Earth Princess? No, it's Fujimaru Ritsuka!

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That lively and cheerful girl, the most energetic and innocent girl among the Knights of the Round Table, is now being used as a puppet.

Lancelot's voice had a slight hoarseness that he himself was unaware of.

Even Lancelot was deeply saddened.

He had no intention of killing Gareth.

Because of a mistake he made before, he even became enemies with his friend, Gao Wen.

"Knight Lancelot, now is not the time to indulge in emotions!"

Mash stepped forward, shield in hand: "Leave Gareth to us. My senior told me that you and Agrave have a grudge that needs to be settled, right?"

Lancelot:

"To make it clear beforehand, this spirit origin tells me that Agravine is definitely not an evil person, and in some ways I even think that what happened to Camelot was your fault."

The girl's voice carried a hint of determination.

“But even so, you should still go and settle things with Agraven.”

"We will give Gareth a dignified exit, and then we will reunite with our predecessors before the Lion King's throne!"

Whether it's Galahad or their daughter Mash now.

Lancelot acted like a child in front of the other person.

"I understand. Then I'll leave Lord Gareth in your care."

Lancelot gripped Aarondeit tightly, then transformed into a purple lightning bolt and sped towards a certain direction of the Holy City.

Fujimaru Ritsuka found herself in a milky-white "world".

It should be said that this is not the world, but some kind of interlayer outside the world.

There is no sky, no ground, not even the concept of the flow of time; all around is only cold nothingness and an endless expanse of milky white light.

Fujimaru Ritsuka simultaneously activated the Mystic Eyes of the Rainbow and the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

Unfortunately, even with these two eyes, they couldn't see anything in the narrow space between worlds.

Fujimaru Ritsuka raised her hand, and suddenly, a wild storm swept across the view, with thunder roaring and the wind howling in the sky.

The brilliance of the spear at the end of the world reached the heavens.

The World Wall blocked the raging storm.

She looked up...

Within the clouds, what appeared to be dark, crimson lightning falling from the sky could be seen.

There was the sound of a horse.

The rider on the horse was a knight in black armor.

The knight held a dark red lance that swirled around him.

They sprinted down from the sky and landed there!

With no ground to step on, the sound of horses' hooves pounding on Fujimaru Ritsuka's eardrums like heavy hammer blows, slowly approaching from the depths of the clouds with a dull vibration!

"Click~~"

A crimson thunderbolt struck.

Fujimaru Ritsuka raised her head and looked at the black-clad knight.

The knight did not show his face; his helmet completely covered it.

Only two cold red lights shone through the gaps in the mask.

...like two clusters of flames burning in the abyss.

"Child of the Stars, Master from Chaldea."

"This is the end of a world where no living beings exist, shrouded in a fog of nothingness, where there is no place of salvation."

"tell me..."

"...What is your purpose in coming here?"

Dark crimson lightning exploded in the milky white void, and crimson electric light coiled around the black knight's storm lance.

The other person looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka quietly.

"Purpose?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka's voice was clear and firm, without the slightest hesitation: "I have no purpose, I'm leaving here."

"it's out of the question."

The black-armored knight's voice was resolute, and his warhorse began to stir restlessly, flicking its mane and pawing at the empty earth with its hooves.

The knight steed slowly circled Fujimaru Ritsuka once.

“I think you should know very well. This gun is the Gun of the End, the Star Wedge that fixes the world. It is the physical laws and phenomena of existence on the surface of the world, and at the same time, it is the existence of the goddess Rungomminiad herself.”

"As a Star Spirit, you should not have damaged the Holy Lance."

The knight's voice was resolute: "The moment you destroyed the gates of the Holy City, you interfered with the planet's choice and undermined the planet's laws... Do you know what you're doing?"

"Stop it."

"Star spirits should not interfere with the choices of primates."

"Otherwise, one day..."

"You will witness the world crumbling before your eyes."

The Star Spirits will not interfere with human choices.

The princess herself stated this point definitively: the burning of human reason was never something she needed to resolve.

This planet, the world's civilization, the future of primates... these are all the textures on the planet's surface.

"Human beings will kill each other out of selfish desires in the future, and civilization will be destroyed in the flames of war. Even the Knights of the Round Table could not escape the fate of division. What the Lion King feared was the extinction of mankind."

"She protected humanity, she protected the world... So, Star Child, answer me... Rungomminiad, where exactly did you go wrong?"

The black-clad knight's holy lance spun rapidly as she questioned Fujimaru Ritsuka, seemingly anticipating her answer.

"you're right."

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the black-armored knight, took a step forward, and the golden light tore a gap in the milky white mist.

"Oh?"

"The Star Spirits will not interfere with human choices, let alone the True Ancestor King who is at the top of the Star Spirits and possesses the mind and body functions of the Star Spirits."

"but--!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka's voice suddenly rose, her heterochromatic eyes gleaming with a burning light, which startled even the black knight.

"I am both the True Ancestor and a human being."

"No matter how many times I'm asked, no matter what difficulties I encounter, my decision will never change!"

"Humans will kill each other for their own selfish desires, just as some will sacrifice their lives for their ideals!"

"Civilizations may be destroyed in the flames of war, but the transmission of civilizations will never be severed!"

Even if the future of the Round Table is ultimately a tragedy, that ideal will become stars to guide future generations!

"The future of humanity lies in the continuous progress we make in our ordinary lives. The spirit of doing the right thing even in the face of a crisis of destruction is the future I should protect and reclaim!"

"but--"

The black-armored knight's voice was calm, but his next words left Fujimaru Ritsuka speechless.

Even if you could successfully save everyone's future...

“In such a future, there would be no individual human being like Fujimaru Ritsuka.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka gritted her teeth...

She recalled the scene in the Land of the Dead where she fought against King Hassan and her teacher Scáthach.

As the evening bells toll.

Every ordinary moment of life that Fujimaru Ritsuka experienced... will eventually fade away from her.

every time.

The life of an ordinary person.

A happy high school life, bustling streets, being able to do whatever you want in shopping districts and cinemas, and fully unleashing your youth in clubs and competitions... these are dreams that every teenager can realize.

For Fujimaru Ritsuka...

From the moment she transformed into a star spirit, she vanished into nothingness.

Fujimaru Ritsuka is dead.

What survives now is merely a savior device possessing the power of the True Ancestor and the spirit of humanity, designed to safeguard the future development of humankind and protect the nautical chart of human reason.

"enough."

"I don't want to say that I'm sacrificing myself for something baseless and high-sounding, after all, I'm still alive."

"but..."

"I have to do this, if I don't... then who else can do it?"

The black-armored knight trembled slightly, and the dark gold pupils hidden beneath the dark lion mask clearly shook as if an earthquake had struck.

"In that case..."

After a long pause, the black-armored knight finally spoke again.

Click, click...

She raised her hand, her fingertips touching the cold helmet.

The movements were slow and heavy, as if removing a long-standing shackle.

With a final, crisp sound, the helmet fell off, revealing a flawless, white face—

Her long, silvery-white hair fell over her shoulders.

Despite his cold demeanor, his dark golden pupils held a gentle, human touch.

Let me reintroduce myself.

"Artoria Pendragon Alter, at the edge, did not become the goddess's king of the Wild Hunt."

Fujimaru Ritsuka was stunned.

The person before me had an appearance similar to the Lion King, but without the goddess's coldness; instead, she possessed a touch of human warmth.

"The Holy Lance Rungomminiad is ultimately the Star Wedge that fixes the laws of the human world, so it's best not to destroy it for now."

Black Lancer gripped his spiraling red spear tightly: "The last Master of humanity... sign a contract with me and return to the Holy Lance."

"This spear is also a projection of the Holy Lance Rungomminiad. Now, I entrust its use to you—"

"As we are both Artoria, I cannot manifest in her singularity... so I cannot personally go to the singularity to confront her."

"Therefore, I'll leave the [key] to you. Since you have the ability to collect things, why not add the ability to fix things as well?"

Larry said = Yi Yi Lin 玐罒气罒午溜姆战马前步一步 (Yi Yi Lin 玐罒气罒午溜姆战马前步 - this phrase is a nonsensical string of characters and doesn't translate directly.)

The right to use the Holy Lance of Black Gunner was handed over to Fujimaru Ritsuka by the [Projection] of [Lungominiad].

"With it, you can break through the world barrier and return to the Holy City without truly destroying the Star Wedge of the planetary laws, thus avoiding the collapse of the world that neither of us wants to see."

Fujimaru Ritsuka's gaze fell on the projection of the holy spear.

“I understand.” Fujimaru Ritsuka reached out and took the projection of the Holy Lance.

"Thank you, Artoria." (This appears to be a fragment of a poem or a reference to a shrimp.)

The moment my fingertips touched the projection of the Holy Lance, a warm power spread from my palm throughout my body.

"I swear in the name of humanity's last Master that I will absolutely reclaim humanity and the future of this planet."

With a determined smile, Fujimaru Ritsuka said, "So, leave it to me with peace of mind."

The Command Seals on the back of his hand flashed crimson.