[Pseudo-comprehension] The Girl's Sun Belief

12.

Don't you want to know what you really are?

Of course I do.

But does the pursuit of this truth require wishing on it as it says?After all, that is... a maliciousness so thick that it cannot be ignored.

Xi Jian's free hand clenched tightly into a fist, and the pain of her nails piercing her palm made her more awake.She took a deep breath, and stared closely at the black "hole" in the blood-colored sky.

The voice seemed to be waiting for her answer, and her ears fell silent.

"Are you really the 'Holy Grail'?" Yumi asked, "It's better to say that you are the 'culprit', right? Why is the 'Kai' in this place in Fuyuki City 1000 years later? Destruction, the Yamata no Orochi that was 'killed' will be awakened again...is it all your fault?"

After she finished speaking, the surroundings were quiet for a while, and then "that voice" sounded again.

"Hee hee, it seems that you are right if you say that."

It still seems to be in my ear, and it seems to echo everywhere.The voice was far and near, with viscous malice.

"So you used Karna's appearance to confuse me? If I really did what you said at that time... I'm afraid the consequences would be disastrous?"

Xi Jian's voice cooled down, and she questioned "that" in the void.

"As long as you make a wish, you can do it now. Make a wish to me, and all your wishes can be fulfilled. Aren't you curious about the 'past' you lost?"

Lost past?

"...No need," she said, "this is my own business, not within the scope of your business. It's better to settle some things now... My last hunch should be directed at you, so just put that If the black hole and the mud are cleaned up, it will be over, right?"

Regardless of the frantic screaming voice in her ear, she was concentrating on reciting the mantra in her heart, and a phantom of a huge mirror gradually appeared behind Xi Jian.

Under the circumstances that she could not solve by herself anyway, she summoned one of the assists that she was told not to use until the last moment, the projection of the "Yataka Mirror", one of the three artifacts.As an artifact that is enough to represent Amaterasu, "Mirror" naturally has an unparalleled purification ability, and it was "Mirror" that pulled back her sanity at a critical moment.While silently reciting the prayer to invite God to descend, Xi Jian could see the giant mirror behind him gradually emitting warm golden light.The moment it came into contact with this light, the black mud flowing out of the black hole twisted and evaporated.

No, this is not enough.

The speed at which the black mud spread was far greater than the speed at which the "mirror" could be purified. If she wanted to get rid of these things, unless she could further awaken the "mirror".

According to common sense, it would take a huge amount of spiritual power to truly awaken an artifact—her Gouyu is an exception, even if she is currently summoning a projection instead of a body, the amount needed to awaken it far exceeds what she can provide.At this time, if she insisted on continuing, she could only use herself as a "sacrifice".Give flesh and blood first, and if not enough then soul—until enough is given.

After making up her mind, Xijian slashed her left wrist with the tip of the arrow she pierced through "Karna" just now—the blood splashed on the "mirror" in an instant.She walked up to the "mirror" and raised her wrist to press on the mirror.After absorbing all the blood, the "mirror" buzzed, and the light suddenly became brighter.It was as if another sun had risen here—Yumi, who was a little dizzy from the massive blood loss, thought so.

Originally, this kind of wound could use spiritual power to speed up the hemostasis and healing, but that arrow was Yu Xianjin's magic-sealing arrow-not only effective on the enemy, but also on herself.The flow of spiritual power in the left half of her body was directly blocked, and the flow of spiritual power in the right half of her body was also significantly slowed down.

Under such light, the black mud is continuously burned and evaporated, but the "hole" in the midair still exists, and it must be...

Xi Jian gritted her teeth, struggled a few steps forward, and stretched out her right hand without a wound.

A plain long sword slowly took shape in her hands.That is the projection of the "sword" of the three artifacts.

The wound on her left hand was still bleeding profusely. Holding the sword, she wanted to cut the blood vessels on the side of her neck again to get enough blood. However, due to the loss of blood and spiritual power, the 'sword' pierced crookedly. , did not do what she wished, but drew a long bloodstain from her left shoulder.However, the amount of blood is enough, absorbing all the splashed blood, the "sword" vibrated excitedly in her hand, took a deep breath, ignoring the severe pain on the left side of her body, Xijian almost exerted all her strength Li Qi raised the "sword" again, and slashed towards the "hole" in midair.

This is a random stroke that doesn't even touch the "hole", which is supposed to be a waste of effort.However, the "sword" came out of her hand as if it had self-awareness, and flew straight into the air, cutting off the "hole" in the middle.

The surrounding space distorted rapidly and violently, and the monotonous and terrifying scene gradually faded away. At the same time, the projections of the "mirror" and "sword" also gradually disintegrated.The "sword" disappeared first, and shortly thereafter, the projection of the "mirror" gradually dissipated in a blinding golden light.After waking up two artifacts in a row, Xi Jian had reached her limit, her vision went dark, she lost consciousness and fell heavily into the black mud.At this time, in the "outside", in the ruins of the civic hall, Saber was being forced by her master to release the Noble Phantasm with three command spells to destroy the "Holy Grail".

Then, under the watchful eyes of the master of the saber——Emiya Kiritsugu, the "hole" that was divided into two at the same time was exposed from between the cleaved building fragments, and the "hole" fell down. The master of the mysterious "eighth group" on the ground.

With his eyesight, he could clearly see the girl in a state of distress. Because the black mud that had poured out earlier rushed out violently, directly submerging the auditorium outside and the golden archer, the girl was exposed instead. .

Half of her body was stained with coagulated blood, and her hair was also glued into strands of blood. She lay there motionless, curled up into a ball, perhaps out of breath.At this time, the black mud was still raging on the first floor, and it had spread beyond the scope of the civic hall. Fortunately, most of the "hole" had shrunk, and no new black mud would overflow, and the damage was still within controllable range.However, as a human being, even if Emiya Kiritsugu wanted to go to confirm her condition and identity, it was impossible to go to her immediately from where he was.

At this moment, a girl with pink hair and rabbit ears, wearing a strange suit and uniform appeared there out of thin air.

As soon as the rabbit-eared girl appeared, she decisively hugged Yumi, who was lying on the ground, and her life and death were uncertain. After that, she jumped up high with a jumping ability that far surpassed that of a human being. She tapped the ruins with her toes in midair. During the jump, he disappeared into the distance with Xi Jian.

The only bystander, Emiya Kiritsugu opened his eyes wide.

The rabbit-eared girl who was holding Xi Jian quickly left the area where the black mud was spreading, and found a car on the side of the road, but she didn't know how to open the door.She put Xiumi on the back seat, quickly used the medicine she brought with her to stop the bleeding, bandaged the wound briefly, sat in the driver's seat and fiddled for a while, and with a low roar, the car was started by her.

"Now the princess should be sent to a safe place...Damn it, why is it so difficult? Are the cars on the ground all such old antiques? Really, although I knew that the technology on the ground was backward, it is really too late at this time." It's inconvenient..."

The girl murmured in dissatisfaction, pulled off the handbrake with some blunt movements, and then stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.

The car accelerated sharply and sped away.

On the way, Xijian woke up in a daze, and found that she was in the car.I don't know who took her away... She wanted to ask the driver, but found that her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't speak at all.

"My lord princess, I'm Reisen," the rabbit-eared girl said after seeing Yumi's movements in the rearview mirror, "Please don't move, you are very weak now, and you may be in danger if you don't pay attention. … Do you need water?"

Xijian nodded slightly.

Reisen stepped on the brakes without hesitation and stopped the car in the middle of the road. She quickly got out of the car, opened the door of the back seat, gently helped Yumi up, and then took out water from the small bag to feed her.The taste of the water is very sweet... Maybe she lost too much blood, she is really thirsty... Xi Jian thought in a daze.

"I'm going to send you to a safe place, but I'm not very familiar with the ground... I'm sorry..." Reisen apologized to her with some embarrassment, Xijian just shook his head, indicating that she was okay.

"Reisen...?"

Seeing that Reisen was about to go back to the driver's seat, Yumi tried to call her.Although his voice was weak and hoarse, he was able to speak.

"Do you need anything?" Reisen asked nervously, holding the car door with one hand and turning around quickly.

"...Moriya Shrine, can I go there?"

"...Yes! I will definitely do my best! However, before arriving at the destination, please take a break."

I don't know what method Reisen used, but it definitely didn't drive the car the whole time, because when Yumi was woken up by Sanae's panicked yelling, she was hugged by Reisen, and there were no cars parked around - but it was also Not necessarily, after all, the Moriya Shrine is on the mountain, and it is possible that the car cannot drive up.

Reisen seemed to hold her and knocked on the door of Moriya Shrine, and when Sanae came out to open the door half asleep, she was startled by her who seemed to be very miserable.

"Hey——! Xijian, are you okay?! No, no, Xijian, why did you do this... No, no, you should call an ambulance first..." Wrapped in a coat casually, with a messy grass green hair With long hair, Sanae spun around in a hurry, muttering something.

"It's useless, Sanae."

Yumi weakly interrupted Sanae's soliloquy.

"The hospital is useless to me. How many times have I told you... Can I stay with you temporarily?"

"D-Of course, let's come in first... But is it really okay?" See you, Xixi?

"...I can't die."

Sanae stopped talking, but her expression looked like she was about to cry.She trotted to the front to open the door, and Reisen followed behind with Xi Jian in his arms.When Sanae opened the door of her own room, another surprised voice came out: "Huh? Master Suwako... are you here?"

The person whom Sanae called respectfully—a young girl with short blond hair, wearing a white lining and a purple skirt, Oshiya Suwako faced the door with a natural smile.

"I don't want to sleep, so I came here, is it strange?" Suwako stood up, and walked briskly to Reisen's side, "Ah, this is the first time I saw this child make himself so miserable."

"So, that, I hope you can allow the princess to stay here for a while..."

"It's okay, it's all casual," Suwako looked left and right, and found that Yumi was still awake, so she jumped in front of Sanae and said, "But Sanae, you should change the child's clothes now." , your junior high school uniform seems to be kept by Kanako—”

Sanae woke up like a dream, and rushed out in a hurry, as if she was really going to get her clothes.

Reisen put down Yumi according to Suwako's instructions, and bowed slightly to her.

"Thank you very much, so that I can also report to Master Toyohime."

"It turns out that you still care about this child very much. You thought you left her again and just ignored it."

Suwako raised the corners of her mouth, her tone was casual, as if she just said a joke.

"...You're joking," Reisen looked a little embarrassed, "Master Feng Ji, Lord Yi Ji, and those few adults...have always cared about Her Lady Princess."

"Yeah, are you going back to work? You can leave it to Sanae here." Suwako didn't seem to have any special reaction to her answer, waved her hand, and then sat cross-legged next to Yumi Down.She lowered her head and met Xi Jian's out-of-focus eyes.

"Sanae should be back soon...ah, here we come."

The door was pushed open hastily, followed by hurried footsteps.Yumi felt Sanae undoing the belt of her dress.

"Xi Jian, why do you like to wear such complicated clothes... Well, this one seems very expensive..."

Carefully unwrapping the expensive Gouyu and putting it aside, Sanae peeled off layer by layer the blood-soaked clothes that had already been untied by Reisen.Suwako was helping, and from time to time said something like "This kind of clothes don't take off so well!"When Sanae picked up the top of the uniform and gestured for the size, she found that it was still suitable.

"Well, speaking of it, He Xijian has known you for five years, and I feel that you still haven't changed at all. Whether it's height or..."

"...That's not important," Yumi said, "Sanae, move faster...I'm so cold."

Not only cold, but also tired.The emptiness of spiritual power, the pain that always harassed her, the weakness of excessive blood loss, and the extreme anxiety and sense of absurdity in her heart.All this made her extremely tired.She stared at the ceiling, drowsily thinking that a few hours ago she was talking to Karna, and now it seemed to be her fantasy.

Moreover, I still care about what that voice said to me, including those memories...

Just now she heard the conversation between Suwako and Reisen. Every time she heard the names that Reisen said, her head hurt a lot.According to Reisen, it is impossible for her not to know those people.Then, there must be something wrong with her memory.

I really don't know why I never noticed these problems before, but now that I think about it a little bit, I find that it is full of flaws.However, even if she found the problem, she didn't understand, who changed her memory and why?

Sanae had pulled off one side of the quilt to wrap her up to keep her warm, yawned and lay down on the side, muttering something like "Why do I have to go to class tomorrow?" and fell asleep.Yumi turned her head slightly, and saw Suwako blinking at herself in a daze, and then showed a meaningful expression.

...Miss Suwako, did you see something?

The author has something to say:

Suwako: Do ​​you know, old thief Tsukiyomi, that not only has your daughter given away her dowry, but she is also going to commit suicide in her love? Are you surprised or surprised? (←Don't believe it)