Miracle Summoner

"A wish that I desire...?"

Mash couldn't help but murmur.

Seeing Mash like this, how could Rozen not understand?

"You've never even thought about such a thing, have you?"

Rozen smiled wryly.

After all, having something like the Holy Grail, a wish-granting device, was an opportunity that ordinary people would be ecstatic about. Magi, even more so—let alone obtaining it, even just knowing there was a way to get their hands on such an item would drive them to any lengths. They were a group driven by personal desires, whether it was reaching Root, acquiring rare magical materials, wealth, knowledge, or technology. The Holy Grail could grant these to a certain extent, making it impossible for them not to go mad over it.

And yet, Mash had never even considered using the Holy Grail for herself.

That left Rozen at a loss for words.

"Are you really without desires?"

Rozen looked directly into Mash's eyes, even crouching slightly to match her gaze, as if trying to see into her heart. His expression was more serious than ever before.

"I..."

Mash was at a loss for words, her face once again showing a bewildered expression.

Rozen wasn't impatient. He simply waited quietly for Mash to organize her thoughts.

Silence filled the surroundings.

After a while...

"I..."

Mash's voice was barely louder than a whisper.

"I want to see the sky."

Mash expressed her wish.

"A real, genuine, boundless blue sky."

Her words, like the gentlest breeze in the world, brushed against the soul.

The purity and sincerity of this girl's wish were so beautiful, so heartwarming, that they could cleanse anyone's heart.

Rozen's expression unknowingly softened.

"That's a wonderful wish."

Rozen brushed Mash's bangs aside as he acknowledged it.

Mash felt a little embarrassed, but she couldn't hide the sadness in her voice.

"But even the Holy Grail can't grant this wish."

That was true.

This wish couldn't be fulfilled.

Under normal circumstances, realizing such a wish would be effortless.

But now, with human history completely incinerated and the Singularity filled with the Light Bands of the Mage King, even if one searched every corner of the world and traveled through all eras, it was impossible to see a real blue sky.

So, even the Holy Grail couldn't grant this wish. It had become an impossibility due to the incineration of human history.

Mash had never expected the Holy Grail to fulfill this wish for her.

However, she still had one small hope.

"Once the incineration of human history is over and humanity is saved, I hope the Holy Grail can slightly extend my life... just enough to let me see the blue sky."

That was the heartbreaking wish she uttered.

"Mash..."

Rozen's gaze toward Mash changed.

It became firm.

In that moment, Rozen made up his mind.

"Mash," Rozen said, "I will take you to see the real blue sky."

Hearing this, Mash couldn't help but widen her eyes.

Rozen smiled slightly.

"I have a secret I want to tell you," Rozen said. "Actually, I can travel to other worlds."

Rozen had decided to tell Mash his secret.

Everything.

Such as the power of Miracle that he wore on his hand.

Such as where he went when he disappeared from Chaldea without undergoing Spiritron Transfer.

Why he occasionally vanished from Chaldea.

Why he grew so powerful so quickly.

He didn't hide anything—he told Mash everything.

Mash was shocked, astonished, her eyes filled with disbelief.

But she didn't doubt Rozen's words for even a second.

Because this finally explained where Rozen had gone when he vanished from Chaldea, even though human history had been incinerated and the world had been destroyed.

He had traveled to a completely different world.

Not a parallel world. Not another planet.

A true, entirely different dimension, a world distinct from this one.

Rozen had wandered through those worlds for over a hundred years.

And this time...

Without mistake, without exception.

"I will take you with me—to the worlds I have visited, to see their skies, to see the outside world."

That was Rozen's decision.

"But... but can I really go?"

Mash was both longing and hesitant.

In the past, Mash had been unable to leave Chaldea and venture into the outside world, as the external environment would have harmed her body, putting her life at risk.

Even now, though she had fused with the power of Galahad and become a Demi-Servant, allowing her to travel to Singularities, that was only because Singularities were distorted anomalies in time, unbound by normal order.

Whether she could exist in a normal world remained an uncertainty.

So, Mash was both eager and apprehensive.

Rozen, however, dispelled all her doubts.

"Don't worry. As long as we form an Absolute Contract, you will be freed from fate itself. Unless the record that binds you to my soul is erased, you will never die."

Rozen spoke solemnly.

"However, once the contract is formed, you can never betray me. You will have to stay by my side for life—for eternity. Are you okay with that?"

Rozen asked her.

Mash lowered her head.

"If it's Senpai..."

Mash murmured in a voice like a whisper.

The meaning behind her words was clear.

Seeing Mash like this, Rozen's emotions for her surged.

"Mash..."

"Sen... Senpai..."

In that room, the rationality of the boy slowly dissolved as he moved closer to the nervous girl.

Under her flustered gaze, he stole her lips.

Then, the blankets were lifted, covering them both, hiding all the warmth that followed beneath them.

"Clang!"

At the same time, a golden ring shone with dazzling light, linking their souls together.

The boy and the girl, too, became one—forever inseparable.

"Fou! Fou!"

A small white creature had somehow slipped out of the room, yawning as it walked away.

That day, beneath the sea of flames, the boy and girl who had sworn to sacrifice themselves for each other finally became one.

From then on, they would journey to another world.

But at this moment, they belonged only to each other.