What's more, Poppy doesn't care at all whether she will be injured or not. Anyway, as an existence similar to the true ancestor, she is absolutely immortal.
Once on the plateau, the poppy who had not yet been born with self-consciousness was defeated by Xiang Yu and Xiang An... I don't know how many times, but she still didn't die. Instead, she had a bit of Stockholm syndrome.
Unable to help himself, he fell in love with Xiang Yu.
Such an experience almost caused Xu Fuqi, whom he met later, to have a cerebral hemorrhage.
——But in any case, everything that happened later proved that Poppy made the right choice.
The sentence "Yu Xi Yu Xi Nai Ruo He" vividly describes the relationship between her and Xiang Yu.
"A mustard...sister?"
Looking at Akuko who was shedding blood and tears, Emiya Shirou was a little... at a loss.
He didn't have the slightest chance of winning.
The power of Akuzuko was far beyond Shirou Emiya's imagination. He had never thought that Akukoko, who had been by his side for ten years and had always been a secretive person, could actually be...
...Such a powerful man.
"What does thousands of years... mean?"
After taking a few deep breaths, Emiya Shirou finally asked this question.
Click——
The bloody blade on the side of his head penetrated deeper into the wall.
Akuko let go of her hand, took two steps back, looked at Emiya Shirou, and gritted her teeth.
"Why, even now, do you still want to stick to your own ideals?"
She still disdained Shirou Emiya's ideals.
"...I won't give up."
Emiya Shirou just said this.
but--
What Sister Mustard said seems to be correct.
You don’t know what other people have experienced, so why do you say that you should use your own ideals to block other people’s ideals?
"Yeah."
Kazuko sneered.
"You want to know what happened to me? Then I'll... tell you."
She raised her hand and inserted it next to Emiya Shirou. The other bloody blades that fell on the ground flew towards Akuko, turned into blood again, and disappeared.
"You should have heard what Saber called me."
Emiya Shirou wanted to take a step forward, but he felt his legs suddenly weakened and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he reacted in time, and then heard Akuko said this.
"well?"
Emiya Shirou was a little confused as he held onto the wall to steady his body.
Did Mr. Anno say anything just now?
"You should have noticed it by now."
Shaking her head, Kazuko looked at Emiya Shirou and opened her hands.
"I'm not a human being."
"......What?"
Emiya Shirou felt that he heard wrongly.
It's not a thing.
"I said I'm not a human being, you should have noticed."
Kazuko frowned, a little impatient.
Emiya Shirou shook his head quickly.
"Not aware of it at all."
Kazuko:......
"Then maybe your insight is too poor."
"In short, you and I are completely different creatures. You are a human being, and I am the terminal used to manage the surface of the Star Inner Sea."
"You can call me a body-bearing elf, or you can call me a fairy like Saber."
Emiya Shirou felt a little outrageous.
But looking at Akuko's serious expression, it seemed... not impossible?
If there was anything about Akuko that was different from humans, Shirou Emiya racked his brains to think about it, and he could only think that Akuko's emotions were too stable.
Every time during New Year's Day or when something good happens, Taiga Fujimura will make noises by his side, and Shinji and Sakura will smile sincerely. Only Akuko...
According to Emiya Shirou's memory, he could only count the number of times he saw Akuko smile.
No matter whether it was big or small, good or bad, the expression on Akuko's face never changed. She hid her expression behind the book so that others would never notice her true thoughts.
"....Don't look at me with that look. I have no need to tell lies."
"If you don't believe it, you can ask your servant, he knows about me."
Akuko snorted, dropped her hands, and took out a bloody blade. She held it in her hand and looked at it carefully, then glanced at Shirou Emiya.
"You know my wish, I told you, Shirou."
"Um."
Emiya Shirou nodded.
"I remember...Sister Jie, you probably want to resurrect your husband...wait."
Emiya Shirou noticed something was wrong.
Originally, he thought that Akuko's husband had died more than ten years ago at most. After all, Akuko's birthday written on her driver's license was in her thirties.
but--
If Sister Mustard is really the immortal fairy she calls herself, a flesh-receiving elf who has survived for thousands of years——
"My husband's name is Xiang Yu."
Akuko--the poppy looked at Emiya Shirou with a blank expression.
"The Overlord of Western Chu, Xiang Yu."
".......well?"
.......
The battle between Annuo and Xiang An is coming to an end.
For no other reason, Annuo is now in decline.
The consumption of magic power can no longer keep up with Annuo's release of magic power.
Under normal circumstances, it won't be particularly difficult to fight even if you lack magic power. If you manage your magic power a little, normal opponents will have no problem.
But the problem is that Xiang An is not a normal opponent - moreover, his magic power is too small to withstand management.
And Xiang An will definitely not be short of magic power, after all, his master is a poppy.
"Okay - I'm giving up. Let's just stop here today. How about we go out and have a look?"
Xiang An gasped and stopped, indicating that he would stop fighting.
Even Annuo, who lacks magic power, is still a tough nut, and it would be quite difficult to break it down...
What's more, Xiang An is now more interested in what's happening outside.
"......good."
An Nuo was stunned and nodded.
He didn't care whether this was Xiang An's pity, but at least... he really couldn't fight anymore.
It is indeed a good thing to stop now.
And Shirou's side...
Of course, Anno was not worried that Akuko would kill Shirou. The fairy still had some compassion. He was worried about other issues.
In other words - what he wanted to see was something else.
...
"I cannot objectively state that period of history, I can only say this."
Poppy seems to have told many stories.
"After my uncle died, I left the banks of the Yellow River and started my life again like a wandering ghost - until now."