This is a true "giant" with bulging muscles and a strong body that exudes a shocking presence. His hair, eyebrows and beard are so thick that they are almost connected into one, revealing an incomparable wildness.
Such a person standing in front of you is like a solid wall, oppressing you to the point of suffocation.
Scathach touched her master calmly, and Shinji turned his head and looked at her, his mouth twitching. This huge body and strange shape, only one person in the whole Fuyuki City has it.
"Rider... ... King of Conquerors Istanbulkandar..."
Shinji definitely had no intention of belittling the King of Conquerors. The appearance of this king who went down in history was really weird at this time.
Rider's upper body was wearing an oversized, rather cheap-looking short-sleeved printed T-shirt. A logo with a world map on the chest read "Admirable Grand Strategy VI".
As a stay-at-home, Shinji naturally knew that it was a special product of the famous SLG (war strategy) game "Grand Strategy" series.
Recalling the time when he was in college in his previous life, Shinji sang German military songs in the dormitory, marched across the Maginot Line and entered the heart of France. How cool was that feeling
Of course, in the eyes of several roommates who are not otakus, this guy was a little too devoted to the game. We admit that war games are a romantic thing for men, but the game graphics are really not good. It's a pity that you could persist - well, at that time Shinji was playing an older grand strategy game, and the graphics were really not good.
But Shinji couldn't remember which version it was, otherwise he could have exchanged experiences with Rider - I can't beat you in marching and fighting, but can you beat me, a veteran otaku who has been playing computer games, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Great War, and Grand Strategy since childhood, in playing games, especially war chess and strategy games
With such thoughts in his mind, Shinji lowered his eyes. Compared with the inappropriate short-sleeved T-shirt on his upper body, Rider's lower body was quite normal, with a pair of jeans that were also oversized like the T-shirt. Unfortunately, Rider's muscles were so developed that even such loose-fitting clothes looked tight on him, making people worry that they would be stretched out.
Rider laughed loudly with a rough voice that shook the air, picked up a wine barrel as wide as his shoulders from the cart that the store owner had left, and walked out of the store.
His Master, Waver, who looked like a petite beauty compared to Rider, counted out several ten-thousand-dollar bills from his wallet dejectedly, and looked at Rider with a resentful look.
"Do you want to go up and say hello?" Scathach, who was dressed in casual clothes, asked her master.
Scathach's casual clothes were truly casual clothes: a beige velvet jacket, dark trousers, a pink woolen hat on her head, and a pair of sunglasses on her nose that covered half of her face.
Thanks to this outfit, Scathach's charm was weakened to the greatest extent possible, and no commotion was caused like when Irisviel and Saber were shopping.
Shinji nodded slightly and walked forward side by side with Scathach. At this time, he was in the form of a young man disguised with Hades' cloak, so he was not worried about being discovered.
"Good afternoon, Rider, Mr. Velvet."
Hearing someone calling him, Rider turned half a circle carrying the wine barrel. The one-meter-high oak barrel almost hit the glass door of the store, which made the owner jump with fear.
"Isn't this Assassin's Master? And Assassin... Well, you've also changed into clothes from this era. Great minds think alike."
Rider had a bold and uninhibited smile on his face, and his familiar expression did not give off any sense of hostility.
"How is it? My new clothes. It feels great to have the map of the whole world on my chest. Huhahaha..."
"Stop laughing! Stop laughing!"
Waver hurriedly put away his wallet, ran out of the store, and punched Rider in the chest without any hesitation, although with his strength, he could only tickle Rider.
"Don't you notice that everyone in the street is looking at us?"
What Waver said was completely true. Rider attracted the attention of everyone on the street. With a sturdy physique that was almost impossible for a Japanese to possess, a strange outfit of only wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt in the middle of winter, and a strange look of carrying a barrel half the height of a person, coupled with a loud voice that could be heard from dozens of meters away, it would be strange if he didn't attract attention.
"Of course I noticed. A king will attract the attention of the people wherever he goes." The King of Conquerors proudly pounded his chest, making a sound like beating a drum.
"Idiot, you're a big idiot!!!" Weber was going crazy. He wanted to gain recognition from others and attract people's attention, but he didn't want to be seen as a clown.
Perhaps because he felt that Waver looked pitiful, Shinji finally stopped standing by and interrupted this "love" comedy.
"You two, let's go somewhere else. There are too many people here."
Waver naturally nodded repeatedly to Shinji's proposal. Rider thought for a while and did not object, and left the pedestrian street with Shinji. But before leaving, he shouted to everyone.
"I am very happy. I will come to play often in the future."
This made people laugh, and also made Waver determined not to take Rider out shopping again.
... ...
"Rider, what are you doing holding up such a huge barrel of wine?"
In a secluded corner near the pedestrian street, Scathach asked with some surprise, saying that it was a bit too much for one person to drink so much alcohol.
"I am planning to host a banquet. The wonder of the Holy Grail War is that it brings together heroes from different eras across time and space. This time, there are four kings in the Holy Grail War, which makes me excited. Unfortunately, only one person can get the Holy Grail in the end. Therefore, before we fight each other, I want to drink with you once, tell you each other's ideals, and share each other's kingly way."
The smile on Iskandar's face was less silly and more sincere, and contained the pride of a king.
He had no rivals in his time, so he turned his attention to the kings of different times. This was not just a banquet, but also an invisible contest.
Physical conquest is not the real conquest, only inner conquest is. As a conquering king, he must defeat the kings of other times fairly and conquer them spiritually.
This is the kingly way of Istanbulkandar, and the origin of his name of conquest.
"Assassin, no, Queen Scathach of the Shadow Kingdom, I formally invite you to attend the King's Banquet hosted by me."
Rider's tone and expression made people ignore his clothes and posture. He was extending an invitation to another king as a king.
As a king, Scathach could not refuse such an invitation.
"I accept your invitation."
"Archer and Saber are left."
"No, the base is half destroyed."
"No, Archer doesn't need a separate invitation."
Scathach shook her head at Rider and pointed behind him.
Standing there was a young man with blond hair, red eyes and a slender figure.
He is also a king.