"Brother Kai!"

Seeing Kai in the crowd chatting with others, Artoria led the horse and stepped forward and patted the other man on the shoulder.

"Altoris, you've overslept once in a while. You don't seem to care about such a big thing as choosing a king. His real name is not revealed, and in front of outsiders, Kai and Ektor always refer to Artoria as Artoris.

As for the reason for this, Kai didn't know at all, anyway, since it was Ektor's request, he just had to do it.

"Brother Kai, you forgot to take your things, Aiketo asked me to send them to you."

"Thank you, I'm worried that I don't have a spear to participate in the next competition, but now I don't have to go back to the trouble again." Kay took the spear and necessities that Artoria handed over.

"Race?" Artoria looked at Kai with a puzzled expression.

"It's a competition to select the king of Britain, and no one has ever pulled out that sword in the stone until now. Now that most of Britain's best knights are here, there is no time for them to accompany Uther and Merlin to dream of that delusional dream. ”

Artoria could see that Kai was very disdainful of choosing a king with a sword in stone, but she herself was a little disdainful about choosing a king with a sword.

"Artolis, you think so, right? It is outrageous to choose a king with only a sword, there are so many knights here, even if no one can pull out the sword, there are many ways to choose a king. Besides, even if someone succeeds in drawing the sword, they may not be able to secure the throne. ”

In fact, this should be the case, and Kai sees this matter very thoroughly. Even if someone pulls out the sword in the stone from the beginning, the knights will be separated from the chosen king because of various interests.

The first king has passed away, and the knights who are still willing to follow the king's will are probably old-fashioned people with serious faces all day long, but those people are not worthy of the name of knights.

"Brother Kai, are you going to participate in the king selection competition held by the knights?"

"Of course, anyway, as long as Lao Qi and the others are not here, I still have some confidence in becoming the final winner. But if you want to participate in the competition, I'm afraid it's going to be a bit of a problem. ”

Kai looked at Artoria, who was almost half a head shorter. Obviously he is a knight who is even more powerful and competent than him, but this type of body is not to mention being the king, and he will be ridiculed by the knights around him just by walking on the field.

"Hmm......" was speechless frustration, but Artoria knew what Kai was referring to, and she knew that her body could not be the ideal king of all people.

"Well, it seems that you also have self-knowledge, so go back to your father quickly, otherwise you will be molested later, but you will have to trouble me to relieve you again."

Although Artoria has always appeared as a man, that face is more handsome than any man and more beautiful than any woman, and it is not once or twice that she is molested by some unscrupulous guys.

Especially those nouveau riche face-wearing shiny gold, and even several times Artoria was pushed to the point where she was about to do it.

Kai followed the knights out of the field where the sword in the stone was. The sword that no one can pull out, everyone has an attitude of not being out of sight and out of mind.

The place, which was still lively just a moment ago, suddenly became quiet.

Artoria looked at the sword firmly embedded in the rock wordlessly, and stepped forward with a complicated but calm heart.

For more than ten years, he disguised himself as a man, studied state affairs day after day, practiced martial arts, and even gave up the right to play with children of the same age, what is all this for?

Needless to say?

Everything is for today, in order to draw the sword of the king and become the king who saves Britain, she will be born in this world.

This is her responsibility, and it is also the mission she has carried since she was born.

However, she never felt that the remorse and wishes of her deceased father, or the teachings of the magician in his dreams every night, gave her a special sense of mission.

The only thing that has inspired her for the past fifteen years is the ordinary days with Actor and Kai, and the smiles that come from the hearts of the people in the town.

I've always thought about the purpose of being a king, but until now. That goal became clear with the imminent throne in front of him.

So, there's only one thing to do.

"Artoria, have you decided?"

Coming back to her senses, Artoria noticed the magician who appeared behind her at some point, and the smile that had no seriousness in her dreams every night turned serious at this time.

"Once you pick up that sword, you will no longer be human until the end. It's not just that. Once you pick it up, you will be hated by all the humans and welcome a tragic death. ”

Artoria's expression was warped with fear, and what Merlin said was not alarmist.

The end of the predestined future flashed quickly through her consciousness in the form of a reflection.

Merlin stared at Artoria, and he knew that somewhere, another Artoria was watching the memorabic scene.

"If you have determined your goal, you must move forward, even if there are difficulties and obstacles, you must continue to implement it, even if it is a wrong decision in the end, as long as you work hard, you will not regret it when you look back."

Merlin looked at Artoria in a daze, he had already seen a foregone future, but in that future Artoria would not say such a thing.

"Whoa, I don't remember Ektor and I ever teaching you that."

"It was Qi Wuce who told me, I just thought it was correct, so I wrote it down."

Artoria remembered that he was not very obsessed but very reliable, and he was a guy like Kaigo.

[If you regret it no matter how you think about it, then travel through time and space to do it again], this is a sentence that Qi Wuce added at the end of this sentence, but because this half of the sentence sounds outrageous no matter what, Artoria didn't say it.

"That's really the man's style." Merlin said helplessly.

"Wait a minute, Artoria, please don't draw your sword yet, I'll come as soon as I go." Leaving behind such an inexplicable sentence, Merlin disappeared in front of Artoria's eyes.

Stunned as Merlin looked at the place where Merlin was gone, nothing but flowers that bloomed for some unknown reason, Artoria took back the hand that had been on the hilt of her sword for some reason.