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"Hmph, Archer, what I do, whether I believe you or not, is none of your business. If you want to make a move, then bring it on."

"No, I'm very curious now. I want to see what this mysterious guy and you, so naive right now, will do."

"Let me see just how foolish and naive you are now. The former King Arthur, the King of Knights, the legendary king, has been reduced to playing truth or dare with a little brat. How amusing."

Artoria snorted coldly, ignoring Shirou Emiya. Knowing the power of Momo's trading abilities, and with the added benefit of her trust skill, Artoria wouldn't doubt Momo's intentions.

Next, she needed to consider how to use this one and only opportunity of Truth or Dare to obtain enough information from Momo.

One question is certainly not enough to obtain sufficient information; that's for sure. Moreover, this question must contain accurate and detailed inquiries to obtain accurate information, which is also the best option.

Asking a vague question about the Dragon Eye, attempting to obtain a large amount of information with this general question, seems like a good approach. However, a general question can only be answered with a general answer. Therefore, trying to obtain a large amount of information with a general question is actually a counterproductive behavior.

Therefore, Artoria only has one chance: she must ask a precise question to obtain crucial information.

What will she do?

Artoria quickly provided an answer.

"tell me……"

Artoria stared at Momo and said, "What are you going to do to me next?"

Momo's eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on his lips. This was the question that Artoria would have to answer.

Artoria's choice was undoubtedly wise; she covered both aspects with a single question.

The most direct approach is to ask Momo about her purpose and what she intends to do. Furthermore, Artoria's description includes qualifiers, specifying what she will do to her.

In this way, Momo will expose his purpose, making Artoria aware of the upcoming clash between the two, and thus allowing her to make the necessary preparations.

At the same time, this question can also help Artoria determine whether Momo is on her side or not, since Momo's behavior and purpose are the best indication of whether he has goodwill or malice towards Artoria.

Artoria's choice was indeed excellent, killing two birds with one stone. However, unfortunately, this choice played right into Momo's hands and was exactly what Momo had anticipated.

After all, for someone as open and honest as Mo Mo, the thing he fears least is exposing his inner thoughts.

A pure person should dare to face their pure heart!

Since it was the beautiful Knight Queen who wanted to interrogate Mo Mo's heart, Mo Mo naturally wouldn't refuse, nor did she need to.

With the right to trade as a guarantee, what better opportunity could there be to open one's heart than now?

"So, that's my honest answer."

"King of Knights, no, Miss Artoria, what I want to do to you now..."

"It's about pursuing you, getting you, winning your love, winning your heart, letting you experience the taste of happiness, and letting myself enjoy the feeling of being loved by you."

"This is what I want to do to you."

Author's Note:

P.S.: Guests came over at noon, and then I was dragged out drinking again in the evening. Two meals a day, I'm sick of it. Update complete, sorry! This is the first update of the day, there will be two more updates, one before 12 o'clock, and the third update may be a bit late. Please forgive me!

PS2: Thank you to Yoshii Akihisa for the 1500 points + 100*4 reward, thank you to Yoshii Akihisa and Canglan Feixue for two monthly tickets each, and thank you to Motoju Kosuke, Kogetsu Mizuki and Kitahara Haruki for one monthly ticket each!

142 King Arthur did not understand human nature

Calm words, yet imbued with unwavering resolve—this was Mo Mo's innermost thought. With the power of transaction as a guarantee, Mo Mo had no reason to lie; he simply spoke his mind frankly.

Call him shameless or hypocritical, but Mo Mo simply loves those adorable girls in the world of anime and manga. He wants to pursue them, cherish them, help them, and make them happy.

Greed or promiscuity, that's what Mo Mo thought and did. He didn't care about other people's opinions; he would only do his best. Just like his guarantee for the trading rights, as long as he was alive and had a breath left, he would never give up on this wish.

Momo spoke to Artoria with an unparalleled calm in his heart. The emotions accumulated over decades or even centuries in his previous life could erupt as fiercely as a volcano, or remain as still as a deep pool.

Momo's emotions are now at peace.

Faced with Artoria, this tragic queen, who has now turned to the dark side and denied everything about her past, all Momo needs is a heart-to-heart conversation with her.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Emiya Shirou suddenly burst into laughter, covering his face as he laughed, laughing loudly, laughing mockingly.

In his view, such amusing and shameless words made him unable to help but laugh.

Suddenly you see a stranger who keeps talking about love. How ridiculous is that?

Who is Artoria?

She was a queen, a legendary ruler of ancient Britain, revered as a hero by contemporaries and future generations. Her epic has been passed down for millennia and is etched into history.

Who is worthy to love such a queen, such a glorious and radiant queen?

Stop joking!

Emiya Shirou thought this, and he said it too. He looked at Mo Mo with disdain and said, "I originally thought you were someone important, but it turns out you're just a heartless lunatic? Why should anyone believe your words? And even if you're sincere, what qualifications do you have to do it?"

Emiya Shirou's voice was almost a roar. In his eyes, Momo's words were ridiculous. Compared to Momo, he was smart. He kept his admiration in his heart and held Artoria's image high, as if she were a god.

In Shirou Emiya's heart, Artoria will always be a queen worthy of respect and admiration.

"So, Emiya Shirou, this is your tragedy."

Unfortunately, Shirou Emiya's mockery was met with a calm response from Momo.

“I like Artoria, and that’s all there is to it. It has nothing to do with status or qualifications. I like her, so I will pursue her. I will do my best to improve my strength so that I am qualified to be her, instead of giving up everything before things even begin and worshipping Artoria as a goddess.”

"In my eyes, all her glorious deeds are merely the clothes she wears to adorn herself. Artoria is Artoria, and the essence of Artoria is a girl named Artoria, not the legendary great king of ancient Britain."

"Being a king is an identity, but being a girl is Artoria's true nature."

For Shirou Emiya, Momo's words were almost a complete upheaval.

This is outrageous and utterly ridiculous. King Arthur is King Arthur; she was a king, and only then a woman!

She herself admitted it!

"Are you thinking that Artoria herself told you that she was a queen first and a girl second? Shirou Emiya, you think you're so smart? How do you know that when Artoria said those words, she wasn't just deceiving herself?"

"You keep saying that King Arthur doesn't understand people's hearts. Since Artoria doesn't understand people's hearts, and Artoria is also human, does she really understand her own heart?"

Mo Mo's voice carried a hint of sorrow, as if he could see the frail figure kneeling on the hill of sword railing.

The severe injuries and excruciating pain could not alleviate the sorrow in her heart. She was confused, bewildered, in pain, and she wept. She had given everything, abandoning her own nature to protect the country and the people, so why did she get such a result?

She didn't understand, she really didn't understand.

King Arthur, oblivious to human nature, uttered those few words that haunted her like a curse, preventing her from resting in peace even in death. It was precisely because of these words that she took the entire burden of the tragedy of the Battle of Camlann upon herself.

King Arthur did not understand people's hearts. She did not understand the whole country and its people, the knights who were loyal to her, and the knights who rebelled against her. What happened to everything? Why did everything change overnight?

However, since everyone says it's her fault, then it must be her fault.

Artoria carried the burden of everything, which is why she believed she was unworthy to be king. That's why she wanted to start over and find a king who understood people's hearts to lead the entire country.

She never understood it from beginning to end.

King Arthur's inability to understand human nature is both a curse and an undeniable reality.

However, Mo Mo saw things differently.

The one who is wrong has never been Artoria.

She was once a pure and cheerful girl, dressed in a pure white knight's outfit, symbolizing a pure white girl, the pure white Artoria.

Only she, pure and innocent, was the perfect material. Guided by Merlin and with everyone's expectations, she pulled the sword from the stone, becoming the perfect king everyone hoped for, a perfect symbol.

With perfect military prowess, a perfect image, perfect strategy, and perfect leadership, under the perfect leadership of King Arthur, ancient Great Britain achieved unparalleled glory.

However, when the war ended and peace came, the once perfect king remained as perfect as ever, but the problems that had been hidden by the war began to emerge.

The perfect king remains perfect, but the imperfect reality torments everyone, making every knight who relaxes from the war feel as if they are being scorched by the blazing sun.

No one is perfect, and the chivalric code is merely a self-reflection and self-criticism of knights. Knights are not fanatics or ascetics; even the most devout monks can have moments of evil thoughts.

Knights are human too; they need rest and relaxation, and they need excuses to hide their ugly sides. But in front of King Arthur, everyone's soul is being perfectly roasted.

Artoria was portrayed as the perfect Knight Queen, elevated to a divine status, and made the role model for everyone. However, this symbol of perfection also became the reason why every knight endured the torment of their own imperfections.

All of this is not hard to understand. Perfection should only exist in the realm of ideals, pursued as an unattainable goal. Otherwise, perfection would only be a shackle, locking everyone's steps forward and strangling everyone.

Especially when it comes to other people's perfection.

Humans are such base creatures; envy and destruction are inherent sinful traits, and the destruction of perfection is rooted in everyone's primal impulses. When the knights' admiration and worship of Arthur gradually turned sour due to inner oppression, destruction would naturally descend upon ancient Britain.

Ultimately, someone has to be made a scapegoat for all of this.

Who is it?

Naturally, he was the perfect King Arthur.

But if King Arthur was perfect, how could he become the source of destruction?

Everyone knew the truth, except for King Arthur. Everyone knew the reason for the sin within them, but this reason could not be revealed to the perfect King Arthur.

In the end, they could only blame King Arthur for not understanding the thoughts hidden in each of their hearts and for not being able to enlighten them about the various mixed ideas in their minds.

However, they forgot that it was everyone in ancient Britain who elevated Artoria to a divine status, stripping her of her feminine beauty and turning her into a symbol known as King Arthur.

They elevated Artoria to the highest pedestal, her radiance shining upon everyone in the direction they looked up to. But once Artoria's influence faded, everyone complained that she stood too high and was too far removed from them.

King Arthur didn't understand people's hearts; it was just a facade. To put it bluntly, in Momo's eyes, this sentence should be understood as: "I'm sorry, my king, the sins in my heart cannot be told to you!"

The one who is wrong has never been Artoria.

Momo's rhetorical question seemed to possess immense magic, silencing everyone. Shirou Emiya's mind seemed to lose its ability to think for a moment, and Momo's words echoed in his mind like a curse.

"If King Arthur didn't understand people's hearts, did she truly understand her own?"

The answer... is already in Shirou Emiya's heart.

Recalling Artoria's confusion, every bystander was well aware that this was also the reason why Artoria was ridiculed after the King's Banquet.

Artoria hadn't even grasped her own thoughts, so how could she possibly uphold her own kingly principles? How could a king she couldn't even see clearly gain the approval of Gilgamesh and the Conqueror King?

Shirou Emiya looked at Momo. Momo seemed to have done nothing, yet the magic of her words had almost made Shirou Emiya lose his courage to fight.

On the other side, Artoria, without anyone noticing, had already lowered the sword she had been pointing at Momo. She looked at Momo, but her eyes were currently hidden by her mask, and no one could see her gaze.

However, Shirou Emiya knew that Artoria's heart had already been cracked open by this newly appeared man.

Is this... what makes this manager so terrifying?

"I don't understand my heart, can you understand mine?"