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Chapter 24 Life Sacrifice

When the ground is getting closer and closer to me, the growing trees will immediately flood my body, and I will be dumped out. () (Baidu search:, the fastest update to read novels)

The rider, who was riding on the sky horse, liberated her chains, then picked me up and threw it away, slowing down my falling posture.

“rider—”

Before I could think about why the other party saved me, my former enemy, I looked at the rider who was smashing towards the ground and shouted out subconsciously.

fine--

A silver light flashed from the side, colliding with the sky horse, crossing a forest obliquely, landing on the ground dozens of meters away. Rider threw it off the horse's back and rolled out a long way, lying in the grass without moving.

On the other side was the Saber who turned from silver light to the original form. The girl in heavy armor staggered to support the ground and wanted to stand up.

Thanks to rider, I fell to the ground the last time, rolled and removed the last impact force, and I supported my shaky legs and ran towards Saber's position.

"Saber, how are you?"

The girl who had just saved the rider took my hand and stood up. She leaned against the tree next to her. Her dark blue eyes were turning blurred, and it took her a long time to see what I looked like.

"Shirou, as long as you're fine. I'm fine, too."

I could see the girl enduring the pain in her body, emitting joy from the heart from her eyes. She couldn't help but feel ache in her heart and turned around intuition.

"I'll go and see the rider..."

He ran away as if he was escaping, but he couldn't help but look like Saber just now again. ()

Saber's hairband was untied during the rushing journey, and the short hair that was golden to the neck was scattered freely, making the girl's heroic face become unprecedentedly gentle. If it were other times, I would definitely be stunned.

But when she raised her head and cared for my safety, her sweat-wet hair was tightly pressed against her rosy cheeks, covering most of her expressions, looking very embarrassed, and only saw that her still shining eyes were worried about me.

In order to save my girl, she ran down Yuanzang Mountain at a speed comparable to Tianma, and saved rider and her Tianma. That journey must have been very hard.

The deeper feelings made me feel ache in my heart and I turned my head away from facing it.

When I came to the side of the rider who was lying in the grass, I hesitatedly leaned down and pushed away the long purple hair covering her body, revealing the pretty face of a woman wearing a blindfold.

He glanced at the body covered with wounds with rider. For the hero, the wound was not fatal. But because he couldn't see his eyes, he didn't know if he woke up.

"rider, rider! Wake up!"

I just called the other party's rank, and I was afraid of affecting the injury and did not dare to move my body. ()

"uh-huh--"

After shouting several times, rider finally moved, his purple hair slowly dissipated like life, and his face turned pale due to pain and turned toward me.

"Huh--just rider is fine...ah!"

I let out a long breath, and couldn't help but sit down next to the rider, supporting the ground with both hands back, but the swelling and pain from my arms made me scream in embarrassment. ()

That's the price brought by projection that surpassed the limit just now, but why did I do it so easily?

I shook my head and had no energy to think about the doubts in my heart.

“pegasus…”

The weak voice of rider came from beside her. She struggled to turn over and look around, muttering the word.

In response, the Tianma lying on the crushed branch on the other side made a listless neigh.

"oh……"

Rider let out a breath of peace and moved his body and relaxed his whole body.

"Shirou, if I want to retreat, I will recover for a while, you can leave first."

"Huh--"

I didn't know how to react for a long time, and the anger brought from somewhere improved my tone.

"rider, what are you kidding? Do you think I'll leave you alone here?"

"Shirou, don't forget the promise you made last time. Your life is more valuable than you think, especially compared to the server. And do you think you have any other role here besides becoming a burden?"

"Don't we escape now? As long as we call Tonsaka to evacuate together, everyone will be safe--hey! Where is Tonsaka now?"

Surprisingly I still have the energy to argue with the rider. Perhaps the rider's overly calm voice similar to Saber made me angry and found an extremely serious problem.

"Sirou, I'm sorry, I forgot Rin on the mountain - I'll take her back."

Saber's embarrassed voice came from the other side. The girl in silver-white armored stood up with an invisible sword and wanted to go up the mountain to find her companion.

"Wait-I can go!"

Isn’t it too hard to let Saber run down the mountain to save me, and then run back to find Tosaka?

Without thinking, I was ready to stand up and look for someone instead of Saber.

Hey—

Can't stand up—

Can't stand up no matter how much-

His legs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead, and he could only barely move his thighs.

And my calves were completely unconscious.

"Shirou please don't worry, I'll be back soon."

It seemed that I had known for a long time that I would not be able to show off. Saber walked towards the distant mountain path without even looking at me. She walked faster and faster on the mountain path, and soon exceeded my usual speed.

Speaking of which, the recovery speed of the server is really strong. Even if it is difficult to move, it can be completely restored in three days. It has not consumed magic power now. A little injury is nothing to Saber, right? ()

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. I turned around and glanced at Rider's wound. Sure enough, the skin under the blood had healed and my breathing became much stronger.

Realizing that I was rudely looking at a woman, I turned my head embarrassedly and decided to look for some topics.

"rider, can I ask you something?"

"Um--"

Rider nodded lightly as if he agreed, and his small voice revealed her intention to not speak.

After hesitating for a moment, I decided to continue asking.

"Why...you will save me today?"

"Don't I need to save you?"

Even through the purple mask, it was enough for me to see through her confused expression.

"That's right...but I also have self-knowledge. Even if I want to save me, I don't have to throw me out when I landed just now, and it ends up hurting myself even more."

"Well...it makes sense."

Rider lay quietly in the quiet woods, raised his head and looked up at the starry sky, and then continued after a while.

"If you want to understand why, it is that Shirou has the value of being saved."

Does that mean my value to cherry blossoms?

"What an interesting reality. Although Shirou is a person who cares about himself, there are always people who want to work hard to protect Shirou. For such a person, which one is more valuable, his life or sacrifice?"

Rider's language was in a daze and fell into a certain emotion.

“…Who is that person, rider?”

I can't answer rider's question, it's a painful question just thinking, I can only want to know who is willing to work hard to protect me.

"...Shirou, one day you will know the answer, but not now."

Rider's master Shinji has been arrested, so who can order her or ask her?

Does it have something to do with Sakura? Didn’t Shinji say that he concealed the Holy Grail War from Sakura?

I wanted to continue asking rider, but she completely forgot about this topic, stood up in one breath, and moved her beautiful body to confirm her condition.

Then rider walked towards her child, the white holy beast treated as a mount.

Purple hair was draped with her knees beside Tianma. Rider sootheed the wound on Tianma's body with one hand and gently recited the spell of Shen Dai in his mouth. As the magic power surged, the wounds of the holy beast began to scab and heal under the mysterious power.

I tried my legs and feet, but found that I still couldn't stand up, so I had to move my body and sit aside to watch rider's treatment.

Legend has it that rider seemed to be a priest serving God before becoming Medusa, and even had a period when she was called a goddess. Maybe her magical strength was not worse than that of the caster. If she summoned her as the caster's rank and then summoned her horse and giant, it would have been a very terrible thing.

With a lot of thoughts in my heart, I couldn't help but have a cold war.

Fortunately, the rider who was concentrating on work did not pay attention to my distraction. She patiently dealt with every wound on Tianma's body, as if the caring mother was bandaging her child.

It took half an hour for all the wounds to be treated. Tianma stood up shakingly, rubbed against rider's side in a flattering manner, and stuck out his tongue to lick rider's cheeks, causing rider to giggle with his long purple hair.

"Okay, don't make trouble, you need to recover from your injuries first."

Rider hugged Tianma's head in his arms, leaned his cheek against Tianma, and said softly to comfort him. Tianma finally shouted reluctantly, and his spirit body disappeared into the air without any willingness.

"Oh... What a gentle child, I hurt you again this time."

Facing the departure of Tianma, rider's face showed an unprecedented gentle expression.

"After the rider summoned it, is it always with you?"

Speaking of which, I have been rescued by Tianma many times, and I have no chance to thank it.

"Well, I can say that he is a special servant. After I absorbed a lot of magic and summoned him, he could exist in the world in the form of a servant until I disappeared."

"Next time, please make sure to make me thank him for saving my life."

"No need to thank you. He didn't save you for your thanks."

Rider, who came to his senses, returned to her calm and indifferent voice.

However, after spending a while, I magically thought that rider was not as cold as I thought.

You know, she has chased me several times, and I still have this kind of thought.

Because of the gap between reality and imagination, I began to feel uneasy. At this time, a familiar voice appeared beside me.
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