I'm tied to Athena.

“It’s just breathtakingly beautiful.”

This is the feeling Li Yun had when he saw the landscape expanding before his eyes.

The location is a town, a commonplace town.

In this strange city that should have seemed monotonous, there stood several skyscrapers that soared into the sky. They were so majestic that even he, who was walking on the ground, seemed to be swallowed up along with the blue sky.

The intersection of three-lane one-way main roads connects to the north-south and east-west roads, and is extremely close to the center of Shibuya. If you look down from above, it looks like a huge cross floating in the town.

Although it is just like any other crossroads in the outside world, if you discard the inherent image in your mind and think of this road as if you were seeing it for the first time, you would feel like a countryman stepping into the city for the first time and being shocked by it.

But there was a sense of disharmony.

The cement aggregate, a symbol of humanity, gives people the feeling that it grows out of the ground, like a natural object.

If buildings are trees, then this city is a forest born in nature.

It is precisely because of this sense of incongruity that this commonplace scenery appears beautiful.

The place where Li Yun was standing was an entrance to an intersection.

I can't tell the directions, and there's no need to tell the directions.

In a location more central than the crossroads in the center of town, there was a girl.

This is where the pedestrian crossings at the omnidirectional intersection intersect, and it is a place where you cannot stay still.

However, ten minutes had passed since Li Yun saw it, and ten minutes had also passed since she stood there.

The traffic light had changed red several times, but no horn honked around her.

This is understandable. After all, in this vast scene, the existence of human beings has completely disappeared.

There was no one at the intersection, and no cars were passing.

Not only was there no sound, but even no smell.

This is her dream, a "safe haven" that she inadvertently materialized in order to protect herself and escape pain.

I didn't realize that this place is a 'safe haven'.

She didn't know why she was here, so she wandered around the town trying to find out what was going on.

And at this moment, she stopped at the intersection.

After looking at the town for a while, the girl let herself lie down in the middle of the intersection and continued to look up at the sky absentmindedly.

"The ground is cold. You'll catch a cold."

Gently, like a spring breeze caressing a willow, the man's gentle voice broke the silence of the street.

The vast blue sky disappeared, and the man's face replaced the sky and entered the girl's eyes.

"You are....big brother?"

As if pushed by something, the girl sat up suddenly and circled around Li Yun happily, "Big brother, is that you? You came to see me?"

"No, big brother is here to take you home." Li Yun squatted down, looked at the girl at eye level, and stroked the girl's head, "Leave here and go back to your real home."

"Brother, do you know where this is?"

The big black eyes were filled with joy and happiness.

Although she thought the uninhabited world was quite beautiful - she also felt lonely.

The empty streets, the silent alleys, everything is surrounded by loneliness.

However, she only felt lonely for the first few days. After getting through the first few days, she got used to it.

When the time exceeded three months, she stopped counting the days one by one.

It retains human emotions, but behaves like a zombie in a human body.

Wandering around town all day, then sleeping at sunset.

“This is your dream.”

"Dream?"

"Well, a lonely, lonely dream."

Ah, this is a long, even ageless lonely dream... It's time for the girl entangled in loneliness and pain to wake up.

"go home."

He stretched out his hand in front of the girl, and his smile was like the rising sun, gentle and warm, but not dazzling.

"Really...can I?" The girl raised her hand gently, but did not put it in the man's palm. "Can I...really leave?"

Long-term loneliness and pain made the girl named Chun Yiqiu afraid of reality.

Longing for love, but refusing to return to reality because of fear.

"Sure, big brother will accompany you."

Li Yun reached out and held the girl's hand.

So warm...

I don't know why, but when our hands touched, loneliness and pain disappeared... My cold heart was like being surrounded by the sun, slowly melting...

It was as if the city, which had grown naturally out of nature, began to collapse from the edges, with buildings collapsing and roads breaking apart, as if the barriers that disguised the emptiness were disappearing.

The girl gently closed her eyes, and her happy little face was filled with only peace and happiness - she gently flew up to the sky, and starting from the soles of her feet, her body turned into dazzling golden particles and slowly left.

The task of saving Chun Qiu is difficult, but not difficult.

Qiu Chun has a cheerful personality and knows how to be patient and accepting. As long as you persuade her carefully, it will not be difficult to take her away.

The difficulty is how to enter her 'safe haven'.

Because it was protected from the outside world, not everyone could enter, even with the power of the Pale Knight.

While the world loves Shatiao Ai Ge, it also loves Li Yun.

The attack of the Pale Knight became the key to his rescue of Chun Qiu.

After watching Qiu Chun leave, Li Yun looked at the collection of black fog that had stopped beside him at some point in time.

"Is that all right?"

It would take some time for the dream world to completely collapse. Before that, he wanted to have a good chat with the Pale Knight.

"....." He received a silent nod in response.

"You don't have to erase the child's memory of you. To that child, you are the first friend. It would be pitiful to forget your best friend just like that."

After arriving in the dream world, the Pale Knight erased Tsubaki's memories of the Holy Grail War and himself. After the Holy Grail War began, the memories of the time she spent with her parents in the dream world were also deleted by him.

"That's good...." The voice was as harsh as the squeaking sound of insects fighting.

But it was normal, the Pale Knight was originally a robot-like existence. Originally, he didn't even have a language system.

"That kid... needs to start over."

"My existence will become a burden to her... As long as she looks forward, I will be satisfied."

After the Holy Grail War is over, the Servants will disappear and the Pale Knights will also disappear, so instead of parting after the Holy Grail War, it is better to cut off the ties now.

From this moment on, the child no longer suffers.

Chapter 396 The Sixth Beast

Chun Qiu woke up.

Thanks to the efforts of Solomon and Li Yun, Qiu Chun regained her sight. She only remembered that she had been sick and slept in the hospital for a year. After waking up, she appeared in Linglong Pavilion.

In cooperation with the Pale Knight, Li Yun and the others lied.

"Your parents went to a very far place to wake you up. Before they left, they entrusted you to Linglong Pavilion for care."

Perhaps it was the experience in the dream that made Chun Qiu grow up. She did not cry or make a fuss, but was very calm... Just like accepting this fact like a doll.

The Pale Knight silently guards Tsubaki Yamaguchi's dream. He will continue to guard her like this until he leaves.

"Are you still used to it?"

In the lush woods, the girl stopped and looked up at the green leaves and sunshine.

Hearing the voice, she looked back, joy appeared on her face, "Big brother."

"Why are you here alone?" He put his coat on the girl. "It's winter now. I guess you just recovered from an illness. It would be bad if you catch a cold."

"Brother, you're too worried. Chun is in good health." The girl smiled brightly and innocently, and her small hand grasped Li Yun's large and strong hand.

"Where's Misaya?"

In this Holy Grail War, Misaya of Linglong Pavilion is the youngest. From the beginning of the war, the head of Linglong Pavilion asked for leave for her so that she could concentrate on preparing for the war.

Although Kishinami Hakuno has been taking care of her, she is still a child after all. Without a playmate, she will eventually feel a little lonely.

Now that Xianqiu Chun has woken up and is close to her age, she will naturally become closer to Xianqiu Chun.

"I wanted to be alone, so I sneaked out." The girl stuck out her tongue and had an embarrassed expression on her face.

"Do you like someone?"

"No...it's just...Tsubaki always feels like someone is with her. In a crowded place, Tsubaki can only vaguely feel that 'he' is with her, but when she's alone like this, she can definitely feel that 'he' is with her."

The girl said softly, "Tsubaki has a big brother, a little sister Misaya, and a little sister Shirano, so Tsubaki is not lonely."

"But, 'he' only has Tsubaki. If Tsubaki doesn't accompany 'him', 'he' will be lonely."

The girl's soft words revealed her obedience and understanding.

Although the girl is young, she is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed.

"Chun will definitely be someone who can bring smiles to others in the future." Li Yun gently stroked the child's head, feeling deeply moved. The pain this child had experienced might be more serious than he had imagined.

“Like a big brother?” Blinking, the girl, who was only ten years and three months old, smiled even more happily.

"I?"

"Well, big brother is the one who brings smile to Tsubaki's face. Will Tsubaki become someone like big brother in the future?"

Li Yun smiled, very happily, "Well, Chun will become a better person than big brother in the future."

"Okay, let's go back."

"Ah."

On the sixth night of the Holy Grail War, the Servants gathered in Li Yun's room... Although they said so, in reality it was still Li Yun and his four companions.

Berserker is completely irrational and is directly excluded; Assassin is polluted and is now being suppressed by Gilgamesh's treasure; Lancer has no entity and cannot participate, and Rider has already left the stage.

The Master did not participate in this meeting.

After all, let them survive this Holy Grail War like this.

Peace and comfort. All enemies and crises exist only in words. This dangerous but unreal Holy Grail War is what they need.

"The Holy Grail War can now be declared over." Looking at the magician, archer, and swordsman in front of him, the hero smiled, "But we still need to defeat an enemy."

After rescuing Tsubaki Ibara, Aika Sajo took some time to tell Li Yun the truth about the Holy Grail.

What is "it" that is sleeping in the "egg" with the Holy Grail as its shell, carrying the number 666, and will eventually descend from the other side of the sea?

——The end of desire. The road to destruction. The beast of disaster that seeps out from the abyss.

'beast'.

More specifically, its name is the Beast of Original Sin.

They are great disasters rejected by human history, various disasters that threaten human history and destroy humanity.

They were born from human civilization, became increasingly powerful with the development of mankind, and destroyed civilization from within society.

If I had to describe it, it would be like a cancer cell that parasitizes the human body.

Yes, they are enemies of humans, they devour humans, and they destroy humans!

"Humph, what an ironic result." The proud king snorted, "Is this the result of the wishes of the seven riders?"

"Rider knew that the Holy Grail contained such a monster, so he chose to destroy Tokyo and save the world..."

"Senior Solomon, don't you know? I thought you knew it a long time ago."