(Heartfelt thanks to Yume no Shouyou, Yunqi Qinggu, and Liunian Cheng Shang love for their tips!)
"Wu Yan!"
Hinagiku and Mikoto, who had retreated to the side, seemed to have been holding back for a long time. They rushed in front of Wu Yan and asked worriedly,
"Are you all right?..."
"Of course I'm fine!" The frighteningly calm expression on Wu Yan's face vanished as though it had never existed, replaced by his usual helpless smile.
"It's understandable that Bazett doesn't know, but you two know about me. You know I can't die, right?..."
"But you..." Hinagiku and Mikoto both glanced at Wu Yan's mouth, where drops of crimson blood were still falling.
"It just looks dramatic. It's nothing..." Wu Yan wiped all the blood from the corner of his mouth and grinned energetically.
"My heart was repaired long ago..."
'Fragarach' had killed Wu Yan in the 'past,' before he had thrown 'Gae Bolg.'
However, Wu Yan, as a True Ancestor, could not die.
Therefore, the Wu Yan in the 'past' was still alive, so the Wu Yan in the 'present' would naturally be perfectly fine as well. Even the heart that Fragarach had pierced in the 'past' had recovered during that period, saving him the time needed for repairs now.
"Are you really all right?..."
The one who said that was not Hinagiku or Mikoto, but Rin Tohsaka, who had somehow arrived behind Wu Yan.
Her pair of jade-green eyes looked complicatedly at Wu Yan, who was completely unharmed aside from coughing up blood. Her red lips parted as though she wanted to ask something, but she closed them again at the last moment and merely said something so inconsequential.
"What?..." Wu Yan laughed teasingly as he stared into Rin Tohsaka's jade-green eyes, full of complicated emotions.
"Are you