[Gun Bow] Fuyuki Four Battles, the second week!

"──Understood! So Illya is the side of Illya that belongs to ordinary people; Chloe is the side of Illya that belongs to the Little Holy Grail."

Ilya, who is only eight years old this year, has no stage fright at all when facing her ten-year-old self from a parallel world.Instead, after listening to the ins and outs, immediately learn the habit of not knowing who?Putting on a posture is quite mature and draws conclusions.

Hmm... that posture is quite similar.

Several adults suddenly felt a smile.

But only Emiya Kiritsugu was pulled out, and got a solemn protest from the eight-year-old Illya!The little girl didn't make any sense, just said: "Kiritsugu can't laugh. Otherwise, I won't play with you in the future!"

"Okay, okay...Illya is really strict with her father." The fish-eyed man immediately followed his daughter's wishes.

Isn't that what coaxing children is all about?

Basically, from Emiya Kiritsugu who accompanied Illya, it was difficult to see that this man belonged to the side of the magician killer.He seems to have given all the purest gentleness and softness that can be shown on the surface to his only daughter.

The ten-year-old Ilya was full of envy when she saw it.

In the memory of a girl who was a part-time magic girl in elementary school, Dad spent too little time at home, even less than his mother. It seemed that there were always many things that required him to run around.

Chloe, who was half her body with her, could naturally understand this emotion, but seeing that someone maintained a superficial smiling face, but was actually lost in embarrassment, she still couldn't help reaching out her hand under the table, and pinched someone hard. A handful of human thighs.

"pain……"

Before a word could be finished, Illya's thigh was hit by Chloe again, and her voice was knocked back along the way.

This action is not small, but everyone, including Miyu who was sitting next to them, still tacitly pretended not to see the "small" action between the two girls.

At this time, the place where everyone is located is the living room of Emiya Mansion.

It is currently one o'clock in the afternoon.

Since there were more guests from the parallel world on the return journey, the Emiya family did not delay in other places. Lunch was eaten at home, and the basic information exchange was divided into two time periods—during the return journey and after the meal. of.

Ilya, who came from a parallel world, once marveled at the vastness of Emiya House, which is completely different from her two-story house; for a while, she didn't see that her good friend Meiyu's reaction was flat, not because she was used to living in big houses and She has such a personality, but because she is familiar with the layout of Emiya Mansion, and it is more nostalgia than admiration and emotions surging in her heart.

──Of course the object of memory will not be Emiya Kiritsugu.

Even if Miyu has already noticed, Kiritsugu in this world line is fundamentally different from the man in her memory to some extent.

Far away.Closer to home.

Compared with studying the same person in different parallel worlds, what are the subtle changes?Right now, there was clearly something more needed and worthy of their attention—the Archer rank card corresponding to Gilgamesh.

"You need actual combat training."

Emiya Kiritsugu bluntly pointed out the biggest shortcoming of magical girls.In the few battles with class cards, the experience that can be accumulated is limited after all, and the battle with "Gilgamesh" was won almost by adopting a stance of mutual demise, which in Kiritsugu's eyes is already very telling.

Regardless of what caused the conflict of rules, the Servant's shot defeat cannot be counted.If class cards can only be recovered by magical girls, then the lack of weaknesses must be made up!

As he spoke, he glanced at the blond boy sitting leisurely with his back against the sliding door.

"Don't look at me like that. To me, it's most important to restore yourself to integrity, so I won't stop you if you want to defeat him, and I won't help him again." The Boy King simply said: " But I will take the card with me. It was originally mine.”

None of the people who cared about the ownership of the card happened to fall into this world line. Naturally, no one objected to Jill's statement.

"Then there is only one question left. How to go back? Have you thought about it?" The door of the living room was opened, and Emiya leaned against the door to ask; then she turned her gaze to Kiritsugu, and spoke for others: "Sai I got a call. Said that the castle has been cleaned and ready to move in at any time.”

"Cú Chulainn will go first. The field for actual combat training must be set up first."

Needless to say, this Heroic Spirit, who had not been in the living room for a while, must have heard other people's conversations verbatim with his superhuman hearing.

"it is good."

Kiritsugu remained calm, acquiescing to Cu Chulainn's initiative.

After all, he was the one who asked for the castle to be cleaned, and he called home from the hot spring hotel. The actual combat training was the idea that the magician killer had in mind from the very beginning.

"Shirou..."

"──That's it!" With perfect timing, Illya slapped the table, changed her sitting position into a kneeling position, and straightened herself up. "Um... I heard that heroic spirits all have real names? Your real name..." She opened her big crimson eyes, cautiously like a small animal, and asked as calmly as possible.

She heard this name several times on the way back, and she confirmed it with her friends, even grabbing a ruby, that Kiritsugu's father really put the label of "Shirou" on the white-haired man whom he had never seen before.

So after blurting out the question, Ilya became even more nervous; on the other hand, the person being questioned was very calm except for slightly raising her eyebrows to express a little surprise.

"Emiya."

Seeing that Kiritsugu didn't object at a glance, Emiya opened his mouth.And this person was quite deliberate, a name had to be split into two parts and said in two sentences──

"But what you want to hear should be my full name in life. It's the name 'Shirou Emiya'."

The girl's expression changed decisively.

And it wasn't just one person that changed, it was the expressions of all three of them that changed!

"Really, is it the same brother? Illya, your brother died?" This is the ten-year-old Illya, who turned her head vigorously, asking for an answer from the eight-year-old Illya.

"How is it possible? Heroic spirits of course refer to dead heroes. Speaking of which Shirou will become like this in the future, our skin color is like brother and sister... Ah, in fact, a closer relationship is also possible." Chloe said at the end. I licked my lips, that little head full of imagination, I don't know where to push the "plot"?

"So...is it tanned? But the color of the pupils has also changed..." Miyu, who was the quietest, explored seriously, and Emiya felt uncomfortable with her focused eyes.

"The matter of going back, just leave it to me and Sapphire!" The ruby ​​wand has always been like an artificial elf in an offline state, as if to join in the fun, the earlier question jumped out to answer at this time, and by the way encouraged its new owner: " Illya, Illya, why don't you take a few commemorative photos? Think about cute and cute magical girls and mature older brothers and adults squeezed together into the shot, and then follow the trend..."

"Ahhh! Don't talk nonsense!" The blushing girl burst out suddenly!Copy and cover the cushion under the buttocks, and quickly catch the ruby ​​who is about to swear!And press it under the buttocks, sit upright.

"I'm sorry, my sister is just a little enthusiastic." The sapphire flew out, and the decorative bows at both ends were bent inward, making a gesture like bowing.Later, a more professional explanation was attached: "The coordinate analysis has already started, and the work of world locking and channel establishment when returning back can all be left to us."

...In the end, among a group of parallel world visitors, the most reliable one is actually the artificial elf with the sapphire wand?

Emiya's rational judgment is like this; her sensibility can't help but wonder, does the work of magical girls also have a negative effect on IQ?

──No.It is likely that there is a problem with the settings of a certain wand when it leaves the factory.Maybe he should remind Ilya to return it to the factory for repair as soon as possible after returning...

However, magical girls are not so easy to deal with.At least they paid close attention to the question of "Why Shirou Emiya changed color".

"It's just a side effect of a certain magic." Emiya, who was obsessed and had to sit in the living room for a while, still gave the answer evasively.

But when it came to the world of the magical girl Illya, Emiya Shirou who didn’t know magic and was an ordinary person, Emiya started to talk more automatically, repeatedly emphasizing: “Since you value him, you should be optimistic about that Emiya Shirou. Once he suddenly has the ambition to be a partner of justice, it is best to raid him immediately and smash him into amnesia!"

"It will take a lot of force, will it cause a concussion?" The girl Ilya really listened and frowned.

"It's better than giving up the opportunity to be an ordinary person in a normal life... Tsk, I said too much. There are many possibilities for parallel worlds. Given his current external conditions, he may not have the opportunity to take this path."

Putting his hands on his knees and standing up, the man decided not to stay in the living room any longer, so he found an excuse to leave.

"..."

Emiya Kiritsugu, who watched the whole process, silently picked up his teacup.

Irisviel clasped him under the table with a stronger force than usual.This is the strength of unconditional support.

Kiritsugu didn't go out of his way to find his adopted son who should have met after the Fourth Holy Grail War, it was because of considerations similar to Emiya's: if the disaster didn't happen, would Shirou have a better life?