I'm Shenji, what are you doing?

"Master, you—seem to be very familiar with me?"

Arturia's question caused waves in Shenji's heart, and the name of the waves was memories.

familiar? Of course I am familiar with it, how could I not be familiar with it?

In my previous life, you were the second most familiar two-dimensional character to me, more familiar than Master Scathach.

I remember your surprise when you first appeared on the stage, and I was also worried about your injury.

When you leave, although I am reluctant to leave, I still hope that you can find peace.

I remember all your settings, each of your plots, and your various avatars and job backgrounds.

I can proudly say that among millions of chefs, only a handful are better than me.

Even now that I have traveled to the Xingyue world and come into contact with various characters in person, you can still be ranked in the top ten among the characters I am familiar with.

Without you, I wouldn't be a real moon chef.

Once upon a time, I longed to see you, whether it was to be your enemy or to become your master.

But now, the person I least want to see is you, because no matter what kind of job you come here, as long as you are a servant, it means that you have not overcome your sorrow and found peace as I hoped.

Your appearance proves that my efforts in the Fourth Holy Grail War have failed.

Young girl who gave up her human body and carried Britain on her weak shoulders, is your time still stuck on the hill of the sword fence? Are you still traveling through various worlds and eras, pursuing the Holy Grail?

Or maybe, after the Holy Grail War that you and I both participated in, you were still confused and hesitant in your heart, and did not cut off the shackles of inhibition, and finally became a sad guardian?

Either way, this is not a good ending.

His eyes are changing and his expression is complicated.

At this moment, Shinji is not an ambitious assassin who is ready to kill everyone; nor is he a cautious and strategizing Master. Now, he is just a chef for a month, a chef for the king. He hopes that this woman who has dedicated her life to her country and her subjects can have a peaceful ending - even though this she may not be that her.

"Master?"

Although the person who was stared at by Shinji was no longer a girl, she still couldn't figure out why her master looked at her like this. It seemed to be nostalgia, it seemed to be regret, and there was more she didn't understand. s things.

"What's wrong?"

Artoria's slightly dazed voice woke up Shinji from his own world. He sighed: "Nothing - Miss Lingxia, take little Jack out to play for a while. I have something to say to Artoria." .”

"Jack, come with mom. Mom will play hide and seek with you."

Lingxia, the sixth director who was drifting in the dust, knew how to watch people's words and move forward and retreat. She took Jack's hand and walked out of the room.

"Hide and seek?" innocent little Jack asked, tilting his head.

"It's a very fun game. Can mom teach you how to play it?"

"Okay, okay, I like my mother best."

Jack hugged the sixth director Lingxia's arm and smiled happily.

Children's happiness is sometimes so simple, but it is a pity that these children who make up Little Jack have not enjoyed it, not even for a single day.

After the sixth director Lingxia left with little Jack and intimately closed the door, Shenji slowly spoke.

"Arturia, I have some questions to ask you, please answer me."

"Is the answer to the question important to you?"

"It's important, very important."

"I understand, and I will answer truthfully."

Although she was a little concerned about her master's strange behavior, Artoria still nodded. Her intuition told her that he would not harm her.

"Have you been to a place called Fuyuki and participated in a Holy Grail War?"

As a Servant, Artoria is the most complex being in Xingyue. The saying that "a person's various spirits can fight a Holy Grail War" is by no means false.

Counting various characters from the main story and games, there are eight people named Arturia. Excluding the two funny characters, six people are left, and these six people originate from three different possibilities of Arturia. Among them, Artoria, who appears in silver-white armor and has a job as a lancer, is commonly known as the gun idiot, and the sword-level Arturia whom she once encountered, and is commonly known as the sword idiot, should be the same person in different worlds, or in other words Different possibilities derived from the same person.

Although they are the same person, their experiences and choices are very different. Jian Dai chose the sword as his main weapon between a gun and a sword. Both the Sword in the Stone and the Sword of Vow to Victory have the ability to solidify the body, so Jian Dai will look like a girl until death. Gundai is different. She uses the holy spear as her main weapon. The holy spear has no effect of solidifying her body, so she becomes the royal sister that Shinji sees now.

Although Jiandai and Gundai are both named Artoria, they are actually independent and different individuals. Theoretically, it is impossible for Gunzai to have participated in that Holy Grail War. However, there is still a trace of luck in Shen Er's heart. He and Gun Dai have neither fate nor cause and effect, and it is nonsense to talk about compatibility. The only one with a predestined relationship is Jian Dai. Jian Dai also had a holy spear before he was alive, but he only used it sparingly. It is not impossible to appear as a spear leveler. As for the appearance, summoning a servant is full of infinite possibilities, and any accident may cause changes in the spiritual base of the spiritual weapon - not to mention, it is an accident for Shinji to summon a servant as a servant.

Arturia answered without any hesitation: "I have been."

"What job agency?"

"Saber."

Shen Er beamed with joy. His guess was indeed correct. This was the familiar Dumao he was familiar with, but with a different appearance.

The relationship between this world and the world where Shinji is located is a lotus. The two worlds will be classified into the same world line before the Third Holy Grail War. On that world line, there is a sword fence where Artoria is stationed. The inhibitory force sets a special time point for the contract.

Because Arturia is still alive while stationed at the sword fence, she remembers the experience of being summoned every time, and does not lose the memory of past summons like a heroic spirit summoned as a servant.

"Who was the winner of that Holy Grail War?"

"Judging from the result, it's me, even though I should have lost the last battle." For the King of Knights, victory is victory, and failure is failure. No matter how he appears in this world, this nobility will not change.

"What happens after that? You go down, no, has your wish come true?" In the end, Shenji did not directly ask the question he was most concerned about, but changed his approach.

"It didn't come true because the Holy Grail was contaminated and no longer had the function of a wishing machine, so I destroyed it." When he said this, Arturia's expression was calm, without any regret.

"Then what -? You continued to search for other Holy Grails, so you responded to my call?" The trembling tone at the end showed that Shenji's mood was far from as calm as he appeared.

"No." Arturia shook his head, "Maybe Master, you won't believe it, but I have no pursuit of the Holy Grail. There are other reasons for the corresponding summons this time."

"other reasons."

Shen Er's heart "thumped". If she no longer pursues the Holy Grail, she will not stop at the sword fence. If she is summoned accordingly, it means that she has not gone to the ideal land to sleep. Then there is only one answer——

"You made a contract with Inhibition?"

"Eh? Master, do you know?"

There was obvious surprise on Arturia's face. Whether she was in the posture of a girl or a royal sister, her curious expression was as cute as ever.

"Know something."

"That's great. I was just thinking about what to tell you, Master—"

Arturia couldn't speak anymore because she saw the look in Shinji's eyes, which was a mixture of unwillingness and distress.

"——Master, why are you looking at me like that."

Shinji didn't answer, but just asked: "It's very hard, right? Being the guardian of the restraint force, the scavenger of Alaya, killing constantly in order to protect the survival of mankind."

"Master, you are mistaken. I am not Alaya's guardian."

Arturia's reflexive answer made Shinji frown.

"Isn't it Alaya? Is it Gaia who is the will of the planet? Well, that's right. You hold the holy sword forged by the planet and the Star Spear that fixes the surface. It's normal for you to work for Gaia."

According to the records in the supplementary chapter "Garden of Avalon" to "Fate stay night", it is correct that the person who made the contract with Arturia should be Alaya, the collective of human unconsciousness. But it's hard to say, after all, Artoria has a deep connection with the two inhibitory forces, and it's normal to work for anyone.

"No, Master, you are going in the wrong direction. It is indeed Alaya who made the contract with me, but not the guardian."

"what is that?"

"It's an observer. This is the first time I've received a request from Alaya."

"Nani?" Suddenly, Shenji felt that something unexpected had happened.

PS: Guess who is first? The second master has already mentioned her existence.