The Troubles of the Holy Maiden [Comprehensive]

Chapter 185 The Holy Grail Party

When the two stood facing each other, Fran silently stared at the innocent and inexplicable black-haired youth on the opposite side. After a long silence, she asked, "Tom, what's going on?"

The black-haired youth blinked and asked, "What...what's going on?"

Fran felt a little irritable in her heart. She suppressed the messy thoughts in her mind, and said as quietly as possible: "Tom, you are deeply involved in the Chaldean plan, right? You have been involved in this plan since the very beginning, right? Why? ?Wizards, as a special race of magical creatures mixed with humans, have an unsophisticated standpoint, not to mention that you have completely awakened the blood of your ancestors, and you can basically be excluded from the category of humans."

The black-haired young man said in surprise: "Why... why? Even wizards are not ordinary human beings, but they are human beings. Is there anything wrong with wanting to contribute to safeguarding the destiny of mankind? What's more, when I followed up this project, I still didn't The bloodline has not been fully awakened, so..."

"Tom Riddle!" Fran interrupted the young man, and said with a straight face: "Do you have to tell me? I watched you grow up, and I taught you bit by bit, watching you learn how to act Yes. I know you better than anyone else. You seem to be a sensible and cute boy, but you are more rebellious, rebellious, ignoring the rules, self-centered, extremely smart but seriously lacking empathy and responsibility. From the bottom of your heart I put myself above all ordinary people, even wizards of the same race, and drew a clear line with them. I spent seven years in your childhood and couldn't change you. I could only teach you how to hide your differences. Now you tell me that you have devoted 50 years of time and energy to save the fate of those ants you know, are you kidding me?"

Fran looked up and down at Tom, who pursed his lips tightly and said nothing, and asked, "Or, after you retrieved your memory, did Salazar's personality have such a profound positive influence on you?"

"Enough!" The black-haired young man suddenly became irritable, and his well-groomed short hair became messy: "Enough! I'm not Salazar Slytherin! I can't become him, and I'm not his substitute!"

Tom suddenly grabbed Fran's shoulder and asked in a hoarse voice: "Fran, who am I in your eyes?! Did you answer my call because of him? You took me away from the orphan because of him." Are you from the hospital? Are you so nice to me because of him? Do you think he is better than me?! You like him more, right?!"

Fran looked at Tom's red pupils like a sea of ​​blood and his handsome face ruined by a ferocious expression, and was shocked by his thoughts and mental state.

"Tom, calm down! Why do you think so?!" Fran said incredulously, "Are you denying yourself? God, you have such thoughts! I only found out about you and Salazar later. Where do you start with these words?"

The young man's hand holding Flan's shoulder trembled, and he suddenly relaxed. He took two steps back with some unsteadiness, and his face turned pale.

"I'm sorry... I, I'm just... Fran, did I hurt you?"

Fran shook her head, and looked at the other party with a worried look: "I'm fine, but you, are you making trouble with yourself?"

The figure of the young man shook a few times, he hugged his head, and slowly squatted down in the corner, buried his whole face in the shadow, and murmured in a low voice: "I don't know, I don't know, I feel very confused ..."

Fran's pupils shrank suddenly, and she realized that Tom's current posture was almost the same as the one she saw when she was summoned in the orphanage.Fran approached slowly, knelt down beside the young man, and patted his shoulder lightly.

"Tom... are you okay?"

As soon as the words fell, Fran's wrist was tightly grasped, then pulled violently, and the whole person was tightly clasped in her arms.

Like a life-saving straw, it was tightly held in the hand.

"Tom, let go, I'm about to be strangled to death by you!" Fran said helplessly.

"No! I can't let go...you'll disappear! Time and time again... time and time again, you leave me behind. I'm going to find a way to catch you, yes! I have to catch you!"

"Tom, calm down! I'm not leaving, I'm here!" The helpless Fran tried to raise her hand, and slapped the stable magic on Tom who was in an abnormal state.

The young man who was soothed by the magic power gradually calmed down, and he also loosened his control over the man in his arms. His forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his eyes were full of despair.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to hurt you...I just, sometimes I can't control myself." His voice was no longer as elegant and smooth as before, and the hoarse timbre was like sandpaper rubbing.

"I know, my state is wrong. After I retrieved the memory of my previous life, I have not been able to integrate well. The memory of Salazar Slytherin is too long. When I retrieved the memory, I hadn't come from Hogwarts After graduating from Cici, the impact of those memories on me almost caused my self-consciousness to collapse. In order to ensure the independence of my personality, I took some measures to weaken the influence of fusion memories. It was still within the controllable range, but after my blood After Yuan awakened, this mental abnormality intensified..."

Fran pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "Tom, I'm sorry..."

"I'm the one who should be sorry." The young man looked at Fran and spoke slowly: "I'll tell you what you want to know... After you were taken away by that white-haired man, Merlin told me something..."

"Merlin?"

"Yes." The young man nodded, and said slowly: "I hate that guy Merlin, but sometimes, I have to follow his inducements... Merlin told me the method of awakening memory and blood, and hinted I have something."

"After learning about the plans of the Animsfia family, I offered to help them. To be honest, the plans at that time were just empty words on paper, protecting the destiny of mankind, and almost no organization or Personally, I am willing to believe and invest in them. The Chaldea project is completely a bottomless pit of empty talk and big talk. It was me who called a lot of connections from Slytherin and Grindelwald, and inherited Slytherin It is the legacy that promotes the start-up and operation of the project. Over the years, I have continued to operate and grow my influence in the European magic world, and I have collected wealth, to a large extent, to support the Chaldean project.”

Tom showed a wry smile: "That old guy Dumbledore used to argue with me all the time, and later he argued with the retired Grindelwald. He said that I don't have love for a while, and then said that I love too much, and he didn't even have a correct sentence. ..."

He looked up at the girl, with complex eyes that Fran didn't understand: "Fran, I don't know what love is, but I just want to fight for a future..."

"I just want to know where I can find you after you leave suddenly again."

"I know I can't force you to stay, I just want a channel that can touch you."

"I don't want to dream back in the middle of the night and find myself in a cold and damp underground laboratory, aging silently, thinking about a person who will never come back, and waiting for death to come."

"This is my selfishness that has been paranoid for half a century, hidden under the righteousness of mankind. What I am grateful for is that I now have endless time and energy to fight for an uncertain future."

"This is my answer, Fran, are you satisfied?"

Fran's lips trembled for a while, and she was speechless for a while. After a while, she sighed as if discouraged, and said, "I understand."

After finishing speaking, Fran stood up, pursed her lips and said, "Tom, take good care of yourself, it's better to solve the problem of abnormal mental condition as soon as possible, I...I'll go first."

"Please wait!" The black-haired young man also stood up, and asked Fran who turned her back to him: "Fran, are you going to stop me?"

Fran's footsteps stopped, and she was silent for a while before she said, "No, I just want to understand. Compared with the fate of human beings, some of the details are not too important."

"Tom, do you understand what I mean?"

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Fran returned to the apartment and found that the entire building had been bought by a local tycoon except for the floor she owned.

Moreover, the whole floor of the apartment is bustling like a party.

Fran saw here, almost all the masters and servants who can still move freely.

Fran: 'What's going on?Is this a Holy Grail party? '

"Fulan, you're back." The tall and straight girl knight Wang Surong went up to meet her, and Fulan could see a little helplessness from her dignified expression.

"What's the matter, Al, what's the situation?" Fran looked around, and her gaze swept over King Conqueror, King of Heroes, the childish trio of Illya and Lancelot who were chatting with each other. The ntr duo with Diarmuid, Kenneth who is sternly teaching Weber a lesson, and Tokiomi Kirei, who has a paralyzed face and dead eyes, is a teacher-student combination... a little confused about the situation in front of them.

Arturia sighed, and explained: "It's the rider. The rider came to me and ar...caster, saying that he wanted to do some Holy Grail quiz, the king's banquet, etc. I don't care, although the master is currently out of contact. But if it’s a kingly competition, I won’t admit defeat to other kings, but I still have to wait for you, and I’m not in the mood to deal with him. Then the caster pulled the rider and said something, and the rider said that he wanted to follow the trend, changing from the king’s banquet to The Holy Grail party is here, and I have brought the other servants and masters."

Fran rubbed her brows, and said helplessly, "The official process of the Holy Grail War is only seven days away. It's been a few days. Don't you plan to get down to business?"

Arturia glanced at the King of Conquerors and King of Heroes who were playing video games with the eight-year-old girl, and explained for them: "Probably because I am worried that the evil power of the Holy Grail has not been purified. If the ceremony is completed If the timing is wrong, it will lead to bad consequences, so everyone is afraid and dare not act rashly."

"Ah, our hostess is back, so the banquet can begin." The King of Heroes, who lost the game to an eight-year-old girl, looked up and saw Fran chatting with Artoria.He stood up and clapped his hands in a dignified manner. Well-dressed waiters filed in and arranged the originally empty hall in a luxurious manner in an instant. Food and wine were displayed on long tables covered with exquisite tablecloths.It didn't take long for the venue to be arranged like a modern reception.

The elegant melody sounded, and the handsome blond man in the shirt and trousers walked up to Fran, and extended his hand to invite: "Then, this beautiful lady, can I invite you to dance with me?"

The corners of Fran's mouth twitched as she looked at Gilgamesh, who had nothing to do with modern society, and replied in a complicated tone:

"Jill, I'm very pleased with your ability to adapt, but there is a limit to flirting with girls. Can you pay attention to the occasion?"

Artoria glanced at the King of Heroes with a hint of complacency, took Fran's hand, and said to Ilya on the side: "Ilya, let's dance together."

Illya answered happily: "Ok, ok, I want to dance with Alfred, by the way, and mom, Illya go and call mom over!"

Seeing the happy Illya, Fran smiled helplessly, and was pulled over by Artoria obediently.The blond young man standing on one side raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said to the King of Conquerors: "Rider, don't you want to conduct the King's Question and Answer? This king has agreed, why don't you start?"

So Artoria heard the hearty laughter and shout of the King of Conquerors: "So, Saber, the holy grail question and answer of the kings, will you participate or not?"

Artoria: '...Damn Gilgamesh! '