Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

20. No!

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【Matthew Kirilet】

In the 'Sub-Servant Project', which aims to create a permanent fighting force of heroic spirits that can be controlled by Chaldea, after accumulating countless failed experiences, it was finally created. The only one that can be called a finished product, A girl who is pure and innocent and can 'truly' contain the soul of a heroic spirit.

In other words, after successfully containing the soul fire of a heroic spirit, she is a real and living heroic spirit.

The heroic spirit Galahad currently resides in his body.

Shield girl.

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Matthew. Wiggins.

It should be said that in the fairy tale stage world of this nursery rhyme, her current name is Matthew Wiggins, right?

Thinking about it carefully, Lu Mingfei has indeed not seen Ma Xiu for quite some time.

I haven’t seen it since entering the Roman Singularity. When Lu Mingfei and Chaldea resumed communication, there should have been a chance to reunite. However, it was discovered that Fujimaru Ritsuka's consciousness seemed to have been captured, so Mashu carried out a tracking spirit transfer. .

After that, although Mashu's body was still in Chaldea, because his consciousness chased Fujimaru Ritsuka, communication with her side was never restored. Therefore, Lu Mingfei did not see her for a long time. It’s too late.

In particular, Lu Mingfei's journey to Rome was actually much longer than expected from the text description, because a considerable amount of time was spent on the sea journey.

Rather, most of the time is spent in the process of sailing, and very little time is actually spent dealing with various events.

Thinking about it this way, it was true that he hadn't seen Masu for a long time.

Incredibly, Lu Mingfei often thought about "What are Ma Xiu and the others doing over there" when he came here, but he rarely considered the safety of Ma Xiu and the others.

On the contrary, I occasionally worry about Sakura-chan.

It's not that Lu Mingfei didn't care about Mashu, but because Fujimaru Ritsuka left such a deep impression on him when he was in Fuyuki. This impression didn't even end when Ritsuka temporarily fell asleep and left the scene. Disappeared, but because the ability of 'personality simulation' was continuously strengthened deep in Lu Mingfei's heart.

Lu Mingfei even thought that if the contract with the little devil had not been compromised, it might be better to let Fujimaru Ritsuka take his place and become the savior of humanity.

Anyway.

Lu Mingfei thought about the time when he and Ma Xiu reunited, but at that time the girl should have Sakura Girl by her side.

Now they suddenly reunited, and only saw Masuo, not Fujimaru Ritsuka, which made Lu Mingfei a little uneasy for some reason.

Lu Mingfei knew Fujimaru Ritsuka very well. She was the kind of "just partner" who seemed to come out of the story when faced with the choice of "sacrifice herself to save others", she would choose to sacrifice herself without hesitation.

When Fuyuki was there, just for the possibility that she might be able to save Olga Marie, it was enough for her to risk her life.

She is not like Lu Mingfei, there is no little devil around her.

(Mashu seems to be fine, which is great, but what about Sakura-chan? How could they be separated? Wouldn’t that guy sacrifice himself again?)

Lu Mingfei's mind was a little confused.

For this sudden reunion.

However, after Matthew stared at the 'strange' girl in front of him in confusion, he suddenly noticed something. He walked up to Lu Mingfei, bent down, then squatted down, gently caressed Lu Mingfei's face with his hands, and looked at Lu Mingfei with his eyes. In contrast, the girl's eyes were so serious——

"Senior Brother Lu?"

This familiar Chinese language seems a bit strange because the pronunciation is too standard.

How on earth did you know it was me at a glance?

Instead, Matthew showed a "relieved" expression.

"Great, you're fine."

Matthew breathed a sigh of relief.

The girl's breath with a faint fragrance of gardenia hit the bridge of her nose, and a strange feeling came over her. Lu Mingfei felt his nose was itchy, and he couldn't hold it back and sneezed.

"Hello!"

Lu Mingfei inexplicably felt that Ma Xiu was a little out of place - it's not that Lu Mingfei felt that the Ma Xiu in front of him was not Ma Xiu, or that the Ma Xiu in front of him was someone else pretending to be someone else, it was just a very strange feeling. .

[Difficulty: 60]

[Lu Mingfei’s ‘inspiration’: 1D100=26]

However, this abstract feeling cannot be accurately described in words by Lu Mingfei, who has little knowledge in this area.

Lu Mingfei was caught in a dilemma for a while, but the strange thing about this dilemma was that Lu Mingfei couldn't even explain what he was struggling with.

At this time, Dr. Watson changed his clothes, pushed away the people in his room, and returned to the living room of Holmes Office.

"It's really strange. Sherlock, are you playing a prank? Why don't my clothes fit?"

"Oh, my dear Watson, why don't you take the time to buy some new clothes?"

"Yes, let's help the 'children' buy some clothes by the way. They are also growing up, so buy bigger clothes so they can wear them for a few more years."

Dr. Watson has a fairly routine conversation with Merlin, who claims to be in the role of Sherlock Holmes.

Watson - let's call her Alice.

Alice is now wearing a dress that is obviously much wider, but it still doesn't fit. Obviously this is the biggest piece of clothing in his wardrobe, right? While mumbling about buying new clothes, she walked to the cabinet on the other side, took out tea leaves, and started making tea.

Then.

"uh-huh."

Merlin faked a cough.

"I know that the two of you must really want to catch up with each other now, and there must be a lot to talk about between friends who have reunited after a long separation. But before that, before we start formal communication, I have something very important to confirm with you. .”

Merlin's eyes focused on Lu Mingfei.

"Did you come alone this time?"

Lu Mingfei, who was used to following the crowd, did not continue to ask Ma Xiu - if there was really a big problem with Sakura Girl, Ma Xiu would definitely be eager to tell her, right?

So, Lu Mingfei nodded and answered Merlin's question: "I came alone."

"You don't have any other companions?"

"I do have companions, but we did not go together, but separately. We are now students at a place called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Today we are out to buy study materials that may come in handy, and I am borrowing Here's an opportunity to see if Sherlock Holmes is here."

"Understood. Then, the most important question. Mr. Lu, please look me in the eyes and tell me, are there any women among your companions who are married or have had childbirth experience?"

Before Lu Mingfei could understand this weird question, Alice next to her apologized to Lu Mingfei first: "Sherlock is like this, always asking strange questions with an unsuspecting look, although I also I don’t quite understand, but he definitely doesn’t mean any harm, just think that you hired a lawyer with an eccentric personality and are consulting on the case.”

"Uh" Lu Mingfei thought seriously for a moment, then shook his head, "No."

"Very good, then, please tell me honestly, are there any 'bad guys' among the companions you are working with now?"

Lu Mingfei didn't understand Merlin's words very well.

Instead, I had a subtle understanding of the feeling of those who appeared in the "Sherlock Holmes" stories and were confused by Sherlock Holmes's weird questions.

In a sense, this feels like a famous detective, right?

Lu Mingfei tried to ask: "What do you mean by a 'bad person'? Do you mean someone who has done bad things, or do you mean the kind of bad person who is mentally evil? What is the approximate standard for a bad person?"

Merlin did not directly answer Lu Mingfei's question.

Instead, he led Lu Mingfei, moved Fufu's short legs, and jumped up and down to another table.

"Please look at this, Mr. Lu."

Lu Mingfei saw a map. There were several booklets scattered near the map. Each booklet recorded different contents and had different notes. There were a few random dice scattered on the map that looked like multi-sided dice. thing.

“Not all girls enjoy playing traditional house”

Merlin began to talk about unclear topics.

"Some children long for their parents' jobs, want to be doctors, detectives, or assistants to detectives. In order to satisfy their impulse to role-play and allow children to play together, I Designed this simple role-playing game"

"I designed the various cases I have experienced into 'scripts', allowing the children to freely choose what role to play in the script, and then through deduction, play a 'playing house game' similar to a war game. Even so, In the virtual world of role-playing, there will still be conflicts between children. In order to prevent conflicts from rising to reality, I came up with an idea."

Fufu rolled a few dice with her paws.

The numbers changed and finally stopped at a few numbers.

"It's probably like this. Let the children who have conflicts each roll a dice. The number of points each rolls is equal to the strength of the role they play in the confrontation. The one with the larger number of points is the winner. I call this game - —”

"Isn't this a running group?" Lu Mingfei suddenly muttered.

Merlin was stunned for a moment, and then he took up the topic after a moment's delay: "Running group. So is this called 'running group'?"

"My impression is that it's called a 'table role-playing game'?" Lu Mingfei said, not very sure.

Tabletop role-playing games are a game type that requires extremely high configuration requirements—at least for Lu Mingfei.

Because this kind of game cannot be played alone, it requires multiple friends who are willing to play together.

This configuration requirement is too high.

"It actually has a name. I thought it was my own original puzzle game, and I was planning to write a paper or something." Merlin muttered strange words.

It was Dr. Alice who coughed at this time: "Sherlock, at least when you are facing the children who come to ask for help, you are such a bad person who will fall into your own world due to divergent thinking while chatting. What’s wrong, please don’t expose it too much.”

Merlin came to his senses in embarrassment.

Lu Mingfei didn't care much about this level of distraction. He didn't know what kind of person Merlin was. It would be better to say that Merlin's "Sherlock Holmes" in front of him made Lu Mingfei feel that the degree of restoration was very high - Lu Ming Although Fei didn't know Holmes himself, in the various stories adapted from Sherlock Holmes that he had read, Holmes should have had this somewhat neurotic character.

"Back to the topic, Mr. Lu, please look at this dice. Based on this dice number, if you use this number as a reference for the 'degree of evil', the maximum is 100, the minimum is 1, and 50 is the mean. , among your companions, are there any with an evil level exceeding 70?"

".Not based on what she has done in the past, but based on her own personality?"

"yes."

Lu Mingfei felt that Modred could be ruled out.

Olga Marie also ruled out that Fran's dull character didn't seem to have evil thoughts.

Then Fran is also excluded.

In the end, only Lilim is left, right?

[In Lu Mingfei’s mind, Lilim’s ‘level of evil’——]

[1D100+25 (cunning personality)-25 (Lu Mingfei’s trust in Lilim) = 6]

"No."

Lu Mingfei said without hesitation with complete trust.

Merlin nodded, and then continued to ask: "So, are there any of your companions who are about to do bad things?"

"No!"

"It's fine if we don't. In that case, let's start efficient intelligence sharing without any worries."

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"Okay, let's go eat these guys!"

On the other side, in a remote alley somewhere in London, Lilim looked at the list in her hand and made something that sounded like a criminal statement.

Kikyo, who was hiding in spirit form, glanced at the contents of the list in Lilim's hand.

Those are names. To be specific, they are the names of the ‘writers’ who lived in London in 1888 that Lilim mentioned to Lu Mingfei before.

".Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Of course." Lilim replied decisively, "I am too weak, and my weakness, to put it bluntly, is that the amount of data I 'eat' is not enough, because it is troublesome to deal with other imps around me, so I deliberately found This opportunity to act alone—what do you think I’m here for?”

"Then why do you want to push Lu Mingfei away?" Kikyo asked back.

"Of course it's because someone still needs to contact Holmes. It's a simple reason."

Kikyo was silent again. She looked at Lilim who was seriously thinking about choosing a hunting target, and couldn't help but ask again:

"Will eating these people give you strength?"

"They are all people with the potential to become heroic spirits."

"But they are not heroic spirits now, they are just mortals living in this era. They may not have magic circuits, and they may not be pseudo-servants or phantoms."

"Are you still asking this kind of question? Don't let me underestimate you, miko Kikyo."

Lilim hummed:

"It doesn't matter if it's not. Wouldn't it be great if we caught him, turned her into the phantom of the 'writer', and then ate her? Or are you starting to give up now? Your false memory and false personality as a shrine maiden. Did it bring you weakness and kindness? Jack the Ripper."

"Are you sure Lu Mingfei knows what you plan to do and agrees?" Kikyo did not directly answer Lilim's mocking words.

"This is because you don't understand and underestimate that adult. She must have guessed what I planned to do from the beginning. I seriously asked him before if he would allow me to move freely, and he allowed it - you Understand? Platycodon, this is a kind of 'tacit consent'."

"."

Kikyo stopped talking.

Lilim's eyes were fixed on the list in her hand.

Scan the names of each writer.

So, which lucky person will be targeted by Lilim?

——to be continued!