"You are -" Looking at the person in front of him, Astolfo opened his eyes wide, but did not make any vigilant move.
Astolfo's Unique Skill and "Rational Evaporation" make him excessively "innocent", but at the same time they also give him a sense of authenticity as high as A-rank. Although he didn't know why, he instinctively felt that Jeanne was not a bad person.
"The so-called Ruler?"
"Eh? How do you know?"
Sieg's words attracted Astolfo's attention, but this cross-dressing boss can be said to be the best Servant to fool Black Faction.
He explained casually, "Berserker told me."
"That's it!" Astolfo nodded as expected. Yes, it was obviously a very perfunctory answer, but he believed it.
"Yes, as you two can see, Servant·Ruler, my real name is Jeanne·Dark," Jeanne nodded slightly, revealed his real name, and asked, "Are you the Master of Black Faction's Rider?"
"No, it's not." Sieg shook his head honestly.
"No?" Jeanne frowned inadvertently, "Then can you tell me what happened here?"
"Ah, yes, I'll do it..." Astolfo danced and told Jeanne about Sieg, and finally asked, "Well... although it's a bit abrupt, I won't be able to take care of him in the future. Can you please take care of him and give him freedom?"
"Well," Jeanne nodded seriously, "Just as I have an obligation to ensure the fairness and justice of Holy Grail War, it is also my obligation to prevent people who have nothing to do with Holy Grail War from getting involved in a war."
"Ah, that's great!" Astolfo cheered, then waved to Jeanne and Sieg, "I've been away for long enough, I'm still Servant of Black Faction, I'm going to come back. Bye!"
"Ah, thank you for helping me get here. Don't die too early, Rider!"
As the saying goes, if it rains, the mother will get married, and Astolfo will leave. Sieg has nothing to do with it.
He is not worried about what difficulties Astolfo will encounter after returning to Japan. He even tricked Black Faction's Saber Siegfried in the original boundary.
Even though Vlad III was short of manpower, he didn't do anything to him. He just locked him up for one night and released him.
Compared with the original boundary, what Black Faction now loses is nothing more than an artificial human who can be used as a nuclear button.
Vlad III was a wise man. Although he was called a tyrant by others, there were many tyrants in this world. The more famous ones are Nero, Great Emperor and Golden Flash.
Vlad III is not that unreasonable, so there is no need to worry at all.
"Well... it seems you are in a good mood!" Jeanne took a step forward and said to Sieg who was watching Astolfo leave.
Although there is no expression on the paralyzed face of this artificial man, Sieg's mood can always be seen from his eyes.
"Have you?" Sieg blinked blankly.
"Next, I will abide by the agreement with Rider of Black Faction..."
While talking, Jeanne stretched out a hand towards Sieg. After a moment of hesitation, Sieg still held his hand. There's nothing soft about it, but those armors with tons of scales don't feel that hard either.
Jeanne smiled slightly and put his other hand up.
"My real name is Jeanne Dark. According to the agreement, I will protect your life and your soul."
"Uh ah... it feels a little weird!" Sieg scratched his head. To be honest, this was the first time he held the hand of a girl of the same age like this.
Although this girl has strength B and agility A, her attributes are even equal to the Berserker Shirou. To put it bluntly, Astolfo, who is also Servant, could not even get through thirty rounds.
"Then what should I call you? Jeanne or Saintess?" At this time, Sieg felt that he should say something, otherwise he would always feel that the atmosphere was awkward.
"There is no Saintess!" Jeanne laughed, as if actually all Saintess have no Saintess self-consciousness, "This time I am the Ruler in Holy Grail War, so just call me Ruler."
"What about you?"
"Sieg," Sieg put his hands behind his head and said as if recalling, "Berserker said that my body is too weak and he hopes that my body can be as strong as the great hero Siegfried, so he calls me Sieg."
"Sieg...?" Jeanne recited it twice, and finally praised, "What a name!"
"Thank you."
"..."
"..."
Why does it feel more awkward, bastard! Just when Sieg was complaining in his heart, a strange voice sounded——
"Gu Gu Gu~"
That's right, a voice that didn't suit the atmosphere sounded at the wrong time. Sieg looked down casually, and after making sure it wasn't him, he set his sights on Jeanne.
Being stared at for such a messy reason, Master Saintess's face turned crimson at a speed visible to the naked eye.
No matter how holy she is, it can't change the fact that she is a girl and only nineteen years old. Although she is a bit Sparta mentally, she is not bad at all as a girl's sense of shame.
"Ahem!" In order to ease the rather embarrassing atmosphere, she coughed twice and explained, "Well... I'm actually a little special. Unlike other Servant, I can also be hungry, so..."
"Really?" Sieg's belly rang the dinner bell at just the right time, "Looks like I'm hungry too."
"Haha," Jeanne pursed his lips and smiled, and somehow took out a biscuit-like thing from his armor, "As a human being, eating is necessary, let's try it!"
This really treats me as an ordinary artificial human!
Seeing that what Jeanne took out was not military rations, Sieg was a little surprised, but this did not prevent him from opening his mouth to eat.
After taking a sip, an unexpected delicious taste appeared on his tongue. Sieg blinked, thinking that the settings didn't say that Jeanne was good at cooking!
"Ruler, this is——"
"Ah, this should actually belong to Black Faction's Berserker. For some reason, he lent me a shop with many similar foods."
Sieg nodded, I see, Grand Class Chef found it. I asked why it looked so familiar, and it turned out that there were a lot of them on the table in his room!
In fact, Shirou's loan to Jeanne's residence was just a temporary move. He asked Caules for the unopened store under Yugdomirenia's name. His original intention was to do some hobbies during the day's truce, such as being a restaurant chef or something.
What Jeanne gave to Sieg was nothing but a handiwork that Shirou made in his spare time, commonly known as defective products.