Dressed in rough clothes made of linen, the blonde eleven or twelve-year-old girl left the village where she lived and went to a hill not far from the village to gather red berries. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although she lived in a knightly family, the girl was unfortunately fostered in the house of a knight named Eckert.

Therefore, although they do not go hungry, their food is limited to brown bread and soup made from wild vegetables boiled in salt and alkali stone.

The brown bread was as hard as a stone, and was often mixed with sawdust and grit, and the wild vegetable soup had no hint of oil and only a slight salty taste.

Looks like a bad deal? In fact, the girl is already very grateful and satisfied with this.

For the maiden saw more than once that the people of the village did not even have black bread and wild vegetable soup, but could only drink the water from the river and make their stomachs bulge.

Then they had to lie on the ground, some of them died of unclean water, and some of them lived in even more agony, more precisely, half-dead.

Occasionally, people passed by, and a few who still had the strength would pray for food, but most of their prayers were fruitless.

And many more people don't even have the strength to pray, so they can only lie quietly in a corner and wait for death to come.

The kind-hearted maiden once secretly brought out her black bread and gave it to a skinny old man with skin and bones.

The old man's eyes lit up at the sight of the black bread, and with all his strength he shoved the long black bread into his mouth, which had only a few yellow teeth left.

Madly nibbling on the hard black bread, oblivious to the bleeding gums and tongue from sawdust and grit.

It's just that the kindness of the maiden hastened the death of this poor old man.

This action exhausted the last shred of the old man's life, and he finally kept this movement and fell.

Seeing the old man who died, the strong girl cried for the first time.

From that moment on, the maiden vowed to become a true knight and save the people from their misery.

It's just that no matter how great the ideal is, the girl has to face the reality.

Despite secretly learning from the training of the knights, the girl who did not have adequate nutrition had little effect.

In order to keep up with these knight squires, who had a supply of meat, the girl had to secretly go to the hill behind the village every day to collect berries to supplement the physical exertion of training, but the berries were difficult to find, because most of them had already been picked by the villagers.

In order to find the berries, the girl had to rummage through every ravine, carefully searching for the berries that had been missed by the villagers.

Today is the third day that the girl came to the mountain behind the village, and two days ago she found a berry tree that had not been discovered, but there were not many berries left.

The girl was a little worried, and just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly noticed a leg peeking out of the grass.

"Could it be that someone fainted here from hunger?" The girl thought to herself.

Without hesitation, the girl approached the grass, and then saw a face that shocked her.

"Is this a heavenly god who has fallen to the earth?" The girl muttered to herself in disbelief.

Looking at the incomparably exquisite clothes on the figure, and I don't know what material to use, the girl thought to herself, "Even the clothes worn by Knight Eckert are far inferior to her clothes." ”

At this time, the corners of the "girl's" mouth moved, and then slowly opened her eyes that were brighter than the stars.

Seeing her wake up, the girl asked with some joy, "Are you a god in the sky?" My name is Artoria. ”

Listening to Artoria's words, for some reason, the "girl" who had just woken up understood what she said.

"Who am I?" Obviously, she has countless memories and knowledge in her mind, but "she" just can't remember what her name is, and she doesn't know where she came from.

So "she" murmured, "I don't know who I am, I don't know my name, but I'm not a god." ”

Hearing "her" words, Artoria tilted her head, looked at Xiao Mengran expectantly and said, "Then I'll call you Merlin, okay?" ”

Hearing Artoria's words, Xiao Mengran, who had forgotten his name and experience, said to himself, "Merlin? ”

Looking at Artoria's expectant eyes, Xiao Mengran, who had lost her memory, nodded and said, "Okay, then I will be called Merlin in the future." ”

Seeing that Merlin had agreed to her request, Artoria smiled happily.

Seeing Artoria's smile, Merlin asked with some curiosity:

"Why are you here?"

Before Artoria could speak, her stomach made a "growling" sound, answering Merlin's question instead of her.

Blushing a little, Artoria lowered her head in embarrassment.

Merlin smiled kindly, and with a thought, a box of yogurt and a piece of bread appeared in his hand.

Inserting the straw into the box, Merlin unwrapped the bread and handed it to Artoria along with the yogurt: "Eat." ”

As strange as it was strange that he would somehow take food out of the space called the storage bar, Merlin knew that he would always have a chance to remember it later.

Smelling the milky smell of the bread, Artoria swallowed, finally unable to refuse Merlin's kindness.

Taking the yogurt and bread from Merlin, Artoria said embarrassedly, "Thank you." ”

Merlin only smiled faintly when he heard her words.

As she took a bite of a large piece of fluffy bread, Artoria, who had never tasted such delicious food, was almost moved to tears.

The fluffy milk bread melts in the mouth, and the milky aroma echoes in the girl's mouth, completely different from the hard and unpalatable black bread.

Gulping down the milk bread in her hand, Artoria let out a happy whimper.

Looking at the happiness and satisfaction on the girl's face, Merlin smiled and gently touched the top of her head.

Artoria, who was touched by Merlin, narrowed her eyes like a kitten, and enjoyed Merlin's gentle touch of her head while drinking yogurt.

Before she knew it, the yogurt and milk bread were in Artoria's stomach, but her stomach still made a "gurgling" sound.

Artoria was a little shy, looking at the flush on her face, Merlin smiled and took out another box of yogurt and a piece of milk bread and said softly, "Don't worry, eat slowly, the food is still there." ”

At this moment, Lin Xi, who was telling Karthas the story of himself and Xiao Mengran in Silvermoon City, felt a burst of distress inexplicably, as if something precious had been snatched away.