The Undying Death Knight failed to achieve the ending of the Heroic Spirit

If this is really the future Mashu who becomes a Heroic Spirit because of [saving the world], then wouldn't she, Fujimaru Ritsuka, be able to ask a lot of questions about the future from her?

But the truth disappointed Fujimaru Ritsuka. Mashu told Fujimaru Ritsuka how Chaldea had locked onto the singularity with the help of Merlin.

"I have lost contact with my senior for almost half a month, so I responded to the call as soon as I sensed the call from the singularity. I didn't expect that I would end up becoming a Servant recognized by the Holy Grail."

She recalled the words she said when she descended to the world under the influence of the knowledge bestowed by the Holy Grail: "I obey the call in the name of Galahad, a Knight of the Round Table," and Mashu smiled shyly as she spoke.

"Has it been so long? I—"

Ritsuka Fujimaru, who was about to lament the passing of time, paused as her pupils contracted and she discovered the blind spot.

Assuming that Mashu is the seventh Servant chosen by the Holy Grail, then the other six Servants - first, the four Knights of the Round Table, then the male Merlin who only exists in Lanmaroc's mouth, and the female Merlin who was acknowledged by Menechel as her Servant, that makes a total of six.

[Suppression cannot summon servants in my Noble Phantasm]

She suddenly recalled Caster's comments on the dream and swallowed hard.

——Then, what exactly is Menachele, the Caster who has been by his side since the beginning?

The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it was. He felt a chill down his spine and shuddered.

"what happened?"

Just at this moment, Caster's voice came from behind Fujimaru Ritsuka. Fujimaru Ritsuka turned around hurriedly and met Caster's pair of indifferent eyes.

Being stopped by the person who had just muttered in his heart, even Fujimaru Ritsuka showed a forced smile on his face that he couldn't hide. What's more, being stared at by Caster, Fujimaru Ritsuka remembered the special ability of the Rain Fairy mentioned by the Mirror Fairy, and his spirit inevitably weakened a little.

"Ahh, this is-nothing..."

Ritsuka Fujimaru glanced upward and pretended not to care.

There was no sign of anything unusual on Caster's face. Her voice was filled with the joy of surviving a disaster: "Torun City and Lihe City are safe. All we have to do is wait until tomorrow morning and we can return to the dreamland."

"During the day?"

"Yes, I'm afraid that girl will wait at the exit to block us at night. Although I don't want to admit it, we are no match for her at this stage - we have to kill at least one of her servants."

"Then... Gawain?" Fujimaru Ritsuka chose to defeat the strongest of the two remaining Knights of the Round Table.

"Actually, I'm targeting Tristan. In order to avoid a round-robin battle, we have to fight during the day. Gawain in the daytime is quite troublesome."

Fujimaru Ritsuka's thoughts were also distracted. She thought carefully about Caster's words and felt that there was nothing wrong with them.

Caster's smile widened after receiving Fujimaru Ritsuka's approval. She pointed at Mashu who was peeking over from behind the girl and said, "Then I'll leave first. I'm going to treat the injuries of a certain burden. I'll leave the matter of communicating with the new Servant to you, Fujimaru."

Watching Caster leave alone, Fujimaru Ritsuka pursed her lips. Caster must have seen her doubts clearly - but even so, Caster still didn't say much, and even discussed with her how to solve the desperate situation.

——No matter who she is, no matter if she is a Servant or not, at least she is on the same side as him.

"Senior." After Caster left, Mashu came back quietly. She moved closer to Fujimaru Ritsuka and said in a low voice, "Before I left, Mr. Merlin told me that Miss Minako's identity was very questionable."

In fact, Merlin's original words at that time were [Be careful of Minachell... Well, in that world, she should be called Minako-chan. Anyway, she is dangerous.]

It was just that Merlin's tone was so casual when he said this with a smile on his face that Matthew was a little shaken when he said it.

"Don't worry, Mashu." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and put his arm around Mashu's shoulders. "I also know that Menachele has problems, but so what? She is our companion now - she has never done anything to let us down. As for other people's words - no matter how horrifying they are, at least I haven't seen them. What I have seen is that she is still reliable as a companion."

——What's more, with the self-enforcement spell, she couldn't counter it until Caster betrayed her first.

Ritsuka Fujimaru made up her mind in her heart that at least until Caster really left, Caster would still be her companion.

……

Caster opened her eyes, and she dismissed the familiar that sent back the information. The magic notebook in her hand also disappeared into spirit form, but confusion appeared in Caster's eyes.

——The color of emotion has changed.

Before she left, she could clearly sense the same cold blue distrust and alienation from Fujimaru Ritsuka as from everyone else. But just now, the familiar once again caught that long-lost warm orange color from Fujimaru Ritsuka.

She thought about what Fujimaru Ritsuka said to Mashu, and couldn't help but hum a few times to eliminate the sourness in her nose.

——How could she think that? She must be crazy, this is not realistic! This idiot, the world will hurt her good intentions.

She noticed something was wrong with herself and hummed a few times to suppress the unnecessary complexity in her heart. Lancelot heard her humming and also hummed, urging her to get treatment as soon as possible.

"What are you humming? Believe it or not, I will use my familiar to record it and play it on loop in front of your daughter!"

So the young father stopped talking.

Having intimidated the culprit who had ruined his emotional build-up, Caster snorted smugly again.

——I'm sorry, Fujimaru, I have no choice but to succeed.

Master Mi can't update by himself, which makes me so tired. It's really a shame.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 233: The Old Days: 3

2023-07-29

The chirping of cicadas is long and melodious, revealing a certain resilience just like the remaining summer.

Avoiding the dazzling sunlight, Fujimaru Ritsuka took a deep breath and enjoyed a moment of peace.

When she opened her eyes, she was unexpectedly greeted by the dazzling sunlight. When her vision returned, she looked around blankly, but the scenery in front of her had already changed.

Under such a magnificent building complex, Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't help but hold his breath. As his panting stopped, the air around him unconsciously became quiet.

The pure white clock tower standing in the center of the city blocks out the setting sun. This iconic building highlights the location here.

——This is Camelot, but it is not the Camelot she remembered.

There are no broken walls, no mountains of corpses and seas of blood, no thin white mist covering the entire field of vision; everything is the most original scenery of the Holy City of Cretaceous.

Looking at everything in front of her, Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly felt her eyes getting hot, and she couldn't help but murmured, "Did it work?"

She remembered that Minanako once said that when the Noble Phantasm was broken, all the miracles that were distorted by the dream would return to normal.

In the last moment before she lost consciousness, Fujimaru Ritsuka did see a fleeting flash of gold.

"Master."

Turning his head, Fujimaru Ritsuka caught a glimpse of a familiar girl in the shadow of the building. Her eyes, one red and one gold, reflected an eerie light in the darkness.

"Thanks to you, we succeeded."

When Minanako unfolded her Noble Phantasm to attack her other dream, Fujimaru Ritsuka seized the opportunity and successfully touched the Holy Grail. When the Holy Grail stopped working, King Arthur, who relied on the Holy Grail to ensure his immortality, also died quickly, and the dream became disordered at this moment.

"Leave the rest to me... Ah, I can take you to the Lihe City I mentioned earlier. The bell tower there is taller than that of the Holy City."

"There's also the river in Bilbao. There's nothing worth seeing in Tollund. Oh, and Oxford. It's said that place later became a metropolis, but it doesn't look anything special now."

Perhaps because she had finally put down her heavy burden, Minanako at this moment showed extraordinary enthusiasm and joy. She chattered incessantly and listed everything one by one as if they were her treasures.

Fujimaru Ritsuka walked closer to Minanako step by step. She saw surprise in the girl's heterochromatic eyes. Minanako's body tensed up, and she immediately stopped herself from retreating and did not distance herself.

Fujimaru Ritsuka put her arms around Minako's body and placed her head on her shoulder. "Thank you for your support during this not-so-short journey. But I'm going back soon."

She could clearly feel the trembling of the girl's body beneath her, and the smell of dust and faint fragrance on her body entered her nostrils through Fujimaru Ritsuka's breath.

She will be sent back to Chaldea immediately after the singularity ends, so she probably won't have the chance to accompany Minanako on another tour.

"…It's just like what inhibition said." Minanako didn't push away Fujimaru Ritsuka's excessive intimacy as usual. She buried her head in Fujimaru Ritsuka's body, closed her eyes and murmured: "But you don't even want to lie to me? Make up an excuse to keep my fantasy until I solve all the problems."

"But then I won't have time to say goodbye to you properly, right?"

The color seen on the girl is still the gentle warm orange, so pure that it makes people feel dissatisfied.

She couldn't help but hum twice to express her dissatisfaction.

She finally pushed Fujimaru Ritsuka away and turned her back before Fujimaru Ritsuka saw her face.

"Well, I don't have time to accompany you from now on. I have to finish this place before the other me recovers... During this period of time, you can see my Britain by yourself, but you won't have the chance in the future."

Her voice was deliberately light and cheerful. She didn't dare look back, for fear that Fujimaru Ritsuka would see her expression. She was even more afraid that the determination she had made with great difficulty would be easily shattered.

"Goodbye."

So for several days in a row, Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't see Minanako again. No trace of Minanako could be found anywhere, whether in the clock tower or the imperial palace.

But the silent black and red armor was still silently guarding her. The occasional peeping feeling from this dead object made Fujimaru Ritsuka know that nothing had happened to Minako.

——But why, even though three days have passed, she still shows no signs of being rejected by the world, and the failure to resume contact with Chaldea also adds fuel to Fujimaru Ritsuka's worries.

This vague sense of disharmony finally became a reality one day.

First, a burning sensation appeared on the back of her right hand, and then the two Command Seals on it lit up with a dazzling blood-red fluorescence.

The Command Spell that had been consumed and dimmed during the journey once again emitted a bright red luster under the nourishment of the red fluorescence.

She subconsciously looked at the black-armored knight who was silently guarding her on both sides. Fortunately, Minanako did not use it to peek over here at this time.

——Command Spell.

She stared at the back of her hand in a daze, her brain seemed to be pierced by lightning, and Fujimaru Ritsuka finally realized what she had been missing, and all the sense of incongruity collapsed at this moment.

The Holy Grail, Minanako had always emphasized that she had never had any sense of the reality of the Holy Grail that she had successfully retrieved.

……

The buzzing sound of insects flapping their wings became more and more frequent. Minanako walked alone in the woods covered with dead yellow leaves. She waved away the flying insects in front of her, and finally her footsteps stopped at the end of the forest.

Large particles of light flew up from her limbs, from her chest and abdomen, and even from her face.

——As expected of his restraining power, he had already discovered her abnormality and was preparing to send her back after only reaching the third pilgrimage site.

salsa.

The sound of footsteps trampling on fallen leaves came from far away, rapidly approaching from the end of the forest. To Minako, this subtle sound was like the sound of nature.

Her field of vision was gradually covered by a curtain of light all over the sky. Reluctance turned into murderous intent and surged into her heart. Minanako clenched her hands in the air and caught the magic note in her hands.

The blurry figure finally became clear. It was a petite girl with smooth black hair. Her face was exactly the same as Minanako, except that the ears that showed through the hair still maintained the standards of an ordinary human.

Something seemed to be dragging behind her.

There was a look of nostalgia in Minanako's eyes - this should be the time when she caught the Rain Fairy.

But soon this nostalgia was replaced by a touch of ruthlessness.

Two golden chains suddenly emerged from the magic notebook. This was the only confinement magic she had sealed. Although she had not been contaminated by fairies at this time, it was enough to deal with mere humans.

The chains rushed towards the end of the forest, one after the other, along the ground, stabbing straight at the Rain Fairy and the black-haired girl.

——Sorry, I don’t have time to explain it to you now.

——It’s my body anyway, so let me use it first!

This volume will be better if you save it for later viewing.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 234: Fragment of the Past: 4

2023-07-29

In a sense, Minanako's Noble Phantasm is not a traditional "inherent barrier". It imitates Merlin's Avalon. Her Noble Phantasm is more suitable for distorting reality than affecting it. However, Minanako cannot control the direction of the distortion. All she can do is maintain it. What really maintains the dream is the host as the core.

This is why destroying the dream core cannot defeat the one who uses the Noble Phantasm.

So Minanako deconstructed the soul particle transfer.

At the moment when the enemy's dream was shaken, she brought Ritsuka Fujimaru with her to perform a soul transfer. With the help of the suppression force, she miraculously and accurately arrived at the timeline she had chosen - the time when King Uther died.

The future King Arthur and the great magician Merlin are still training in various places, and the kingdom is only one step away from falling apart. Morgan, the troublesome woman, is also unable to return to her husband's house. At such a perfect time, her choice is already very clear -

——Humanity? She never cared about that kind of thing.

She chose to start the tour again, and this time she wanted to include the entire territory of Camelot. She wanted to deny the existence of Camelot from the [past], so that there would be no King Arthur or the First Knight in the [future].

In this way, the other branch of mutation caused by her would no longer exist.

——See, the abnormality was solved easily.

……

chi chi-

A crack appeared in a large ball of twisted and intertwined dark golden chain pupa, and then the small crack expanded further and further until it spread to the entire pupa.

With a series of crackling sounds, the chains broke into pieces one after another, revealing the girl in the center of the chains.

The girl's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes. Her ruby-like eyes gradually showed a different color. In just a few blinks, her pupils had turned into blue and gold.