[Comprehensive] Fate holy fool

Spirit World? ? ?

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"…………………………here it is."

Gao Yue dazedly opened her heavy eyelids, her mind was still not very clear, and she was stung by the blood-colored and scorching sun outside the window.

(... Strange. I should be, given by the black mud in the center...)

The connection between the real scene and the abruptly interrupted memory did not coincide, and the ominous premonition returned in an instant.Gaoyue shivered involuntarily, and quickly rolled over on the spot, so nervous that she almost couldn't even take care of her breath, her eyes widened impatiently and looked around.

In fact, she doesn't need to be so anxious, because with just a cursory glance, Satsuki can clearly recognize where she is.

"Why, it's here..."

Neat tables and chairs.

The floors were spotless.

A simple but well-organized counter.

Through the retro wooden panes, you can see that under the sky dyed bright red by the sunset, there is a whole piece of cherry blossoms that are more vivid and warm than the sunset.

Although the store is not spacious, and the furnishings are not elegant or luxurious, but here——this [Einzbern Cafe] is probably more like a "home" to Satsuki than any other place.

It was here that she, Sakura, Rin, and Bai Ye, like all the ordinary high school girls who worked part-time to earn pocket money, spent an unbelievably short time, but long enough to warm a lifetime.

...Perhaps, it is the same for Sakura.

After parting ways, after deciding to bear all the suffering and consequences alone.

Even, after her last glimmer of hope was shattered, she gave up on herself and sank into the quagmire of despair.

The deepest desire hidden in the girl's heart is nothing more than "I really want to go back".

I really want to go back—to go back to the time when I was not disturbed by any changes, and I was able to be honest with everyone and laugh freely.

"cherry……"

Gao Yue caressed the empty counter with one hand, and murmured unconsciously.

"Yes. Did you call me, senpai?"

"?!!"

The sudden soft voice was like thunder on the ground, Gao Yue suddenly turned around, only to see the beautiful figure that made her sleepless these days, as always, standing in front of her with folded hands.

"Fukamachi-san, good afternoon."

The girl pursed her lips and smiled, a faint halo appeared on that smile, so bright and soft that it was not true, it was like an illusion that was too beautiful.

"cherry……?"

No matter how you look at it, it is Matou Sakura who is full of flesh and blood.It's just that her expression...

"What's the matter, sister?"

Sakura still replied in a soft voice, with a naive and ignorant look on her face, "You don't look very well... If you don't feel well, should you leave work earlier today?"

"get off work……"

Now Gaoyue was also asked by her, and she half opened her mouth in shock, "Are we working part-time now?"

——Could it be that this place is just a memory?

——Or, Sakura didn't want to think about those tragic confrontations and twists and turns, so all she had left in her heart was the happy time spent in the coffee shop?

"Sister, what are you talking about?"

Sakura became more and more confused, so she stretched out her hand worriedly and probed her forehead, "It doesn't look like she has a fever...but senior sister always pushes herself, so she can't feel relieved at all. If you feel unwell, you should go to the school hospital as soon as possible. Yosano-sensei should take a look."

"..."

...What are you looking for, Mr. Yosano, to die?

The school doctor and Yosano Akiko—who doesn’t know that she and her partner Berserker Nightingale were in the school hospital back then. They were skilled in medical treatment and saved lives and healed the wounded. If you don't cooperate, you will have to chop your hands and stomp your feet. Living in a hospital is like experiencing a [-]-ban horror movie.Many patients have suffered serious psychological shadows after being discharged from the hospital. The specific symptoms are "kneeling down with a plop when they see the white coat".

This woman scares the heads of men all over the place. If all the doctors and nurses have the same style of painting as the two of them, I'm afraid that all the doctors and nurses in the world will lose their jobs.

Satsuki was also fortunate enough to receive their "care" once, which was unforgettable. Hearing this, she could only feel cold sweat dripping down her back: "There is no need for Mr. Xie Ye... But Sakura, is it really okay for me to leave work early?"

She was in the scene, and was inexplicably drawn by this nostalgic memory, and didn't know where to ask the question, so she simply followed Sakura's words and said:

"Let's go together. It's getting dark, and I'm worried about leaving you here alone."

This sentence has a pun, and Satsuki rarely uses a little cleverness (usually she is not smart enough), beating around the bush, insinuating, racking her brains to coax this stubborn girl to go with her.

But Sakura blinked and smiled after hearing this, her dimples were as bright as a flower, as if Gaoyue just said a childish foolish thing to her:

"It's okay, Senpai! It's okay to be separated for now. Because we will meet again soon, so I don't feel lonely at all. I know, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... every day I can see Fukamachi Gaku Sis, every day my seniors will come to the store to work at the same time, chat with me, prepare the dishes, and then wave goodbye and say 'see you tomorrow'. Every day, every day."

"Because, during this time—"

"—Will it last forever?"

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(………… Ahh. I see.)

Gao Yue quietly closed her eyes.

(Here, it really is Sakura's heart.)

Matou Sakura has never forgotten the shadow that hangs over the future, nor is she indulging in happy memories that she cannot extricate herself from.

It's just that Sakura - after clearly realizing the only future for Satsuki, chose to keep her in her own world at all costs.

As long as he doesn't return to reality, Fukamachi Satsuki's consciousness will not be wiped out along with his body.Even if she is just a weak "network ghost", at least she can still live in the spirit world, in the never-ending spring in Matou Sakura's memory.

After more than ten years of wandering and wandering, this ending can be regarded as a paradise.

There is nothing wrong with that.

It's just that she doesn't appreciate it.

"……cherry."

Gaoyue lowered her voice very softly, as if she was afraid that the petals on the branches would fall in shock, "I'm leaving."

"Well, okay! Let's see you tomorrow, Fukamachi..."

"—and, I'm not coming back."

"..."

Sakura's smile froze on her face.

Gao Yue couldn't bear to look at her expression carefully, but stubbornly refused to allow herself to look away, looked directly into her eyes and said word by word:

"I understand that Sakura did all this for me. But you should also understand that what I really value and what I want, I can become who I am today because I hold on to what and refuse to give up."

Think about it well.

Not only to Sakura, Satsuki also silently asked questions to herself.

Why did Akutagawa urge her to meet Sakura?

Why did Karna, who is loyal to the master above all else, conclude a contract with Akutagawa and lend a helping hand to his request?

Rin Tohsaka, Hakuno Kishinami...all the family members and friends who care about Sakura, why are they willing to entrust everything on their shoulders?

Fukamachi Satsuki is not alone, but arrived here with everyone's wishes on his back.

They gave her the most crucial right to choose, and they believed in her without reservation—believing that she would be able to make a choice without regret in the end when facing life and death.

Ants are still greedy for life, even if she defected here and dragged all the staff to be buried with her, probably no one would blame her.

And because of this...

"...Sakura. It was only a few years since I escaped from the abyss, and I was able to meet all of you. Meeting so many people who treat me well, I think this must be the legendary 'Three Lives of Fortune'."

In the end, Gao Yue spoke softly, her eyes were as clear as snow, and every word and sentence was solemn and solemn when she said goodbye.

"So, [enough is enough]."

——I have lived a really good life these years. I no longer have to take medicine and surgery every day. I have food and books. I know friendship and love. I know that there is another kind of taste in the world called "sweetness". It was exhausted in an instant.

——My life is enough.

At the moment when the girl made such a decision, the whole world tended to collapse due to the protagonist's refusal, melting like spring snow from the edge bit by bit.Gao Yue turned her head, watching the fiery sunset outside the window gradually lose its outline, and the dazzling red spread inch by inch on the background of the sky, like a spot of blood smeared on rice paper.

"..."

When she turned her head again, she only saw the astonishing clarity and tranquility in Ying's eyes like a cold pool, neither angry nor sad, she just stared at her intently.

"Fukamachi-senpai."

It took her a long time before she whispered, "You really can't stay? I... I just don't want my senior sister to die..."

"I know. I don't want to die either."

Gao Yue clenched her knuckles tightly, her nails dug into her flesh, and even her jaw began to tremble uncontrollably, and she finally finished speaking several times intermittently.

"However, I have also learned over the years... human beings can be called 'alive' just because they have pride."

"So, Sakura. Shall we meet tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow—in the world outside this cage, the real Einzbern Cafe where everyone is waiting, we must meet there."

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Consciousness turned into countless tiny bubbles, slowly rising from the depths of hell.

float up.

Keep going up.

Bid farewell to the beautiful Nankeyimeng, and float to a reality that is more eerie and gloomy than nightmares.

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"...uh, I..."

As soon as Gao Yue broke free from the illusion, before she had time to be grateful for her survival, the first thing that went through her body was intense pain like an electric shock.After she regained her composure, she realized that half of her body had been deeply buried in the mud. The mud seemed to be able to penetrate every pore of her body, and it had penetrated and dissolved into her blood vessels and viscera like tarsal maggots.

(Yes, a virus...?)

As long as you move your fingertips a little bit, you will feel severe pain all over your body. From this, it can be seen that Satsuki's "body" - the virtual body constructed for her by the spirit child world reference ontology, has suffered from severe virus damage during her coma. corrosion.

It's all right, she thought.

Anyway, this skin is just a program. Unless she dies completely, she only needs to leave a trace of breath and return to the real world, and she still has the hope of being revived with full blood under the treatment of the academy.

... Although I don't know that during the treatment process, she still needs to be dismembered by a hatchet a few times.

As for the suffering caused by the virus—

(This is nothing compared to the past.)

Satsuki straightened her upper body from the mud, and began to forcibly tear off the black mud attached to her skin with brute force.This work is not easy. The stickiness of black mud is far better than that of super glue. Not to mention peeling off a layer of skin, sometimes even the flesh and nerves have to be torn together.

"Tsk...!!"

The blood that meanders like a stream is bright red and warm, while the mud is cold and dark.Red and black were indistinguishable from each other, and after a while, the girl's whole body was drenched, and even her figure and face were covered by blood stains. From a distance, it looked like an abstract art painting with wild colors.

(Oops... This tragic situation, shouldn't scare Sakura...)

Satsuki thought inappropriately.

Soon she stood up from the black mud that engulfed herself, and vaguely saw light penetrating through her head, she guessed that she had fallen into a depression or cave—or simply under a cliff, but there was another What's the difference?

When you stare at the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you, waiting for an opportunity to open its bloody mouth to swallow you.

——But if you are tough and strong enough, like a monkey brother, you can poke the belly of the abyss with a stick.

"...Really. Next time in the Holy Grail War, I might be able to summon Sanzang... Speaking of which, I don't know what happened to Diarmuid, whether he will be hurt if he is left by the Master... Forget it Better than harming yourself..."

Satsuki struggled to distract herself by talking to herself, while urging her hands and feet, which were paralyzed by blood loss, to hold onto the sticky and wet black mud wall around her and began to climb.

Someone seemed to be calling "stop" sadly in my ear.

But she never looked back once.

All the way up to this point, Satsuki's body and mind are on the verge of limit, and after that, she can only rely on a little obsession to hold on.Her vision was almost exhausted, her sense of direction and balance were in jeopardy, the smell of decay and the slippery texture of her hands were disgusting, and finally even the sense of touch was no longer left.

"..."

However, the girl did not even let out a single word of lament from her throat.

She just clings to the wall made of black mud like a gecko, her face is buried in the mud, and she herself is as embarrassed as a ball of mud, slowly, clumsily, bit by bit, wringing out every last drop of energy in her body , slowly crawling towards the only candle-like faint light above his head.

She must go.

Even if it is dead and decayed, leaving only a skeleton, you should take the child back and let the cherry blossoms bloom in a sunny place.

(Ah, but that would be a bit like a horror movie. I'd better not turn into a skeleton, at least keep the face...)

With that in mind, Satsuki raised her head, struggled again and again to stretch out her hand, and finally her fingertips slightly touched the smooth edge of the cliff.At this moment, she felt a burst of dizziness hit her mind, and the fatigue she had accumulated for a long time suddenly broke out, and she immediately fell backwards uncontrollably——

"...?!!"

However, the expected sense of falling and weightlessness did not come.

Instead, she felt that someone had firmly grasped her bloody wrist with both hands.

——I don't mind being stained with filth and blood at all, firmly, like holding up a scarred white flower from the mud.

"what……?"

……impossible.

Enkidu said that the deepest part of the center has been transformed into Sakura's mental image world, which rejects all external interference, and no one but himself should be able to...

——But what if that is not a living "person"?

"ah."

The man raised his hand and loosened the bandage on his forehead, revealing an unbelievably young and handsome face, squinting his star-like eyes and smiling at her.

"I didn't expect to see you again so soon, Xiaoyue."

16-year-old Osamu Dazai said with a smile, as if he was just chatting up a little girl at a sorority party.

"Teacher Dazai?!"

Satsuki breathed a sigh of relief until she almost gasped, "And it's Mr. Dazai. NPCver! Why would you—"

"I'm not too sure about the specific situation. But someone outside seems to have done something to allow me to appear here through a special VIP route..."

(No, that should just be purely illegal hacking.)

Satsuki reacted quickly: "You said there are people outside, do you mean..."

"Well, it's probably the 'could'. I'm probably the only one who dares to use it, right?"

Dazai didn't show any surprise at all, he supported Satsuki's elbow with one hand to prop her up neatly, and wiped away the blood dripping from her face casually with his cuff.

"It is impossible to directly intervene in the spiritual world from the outside. I think 'I' should take into account the nullification ability I possess, so I will use a little detour to send me into the center after becoming an NPC. Really, this But you’re kidding yourself? You’re just asking for my own opinion...although ‘I’ really don’t need to ask my own opinion..."

"Nullification" - Osamu Dazai's special physique, which can be immune to or even eliminate all magic effects. At first glance, it seems ordinary, but in fact it is a daily bug that can rise to the level of dimensional laws.In other words, not only can he walk on the ground in this black mud-ravaged cave, but even if he touches Sakura, he may be able to separate Sakura from the virus implanted in her body.

——This is simply [Dazai who destroys all laws]! ! !

"Great... Sakura is fine!"

Gaoyue grabbed Dazai's sleeve tightly as if she had found a treasure, almost tore half of his arm with such force, "Teacher Dazai, please come with me immediately!!"

"No, wait a minute."

Dazai staggered to a halt, and dragged her back to the spot with a backhand, "The virus concentration in front of us is too high, even if I'm here, I can't protect Xiaoyue from infection. If you don't spray some aromatic antidote first, you will be very sick." Are you going to lose consciousness again?"

"?? Then how to do..."

And why is it aromatic.

"Hmm~ Generally speaking, there is no way. But this time I obtained illegal... huh! VIP privileges, it seems that there are other services attached. For example, I can retrieve my data from participating in the Holy Grail War in the past... ..."

Dazai raised the corner of his lips in a mysterious manner, then turned sideways and lightly stepped aside.

Immediately afterwards, Satsuki felt her vision suddenly blur, and the whole world brightened up without warning.

"Why, this is..."

Dark, dark, dark.

In the darkness that spread infinitely, a pure white light source that was so dazzling suddenly lit up.

【Is there anyone there】.

White and soft robes, fair complexion, and silver-white hair hanging like clouds in the sky.There seemed to be a string of small colored LED light bulbs hidden in that long hair, and when it was shaken slightly, it would glow colorfully like neon.

What's even more unbelievable, and even makes people feel very Mary Sue, is that at the feet of this strange young man in front of him, instead of seeing a bit of gunpowder smoke and dust, there are large eye-catching pink flowers blooming endlessly.

... There are flowers under his feet.

... It's actually blooming! ! ! ! ! !

(I, I should not be too seriously injured, and have some strange hallucinations...)

"Oh, I'm not dreaming, am I?"

Satsuki subconsciously raised her hand to rub her eyes, but was interrupted by the man's gentle words—his voice was deeper and more magnetic than Dazai's, but it didn't seem stable because of it, and the ending was exactly the same, even if the atmosphere was solemn, three voices were unavoidable. Very gentle and frivolous with a smile.

"Well, anyway, let's introduce myself first. I have read all your stories so far, but I didn't expect that I would be dragged into the scene suddenly... Speaking of which, haven't I reenacted it? I really can't help it. I also have to work overtime with Teacher Kong Ming."

"In short, I just happened to pass by Avalon, and I happened to be in a good mood to help the former Master, everyone's favorite online idol, brother Merlin!!"

Satsuki: "..."

It seemed that he understood why Dazai was able to summon him.

The author has something to say:

Yes, it is our seven-star sea view room Merlin Onisan!Although the title is Nero's skill, it's Merlin who stands out! (roll roll roll)

Shameless servants who call themselves little brothers are really rare (.

To Merlin and Dazai Raro is for this moment!In order to break the Dazai of all laws!When it comes to the finale, it is really hard to limit the seven-star model workers! (Merlin: I'm not, I don't) By the way, let's take a look at the Dazai Tiantai project in the first two chapters.The plot refers to Chapter [-]. During the battle of the underworld, Merlin covered the black mud with flowers all over the ground, which offset the debuff that the black mud cuts our HP every round, which is amazing...

It's really not easy for Xiaoyue to get to this point... So next, it's really time to work hard and get rewarded

PS: The red envelopes for the lottery have been sent out. It was the floor 2333 that I asked my cp house to report casually.