At the same time Art Museum

……

"Yeah, that's right. Although he is a terrible Servant who often fishes and often makes girls cry, Merlin is quite capable as long as he is serious. Thanks to him, I can go down in school history like I am now."

The erratic voice that doesn't come to fruition, the sloppy expression that seems to be uninterested in everything in the world.Although it is undoubtedly Dazai Osamu himself from the outside, the "boy" in front of him is wearing a black suit, most of his face is covered with bandages and gauze, and his appearance is still a bit childish-even though his temperament is unbelievably old ——There seems to be some subtle difference between Dazai and the Dazai that Satsuki is familiar with.

The frivolity and the ability hidden under the frivolity are still the same, but it lacks a bit of ease and ease in lifting weights. Compared with the sense of mystery, the sense of alienation from the surrounding is stronger.There is a lack of emotion in the brown eyes, and a needle-like sharpness can be vaguely seen in the depths, which makes Satsuki feel that he is very similar to Akutagawa today.

(No, should it be said that Akutagawa-senpai looks like a teacher? However, "at this point in time" Dazai-sensei is younger than the senpai...)

However, now is not the time to pursue the growth process of Osamu Dazai.

"What a surprise."

Satsuki sat upright opposite the young NPC Dazai, with her neck tilted in disbelief: "I didn't expect that one day, I could hear Mr. Dazai complaining about other people's 'fishing' and 'girls'."

"It's too hurtful Xiaoyue, of course I also have a period of serious work. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been promoted to a cadre at a young age."

Having said that, there was no complacent smile in Dazai's eyes, "It's a pity...the so-called promotion seems to only bring some unsatisfactory troubles."

"..."

Gao Yue remained silent.

Osamu Dazai is known as "the youngest cadre in history" in the port mafia, and he is also the only talent who has ascended to a high position when he was underage.The trigger for his departure was said to be the death of an irreplaceable friend—an old man who had been loyal to the Mafia for half his life once said so.The old man also said, "If you see that person, you will understand why Dazai-kun became what he is today."

And that friend now—

"Wait a minute." Rin questioned, "You said you have an important topic, so why isn't Akutagawa-kun here?"

"Oh, Akutagawa-kun's words are next door. I made a little trick, so he can hear our conversation, so it's no problem~"

Dazai waved his hand with a smile and said, "Look, after all, if Akutagawa-kun sees my face now, he might not be able to control his killing intent. Odasaku is trying to heal him with curry from his secret store, but most likely he will only burn. Just top it with oil. That stuff is as spicy as mapo tofu."

"Murderous intent? Akutagawa-kun to you?"

Rin repeated in a daze, "What's going on... Forget it, it's not my turn to care about it. Time is limited, so I'll just ask straight to the point."

Tohsaka Rin is worthy of being a well-trained professional magician. He never spends too much time complaining, and immediately changed his tone and brought up the topic:

"Excuse me—Mr. Dazai, who has drawn, arrived, and five-star Caster, what can you tell us?"

……Replenish.

Rin Tohsaka is a well-trained professional [African] magician.

"Oh, it's nothing special~ Anyway, as an NPC, I have so much time that I can't run out, and I'm free when I'm idle, so I'm here to chat with you about the past."

Although the words were frivolous, Dazai's eyes were still calm and without a smile, only the corners of his lips were slightly raised, and at the same time he raised an index finger meaningfully to his lips.

"Yes, it's about the 'truth' that Sakura wants to protect even at this step."

"Really... Dazai-sensei, do you know why Sakura did this?"

Satsuki seemed to be interested in his speech for the first time, and asked impatiently.

"It's not appropriate to say 'know', it should be said to be 'reasoning' based on intelligence."

Dazai shook his head pretending to be mysterious, "I can only provide you with information. As for Sakura's difficulties, you will naturally understand after listening to them. All in all... well, let's start with "the source of the Holy Grail War in Hokunhara" Let's talk! "

"Isn't this going back too long?!"

Rin couldn't help shouting, "Why, does Sakura carry such a deep past!!"

"Ah, this has nothing to do with Sakura. Rin, do you know about the "real Holy Grail War" that took place in this land before the Hokuhara school was established? "

"I know this... It's different from the current competition, but a pure fighting between magicians. Later, the Holy Grail was taken over by the school, and they chose to seal it up and never activate it again. This marked the beginning of the "real Holy Grail War". pause.right? "

"Yeah, that's right. As expected of an honor student, Rin."

Dazai nodded with a smile.Although it was just a youthful face, his tone was as persuasive as a teacher's.

"Then the next question, do you know why the school decided to 'not use the Holy Grail'? That is a miracle that magicians dream of."

"This one……"

Rin pursed her lips and fell into thought, "I heard that it was because of an accident that happened in the last "True Holy Grail War".Father was also at that time..."

"Wow, you even know this! The Tohsaka family really lives up to their reputation, Mr. Tokiomi from Heaven can rest assured!"

"...You really deserve a beating. So, what happened to the Holy Grail War? Don't say you don't know."

"Where, I will explain this point well. But, it's actually just a matter of one sentence..."

Dazai interlaced his fingers and lifted his jaw gracefully, while leaning forward, lowered his voice as if he was talking about some secret taboo.

"During that Holy Grail War, the Holy Grail was [polluted]."

"———?!!"

"'Pollution' means..."

Replacing Rin whose expression froze for a moment, Satsuki took over the conversation, "Does it mean that the holy grail of Hokunhara can't be used now?"

"Well, because some kind of extremely vile foreign matter has been mixed in, the inside of the Holy Grail is no longer colorless magic power but black mud. Even if you make a wish, it will only cause disaster. So Sui Qunyuan sealed the Holy Grail and switched to using' "Competition" is a form of deception to carry out purification. Of course, this is also a miracle that can only be achieved in Suiqunyuan!"

"Then, the competition at Hoi Qunhara is to... purify..."

wrong.

Something is not quite right.

The more he listened to the information given by Dazai, the more vivid the split-like pain in Satsuki's mind became.The trembling lurking in the instinct could not be restrained, the vision was distorted like a bad contact, and the strong sense of disobedience turned into chills, like a boulder oppressing the heart.

have what.

Something is wrong.

pollute?purification?

Hokunhara Holy Grail War, for purification?

The tainted grail.

Black Holy Grail.

black.

black, something.

——There is something black that was buried in my body by my father.

"... Dazai, teacher."

Satsuki squeezed her violently heaving chest with one hand, and said softly as if she was panting, "Was the Black Holy Grail... destroyed before Sui Qunyuan took it over? If so, where did the pieces of the Holy Grail go?"

"........."

The silence at that moment was like an eternity, Gao Yue could almost clearly hear the sound of blood rushing to her forehead.

"Yeah. You're getting to the point, Xiaoyue."

——Then, she heard Dazai's answer.

The slender fingers tapped the table lightly, and the young Dazai Osamu--he looked more like a young man at the moment-- looked down on Satsuki's face with compassion, and also seemed to be desolate and optimistic after seeing everything through.

"I think the reason why I will keep you and Akutagawa-kun by my side in the future is probably because I foresee this. Because Xiaoyue, you are..."

"Sad, with no future, [the half-finished product that failed to become the Holy Grail]."

……

That wasn't a surprising answer, nor was it a novel script.

As early as when she silently endured the "adjustment" of the family, Satsuki realized that they had some kind of huge, overreaching ambition.

According to the results of Dazai's past investigations, the Holy Grail was destroyed by external forces after being contaminated, and the scattered fragments fell into the hands of the Matou family.Matou did not directly use his adopted daughter Sakura as the mother, but cooperated with another magician family "Shuangyue" to carry out batch experiments on the children of the Shuangyue family, and embedded the fragments into the children's bodies one by one.

However, the Shuangyue Family failed to make the Holy Grail in the end, and all the experimental subjects died.Due to the intervention of the church, the ambitions of the two families had to be terminated before reaching Matou Sakura.

"You said, all died...?"

Rin couldn't help but raise her hand to cover her mouth, "But, Gaoyue obviously still..."

"No, Xiaoyue just 'appears to be alive'. Even if she looks the same as ordinary people, the 'death' that once fell on her cannot be overturned. Xiaoyue failed to become the Holy Grail, but she was connected to the Holy Grail in the experiment, relying on The magic provided by the Holy Grail kept life alive."

Dazai said in a flat voice without any ups and downs.

He said: Once the Holy Grail is completely purified, the connection maintained by Satsuki through the black Holy Grail fragments in her body will also be severed.

That is to say—

"At the end of the Hokuhara Holy Grail War, when the Holy Grail is restored to its purity and becomes the omnipotent wish-granting machine again, Satsuki...the descendant of the Shimotsuki family, Shimotsuki Sakura (Sakura) will die. This was destined from the beginning Good thing."

"------!!"

"........."

Facing the sudden death sentence, Rin Tohsaka gasped, but Satsuki remained expressionless as if she had awakened a long time ago.

——All the children of the same family died, and she was the only one who survived, was rescued, and grew up safe and sound.

——How can there be such a perfect protagonist aura in the world.

There are no survivors in Shuangyue's family.From the very beginning, she just reluctantly postponed the time of death that should have come long ago, made friends as a "living dead", knew about love affairs, and obtained too many extravagant and beautiful miracles.

Although Sakura's life was useless, at least in exchange, her sacrifice brightened Sakura's bleak life.

Although the memory of being a member of Shuangyue (November) is full of scars, on the ruins, the time spent as Satsuki (May) was very happy.

——So, she should at least go to the end calmly.

"...Speaking of which, the name 'Sao Yue' was chosen by myself."

"Because my original name is homonymous with 'Sakura', but my surname is winter, which is illogical no matter how I think about it. I personally hate the Shotsuki family who are as cold as severe winter. If there is an afterlife, I hope to be born in a warm season. "

With this feeling in mind, she named herself "Sao Yue" for the rest of her life after the catastrophe.

And her subsequent life was like a prayer, and she received a bright and warm light like spring or early summer.

Either Akutagawa, Rin, or Dazai.

Also, Sakura, who happened to have the same name as her and formed an unbreakable bond.

"So... Sakura, has always been..."

Satsuki finally understood the deep meaning of Dazai's words "you will understand Sakura after listening to it".At the moment when she suddenly realized, she suddenly found that her vision was blurred, and hot tears dripped down the back of her hand.

"Too stupid, Sakura...so stupid..."

He didn't bow his head, nor raised his hands to cover his face.The girl just kept her sitting posture looking straight ahead, her hands folded on her knees were clenched into fists, and she wept resolutely and silently.

"It's obviously not necessary... to do this for the sake of me, who has long since died. Even if the Holy Grail War at Hokunbaru is destroyed, even if the Holy Grail can never be restored, even if I live forever... in order to lose Sakura and so many people Who would be happy with the rest of life bought at the price of suffering?"

"Who knows? Orihara-kun, who directed all this, might be happy."

Dazai stuck out his tongue, "After all, he was the only one who told Sakura these things first and drove her into a desperate situation. Needless to say, the purpose is of course to watch your distress and the choice after distress. .”

"...Oh. I am Hiorihara-san, eight generations old."

However, his ancestors seem to be very innocent. It is said that such a pervert only appeared in eight generations, and there is no more unfortunate family than this.

"Anyway, thank you very much for your assistance, Dazai-sensei. Now that Sakura's motives are clarified, it will be relatively easy to convince her—"

Boom! !

Gao Yue was about to say something more with tears in her eyes, but without warning, the sound of a chair being overturned suddenly came from the next door.

The author has something to say:

I'm really a fan.The mustard next door: Today's ups and downs are so fucking exciting

This chapter recalls all the flags that Sakura had inserted for Xiaoyue before... All about the Holy Grail is private! The Black Holy Grail of FSN can’t be purified and can’t be connected through body transformation (it can only be connected through Shining like Kotomine) so please automatically treat it as a different world view and different system w

The FSN was implanted with fragments of Sakura, and Sakura was blackened; Satsuki, who was also called Sakura here, took over the pot instead of Sakura, and Sakura was still black... From Sakura's point of view, she wanted to turn what originally belonged to Satsuki Give her life back.Sakura (Sakura) is the name I read from Tsujimura Fukatsuki’s novel. It has a different pronunciation from Sakura. I personally like this feeling of “another me in the world” very much.

PS: Although the truth about the Sakura Line is a bit harsh, but I believe I will give out candy during the Chinese New Year!Look at my sincere eyes!By the way, there are more updates on the long comments during the Chinese New Year (be careful

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