07.

After the topic was interrupted for an unknown distance, Xijian suddenly remembered what she wanted to say.

"So, our original plan can be said to have failed... I'm sorry, but now it's because of my mistake that I exposed you to all the contestants..."

Xijian said this apologetically, but Karna shook his head and followed her words: "No need to apologize, Xijian, I am not afraid to face the battle."

"Originally I didn't want to interfere with those contestants, nor did I want them to interfere with what I was going to do," Xi Jian sighed, "It was just an 'opportunity', but this time I seemed to be ruled by fate from the very beginning. Playing tricks in the palm of your hand. At the beginning, I was hesitant to call for help, but now it seems that it is really necessary..."

Those eyes that can see through the future now reveal a very faint sense of confusion and fragility.

"What will happen... Suddenly, I feel that it is a luxury to hope that the moonlight can illuminate my way as usual."

Karna didn't speak.

Knowing that you are poor at words, you will not comfort others.He just proved his determination and oath with actions——always standing silently by Xijian's side, the golden gun in his hand ready to fight at any time.

"...Really, what do you think about so much," Xi Jian shook her head, forcefully dispelling the uneasiness in her heart, "The most important thing now is to repair the barrier."

"I don't think now is the right time, see you later."

Karna objected.

"I know the amount of mana I consume. I released the mana in the battle just now. You must have felt it too."

He was right, just now Xijian did feel that the spiritual power was being sucked away at a terrifying speed.However, she has been living beyond her means for a period of time, relying on Gouyu to barely maintain a delicate balance, and she doesn't even bother to think about saving money.

She stared at Karna: "The enchantment is very important."

"At present, preserving strength is the most important thing."

As a result of both of them staring at each other with stern faces, Yumi conceded directly again... no, it was persuaded by Karna.Although he promised to stop here tonight, what Xijian thought in his heart was that he must find a way to truly separate Karna's energy supply, so that it would not affect his battle, and save them later. The issue of consumption is wrangling.

Anyway, using half of Gouyu directly as his complete energy source, theoretically speaking, there must be no problem.Coupled with the contract at the "real name" level, this structure should be easy.

Xi Jian, who was planning like this, still didn't understand what kind of thing she was going to do.

After returning to the shrine, Yumi was urged by Karna to rest again.

"Then Karna should take a break too," couldn't resist him, mainly because it was really hard to refuse him, Xi Jian said to Karna with one hand propped on the paper door, "There are extra bedding in the cupboard—please don't say Heroic Spirit You don’t need to sleep, you said to preserve your strength, understand? Tomorrow we will formulate new countermeasures.”

The paper door was pulled shut in front of Karna with a "swish". He was stunned for a few seconds, but followed the instructions to go to the cabinet to take out the quilt, spread the quilt outside the paper door, and Karna lay on it , staring at the ceiling quietly with eyes open.Even though he didn't feel tired, maybe it was because the fact of "what to lie on" gave him a secret hint in his heart, and the inexplicable drowsiness that the usually vigilant Heroic Spirit couldn't resist made his eyes slowly close up.

Xijian knew that he was dreaming.

She is no stranger to dreams, because most of her predictions are in the form of dreams, but this dream is not a prediction.She seemed to be observing everything from someone's perspective, her body was restricted, even though she realized that it was a dream, she still couldn't wake up, she could only suppress the irritability in her heart and wait and see what happened.

Here is the battlefield.

Looking at it from this person's point of view, the surrounding area is a scene of blood flowing like a river.Dead soldiers fell to the ground in disorder, countless chariots were destroyed, bloody weapons were discarded at random...even dead elephants?Xi Jian frowned unconsciously, deliberately ignoring the disgust and discomfort in her heart.

She didn't know who she borrowed from someone's perspective. This person seemed to be standing on a chariot, taking out a handful of arrows from one side of the quiver, and then—he shot them all at once. .

The sound of the arrow's head sinking into the flesh made Ximi feel nauseated subconsciously, but this man was clearly a seasoned warrior, so he calmly took out another batch of arrows and shot...these arrows were intercepted in the air.

There was a lot of noise around, and it seemed that a particularly powerful warrior was coming from the opposite side.From this person's perspective, all he could see was a suit of blue and white clothes, and the other party was also holding a longbow, posing an attacking posture.

The ensuing battle made Yumi, who was a bystander, feel his hairs stand on end -- that's not the level that ordinary humans can achieve.The shock that seemed to knock her soul made her tremble all over, because she borrowed the perspective of one of the fighters, so she added a full sense of tension.

And...then what?

As if pressed by an impatient "bystander" to fast-forward, she watched as the wheels sank into the ground.

This is……

"She," or the man, got out of the car to lift the wheels, and she heard his voice, begging to be able to fight after he got out of the wheels.

This is……

Then there was only the sound of arrows piercing through the air in an instant, severe pain came from the neck, and the strong smell of blood filled the mouth and nose in an instant. "She" opened her eyes wide and slowly fell backwards.

This is--!

Xi Jian fell into a trance, she seemed to hear mournful cries behind her, what they were calling was...

"—Karna!!"

Karna was pulled out of the dream by Yumi's scream.

Yes, he is dreaming.

This is quite rare for Heroic Spirits, but not impossible.Sometimes as servants, because of the contract with the master, they can glimpse a corner of each other's past in dreams.

Then his dream should be the memory of his master, Xijian.

However, this memory is not complete, no, perhaps it cannot be regarded as memory.Like an old disc that has been repeatedly written and deleted, there are only blurred gray images and harsh noises.

From the noise, he vaguely heard a few words.

"...Son of 'Sin'..."

"...then...the exchange..."

"…………prohibit…………………………"

Karna didn't understand what this dream symbolized, even though he didn't even have a complete sentence, but for some reason, this dream carried a sense of oppression that he couldn't figure out. He stood in the gray world, surrounded by noisy and harsh voices. When I listened to it again, they all disappeared again.Then he heard Yumi's scream, and put aside all his messy thoughts, he quickly got up and opened the door of the room.

Xi Jian was sitting there blankly, with disheveled hair and pale face.Hearing the movement at the door, she turned her head, and the moment she saw Karna, her pupils shrank suddenly.

"Karna?"

"What happened, see you?"

Although he was standing at the door, the scene in the dream was too powerful. Xijian unconsciously reached out to touch the side of his neck, but only touched the smooth skin.

By the way...that was a dream...

Karna obviously also saw that something was wrong with her, he walked up to Xi Jian and knelt down halfway, and took Xi Jian's hand that was hanging in the air and didn't know where to put it.Her hand was as cold as ice, trembling slightly in his.

Maybe it was soothed by the breath of Karna around him, Xi Jian opened his mouth a few times and finally regained his ability to speak.She said in a trembling voice, "I had a dream, Karna, I dreamed of...you."

The last word "you" was almost said in a crying voice.

Karna gave a clear "ah", he already understood what Yumi hadn't said.

"Sorry, but most of my memories, according to popular opinion, probably really can't be classified as beautiful."

Xi Jian stopped talking, the words just now seemed to exhaust all her strength.Karna tried to stand up, but was held tightly by her.He no longer tried to get up, but sat down where he was.

What kind of pain is hidden behind the light words in the story?

——Is this little bit of pain already unbearable for you?Then how to take up the responsibility of the gods, and bear the prayers and sufferings of everyone in the world, as you once thought? ... See you in the evening?

She seemed to hear a voice asking herself in her ear, but when she listened carefully, there was nothing.

—Learn to live like a human being.

This is my mother's voice.

If... I am a pure human being, what should I do at this time?Human girl, what should I do at this time?

Yumi turned her head towards Karna stiffly, and he looked back at her slightly worried.

"...Karna, I... can... please stay with me for a while?"

"If this is what you need at this time, there is no problem."

Even at this moment, his words lacked some of the tactfulness necessary for the occasion.However, Yumi could not be affected anymore, she took a few more deep breaths, and changed into a posture of carefully leaning on Karna's shoulder.

very warm.

His "breath" is the purest kind of warmth, if you want to find a description, you can only compare it to sunshine.As if just by his side, the negative emotions in my heart would quietly dissipate.

... No wonder, no wonder Yue Yejian is so attached to Master Amaterasu.Because of this kind of warmth, it's really, really...it's easy for people to fall into it.

Yumi's breathing gradually became lighter, and she fell asleep on Karna's shoulder in a daze.

Karna turned his head, and the sleeping face of the girl came into his view.Her eyes were lightly closed, her lips pursed.The moonlight streamed in from the window on one side, making her skin paler to almost transparent, making her look extraordinarily weak.After thinking for a while, he called out his huge cloak and wrapped it around Xi Jian's body.

Then, keeping this posture motionless, Karna stared at the night sky outside the window until the moon slowly set and the dawn of the next day came.Xi Jian didn't wake up from the nightmare again, maybe even dreamed of something beautiful, the corner of the sleeping girl's mouth curled up slightly.

"That child, he really summoned a remarkable character."

After listening to the report, the woman sitting alone in the empty room said so softly.

A somewhat hesitant voice came from outside the door: "Master Yue Yejian has already known all this..."

"If you don't tell him, he will definitely know. What doesn't he know?... Now I only hope that this one can free that child from her fate—hmm? Are you still there? He still has Do you want to tell me something?"

"'If she asks, then tell me everything.' These are the original words of Master Yue Yejian."

Hearing this sentence, the woman stood up abruptly, and touched the "threads" floating in the air around her.Her movements stopped abruptly as if the pause button had been pressed. After being frozen in place for a while, the woman seemed to have lost all strength in her body, and she slumped back to her original place, and the "lines" gradually recovered their calmness. .

"Yeah, yeah... He's right, these things will happen eventually," her voice was like a sigh, "Of course it's inevitable, but, as a mother, I always hope that these things will happen Later, at least, let the child face the 'truth' later... This is my selfishness."

The "person" outside the door had already left, and the woman closed her eyes, as if she was caught in her own memories.

——Is it possible for the child who was implicated and condemned because of her own fault, her child, her only daughter, to really stay away from the original ending?

Girls with rabbit ears ran silently past the door, rushing into the silent darkness outside the building.

Xi Jian felt that it was the first time for her to sleep so peacefully... Although maybe it was because of the wrong posture that when she woke up, her whole body was stiff.However, there are no strange dreams to disturb, and it is really a kind of enjoyment to sleep until you wake up naturally in the warm surroundings.

At this moment, she saw the familiar cloak wrapped around herself.

Then, belatedly, she felt that she was relying on someone... Wait, yesterday she seemed to be asking Karna to "please accompany me for a while".That is to say, not only did she pull him to prevent him from leaving, but she also forcibly slept next to him?

Thoughts such as "sleeping very comfortably", "rare dreamless sleep" and so on had disappeared when she was frightened into a cold sweat. Xi Jian felt guilty for some reason, her eyes drifted from side to side , dryly apologized to Karna.

"Well, I'm sorry..."

"Why are you apologizing?"

"Because, because..." Because I dragged you all night and didn't let you go?No matter how you say this, it's weird, right?

Karna didn't pay attention to her strange behavior. Seeing that she woke up and thought his mission was over, he stood up and prepared to leave.And when he opened the sliding door, the quilts piled up at the door appeared directly in front of the two of them.

That is to say, he really listened to his own words, and was sleeping (and it looked very pitiful to spread the quilt on the ground at the door), but he was not only woken up by himself, but also (forced) to stay up all the time ?

Xi Jian suddenly felt ten times more guilty in her heart.She silently stared at the futon at the door, wondering if she had unconsciously done such an excessive thing as equating Karna with shikigami made of paper in some places.However, Karna misunderstood her silence, and he (according to his own understanding) opened his mouth: "Ah, do you think this place is very obstructive? I understand... Next time I will choose a place that is less obstructive. "

——No, that's not what it means!And, there will be no next time...!

The author has something to say:

Regarding changing the method of offering demons, in fact, I had a brain hole when I wrote this at the time, and the main text will not appear. Let’s put it here as a small theater↓

[Prerequisite: You have successfully conquered and entered the love line]

Yumi (knowing a strange way of replenishing magic for the first time): Well, Karna-kun, do you feel that your spiritual power is not enough recently... (Crazy Hint.jpg)

Karna (serious face. jpg): No, in fact, since changing the method of offering magic, there will be no shortage of magic power, so it seems very convenient.

Xijian: ……………

Karna: What's wrong?See you, don't you look very happy?

Xi Jian: ...It's okay, you wait here for me to play, I will travel back now and blow up the dog's head of myself in the past

Hahahaha, prepare for something big in a muffled voice!Rubbing hands excitedly!

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