Chapter 587 Dan Blakemore

Chapter 587 Dan Blackmore

what happened?

what happened?

Why am I here?

The tragic impact of the failure caused Shenji's consciousness to go blank for a short time. When he came back to his senses, he fell into an unacceptable rage: "Why... why? Why did my servant lose!"

"I should be perfect and shouldn't lose to anyone!"

"No...that's right, it's all your fault, Rider! It shouldn't have been like this...I was held back by this disappointing Servant! What a useless guy!"

In the end, tears rolled down Shen'er's face unsatisfactorily. He didn't look like a mentally mature person, but more like a child rolling around: "Boring! This kind of game is so boring! Wuwuwuwuwu... …”

"I really can't stand it anymore." Shuo Yue sighed, the golden crown bow fell into his hand, the arrow feathers trembled slightly, and he aimed it at the crying boy.

"What are you going to do, Shuo Yue!" Bai Ye was startled and hurriedly stopped him, then looked at Shen Er hurriedly, "Shen Er... the winner has been decided. Let's go back and find a way back to the ground together."

"Stop blabbering there!" As if he had found an outlet, Shenji had tears in his eyes and rushed towards Bai Ye with a ferocious look on his face. "Didn't you just win this rubbish game! Wait for me and come back. Come to reality, let me know who you are—!"

The blood-colored spirit barrier fell, as if it separated the sky and the earth, separating Shen Er from Bai Ye.

Together with it, the severed arm flew high.

"……ah……?"

When his arm fell to the ground with a thud, turning into a spirit and dissipating, Shinji realized the truth in the intense pain that tore his soul. He looked at the world around him that had turned to blood, and his body that began to rot at a speed visible to the naked eye. Further screams came from his mouth.

"Whoa, whoaaah! My arms, my body! Wha, what! This is, my body - disappearing?!"

The screaming Shinji's hands, feet, and body began to disappear gradually, along with the servants who were watching him from the side.

"If you lose in the Holy Grail War, you will die. Shinji, as the Master, you should have known this for a long time."

"Ha!? Death, how is death possible? What the Moon Spirit Crystal said was to withdraw forever! Ah..."

Finally, Matou Shinji realized a fact.

As Masters, they arrived inside this wishing machine left behind by the gods by "spiritualizing" their own minds, bodies and souls and sending them into the computer world.

In other words, the permanent withdrawal of the Moon Spirit Crystal means the total destruction of the soul, spirit, and body.

In other words - death.

"It's what you think, Master." Even though he was also on the verge of death, with half of his face immersed in the void of data, Drake still had a fearless smile on his face, "Losing in the Holy Grail War means losing. That’s it. Besides, from the moment you arrive here, all of you (Masters) are as good as dead.”

Under such cruel rules, the Masters who come here with hope are like worms imprisoned in a cage. Only by fighting, fighting, and fighting continuously can they step on the bones and blood and become the last one. A survivor.

This is the truth of the Holy Grail War of the Moon.

"There is really only one person who can go back alive."

Under the gentle yet cruel words of the servant, Shinji held his head in his hands and collapsed.

"Wha... no, don't say this until now...! Here, do something for me, the servant should help the master, right!?"

"Really? But I said it when I signed the contract at the beginning, Shenji?" Derek smiled happily from the bottom of his heart. Most of her figure had faded and she was almost invisible, "'Give I'm ready to wake up, no matter whether I win or lose! The evil party will be so miserable in the end!'"

Finally, she looked at us with a smile, and the figure of the female pirate suddenly disappeared. The first heroic human being who completed a circumnavigation of the world alive, the great navigator who changed the history of the world, was smiling happily until the end.

This concise ending clearly announced the end of Shinji and his inevitable fate.

"Hey, hey! Don't disappear without authorization! Please help me, don't bring anything like this!? Bai Ye, Bai Ye! Are we friends? We are friends! Please help me!"

"He should have been released a long time ago, Master." Shuo Yue, who was beside him, showed an uncharacteristic coldness, "At least this way, he can embrace death unconsciously."

Therefore, Shuo Yue knew about this from the beginning, but never told me.

After realizing this, I did not give up. I shouted to Shenji through the barrier, raised my head to the moon spirit crystal to protest, begged, and shouted angrily - and then with joy and joy, I looked at the extremely ugly person who was killed by my own hands. The appearance of a friend on his deathbed.

【--Disappeared】

【A person named Matou Shinji】

[its soul, its being, complete]

【Leaving no trace】

[What remains are only the winners]

[——This is how the Holy Grail War ends]

Opening her eyes suddenly, the girl jumped up from the bed like an electric shock and looked around.

The natural and warm cabin, the murals hanging on the walls, the burning fireplace, the crisp sound of the music box and the carefully cooked lunch on the table... It seems that nothing has happened, and it seems that something has been irretrievably lost.

After realizing that she was in her room, Hakuno Kishiba covered her face with her hands, and sighed tiredly for a while.

"It's just a nightmare."

Since the end of the first battle, she returned to her room and fell asleep on the bed in a daze. It was not until now that she woke up from the recurring nightmare.

"Is it... the second day?" Hakuno stood up. The long sleep and hunger made her eyes dark, and she stumbled and was about to fall.

A pair of hands hugged her and gently helped her up.

"Although I will not express my love for gentle people, even if it was only a short time, it was the death of a friend. Sighs, sighs, and sadness are understandable." The white-haired young man lowered his head and wiped the tears from the girl's face. Her natural eyes blinked, and she did not resist, but closed her eyes as if she was a little scared, and her body was closer to Shuoyue.

"Your tears are not beautiful, but they can move people's hearts... Yes, although I can't express it well, my master is a flesh-and-blood person, which makes me sincerely happy."

Having said that, Bai Ye couldn't catch any emotions from the young man's face, there was only an indescribable calmness.

"Sakutsuki... Shinji is also your friend, right? Are you indifferent to his death?"

After a moment of silence, the young man looked away: "It's just that I'm used to it, no, it's more appropriate to say numb."

"If we lose heart because someone falls behind, we can't even finish our own journey."

Bai Ye understood that this was what Shuo Yue really said, and then she heard the young man mutter in a low voice:

"Besides, I don't have the leisure to care about Shinji, there are more important things to do at hand... Ahem, nothing."

"Hmm?" Bai Ye noticed that she puffed up her cheeks, didn't say anything, just raised her head and looked at Shuo Yue.

Stare——

Under the Master's Max affinity, Sakutsuki quickly lost the battle and smiled bitterly: "Do you have to push me so hard? Well, I'll just say it straight."

The young man loosened his arms, stepped back a few steps, and looked at Hakuno Kishiba seriously: "You should understand that it is unnatural for me to become a Servant. The reasons are very complicated, but I must solve this problem."

Sensing the determination in Sakutsuki's tone, Hakuno widened his eyes. The wind blew in from the window, blowing the young man's red clothes and white hair, making him feel indescribably alienated.

"So... I'm sorry, but I will protect you until the second battle."

————

[You should have the ability of a Master, Hakuno. If you don't find a suitable Servant, I will show up to help you before each decisive battle-even if I'm not there, please fight to survive, Hakuno. 】

"... Uwa, Sakutsuki, I really don't know if this guy is a scumbag."

In the cafeteria, Toosaka Rin stirred her coffee and listened to Hakuno's story about what happened in the morning. She was a little bit unbelievable: "Although he said he was leaving, he didn't abandon you completely. He was obviously carrying something secretly, but he even promised to protect you again... What is this? Schrödinger's Servant?"

"Mmmmm..." The brown-haired girl put her cheek on the cold tea table, her beautiful face listless, like a wilted puppy.

"But it's really unbelievable to say that Asia's top game champion actually lost to you. Well, betting on life and death, that idiot hasn't experienced it yet. A magician who participated in the Holy Grail War with a playful mentality will meet such an end. How about it, it's a very unpresentable death, right?"

Although he didn't want to criticize the dead, thinking back to Shinji crying, Hakuno couldn't help but nod his head.

Speaking of which, perhaps the news that Sakutsuki was leaving was too shocking, so she became indifferent to Shinji's death.

"This is a battlefield, what's the point of caring about the loser? The loser in the battlefield will only die, that's all." Xiaoshao knocked on the brim of the cup, and Rin Tosaka said seriously, "This is a truth that everyone understands. You and Shinji who don't understand are the outliers who came to the wrong place."

Suddenly, the girl with a beautiful personality and figure got angry: "It's really annoying to fight without awareness. If you don't have the awareness of dying and the courage to kill, just hide in a corner of the world and shiver alone."

"..."

The ladies' afternoon tea time has ended. Sakutsuki disappeared again after saying those words. Hakuno walked alone in the corridor, still recalling Rin's last words to her.

[The only winner of the Holy Grail War can fulfill any wish, so everyone who comes here has the purpose of fulfilling their wishes no matter what happens. ]

[Of course, there is also the awareness of taking their lives for them, and the awareness of losing their lives in failure. ]

[You can escape from reality, but even if you wrap yourself up in a blanket, the second battle will surely come.]

[There is no Master who can win without awareness.]

[Oh, by the way, that... when you have time, ask Sakutsuki-san if she is interested in becoming my Servant after the second battle. My conditions are still valid!]

Hakuno: ???

Your true nature is exposed, Rin!

Taking a step forward, Hakuno came to the notice board, waiting for the announcement of the second battle, but he was still thinking in his mind.

Everything is just as Lin said. Everyone here has a strong will. I can't win easily in front of these opponents.

I still don't have a reason to win.

Do I have the right to trample on their wishes?

"... Well, is the next opponent you?" The old man standing next to her interrupted Bai Ye's thoughts. Bai Ye turned his head and looked at him. His hair was pure white. From his face to his physique, he gave people an old impression, but for some reason, he didn't feel old from this old man.

To describe it, it's a big tree with deep rings.

The style that matches his age, the unshakable tough heart, drove away aging from this old man——

Hurrying to turn his head, Bai Ye clearly saw the name displayed on the bulletin board.

[Master: Dan Blakemore]

[Battlefield: February Sea of ​​​​Thoughts]