"Master, you- seem familiar to me?"

Artoria's question caused Shinji's heart to ripple in circles, and the name of the wave was memory.

Familiar? Of course familiar, how can it not be familiar?

In my previous life, you were my second most familiar two-dimensional character, even more familiar than Master Skaha.

I remember how amazing you were when you first appeared, and I was worried about your injury.

When you leave, although I am not reluctant, I still hope that you can find peace.

I remember all your settings, every part of your story, and your various doppelgangers and career backgrounds.

I can proudly say that among the millions of kings, there are only a handful of people who are better than me.

Even now, when you have traveled to the Moon World and come into contact with all kinds of characters, you can still rank in the top ten among the characters I am familiar with.

Without you, I wouldn't be a real moon chef.

Once upon a time, how I wished to see you, whether I was your enemy or to be your master.

But now, the last thing I want to see is you, because no matter what position you come in, as long as you are a servant, it means that you have not come out of your sorrow and found peace as I wanted.

Your presence is proof that my efforts in the Fourth Holy Grail War have failed.

Abandoning your human body and taking on the britannia on your weak shoulders, is your time still stuck in the hill of the sword? Are you still shuttling between worlds and eras, pursuing the Holy Grail?

Or, after the Holy Grail War, in which you and I both participated, you still have confusion and hesitation in your heart, and you have not broken the shackles of restraining power, and finally become a pathetic guardian?

Either way, it's not a good ending.

His eyes changed and his expression was complicated.

At this moment, Shinji is not an ambitious assassin who is ready to kill all sides, nor is he a cautious and scheming master. Now he is just a moon cook, a king chef, and hopes that this woman who has dedicated her life to her country and her subjects can have a peaceful end—although this she may not be the same her.

“Master？”

The one who was stared at by Shinji, although he was no longer a girl, still couldn't figure out why his lord looked at him with such eyes, it seemed to be nostalgia, it seemed to be regret, and there were more things she didn't understand.

"What's wrong?"

Artoria's slightly dazed voice woke Shinji out of his world, and he sighed, "It's nothing—Miss Lingxia, you take little Jack out for a while, I have something to say to Artoria." ”

"Jack, come with Mom, Mommy will play hide and seek with you. ”

Lingxia, the sixth guide who was floating in the wind and dust, knew how to read words and feelings, knew advance and retreat, she took Jack's hand and walked out of the room.

"Hide and seek?" asked the naïve little Jack, tilting his head.

"A very fun game, mom teaches you whether it's good or not. ”

"Yes, yes, I like my mother the most. ”

Jack hugged the arm of the sixth guide, Lingxia, and smiled happily.

The happiness of children is sometimes so simple, but it is a pity that these children who make up Little Jack have not enjoyed it, not a day.

After the sixth guide Lingxia left with Little Jack and brought the door intimately, Shen Er slowly spoke.

"Artoria, I have some questions for you, please be sure to answer me. ”

"Is the answer to the question important to you?"

"It's important, it's very important. ”

"I see, I'll answer truthfully. ”

Though a little concerned about her Master's strange behavior, Artoria nodded, her instincts telling her that he wouldn't harm her.

"Have you ever been to a place called Fuyuki and participated in a Holy Grail War?"

As a servant, Artoria is the most complex being of the type moon, and the statement that "a person's various spirits can fight a Holy Grail War" is by no means false.

Counting the various main stories and game characters, there are a total of eight people named Artoria. Excluding the two hilarious characters, there are six people left, and these six people originate from Artoria with three different possibilities. Among them, Artoria, who is in silver and white armor and has introduced the present world, is commonly known as Gun Nerd, and Artoria, who has encountered the Sword Ladder, commonly known as Sword Nerd, should be the same person in a different world, or different possibilities derived from the same person.

Although they are the same person, their experiences and choices are very different. Sword stays between the gun and the sword, and the sword is the main weapon, whether it is the sword in the stone or the sword of the oath of victory, it has the ability to solidify the body, so the sword stays until death is the posture of a girl. The gun is different, she uses the holy spear as the main weapon, and the holy spear has no effect of solidifying the body, so she has become the royal sister that Shinji sees now.

Although both Sword Dumb and Gun Dumb are called Artoria, the two are actually independent and different individuals. Theoretically, it is impossible for a gun nerd to have participated in that Holy Grail War. However, there is still a trace of luck in Shinji's heart, he and the gun have neither fate nor cause and effect, and it is even more nonsense to say that the phase is related. The only one who has a fate is the sword dud, and the sword dull also had a holy spear before his death, but it was used less, and it was not impossible to appear as a spear rank. As for the appearance, the summoning of the Servant is full of infinite possibilities, and any accident may lead to a change in the spiritual base of the spirit weapon - not to mention, Shinji summons the Servant as a Servant, which is an accident.

Artoria's reply was unhesitating: "Yes." ”

"What job?"

“Saber。 ”

Shen Erxi was in shape, his guess was not wrong, this was the stupid hair he was familiar with, but he had changed his appearance.

The relationship between this world and the world where Shinji is located is that of a lotus tosheng, and the two worlds will be grouped into the same world line from before the Third Holy Grail War, and there is a special time point on that world line when Artoria stops at the sword fence and makes a contract with the restraining force.

Because Artoria was still alive in the sword bar, she remembered every time she was summoned, and she didn't lose the memories of being summoned in the past after being summoned as a servant like the Heroic Spirit.

"Who was the winner of that Holy Grail War?"

"In terms of the result, it was me, although the last battle should have been lost by me. "For the knight king, victory is victory, defeat is defeat, no matter in any posture, this nobility will not change.

"And after that? You... Go down, no, has your wish come true?" Shinji finally didn't directly ask the question he was most concerned about, but changed his approach.

"It didn't come to fruition, because the Holy Grail had been polluted and no longer functioned as a wishing machine, so I destroyed it. When she said this, Artoria's expression was calm, without the slightest regret.

"And then——? you continued to seek other chalices, and you answered my call?" The trembling of the tail note showed that Shinji's mood was far less calm than he had appeared.

"Nope. Artoria shook her head, "Maybe you won't believe it, Master, but I don't have a passion for the Holy Grail anymore, and there are other reasons for this calling." ”

"For other reasons..."

Shinji sighed in his heart. If she no longer pursues the Holy Grail, she will not stop at the sword bar, and if she will be summoned accordingly, it means that she has not gone to the ideal land to sleep, so there is only one answer-

"You... You made a pact with the power of restraint?"

"Eh, Master, you know?"

Artoria's face showed obvious surprise, whether it was a girl's posture or a royal sister's posture, her curious expression was as cute as ever.

"Know some. ”

"That's great, I was just thinking about how to tell the Master—"

Artoria couldn't go on, because she saw Shinji's eyes, a look that was mixed with unwillingness and distress.

"—Master, why are you looking at me like that? ”

Shinji didn't answer, just asked, "It's very hard, to be the guardian of the restraining force, the scavenger of Alayya, in order to protect the survival of the human race, keep killing." ”

"Master, you're mistaken, I'm not the guardian of Alayya. ”

Artoria's reflexive answer made Shinji frown.

"Isn't it Alayah? Is it Gaia of the will of the planet? Well, yes, it's also true that you are holding the holy sword forged by the planet and the star spear fixed on the surface, and it is normal for Gaia to work. ”

According to the Garden of Avalon, the final part of Fate stay night, it is true that Artoria made a pact with Alayya, a collective of the human unconscious. But it's hard to say, after all, Artoria has a deep connection with the two major inhibitors, and it's normal to help anyone work.

"No, Master, you're going in the wrong direction. It is true that the Alayah has made a pact with me, but not the Guardian. ”

"What's that?"

"It's the Observer, and this is the first time I've received a request from Alayah. ”

"Nani?" Suddenly, Shinji felt that something unexpected had happened.

PS: Let's guess who the first is? The second master has already mentioned her existence.