Type-Moon: Root Seiko

But Orange's doujinshi obviously wouldn't admit that she was jealous... This kind of stubborn pride is even more adorable, and Luo Zhen loves it!

He nodded proudly: "This is also to solidify our cooperative relationship. I'd love for you to praise me too."

"Rin and Sakura are indeed promising young girls, and it's definitely a good thing to build a good relationship with them as soon as possible."

"And regardless of whether you want to abide by your contract with Tokiomi Tohsaka or not, you're at least qualified to be their future teacher. Especially since Rin Tohsaka is going to inherit the Tohsaka family's magic, she might even inherit that old rascal's second magic, the Jewel Mage. Don't you want that?"

"...I didn't say I didn't want it."

After hesitating for a while, Ms. Aozaki Touko finally answered her husband honestly.

This made Luo Zhen laugh even more happily.

After all, although Orange has given up on pursuing the root cause, her instinct for knowledge as a magician has not disappeared.

If we could obtain some of the secrets of the Second Law and develop a means to interfere with parallel worlds, that would be another achievement worthy of being recorded in the annals of the magic world.

With her two great achievements, "Perfect Puppet Making Technique" and "Recreating the Rune Plate from the Age of Gods", Aozaki Touko has become one of the most outstanding magicians of the contemporary era.

If she were to add the ability to "recreate the Second Law as a non-magician," she could truly create a fourteenth department in addition to the thirteenth department of the Clock Tower.

Of course, as I said before, Orange doesn't care about any of that.

Although she didn't care, she didn't mind adding another achievement to her resume.

Aozaki Touko is that kind of person.

Well, that brings us to this point.

Seeing that Orange was in a good mood, Luo Zhen casually said, "The mansion I'm living in now is almost finished being cleaned up."

"It's too big for me to live alone, and I feel like it might be haunted at night. So I called Yuzhu and asked her to bring Karen to stay with me. Could you please pick her up, Ms. Orange?"

Chapter 16 The witch’s real wife!

"What do you mean you feel like it's haunted? You're a grown man, why are you afraid of this... Huh? What did you say?"

Miss Orange, who was busy working on her ammunition box, took a beat to realize what was going on after her initial outburst.

She immediately took off her glasses, revealing a fierce and sharp gaze as she glared at the shameless man in front of her.

Luo Zhen remained calm and composed... but subtly shifted his gaze: "I've already spoken to Youzhu on the phone, and she's agreed."

"But as you know, Miss Orange, she's a very sheltered young lady. Although Kallen is very smart, she's only 5 years old, the same age as Sakura."

"It would be terrible if the two of them got lost on their own... Yuzhu might actually activate the Fairy Tale Barrier and take a shortcut from the inner side of the planet to Fuyuki City. That would cause a huge mess, right? And right now I need to replenish my mana with the spiritual veins of Fuyuki City, so I can't go far. That's why I was wondering if you could go and pick them up in my place..."

“You’re such a piece of trash.”

The legendary puppeteer's veins bulged as he reached out and pinched Luo Zhen's seemingly innocent face.

How could this seemingly gentle and kind college student utter such cold and scum-like lines with his 37-degree mouth?

Orange's eyes twitched: "I'm telling you, where do you get the nerve to ask me, your legal wife, to pick up your mistress and let her live with you?"

"Although I did admit to this, and it was indeed me who initially asked you to deceive Youzhu and that Xiao Chunu, hoping you would forcefully control this troublesome witch... but I never asked you to actually fall in love with her, could you? Couldn't you just abandon her after starting something and dump that girl?"

"...If I really dumped you, wouldn't you look down on me even more, Ms. Orange?"

Luo Zhen let Chengzi pull his mouth, his expression utterly sanctimonious!

This shameless answer really made Orange's throat tighten... In the end, she could only sigh.

What's that saying again...? It's like reaping what you sow, and then you can't escape it.

Orange covered her face in deep regret: "Why was I so foolish to send you to that hellhole in Yuzhu... This is like throwing good money after bad, and I've only brought trouble upon myself. All the men I've been with are second-hand goods..."

Luo Zhen: "I think we can be more open-minded. Anyway, Orange, you like Yuzhu, your half-sister, more than Aoko, right? It's not a big deal that she used me, it's like family ties!"

Luo Zhen's smile was so delightful that it made Chengzi even angrier.

The "Arisu" they were talking about, whose full name is Kuonji Arisu, is Touko's childhood friend and younger sister.

The two have known each other since childhood due to their family ties, and it can be said that their friendship was established before Orange became a magician.

But in the end, Orange got burned by playing with fire.

Orange and her younger sister, Aozaki Aoko, had a falling out over some trivial matters related to their self-esteem.

They then planned to completely crush her and inflict the most intense humiliation upon her.

So, after getting help from Ryougi, Touko ordered Ryougi to deliberately contact Aoko and Ayumi, becoming her inside man.

According to Orange's idea, let's leave Aoko aside for now.

But a pure and sheltered young lady like Yu-joo would definitely not be able to resist Luo Zhen's charm and would be won over by this man in no time.

Then, when Orange comes to challenge Aoko to a duel, Luo Zhen will lead Yuzhu to defect.

He could see his younger sister, Aoko, with that desperate expression as if she had been betrayed by the whole world... that was his childish and wicked intention.

But...

Luo Zhen hugged his arms nostalgically: "I was trying to persuade you until the very end, and I did follow your plan. I didn't betray you, and I didn't tell Aoko anything about you... although I did tell Ayumi."

"In the end, you insisted on a one-on-one duel with Aoko, and even said some villainous lines like 'Let me see what magic is all about.' Then you got what you wanted and Aoko, who had activated her fifth magic, almost punched you through the stomach. I had to break up the fight."

"That's why I said before, if you want to beat Aoko, you have to beat her when she's not using magic. If you insist on trying to win with some kind of mental victory and anger her, you're just asking for trouble."

"...Mind your own business."

Orange stubbornly held onto her pride and sulked until the very end, which was hard to believe was that she was already 2 years old.

In the end, it was only because of Luo Zhen that the enraged Aoko was able to hold back and temporarily cease hostilities out of respect for him.

Then the two sisters went out for dinner together. It seems they ate hot pot, and they split the bill in the end.

As for why Luo Zhen said "it seems"... well, it's because he didn't go to eat with them.

That night, the Aozaki sisters had a heart-to-heart talk at a hot pot restaurant.

Luo Zhen is at Youzhu's house, having a deep conversation with her.

This was entirely Orange's own fault; Yuzhu's condition for letting her go was that Luo Zhen stay with her.

Despite her seemingly easy-going nature, the witch Xiao Chu is surprisingly shrewd when it comes to romance, and can be quite terrifying when she's being subservient.

Luo Zhen also took this opportunity to confess to Yuzhu, openly admitting that he liked both Touko and Yuzhu.

Ms. Orange, who was obliged to help, could only grit her teeth in humiliation, like a helpless wife...

"Oh, but I didn't have any real relationship with you back then, Orange."

Luo Zhen deliberately looked away: "My first time was with Youzhu, so logically it should be pure love with her. On the contrary, Ms. Orange, you would definitely be the wicked villain witch in fairy tales. ... But now I'm following you everywhere, so doesn't that count as you succeeding? You can be a little proud."

"Thank you so much, you scumbag harem king."

Orange gave him a murderous glare, but that was all.

To be honest, Orange lost more to Yuzhu's unwillingness to accept defeat.

Although she was very competitive, she wasn't very jealous.

After all, once she figured out Luo Zhen's true nature, Orange never thought that she could keep this man stable in the world by herself alone. In the end, she would inevitably have to share him with other women.

But that first person just happened to be the descendant of the First Witch who gave everything for love... This was purely Orange's own fault.

What Orange fears most is not sharing Luo Zhen with other women.

But what if that witch, so young, dies happily in Luo Zhen's arms?

Then it became an unforgettable claw mark on his heart, so that he could only remember that little witch for the rest of his life, turning him into one of the countless widowers in history who fell in love with witches...

"...I don't want to compete against a dead man I can't beat."

Orange muttered to herself, her hands itching to smoke another cigarette.

But then she thought, someone with a smoky mouth definitely can't beat that little witch... and her fists clenched immediately!

"I can pick you up, but there's a condition."

Orange squinted, staring fiercely at Luo Zhen.

...Then her gaze gradually moved downwards, fixing on a somewhat dangerous area.

She exhaled angrily: "I'm going to set up a contraceptive magic trick for you."

"Without my permission, you're not getting that little witch pregnant. Understand?"

"...Ms. Orange, what are you thinking about all day long?"

Luo Zhen was dumbfounded: "I haven't even fully conceived yet, how could I possibly get a woman pregnant?"

My beloved has such a bad memory, she's such a silly girl.

Chapter 17 There are beads in Jiuyuan Temple

After Tokiomi Tohsaka kindly gifted him a mansion, Rozen has been working on its renovation.

This mansion is a typical Japanese garden, and it is very large. It may have been a samurai family residence in the past.