Stray Chapter 81: Day 1

  In the early hours of the morning, the night is quiet and everything is silent.

   After all, it’s the end of January. Although the climate in Fuyuki is relatively warm in winter, it’s still cold in the morning or late at night… But it’s not just this cold Winter night, and Tohsaka Rin's cold heart.

  Leaving the cold basement...

   up the cold stairs...

  Back to the cold living room...

  During this whole process, she was like a puppet that lost her soul, her face was black, her eyes were blank, and her body was wobbly. It seemed that she might lose her balance at any time. Falling on the ground... It makes people very worried when they look at it.

   But this is also a helpless thing.

   First of all, I basically didn't sleep last night. I was busy until dawn trying to read my father's last words, and I also consumed too much magic power. My body and mind were exhausted, and I almost couldn't get up to go to school... That's bad enough.

   Then she managed to get through the day. After returning home, she was not able to rest early, but immediately received a notice from the seemingly taciturn, but very vicious nun in the church.

  The other party told her indifferently

   "The deadline is until tomorrow", "If you want to give up your right to become a master, you must make a choice within today", "If you are afraid, run away as soon as possible, so you may be able to save your life. "...

   said such a bunch of sarcastic words, and frankly, Tohsaka Rin didn't like her very much, just like her father who subconsciously rejected her.

   Although it is very hasty, the girl has no other way, of course she can't give up this opportunity.

  "Rin, the Holy Grail will appear one day. It's the Tohsaka family's duty to get that, and more importantly---if you want to be a magician, it's an inescapable way."

   Because on that day, that person touched her head and said the last paragraph, and then left forever. Participated in the Holy Grail War as a Master and never came back.

   In the end, he left this sentence not as a father, but as a magician. So at that moment, Tohsaka Rin's life path was already decided.

   It has been ten years since my father participated in the Fourth Holy Grail War. Something that has never been forgotten in ten years, the fifth Holy Grail War is about to start again, how could she allow herself to back down?

   So she decided to use her perfect state to summon Servants tonight!

  then

   Is it anxious, tormented, and sleepy? Waited hard until 2 am in the middle of the night? Tohsaka Rin carved a magic circle on the floor of the basement, which was the best time period for her.

   Originally, the summoning circle should be drawn with blood? But she ended up using molten gems extravagantly. Because she didn't prepare any catalyst? Not to mention the unexpected death of her father, even Father Kotomine, his proud disciple, was not able to survive? The information left is extremely incomplete.

   In addition to some indescribable factors, she has nothing to prepare for? Although she is constantly comforting herself? But in fact, she is still not sure, she can only make more efforts in other areas, hoping to make up for it There is no shortage of holy relics.

   Even if it's just psychological comfort...

   However.

  Although all kinds of light and shadow special effects have come out, the magic light overflows from the summoning array? Fragments of the fifth element are flying around? But when her vision returned to normal, there was no summoned slave in front of her. The man, the basement was empty, and there was no other person except her.

   stood empty-headed in front of the summoning formation for another minute before Tohsaka Rin finally lost hope.

  "Two in the morning..."

  Standing in the living room? The girl stared blankly at the time displayed by the clock on the wall, and suddenly remembered something.

   Yesterday's interpretation of her father's last words? Finally, she found the family's gemstone pendant, which has a history of at least more than a hundred years? It is suspected to be a treasure left by the master's father, Gem Weng. Unfortunately, it's not a holy relic? It can't be used as a catalyst for summoning a Servant.

   And worst of all? Maybe because the magic power of this gem is too strong? Little did she know that the moment she brought it out, the clocks in the whole house, whether it was an alarm clock or a wall clock, all All disrupted, all sped up by an hour...

   I was almost late in the morning because of this!

   In other words, it's actually one o'clock in the morning, she just got the time wrong, and there's still an hour left before she's at her best!

   But she went down all day and completely forgot about it! So, is this the main reason for the error?

   The cold fact is so cruel that Rin Tohsaka wants to cry, obviously he has taken this matter very seriously, and he has used up half of the gems he has accumulated in the past as much as possible, financially There is no room for failure! But why, there is still such a low-level error!

  Why does this always happen? Obviously, I can do most of the things like ordinary people, and even if I do my best, I can become a perfect top student who can't pick out any shortcomings in the eyes of countless people.

   But there is only one curse that seems to be inherited.

   That's when she's always going to drop the chain and do some unbelievably stupid things in the most important decisive moments, like right now.

  Just like this, the girl stared at the clock on the wall full of pain and resentment, as if this could force it to give in under the pressure, and the time went back to the past, giving her a chance to do it all over again. But the result was a matter of course, the wall clock completely ignored her murderous eyes.

  Time passed by every minute and second, and finally Tohsaka Rin could only turn his eyes back and face reality.

   can't do anything about it, so let's see if I can get a chance to fix it tomorrow... It's not a problem to continue staring here like this now, it won't solve the problem, and her magic power is almost bottomed out , the mental state is also quite poor...

  The lost girl tried her best to think calmly, shrugged her shoulders, turned around, and walked up the stairs.

   One step, two steps, then pause.

   Standing in front of the stairs, Tohsaka Rin even thought about it for two seconds, then turned around and looked at the center of the living room. Is there a figure sitting on the sofa there?

  Because it was late at night, the lights in the living room were not turned on, only the faint bright moonlight outside the window came in, but it would not directly shine in the center of the living room, and her mental state was extremely bad, and her concentration just now was not enough. Completely placed on confirmation time, and self-pity.

   So naturally, he didn't have the mind to observe the surrounding environment, and carefully looked at this mansion that was so familiar that he could no longer be familiar with it.

   narrowed his eyes and looked at it for a while, Tohsaka Rin was stunned to find that it was not his own illusion, and a trace of panic surged instinctively deep in his heart. After all, even a magician can't change that she is still a minor in the first place. The girl is still living alone at home.

   It's just that the panic only lasted for a short moment, and she immediately noticed the connection between her own magic circuit and the other party.

   This is... a Servant?

   A Servant summoned by himself? Could it be that although he made a mistake just now, he did not fail completely?

  Happiness came so suddenly, Tohsaka Rin's mind went blank for a moment, feeling that he was almost suffocated and breathless. There is nothing more ups and downs in life than this, she covered her heart with her hands and gasped.

  "You, who are you?"

   "Well, are you asking me?" The magician, who was leisurely on the sofa with Erlang's legs raised, said lazily. The girl didn't notice herself until now, and her nerves were too thick. .

  "Yes, yes..."

  Tohsaka Rin subconsciously shrank when he heard this unfamiliar voice in the darkness, and replied with a stutter. But then, she immediately felt that she could not weaken her momentum from the beginning, and quickly remedied with a sullen face

  "I mean, is there anyone else here?"

  "Oh, who knows..." The stranger in the shadow chuckled, "But I'm just a passing magician, don't worry about it."

  "Magician?"

   is Caster's class? Damn, it really wasn't Saber, it must be because the impact of the mistake was too fatal.

  Tohsaka Rin frowned slightly, and then keenly noticed a more important issue, so he asked unsurely: "Wait, what do you mean by passing by, didn't you come specifically in response to my call? I Let me confirm first, you are my Servant, right?"

   "No." Xia Ran replied succinctly.

  “…”

  “…”

   "Liar, lie! Stop joking!" After receiving an unexpected reply, the girl froze for a moment, then became angry and anxious, staring at the stranger in the darkness, " Or are you not going to admit it? The contract has already been reached!"

   She has also heard a lot about the Master and the Servant from her father, so she knows that this does not mean that such a combination will necessarily be a mutual trust partner. The Servant's character concept, or the Master's character concept, is the key to determining whether they can get along well.

  If luck is particularly bad, the first thing the Master has to deal with is not the threat from other groups in the Holy Grail War, but the threat from the Servant who was summoned by himself.

   And what makes Tohsaka Rin shocked and angry is that it seems that she is in the worst situation now, and the other party does not even plan to admit her identity as the master? !

   "Contract? Oh, you may have made a mistake..." Xia Ran smiled slightly, he was just going to inform the girl directly that the Holy Grail War would not be held, "Don't hold such a whimsical thing. Too many expectations are better, no one is qualified to take the initiative to become my master..."

   This is a matter of course, if one day, he acts in the form of a Servant, then it is definitely because of a separate manifestation.

   It's not that the Master summoned him, but that he found something interesting to him, so he took the initiative to respond to the real world.

   "Who, who asked you to be unqualified! And isn't this Command Spell a qualification?"

   This person really thinks he is not qualified! hateful!

  Tohsaka Rin clenched his fist tightly, revealing the magic tattoo that appeared on the back of his hand, and glared at him while speaking forcefully: "And I'm just asking you, are you mine? Servant! Or are you really not planning to admit the truth?!"

   She is not Tohsaka Tokiomi, she can respect slaves in turn as masters and regard herself as a servant. It doesn't matter what the Servant is, whether it's her identity or origin, she won't be cowardly! If the other party's attitude is tough, then your own attitude will be tougher, and you must regain the dominance!

  "Fact?"

   "Contract! Do you dare to say that the connection between me and you is fake?" Tohsaka Rin exclaimed excitedly, and took a step forward: "Come and answer my question! How about it, dare to say it? ?"

  "Contractual Contact..."

  Xia Ran glanced at his hand, and the group of information was still being held lightly by him, and could not escape no matter what.

   He didn't deal with this Heroic Spirit information, and as a result, Hassan failed to manifest and got stuck in the final step of being summoned. But for the Great Holy Grail, it is only responsible for checking whether the amount of information borrowed from the Heroic Throne meets the requirements.

   The Servant who was stuck with the bug could not really appear, but it was not destroyed. At least in the ritual mechanism of the Holy Grail War, Hassan's existence still occupies a position... So the result is that Tohsaka Rin can According to the contact after the contract was reached, it was found that the magic thread was pointing to the person in front of him.

  "Call, forget it, this is not important, let's talk about other issues first..."

   The magician rubbed his eyebrows slightly and changed the subject decisively.

  He wanted to explain kindly and tell her the cruel truth, but he felt that it was too much to bully Rin Tohsaka like this

   locked the world and jumped according to the call of the other party, intercepted the call signal of the other party, and captured the other party's Servant, and now he is still taking the initiative to explain this matter? No matter how you look at it, it is a face-skimming behavior. If it is not good, Tohsaka Rin will be so angry that he will die on the spot.

   After all, according to his observation, whether the other party is a blue bar or a red bar, it seems that they are already in the dangerous state of redness.

   is like someone who has stayed up all night for several days and may die suddenly at any time.

   "Tell me about other questions first? Allow me to refuse, don't try to change the subject!" Tohsaka Rin's face became more and more dissatisfied, and she glared at the rude guy, "The relationship between master and slave is the most important thing. Something that should have been figured out in the first place!"

   After he hit the nail on the head and made a final decision, this guy with a bad character couldn't answer, and immediately tried to change the topic? How could it be possible for you to succeed? You must pursue the victory and take advantage of this opportunity to force him to admit this basic fact!

  “…”

  “…”

  The magician was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he sighed and stood up, turned and walked towards the entrance.

   "Hey! Wait a minute, where do you want to go?!" The girl who was expecting his answer was stunned for a moment, and she only reacted after the other party walked in front of her, and immediately exclaimed in a hurry.

  "It's really annoying to visit late at night. I'm really sorry. I'll go back first. After you calm down, I'll visit again..."

  Xia Ran turned around to look at her, then showed a hearty smile, then waved to the girl, and was about to say goodbye and leave.

   Probably because the state is too bad, Tohsaka Rin seems to have a hard time calming down now, unable to think rationally, and if it goes on, she may have to use a command spell on herself. So it's better to slip away first, to continue like this is just adding fuel to the fire, let's wait for her brain to cool down.

  "You, you, you, you, you..."

  Tohsaka Rin's voice was trembling with anger. She just felt that she was reaching her limit, but she still tried her best to restrain herself. As long as the other party can give in a little and admit that she is the master, then she will not continue to be tough. down.

   After all, if the Servant refuses to cooperate, what else is going on in this Holy Grail War?

   But although she has always worked hard to suppress, but when she saw the unscrupulous behavior of the other party, she didn't care about her performance at all, and when she turned back to laugh at the end, the overly hearty smile seemed too much. Hateful, disgusting face.

   In short, it was a silent mockery and contempt, which finally made her anger break through the threshold, and the rational string in her brain was directly stretched!

  "in the name of the Command Spell"

  "Huh?" The magician turned around, "Hey, wait, don't be so impulsive..."

  I was clearly worried about this kind of thing happening, and I specifically released the maximum kindness, and didn't care about her at all? Couldn't she understand the true meaning of her sunny and cheerful smile, couldn't she feel her kindness at all?

   "It's too late to regret it now! You bastard!" The girl glared at him and said loudly, the Command Spell on her raised wrist was faintly glowing, "Listen to me, as my Servant, Then absolutely obey what I say!"

   The pain on the back of the hand came, and a Command Spell disappeared.

  “…”

  The magician watched this scene silently, with a very strange expression.

   "Huh! You know me..." Tohsaka Rin let out a sigh of relief, put down his hand angrily, stared at him and said gritted teeth.

   But before she could finish speaking, she suddenly stopped, shook her body a few times, her eyes were in circles, and she fell head-on on the living room carpet.

   "Looks like it's reaching its limit..." Xia Ran felt a little pity, even though she had exhausted her physical strength, magic power, and spirit, she still forced herself so hard.

  …

  …

   Meanwhile.

  The other side of the city.

  "Ten years later, is it still in Liudong Temple?"

   Climbing along the cold and lonely mountain road, the figure of Artoria, who was asked to come back first to announce to Medea and Sakura, appeared as light as an elf under the moonlight, and soon she saw the standing At the gate of Liudong Temple at the end of the mountain road above.

   After thinking about it, she also understood that Liudong Temple is still a good place for spiritual veins, and the Great Holy Grail is always located below, so its geographical location is very important. It is only natural that Medea and the others did not leave here, there is no better choice than this place.

  "Well, the first day just started, can't wait to kill it? It's so arrogant..."

   At this time, an unfamiliar voice came from the mountain gate, and at the same time a powerful magical reaction emerged.

  The King of Knights was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted. This is the summoned Servant who mistook himself for another group in the Holy Grail War and came directly to the door?