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

Without the support of Miss Avalon, her body fell uncontrollably, but the feeling of falling only lasted for a moment, and the next moment, her collar was lifted up.

The familiar cold touch made Fujimaru Ritsuka shiver, but she didn't dare to move.

It was not until Fujimaru Ritsuka watched herself land on the ground that she turned her head tentatively.

"Minanako!"

She heard Fujimaru Ritsuka's call, but at this time Minachell was not wearing her unchanging wide-sleeved robe. Instead, she was wearing a decent and simple casual outfit that perfectly highlighted her cuteness.

But after hearing Fujimaru Ritsuka's call, Caster did not smile back as expected.

"what happened?"

"Master. I should have said that."

Caster suddenly raised her head, the sunlight hitting her hair, and the shadow cast by it made it impossible to see her expression at the moment.

Looking at Caster like this, a sense of strangeness surged into Fujimaru Ritsuka's heart.

"When you find a magician hiding and chanting a spell, get away from him as quickly as possible."

The uneasiness in Fujimaru Ritsuka's heart became more and more real.

Caster didn't say anything, and what answered Fujimaru Ritsuka was a bunch of twisted and jumping heavy shadows. The huge claws constructed by the shadows entangled the girl before Fujimaru Ritsuka could react.

"Shadow cutting magic."

Caster spoke softly, and she loosened her hand, and the big hand made of shadow tightly restricted the movement of Fujimaru Ritsuka.

Seeing the familiar dark purple claws again, Fujimaru Ritsuka's pupils contracted.

She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her originally gem-like red eyes had turned into two colors, one blue and one gold.

"Sure enough, the Holy Grail chose you."

Her voice was gentle, but her face was as cold as ice that had been frozen for thousands of years. The coldness revealed between her eyebrows made Fujimaru Ritsuka feel like he was facing a puppet.

As she spoke, she slowly clenched her palms, and the shadow wrapped around Fujimaru Ritsuka became closer.

With her body tightly wrapped, Fujimaru Ritsuka's breathing gradually became difficult, and her vision began to distort and turn black, but she stubbornly refused to faint.

"From your perspective, I still helped you capture Caster in the singularity."

"If I could, I would like to keep deceiving you and become your true partner, but my inhibitions are starting to doubt me."

Ritsuka Fujimaru's body trembled unconsciously. Minanako controlled the shadows to pull Ritsuka Fujimaru close to her and placed one hand on the girl's forehead.

A chill that stung the brain came from the place where the two people touched, instantly clearing up the originally drowsy brain.

"Please go to sleep and never wake up."

She held Fujimaru Ritsuka's head with both hands and lowered her voice to an increasingly gentle tone.

Her fingertips moved across Fujimaru Ritsuka's forehead, writing magic formulas.

Just at this moment, a rustling sound of breaking through the air was heard.

The red light and the technique appeared almost in sync, Minanako's fingers kept sliding, and finally turned into a palm that pressed towards the girl's forehead.

The palm was placed on Fujimaru Ritsuka's forehead, and the technique instantly spread to cover the surrounding skin.

The corner of the staff hit Minako's back of the hand, knocking her hand away from Fujimaru Ritsuka's forehead. The subsequent golden magic power flow forced Minako to let go of Fujimaru Ritsuka, and the magic spell that lost its guidance immediately faded.

Along with the flying petals, the young woman with short pink and white hair grabbed Fujimaru Ritsuka, and the shadow-cutting magic wrapped around Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately fell apart.

But the black curse mark of magic spread along the skin on Fujimaru Ritsuka's forehead and into Fujimaru Ritsuka's body.

“Hey, Mina-chan, you’d better stop now.”

Although Miss Avalon's tone of voice was still relaxed, the blood stains on her face that she had not had time to wipe off and her smile that had become somewhat forced still exposed her current state.

She glanced at Ritsuka Fujimaru who was unconscious with his eyes rolled back, having been hit by some kind of magic. Neither she nor herself were in a suitable condition to continue fighting.

Seeing Minanako rushing towards her again, she swung her sleeves.

"Goodbye, then."

The pink and white magician waved her staff, and countless petals blew towards Minako along with her sleeves. The pungent fragrance of the flowers blocked her sense of smell, and the petals all over the sky covered her entire vision.

"Put her down!"

Her voice spread far away, and the ups and downs of the tone made people feel the speaker's unwillingness and resentment.

……

The next moment, the flower petals were pierced by the scattered golden magic column. Minanako glanced around but had already lost her target.

"Immortal."

As she said this, the expression on Minanako's face relaxed involuntarily. She closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembling slightly, as if she was trying hard to suppress something.

She looked at the distant horizon, which was glowing pale as the sky was rising and falling, and the white mist was dyed red as it rose and fell.

She whispered softly, "When we meet again, Master, do not touch the Holy Grail, do not light up the stars, and do not complete the parade."

The blue right eye gradually faded into a jewel-like red, tears flowed from her eyes, but the golden left eye still glowed with a cold light.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I can't control my love, I have to--"

Although she was apologizing repeatedly and sobbing, a bright smile appeared on the girl's face without her noticing: "I..."

"...Please, leave this dream (here), and don't come back again."

The Old Days series is in the form of a dream. The four chapters together take only one night for Fujimaru Ritsuka. In addition, the sorcerer that Minako carved on Fujimaru Ritsuka's forehead is a memory seal.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 237: The nd Act: The Tour

2023-07-29

Fujimaru Ritsuka opened her hazy eyes, and the cold night wind blew away her sleepiness. She finally broke free from the lingering dream after she saw a few dark stars hiding in the white mist in front of her.

——What exactly was the dream just now?

Ritsuka Fujimaru didn't think it was just her imagination. She touched her smooth forehead, recalling the feeling of Caster drawing on her forehead in her dream.

"If you really want to kill me, why not just crush me with Shadow Slicing Magic?"

She was grumbling in her heart. In her serial dreams over the past few days, she had "seen" the power of a magic called Shadow Cutting, which could easily crush a knight wearing standard armor. Even though Fujimaru Ritsuka was confident in the magic costumes produced in Chaldea, she did not think that their hardness could be comparable to that of a knight's armor.

Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at the purple-haired girl who was sleeping beside her holding a large shield. She recalled what Mash had mentioned inadvertently:

——"I have lost contact with my senior for almost half a month."

But from Fujimaru Ritsuka's own perspective, only five days had passed since she woke up in this world.

But if that was the truth, there were still some things that didn't match up - in the dream, she and Caster first met after King Arthur's death.

The more she thought, the more confused she became. Her already unclear brain was unable to make a clear judgment. She wanted to lie down and go back to sleep, but she could not fall asleep no matter how hard she tried. At this moment, the sound of Sasha's footsteps not far away attracted Fujimaru Ritsuka's attention. She turned around alertly and headed towards the direction of the sound. Her right hand hidden under the quilt had quietly lit up the Command Seal, and her other hand reached out to Mashu beside her, ready to operate on both fronts if anything went wrong.

Dark clouds quietly obscured a few stars, the swaying trees made a shrill whistling sound, and a figure appeared from the vast shadows, and the shadow moved away from her face little by little with her footsteps.

"Fujimaru."

Caster looked Fujimaru Ritsuka up and down, and the ice blue that flashed across his body quickly faded and finally turned into warm orange.

She raised her lips slightly, pretending that nothing had happened. Caster walked a few steps closer to Fujimaru Ritsuka, and then sat down leisurely with his magic note pad on the grass.

"Are you suffering from insomnia?" After a pause, Caster answered himself, "That's right, the night is the most unsafe here."

She mistook Fujimaru Ritsuka's momentary alertness as fear of the uneasy environment.

Instant high-powered magic, which can detect the entire range of Camelot, and to a certain extent determine the occurrence of low-probability events. She controls at least two first-class servants who will never betray her - facing such an enemy, it is normal for her to lose sleep.

"Don't worry, just leave the fighting to us Servants." Caster hummed to comfort him.

"Well, I'll leave it to you." Fujimaru Ritsuka said with a smile. She became curious again: "But, why are you here so late, Minachell..."

As he spoke, Fujimaru Ritsuka's gaze drifted towards the forest.

"It's all because of that guy Lancelot!" Caster shouted angrily in a low voice, "He became so nervous after having a daughter. He stayed up late at night and dragged me over there to ask about his daughter - ah! I was already dead when his child entered Camelot! How could I know so much! I could only perfunctorily answer him with the knowledge fed back by the Holy Grail."

Caster's eyes darkened, and her tone became weaker. She murmured in a very soft voice, "Forget it, just consider it as something I owed him in my previous life."

What's more, although Lancelot is just a human and is not as strong as a servant, only by making Lancelot, the dog father, feel a sense of belonging to his daughter who suddenly appeared can this guy wholeheartedly protect Fujimaru Ritsuka, even if it is just to delay him for a second - in the "future" one only needs to say a few words of chivalry to trick him into doing things, but now this fool is actually much more troublesome.

Caster observed Fujimaru Ritsuka's expression, and she noticed that there was no doubt on his face.

It seems that the Mirror Fairy has told Fujimaru Ritsuka something.

Although she didn't want to admit it, Caster still felt a little scared when she thought about this. She didn't know how Fujimaru Ritsuka would view her like that.

As if he had guessed Caster's thoughts, Fujimaru Ritsuka half-jokingly said, "As expected, Minachell, you are still so hypocritical."

"Duplicity?"

Caster tilted his head in confusion.

"Yeah, it's okay to just talk about Lancelot, or to go with me to see the clock tower in Lihe City. Obviously, they all did it in the end - what should this be, tsundere, right?"

"Huh?" Caster was obviously stunned for a moment, and the perfect impatience on his face was revealed by her delay, and there was a moment of blankness, revealing a subtle surprise.

It was as if a hole was finally punctured in the realistic mask, allowing Fujimaru Ritsuka to proudly peek at the true face inside.

"You... you... what nonsense are you talking about! What tsundere? I always say what I mean..."

"No, no, no, this is cute."

Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't help but narrow her eyes. She sincerely felt that this kind of Caster was much more real than the vaguely distant one before.

"I know it without you telling me." Caster hummed proudly while touching the red tips of her ears. She glanced at Fujimaru Ritsuka intentionally or unintentionally, then looked away and glanced again.

The girl's face was filled with joy and there was no flattery in her praise.

She was a little confused, but did not show it in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Forget it." Caster stood up, her magic notebook impatiently shattered into magic debris that merged into the air. She glanced at the sleeping Mashu with her peripheral vision, and said something suggestive: "It would be bad if we keep talking and wake them up. Fujimaru, you should also go to bed early. If I remember the way correctly, we should be able to reach the city of Velu where Tristan is stationed tomorrow. To be on the safe side, I'll go for another inspection."

As she spoke, Caster's figure retreated into the darkness again. Before she completely disappeared, she opened her mouth, but no sound came out. Her lips moved up and down to make the shape of "good night".

Next to Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mashu opened her eyes and sat up almost at the same time as Caster left.

"Senior, you should have woken me up as soon as possible."

She said to Fujimaru Ritsuka who kept smiling apologetically with a bit of complaint.

"Don't worry, Minachell doesn't have any hostility."

Ritsuka Fujimaru has thought it through. The most urgent task now is to destroy the dream. Now is not the time to engage in infighting. No matter what, as her original partner in this tour, Ritsuka Fujimaru will trust Minashel without reservation before she actually betrays her.

……

Walking on the road in the forest, Caster recalled the conversation just now.

Her facial expressions were flawless, and her emergency response was perfect—Fujimaru Ritsuka only regarded her previous gaffe as shyness from hearing the word "tsundere."

——The Mirror Fairy had clearly told Fujimaru Ritsuka that she was the Rain Fairy, but the other party was still naive and thought that she would have emotional fluctuations over such a situation.

But it's also thanks to this innocence.

Did you make an appointment to go to Lihecheng to see the clock tower together? Caster narrowed her eyes, she recalled Fujimaru Ritsuka's words, she did do such a thing, but it was just a spur of the moment, and she never made an appointment with anyone.

"Tsk, trouble."

Don't think that I lowered Gudako's intelligence so that she couldn't figure it out. She didn't get as much information as you (she didn't get any fragments), and it was also very confusing (her dreams were not numbered, only the order in which she dreamed).

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 238: The Enemy is

2023-07-29

Lihe City. From outside the city, this fortress seems to be no different from the small villages along the way.

The cold city walls refracted a sharp cold light under the sunlight, but even the strongest city would be gradually eroded by a tiny crack. Mixed in with the pedestrians entering the city, Lancelot and Mashu protected Fujimaru Ritsuka on the left and right. Caster consciously entered the spiritual body, but even so, an accident still occurred.

"It looks a bit unfamiliar." Finally, the moat knight came to a conclusion: "The adults of the Knights of the Round Table have issued an order. Now there are enemies who are trying to destroy the unity of the kingdom. It is a wartime state and no entry is allowed."

Facing the scrutinizing gaze of the city guard knights, Lancelot took a few steps forward with an apologetic smile. She showed the royal blue knight sword at her waist and shook the guard's hand cordially: "My two lord knights, I have come to seek refuge with the lord knights of the Round Table."

Lancelot then revealed the two girls behind him: "They are my daughters."

Caster cast hint magic early in the morning. At this time, Fujimaru Tachika and Mash were carved out of the same mold as Lancelot in the eyes of outsiders.