"Then, let's get to know each other again, Rin." Faced with Rin's questioning, Rimuru finally decided to tell frankly after a moment of indifference: "Hiding and escaping are not the solution after all."

"Hmm-" Hearing this, Rin couldn't help sitting up straight, and habitually took a sip of the black tea in front of her. For some reason, she felt a vague sense of nervousness.

Archer's real name must be some great being.

I don't know when this idea has taken root in her heart.

Animusfia, who was on the side, saw this scene, and the chuckle at the corner of his mouth showed a little helplessness. He turned his head and looked at the style decoration of the Tohsaka family. In fact, he didn't reveal the identity of Limuru, and he couldn't hide it for long. After all, the time interval between the two Holy Grail Wars is really too low, and the remaining people can recognize him, not to mention that he is a famous monarch of the clock tower.

Don't you think you really don't know anyone?

"Huh..." Limuru sighed and said softly, "Limuru. My name is Limuru Tenpest."

"...Rimuru?" Limuru's voice was very soft, and the light Rin almost couldn't hear it - she didn't respond for a while, and after habitually asking a question, she quickly thought about which one in history After the famous person called Limuru, until she heard the last name behind--

Limuru...Tenpest...Tenpest...So familiar...

All of a sudden, she seemed to have been hit by a bolt of lightning, and her whole body stiffened there—with the pupils shrinking, the black tea that was about to be put down also froze in the air for a moment—the teacup slowly fell to the ground, and the sound of A crisp sound.

click-

Rin's stunned stun only lasted for a while, then he stood up abruptly, staring at Limlu without saying a word, his body began to tremble with excitement, Limlu, who saw this scene, sighed: "I I know..."

She was not excited because Rimuru was the current monarch of the Clock Tower, Rimuru knew very well that the other party cared about another identity.

Tempest monarch! The victor of the last Holy Grail War, the dictator who abandoned the Holy Grail, the owner of the third law in the world!

That's right, what really caught Rin Tohsaka's attention...just these three names...

Her trembling voice gritted her teeth and asked—

"Are you...really...the Tempest I know...?"

She couldn't believe it, why, her head was full of question marks, why was the participant in the last Holy Grail War, a ruthless guy who abandoned the Holy Grail and let the Holy Grail cause disaster, most of them were the culprits who killed his father , will suddenly become his Servant?

"If there is no second guy in this world who can keep this look for decades, then I should be the Tennpest you call me." Limuru looked at the debris on the ground and replied lightly, helpless. After cleaning the place with a stream of water, he rinsed the teacup he had left untouched years ago, and poured her another cup of tea——

"I know you have a lot of questions, but it doesn't matter, I can answer you." While Limuru pushed the black tea over, he was silent for a while, and then said, "Anything."

"You..." Tohsaka Rin stared blankly at this golden-eyed boy's face, feeling a little overwhelmed. She wanted to ask, but the words were stuck in her throat, and she didn't know which to ask for a while. , Her quality and calmness as a magician told her that since the other party is her Servant, she really doesn't need to be excited, let alone anxious, but...

She gritted her teeth angrily, and for a while, she felt that she couldn't speak.

"Huh? Don't know what to ask?" Limuru chuckled and said, "Then let me explain what I think you want to ask first."

Limuru knows very well that there are two best ways at this time, one is to keep silent and let the other party calm down and talk about it, but this way of coping seems a bit straight, like quarreling with a boyfriend and girlfriend, the other party starts When making trouble unreasonably, one of the parties felt that it could not continue, so they decided to ignore the other party and let the other party calm down.

This is logically the correct approach, but... it is very likely to make one of the parties feel that this is being treated coldly.

Therefore, Limuru chose another method, that is, to cooperate actively, to be lenient when confessing, and to be strict when resisting - it is very convenient to resolve the misunderstanding.

Hmm... Of course, if there is no misunderstanding, it is to take the initiative to admit mistakes and repair the relationship - Rimuru and Rin's relationship is not a couple, so there is no need to be too enthusiastic, but whether it is a couple or not, even if it is just a friend, Master Whether it's with the Servant... it all needs to be actively maintained by one of the parties.

And often, the aspect of active maintenance sometimes requires some concessions, just like Rin could always ignore Rimuru's concealment before, but if you ask about it, you can think that she can't do anything, because Rimuru is better than her. Strong, anyway, the Tohsaka family has always summoned a grandfather to make offerings. Thinking about it this way, it even feels quite normal.

But the fact that Rimuru can't do anything is a concession in itself, which means that Rin is willing to accept this injustice and then maintain this master-servant relationship.

And now, it was Rimuru's turn.

"Why would I be your servant, right? This should be the first thought that most people think when they hear this kind of news?"

While Limuru spoke softly, Jin's eyes met Rin's eyes gently, but she was still stunned for a moment, and nodded silently while staggering her gaze and looking elsewhere.

"Well, this matter is a long story. There are many comprehensive reasons, including problems with Heroic Spirits... I won't talk about these first, but I think... the biggest root cause should be this, right?"

Limuru walked towards Rin indifferently. The latter was made to lean back by the figure of the other party suddenly approaching, but because of the sofa behind him, Limuru also got close to her. , bent down and reached out his hand to touch her collarbone from her.

"Eh?!!"

"Don't move, I don't want to trigger the protective device I set up." Limuru's voice and breath echoed in Rin's ears, and she suddenly thought of something for a moment, and let Limuru pull from her neck. A sky blue amulet appeared, which was a small, slime-like pendant.

Now, who still remembers the gift he left for the future Rin Tohsaka before he left in the last Holy Grail War?

And just now, this gift has become an excuse to summon his holy relic.

However, Rimuru is actually not sure whether he became Tohsaka Rin's Servant because of this pendant or because he replaced Red A.

Beneath her rosy face was Rin's slightly opened mouth. She stared blankly at the pendant that had protected her several times. Her eyes changed when she looked at Limuru, and she became a little unclear. He complicated: "So...it's your thing...then so..."

"You really participated in the Holy Grail War ten years ago...right?"

This pendant is one of the few relics after my father disappeared, just like the other magic dresses in the Tohsaka family, but now it seems that this is obviously something that the other party left for him on purpose, or... Your own father's stuff?

"How...how did you become a Servant?" Tohsaka Rin looked at Rimuru in a complicated way, swallowing the question she wanted to ask the most, about whose hand her father died in, and instead asked a question Something more magical.

Limuru is actually very famous in this world today. It can be said that it is a myth in the magic world. Today, he became a magician ten years ago. As a monarch, after saving Kenneth, he strongly protects him. He dropped the fallen El-Melloan faction, and exchanged the position of the head of the Mineral Science for the clock tower's recognition of the status of the modern magic discipline.

This led him not only to completely control the student support of the new generation, but also to accept Weber and Lenis as his disciples. After ten years, Weber and Lenis inherited the El-Melloan faction. The El-Melloh faction that followed behind Ulyphis directly defected and completely turned into a faction that advanced and retreated with Rimuru, with the support of Lidel Acherott, and the last Alice Witch. With the support of Juju and Aozaki Aoko, Rimuru has the momentum to replace Uliphas as the head of aristocracy, and even become the fourth-largest aristocrat in the Clock Tower.

Therefore, in addition to the third magician, the fairy tale monarch, and the blue twins, Limuru now has legendary titles such as the father of modern magic disciplines, the hidden fourth faction, and so on.

Unknowingly, Limuru's status has become similar to Aleister in the magic ban. It can even be said that if Limuru is given twenty years, he will even completely influence the new generation of the whole world. students, resulting in at least half of the world's magicians under his influence.

Under such circumstances, Rin Tohsaka, who could often hear the monarch's name even in places like the Far East, couldn't believe that the other party, as an immortal and immortal magician, would inexplicably become a slave that this kind of thing happens.

She couldn't help clenching the pendant that Limuru had pulled out, and she didn't even notice a hint of worry in her tone.

"Ah, this, this is because I made some agreements with Alaya Shi."

"Uh...that." Animusfia raised her hand with a smile and said, "Do I need to get out of here?"

He originally thought that he would be able to see the master and servant turn against each other, or at least come to question a family discord, so that he could understand something more or less, and the result...

That's it?

Are you a little too harmonious?

Immediately, Animusfia felt that she saw a fake master-servant quarrel, if the topic of these two people has always been this...

"I've heard it now and know that you can avoid suspicion. Stay here honestly for me. After all, it's my colleague for many years. You don't need to hide this kind of thing from you." Hearing this, Limuru said angrily: "Some things still need to be done. Please explain, I am not professional."

"Well, it turns out that there are things you are not good at, so I can rest assured." Animusfia chuckled and pushed up her glasses, looking at the confused Tohsaka Rin and explained: "Alaya knows. The world is running..."

After explaining the concept of Alaya a little, Animusfia chuckled lightly: "You can understand that the monarch of Rimuru himself did not die, just because he signed a contract with the root, he became a person in endless time and space. A rushing worker will do."

"..." Tohsaka Rin nodded slightly, she actually still didn't quite understand, but it didn't seem to matter.

The other party's explanation was just akin to expressing respect, and her knowledge level was not enough to understand this. If it came down to asking questions, it would be too ignorant.

Moreover, she really doesn't have the heart to pursue these now.

After the three of them were silent for a while, the atmosphere in the room returned to solemn and strange again. Tohsaka Rin was obviously made a little dizzy by these successive shocks, but he calmed down anyway, and the other two People are there to give her time to think.

In some respects, Limuru and Animusfia have reached a tacit alliance atmosphere. There is no way. After all, in Limuru's memory, he and Animusfia did work together. It has been more than ten years, but the two sides are also old acquaintances.

The struggle that the monarch sees is actually quite complicated, but there is quite unity.

On the one hand, they will fight and tilt for the limited resources inside the clock tower, and on the other hand, they will be absolutely united to maintain the ruling class of the clock tower! What's more, Animusfia itself belongs to the aristocratic class like Rimuru, and the cooperation between the two parties is not one or two.

After a long time, Miss Tohsaka Rin finally digested the information in her head. It was probably Limuru's pendant that made her feel that the relationship between her father and Limuru would not be bad if not very good. Lu's involvement in the last Holy Grail War was much less of a concern.

She took a deep breath and finally asked the question she cared about most: "So, Archer...or Lord Rimuru..."

"Just call me Rimuru, Rin." Rimuru interrupted: "I said, the reason why I'm hiding you is that I don't want these outside information to interfere with your judgment and this Holy Grail War. Everything in it, including the fact that you are my master, so don't add honorifics, it will make me very uncomfortable."

"...Okay." She breathed out again: "Rimuru, I want to ask you a question."

As she spoke, her fists clenched tightly and said, "My father... who killed him."

However, she gritted her teeth and was mentally prepared to accept the shock of the insider, but she suddenly saw Limuru rubbing her head blankly... She even tilted her head with a very cute and bewildered expression. Forced: "What? Your father died?"

...

Tohsaka Tokiomi is not dead.

Rimuru can be 100% sure of this.

In his memory, the last time he cooperated with the Tohsaka family in the Holy Grail War was a hot and stinky woman named Ling Ling.

Also his current colleague... um... and friend.

So what kind of temperament Ling Ling is, he admits that he still understands it. Although Ling Ling decisively deprived Toshiomi of the Command Spell from Tokiomi, and robbed Jin Shining of control, it was because she felt that Tohsaka Tokiomi couldn't control Jin Shining, so he placed him under house arrest.

From the beginning to the end, Tokiomi Tosaka was reduced to the role of the audience who could only watch the play~lightnovelpub.net~ What about being killed?

"So..." Tohsaka Rin was also stunned: "My father...isn't dead?"

"I don't know who told you that your father was dead, but I really don't need to lie to you, right?" Limuru spread his hands and said lightly: "I was the final winner of the last Holy Grail War, other than that In addition, the team from Huaxia and your father also came to the end, but the two sides ended peacefully. I remember that in the relevant records of the Clock Tower, I still have the first paragraph about Kenneth's section after I went back. It's time to report back..."

"Well, I can prove this." Hearing this, Animusfia chuckled lightly: "Because I noticed something was wrong with Kenneth's defeat, I investigated the Holy Grail War for a while - also because at that time, I Reached a consensus and cooperation with Professor Limlu..."

"Oh...I still remember." Limlu nodded - looking at Rin and frowning: "So..."

"But my father did disappear..." Rin said excitedly: "I waited with my mother in the country for a month, and when my father hadn't come to pick us up for a month... my mother... told me... I might never I can't see him anymore."