岸波白野は月の裏側に残された旧校舎で目を覚ます事になる。 - ↑
[] Fate/Grand Order, 7th Singularity, Chapter 14 - the Sea of Dawn Gudako:
1: My Lord, what precisely is the Abyss (深淵, Shinen?)?
2: Is there actually something further down than the Underworld?
Gilgamesh:
There is. The World of Mesopotamia comprises of Heaven and Earth. That which here lies below the Earth known as the Underworld -- and deeper still there rests the Abyss.
The Abyss is an Ocean of Void (無の海, Mu no Umi?). It is from those dark waters that the God Apsu and the Goddess Tiamat manifested, crafting the World of Mesopotamia.
If it must be described, it is the Sea of Dawn (黎明の海, Reimei no Umi?), which existed before the creation of life.
Being that the God Enki has at present vacated his posting as the Administrator of the Abyss, were one to plunge into it now, there would be no returning.
Mashu:
It's the place where Lord Gilgamesh sought the Herb of Immortality (不老不死の霊草, Furou-Fushi no Reisou?), isn't it?ぐだ子:
1: 王、深淵とは？
2: 冥界のさらに下があるのですか？
ギルガメッシュ:
あるぞ。メソポタミア世界は天と地、地の下のここ冥界、そしてさらなる深淵と繋がっている。
深淵とは無の海だ。その暗い海よりアプスー神とティアマト神は現れ、メソポタミアの世界を作った。
言うなれば生命が生まれる前の、黎明の海よ。
深淵を管理するエンキ神も消えた今、落ちれば今度こそ帰っては来られまい。
マシュ:
ギルガメッシュ王が不老不死の霊草を求めた地、ですね。 - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3
[] Fate/Grand Order, 7th Singularity, Chapter 21 - Prelude to the Final Stand Gudako:
1: We're falling~!
Mashu:
Indeed, we're falling ... ! Below is -- I can't see it very clearly!
At this rate, we'll die to the plummet before the Goddess Tiamat!
Ereshkigal grants floatation.
Ereshkigal:
I won't permit any such thing.
I hereby bestow to you the privilege to buoy yourself afloat (浮遊権, Fuyuu-ken?, lit. "Privelege of Floatation") within the Underworld (冥界, Meikai?).
Gather your mana (魔力, maryoku?, lit. "magical energy") at the base of your feet, and imagine a surface.
This should grant you a bit of capacity for flight.
Mashu:
That's Ereshkigal-san!
Alright, I'll give it a try!
Crash landing.
Ereshkigal:
Well met!
But I'm afraid that salutations will have to wait.
Look over there!
The Underworld is lit with lightning.
Mashu:
That's ... the Goddess Tiamat!?
We've successfully lured her into the Underworld!?
Ereshkigal:
Indeed. Glance upwards. You can glimpse Uruk from here, can you not?
That Ishtar shattered the foundations of Uruk, causing it to collapse into the Underworld (here).
Dr. Roman:
It's over 2000 meters to the surface ...
The Underworld of the Age of Divinities is amazing as expected -- though I'm not sure whether this place would be considered deep or shallow ...
No, more importantly -- what the hell is that!?
A heat source comparable in magnitude to Ishtar's Noble Phantasm is steadily consuming Tiamat!?
Ereshkigal:
It's a defense mechanism (防衛機構, bouei kikou?) of the Underworld.
Any of the Living who trespass in this domain against my permissions are so afflicted.
This is a rule established by the World itself.
And once the process is begun, the end is certain -- even for the Goddess Tiamat.
In any case, what of Lord Gilgamesh (ギルガメッシュ王, Girugamesshu-Ou?, lit. "King Gilgamesh")?
Is it time yet to deliver the final blow?
The man ordered that we stand by until all parties arrive at their stations, but is that truly necessary?
Now would be the time to act, if our purpose is to secure a victory.
Mashu:
That's ... I definitely agree.
But Ereshkigal-san, Lord Gilgamesh is already ...
Gudako:
1: ... even so, if we don't fight
2: ...
Mashu:
... yeah, I get it. Even if it's just us, we have to do this.
Ereshkigal:
If you're ready, then let's begin!
Leave it to my disgression, for neither Lord Gilgamesh nor Ishtar are needed here and now!
Ereshkigal gathers energy.
Ereshkigal:
I shall settle this alone ... !
O Gallu (ガルラ霊, Garura-rei?, lit. "Gallu Spirits") of the Underworld -- the Spears of Rot (腐敗の槍, Fuhai no Yari?, lit. "Spears of Putrefaction / Degeneration") arrayed before me!
Against that which trespasses, let us bring down the Iron Hammer of the Underworld (冥界の鉄槌, Meikai no Tettsui?)!
All hands, engage!
Destruction rains upon Tiamat.
Ereshkigal:
What say you? I believe it's good as finished. Even the Goddess Tiamat is within the Underworld merely a goddess.
Before the combined onslaught of myself and the Gallu, not a single being -- a single --
Chaos Tide manifests.
Ereshkigal:
Wha -- what --
Dr. Roman:
Chaos Tide (ケイオスタイド, Keiosu Taido?), compromising (侵食, Shinshoku?, lit. "eroding / encroaching") the Underworld!
This is bad! If we leave it alone, the Underworld will be overtaken!
And that's not all ... what is this?
Beast II Saint Graph (霊基, Reiki?, lit. "Spiritual Foundation") signature -- rapidly dilating (膨張, bouchou?, lit. "expanding / swelling")!
The Divine Regression (神代回帰, Jindai Kaiki?, lit. "Regression to the Age of Divinities") of the Saint Graph has advanced unto the Jurassic Era (ジュラ紀, Jura-Ki?).
That's no longer a Divinity (神性, Jinsei?, lit. "Divine Nature")! Unmistakably, it's the very Corpus of a God (神の体, Kami no Karada?, lit. "Flesh of God")!
Ereshkigal:
Eh, eh, eh -- !?
Wh- what's happened!?
Is it something that I've done -- !?
Dr. Roman:
Saint Graph Dilation Operations (霊基膨張工程, Reiki Bouchou Koutei?) has ceased. Continuous reactivation (連続再起動, Renzoku Saikidou?) of Mana Reactor (魔力炉心, Maryoku Roshin?) confirmed ... !
Injuries incurred by the plummet into the Underworld are regenerating!
-- it's come ... ! This is --
This is the true appearance of Beast II!
Tiamat emerges from the Mud, having assumed her Draconic Corpus.
Tiamat
Aaaaaaa、AAAAAAAAAA――LaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA――
Clouds of Lahmu spill forth.
Mashu:
The Goddess Tiamat is releasing Lahmu (ラフム, Rahumu?) from her flesh!
They're spreading across the Underworld!
Ereshkigal:
It's impossible, right!? No matter how I look at it, it's impossible!
If it's only us, there's no way we can defeat something like that!
More than that, the tide is upon us!
The Underworld will be taken from me -- !
Lahmu arrives.
???:
Don't be sayin' sad things, Sukapon-ta~n! Ain'tcha the Goddess of the Land of Death, nya~!?
Lahmu killed by a spear.
Mashu:
You're --
Jaguar Man appears.
Jaguar Man:
That's right! It's a bird; it's a balloon -- no, it's merely your imagination!
I am the Tiger that dashes across the Underworld -- the one that they call JAGUAR MAAAAN!!
--
Gudako:
1: You're kinda burnt!?
Jaguar Man:
A whole buncha stuff happened, so I'll explain later!
In any case, you did well getting this far, Gudako-san!
--
Gudako:
2: You came dashing to me!
Jaguar Man:
Yeah, uh-huh. And I totally don't mind the fact that you didn't give me a shout when you got back to Uruk, so don't worry about that.
In any case, you did well getting this far, Gudako-san!
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Ereshkigal:
A tiger! A tiger has appeared in the Underworld!
Inconcievable! Is such a thing commonplace in the lands afar!?
Jaguar Man:
It's a thing alright, little girly!
And less chitterin' already! Get back to blastin' away with that awesome attack o' yours!
Ereshkigal:
B- but, it's completely without effect ... !
And the total energy output of the Underworld is dropping off!
Jaguar Man:
Has to be done, even if it's without effect!
Listen up. No matter what it looks like, that right there is the Goddess Tiamat in her very weakest state!
Us! Right here, right now! If we don't do somethin' about this, it ain't just Humanity that's gonna be done for. It'll be bye-bye for the Earth itself!
If she gets back ta the surface in that state she's in right now?
In less than a day, the whole planet's gonna be swimmin' in Black Mud (黒泥, Kokutei?).
Mashu:
That can't be ... Doctor, what she said just now ...
Dr. Roman:
It's the truth!
As of right now, the Chaos Tide has already subsumed the majority of the Underworld!
It can't be permitted to reach the surface! By some means or another, we have to put an end to it right here!
Thankfully, the Chaos Tide and the Lahmu are both of the same existence as Tiamat, and don't actually qualify as "seperate organisms."
So long as she remains within the Underworld, the act of killing Tiamat shouldn't be negated by way of Paradox Restoration (逆説的復元, Gyakusetsu-teki Fukugen?)!
Ereshkigal:
But, there's already so much Mud!
In such circumstances, how precisely are we to properly engage --
What in the world -- !?
Flowers cover the Black Mud.
Gudako:
1: Flowers are blooming ...
2: These flowers. It can't be ... !
Dr. Roman:
The Divine Authority (権能, Kennou?) invested within the Chaos Tide has ceased operation!?
No -- the function (機能, Kinou?) of the Authority's run its course, and the Tide's become nothing more than normal mud!
It sounds impossible, but --
These flowers -- they're somehow depleting (枯渇, kokatsu?, lit. "becoming drained / exhausted") the Goddess Tiamat of her power (力, chikara?, lit. "power, in the sense of an ability possessed")!
???:
Good! Seems that I've made it in time -- !
And to Archaman of the uninspired imagination, I have only this to say!
If you desire to neutralize the Sea From Which Life Itself is Sprung (命を産む海, Inochi wo Umu Umi?), you need only make use of the Life that it births -- investing it within creatures small and innocuous!
This is of course where I come in!
The Magician of the Flowers (花の魔術師, Hana no Majutsu-shi?) arrives, come to make true upon his appellation (二つ名, Futatsu-Na?)!
Merlin drops to the ground before the protagonists.
Dr. Roman:
Geeeh, Merlin!?
How are you here!? It can't be that you were resummoned (再召喚, sai-shoukan?)!? No-no-no!
Merlin:
Hahaha, of course not.
It's impossible that I would be resummoned.
This is something a lot less complicated.
I'm the actual Merlin -- the authentic article.
In a rush, I've run here all the way from Avalon (アヴァロン, Avaron?)!
Fou-kun:
Fouuuu!
Gudako:
1: This man got here on foot!
2: So, you could actually run here!
Merlin:
Yeah. Seeing as the World's been reduced to a tabula rasa (白紙状態, Hakushi Joutai?, lit. "state of being white paper") by the Incineration of the Common Sense of Man (人理焼却, Jinri Shoukyaku?), I was able to sneak here by way of the Faerielands (妖精郷, Yousei-Kyou?)!
I absolutely despise sad farewells. No matter what, I wouldn't permit a parting by death.
Consequently, I've bent my principles (信条, shinjou?) a bit, and escaped the tower of my imprisonment (幽閉塔, Yuuhei Tou?, lit. "Prison Tower").
Of course, it was for the sake of meeting you all.
Mashu:
Yes! We were waiting for you, Merlin-san!
It's a happy thing that we were able to meet each other again!
Tiamat sings.
Dr. Roman:
Beast II -- dorsal Wing-Horns (角翼, Kakuyoku?) deployed!
See that? With Merlin's provocations, she's decided to get serious on us!
Even if we've prevented Beast II from subsuming the Underworld, her Primary Corpus is still free to act!
She's ascending to Uruk -- to the surface!
Gudako:
1: Her wings have regenerated ... !
2: Merlin, isn't there something you can do!?
Merlin:
... hm. It took the labors of two goddesses to slow the advance of the Primary Corpus (真体, Shintai?, lit. "True Body").
Using the city of Uruk itself as bait, we've lured her to entrapment within the depths of the Underworld.
We've restricted (拘束, Kousoku?) her with the Chain of Heaven (天の鎖, Ten no Kusari?); with the Sanctions of the Underworld (冥界の刑罰, Meikai no Keibatsu?) --
and with my flowers, which are merely beautiful.
Gudako-kun -- and Heroic Spirits all.
For the purpose of reaching this juncture, we have indeed played many a hand.
However, it still isn't enough.
That is a being that is yet to to know Fear (恐怖, Kyoufu?) -- yet to know the meaning of Predation (天敵, Tenteki?, lit. "natural enemy / predator").
She is yet to know the Death (死, Shi?) that He Is Become.
Mashu:
He ... ?
Is there somebody else coming to help?
Merlin:
Oh, indeed there is.
One final trump, held in reserve.
And so, who was it that called Him here, do you suppose?
It wasn't Lord Gilgamesh. It certainly wasn't the Grail of the King of Magecraft (魔術王の聖杯, Majutsu-Ou no Seihai?).
... It shouldn't be necessary to explain it, really.
It was you, Gudako-kun.
He mentioned that it was to repay a favor owed to you that he abandoned (捨てる, suteru?) the Station of the Crown (冠位, Kan'i?, lit. "Crown Position").
And the enemy that stands before us is an Evil of Man (人類悪, Jinrui-Aku?) -- a Beast (ビースト, Bi-suto?).
From the very start, the requisite conditions for his manifestation in this land were met.
The battles that you've fought until now have not been without meaning.
Dr. Roman:
-- It can't be.
You mean, the one that suppressed Gudako's vital signature (生命反応, Seimei Han'ou?, lit. "Life Reaction") when she entered the Underworld was ... !
Merlin:
Indeed.
Glance heavensward, O Sea of Genesis (原初の海, Genshou no Umi?, lit. "Primordial Ocean")!
For there, your Death (死神, Shinigami?, lit. "Death God") awaits!
Ziusudra overlooks the Underworld from Uruk.
Ziusudra:
... That which cannot die, cannot be said to have lived -- for a life absent of mortality cannot be life.
Yours is an eternity without advance -- a stagnation of endless slumber.
O Beast of Calamity (災害の獣, Saigai no Juu?) -- Evil born of Man.
Your rejection (排斥, Haiseki?) is in the end founded (根底, Kontei?, lit. "foundation") in the very benevolence (慈愛, Jiai?, lit. "love / affection") by which you sought to impose Regression (回帰, Kaiki?).
Tiamat
Aaaaaaaa――AaAa、AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA――！
Ziusudra:
Though the Station of the Crown is to me unnecessary, there dwells within this blade the Proof of the Strongest (最強の証, Saikyou no Akashi?).
Ziusudra reveals himself as the Old Man of the Mountain.
Old Man of the Mountain:
A Goddess fallen unto beasthood you may be, but being that you are indeed the Mother of Genesis (原初の母, Genshou no Haha?), it is only proper that I give my name.
-- of the Abyss of the Shadowed Valley (幽谷の淵, Yuukoku no Fuchi?), I come to entreat (馳走, chisou?) you with the darkness of Death (暗き死, Anki Shi?).
I am Hassan-i-Sabbah (ハサン・サッバーハ, Hasan Sabba-ha?) -- the Old Man of the Mountain (山の翁, Yama no Okina?).
The Old Man of the Mountain leaps into the crevice of the Underworld.
Old Man of the Mountain:
The Evening Bell (晩鐘, Banshou?) tolls with your name.
Unto the Will of the Heavens (天命, Tenmei?), I consign those wings -- !
The Old Man of the Mountain cuts at Tiamat's wings, eliciting a cry.
Dr. Roman:
-- Beast II Saint Graph Pattern (霊基パターン, Reiki Pata-n?), undergoing reorganization (変化, henka?, lit. "Change") ...
This is incredible ... He didn't merely cut away the Wing-Horns of the Goddess Tiamat; he imposed upon her "the Concept of Death" (死の概念, Shi no Gainen?)!
The physical scale (規模, kibo?) of the Goddess Tiamat remains unchanged, but the underlying Saint Graph has conformed to the standard pattern of a Servant!
She can be defeated!
As of this moment, the complete annihilation of Beast II has become a possibility!
Da Vinci:
Romani! I've got a read (特定, tokutei?, lit. "identification") on the Saint Graph Core (霊基核, Reiki-Kaku?)!
A bit stereotypical, but it's inside the head! The Saint Graph Core lies not within the heart, but within the brain of the Goddess Tiamat!
Dr. Roman:
Nice, Leonardo!
-- You hear that, Gudako!?
Target the head of the Beast II.
This is the true and final battle of attrition!
Tiamat sings, releasing a new wave of Lahmu.
Merlin:
Indeed -- and as expected of the Beast II.
In coming finally to appreciate the worth of a life, she has begun to resist in earnest!
Maximizing the birthing of the Lahmu, the Primary Corpus approaches the Walls of the Underworld (冥界の壁, Meikai no Kabe?)!
She intends to climb to the surface!
Gudako:
1: I'm not going to let you escape!
2: But before that, we're definitely going to ... !
Merlin:
Yes, that is indeed the case!
This is well and truly our last chance!
Mashu, Gudako-kun. The salutations of our reuniting can wait until later!
We come now to face the storm itself! Are you ready to make a stand?
Mashu:
-- Yes! Of course we are, Magician of the Flowers!
And Sempai -- I judge that this is the final confrontation (最後の局面, Saigo no Kyokumen?) of the Seventh Singularity (第七特異点, Dai-Shichi Tokuiten?)!
Please --
Though I'm weak of heart, please give me my orders, Master!
In order to repay the trust of all of those who have invested their faith in us up until this point --
I'll do everything within my power to shatter that Calamity (災害, Saigai?)!
Gudako:
1: Yeah, let's get to it, Mashu!
Ereshkigal:
This is amazing ... ! My Underworld is filled with so many flowers!
-- no, that isn't right. This isn't the time or place for that.
Now that I've reestablished Jurisdiction (支配権, Shihai-ken?) over the Underworld --
I suppose it's fine. Consider this a one-time service.
I hereby bestow to you all the Privelege of Mobility (行動権利, Koudou Kenri?) within the Underworld, and the reinforcement of all strengths and capabilities (全強化, Zen-Kyouka?, lit. "complete reinforcement")!
As the Mistress of the Underworld (冥界の女主人, Meikai no Onna-Shujin?), I, Ereshkigal, so beseech!
O Heroes of the Surface (地上の勇者, Chijou no Yuusha?), let fall the Iron Hammer (鉄槌, Tettsui?) upon that Wyrm (魔竜, Maryuu?, lit. "Demonic Dragon")!
By the hands of you Humans who have unto the distant future marched, let Heaven and Earth by a linchpin (楔, kusabi?) be joined!ぐだ子:
1: 落――ち――る――！
マシュ:
はい、落ちています……！下は――よく見えません！
このままだと、ティアマト神より先に我々が転落死です！
エレシュキガル:
そんな事にはさせないわよ。はい、アナタたちに冥界での浮遊権を許可します。
魔力を足先に集めて、地面をイメージしなさい。それで少しは飛べる筈よ。
マシュ:
その声はエレシュキガルさん！はい、やってみます！
エレシュキガル:
良く来たわね二人とも。でも挨拶は後。あれを見なさい！
マシュ:
あれは……ティアマト神ですか！？冥界への誘導に成功したのですね！？
エレシュキガル:
ええ、上を見なさい。ウルクが見えるでしょ。
イシュタルのヤツ、ウルクの足場ごと壊して冥界に落としたのよ。
Dr.ロマン:
地上まで、距離にして2000メートル以上……さすが神代の冥界、深いと言うべきか近いと言うべきか……
いや、それより！なんだいアレは！？
先ほどのイシュタルの宝具級の熱量が、絶え間なくティアマトを焼いているけど！？
エレシュキガル:
冥界の防衛機構よ。私の許しなく入ってきた生者はああなるの。
これは世界そのものが定めたルール。ティアマト神と言えど、ああなってはもうお終いよ。
それで、ギルガメッシュ王は？最後のトドメ、始めちゃっていいの？
アイツ、全員が到着するまで待てって言ってたけど、その必要はあるかしら。
たたみかけるのは今しかないと思うのだけど？
マシュ:
それは……そうだと思います。でもエレシュキガルさん、ギルガメッシュ王は、もう……
ぐだ子:
1: ……でも、戦わないと
2: ………………
マシュ:
……はい。そうですよね。わたしたちだけでもやらないと。
エレシュキガル:
いいのね？ なら始めるわ！任せて、ギルガメッシュ王もイシュタルも必要ないから！
エレシュキガル:
この私だけで決めてあげます……！冥界のガルラ霊よ、立ち並ぶ腐敗の槍よ！
あれなる侵入者に我らが冥界の鉄槌を！総員、最大攻撃――！
どう？ ざっとこんなものよ。ティアマト神といえど、冥界ではただの神。
私とガルラ霊たちの総攻撃の前にはひとたまりも――たまり、も――
な――な――
Dr.ロマン:
ケイオスタイド、冥界に侵食！まずいぞ！ このままだと冥界を乗っ取られる！
それだけじゃない……なんだこの反応は！？ビーストIIの霊基反応、さらに膨張！
霊基の神代回帰、ジュラ紀まで進行！これはもう神性じゃない、紛れもない神の体だ！
エレシュキガル:
え、え、え――！？ななな、なに、何が起きるのだわ！？
私が何かしてしまったのかしら――！？
Dr.ロマン:
霊基膨張工程停止、魔力炉心、連続再起動を確認……！冥界に落ちた際の損傷も復元していく！
――出るぞ……！ あれが――
あれが、本当のビーストIIの姿だ！
ティアマト:
Aaaaaaa、AAAAAAAAAA――LaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA――
マシュ:
ティアマト神、体内からラフムを排出！冥界中にラフムが広がっていきます！
エレシュキガル:
ムリね！ どう見てもムリ！あれを私たちだけで倒すのとかムリ！
っていうか、波が来るのだわ！冥界が乗っ取られちゃう――！
???:
泣きゴト言うなスカポンタ――ン！それでも死の国の神さまニャのか――！
マシュ:
アナタは――
@ ジャガーマン
そう！ 鳥だ、バルーンだ、いや目の錯覚だ！私こそ冥界を駆ける虎、人呼んでジャガーマンッッッ！
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ぐだ子:
1: ちょっと焦げてる！？
@ ジャガーマン
そこはいろいろ事情があるのでまた後で！とにかくここまでよくやったわ、ぐだ子サン！
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ぐだ子:
2: 駆けつけてくれたんだ！
@ ジャガーマン
ええ、そうね。ウルクに戻る時に声をかけてもらえなかったのは気にしていませんので気になさらず。
とにかく、ここまでよくやったわねぐだ子サン！
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エレシュキガル:
虎！ 虎が冥界に来たわ！うそ、他の土地だとそういうのアリなの！？
@ ジャガーマン
ありだとも小娘！つべこべ言わず、さっきの凄い攻撃を続けなさい！
エレシュキガル:
で、でも、ぜんぜん効かなくて……！それに冥界全体の出力も落ちてきてるし！
@ ジャガーマン
効かなくてもやるしかないの！いい、あれでもティアマト神は今が一番弱い状態なの！
ここで！ 私たちが！ なんとかしないと人類終了どころか地球終了のお知らせよ！
あの状態で地上に出してごらんなさい！一日もせず地球上がぜんぶ黒泥に覆われるから！
マシュ:
そんな……ドクター、今の話は、
Dr.ロマン:
事実だ！現に冥界はほぼケイオスタイドに覆われた！
あれを地上に出しちゃいけない！ここで、なんとしても消滅させるんだ！
幸いケイオスタイドもラフムもティアマトそのものだ、“他の命”にカウントされない！
冥界にいる今なら、ティアマトを殺せさえすれば逆説的復元はしない筈だ！
エレシュキガル:
でも、もう泥がいっぱいなんですけど！？こんな状態で、どうやってマトモに戦――
なんだありゃあ――！？
ぐだ子:
1: 花が咲いていく……
2: この花、まさか……！
Dr.ロマン:
ケイオスタイドの権能が軒並み停止した！？いや、もう機能を使い切って、ただの泥になった！？
信じられないが――その花が、ティアマト神の力を枯渇させている！
???:
いよぅし、間に合った――！そして発想が貧困だなアーキマン！
命を産む海なら、その命を無害でささやかなものに使わせてしまえばいい！
そういう事なら私の出番だ！花の魔術師、その二つ名の面目躍如というワケさ！
Dr.ロマン:
げぇぇぇ、マ――リン！？なんでキミが！？ まさか再召喚！？ いやいやいや！
マーリン:
ははは、そんなワケないだろう。再召喚とか有り得ない。これはもっと単純な話だ。
私は本物、正真正銘のマーリンだ。あわててアヴァロンから走ってきたのさ！
フォウくん:
フォ――ウ！
ぐだ子:
1: この男、徒歩で来やがった！
2: 走って来られるものなんだ！
マーリン:
ああ、人理焼却によって白紙状態の地球なら、妖精郷を使ってこっそりとね！
ボクは悲しい別れとか大嫌いだ。意地でも死に別れなんかするものか。
だからちょっと信条を曲げて、幽閉塔から飛び出してきた。無論、キミたちに会うためにね。
マシュ:
はい！ お待ちしていました、マーリンさん！再会できて、わたしたちも嬉しいです！
Dr.ロマン:
ビーストII、背部の角翼を展開！ほら見ろ、マーリンが煽るから本気になった！
冥界への侵食は止められてもビーストII本体は止められない！ウルクに――地上目指して飛ぼうとしている！
ぐだ子:
1: 翼が復元したのか……！
2: マーリン、何か[&ないのか:ないの]！？
マーリン:
……ふむ。二柱の女神による真体の足止め、ウルクを餌にした冥界の落とし穴、
「天の鎖」による拘束、冥界の刑罰、そして私の綺麗なだけの花。
ぐだ子君。そして英霊たちよ。ここに至るまで、実に多くの手を尽くしてきた。
だが、まだ足りない。
あれはまだ恐怖を知らない。天敵を知らない。彼という死を知らない。
マシュ:
彼……？他にまだ、助っ人さんがいるのですか？
マーリン:
ああ、いるとも。とっておきの凄いのがね。
では、彼はいったい誰に呼ばれたか？ギルガメッシュ王でもない。魔術王の聖杯にでもない。
……言うまでもない。キミだ、ぐだ子君。
彼はキミに礼を返すためにその冠位を捨てると言った。そして敵は人類悪、ビースト。
初めから、彼がこの地に現れる条件は整っていたんだよ。キミたちの戦いは、全てに意味があったのさ。
Dr.ロマン:
――まさか。
以前、この冥界でぐだ子君の生命反応が消えていたのは、もしかして……！
マーリン:
その通り。
さあ、天を見上げるがいい原初の海よ！そこに、貴様の死神が立っているぞ！
ジウスドゥラ:
……死なくして命はなく、死あってこそ生きるに能う。そなたの言う永劫とは、歩みではなく眠りそのもの。
災害の獣、人類より生じた悪よ。回帰を望んだその慈愛こそ、汝を排斥した根底なり。
ティアマト:
Aaaaaaaa――AaAa、AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA――！
ジウスドゥラ:
冠位など我には不要なれど、今この一刀に最強の証を宿さん。
山の翁:
獣に堕ちた神と言えど、原初の母であれば名乗らねばなるまい。
――幽谷の淵より、暗き死を馳走しに参った。山の翁、ハサン・サッバーハである。
晩鐘は汝の名を指し示した。その翼、天命のもとに剥奪せん――！
Dr.ロマン:
――ビーストIIの霊基パターンが変化した……
なんて事だ……ティアマト神の角翼が切断されたばかりか、「死の概念」まで付加されたぞ！
ティアマト神の規模は変わらず膨大だが、これは通常の、サーヴァントの霊基パターンだ！
倒せる！今ならビーストIIを完全に消滅させられる！
ダ・ヴィンチ:
ロマニ！ 霊基核の特定、できたぞ！
定番だが頭部だね！ 心臓ではなく頭部がティアマト神の霊基核だ！
Dr.ロマン:
ナイス、レオナルド！――ぐだ子君、話は聞いたね！？
ビーストIIの頭部を叩け！これが本当の、最後の総力戦になる！
マーリン:
ああ。そしてさすがビーストII、命を実感した瞬間に全力の抵抗を見せ始めたぞ！
ラフムを最大生産しつつ、本体は冥界の壁に向かっている！
壁を這い上がって地上に逃げる気だ！
ぐだ子:
1: 逃がしません！
2: その前に、今度こそ……！
マーリン:
ああ、そうだとも！これが正真正銘のラストチャンスだ！
マシュ、ぐだ子君、再会の挨拶はまた後で！嵐に向かうぞ！ 立ち向かう準備はいいかい？
マシュ:
――はい！もちろんです、花の魔術師マーリン！
そして先輩、これは第七特異点、最後の局面だと判断します！
どうか、弱気になっていたわたしに指示を、マスター！
今までわたしたちを信じてくれた人たちに応えるために――
何としても、あの災害を打ち破ります！
ぐだ子:
1: ああ、やるぞ、マシュ！
エレシュキガル:
すごい……！ 私の冥界にこんなにいっぱいの花が！
――いいえ、違うわ、そうじゃないわ。冥界の支配権が私に戻ってきたわ、今！
いいでしょう。今回は特別です。皆さんに冥界での行動権利、及び全強化を与えます！
冥界の女主人、エレシュキガルが願い請う！地上の勇者よ、あの魔竜に鉄槌を！
遥か未来まで続いた貴方たち人間の手で、天と地に楔を穿つのです！