Artoria the Big Liar

"Then go see the Dragon King together?"

"No... At least in this matter, I don't want to get help from my father."

Lily bit her lip, lowered her head and thought hard.

But what could she think about?She wasn't taught knowledge, she wasn't told clues.

Although Merlin definitely didn't want her to experience Saber's life, she really couldn't do anything.

Taking a deep breath, Lily let it out and took my wrist.

Her strength is still so great, she doesn't look like a magician at all.Made my wrist numb and sore.

"Then let's go to the furnace together."

"Didn't you say that? The furnace is dangerous, so I should go alone?"

"If it was before, Mordred could go alone. But not now, because..."

"……because?"

"Because you gave me the scabbard. That's the scabbard of the holy sword, isn't it?"

Having said all this, I have to admit: "...well. It's the scabbard of the holy sword."

"Dragon King gave it to Mordred, right? After all, in the world of Mordred, the holy sword is in the hands of the Dragon King."

"Father still has a scabbard in his hand. We all have the same defense."

Lily froze for a moment, then asked in disbelief: "Two scabbards, but only one sword?"

"This...sorry, Lily, it's hard to explain. I'm telling you about the space-time paradox, you may not understand. In short, it is the father who travels through the future and the past in the same time and space, and only got the two scabbards .”

"It turned out to be like this... No wonder it became like this... No wonder..."

Lily sighed, looking up at the horizon of the night.

There are no cities in the Lost Belt, so there is no light pollution, and the starry sky is particularly bright and beautiful.

I didn't ask because I could probably guess what Lily had figured out.

The scabbard is in my body, but there is no holy sword.As far as world consciousness is concerned, I myself am an intelligence collector who forges holy swords.Therefore, from the perspective of the mechanical judgment of the world, I am functionally the same as Lily, and I am better than Lily in all aspects, so I can easily obtain the authority of the savior, and I can change Lily's real name without suffering be opposed to.

It's a wonderful feeling.It's even more amazing than knowing that the Black Flame King is Meluxin.

It is clearly a dream and reality, two worlds that are far apart, but cause and effect are connected, transcending the shackles of time, space and sequence, making everything complete and unbreakable from all aspects.

"Mordred, tell me, what would have happened if the Dragon King hadn't come to our world?" Lily asked.

"What will happen? This question..." After thinking for a while, I came to a conclusion. "Without the father, there is no concept of elves. Fairies will exist in a way that imitates humans. The nature of fairies cannot be changed, and the madness of the island must be suppressed. It is difficult for Tonali to take care of these two aspects, Eventually...she will be killed by the goblins, and then the madness of the island will erupt, destroying all the goblins."

"What about me? What will happen to me?"

"Probably... going to Chaldea, right? Apart from Chaldea, there seems to be no other place to go."

"I'm going to die. Is that so?"

Lily, who suddenly became so smart, made me very uncomfortable.

After hesitating for a long time, I could only nod helplessly.

"There must be a holy sword, otherwise there is no way to destroy the lore belt. I myself have the mission of forging the holy sword. As a result, I must not be able to maintain the holy sword and become the holy sword itself. Even if it is a goblin, this Is it considered death for me? Even if there is a new me, it must have nothing to do with the current me, right?"

"...That's why I'm here. Lily. If I come here, you won't have this ending."

With a puff, Lily, whose eye sockets were still swollen, suddenly laughed.

I was a little confused and blinked my eyes in confusion.

"You still call me stupid, Mordred! At the critical moment, you are not so smart!"

"Uh... what's wrong with that?"

"The Dragon King is much stronger than you, right? Then why doesn't she do everything by herself?"

"Because...uh, Father is just...just..."

My father's situation is exactly the same as mine.But our attitudes are completely opposite.

Why exactly?I have never thought about this question, and I was stumped for a while.

"Sure enough, Mordred isn't that smart! He just relied on his good education and bullied me for not knowing those things! If Merlin taught me well, I wouldn't be like this!"

I gasped for breath and couldn't speak—the answer was on my mind, but I just couldn't remember it.

Seeing me make a fool of myself, Lily smiled even more happily, her eyes were bent into crescent moons, shining like the sun.

I was dumbfounded.I've never seen Lily smile so happily.Even her father and Saber, who looked exactly like her, had very restrained smiles.Smiling like a normal girl, I've never seen it before.

Lily stretched out her hand, touched my forehead lightly with her right index finger and planting, and explained to me with a smile: "It must be easier than forging a holy sword to transform a goblin into an elf, and then take the elf out of this world." ?However, even if it is a simpler matter, the Dragon King and the Queen chose to cooperate and each shoulder their own responsibilities. Then we must cooperate, right? I can’t really be useless, Mordred, just leave me alone, right? "

I want to refute, but I can't find the words to refute, so I can only keep silent.

Lily thought I was dissatisfied, so she continued to persuade me.

"Besides, Mordred, have you ever thought that since you are so important to the Dragon King, if something bad happened to you, the Dragon King would really not take it out on me? Even if she let me go, would you really Do you think my life will be easy in the future? What will my companions think of me? What will you do with the scabbard you gave me? These things, Mordred, you have never considered at all, you just think that the process of forging a sword I’m going to die, so I’m reckless, right?”

"Lily, I'm going to be fine. I can do things that are much more difficult than this before, let alone this." However, in order to prevent Lily from asking what it was, I had to admit cowardly, To change the subject: "Okay, okay, I know everything. Since you have said so, then I will definitely go together-really, I am not a stubborn guy, you don't have to agree with this tone I'm speaking, Lily!"

"Hmph! Maybe I can't see through the landlady and Ithil, but I have seen through you these few days, Mordred! You didn't discuss the matter of giving the scabbard to me. If you want to replace me as the savior, just change it." You mentioned my name, and you didn’t think carefully about the cause and effect from the beginning to the end. It’s really too reckless! It’s just because you are very capable that you knocked you away all the way, so it seems that the matter is very simple! This matter is difficult , You know it yourself, so you use this attitude! Since the swamp, when did you ask me what I thought? Not at all!"

Lily's scolding made me completely unable to lift my head.

I sort of understand why the father and king couldn't refute all kinds of words when he was next to Jeanna.

When the person I really like speaks such harsh words with a caring attitude, the person concerned has no other choice but to listen patiently, explain carefully, or simply find a way to perfunctory the matter.

"The bell of the tour has also made me stronger, which means that the world recognizes that you and I are 'saviors'! I can't escape this matter even if I want to! You can't handle this matter yourself! The sword and the scabbard To be together is to be complete! Before you gave me the sheath, I was the sword! Now I am the sheath, and you are the sword! Understand?"

"Lily... when did you become so strong..."

"It wasn't weakness before, it was confusion! I didn't know what to do, that's why I looked weak! When I talked to Bagster, did I have a weak attitude? Not at all!"

"It seems... that's true..."

I remembered, next to the arena in Norwich, the first time I saw Bagster in human form, Lily had such a strong attitude, accusing Bagster of acting recklessly and not caring about his own safety.

Exhaling fiercely, Lily took my hand and walked towards the tent again.

At the far end, the silver meteor in the sky is still wrestling with the giant snake.

Time is not abundant.If I want to prevent my father from taking action, I must act immediately.

"That... Lily, aren't we going to Paradise? Isn't this the direction to Paradise?"

"To get to Paradise, you need to pass through the Garden of Frustration. I woke up at the gate of the Garden of Frustration."

"The Court of Frustration? This name sounds familiar..."

"...you'll know where it is when the time comes!"

Looks like Lily and I don't know [-

I can only be held by her and go where I should go.

Chapter Four: A Dream Within a Dream

◆Mordred◆

Walking on the road, listening to Lily's description, it took me a long time to understand what the meaning of the Court of Frustration is.

It is impossible to know exactly when it appeared.The important thing is that anyone who enters it will forget their previous memories and repeat a similar life, almost every day is a new reincarnation.

Probably a detection mechanism for goblins.

The world, like the Holy Grail, cannot understand human beings' concepts of good and evil. As a result, it can only decide whether a person is good or evil according to the person's evaluation of himself.Then of course you have to read the memory and read the emotion.

When goblins with sins enter it, the intense emotions in the memory will be released, and those sad memories will be covered up, thus achieving the effect of amnesia.

As a result, frustration is not only amnesia, but also the loss of one's own consciousness.

When the long life is immersed in pain, the goblins will come to the Court of Frustration and live there.Borrowing the ability to forget, I want to spend my whole life without any fun—that way, at least there will be no pain and despair.

I didn't ask Lily why she woke up in the Court of Frustration, but I just listened to what she said.

Because along the way, she was very talkative, and she seemed to finally break through the shackles of feelings and show me her true self.Different from the pure fairy appearance before, her inner feelings are actually very complicated and she has a lot of small thoughts. It is because of the bad experience that her personality has become autistic and introverted, so she shows the attitude of a village girl.

Will I grow to dislike her seeing her like this?

No, I like it even more.After all, even if I replaced her real name, she was still what Artoria was supposed to be before.King Arthur was not King Arthur from the very beginning, she must have the foundation to become a king, otherwise no matter how much Merlin taught, no matter how cruel the reality was, she would not be able to make an ordinary girl become King Arthur.

"Anyway, Mordred. Be careful when going to the Court of Frustration. We will be separated, lost in the Court of Frustration, and unable to remember what to do. Otherwise, if you really get lost in the Court of Frustration, then It's troublesome."

"I won't lose my memory in the Court of Frustration. It's you, Lily, who should be careful."

"It's okay...the me now is not the same as I used to be. I don't think I will lose my memory."

This is really... just a little bit better, Lily started to be brave again, she really has the same character...

She blushed, probably knowing my attitude, and her tone became less confident.

"What... what! I really won't lose my memory! I know the Court of Frustration very well!"

"It's okay, Lily. Even if you forget everything, even if you don't want to think about it, I will let you experience a life similar to the one you are now, and take you into a real paradise. I have everything, so don't be nervous .”

"I...I..." Lily's heart is very sensitive, and her emotions change a lot.I was still trying to be brave just now, but now the inferiority complex has returned: "I seem to be really useless... Maybe I will really lose my memory? I don't have the memory of Paradise. When I opened my eyes, I was in the Lost Belt. No good experience...it's easy to get lost, right?"

"Yes. There are good experiences." I confirmed firmly.

"Ah..." Lily understood what I meant, and smiled: "Yes, there are indeed, and there are many."

We crossed our fingers, held each other's hand, and walked across the moors, into a fairyland, and through that wonderland from Yorkshire to Cornwall, and soon to the gates of the Court of Frustration.

It was a marble arch.The empty door is covered in fog, and only by entering can one know the scene inside.

I didn't have any redundant conversations with her, just looked at each other, she took a deep breath and entered with me.

Then, the mist engulfed me.

Memory is like an onion, peeled off layer by layer.

I seem to have walked a long, long way, wandering meaninglessly in the streets.

He stopped by the side of the street and went into a movie theater.

There were some spectators around, but I didn't pay attention to them, so I sat down in the middle.

I don't know what's about to play on the screen.But in line with the mentality of "everything is coming", I patiently waited for the release of the movie.

The cost of the movie is high, and everything seems so real.The scene is very detailed, the place that should be old must be old, and the dirty place that should be displayed is not covered up. It must have used a lot of the latest CGI technology. It looks like a blockbuster with a high investment.

However, the plot is extremely absurd, even worse than a B-level lie.Because the plot is too exaggerated, there is no sense of reality at all, it feels very nonsense to me-but it is unexpectedly interesting.Anyway, it's much better than those superhero movies that tell the truth from beginning to end.As if this kind of nonsense is the same as reality, the reality is as nonsense as it is.

A mere cyborg, just because he received a better education, can learn swordsmanship, politics, etiquette, and military affairs that ordinary people may not be able to learn in 14 years when he is six years old and his body grows to 12 years old. , life and other knowledge, this is outrageous enough.But such an artificial human, when he was eight years old, because of his father's request, he didn't think about it, was dominated by sadness, and really killed the other party?

Did you make a mistake!Such a plot is too unrealistic, right?It's just nonsense!

Corny Greek dramas are better than this!At least the plot is not so procrastinating!

I thought the subtitles would drop at the end, but I didn't expect it to continue.Time came to modern times, and the android met her father's imitation.A replica and an imitation meet together in this way, traveling in a sea of ​​flowers that is more absurd than reality.It didn't take long before the two fell in love with each other, but the story ended here.

When I came back to my senses and looked at the people around me, they either fell asleep in the chair or left altogether.

In the end, I was the only one who read this absurd story seriously.

"What rubbish, what a waste of time, I must give this movie a score!"

Saying so, thinking so, I acted.Take out your phone, open the app, and look for the movie.

And yet I was stunned - I had absolutely no idea the name of the movie, or even the name of the cinema.I checked the pockets of my jeans, and there was no receipt, like it was a free movie.

Sighing, I looked at the time and it was five o'clock in the afternoon. I left the movie theater and walked on the street to go home.

My house is an old Japanese-style courtyard, unfortunately because my parents left, only I live by myself.

After doing some cleaning work, I went back to my room, turned on the TV, and killed the boring time.

Yes, it's boring, very boring, going to bed too early, having nothing to do, and no motivation to do it. The whole person is like a deserted person, losing the ability to do things, and can only waste time, waiting for opportunities.

"...Wait, waiting for an opportunity? Waiting for what opportunity?" I muttered to myself, realizing something.