"Hey, Mei Lu." Sitting in the bathroom, the girl with silver hair and red eyes looked up at the maid who was showering her, "Can you sleep with me tonight?"
Illya never thought that Merru would leave. If it weren't for the appearance of Gilgamesh, she had no doubt that the maid would stay with her until the end of her life.
"Okay Miss, I am very happy." The blond girl smiled and promised, as always, she was responsive.
Illya didn't feel very happy, she suddenly remembered that she was very used to the state of Meilu, no matter what request she made, Meilu would always fulfill it for her with a smile like this.
"Melu, are you tired?" The girl looked at her maid. At this time, they had already returned to the bedroom. Illya was sitting on the big soft bed. In front of her, Melu was applying body lotion to her legs. "Kiritsugu said that as long as people feel tired, do I make you feel tired?"
"No." Illya always responded with such a gentle smile, "As long as I'm by Missy's side, I won't feel tired." The maid who put on her nightgown had blond hair loosely draped over her shoulders, As gorgeous as the finest gold satin.
Looking at that blond hair, the little girl remembered the first time she and Meilu met, they had been together for more than ten years before she knew it, and her nose suddenly felt a little sour.
"Melu, I assure you, I will never become that arrogant man when I grow up." She was really a little scared, "You, don't leave me, okay?"
She didn't dare to ask why Meilu left that man five thousand years ago, but she was also afraid that she would end up the same as him. For some reason, Illya had a strong premonition that Meilu would leave her soon . As long as she thought about it, Illya felt like she was about to burst into tears.
This person is an existence more important than Kiritsugu, because when she was most helpless and in pain, she was the only one who stayed with her unswervingly, rain or shine.
If Meilu leaves, Illya dare not think about the future at all.
"Miss." At this moment, her hands were gently closed and held, and the blond maid half-kneeled in front of her and looked at her piously, "I am your servant, your wishes, ideals, hopes, No matter what it is, Mel is willing to make it happen for you. So, please don't show such an expression, what I like most is your happy smiling face."
"Mei... Lu..." Ilya almost cried with her mouth flattened, the girl's soft voice carried a fragile cry, "I also hope you can be happy... but I don't know what to do to make you happy..." To not leave her...
"It's really embarrassing..." A gentle comforting voice sounded in my ears, "If you are so insecure, then I will make a request to you, how about you please satisfy me?"
Yi Liya's eyes lit up, and she nodded in response without even asking.
The night was as cold as water, and the silver-haired girl fell into a deep sleep with some uneasiness. The maid who had been softly coaxing her also stopped her gentle pat on the back. Quietly, then quietly walked out of the room.
"You have been guarding the door, do you have something to explain? Master Archer."
Facing the void in the corridor in front of the door, the maid asked softly. Soon, a white-haired young man in black and red clothes appeared on the spot leaning against the wall, and he looked at her with a complicated expression.
"It feels like I can't hide anything from you." Even the Heroic Spirit can be found hidden in the void, which adds a little more complexity to Archer's mystery of the maid.
The other party smiled slightly: "It seems that they are looking for me, so, in order not to disturb the rest of the eldest lady and others, can I change the place to talk?"
Of course, Archer didn't have any objections. The two parties chose a veranda away from the bedroom. The moonlight outside made it very quiet.
"Melu, you... know who I am, right?" Archer didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point.
"Are you saying that you are one of the future manifestations of Master Shirou?" The maid answered directly without any concealment.
"You really know." Archer frowned, "Then you should also know that I will appear here, not for the Holy Grail, but for other purposes, right?"
"But you have changed your mind now, haven't you?" The maid asked calmly, "Sir is still alive, he learned his lesson and changed his philosophy, which also affected Master Shilang's philosophy. They will not follow your old path again, I will live more easily than you in the future, and I don’t need to repeat such a tragic ending, isn’t it enough?”
A few words made Archer, that is, Emiya Shirou, who also holds the idea of "saving all mankind" and "becoming a partner of justice" in the future, speechless. Yes, he has changed in the past, and he has never appeared in the memory of an Archer. Under the silent influence of his maid, not only himself, but also Father Kiritsugu also changed.
His original intention of obliterating the past self to change the future no longer exists, but has completely become an irrelevant bystander.
"It's really helpful for you and Master Shiro to live in peace, otherwise it would have taken a lot of effort to adjust the conflict between you. Fortunately, the husband is alive, which saves a lot of trouble." The maid's words made Archer's mouth corner Twitching, except for Illya, she is actually showing face to everyone, "Tomorrow night's Holy Grail liberation, please take care of me, Lord Archer."
"Yes, yes. I see." Nodding tiredly, Archer glanced at the maid again, and it was a little funny to think about it, "I am his future, thank you for not telling others." Like this, as if nothing had happened, Quiet, it's really good.
"You're welcome, it's your private matter after all, and I'm not in the habit of disclosing other people's privacy at will." The maid replied, "Master Archer, you must know that a person's life has more than one ending. Sadness is just one of them." A sort of."
Sadness... just one of a kind
Archer was stunned for a moment, and after understanding her subtext that "there will always be an ending where he is very happy", he couldn't help but let out a gentle smile: "Ah, thank you for your good words."
What exactly is the Holy Grail
For the participants, most of them answered "a universal tool that can realize any wish".
However, for those who really understand it, it is actually not the case. There are too many dark scenes and secrets hidden here. One of them has the inside story that makes the heroic spirits want to turn their backs—
The souls of heroes who died in the Holy Grail War will not return directly to the Seat of Heroes, but will be detained in the Lesser Holy Grail and become the reserve energy for opening the Great Holy Grail.
After the Great Holy Grail is opened, it may have the function of wishing, but not all wishes can be fulfilled. Its greater role is actually to use a lot of magic power and the characteristics of the Heroic Spirits summoned from the Seat of Heroes. The "hole", through which magicians can trace the "root" and reach a brand new "other side".
Perhaps the original intentions of the people who made it were lofty, but when it was actually put into use, the inferiority of human beings still broke out, and it was imbued with too many unspeakable selfishness and ambitions. In the fifth Holy Grail War, this universal wishing machine has been completely polluted even though it has never been used once, and it has become a container for "all the evils in this world".
How ironic.
"Everyone in Liudong Temple has been hypnotized and sent to other places. This place has been completely cleared."
"The new position has already been established here, even if Kotomine Kirei and the others want to make trouble, relying on the huge magic power under Liudong Temple, they are not afraid that they will make waves."
"Everything is ready, what should we do next, Melu?"
In the evening of the next day, everyone was busy around Liudong Temple, where the magic source of the Great Holy Grail is located. The Holy Grail was polluted, which made the internal strife meaningless. Except for the group who are not interested in the Holy Grail, both the Master and the Heroic Spirits have some hope that the "Holy Grail can be repurified" and actively help.
Cough, this Holy Grail battle won't work, it's okay to grab it next time after it's repaired.
And Mei Lu, who has mastered this method and is the only one capable of using it, will inevitably become the center of everyone's attention.
Regarding this, the maid only smiled slightly. The moment she took out the Lesser Holy Grail, not to mention Lancer and the others, even Kotomine Kirei and Gilgamesh who came over afterward all raised their chins involuntarily, staring at on the gorgeous golden cup.
There was already a light layer of liquid inside the golden cup, which was Rider who died shortly after the Holy Grail War started. Because the Holy Grail was polluted, the soul energy displayed inside was also polluted black.
"Although I didn't intend to die at the beginning, but after seeing it, I don't want to die even more." Lancer, who knew that he would be absorbed after death, subconsciously complained.
The other heroic spirits didn't speak, but their behavior of taking a few steps back silently has fully expressed their mentality - who wants to mix with "all the evils of this world" and be assimilated by pollution.
"My lords, please don't worry." The maid holding the small Holy Grail comforted me at this moment, "At the opening ceremony of the Holy Grail for the first time, the soul of a hero was not used as a source of power, and the many rules that were added afterwards were just human's own ambitions. That's all. There are many other ways to fill the Lesser Holy Grail, after all, it just needs to activate the energy of the Great Holy Grail, and it doesn't have to use the soul of a hero, there are many alternatives."
As the maid's voice fell, an ancient small magic circle appeared in the void, and it was directly imprinted on the cup of the Little Holy Grail. In an instant, everything in the cup began to shake wildly, and even formed a small tornado.
A large amount of magic power, visible or invisible to the naked eye, was absorbed from the void, and the Lesser Holy Grail was quickly filled within a few breaths.
Everyone present was shocked by one hand. This is no longer magic, but the category of magic. Tohsaka Rin and the others couldn't help muttering in their hearts, "As expected of a monster who has been immortal for an unknown period of time, he is too big, and he can pretend too much." At this time, the little holy grail, which is full of energy, has automatically increased to ten At a height of 100 meters, black mud continuously overflowed from the mouth of its cup.
All the heroic spirits retreated subconsciously, and Caster even used the characteristics of the position to directly use magic to build a square earth wall to trap the falling black mud in place. They have been educated, but they know very well that if they get on it, they will be forced With the characteristics of "blackening", after all, not everyone can be as arrogant and narcissistic as the King of Heroes. Not only has he not been polluted, but he has also obtained a physical body from the Holy Grail.
"Wait, why is Melu still standing there?" The person who had been sullen and silent immediately opened his mouth, casting dissatisfaction and even anger at Ilya and the others, "What bullshit purification ceremony are you talking about? Let this king's Merlu accept the test of the Black Holy Grail here?"
"That's not true!" Ilya's face flushed red, "And Meilu is not yours! I promised Meilu..."
"I asked the eldest lady to give me the right to dispose of the Holy Grail, Your Highness." Standing under the little Holy Grail, the maid replied first, "I told you yesterday that I need the Holy Grail. Please don't go too far Worry."
The subtext was not to come over to make trouble, which made Gilgamesh pause for a moment and wanted to rush in regardless, not because he was afraid that this woman would be unhappy, but because he was afraid that she would run away without a word.
But just following her wishes, Gilgamesh felt very embarrassed again, so he could only snort coldly: "What are you going to use it for? Destroy the world?"
"Let's achieve two goals." Under the small holy grail, which has already overflowed with a lot of black mud, the maid's smile was almost hidden from sight. "The first one, I hope it can help me restore my memory..."
What! ? She actually made a wish with the Black Holy Grail!
"Are you crazy!?" It was too late when this sentence was asked, and the black mud had completely covered the maid's figure.
At the same time, the Holy Grail, which heard her wish, also began to work at full capacity.