Prologue, The Bird with the Bow (I)
The Holy Grail War is a war that revolves around the Holy Grail.
Since it is war, it is cruel. The mood of a child playing like a family will only make the combatants feel the heaviness of the word war.
Although for modern people, war has become a joke, teenagers on the Internet are crazy about war every day, hoping that war will break out, and then as a soldier, they will make meritorious deeds, worship the commander-in-chief, and then they can gain fame and fortune, and use this to do some obscene things.
It's a pity that if war was really as simple as they thought, there wouldn't be so many anti-war themed works.
Now, Tsukahara has a deep understanding of how terrible war is.
Once a war breaks out, they will face a powerful attack from the enemy at any time and place - although the Heroic Spirit is far superior to humans, the scale of destruction alone is even greater than that of humans. At least one of Surut's swords didn't do as much damage as an atomic bomb.
Once war breaks out, we have to worry about the rapid turn of friends at every moment - when it comes to entanglement of interests, there is no longer an absolutely stable friendship relationship. Everyone acts for their own benefit. For example, Carl, who regarded him as his best friend and his most trusted friend, turned out to be a fierce betrayal of his expectations. On the contrary, it was Mr. Abner, who he thought was the enemy at the beginning, who cared about him the most.
Once a war breaks out, you have to fear the slightest possibility of accidental injury every minute - whether it is a stray bullet on the real battlefield or those powerful treasures in the Holy Grail War, you can easily involve all the people around you, whether they are good or bad.
Tsukahara has read a lot of Japanese manga works, and there is always such a kind of person in them: they are powerful warriors who survived the war, they may be mentally abnormal, bloodthirsty and murderous, always show the smile of the next work, and act as villains in various works. Now, Tsukahara finally understands why such a person appears......
Imagine that a person lives in such an environment every day: he wants to kill his enemies like crazy, he wants to watch his teammates die, everyone around him can be a traitor, he can be killed by an enemy bullet in his sleep at any time...... It's easy to break down if such days go on for months, not to mention that once the war starts, it's three or five years.
Being haunted by this kind of hell every day, it's no wonder that these villains turn into a mentally abnormal madman.
Tsukahara remembered that he had read such a sentence there: No matter what era, the battlefield is a living hell. Now, he agrees with this sentence infinitely.
He's okay himself, but he has to thank Carl for his betrayal, being betrayed by his closest friends made Tsukahara Mingshi feel confused, and there was no extra space to think about whether he would be killed by mistake or something, which was much better than his companion, Mina Tosaka.
Looking at Mina again, she was wrapped in a blanket, curled up like a frightened squirrel, burying her head deep in her knees, this self-suggesting, reassuring posture showed that she was in a desperate panic right now.
Call!
There was a tremor in the distance, and in the deep and distant emerald green, the sound of cracking came down the earth.
This was followed by the frightening flapping of the wings of a bird.
Mina Tosaka was excited, grabbed her knees harder, and shrunk the whole person tighter, Tsukahara Mingshi looked at her distressedly, and finally turned her vision to the sky.
The liberation of the Heroic Spirit's Treasure Phantasm, either the scope is not large, or the scope is terrible, he vaguely remembers that Carl explained this kind of thing to himself, just like when there is thunder and lightning, by looking at the thickness and sound of the lightning, he can probably judge that the lightning is not far away from him, in the same way, if the anomaly of the Heroic Spirit Treasure Liberation can also roughly calculate the distance, right?
However, he only saw it when he felt the vibration, so it was necessary to calculate this error. He lay on the ground, his ears pressed to the ground, his eyes fixed on the sky.
Beneath the dazzling blue dome, a huge pillar of light dyed the sky with dazzling gold, and a heavy vibration sound spread along the earth, and the roar resounded through Tsukahara Mingshi's eardrums, the pillar of light that brought hope to people, and now it could only bring panic to the two of the frightened birds.
The beams of light gradually converged, and blue in the sky became the dominant color again.
The light is completely gone-
(Right now.) )
Tsukahara Mingshi condensed his mind and counted the seconds carefully in his heart.
(1…… 2…… 3…… )
In less than four seconds, the shaking of the earth had subsided.
According to his common sense of physics, light travels the fastest, from the time his eyes cannot see the light to the moment when the sound disappears completely, multiplied by the speed of sound propagation, which is the approximate distance between the two.
Of course, this is just a vague data that cannot be more vague, and it has no reference value at all, and can only be used as self-comfort.
First of all, although this sound is transmitted by the earth, we all know that solid sound is faster than air - but who can say what speed the earth transmits? This has something to do with the composition of the soil, even Google, which is not included in the data that everyone commonly uses.
According to Tsukahara Mingshi's casual choice, he casually estimated that a 3000 meters per second would be installed for calculation, and this method of removing the fuzzy value that would make the physics teacher cry was the only way he could reassure himself now.
More than three seconds, let's count it according to three seconds and four seconds, that is, the enemy is between nine and twelve thousand kilometers away from us......
This distance...... There shouldn't be anyone who can surprise you.
Tsukahara Mingshi judged so.
If it's an assassin, although it's silent, it will be seen through by Archer, and the two of them also have breath blocking skills, which will interfere with each other and make each other's hiding invalid.
If it's a rider, although the breakthrough force is fast enough, but it doesn't make sense, the sound of horses' hooves that is too heavy will be transmitted first, and then the three of them can escape.
"Don't worry too much, the enemy is far away. ”
Tsukahara said this, and reported to her the data he had just made that he couldn't use as a reference at all. It was the only thing he could think of to calm her emotions.
Even if it's a fuzzy data, even if it's a wrong algorithm, he wants to use this distance, which sounds like a long distance, to reassure the girl and not continue to panic.
"Really?"
Mina Tosaka asked rhetorically, her eyes raised, and between the golden hair, her sea-blue eyes seemed to be shrouded in a thick layer of shadow, making people unable to see their brilliance.
This reaction made Tsukahara Mingshi sad for a while.
In the past, when the two escaped, he had also given advice to Mina. At that time, her approach was: accept it all, and not think about it. Now, the advice she gave him, her first reaction was to question.
This is the trauma that Lu Bu's betrayal brought to her.
Even the Heroic Spirit, who had promised a future and victory, had betrayed her, and even the magical constraints of the Spell had betrayed her, and she didn't know what to believe now.
Well, it's good not to believe it.
This is a very simple conclusion, how can you never lose in chess? As long as you don't play chess. What if you could never be disappointed? Then don't get your hopes up.
In the manga, Tsukahara Mingshi has seen such a distressing heroine several times.
(Come to think of it...... )
He was pushing himself in his heart.
(What method did the male protagonist in those comics use to make such a girl reopen her heart?)
However, judging from the degree of undisciplined Japanese manga, this kind of scene is either a scene where a girl is bathed by chance, or an accidental fall that touches the soft part of the girl, or two people who are hostile and cry hoarse with words while attacking......
As a result, none of these situations apply......
Again, any routine can only be applied in a special range, just like using a recipe of braised beef can only make braised beef, and it would be humorous to want to make steamed eggplant puree. The routines mentioned in those comics are more than one qualifier, and none of them can be used in daily life.
Of course, there are very few people in such a desperate situation in daily life.
Seeing the Master's panic, Archer Rohia couldn't help but sigh.
Should I say, is it really his style?
They had already decided to run away, but they still cared so much about the others.
To be honest, even if Tsukahara Meishi escaped alone and returned to Japan, no one would be able to condemn him for anything.
In the face of major disasters, the spirit of humanitarianism is often not universal. In the mudslide, if you can escape, then there is no need to save your enemies at all.
Yes, enemies.
This is also the second aspect that Archer does not understand, in her opinion, the people who participate in the Holy Grail War are hostile to each other. So she didn't believe in the alliance between Tsukahara and Carl from the beginning, and she always believed that the man had an ulterior secret.
As it turned out, she was right.
In the same way, the two of them are enemies, and even if Tsukahara Mingshi leaves her alone and escapes, there is nothing to worry about. She wanted to kill you before!
Still, he tried to comfort her and get her out of her fear......
What a stupid good old man.
She thought so.
As time passed, the surroundings returned to tranquility again, and the overly dull air made Tsukahara speechless again.
The boy who had already decided to flee the Holy Grail War could only let the air grow more and more dull.