Heaven's Feeling – 16

Naruto watched Arturia Pendragon's funeral as the only remaining Knight of the Rounds.

She wore her usual armour with likeness of Excalibur across her chest as her hands, in gauntlets, gripped it.

The actual sword was returned to the original owner under the lake.

Arturia passed away a week later after their intimacy due to her wound.

Naruto's charka had slowed down the poison in her body caused by Mordred, but it the end, he failed to protect her life and give her an heir.

The King spent her last days with Naruto, putting down the law for future generation from her own experience.

After the ceremony was over, the room was empty as two persons standing before Arturia's body.

Naruto caressed her cheek one last time, it was unusual warm.

Their time together was short, but he did love her, and still love her even now.

In the end, she was a good King as she had regained her emotions.

If only she had more time, the Kingdom would enter a golden age.

"Naruto, I'm sorry it had turned out this way," Merlin said while stroking his white long beard.

He was there at their small wedding, with only a few people who knew about Arturia's secret.

The King knew her mortality and accepted it in the end.

Naruto didn't want her to go, but he accepted her choice. She died in his arms.

"I still didn't understand what Arturia said with her last breath," Naruto muttered as the old wizard raised an eyebrow.

"What did she say exactly?"

"Please raise her, promise me... I want to see her again, in the future," Naruto recited the King's dying word as Merlin stroke his beard a little.

The wizard had a thoughtful expression as some strange reasoning entered his mind.

"I assumed Arturia meant our daughter… but that's not possible is it? What did she mean in the future?" Naruto asked the wise wizard.

The old man didn't reply and moved toward the King's body.

He touched Arturia and mumbled something.

"That's strange… she should be cold by now," Merlin said as Naruto raised an eyebrow.

The old man was sure Arturia was dead.

Merlin started sliding his old, bony hands over Arturia's asset, but Naruto pulled him back, and choked the life out of him with one hand with another about to pummel the geezer.

"What the fuck you think you're doing?" Naruto shouted angrily.

Merlin just sighed.

"I was just checking something… let me go and don't interrupt," Merlin said instead of actually begged.

After a few more moment, Naruto let Merlin go so he could continue his examining.

The wizard resumed his task and hand stopped at the King's belly as he felt a strong lingering magic within it.

He continued checking it out as Naruto was getting furious.

No one desecrate his wife's body.

"I see… congratulation," Merlin said as Naruto wanted to strangle the man again for saying stupid thing.

"Her spirit is gone, I sense that, but her body's still alive, trying to hold onto one little thing," Merlin said with a smile as Naruto blinked.

"You don't mean…?" Naruto asked as Merlin nodded.

"Yes, she's pregnant, Arturia must have known she was on borrow time, so she used her entire magic to protect her child… your child, as for the second part, maybe you will see her again in the future?"

Merlin continued explaining what they should do to preserve Arturia's heir.

It would be a tedious process, but they could do it.

Naruto agreed with Merlin and wanted to preserve Arturia's body as well.

The Crimson Knight, last member of the Rounds, left Britain behind as there was nothing left for him there.

The country would learn to survive as he carried Arturia's body with Merlin toward the icy North.