Despite there's a heated confrontation face-to-face between Akira and Merlin, nothing happens right after that, as Akira knows it's not the right time for him to make his move. Merlin still had his own use, and Akira would watch carefully from the side, like what Merlin did to Artoria in her journey to meet her fate as the King of Britain.
Merlin, who watches Akira walk out first from their confrontation to the village area, cannot help but touch his face where there's a cold sweat on the palm of his hand.
He who can be said a powerful magician that can be said a protigenous sage in his era and admire all magicians in modern time cannot help but feel fear the moment Akira leaks his strength.
"What on earth he was..." He thought where he remembered that he never even flinched when facing the dragon race, that famous being the strongest creature in the world he lives in.
"No doubt, he was dangerous..." Merlin thought, but at the same time, he wondered why this man suddenly appeared in his world. Like, what is his objective?
"Also, that massage warning..." Merlin also remembers that strange message that suddenly invaded his thought.
Merlin cannot help but use his clairvoyance to see the future, but the moment the ability is active, his head is hurting a lot. As if there's something that prevents him from using this ability of his.
Once again he was be silent by the force; he could not help but finally sigh in defeat while looking at the bright sky while muttering something under his breath.
"The string of fate has been turbulence; let's see how this monster is going to bring the change to the tragic ending of this story."
Merlin is a a famous sage in the history of man that has been written in the modern world and multiverse; it's not strange for an entity like him to know how far the future is by the ability of clairvoyance that he had.
The breeze passing made his fluffy white hair slightly move. He thinks that the sudden appearance of this unknown variable maybe was a perfect interruption from the god that bestowed to help the poor child that had been bound to the cruel fate of the script story.
Everyone had their own story that would be a tale to be told in the future; maybe he would have had a better tale to be told than just a great sage of Merlin that can only watch and half-ass guide of the journey, the King of Britain, to fulfill its own destiny.
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Knowing that Artoria and her brother were busy and didn't have time to spend time with him made Akira try to approach other villagers, as he was also curious about the life in the year where Artoria lived.
With his eyes, he can see the villager was living and doing their own activities—not much different than what he knows from some of the games that have been set on the timeline of, like, what he has been doing right now.
It was nice to see everything was doing manual things; every one of them was harmoniously interacting with each other while chattering and doing their things.
The kid was so happily playing, running, and doing some games on their own.
It was a nice scenery to look at by him, as Akira was a modern person whose essence of harmony and happiness was already corrupted by the technology.
Akira then smiles before walking to one of the stands too look at the things that have been displayed and sold by the owner.
He had fun looking things that were displayed by the store owners, and he also noticed that this village's condition of the economy was not as bad as he thought, but still, it can be worse in the future the moment the war between Britain and Saxon happens.
This village was where Artoria grew up under the care of Sir Ector and Sir Kay; that's why Akira would do his best to make this village not fall and everyone who lived in it.
"Big brother, are you a visitor?"
Akira, who is busy looking at the thing, cannot help but look at his right side, where there's a little girl with freckles on her face who stares at him with a cute stare.
He smiled, then lowered his body to match the height of him to the little girl.
"Yes, this brother was a traveler. What's wrong, little one?" Ask Akira to smile softly.
"Nothing, it's just It's my first time seeing Big Brother's face, and I thought Big Brother was a traveler," said the kid with an innocent face.
Akira smiled hearing it.
"Big brother, I know it's kind of rude to ask, but can you help me to buy some bread?" Ask the little girl before showing some dry old bread that she brought with little rattan bassin in her right hand.
Akira was stunned for a second. He then noticed that the appearance of the clothes of the little girl was quite shabby.
"Sure, it's right on time that this big brother is also quite hungry," said Akira. He then creates some pure silver coin in his pants pocket, grabs it, and quietly gives it to the little girl.
"Keep it safely and buy yourself some nice clean clothes, okay little girl." said Akira do headpat to little girl while smiling sweetly before walking out with bread in his hand.
The little girl was quite stunned with a faint blush on her cheeks seeing those smiles, then looked at the coin in her hand that made her feel more stunned and panicked, so she quickly put it into her clothes pocket.
She wanted to say thank you to Akira, but the moment she turned her body, Akira's presence was already gone from her eyesight.
This tiny action of his was being seen by someone from afar, where the witness cannot help but show a warm smile.
Without Akira knowing it's already late afternoon, he was already looking around the village, where sometimes he was helping those who needed some help from him. He, who was a traveler from outside the village, magically blended in into the villager community, where more than half of the villager already knew his name and face.
Of course, in the middle of his help, he ate the bread he just bought from the little girl; it was not unpalatable where he had already gotten used to this kind of bread in his previous life, where he usually ate cheap food to survive in his rough time.
Because of this too, he thinks he would increase the quality of the food in this village, where he wants, at least, every person that lives in this village to happily eat something nice and warm in their daily lives.
For this kind of plan, of course he needs to implement it naturally, and the first step for him as the changer is to conquer the king first, or, to be exact, Artoria.
He then walked back into the head of the village house where Sir Ector and his family lived. Akira doesn't have a place to spend the night, so he naturally goes back to the house to meet them.
"Oh, you're finally back," said Kay, who was busy taking care of his sword while sitting on the terrace.
"Yeah," Akira nodded, then noticed there's an old man who just came out from the inside of the house.
From the appearance, Akira already knows that the old man was Sir Ector, a foster father of Artoria.
"Oh Father, it's great timing. This is Akira, that one I said a traveler that I had said before to you," said Kay, introducing Akira to his father.
"I see, it's quite splendid, young man. Nice to meet you, Akira. My name is Ector, head of this village, also father of Kay and Artorius." He said to introduce himself while giving a gesture to shake hands.
"It's pleasure to meet you, Sir Ector. My name is Akira, a traveler from afar." said Akira take the gesture to shake hands with Ector.
"Great, it's been a long time for us to receive travelers in this village. I hope you don't mind our little village stopping by."
Akira quickly shakes his head. "No, sir, this village was great, I think. Where I can feel the harmony between people in here, they also very warmly welcome me before as a traveler," said Akira, expressing his opinion.
Sir Ector was silent for a while before smiling warmly, "It's great to know. Then, do you already have a place to spend the night for a few days, young one?"
Akira smiled bitterly, "Maybe I would build some tent outside the village, sir, as you know from Kay and Artorius that my things have been stolen by bandits."
"Then, how about spending time in our barn for a while?" Ask Sir Ector.
"I really help me, sir. Thank you for the offer," said Akira, smiling happily.
In his heart, he knew that it was kind of impossible to live with them as the identity of Artorius was quite sacral, especially since Akira was just a mere unfortunate traveler who sought help to spend the night for a few days in their village.
After some tiny talk between them, Kay was showing the barn of his house, where he helped to build some hay to be spare of bed for Akira to sleep in.
It was take a while before Kay said farewell first, as Artoria was already calling him to have dinner, leaving Akira alone in the barn with their house horse.
Akira quickly lies his back on the stack of hay while looking at the full moon that he usually looks at and reminds him of the famous moon that has always been represented in the type of work Type-Moon in his previous life.
"Oh well... It'd take time for me to go back and meet my restaurant's precious customer." He mutters where it's already obvious he would take years to spend in this kind of world.
The time difference between universes in mutliverse was something that could not be controlled, but he had his own priority now that he would spend his time and stand beside his woman.
Yeah, he already shamelessly claimed that Artoria was his woman at this moment.
That's Akira.
While he was lying on his back on a stack of hay, looking at the full moon. He caught a presence that seemed to be peeking at him at the corner of the door.
'My King?' He thought before waking up, seeing Artoria get closer while bringing some food in her hand.