Chapter 119

"Charlemagne." After Kirshtalia and Ophelia left the guest room with their servants, Fujimaru Ritsuka extended his hand to Charlemagne, "Let's go - the dreamland has come to an end."

The black-haired knight saluted the girl in a pure white coronation gown and a crown. When he raised his head again, he saw that the girl was holding a jet-black sword wrapped in flames in her hand. It was the "Blade of the Prairie Fire" that his lord had specially chosen for today's battle from among the many conceptual costumes of his lord and servant.

This is a conceptual costume that is the result of the raging fire that continues to burn Antonio Salieri's heart. It looks like a sword, which means that Fujimaru Ritsuka intends to practice his fighting skills in this anomaly... No, to be more precise, in addition to using it for fighting, Fujimaru Ritsuka will use it to destroy this anomaly.

——The fire that can burn one's heart can certainly destroy the fairyland in one's dreams.

"That--" Ashiya Hanae, who had hardly spoken since being rescued by the White Array, spoke at this moment.

"By the way, I remember you were following Iwanaga Kotoko's instructions, right?" Fujimaru Ritsuka paused as he walked out, but didn't look back at Ashiya Hanae who had just followed him out of the reception room. "Then, from now on - you don't have to follow her orders anymore."

"This Holy Grail War has entered its final countdown."

"This time it will not be closed - the choice of action is still in your hands as to what to do."

"Hanae..." Hinamichi subconsciously grabbed Ashiya Hanae's clothes and looked out the door fearfully, "Let's go look for Shinku!"

Although the Alice game of competing for the Rose Mother is cruel and terrible - no matter what the outcome, they are sisters who are closely connected.

"Master."

Lily White's knight solemnly put on his d'Artagnan hat, and turned around to see his master, who had also solemnly restored the outfit that once belonged to Irene Adler - just like the first day they arrived here.

"Let's go, Saber."

"Go to sleep, go to sleep——"

The thorns of the roses climbed wantonly on the body of the sleeping young man - the blond doll with twin ponytails calmly watched its medium fall into a deeper dream, and headed towards the final battlefield alone.

When the time came to the beginning of the final battle of the Holy Grail War, no one was interested in dining in the banquet hall like they had done a few days ago - Fujimaru Ritsuka took Charlemagne straight to the throne room, and in front of the closed golden and red door they met Irene Adler and Dion who had rushed here from another direction.

"This final battle of the Holy Grail War reminds me of the division of the Frankish Kingdom." Ritsuka Fujimaru gently stroked the unextinguished flames on the Blade of the Flame through her white silk gloves, and the words she spoke made Charlemagne smile helplessly, "Although the Frankish inheritance system is bound to cause the country to split...but since we have to decide the only winner now, why can't we unify it again?"

"Master." Charlemagne reached out and pressed the hilt of the sword on his side, and quickly stepped forward to block Fujimaru Ritsuka behind him, "Now is not the time to chat--"

"It looks like the Red Camp will be the last to arrive." Dion drew his sword and cast a sharp gaze on the sword at Charlemagne's side, "Then--"

"Why don't we first decide the winner?"

"Declare—"

"I kill, I give life. What I wound, I heal. What cannot be crossed is my palm. What cannot be escaped is my gaze.

Destroy it.

Ritsuka Fujimaru shook his wrist and swung out the prairie fire blade in his hand like the ones from the Holy Church who used the black key. Several sharp swords with flames strong enough to set a prairie fire on fire were dodged by the opposing masters and servants one after another, and finally only stabbed into the rose-colored wall of the castle; but no one noticed that the flames strong enough to burn everything had begun to spread along the position where the sword blade had pierced.

“Saber!”

"Understood."

Charlemagne held the sword in front of him and swiftly blocked several bullets fired from Irene Adler's pistol for Fujimaru Ritsuka. At the same time, Dion had successfully approached Charlemagne.

"I'm betting my dignity on you - the royal lily, forever and ever..."

"I call back all the disabled and old. Entrust them to me, learn from me, and obey me.

I will give you a rest. 』

"Lilies are flying...!!!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka did not move her eyes, and her face was expressionless, like a clergyman of the Holy Church issuing a judgment on a non-human - however, the prairie fire blade that had just escaped from her hand accurately sank into Dion's shoulder, interrupting Dion's Noble Phantasm at the right time.

Charlemagne immediately advanced and launched a counterattack.

"Don't forget to sing, don't forget to pray, don't forget me. With my lightness, I will free you from the heaviness of all things."

Take off the disguise.

As the accentuated section that Fujimaru Ritsuka deliberately added to this chant was read out, the fire that had been constantly burning the heart of a certain musician suddenly became more vigorous, and Dion's arm holding the sword was almost completely swallowed by the flames -

"In the name of the Command Seal - heal Saber!"

——No matter what, in combat, you must never lose your dominant hand.

"Where there is forgiveness, there is revenge; where there is trust, there is betrayal; where there is hope, there is despair; where there is light, there is darkness; where there is birth, there is death.

Rest is what I bring. Burn your sins, carve your mark. Eternal life is given by death.

Please forgive me here and accept my oath.

The Blaze of Prairie Fire was thrown out from Fujimaru Ritsuka's hand one after another, stabbing the walls and the ground of the castle, and coordinating with Charlemagne's attack to force Irene Adler and Dion to retreat to a sufficient space - then Charlemagne retreated backwards, away from the blazing fire, and gathered magic power to release the Noble Phantasm.

"This saber is the unrivaled holy sword. It shines brightly every time it descends! Use this brilliance to burn everything!"

"Show your might, the Twelve Swords "Joyeuse Ordre" that travel the world!"

"This is the moment when the dream ends, the "Kyrie eleison."

As Charlemagne swung his sword, the half of the corridor that was almost engulfed in flames was directly cut off, and the original target - the Saber team of the Black Camp was shattered together. The broken stones were still wrapped in unquenchable flames, and as half of the castle collapsed, all the surrounding scenes were ignited.

"The door is open."

Fujimaru Ritsuka turned around and stepped into the throne room whose door was slowly opening. Not surprisingly, he saw Shinku's figure on the throne - the small doll was bound by thorns growing from the throne and had lost consciousness; and looking up, the prize belonging to the winner of the Holy Grail War appeared there.

"Charlemagne, I'll go check out the situation—"

After taking another step forward, Fujimaru Ritsuka found himself in a rose garden somewhere.

"How does it feel to be a sister?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka stopped in her tracks - she saw Shinku and several other rose girls here, but she didn't see Hinamiya and Xuehua Qijing.

——When father brings a new sister, Zhenhong will know!

When Fujimaru Ritsuka got closer to the rose girls, Henberry also appeared in the garden.

——Zhen Hong is too spoiled by Young Berry...

——Mercury lamp, do you like real red?

When Fujimaru Ritsuka walked behind the Rose Girls, she heard the quarrel that broke out among them.

——We have been abandoned by our father!

"Father will not abandon us!"

——Only a good kid like you would think like this!

“…”

"Excuse me." Laplace's Demon stepped into the rose garden, "I am an old friend of Luo Zhen. He asked me to come and announce the opening of Alice's game to you."

"This is... the past of Rose Girl." Fujimaru Ritsuka watched the scenery in front of him constantly change. Time passed quickly, and finally it became still again in front of an ordinary Japanese residential building. "Alice Games has been held countless times in the past, and the passage of time slowed down at this moment - this is the process of the last Alice Games where Shinkuro won."

Ritsuka Fujimaru watched as Shinku signed a contract with the new medium, and his body was sealed by the seventh doll that suddenly appeared; what followed was a battle plan that spanned the world, and Shinku's medium and his counterpart resurrected Shinku together; after returning to the original world, Shinku was trapped by Yuuka Kissing because of the medium, and was led into Yuuka Kissing's castle.

In addition to the Rose Girl, other living dolls appeared in the Crystal Castle. As Ritsuka Fujimaru watched the dolls moving in the Crystal Castle and fighting with the Rose Girl, he remembered the existence that pretended to be himself that Mash encountered on the first night, and the dolls lying in the basement that were identical to the combatants themselves.

At the end of the battle, Shinku and Mercury Lamp teamed up to defeat Xuehua Qijing.

Red, black and white are the colors of the Three Fronts, and are also the colors that represent the three rose girls in the final battle of the Alice game.

But unlike Alice's game, the Black Faction has already been defeated.

Shinhong, who controls all the Rose Mothers, felt Xuehua Qijing's sorrow and understood what love is - so she handed all the Rose Mothers to Xuehua Qijing; but the youngest sister was not recognized by the other sisters, and could not withstand such power, and turned into a cross in front of Shinhong's eyes.

Then all the Rose Mothers returned to Shinku's hands - all the sisters chose her to become the Alice "perfect girl" of their father's dream.

But because Shinku loved her sisters so deeply——she chose to split the Rose Mother again.

At the end of this story, Alice "the perfect girl" fell into a deep sleep, and her sisters woke up one by one.

"After that, after an unknown amount of time had passed, the almighty wish-granting machine fell into her dream." Laplace's Devil appeared in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka, holding the sleeping Shinku in his arms. "But, since the dream has ended, it's time for her to wake up."

"And the almighty wish-granting machine is your reward for waking her up."

The moment he got the Holy Grail, tears fell from Fujimaru Ritsuka's golden eyes.

——Dear sisters, we will meet again eventually.

——Just like when my father was still alive, just like before the fight in Alice's game began, in the rose-blooming garden, spending the same warm time together day after day, with no end.