Stray Chapter 22: Happy New Year’s Eve

  "Why is Xiao Mo standing here, go in and sit..."

  Xia Ran just walked into the entrance when he saw Mordred standing in front of him at a glance, so he asked curiously.

   And his voice finally caught the attention of the group of people in the living room. At the same time, they turned their heads and saw that Artoria also saw Mordred standing at the entrance at a glance, and was immediately stunned. After a while, it seems that some of them can't react:

  "Mordred? Why are you here?"

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   "I... shouldn't I come? I'm sorry to bother you..." Mordred's face turned pale, and he said so lost.

   In fact, Arturia is just a very common and simple question, and it has no special meaning. She just found Mordred's arrival and was surprised because she didn't expect it, that's all.

   But the speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional. Mordred felt that he had suffered a major mental blow because of the scene of "mother and daughter tenderness" he saw. Surprised to ask, even subconsciously feel that the sky is about to collapse!

  Father really doesn't want to see himself!

   I really shouldn't be here!

   She is really a superfluous person... Maybe the father and the king really don't care about the past, but it doesn't mean that she accepts her. Her existence is probably still a shame to her. The accident that stained her reputation and bloodline...

   thought about this in a daze, Mordred showed a bitter smile and turned around to—

   "Hey! I said don't think about it, you obviously care, but why don't you want to ask more?"

  The magician felt a bit of a headache, and they were all problem children, but he didn't want to see the two mothers and daughters breaking up, so he could only speak urgently to stop the lost Mordred, after all, there was no need to think about it at all. If you let her go back like this, there will definitely be problems.

  "Huh?" Eyebrows raised suddenly, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, and the eyes of the rebellious knight girl almost burst into hope.

  Isn’t that the case, I thought it was wrong?

   "Of course not, you can tell by looking at the color of your hair that it's not the same thing, okay..." Xia Ran sighed and looked directly in the direction of Artoria, "Artoria, you come and Tell your daughter, who is she?"

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   The blond, blue-eyed, petite and pretty girl gave him a deep look, as if her mind was a little stuck, and after a long while, she opened her mouth subconsciously and said, "This is... this is Illya, Alice. Phil's daughter..."

   "Alice Phil?" Mordred thought he heard an unfamiliar name.

   "In a certain parallel world, a participant in the Fourth Holy Grail War of Fuyuki City, she was also the first person to summon your mother, she is your mother's confidant and friend..." Xia Ran thoughtfully I explained it next to me and worked to eliminate Mordred's misunderstanding.

  "Original, is that so..."

   Mordred was in disbelief, but also looked a little relieved.

   So, this silver-haired loli is not the daughter of the father and the magician? Has your current status ushered in a major crisis? This was the best news she could hear... um, wait, no, you can't let your guard down so easily!

   This silver-haired loli who suddenly appeared is still her own rival in life!

   must find an opportunity to eliminate this threat!

  , who quickly woke up, Xiao Mo immediately adjusted his slack attitude, his vigilant and sharp eyes still stared at Illya, who was snuggling in Artoria's arms, probably because of her His gaze was too deterrent, and Illya felt an obvious hostility.

   She shrank subconsciously. She didn't know why this girl who suddenly appeared, very much like Sister Artoria, would suddenly show such a fierce aura and eyes to herself——

   After all, Xiao Mo is also a first-class Servant. Whether it is magic, skills or any panel, he is undoubtedly a monster far beyond magicians, so even Illya can't help but feel a terrible oppression Feeling, instinctively shrinking.

   However, her instinctive action made Mordred's eyes almost burst into flames!

  "Mordred, what are you doing to scare Elijah?"

   noticed this, Artoria had been frowning her brows, staring at Xia Ran and the black long straight girl next to him, but now she can only retract it, staring at him very displeased. his own daughter.

  "I...I don't have..."

  's aura was instantly stunned by her father, and the knight girl was no longer rebellious, she could only explain in a low voice at a loss, looking very flustered.

  "There is no best! Stop standing there, sit down!"

   "Oh oh..." Mordred seemed to be amnesty, and hurried forward and sat down on the sofa next to Arturia, although she was still unwilling, staring at the snuggle Ilya, who was in the latter's arms, was full of sourness in her heart.

   After all, strictly speaking, Mordred and Illya are completely two extremes, like mirror images of contradictions.

  Illya is an android made by alchemy magic, the opposite of her petite and cute loli appearance is that she is nineteen years old this year, just a legal loli... and Mordred is the same She is also an artificial human, but she is completely different from Illya, who cannot grow physically. She is overdrawing her life and growing rapidly.

   When children of the same age were still running noses, crying, and playing games with wooden swords, she had already become one of the knights of the round table.

  Considering her background and Artoria's reign, it seems to be a good idea. Until Mordred dies, maybe his real age is at most eleven or twelve years old...

   So, this is really a very delicate matter. For some reason, both of them are not too mature. Illya is dragged down and affected by her own body. After all, mental age will also be affected. Influenced by appearance, she has always been a loli who has not grown up, and her natural psychological age will also be affected.

   And Mordred is a typical precocious child. Although he is too precocious in some aspects and can be alone, he is still a child after all, and he is more immature...

   It's not surprising that something like the current situation will occur, and it's only Arturia who didn't think of it at all, so it's just that she didn't realize it.

  "King Arthur doesn't understand people's hearts."

   whispered this in a low voice, Xia Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the storm subsided before it sprouted, and then looked at the other people in the living room, or other girls.

  Medea, Sakura and Rin, both sisters, are sitting on the other side of the sofa, their faces are somewhat weird, and Medusa also came, but probably because there is no room in the living room, Or because of her consistent character, she just kept her spirit body in a state of being hidden at the moment.

   "You're all here, why didn't you go to the banquet? Didn't Charlotte tell you?" She raised her other hand and waved it. Xia Ran greeted enthusiastically, and by the way said this asked.

  After all, on the other side of the shrine, a lively banquet is being held. Everyone is there, but they are unmoved. It is really strange.

   "By the way, Yukinoshita-san, Miss Yono, let me introduce to you, this is Miss Medea, of course she is the little miss now, she is my magic teacher, this is Matou Sakura, you can just call her Sakura, she's my sister, um, that's a long story..."

   introduced one by one, the magician's very enthusiastic and hearty voice sounded in the living room, as if he didn't see the weird expressions on their faces at all, or should be said to be pretending to be stupid.

   But after introducing them one by one, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be one person missing?

   By the way, where did BB go? Didn't we come together?

  No, she definitely wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

   He quickly searched and captured the corresponding breath, and found that the evil artificial AI seemed to be staying in the air's radio signal, transforming into another physical form of existence...

   I don't know how amazing her power of action is. She seems to be excitedly ready to take over the management of the network in the real world.

  Xia Ran couldn't help but have a few black lines on her forehead, but after thinking about it seriously, he still didn't directly catch her from the level of electronic signals.

  Let her go, and you can have a good time.

   And this little devil descendant is still quite measured, even if it really takes over the network hegemony in the real world, it may not really do anything, and ordinary people even make her unable to raise her interest. If it's not good, she may be shopping around the Internet, coming and then leaving...

  No one knew she had been here, and nothing would happen.

  "It's not that we don't know why we didn't go to the banquet. Charlotte told us... In fact, it was mainly because we thought it might not be suitable, so we didn't go..."

   While Xia Ran was thinking about it, she still maintained the C-sub state, and through the third magic, she transformed into the little witch form of her fourteen-year-old Miss Medea, after the introduction of each other came to an end , very calmly answered his question just now.

  "And this thing is still in our hands, so we also think it's not a good idea to run around with it, it's better to wait until you come back and deal with it..."

   While saying this, her current appearance is particularly innocent and cute, and the pitiful Miss Medea stretched out her small hand and pointed to an utensil on the table.

   That is a golden cup, the whole body seems to be made of pure gold, and the texture of magnolia does not look like an energy structure composed of magic materialization. It's just that in the golden special effects, there is also a trace of darkness that seems to be absent.

  —extremely ominous.

   Just looking at it makes people feel a chill in their hearts, and they repulse from the depths of their souls.

   This is something that was not held by nature and was not expected by the world in the first place. The value of the existence of a valueless thing, that is the meaning of its birth, that is what it seems to be... the embodiment of the concept of the so-called "all evil in this world".

  Irisviel's personality information is kept by the family gem provided by Rin Tohsaka, and the stripped "all evil in this world" naturally has to use a more advanced carrier to be able to carry the seventy The heavy evil karma of billions of people.

   So Medea simply found a holy grail in Liudong Temple that had not been distributed yet, and used such an almighty cauldron to carry this extremely heavy concept.

  Only in this way can the magic creations that are made to carry the huge magic power that can realize wishes can be effective in the face of the vicious power vortex that will turn everything into nothing and destroy everything. restrain it.

  "Oh, it's actually nothing, I'm right there, you can go there directly, and this thing is not so easy to break..."

   The magician just glanced at the Black Holy Grail on the table, said casually, and then blinked as if to imprint the Holy Grail in his eyes.

   The Black Holy Grail on the table vanished all of a sudden.

   As if in the blink of an eye, Xia Ran was directly absorbed into another deep and unknown dimension connected in his eyes.

   "I know, but according to Charlotte, that Gensokyo on your side, there are changes every day, it's either battles or barrages, and magic cannons that are stronger than surviving Noble Phantasms are thrown around everywhere. So it's better to be cautious..."

   Medea took another look at the black long straight girl next to Xia Ran and said calmly.

   "Hey, this... ah ha ha ha, it seems like this, it really doesn't make sense when those guys are drunk."

  Xia Ran laughed a few times, and suddenly realized that what Miss Witch had said seemed to make sense. He had absolutely no way to refute it, because as far as his perception was concerned, the usual battle had already begun in Gensokyo. If you don't have a sense of proportion, every minute is a big shattering of the stars and the earth.

   "Forget it, there's no problem anyway. At most, let them give you a welcome party later..." The magician thought about it and thought it wasn't a big deal, or it was better this way, after all Those guys are dying to get together for some valid reason...

   No one would object.

   Even the city management of Boli, who has been living a poor life as a witch, could not receive the money for sesame oil, and could only rely on various gatherings every three days to survive without any objection. Who would dare to object?

   "Okay, let's stop talking about this, let's talk about Sakura... um, what are you going to do next?" Moving his gaze towards Tohsaka Rin and Matou Sakura, who had never spoken, Xia Ran said hesitantly. "As you can see, this is my world. When you come here this time, are you planning to... stay or go back?"

  "Brother..."

  Sakura's expression was a little weird, she endured and endured, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Why...you keep holding hands with Miss Yukinoshita?"

   This is why the atmosphere in the living room has been so weird since the beginning.

  It's a pity that the magician seems to ignore this completely, and if they don't ask, they don't plan to say anything about it.

  Xueshita-san has never spoken. She always keeps her waist straight and her posture is so beautiful that people can see it, but today she lowered her shoulders slightly and kept her soft lips slightly open. His long eyelashes trembled slightly, and he looked like he was about to cry.

   But even so, she didn't break free from Xia Ran's palm, but as if responding, she also held his hand tightly.

   This is not his claim to sovereignty.

   It is she who is declaring sovereignty, so... can't back down!

   "Why? Of course it's because neither of my hands is holding anything, and Yukishita-san is the same, so the act of holding hands is completely feasible physically." Xia Ran just glanced down and felt quite Seriously replied.

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  Cold Field Aura, Activate!

   The atmosphere didn't get any relief because of this not funny joke, instead it became more dull and weird.

   (PS: Happy New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, I hope everyone goes well... d=====(￣▽￣*)b)