The table is filled with a variety of delicacies and rows of candlesticks that shine brightly.

At Micoult's banquet, the nobles of Irene gathered. This is the climax of the banquet.

These people, who usually advocate force, have done their best to make a suave gesture today.

Only tonight, they indulged in the elegant scent of flowers.

Yes, this is a banquet for delicate flowers.

Grania, the daughter of King Cormac Mark Aat of Ireland, will be engaged tonight to Finn Markle, son of Coaar's son.

He is a great hero of supreme wisdom and the power of healing waters, and he is the only one worthy to lead the unparalleled Knights of Fiona, and his fame rivals that of a king.

The old hero Finn was accompanied by his son, the poet Osien, and his grandson, the hero Oscar, as well as the warriors of the brave Knights of Fiona.

Caster da Mark Ronan "The Horse", Geer Mark Mona "Trembling of the Battle", ConanoftheGrayLashes, and Dilumudo Otina "The Radiant Face", who was given the highest honor.

Each of them was a valiant knight, who loved Finn and swore supreme loyalty to him, and the great heroes looked up to the king and served him with their swords, spears, and lives, and this was the honor of the knights, whose glorious vocation was praised by the bards.

Looking forward to this path.

Carry out this belief.

Even if he dies on that sacred battlefield one day, he will never waver.

- Such thoughts until he met her on the night of that feast of fate.

"In exchange for my love for your holy vows, my dear, please stop this ridiculous marriage and take me away...... Go to the end of the day, the other side of the world! ”

The girl who spoke to him with teary eyes lit the flame of his love with her eyes, the fire of purgatory that would consume his body...... The hero had already understood it at that time.

But he couldn't resist.

A vow as heavy as a trial, and the path of loyalty that has been pursued to this day...... No matter how many times you ask yourself which path is the right path, you can't find the answer.

Therefore, what made him make a decision on the spot must not be the so-called honor.

The hero took the princess by the hand and gave up a bright future together.

In this way, a sad love story that inherits the Celtic myth is staged.

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- Through a wonderful dream, Kenes awoke from his deep sleep.

What he saw and experienced was a distant past, but he didn't find it strange that the Master, who had signed a contract with the Servant, could sometimes peek into the memories of the Heroic Spirit in the form of dreams.

For Keneth, he naturally knew about the deeds of the Heroic Spirit he had summoned, but he didn't expect to be able to feel it so realistically...... The dream just now is indeed a scene from "The Story of Dilumudo and Graña".

"But why am I here?" A hazy Kenays looked around.

He was in an open place that was extremely quiet, and the cold air of the winter night was filled with dust.

There were only cold mechanical devices around, no human figures, and he had never been here, but he was no stranger to this place, this was the abandoned factory where Kennes had been hiding after the destruction of the Fuyuki Hotel.

Sort through the messy memories.

He tracked the car all the way to the forest of Einsbelen, and after the battle of the Servants, he faced a duel with the Master of Saber alone......

He clenched his fists, as if he wanted to squeeze the irrepressible passion in his hands, because he found that he had not felt any sensation in his hands and feet since he woke up, and in fact his hands and feet were not bound by anything.

"How ......"

Surrounded by doubts and fears, and unable to move, he lay on his back on his humble bed, his chest and waist tightly bound by belts.

If you just can't get up, that's fine, but what about the complete lack of sensation in your hands and feet?

Only his body was bound, and his limbs were not bound in any way, but—he felt nothing, as if they were not his hands or feet.

"-Looks like you're awake."

His fiancée's voice rang out from view, and it seemed that the culprit who had trapped him here had finally appeared.

"Sora?! What the hell is this...... I, why am I here? ”

"Lancer rescued you from a desperate situation and brought you here, why, don't you remember?"

"I ......"

With a heavy blow, he actually became the target of those half-tone magicians in the city of Ainzbelen.

But he did block the enemy's bullets with the Moon Spirit Liquid, but the memory of him thinking that he had won was blurred.

The memory was interrupted there, and he seemed to feel a sharp pain - as if there was something like this, and when he woke up, he found himself lying here on his back, so he could not tell how much time had passed.

Sora placed her fingertips on Keneth's wrist like a doctor, but he didn't feel like he was being touched.

"There are signs of violent magic circuits throughout the body, almost all the internal organs are broken, and even the muscles and nerves are damaged to varying degrees, and it is a miracle that he died on the spot."

“……”

"Anyway, I only have time to regenerate your organs, and the nerves are powerless, and even if I recover gradually, it will be difficult to get up and walk, and—"

Listening to her bland words, Kenes felt despair looming towards him, self-harm caused by the magic rampage, a desperate situation that always accompanies every magician, and although Kenes had always thought that he would not make such a lowly mistake, he knew what it meant.

"And—Keneth, your magic circuit is also over, and you can't use magic anymore."

"I ...... I ......"

The man who had been called "The Prodigy" Rod Elumeroi burst into tears.

He didn't understand how he could have encountered such a thing, obviously the whole world was blessing Kenes, his genius was originally destined for his infinite future and glory.

Everything that Kenes originally believed in was ruthlessly destroyed, and with the sound of shattering falling in front of him, he could only cry timidly in the face of this ruthless truth and incomprehensible status quo, and now Kenes is like a toddler who has just experienced what horror is.

"Don't cry, Kenes, it's too early to give up." Sola whispered comfortingly, caressing his cheek, her tenderness for her fiancé would always show up when he needed it, "The Holy Grail War continues, Keneth, this is the result of strategy, as long as I am the source of mana, Lancer will continue to keep the contract with us, we haven't failed." ”

“…… Sola? ”

"If the Holy Grail can really fulfill all wishes, then it can also heal the body, right, as long as you win, everything will be restored when the Holy Grail is in hand."

“……”

Her words gave Kenes great encouragement and hope, and the encouragement given to him by his fiancée gave him more courage than anything else.

But—why was there now an indescribable uneasiness creeping over his chest like the wind?

Seeing his doubts, Sora smiled motherly and grabbed his right wrist, his hand unable to move, and two spells still on the back of his hand.

"So, Kenays...... Give me this spell, and I'll take you as Lancer's Master, and let me claim the Holy Grail for you. ”

"No—no." Instinctively, he refused, and now all he had was the spell—he couldn't let go," shouted Keneth's soul.

Looking at Kenys, who had an inexplicable look of fear, Sora whispered softly like a child.

"Can't you trust me? Although I don't have a magic mark, I'm still a magician of the Sophiali family, and as the fiancée of the Aqipolud family, is there anything wrong with acting on behalf of Rod Elumeroi? ”

"No, but ......"

That's right.

Indeed, Kenes can't even protect himself now, so it will be difficult for him to participate in Lancer's battles in person in the future, and there will be cases like Ainzberen who planted assassins next to the Master on the side during the Servant battle, and if he was encountered again, he would really die.

Sora's status as a magician is much lower than Kenis, but in the Holy Grail War, there are also Webber who summoned Iskandar and a murderous Master who seems to have made a pact with Caster, and if he can use reasonable tactics, it is not impossible for Sora to win.

And to make the Servant obedient, the Command Spell is indispensable, but—

Kenes remembered that late at night after the first battle, Sora looked at Lancer with such a warm look that she had never seen herself as her fiancé with such eyes, as if she were intoxicated by a dream.

If she's just admiring a beautiful man, it's just a woman's fault, and husbands shouldn't be bothered with it, but Lancer isn't just a beautiful man.

“…… Sora, do you think Lancer will turn his allegiance to you? ”

Kenes asked in a calm tone, and Sora nodded without hesitation.

"He's just been called to fight in the Holy Grail War, and he's pursuing the Holy Grail just like me, and even if he changes the Master, he'll agree for his purposes."

"No......," Kenes said in his heart.

Sora probably didn't know that Diolumudor Audina wasn't that kind of person.

Indeed, the Heroic Spirits, as Servants who were summoned to participate in the Holy Grail War, were not entirely without reason, and it was precisely because they wanted to fulfill their wishes that they assisted their Master in the Holy Grail Race.

Therefore, when the Immortal appears in response to his summons, the Master will first ask him what his wishes are, why he wants the Holy Grail, and why he responds to himself - if the reason is not clear, the two parties will not be able to reach a relationship of trust, and if the two parties disagree, the Master may be ruthlessly betrayed while receiving the Holy Grail.

So, Kenes also learned about Dilumudo's wishes early on, and he asked him what he wanted to fulfill if he got the Holy Grail.

But the Heroic Spirit did not answer.

No, it shouldn't be said, it should be said that he didn't refuse to answer, but he rejected Kenes's question.

In other words, "He does not seek the Holy Grail." ”

He doesn't need anything in return, he just wants to make the summoner his master and fulfill his reputation as a knight, that's what he wants.

I can't understand that if the heroic spirits who are famous in history are willing to succumb to become the servants of ordinary people, then there must be quite a reason, and the like of serving the public for free will simply make people laugh off their big teeth.

But no matter how much he questioned, his Lancer was stubbornly unwilling to retract the preface.

"As long as I can do my knightly duties, the Holy Grail will be left to the Master."

Lancer has always denied the Holy Grail.

- In retrospect, Kenys may have developed a distrust of the Servant who had made a contract with him.

How could there be a Servant who didn't want the Holy Grail.

Well, Lancer was lying, and he must have something else going on.

But that's fine, Kenes thought at the time, as long as he had the command spell in his hand, he couldn't betray it, Servant was just a prop in the end, no different from ordinary equipment, even if there was a secret in the heart of the prop, it didn't matter, as long as he could be obedient.

Until yesterday, Kenys had thought so.

If he obeyed Sora, if he believed his words at the time, then it was clear that he must have had other intentions than the Holy Grail, and that he was a heroic spirit who could never be trusted, after all, he had eloped with the monarch's fiancée in his lifetime. Isn't he just a treacherous courtier......

"Spell...... Can't give it to you. Kenes asserted, "The Spell is a different magic spell from the magic circuit, and I can do it even now, I ...... Or Lancer's Master! ”

Sora smiled meaningfully and sighed, and with this sigh, the gentle smile on her face slowly peeled off.

"Kenes, it seems that you still don't understand...... You still don't understand why we have to win. ”

There was a crackling sound, like the cracking sound of dead wood breaking.

Sora had just been gently holding Kenes' right hand, but now she had easily snapped his little finger.

There was still no pain, but the unconsciousness deepened Keneth's fear, and then, she broke off all four remaining fingers of his right hand, and he did not resist.

"Kenes, my psychic healing technique can't forcibly take the spell away, only with my consent." Sora's expressionless tone was as gentle as before, and then, as if she was teaching a child who had done something bad, she continued in a steady tone, "If you still don't want to...... Then I'll have to cut off your right hand, okay? ”