Proposed by the most beautiful you in the world [Comprehensive]

Even though we've only been together for such a short time now...

Fujimaru Tatsuka felt that the heroic spirit who was dragged away by Da Vinci who helped him a lot was really... an indescribable person.

Obviously based on his previous behavior, no matter how he looked at it, he seemed to be on the opposite side of the Lion King and Gawain.

However, when they left the battlefield and stayed with them who were theoretically on the same side, the shocking aura they felt earlier was like a balloon that had been punctured and suddenly emptied and deflated.

"Thank you for taking me away, but... do you mind this?"

A voice with no ups and downs comes out through the thick and hard metal. Not only does it have the illusion that the voice is slower than normal for a moment, but the original voice is also distorted, making it more dull than ever.

"I, who betrayed Master and Gao Wenqing, made my own choice and will never regret it, but I am no longer qualified to face them in my original form."

That's right, this strange Heroic Spirit - he didn't even want to tell them his perfunctory pseudonym, let alone his real name, and only revealed his class: Caster.

He also hid himself from head to toe in the standard armor of a solemn knight who came from the holy city, and his defense was flawless. No matter who looked at him, he thought this guy was really suspicious.

Of course, both Fujimaru Tachika and Mash had a high initial liking for Caster, and they didn't really suspect this venerable heroic spirit who really risked his life to stop Gawain at the gate of the city.

"No, I just thought it would be inconvenient for you, Caster? After all, this thing feels very heavy..."

The most important thing is that the current Caster, with no one to support him, already has difficulty walking and almost fell down.

The sword that scratched Gao Wen never left his hand. Every time he took a step, he used the sword as a crutch to support his body, and the tip of the sword hit the ground heavily, making the sound of the collision harsh and sharp.

Fujimaru Tatsuka tried to persuade her a few times, but after opening her mouth, she hesitated to speak and stopped her voice, turning into silence.

Although this heroic spirit fled with them by accident, and seemed to be at the end of his battle.

But he doesn't seem to have any intention of walking with them, becoming their companion.

"Well, I can only part ways with you here. I already know the fact that you are the chosen ones to change your destiny, but please forgive me, at least I can't walk with you at this time."

After temporarily settling the refugees who had been escorting along the way, Caster said goodbye to them without delay.

He still supported his body with the golden sword that seemed to be worn out a lot, barely making himself look so precarious.Contrary to this detail, he straightened his back again, and it was still possible to hear through the helmet that the expectation that was suddenly apparent was hidden in his voice:

"Because there is another place that must be found and reached by all means, and it is not in the same direction as your destination."

"But, Mr. Caster." Fujimaru Tachika's sub-servant, the girl Mash hesitated for a moment, but still said her heart truthfully: "In your current state, I'm afraid you won't be able to persist in walking a long distance..."

"It doesn't matter, even if I am more useless than before, I can..."

This Heroic Spirit is ten to thousands of times more stubborn than he felt.

The smell of blood that he smelled the first time after he got closer, after such a long time of running and fleeing, has spread to the point where it is impossible for people to pretend not to smell it.

Da Vinci, who has always been in charge of persuading and enlightening others, suddenly fell silent a lot. He looked at the sky the whole time, as if there was something worth seeing in the sky...

Huh, wait?

The extremely helpless Fujimaru Tachika finally remembered a person who seemed to be ignored by everyone.

Speaking of which, where did the doctor go?

The current commander Dr. Roman, who stayed in Chaldea to do monitoring and logistics work, and would always be by their side in the form of a projection unless the communication connection was lost, actually didn't speak for several hours, and the projection was magically turned off.

However, the contact was not interrupted.

It meant that Dr. Roman was still sitting in the control room dutifully and did not wander off. He listened to the voices here, but he didn't speak or show his face from the beginning to the end.

This is something that has never happened before.

Fujimaru Tachika couldn't help feeling suspicious.

What he was thinking at this time was that, with the doctor's contradictory character of worrying and unexpectedly rational at critical moments, he might be secretly observing Caster who still had doubts about him. After all, the relationship between Caster and the people of the Holy City seemed very complex.

Then, when the conclusion is reached after the observation, or when the silence becomes unbearable, the doctor may—

"Nothing! Don't say anything!"

A man's voice came out of nowhere, with an unquestionable momentum that even acquaintances had never heard before, forcefully interrupting the stubborn Caster's farewell words.

This is...doctor?

"Your current situation is very bad, there is absolutely no doubt about it!"

In everyone's perception, Romani Akiman, who has always had a good temper and never gets angry no matter how much he complains, said the first sentence to Caster, whom he had never met before. There is a trace of strange emotion that is difficult for the uninformed to detect.

Although, in the second sentence after that, his tone suddenly softened.

"Just... even if it's purely, as a doctor with professional ethics, I strongly oppose any irrational actions you take, at least not yet."

"Doctor?! Leaving aside why you suddenly appeared, Caster is obviously frightened by you!"

That's right.

When this strange male voice sounded, Caster froze.

Through the armor, I couldn't see the expression of the heroic spirit inside.But his body froze obviously, and the steps he was about to take froze immediately, as if he couldn't move anymore the moment Doctor Roman's voice came to his ears.

This reaction... isn't it too exaggerated?

Roman, who still hadn't turned on the projector, paused for a moment before saying another word.

"The most important thing is, as Matthew said, where you want to go, you can't do it alone now, why not go with us for a while. Lixiang and the others will also..."

"……Do not."

"what?"

"No...I..."

Roman's volume suddenly increased: "What's wrong? Where do you—"

No.

no, no, no...

wrong.

Originally, Heroic Spirit, who felt that he still had strength and was still able to persevere with this broken body, suddenly felt incomparably exhausted.

He can't move anymore.

The wounded place, the place where the blood kept flowing out and the hole couldn't be filled, the deep pain that even the body of the heroic spirit couldn't bear hit him all at once.

"Ugh..."

For a moment, the sword fell out of his hand.

Heroic Spirit, who was still able to stand up barely, seemed to have just closed his eyes for a while.

Then, his figure was crooked, like a quietly falling kite—he fell weakly, and was caught by another person who arrived in time with both arms.

The person who came was the knight Lucius who joined their team on the way of fleeing. He had met once before.

"...This Heroic Spirit who calls himself Caster is an old acquaintance of me and their enemies who are now enemies. I can't tell you his identity until I get his permission, but if you refer to me alone..."

"After this battle, the answer will be revealed. The pursuing army is coming, and the leader of the army is Lancelot, one of the Knights of the Round Table!"

*****

He seemed to have slept for a long, long time.

Although I didn't dream, I didn't sleep well.

During the period of chaotic consciousness, I can still vaguely feel that I am being carried behind others, and I am constantly bumping for a long time.

During the period, the noise that erupted during the battle faintly reached my ears, and some familiar human voices were also mixed in it.

At this time, he subconsciously wants to struggle, at least to move his stiff and weak body - if he does nothing in an emergency, it will make him feel uneasy.

But still can't move.

The sliver of clarity that was produced was quickly swallowed by the endless darkness, sinking with layer after layer of guilt and unspeakable uneasiness that overwhelmed him, until——

As if passing through thousands of years, he suddenly woke up under the heavy pressure.

"..."

"..."

He was still oppressed by the exhaustion that seemed to go deep into his bones, and the tiredness rising from the bottom of his heart prevented him from waking up many times, but he finally resisted this obstacle and opened his eyes.

"……Well."

Sure enough, it still hurts.

However, it's not a big deal...

The field of vision was limited by the helmet that was not removed even during the coma, and it became much narrower. After all, the eyes can only see the outside world through a narrow gap left in front of him.

Airlie was only relieved for a few seconds that the armor was still intact on his body, and then he couldn't help noticing more important details than this.

...By the way, where is this?

He jumped up the next moment—of course, when he sat up suddenly, he fell back again because of the injury on his body.

The top of the rather simple wooden house was shining brightly into the eyes.

Ellie revisited the memory that had been interrupted for an unknown amount of time, and immediately felt a little strange.

This does not seem to be a temporary camp for refugees.

He lay down for a while on the hardwood bed with a musty smell, thinking in his heart, it would be better to go out and have a look.

Standing up again this time, he learned the lesson from last time. He moved extremely slowly and was extremely careful—in short, Ellie, who was restrained by the armor, finally stood up firmly.

It didn't take long to reach the door. For some reason, he hesitated for a moment before pushing the door open.

The scene outside the door came into view in an instant, overturning all of Ellie's previous guesses.

This is...in the mountains?

Ah, to be precise, it should be a small village hidden in the mountains.

The time at this time may be a bit unlucky, the sun has already set for an unknown period of time.

In the dead of night, only a few bright stars are still twinkling in the night sky, like light spots sprinkled on a dark canvas, which is particularly eye-catching.

He stopped at the door, raised his eyes and looked around, and saw that the same night had shrouded this small village, allowing people who had been tired from the day to sleep peacefully among the houses, only the leaves hidden in the darkness The grass was still shaking slightly.

"...It's all rested."

Really peaceful.After making these noises that broke the silence, he realized his rashness and began to hesitate.

The master named Fujimaru Tachika and the subservant named Mash seem to be sleeping in the room next to him.In addition, there are more than a few servants in the village.

He originally wanted to ask where it was, so it seemed like it was better to wait until dawn.

Ok……

However, Airlie didn't want to retreat into the room again.

After some hesitation, thinking that it was just a time when he would not disturb others, the thought of "going for a walk" finally defeated his doubts about strange places.Ellie knocked on the door, tried to walk lightly, and walked out.

……

The place he chose to stay was the highest point of the hillside behind the village.

It took a while to climb to the top of the hill, and Ellie didn't care about the mess on the dirt floor, so he just sat down.

Looking into the distance from here, one can see the mountains piled upon one another, and one can still vaguely see a little flickering fire behind the distant mountains, and there seems to be a village there.

However, the mountaintop where he was, filled with loneliness and dim light, became an independent place.

The rustling sound only lasted for a moment, and Ellie finally took off the helmet that had brought him dullness for a long time.

The long blue hair that fell down with relief from the disappearance of the confinement was really broken from below the shoulders, the length was not neat, and the lengths were mixed together, revealing several eye-catching depressions.

And the hair on the edge of the sideburns has been soaked in sweat for an unknown amount of time, and it is messily pasted on the forehead and ears.

Obviously such an embarrassing and pitiful appearance...

This pale face illuminated by a faint fluorescent light showed only an extreme calm without sadness or joy.

"If you think about it carefully, there are still many things to do."

Ellie hugged her leg, and slowly pressed her face against her knee covered in hard silver armor.

"Not only to find that person, but after that, do we have to go back..."

"Going back" does not refer to pleading guilty to the Master who was betrayed by him.

Ellie's heart is still conflicted until now.

Did he do something wrong?Judging from the principles he had set for himself, it was indeed wrong.But he couldn't disobey the voice that he had shouted for a long time.As for Arturia who became the Lion King, the Knights of the Round Table including Gao Wenqing, they—

Their behavior, which has been witnessed with their own eyes, is wrong.

So, do we have to go further?

Now that I chose to go against the master for the first time, I don’t leave myself a space for breathing and hesitation, and I don’t evade to widen the distance further and further, but turn it back——”What you did I really can't understand, did you also get dizzy from the black mud of the Holy Grail?" He said these words with great momentum.

...To be honest, I haven't made up my mind yet.

In addition, the confusion that cannot be sorted out is still lingering in my heart.What drove him to stay here, instead of taking advantage of the night to leave quietly——

"boom!"

A weird sound that seemed to be knocked down by something fragile suddenly came from behind, breaking the silence abruptly.

With a sudden withdrawal of his thoughts, Ellie looked back in a little surprise, and saw - a strange projection.

I don't know what cast that shadow behind him. Occasionally, an undulating electric current will slide across the slightly unstable picture, and in the center of the picture, the man with slightly curly pink hair is hurriedly tidying up the man who was just caught by him. Knocked down glass.

The coffee cup was supposed to be placed on the table where it could be easily picked up. I don't know what this person did. The cup fell down, but fortunately it didn't roll to the bottom.However, most of the hot coffee flowed out immediately, and fell along the edge of the table, and the sound of splashing water could be heard clearly across the space.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

The spilled coffee was a trivial matter, but the point was that the clumsy guy scalded his hand with the freshly brewed coffee while he was cleaning the table.

The man's face, which can't be said to be handsome, but serious enough to be convincing, has been filled with "good-for-nothing" labels, and it is estimated that it will not be able to be torn off in a short time.

From that flustered movement, it could be seen that he was probably dying of anxiety.However, the principle that the more nervous you are, the easier it is to make mistakes can be applied at any time.

Ellie watched the man fretfully busy for a while, and finally couldn't help it, and spoke.

"The cup is about to drop."

"Where's the veil? Wait until the notebook gets wet, wait a minute—huh?!"

The coffee cup, which had been ignored by the owner for a long time, rolled slowly to the edge of the table, and was about to fall. The man who heard the reminder froze for a moment, hooked his hands suddenly at the very moment, and fished out the cup smoothly. up.

When the sound of the smooth contact between the bottom of the cup and the table sounded, both the man in the projection and Ellie, who was staring straight at this side, all heaved a sigh of relief.

"fine……"

"call……"

however.

Just at the next moment when the crisis was lifted.

The two people, who were relieved at the same time, met their eyes unexpectedly.

The pink-haired man in the projection suddenly saw Ellie's turned face.

Ellie had been watching him.

At the moment when the eyes met, the man seemed to be stunned for a few seconds, as if he couldn't help breathing a lot.

However, he adjusted quickly, suppressing the obscurity that should not appear in the eyes of the Chaldean commander Romani Akiman, who did not know "Caster", and reluctantly spoke in the same tone as usual. laughed:

"Ha, haha, I'm sorry Caster, it was a mistake just now, a mistake! I'm probably too sleepy, I don't usually do this... By the way, you haven't seen me before, right? Because—"

"doctor."

Quite unexpectedly, Ellie took the initiative to catch the man's voice.

"I remember your voice."

He remembered the man's voice angrily telling him not to be willful before he completely passed out.

I also remember that the anger in the voice puzzled him, and made him somehow feel an indescribable tearing pain appearing on the wound—no, that place is not a wound that has not yet healed, it is... there should have been Where the heart beats?

"You are the commander of Fujimaru Tachika and the others. I heard them mention 'Doctor'. But at that time, I only heard your voice, but I didn't see your appearance, and I didn't know your name. "

Ellie, who still didn't look away, couldn't understand why he would be so eager to explore a strange man who wasn't even here physically.

And, for his own thoughts, he will never learn to hide it, so he said without hesitation: "Can you tell me?"

"I want to know your name."

A little clearer, a little closer.

"If possible, I would like to know more about you."

"........."

These words, which will be expressed urgently and thoroughly, made the pink-haired man's eyes widen, and his hands on the armrests of the swivel chair tightened at a place Ellie couldn't see.

He was silent for a while, and then he seemed to speak calmly, and complained incidentally: "It's too much to directly use 'doctor' instead of my name, Lixiang! Cough, I'm Romani A Kidman, you can call me Roman directly, the commander and staff member of the singularity repair operation who is serious and responsible."

"Because I suddenly remembered that there was something I needed to confirm with Lixiang and Matthew, I delayed my off-duty time, but when I turned on the device, I found that both of them were so asleep that they couldn't wake up at all..."

The true voice of his heart almost overwhelmed the false words he had prepared, and he rushed to his mouth impulsively, but he abruptly swallowed back all the words hovering on the tip of his tongue, and continued to rub the back of his head in embarrassment instead. .

"Then I found out that you were already awake, so I thought of coming over to ask about your situation... The doctor's instinct is really uncontrollable, ha, ha ha ha."

Such a lame explanation, only uninformed Heroic Spirits would believe it.

"Understood." Ellie whispered.

From the moment his eyes fell on this man who still had a bit of embarrassment on his face, he never looked away.

How many people in this world can he look straight at with those beautiful eyes that seem to reflect starlight?Very few.

If his eyes are mixed with exploration and anticipation—the person who has been treated so favorably will definitely be surrounded by happiness that is hard to ask for, and he cannot restrain himself from being willing to give everything to him, even if it is something he does not own.

"So, what do you want to ask?"

"This one……"

—Yes, what am I going to ask.

At this moment, it was so painful to finally get his wish and reflect his figure into the heart of the man in the depths of those familiar eyes.

If he was just an ordinary human being from the beginning to the end, he would fall in love completely the moment he saw the beautiful color of the heroic spirit revealed from under the helmet, and he would stumble and be speechless for a long time.

It would be nice if he was just Romani Akiman instead of Solomon who chose to be human - he wouldn't need to cover up, he wouldn't need to pretend.

Can't ask anything, can't say anything.

Unbearable distress, pity for him... how much he wanted to recognize his lover, but "reasonable", this person is too rational and realistic, so he didn't say anything.

Because all the words are hidden in the sight cast by You Shen.

A man who has been a human being for more than ten years probably hasn't understood yet.The so-called rationality and the so-called reality can't cover up the love and longing accumulated one by one after the separation.

——Maybe it's better not to take chances and think about secretly looking at him more.But, have you noticed it, my beloved?

——It's that expression...that means I've noticed it.

I am sorry.

The man muttered silently in his heart.

There were two lines of water marks falling from the bewildered face of the heroic spirit. The tears disappeared from sight in an instant. I don't know where they fell, but they seemed to be dripping heavily on the rational barrier that "humans" set up for themselves .

Broken.

I didn't expect it to be so fragile.

Almost subconsciously - the moment Roman saw the tears, he couldn't help stretching out his hand, and stretched out his hand towards the front, where the heroic spirit was.

And Airlie's conditioned reflex is so consistent with Roman.

Looking sideways, he was also driven by the sense of familiarity that flooded into his heart instantly, and he couldn't help raising his arms.

……

A young man is lying surrounded by flowers, his bloodless sleeping face is far more pure and beautiful than a flower bed made of petals.

In the past days, the bird that liked to sing on his shoulder the most fell on his pillow and sang the last mournful song for him.

The King in all his splendor and supremacy has sat at the bedside of his Queen since the day before yesterday.

At the very beginning, he held the young man's hand tightly and asked him to eat more and talk to himself more.In the end, the response gradually faded, and he stopped speaking, like a statue, the state of "alive", only the wandering and sad eyes can prove it.

The king thought that the young man would never open his eyes again.He carefully felt the mourning that he would remember forever from now on, and stretched out his hand, trying to smooth the wrinkled lines between the youth's brows.

However, before his fingertips fell.

The young man's eyelids trembled a few times, and they were lifted slowly.

From the pair of azure eyes that seemed to be no longer vivid and bright as before, but had no emotion at all, the king saw his own face that also showed no obvious emotions.

However, this is different.

He just hid him (love).

The young man stretched out his hand to him.

He also took advantage of the trend to interlock his fingers, taking into account the youth's strength that was also passing by with the passage of time, and put his elbows even lower.

At the same time, the other hand also covered it, enveloping the tightly clasped fingers, and the clear outline of the ring on the young man's finger could be clearly felt in the palm of his hand.

In this brief, final moment of tenderness, the king leaned over, his lips to their tightly intertwined knuckles, and murmured.

"I promise you."

"Even after this body passes away, the future we will never meet again—the power of Solomon will only protect you forever, not hurt you."

The time that God had announced in advance to take away the last sliver of King Solomon's heart was finally approaching.

King Solomon couldn't have a heart.

Therefore, the few feelings that belonged to him that could represent him disappeared along with the death of the queen who brought that feeling to his heart.

……

time, back to the present.

Roman's outstretched hand—Airlie's outstretched hand, finally approached at the moment when neither of them had time to react.

The fingers of the two met.

Before feeling the slightest warmth, I missed it again.

Across thousands of years, separated by a distance that is difficult to summarize with specific values, they are in different time and space, and they can only get the ending of "failure".

"...Ah, I'm sorry, Caster, I'm really sleepy, I almost fell when I stood up just now, thank you for reaching out to help me."

"It's ok."

"Ha ha……"

"Good night."

"Hmmm... um? What did you say?"

"Didn't you hear clearly? Then let me say it again."

"Good night, doctor. It's time for you to go to bed..."

Before the man in the projection could speak, Ellie said again: "Have a good sleep, and then..."

"See you tomorrow."

"...Well. See you tomorrow."