"Lady Yang Guifei and I had a very good chat! I swear, I was absolutely not coerced!"
Van Gogh's words made Duanmu Ye's face even paler, but at this moment, there was another knock on the door at the entrance on the first floor.
......
Outside the door, a man with a white hat lowered the brim of his hat, pressed the doorbell with his other hand, and looked at the girls surrounding him.
"Ah, ah... Looks like I've been assigned a rather difficult mission..."
"It doesn't matter, Miss Aaron is the strongest!"
Biwa, Flame, Sun: Chapter 12: "Sakamoto Ryoma Wants to Go Home"
"Ah, so there's a doorbell here... No wonder no one answered the door after I knocked for so long."
The man in the white suit lowered the brim of his hat. To him, his appearance seemed to be something that could easily reveal his true identity. But just as no one can stop luck, as a diplomat, he knew in his heart that as long as he met people in this land, his appearance would most likely be seen through at a glance.
"Don't worry, as long as Miss A-Long is here, no matter how big the trouble is, it will be easy for Miss A-Long!"
"It's easy, isn't it..."
Sakamoto Ryoma sighed helplessly. The girl floating beside him had the same expression as before, with a slight smile on her face, as if the things Sakamoto Ryoma was worried about were not worth mentioning at all in her eyes.
But Sakamoto Ryoma, who understood the seriousness of the matter, remained silent. He did not want to frustrate Aaron's desire. He did not say that it was not this land that summoned him and others, nor was it a special person hidden behind it, but the restraining force...
The fact that the Suppressing Force personally summoned him down and provided him with magic power was too worrying. Even he, Ryoma Sakamoto, was not sure whether a Servant like himself, who was neither good nor bad, could face the threat that could only be resolved with the help of the Suppressing Force.
"Although the intelligence suggests that the demon Archer is the more likely target, the flow of prana required to kill that Sakura Saber disappears around here..."
While muttering to himself, Ryoma Sakamoto looked at the door of the western-style house in front of him, which seemed to be out of date. With alarm bells ringing in his heart, he finally pressed the doorbell button on the side of the door frame.
"If I'm lucky, I might be able to cooperate with the Servant who killed the genius swordsman of the Shinsengumi, and together we can stop the plans of that demon Archer."
"But if you're unlucky..."
"Then let Miss Aaron give him a good beating to make him behave!"
The girl named "Along" waved her fists with an excited look on her face, which made Sakamoto Ryoma, who advocated peace, feel a little ashamed. But it is undeniable that things that can be solved with paper and pen are naturally best solved with paper and pen.
But if pen and paper can't solve it, then the truth in your hands can solve it...
Suddenly, Ryoma Sakamoto heard some movement coming from inside the door, like the sound of something rolling down the stairs, which made him squint his eyes. Then came the sound of some tables being knocked crooked and objects being knocked to the ground.
The heavy footsteps were approaching the door step by step. With the help of Miss Aaron's hearing, Sakamoto Ryoma could easily hear these sounds that were normally inaudible.
When he realized what was happening, Ryoma Sakamoto couldn't help but put his hand on the gun bag on his waist, but after thinking about it, he changed direction and grasped the handle of the knife slung across his right side.
If the person or Servant who walked out of it, or even some kind of familiar, possessed extremely aggressive characteristics, then he wouldn't mind using the weapon in his hand, which seemed to have special abilities after becoming a Heroic Spirit, to teach the other party a lesson.
"Duan...Duanmu family...who are you looking for?"
The person who came was a foreign girl with orange hair. Although it was a bit too loose to call her a foreign girl, the girl in front of her, who was even smaller than a girl, obviously had the charm of a girl.
At least...that's what Aaron said...
'Can I eat her?'
The conversation in his mind came to an end after these words suddenly popped up. There was a trace of shame on Sakamoto Ryoma's face, but he did not let his guard down because the other party's appearance was too non-threatening. Summoned by the restraining force himself, he knew clearly that something threatening must have happened. He locked his target on the demon Archer simply because she looked more like the threatening person.
In fact, even Sakamoto Ryoma was not sure what his purpose was. Was it to kill the Servant who killed Saber of Sakura, or the demon Archer who was planning something, or something else...
Therefore, after seeing the appearance of the person who came clearly, Sakamoto Ryoma's expression only eased a little, and he tried his best not to let his expression scare the girl in front of him.
"Excuse me, young lady, are you the only one living here?"
Sakamoto Ryoma asked cautiously, appearing gentle on the surface, but in fact he had already thought of various ways to deal with the situation in his mind.
It had nothing to do with anything else, just because he saw the entire process of Saber Sakura being killed clearly from a distance, although it was thanks to Aaron's help that he was able to see what happened on the train through her eyes.
Being able to kill Saber, who is universally recognized as the strongest player in the Holy Grail War due to her unparalleled balance, the threat that that Servant can pose must be greater than that of Saber in this Holy Grail War.
He was able to kill the famous swordsman in the Shinsengumi, and after resolving the conflict on the train, he was able to erase all traces of his existence as if nothing had happened. If it weren't for Aaron's keen sense of smell, Sakamoto Ryoma imagined that he would probably still be circling around the train like a headless fly, and would not be able to find this remote residential area at all.
However, even though he had relied on Aaron's superhuman sense of smell to find this residential area that had just been expanded into the imperial capital and had only completed housing construction, he still knocked on every door and asked like a headless fly. This was the last one and the most likely base of that Servant.
Because of this, Sakamoto Ryoma was not very willing to believe that the girl who walked out of the door before him would be so harmless on the surface. It is possible that beneath her young and delicate appearance, she would be a monster as terrifying as a flood or a beast, just like...
"Hey! Ryoma! Are you saying bad things about Ms. Long?!"
As Aaron's shouting came into his head, Sakamoto Ryoma's body trembled involuntarily, and then he changed the language and asked the hesitant girl in front of him as if nothing had happened.
"I have no ill intentions. I just received some reports from the public that there were some strange movements nearby, so I came to visit..."
Ryoma Sakamoto paused. Although he was not fluent in Dutch during his lifetime, and could even be said to have only heard of it, he had the self-control to make up for it. At this moment, he was still able to greet the girl in front of him who looked like a Dutch girl in his native dialect in fluent French.
However, at this moment, Van Gogh was puzzled by the scene before him. In his eyes, this man in a white suit and a wide white hat had a flying black-haired woman behind him...
This counterintuitive scene made Van Gogh open his eyes wide and he did not respond for a long time.
At this moment, Ryoma Sakamoto heard the voice again and looked into the room again. A man in a yellow coat was walking down the stairs on the second floor slowly. The moment he looked into his eyes, he realized something that was unbelievable to him.
"Along, go!"
Ryoma Sakamoto, who wanted to turn around and leave, was pale, his pupils kept trembling, and he couldn't even pretend to be calm. But even if he turned around at the first moment, the gate that left him a way out was quietly pushed shut by a gust of wind the moment he turned around, completely blocking all the exits.
"Don't be afraid of Longma, look at Miss A-Long!"
Rushing towards the sky at the first moment, the black-haired girl seemed to have turned into a black dragon, rushing straight up, but it was as if she hit an invisible wall, and then she fell heavily to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
Sakamoto Ryoma, who was about to stop Aaron, closed his eyes and took deep breaths to force himself to calm down, but the result was endless silence and fear.
This is his position. From the very beginning, I was the prey attracted by the bait he put out. No matter whether I left by normal means or abnormal means, as long as there was any method or way to leave, I would have completely lost the opportunity from the moment this door was opened.
"You guys have angered Miss A'long, do you know that?! Miss A'long is going to teach you a lesson!"
Miss Aaron was extremely angry as she rose from the ground, covering her head. The moment her freedom of movement was restricted, she thought of the experience of being sealed on the mountain and unable to move at all.
Therefore, Miss Aaron, who emerged from the dust covering her body with clenched fists, had an unconcealable anger on her face. If it were not for Ryoma Sakamoto's warning that made her suppress her actions, she might have punched the person who trapped her in the face the next moment after falling to the ground!
"You're already here, why don't you come in and sit down?"
Suddenly, words uttered by the man who seemed to be the host made Sakamoto Ryoma's face turn extremely ugly. He was clearly the one who initiated the attack, but now he was put on the defensive because of the opponent's overwhelming magic power, which even he, who had the ability to restrain himself, was afraid of...
"I can't ask for it."
Even though my heart was already so shocked that I couldn't speak, at this moment of dilemma, the only answer I got from all my experience was to go down the stairs.
Sakamoto Ryoma had no idea what awaited him at this Hongmen Feast. Would he be assassinated while still alive? Or would he be offered as a sacrifice to a familiar?
There was no doubt that after stepping through this door, Sakamoto Ryoma roughly knew his own fate. No matter what happened next, he would most likely not be able to walk out of this door intact...
However, even though he knew these things and was very clear about them in his heart, Sakamoto Ryoma still resolutely stepped into the room and followed the words of the man in yellow clothes and was led to the dining table.
Ryoma Sakamoto, who was the first to sit down, couldn't help but feel a little nervous. This kind of thing where guests are allowed to sit down first usually only happens in two situations.
One is a farewell banquet, where the guests are the main guests and will be allowed to sit first.
The other type is a welcome banquet, where the guests are the main guests and will be allowed to sit first.
Sakamoto Ryoma searched through all his memories but could not find any memory related to the man in yellow. Therefore, he could directly rule out the second possibility, and the only option left was the farewell banquet.
But what kind of farewell should we send?
Isn’t this a complete execution banquet, a complete farewell meal?
The food on the table was extremely simple, a quick meal that could be prepared in just over ten minutes, but it contained both vegetables and meat, completely in line with Ryoma Sakamoto's description of how prisoners were treated during their last meal in feudal Japan.
Duanmu Ye took a step back and sat down, covering half of his face with his hands. There was no doubt that he was at a loss as to what to do. The moment he pulled Sakamoto Ryoma into his house, he began to wonder whether he should keep him here permanently.
After all, neither Sakamoto Ryoma himself nor Miss Arlong beside him have any special attacks that "threaten humanity", and the threat they pose to himself is not great. The only possibility of the Demon God Souji, who has long been ruled out, can be called a threat in this Holy Grail War.
Therefore, whether to exclude the existence of Sakamoto Ryoma became a decision that Duanmu Ye had to make at this moment.
During the silence, Sakamoto Ryoma, who was under tremendous pressure, did not speak first. As a person who once led the Meiji Restoration, resisting pressure was commonplace for him. Such silence became a better outlet for him, allowing his panicked thoughts to be temporarily relieved.
In such silence, Duanmu Ye decided to find out whether the other party's target was really him, and chose to ask first, but the answer he got was beyond his expectations.
"No, I am indeed one of the Servants in this Holy Grail War, but my... my Master only gave me one order to stop that demon Archer."
As if he had opened a chatterbox, Ryoma Sakamoto paused for a moment and then pointed at Miss Along who was eating without any worries and enjoying herself.
"In fact, I wanted to seek an alliance with Saber, but he and his Master didn't seem to want to see me, so I relied on her, Arlong's perception of magic, to discover that there were other Servants' magic reactions in this place where not many people live. This time, I came to you to invite you to join the plan to stop that Archer."
Ryoma Sakamoto did not fully explain how he came here. Lying was as common to him as coping with pressure. Looking at the other party's reaction, it seemed that he did not realize that he had lied to him.
"Alliance..."
Duanmu Ye murmured, his indifferent eyes not disturbed by this.
"I'm not interested. Please leave after this meal. As for the alliance, please find someone else."
Such an answer made Sakamoto Ryoma feel a little relieved. He felt a little relieved that his lie was not discovered.
But just when Sakamoto Ryoma was about to finish the meal and leave as the other party had said, a silver sword pierced through the plate and table in front of him, leaving only the sword stock and hilt in front of him, destroying the plate he had not yet finished eating.
"You just... lied, didn't you?"
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Oh no, it’s really rheumatism. I went to get a big bag of Chinese medicine today, and I will have to take it for a long time.
I wasted a lot of time going to the hospital today. I will resume updating tomorrow. After all, there will be no rain tomorrow, so I should feel better. Qingfeng kneels down to everyone here.
Biwa, Flame, Sun: Chapter 13: The Servant of Restraint? That's it?
The biting cold air covered the entire room. The house, which was originally warm, was now below zero. Even as time went by, the temperature continued to drop.
"Lying? Sorry... I don't understand."
Sakamoto Ryoma raised his face with a smile. Even though the sword that looked like a treasure was stuck in front of him, he did not try to find out what the sword was. Instead, he raised his head and looked at the man sitting in front of him.
If it comes to a head-on battle, Sakamoto Ryoma knows that he will never be able to defeat the man in front of him. If he is the owner of this house, and this house is the embodiment of his treasure, then the two girls who appear here at this moment are his familiars.
Possessing two humanoid familiars that are impossible to see through, and possessing the wisdom and rationality to think independently, Sakamoto Ryoma can easily put them on the same level as Miss Arlong.
Therefore, he was looking for an opportunity, a chance to escape...
Duanmu Ye knew very well what was brewing in Sakamoto Ryoma's heart at this moment. He wanted to escape from here and escape from his hands. Although there was no need to keep him here completely, since he was here, it was impossible for him to leave so easily.
The so-called "just finish this meal and leave" was just a joke, at least for Duanmu Ye who had such an idea, it was just an unintentional joke.
Leave after this meal?
Doesn't that mean I can never leave until I finish the meal?
Just like the rules in the rule story, from the moment such rules are established, it is destined that failure to abide by the rules will lead to death.
At this moment, all the plates in front of Sakamoto Ryoma were destroyed. Although they looked very much like indestructible souvenirs of Hu Guang, which he bought at a second-hand store after returning to his daily life, the fact that they were forged from iron and steel could still scare Sakamoto Ryoma at this moment, and even guide his thoughts elsewhere.
"What do you think, Sakamoto Ryoma? Is it true that you were able to find this place just by relying on that lady's sense of smell?"
Duanmu Ye chuckled. After being slightly disguised, he did not choose to attack in the form of the King in Yellow. The advantage of using human form is that he can blend into the crowd more easily, and even give the other party the illusion of equality during a confrontation.
Sakamoto Ryoma smiled. He did not immediately answer the question of the person in front of him, but instead looked at the two girls with completely different styles beside him.
The orange-haired Dutch girl was extremely thin, and seemed to have some personality issues. When she burst into some questions, she stopped eating and kept looking back and forth between herself and the male host in front of her.
As for the black-haired girl with Asian appearance, she seemed to be unaware of anything and was enjoying the lychees and desserts that seemed to be specially prepared for her. No matter what happened on the table, there seemed to be no panic on her face, which was a completely opposite picture to the Dutch girl.
His eyes were once again fixed on the man in front of him. Below his sight, there was a sword with only the hilt and the butt exposed on the table.
Saber was already dead, so the guy in front of him definitely couldn't be Saber. There were only a few possibilities for someone to wield a sword as a Noble Phantasm. One was Archer, who used the sword as a throwing weapon, another was a Berserker who died carrying a sword, and the last was Assassin, who used a two-handed sword like this...
From what Sakamoto Ryoma knew, the Archer of this Holy Grail War was a woman, and a regular Archer who used a matchlock gun and an ordinary musket as weapons.
Sakamoto Ryoma thought, since this Servant appeared as the Archer class, then what kind of idiot must a Servant be to have such a feat of gaining the Archer class aptitude by throwing the sword...
As for Assassin holding such a conspicuous two-handed sword, there is no need to even think about it. Is it really possible that Assassin would use such a big sword to carry out an assassination?
But if it's Berserker...
Although his expression didn't reveal much emotion, Sakamoto Ryoma knew that his usually clear thoughts were now in a state of confusion, so much so that he began to doubt the authenticity of his Rider class. After all, most mount-and-blade knights could also bring swords, just like the one in his hand, Mutsu no Kami Yoshiyuki...
"Do I have a choice?"
After a long time, when the thoughts in his mind were constantly entangled, Sakamoto Ryoma somewhat helplessly found the only answer that could be given from those chaotic thoughts.
But he obviously had no choice...
Silence spread at this moment, and the sound of eating around him made Sakamoto Ryoma even more irritated. Although he knew that it was Aaron's action, he had to do something at this moment.
Only by doing something can you gain a chance of survival from this place where it is almost impossible to escape!
Therefore, in the few minutes after the words fell, the two people seemed to be deadlocked in silence, and finally Ryoma Sakamoto took the first action.
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