Three-day moon in Wang Caili [Comprehensive]

This happened about 17 years ago.

The cause of the matter is actually very simple.

At that time, a certain magician who had just volunteered to contribute to the future of Britain picked up a strange knife by chance.

The knife somehow appeared in the magic workshop that he didn't bother to build halfway through, and when it first appeared, only the scabbard was intact.

The most important blade shattered to the ground, like gray gravel scattered on the ground, stepping on it would definitely hurt your feet.

"Strange, my clairvoyance didn't see such a thing happen."

Merlin rested his cheeks, pondered for a moment, and decided to pick up the shattered knife instead of waving his hands and sweeping out the place as garbage.

Mainly out of curiosity.

From the broken knife, he sensed some energy fluctuations that are impossible for ordinary weapons. This kind of fluctuation is different from treasures or artifacts, and he has never encountered it before.

So, driven by research and curiosity, Merlin tried many times, and finally put the broken knife back together.

With the blood of a fairy, Merlin, who is one of the top magicians in the world, can knead treasures with his bare hands, and repairing a knife should be easy.

But - it's a fight.

But he couldn't say that it was "fixed".

I don’t know what went wrong—maybe he repaired it wrongly. The broken blades were assembled again, and when they were put together, they found that the extra-long blade was connected to the scabbard. This blade can only be regarded as barely "alive". The source is completely restored.

The knife is alive.

The knife with obvious cracks on its surface flashed white light briefly, and the white light dispersed, and a white-haired child wearing a hat appeared in front of the magician.

It was obvious at a glance that this was a little boy.

He is so small in appearance and size, with round and big eyes, but he wears a strange armor on his shoulders, and carries a knife longer than himself.

Merlin: "..."

boy:"……"

The two of them stared at each other for a long time.

"I don't know why the sword that once existed in Aso Shrine appears here now..."

The white-haired little boy looked at the white-haired magician, there were only slight ripples in his light blue eyes, and his voice was as calm as if there were no waves: "My name is Hotaru."

"Excuse me, have you seen my friends?"

Merlin: "..."

"Can it become a human knife? Sorry, no."

……

Merlin picked up a knife called Yingwan. Although he didn't know what it was useful for, he thought about it and put it away.

In a sense, they can also be counted as "the same kind", because they are all a kind of goblin.

However, Hotaru, who doesn't even know how he got here, seems to be looking for a group of swordsmen as partners.

The main body is very imposing, but the short and small knife in human form is very quiet.

He had nowhere to go, so he followed the nightmare who had repaired him without saying a word, and he followed wherever the nightmare went.

As a matter of fact, Merlin and Hotaru actually have nothing in common.

They didn't understand the language, but because Merlin was a magician, he could solve communication problems relatively easily.

The more critical aspect is that Merlin has some interest in the "Sword Spirit", but the greater interest lies in something that is extremely important to him and the land under his feet.

He once made a prophecy that the next king of this country would save Britain and achieve unprecedented feats.

Merlin was busy at this time, creating the prophesied king.

That's right, it was fabrication - he personally brokered the union between King Uther and Duchess Iglein, allowing the Duchess to conceive the future king.In addition, he combined the dragon's gene with the unborn baby, so that after the child was born, he would become the son of the red dragon who guarded Britain.

During the preparation period, Merlin often ran to the Duchess.

Of course, the body shape is hidden.

Little Hotaru wanted to follow him, so she lay down outside the window of the castle by the way, staring fixedly at the room, where the Duchess' belly grew day by day.

One big and one small, two white-haired ones, are in front of the window sill.It's just that one is lying on the stomach, and the other is sitting obliquely.

"Little baby...is it a boy or a girl?"

Merlin heard the murmur coming from the sword boy. At this time, he was watching his hard work gradually grow, and he was in a good mood, but he never paid attention to Yingwan's thoughts in detail.

Even if he wanted to pay attention, he probably couldn't understand it at that time.

"The child in the Duchess' womb is a woman, but well, it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman."

"why?"

Hotaru asked him.

Merlin felt that the answers he gave were very simple and easy to understand, and since the listeners were "similar" who were also not human, it should be easier to understand.

"Because what Britain needs is 'King Arthur', regardless of gender. As long as 'Arthur' can be born, Britain's future will continue on the right track. That's it, isn't it enough?"

The truth is so simple... Or, it is not wrong to describe it as indifference.

Merlin's indifference is based on the fact that he is a different kind.

He is incompatible with human beings, and his "like" for human beings is more inclined to the appreciation of the whole group by the bystanders, and cannot fall on one individual alone.

So, all he needs is a—

Will be led by him to the throne, save the country, and finally, the "King Arthur" who died for the country.

"..."

"I don't understand. Is it a boy or a girl, what do you like, what do you hate, what do you want to do... These things are not very important to human beings?"

Merlin was a little surprised when Hotaru said that, but he didn't care.

The communication between him and Dao was quite rare. After this brief conversation, the short white-haired boy became even more taciturn.

However, unlike Merlin who gradually reduced the number of visits to the Duchess to observe, Hotaru still often quietly climbed up the castle window.

Soon, soon, as expected.

The girl who was destined to be King Arthur was born.

Merlin took the infant girl away from her mother and put her in foster care in the countryside as a protection.

Thinking of something, Merlin said to the seldom-spoken Hotaru, "If you want to stay with Arthur, go. You can just protect her instead of me."

Hotaru agreed.

The girl who is not named Arthur has a nice name, Artoria.

From just being born, to later, growing up to one year old, two years old... During these two years, Hotaru was always by the young girl's side.

Merlin still didn't pay much attention to them.Girls are still too young to be at least a little older before they can barely reach the age of education.

Maybe—well, it's because of his indifference, or his arrogance that he thinks the future is in his eyes.

Clairvoyance failed to see the "future" that was forcibly distorted by the sudden intrusion.

Just a little bit late.

It's just late, that's a crucial little time!

A mysterious creature that seemed to kill King Arthur and destroy history attacked the young Artoria when Merlin was unaware.

When Merlin arrived, what he saw was a mess.

And, the dying girl, and the broken knives scattered on the mess.

Come to think of it, Hotaru must have tried his best to protect Artoria.Merlin didn't fix him completely at all. Facing the ferocious enemy, he fought until his body was broken, but he still couldn't persist until the end, and he didn't leave any meaningless words for the late magician.

"..."

Arthur -

The girl who was destined to become King Arthur died peacefully without being treated by Merlin.

Merlin lost his "Arthur".

The bleak wind that came from nowhere seemed extraordinarily huge when it swept over.

The wind blew away the fragments of the knife, which were far more fragmented than before.

The magician stood still on the spot, his long hair trembling and swaying in the wind covered his eyes, and even blocked his expression under the color of pure white and little petals floating from his feet.

He seemed to hear the words from the wind that the "similar" who was not of the same kind had always wanted to convey to him.

——The sword that got the mission of protecting is finally broken to protect people.

From the beginning to the end, what Hotaru protects is not the "King Arthur" in Merlin's eyes.

Just this one, a girl named Artoria.