black Knight

Unknowingly, Alicia and Diarmuid have lived in Dongmu City for half a year.

Although the recovery is slow, Alicia's body is getting better little by little.Even if there is no one to support him, he can walk a short distance by himself. According to this situation, he will be able to fully recover in about half a year.

Therefore, Alicia began to calculate their future journey.

Before the end of the Holy Grail War, they agreed to travel together if they survived.

Go see Diarmuid's hometown.

But speaking of the Celtics...

Although the Celts are mainly distributed in Northern Europe, judging from the fact that Diarmuid Audi belongs to the Irish story, he should be a branch of the Celts that later extended to Scotland.

However, there is no evidence of where exactly.

"Diarmuid, do you still remember where your hometown is?"

Alicia pointed to the world map in front of her and asked the man beside her, but the man just shook his head.

The maps in ancient times are different from those of today, and the place names are almost completely different...even some places are completely fictional in the eyes of modern people.

For example, Tara, the place where he and Princess Granny started to elope in the records, she couldn't find this place on Google.The biggest clue so far is the statue of Diarmuid and Granny in the village of Kielbach, County Clare, Ireland.

And then there's the legendary Dublin of Finn McCool...

"...I think we should look for it after arriving in Ireland." Alicia gave up the idea of ​​finding a detailed location, "Go to Dublin first, and then go to Zierbaha Village in County Clare?"

The white-haired girl wrote down these two locations on the notepad in her hand.

"It's up to you to decide."

The handsome black-haired man would never refuse anything other than her safety, and this time was no exception.

While the two were still planning their future journey, an unexpected visitor came to their residence.

"Emiya... Kiritsugu-san?"

Alicia really didn't expect that this person would come to her door like this one day.

"I want...to go back to Germany." The man put on the windbreaker he always wore before, "So I hope you can take care of Shirou for a few days."

"and also."

Emiya Kiritsugu turned around and brought a large suitcase from behind and placed it in front of Alicia.

"These are...Ai Li bought them for you. If you can accept them, I think she will be very happy too."

This is sugar-coated cannonball!

After being short-handed, I can only agree to his request or something...

To be honest, Alicia didn't want anyone... especially a child who still needed someone to take care of her to disturb her and Diarmuid's life, but for the sake of clothes, she agreed to his request.

It's not that she lacks a few clothes, it's just that those clothes are evidence to her that the beautiful woman Irisviel once existed.

Also, it was the first time someone bought something just for her.Although she was always looking for her daughter's shadow when buying clothes, her gentleness at that time was not fake, and her concern for her was not a fake master of picking up girls.

This is the little bit of warmth that is enough for her to remember in her heart.

Thus, Emiya Shirou stayed at Alicia's house at the request of Emiya Kiritsugu.

This is a very sensible child for his age, neither noisy nor running around - but no wonder, after all, the child who survived 'that incident'.

But what surprised Alicia even more was that the child could cook.

Although I know that Japanese children learn to cook very early, and home economics classes are also offered in schools, but judging from this proficient technique, it does not seem like a novice in learning at all.

...Are you asking a ten-year-old child to cook for you? Emiya Kiritsugu... is really a very bad guardian!

After eating, the little boy consciously took the bowls and chopsticks to clean up, and even refused Diarmuid's help.

At first, she just thought it was because he liked or was used to doing housework, but then she realized...it seemed not as simple as she imagined.He seems to want to use these actions to prove that he is useful, or he just wants to borrow labor to keep himself from thinking too much.

Alicia was very familiar with the fear hidden in the boy's eyes - Alicia once had such eyes.

So she saw it right away.

But she didn't make any response.Because this is still not his home, to Emiya Shirou, she and Diarmuid are just insignificant passers-by.Emiya Kiritsugu didn't seem to intend to teach him magic, so the less contact they had with him, the better.

Diarmuid is also very aware of this, so he only showed politeness and politeness when dealing with Emiya Shirou.

Although it would seem cruel to treat a child with such a strange attitude, it is better not to approach him at first than to let him miss him.

Therefore, although three people live under this roof, there are very few conversations between the three.Emiya Shiro spent most of the time alone.

Alicia starts to organize her closet.

This is the first time she has decided to include clothes as an option in her luggage.

She doesn't have a particular preference for clothes, so the few times she moved, she went to the store to buy new clothes after she got there.The previous clothes were placed in the place where I lived before—there were not many of them anyway, so it didn’t matter if I lost them.

But these clothes are different, they all have something called memories attached to them.

When she sorts out her clothes, she can recall every time she picks up an item.Only then did she realize how much she cherished those memories.

On the seventh day when Emiya Shirou stayed with them, Emiya Kiritsugu appeared at the door of her house in a mess.

"...the road leading to Einzbern Castle was blocked by Ubstakuhaid." The man sat on the sofa slumped, with his hands resting on his knees, "I wanted to... Rescuing Illya...at least, at least it won't make her a victim of the Holy Grail War."

"But looking at it now, it seems that it can't be done."

Unlike the magician killers of the past, Emiya Kiritsugu is just like an ordinary person who knows magic.Maybe even worse than ordinary people.

Now he is weak and weak, and his body is getting weaker day by day, even worse than Alicia used to be - at least Alicia's weakness at that time did not affect the use of magic power, but his weakness made his body lose The ability to use magic.

"For Irisviel's sake, I'll give you a final reminder." Alicia stood up from the sofa opposite, turned and walked out of the living room, "The power of the flame may help you get both money and sex."

If it was the power of the flame, it might still be able to help.

When Alicia returned to the living room again, there was only a glass of untouched water left on the coffee table in front of the sofa, and the man who was sitting on the sofa with a slumped face had left at some point.But he didn't take Emiya Shiro with him, he just left alone.

He... probably went to find the mafia.

Looking at the water glass standing alone on the table, Alicia shook her head.

"I always feel that this man... is very pitiful." Alicia murmured, "I worked so hard for a dream that was destined to be impossible to realize, and kept deceiving myself for that beautiful dream... Finally, at the end, But everything was lost.”

Lost his father, lost his adoptive mother, then lost his dream, lost his wife and children... and finally lost his only life.

So, sometimes people have to be selfish.

Alicia is very fortunate at this time, she is a selfish person... That's why she and Diarmuid have come to the present.

Human desire is like the sand in the hand, and human ability is like the hand holding the sand.

The size of the hand is limited... It is impossible to hold all the sand. If you hold your hand desperately because you are afraid of the sand falling, you will only let more sand fall down in the end. In the end, you will become like Emiya Kiritsugu, who has nothing .

"Alicia?" Seeing Alicia leaning against the door and standing motionless in the living room, the handsome man hurried over, "Why are you standing here? Are you uncomfortable?"

"It's nothing." Alicia meekly let the man wrap her arms around her waist, and then stretched out in his arms.

"Just thought of something."

"whats the matter?"

"When grabbing the sand, you can't use your strength, and you can't close your hands."

What does it mean?

Diarmuid looked down at the girl leaning on him in bewilderment, but the girl didn't know whether she didn't notice it or was pretending to be stupid, as if she had no meaning to explain.Let the man behind her worry about the meaning of her words.

But judging from the current situation - it seems that her leisure time is coming to an end.

It is estimated that when Emiya Kiritsugu comes again, it will be time for her and Diarmuid to prepare for 'activities'.Although the man was a lone hero, he never minded using whatever power he could.

Be it human or otherwise.

"Hey, Diarmuid, before going to Ireland... we probably need to make a short trip to Germany." Einzbern castle day trip or a few days... something.

Regardless of success or failure, this should be her repayment to Irisviel.

"Where are you, I will be there." Diarmuid replied.The black-haired man clasped Alicia's waist and pulled her even tighter into his arms. His tall nose was buried in her white hair, and he seemed to be drawing strength from it with each breath. .

The two of them cuddled together quietly like this, which was unbearable to be disturbed.

The author has something to say: =l=Actually, Alicia has always been deeply indebted to Irisviel... But this kind of indebtedness is only to a certain extent [Hey] If Diarmuid or her own life is to be sacrificed To repay her is not going to do. 【After all, this is her wish

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