Dragon Clan: Fujimaru-san is saving the world

So how long has passed?

Fujimaru Ritsuka no longer remembers.

ten years?

Twenty years?

A hundred years, no, a thousand years?

Unknown to him, the clay tablet he used to record time seemed to have been destroyed in the last encounter with Nidhogg, and the part of his brain that recorded time was also consumed.

The time was so long that the brain capacity, which was considered to be 'unlimited', had to be deleted in order to preserve the part of the memory that the girl really cared about.

However, Fujimaru Ritsuka remembered that the last time the main character of this kind of fantasy work was locked in a time cage for a thousand years, it was a little brother named Kiritani Kazuto.

Human beings cannot bear such wear and tear on their souls, so their memories are burned as soon as they come out.

But Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't.

She has to bear it all.

Carrying the fate of human history.

Never lose.

Never fall down.

The ancient bells are ringing at the end of the world, and the silver-gray movement of the Holy Knight is carried by the strong wind, blowing the dust and sweeping away.

It was really a war that was too long.

If there was only one person, it would probably become a repetitive silhouette that was boring enough to drive people crazy. However, due to the random entry of heroic spirits, it turned from a fight into a real 'Holy Grail War'.

A grand battle centered around defeating the 'World's Strongest'.

Because the area of ​​​​the Star Inland Sea is planet-level, Fujimaru Ritsuka can completely implement delaying tactics, and then let others take a detour to build military defenses in other places.

There is no shortage of magicians like Morgan among the heroic spirits. If an attack was carried out using a completely different system of 'fairy magic' from this world, even Nidhogg would be able to do it.

The battle continues with this idea.

positional warfare.

Guerrilla warfare.

Breach warfare, mine warfare, sparrow warfare, ambush warfare, tunnel warfare, siege warfare

Take advantage of the terrain.

Use tactics.

He even thought about whether he could create a deeper 'inner sea' in the inner sea of ​​stars to seal Nidhogg.

Just as the dragon king said.

Try your best.

Use all your wits.

Exhausted foolhardiness.

If this is the world's final assessment of 'humanity', then I am the middle link.

He cannot turn into a sharp blade that penetrates the dragon's chest.

But he will pave the way for that future, the next hero chosen in human history.

The production of [Black Spear], the inheritance of [White King].

For this world, it is the same as the production of [Nuclear Bomb] and the [Manhattan Project].

In a limited time, create a dream of distant stars that the human world should not have contact with, should not be able to contact, and should not be able to touch.

There will be geniuses who will achieve that glory.

But it takes time.

He cannot be the one to open up the stars.

But I will use all my flesh and blood and all my bones to drag the enemy to death.

——

Looking around, the land as far as the eye could see was filled with flying rubble and sand. The girl looked up at the sky amid the smoke and dust.

On the red sky that seemed to collapse at any moment—the figures of "destruction" were flying back and forth.

Black death has lingered in the sky for countless years.

In order to prevent the other party from forcibly leaving this world, the girl must ensure that her hands are condensed with a preview of the Noble Phantasm that can penetrate the core of the star every moment and every second.

Every point.

every second.

Over the past two thousand years, the body has been continuously overloaded in an overclocking manner, and then repaired under the word spirit of "Don't Die".

Countless times, she had the desire to give up.

But it's a pity.

Her [past] signed a [pledge] for herself.

"If I want to eliminate the sins and karma of the abandoned Kong, it means that I must accept an equivalent price."

"The pain and punishment of killing countless worlds. In order for them to lend me their power, I need to accept that disaster and suffering."

In the Buddha's Taoism, it is called ascetic practice.

It refers to the method by which Buddhists give up worldly desires such as good clothes, three meals, and too much sleep, and diligently pursue the Tao, practicing the selfless middle way.

When the Buddha was still Prince Siddhartha, in order to find a way to completely cut off the suffering of reincarnation and avoid too much secular interference in his thinking, after some consideration, he decided to go to the city of Gaya in the south of the Kingdom of Magadha, outside the city. Practice with concentration in the deep forest.

There are few people here, and every plant and tree is full of life.

Siddhartha began his six-year practice under a lush tree, which was flat and sunny.

The mountain breeze blew, white clouds drifted by, and the Neranjara River continued to flow forward day and night. Six years passed unknowingly.

During these six years, Siddhartha always sat cross-legged, never covering his body, never hiding from the wind and rain, never getting up to take a walk, never bending and stretching his arms and legs, never turning his body sideways, never leaning on anything, never lying down on the ground, no matter in spring or summer. In autumn and winter, he sat upright.

Strong winds blew, rocks fell, birds disturbed, and wild beasts attacked, but he never raised his arms in defense, and he never felt fear in his heart.

Competing in life and death sharpens the soul and embodies the principle of cycle, thus getting rid of the cycle.

Undoubtedly the pinnacle of the world.

In the red world, the girl raised her head.

The face didn't seem to have changed at all, and the long time had not eroded its soul and reflected it on the body.

“After a certain ‘degree’ is exceeded, everything seems to become insignificant. Surprisingly, it’s quite enjoyable.”

The person she was talking to was high in the sky.

——He is the kingly dragon that covers the sky.

Rising above the corpses of the gods, the aloof Dragon King looks down at the world from this scorching throne, his soul and body eternal.

Nothing can harm Him.

But at this moment, scarlet blood spots were left on its body.

Not just one place.

Burns, scorches, cuts, poison wounds, penetrating wounds, festering wounds, and even blades that have not yet been pulled out, tearing off its wings, piercing into the bone seams, and embedded in them.

Fujimaru Ritsuka remembers the shape and cause of each wound.

The penetrating wound was left by Scathach. The divine spear pierced by the empress of the Kingdom of Shadows, who anchored the gods, was supposed to penetrate the lives of all living beings. She was summoned as her [true body] and exerted abilities beyond the original canon. Even if the attack penetrates the main god, it will not surprise anyone.

But Nidhogg dodged the blow that knocked down the god, and in exchange for a small price, his spiritual foundation was shattered.

The burn was left by Karna, and the heroic spirit chose to stay during a combat evacuation operation. While sacrificing the sun armor and burning the spiritual base, the attack released was enough to burn out all civilizations on the surface. Nidhogg left behind burns that lasted for many years.

Fujimaru Ritsuka remembers the two piercing cuts on his chest most clearly. They were left by Hercules.

What was created with the unintentional help of Norton, Jormungandr, and Odin was the peak, no, far-reaching peak of the heroic spirits.

Hercules never showed his power to Fujimaru Ritsuka during his Servant period, but when he took on the form of a physical body and was given a full-class job by Norton, Fujimaru Ritsuka was almost surprised to death.

He is too powerful and too indomitable.

Even Nidhogg would be subdued by Hercules' bravery and be thrown into the volcanic furnace under the abyss of 10,000 meters. He would fight with all his strength at the bottom of the world, and after liberating his own limitations - bow, sword, gun, everything. No, the all-powerful and strongest heroic spirit in human history showed his true abilities and suppressed Nidhogg for a time.

But after leaving that deep stab wound, the man also disappeared.

Burning the spirit base and draining the muscles and bones, Hercules is nothing more than a demigod in mythology no matter how much praise he carries. Even Nidhogg, who is beyond the reach of Zeus, can only be touched by direct contact with his body. Cause natural damage.

Just touching Nidhogg's body means self-destruction.

That is [common sense] like the apple falling.

Fujimaru Ritsuka relied on "Don't Die" to get rid of this common sense, but the heroic spirit could not do it.

Hercules made the last two world-beating slashes, facing the enemy, standing to welcome the end of the spirit base being shattered.

besides

Too much.

During this long period of time, it seemed that every heroic spirit had burned everything at the end of its spiritual foundation to open a path for the contractor.

What a touching and cherished picture and epic.

but.

[Eternity] cannot be broken.

Even a desperate struggle is meaningless.

Crossing over many corpses, the planet's trial body landed on the earth.

"It's sunny, Fujimaru Ritsuka."

"Among the civilizations I have shattered, there has never been anyone like you. I will probably never forget this data."

"However, your defeat has been confirmed."

The land cultivated by countless noble phantoms and burning currents has long lost its original shape.

All that was left were the last two people.

"Even if it's a heroic spirit, it doesn't matter even if it's an entire civilization."

"After the erosion of time, it is just a pile of bones."

With his bruised body, the Dragon King displays a medal that symbolizes despair and pure evil.

"Yeah?"

Standing up from the ruins, the girl couldn't help but laugh.

It's obvious that a long time has passed.

But her mental state seemed not to have reached its limit.

that is because

Her clothes were in tatters, and she didn't know how many times they had been mended, and there was no room left to wash her body with the oracle.

It’s so annoying~ Cleanliness is a girl’s reserve.

She thought so in her mind.

but.

"They said they would stay with me, so that bond will last until the end of the world."

"You can't cut it off, and I probably can't either."

"."

While Nidhogg confirmed that the girl's will had not been broken, he solidified her blood-red pupils in a slightly undulating manner.

"Inside the body, right?"

"Because the heroic spirit destroyed by me cannot be summoned a second time, I simply took it into my body before it was completely shattered. Is this an imitation and expansion of the Dragon King's cocooning technique?"

"Beautiful. However, even if I can preserve the spiritual base that will be completely destroyed by me, and even the traces on the seat——"

"But it makes no sense."

There was even a little regret in Nidhogg's tone.

"It's just delaying death. At the moment when you, the master, die, those heroic spirits"

"I've said it before, this world is an infinite Möbius strip, and the only link to this end is [Fujimaru Ritsuka's death]"

This cycle will not stop until the girl dies.

So pointless.

No matter how long you persist.

No matter how bright the flower of the soul blooms in the girl.

In the face of infinite time, it is meaningless.

"Who knows~ maybe someone will come to save me~"

The girl shrugged.

Even though she was sentenced to death, she showed no signs of being depressed.

That is really too abnormal.

Nidhogg couldn't help but fall into a long silence when he saw this.

"Compared to that kind of thing, you have to continue fighting today, right?" She twisted her wrist.

That was a move repeated thousands, thousands, billions of times.

It's like a machine wearing away its own memory.

Even Nidhogg could not help but admire him and even feel pity for him.

but.

It has ended.

"You're dying"

Nidhogg said calmly.

"The human soul cannot bear such a long time, no matter how strong your spirit is. You can't even remember how many years you have spent now, right?"

"Because you burned that part of the memory and that part of the spirit as fuel."

Burning【Spiritual Element】

That was the bottom line that Lu Mingze once judged as ‘never to be touched’.

More desperate than any existence.

More cruel than any torture.

The existence of oneself will continue to decay, destroy, and become late.

What a decisive measure.

What a cruel decision.

but--

"When will your soul reach its limit?"

"At what point, your memory will be burned to the point that even the memory of the heroic spirit disappears completely."

"At that time, do you still have the willpower to fight me?"

"Ah~~Don't listen, don't listen~~~"

Fujimaru Ritsuka covered her ears and shook her head cutely, not caring about it at all.

"I don't want to listen to the enemy's declaration of surrender, and I don't want to know how many years have passed. Really, a girl's age is a taboo!"

"Compared to that kind of thing——"

The girl covered one ear with one hand and shook it with her other hand.

"Why don't you fight? I'd be happy to."

"."

Nidhogg flapped his wings and raised his body upward.

Even if he knows he has won, he has no intention of letting go.

He didn't know why.

This is obviously inefficient and unreasonable behavior.

but.

Is it to respect what the enemy has done?

Even though those ruby ​​eyes had already seen the end point from that mechanical movement.