Lu Mingfei, become the King of Elden!

Chapter 61 Subaru Raizuki

"Oh dear, I'm so sorry I'm late!"

Subaru Natsuki tossed his greatsword aside, casually sat down cross-legged, and turned to Lu Mingfei, saying:
"You're the new guy, right? My name is Subaru Natsuki, you can just call me Subaru!"

"Oh, oh, oh! Hello, brother, my name is Lu Mingfei."

Lu Mingfei nodded in agreement like a chick pecking at rice.

"I already told you to just call me Subaru!"

Subaru Natsuki slapped Lu Mingfei on the shoulder with practiced ease, the force quite strong:

"I'm only eighteen, and I'm a senior in high school! Emiya is a year younger than me. You studied in the US, right? In terms of actual age, you're the older brother, Riku-kun."

"Wha...what?!"

Lu Mingfei's eyes widened, his gaze darting back and forth between Subaru Natsuki and Shirou Emiya, as if he had overheard some earth-shattering secret. So, in Japan, high school students saving the world is the norm?! He felt his twenty years of being a couch potato were utterly pathetic.

Emiya Shirou smiled gently and turned to look at Subaru:

"Subaru, what happened to you?"

Subaru Natsuki shook his head:
"It's nothing serious, I just got lost near the Pharos Fortress."

I almost couldn't get out of that godforsaken place.

Emiya Shirou nodded without saying anything more.

His main area of ​​activity was Lienia, which was in the opposite direction from Gelid, where Subaru was located, so he didn't know much about it.

Seeing that the two had finished their pleasantries, Lu Mingfei finally asked:
"Subaru-kun, are you also from Earth?"

Subaru nodded, then shook his head:
"I am an Earthling, but I am not currently on Earth."

"What do you mean?"

Lu Mingfei looked completely bewildered:
Aren't we both in the border area right now?

Subaru Natsuki let out a long sigh:

"Because I had already crossed over once before I came to the border region..."

The world I'm in now is another world, and I have absolutely no clue how to get back home..."

"...Another world?"

Lu Mingfei blinked, as if he didn't understand the words. "Wait, you mean... before you came to this borderland, you were already... in that other world?"

"exactly."

Subaru Ryougi let out a deep sigh, a sigh filled with an indescribable weariness and a strange sense of vicissitude, a stark contrast to his sunny, youthful appearance.

"To be honest, I can hardly remember what convenience store rice balls taste like anymore. Earth... feels like a thing of the past."

His eyes were a little vacant.

Lu Mingfei was completely stunned, and countless scenes from novels flashed through his mind.

"Holy crap! So Subaru-kun, you're... a dual transmigrator?! That's... way too outrageous! Then... then you must be incredibly awesome? And your abilities must also be...?"

He blurted it out almost without thinking.

Subaru lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile:

"If returning from death is considered impressive... no, I'm just an ordinary Japanese high school student."

"Maybe... I have too much of a 'death' aura about me. 'Death,' 'the death of God,' 'destined death'... these things seem to like me quite a bit."

"That's why I'm really good at playing with Black Flame..." As he spoke, he picked up the Hunting God Greatsword at his feet. With a slight thought, the dark and deep black flames, which seemed to be able to devour light, wrapped around the huge sword with a "boom," and the temperature in the stone chamber seemed to drop a few degrees.

“However,” Subaru looked at the leaping black flames, his tone indifferent, “it seems our leader on that path has encountered some kind of accident… Unlike Kaneki, I can’t sense anyone ‘above’ him at all. Maybe… he’s already dead.”

Lu Mingfei stared at the raging black flames, emanating an ominous aura, and subconsciously swallowed. Although Subaru spoke of it casually, this power... was definitely two golden thighs!

"...So, my two great heroes, when shall we rise up in rebellion and overthrow that incompetent and immoral Grik from his throne?"

Lu Mingfei slapped his knee and stood up, his tone carrying an eager anticipation of riding on someone else's coattails to victory.

He even symbolically swung the heavy, lost-home greatsword in his hand into the air, as if he could already see Grek being beaten to the ground.

However, after these bold words, which should have ignited fighting spirit, fell into a subtle silence within the stone chamber.

The expected responses like "Great! Let's go now!" or "Lu Jun is brave!" or "He can be replaced!" did not appear.

Lu Mingfei sensed something was wrong and looked at his two friends with a puzzled expression.

Emiya Shirou and Natsuki Subaru exchanged a glance, their faces simultaneously displaying an extremely complex expression, a mixture of pity, helplessness, and a certain... lingering fear.

Emiya Shirou carefully considered his words, then slowly began to speak, his tone unusually solemn:

"Lu Jun, you... need to be mentally prepared. Greck, he might be the most 'sound', most despicable, and most powerful enemy you've ever encountered. How to describe him..."

He seemed unable to find a more fitting word for the moment.

Subaru Natsuki chimed in, his voice carrying a sense of world-weariness:
"In gaming terms, don't expect to beat him by memorizing the patterns. That guy... you have to grind him down, get used to his rhythm, and go head-to-head with him. There are no shortcuts."

Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat, and he swallowed hard.

"How many times did you two die before you finally got here?"

“97 times.” That’s Shirou Emiya.

"I can't remember... I lost count after fifty times." This was Subaru Natsuki.

Lu Mingfei gasped. No wonder! This was definitely experience forged in blood and tears!
“…So,” he began with difficulty, his voice a little dry, “it means…we need to prepare for a long-term war, right?”

Emiya Shirou nodded heavily.

"So...even with the two of you helping?"

Lu Mingfei held onto a sliver of hope.

Emiya Shirou nodded again, but there was no relief in his eyes.

Subaru Natsuki added:

“Our power is limited here. How strong a ‘spirit’ your world can support depends on how strong you are. Lu Jun, this is your battlefield.”

Lu Mingfei fell silent. He looked down at the cold Storm Knight's Greatsword in his hand, and the old knight's weathered face reappeared in his mind.

He often talked about what Stoneville used to look like late at night, and about the origin of "Wind Veil Castle," but he always told Lu Mingfei that he didn't want revenge.

Lu Mingfei knew, of course, that the old man longed to return to this beautiful capital city at all times.

His entire life was one of constant wandering and hiding, carrying the banner of storms and dragons as he survived the pursuit of the Night Riders.

However, he refused to impose his will on Lu Mingfei, nor did he want his little apprentice to die in vain.

O storm.
He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, the bewilderment and retreat in his eyes disappearing.

"Understood." His voice wasn't loud, but it was unusually firm. "Let's begin."

(End of this chapter)