"Jason————?!"
Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, whose mental state was haggard, as if he hadn't slept for several nights in a row, Matthew found it hard to believe the self-introduction he said.
"Forgive me for the offense, are you really that Mr. Jason, the captain of the Argonaut?"
Jason glanced at Matthew who was a little unbelievable, smiled to himself, and then said:
"....I didn't expect you to know me. Well, my name is indeed very famous.....Yes, I am the great hero Hercules and other heroes. Jason, the captain of the Argonaut he once sailed on."
"Is it really me...?"
Although Matthew has already met characters like Joan of Arc and Nero who have left a mark in history books in the first two singularities, he has also been mentally prepared to encounter various legends and mythical heroic spirits.
But characters like Jason, who only existed in legends and myths, and heroes who had sailed with the legendary Hercules still made her excited.
The Atalanta we met last time was forced to become enemies with Matthew and others due to the control of Joan of Arc, but the Jason we met this time was obviously a hero who could communicate normally and even become a helper. .
If possible, perhaps she and her predecessors might ride the Argonaut and gallop in the sea at the end of the world, just like the Argonauts who once found the Golden Fleece.
"...There's no need to be so excited, little girl. And you'll know it when you see me. Compared to the achievements of taking adventures with Hercules and the others...actually But I can’t live up to that good reputation at all——”
Jason sighed and rubbed his messy hair.
"Instead of thinking of me as someone as great as that guy Hercules... think of me as just someone named Jason."
"Eh? But aren't you also——————"
"I simply have the Argo, that's all. If the Argo had been in the hands of Heracles or Orpheus from the beginning, I'm afraid... no, it's There is absolutely no place for me.”
Jason interrupted Matthew's words, and Matthew couldn't say anything more after hearing Jason's comments about himself.
After the actual meeting, Matthew found that the Jason who appeared in front of her now seemed to be slightly different from the legendary Jason she was familiar with.
But if there is any difference, Matthew, who has never actually been on the Argonaut, can't just rely on the few legends he knows.
After all, it's possible that King Arthur was a woman, so what's impossible?
But Ma Xiu felt that the original Jason should not be like this before her, but should be more arrogant and arrogant.
You should just laugh out loud and call yourself "my uncle" while showing off your achievements.
"So, do you exist as Jason, the heroic spirit summoned by his own restraint, or do you exist as Jason, the hero who has completed his adventure and not died yet?"
Unable to determine the true identity of the person in front of her, Animusfia asked Jason.
"It seems like you know a lot about me. Before you explain that, why don't you introduce yourself first? The only thing I can be sure of is that there shouldn't be a second person on this planet right now. Still thinking——————”
Jason, who had already introduced himself, did not reveal any more information. Instead, he began to raise his eyes in anticipation of the confessions from Animusfia and Mash.
"That's right. We were rude this time."
After Jason confirmed that he was indeed the captain of the Argonaut ship who had obtained the Golden Fleece in Colkos, Animusfia looked around and found no more doubts before explaining to him. The origins of myself and Matthew.
.............
After a long silence, Jason responded:
"Really... You have come here from the future. I am indeed a heroic spirit. Although after being summoned here by the restraining force, I understood that this would be an incredible crisis. However, I didn’t expect that it would even affect you in the future, tsk.”
"If the Singularity is not completely repaired, not only this era, but also not just the year Chaldea is in 2015, the future of mankind will be completely burned."
Animusfia corrected Jason's words.
"It's such a serious accident... must all the seven singularities you mentioned have to be repaired?"
Animusfia nodded calmly.
"Isn't it okay even if one of them hasn't been repaired yet?"
"Exactly that."
"............"
After hearing Animusfia's reply, Jason was stunned for a few seconds, and then began to laugh lowly.
"Hahaha......"
"....Mr. Jason?"
Matthew asked about Jason's status with some concern, while Animusfia frowned and observed his facial expression.
Compared with why Jason suddenly laughed, he was more concerned about Jason's previous words.
At the same time, I am more concerned about the era and location where this singularity occurred.
“Hahahahahaha——————!”
And Jason's laughter became more unbridled and louder.
"hahahahahahahahahahaha------!"
Holding his abdomen, Jason half-knelt on the ground, letting the tide of the sea beat on his clothes.
"Hahahahahaha, is this my punishment..."
After gradually stopping laughing, Jason raised his head and looked at Animusfia and Mash, and said with no more hope in his eyes:
"I'm sorry, travelers from Chaldeas, from the future... All I can do is apologize to you. ——————————This unique point , it is impossible to be saved anymore.”
"You haven't tried it yet, so how do you know it won't work?"
Animusfia walked up to Jason, and then stretched out the prosthetic leg of her left hand.
".......well"
Jason, who sighed silently, looked at Animusfia's mutilated left arm and thought for a few seconds, then grabbed his prosthetic limb and stood up.
"Have you never tried it? Ridiculous----"
Jason stood up and looked at Animusfia with his red bloodshot eyes.
"Why do you think I'm standing here? What kind of difficult battles do you think [we] have gone through? How could [Jason] just be summoned by himself?"
Matthew was a little surprised when he heard this and said:
"Hey, isn't it possible that Mr. Jason was summoned to the singularity himself?"
"Of course not! I was summoned to the singularity with my ship, the Argonaut, and the heroes on it."
"But they...?"
"All failed, Medea, Atalanta, Asclepius, Theseus, Peleus..."
Jason lowered his head and recited the names of the heroes who had fought with him on the ship like a treasure trove.
"But they all failed, and none of them succeeded... In the end, all that was left was me who could not accomplish anything. Not even the Argonaut was left."
Jason raised his head and looked at Animusfia again, and waved his hand towards the endless sea around him.
"We all failed. This singularity, this scene you see, is already what it looked like after it was destroyed."
"Has even Heracles failed...?"
Under Ma Xiu's question, Jason suddenly fell silent, and even the fluctuations of his magic power froze.
"...No, Hercules, he is the enemy."
