Type-Moon, but the Servant is Tom

Chapter 132: Shatter, Gudao!

In the midst of the conversation, Gudako reached into her skirt pocket and took out a dazzling Saint Quartz, a prism with eight sides, colored like a rainbow. It was incredibly radiant!

"Ah, fantastic! Quickly shatter the stone!"

As Mashu watched Gudako retrieve the octagonal crystal from her skirt pocket, any lingering sadness in her heart was completely washed away, and her expression turned joyful.

Saint Quartz is a special crystal used for summoning Heroic Spirits when three of them are gathered. However, there is no guarantee that it will summon a Heroic Spirit. More often than not, it summons a bunch of useless Mystic Codes. Initially, Mashu would often see Gudako perform a ten-roll summon, only to end up with nine black keys and one "Annal of Trials." (TN: can't find the relevant information on wiki maybe help: 肛门审判) It was only later, with the introduction of guaranteed summons, that such situations ceased.

Although Saint Quartz was created for summoning Heroic Spirits, its usage is not limited to just summoning Servants. Saint Quartz has another incredibly powerful function: resurrecting dead Servants!

In other words, if Gudako were to shatter the Saint Quartz in her hand, Red Archer would be revived on the spot!

"Um, I...I'll do it right away." Looking at the Saint Quartz in her hand, Gudako, who had been prepared to shatter it, began to hesitate. Sweat started to pour down her face.

Her mind was in a frenzy, contemplating whether it was truly necessary to use the Saint Quartz just to save a Servant whose role was that of a chef.

"...Then hurry up and use it, Senpai."

"Don't rush me, don't rush me. I'll use it soon..." Although she said so, Gudako still wore a troubled expression, constantly weighing the value of Chaldea's master chef, Red Archer, against a single Saint Quartz.

While contemplating, Gudako's right hand holding the Saint Quartz started to retreat, attempting to put it back in her skirt pocket.

"Damn it, what are you thinking? Red Archer is Chaldea's best chef. Of course, it's necessary to save him!" Gudako angrily grabbed her own right hand, which was trying to escape her grasp, with her left hand, intending to bring it back and shatter the stone.

Watching Gudako wrestle with her inner demons, Mashu couldn't help but have sweat drop down her forehead, her face adorned with several sweat lines.

Mashu couldn't bear watching any longer. She stepped forward and snatched the Saint Quartz from Gudako's right hand. Gudako's heart nearly stopped, and she quickly rushed forward, trying to reclaim her stone. "I wasn't mentally prepared yet, Yamete~!!!!" But she was too late.

*Crack!* With a crisp sound, Mashu crushed the Saint Quartz with one hand. Along with the shattered Saint Quartz... Gudako's blackened heart shattered as well.

Instead of turning into a pile of Saint Quartz fragments, the broken Saint Quartz turned into countless stardust particles. They evenly split into two groups, flying towards the spot where Red Archer disappeared and the area where Cú Chulainn lay with a pierced leg.

The effect was immediate. In an instant, the stardust particles flying towards the spot where Red Archer vanished began to gather, bringing back the dispersed particles. Eventually, they coalesced into a white-haired man in red clothing, sitting with his eyes closed on a stone. A few seconds later, he opened his eyes.

Looking at his own hands, Red Archer murmured in surprise, "I've been resurrected?"

As Red Archer came back to life, Gudako's heart died with him. Today, sadness engulfed Gudako.

"Huff, huff." At that moment, Cú Chulainn's legs suddenly began to kick, startling Gudako, who was still in a state of sorrow.

"Master, be careful!" Witnessing the scene, the just-resurrected Red Archer swiftly took action. He clenched his hands by his side, and two short blades—one black and one white—materialized in his grip once again. He then stood in front of Gudako, his expression solemn, directing his gaze towards the Blue Lancer who had just killed him.

"Huh? Didn't he confirm his death just now? How did he resurrect...?" As she pondered, Mashu suddenly thought of a possibility. "Could it be... this Servant also escaped from Chaldea?!"

The more Mashu thought about this possibility, the more likely it seemed. After all, the resurrection function of Saint Quartz was specifically for Chaldea's Servants. Servants not summoned by Chaldea's system wouldn't be able to resurrect through shattered stones.

The only possibility is that he is also one of the Servants who escaped from Chaldea!

"What? He's my Chaldea dog?! Quickly, pull him out!" Upon hearing Mashu's words, Gudako, who had just been mourning, suddenly snapped out of her sadness and instructed Red Archer to remove the Servant stuck in the ground.

"Understood, Master." Red Archer nodded and casually loosened his grip on the black and white dual blades in his hands, turning them into particles. He then walked towards Cú Chulainn's direction.

Looking at Cú Chulainn buried in the ground, Red Archer held his right leg, which was moving due to the Summer Geis, with one hand, displaying a face of disdain. He lightly pulled upwards, as if pulling out a radish from the ground, and tossed Cú Chulainn in front of him as if discarding trash.

Red Archer's attitude was normal, considering that Cú Chulainn had just killed him a moment ago. Did he have to handle the person who had recently killed him with care?

"Ouch, ouch, ouch... I'm not dead?!" Suddenly sitting up from the ground, Cú Chulainn looked at his hands in disbelief. "I thought I was done for."

"Hehehe, you did die once, but I just resurrected you using Saint Quartz." Gudako approached Red Archer's side, crossed her arms, raised her head, and smiled, as if shattering the stone was a trivial matter.

Mashu glanced at Gudako from the corner of her eye, wanting to comment on who was the one hesitating to shatter a stone earlier.josei

"Oh! Thank you... you m-m... m-m... mom... mas-ter?!" Turning his head, Cú Chulainn was about to express his gratitude. However, the moment Gudako came into his view, Cú Chulainn's entire dog body stood on end! Yes, quite literally, his single ponytail at the back of his head stood up straight!

"Speak up, what happened earlier?"

"Earlier? I was beaten up by a dog, and then I got thrown over here."