Chapter 476 The Captured Heroic Spirit

"What's going on?! There was a gas explosion in the yard a few days ago. Why is there an explosion in the street next to it now?!"

This was the exclamation of Taiga Fujimura who came to have a meal after seeing the collapsed courtyard wall and the entire street being blown away.

On the other side, a fragile purple-haired girl was hiding behind Shirou Emiya nervously, looking at the street that looked like it had been hit by an aerial bomb with a fearful expression, and looking at us curiously from time to time. A few strangers.

A gas explosion... Speaking of Emiya-san, can't you think of another reason?

Landing pods crashed into Fuyuki City one after another. Even if invisible camouflage could be used to hide the trajectory of the landing pods in the air, the tragic traces left on the ground would be impossible to cover up. Tohsaka Rin did his best to use his skills in the dark world. Wei Neng turned everything into a more reasonable explosion case officially, which can be regarded as hiding the truth from ordinary people, but for Fujimura Taiga and Matou Sakura, two people who are very close to Emiya Shirou, it seems to be more troublesome.

Well, maybe the thick-lined Fujimura could still hide it, but Sakura was obviously a careful girl. Looking at the shape of the pit next to the remains of the courtyard wall and the obvious traces of something being removed at the bottom, she still spoke weakly: " That...senior...could a gas explosion really create such a big crater?"

Emiya Shirou had a bitter look on his face: "Sakura, just think of it as a gas explosion."

"Oh..." The weak purple-haired girl nodded and said nothing.

This girl is so sweet!

Due to some reasons, Fujimura and Sakura have not been to Emiya Residence in the past few days. The former has met us, but the latter appears in front of us for the first time this time, facing a group of people who call themselves "Emiya Shirou's adoptive father". "My friend's distant relative" is a stranger. This frail girl who seems a little shy seems to be very concerned about it, especially when more than half of us are women. But then again, Pandora and Huesca Do you need to be wary of a 1.2 meter little one?

I'm sorry, sisters, I accidentally touched your sore spot just now...

The continuous appearance of such distant relatives or old friends with suspicious identities has naturally caused a lot of trouble for Shirou Emiya. Just explaining our origins has already made the unlucky good man feel exhausted, especially in these uninvited people. Since most of the non-humans who came here were girls, Matou Sakura's expression of tears every time she looked at him and Sister Fujimura's scrutinizing gaze might be more terrifying to Emiya than Lingchi. But there is nothing we can do about these things, and in fact, if I and Ruizi hadn't appeared in advance as a foreshadowing, and the Pandora sisters had appeared as a buffer, when Saber was suddenly exposed in front of Fujimura, the impact on the latter would definitely have been greater. , from this point of view, it seems that a certain coyote should thank us.

After breakfast, the Emiya Residence, which had been bustling all morning, finally became quiet again, because the incident on campus broke out unexpectedly and was "resolved" in advance, and it seemed that Ruizi no longer had the need to stay in the school, so After irresponsibly asking the "relevant departments" of the empire to prepare a withdrawal procedure, the girl once again became a happy skipper of classes. When she watched Emiya Shirou and Matou Sakura go out, she smiled so brightly that the scenery was bright for ten miles away.

Now, there is finally no ordinary person left here.

After instructing Pandora and Viska to open a force field to cover the entire Emiya residence, Ruiko and I walked towards the dojo behind the courtyard.

The door of the dojo was open, and the wide space inside could be seen at a glance. There seemed to be nothing unusual, but this was just an illusion under the invisible force field. Leizi took out the command knife and waved it lightly in the air. Immediately, the surrounding space became clear. When it fluctuates, things that were originally hidden by the phase are exposed to us.

The first thing that catches the eye is a crystal platform with a radius of about five meters. It is in the shape of a standard octagon, with a small rhombus-shaped crystal column suspended at each vertex. These crystal columns emit a faint blue grating around. , forming a cage that seemed both real and illusory, and inside the cage, a woman with long purple hair that reached the ground faced us, slumped down on the crystal platform.

The heroic spirit we captured alive is a woman whose real name is Medusa.

According to Tohsaka Rin, since she is an enemy, of course she should be eliminated, and Saber also agrees with this, but Shirou Emiya obviously cannot agree with such behavior, and we also have reasons to keep her, so she should be sent away Rider who returned to the Hall of Valor was locked up like this.

Of course, the most important reason is that for the Holy Grail War, killing the Rider has no meaning now. The meaning of killing the heroic spirits in the Holy Grail War and leaving only one person in the end is to make the six "retired" heroic spirits magical. In order to provide fuel for the coming of the Holy Grail, the current Rider can no longer bear the responsibility of fuel. She has been eroded by psionic energy. Now even part of the body is still crystallized. Before these alienated energies are dispelled, Rider's death will only Causing the Holy Grail to suffer irreversible damage.

"She's recovering well and is mobile."

The blond girl who had been staying next to the crystal platform to take care of the "prisoners of war" immediately came over. Although she was very wary of us at the beginning, the fact that she was able to capture the enemy's servants alive this time should almost entirely be attributed to our help. , this has greatly increased Saber's goodwill towards us. Although she knows nothing about our power, she has almost regarded us as temporary allies.

"Hey, why don't you turn around? As a prisoner of war, your attitude is not very good now."

After a few seconds.

"Brother Director, you have been ignored." As always, Leizi revealed his little dark side in such subtle places.

"Okay! You're going to be cruel!" I pointed angrily at the purple-haired woman who still had her back turned to this side, ignoring what I was saying, and then I took a step forward, twisting my waist and exerting my strength, "In the worst case, I'll go around you!"

Saber, Leizi: "..."

"You are such a strange person." This time, even the purple-haired woman who had always been calm could not remain calm. She stood up with difficulty and turned to this side, with a subtle sense of laughter in her tone. , "At least tell me, what happened to my body? What's going on with this weird cage?"

The woman who turned around was tall and had a soft figure. This alone should be called beautiful, but her eyes were covered with a very strange purple eye patch. The eye patch that blocked most of her appearance made her look beautiful. The beauty was greatly compromised, which only added to the weirdness, but I knew that the pair of magic eyes hidden under the eyepatch was the truly dangerous thing, even more dangerous than the blood that enveloped the entire school at that time and almost killed thousands of teachers and students. The temple is still in danger, well, at least it was before she was corroded. As for now, those magic eyes should still be temporarily frozen.

"It's just been eroded by nether energy," I pointed to the tip of the other person's hair. The long hair that should have been a purple waterfall turned into blue-white crystals at the tip. Although these crystals have been greatly suppressed, they are still Still stubbornly occupying his own territory, "So, eating randomly will cause stomach upset."

"As for this cage used to imprison you, it is what you are really grateful for for surviving. If it were not for the transformation of the crystal matrix, you, who had been turned into a crystal state by the nether energy, would have been dead long ago."

"Really," the purple-haired woman nodded calmly, and then sat down again. With her current physical condition, it is very difficult to stay standing for a long time, "I don't remember any heroic spirits with abilities like yours, such as nether energy. This thing... seems to have never appeared in my memory, and as a member of the Holy Grail War, you would choose to capture me alive instead of killing me directly, which is really strange."

"Do you really want to die?"

I showed a surprised expression. The other party's words were too plain. When talking about my own life and death, it was even as indifferent as talking about the weather.

"It doesn't matter," the purple-haired woman's voice was neither sad nor happy, and there was no emotion at all. "I followed the call to participate in this war, and then quit because of the failure of the war. There is nothing to regret."

"That is to say, no matter what means we use, you are not going to tell who your master is?" I raised my eyebrows and asked in a raised tone.

The purple-haired woman expressed her attitude with silence. It was obvious that she didn't care about death, but she was unwilling to hurt the master who summoned her.

"We have confirmed that your master is in that school and is a student." I deliberately showed a vicious expression, "In other words, killing all those students can also achieve the goal."

As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly felt a burst of anger beside me. I turned my head with a slightly startled expression, and what I saw was Saber's magnificent green eyes, which contained no concealment of questioning.

"Don't get excited." The reaction of the King of Knights was not at all what I expected. However, it was his own negligence to say such misleading words without saying hello before. "I was just trying to scare her."

Saber's eyes were stunned, and then she showed a rare expression that didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Even after a few days of contact, it seemed that my refusal was still difficult for this serious and silly king to accept.

For a woman who can use the Blood Temple to cover the entire school and absorb the life force of human beings, such a threat does not seem to be a big deal. She does not care about the life and death of those students at all, but I know that she will definitely say something.

Sure enough, facing such a threat, the purple-haired woman waited silently at first, and then, as if she had gone through some serious ideological struggle, she slowly raised her head, but there was a bit of cruelty on her lips that was almost imperceptible. radian.

"It seems there is no point in hiding anything. His name is Matou Shinji, and he is the heir to the Matou family."

Sure enough, she still chose to use that guy as a shield.

Matou Shinji is a classmate of Emiya Shirou and is also Matou Sakura's brother in name. But in fact, he is the creator of the latter's nightmare life. His identity is the direct heir of the Matou family, a family of magicians. But in fact But he is a useless person who has absolutely no talent as a magician. Even if he doesn't know the plot, he can get such information with the simplest investigation. Can such a guy be a participant in the Holy Grail War?

Obviously, the purple-haired woman just wants to use such a seemingly reasonable explanation to put the blame on Matou Shinji. If we believe her words and attack the so-called "master", it will be nothing if a scumbag dies. She might be quite happy instead, and even if we find out that the information is false, the real owner of the purple-haired woman will not be harmed.

In fact, for those of us who are familiar with the plot, this kind of question and answer does not mean much. The answer has been known a long time ago. I just want to know whether the notorious woman in front of me really protects the girl as rumored. Now it seems that even the notorious Medusa has something worthy of praise.

"Perhaps you don't quite understand it yet." After confirming a certain fact, it was time to explain the situation. "Our identity is a bit special. Saber will help you explain it soon, and now what you need to know is , the master who was protected by you in every possible way is already in danger."

The purple-haired woman suddenly raised her head. I couldn't see her sight under the blindfold, but she was obviously trying to analyze the truth of what I just said from my expression.

"The nether energy has eroded your body. The body of a heroic spirit is made of energy. After experiencing previous near-death experiences, you should also have discovered that your body has crystallized to some extent, and until now, this This kind of crystallization has not completely subsided," I said, pointing at the ends of the other party's still crystal clear hair, "Then have you ever thought that this dangerous energy will flow backwards along with the contract between the heroic spirit and its master? past?"

For a moment, the purple-haired woman's body stiffened.

How could it be, how could I ignore such a danger! ? Could it be that this completely unfamiliar attack made me lose my ability to judge? With such dangerous energy, even the bodies of heroic spirits are almost turned into crystal statues. Once it enters the human body...

"Don't worry too much, the situation is not that bad. The huge lethality of psionic energy to heroic spirits is due to your own nature. Energy life is extremely sensitive to harmful energy that invades itself, but the human body can tolerate these things a little bit. What's more, the energy backflow that the girl received is very weak. Now, she should be just a little dizzy, right? But as time goes by, we can't guarantee what the consequences will be."

My reassurance made the purple-haired woman look slightly relieved, but then she noticed the key point in my words: "'That girl'? You already know..."

"That's right, Matou Sakura, I saw her this morning," I shrugged. At the same time, I discovered that it is also very interesting to occasionally "tease" these heroic spirits in a playful way, especially when the other party is still a person. When someone is an indifferent guy, "Don't show that expression. I just want to see if you really care about Sakura. If you had really said the name of your real master just now, it would have turned into a crystal statue now - -The crystal platform under you is made of pure nether energy."

Just this sentence, the purple-haired woman almost jumped up on the spot!

It was not difficult to tell the rider our identities, but when the explanation was finished, I felt like I was breaking out in a cold sweat. The reason was for no other reason than that classmate Dai Mao Wang had been watching the whole process.

You may not understand, so I’ll make it clear: didn’t I make up a lot of stuff as I pleased when I explained our origins to Saber before? Now I suddenly realized that I seemed to have forgotten all those things, which meant that I had to talk nonsense to Rider while trying to remember how I had fooled Saber before. The fifteen-minute conversation did not exhaust me to death!

Cheating, abducting and killing people! Especially after tricking a famously serious and serious idiot king!

"In other words, you are from another... planet?"

After listening to my explanation quietly and watching me display some gadgets from the Xiling Empire that had absolutely nothing to do with human civilization, Rider confirmed in such an unbelievable tone.

For these heroic spirits who have participated in more than one Holy Grail War and have been reincarnated countless times in endless time, things in modern society are not difficult to understand, even if they were born in basically ancient times. It does not affect Rider's understanding of the concept of "alien", but understanding is one thing, and actually accepting it is another thing. The battle between human magicians will actually mess up the setting of aliens. It makes our Medusa classmates feel particularly awkward.

After talking about the matter and saying that he could help dispel the psionic pollution in Matou Sakura's body, Rider's attitude towards us has obviously improved a lot. This notorious woman with the title of killer is actually a quite simple guy. She also has Her emotions and personal hobbies also include the person she hopes to protect: Matou Sakura. But other than that, she doesn't take anyone's life or death seriously. This should also be said to be the source of those things. It is a common problem among heroic spirits of mythical heroes and monsters to have contempt for mortals and ordinary people. From this point of view, Saber's chivalry is really rare.

But no matter what, after understanding Rider, a woman with many contradictions, I still have some good impressions of her. Of course, this good impression is not the reason why I go to such trouble to improve our friendship with her. The most important thing is Yes, I need Rider to help with a sudden idea, which involves Rider himself and Matou Sakura, and strictly speaking, it is dangerous. If Lin Xue hadn't predicted that this experiment would be of great significance, And if it succeeds in the end, I will never start such a biochemical experiment proposal on innocent people. Since I want Rider to help cooperate with that matter, it is necessary to have a good relationship with the other party now, because I I don't like forcing anyone.

"I'm still curious about one thing." After the relationship eased, Rider, who was still very weak, sat lazily on the crystal table barrier of his cage, which was also the treatment equipment, and looked at us with curious eyes, "You guys What about your motives? I think, as beings other than humans, or even creatures outside this planet, you shouldn’t have any need to interfere in what happens here, right? But I feel that your actions seem to be full of purpose. As for sex, of course, this is just my intuition."

Should I say that she really deserves to be Medusa? This observation and intuition are probably even sharper than Tohsaka Rin's. Of course, the latter may also have suspicions, but he didn't raise them because there was no conflict of interest.

Noticing that Saber on the side also showed an interested expression, I just shrugged indifferently: "Well, who knows, maybe it's just curiosity. Anyway, I don't mean any harm. Isn't that enough?"