Chapter 346: Fate/Fateful Night Twenty
By the time the three of them came out of the back room, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. After all, this is the experience of a living person for more than ten years, and even if Nobita compresses it into the form of a movie, supplemented by a certain degree of editing and flashbacks, it will take nearly five hours. However, long also has the advantage of being long, so Nobita can make sure that he doesn't miss any shots, and shows the two of them the most real life of Sakura.
Perhaps Archer had already guessed that it would not be over for a while, and at about three o'clock he had crept into Shirou's room, and with great skill he had opened the drawer and pulled out a few bills from it. He said hello to Saber and went out to buy groceries, and Saber was also a scheming person, and she nodded and agreed without thinking about where Archer got it from as a heroic spirit. He didn't change his clothes, he just wore that extremely stylish windbreaker to the street, went to the vegetable market to buy some fresh ingredients and came back, enough to cook six people.
Thanks to his foresight, after coming out of the inner room, Shirou had a ruined expression, and his hands were shaking, as if he didn't have the strength to cook again. When he watched the stereoscopic video just now, there were so many scenes that he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, so much so that he used up too much strength without realizing it. Seeing Archer fiddling with his familiar kitchen utensils in his familiar position, Shirou didn't ask him where the money came from, but smiled at him very reluctantly and said, "Thank you." β
"It's not for you." Archer snorted angrily, his hand stopped, and continued to fiddle with the spatula, "Look at this, my Aster has to live with you again today, why don't you get something to eat." Do you think everyone sits in there all day like you? β
"......" Shirou didn't bother with him, and inevitably, he set his eyes on Sakura, who was sitting there.
Sympathy, pity, sadness, anger...... There was too much information in the young man's eyes, and he wanted to say something to comfort the girl, but in the current situation, it seemed inappropriate to say anything, and in the end he could only turn into a long sigh.
"Senior ......"
Sakura stood up in a bit of a panic, not daring to make direct eye contact with Shirou. In the past few hours, she thought that she was mentally prepared enough to face it calmly no matter what the final result was, but ...... The moment Shirou and Rin stepped out of the inner room, Sakura's beating heart said it all. All the while, she was running away from this terrible thing.
"That...... Today I ...... I'll go back first......" She pursed her lips tightly, her body slightly stiffened, as if she had something dirty on her body, "Senior, after that...... Let's try not to meet......"
Shirou felt a violent shock.
Sakura was undoubtedly a quiet, clever and brilliant woman, consciously or unconsciously, following her, always smiling softly and offering to help out at her home. Faintly, Shirou can also feel her longing and love for herself, but ...... What do you think of Sakura?
She is saying that she is leaving now, because she feels that she is a person who has been "defiled", so she is not qualified to stay here?
"Sakura, it's not your fault......"
Shirou was about to speak, but another figure had already jumped up and hugged Sakura tightly from behind. Shirou rarely cried when he saw Rin, and this girl seemed to maintain a kind of grace of a young lady at all times, and she was a little domineering, and she never showed her subordinate side to the outside world. However, on this night, she did cry, crying pear blossoms with rain and uncontrollable. After the death of her parents, Sakura is her only relative in this world. At this moment, she hugged her biological sister with both arms, whose hair color and eyes were already different, and rested her head on her sister's shoulder, her shoulders twitched, and she sobbed softly.
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The moment she was hugged, Sakura shivered and trembled. For so many years, she has been looking forward to a loved one, a family-like hug. But when it really came, Sakura found that her body was quite repulsed by it, presumably because something that hadn't happened for a long time suddenly happened, and she was a little confused.
She didn't know whether to call "Tosaka-senpai", or "Rin", or the simplest sentence "sister". But she instinctively grabbed Rin's hands and held them in the palm of her own. Her sister's hands were no different from those she remembered, still as soft as silk cloth, and she remembered that they had carefully brushed her hair.
"I'm sorry, Sakura, I'm sorry...... Rin said as she cried, "If only I had ...... I know so, I won't let you go anyway......"
ββ¦β¦ Rin? Sakura shook her head and said in a self-abandoning tone, "This is my father's decision, and it has nothing to do with you. β
"But ......," Rin said with a snort, "I didn't know where you suffered that kind of ...... Thing. Why don't you keep in touch with your family? β
"I ...... I don't have a home anymore, sister. When she said this, Sakura herself felt very aggrieved, and the atmosphere at the scene was really sad, and she couldn't help crying, "My father gave me to the Maki family, and I'm now Sakura Makiri, how can I go back to the Tosaka family?" Not to mention...... My father himself passed away, so even if I go back to the Tosaka family, what's the use, I'll still be approached by the people of the Kiriri family in the end, maybe...... It's going to affect you......"
"Now my body has been transformed by the magic of the Kirito family, and it is full of all kinds of dirty things." "I don't have the right to be your sister anymore," she said bitterly. β
"I don't care! I don't want it! At this moment, all of Rin's scheming and ability seemed to evaporate directly, she shouted like a little girl, and hugged her sister tightly, as if she was afraid that she would disappear from her eyes in the next second, "I don't want you to go back, Sakura...... Just stay here, stay with us, okay? Mommy and Dad are gone, and I don't want to see you stay in that kind of hell and be treated inhumanely......"
Hot tears fell on Sakura's shoulders and burned her heart.
After all these years, she finally felt what she wantedβsomething that was readily available to ordinary people, but to her, it was an incomparably precious and rare thing.
"But my sister...... What about the agreement that my father made back then? Sakura regained her gentle voice again, for her, as long as she found her real family, it seemed that facing hell was not so terrible, "That was a matter that my father and the two of them finalized, and passed me on to the Jian Tong family. Although my father is gone, the head of the Kirito family is still alive, so it's impossible for him to let me come back. β
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"About the old promise...... It's not that hard. Nobita finally joined them in the conversation, and as soon as he spoke, Rin immediately looked up and looked at him with expectant eyes.
She wanted so much, so much to save her sister.
"Since I've set it once before, it's better to do it again now." Nobita shrugged his shoulders, "To put it simply, Sakura doesn't dare to come back now, because the Tosaka family is only left with Rin a little girl, helpless, and I'm worried that after I come back, I will be revenged by the Maki family." Negotiate again, let the head of the Weigong family go and talk to the Jian Tong Dirty Yan, and then ask you to come back, wouldn't it be no problem? β
"The ...... of the Emiya family The head of the house? Shirou frowned, "However, my father here has long since passed away." β
"Nonsense, I'm talking about you, you!" Nobita asked angrily, "Do you want to save Sakura?" Give a good word. β
"Yes!"
"What price are you willing to pay at most to save Sakura, Shirou?"
Shirou didn't blink his eyes, and said directly, "My everything." β
"......" Sakura looked at the senior Shirou she had in mind, and saw that the young man's face was full of resoluteness, and despite the difficult future and the strength of the enemy, she did not see the slightest retreat. At that moment, the softest part of the girl's heart was struck, and her cheeks turned crimson again. After waiting for so many years, she finally waited for the scene in her fantasy - Prince Charming made a vow to rescue the princess trapped in the tower.
Who knew that the stunned man turned around and looked at Sakura, and said very sincerely, "Sakura, don't worry, I will never leave you alone." I will be a partner in righteousness, but until then, I will be your partner too. β
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"Snap ββββ!!"
Archer, who was over there, smashed an egg, poured it into a bowl, and stirred wildly with a spoon. The expression on his face was extremely hideous, and he was still muttering words such as "nerd" and "brainless", and tossing the egg whites and yolks in the bowl like venting.
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ββ¦β¦ Thank you, seniors. Sakura's mood suddenly became very delicate, and no matter what, she smiled at Shirou.
"By the way, Nobita, didn't you say there is a way to treat Sakura's body?" Rin suddenly remembered what Nobita had explained in the inner room before, and when it came to her own sister, she was more concerned than anyone else, "Pull out all those damn bugs that gnawed at Sakura's flesh...... Please. β
"This thing...... Don't worry, let's eat first. Nobita pondered for a while and said, "You guys also calm down and take a rest, today's psychological pressure is too great." After eating, I'll invite someone over again. β
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Green Star. Star Capital City. Oak Country.
Next to the huge oak where Her Highness Lilei lived, there was a birch tree that did not look so imposing, and was about fifty meters high, to say the least. This is one of the reception rooms used by the Green Star Government to receive "foreign guests", and its appearance still adheres to the appearance of birch, but the volume has been magnified nearly dozens of times, the entrances and exits are tree holes, and the leaves are so large that they cover the sky and the sun. Due to the ban on the planet, it was forbidden for any craft to fly in the sky except for the royal family, so visitors from deep space had to stay on the moons of the Green Star, a few large mushrooms suspended in orbit, and fly all the way down to the huge crown leaf at the top of the birch.
The degree of attention paid by the Green Star people to the word "embrace" is almost comparable to the understanding of "freedom" by other races.
At this moment, a protracted conference has been opened. As one of the Seven Elders, there are naturally many different civilizations and races in the jurisdiction of Green Star, and many of them are powerful people who can sail across galaxies...... Naturally, there are many interests that need to be divided on a regular basis. If they are allowed to divide it themselves, it will inevitably evolve into an ending of negotiation first and then work, but fortunately, there is still a Yulian pressure on top. The existence of Yulian has indeed made the resources efficiently and reasonably distributed to each civilization, so that they can get their share of what should belong to them.
Occasionally, there will be some civilizations who feel dissatisfied with the fact that they have given too little, but Yulian is not a vegetable market, and you are allowed to pick and choose here. In a word, whatever you are given is what it is, and if you don't want it, you won't even have that.
After the morning meeting, delegates from all planets were invited to their seats and had lunch in a restaurant specially designed to receive foreign guests. Since most of the inhabitants of the Green Star are plants, which can be used for energy by photosynthesis, there are simply no materials for carnivores...... The ingredients used to entertain foreign guests are imported from other places. In addition, the Green Star people's understanding of "food" is completely different from that of ordinary creatures, and the dishes they make have a taste of vegetarian food, which is naturally not delicious.
The hands of the two kings walked out along the back exit of the birch trees and walked on a sheep's intestine path.
"Sometimes, I really admire you." Sheila said with some emotion, "In the face of so many shameless requests and proposals, you can still keep a smile on your face. β
"This is the most basic quality of a politician." "Don't let anyone feel your hostility at any time. Besides, animals always like to inch in. If you get used to their temperament early, you won't be surprised by so many strange proposals today. β
"These guys really regard this place as their own back garden, and they have a bit of a relationship, they can do whatever they want, and they don't even want to ...... face," Sheila said with some indignation, "Is it that Green Star hasn't been vocal in Yulian recently, and they think that we are starting to gradually decline?" β
"Their logic is probably like this, since Green Star is its own ruler, then it is obligated to provide all the help it needs for free. Otherwise, they can coerce public opinion against us, and then force Yulian to hand over what they want, huh...... It's really a lack of people's hearts. Shu read with a smile, "To dare to make such an unscrupulous request is nothing more than to think that even so, Yulian can't impose sanctions on them." This kind of self-respect for the people, thinking that they have obtained the capital that can wrestle with us...... There have been more and more in recent years. β
"Should there be sanctions?"
"So, Sheila, we're going to play a classic play when we have a meeting in the afternoon." The tree squeezed his eyes at him, and compared it to a look that was going to do something, "You come to sing red face, I'll sing white face." First of all, you will come forward and reprimand and abuse their proposals, and then I will calm things down and bomb these fools back first......"
While the two politicians were discussing the details, a hand suddenly reached out from behind the tree and grabbed his black robe tightly.
In the next moment, the tree's face changed, and before he could react, he was forcibly dragged into a black alien space, and no one was visible.
Sheila was left standing there with a bewildered expression, not knowing what was happening.
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