Lost Narrative Poetry

The time came the next morning.

The rising sun woke up the sleeping city...the city that had never slept at all. The golden and soft morning light shone into the kitchen. The Master and the Knight were sitting opposite each other. There were two sets of tableware and steaming meals on the table.

"I've made a lot of progress...did I spend all night thinking about it last night?"

After taking a look at the sumptuous dishes on the table, Xia Ran hesitated for a moment.

He originally wanted to remind the knight girl to let her understand that eating too rich and greasy food early in the morning is not suitable, and it can be used as a main meal for lunch and dinner...

But after thinking for a moment, and looking at the faint hope and expectation in the emerald green eyes of the petite girl opposite him, he still opened his mouth to encourage him, and the idea of ​​correcting the other person was thrown away in an instant. The back of the head.

——This poor Knight King only pursues this point anyway, so it’s better not to dampen her ambition...

Besides, wouldn't it be the best development to have such a maid at home who is very interested in studying cooking? After all, it is he who will benefit in the end, and coupled with his physical problems, there is no risk that it will put too much burden on his stomach, so it is completely fine.

"No, no, I just, just read for a while before going to bed and summarized the shortcomings of last night..."

Saber's cheeks were slightly red and she said in a low voice. She was a little embarrassed to admit that she was really interested in this kind of thing, so much so that she spent most of her private time thinking about this kind of thing throughout the night.

This doesn't sound very nice. If it does, doesn't it make her look like a foodie?

"No wonder they all look like the dishes that appeared at last night's dinner..." Xia Ran glanced at it and nodded lightly. Instead of asking any more questions about that topic, he directly picked up the bowl in front of him and took it. Picked up chopsticks.

"Huh..." Saber felt relieved when she saw this. She really didn't want to discuss this kind of topic with Master——

There was no other reason. It was just that when she had her first meal in this world, Xia Ran stared at her for some unknown reason. This incident more or less left her with Some awkward strange feelings...

So much so that when she was sitting at the dining table and being watched by the other party while talking, she would think of the embarrassment she felt before, so she would subconsciously act a little reserved. To put it bluntly, she felt that she might have been really rude before.

But now this situational topic can easily remind her of her previous embarrassment, so she feels awkward because of it. She doesn't really want to talk about this topic, and she doesn't want to give the Master the impression that she is a foodie.

——Probably some characteristics that girls have in common, but what she doesn’t know is that the label in this regard has already been affixed to her in Xia Ran’s heart, and her current behavior cannot be reversed. of.

"By the way, I have to go to school today, Saber, what are you going to do? Well, I mean, what do you have in mind?"

Xia Ran is not a person who believes in "eating without talking and sleeping without talking". For him, it is completely normal to mention things while eating, so he asked very calmly.

"What do I think? Master, what are you referring to?" Saber frowned slightly, subconsciously put the chopsticks to her lips, and looked at him in surprise.

"In other words, what are you going to do?" Xia Ran explained calmly, "Whether you stay at home and look after the house and continue to study the recipes...or go to school with me, what do you think about this? I want to Listen to yourself.”

"I'm going with you, Master!"

Saber understood immediately and said seriously, her tone was very serious.

Although I have roughly understood the background of this world and know that this world is relatively peaceful, although there are still conflicts in some places, this is still normal——

After all, it is still the same sentence. Unless human beings are completely exterminated, there will never be true peace on this planet. Even the Holy Grail will naturally prepare to achieve its grand ambition of "world peace" by exterminating human beings. , one can imagine how contradictory this situation is.

But even so, this world is still generally peaceful after all, and there are not as many dark sides as the FATE world. Murderers, dead disciples, true ancestors, magicians, not only the human society on the surface is constantly in dispute, fighting you to the death. , secretly inhuman vampires and people with inhuman values ​​​​are also causing trouble...

It is said that the mysterious side of this world has now declined, and I don’t know how long it will take before the next cycle comes... Saber doesn’t quite understand these statements. As an ancient Briton, she does not have any "yin and yang". The understanding of "change" does not understand what "all spirits rise and fall, there is no permanent strength, no permanent weakness".

She only knows that the current world is indeed much more peaceful than the world she was born in, and with the ability of her Master, as long as she does not go to a mysterious final position in the world, such as Gensokyo or something like that place, then there is no problem at all.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Even if the bonus increase of skills and equipment is not calculated, just looking at the pure basic attributes, Xia Ran is already a monster in human skin.

If the 20 points of all attributes added by the obsidian pod are calculated, then his current basic attributes are: 65 points of strength, 70 points of agility, 70 points of constitution, 119 points of intelligence, 119 points of spirit, and 95 points of perception.

It's really a very cruel level, and this is just the basic attribute value.

Extremely comprehensive illusion ability...

Psychic powers that overlap with the realm of illusion...

Not to mention other summoning abilities, destructive spells, powerful melee abilities and other abilities, just these two trump cards are enough for him to run rampant in this modern society.

But knowing is one thing, but what you want to do is another. You can't just think that the master is almost unlikely to be in danger and can't use you, so as a servant you can fish in the water with peace of mind. Bar?

At least Arturia is absolutely unable to do such a thing. Just like the guards guarding the king in the palace, they may never encounter a situation that really requires them to take action. However, it does not mean that they are not needed. The presence.

"I know...then let's go together."

Xia Ran was not surprised by this. He actually asked the question out of courtesy, which fully showed that he respected the free will of the servant, but he already knew the answer.

"Huh?"

"Is it weird? You thought I would dissuade you?" Xia Ran raised her eyebrows and smiled, "I'm not that boring. It's not like I don't know that Saber you won't listen to my opinion. Why don't you just agree to it directly? "

"Master, it's not that I can't listen to other people's opinions, it's just that in these aspects, I have my own persistence and judgment..." The knight girl corrected him seriously and explained.

"Okay, okay, I know... Anyway, that's it." Xia Ran was not interested in having a debate with her in the morning.

"Well, Master, this won't cause you any trouble, right?" At this time, Saber was actually a little worried about him.

"If there is any trouble, although the school is not directly open, it is not as heavily guarded as a military base..." Xia Ran shook his head, "Normally, as long as you register, you can go in directly."

"Is this okay? There won't be any problem, right?"

"Of course there will be no problem...but you can find a place to stay in the school. It's definitely not possible to enter the classroom during school hours, and I won't let you stare at me in the corridor outside. , that would be too scary..."

Xia Ran put down her chopsticks and lowered her head to think about it.

There was no problem with taking Saber with him, but the fact that she couldn't transform into a spiritual body was very troublesome. Of course, it wasn't just because of the spiritual transformation problem. Mainly, he wasn't used to having a girl with a spirit behind him silently beside him. Keep staring at yourself.

However, it was okay to just bring her into the school and ignore it. Of course, it didn't mean that the school was dangerous or anything like that. It wasn't that dangerous in the ivory tower. He mainly found it troublesome.

Wait, actually, I don’t need to be so entangled. Didn’t Emiya Kiritsugu’s approach provide me with a good idea?

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…

"Xia Ran, good morning."

After a long absence, he rushed to school, returned to the classroom and sat down. He looked around with satisfaction at the slightly unfamiliar but familiar environment from the bottom of his heart. Xia Ran nodded gently.

But I just put my bag away and subconsciously glanced outside the corridor, and then I heard a voice from the back seat.

He paused for a moment, then turned around and found the girl in the back seat looking at him calmly, her fair and slender hands folded on the table, and a textbook spread out in front of her.

It seems to be a very ordinary scene. The person is ordinary and beautiful, and the behavior is ordinary student behavior. However -

Why did he just ignore her existence?

"Kato-kun, long time no see."

However, this phenomenon is normal. Megumi Kato has her own aura that blocks EX-level class skills. Isn't this a fact that has been established for a long time? So Xia Ran immediately became disapproving and greeted him with a smile.

"Long time... no see?" The girl tilted her head and said with a puzzled expression, "Although classmate Xia Ran, you did not come yesterday and didn't even take the exam, but it was only one day, so it can't be considered a long time. Miss you?"

"Not seeing you for one day is like three autumns..." Xia Ran said seriously, with a very sincere tone, "From my point of view, it feels like I haven't seen you, Kato, for a long time, so I miss you very much..."

Huh? Why does it feel like I said something similar to this a long time ago?

The illusion must be an illusion, it must be the sense of déjà vu caused by the confusion of time and space. I am always deeply troubled by it. I always subconsciously feel that I have experienced the same scene or conversation...

Xia Ran quickly found a reasonable scientific explanation. He was a person who believed in science, so he nodded secretly in his heart.

"Thank you, but I always feel that this statement is too perfunctory and doesn't seem sincere."

The ordinary girl who lacked characteristics nodded gently and said quietly with the same calm expression as usual, looking calm.