Type-Moon: Root Seiko

Although not as open as her older sister, Sakura tried her best to speak up.

Her cheeks were flushed, and she gripped her sister's hand tightly in return.

"I've memorized a lot of lessons, and I can put more toys into the little box! I'll also protect my sister... One day, I'll be able to put my sister into the treasure chest too!"

"Huh? Sakura's going to put me into the imaginary space too?! ∑(O_O；)!"

Oh no… Sakura, realizing she had misspoke, shook her head frantically.

The intention to hide all his treasures in a box and keep them safe was indeed conveyed.

This made Tokiomi Tohsaka, as well as Rozen and Jeanne d'Arc who had been holding back, burst out laughing.

...Really, the Tohsaka family is so blessed.

Tokiomi Tohsaka stood up with a sense of relief, this time bidding farewell to the boy he had entrusted with his life for the last time:

"Lord Luo, at least until I return to Dongmu, I entrust my daughters to you. Please."

"Yes, leave it to me," Luo Zhen replied frankly.

He will never let him down.

This is the human emotion he yearned for endlessly when he was trapped in the roots.

Chapter 38 The Master of Natural Body

Tokiomi Tohsaka and his wife Aoi Tohsaka quickly drove away from Fuyuki City.

There is no airport in Fuyuki City, so they have to go to a nearby large city.

Tokiomi's excellent and capable wife had already arranged all the arrangements last night and would continue to assist her husband along the way.

Tokiomi Tohsaka guessed that the assassin might target him, and he took all possible precautions.

If the assassins are bold enough to launch an attack, Orange and Ayumi, who are monitoring the city using their own methods, will react immediately, and Rozen and Jeanne will arrive at the scene as soon as possible.

...But even so, Tokiomi Tohsaka was completely unaware.

From the moment the Tohsaka couple's car drove onto the Miwakawa Bridge, to their journey along the main road in Shinto,

The entire time was actually under the surveillance of a sniper scope.

"Run! Beautiful couple, run!"

Only when the car was no longer visible through the scope did the sniper, hiding in one of the high-rise buildings in Xindu, lower his gun and bite the sugar stick he was holding in his mouth.

She remained in the shadows throughout, even avoiding the visual probing of the "Sixpence Song" played by Yuju.

Beside her, a female assassin shrouded in black robes spoke up: "I can still catch up and act at any time."

“All magicians who attempt to seek the so-called Holy Grail deserve to die. What’s more, he is the mastermind behind this blasphemous ritual and has conspired with heretics in the Holy Church. His crimes are too numerous to count. We must kill him and not let him escape the city.”

"Hmm~, but you'll die, you know?" the girl replied lightly as she packed up her sniper rifle.

The graceful curves of her shoulders and back moved slightly in front of the assassin as she disassembled the weapon.

For a moment, the assassin was almost so engrossed in the perfect art of the flesh that he forgot all about his job.

She could see her master's innate physique, the movement of every muscle, every blood vessel, and every bone was so perfect that it filled her, an assassin who had desperately honed her body in her lifetime, with immense envy.

The Master's next words woke her up: "Me too. If I had pulled the trigger just now, I would definitely have died within ten minutes."

"I'd probably have a 70% chance of killing that mustachioed guy. But then several other scents—orange, black, and white—would come after me. Their colors are all vaguely entangled around that car, so they're not letting their guard down."

The assassin frowned: "So, the Tohsaka family does indeed have other accomplices?"

"It's infuriating. If only I had sneaked into that mansion last night..."

"Well, I already said that. If you had gone, Xiao Kuang, you would have died a horrible death last night."

The Master turned around and tapped his Servant's forehead with his finger:

"Don't go to that mansion, don't even go near the hillside. It's all covered in the color of roses (Rozen), the color of the opponent you narrowly escaped death last night."

"The color of roses"... This description, as usual, puzzled the assassins. After spending so much time together, they still couldn't understand the world as perceived by their master.

One’s master has a natural sense of shared experience, which mixes the five senses together, so descriptions that ordinary people cannot understand often appear.

Ordinary people would see this as an illness, but the assassin believed that her master had received a blessing from God. Her sympathetic senses gave her superhuman sensitivity, and the breadth of her intelligence perception and the depth of her analysis were almost equivalent to future vision.

Last night, during the battle at the Holy Church, the assassin was pulled back to his hideout outside the city by his own Master with a single Command Spell without any prior warning.

Neither I nor my Master used any magic that shared our senses.

But she was able to sense her own danger from tens of kilometers away, and judge that she was "about to die", so she did not hesitate to use a Command Spell to pull herself back.

Therefore, since she said that the colors protecting the Tohsaka family mansion belonged to that inexplicable, steel-willed man, the assassins had no choice but to give up.

She lowered her head unwillingly: "I am very sorry for the rash attack on the Holy Church. Master, you only asked me to gather intelligence, but I couldn't help but act because I overheard that evil plot. As a result, we lost our most precious first-mover advantage."

"It's alright, I already said I'm not angry. As long as you accept the punishment." The assassin's master maintained a smile.

This girl, who looked to be about the same age as the assassin, perhaps only sixteen at most, carried a guitar case filled with gun parts on her back.

She reached out and removed the assassin's hood.

The beautiful face, previously hidden by a black veil, was now exposed to the air, making the assassin even more ashamed.

"Last night too, that strange man pulled off my hood, revealing my true face."

“That man even knew about our order, knew that I wasn’t the real Hassan-i-Sabah. This is such a humiliation…!”

"Alright. The punishment begins now: you are forbidden from discussing anything related to the Holy Grail War again."

The Master clapped her hands and then drew a secret mark on the assassin's forehead.

The magic took effect immediately, concealing the assassin's conspicuous light brown skin and turning it into a pinkish-white that suited Asian skin tones, as if the color had been reduced by two shades.

She then used the same magic on herself, concealing her equally noticeable brown skin and white hair.

The gun-wielding girl pulled a sugar stick from her pocket, tapped it against her thigh to break the packaging, and put it in her mouth.

"You're not allowed to become a spirit for the next week. You have to play with me. We finally managed to sneak into this little island nation. It's so boring if all you can think about is fighting and killing."

"That old man named Emiya Kiritsugu, even after he died, still had someone invite us to this ceremony. We'd be losing out if we didn't make a profit, right?"

"...Yes, sir."

Mistakes should be punished, but the assassin girl still self-destructively treats it as a trial.

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On the other side, Touko and Arisu only stopped being on guard after Tokiomi Tohsaka's vehicle left the surveillance range.

Orange shook her head listlessly: "I miscalculated. I thought that with such an obvious target passing by, that ridiculous assassin or Master would definitely make a move. But they managed to hold back, which makes things even more troublesome now."

"Don't use allies as bait so easily," Luo Zhen immediately warned. "Especially don't say it in front of Rin and Sakura, they'll really cry."

"Tsk, child fetish."

Orange didn't hold back in her criticism, making no attempt to hide her jealousy.

She's still upset about Luo Zhen bringing the two little girls home; she's truly a big sister who completely dislikes children.

At that moment, the two girls were arranging their luggage with Joan's enthusiastic help, making their room look beautiful.

Doing something fun can also help alleviate the anxiety of being away from parents, and Luo really wants to play with them.

Yu-joo then asked, "What do we do next?"

"The assassins are still around. The only safe places are this mansion where my villa is located, Orange's workshop, and you and Saber. If we want to search further..."

"Hmm, no rush."

Luo Zhen decisively gave a thumbs up: "Jeanne just arrived, and the two girls just settled in as well."

"Then there's only one thing we should do—take them shopping and buy them clothes!"

Chapter 39 A Nineteen-Year-Old Mom Is Pretty Good Too

Although it seems like a lot has been done, only half a day has actually passed since Joan of Arc was summoned.

Because she was using Karen's body to become flesh, she cannot become a spirit.

Then we must prepare normal living supplies for her, at the very least we can't always make do with oranges for her change of clothes.

Moreover, Luo Zhen was very straightforward:

“I still have to live a married life with Orange and Yuzhu. Although Orange runs between the main house and the workshop, and Yuzhu moved in after most of the Western-style house was moved here, I mostly go to their rooms to play. But to be honest, I also really want to be intimate with them in the living room. If you're not used to it, it will be very uncomfortable.”

"Does this mean I have to adapt?!"

Is being intimate in the living room some kind of necessary part of married life? ... Joan of Arc blushed.

At this moment, Luo Zhen brought her, along with the Tohsaka sisters Rin and Sakura, to a large shopping mall in Shinto for shopping.

Luo Zhen's excuse was to buy the two sisters the necessary living items; after moving, they would need to buy some things.

But the main purpose was to buy daily necessities for Joan of Arc; she couldn't really use Karen's children's toothbrush.