Artoria wants to read people's hearts

Because no normal person wants to face death, or to watch someone he is acquainted with die.

If you have the ability to lend a helping hand, then those poor children must be able to smile from the bottom of their hearts.

Arturia wants to save them, but this matter cannot be avoided anyway and requires the consent of her master.

"What do you think about this matter?" Sitting in the tram, she turned her head and asked the three girls beside her, "If you can, please tell me your thoughts."

The tram on the way home was relatively empty, so the four of them were able to find a quiet corner in the car to sit down.

Regarding the blonde girl's question, although the three girls express their emotions in different ways, they have a common feeling for joy.

"This is really great." Asuna turned slightly sideways, bringing herself closer to Artoria's direction.

When it came to rescuing the [Sleeping Knight], her heart softened, and tenderness appeared in her eyes unconsciously, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly.

"I agree with your proposal, because there is nothing more meaningful than this, isn't it?"

"Indeed." Nodding, Kapok Ji added, "If possible, I want them to be redeemed like us."

"We have suffered from illnesses before, so we know how hopeless it is to just wait for death." Lanzi raised his head and let out a disappointed sigh. They can once again have the right to happiness."

These are their thoughts.

Gentle, kind, little girls want to bring something to this cruel world, for example: - the 'light' named miracle.

Their answers were not unexpected, but rather reasonable.

So Arturia smiled, her eyes filled with relief.

Feeling everyone's good mood, she decided to add another dose of news on this basis.

"Miracle has a price." She had brilliant hair, and her eyes were like the moon, but she said the fact that it was enough to make people calm down. "It's like the electric car needs electricity to start, and the scabbard needs to be injected with magic power."

In their puzzled eyes, Artoria slowly explained the pros and cons of it.

"My magic power is provided by the master—" she paused here, then nodded slightly towards the younger sister in the twins, "—that is you, Kapok Ji."

"But unfortunately, you are just an ordinary person without magic power, so there is no way to replenish the magic power consumed by my treatment. If it weren't for the command spell before, you would have already... ..."

She didn't continue the next words, but the serious expression on Artoria's face had already explained everything for them.

"Our command spells have been used up." She said a well-known fact, "This also means that once the magic power stored in my body is used up, in order to maintain my own existence, we will The contract will actively ask you for magic power."

"......what?"

With a big confusion on her small face, she looked at the blond girl at a loss, "But I don't have magic power?"

"Yes, you didn't."

A heavy sigh escaped from the corner of her mouth, and Arturia said to her, "So as a substitute for magic power, what will burn at that time will be your vitality."

vitality? ? ?

The three girls all understood the meaning of these three words, but because they all understood, they couldn't help falling into silence after the shock.

a long time.......

As the party concerned, Kapok Jizhan asked slightly, "Excuse me... how much vitality do I need to give?"

a month?

six months?

Or is it calculated in years?

Shaking her head, Artoria gave a shocking answer.

"I'm sorry—" her clear voice poured out the sad words, "—you may die from this."

"!!!"

The basket sitting beside Kapok Ji immediately held his sister's hands, his big eyes were full of shock and disbelief.

Even Asuna, who was sitting next to Artorilia, couldn't help reaching out and grabbing the blonde girl's arm at that moment.

Turning her head to look over, the flaxen-haired girl's face was full of uneasiness at the moment.

It's like being drenched in a basin of cold water from head to toe in winter, the biting chill is suffocating from the inside out.

Her Master's face was also full of struggles. She lowered her head and stared blankly, as if she never thought that the originally happy topic would develop to this point.

My own life...., and the lives of a total of six friends.

——How should I choose?

The atmosphere became tense for a while.

None of them spoke, so Artoria looked left and right, and broke the silence first.

"Please don't worry." She chuckled softly, "I made this suggestion, but I didn't intend to risk my life for my life."

"???"

What does this mean?

Meeting three pairs of watery and doubtful eyes, the blond girl stretched out her hand and scratched her cheek embarrassingly.

"Because the last command spell added enough magic power for me, so without increasing the output of magic power and pursuing efficiency, I think it should be enough to heal the bodies of six people."

Such words...why didn't I say it earlier!!

"Pendragon!" Asuna called out the girl's name angrily, then reached out and knocked on the girl's head, "Are you trying to scare us on purpose?!"

After finishing speaking, he pursed his lips, and without waiting for her answer, he just buried his face in Arturia's shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "You are really...too bad."

..... is it bad?

This somewhat angry comment made her smile wryly.

— But what I said is the truth.

She stretched out her hand to stroke the soft hair of the other party comfortingly, and continued to speak while the Konno sisters next to her were looking at them unhappy.

"...I mean enough." She organized her words slightly, "It's like a pot of water, after watering six potted flowers, there must be no drop left. It's a good thing, but it's not good news for me."

Looking at the scene flying by outside the window, she added the last piece of the puzzle to this matter.

"I will lose the last ounce of magic power to maintain my existence, and in order not to let the contract spontaneously burn the life of Mianji, at that time..." Artoria sighed, "...still Please, Kapok Ji, cut off the contract between us and let me leave this world."

"Leave..." Lanzi muttered these two words, his brown pupils shrank slightly, "Where are you going?"

""The Kingdom of Fairies"?" Asuna suddenly raised her head and asked hurriedly, "Are you going back there?"

This is not the case.

Shaking her head, Artoria gave a negative answer.

"Return to the Throne of Heroic Spirits." She said in a clear voice, "and wait for the next call."

This is the best choice.

Obtaining the mercy of a miracle at the lowest price, saving the lives of six people, and the price is only that she has to leave this world.

"I will not die." She comforted the girls whose faces were sad because of her words, "No matter which world I am in, as long as there are people who need me, then I will respond."

A noble and noble girl king, she was once an unattainable ideal of perfection in an era.

It's just that now, it's time to return.

"...Is this your decision?" Asuna asked in a trembling voice, holding back her tears.

"Yes." Arturia nodded with a serious expression, "This is my will and my decision."

Sunlight passes through every corner of the world, and finally stays in the eyes of the blond girl.

Noble kings from the past are not afraid of any disasters and threats, follow honor, stick to morality, noble, brave, just...  

——It was a completely different existence from them.

Looking at the lake-colored eyes of the other party, Asuna couldn't help realizing this deeply.

And it was this that made her feel extremely sad while feeling infinitely proud.

Because she knew that she couldn't keep her, and the parting would be in the future, if not now.

Both Asuna and the Konno sisters chose to remain silent at this moment.

This is a difficult decision, and they need some time to sort out their thoughts anyway.

The tram was still running tirelessly.

After half an hour, they finally returned to the streets they were familiar with.

The two sisters, Kapok Ji and Lanzi, went home in a different direction from them, so after saying goodbye, they turned and left here and walked towards the bus station.

So at this moment, only Artoria and Asuna are left.

"Let's go, I'll take you home first."

The blond girl looked calm, as if nothing had happened before.

but.......

How could it be that nothing really happened.

The king stands in the light, and the girl stands in the dark.

Arturia stood under the street lamp, she looked at Asuna, didn't speak, just quietly waiting for him to walk towards her.

"........"

The flaxen-colored long-haired girl raised her head silently, and took a deep look at the other party, the emotions in her eyes were so complex that it was hard to understand.

The end of this road is bustling. When it is the busiest, the neon lights will make the night sky red, and where she is now, there are many cities. The loneliness behind the bustling is like two worlds, and it is also like that The shadow of the world.

But more like.....the distance between her and her.

The other party stood there without saying a word, as if he was an abandoned child, which made people feel distressed.

Sighing helplessly, Artoria finally chose to go forward.

She walked from the light to the dark, and then took the girl's hands.

Arturia's palm felt warm and alive, not like a dead person.

Asuna looked up.

The tails of her red eyes are fragile, and the light golden pupils are filled with sadness like a cicada's wings, as if she can fly high with a slight flick of her eyelashes, stunning the whole winter.

"Asuna."

It was the sound of a king almost sighing.

She looked at the girl with long flaxen hair, her emerald green eyes were as clear and transparent as the waves of a lake under the moonlight.

"Did you know?" she said, "everything is seldom perfect, and I have already experienced this when I picked up the sword of choosing the king."

"My mentor once told me that as long as you draw that sword, you will be hated by people, and you will eventually die a miserable death."

I don't know why Artoria talked about her past at this time. It was a story that Asuna wanted to know very much, but she had never heard it from the other party.

"That's what I answered him at the time." She smiled softly, with a little nostalgia on her expression, "—even though the darkness swallows everything now, I can still see the light of the flame burning in the future, and many people will be redeemed , so I won't regret it."

These words completely shook Asuna's heart.

She opened her mouth slightly, and all she could do was stare blankly at the blonde girl in front of her.

However, her expression made Arturia a little misunderstood.

Smiling embarrassedly, Wang scratched his cheek with his hand, "These words do sound a bit embarrassing."

No, that's not what I mean!

Frowning, she eagerly wanted to explain something, but Artoria took a step ahead.

"But—" the blond Wang said softly, "—no matter how many times I do it again, I am willing to reach out to hold the Broken Moon in the water, even if everything is false."

"Because I want to see smiles on everyone's faces." When she said this, the expression on her face was too gentle, "Just like now, I also want to dedicate myself to the children who fell into the abyss." Do my part."

"If they can put a smile on their face because of this, then I will not be in this life in vain, right?"

"It's just that I'm sorry." Artoria lowered her eyelashes, with a trace of guilt in her eyes, "I know my actions may be a little willful, and it's my fault for making you sad."

The blond girl's voice was slightly hoarse, and she really felt guilty about it.

"........."

Looking at Arturia who looked a little listless with her head lowered, after a long silence, Asuna finally let out a sigh of resignation.