The world is restarting

After breakfast.

Sawada Ya: "Papa papa... First of all, everyone welcomes Arthur's arrival, and welcomes Hiroki's return for a long time, spreading flowers~"

Alice waved her small hand very cooperatively, and a bouquet of flowers exploded in mid-air like fireworks, and a rain of flowers rustled down.

They found an empty room on the second floor of the church as a temporary meeting room. The whole church has been remodeled internally. I don’t know which design Hiroki used in the database. It is quite German classical revival and romantic style. The back The walls are lined with rows of bookshelves that reach to the ceiling, full of thick-ridged hardcover books add some literary atmosphere to the meeting room.

At this time, several children were sitting around the round table, sorting out the next situation.Of course, there was no round table in the church originally, this was specially added by Hongshu, as for why this was added...

After finally coming to the UK, and King Arthur is also here, of course I have to experience the feeling of a "round table meeting" of British attractions-by found a certain loli in "History of British Kings" on the bookshelf.

Eh?I have no objection - by the smiling Lord Arthur.

At the beginning of the meeting, Sawada Yakoroli spoke first, and everyone began to applaud in unison. King Arthur, who was welcomed, smiled and nodded, while Hiroki lowered his head embarrassedly, "Sorry, I made everyone worry."

Sawada Tsunayoshi hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Well, we should be the ones who are sorry, but you didn't notice Hiroki's mood..."

Having said that, he paused slightly, glanced at the other two people at the round table, and suddenly lay back weakly, feeling dejected, "No, I'm the only one who should be sorry, I'm the only one who didn't notice from the beginning to the end... "

"No, that, Brother Gangji, it was originally me..."

"Cough cough..."

Letting them apologize to each other will be endless. At this time, a person who is always focused, has a clear goal, and can get to the point in any environment can bring the atmosphere back to the track of the drama—for example, Edogawa Conan is doing it now.

The black-haired boy pressed a thick stack of documents heavily on the table, and the heavy parchment fell on the table and was drawn down a steep slope by the inertia, and even the stale smell of the paper was released in the air. .

Alice quickly made up for a partial rain of flower petals around Conan, and quickly suppressed the strange smell with the fragrance of the flowers.

Edogawa Conan: "..."

He reluctantly took off a pink and white petal from the top of his head, "Thank you, Alice."

The little girl who was praised happily nodded, "Yeah!"

"Okay, Tsunaji, get up first, now is not the time to be frustrated; Hiroki, sit down too, don't feel sorry, and start to solve the problem if it happens; Mi, where did you get the snacks?"

Sawada Lolita, who was caught stealing snacks during the meeting, took the black tea handed over by Alice next to her, swallowed the biscuit in her mouth, then raised her head and said obediently, "Alice gave it to me, do you want it from Conan? "

Conan Edogawa, the host of the meeting, nodded calmly, and quickly chose to join forces, "Give me a cup of black tea, thank you."

The two lolis began to distribute refreshments to the few people present, and Conan picked up the materials on the table from the secret room of the church and continued.

"Let's start with the Holy Grail War. Hiroki should have heard it from Alice, but let's explain it to Tsunayoshi and others."

The "others" outside the game silently took out their notebooks.

"The so-called Holy Grail War, in simple terms, is a battle where seven magicians lead their summoned heroes to fight for the ownership of the Holy Grail. Magicians can be understood as human beings with special abilities similar to onmyojis; heroic spirits are human beings. Heroes who have existed in history have made great achievements in history, and they have been pinned on by future generations to become objects of belief...Of course, if the characters in literary and artistic works are famous enough, their images will be classic for a hundred years or even visible to the naked eye. Human history has gone on for a long time, so it has become a heroic spirit that can be summoned; and because the notoriety has been passed down to later generations, it has left enough deep traces in human history, so it is also registered as a heroic spirit-there are exceptions. "

Having said that, Conan paused helplessly.

It would be better to say that basically all they encountered this time were "exceptions" - Jack the Ripper, Phantom of the Opera, and Alice standing on their side were the former; while the two heroic spirits summoned by the opposite enemy were It was the latter. In the end, the real Heroic Spirit who was a hero in the history of mankind was actually only His Royal Highness King Arthur.

It is a rare opportunity to meet the legendary heroes. Why did it develop like this?There are problems everywhere in this Holy Grail War, right? !

"...The summoned heroic spirits generally appear in seven classes: Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Caster, Assassin ) and Berserker. Classes are not allowed to be repeated. Of course, I saw in the church priest’s notes that there seemed to be some special classes other than these seven, but because they were very rare, they were kept accordingly There are very few records, and he only mentioned this sentence."

After finishing the long explanation about the Heroic Spirit, seeing that everyone present can basically understand it, Conan took a sip of black tea and continued, "The last is the Holy Grail."

"The Holy Grail, which is contested by seven magicians, is also known as the 'Universal Wishing Machine'. It is said that any wish of a person can be granted... Yes, this is the key point I want to say. This is the main line of this game. The Holy Grail War, capture the Holy Grail, and make a wish to the Holy Grail before we can leave this world."

"!"

Several people present looked up at him at the same time, not only the children in the game, but also everyone who was listening outside the game immediately held their breath and their expressions became serious.

It's not easy, the game has progressed so far, and they have finally found the main line-oh, no, Conan is not included, they found out the next day after entering the game, if it wasn't for testing the identities of Chu Xingxiushu and Jiang Shouhuang Staying with them, he found a chance to go out the next day, maybe he turned out the main mission on the day he entered the game ==

"So, do you understand?"

Conan rested his hands on the table, and glanced at everyone present with a calm but determined gaze. His clear blue eyes seemed to be as firm and cold as a glacier.

"We have to take part in this Holy Grail War, that's the only way we can get out of the game."

Sawada Ya, Hiroki, and Sawada Tsunayoshi looked at each other.

"It's fine."

"If there is anything I need to do, I will definitely help."

"It's great to be able to find a way. Although I vowed to take everyone out before, I feel more at ease now."

They didn't hesitate, didn't flinch, as if they didn't know how difficult the Holy Grail War was going to break out, and what kind of predicament they would encounter when facing the historical heroes who were about to appear as their enemies.Although the people sitting here are only children in terms of age, their identities, experiences, and situations, with these special add-ons, can no longer be called simply "children".

Courage and faith have long been there, and all that remains to be done is to face the unknown crisis with the most calm attitude, and then defeat it.

The heroic spirit who looked like a little girl supported the side of her face with one hand, and looked at the few people around her.

The master, who wanted to sacrifice himself to send his companions out of the game, refused to sacrifice his companions and resolutely chose a more difficult path for others.

Although it wasn't the first time she was summoned, she still couldn't read humans.

But she seems to have understood a little bit, the book said, the innate brilliance of human beings.

There is such a person who can emit light that can illuminate all the darkness she has seen, and even the abyss of human nature can bloom beautiful flowers.

She turned her gaze to Conan at the top. This person, too, has seen through all the fog from the very beginning. He is so smart that the enemy can follow his script unconsciously, but he has never thought about the simplest one, just sacrifice one A way for everyone to get out.

It is because there have always been such people in human history, so she really likes human beings, and she will always like them.

"Well, now that everyone is ready, let me explain the setting of this game."

Not noticing Ying Ling's gaze, Conan looked at the children below and curled his lips. There seemed to be warm sunlight shining in his blue eyes like lake water.

"Everyone should have discovered that although the Holy Grail War is the background, there are seven magicians selected by the Holy Grail, but in fact, the known masters of Jack the Ripper and the Phantom of the Opera are just ordinary people. In other words It is an NPC in the game. That is to say, this game is not a melee between seven masters, the real players participating in the confrontation are only us and the opponent, and the other heroic spirits and masters are just obstacles attached to the game itself."

The black-haired boy stood up, moved the chair, and tapped the air behind him with his fingers, "Hiroki, give me a blackboard."

As soon as the words were finished, a rectangular blackboard supported by a wooden frame appeared out of nowhere behind Conan, with chalk and erasers thoughtfully presented as gifts.

"Thank you," Conan picked up the chalk, stood on the chair, and began to list the information on the blackboard smoothly, "Now we know the summoned spirits:

Assassin——The real body is Jack the Ripper, the master is the first woman killed by her, and has left the stage.

Berserker——The real body is the Phantom of the Opera, the master is the owner of the opera house, and has left.

Saber——His Royal Highness King Arthur, the master is Mi, and the stand is on our side.

And then Alice? "

"I'm caster."

"Okay...Caster—Alice, the Master is Hiroki, and we are on our side."

"The rest, the person who replaced Jiang Shou and entered the game, temporarily called him Zashiki Doji according to his self-proclaimed name. His Heroic Spirit class should be Archer. As for his identity, I have a guess."

He wrote a name on the blackboard, "Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian countess in history, has a legend of taking a bath in the blood of a young girl to maintain her youth. The prototype of a vampire in many literary works—according to her appearance What I said at the time, I am [-]% sure of this guess.”

Everyone outside the game was desperately taking notes, and the members of the newly formed strategy team had already typed out Elizabeth Bathory's information on the screen.

"In real history, the Countess did many good deeds when she was young, but in her later years she murdered more than 80 young girls for some unknown reason."

"There are many legends about her, and most of them are mysterious: she is born cruel, likes to torture beautiful girls, and she is a lesbian; the famous BloodCountess in history was a real vampire during her lifetime; and the most legendary one--

When Elizabeth Bathory was young, she met a handsome gentleman who happened to pass by her castle. She fell in love with that gentleman at first sight, and tried her best to please him during the five days he lived in the castle. Before the gentleman left, she told Maybe one day he will come back to her, hoping she will be as beautiful as she is now.Later, for this agreement, Elizabeth began to kill young girls and use their blood to bathe to maintain her beauty, until she was burned to death in her own bathroom after the outbreak of the Great Revolution in her later years... There are rumors in later generations that passing by Elizabeth's castle and The handsome gentleman who lured her on this bloody road was actually Satan incarnate. "