"what do you mean?"

Shen Er frowned, then sighed, showing some emotion: "It's just the words to comfort her before. As a widow whose husband has just died and is raising a child alone, the business in the store is still deserted. Apart from using words like that

What else can I do other than comfort her and cheer her up so that she can see hope for the future?"

At first glance, there was nothing wrong with it, but when she thought about it carefully, Rin always felt that something was wrong.

Immediately afterwards, Rin thought of something again.

wrong!

According to the conversation he had with Shenji just now, the other party clearly knew the function of that barrier!

"Hmph! You must have done it!" Rin snorted, "How could you possibly know the function of that barrier if it weren't for you!"

"Emiya told me this morning."

"Tch!" Rin exclaimed, wondering why she had ignored this possibility.

In the end, without any substantial evidence, Rin let Shinji go.

Of course, before leaving, Rin also left a harsh message: "When I find the person who set up that subtle barrier (the culprit who made me gain two pounds of unnecessary fat), I must teach him a lesson!"

Out of a bad taste that couldn't be changed, Shinji picked up the food bag in his hand just before Rin started to leave.

"Tohsaka, do you want to eat steamed buns?"

Rin stumbled and almost fell, then turned around and looked at Shenji with gritted teeth. For some reason, Rin felt more and more that this man did it on purpose!

"No need! By the way, you will definitely sell it to me at the original price, right?"

"No no no."

Shenji shook his head, with an expression like "Who do you think I am?": "This time it's free."

"Huh?!" Lin's heart was moved. What moved her heart was not the fragrant buns, but the word "free!"

…

During the day, Meizu already knew that she would take Sakura shopping after school, so Shinji did not rush home and went to the shopping street to buy some ingredients while it was still early.

After buying some ingredients, Shinji was ready to go home, but at the crossroads he just returned home, he saw two very familiar figures in a small park surrounded by a residential area not far away -

Shirou, who had also just bought ingredients, and Illya, who was arguing with him in an upright manner!

…

"I'm really sorry, Ilia, I have made an appointment with Tohsaka-san to deal with Caster together, so that..."

After listening to Illya's proposal, Shirou touched his head and declined the proposal.

"Illya is very strong! And berserker is the strongest! Working with Rin is not as good as working with Illya!"

Illya hummed twice, with a little pride on her face.

"That's not possible..." Shirou just rubbed his head and smiled bitterly, "And I have promised Tohsaka-san that if we cooperate with Illya..."

"What does it matter? If the three of us work together, we can solve Caster's matter faster, right?"

Illya lowered her body with her hands behind her back, blinking her big eyes from below and looking directly at Shirou, who was evasive and didn't know what to say.

"This... uh... I don't think Tohsaka-san would agree... and I also think..."

Shirou, who looked embarrassed, did not continue, but Illya knew roughly what the other person was thinking, probably because he didn't want to get involved.

Feeling warm in her heart, Illya stood up straight, turned around in a circle with her hands behind her back, and then said: "I said it doesn't matter, Shirou should be very happy to be able to deal with Caster faster, right?"

"That's what I said, but..."

"Big brother thinks so too, right?"

"also?"

Shirou was stunned for a moment, and then he noticed something was wrong with Illya's words. He raised his head and saw his friend Shinji Matou arriving beside him at some point.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah~" Shenji, who was carrying some ingredients, sighed and said helplessly: "I'm not a magician. Don't ask me questions related to magicians and the Holy Grail War. It would be very troublesome to be involved.

What about."

"I thought my eldest brother had been involved a long time ago~"

Shenji shrugged his shoulders: "Don't be ridiculous, I'm just afraid to avoid it. If you want to chat, just change the topic."

Then, Illya really changed the topic.

Things you like to eat and things you hate to eat.

She likes birds but hates cats, she likes snow and hates the cold, she wants to play but can't, and she likes the chatty spy maid even though she hates it.

All in all, they were childish words.

Looking at Illya sitting on the bench, shaking her legs and telling these things enthusiastically, Shinji and Shirou, who were sitting on both sides of her, looked at each other.

——Indeed, like a child waiting for his father to come home.

The two of them smiled helplessly, then looked away again, listening to Illya's words, and chatting with her one after another.

"...In other words, Illya didn't come to this town alone?"

"Well, I came here with Sera and Ligarite. Although I don't need someone to keep an eye on me, I still need someone to take care of me, right?"

Sierra... I won’t make any comments for the time being.

Ligelite, Shinji is very interested in, one of the few mouthless characters in this world. In fact, the attribute of a mouthless character is a bit unworthy of Ligelite.

Looking at the curious expressions of Shenji and Shirou, Illya asked: "Huh? Do you two big brothers care about where I live?"

"Huh?" Shirou was stunned for a moment, then answered honestly: "Well, I'm very concerned about it, because Illya is always elusive and doesn't know where she lives. She will be in trouble when something happens."

Seeing the confusion on Illya's face, Shenji sighed softly and asked Shirou to translate: "To put it simply, if you are injured or something happens, and you need help but don't know where you live, there is nothing you can do.

Rush over. That's what Emiya means. If he knows where you live, he will feel a little more at ease."

"Shinji!"

Shirou blushed. Although he did think so, he just said it so carelessly...

"So that's it..." Illya's face was filled with joy, and then she thought for two seconds, "-Hmm! Well, Shirou is special to me, so if you want to know, I'll tell you

you."

Immediately afterwards, Illya looked at Shenji who was aside.

"Shinji, do you want to know?"

"I want to meet your maid." Shen said simply, then he propped up his chin and pretended to analyze, "Because my family is also looking to recruit some maids recently, so I want to compare the work of your maid..."

"okay."
Chapter completed!