RNP Chapter 313 It's Not Your Fault
Chapter 313 It's Not Your Fault
Chapter 313 It's Not Your Fault
After the party ended, Shichen and Saber didn't linger and left first.
Rider and Archer could no longer stay together and went their separate ways.
Despite it being the Holy Grail War, and despite the fact that the two sides were enemies, no battle actually broke out in the end.
Assassin is indeed dead.
Including Assassin, three Servants have died: Lancer, who died at the very beginning, and Caster, who deserved to die.
Of the seven factions, two have indeed withdrawn, since Master also died along with them.
Although Assassin is dead, his Master may still pose a threat, and he might be able to obtain a new Servant at any time.
Shichen didn't care. Even if that guy got a new Servant, he was just usurping someone else's. He wouldn't have more enemies.
After all, if the original Master hadn't died, how could the Servant have been usurped?
Moreover, he wasn't afraid of any Servant, but he was more worried about Saber's situation.
"Saber, are you alright?" Shichen asked with concern, looking at Saber who seemed preoccupied since leaving the garden.
Saber remained silent, as if she hadn't heard the time.
At this moment, Shi Chen was holding her hand, but she didn't react at all.
Saber's hands are small and delicate, without any calluses from long battles or wielding a sword.
However, Shichen has no intention of playing with it right now.
"Saber." Shichen raised his voice.
"Huh? Time? What's wrong?" Saber finally realized.
Are you alright?
"I..." Saber opened her mouth but couldn't speak. She knew what Shichen was asking, but she didn't know how to answer.
"Look at me."
Shichen stopped, let go of her hand, grasped her thin shoulders, and made her face him.
"Time..."
"Saber, you are now my Servant, and I am your Master. You belong only to me now. Tell me what you are thinking," Shichen commanded.
"...I don't belong to you." Saber retorted softly.
"Aren't Servants supposed to belong to the Master?" Shichen smiled.
"We're just business partners..."
.
"What? After all this time, we're still just business partners?" Shi Chen was a little hurt.
"Well... at most, we're friends."
"Just friends?"
"What kind of relationship do you envision?"
"How is your family?" Shi Chen asked without hesitation.
"family.....
.
Saber murmured the word, its meaning coming to mind.
It seems she has never experienced what it means to have family.
"Yes, I, Alice, Frilian, and Ilya are all your family," Shichen said with a smile.
"Family...?" Saber murmured, lost in thought.
"It is fate that we met. We were able to meet through the Holy Grail War, so why not cherish this fate? The Holy Grail War is not everything." Shichen raised his right hand and stroked her delicate and smooth face.
"But I... have a wish I want to fulfill..." Saber met the eyes of the person born at that time.
"I know that every Master and Servant has wishes they want to fulfill, but that's not what we're talking about right now."
"What...does that mean?"
"Before we win the Holy Grail War, can't we just enjoy the process? Experience the beauty of this era, see its differences...::. Wishes are just the end of the journey."
"A journey...::.Time, is that what you're thinking?" Saber was a little surprised; she had never considered the Holy Grail War as a journey.
"yes."
Shi Chen smiled and nodded: "It's so wonderful to meet you. If possible, I don't want to be disturbed by anything else. I want to spend this journey with you."
"Time..." Saber's eyes gleamed as she stared at him, lost in thought.
"So, what are you thinking about? Tell me, I want to think about it with you."
"I...I understand."
Saber nodded as if making a decision, and then said, "Actually, I'm still thinking about what Rider said."
"As expected."
Shi Chen shook his head, released her shoulder, took her hand again, held it tightly, and continued walking.
Saber realized that the two were holding hands. She looked down at their clasped hands, their fingers still intertwined.
She tried to move slightly but found she couldn't break free. She looked up at Shichen, who seemed completely oblivious, which made her want to laugh.
Fine, let him hold the hand.
For some reason, she doesn't resist being led around by time at all now; perhaps she really needs someone to accompany her.
This person was indeed none other than the one who accompanied her here, stayed with her all the way, accompanied her back, and protected her. "Actually, you don't need to care about what Rider said at all," Shichen said.
Why?
Shi Chen turned his head to look at her and explained with a smile, "It's a very simple principle. Everyone is independent, and everyone's thoughts are different. That's what makes people so interesting. Although Rider is a king just like you, he is him, and you are you. The paths you two want to take as kings are naturally different."
"But... he was right to leave, and I was wrong to leave..." Saber lowered her head.
Why would you think that way?
"You saw it too, didn't you? His people, his warriors, even if their souls are scattered, even if they become heroic spirits, they still follow him, and I..."
"And then?" Shichen continued to ask.
"Huh?" Saber looked at him, not understanding what he meant.
"Rider's departure might not have been the right one, otherwise he wouldn't have been destroyed as well." Shi Chen shook his head in denial.
"But as a king... his way of being a king must be right," Saber suddenly retorted.
"Saber, why do you agree with him so much?" Shichen couldn't help but ask when he saw how agitated she was.
"Because... my subordinates told me that I..."
"You say you don't understand people's hearts?" Shi Chen interjected.
How did you know?
"Sigh, so that's all you care about," Shi Chen said helplessly.
"How could I, Saber, not care about this sentence? It was this sentence that led to the destruction of the kingdom."
"How could you not understand people's hearts?" Shi Chen sighed, placing his other hand on her head and gently rubbing it.
The tuft of hair was tucked between his fingers, dangling back and forth.
Shi Chen remembered that this ahoge (cowlick) was the king's honor, and no one was allowed to touch it, but he had touched it several times already.
"I might...::. really not understand people's hearts." Saber said sadly.
"Idiot." Shi Chen flicked her forehead hard.
"It hurts..." Saber frowned.
"How could you possibly not understand people's hearts!" Shi Chen asserted.
Saber simply kept in mind her oath and the idea that "a king cannot rule with a heart full of kindness and indecisiveness," so she never showed any sadness when she sat on the throne.
Saber always remembered that no one was better at governing than the king, so she handled affairs without error and punished enemies without bias. She was like a scale with precision down to several decimal places, calculating the balance of gains and losses.
As a result, her knights began to fear the king's ruthless decisions.
Perhaps it was the timing that made him think that Saber was right to keep her oath. She had never seen the king's rule and could not rely on anyone. It was her subordinates who did not understand him, could not even share the burden, and in the end, they only caused trouble, leading to the destruction of the civil war.
The world-renowned Knights of the Round Table were nothing to the Hour.
"Then why did Tristan say that?" Saber couldn't help but ask.
Tristan, one of the Knights of the Round Table, is the one who said the famous line, "The king does not understand people's hearts."
"I don't care why he said that," Shi Chen said with a pout.
"Mistaken?" Saber stared blankly at the time.
"Saber, have you ever considered that it was because he didn't understand you that he said you didn't understand people's hearts?"
"What?"
"They don't even understand your situation, how could they possibly understand your decisions?"
"But the king doesn't need his subordinates to understand..."
"Really? They don't know you, so how can they trust you more?"
"It is enough that I am the king."
"And then they perished?"
"So, the fault doesn't lie with you, it lies with your subordinates who don't understand you."
No...
"Alright, stop speaking up for them. You know how stupid they are; they caused the country's downfall."
Saber had no way to refute it.
"Just listen to me. They're the ones who're wrong. Don't regret your failure."
"How could you..." Saber shook her head.
"I am the Master, and what I say goes. If you don't listen to me, I will have to use Command Spells to command you."
"Command Spells can't be used like that!" Saber quickly stopped her.
"Then listen to me."
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"Alright, we should go back now, Ellie and the others will worry." Without waiting for a reply, Shi Chen pulled her straight back to the hotel, not caring whether she had been persuaded or not.
He knew, of course, that Saber wouldn't be so easily persuaded, but that was all in the past and didn't really matter.
He just wanted her to talk about it; some things are easier to bear when someone knows them.