[Comprehensive] Why am I not dead yet?

That night, the head priest Siduri personally arranged the residence of Fujimaru Tachibana and Matthew in an empty hotel not far from the palace. The girl master always subconsciously ignores the cruelty and killing outside, but once night falls, in the empty and silent city, the cruelty and cruelty of war can still be seen from most of the houses that cannot be lit.

"—The above is our report on what happened in the past few days. The preliminary guess was that it was because of the influence of Miss Lian Su's magic power that the sword casting furnace had not dissipated, so it was impossible to contact Chaldea. The city of Uruk is now being destroyed. King Gilgamesh's magical power is protected by the enchanted barrier, which is relatively stable compared to the outside world, so we can get in touch."

Doctor Roman on the opposite side of the electronic influence finally breathed a sigh of relief. It is too serious to be unable to contact the Master who is in the singularity of the Age of Gods. The gods in Sumerian mythology are not particularly friendly to humans. , plus a particularly important point: when the gods of Mesopotamia tried to continue the age of gods in their own way, this plan was unceremoniously destroyed by King Gilgamesh.

Therefore, if Gilgamesh still existed as a wedge of heaven, then the gods of Mesopotamia would be more or less magnanimous to Uruk for his sake, In the later stage, the risk will increase rapidly.

According to the estimation of Chaldea, the era of Fujimaru Tachibana's teleportation is the last era when the gods perish. The gods do exist, but it is uncertain whether they are still active.

It would be the best result if it happened to catch up with the end of the era of the gods and the disappearance of the gods, but if the gods in Sumerian mythology are still active in this land, it undoubtedly means that the master of Chaldea needs to face Enemies that are worse and more dangerous than the previous powerful Heroic Spirits.

——No matter how powerful a heroic spirit is, it will always be a heroic spirit. Their legends during their lifetime will be the source of their power sublimation, but they will also be a weakness that they will never be able to get rid of. The Heroic Spirit has the curse of "will be defeated by the neon sword", Gawain in the Knights of the Round Table will no longer be invincible after leaving Rizhao, Tristan cannot get rid of the curse of poisoning, and so on.

But there are also Heroic Spirits who forcibly reverse the curse of death and defeat in life by some means.

For example, Cu Chulainn, the mad king of heroic spirits encountered at the fifth singularity, is in a sense a terrifying enemy no less than the deified Lion King.When relying on Maeve's Holy Grail to reshape his body and spirit foundation, she deliberately avoided the curse of the spiral sword. With his own bravery and madness bonuses, coupled with the Holy Grail level's terrifying offering, he can almost be said to be an instant invincible.

But he couldn't get rid of another curse - when the mad king had to let go of the last body of his lover Uyf because of the battle, Scathach, who was standing on the side of Chaldea, bypassed the battle with his disciples, He didn't hesitate to destroy Wuyfu's last body with a single shot at the cost of the collapse of his spirit base.

Maeve's obsessive love, distorted and morbidly magnified by her in the process of creation, became the curse of the mad king.

——That shot ushered in the end of the fifth singularity war, with the pitch-black ferocious beast turning around without a moment's hesitation to expose its back to the enemy, and finally being pierced through the heart as the final ending song.

"...The real Cu Chulainn is not that kind of romantic and infatuated man. It is precisely because he is not that Uyf will have such an ending, isn't it? In a sense, what that guy did is Maeve It's a projection of her state of mind and 'her imaginary lover'."

Later, when she was summoned to Scathach, the Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows made such a subtle evaluation of the Mad King.

"Infatuated, loyal, strong, and the terrible obsession to hold the one you love in your hands at all costs; let you have a taste of what she couldn't ask for in life. It's the best..."

Stronger than Scathach, she can't escape the curse of "not fighting Uyf during her lifetime"—as long as her spirit base doesn't undergo a fundamental reversal, she won't be able to defeat Uyf at all.

The destruction of the Age of Gods gave her the concept of "death", which is why she can appear in Chaldea as a heroic spirit, and Skaha also gave a lot of advice during this trip to the Age of Gods.

"Be prepared for the worst—that is, the possibility that the gods are still active in this land. They cannot be viewed from the perspective of heroic spirits, not to mention that the singularity itself has a 'completely different from the official history' For example, I don’t need to mention the examples of the fifth singularity and the sixth singularity, right? So, it’s impossible to fight the real living gods in the same way you used to fight against the heroic spirits...

To be honest, Maeve’s time was just my guess, even now it’s quite a risky act, not to mention that we had a ‘Uyve’ that could be used as an experiment, but this time it won’t work, Jill King Gamesh had quite powerful assistants in several stages before his death. Even he himself is a terrifying existence. I can only hope that your enemies this time are not everyone including the hero king. "

Before parting, the Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows gave such a piece of advice to the young master with a serious expression.

"Living has infinite possibilities. For example, I may run to fight Uyf. For example, Uyf who was not distracted killed Cu Chulainn. If this is 'while alive' then it means 'death' All the things that happened in one moment' all didn't happen;

You can't always start from the weakness of a heroic spirit, a god, or a person. Once you form a fixed mindset and become dependent, it will be a very bad thing, because you can't find it in the fastest time. The second countermeasure. "

This sentence was always kept in mind by Fujimaru Tachibana, and when he reconnected with Chaldea, it was mentioned again by the opposite doctor Roman.

"But you are really lucky that you didn't become an enemy of King Gilgamesh..." Dr. Roman scratched his head with a headache: "After all, what you have to face is Gilgamesh who has reached the stage of a virtuous king, so probably you have collected Let's go to the last "Noble Phantasm of Immortality"... That thing can be said to be the original prototype of the holy sword scabbard "Avalon". It can deflect all magic, magic and physical attacks, and grant the holder the highest level of immortality. Tool."

Matthew's eyes froze for a moment when she heard Avalon, and she suddenly asked a rather strange question: "Doctor, is there such a possibility? For example, the swordsmith who cast 'Avalon' Also the caster of King Gilgamesh's enchantment treasure?"

"...This is a question that shouldn't be established, Matthew."

Roman shook his head and said: "The casters including the holy sword held by King Arthur and many famous holy swords of the Knights of the Round Table are the lake spirits in King Arthur's legend, and they overlap with the treasures held by King Gilgamesh except for the treasures. This point has nothing in common; but even this is not enough to be a reason for suspicion, after all, the effects of treasures sublimated into legends in life are similar, and this is not uncommon among heroic spirits."

He paused for a while, seeing that Matthew on the opposite side seemed to be unable to hide his disappointment, he couldn't help asking in a gentle voice: "Did you meet someone?"

The girl's expression was low, and she said in a low voice: "I met someone with my senior. If nothing else, it should be the caster of the enchantment treasure... How should I put it, the spirit foundation in the body felt nostalgia and a sense of intimacy, The other party was also very kind to us, so I couldn't help but-"

"Hmm, is it Mr. Galahad's influence? That's no wonder... maybe the casters who created the same performance also have similarities in personality?"

Roman didn't know the specific situation there, so he could only rely on this: "It is said that Lancelot was raised by a fairy in the lake and taught swordsmanship, and gave birth to Galaha by accident. After that, Lancelot did not fulfill his father's responsibility, because of this matter, he was despised and even hunted down by the fairies... One of the elves seems to have taken over the work of raising Galahad, maybe Is it because you feel a similar aura to your adoptive mother, that's why you feel close?"

"Maybe the caster is the same person?" Fujimaru Tachibana, who just walked in at this time, said a joke casually, in exchange for the opposite Roman to wave his hand happily: "I hate it, Tachibana, this joke is not funny at all, but you just went to Where? Why did you come back now? Da Vinci just told me that there are still about 10 minutes left in the contact time, and the next wave of contact time is still uncertain, and I guess it depends on your side to be more stable."

"Welcome back, senior... eh? Didn't you mean to see if there is no suitable job for us? How did you come back so quickly?"

Fujimaru Tachibana put the things in his hand on the table, and sat down next to Mash, and the two of them answered their questions together: "I went to King Gilgamesh and watched the work of Sister Liansu and the king for a long time... ...How should I put it, the level of tacit understanding makes it impossible for me to intervene at all.

First, the job that King Gilgamesh arranged for us was too difficult and dangerous for Sister Su. The job she thought of, the king complained, "Seven or eight-year-old children can do it, why don't you let them play in the mud?" He was yelled at in return. Said, "The work you left for me is not too difficult." So the two of them quarreled until now and there is no result... I am not as shameless as Meilin, who insists on sticking to others. Just now, even Sister Su He gave me two gadgets and let me go out to play, and I came back. "

She pushed the two gadgets wrapped in white cloth on the table. After Mash unwrapped them, she found a small dagger with smooth lines and excellent touch. She waved it a few times tentatively, and widened her eyes: "It feels great. !"

Tachibana followed suit, putting her fingers on the back of Matthew's hand and letting her hold the knife handle to try to cut the corners of the stone table. Matthew looked surprised: "It's amazing! Such a thick stone slab is so easy to cut. Cut it off, senior!"

"I heard from Sister Liansu that she made it with the leftover materials from before. Because I and your hair were added into it, so I can take it away successfully even when I leave. When I said this, King Gilgamesh stared at me. I stared fiercely, I guess it might be the remaining material of the sword recorded in the epic."

Fujimaru Tachibana's eyes sparkled, and her tone was full of pride: "What she said was, 'Although it's not as exaggerated as the one dedicated to the king, as long as you don't use the deviant sword or any super-high-level treasure head-on, it can be used as a weapon." A slightly dangerous amulet, made according to the size of your two hands, play with it'—”

"...Wait!?"

Roman's screams of collapse came from Chaldea: "Tachibana!? Wait a minute!?

You just said Lian Su?Is it Lian Su from the Epic of Gilgamesh that I know? Tachibana! ?And do you know what you're holding in your hand! ?You have brought back two treasures comparable to Avalon in an understatement! ! ! "

"Calm down, doctor..." Fujimaru Tachibana's expression was very calm, and in Roman's opinion, the girl was too calm: "I just finished listening to King Gilgamesh's roar and Merlin's cry, and I really don't want to come back and hear you screaming..."

"Hey... the screams are too much, do you know how exaggerated it is if these two things can really achieve the effect you said..."

Dr. Roman tried his best to lower his voice, with a complicated face: "How many treasures of the level of deviant swords are there in this world? When you come back with this thing, all the elites of the entire Magic Association will come and beat you, are you okay??? "

"It's too exaggerated, doctor, who would deliberately come here and beat me, the nameless Master?"

Lihua rolled his eyes and sighed softly: "But I'd better give it to Lixiang when I go back. My magic circuit is better than his. This thing is more suitable for him."

"Then mine is for senior." Matthew reflexively said.

"Eh? No need, Mash can keep it for herself." Seeing that the two little girls were about to get entangled again, Roman suddenly thought of a name he had just heard by accident: "Just now... Lihua Said the name 'Merlin'?"

"Huh? Hmm, I said it." Fujimaru Tachibana temporarily stopped embracing the junior's arm, and raised his head to think for a while: "But that master magician should be crazily trampled on the face by Fufu now, right?"

"Ah... oh, oh." Hearing the unexpected answer, Roman suddenly didn't know what to say, just a little inexplicable stomach pain.

"You two still have to work tomorrow? You should go to rest soon... With this thing, you can rest assured of your safety."

"Hmm." Fujimaru Tachibana nodded, raised his hand and turned off Chaldea's communication device.

****

On the side of Chaldea, Dr. Roman, who was sitting in the liaison room, lowered his head and let out a long breath.

A clear and clear voice unique to young people came from the door: "Thank you, doctor."

"Ah..." He followed the sound and looked up, seeing the young Gilgamesh standing at the door, heaved a sigh of relief.

"It's the king..."

"I said you don't need to call me that, just call me Jill." The blond-haired and red-eyed beauty boy waved his hand with a smile: "It seems that your contact with the Master is still successful?"

"Well, let them go to rest. Although I don't know when the next contact will be, Tachibana and the others seem to have obtained a treasure-like item of enchantment, so I can rest assured."

"--Eh."

Young Jill slowly prolonged the end of the exclamation, those red eyes were meaningfully bent, and the tone remained unchanged: "Is it the same thing as Liansu gave me in my treasure house?"

"Tachibana said that Mr. Lian Su made it with the leftover materials. The effect is not as good as the real sword, but it can still be used. Probably." Roman didn't notice the tiny smile on Young Jill's face. Changed, he answered casually.He shook his head with a wry smile, he couldn't tell whether it was envy or some emotion at work: "Looking at it this way, you really have a very outstanding courtier."

"Of course—she is the best one in every sense. When I grow up, I occasionally even feel that 'if this woman can't be used by me, then I will kill her'. Of course, I don’t think so now.” Young Jill’s smile remained the same, but her eyes fell on the panel in the liaison room vaguely: “But since the master can get the little things she made ‘handy’, it means Is she still in good health?"

"Probably..." Roman nodded, "Why are you asking this...Speaking of it, it seems that you don't know what will happen to your subject?"

The curvature of Young Jill's mouth was instantly flattened, as if it was Roman's illusion.

"—The heart blood was exhausted during the process of making the sword, and after the sword was completed, I had to help me deal with many domestic affairs. In addition, at that time, I rarely listened to the advice of others except her, so there were too many things to worry about. He died of illness two years later." He replied lightly, "In today's words, it probably died of overwork."

Roman: "..."

It's really a complicated ending that makes people feel a little sympathetic.

"...Speaking of which, even though you possess such a treasure, you still accepted death like a mortal."

Perhaps it was because the young king had a magnanimous and peaceful disposition, and Roman's tone became a little slack.

"Well... the relationship is actually very complicated."

Young Jill smacked his lips.

"The reason for casting the sword is probably that she feels guilty... because she has no way to do it, so she can't stop the snake from stealing the elixir or something. She has said many times that she is not to blame, but she seems to never really let go of it. Moreover, the reason why I pursue immortality is not purely for myself, even if I finally get a treasure with the same effect, I don’t want to continue to use it.”

——understood the moment he lost the elixir, and at the end of the day, nothing would remain in his Gilgamesh hands.

"And it's not as scary as I imagined." The young Gilgamesh said with a smile.

"Anyway, the person who will stare at the sword that I have to wear is no longer there, so I just need to let go of the hand holding the sword."