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

Fujimaru Ritsuka quickly came to her senses and asked, "Are you okay?"

"No, I am a Servant after all, so I won't get hurt if I fall."

——Follower.

Hearing this word, Fujimaru Ritsuka's body tensed up unconsciously, but a stiff expression of concern remained on his face.

"Master, don't worry, I won't hurt you." Perhaps Fujimaru Ritsuka's performance was too obvious, so the girl in front of her could only directly see through her disguise. Her eyes dimmed as she spoke: "In fact, I don't even have the ability to hurt you. As you can see, I am a very weak Servant. I don't even have the strength to support a Master who is about to fall."

"Servant..." Fujimaru Ritsuka hesitated and looked at the Command Seal on the back of her hand.

"I am a Servant of the Caster class. I have been summoned by you to participate in the Holy Grail Ceremony."

"The Holy Grail?" After Caster's explanation, Fujimaru Ritsuka was even more confused. She hurriedly explained: "No, I am actually..."

"Don't be so quick to deny it. No matter who you are, I don't intend to take you on any adventures." Caster's voice suddenly dropped. She raised her head and said to Fujimaru Ritsuka seriously, "Compared to other Servants, I'm too weak. Even the most basic magic requires a long time to prepare... I don't have the ability to protect you at all."

"So, I'm sorry, Master. Your chances of winning are not great. If you want to survive, you'd better abandon me, abandon your unrealistic fantasies, and find a place to hide and wait for the ceremony to end." Caster said as he reached out and pulled the hood behind his cloak to cover his pointed ears.

Fujimaru Ritsuka pursed her lips. Without the support of Chaldea, she could only rely on herself. She sorted out the information in front of her from the fragmented information. The girl in front of her who looked very easy to bully was the Servant she summoned.

"But you're not going to give up, are you?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka grasped the hidden message in Caster's words, and her eyes met Caster's.

"Of course, I don't need your magic offering to maintain the present world."

——This makes things much easier.

Fujimaru Ritsuka hugged the girl in front of him with a moderate strength, his gesture was neither offensive nor distant. Feeling the body suddenly stiffen in his arms, Fujimaru Ritsuka gently stroked her back with one hand, as if giving her strength: "You are really cute!"

"you you……"

The girl in his arms struggled violently. She broke away from Fujimaru Ritsuka's arms in an instant. Her face turned red and even her speech became unclear. She took several deep breaths to adjust herself.

"Don't say such nonsense all of a sudden. Your body still needs to rest. My healing magic won't take effect that quickly."

"I will not abandon my companions." Although he did not understand what exactly happened in this singularity, Ritsuka Fujimaru knew that he could end this singularity as long as he touched the Holy Grail.

She approached the other's extremely dull robe, and her tone was almost gentle: "Walk with me, I am not willing to give up the Holy Grail either."

Caster's voice trembled slightly: "Master, you have to think carefully. If you follow me, you will die. I roughly know the strength of other servants."

"It's okay." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and soothed the girl in his arms: "I don't want to leave my companion alone, not to mention, I also want the Holy Grail."

Caster didn't reply immediately. She lowered her head and buried it in Fujimaru Ritsuka's arms.

"You won't abandon me, even though I'm weak and a piece of shit who can't even bite my tongue when chanting magic?"

Her voice was dull and sounded particularly hoarse.

"No." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head.

"But, those guys are much stronger than me. Even if you really want the Holy Grail... you can make a contract with other Servants who have lost their Chosen Ones later."

"No." Fujimaru Ritsuka still shook her head solemnly. She gently stroked Caster's head: "I can't leave you, who is kind enough to treat me even though you are not good at it, who still choose to support me even though you have little strength, and who is eager but unwilling to implicate me, all alone."

She quietly used her Master's authority to observe Caster. The rest of his attributes could be said to be weak, but the Ex in the magic column was shocking.

"Masters and Servant are meant to match each other, right? I summoned you unconsciously, which has proven that you are the most suitable partner for me in Valhalla. You are unique and the most suitable Servant to accompany me. Stay with me until the end."

Fujimaru Ritsuka wanted to put her hands on the other person's shoulders, but she seemed to hear a very slight sneer in her ears. The weak girl suddenly raised her head, and her ruby-red eyes, which were as calm as lake water, seemed to be frozen with a thin layer of frost.

The red in her right pupil suddenly began to fade, and the bottom of her eye was dyed with a deep gold. The corners of Caster's mouth turned up to outline a mocking and malicious smile. Her eyes no longer dodged, and she even stared at her as if she wanted to freeze Fujimaru Ritsuka's body completely.

"Want to join me in victory?"

Her eyeliner curved into a subtle arc, and the smile at the corners of her mouth became more and more corrupt, with the insolence of a madman who was not afraid of death.

Watching Caster, who was like a docile sheep whose disguise had been torn off to reveal his wolf-like inner self, a chilling sense of separation arose in Fujimaru Ritsuka's heart, making her want to stay away from him.

But Caster suddenly stretched out her hand. Her movements were extremely fast. She stretched out her hands from between her sleeves and clamped Fujimaru Ritsuka's elbows the next moment. The force was not very strong, and Fujimaru Ritsuka even felt that he could break free as long as he used more force, but those extremely indifferent eyes made Fujimaru Ritsuka give up struggling.

"The chosen one of the Holy Grail is an outsider who does not belong to this time and space—"

She chuckled, and her voice even had a slight tremor.

A red light, indicating a warning, lit up at the point where the two people touched. One after another, blood-red chains made of magic power stretched out from the red light and sank into the bodies of the two people.

Self-enforced contract, reached.

Caster raised her face, and suddenly, she closed her eyes and showed a peaceful smile, but the words she said were completely contrary to her gentle appearance.

"Now, you can't run away."

I never said that the sixth singularity discovered by Chaldea was in Jerusalem in the original story.

I repeat, I'm in school, so I can only update every two to three days (that's the maximum)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 206: The Chosen One of Lies

2023-07-29

"Now, you can't run away."

Caster raised her head, and even the hood slipped off her head due to such violent movements, revealing her flushed little face from excitement again.

The blood-colored chains penetrated into the bodies of the two people and eventually disappeared into thin air. Only the remaining magic power in the air proved that the sudden change was not an illusion of Fujimaru Ritsuka.

It is a self-enforced contract, and neither party can violate the terms of the contract. As Caster said, only at this moment is Fujimaru Ritsuka truly her companion.

Caster gently pulled Fujimaru Ritsuka's elbow and placed it on his shoulder. The force was not very strong, but it made Fujimaru Ritsuka feel an extremely strong sense of crisis.

——She absolutely could not retreat at this moment, absolutely could not let go, and absolutely could not show any expression of disgust towards the girl in front of her who was revealing her inner wolf, otherwise something extremely terrifying would happen.

Looking into Caster's eyes, Fujimaru Ritsuka suppressed the panic that suddenly surged in her heart. She gave Caster a kind smile, although it was a little reluctant, but she once again held Caster in her arms.

This time, Caster broke away indifferently, even apathetically, but there was the same surprise in his heterochromatic pupils, as if he was surprised that Fujimaru Ritsuka could still maintain such an optimistic attitude after being deceived by him.

"I never thought of abandoning you." Fujimaru Ritsuka did not give in. She lowered her head, looked into Caster's eyes, and asked with a smile: "Caster, your contract is better than nothing to me - on the contrary, I am very happy that you can fight with me."

She realized her mistake. She had only spent a few minutes with Caster and had labeled him as cowardly, inferior, shy and introverted. But if that was really the case, how could he become a Heroic Spirit?

He first appeared weak, then immediately revealed his true face after tricking her into saying the key words and signing a compulsory contract.

"You're wrong. I need you to fight with me." Caster snorted and denied Fujimaru Ritsuka's soothing answer. The gold in her right pupil became deeper. She looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka. Her calm eyes suddenly became a little dazed, as if someone saw something through her eyes. But she blinked quickly and regained her composure. Her tone was a little weaker: "Although I'm a little sorry for you, I need your strength. I have a reason to win."

"No matter what, I'm on your side." Fujimaru Ritsuka giggled twice, and she slowly let go of Caster's shoulders: "I'm quite happy that Caster has the determination to win."

"Humph."

Caster let go of Fujimaru Ritsuka's hand, turned slightly, and blinked, seeming to be very pleased with these words.

"I have to say, you are very good at talking, a traveler from another time and space." Caster said, "Perhaps you can really eliminate the current abnormality."

Caster put her hood back on with one hand, and this time she chanted a magic trick to carefully fix the hood, making sure her pointed ears were hidden in the shadows.

She reached out her hand and gently grasped the hand that Fujimaru Ritsuka extended, barely a handshake to stop the fight. She whispered, "I'm sorry for tricking you into signing the contract, but I don't trust anyone, including you - even if you summoned me out."

"Did my actions change your mind?"

"It's a spell. I signed a spell with you that I will never abandon you. If one of us violates the terms of the contract, we will be sacrificed in blood." She turned her head slightly and said indifferently, "So, don't try to betray me."

Although those were clearly threatening words full of warnings, seeing Caster covering his hood and glaring at her fiercely still gave Fujimaru Ritsuka a strange feeling as if she was comforting a stray kitten that she had just taken in. She opened her mouth and finally nodded silently.

Caster seemed to be extremely satisfied with Fujimaru Ritsuka's attitude. She closed her eyes tightly. When she opened them again, the gold in her right eye had faded, and both eyes turned into a blue color like lake water.

Noticing the strange color change, Fujimaru Ritsuka resisted the urge to ask and just opened his mouth with a look as if he wanted to say something but stopped.

"I place my trust in you," she said. "My real name is Saltisu, Duke of the River Li of Camelot, which does not exist in this time and space."

It was another name she had never heard of before. Fujimaru Ritsuka frowned slightly, but she knew that asking such irrelevant questions would only reduce the other party's favorability. From the look of Saltishu, it was obvious that he was about to reveal something.

Seeing Fujimaru Ritsuka's obviously confused expression, Caster's eyes moved. She continued with a cold expression:

"In my memory, Britain during this period should have been unified by King Arthur, but there is no King Arthur here, yet it surprisingly achieved unification and integration."

"Knights holding holy lances, knights holding the sun, knights riding phantom horses, and knights pulling the strings of the harp. They swept across Britain like a whirlwind, and both the Hundred Knights and the Four Stark Kings were defeated like lightning. But none of the four knights claimed to be king. They took the initiative to come to the border to guard against rebellions in various places. A brand new country without a "king" was born."

Caster's voice was low, but Fujimaru Ritsuka gradually came back to her senses. She didn't know about the other two, but the one holding the "Knight of the Sun" and the "Knight Pulling the Strings" sounded like a certain Gawain and Tristan in Chaldea.

So, and so on...

"So the center of the change is King Arthur after all."

Fujimaru Ritsuka came to the conclusion that by analogy, the other two knights should be Knights of the Round Table.

'Are you familiar with the characters of King Arthur's time?'

She quickly glanced at Fujimaru Ritsuka and made a judgment in her mind. Seeing Fujimaru Ritsuka's look, Caster slowly denied Fujimaru Ritsuka's conclusion:

"How can there be no one to resist a country without a king? The King Arthur of this era you are talking about was purged not long ago, and his followers were also executed with him."

"Servants... King Arthur has servants?"

"You don't think that summoning Servants is your exclusive right, do you?" Caster rubbed her sore eyes. When she opened them, they regained their original gem-like red color. She gave Fujimaru Ritsuka a mocking smile: "Not only King Arthur can summon Servants... The four Knights of the Round Table are not from this era either. They are also Servants."

"I don't know what the singularities you encountered before were like, but here, this is the Holy Grail War, and you are not the only one who can become a Master."

Thanks to book friend 20210406232321187 for the reward

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 207: Starless Night

2023-07-29

It is best not to go out at night, especially on rainy nights.

This is Caster's reminder to Fujimaru Ritsuka.

According to Caster, Britain at night is a period of extreme chaos, at the end of the Age of Gods, those horrible creatures from the mysterious side would occasionally visit the human pure land through these unstable cracks, and some unlucky humans would mistakenly enter the mysterious side - this had never happened in Britain where Saltishu lived during his lifetime.

Caster speculated that perhaps this was because the Holy Grail, which was originally used to divide the world, was activated and the Holy Grail War began.

"But fairies, they sound just like a fairy tale." Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't help but imagine a small, cute humanoid creature with wings, just like Saltishu.

"Yeah, just like in fairy tales." Caster nodded in agreement, "As a foil, the goblins and elves who were killed by the knights after burning and looting the village."

The beautiful fairy that had already taken shape in Fujimaru Ritsuka's mind immediately turned into an ugly, short goblin, and she looked at Caster with a disillusioned expression.

"You weren't expecting to see wind fairies, were you?" Caster shook his head. "They don't come here. The only things you'll see at night are those inferior, ugly creatures."

The sound of raindrops hitting the beams made people feel cold. Having just had his fantasy shattered, Fujimaru Ritsuka could not help but lean towards the fire, trying to seek warmth to dispel the coldness on his body, but before Fujimaru Ritsuka could move a few steps, Caster blocked him with his hand.

"I'm not sure if my magic will explode suddenly." She warned Fujimaru Ritsuka in a low voice: "Be careful that your hair and eyebrows will be burned off - if that happens, I guess the goblins won't even look at you."

Hearing Caster's words, Fujimaru Ritsuka carefully shrank his neck, and then he turned to look at Caster. Even when sitting by the fire, she was still wearing a wide hood, and only the part below the eyes could be seen clearly, which gave people an inexplicable gloomy feeling.

"What are you looking at?" Although she didn't look up, Caster saw Fujimaru Ritsuka's little movement clearly. She gently raised the brim of her hat and looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"No, I'm just curious as to why you're covering your face, Saltishou. You're obviously a beauty."

"Beauty?" Caster touched her face. She muttered the word and fell into despair for a short while. After a long time, she continued, "Saltyhu makes me uncomfortable. You should call me Minachell... If I remember correctly, this name is much more famous than my real name."

"Hey, hey?"

Instantly, Fujimaru Ritsuka's attention was drawn to her. She no longer bothered about why she had to wear a hood, but instead moved closer to Caster and widened her eyes exaggeratedly.

Minachell - Fujimaru Ritsuka had actually heard of this name. A few days before coming to this singularity, she had fought side by side with him more than once in the game invented by Leonardo da Vinci himself, so much so that she even had a stress reaction when the other party chanted his Noble Phantasm.

But Fujimaru Ritsuka could not connect the petite and lovely girl in front of him, who exuded an aura of being easy to bully, with the school bully in his memory who could not help but step on a dog.

——But speaking of it, Menechel of Chaldea also seemed to have called himself the Duke of Lihe.

"Is it exaggerated? That's right. After all, in the legends, I mostly appear as a man. It's hard to believe that the first knight is a woman." Caster successfully diverted Fujimaru Ritsuka's attention and continued indifferently, "There are only about five people who know that I am a woman, including King Arthur."

She rubbed her hair through her hood. "That's why I responded to your call. I wanted to protect the land where I lived. It's strange, isn't it, that I, a traitor, would speak like a loyal subject."

"No, the reason I'm surprised is just because I've seen another you."

An awkward smile appeared on Fujimaru Ritsuka's face. She scratched her face but did not notice that Caster beside her quietly tensed up.

"Another me?" Caster finally raised her head. Her left eye, which was revealed by chance, exuded a deep golden color. She asked curiously, "Did she say anything to you?"

"Her? The other you is a real man. This should be considered an isomorph from a different world line. After all, his job is Saber... or Lancer."

"Tsk, are you telling the truth?" Caster lowered her head in disappointment. The gold in her eyes quickly faded, as if she had completely lost interest in continuing the conversation. "Don't talk about that male me anymore... I can vaguely see that I will regret it very much after listening to your story in the future."

"That's hard to refute." Fujimaru Ritsuka also showed a regretful expression on her face. She quickly calmed down and asked another question: "So, Minachell, you said you were weak in the beginning, in order to make me sign that contract with you?"

Although the First Knight was quite outrageous, his strength was unquestionable. So the gender-changed First Knight in front of him should not be much worse.