[Fate] Falling Sun

Fuyuki City is being burned by the fire.

It's like hell on earth.

All you can see is a sea of ​​flames and ruined walls. The flames of war ruthlessly ravage this land. The wails of dying people and the cries of children must be the best curse songs to curse God.Or, who is this a sacrificial hymn dedicated to God?

There were many scorched curtains, and amidst the dark rubble, a white-haired young man was sitting on a stone that was tentatively called a staircase, with a girl lying in his arms.He stared down at the shards of light that fell from the palm of his hand to her chest just now, and had completely melted into her blood-stained chest at this moment.

"... Mio." He softly called the girl's name, hoping that her eyes that once glowed with the color of glass would open.

1 minute ago, the hero who gave made a decision.

No one could understand the battle between heaven and man in his heart, but in the end his own obsession still won out and he chose the current result.

Even if the future girl finds out and hates him, he doesn't regret it.

If you want to say why, it must be because──she is an existence that you can't let go of no matter what.

When the girl regained consciousness, she vaguely opened her eyes.Maybe it was like waking up in the morning on weekdays, and she would think that these terrible experiences were all her dreams.But when she caught sight of the dazzling flames from the corner of her eye, and the scorching heat rushing towards her, Mio realized that this was not a dream.

After her deep black eyes got rid of the soft-focus blur, the first thing she saw was Karna sitting on the rubble and hugging herself.

"Mio, are you awake?" He finally heaved a sigh of relief from his worried expression, and wiped her face that seemed to have not yet woken up with his fingertips.

"...Although I really want to ask if this is hell, but since Lancer is here, it must not be Hades." She finally let out a hoarse voice from her dry throat.

How is this going?Isn't he dead?

"If the Master goes to that kind of place, I will chase after him." He tilted his head slightly, and the gold pendant on his left ear made a clear sound. "But my wish came true."

"...What the hell is going on here?" At this moment, Mio carefully observed her chest which was supposed to have a big hole, but it was filled up, and she covered her palm, only to find that she couldn't hear her heartbeat at all.

Wait, is my current self a ghost?

Shi Yu's hero closed his strange-colored eyes at this moment, as if he was thinking about how to explain the process and reason for Mio's survival. "...Anyway, Mio should be regarded as a miracle given by the Holy Grail."

The girl listened in a daze, didn't she...miss a lot of words that should be explained?

But seeing Karna's troubled expression, she decided to interrogate him later when she had a chance.And out of the corner of her eye, she seemed to see a very extraordinary scene.

"...Where are your clothes, Lancer?" She didn't notice it just now because he was wearing gold earrings and other metal ornaments, and he was usually dressed like body paint She was wearing a black tights, but when she caught sight of the man's skin that was almost as white as the wall, she closed her eyes tightly in fright.

"...Sorry, because I have a physical body now." Karna, who still gave a leaping answer, recalled that when he jumped into the black mud just now, in order to get rid of those haunting malice and curses, he used amazing willpower Escaped the fate of being devoured and decomposed.

──Rather, it was his obsession to save Mio that far suppressed these spreading malice.

And when he fished Mio out of the black mud, he realized that he had been baptized by the black mud.What is reborn in the world is naturally naked as a baby and the innate golden ring armor.

"...It's really all kinds of incomprehensible strange things." Although it is not clear whether it is a blessing or a curse now, at least they are still alive, which is considered a good thing.The black-haired girl walked away from the white-haired young man and carefully stepped onto the uneven pile of rubble. She took off the long windbreaker and handed it to Karna behind her back. "Whether you mind or not, and whether it's cold or not, put it on for me. Because I really mind."

"Ah, I understand." He obediently picked up the girl's windbreaker and put it on, except that the shoulder width was a bit narrow and the length of the dress was not enough to reveal half of the thighs, it basically covered everything that could be covered.Even though he was wearing nothing but a windbreaker, he appeared in the middle of the night like an exhibitionist, making it impossible to look directly at.

"What will it look like now...this city." The girl looked around, looking at the surrounding area where the fire was raging. The extent of the damage was as exaggerated as if an atomic bomb had been dropped from above.Is this the horror of the Holy Grail War?

"Hey—Lancer... Ah! Mio!" Ritsu, who saw the two from a distance, hurried over, looking at the resurrected twin sister in disbelief.

"Ah, Lil!" As expected of the twin sisters, both sides shouted almost at the same time, and then hugged each other with tears of joy.

"What is this..." When Ritsu was puzzled, Mio told her younger brother about the situation just now.

And Ritsu looked at Karna who was wearing his sister's coat, as if he was thinking about something.

"law?"

"Is the contract between Lancer and Mio still there?... Rather, you have escaped the shackles of the Gun Seat now, Karna, the hero of giving." Ritsu, a magician, is the master and slave who won the Holy Grail War. Relationships are confusing.

"Ah, right now I am in a state of being without a master. Once the Holy Grail War is over, the contract between Mio and me will also disappear." Speaking of which, both the master and the servant have died once, and the contract will naturally be destroyed. Then it fails.

"Well, although you have gained a physical body now, you still rely on magic to drive this new life, right?" The black-haired boy folded his arms around his chest. He didn't seem to have heard of any servants who survived the Holy Grail War, so he won. group also...

The white-haired youth nodded.

"Huh? Where does Lancer's magic power come from?" The black-haired girl seemed to have discovered the crux of the problem.

"...I haven't thought of it yet." The white-haired young man looks a little like an abandoned husky.

"A servant without a master can only survive by sucking human souls, but I think Lancer should not be willing to do this." Ritsu summed up this conclusion. "Don't you think you should be responsible, Mio."

"Responsible? Ritsu means...to re-sign the contract?"

"Yes, after all, the heroic spirit needs to rely on the magic power of the magician to continue to exist in the world. The relationship is like a mobile phone and a battery...but a powerful follower like Lancer probably needs a master like a mobile power supply." Meaning , which means that it consumes a lot of mana.

"Why does this metaphor have a particularly subtle feeling... Forget it." The black-haired girl puffed up her cheeks a little dissatisfied, and then turned to face the white-haired young man who had obtained a second life. "The hero of giving, Karna—are you willing to make another contract with me? Even if I don't know the deadline." Her clear eyes looked at him, reflecting Karna's own figure.

"──Ah, I am willing. Until death separates you and me." His strange eyes stared at the girl, but the usually sharp eyes seemed quite soft at this moment.

"That, that, that...then, the contract is established!" The black-haired girl seemed taken aback by his response, and a pink cloud appeared on her small face.

"Wait, you haven't performed the vow kiss yet, how are you going to make a contract?" Ritsu smiled calmly, but he didn't know that he had already laughed three hundred times in his heart.The hero of Shi Yu, he really convinced him, it seems that his sister will not have to marry in her life.

"Ri, is what you said true? Isn't it...isn't it... just saying it verbally..." Mio stared at her younger brother dubiously. Although she felt that this was a [-]% joke, Ritsu looked so Seriously... No, he's definitely acting.

Just when Mio was about to expose Ritsu's joke, someone next to her really believed it.

"So that's it. It's a promise kiss." The white-haired young man nodded thoughtfully, and then glanced at the black-haired girl beside him.

"Wait a minute! Karna, wait a moment! Ritsu is joking, joking!" She quickly clarified that for Karna, an activist, based on past lessons, it would be a tragedy if he didn't explain clearly.

"Hey, look, I just said I can enter Hollywood." Lil giggled, and in the next second, he was hit by his sister's ground breaking fist. "Okay, okay... I think Fuyuki City has to be rebuilt for a while, and it's uninhabitable. You might as well go back to your hometown. I'll lend you a few sets of clothes for Karna, and you can buy them yourself later."

After learning that signing the contract was the same spell as the first summoning, Mio simply made a new contract with Karna, and then left here with Ritsu.

***

Back in the county where her hometown is located, Mio's first thing is not to go home to visit her mother, but to go straight to the clothing store.As for why Mio, who values ​​her family so much, went shopping instead of going home as her first priority, there are three reasons.

One, she hadn't thought of how to explain to her mother that she brought a man home to live with her.

Second, although my brother generously lent clothes, the size gap made her obsessive-compulsive disorder look very sad.

Three, there is a clothes hanger next to you, can you hold back?

Based on these reasons, Mio took Karna to a fairly large local clothing store.

"Karna—this, this, and this! Let's take them all to the fitting room and try them on." The black-haired girl picked out a few different outfits with quick hands, and stuffed them all for the white-haired young man .He looked at the pile of clothes in his hand silently, then turned silently and went into the fitting room to try on a suit.

When the white-haired young man was struggling with the pile of clothes in the fitting room, Auntie, the clerk outside, struck up a conversation with Mio.

"Hey, sister, is that foreigner your boyfriend?" The aunts in the countryside are always very enthusiastic...or gossip.

"Ah? No...it's not." The black-haired girl froze for a moment.

"Oh, don't be shy, those who can help boys choose clothes must be couples!" Although it is such a disadvantage to the girl, it is still a good promotion of the men's clothing in the store.And the most amazing thing about Auntie is that she can tell Karna's height, weight and measurements verbatim with just one glance. The eye of God is beyond her reach.

When Karna finished trying on all the clothes and came out wearing the last outfit, Mio just swiped her card at the counter and paid for everything.Sure enough, she didn't disappoint, even if she spent all her savings from working for three months, it was worth it. "You don't need to change it back, just wear this suit and go... Ah, wait." The black-haired girl tied the untied scarf around the neck of the white-haired young man.

He stared at the other party who was helping him tie his bow tie with great joy, and couldn't help but blurt out, "Mio, do you like shopping for clothes?"

"Huh? Although it's a girl's nature to buy clothes, it makes me feel good to see that Karna looks handsome no matter what outfit he wears." Her gaze wandered around the black and red matching clothes in satisfaction. Fashion.

"...I see." Although he didn't understand this kind of fun, he didn't say anything more when he saw Mio's happy face.After she smoothed the scarf, the two left the clothing store.

Along the way, the black-haired girl told the white-haired young man that after meeting Mio's mother later, she must make a plan for her move.Although it is wrong to lie, it is difficult to explain clearly to my mother who is in the ordinary social world for a while, not to mention that the world of magicians is a forbidden matter for ordinary people, which is firmly exhorted by the law.

The two of them took their luggage and finally reached Yuyin's territory.It is not an exaggeration to say that it belongs to the territory. Since it is located in the countryside and serves the gods, it is quite normal for the Inari Shrine to have an entire mountain.And they are at the foot of the mountain now, the tall and towering vermilion torii gates are very antique, especially, this kind of red torii gates are lined up side by side, known as the thousand torii gates, which is the pride of this shrine Beautiful features.

"I haven't been back to my hometown for a long time, and I suddenly feel that the stone steps really make people not want to go back..." Even though I have lived here for many years, it is really a test of physical strength to carry a lot of luggage by myself.

"Did Mio live in this kind of place before and practice?" The white-haired young man looked at the nearly hundreds of Yinchang stone steps, with lush forests on both sides, and some fox statues wearing red scarves.

"It's a practice...it's not that much, I just got used to climbing it every day." After the two people with full luggage stepped into the torii gate, a gust of wind blew by, and the woods beside the stone steps suddenly stirred up, and a group of birds and beasts flew away. Even the fox statue looks a bit paradoxical.

The white-haired young man just narrowed his eyes and looked around.

"What? I haven't been back for a long time, don't you remember me? Xiaoqian, Maomao, Dabai." The black-haired girl suddenly said loudly, her tone sounded like she was doting on a pet at home.

She looked at the three living little foxes wearing red scarves in front of her, and stared at Sun Shenzi next to her vigilantly.

"Mio! Who is he!" The first vigilant little fox.

"Mio! He's so scary! Is he a bad guy!" The second little fox was vigilant.

"Mio! Why haven't you come back for so long!" The third little fox went offline.

At the same time, the chirping sound of the chatterbox gave the girl a headache. She thrust her waist and raised her black eyebrows. "This is my friend, don't be so neurotic! Also, where did Qiuqiu go?" The foxes here are all in pairs, and she did the math but missed one.

"She's too timid! Run to inform the mistress!" Three little foxes circled around her, scratching their legs and acting coquettishly.

"Oh...it's such a headache." The girl rubbed her temples, and now she had to think about how to appease the last little fox and the main god who lived in this shrine.

"...I see. Is it a kind of spirit beast?" Karna, who had been watching for a long time, came to this conclusion.These little foxes are all practicing with the main god in this shrine, and it is right to say that they are disciples.

It is not without reason that this group of spirit beasts are afraid of Karna, because this person in front of him—no, in terms of spirituality, he is a "god". Usually another god comes in his own territory, unless it is a local god he knows Otherwise, no matter how you look at it, you will feel that something is wrong and you have to guard against it, right?

"Hurry up and report your name, you bastard! It's basic courtesy not to mention when you step into someone's house!" One of the little foxes took the lead in attacking.

"Ah, I'm sorry. My name is Karna." Shi Yu's hero didn't look enraged at all, and he gave his name honestly.

"Hey, where do you live! What's your name? Why don't you tell me! Don't tell me you're a floating spirit with no base!" Another little fox started to make trouble like a stepmother.

"I told you—that's enough. Now I have to go back to see my mother. If you want to eat delicious bean curds, be obedient!" The black-haired girl who usually seemed weak at this time showed an amazing momentum, making the noisy group The troubled little fox slipped away in an instant.

"Please forgive their rudeness..." The black-haired girl looked at the white-haired young man apologetically. "Because it's so easy for me to bring strange things into the house, they usually help me expel the bad smell first." And the girl has been able to see these spirit beasts since she was a child, so her relationship is naturally very good.

"Mio has a very good family." The white-haired young man raised the corners of his lips with some emotion, and silently stepped onto the hundred-step corridor.

"Ah, um... yes." Suddenly, Mio didn't know how to continue the conversation, and quietly followed.

At this moment, the girl remembered the deeds of the hero Shi Yu in his lifetime──

Abandoned by his mother Kunti, Karna was picked up by an unrelated coachman and brought up. He has never been cared by his biological family for decades. Even his biological mother found out in order to protect his younger brothers. As the eldest brother, he made an oath not to kill his brothers and sisters.However, it was this shackle that led him to the road of destruction.

That's why--that's why you showed that expression?

The girl was a little concerned, and silently put it in her heart.