The black mud poured down like a waterfall, and poured it into the magic isolation zone reserved by Caster in advance. From a distance, it looked like a square concrete column that was quickly formed, except that the outer shape was not wooden boards but Because the magic wall is invisible, a person is sealed inside the cylinder.
"Melu!"
Hearing that the maid said she was making a wish, almost everyone took a step forward and subconsciously tried to get them out, but the magic barrier outside the cylinder did not allow anyone to interfere. Ilya and the King of Heroes who rushed to the front were directly bounced off by the barrier and retreated to the side.
"Caster, quickly remove the barrier!" Ilya, who didn't care about being thrown into her father's arms in embarrassment, shouted directly at the witch.
This sentence also attracted Gilgamesh's staring gaze for Medea, as if she dared to execute her directly if she didn't follow through.
However, the witch just shook her head: "I can't do it." She raised her hand, "My Master has already used the command spell on me before summoning the Lesser Holy Grail to make a wish, and my task is to stop anyone who would interfere with her access to the Holy Grail. "
Just like Kotomine Kirei used the command spell to order Lancer to commit suicide before, this is no longer a matter for the heroic spirit to decide. Medea will definitely not be polite to anyone who dares to make trouble now.
"Very good." The Hero King's icy voice sounded at this moment, and the golden curtain of the King's Treasure had been hung behind him, "Then you can die for this king now."
"Hehehehe." The witch smiled lowly, "Then you must ensure that you can do it before the Holy Grail fulfills the Master's wish."
The magic power of the Great Holy Grail is buried in the underground of Liudong Temple. Caster's formation here is equivalent to an endless source of energy. Relying on endless magic methods, she has plenty of ways to deal with the King of Heroes.
"Then add me?" Illya looked over with a cold face, and the huge figure of Berserker stood quietly behind her. Not only that, there was also a circle of bird-shaped familiars floating around her.
"Don't be infighting, you guys!" Lancer couldn't help but said, "Although I joined you not long ago, I can see that Miss Meilu is not such a reckless person, please don't be so excited?"
Emiya and his son frowned, Shirou boy glanced at his father, saw that he hadn't moved for a long time, gritted his teeth and stood beside Illya: "Sorry Caster, I can't just sit and watch Mel in danger. Saber, use The holy sword cut off the barrier."
As soon as he gave the order, Archer, who had been standing beside Rin Tosaka, who had been motionless, came to the front of the black mud column in a flash: "I trust Miss Meilu's judgment, before the matter is clear, you are not allowed to do anything." People do damage."
This sudden infighting scene surprised Kotomine Kirei, who originally just wanted to see how the other party purified the Holy Grail, and he was unexpectedly happy when the united partners disagreed and prepared to confront each other with swords.
Just when a group of people were at a stalemate, the black mud continuously poured inside the square column suddenly stirred continuously. They gradually became thinner from the original materialized muddy water, and finally turned into black energy smoke, and then continuously moved towards the column. The central human body drills away.
Ka... Ka...!
The little holy grail above his head uttered an overwhelmed scream, which stunned everyone who was still fighting among themselves.
"Kaka?" Tohsaka Rin stared up at the top of his head dumbfounded, "Did I hear wrong? Is the Holy Grail going to break?"
"How is it possible?" Even Gilgamesh couldn't help showing a look of shock, "It's just a wish to restore memory, can't the energy that can be used to destroy the world not be satisfied?"
Even though the energy was about to run out, the Holy Grail was still working dutifully. A large amount of polluted magic power was poured out of the cup and absorbed by the maid standing quietly underneath, constantly impacting those hidden memory shackles.
However, for Melu, the effect is not good.
There are only a few memory scenes that the Holy Grail tried its best to open for her, but fortunately, they are all very important and important impressions.
"Are you awake? Your name is Mel, and I will use it from now on."
She remembered that she was not a human being at the beginning, but was born in a laboratory. She herself was just a biochemical doll that resembled a human girl. name.
She is Mei Lu, the biochemical doll Mei Lu.
Her master is a talented scientific researcher who belongs to a black order. The master needs a flexible and obedient assistant who will never betray, so she was created.
The owner is a human being with a bone age of only 16 years old, but she is very smart. All the knowledge and programs in her memory bank are programmed by her, allowing her to understand 5651 languages from the moment she opened her eyes, 224 Geographical customs of a country, as well as 50,732 kinds of dietary practices, 8.7 million species of names, appearances, living habits, and their uses...
That was her God, her Creator, all she would give in pieces.
The owner's name, the owner is...
The memory stops abruptly.
"I'm sorry, Merlu, your master... unfortunately died in battle to protect his companions."
In the solemn and solemn hall, the man who bowed his head and apologized to her was the supreme commander of the Black Order, but it was this man who sent her master on a business trip, causing her to die tragically outside.
Her god has fallen.
How can such a thing be possible
The master must be alive.
later…
What happened next
In the fragmented memory, she discovered that the master's body that she cared for carefully was stolen by the people of the Black Order, and then she ran away directly, and was directly destroyed by someone with tears in her eyes.
This was not the end, because after an unknown amount of time, she woke up again.
And saw the living master again, the appearance of the master is still the same, but Meilu knows that she is no longer just a weak human being, her life level has completely exceeded the imagination of the world.
"Why every time I see you, you always look like you are ruined because of me..."
Her gentle and kind master who was willing to sacrifice his life for others said so, endowing her with real body and life, and also gave her the qualification to be immortal.
She will always serve the master, no matter what it is, as long as the master needs it, she will offer it with both hands.
Merle thought so, and spent her endless life doing so.
Obviously the master was very happy at first.
But why, after that, he became more and more unhappy, and always looked at her with sad eyes
Did she do something wrong
The memory was disconnected here, until the last fragmented picture appeared, it was the master who collapsed and pushed her shoulder with tears in his eyes.
"I didn't pull you back from reincarnation to let you be my cow and horse again! Now you have flesh and blood, and you are a living person, do you understand!"
She doesn't understand.
The self in the memory also showed a puzzled expression. She saw the master holding the trembling hands on her shoulders, and wanted to comfort her, but heard the master whispering in a crying voice.
"It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be like this... Am I doing something wrong? Is it really me who caused you to become like this? What should I do to make you realize that you are no longer a puppet but a living person? people… "
Owner.
Master don't cry.
She wanted to wipe away her tears for her master, but she found that she lost control of her body, her eyes began to blur, her body also felt weightless, and before she completely lost consciousness, she heard her master's voice.
"Forget about me, forget everything and start over. Remember that you are a human being, and that you are Melu is enough, nothing else is important, nothing is important..."
How could it be unimportant.
She is Mel.
She has a master.
Only these she does not want to forget.
After browsing through all the memory fragments, Mei Lu opened her eyes, and in front of her eyes was the empty Liudong Temple, with the little Holy Grail on top of her head that was about to burn out, surrounded by people looking at her in shock.
"Melu!" Illya was about to pounce over with her legs, but was hugged and dragged back by Emiya Kiritsugu, "What are you doing, Kiritsugu, let me go! Meru!" She screamed loudly, but her hands Reached out to her stubbornly.
Seeing this, the maid smiled slightly: "Miss, what you did is right. It's best for everyone not to approach me now."
The Holy Grail, polluted by all the evils of this world, has drained itself dry in order to fulfill Merle's wish. Not only the magic power of the Great Holy Grail but also the "evils of this world" itself have been consumed for this. Now they are all absorbed into the maid's body. inside the body.
In other words, the current maid is the source of all evil in mobile, carrying the malice of an entire world.
This kind of existence is tens of thousands of times more terrifying than any vicious curse, and it can no longer be described as a deadly poison.
Archer on the side was holding a bow in his hand and was staring at Gilgamesh who was about to rush over. The expression of the King of Heroes at this time was already grim and distorted to show that it was not enough.
"Thank you, Lord Archer, it was a great help to stop His Highness from being reckless." The maid thanked Ying Ling.
Gilgamesh, who had been unable to find an outlet to vent his anger, suddenly became angry: "What stupid things are you talking about! There is a limit to being stupid. It is a miracle that you can still maintain your sanity in this way! If you look like this, Ben How much precious treasure does the king have to pay to pretend to take it away!"
His words suddenly made the maid laugh: "Do you still want to take me away?"
"You are my king's thing! Don't even think about running away until I don't get tired of you!"
Gilgamesh's words made the smile on Merlu's face even stronger, but the maid ignored him, but looked up at the little Holy Grail above her head, which was about to run out of energy.
"The second goal is almost achieved." She said so, and stretched out her hand towards the Holy Grail above her head. The magic circle branded on the cup before glowed again, and energy was absorbed from the void again. The depleted holy grail once again flowed out magic power, but this time everyone saw that its color was no longer black mud, but transparent colorless power.
"The Holy Grail... has been purified." Saber murmured subconsciously.
A wish, exhausting the source of magic power and not enough to include the evil of this world, but also failed to succeed, but thanks to this, the Holy Grail is now clean, and it can be used normally only when it is full of magic power next time .
However, this is not the end.
There was more and more colorless power flowing in the Holy Grail, but they didn't fall directly, but condensed into a ball in mid-air, and finally slowly turned into a human silhouette. As time went by, this human figure became more and more clear at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally, it turned into a beautiful woman with silver hair and red pupils in a long white dress.
"Ellie!" "Mom!"
Emiya Kiritsugu and Illya were the first to call out.
It was Irisviel who became the Holy Grail in the last battle!
"Kiritsugu, Illya!" The confused woman who heard the cry of her relatives waited until she finished shouting happily before realizing that she was in the sky, "Wow!"
When he was about to fall miserably, it was the giant Berserker who stepped forward and raised his palm, and easily picked up the woman in the air, and the family of three was reunited again.
"Mom, mom...!" Lost for more than ten years, once regained, Yi Liya hugged her mother tightly and cried, daring not to let go.
Suddenly, she raised her head abruptly as if realizing something, and looked in the direction of the maid with a teary face. In the endless black air, there is the maid's peaceful smile as always.
"As long as it is your wish, no matter what it is, I will make it come true for you."
With just this sentence, Ilya burst into tears, and she also remembered that when she suddenly lost her parents and was tortured by endless nightmares, it was the maid who kept hugging her and comforting her.
— "Don't be afraid, Missy, everything will be fine."
She did it!
For this reason, he became like this.
"But, if it has to become like this... If someone has to pay the price..." Ilya looked at the maid and felt her heart hurt so hard that she was suffocated, her face was already wet with tears, "I would rather be Myself... It's enough... If I knew this was the end, I would rather you be well, and I would rather you be selfish... "
She owed Melu too much.
The girl stretched out her hand and walked towards the maid step by step. However, before halfway there, he was stunned by a hand knife and brought back.
"Sorry Mel, I can't let Illya get close to you." Emiya Kiritsugu looked at her apologetically after finishing all this.
The maid didn't care, and even nodded with a smile: "You did the right thing, and it's good for the eldest lady."
"What... are you going to do now?" He looked at the maid who had become "all the evils in this world", and frowned, "If you can even get Ellie out of the Holy Grail, this ending should have been expected a long time ago Here you go."
His words made everyone on the scene look at them. Whether it was the identity of the maid companion or her current state, everyone was caught in a dilemma.
But the maid obviously didn't have such troubles, she nodded directly: "Yes, sir, I naturally deal with the plan. It's just..." She looked at Ilya who was in a coma, "Say goodbye to the eldest lady for me, I can no longer stay in this world, and I can no longer stay by her side."
This sentence made many people think "she is going to commit suicide", but Gilgamesh was the only one with a furious face: "You want to leave this king again!? Merlu, how dare you not keep your promise!"
"It's nothing, how dare I disobey His Highness's will." Even though she was surrounded by black air, the maid's face showed no trace of pollution, she was still clear and beautiful, but this kind of purity was not so much muddy under the endless malice Not to be polluted, it would be better to say that there is no way to pollute at all, "It's just that I can't stay by your side anymore. I have to find my real master."
"Oh, do you remember who your master is?" Irisviel, who had been inside the Holy Grail before, covered her lips with her hands, "But the Holy Grail doesn't seem to fully fulfill your wish, just those few memory fragments are enough Even if you find it, that existence has already abandoned you, would it be willing to accept you again?"
When the Holy Grail restored Merlu's memory, Irisviel, who was also a part of the Holy Grail, also shared those images.
The maid just smiled at this: "Although I haven't fully recovered, part of it is enough. Besides, if I don't go to the master, how can I know if I will be accepted again?"
Just a few words, but enough to surprise others. Some people are willing to abandon a maid like Mei Lu, so what kind of existence can cultivate such a maid
"Master may not want me, but I cannot live without master."
A circular doorway suddenly appeared in the void, and the colorful scenery inside the door surprised everyone present.
"This, this is...?"
"The place of origin?"
Some heroic spirits guessed subconsciously, but Irisviel next to her shook her head: "No, it's the place of the root that is even more extensive. If I have to say it, it's probably the root of the root. Our world, another On the one hand, the Seat of Heroes, places that you know or don’t know, are all there. Like a star in the Milky Way, it’s just a small or even inconspicuous microcosm.”
Emiya Kiritsugu swallowed his saliva: "Meru... is it from there?"
"Probably." Alice tilted her head, "After all, her real master is the owner of this tunnel world in front of her."
Everyone gasped.
"Melu!" Gilgamesh didn't care about this, in his consciousness, all the treasures in this world belonged to him, including the maid in front of him. Seeing that she was about to walk into that passage, the King of Heroes couldn't bear it and rushed over.
Archer on the opposite side let go with an arrow, successfully blocking his way.
"You miscellaneous cultivator!!!" The King of Heroes almost ran away on the spot.
"I promised Miss Melu that no one would get in the way." Archer continued to point his bow at him, completely indifferent to Gilgamesh's fury.
At this time, the maid had already turned around and walked step by step into the corridor of time and space. Everyone was surprised to find that as she got closer and closer to the world inside the door, part of the black air overflowing from her body disappeared visible to the naked eye.
It was as if a burning torch was put into the river little by little. Although the kerosene burned vigorously, it was ultimately defeated by the cold water. The "all the evils of this world" that were attached to the maid's body and went deep into the marrow were gradually disappearing.
Not only that, the clothes on the maid's body were also changing, the black and white maid's outfit on her body quickly turned into a windbreaker, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand, Emiya Kiritsugu also remembered, this is The clothes she was wearing when he and Ilya first met Meru.
"The power of time..." he murmured, as a magician who uses time as a weapon, Emiya Kiritsugu is well aware of its horror and power, "The world inside the gate reverses everything that happened to Melu in this world Backtracking, she has returned to the way she was before she came to this world."
As he said, the maid who was already "inside the door" at this time not only did not have the curse, but also did not have any traces left in this world—except for the experiences and memories in her mind.
"Sir, Madam, and Your Highness, let's meet again." She bowed to everyone in the venue, and while slowly straightening up, the "door" was also closing.
"Wait!" When the door was about to close, it was Gilgamesh who forcibly broke through Archer's blockade and rushed in. However, just as he was about to put his hand into the "door", a huge blast came from the passage. The rebound directly bounced him out.
"It's useless." Alice shook her head, "If such a place is so easy to get in and out, the Yusanjia wouldn't have worked so hard to customize a holy grail battle. We can only barely dig out the 'hole'. I haven't touched the land anywhere, let alone go to Meilu's world."
At this moment, the holy grail above the head dissipated, fulfilling the responsibility of realizing the wish, and at the same time, without the support of magic power, it naturally retired.
Its disappearance also means the end of the War of the Holy Grail. The heroic spirits summoned by the magic power of the Holy Grail relaxed a lot after seeing all this. After greeting each other friendly, they calmly dissipated and returned to the heroic spirits seat.
it's all over.
"Ari, Shirou, let's go home." Holding his unconscious daughter, Emiya Kiritsugu called his wife and son to leave, and called Tohsaka Rin next to him, "Rin, it's getting late, why don't you stay here today?" Sleep in our house."
"Oh... um." Rin Tosaka, who had been in a daze, quickly responded after returning to his senses, and walked to the Emiya family in three or two steps. When the group walked to the gate of Liudong Temple, the black-haired girl turned her head and looked at the shadow of the courtyard At a certain corner, he pursed his lips and turned back without saying anything.
Emiya Kiritsugu who noticed her movement also paused, but also said nothing, and continued to stride away.
It's not his turn to worry about the matter of the King of Heroes and Mei Lu.
From his wife's confession, he finally understood why Mei Lu was able to maintain her sanity under the erosion of the evils of this world, and she was no longer crazy.
How can a person without a heart become crazy
Probably the only thing driving her to move forward is the obsession to find her master.
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