[Comprehensive] Selective hearing can not afford to hurt

"This has nothing to do with senior brother." As soon as Lan opened her mouth, she knew it was going to be bad.

But when she faced Kotomine Kirei, she would unconsciously enter a state of sarcasm, she was powerless to change, and could only work hard to restrain herself from showing hostility against her will.

Kotomine Kirei stared at her for a long while with unwavering eyes, and finally said only one sentence: "I won't tell the teacher about this."

Lanzhi was stunned, feeling annoyed at himself for speaking insincerely, and at the same time, feeling even more guilty and fond of Kotomine Kirei.

She nodded, turned and left, unable to even say a word of thanks.

But Kotomine Kirei behind her knew what she was thinking.

"Reliance is grateful to you, but every time he faces you, he puts on a cold face, and then shows a look of annoyance in his eyes... That brat's performance must have pleased you very well, Kirei."

A luxurious and arrogant voice sounded from his side, and immediately, a ball of golden dust condensed around him, forming a tall and wild figure.

"King of Heroes." Kotomine Kirei frowned, clearly showing his dissatisfaction with Gilgamesh, "Are you still unwilling to give up?"

"It's because you still refuse to face yourself completely, Kirei, you have clearly touched the door in your heart, why don't you push it open completely?"

"Whether it is true or not, after I ask Emiya Kiritsugu, I will have my own opinion."

"Really? I thought Konoe Yako's performance had given you a deep understanding."

"I just thought her performance was hilarious."

Is it interesting?

Gilgamesh chuckled.

That's right, for a person like Kotomine Kirei who takes other people's pain as a source of pleasure, there is a girl who doesn't know his true nature, trusts and appreciates him, but is troubled and annoyed because she can't express her affection for him correctly, he should be Quite pleasant, right?

Not only Konoe Ako, Tosaka Tokiomi, but also Kotomine Kirei's father Kotomine Risei, they don't know Kotomine Kirei's true nature, they are only immersed in trusting his false appearance, like someone who has been fooled clown.In the eyes of Kotomine Kirei, are they also a joke to please him?

Over there, Lan Zhi, who had already walked a long way, planned to go back to sleep, but when she passed by Tohsaka Tokiomi's room, she stopped involuntarily.

The lights in the room were on.

After standing outside the door for a few seconds, Lan Zhi lightly knocked on the door in front of her.

The gold-thread wooden door was quickly opened, but she was surprised instead.

There is no other reason, but because the image of the person standing in front of her is haggard, far from the elegant image in her impression.

"Teacher Tohsaka, you..."

All the unspoken words were stuck in his throat, Tohsaka Tokiomi, who looked exhausted, raised his index finger and gently pressed it to his lips, his movements were still as graceful and calm as ever.

"Come in, Yazi."

Lanzhi was silent, and entered the room according to Tosaka Tokiomi.Looking at Tohsaka Tokiomi who was sitting across from her without saying a word, thinking about something, she couldn't help guessing what made him look like this.

At this moment, Tohsaka Tokiomi's mood was no better than his complexion.

"Yazi, did you know," he poured a cup of steaming hot tea and put it in front of Lanzhi, "The Master can see part of the Servant's memory through the connection of the magic circuit."

...Peeping the memory of the heroic spirit through the dream?

Lan Zhi could not help but think of this sentence, and at the same time understood the reason why Tohsaka Tokiomi was out of order: "Teacher, have you... seen Archer's memory?"

Could it be that he discovered that Archer had other feelings for Saber?No, if it was just this, Tohsaka Tokiomi, who has always been calm, would not have lost his composure.

"Yes." Tohsaka Tokiomi didn't have the energy to think deeply about why an eight-year-old girl would know this, all his thoughts were immersed in the "nightmare" he had at midnight.

No, it's not a nightmare, but Archer—the memory of the heroic spirit Emiya (Emiya), a fact of real existence.

The Seat of Heroes is a place without the concept of a time axis. In the past, present, and future, the strong at every point in time may become the heroic spirits on the Seat of Heroes.

And the heroic spirit Emiya (Weimiya)—real name Emiya Shiro happens to be from the future, and was once a classmate of his daughter Tohsaka Rin, and also the adopted son of Emiya Kiritsugu.

Tohsaka Tokiomi didn't see much in the memory of the heroic spirit Emiya (Emiya), but everything was related to his daughter.

He saw his daughter Tohsaka Rin was seriously injured by Kotomine Kirei and almost died; he saw another daughter he sent to the Matou family was abused, tortured by the Matou family, and finally transformed into the Holy Grail, causing disaster to the world , was tearfully killed by Wei Gong, who was not a heroic spirit at the time.

Whenever he thinks of the scene in the dream, its delicacy and pain make Tohsaka Tokiomi's heart ache.

"Yazi... your Caster..."

"Caster is going to investigate the news, if you have any orders from the teacher, just speak up."

"Do you have any memory of seeing Caster?"

Lan Zhi shook his head.

"That's it..." Tohsaka Tokiomi sighed softly, thousands of words, and finally condensed into a command, "Stay away from your senior brother, Yazi."

Lan Zhi suddenly raised his head, and looked at Tohsaka Tokiomi in astonishment: "Teacher?!"

Her question was not answered, on the contrary, the next second, Tohsaka Tokiomi said something that shocked her even more:

"Ako, withdraw from the Holy Grail War."

"!!!"

"The Holy Grail War is very dangerous. It's the teacher's negligence and arrogance that caused you to fall into such a dangerous situation without knowing it." Tohsaka Tokiomi reached out his hand uncharacteristically and rubbed Lan Zhi's head, "Fortunately, it's not too late. Exit Go ahead, Ako, then leave Fuyuki City and go back to your father."

"Teacher..." Lan Zhi bit her lip, "What happened?"

Tohsaka Tokiomi is not a fool, Lan Zhi's reaction fell into his eyes, and he soon realized something: "Is Yako... unwilling to withdraw from the Holy Grail War?"

Lan Zhi hesitated for a long time, until she realized that the aura of her heroic spirit had returned to her side, she opened her eyebrows and looked up at Tosaka Tokiomi, firm and unyielding:

"Yes, I don't want to quit."

At the same time, in another suburban villa more than ten kilometers away, the Master of Heroic Spirit Zhiba Haiyan slowly opened his eyes.

The purple pupils, which are thicker than ink, are bottomless, rolling with a strong hostility.

He dreamed again, dreaming of himself in countless parallel time and space.

The so-called parallel time and space are countless possibilities of similar existence.For example, if the same person works hard, he may lead to a happy future; but if he gives up on himself, it will lead to another result, deriving another parallel world, becoming another same but different self.

Logically speaking, countless parallel time and space represent countless possibilities for a person. There may be intersections, but they are definitely not the same.

However, in countless dreams of parallel time and space, he witnessed the same result over and over again——

"Master, did you dream about your sister again?"

"..." The purple-haired boy raised his hand and pressed the sore brows.

Not only the Master can see the Servant's memory, the magic circuit has bidirectionality. If the Master's state is not stable enough, the Servant can also see some of the Master's memory. Of course, compared to the Master, what they can see is much more vague and limited.

However, no matter how vague and limited it is, it can't match the same bone-cutting picture repeated over and over again.

"I will find her, and I won't let the scene in my dream happen again."

The purple-eyed boy spoke in a low voice, not sure if he was confiding to the heroic spirit, or talking to himself.

Zhibo Haiyan was silent.

His Master has forgotten everything about himself, but is only obsessed with this one thing.

"In the dream, it seems that everyone calls me You." The purple-eyed boy got up and got out of bed, put on a thin shirt, "You can call me You from now on, don't call me Master."

"Eh? But I'm used to it, what should I do?" Haiyan showed an exaggerated expression, with a bright and warm smile on her face, which made no matter how indifferent and indifferent people can't help being assimilated and infected, "But I'm really not used to being called Master. Even though Yu is gross, she still feels much better than Master."

"...You should continue to call me Master."

"Eh? Yu, how could you do this? It's rare that I've been secretly happy for so long."

"If you are not satisfied, you can call me by my last name directly."

"Eh? Are you referring to the English engraved on your ring? Guli Simon... What a strange name, is Guli's last name or Simon's last name?"

"Call it whatever you want."

……

During the non-nutritive conversation, the two came to another room.

There was a person lying on the bed inside the room. Before the boy with purple pupils and Haiyan approached, a ball of golden dust condensed into the human form, preventing them from approaching.

"Thank you very much for your help to me and Master, but please allow me to be rude, I will not let you take a step closer to my Master, please forgive me."

Another Lancer, Diarmuid, watched the two men warily, with the guns in his hands tightly packed.

Originally, this upright knight would only be grateful for Haiyan who saved their master and servant, and would not react so violently, but since the boy with purple pupils secretly said something to his Master , his Master has been in a bad state, and it can even be said that he has lost his soul.

Even this knight who is not good at guessing his master's mind can feel the struggle and pain of his own Master.

Therefore, even knowing that it was the master-slave duo who were both Lancers who rescued him and his Master, Diarmuid still couldn't let go of his hostility towards the two in front of him.

The boy with purple pupils didn't care about Diarmuid's attitude, and stared coldly at the seriously injured man on the bed: "Kenneth, what's your answer?"

The person lying on the bed showed pain on his face, he closed his eyes with difficulty, and nodded heavily: "I agree."

The unknown situation did not prevent Diarmuid from being frightened and angry: "Master, but what did he threaten you with?"

Kenneth closed his eyes tightly, and quickly suppressed the humiliation on his face.

"I bind it in the name of the Command Seal, Diarmuid Odina, raise your gun—"

Diarmuid's amber pupils trembled.

"—Kill me!"

The eyes of the upright knights were all tinged with fear.

"Master!!"

"Use the Command Seal again, Diarmuid Odina, kill me immediately!"

"Ahhh-"

In the roar of the two-gun knight unwilling to suffer, Zhibo Haiyan seemed to see herself who had experienced the same choice before, and her heart wrenched again with the death of his wife.

"Yu, why is this?! Aren't we and Kenneth allies of the same camp?"

"This Holy Grail War is a 'Battle of Classes'," the boy with purple pupils described calmly, but Haiyan, who had been with him for many years, easily found disgust and self-mockery in his voice, "The so-called 'classes' The battle' is not a battle of 'the same ranks form an alliance', but a plunder."

"plunder--"

"That is to say," the low and slow voice suddenly sank, tinged with a bit of coldness, "Only by letting the opponent who is also a Lancer kill our Master, can we get the complete Lancer class, the one who has the Holy Grail." Qualifications. Grabbing ranks, this is the true meaning of this Holy Grail War."

Haiyan's mood became more serious. He knew that his Master was not a man who played with people's hearts. If there was a better way, he would never choose to let the other party kill each other: "Does Lancer have to let Lancer kill his Master?"

"This is limited to the Holy Grail..." The purple-eyed boy's complexion remained unchanged, but the color in his eyes deepened a little. "The same is true for the Masters of other classes... And, they will get this instruction soon."

Letting Heroic Spirits of the same class kill their own Master... What kind of rule is this?

Will this limited holy grail come up, and can their wishes really come true?

Just like the duo here with their own preoccupations and thoughts, thousands of miles away, Tohsaka Tokiomi and Arashi were watching each other with complicated emotions.

"Forget it, since Yazi has his own ideas, let's do it according to your ideas. I just hope you can think about your father and be more cautious. As a teacher, I will try my best to protect you."

The sincerity in the plain words made Lan Zhi feel a little ashamed:

"Thank you teacher, please take good care of yourself too, Rin asked me to pay more attention to your health before leaving."

After leaving Tohsaka Tokiomi's room and returning to his residence, Arashi immediately summoned his heroic spirit.

"Well, what's the news?"

Seeing the heaviness and deep sorrow in the eyes of her own heroic spirit, Lan Zhi couldn't help but feel her heart tighten.

"That heroic spirit with the big back... what did it do?"

"That's Caster. He and his Master captured many children, locked them in the basement, and brutally killed them." Jack raised his deep eyes, as if he wanted to comfort her with a smile, but he could only outline a pale line. And the bitter arc, "This kind of evil deed that disregards human life...just like my best friend back then."