The Troubles of the Holy Maiden [Comprehensive]

Chapter 179

"Oh, you're asking me..." Sebastian's eyes flashed a glint, a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he asked, "Is this your request?"

Fran nodded calmly and replied, "Yes, can I ask you for help?"

Sebastian took two steps forward, approached Fran and whispered, "But, you know, I'm a devil, and I don't have so many superfluous kindness. If you want to ask me for help, what can you give me in return?" ?”

Fran stepped back slightly, away from the devil's lips that were close to her ear. She looked at the devil's blurred red pupils, and said a little strangely: "Isn't the malice in the Holy Grail not enough in return? I thought it was a win-win."

"But, you know, I don't care too much about those..." Sebastian straightened up and said with a smile: "What rights, power, cultivation, etc., I don't care too much, I All I care about is my aesthetics, and..."

He stared at Fran with red pupils, the deep light in his eyes was as captivating as if enchanted, his thin lips were so seductively colored that they parted slightly, and the looming sharp canine teeth brought a creepy deterrence.

"...my pleasure."

Fran frowned slightly, but didn't answer right away.The blond boy who was watching quietly on the side suddenly said: "Fran, you don't have to be like this, it's not your responsibility that the Holy Grail is polluted." He glanced at Irisviel and said, "You don't have to worry about Einzbern. Even if these greedy magicians don’t give up the Holy Grail War, so what, if they choose to continue, they will bear the consequences of the malicious overflow of the Holy Grail, what are you worrying about?”

Little Jill stepped forward, held Fran's hand, raised her head slightly, looked at her with clear red pupils, and calmly said indifferent words: "It's just a bunch of greedy and ignorant mortals, you don't have to make things difficult for yourself." , not to mention compromising with a fallen demon." The boy's tone softened, and he looked at the girl with a gentle and tolerant gaze that didn't match his age.

"However, no matter what choice you make, I will support you."

Fran watched the little boy smile, stroked his hair gently, and said with some emotion: "Thank you, Jill, you are such a cute little angel when you are not picky."

The smile on the corner of the blond boy's mouth froze.On the other side, the blond girl also said: "Fran, you don't have to feel embarrassed, it's okay even if the Holy Grail War ends." The girl's clear green eyes glanced around majesticly, and said threateningly: "If Whoever wants to let malice come, my sword is not a display.'

Kenneth noticed his teacher's gaze, and quickly expressed his opinion: "Actually, I don't have any special wish, just come here to verify my strength, stop it if you stop, I have no objection." Then he stared coldly at Weber Junior.

Wei Bo shivered involuntarily, and said, "I...well, I just came here to open my eyes, that..." He looked at his servant rider with some embarrassment, he knew that rider had a wish to be fulfilled, That is to get the opportunity to reconquer the world.

The rider patted the little master on the shoulder, and said freely: "This king doesn't need a woman to make sacrifices to realize his wish. Of course, the future of the world's destruction is not what I want to see. If the world is destroyed, as a conquest The king’s self cannot practice the way of conquest.”

Tohsaka Tokiomi glanced at his followers, and said with a dull face, "I don't seem to have much right to speak."

His disciple Kotomine Kirei even said with a paralyzed face, "I don't have a wish, and I'm not a magician either."

Kariya Matou, who has always been an invisible person, stared at Tosaka Tokiomi bitterly, his palms were covered with bloodstains with his not-so-sharp nails, his heart was full of contradictions and entanglements, and his turbulent mood made him spurt blood directly out.

Lancelot showed his figure, supported the crumbling Master, and said helplessly: "Miss, my king, we can also withdraw, but there is something I want to talk to you in private later."

As for the caster who was tied up into dumplings on the ground, Ryunosuke Uyu who was taken to the police station, and Emiya Kiritsugu who was sealed and imprisoned in the barrier, hehe, I have no right to speak.

Seeing that the masters expressed that they would not persist in the Holy Grail War, Fran was also relieved. In fact, she was also responsible for the fact that Einzbern summoned the avenger and caused the Holy Grail to be polluted.Although she wants to take on the responsibility of purifying the Holy Grail, she doesn't want to be threatened by demons. If the masters don't insist, she can slowly find a way to purify the Holy Grail, and there is a lot of room for maneuver.

"Oh, I seem to be the only villain." Sebastian said with a smile, and successfully shifted everyone's focus to him again.

Fran sighed and asked, "Sebastian, tell me, what do you want in return? If you still want my soul, then you don't need to say anything."

"Oh, it's true, I'm not the kind of scum who takes advantage of others." The handsome black-haired demon also sighed, looked at Fran, and asked seriously: "Is that how you always look at me? ?"

Fran tilted her head in confusion, and continued to urge, "You can speak directly if you have something to say, and you don't need to beat around the bush like this."

The devil's slightly mocking and malicious smile disappeared, and his calm expression and deep eyes looked like an ordinary, introverted man who was tortured by emotions.He looked at Fran quietly, and after a moment of silence, he said:

"What if I want your smile?"

"What?" Fran frowned, not understanding what he meant.

The devil said softly: "What if I want you to wear a white dress and a crown of white roses and smile sincerely at me?"

He took a step forward, half-kneeling in front of Fran, and gently took the girl's hand.

"Do you still remember? The stories that only belong to us, the playing and singing under the stained glass, the dancing under the boundless starry sky, the wreath you put on me in the sun garden..."

"Do you remember? The princess in my palm, howcaniwakeyoursleepyhead (how can I wake you up)"

Fran's hand tightened, as if countless images began to explode in her mind, and in the shattered images, strange and familiar images emerged like a revolving lantern.

In the Gothic steeple auditorium, the colorful stained glass depicts a girl holding the Holy Grail. Wisps of sunlight pass through the glass, casting dreamlike light and shadow in the empty auditorium.A soft and beautiful melody sounded. A black-haired man with two horns on his head and a dark dress sat in front of the grand piano, his hands in white gloves dancing on the keys.

Accompanied by the melody, Fran felt that she was holding up the hem of her skirt and singing softly. The soft and melodious singing of a girl seemed to echo in her ears. The beautiful singing and melody connected the broken pictures together...

"Once upon a time, long ago, there lived a girl of royal blood

Like all fairy tales sing, she is the most beautiful girl in the world

The girl sleeps in a stone castle, even if the sound is enough to startle the dead

Nor could it wake her from her slumber."

……

"Strangers come from far away

Ask to take her hand into the hallowed hall

her father said, no, go away

She will eventually marry a king"

……

"The strangers return with thousands of horses

The fighting on the battlefield still can't wake up the sleeping beauty

The fierce battle all night made the strangers shout

Let her decide, she decides who her heart belongs to"

……

"Then the king knocked on the girl's door

Tell her only she can end this war

no one knows how the story ends

is she awake?

Will she still wake up? "【1】

"My princess, are you awake?" the black-haired demon looked at Fran with confused eyes and called softly.

Fran woke up suddenly, she looked down at the demon who was looking at her, and couldn't help but wanted to withdraw her hand, but the man grabbed it tightly.

"I...you...how? When?" Fran frowned, a little unbelievable at the images suddenly recalled in her mind, she really couldn't remember when these memories happened.

"Do you remember? The past when you and I were in love, do you remember?"

"It's impossible!" Artoria and the others opened their eyes wide and looked at the two in disbelief.

Little Jill's pure child's face was full of murderous intent, and Artoria rushed forward, pushing Sebastian away from Fran's hand.Tom frowned, stepped forward to pull Fran away, and put his hands on her shoulders.

Seeing Fran's hesitant and confused expression, Tom felt sour and angry. He suppressed his anger and said seriously: "You don't have any story with him. I have the most say in this matter. I knew that demon at about the same time as you, can I not know anything about you? Fran, don't listen to his nonsense!"

Fran looked at Tom, who was secretly angry, and it didn't look like he was lying.

"But..." Fran said hesitantly, "I do recall some images, it seems..."

"No!" Tom interrupted Fran's words, and said angrily: "There is no such thing! Those are all fake, it's a trick played by this devil! Think about it carefully, do you have a fault in your memory?"

"I..." Fran hesitated even more. Speaking of memory faults, she really did have them, but that was before she became "Saint Fran", but as an ordinary person, she should not have anything to do with Sebastian .

The black demon stood up calmly, turning a blind eye to the knife-like eyes of the others, just staring at Fran and said, "Merlin once forcibly pulled you into an illusion, do you remember that?"

"You mean... I was with you in that illusion... No way?" Fran didn't feel that she had any special feelings for Sebastian at all, how could it be possible to fall in love with him in the illusion.

The devil looked at Fran quietly, with a trace of sadness in his eyes. He raised his hand to touch Fran's hair, but the movement stopped abruptly halfway, and then let out a sigh full of sorrow:

"In that world, I am the dragon that everyone fears, and you are the princess I guard in the palm of my hand..."

"But our ending is like the song you used to sing, except that you are the hero Sigurd who drank the spirit of amnesia, and I am Brunch who endured all the despair imprisoned in the castle of flames. De..."【2】

Hearing the metaphor made by the devil in the Norse mythology "Wolsong Saga", Fran shuddered and felt that goosebumps were about to come down.She couldn't believe that in just a few months of sleeping in the illusion, she could still come up with such a tragic and unrequited love.

"Wait a minute..." Fran interrupted Sebastian, her tone full of doubts: "You lied to me, right? It's a bit too exaggerated. If you say something more ordinary, I might believe it."

Sebastian's expression froze, and he asked back, "Don't you believe me? Or are you just looking for a reason to abandon your forgotten lover?"

Fran rubbed her temples, pointed to the Merlin cat jumping up and down in the cage, and said, "You can't even listen to Merlin. Besides, that illusion is based on my subconscious mind. Even if I don't have memory, there shouldn't be feelings." It’s too big of a change. My anger when I saw Merlin should have something to do with what happened in the illusion, but for you...I’m sure there’s no love between men and women, but it’s true that I want to smack you a little.”

The originally furious little Jill chuckled, pulled out a long golden sword from the golden vortex of King's Treasure and handed it to Fran.

"Here, our great hero Sigurd, here is your "Sword of Victory" Gorum (gram), take it to draw the Valkyrie Brunhilde who killed you."

Fran took the long sword casually, and found that this treasure was really the dawn of the shattered holy sword. She couldn't help asking, "Why do you even have this?"

Little Jill raised his chin proudly: "This king owns all the treasures in the world." He blinked and said again: "Didn't I give you the key to the space before? You can use it as you like. Is it a job for the world?"

Fran put the sword back speechlessly: "You should play with it by yourself."

Who knew that when Jill received the sword, he didn't catch it firmly, and with a shake of his hand, the golden treasure rushed in one direction, and it stuck deeply into the caster who was tied into a dumpling.

"Oh, my king was not careful."

'Believe in you to have a ghost! In the stunned expression of everyone, Fran looked at the little holy grail that had begun to absorb the caster's magic power and soul speechlessly, pressed a palm on the little Zhengtai's head, then turned to look at Sebastian and said:

"Okay, isn't it just wearing a white dress and a flower crown? No problem. Then, as an unlucky "lover" I have forgotten, can you hurry up and deal with the Holy Grail issue with me?"

The author has something to say: [1] The translation is adapted from the song "sleepyhead" by galencrew. I originally wanted to use the original text, but I was afraid of being accused of plagiarism, so I translated it myself.Everyone can listen to the song by themselves, Nishang likes it very much.This song was sung unconsciously by Fran in the illusion. It was actually a metaphor for the main line of the whole story, and everyone should understand it at the end.But those who are interested can now guess who the Sleeping Beauty, the king, the stranger, the undead, and the army represent.

[2] The musical background of "sleepyhead" is the Norse mythology "Legend of Volsunger", some people say it is "Song of the Nibelungen" (that is Siegfried, the legend of Attila), but in fact "Wolsunger legend" The Legend of Ersunger is the prototype of the Nibelungen Song, and Sigurd is the prototype of Siegfried.This story is that the Nordic Valkyrie Brynhilde was imprisoned in the castle of flames and fell into a deep sleep because of offending Odin.After being rescued by the hero Sigurd, the two fell in love.Later, because Gudrun had a crush on Brunhilde, he drank the spirit wine of amnesia for Sigurd to make him forget Brunhilde, and married Gudrun's sister instead.Grieving and indignant, Brunhilde first planned to kill the "unscrupulous man" Sigurd, and after learning the truth, he committed suicide after killing Gudrun's family.