Chapter 479 The Key of Avalon

"Although I don't know what happened, this guy finally looks carefree."

This was Rin Tohsaka's sigh after seeing Shirou Emiya actively asking Saber to train him in swordsmanship. Before, Shirou Emiya had never had the consciousness of being a master, and even had no motivation to fight, which really gave this young lady a headache.

Damn it, no matter what the reason was, at least Emiya showed his willingness to gain power and defeat someone, which was enough to make her overjoyed.

Who does Emiya want to defeat now?

Maybe he doesn't even know it himself.

Always yearning to be righteous, hoping to find a way to save everything without hurting anyone or sacrificing anyone. This idea sounds very naive, but the starting point is not wrong. But when you discover that a person can actually

What will you do when you are so abominable and sinful that even breathing the air around you is a waste of human resources?

But the conflict in Emiya Shirou's heart is his own business. Although he is an unprecedented good person, fortunately, he is not weak. I know that he can solve his own problems, so I am very concerned about Wei who is obviously using training to anesthetize himself.

Palace, there is no need to pay too much attention.

What you should be concerned about now is the girl waiting in the hut behind the dojo.

Emiya, who was practicing swordplay in the yard, or being trained by Saber, and Tohsaka Rin, who was watching, had no energy to pay attention to the situation for the time being. I pulled Sandora, who was studying barbecue with Ruizi with great interest, and led me

She came to the back of the Daichichi, the only remaining building in the devastated Emiya residence.

There is a small room for temporary rest, which is directly connected to the dojo. When we opened the door and came in, the weak purple-haired girl was in a daze, looking out the window with unfocused eyes, wondering what she was thinking.

We didn't even notice it until we walked in.

The original plan was to start the transmission immediately in the morning, but because Avalon needed time to debug some of the annexes of the Garden of Death, the time was postponed to the evening. Fortunately, in the Matou family, Sakura still has the freedom to occasionally come home late.

, and because Rider is "missing" and Matou Shinji is a useless person without any talent, the only one who can use the power of the contract to find clues is Sakura as the summoner. In this name, Sakura has been staying at the Emiya family until now.

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"Ahem..."

After being ignored for nearly three minutes, I finally gave up on relying on my presence to wake up the girl in front of me. I coughed twice and finally brought Sakura back to life.

"Ah, it's Senior Chen Jun, I'm very sorry."

The girl who was awakened immediately stood up and apologized hurriedly for being distracted.

From the flash in her eyes just now, I saw deep confusion and tension, and I can probably guess a little bit about the reason for such emotions.

When she was in contact with Emiya during the day, the sensitive girl must have noticed something strange about him, and when she was about to go home in the evening, she was suddenly asked to stay. This had already given Sakura a lot of messy associations.

But after staying, Emiya did not come to see him. Instead, he was busy practicing swordsmanship with Saber in the yard. Even Tohsaka Rin showed up uninvited until now, while he had been left alone in this room for so long.

Such abnormal things naturally made her very concerned. If it weren't for her absolute trust in Emiya, she might have been unable to sit still, right?

And when she saw that the person in front of her was not the familiar Emiya, not even Saber or Tohsaka Rin, but the almost stranger "a good friend of Emiya's adoptive father and a relative of his friend", Matou Sakura was naturally even more surprised.

Already.

"It's okay," I waved my hand casually, "Sakura Matou, right?"

Facing such a knowingly asked question, the girl was stunned for a moment, then nodded without knowing why.

"Well, he is also the summoner of Rider, right?"

In an instant, the girl's pupils opened to their maximum, and the deep vigilance and shock were unabashedly displayed on the other person's face.

"You are magicians!?"

Matou Sakura immediately put on a defensive posture. As Rider's true master, and having been exposed to the world of magicians since she was a child, Matou Sakura's knowledge in some aspects is definitely countless times richer than Emiya Shirou's. She even

He instantly thought of the Rider who disappeared the day before yesterday, "So that's it. No wonder you arranged your 'sister' into the school in order to eliminate the people there..."

"Don't be nervous, we are not enemies, and you should know that Rider is fine. After all, the contract between you has not been broken, right?"

Such a sentence immediately calmed the girl down, but the other party's vigilance did not weaken at all. However, this was a situation that had been expected. I just smiled casually, while Sandora glanced at the other party casually, and immediately

, Sakura, who was originally in a defensive posture, involuntarily lowered her hands.

"It's just to prevent you from accidentally hurting yourself," Sandora said to Sakura, who looked panicked, "come with us."

The Emiya House Dojo at night was empty, with only the dim moonlight shining inside. It looked quiet and ordinary. The face of Sakura Matou, who was brought here by us, had an unknown look on her face, until I punched her softly in the air.

A snap of fingers.

The space fluctuated slightly, and the phase conversion device deployed in the parallel space of the dojo was immediately activated. Everything in this area, including a few of us, was converted to another phase. Everything that was originally hidden was now exposed.

In the empty dojo, there was a crystal platform shrouded in soft light. The large platform was covered with an energy shield that seemed to have a restraining effect. A tall woman with purple floor-length hair was facing away from us.

Until approaching footsteps caught her attention.

Rider, who might have been impatient with waiting, immediately turned around with half a potato chip still in her mouth. The first thing she saw was me walking in front, so she immediately raised the game console in her hand: "Chen!

How on earth do you jump on the platform in this third level!"

us:"……"

I'm going to complain about her being able to play games with a blindfold on, is that okay?

"Rider!" After experiencing a brief confusion at the beginning, Matou Sakura finally reacted, and then shouted and rushed over, and the latter also saw the girl who was unable to sense the opponent due to the nether energy barrier and had been ignored by him just now.

, immediately stood up happily and faced Matou Sakura.

Then both idiots hit the shield of the crystal platform.

I know it's impolite to laugh at this time, but the problem is that I really can't hold it in!

Matou Sakura, who was dizzy after hitting the rigid energy shield, rubbed her head and stood up, then looked at the crystal platform where Rider was standing in amazement. It was very obvious that the latter was temporarily imprisoned by this platform, and even because of

With the existence of that energy shield, the contractual connection between himself and Rider was almost interrupted. No wonder he couldn't sense Rider's position in the past two days no matter what. Was he being imprisoned here?

"Rider, wait a minute, I will find a way to let you out..." Matou Sakura said hurriedly, and then began to search everywhere on the crystal platform for places where runes might exist, but this thing was not a magic creation at all, her

The attempt is of course impossible to succeed.

"Sakura, don't worry, I'll be fine."

Seeing his summoner's anxious look, Rider quickly leaned down and comforted him, "This platform is harmless to me."

"How is this going?"

Sakura finally remembered our existence at this moment, and immediately turned around and asked eagerly. On the surface, it seemed that her servant was imprisoned by us, but the other party's attitude did not seem like this. This made

The girl was very confused.

"How should I put it? It's almost as you guessed at the beginning. We were the ones fighting Rider in the school, and she was captured by us after that. But now she is receiving treatment from this crystal platform. During the battle,

She has been severely corroded by our special energy. Without this crystal platform, she would turn into a crystal statue in a few minutes."

"Sakura, he didn't lie to you, and he is our friend."

Even though she was kneeling on the crystal platform, the tall purple-haired woman was half a head taller than Sakura. Therefore, when she comforted the girl in front of her, the scene was like a mother who was imprisoned in a crystal cage comforting her daughter.

, although this metaphor is a bit strange...

Facing two unidentified people who had attacked her servant not long ago, Matou Sakura obviously lacked enough trust in us, but Rider's words carried a lot of weight in her ears. With the former's introduction and explanation,

Sakura was wary of us at the beginning, then gradually became kind, then full of curiosity and surprise, and finally let go of her wary attitude.

"This is the situation," I concluded after cooperating with Rider to explain the whole story. "Perhaps we can help you, and you can rest assured that we are not hostile at all."

Matou Sakura lowered her head with a complicated expression and leaned slightly on the crystal platform behind her. Perhaps it was because her "dirty" past was so well known to outsiders that she didn't even dare to raise her head and look here.

But whether it was me or Sandora, when they looked at this girl, they only had kindness or calmness in their eyes, without the slightest contempt or ridicule. Under such eyes, Sakura finally mustered up the courage, but with a

He asked in a puzzled tone: "But... why? Why do you want to help people like me? Because you are not human... is that why you do such inexplicable good deeds?"

Um, isn't this girl already desperate for the human race?

Although she couldn't verify anything she said, I didn't want to deceive the other party. After a little consideration, I shook my head: "I can tell you the truth, this help is not completely free. We are conducting some kind of experiment.

Once this experiment is successful, we will gain huge benefits from the world, and some of the missions we are undertaking will also make great progress, but all of this is based on being harmless to the world itself and not malicious to humans.

Yes, this is a transaction, and strictly speaking, it is an unfair transaction that is most beneficial to us."

The purple-haired girl looked at me in surprise, obviously not expecting that I could reveal my motives so unabashedly, but after a while, she showed a reassuring smile: "I believe in Rider, so, I also believe

You guys, as long as you don't harm Emiya-senpai, even if you want to conquer the world, it has nothing to do with me."

Hey! Even if you say this, it will be an exclamation point if the two little guys who are busy grilling outside hear it and understand human civilization!

But the words just now were a bit unexpected coming from the mouth of this girl who always gave people a gentle and weak feeling.

Under that gentle appearance, is she hiding her hatred for the world? Probably not, but at least, she is indifferent to all humans except Emiya.

If she hadn't faced a special "alien" like us, I'm afraid she would never have said such words. In this way, it would be understandable if she ended up being the bearer of the Black Holy Grail.

But that day will never come.

"Rider, your body should be fine now. I'll close the crystal platform right now. Just don't use your magic power."

The purple-haired woman nodded, then took a step back, curiously "watching" me operating on the crystal platform, while Sandora gently pressed her fingers to her ears. Immediately, golden lines emerged from her side.

It extended and formed a rectangular light door like a mirror next to it.

"Avalon is connected and ready to carry conventional life forms in. All personnel are ready to receive them."

"What's this?"
To be continued...