Artoria the Big Liar

On the streets of Miyama Town, many passers-by were looking at us.I used to care about their gaze, but not now.I just hugged Mordred like that for a long, long time.She had never been so long in my arms in all her short life—it was one of the few ways I could make amends, though not very sincerely.

"I'm sorry, Mordred. I was still immature during King Arthur's time. I cared about you, and you cared about me, but the immature me never cared about myself, and the result was worrying you, making you sad, and caring about myself That's why the knights left one by one. Guinevere, who loved me so much, was driven crazy by me and walked across from me. After going through the past few days in this world, looking back at my life, I've learned a lot and grown a lot - I won't be so immature in the future."

"No, it's not. Father, you are absolutely right..." Mordred panicked, as if this was her minefield.

"It is indeed my fault. Otherwise, Mordred, why are you in such pain now?"

Saying that, I let go of Mordred and looked at her with a smile.

Her golden eyes flickered, she was breathing rapidly, and trembling uncontrollably in my arms.

Sure enough, she was still too young to understand what I wanted to say, and thought I was blaming her.

"This time is different from the past, Mordred. I don't think I did something wrong based on your attitudes and reactions, but after carefully sorting out my logic and behavior before and after, I rationally judge that I am not mature enough to act. A lot of things were wrong. Yes... I grew up, just as I learned a lot from King Arthur's life, I also learned a lot from the Holy Grail War. So..." Pause, looking at Mordred's eyes Tears in my pupils, looking at my reflection in it, I said softly: "So, next, Mordred will also grow up? What are you holding back in your heart, you have to speak clearly with me as a father ah?"

Mordred buried his cheek in my chest, breathing heavily.

After a long, long time, Mordred finally stood up straight, wiped the tears from his face, and looked at me.

"Father...can you really say anything?"

"Yes, you can say anything."

"Then..." She looked around, and finally realized that she was still on the street, her cheeks immediately turned red. "Then... let's go to the house first. There are some things that I want to say to you alone...they are very important things."

I looked at Rang Na, Sister Wang and Mei Lin behind me.None of them said anything.

In this way, I was dragged by Mordred and entered the small suite where she lived for several days.

(It is expected to be 15 words this month... because the number of words in each chapter is indeed more than 5 words.)

◆Mordred◆

The father has changed, completely changed.She is no longer King Arthur, but Mithra, the true lord of mankind.

At this point, I have lost the motivation to participate in the Holy Grail War, because my wish is no longer possible.

Smiling reluctantly and saying goodbye reluctantly, I returned to the hotel, turned the temperature of the air conditioner to the lowest, and curled up in the bed by myself.

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In crying, I fell asleep.In the earl's watch, I entered a dream.

The sky in the dream was blue, and the earth reflected the sky like a mirror.

There is a table in the very center of the dream, and there are two benches beside the table. I am sitting on a bench, and opposite me is a very short girl.She has short blonde hair, magnificent light green eyes, and a pure smile on her delicate facial features.Wearing a simple light green dress, she looks like a princess in a fairy tale, staging a fairytale-like beautiful story.

"Miss Mordred...may I call you that?"

Her voice is very young, and there is a feeling that her body will not grow up after the age of 12.

However, from this young body, there is an aura that can dissolve everything in the world.

It's almost like a real god.

"You are……?"

"Arthur should have mentioned me to you, right? She doesn't seem to like me very much."

She covered her face, her face was flushed, she seemed shy, but more sad.

Yes, she was very sad, obviously she was smiling, this sad emotion infected me, made my eyes sour, and I wanted to cry.

It was clearly my dream, but I was infected by her emotions like an outsider who broke into her dream.

"Actually, there is nothing to hide. After all, you are Arthur's child. It doesn't matter if I tell you—in short, the evil god or the god of disaster that Arthur said is an existence that can destroy everything anyway. Me. From her point of view, I'm her deadly enemy, right? It's the kind of relationship between you and me..."

"... Slaanesh?" I asked cautiously.

"Ah, what a name...I didn't expect Arthur to hate me so much and call me by the name of food." The girl pouted, her cheeks bulging into two buns, quite annoyed and dissatisfied.But soon, this kind of anger and dissatisfaction turned into an equal amount of helplessness and sadness: "Well... that's right, in her eyes, I should be as ugly as Slaanesh, right? I'm obviously mentally prepared , but hearing this name still makes me feel sad..."

"You... are you really Slaanesh?" I asked in disbelief with wide-eyed eyes in the dream.

"Since it's Arthur's decision, then I'm Slaanesh." The girl smiled wryly, sat up, and introduced herself: "It's our first meeting, Gui'an, Arthur's child. Arthur, she...how is she doing recently? ? You can see me in the dream, you must have experienced very strong joy, or extremely painful sadness? Then..." In an instant, she seemed to realize something, and said: "Ah, I understand... Sure enough, it is still It looks like this. Arthur...she must be having a bad time, right?"

However, I clearly understand that no matter whether my father's life is good or not, I should not say it here.

I've heard the name Slaanesh many times.It was to fight against her that the king changed his name to Mithra.

My wish has turned into despair, and I myself will return to my father's side.I am her child again, her knight, so, no matter what, I will not do what my father does not want me to do.

So, under the gaze of the girl, I remained silent and didn't say a word.

The girl smiled wryly, shook her head slightly, put her hands on her cheeks, smiled and squinted her eyes, and stared at me.

"Don't worry, Arthur's child. I am also a true god at the multiverse level. If I want to do something to you, you will definitely not be able to react—and, because of Arthur, I can't actually do anything to you. , at most just talking. In short, although Arthur hates me very much, I hate me to the extreme, but I do love her...a kind of love that is difficult to understand?"

"Yes, Father hates you very much, to the extreme." I repeated, not daring to express my opinion.

"Then... do you hate me? Like Arthur, you hate me to the extent that you would rather carry the entire human race on your back?"

"I... don't know." In this dream, I feel that my emotions are not controlled by me.I should have been terrified, I should have been angry, but there was only one emotion I felt. "...I shouldn't hate you. All I can feel is sadness."

"Is it? Is it sad?" She overlapped her fingers and smiled happily, but her smile was a thousand times, ten thousand times sadder than anyone I've ever seen. "This is my sadness... because I was hated by Arthur, so I am very sad..."

As the words went on, the feeling of sadness grew stronger and stronger, and it almost really became my sadness.It is true that my mood is sorrow, but it is different from this kind of peaceful sorrow. I am very painful and angry sorrow...

I noticed something strange.So, I quickly shut my mouth and continued to fight this great evil god.

"Actually, Arthur's child, our goal is the same—according to Arthur, it is the common interest that binds us together and forms a de facto alliance! And this common interest is to save Arthur. Ser - save her no matter what, let her stay away from those sacrifices, those obligations, and those king's duties. She should have been a girl who lived happily all her life, not twisted into this picture of inhumanity and godlessness. The appearance of being thrown on the altar as a sacrifice, performing human sacrifices and fire sacrifices, enshrining gods that do not exist at all—— Heh, Mithra, hearing this name, even I want to laugh... Hehe hehe……"

Her smile was cold, pure cold, cold like absolute zero, I felt my bones trembling.

This is another form of hatred.The object of his hatred is not his father, but something more abstract—maybe it is fate?

At the same time, a strange feeling spread in my heart-making me feel that she was telling the truth and I should believe her.

Because I think of Jeanna—that witch is the fragment of the girl in front of me, and Jeanna's ability is to read emotions, and the father also said that Slaanesh is the gathering of all intense emotions, the origin of selfishness and arrogance, known as "Dark Queen".

I took a deep breath, summoned up the remaining courage I didn't understand, and tried to talk to her——

"I remember my father's evaluation of you. I will only treat anything you say as a lie."

"Yes, that's right, you should be like this. If I had been firm in my heart like you back then, I wouldn't have been reduced to devouring a newly born god in other universes, crossing countless dimensions and time and space, and Is the little heart conveyed to Arthur?" She raised her head and began to recall the past: "I... I actually had a very good relationship with Arthur at the beginning... You must not know it? Ah...Of course I don't know Yes, even Arthur himself forgot... In short, I found a way to throw a tiny fragment of myself into this world... Is that fragment supposed to be okay?"

"...It's okay." About this, I told the truth.

Hearing me say that, the girl rejoiced and laughed happily: "That's great! It's really great! I thought she really hated me! Unexpectedly... her sensibility still likes me! It's just Reason is rejecting me! Let me just say, she will definitely come back to me! After countless reincarnations, she still loves me deeply! This is really... great!"

The girl's preamble doesn't match the rest of the words, which is almost crazy to me.

For the madman, I really have nothing to say, and I am still as silent as before.

Eyes narrowed into a slit, the girl stared at me.

"Although it has been mixed with most other people's spirit foundations, the idea of ​​that fragment is my idea? That fragment loves Arthur so much, and I love her so deeply... Presumably, that fragment is very happy, right? As happy as I was back then...maybe even happier? Not too much sorrow, not being hated by Arthur, not having an inescapable fate...that's really happy. Arthur is the most powerful person in the world, then She must be the happiest person in the world!"

I don't hate the witch, I even like her quite a bit, because she brought the father back to life.

Based on this, my resistance and dislike of girls has also weakened a little.

Perhaps, as she said, the witch's thoughts are her own thoughts, right?

"Is this fragment divided to let her replace me and protect the father?" I couldn't help asking.

"That's right? Is that so? After all... I was expelled from this universe by Arthur himself. She probably doesn't remember it... But, I still remember. I was hated by her so much, so I can only use this How to protect her..." The smile gradually disappeared from the girl's face, and turned into the same sadness as before. "Because I understand her better than anyone else? She looks extremely strong, but she is actually weaker than anyone else—I still remember her face, her The expression on her face...it was as if my heart was broken, and my heart was also broken...ah, it hurts, my soul seems to be unable to feel anything except pain and sorrow...that's really terrible."

I feel an overwhelming sadness.Beyond tears, beyond crying, like an abyss, like death.

I thought of the witch, and the ending that my father said tonight, which should have happened but actually happened.

When the power could not protect the witch, the father chose to die.From the body of the father, a strongest dragon was born.The witch and the dragon walk together on the dead land and the ruins of human civilization until the end of time and the end of everything.

Unknowingly, the girl's mind affected my mind.The prejudice in my heart collapsed, and I began to believe in the girl and her feelings for the father—the witch as a fragment has already loved the father to the extent that she, as the body, how could she be lower?

Taking another deep breath, I asked, "Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"...It's so easy to believe me?" The girl blinked, as if she couldn't believe it.

"It's already at this level, is there any reason for me not to believe it?" I asked back. "I know your broken [[

"But, Arthur and I are enemies? If you do this, it's tantamount to betraying her... She should love you very much, right?"

"I will not betray my father, never. So, I will tell my father exactly what you have said to me. Can you accept this?"

The girl's expression froze subtly.

She exhaled, and unbuttoned the top two buttons of the dress, revealing her heart.

There, there was an extremely cruel scar, as if a centipede was crawling on it.

"What do you think this is, Arthur's boy?" she asked.

"Is it the wound caused by the father?" I guessed.

"That's right, it was Arthur himself who was behind me, stabbed the sword into my chest, and then expelled my consciousness from this universe." After a pause, the girl asked me with a wry smile: "Son of Arthur, don't you Curious, why did Arthur do this? Maybe after you know it, you won't believe me anymore."

"I can roughly guess it. It's nothing more than for the world and for yourself." Based on my own experience, I started talking nonsense: "Because of your own selfishness, the world has fallen into crisis. Father and King can't protect you, or firmly oppose you." As a result, I have to take on the sorrow and stab the sword into your chest, hoping that you can survive in another universe and find your own happiness."

The girl's eyes were wide open, and her puppet-like delicate face was full of shock—it seemed that my guess was right.

Because the father is such a hopeless person.For the sake of those around her, she can endure even the greatest suffering.For the one she loves, she can burn herself to release light and heat.But she never realized that no one wanted her to do this.Just looking at her is like looking in a mirror, seeing your own incompetence.

The shock only lasted for a few seconds, and it turned into a coldness and sadness that was countless times more suppressed than before.

The entire dream space seems to be frozen, I can't breathe, I can't move, as if I have come to a stagnant time and space.

"...Obviously, as long as she continues to hate me...why...why did this happen."

Tears slipped from the girl's eyes, cut her cheeks, crossed the table, and dripped onto the mirror-like floor.

Then, a ripple pushed into the distance, getting bigger and higher, almost becoming a tsunami, spreading to the end of the line of sight.

That's when I realized that there was no ground at all—me, her, the table, and the two benches were all on the water.The sky is the mirror, reflecting the water, so it has the same color.

She sighed, and finally said it: "Then...can I ask you to pass on a word to my dear Arthur?"

"I'll tell her when the time is right," I replied.

"I... I don't want to be called Slaanesh by her, that's the name of the food I devoured, not my name." After a pause, she seemed to be recalling, as if she was looking for the most beautiful thing in the long time span of tens of thousands of years. start name. "Um【_

"—Manaka, this is my name. If it corresponds to Chinese characters, it is 'Love Song'."

"Child of Arthur, please tell Arthur. Although she hates her, although she has forgotten what happened, I hope... Even if we are enemies to the death, please remember me name……"

"Then...it's time to wake up? If Arthur wants to be happy, you should too?"

Just like that, I opened my eyes.

The sky outside the window was pitch black, and Count Dracula was sitting on the head of my bed.

My heart was beating violently, and everything in the dream was still so clear.

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◆Artoria◆

After listening to Mordred's narration, my heart suddenly had mixed feelings.

Of course I know the name Aige, she is the only existence I know that is connected to the root.

However, in my unclear memory, I still remember that Aige likes Arthur Pendragon, not Artoria Pendragon.Like two parallel lines, although it is still the Holy Grail War, even though they are both in Fuyuki, their course and results are completely different.

Mordred looked at me carefully, as if he was very disturbed.

"That...Royal Father. I talked to that great evil god in private, you...you won't be angry, will you?"

"No, your judgment is correct, Mordred." I smiled, and gently pressed Mordred's left hand. "Your feeling is right. Jeanne is her fragment, and Jeanne's feelings are not a disguise, but the overflow and projection of her own feelings. As much as Jeanne likes me, she likes me as much. How much I like Jeanne Na, that's how much I like her—just like me and Saber, I and Saber are essentially the same person."

"Then... regarding the future... will the father still be hostile to her?" Mordred was still very cautious in asking.

"Of course, this is impossible, because..." I sorted out my words, and after a long time, I continued to say to Mordred: "Because the ending of sadness and coldness is monstrous anger and madness. She will Vengeful, vengeance against humanity, vengeance against the world, vengeance against the universe. Her hatred was as hot as her grief—she kept it hidden, because you only mentioned it in the dialogue I—only for me, she can't hate her."

"Father, I also..." Mordred wanted to tell the truth, but soon became dumb and dared not speak out.

"I know your feelings, Mordred. I also have the blood of Vortigern." Sighing helplessly, I stood up. "But after all, you just thought about it and didn't do it? And I stopped you in the end? But she is different... She even destroyed the human beings in that universe, and didn't take my words to heart at all... So, In the end it won’t work.”

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Chapter Nine: Gradually understand people's hearts