FATE Type-Moon, but an A Style 'Pure Evil' Simulator

"Running."

"A seemingly endless run."

"Using your full strength, you raced through the deep forest, like a wisp of a shadow, heading toward Artoria's home."

"Deep, flowing shadows covered your entire body, annihilating air resistance, and your presence was as subdued as a hibernating winter cicada."

"You realized that while you couldn't kill Merlin yet, he couldn't kill you either, and that was enough."

"With the enhancement of your 'Light Devour' skill, you were like a black hole, quietly swallowing all the light that reflected off you. In this state of concealment, not even Merlin could detect your tracks."

"In this rapid advance, time itself seemed to stretch."

"All the surrounding scenery blurred and receded in your vision."

"The sounds you could hear gradually died out, and it seemed even the sound of the wind had disappeared."

"Quiet."

"So... quiet—"

"Completely silent."

"However, in your hurry, you did not notice this overly silent abnormality."

"In this almost eerily quiet environment, running at full speed, you crossed dozens of miles in just a few minutes."

"You burst out of the forest. The vision of an Ultimate Life Form allowed you to see the familiar courtyard from a great distance."

"You stopped."

"The moonlight was a pure, bright white, gently caressing the green grass. In the silent courtyard, not a single light could be seen."

"The dew is white from this night on; the moon is bright as in my hometown."

"Looking at that moon, as bright as the one from your former home, a trace of melancholy welled up in your heart."

"Although it was nominally a simulation, you had long since treated all of this as real."

"Even if you found out in the end that it was all just a fleeting dream, your experiences, your emotions, your human heart—they were all real things."

"Real things... huh?"

"You, simulator, for the first time in a long time, you've said something sensible."

The silver-haired boy walked under the moonlight's bath.

When did it start? When did I really become Artoria's friend?

I was supposed to be corrupting her...

Perhaps raising the protagonist is also a necessary feature of a villain, something that must be savored.

On a night like this, Su Shu thought, Artoria should be having sweet dreams.

After all, he had fed her well these past days.

Although, it wasn't the same concept as feeding the witch.

Unfortunately, the peaceful life is over, Artoria.

Although he felt bad for disturbing her sleep, Su Shu believed he needed to say a proper goodbye.

Pushing open the wooden gate, under the prying eyes of the moon, the boy walked into the now-familiar courtyard and stood quietly.

At such a close distance, even in her sleep, Artoria should be able to sense his presence.

However...

No sound.

Su Shu finally realized that the environment was too quiet.

As an Ultimate Life Form, he couldn't even hear the breathing of the people inside the house.

It would be fine if they had just gone out, but, in fact, it was already...

—Eerily quiet.

It seemed that even the rustling of insects, the chirping of birds, the sound of beasts treading on the soil—no environmental sounds existed.

Silent.

Still.

As if all sounds had been pushed away by the world.

Su Shu turned and looked back.

From the direction he had come from the forest, brilliant and colorful flowers had grown all along the path.

And the courtyard gate, which he had pushed open, had at some point closed again without a sound.

He lowered his gaze, staring blankly at his own palm.

Under the moonlight, his originally fair skin had a translucent quality. His gaze could pass through his arm and observe the flower-strewn ground.

It was as if—

His own existence was being erased from this world.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

Su Shu reached out and gently pushed open the wooden door of the stable.

No...

In fact, the door was not pushed open.

Flowers bloomed at his feet, following him all the way. The boy simply, like a ghost, passed through it.

Su Shu silently looked at the scene inside the room. He opened his mouth, but found he couldn't make a sound.

The golden-haired girl was sleeping soundly on the hay, her breathing peaceful and steady.

Sleeping in the stables.

In other words, she was still taking care of the horses right before she fell asleep?

Ahh, you fell asleep from exhaustion just like that, Artoria...

Although she was only covered with a thin blanket and pillowed on rough straw, it was clear that the girl was still sleeping soundly.

A faint, happy smile hung on her face. Her delicate features, even when stained with chaff, still seemed so flawless.

"Al...vin... Senior...

"Heehee..."

From the shape of her mouth, he could see that she seemed to be murmuring some sweet dream talk.

Su Shu's heart was slightly touched.

He bent down, subconsciously wanting to wrap the blanket more tightly around her.

And then.

The boy's hand passed right through—

...His fingertips froze in mid-air.

He couldn't hear any sound.

Nor could he interact with reality in any way.

Only brilliant flowers bloomed, following him all the way, isolating the entire world. This miraculous illusion...

The boy raised his eyes, his gaze passing through the eaves, directly at the bright moon hanging high in the sky.

The moon, too, looked down at the boy from high above.

He could only look, but could not touch.

Like being locked in a lonely high tower.

A stone's throw away, yet separated by a chasm.

He was thus isolated in this world-detached land of dreams—

*

"Alvin... Senior...?"

Her eyelids felt the faint morning light filtering through the crack in the door.

Still murmuring the name from her dreams, the girl rubbed her sleepy eyes, pushed herself up from the hay, and slowly woke up.

The dim light, the smell of horses and hay lingered around her. And the blanket covering her to prevent her from catching a cold...

This scene quickly made her realize that she had fallen asleep in the stable last night.

"Ahh~ you're awake, Lily."

As she woke up, a very familiar, gentle voice sounded in her ear.

The girl raised her eyes, her pupils reflecting the smiling, yet unfamiliar face of the white-haired magus.

Unfamiliar...

In fact, they had met countless times in her dreams.

But to see this face clearly, this was the first time.

This was not a dream...

It was actually him in person?!

Looking at the magus before her, Artoria's expression was slightly frozen.

"Mer... Merlin?!"

It was just as she had imagined.

Mysterious, beautiful violet eyes, a handsome face as if sculpted by the gods, and...

—And on his right cheek, a somewhat sinister scar.

The flesh was freshly turned, and you could see it had just begun to scab.

That discordant scar...

It seemed so out of place.

Like a flawless gem with a crack, it completely destroyed the original perfect beauty, immediately making it ordinary, no longer possessing that soul-snatching charm.

"That's right~ it's me, Merlin. Did you sleep well last night, Lily?"

"Sleep..."

At the mention of this topic, the girl recalled last night's... rather bold dream.

Her cheeks flushed slightly.

She actually dreamed... that she and Senior...

Did that.

Touching her lips in a daze, Artoria lowered her gaze, lost in thought.

The blanket. I don't remember covering myself last night.

I also dreamed that Senior came to visit me at night and covered me with a blanket...

Ahh... it must have been Merlin or Brother Kay, right?

It was just a dream, after all...

The girl sighed with a bit of melancholy, then suddenly remembered.

Wait, Merlin seems to have asked me a question?

"Uh... um, I slept very well!"

Still with a lingering shyness, the girl organized her words incoherently.

"Thank you, thank you for agreeing to my presumptuous request last night!"

"It's okay. It seems you had a very 'intoxicating' sweet dream."

Merlin smiled, emphasizing those words.

To the blushing girl, it sounded a bit like he was teasing her.

That's right, Merlin was doing it on purpose.

As an incubus, he had seen the contents of her dream.

Just a kiss, and she's this shy. Young girls are so innocent~

She completely doesn't understand adult matters~

Well, no one taught her, so it's normal.

Lily doesn't think a kiss can get you pregnant, does she?

"Ahem... speaking of which, you... why are you here, Merlin?"

Coughing to hide her embarrassment, the girl threw off the straw mat and hurriedly got up.

"And, you're... you're injured?"

"Just a small scratch."

Merlin touched the scar on his cheek, still smiling, his tone nonchalant.

But even he had to admit.

It was a sharp sword.

This sword wound was imbued with a very fine concept of "death," almost touching the threshold of an assassin's ultimate realm, so it couldn't be healed by magic.

Truly, this trip was full of surprises.

Are you sure you're a swordsman and not an assassin, Alvin-kun?

Even with the constitution of an incubus, it would take some time for Merlin to recover from this injury.

"Because there is a very important matter, Lily, I came here in person. We'll talk about the specifics outside."

The girl, somewhat bewildered, tidied herself up and followed Merlin out of the stable.

In the backyard stood two people with different expressions.

Her father, Ector, and Brother Kay.

Noticing his sister's gaze, the golden-haired young man sighed and silently looked away.

And her father, Ector, had a very complicated expression that Artoria couldn't describe.

Melancholy, relief, sorrow, reluctance...

The old knight looked as if he were very troubled, showing such a mixture of emotions.

The magus turned and smiled at the girl.

"The news may be sudden, but Lily, we must leave on a journey immediately.

"No... it would be more accurate to say we're running away, haha~"

As if to break the tense atmosphere, the magus let out a light and cheerful laugh.

"It's best if we leave today... Kay will come with us. Ector is here to say goodbye."

"Eh... ehh?! What did you say?!"

This sudden, unexpected news sent the girl into a daze.

"This... wait a minute, Merlin, you... and Brother Kay, Father? What on earth happened?"

Artoria quickly thought of the most alarming possibility.

"Could it be, could it be that the Vile King Vortigern is attacking?!"

"..."

Kay clenched his fists, seeming unable to watch any longer.

"Merlin, you bastard, if you have something to say, just spit it out!

"You have to tell her sooner or later, don't you? If you don't want to say it, let me be the bad guy!"

"...Brother Kay, what... what are you going to say?"

The magus squatted down slightly.

His magnificent violet eyes gazed into the girl's deep green, slightly bewildered eyes.

"Don't be afraid of what I'm about to say, Lily."

"Why... be afraid?"

The girl shook her head hard.

"As someone who will be king, I will never be afraid even if Vortigern himself comes to kill me, Merlin!"

"Then... I'll say it."

The incubus smiled brightly.

"—Your senior, the Pale Silver Star, shares the same surname as you."

His voice fell.

The echo reverberated in the sighing wind.

The girl's expression was still a little bewildered.

But then, she froze on the spot, staring blankly at the magus before her.

...What?

What was Merlin saying?

"The same surname."

The moment she realized what that word meant, it was as if something was pulled from her brain.

She didn't want to think.

She couldn't think.

Dizziness.

A strong sense of dizziness almost made her unable to stand steady.

Her legs were weak, her nerves were trembling.

Artoria tried hard to say something, but she opened her mouth and not a single word came out.

Although Merlin saw the sound of crying in her eyes, she didn't say a word.

Savoring this almost trancelike expression of the girl, the emotion that erupted in that silence intoxicated the incubus who fed on it.

Ahh, this is... getting more and more interesting.

Wanting to make that silence burn even brighter, the incubus smiled and spoke.

"That's right, Lily...

"He is the son of the Vile King Vortigern."

Merlin said.

His gentle voice was, as always, as pleasant as a spring breeze.

"—Alvin Pendragon."

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