Gaius Julius Caesar
Nostalgic Merrits
Caesar: –So nostalgic.
Caesar: It's easy to end with just that one phrase, but I don't do that. Do you know why?
Fujimaru 1: (shake head)
Mash: Right Senpai, I don't understand his ideas either.
Fou: Fou...
Fujimaru 2: (nod)
Mash: Senpai, you can understand the idea behind his words. But I...
Fou: Fou...
Caesar: I achieved valor in Gaul and Britannia. That is a fact, and it was written down as well.
Caesar: I guess you could say that I was young. But, that was not all.
Caesar: I escaped. It felt slightly better to preoccupy myself with service by sword than the schemes surging through Rome.
Caesar: Betrayal for betrayal, conspiracy for conspiracy. It's easy for me to climb the ladder of power as such.
Caesar: After all–
Caesar: I am a descendant of the goddess of love and beauty, and a man who fathered a child with a female fairy.
Caesar: My beauty makes women fall into my hands at will. Add in my intelligence and I'm the best at scheming.
Caesar: But...
Mash: ...
Fujimaru 1: Beauty?
Fujimaru 2: He said beauty, right?
Fou: Fou.
Caesar: Actually, scheming takes quite a bit of courage. At first you feel nothing, but gradually. Gradually.
Caesar: While I bite into juicy grapes, while I fool around with women, political enemies die off by my schemes–
Caesar: But when it's being repeated over and over, you start to feel sick, as if something's been tainted.
Caesar: That is why, at times, I escaped to the battlefield.
Mash: ...I now finally understand. Gaius Julius Caesar.
Mash: You seek to settle all the escaping you did right here and right now.
Caesar: That's right. I–wait, enemies. They must have noticed us.
Dr. Roman: Enemy signatures are approaching! Is this like, remnants of the United Empire army?
Dr. Roman: Rome should be correcting itself now, so why are there United Empire soldiers still left?
Caesar: I'll tell you later. Before that Fujimaru, hurry up and drive them off.
Caesar: I will take command for you. I am a great commander.
Fujimaru 1: Caesar, you fight too!
Fujimaru 2: You're a Saber and you're hanging back?
Caesar: Saber, right, Saber. Saber. By rights I shouldn't even be in the Saber class.
Caesar: ...I only unsheathe my sword when I'm next to a beauty.
Mash: Why look at me...
Caesar: Not knowing your own beauty is equal to a crime, yes? Well anyways, I shall unsheathe my sword. Oh, brother–
--BATTLE--:
Caesar: ...I guess that's it. Makes me sick.
Caesar: Wielding a sword like this gets me fired up with nostalgia. Though, swordfights are the epitome of nuisances.
Caesar: I seem to be escaping even now that I am a Heroic Spirit. How pathetic!
Fujimaru 1: Why are you so angry?
Fujimaru 2: Despite the lack of scheming?
Mash: Yes, Senpai's question is legitimate. Caesar, what is upsetting you?
Mash: You are already a Heroic Spirit, unrelated to the bloodstained schemes of ancient Rome.
Mash: And still... You end up returning to Rome with us, why?
Caesar: I've said it many times. It is to escape.
Caesar: To put it nicely, it's to settle things. Oh, it also answers this Doctor guy's question.
Dr. Roman: You mean these United Empire remnants? For some reason, they're still around...
Dr. Roman: Whoa, another enemy attack as we speak! Is this area under the United Empire influence?
Caesar: Right.
Dr. Roman: What?
Fou: Fou!
Mash: We're entering combat, Master! Your orders, please!
--BATTLE--:
Mash: –Battle complete. Soldiers perceived as United Empire are retreating.
Caesar: After them. If they're headed home, it'll save us the trouble of searching.
Mash: Search? Search for what–
Caesar: I'll go on ahead.
Mash: Please wait– Oh, h-he's fast!
Fujimaru 1: He's pretty nimble for his size.
Fujimaru 2: I expect nothing less from a Saber.
Mash: Y-Yes... No, well–
Dr. Roman: You guys should chase them, too! I don't know what he'll do, but you can't abandon him!
Fujimaru 1: Understood!
Mash: Yes.
Mash: We've caught up. Caesar is right there–
Caesar: You're finally here. Perfect, you can see me face my own foolishness.
Mash: Face?
Fou: Fou?
???: ...I am a distinguished general of Rome.
???: I'm the general that conquered Gaul, and made a successful expedition to Britannia.
???: I slaughtered the great general Pompey. I'm the only ruler of Rome, the origin of its Emperor.
???: I danced within the cruelty of Rome, and also danced in the battlefield.
???: I shall continue fighting. As long as Rome exists, my dance continues.
Caesar: No, that horrible dance ends here. This is the end of your escapism.
Caesar: A general? The origin of Emperor? That is quite absurd!
Caesar: You are merely escaping! You pig!
Caesar: You could not grant the wish of the one woman you loved, and you chose not to name your loving child as your heir!
???: I am! I am Caesar! The origin of all Roman Emperors!
Caesar: That's right, you are me! My unsightly half that still clings onto Rome!
Dr. Roman: I see, I get it now! Residual effects of the Second Holy Grail is what "that" is!
Dr. Roman: So that's why it's leading the United Empire remnants. In other words, "that" is like Caesar's shadow!
Dr. Roman: He sensed its presence, and guided you guys all the way here–!
Fujimaru 1: He could have just said so.
Fujimaru 2: That is indeed hard to mention.
Mash: ...Yes.
Caesar: I apologize, beautiful friends. I'd like to defeat my ugly escapism half right here.
Caesar: ...No, I want to return it to myself. Lend me your powers.
Fujimaru 1: Understood!
Mash: Yes, Senpai!
???: Oh... Ooooh! I am! I am Caesar! I am!
Caesar: Shut up, you pig! Such ugliness will scatter like flower petals before my beauty!
--BATTLE--:
Caesar: ...Begone my foolish past.
Mash: Confirming zero response. Battle's over, Senpai.
Fou: Fou...
Caesar: Whew, I'm tired. Indeed, I am not fit to fight at the front line.
Caesar: Let us hurry back to this Chaldea and rest. I won't move one step further.
Fujimaru 1: ...
Fujimaru 2: Thanks for the hard work.
Mash: Thank you for your hard work. Senpai, Doctor, please start the return process to Chaldea.
Fou: Fou!
Dr. Roman: Yes, yes, return– Hmm? Looks like Caesar's magical capacity has increased?
Dr. Roman: After defeating his own shadow, he absorbed it as his own magical energy I guess?
Fou: Fou, Fou!
Dr. Roman: Yes, yes, the return process. You don't have to rush me so much...