() "Why don't you think of some way to make up for this shortcoming? Just let this team member be discovered or die by the other party? You! Do you still remember what you promised me?"
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"Of course I remember...then do you believe me? Completely, completely trust my resourcefulness..."
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"Well, of course I believe in your resourcefulness. There is nothing worth saying about this. You said they were going to attack me, and it did happen. All your analysis went on like this, even if you
Everything you said in advance has come true, so of course I believe in your resourcefulness..."
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"...Then, you believe that after they find Luo Gan Dao, when they reveal their flaws, I will definitely be able to use this flaw to find them all before they harm Luo Gan Dao!"
Shirou, who was injured and unconscious again, was taken back to his home by Sber. Rin briefly bandaged him and then let him rest there.
As expected, his wounds healed quickly on their own, and he would be fully recovered by nightfall.
Feeling sorry for Shirou's cockroach physique, Rin called Kotomine Kirei.
This battle left that area in a mess, and Rin handed everything over to the priest.
Then Rin, who had nothing to do for a while, took Felicia aside and started doing things.
"Rin, go check out Matou's house tonight. If that guy is there, kill her!"
"It's okay. It's clear that Matou's generation no longer has magic circuits. How did Shinji become a Master?"
"We'll know if we can go see it tonight?"
"Okay, let's wait until night and see what the secret is."
Emiya's house——
Matou Sakura stayed at home, waiting for Shirou's return.
She has been feeling very weak recently and had a fever yesterday, so she has taken leave from school these days.
"Tick-tock-tock..."
The sound of the second hand moving was quite noisy, and she looked up at the clock on the wall.
It's past four o'clock.
School has ended long ago. Even if I took a detour to the shopping street on the way home, I should be back by now.
"What's wrong? Senior, you're so slow."
She leaned against the wall and murmured to herself.
"────ah, la"
Dullness, along with sensitivity, made me dizzy.
A small sound of surprise came from his mouth.
You can even hear the sound of the second hand very clearly, but you can't hear your own voice.
There was only a monotonous sound in my ears.
Click, click, clock hands ringing regularly and,
Thump thump, the heart transmits blood painfully.
These two sounds would be directly transmitted to her brain even if she covered her ears, making her dizziness even more intense.
When I took my temperature, it was already at normal temperature. I even made lunch by myself.
After noon, I had returned to my normal self, fully looking forward to the return of the real owner of this mansion.
“────It’s so hot────”
But why now, my body feels so hot.
She believed that the source of heat did not come from herself, but from something other than herself.
There is not even a slight gap between the blood vessels and the overlap of muscles.
There is something outside of myself invading, like the engine of a car spinning.
──Thinking about it like that, her heat rose to the edge, which was unprecedented and abnormal.
That feeling was strange to say the least, and uncomfortable to say the least.
It's not just yourself who suffers.
The blood vessels and nerves inside the body, etc., seem to have something sad about them.
If you want to give an example, it's like a puppy looking for the exit in a can full of meat.
The puppy, the culprit of heat, lurks in the body, trying its best to digest the tasks given to it.
When she thought of this, she felt love and pity unconsciously, and she could no longer hate that feeling.
"The sound of the clock is so loud"
He looked up at the clock in a daze.
The time is half past four.
I'll definitely be back in a little while. In half an hour.
Before that, you must calm down your body and calm down whatever is flowing around your body.
"It doesn't matter. This has happened several times."
Yes, I have long been accustomed to this.
He has been disciplined and corrected several times since he was a child.
So this time I was able to calm down easily──the heat did not drop, and something in my body sped up on its own.
"I hate that it seems weird, learn from it and grow up"
The body method calms down.
Things that have been possible until now are no longer possible.
What is not enough now, what is necessary, and what has changed.
Although I was thinking hard, the hands of the clock were so noisy that I couldn't settle down at all.
"────Ah? This, the sound."
When I realized that the sound was not the sound of a clock, but the sound of an omen coming from the mansion itself.
"What? Emiya hasn't come back yet. That's just right."
She walked in with her shoes on, and a character she was quite familiar with appeared. Is he here? Just like what grandpa said, overuse of rer caused a reaction."
The man walked into the living room and walked towards the girl leaning against the wall.
"Ah────"
Although I wanted to escape, I couldn't use any strength.
No, I don’t have the strength to escape in the first place.
Even if he escapes from here, in the end── he still cannot escape.
"This is your final appearance, Sakura. Didn't you say you were willing to do anything?"
He lowered his head and looked at her expression, only showing a convulsive smile.
"────Brother, brother"
"Oh, come on, let's go. We have to have a showdown with Emiya. Don't you also want to see that guy's crying expression, so you went to the special seat and waited."
The man took the girl's wrist and pulled her up.
"Ah───I don't want it!"
Although she wanted to free her wrist from being caught, she didn't even have the strength to do so.
The man pulled her close to him in disgust and roughly strangled her neck.
"Stop disobeying me, Sakura...just do as I say."
"I don't want to──no, it's different from what we promised, brother! Didn't you say you won't attack seniors again?"
She resisted with her hair down.
The man stopped.
He let go of the girl he was holding, raised his foot and kicked her in the abdomen without mercy.
Emiya... I just know Emiya, I was almost killed by that bitch when he drank that afternoon!
"Ming───Ka... uh..."
There was a sound of sobbing from the girl lying on the floor.
"I'm really gentle. Although I have prepared the medicine I got from my grandpa, I still haven't used it."
The man forced the girl lying on the floor to stand up.
"Ah Ming, Ming───"
After carrying the coughing girl over, the man strangled her neck again.
"Don't worry, I will abide by the agreement. I will not kill Emiya, nor will I investigate what happened so far. I just want to say that if I don't teach that guy a lesson, I will feel unhappy."
The man brought his mouth so close that it almost touched the girl's cheek and said happily.
"Uh────, Ming────"
Her neck was strangled, and the girl closed her mouth unwillingly.
No matter how much you resist, you can only do this, as if you accept the fact that you have experienced countless times.
"That's right, that's all you need. Then I'll take the first step, Sakura. This is Emiya's position. If you want to play, you have to go back to my position. rer, take this woman with you
past."
The man opened the door to the girl roughly and left the living room.
"────r,er"
The girl who was lying on the ground raised her head.
There, the long hair flowing down to the floor is the figure of a servnt.