In Alpens's book on the decisive battle, it is stated that the date of the decisive battle will be on the fourth of July. For this reason, Artoria planned to arrive at the decisive battlefield with 3,000 soldiers on July 2 in advance, so as to wait for work. Leaving 2,000 soldiers in Nick City, under the command of Yas.

Therefore, on the first day of July, she finished the training of the soldiers early, so that everyone was ready for all kinds of preparations. After all, the soldiers also have families in Nick City, which is why she let them go back so early, so that they can say goodbye to their families.

Vermilion and Shiina Mashiro had already traveled to the northern and southern borders of the kingdom in order to monitor and guard against the movements of the two empires. It didn't take long for the news of Artoria's uprising to reach the two empires, and it was also due to the fact that the spies sent in by the two countries were also involved. Just in case, Artoria asked the two of them to deal with an empire.

At the beginning, hearing the girl's arrangement, Shiina Mashiro smiled and said, "Alas, Leah, you really make it possible to summon people, and let us face the entire empire alone." Should I thank you for thinking so highly of me?" said her, her eyes filled with smiles.

"It's just a simple surveillance. Of course, if it is really detected that they have sent troops to the border area, it is enough to deter them a little so as not to cause casualties. Artoria ignored the teasing hints in Shiina's vernacular and spoke her mind.

"It's just a deterrent, and I can still do it with Mashiro. I just don't know if they will send strong people to help. Zhu Hong will not reveal her private emotions about this kind of thing at the national level, and she is also seriously thinking about the problems.

Shiina Mashiro: "It's better to send them, it's not bad to meet them." ”

Zhu Hong shook her head: "No, once it involves issues between countries, it can't be treated casually." If you don't do it well, you may worsen the relations between the Kingdom of England and other countries. They have only sent troops to station in the border area, and they have not yet made a move to invade the territory, and if you strike first, it will be the truth of others. They might just be waiting for you. ”

That's why Leah said it was just to intimidate them, just to warn them not to act rashly. ”

Artoria nodded: "That's right, it's to let them understand that there are also demonic beast forest forces involved, so they don't dare to move lightly." And when you temporarily shocked other countries, Xiaoming and I, Adam and I quickly completed the decisive battle and stabilized the situation in the country. After that, they have no excuse to send troops to the border again. ”

"Good aspirator, Al. I don't know how it works, but at least it sounds like it's amazing. Uncle Yas taught him well. Wang Xiaoming applauded and said. He knew that the girl had been taught by Yas for the past few days, and in the extremely limited time, she had to train, "pick up girls", study, and have other miscellaneous affairs to deal with. It's good enough to be able to comprehend this.

Although he also thought about helping the girl share some of the pressure, but after a few moments, he realized that he was not the material for this. He's still in charge of playing tricks and pretending.

"It sounds good, but the actual operation depends on how the two adults deal with it. Artoria looked at Vermilion and Shiina Mashiro.

Zhu Hong shrugged: "I'm fine, I can control myself." As for the real white......" squinted at her.

"How can you look down on me like this? I can say that I am also a holy beast-level existence, and my emotions can be controlled very well. ”

"Anyway, I'm going south to deal with the Mucas Empire. You go north and deal with the Orc Empire. Anyway, there have been some contacts between the north and our Warcraft Forest, and for your sake, they shouldn't have any movement. ”

"Good, good. Go to the north and go to the north. ”

So, Vermilion went to the south to face the Mukas Empire, and Shiina Mashiro went to the north to face the Orc Empire. Artoria, on the other hand, was preoccupied with the decisive battle of the Fourth of July.

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The night before her departure, Artoria jumped onto the roof of her house while everyone else was asleep, and sat down to watch the moon in the sky.

Looking into the distance from the rooftop, it was all black paint, and the only shining ones were only a few places illuminated by the bright moon.

Looking at such a picture, looking at the crescent moon that existed alone, Artoria felt a sense of loneliness for no reason. It's an indescribable feeling of loneliness. At this point, she suddenly felt as if what she was doing didn't make sense.

The busyness of the past few days has made her once again have a deep understanding of everything. And this also made her begin to have a confused emotional psychology.

Is it really necessary for her to crusade against her royal brother? Can't she just go and confront him face to face? Is she still afraid of being killed by them? Now she can completely escape from the city of London. Wouldn't it be better to ask Alpens directly, without war, without bloodshed, without bringing grief to the families of the soldiers.

Obviously, the result is close at hand, and in the next few days, all this grudge will be over. And as it approached, she began to back down again.

After all, there is still a shadow in the girl's heart, which makes it impossible for her to face what will happen later.

She didn't want to face them. I don't know how to deal with it.

Am I really going to do this......

Invisibly, the pressure in Artoria's heart condensed again.

"Are you there, Leah?" a female voice came from behind Artoria.

Artoria swept back.

It's Chitanda Airu.

Artoria burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at? Chitanda Airu sat next to the girl and looked at her strangely.

"It's okay, why did you 'come out'? Wang Xiaoming asked you to 'come out'?"

"Yes, Xiaoming said that he just saw that you seemed to be in a bad mood, so he asked me to accompany you. ”

"Really...... Chitanda, how do you feel about my relationship with Ani these days?" Artoria asked abruptly.

"Feelings? Xiaoming also told me about this. I think Ani really likes you, so I don't think it's a big deal. After all, Liya is such a good girl, and it is normal for many people to like it. As long as you have me in your heart. Chitanda said softly.

"Of course you don't think it's a big deal, because you told me to spend time with Ani in the first place. ”

"Ahh

"You've been 'eavesdropping' on me since the beginning, haven't you?"

"Eavesdropping, what's wrong with you? You seem weird. No wonder Xiaoming thinks that you are in a bad mood, is it that you have too many affairs lately, too busy, so the pressure is a bit high? Then it is better to go to bed early, tomorrow you have to go to the decisive battlefield. After saying that, Chitanda Airu was about to take Artoria's hand.

However, Artoria suddenly grabbed her hand tightly with her backhand, causing Chitanda Airu to ache for a while, and tears were about to flow out of her eyes.

"Leah, it hurts. What's wrong with you?" Chitanda Airu kept trying to break free of the girl's grip.

"It hurts? Do you feel pain too? Do you scream in pain? Why do you usually look like hip-hop? It's not like it is now. Looking at Chitanda Airu's painful appearance, Artoria didn't know why, and felt a strange sense of pleasure arise in vain.

"Leah, let me go. Otherwise, I'll call Xiaoming out. ”

Artoria's eyes stared at Chitanda Airu: "Tell Xiaoming to come out, aren't you Xiaoming, do you still need to call out?" After speaking, the strength strengthened again.

And Chitanda's expression became very painful: "Ah, it hurts! Liya, don't do this, let me go! I'm not Xiaoming, I'm Chitanda." If you have something to say, I'll call him out. ”

"No need. Artoria's strength remained the same. "There you are. Xiaoming, why did you save me in the first place?"

"What?"

"Why did you fall on me when you fell from the sky? Why didn't you just run away to another place, but stay in prison and save me? Then, when I was about to die, why did you turn me like this? and then you helped me along the way, either secretly or explicitly, to improve your strength, to meet Liv, to fight Vermilion, and everything that happened in the elven territory, why did you help me? Why? Xiaoming, you tell me. ”

Artoria's expression became very confused and eager, and then the movements of her hands were not ambiguous at all, and she still grabbed Chitanda Airu's hand fiercely.

"You shouldn't have saved me, you shouldn't have helped me in the first place. Maybe at the beginning of the palace and palace, Brother Wang was already planning to get rid of me. If it weren't for you, I might have died by then. If I had died by then, there might not have been so many things to follow. The Brotherhood will succeed to the king very smoothly, the Kingdom of England will develop smoothly, and everyone will not be involved in this matter, everything is so stable. And I won't be as confused as I am now. ”

"Tell me, Xiaoming. Why save me, why do so much for me. Why? What is your purpose? Tell me, Xiaoming!"

Artoria kept asking "why" in a hurry, and the skin of the place where Chitanda Airu was caught was turning red, and it looked like she had been scratched and injured.

As a result, Chitanda's expression became more and more painful.

"Leah, please let go. Your grip on my hand hurts. The reason why Xiaoming would do this, it was all because ......"

"Because of what?" Artoria asked urgently.

"Because ......" Chitanda Airu's hair fell, obscuring her facial expression. He didn't say anything for a while.

And then

Suddenly, she was confronted by Artoria.

His eyes widened, and his previous expression of pain disappeared without a trace, in exchange for a strange complexion.

"It's fun. ”

Artoria instantly felt a chill fall all over her body, and at the same time, cold sweat continued to break out.

A moment of shock caused Artoria to let go of her grip and shrink back.

Chitanda Airu just kept a strange expression and looked at her with a "smile". The wound on the hand that had been scratched out had long since disappeared and was as intact as ever.

"Fun ......" Artoria looked at the girl in front of her with a look of surprise, although she was indeed the appearance of Chitanda Airu, but that feeling was not like the Chitanda Airu in her memory at all.

Or was it just her pretending?

"I'm the No.1 in the former neurological hospital. ”

Recalling what Wang Xiaoming had said to her at the time, Artoria suddenly felt that everything had become unreal.

"Just for fun?" Artoria asked again in disbelief.

"My words...... It's not clear. But if it is Xiaoming, it is true. Everything he does is because he thinks it's fun. Chitanda Airu smiled very strangely, giving Artoria the impression that she was a deranged and insane person...... Psychosis as well.

"Xiaoming he...... Is that really how you see it?" Artoria's expression became a little solemn, is it all for the so-called "play" all the way?

"All the way down, everything he did and said, was for this 'fun' ......"

"yes. That's it. ”

"How could it be ......?"

Chitanda Airu kept smiling, pressed the shoulders of the girl who was beginning to become lost, leaned into her ear, and whispered, the subtle words mixed with a few breaths, making the whole sound effect unreal and confused.

"After all, it's a game, and if players can't devote themselves to the game, then the game won't be fun, right? ”

"Game ...... Is it ...... I'm just a toy, like I said that night at the hotel, I'm really just a toy, am I?" Artoria's body began to thin out, and she felt helpless, and no one could help her.

Because, Wang Xiaoming, who has always been regarded as her reliance, is just for fun and to play games, so she helps her everywhere.

Or rather, it's just for the fun of the game, so he will always risk to save her. In her opinion, all this truth was too shocking. However, when she thought of Wang Xiaoming's usual behavior, she felt that all this was reasonable.

It's just that I didn't expect that once it was used for this kind of thing, it would be so terrifying.

"Leah, it's okay. Xiaoming treats you like a toy, but I'm not. I like you, don't you like me too?" said Chitanda Airu as she leaned into Artoria's ear.

"yes, I like you. Just as Liv likes me, so do I. However, I don't know if this kind of liking is also Wang Xiaoming...... Whether it's a result of your own making. I'm going to like you, it's not that I really like you, it's that you 'want' me to like you, that's why I'm like that. Is that so...... Xiaoming. ”

"Leah, why do you always think I'm Xiaoming? ”

"Why do you always think that because you are meant to be? Xiaoming, why are you doing this?"

Chitanda Airu smiled at Artoria again.

"Do you really want to know?"

"That's right, I want to know. ”

"Guess what?"

Artoria laughed helplessly.

Still want to play me?

"What the hell are you?"

"What kind of rude words are you talking about? Aren't I Chiantida? And you think I'm Xiaoming, it's really rude. ”

Chitanda Airu held Artoria's face and said softly.

"I'm Chiantida or Xiaoming, by now, there's no need to think about it anymore. Some things, once explicitly stated, are not fun. ”

She raised her forehead to the girl's, her eyes met.

"It's good that everyone knows. ”

“...... Lunatic. ”

"If you really want to say that, I have no opinion, so take it as a compliment to me. But, do you still like me?"

"Hah......" Artoria laughed miserably, "I like it, why don't I like it? ”

"Although your expression is great, I want to say that even if you are treated as a toy, it is because you have the value of being treated as a toy, which shows that there is still some affection for you. You can't ignore this feeling just because it's just a game, you know what that means?"

"What......"

"Well, if you still want to know anything, then make up your mind and defeat your royal brother. At that point, you'll understand everything. Both for what others expect from you, and for me. Do you understand?"

"Dawn ......"

"It's Chitanda, Leah. Everything will be revealed when the matter is over. ”

Artoria was about to say something, but suddenly a wave of dizziness hit, and finally the whole person fell forward.

Then he was caught by Chitanda Airu.

"Enough is enough, and more is not good. You'd better go to bed early, you're going to the battlefield tomorrow. ”

Chitanda Airu looked up at the night sky, the original bright moonlight had been obscured by the clouds, and the entire ground looked unusually dark.

Then, holding Artoria in her arms, she laughed coldly, and the laughter was terrible in this dark moment.

"Huh...... Hehe...... Heheheha......"

After the laughter, she looked quietly, with soft eyes, at the blonde girl who fell asleep in her arms.

"Alas, Xiaoming, Xiaoming, your plan to hug your thighs seems to be a bit in vain. I wonder how you're going to make up for it?"

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Actually, I originally just wanted to write a very warm scene, but for some reason, I wrote and wrote, and suddenly it became an inexplicable tearing battle. And I'm so excited to write, is this what I want to write?

Okay, let's go along the way. The original heart-warming plot has become like this.,I hope it won't collapse later.,See if you can "make up".。

I have to say that such a setting ...... I'm really enjoying it......