"Speaking of which, what should I call you?"

At this point, Xia Ran simply put all the doubts behind him, completely substituted himself into the state of getting along with his new friends, and asked seriously-

"Liangyi? Style? Or can you just call you Shiki? ”

"The two ceremonies are my names, but if you call me Shiki directly, I will be happy too."

Gently resting her hand on her chest and closing her eyes, she said, "That way, at least tonight will make sense to me." ”

"Meaningful ......" The magician chewed on the sentence for a moment, and then he pointed to himself and introduced himself. Although you must have known it for a long time, I think it is polite to say that I am Xia Ran. ”

"I do know this......" The kimono girl opened her eyes, bowed her head slightly, and then stopped talking, just stared at him quietly, as if waiting for something.

“……”

“……”

The air fell silent for a moment, and only the atmosphere of silence permeated.

"Well, what should I say now?"

Xia Ran let out a long sigh, feeling that this situation was really the worst thing he was at dealing with, he really didn't have the worries he had before, but this feeling was also tormenting, making him feel a little uncomfortable.

Do you want to stay here with big eyes and small eyes? Why don't you give yourself a little arrow that you can click on and have a conversation?

"You can say anything, but I've never had friends, and I don't know how friends talk to each other......"

The kimono girl replied gently, but the words she said made Xia Ran feel a little pitiful.

He sighed again, and then quickly sorted out his thoughts: "Then let me talk about it, although it may be some boring little things, in your opinion, it is probably not a trivial problem......

"Of course not, if you really want to talk to me about this kind of thing, I'll be happy......" She smiled and shook her head, and said seriously.

"Well, let me think about how to say ......"

What the hell is going on? Xia Ran used her brain helplessly, and began to talk to her about some small things casually, including her daily life, including the nightmares she had, and what she had seen and heard in the mission world......

At first, he felt both angry and amused by this inexplicable development, but slowly he calmed down completely, and she listened to him happily as he said whatever he wanted.

The snow doesn't stop, and white debris buries the darkness.

fluttering, like a feather, falling.

I don't know how long it has been, and when it comes to this encounter, Xia Ran also seems to have thought of something, and looks at the kimono girl: "Speaking of which, I still stay here and haven't left, is it Shiki your reason?" ”

"Looks like you'd like to end it as soon as possible, and it must be hard for you to be forced to talk to me......"

She couldn't help laughing, and then glanced at the end of the gray and wide night before turning back and speaking so softly.

"No, no, no, I didn't think so, I just thought of it and asked by the way, and you must know what I'm thinking."

Xia Ran shook his head vigorously, I don't know if he was a little serious, he stared at the kimono girl, and said.

He really felt that she was very pitiful now, so he didn't want to leave her as soon as possible and walked away—besides, it was useless to think about it—and he was seriously trying to talk to her as a friend from just now to now.

"I don't know about this, because since you said that mind reading was too foul, I haven't deliberately read your thoughts anymore......"

She looked away like a butterfly hiding from the sun, and instead of looking at him seriously, she closed her eyes and let out a sigh of relief, as if she were glad and happy at his answer.

"Is that so? It's so reassuring. ”

Xia Ran nodded, indicating that he believed it.

"So, let me tell you, you can still stay in this world now, in fact, it has nothing to do with me, I just know that you will stay until now, so I am waiting for you here...... About the reason why you were able to stay on. ”

The kimono girl explained directly, and her tone was as if she was talking about tomorrow's weather, and she seemed careless-

"Actually, it's because the will of the 'world' has been called by your previous actions, just like the knight king's frozen state before he died...... It's not something incomprehensible, you probably haven't noticed what information you've received since then, right? ”

"Huh?"

Xia Ran was slightly stunned, then understood something, and opened the information prompt page that he had not read, because of the frequent swiping of the screen just now, he really never paid attention to the information prompt that appeared later.

Because he subconsciously felt that there would be nothing else worth caring about, nothing more than the acquisition of free attribute points and the receipt of money prompts or something.

After opening it, he found that at the bottom of the page, a completely different prompt message did appear-

The reminder was a contract of rules, and it was constantly flickering, and he didn't know how long it had been prompting, but he hadn't paid attention to it.

clicked on the details of the prompt with his mind, and the next moment, Xia Ran heard a voice exactly, which seemed to come from the echo of the void, and it seemed to be the chorus of countless people, men, women, old people, children, the voices gathered together:

"I am ready to give you the opportunity to receive your death in exchange for the fulfillment of that wish."

“……”

“……”

Xia Ran was silent for a moment, and he understood almost instantly what this voice meant.

Just like what happened to Artoria, Restraint seems to have taken a fancy to him and intends to sign him as a wage earner.

It's like the moment Artoria calls the will of the "world", her time has stood still, and as long as the contract is not over, she will forever wander in the history of the Battle of the Sword Fence, and time will not advance.

Xia Ran's current experience is probably similar, except that he is not in a state of death, nor is he frozen in a certain period of history, but at the last moment, the rejection of him by the inhibition force has indeed completely disappeared.

Therefore, he has been able to continue to stay in this world until now without being excluded.

Wait, so to speak—

"If I don't agree and refuse this contract, will I be able to stay in time?" He looked at the "Two Rituals" with anticipation.

"Of course that's impossible."

The kimono girl showed a peaceful smile, calmly and directly denied his whims-

"Only if you can come in handy, it will give unlimited opportunities to drive you as a prop, if you can use it to be useful."

In other words, if he has not explicitly agreed or refused, the power of restraint will not always waste his strength on him and let him stay in this world.

"Ah, what a pity......" Xia Ran sighed a little disappointed, and was not too surprised that he had received a contract for restraint.

- Even Emiya Shirou can, there's no reason why he can't.

"And what if I sign this contract?"

"Isn't it very clear? Give you the opportunity to return to this world in the future, but at the price, if you do die in this world, it will take your afterlife......"

She stared at him and continued in a tone of course.

"In other words, if I don't die or die in this world, this contract is not binding on me?" Xia Ran pinched his chin and thought carefully.

"As long as the contract is established, your information will be absorbed by that mechanism, and then sent to the throne to be burned as a spiritual base...... Just like the knight king, her body is not on the seat at all, which means that she is still a living person, but because she signed a contract and has her information on the seat, she can still be summoned. ”

The girl shook her head and said, she knew everything, so she answered without the slightest concern, as if she didn't think it was a matter of concern at all.

"Take the Holy Grail War you just started as an example, borrow the information from the Heroic Spirit in the Valhalla Body, and then pour this information into the framework of the rank, and the Heroic Spirit clone is the Servant ......"

"Although there is no way to summon your main body, as long as the information is recorded as a spiritual base, then your information is likely to be summoned as a servant, it may be in the past, it may be in the future, or it may be in another world line......

"Like a doppelganger?" Xia Ran nodded as if he understood, "Although it wasn't directly manipulated by me, I can only know what "I" did afterwards?" ”

"Yes, because the information that makes up the Servant will return to the seat at the same time as the Servant dies or the summoning ends, the Ontology can naturally know its actions as a Servant in a recorded way like reading a book."

She glanced at him and explained very casually.

"However, only if you return to this world, you will be able to update your information through a contract with the restraining force...... You can know what "you" have done, and the changes in information brought about by your own growth will also bring changes to the spiritual base records on the seat. ”

"Sounds like a fun AFK game...... But I'm going to think about it. The magician nodded solemnly.

It's no wonder that such a contract is received, and the emotional restraint is not a loss, it is originally a defense device of the "human world" made by people's unconscious aggregates, absorbing countless records and countless powers, and will exist forever until the end of human reason.

"Xia Ran, I also have something to ask you...... It's a bit of a pity, but after I asked, our conversation for today will be over, and that's why I'm here. ”

At this time, the kimono girl said seriously, looking at him with pupils that were several times more mature than they looked on the outside.

"Oh, you say, I'm listening to ......" Xia Ran hurriedly stopped other nonsense and answered.

"What do you want?"

She quietly stepped forward and reached out to touch his face, and her pupils were transparent, with infinite depth, as if she could see the lack of humanity in the pupils of the deep human heart, only a god-like temperament.

"—tell me, what is your desire? As long as it is a wish, I can usually make it happen. ”

Sure enough, this is it!

Xia Ran had expected it, so he thought about it seriously, and at this moment, many thoughts flashed in his mind, but they were not the right answer.

He was very sure that she definitely didn't just want to be a wish machine for herself, she must have a more far-reaching reason, and she only had one chance, once she said the wrong thing......

His thoughts turned a thousand times in an instant, Xia Ran seemed to have made a decision, he looked directly at her, responded to her with his eyes, and said what he thought in his heart word by word-

"Tell me, what is your wish? Can I help you make it happen? ”

Maybe it's the story of the nine-tailed cat......

Maybe it's just to look at her pitiful......

Maybe it's just that there's no reason for it, and it's just an opportunity to ask directly......

She laughed.