novelhk Chapter 184 Two People Completely Out of the Circumstances
Chapter 184 Two People Completely Out of the Circumstances
Chapter 184 Two Completely Out of the Circumstances
"I never imagined that my Master would be myself... This feeling is really strange, like looking in a mirror, but I seem to have become even cuter in the mirror?"
"Stop talking nonsense."
The young girl, Prellati, made a face and slapped the other person's hand away, but she couldn't hide the smile on her lips.
"You understand the situation now, right? This Holy Grail War is ruined."
"Okay, I understand."
The boy turned around and leaned against the French window where the girl had just been, looking down at the tiny city below.
A dangerous glint flashed in his eyes, the excitement of seeing a new toy.
"The Avenger who took his place... and the little girl who summoned him..."
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"I really want to see what kind of expressions they'll have when they realize this war was a malicious joke from the very beginning."
The boy raised the book made of human skin and made a toasting gesture towards Fuyuki City below.
"Hey, let's stir this muddy water even muddier!"
"Whether it's the Holy Grail or that strange Avenger..."
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"In the end, they will all become sacrifices offered to that great one! Hahahaha!"
Twenty thousand meters above the ground, echoed the wild and joyful laughter of two Prellatis overlapping each other.
Under the sky.
Kitchen door and house.
Compared to the madmen plotting to destroy the world in the sky, the atmosphere here was both heavy and... subtly warm.
The bird remained in its spirit form, floating in the corner of the ceiling of the second-floor room, watching the girl who was sprawled out on the bed.
"Are you alright, Kamado Girl?"
There was no response.
Are you still alive?
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He died.
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Kamado Sumire buried her face in the pillow, making muffled sounds: "Mom scolded me to death... My ears are so sore from hearing it... It's so scary..."
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Just now, she endured a two-hour hellish interrogation.
Sumire Kamado managed to escape from her mother Haruri's clutches by using that loving excuse of a broken foot, along with a tearful promise.
Of course, the price is having all of your allowance deducted for the next month, and a curfew that requires you to be home on time every day after school.
"call...."
The girl suddenly rolled over, looking up and feeling the presence of birds flying on the ceiling.
"Mr. Ghost...you're so disloyal! You didn't say a word in my defense just now."
"If I speak, your mother will probably send you directly to the Onmyoji."
The bird slowly drifted down: "Alright, enough of this small talk."
He pointed to the back of Violet's hand: "Now that we're safe, we need to talk about what's next. About this... the Holy Grail War."
The mere mention of this word seemed to add a layer of heaviness to the air in the room.
Kamado Sumire dropped her playful grin and sat up straight: "Mr. Asuka, what exactly is going on? That pervert's talk about summoning demons, and your words about Servants and Masters... I don't understand any of it."
Asuka had asked the black-haired youth this question in her mind many times before.
However, in order to protect himself from harm in the spacetime turbulence, the other party seemed to have expended a great deal of energy and fell into a coma again...
"Actually, I'm still processing this myself."
Asuka sorted through the knowledge that had been forcibly instilled into her mind by the Heaven's Feel during the summoning.
"Simply put, this is a bloodbath."
He stared directly at the girl with his invisible eyes: "Seven magicians, summoning seven heroic spirits, fighting each other to seize a wish-granting machine called the Holy Grail... until only one remains."
"A wish-granting machine?!" Violet gasped in surprise. "You mean...like Aladdin's lamp? That can grant any wish?"
"That's how it is in theory." Asuka nodded. "It sounds like the Holy Grail can grant your wish through its immense magical power, whether it's money, power, or even resurrection."
"Then what is magic?"
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...I don't know, maybe it's just another way of saying spiritual power.
"What is spiritual power?"
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...It's hard to explain, it's just some objectively existing force; those who are capable of it will naturally be capable of it.
"Mr. Asuka is so unreliable. How can you even be considered a Heroic Spirit?"
Seeing the doubt in Sumire Kamado's eyes, Asuka shook her head: "I want to say no, but I do seem to be a so-called Avenger class, which I'm not entirely sure about."
"I shouldn't be here in the first place. I don't know what happened, but you pulled me into this world."
He looked at Jin with a complicated expression.
He had figured out that a familiar spiritual energy flowed through the girl's body; it was the spiritual energy from the broken butterfly wood carving he had left behind that had entered her body.
Perhaps it was this force that built the bridge connecting the two people in this chaotic space-time.
Come to think of it, being pulled into the void by that strange magic circle... meant falling into the interior of the Greater Grail...?
So how can I return to my original world? Do I have to win this war and use the Holy Grail to make a wish?
But that thing...it doesn't look quite right at all. Can I really trust it?
"Now that we've been dragged into this deathmatch..." Asuka touched the hilt of the sword in the void. "Kid, if you win the Holy Grail War, what's your wish?"
A wish? Kamado Sumire's fingers unconsciously twisted the hem of her clothes.
Before yesterday, her wish might have been simply to sleep in a little longer, or to have the arcade tokens cheaper.
But now...
She remembered that dark and damp basement.
I thought of my peers who were brutally murdered, and I thought of the despair in the eyes of that short-haired girl.
After experiencing that night, she felt even more that her daily routine was a series of miracles, making it all the more precious.
"I....
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Kamado Sumire raised her head, the confusion in her eyes gradually dissipating, and her inherited stubbornness and clarity emerging.
"I have no desire to rule the world or become a billionaire."
She took a deep breath and said earnestly, "I want to protect the life I have now."
"I want my mom to stop working so hard, I want my friends to grow up happily, I want... that there won't be any more perverts in this city who hurt innocent people."
At this point, she glanced at Asuka, scratching her cheek somewhat sheepishly, "Is this considered a wish? Is it too many? Or does it feel a bit... too ordinary?"
The bird looked at her.
In a daze, the figure of the boy carrying the box overlapped with the girl in front of him.
There is no hatred or greed.
Only the most basic things: a steadfast commitment to goodness and love for family.
"This is no ordinary wish; this is the most powerful wish."
"In that case, there's no need to hesitate."
The spirit of the bird extended its fist towards Sumire Kamado: "I will protect you, because I also have a reason to win."
"But you have to promise me one thing."
"?" Sumire felt the fist reaching out and instinctively reached out to touch it. "Wh...what is it?"
"Become stronger."
Asuka's voice was firm: "As I said, from this moment on, you must maintain a state of complete concentration in your breathing every single moment."
"?!?!"
Sumire let out a scream: "That's incredibly tiring! I only use it before a competition! Maintaining it for too long would make my lungs explode!"
"It won't explode; at most, it'll just make you cough up some blood."