But what did Slime do wrong?

Am I going to die?

In the gap between sobriety and drowsiness, Matou Kariya's consciousness was thinking like this in a daze.

And with the gradual recovery of consciousness, burning pain surged up, as if someone was pinching all the internal organs in his body and squeezing hard, as if someone grabbed his head and pushed him into the water, Let the water spread over the nose and mouth.He couldn't breathe at all.

And Kariya Matou is no stranger to this kind of feeling - it is what a person without talent burns his life in exchange for forcibly touching the boundary (mo) limit (dao) that should not have been reached. Some kind of inevitable backlash from dirty and ugly magic.

And this kind of backlash will happen once he starts to mobilize his magic power, which is already a normal state for Matou Kariya.

It's a pity, no matter how long it has been.Matou Kariya couldn't get used to this feeling either.

He felt something cold and soft patting his cheek, and a strange voice sounded in his ear, with some distress in it: "Hmm...it looks serious, it's better to say that you are about to be killed. It's empty!"

Then after a rustling sound, something that was also cold was brought to his mouth, and an unknown liquid was forcibly poured into his mouth, with a little sweetness.

Matou Kariya wanted to struggle, but his weakened body did not support such an action at all.Those sweet and cold liquids were fed into his mouth without wasting a drop, and the pain and burning in his body were miraculously healed, followed by Matou Kariya, who hadn't experienced it for a long time. of comfort and relaxation.

He opened his eyes.

—and was taken aback.

"Yo, you're awake!"

The one next to Matou Kariya is not a human being, but a slime the size of a pillow, which is now bouncing around him.

On the ground next to it was a transparent test tube with a few drops of green liquid left in it.

Matou Kariya judged almost instinctively that the things that were forcibly fed into his mouth before should be the things in this test tube.

Seeing him waking up slowly, the slime seemed greatly relieved: "Just wake up! It seems that this high-level potion is still very useful!"

Matou Kariya raised the back of his hand to wipe the corners of his lips, but was surprised to find that his originally skinny, twisted, ugly and covered with veins, like a mummy in a film and television drama, had returned to normal. Underneath the smooth skin is the vitality flowing with the blood.

Matou Kariya could hardly believe his eyes, he tried to make a movement of closing his fingers, and then confirmed that it was not a hallucination.

"you……"

He turned his head to look at Limulu beside him, with a complicated expression.

Matou Kariya knew his body well, so he understood even more that it was an incredible miracle that he was able to stand here like a normal person.

Berserker stayed aside obediently, but the difference was that his body was bound by layers of light and shadow chains made of magic patterns, which made him unable to move.

"This is?"

Because he realized that Rimuru was not malicious, even if such a thing happened where his Servant was controlled by the other party, Matou Kariya did not immediately conflict with Rimuru, but He was willing to wait for Limuru to give an explanation.

"Because after you lost consciousness, he has been fighting Saber like crazy, and frantically absorbing magic power from you... So I have to let him calm down first."

A honey and holy smile appeared on Limuru's face.

Physical persuasion is also called persuasion, right?

Matou Kariya then thanked him, and he himself knew very well what would happen to him in the end if Berserker was allowed to draw magic power from him without restraint.

As for Rimuru's slime appearance, Matou Kariya didn't show any special emotions about it.

After all, in the world of magic, anything is possible.If the existence of Limuru is simply regarded as a certain kind of familiar or fantasy species, then this is not an unacceptable thing.

It's not worth the fuss.

"Before you told me that you wanted me to save Sakura." Limuru asked, "Who is Sakura? What happened to her?"

"Sakura...yes, Sakura..."

After being reminded by him like this, Jiantong Kariya remembered the most important thing, and his expression became panicked.

"Do you need my help?" Limulu asked, "If you talk to me, maybe I can help."

Kariya Matou moved his hand.

Do you want to trust him?Believe in a monster who is just meeting for the first time and whose enemy is unknown.

Matou Kariya clenched his hands, what appeared in his mind at this moment were Sakura's empty and numb eyes, the gloomy and gloomy basement of Matou's house, and the old and ugly face of Matou Zouken. face, and the ubiquitous devil insects in that home.

His mouth seems to still have the potion that Limuru fed him before, which is light and sweet with apple blossoms.

The balance in Matou Kariya's heart swayed left and right, and finally weighed down on one side.

He already has a decision.

"...Yes." Finally, Matou Kariya replied, "If I can get your help, then I am willing to give everything I have in exchange."

He didn't know whether this broken body could be seen by the other party, so he added a bargaining chip for it after deliberation: "I am also willing to bring Berserker to fight for you, to seize the possession of the Holy Grail."

Rimuru: "Huh?"

He was really stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses, and said with a helpless smile: "No, such a thing is not necessary."

This was just an act of kindness, because Limuru couldn't turn a blind eye to those calls for help that had been delivered to him.

He didn't think about asking for something in return.

Matou Kariya didn't know if Rimuru could really rescue Sakura, but he knew that Rimuru was quite close to the little Holy Grail of the Einzbern family, and he could also be the same as the powerful Tohsaka family. The Archer confronts head-on without losing the wind, and can even swallow Assassin with ease...

He looked at the slime's chubby body, and said to himself, otherwise, just try it once?

****

For Matozhai, this was a day that was no different from the past.

Although it is true that someone from the Matou family participated in this year's Holy Grail War, Kariya Matou was not endowed with expectations.Matou Zouken didn't care much about his nominal son, and he didn't think he could win the Holy Grail War.

In his eyes, what Matou Kariya did was as ridiculous as a clown jumping on the beam, but it was just putting on a crappy and absurd play.

Compared with the life and death of Matou Kariya, Matou Zouken is more concerned about how the transformation of Matou Sakura's magic physique is going.

That's more important.

However, when Matou Zouken walked towards the basement, he found something that seemed to be not quite right.

The peaceful and well-behaved insects in the past seemed to be stimulated by something, crawling rustlingly, fluttering their wings from time to time, showing extreme anxiety.

Matou Zouken frowned.

Things happen for a reason, but what could be causing the restlessness of the swarm today?

You know, these monster insects that Matou Zouyan has been raising all year round are not ordinary insects, and they shouldn't have behaved like this.

But before he could figure out why, the Matou house, which was originally protected by magic, was breached from outside.A young man with bat wings descended from the sky behind him, his golden eyes were unusually dazzling and bright in the dark night.

"Matou Zouyan?"

the boy asked.

"I'm here for Tohsaka Sakura, please hand over that child to me."