I wanted to be a bad actor in the anime, but I failed.

Lord of Ashes.

Kotomine Kirei stood in the blackened church, the screams that had not yet stopped were in his ears, and in front of him was his father who was kneeling on the ground.

His three perspectives collapsed, and the feeling of betraying others immorally made his heart palpitate.

For some reason, his lips, which had remained unchanged for a long time, curled up into a terrifying smile.

Pleasure.

“Is this pleasure?”

God did not answer.

Kotomine Kirei did not dare to offend his father. He just supported his father's shoulders and said, "Father, please stand up."

The false respect finally made Kotomine Risei feel extremely uneasy about the unchanging cold expression.

He stood up in a daze, following the force, and then was treated for his burns by his own son.

After he finished his work, he asked, "Qi, Kirei, was that a god just now?"

"Yes, father, that was God's warning to us just now."

"Is it because of this relic? Is it because we can't give it to Tousaka?"

"......" Kotomine Kirei was silent for a long time before he said, "No, it's just an announcement that we need to serve him."

"...That's it."

Kotomine Risho had so many questions to ask, but she was afraid of offending Kami so she had to remain silent.

Just when he didn't know what to do.

"Father, He said that He wants to go with you to participate in the meeting to eliminate heresy."

……

"Nani Nani Nani Nani! Go buy some groceries!"

Under Kato Megumi's urging, which was both coquettish and forced, Mu Lin took Gaozi away from home.

The long journey makes people breathless.

After so long, Nishimiya Naoko has not yet gotten over the fact that her grandmother has died.

Knowing that he had to rely on himself for this matter, Mu Lin could only hold her soft little hand and keep walking forward, as if to reach an end that would never be reached.

When passing by a vending machine, Mu Lin paused and walked forward.

I bought a bottle of juice which I had given to Nishimiya Naoko for the first time.

With a snap, the can opened and he placed it in front of Nishimiya Naoko, who was looking down at her toes.

"Woo?"

She looked up dazedly, at the all too familiar face.

"Drink."

"......Um."

Nishimiya Naoko took it obediently, held the can with both hands and took a sip.

The sweet taste surrounds the taste buds.

Like a gentle breeze caressing the endless grass.

After a while, it started to rain.

Those are Nishimiya Shoko's tears.

"Why are you crying again?" Mu Lin rubbed her head unhappily.

The latter smiled and wiped her tears while using clumsy sign language to say, "It tastes like grandma's basil juice."

"As long as you're missing someone, anything you drink tastes like basil juice."

"Death is such an unreal thing." Nishimiya Shoko still hasn't really believed the fact that her grandmother has died.

"I miss you too. Please make me a glass of basil juice when you get home."

“…but I can never make it taste like grandma’s.”

"My grandma has been making basil juice for so long that it tastes old, but you are young and just learning it, so the taste is fresh. We each have our own special qualities. For a young person like me, yours tastes better."

"Don't say grandma's perilla juice doesn't taste good!" Nishimiya Naoko angrily hit Mu Lin's shoulder.

The fierce-looking cat is really scary.

"I didn't say grandma's perilla juice doesn't taste good!" Mu Lin said innocently.

"Humph!"

Nishimiya Naoko was being willful and acted in a petty manner. She wiped away her tears and walked forward, no longer standing shoulder to shoulder with Mu Lin.

But the confusion of walking alone made her courage to move forward increasingly weakened. A great sense of fear surrounded her. Just as she was about to turn around to find the only support, her body was suddenly spun around by an irresistible force, and then fell forward.

A warm embrace is always the most gentle comfort from the closest people.

The collision of souls and the contact of bodies made Nishimiya Naoko very infatuated. She greedily reached out to hug him and buried her head deeply in the chest that never cooled down!

“The death of a loved one is not a storm, but the dampness of the rest of your life. If possible, I really want to accompany you through the dampness of the rest of your life.”

The trembling whisper came to her ears, but the last sentence was spoken so softly that Nishimiya Naoko did not hear it.

She looked curiously at Mu Lin who was nearby, wanting to know what the latter sentence was about, but was stunned by his genuine smile.

What a gentle and handsome smile.

If you can keep smiling like this, then the person in front of you is definitely a man more handsome than the world's number one male god!

Unfortunately, the smile was fleeting, returning to his usual fake expression, perhaps even colder than usual.

"Go buy some groceries quickly, don't let Hui wait at home for too long."

"Ah."

......

After returning home, Mu Lin was greeted by an unexpected guest.

The woman who never knew that she had disturbed the warm daily life of three people in her family and had a hypocritical smile on her face was stroking the dissatisfied sheriff.

The sheriff seemed to know that this woman was not a good person, so he didn't like her very much.

"How did you come?"

Mu Lin asked Yukinoshita Haruno while drinking the basil juice made by Nishimiya Glass.

"Huh? You obviously forced me to come here, yet you still ask me why I'm here. What a weird guy!"

As soon as these words came out, the sound of the kitchen knife hitting the chopping board became noticeably louder.

"When did I force you?"

"Didn't you ask me to deliver cat strips to the Sheriff every month?"

Yukinoshita Haruno blamed Mu Lin, and it seemed like she didn't want to come either.

In fact, she wished she could be a light bulb every day to prevent her sister or herself from having any chance.

"The cat strips have been delivered, so you can leave now."

"Hey, hey, hey, you really don't treat me like a human being, do you? I am your 'secretary (winking and whispering)' after all. You came all the way here to deliver a cat strip, so you should at least treat me to dinner, right?"

The latter sentence was spoken a little loudly, as if it wasn't addressed to Mu Lin.

Sure enough, Kato Megumi's voice was heard in the kitchen.

"Sure, Sister Yang Nai, please stay for dinner."

Just as Yukinoshita Haruno wanted to disrupt the lives of the three people, Kato Megumi also wanted to understand this tricky opponent better.

However, Mu Lin on the side noticed that there was something wrong with the address.

Sister Yang?

Mu Lin frowned and looked at Yukinoshita Haruno, silently asking her what was going on.

Compared to her two girlfriends, Yukinoshita Haruno obviously understood Mu Lin better in some aspects. She immediately understood his question, smiled, stretched, picked up the game console on the sofa and started playing.

"Speaking of which, the game 'Old Gods' is quite fun. I was not interested in video games before, but I got into it. But recently I have been playing with my sister, Kei, Nakagawa, and Shiyu. I have never played with the player they have been looking forward to playing day and night, so I don't know how good he is."

"It doesn't matter what his level is, but I know without thinking that you must be a loser."

Mu Lin's unquestionable tone made Yukinoshita Haruno's expression freeze.

These words touched her wound.

"puff!"

There was still the faint sound of Kato Megumi's giggles in the kitchen.

This made Yukinoshita Haruno, who had always been strong-willed, feel so ashamed that she almost forgot to control her expression and said stubbornly, "Don't slander me if you don't know anything!"

"I'm always very good at judging people. Just like the electronic idiot who hasn't been solved yet, the person in front of me might be a game idiot."

"Humph, it's probably because you're such a failure in real life that you like to mock others for being bad in the game!"

The two of them are just like players who can't stand each other in the game and start to scold each other.

Just when things were getting out of control and were about to become a complete confrontation, Kato Megumi arrived in time.

"Boyfriend! As a newbie in the game, Sister Yang Nai needs to be more understanding. Besides, this will also help us get to know more about what kind of person Sister Yang Nai is. In fact, she is surprisingly cute!"

It was unbearable to be praised for being cute by a girl the same age as my younger sister.

But this was speaking in her favor after all, which made Yukinoshita Haruno not know how to refute.

You can't resist, you can't accept.

For a moment, she felt extremely uncomfortable and even vaguely wondered if the girl was deliberately playing a trick on her.

Dinner time for four people and one cat begins.

Although Yukinoshita Haruno is present, the three of them cannot openly show their affection by picking food for each other, but they can still talk about many topics.

Especially Yukinoshita Haruno's ability to guide the topic.

As a woman who always pays attention to Mu Lin, of course she knows what happens to the people around him.

So, whether it is to comfort or to change the subject.

Perhaps it was because of the interactions we had in the game that made me deeply understand what kind of angel the girl named Nishimiya Shoko was.

Yukinoshita Haruno's care for her is even like treating her her own sister.

"Nano, how is it going to study at Sobu High School?"

Although she didn't know sign language, she took the trouble to communicate with Nishimiya Naoko by writing with a pen.

The latter also wrote with a smile: "Well, it's good. My classmates at school are very caring towards me."

"That's good. The president of the school board is my mother. If you are bullied, tell me immediately. I will definitely make the bully pay!"

"No, they are all very good!"

"Did you make any friends? Maybe you can bring them over to your house to play."

Nishimiya Shoko didn't find it strange that Yukinoshita Haruno treated this place as her own home.

"There are several of them. They are all very beautiful and gentle."

"Who is it? Maybe I know him!"

"Yuigahama Yui, Miura Yumiko, and..."

After dinner, seeing Yukinoshita Haruno and Nishimiya Shoko still chatting happily together, Mu Lin didn't know how to get them out.

Suddenly, a beautiful hand pinched his face. Mu Lin turned around and saw Kato Megumi's cute yet serious face.

"Don't always think about driving Sister Yang Nai away. Even though you don't like her, she is our friend."

Why do you think I chased her away?

Mu Lin complained in his heart, but he could only nod and say, "Yeah, okay."

The night gradually deepened.

"Ah, it's getting late, it's time to go home."

Yukinoshita Haruno said with regret.

Nishimiya Naoko was a little reluctant. For someone who had just lost a loved one, what she needed most was companionship. Even though Mu Lin and Kato Megumi were there, she also wanted more friends to be by her side.

"Goodbye, Sister Yang Nao, and be careful on your journey!" Kato Megumi said goodbye.

"But I didn't drive. I have to go to the tram station. I shouldn't run into any bad guys walking on the street at night in your place, right?"

Yukinoshita Haruno said with a hypocritical look of uneasiness.

"Mu Lin, could you please give Sister Yang Nai a ride?" Kato Megumi, the girlfriend, gave a great assist.

OK, if even his girlfriend doesn’t care, then why should he care?

But I really don't understand what Kato Megumi is thinking.

Even Mu Lin, an old man who knows human nature well, was puzzled by her.

So, with Yukinoshita Haruno's wicked smile, Mu Lin took her away from home.

The nights after a spring rain are cold.

Walking suddenly from the warm room to the cold outside made Yukinoshita Haruno shiver.

"Phew~ It's really cold."

"..."

"Well, even though as a man with a girlfriend you need to distance yourself from other women, you shouldn't be so lacking in basic gentlemanly manners, right?"

"..."

"Oh, that's really boring."

Yukinoshita Haruno was in the room with the final say, and she felt helpless as she looked at Mu Lin who was leading the way in front without saying a word.

"Let me think about it... By the way, how about I bring my sister to your house in a few days?"

"Don't ask me about that."

"It's hard to imagine that he is so henpecked. He is so strong and domineering in front of outsiders."

"Is there anything that worries you recently? As your secretary, I can still provide a little help."

"No."

"It doesn't look like there is nothing at all. How could he be so indifferent under normal circumstances?"

"..."

"By the way, do you want to know what's going on with Shiyu at Akane Kousaka?"

"I heard that she has been distracted recently and has been criticized mercilessly by that strict woman, Akane Kousaka. Maybe she got carried away by being hired as an exception."

Yukinoshita Haruno deliberately used verbal stimulation, but to her disappointment the boy still did not respond.

"Of course, there is a possibility. Could it be that she is troubled by the troubles unique to adolescence? Not only is she often distracted, but she is also downhearted like a loser and has no confidence at all. It seems that Akane Kousaka will fire her soon."

"Really?" Mu Lin stopped and turned around to ask, which was rare.

"Of course! Akane Kousaka is a woman who takes her work very seriously. She won't tolerate anyone in the company living a muddled life."

"Eh......"

"What? Huh, the only one who would have trouble with trying to win the favor of a beautiful girl is a young man like you who doesn't understand romance, right?"

Yukinoshita Haruno taunted.

"Who wants to improve their impressions?"

"Even if it was forced, it is still a fact. Since I have accepted this fate, I must take responsibility for it to the end, or end it myself."

"My fate with her has already ended."

This is what Mu Lin thought when he rejected Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"But she doesn't seem to want to succumb to fate. Now, even if it means giving up writing novels, she must desperately fight for the truth in her heart."

"So why are you telling me all this?" Mu Lin asked back.

"Well, just think of it as me trying to improve your impression of me. I'm so dedicated to my work at the firm, but you never say a word to me."

Yukinoshita Haruno seized the opportunity, walked up to Mu Lin, took his arm, and complained to him affectionately like a sister.

Although she was pushed away by him after a few seconds, she was content.

The strategy needs to be followed step by step, and she certainly knows this truth.

"Is there anything urgent in the office?"

"Have!"