Chapter 476: The Captured Heroic Spirit

"What's going on? Obviously, there was a gas explosion in the yard just a few days ago, why is there an explosion in the street next to it now? ”

This is the exclamation of Fujimura Taiga, who came to eat after seeing the crumbling courtyard wall and the entire street that was blown away.

On the other side, a weak, purple-haired girl was nervously hiding behind Emiya Shirou, looking at the street as if it had been attacked by aerial bombs with a frightened expression, and at the same time looking at us strangers with curious eyes.

Gas explosion...... Speaking of Weimiya-san, can't you think of some other reason?

A succession of landing capsules fell in Fuyuki City, even if the stealth camouflage can be used to hide the trajectory of the landing module in the air, it is impossible to cover up the tragic traces left on the ground, but Rin Tosaka did his best, using his power in the dark world to turn everything into a more reasonable explosion case from the official, which can be regarded as hiding from the ordinary people, but for Fujimura Taiga and Maki Sakura, two people who are very close to Emiya Shirou, it seems to be more troublesome.

Well, maybe the thick line Fujimura can still hide it, but Sakura is obviously a careful girl, looking at the shape of the sinkhole next to the wreckage of the courtyard wall and the obvious signs of something being removed at the bottom, she still spoke weakly: "That...... Predecessor...... Could a gas explosion really create such a crater? ”

Emiya Shirou's face was bitter: "Sakura, you can just think of this as a gas explosion." ”

"Oh......" The purple-haired weak girl nodded and stopped talking.

This girl is too easy to coax

For some reason, Fujimura and Sakura haven't come to the Emiya Mansion these days, the former has met with us, and the latter has appeared in front of us for the first time this time, to a group of strangers who claim to be "distant relatives of the friends of Emiya Shiro's adoptive father", this weak girl who seems to be a little scared seems to be very concerned, especially when most of us are women, but then again, Pandora and Viska also need you to be wary?

I'm sorry, my sister, but I accidentally poked you in the sore spot just now......

The appearance of such suspicious distant relatives or old friends one after another naturally caused a lot of trouble to Emiya Shirou, just how to explain our origin has already made the unlucky old good man feel exhausted, especially when most of these uninvited non-humans are girls, the sobbing expression and Fujimura sister's scrutinizing gaze every time she looks at her may be more terrifying than Ling Chi for Emiya, but we can't help these things, and in fact, If I hadn't appeared with Tears as a foreshadowing and Sister Pandora had appeared as a buffer, the impact on Fujimura would have been even greater when Saber was suddenly exposed to Fujimura, and from this point of view, it seems that a certain coyote should still be thankful for us.

After breakfast, the Wei Gong Mansion, which had been lively all morning, finally quieted down again, because the incident on the campus unexpectedly broke out in advance and was "resolved", and the tears seemed to have no need to continue to squat in the school, so after irresponsibly letting the "relevant departments" of the empire prepare a withdrawal procedure, the girl once again became a happy skipping class, and laughed to the point that it was ten miles away when she saw Emiya Shirou and Ma Kirizakura go out.

Now, there is finally no ordinary person left here.

After instructing Pandora and Viska to open their force fields and envelop the entire Emiya Mansion, I walked with Tears to the dojo at the back of the courtyard.

The door of the dojo was open, and the wide space inside was unobstructed, and there seemed to be nothing unusual, but this was just an illusion under the invisible force field, and Tears pulled out the command knife and waved it lightly in the air, and immediately, the surrounding space fluctuated, and everything that was originally hidden by the phase was exposed in front of us.

The first thing that catches your eye is a crystal platform with a radius of about five meters, it is a standard octagonal shape, and a small diamond-shaped crystal pillar is suspended on each vertex, and these crystal pillars emit a faint blue grating to the surroundings, forming a cage that seems to be real and illusory, and in the cage, a woman with long purple hair reaches the ground with her back to us, and slumps down on the crystal platform.

The Heroic Spirit we captured alive is a woman whose real name is Medusa.

According to Rin Tosaka's meaning, since it is an enemy, of course it should be destroyed, and Saber agrees with this, but Emiya Shirou obviously can't agree with such an act, and we have a reason to keep her, so Rider, who should have been sent back to Valhalla, was locked up.

Of course, the most important reason is that for the Holy Grail War, there is no point in killing Rider now, killing the Heroic Spirits in the Holy Grail War, and the meaning of the last one person is to let the magic of the six Heroic Spirits who "exited" turn into fuel for the Holy Grail to descend, and the current Rider is no longer able to take on the responsibility of fuel, she is eroded by the Ghost Energy, and now even part of her body is still crystallized, until these alienated energies are dispelled, Rider's death will only cause the Holy Grail to suffer irreversible damage.

"She's recovering well and is able to move."

The blonde girl who had been guarding the "prisoners of war" by the crystal platform immediately greeted us, and although she was wary of us at first, she was able to capture the enemy servants alive in one fell swoop, almost entirely thanks to our help, which greatly increased Saber's affection for us, and although she knew nothing about our strength, she had come to regard us as almost temporary allies.

"Yo, don't you turn around? As a prisoner of war, your attitude is not very good right now. ”

After a few seconds.

"Brother Director, you have been ignored." Tears, as always, revealed their little belly black side in such a subtle place.

"Okay, you're ruthless" I angrily stretched out my hand and pointed at the purple-haired woman who was still facing away from this side, ignoring my speech, and then stepped forward and twisted my waist and feet, "It's a big deal, I'll go around"

Saber, Tears: "......"

"You're such a strange person," this time, even the purple-haired woman, who had always been calm, finally couldn't keep her composure, she struggled to stand up, turned to this side, and said with a subtle smile in her tone, "At least tell me, what happened to my body?" And what's going on with this weird cage? ”

The woman who turned around was tall and feminine, and she should be called beautiful in that respect alone, but she had a very strange purple blindfold on her eyes, and the blindfold that covered most of her appearance greatly reduced her beauty, and only added to the weirdness, but I knew that the pair of magic eyes hidden under the blindfold was the real danger, even more dangerous than the Blood Temple that enveloped the entire school at that time, and almost killed thousands of teachers and students, well, at least until she was corroded, As for now, those magic eyes should still be in a frozen state for the time being.

"It's just been eroded by ghostly energy," I pointed to the tip of the other man's hair, which was supposed to be a purple waterfall, but turned into blue-white crystals at the tip, and although these crystals have been greatly suppressed, they still stubbornly occupy their territory, "So, eating indiscriminately will make you upset." ”

"As for this cage used to imprison you, it is something you can really thank for surviving, if there is no transformation of the crystal matrix, you who have been turned into a crystal state by the ghost energy would have been scattered a long time ago."

"Yes," the purple-haired woman nodded indifferently, and then sat down again, with her current physical condition, it would be quite difficult to maintain her feet for a long time, "I don't remember any heroic spirits with such abilities as yours, such as ghost energy...... It never seems to be in my memory, and it's strange that you, as a member of the Holy Grail War, would choose to capture me alive rather than kill me outright. ”

"That's how you want to die?"

I showed a look of surprise, the other party's words were too bland, and when it came to my own life and death, it was even as indifferent as talking about the weather.

"It doesn't matter," the purple-haired woman's voice was neither sad nor joyful, and she couldn't hear any emotion at all, "There is nothing to regret about following the call to participate in this war, and then leaving because of the defeat of the war." ”

"In other words, no matter what means we use, you're not going to tell who your master is?" I raised my eyebrows and asked in an uplifted tone.

The purple-haired woman showed her attitude in silence, and it was obvious that she didn't care about death even if she didn't care, but the master who summoned her was unwilling to hurt.

"We've confirmed that your master is in that school, and that he's a student," I deliberately grimaced, "that is, killing all those students will also serve the purpose." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly felt a wave of anger beside me, and I turned my head with a slightly shocked expression, but I was met by Saber's magnificent green eyes, which contained undisguised questioning.

"Don't get excited," the Knight King's reaction was not at all what I expected, but it was my own negligence to say such misleading words without saying hello before, "I scared her into playing." ”

Saber's eyes were stunned for a moment, and then he showed a rare expression of crying and laughing, even after a few days of contact, it seemed that my lack of slipping still made this serious stupid king quite unacceptable.

Such a threat may not seem like much to a woman who could use a temple of blood to envelop the entire school and drain the life force of humanity, and she doesn't care if the students live or die, but I know that she will definitely say something.

Sure enough, in response to such a threat, the purple-haired woman was silent at first, and then on the surface, as if she had gone through some serious ideological struggle, she slowly raised her head, but the corners of her mouth hung a little cruel arc that was almost imperceptible.

"It seems that there is no point in hiding something, his name is Shinji Makiri, and he is the heir of the Maki family."

Sure enough, she still chose to use that guy as a shield.

Shinji Makiri,That's Shirou Emiya's classmate.,It's also the nominal brother of Sakura Makiri.,But in fact,It's the creator of the latter's nightmarish life.,The identity is the direct heir of the magic family Makiri's family.,But in fact, it's a waste person who doesn't have the talent of a magician at all.,Even if you don't know the plot of the road.,With the simplest investigation, you can know such information as the road.,Such a guy.,Can he be a participant in the Holy Grail War?

Obviously, the purple-haired woman just wanted to blame Shinji Ma-Kiri with such a plausible explanation, and if we were to believe her words and attack the so-called "master", it would be okay to kill a scumbag, she might be happy, and even if we could find out that the information was false, the real owner of the purple-haired woman would not be harmed.

In fact, for us who are familiar with the plot, such a question and answer itself is not of much significance, the answer is known early on, I just want to know the way, whether the woman with a bad reputation in front of me is really as rumored, really guarding the girl, now it seems that even the notorious Medusa, there is something to praise.

"Maybe you don't know much about it," after confirming a certain fact, and it was time to explain the situation, "Our identity is a bit special, and Saber will explain it to you soon, and now you have to know that the master who was protected by you in every way is in danger." ”

The purple-haired woman raised her head suddenly, and I couldn't see her under the blindfold, but the other party was obviously trying to analyze the truth of what I had just said from my expression.

"The ghost energy has eroded your body, the body of the Heroic Spirit is energetic, after the previous near-death experience, you should have also noticed that your body was crystallized to some extent, and until now, this crystallization has not completely subsided," I said, reaching out and pointing at the tips of the other party's still crystal clear hair, "So have you ever thought that this dangerous energy will flow backwards with the contract between the Heroic Spirit and the master?" ”

In an instant, the purple-haired woman's body stiffened.

How could I ignore such a danger? Could it be that this completely alien attack has made him lose the ability to judge? Such a dangerous energy, even the body of the Heroic Spirit almost turned into a crystal statue, once it entered the human body......

"Don't worry too much, it's not that bad, the great lethality of the ghost energy to the Heroic Spirit is due to your own nature, the energy life is extremely sensitive to the harmful energy that invades itself, and the human body can hold these things a little, not to mention - that girl receives a very weak energy backflow, now, she should only be a little dizzy, right? But as time goes on, we can't guarantee what the consequences will be. ”

My reassurance gave the purple-haired woman a slightly reassuring look, but then she sensed the crux of my words: "'That girl'? You've got it......"

"That's right, Sakura Makiri, I saw her this morning," I shrugged, and realized that it was also very interesting to "tease" these heroic spirits with the occasional mischievous taste, especially when the other party was still an indifferent guy, "Don't show that expression, I just want to see if you really care about Sakura, if you really said the name of your real master just now, and now you have turned into a crystal statue - this crystal platform under you, that is made of pure ghost energy." ”

With this sentence, the purple-haired woman almost jumped up on the spot

It wasn't too difficult to tell Rider who we were, but when I finished explaining, I felt like I was in a cold sweat, for no other reason, because I had been watching from the sidelines during the whole process.

You may not understand, but I'll make it clear: didn't I make up a bunch of things at random when I explained to Saber where we came from? Now I suddenly realized that the pile seemed to have been forgotten, which meant that I had to try to remember how I fooled Saber while talking nonsense with Rider, and I was not exhausted by the fifteen-minute conversation

The pit abducted and deceived the dead, especially after pit a famous, serious and serious dumb king

In other words, you are from another ...... Heavenly body? ”

After quietly listening to my explanation, and seeing me show me a little bit of gadgets from the Xiling Empire that have absolutely nothing to do with human civilization, Rider confirmed in such an incredulous tone.

For these heroic spirits who have participated in more than one Holy Grail War, and have been reincarnated countless times in endless time, things in modern society are not incomprehensible, even if the era of their birth is basically ancient, it does not affect Rider's understanding of the concept of "aliens", but understanding is one thing, and it is another thing to really accept it, and the setting that the battle between human magicians will mess with aliens makes our Medusa feel extremely awkward.

After talking about the matter, and saying that he could help dispel the ghost energy pollution in Sakura's body, Rider's attitude towards us has improved a lot, this notorious woman with the name of the killer is actually a fairly simple guy, she also has her own joys, sorrows and personal hobbies, and she also has the same people she hopes to protect: Sakura Ma, but other than that, the life and death of anyone is not taken into account by her, which should also be said to be a common disease of those heroic spirits who come from mythical heroes or monsters, for mortals, Contempt for ordinary people, from this point of view, Saber's chivalry is really rare.

But anyway, for Rider, a woman full of contradictions, after understanding her background, I still have some good feelings, of course, this good feeling is not the reason why I am so troublesome to improve the friendship with the other party, the most important thing is that I need to ask Rider to help with a whimsical idea, which involves Rider himself and Kirizakura, and strictly speaking, it is dangerous, if it weren't for Lin Xue's prediction that this test is of great significance, And if it succeeds in the end, I wouldn't start such a proposal for a biochemical test with innocent people, and since I want Rider to help with that, it's necessary to have a good relationship with the other party now, because I don't like to force anyone.

"I'm still curious about one thing," Rider, who was still very weak, sat lazily on the crystal shield of his cage, which was also a healing device, and looked at us with curious eyes, "What about your motives?" I don't think you're a human being, or even a creature outside of this planet, you don't have any need to meddle in what's going on here, do you? But I think your actions seem to be full of purpose, and of course, this is just my intuition. ”

Should it be said that it really deserves to be Medusa? This observation and intuition are probably sharper than Rin Tosaka's, of course, the latter may also have some suspicions, but because there is no conflict of interest, so I didn't bring it up.

Noticing that Saber on the side also showed an interested expression, I just shrugged my shoulders indifferently: "Well, who knows, maybe it's just curiosity, anyway, I don't have malicious intentions, isn't that enough?" ”