[Comprehensive] Why am I not dead yet?

This is the third day since Lian Su died.

All the work that has been dealt with in advance has been arranged. Even if the king's most trusted minister dies from exhaustion, the operation of the city will not stop because of this; King Gilgamesh has not shown up these days, and West Du Li also persisted in her work with reddened eyes every day. Occasionally, the girl master of Chaldea would see the head priest sitting alone in a certain place crying silently, but she would wipe the corners of her eyes when she saw her. Tears, trying to smile at her.

"This is really disrespectful...Compared to locals like us who still have a lot to rely on, you two girls have always been taken care of by Mrs. Lien Su, right? But I'm sorry, but the final farewell I couldn't let you see it."

Probably because of Merlin.

Fujimaru Tachibana thought.

The magician of flowers who took away Lian Su's body and disappeared without a trace. Before that, he had always looked like a wanderer who was a little foolish but barely worth relying on. However, because of Lian Su's death, the dream was exposed. Is it the attribute of the demon side?

In this regard, Gilgamesh looked as expected.

"Why, are you surprised by Merlin? It's not something you can't understand." The blond-haired, red-eyed king sat on the throne indifferently, and the joking smile that could occasionally be seen on his face before disappeared at this moment. In Siduri's words, it is "like suddenly returning to the original moody tyrant overnight."

"Lian Su's identity is very special. The spirit base in the girl holding the shield over there should have reacted? She is indeed my subject here, but she should be a very familiar old friend with you... Merlin used to Your lover, Vivienne, the fairy of the lake, well, it seems that she also has some relationship with you."

"...Yes." Matthew pursed her lips slightly, with an expression of unconcealable sadness: "If it's really that Vivienne, then it shouldn't be the wrong judgment of the spirit foundation in my body. It's not just Merlin. On the other hand, that lady also took good care of Mr. Galahad, which is probably why I felt very close and happy when I first met her."

"Really." Gilgamesh picked up a clay tablet again: "It's something she can do."

Fujimaru Tachibana was worried that such King Gilgamesh would become difficult to speak, but the king just stared silently at the bone-white dagger hanging on her waist for a few seconds, and then looked away.

"... Tsk. She really likes you."

"...Huh?" The girl was taken aback for a moment, but she didn't react.

But King Gilgamesh seemed to have no intention of talking anymore. He waved his hand with a weary and exhausted expression: "Go on, she saved this king a lot of things, just in time when Su and Siduri are not here, Even if this king sits here, he can breathe a little easier."

Fujimaru Tachibana subconsciously asked: "Then our next work."

"——You don't need to take action."

Gilgamesh replied.

Fujimaru Tachibana finally showed a panicked expression on his face, which had been trying to maintain his composure. "But, but this is the city that Sister Lian Su is working hard to protect, so I hope I can do it with at least a little bit of effort..."

"Go and rest, little girl."

King Gilgamesh's tone can even be called gentle: "Even Su has never been favored by relatives since the moment she was born, which has caused her to always indulge children too much, plus you The spirit base in the little girl over there and the gift she gave to you two later...Since she has reached this point, there is no reason for me not to continue to help her protect her."

Fujimaru Tachibana's expression was a little stunned, which was a completely unexpected answer.

"...but human restoration?"

"The purpose of the Magic King is to burn humanity, but who the savior is is beyond his control. What that guy wants to destroy on this land is the city and the civilization that mankind can continue. Ji engraving on this land is tantamount to giving the city the highest level of protection - if she has achieved this level, the king still needs to rely on others to solve this disaster, then I have not accepted her loyalty reason with the heart."

The blond king hung a bone-white long sword on his waist, looking down at Fujimaru Tachibana from a height.

"—You just need to look at it, the little magician girl who has been protected by Lian Su so far."

"As long as this king sits, no one can destroy Uruk."

"Not even the sky."

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Lian Su had a high prestige in Uruk before her death. Her death made the city lose its joy and laughter. As the two strangers who were always sent back by the adult himself and took good care of them, the two of them are now even if they are willing to participate in the transfer of work. Attention will always be pushed away by people for various reasons, let them go to rest.

Fujimaru Tachibana reconnected with Dr. Roman in Chaldea and told him what happened during this period. The other party was silent for a long time, and he could only comfort him in a gentle voice: "It can't be helped. If it is a person of that era, then It is doomed to be unable to escape the shackles of that era itself, for example, if even Su did not follow the historical ending of dying from exhaustion after forging a sword, he would meet death in another way."

"But... wait! Senior, doctor! I suddenly remembered what King Gilgamesh said before!" Matthew suddenly frowned, and raised his voice: "What he said was' strip off the spirit base from the body It is engraved on the land of Uruk' If the meaning of this sentence is not mistaken, does it mean that Miss Lian Su in this world has been dead from the beginning!?"

"……Eh?"

Both Roman and Tachibana were stunned.

"No, that's not right." The doctor was stunned: "If she had died long ago, then the bone sword... No, no, he did get the treasure of immortality of King Gilgamesh, and I will give it to you two." I made a smaller version, didn't I? So Lian Su was in the state of a heroic spirit from the beginning."

"—Susu on your side is a living dead," Young Jill said lightly.

"When she was about to die, pulling off her spirit foundation and forcibly fixing her soul to continue her life would not be so much exhausting her vitality when she was casting a sword, as it would be more like exhausting her own stored magic power."

The voice of the young Gilgamesh cut in abruptly, and the pretty face of the blond boy appeared on the screen: "Let me see, let me see... What's going on over there now?

Well……

Is Matthew struggling with Susu's affairs?If it's just a simple spirit foundation that can't fix the soul, then even Susu will die, but you said before that Ishtar exists, right?So it stands to reason that the underworld and Ereshkigal should also exist. The mechanism of Sumerian mythology is very special. Even if the human dies, it only means that the soul is taken away by the Galura spirit of the underworld, as long as the body is not damaged. , If you can go to the underworld to retrieve your soul, you can be successfully resurrected. "

Matthew's face was full of distress: "...Although the young King Gilgamesh made a very reliable suggestion, the fact is that Miss Lian Su's body has disappeared—taken away by Merlin."

Jill raised an eyebrow.

"...How should I put it, if it's that Merlin, I wouldn't find it strange at all. Probably because of the death of his lover, he accidentally awakened the attributes belonging to the succubi."

A half-blood magician who is heartless and loveless, it's okay to be forcibly endowed with the function of a lover. He has been locked in Avalon and has never experienced it himself.

But Vivienne is different to Merlin. She was given a new heart by her abandoned lover. For Lian Su, this behavior can be said to be suicide, irony, and Lian Su's own self-liberation; From Merlin's point of view, it might be understood as a distorted and pathological preference——

It's probably like [Look at her obsession with me... this person can even give me his own heart].

...If it was Merlin who couldn't learn restraint from the beginning to the end, it would be easily broken.

No, it’s not entirely true; after all, Merlin’s feelings for most human beings are at best just a frivolous and indifferent appreciation of flowers and moons, do you like it?I like it.But it is definitely not at the level of a hero recognized by history and by mankind itself as a hero who can enter the Throne of Heroes in the history of mankind.

From a human point of view, that guy's heart itself is incomprehensible. He used to rely on the knowledge and rules of human sociology to restrain himself, but Merlin himself is a character who is free from the fringes of society. It's not surprising at all.

"But... what is he going to do by taking away Miss Lian Su's body?"

Jill was silent for a moment.

"If I'm not wrong, it's probably a summoning. Re-summoning Lian Su back, if it's a magician of Merlin's level, it's not impossible to control his servants to the maximum... plus there is a Master The contract with the servant, in other words, I want her to be completely my own,

A pure magician can play with these things more or less more smoothly than the 'I' who forcibly appeared in the form of a magician. It is also easier to break the contract and get Susu to him, then lock her up in Avalon. Not impossible. "

"—that kind of thing is impossible."

A very abrupt voice came in, Fujimaru Tachibana and Mash turned their heads at the same time, and saw King Gilgamesh who stepped in.

The eyes of the two Gilgamesh met unexpectedly.

The older one looked indifferent, while the younger one looked tangled.

"Let's continue with the topic just now." The adult King Gilgamesh seemed not to care at all about the unhappy expression of the young self on the opposite side, and sat down generously: "Just now the king also Thinking of this question, if Merlin took Lian Su's body, he would be calling for a new Heroic Spirit... although this result is not valid."

"Where is it not true?" Young Jill was a little unconvinced: "Merlin has the qualifications of a crown-level magician. If he wants to beat you, a half-baked person who relies entirely on the treasure house to become a magician must be able to beat you, right?"

"That's what I want to talk about." Gilgamesh said with a blank face: "The one I summoned was unexpectedly the one on the Throne of Heroes... and now she has engraved the spirit base on this land In fact, it is completely impossible for Merlin to summon Lian Su to revive her."

Young Jill denied this statement without hesitation: "This kind of thing is impossible."

The spirit foundation is a very important thing for the heroic spirit. It is not surprising that he can summon the deity on the throne of the heroic spirit based on the bond between him and Lian Su, but if he wants to spread the spirit foundation on the ground behind Gilgamesh's back Such a thing is impossible——

"No matter which one, as long as she is here, I will keep staring at it. If she is always in the state of the living dead, I will only stare more closely. It is impossible for the big action of stripping the spirit base to hide from 'my' eyes." He said Said decisively.

"Well, but she really did not hide it from this king." The adult king of Uruk said lightly. "So what I am very curious about is what kind of means did she use to get to this point... After thinking about what she did after summoning the spirit foundation, the only problem is probably that she went to the sea of ​​death When I came back to forge swords, I met little girls from Chaldea during this period, and because of these two little girls who disobeyed the king again and again, I personally took charge of their work arrangements."

Fujimaru Tachibana came to his senses and pointed to himself: "So you think the problem is with me?"

"It should have been taken advantage of - she is very clear that the king only needs to listen to the final report for your miscellaneous work, but the specific implementation methods are basically not involved... The only breakthrough point is here Now tell me what she made you do."

Fujimaru Tachibana frowned and thought, suddenly his face turned pale, and the blood on his lips faded.

That terrible look made Matthew couldn't help raising his hand to hold her shoulder: "Senior?"

"...It seems that I have thought of something."

"...that thing that looks like jade powder." Her voice was hoarse, and she murmured, "Since the first job, even Sister Su has always given me a powder... like jade or some white stone She asked me to scatter the ground crumbs and powder wherever I went, and the more even the scatter was, the better."

Everyone was silent.

"that is……"

"Yes……"

"It is the powder made from the bones of monsters. It has the same effect as the bone sword she gave me. I decompose my own spiritual foundation little by little, put it on the powder, and let you spread it on the land of Uruk, so that you can Created the highest level of unbreakable barrier." Gilgamesh said indifferently: "It was brought back from the sea of ​​death as the material for making swords, so even Merlin who went with him was successfully fooled... At first I was wondering how it takes the blood of more than [-] monsters to cast a sword... Tsk, did that woman make arrangements from then on?"

Fujimaru Tachibana stared at Gilgamesh in disbelief.

...he was laughing.

Smiling freely and contentedly, the hunter, as if he had found some wonderful prey, showed joyful and excited burning eyes.

In contrast, Young Jill over there became expressionless.

Roman noticed it, and couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Are you unhappy?"

"...As a Servant, I am very happy, because the Master has obtained absolute safety. From this moment on, it doesn't matter if you treat this singularity restoration work as a tourist."

Young Jill pulled the corner of her mouth, the smile didn't reach her eyes.

"But as 'Gilgamesh', I'm still a little unhappy."

The grown-up King Gilgamesh looked at his young self with a provocative and malicious smile.

Heroic Spirit Summoning is destined to appear in the strongest form of victory, even Gilgamesh is no exception.

Therefore, the "Gilgamesh" who will appear there must be the attitude of youth, not to mention the youth.

This is the singularity that is destined to be repaired, and everything that happens here will disappear, so he has the only Lian Su who will do this for Gilgamesh.

——This uniqueness makes the king extremely happy.