I'm really not an old sword

Without saying a word, Lin Qingsu didn't know how long she had been walking before she finally arrived in front of Matou Sakura.

His body couldn't hold up any longer and he fell down, holding her in his arms.

"You are...?"

Souls merge and magic circuits connect.

Matou Sakura stared blankly at the familiar soul, her eyes filled with tears: "Brother?"

"So you've been in so much pain all this time."

The boundless pain, sin and wailing flowed into Lin Qingsu's brain through the connection.

The rolling black mud poured into the deepest part of his body.

Lin Qingsu groaned in pain, opened her eyes, looked at the girl looking at her with tears in her eyes, and showed her most familiar smile.

His magic, a pale golden star-like light, broke through the sinful pain that had materialized like mud and was transmitted into the girl's body through the connection.

"Stop it, Sakura."

......

The next chapter will be later. I overestimated myself. I only ran 7K a day. I was too sleepy. I will try my best to adjust.

Chapter 1 A New Beginning

It was seven days later when Lin Qingsu woke up.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I found a white-haired woman lying next to me.

"You're awake."

Mary still had that smiling face.

Lin Qingsu looked at her for a while and gave up the wishful thinking of finding worry on her face.

Mary cooked for him, not the standard rice porridge for patients, but rice with salty and spicy Chinese food.

Although it sounds strange, Lin Qingsu actually hates porridge and prefers spicy and salty things, so she was quite happy eating it.

By the way, Meili can actually cook, and she cooks delicious food. However, ever since she confirmed that Lin Qingsu could cook when she was five years old, she has never cooked except for the occasional time when Lin Qingsu had a bad cold and couldn't get up.

"what happened?"

While eating, Lin Qingsu learned from Meili what happened afterwards.

He has been in a coma ever since.

Sakura Matou calmed down after that, but was soon taken away by her teacher, who also brought him back to London.

Linglongkan Misaya and Toosaka Rin were not seriously injured, but they still needed to recuperate for a while, so they went home.

The Clock Tower learned about Fuyuki's situation and granted them a long leave.

After eating, he regained some strength and was helped by Meili to take a shower. The way he showered made Lin Qingsu suspect that he was a paralyzed old man.

But it's really no different from paralysis.

The battle that day pushed him to his limit. Even Lin Qingsu doubted how he survived, not to mention being in a coma for seven consecutive days without food or water. It was good enough that he could move his arms now.

After taking a shower, Lin Qingsu was helped back to bed, and then watched Meili take off her clothes and come in naturally.

Under normal circumstances, Lin Qingsu would have grabbed her by the neck and thrown her out.

But now, smelling the fragrance of the flowers in her arms, Lin Qingsu could only sigh, "The succubus in the next room is bullying me because I am old and powerless," and accepted her fate.

"Do you know where I can forge a sword?"

"Well, Qingsu, you can ask the lady boss of the coffee shop where you work."

Lin Qingsu didn't ask any extra questions.

Afterwards, Mary pestered him to tell her stories despite his frail body.

Because she had to be told stories every day when she was a child, and the ink in her head was almost used up, Lin Qingsu simply told her the story of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf.

After finishing the second episode, Lin Qingsu felt that the delicate body in his arms seemed to have suddenly calmed down a lot. He looked down and saw that Meili was lying on her side facing him with her head resting on his arm, breathing evenly, and had fallen asleep.

Because she was very refreshed after sleeping for seven days, Lin Qingsu entered the simulated combat training space.

......

As soon as they met, Souji threw himself into his arms with tears in his eyes, crying and mumbling things like "I thought you didn't want me anymore!"

Start coaxing.

Fortunately, Zongsi was a girl who was easy to coax, and soon she burst into laughter under Lin Qingsu's sweet words.

"Soji, let me tell you, I'm super awesome!"

Lin Qingsu proudly showed off to her his glorious feat of "saving the world".

Of course, Lin Qingsu did not talk about some of the more indescribable things that happened at that time, but instead focused on describing how he defeated Hercules.

"The Holy Grail?"

The general's focus was not on what Lin Qingsu wanted her to focus on.

Shouldn't you be saying, "Wow! My disciple is amazing!"

Lin Qingsu was a little disappointed: "Well, Zongsi, haven't you heard of it?"

"No." Souji shook his head, his eyes lighting up, their tears making them look especially bright. "Then will I have the chance to meet my apprentice in real life in the future?"

Perhaps because she had actually died once in real life, Lin Qingsu found herself becoming much calmer.

At this time, I didn't agree with what she said, but really thought about whether I could meet her in real life.

With his current strength, it shouldn't be a big deal for him to defeat a color-level magician who hasn't set up a "magic workshop" in advance. Maybe in the future he can really participate in the Holy Grail War and summon Souji, and then the master and apprentice can fight all the way from Causeway Bay to Tsim Sha Tsui.

However, Souji is a first-class Heroic Spirit after all, and a small Holy Grail War cannot summon her at all. Could it be that he really has to go to Chaldea to work?

I don’t know whether Marisbury in this time and space has solved those prerequisites.

"perhaps."

"Great!"

Souji Okita didn't pay attention to Lin Qingsu's uncertain tone, his eyes were curved like crescent moons.

For a desperate girl, a little hope when there is no hope is enough to make her look forward to it for a long time.

"So, apprentice, how can I sign up to participate in the Holy Grail War?"

In short, after these insignificant exchanges, the topic finally returned to what Lin Qingsu wanted to bring up.

"I told you I looked so handsome that day!"

"Let me show you."

Lin Qingsu held the sword, relaxed, thinking about the scene of performing the "Unknown Three-stage Thrust" that day, and then...

There's no after that.

He did manage to swing the sword, but the Heroic Spirit template's body in the simulator didn't cause his blood vessels and skin to crack like in reality, as the magic circuits had strengthened it beyond the limits of his body's endurance.

But the performance was not satisfactory.

The three-section protrusion is really divided into three sections.

Not to mention compared to Souji's, even compared to what he did that day, it looked like a poor imitation of "super low-end, unsightly, and a copycat".

"Well, that's great! As long as you work hard, you will be able to do it one day!"

The teacher's encouragement was also perfunctory.

......

Anyway, that's pretty much how life was after that day.

Every day, he is taken care of by Meili, who has a "found conscience", and whenever he has time, he goes to the simulator to practice swordplay and chat with Souji.

More than half a month passed in a flash, and Lin Qingsu left home.

It's not that he was going to school, although the school had already started a long time ago, but because of Fuyuki's matter, the Clock Tower specially granted him a long vacation. Although he can go back to class now, it would be a waste to not use such a free vacation.

There is no pressure to go to college in the Clock Tower, so why study hard and graduate? Is it to become a corporate slave as soon as possible?

“Sister Cynthia, I’m back.”

It was early in the morning, and the coffee shop had just opened. There was no one else in the shop except Cynthia and two cleaning staff.

Because he needed help from someone, Lin Qingsu changed his name.

"Xiao Lin? How are you? Are you feeling better?"

The proprietress had white hair like Meili, but her eyes were blue, and the largest they had ever been seen by Lin Qingsu.

Seeing her genuine concern and nervousness, Lin Qingsu felt warm in her heart.

However, when Lin Qingsu thought about the fact that Meili asked her to go to the boss lady to ask where the sword was made, she felt a little regretful. It turned out that she didn't want to take advantage of her, but wanted to know Meili.

Is it the Lady of the Lake?

"It's like this, sister. I want to find someone to make a sword."

Chapter 4: Sakura, Sword, and Daily Life (K)

"Thank you, boss."

"Didn't you just call me sister?"

"Ahaha, if nothing else, I'll be leaving first. See you the day after tomorrow, boss."

Lin Qingsu left the coffee shop carrying a big bag.

Following the proprietress's instructions, I turned left and walked along the intersection for two blocks, and came to a relatively spacious back street. There were many back doors of shops in the alley, some open and some locked.

"The fifth door."

It was a tightly closed, brown, aged oak door.

Perhaps because it is near the clock tower, the streets and buildings nearby have a sense of age, like relics from the previous century.

He picked up the door knocker, recalled Cynthia's instructions, injected magic power and knocked on the door three times quickly, two times slowly, and then three times quickly again. Then he took a deep breath, closed his eyes and knocked on it.

There was no obstruction, and a feeling of weightlessness lingered throughout the body. When the feeling of weightlessness disappeared, Lin Qingsu opened her eyes.

He had already arrived at a store.

This is a blacksmith shop with a very old feel. The counter divides the room into two halves. The walls inside the counter are filled with various cold weapons such as swords, guns, axes, and some common magician tools.

There is a half-open door behind the cabinet.

There was fire inside the door and the sound of iron hammering could be heard continuously.

Lin Qingsu waited for a while, and seeing that it was not over yet, she shouted, "I want to buy a sword."

"Pick it up, put the money on the counter, and get out."

Listening to the rough male voice, Lin Qingsu didn't care, but felt a little happy.

Cynthia had told him in advance that the blacksmith in this shop had a bad temper.

Although the bad things were worse than he expected, but with such a bad temper, the store can still operate in the magician's territory. Doesn't it prove that the weapons made by this boss are of good quality?

"I was introduced by Sister Cynthia. She gave me some materials and asked me to hand them over to you personally."

The sound of hammering stopped, and heavy footsteps were heard from the inner room.

The half-closed door was opened, and a giant man who was two meters and five meters tall walked out from the back room with his upper body bare.

Lin Qingsu was shocked when she saw that person.

Because this man was not only stronger than Hercules, but also very ugly, so ugly that "if he went out on the street in broad daylight, he would be arrested by the police for scaring people to death."