Lost Narrative Poetry

But after listening to Perfect Dia's explanation, he suddenly discovered that the holy relic could only increase the relevance of the Servant he wanted to summon, but could not ensure absolute success in obtaining the SSR he wanted...

Unless it is a holy relic like the holy sword scabbard that only points to King Arthur, it can ensure that King Arthur is summoned.

Others are more...well, more uncertain.

There are indeed many authentic cultural relics hidden in the Matou family's treasure house, but most of them are famous swords in Japanese history, although they correspond to famous characters in Japanese history.

But... let's put it this way, since they are famous swords, it usually means that they are famous and everyone wants them, so they often change hands many times and have more than one owner in the past.

For example, regarding the pressure-cutting knife of Hasebe——

Although it was once the famous sword of Oda Nobunaga, it was later given to Kuroda Yoshizu, and was passed down from generation to generation by the Kuroda family... Therefore, no one can guarantee that when summoning with a pressure cutter, what will be summoned will be the first one. It is more likely that the Six Heavenly Demon King is Kuroda Kanbei or Kuroda Nagamasa...

In the same way, if you take Sosan Zuomon, which is regarded as "the sword of the man who controls the world," as a sacred relic, it seems that the possibility of summoning Imagawa Yoshimoto will be greater than summoning Oda Nobunaga.

In other words, he is not sure whether he draws a trump card or a ghost card. He may gain blood or lose blood.

After all, Sasaki Kojiro is a guarantee. With his superb skills that can be called a magic sword, he can compete with Saber despite being completely disadvantaged on the board... But there are not many such fierce people.

After a little hesitation, Xia Ran decided to give up the idea. The start was already very good, so there was no need to be too greedy and suffer losses instead.

"Then let's go, just leave Berserker to look after the house... After we take control of Liudong Temple, we can let them move here." Now that he had made up his mind, Xia Ran no longer hesitated.

Perhaps for psychological reasons, he always felt that the Matou Residence was unclean, and he seemed to be able to smell the rotten smell in the air... Even though it was an illusion, he still felt that it would be better to leave here as soon as possible.

"...Brother, brother, do you want to go out?"

I met Sakura in front of the entrance. The look on her face was a little timid, but also a little curious, and she had a strong composure that could be seen through at a glance. She was obviously scared but she still had to force herself to have courage... But no matter how you put it, it was fine. , much better than before.

This shows that she is getting rid of the previous nightmare, gradually reopening her closed heart, and trying to embrace the outside world again.

Children are mentally immature. They have neither firm conviction nor the power to transform lamentation into anger. Faced with a cruel fate, no one offers them the option to face it with a strong will.

And because we have not yet truly understood life, even the spirits of dignity and hope have not been fully cultivated.

Therefore, when forced to the extreme situation, children are more likely than adults to block their own spirits and close their hearts. The simple truth is that you can give up because you haven’t experienced the joy of life yet; you can fall into despair because you don’t understand the meaning of the future.

Xia Ran twitched her lips and didn't ask why the little girl suddenly called her brother. She just couldn't help but sigh for Matou Kariya in her heart. Although it was understandable to say Ai Wujiwu, it was really unimaginable to do it to this extent.

The woman he likes and the daughter born to someone else can actually love him unconditionally as his own daughter. Even after Tokiomi Tokiomi sent Matou Sakura to hell, Matou Kariya was able to do the same regardless of his own life. Jump in.

He obviously escaped from the fate many years ago, but in the end he chose to accept it, in order to save Matou Sakura, even if it meant risking his life.

The same is true now. It is clear that he can only live for another month, but he never considers his own problems. He still devotes all his energy to planning for Matou Sakura, hoping to ensure the girl's future.

What guarantee? After much deliberation, Xia Ran was the only one to choose. At least this magician had initially proven himself that as long as he was not as perverted as Old Chongzi, he was already pretty good, and he was also capable of protecting Sakura.

It's just that Xia Ran has never expressed anything in this regard. After all, it is still uncertain how long he can stay in this world. The only thing that can be guaranteed is that it will definitely be better than those Servants who rush to the stage and then leave after receiving a box lunch.

But Matou Kariya didn't know, he only had one choice... probably he asked Sakura to be friends with Xia Ranla as much as possible, and to set up a relationship——

If Xia Ran really treats her as a sister, she can really rest assured in the future. Sakura probably listened to Matou Kariya's words, otherwise, it would probably take a while for a seriously injured little girl like her to truly believe that no one would hurt her.

Who doesn't like such a sensible little girl? Xia Ran rubbed Matou Sakura's little head, feeling a little pity after all, but he really had nothing to do now, and it was impossible to make any promise to Matou Yanye.

"Sakura, do you want to go out?" he asked in a friendly voice, trying to sound more cordial.

Beside him, Medea watched quietly without making any comments, but there was a flash of appreciation in her eyes.

When you don't like a person, no matter what he does, you won't like it, and even doing good things will feel like pretentiousness. But on the other hand, when you really start to feel that a person is good, it's another thing.

Although Caster had only been summoned for less than two days, he knew how pitiful the little girl in front of him was, so he appreciated his master even more. The other party is not the kind of magician who blindly uses others and measures everyone by their value.

The little girl was slightly panicked. She mustered up the courage to wait here. Naturally, it was not entirely because of Matou Kariya's advice, but because she also had something to ask Xia Ran to agree to -

Being so precocious, she naturally knows who is the real master of the Matou family now. But she didn't expect that the young man in front of her seemed to already know what she wanted, but he didn't mean to be harsh.

Xiao Ying looked up at Xia Ran's face as if she was watching his expression, and then nodded cautiously: "Well, brother, brother... I, I want to see my mother and sister, is this okay?"

"You want to go see them?" Xia Ran was a little surprised, and at the same time felt sad for Tokiomi Tosaka, who was not mentioned.

However, in the young Matou Sakura's mind, it was her father who kicked her out of her happy family and sent her to the hell of the Matou family... How could she not complain at all?

"Yes... my grandpa told me before that I don't have anyone I can call that, so I can just pretend they don't exist... but my grandpa is gone now, so, I'm wondering if I can..."

Sakura said timidly.

"That's not your grandpa. Don't call him grandpa. The old bug will die when he dies. You think he didn't exist from the beginning..." Xia Ran frowned, but then he realized that the little girl seemed to be attracted by his Serious was frightened and shrank his body.

"I'm sorry, I'm not scolding you...but do you really want to see your mother and sister?" He sighed, then hesitated, and said in a tone of disapproval, "Say To be honest, I don’t actually recommend you to do this, you’d better consider it…”

"..."

"..."

"If this is too much trouble, I won't go...I'm sorry..."

Sakura moved her eyes away from him, and turned into a blank gaze again, as if staring into the distance that only she could see. She said in a sad and weak voice, and squeezed out listlessly. gave a very forced smile.

"Listen, Sakura, I'm not forbidding you to go. But it's not necessarily a good thing for you to see them now, so I hope you think clearly..."

Xia Ran sighed again and reached out to rub the little girl's head, "Well, I still have things to do now. If you still want to see your mother and sister tomorrow, I will take you there... "

"Really?" Matou Sakura's little head suddenly lifted up and she looked at him in surprise and joy.

"...Really." Xia Ran was silent for a moment, knowing that she probably didn't listen to his advice. After all, she is still such a young child, so she can't force too much. She is already more mature than all her peers. .

It's just that he was abandoned by his original family and sent to a strange hell-like environment. He was tortured and tortured for a year in fear and helplessness. Although he was protected by Matou Kariya, he was not subjected to a more terrifying person before the failure of the Holy Grail War. things...

But this is still too heavy for a little girl. If she goes back at this time, she will see that her original family still seems so happy, and her life will be the same with or without her.

In contrast, only she herself was kicked out and tortured in hell...

——Is it really a good thing?

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At three o'clock in the morning, everything was silent.

However, for those involved in the Holy Grail War, the darkness of night is more suitable for reconnaissance work and assassination activities.

Especially for the magicians in Fuyuki City, there are two main areas of concern, that is, the two luxurious and grand mansions standing on the hills in the city, which belong to the three royal houses respectively. Kiri family and Tohsaka family.

Except for Einzbern City, which is not located in Fuyuki, two families of the Gosan Family are here. Considering that they initiated and co-sponsored the Holy Grail War, and also participated in the competition... it is inevitable that there is someone who can serve as both a referee and a judge. An athlete feel.

If possible, other people would naturally consider killing the representative player of Yu Sanjia as soon as possible.

Therefore, in the past few days, there were often low-level familiars wandering around the Matou and Tohsaka families day and night for the purpose of reconnaissance.

But the strange thing is that the Matou family has been emptied out for some reason. It seems that no one lives there anymore. I don’t know if it is because of the adjustments made due to this Holy Grail War. As for where they have gone, they cannot be traced for the time being.

The Tosaka family naturally became the target of the fire... However, the current head of the family seems to have been prepared for this level of reconnaissance, and has already erected more than ten or twenty layers of barriers around the mansion for the purpose of reconnaissance and defense. . From a magical point of view, there is simply no difference between a mansion and a fortress.

However, if you are of the Assassin class and have powerful aura blocking skills, you can suppress your magic power to almost zero and act, allowing you to approach the target like an invisible shadow and sneak into it.

Many people were waiting for this to happen, and it did happen tonight.

Then--

Assassin was killed directly.

The one who took action was a golden heroic spirit who appeared directly above the mansion. He looked down at Assassin lying on the ground with his red eyes that seemed to be burning, and declared in a contemptuous tone.

"You don't see my qualifications. You have to be like an ant. Just lie down on the ground and lower your head to die."

Immediately afterwards, countless flashing lights appeared in the space around the golden figure. Along with the sound of the wind being cut, countless sharp blades shining with cold light flew towards Assassin.

In the eyes of the familiars who were watching this scene from outside the barrier, the loser of the Fourth Holy Grail War seemed to have appeared, the Servant who was defeated without even making a single move.

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"Assassin was killed?"

In Liudong Temple late at night, the witch opened her eyes, muttered to herself doubtfully, and then looked at someone beside her: "Did you see it? Master."

"I saw it, what do you think? Caster." Xia Ran replied casually. He had no special ideas about this kind of fixed plot, and he didn't want to waste his brains thinking about it.

Time was short, and the butterfly effect he brought could not affect Tokiomi Tohsaka's thoughts. It is estimated that the man who did everything wrong in this world wanted to put on a show so that people would not dare to target him in the first place.

"First of all, it can be confirmed that the killing seems to have actually happened. It is not a cover-up. The Assassin's shock and fear do not seem to be fake..."

Medea frowned slightly and began to analyze——

"And the killing is accomplished through a Noble Phantasm. That kind of magical power... To be honest, this is hard to believe. The Noble Phantasms of heroic spirits are also affected by the master's level. Generally, there are only two or three, and the condition is poor. It’s normal to have only one.”

However, the scene I just saw through the eyes of the familiar, monitored from a distance...

The number of Noble Phantasms that appeared at that moment was at least a dozen, which was completely unreasonable!

"There's nothing I can do about it. He's the operator's biological father. This level of cheating is quite restrained..."

Xia Ran said very calmly——

"Just think of him as a primary school student who has invested 80,000 yuan in CF, taunting him with lines like "bastard" while killing people with a fire unicorn, and you still can't report him..."