Pendragon's Infinity Gauntlet

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Even now, the blonde Artoria still had a bewildered look on her cute face; she genuinely had no idea what was going on.

She was inexplicably chased to her home, and then rescued without knowing what was going on. So much so that when Artoria saw someone she knew, she was somewhat unsure of what to do.

"Of course, I am Tohsaka."

Rin looked at the courtyard where Archer had disappeared and headed towards the warehouse near Artoria.

"We might not be friends, but we're at least acquaintances, right? Can't you recognize me?"

"No, I thought I was seeing things."

Artoria looked at Pendragon, who was blowing air into his fist, with a surprised expression, and then said with absolute certainty, "I must be seeing things."

"In short, good evening, Pendragon."

What was she up to? This fox was even greeting people with a top-notch smile.

Artoria clearly knew something about Rin's background, but after hearing her so naturally greet her, the strange events that had happened so far seemed unreal, almost like a lie. She instinctively wanted to greet her in return.

"Evening... You idiot, what's going on right now and you're still saying 'good evening'?"

The tearing pain still lingered in my chest, and the bloodstains, dust, and bruises on my body all emphasized one fact: tonight had been absolutely terrible.

"Who is this girl? She looks just like me. Aren't you going to introduce her, Rin?"

Rin Tohsaka was about to speak when a voice in her head interrupted her carefully prepared remarks.

"Don't you have any self-awareness? We look the same, and we even have the same name. What are you pretending for, you idiot? I really don't know what you're thinking."

"...How come I knew it?"

Such resentment? Pendragon was dumbfounded. Is it my fault that we look alike? If you're so capable, why don't you hire a planner?

"Hmph, rather than saying you're her ancestor or something, I'm more inclined to believe you're the same person. Right, Saber-san, summoned from the future?"

You think I wouldn't recognize you just because you're dressed as a man?

"emmmmm..."

Are Masters these days so imaginative? Pendragon was speechless.

"No, I didn't, don't talk nonsense."

“I know. You may not be aware of this yourself, perhaps because you are afraid that your existence will interfere with the future. You should have lost some of your memories since you were summoned here, which is normal.”

"..."

With the premise already so thoroughly imagined, Pendragon felt there was no point in continuing the fight; as long as the midnight snack was ready, everything would be fine.

"By the way, Pendragon, I'm practically a guest here, are you just going to make us talk in the cold wind in the courtyard?"

Rin seemed to handle both Pendragons with ease, communicating with her Servants in her mind through contracts while simultaneously speaking aloud to acquaintances at school.

It was as if Rin Tohsaka herself had been divided into two parts, and she was quite adept at it.

"It was my oversight. Please come with me."

Artoria exhaled a puff of white breath. Although her eyes were still turbulent, her expression had returned to calm. She led Rin and the others quickly towards the door.

"As expected of the president of the kendo club."

P.S.: No more skipping today...no more...I can't hold on any longer, goodnight~

Chapter 55 It probably didn't blast out of the atmosphere.

Chapter 55

Artoria's ability to control her emotions prompted Rin Tohsaka to utter this remark, which was quite pointed.

She was such a proper, serious, and hardworking girl, how did she become so lazy after becoming a heroic spirit?

Could it be that he had already worked hard when he was human, and even worked hard after becoming a Heroic Spirit, so that his idleness in the Hall of Heroes led to his current personality?

Miss Rin couldn't control her wandering thoughts and started imagining and fantasizing about Pendragon in her mind.

"I always feel like you're thinking of something very rude."

Artoria, who had been stared at from behind for a long time, seemed to sense the malice deep in Rin's heart and asked in confusion.

"No, no, no, that's not true. You're overthinking it."

Pendragon's gaze also turned towards them, his dark gold eyes exuding an indescribable nobility and bringing immense pressure.

Miss Rin quickly laughed it off and stopped imagining any more plot holes.

Was this guy already this perceptive when he was still human?

"By the way, how's Archer? Did you kill him?"

As Rin took off her shoes in the entryway, she suddenly remembered the Servant that Artoria had summoned.

"No, my attack wasn't destructive; it just created a thrust. He should be able to get back on his own in a while."

Pendragon was somewhat uncertain when communicating with Rin's consciousness.

Normally speaking, her attack wasn't a rising dragon punch aimed upwards, so the converted power shouldn't have been enough to blast Red A out of the atmosphere, right? ...Probably.

"It's so cold! What happened? All the windowpanes are shattered."

As they walked down the corridor toward the reception room, Rin, following behind Artoria, instinctively hugged her arms as a gust of mountain wind swept over her.

By the way, although the climate in Fuyuki City is warm enough to be hardly winter, the higher-altitude mountain slopes are still quite cold.

The Pendragon family's Japanese-style courtyard house was located on a hillside, and the cold wind blowing in through the large holes in the windows made Miss Rin, who was only wearing a slim black dress under her skirt, shiver.

"I'm sorry. I was attacked by that man named Lancer, so I had to resort to some rather drastic measures..."

Although Artoria was trying her best to control her emotions and make her tone as calm and reliable as possible, a trace of fear still lingered in her holy green eyes when she mentioned the attack by that terrible killer.

She seemed genuinely frightened.

"So that means that before you summoned Archer, you were dealing with him all by yourself?"

Rin Tohsaka frowned slightly, her tone filled with incredulous admiration, and her gaze towards Artoria changed completely.

To be fair, even a top-tier magician like her, with thorough preparation, might not be able to escape with her life when facing a monster like a Servant alone.

This guy is terrifying! No wonder he'll become a legendary figure in history.

For some reason, sweat was breaking out on her face. Miss Rin had gone further and further down the path of imagining things and was completely unable to extricate herself.

The key point is that she deduced these things herself based on the information she had. If Pendragon had told her these things to her as a joke, she would never have believed them so readily.

"They were just desperately trying to escape."

Artoria seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, shaking her head to deny Rin's attempt to flatter her.

"Oh...that's really your style. The demeanor of the Kendo Club president is well-deserved."

"Speaking of which, how's Archer doing? That man who signed some contract with me without my permission..."

Artoria suppressed the strange feeling of looking in a mirror and gazed at Pendragon, whose features were exactly the same as hers, with her beautiful eyes.

"Oh, that guy is your Servant. You can think of him as a familiar. What's wrong? Are you bothered by him?"

Based on Artoria's previous bewildered expression, Rin Tohsaka deduced that Artoria was a complete novice "magician" who probably didn't know the importance of Servants before she explained the situation.

Why did this suddenly come up?

"Well, although he's a complete stranger, he did save my life, so I'm naturally concerned about his condition..."

Artoria answered Rin's question truthfully, and for some reason, Rin felt a little jealous of her disappointed and worried expression.

After all, she had paid a huge price to save her life, even though Rin didn't want the other person to know that she was the one who did it.

However, the fact that Artoria showed such a concerned expression in front of her, and that the object of her attention was someone else, made her complex feelings difficult to describe.

It's a really unpleasant feeling.

"Don't worry, Saber is careful and won't hurt him..."

Why am I so skilled at this?

Rin Tohsaka, who was comforting Artoria with these words, wanted to cover her face. The Servant she had summoned was indeed a Buddhist Servant. Her merciful swordsmanship that didn't hurt anyone was amazing!

I should be feeling sad, so why am I saying this with a sense of relief?

Rin Tohsaka felt as if another invisible knife had stabbed her heart, making her so frustrated she felt like she was going to vomit blood.

"Saber...wait, Tohsaka, you said that Archer is a familiar? So she is too?"

To date, Artoria is the only one who saw through Pendragon's disguise as a man at first glance.

"Oh right, Saber is also a Servant."

"But it doesn't seem like it... They're not like humans, no. They're far superior to humans."

"Hmm... I'll explain the concept of Heroic Spirits to you later."

The origin of this ceremony could obviously be explained in three to five minutes, and Rin Tohsaka didn't want to stand there explaining it to her. On such a cold day, they should first brew a pot of black tea and then talk about it in a heated room...

"Wow, this place is quite big. And the Japanese-style house is quite novel. Ah, Pendragon, is that the living room?"

Rin Tohsaka followed them into the living room.

Artoria found the switch and turned on the light; the clock on the wall showed the hour hand pointing to one o'clock in the morning.

"The glass here is broken too."

Rin Tohsaka, who was about to sit down, couldn't help but sigh, but seeing Artoria's current disheveled state, she didn't say anything more.

P.S.: How about a second update later? I have to go to work tomorrow, so I'll try to write one more chapter. If there's no update by midnight, that's it. Thank you all for subscribing (bows)~~~

Chapter 56 Wagashi (Japanese Sweets)

Chapter 56

Silently, I walked to the floor-to-ceiling window with a large hole in it.

"?"

Miss Rin crouched down slightly, picked up a shard of glass, examined it closely, and then chanted a short incantation.

With a soft "splat," the sharp edge of a shard of glass sliced ​​across Rin Tohsaka's fair, rounded fingertip, and without changing her expression, dripped the gushing blood onto the windowpane.

"!?"

What kind of magic is this?

Artoria's eyes widened in surprise as she clearly saw the shattered window glass begin to piece itself back together, restoring it to its original state in just a few seconds.

"Tohsaka, what was that just now—"

"It was just a little performance."

Miss Rin spoke in a nonchalant tone, as if it were a basic procedure, and took it for granted:

"Although you would fix it yourself without my help, it would be a waste to use magic on this, wouldn't it? Actually, all we need to do is replace the window glass, but it's really difficult to stay in this cold wind."

"—No, I can't do that with my abilities. Thank you so much, Tohsaka, for fixing it for me."

"?"

"You're kidding, right? You can't do it? The methods for handling glass are the most basic of the basics. Repairing glass that broke just a few minutes ago is like a beginner's exam question for any school of thought."

"So that's it."

Artoria seemed to suddenly understand, showing an expression of having learned something new, and then said in a matter-of-fact tone:

"Although my family environment gave me some exposure to magic, my interest lies in kendo, and I did not receive systematic magic training from my father."

If it weren't for the fact that she thought learning about magic might help her improve her kendo, Artoria would never have come into contact with these things.

"----What?"

Rin Tohsaka froze, not even noticing when Pendragon came over and grabbed her hand.

"Is self-harm the starting point for your magic tricks?"

Perhaps because magicians have a constitution that is different from ordinary people, Pendragon found that the wound on Rin's finger had stopped bleeding and scabbed over, and estimated that it would be fully healed in a few hours.

"...Wait a minute. So that means, Pendragon, you're just a half-baked worker who can't even manage your own workshop?"

Rin Tohsaka pulled her hand back from Pendragon's side and stared at Artoria in surprise.