Omake 40: Divine Singularity (Finale)

After surviving a very family-making-enticed Hannah and making sure that things were under control while some of the Servants took care of the unconscious Thanatos/Jack, the conversation turned finally into something more serious when Da Vinci announced that she found the location we had to ‘breach’. Dio Alter’s domain was a small ‘vacuum section’ within the dark void that devoured the world, an entire area that was devoid of the sun. True darkness within darkness.

The objective was simple. Invade the section, destroy any monsters rallied within the area and take care of the Big Boss with the Holy Grail. It was similar to other ‘Secondary Singularities’ that were known in FGO, but I was surprised that it was going to take so ‘little’ to get it through. Then again, other Singularities were either caused by entities with numerous mini-bosses to cause issues, or challenges enforced through silly and unavoidable reasons. But right now, our target was holed in his little reign, a couple of layers made by monsters of various kinds between us and him.

The plan had us all smash into his defenses before ultimately facing the last threat, but I had other ideas about it. First, I had to convince Pucci to go with this, but he was quick to agree to the alteration I had in mind and I managed to mostly avoid any suspicious eyes to fall on my decision to stick by him to ‘strike from above’. The only one that definitely got a clue on what I was planning to do was Hannah, but she remained quiet. The only confirming hint I had was when she said two words which stuck to me through the trip and beyond.

“Be careful.”

I don’t intend to get hurt by that buffoon.

As the rush began and the Servants started to be employed on the monster-dense area, Pucci and I flew above the battlefield and rushed deeper into that domain. Standing atop that ‘hill’ where he planned to either win or die, Dio Alter stared at our arrival, alone… with a disappointed look on his face. I calmly landed on the ground, starting to take steps towards him.

“I would have expected you to rely on others to face me,” The fellow blond scoffed. “You didn’t even bring Hannah? I’m shocked.”

More like saddened from the way his expression is briefly shown. I had a little theory about this very instant that went beyond the explanation he gave me a while ago, something that came up during our latest interaction. I knew what was up with him but… I decided to keep it to myself until it held a tactical advantage in this fight.

“Why should I bring her or anyone I care and cherish to face some disappointment that bears my face and even goes as far to claim to share a similar soul?”

“Because you will definitely need help against me. I’m not a joke as you wish I was. Not here, not in my domain.”

“So, you admit you would be a joke to me in normal instances?” I asked, my smile widening. “Then I guess that this battle is already over.”

He wasn’t amused by that cheeky remark, so much that he tried to show off his skill by using a heightened version of the Vaporization Freezing Technique of the original Dio. Ice rapidly formed from his feet through the floor that was between him and me. I jumped away, but instead of backing off, I just pressed forward towards him.

His eyes widened, but he managed to react by further expanding his ice control into forming sharp spikes from the ground that tried to get me mid-air. But I was moving too fast and was too high from the ground to get quickly skewered by this effort. Instead, I resorted to something he recognized from just the way I arched my legs.

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“The Thunder Split Cross Attack? Or maybe it’s the variant we used in the past? Nonetheless, this isn’t working.”

Or so he thought. Instead of trying to intercept it, he tried to back away from my trajectory and… he looked pleased when I landed on the ground, my crossing arms still burning with Hamon. My smile didn’t falter as I jumped forward using the tension within my leg and turning it into kinetic energy by flexing my muscles in the right way. I reached him instantly, the doubled speed shocking him and giving him just the chance to try and block the forward attack. My hamon cut into his limbs, tearing those off his body and forcing him to try and use his Stand to retrieve the disembodied bits.

Sadly, ｢ACT 3｣ was already intervening struck its counterpart in the head with a double-punch on the sides. The effect was that Dio Alter was stunned and I started to ferociously destroy him with punches and kicks.

“It was in Windknight’s Lot- when you got turned into a vampire, right?” I asked sharply, already knowing that it had to be the truth. “I’ve been- I’ve been thinking about this, what you told me of your origins. That it was necessary and all… but I got it now. You were forced to turn, you killed Hannah and the others in the ensuing bloodlust.”

“I- I didn’t-”

“And then you tried to shift this rhetoric that you were forced to make use of the Stone Mask when we have beaten those limitations on our own without relying on it,” I argued flatly, giving him no chance to speak up. Soon, I slammed him on the ground with a powerful Divine Hamon attack. “You say you’re from the future, but you sure don’t know about me to the point of being able to predict my moves. Admittedly, you got me early on. Not now. Never again.”

He tried to stand up to live through this, to try and prove that his current madness wasn’t as such. But my boot came down without hesitation, crushing his head as Hamon burned what was left of him.

“There was no light here, because you relied on darkness to try and find resolution,” I muttered dryly. “I don’t know the moments that you realized what happened and when you lost that sanity to admit the truth to yourself. May your soul… no longer wander this realm of your own sorrow.”

The battle was mostly over, I looked over the remains of the monstrous entity and saw a small golden cup emerge from it. I grasped it and… made a simple wish.

“Now, let’s revert everything how it was before this crossover happened. This time, without Alter around to cause this whole mess.”

The world around me warped, and I could tell that the wish was accepted. Soon, I was lying on my bed, back on the train as the others were calmly going through their usual stuff, unaware of what had happened in that ‘dream’ we shared.

I kind of felt sad towards the Masters since they lost a good chance to have a rare Palingenesis material for their Servants. A pity but… it was best for this to be like it. It could be fun to try and think of Nasuverse and JJBAverse mix-ups but…

Boy, the reality of that situation would be insane in practice. I could only hope I wasn’t getting any other invasion of the sort when it comes to this matter. I really didn’t need to face another Servant like that Alter form ever again.

And for now, it was time to get back on the job and prepare for the fight against Vins and Santana.