Crossover Anime: The King of Time? Actually, He's a Slacker!

After Tamamo-no-Mae and Afu returned, the four of them played mahjong all day. In the end, Lin Shiye couldn't stand it anymore. He felt like ants were crawling on his body and decided to go out for a walk.

"I've already been so decadent today, I'm definitely going to go out and have some fun tonight!" he said, and then, under the watchful eyes of the three Servants, his art style changed to that of an abstract chibi figure, who hopped and skipped away.

"It seems Master is really bored at home." Tamamo-no-Mae wagged her tail and sighed.

"I want to go out and play with my Master too!" As soon as Afu finished speaking, he tried to rush out, but Tamamo-no-Mae's large hand grabbed his fate by the throat.

A troublemaker who knocks down someone else's wall doesn't deserve to go out and play!

Most of the remaining snow on the street had melted, and the road surface was dry and not sticky, so it wouldn't delay travel at all. However, Lin Shiye didn't ride his beloved little electric scooter because he rarely dressed up properly, and it would be a waste to mess up his hair by riding a scooter.

As for why he should bother fussing over himself when it's almost dark, Lin Shiye thought... mind your own business!

He stopped in front of the reflective glass of a commercial building, looking at himself from left to right. His neatly styled short hair was tidy and refreshing, his fair face complemented his bright eyes, and his tall figure was wrapped in a beige coat. He looked very pleasing to the eye.

He solemnly began to perform a charade in front of his reflection in the glass:

"Dude, you're so handsome, you're a total heartthrob!"

"Oh, no, no, you're the most handsome one, bro!"

"You're a bit more handsome!"

"No, no, no, you're still more handsome!"

Ilya, standing not far away, crossed her arms and watched the entire process of his madness unfold for a long time with a blank expression.

She knew this man was unreliable, but seeing this scene with her own eyes, she couldn't help but twitch her lips.

"Um?"

Just as he was reveling in his own self-satisfaction, Lin Shiye suddenly noticed a gaze fixed on his "divine back" from behind. He turned around abruptly, and his eyes lit up instantly.

"Isn't this the adorable, sparkling Lady Illya~"

He quickly stepped forward, and the scattered snowflakes around him suddenly seemed to be drawn up by an invisible hand, swirling up and gently landing in his palm, condensing into a translucent ice rose.

"Beautiful lady, are you alone?" Lin Shiye tossed his hair, struck what he thought was a cool pose, and handed over the ice rose.

"Thank you, big brother!" Ilya accepted the flowers with a smile.

Logically speaking, a normal person would be overjoyed to see the other person accept the flowers and call them "big brother" in a sweet voice, and would readily invite them out.

But Lin Shiye is clearly not a normal person.

"It's just the two of us here, what are you pretending for?"

Ilya: "?"

"Old man, still pretending to be young." Lin Shiye smiled and patted the little girl's head.

"Just fool your buddies, don't fool yourself too."

click-

The ice rose in her hand was instantly crushed into ice shards, and Ilya's forehead veins bulged.

"Lin Shiye!" She raised her fist and chased after Lin Shiye, looking like she was about to give him a good punch in the chest.

"I'll beat you to death!"

Although Lin Shiye really wanted to be punched by her pink little fists, he still thought it would be more fun to tease Ilya, so he turned around and ran away.

He fled, she chased, and he couldn't escape even if he had wings!

Uncle Hai stood on the rooftop, looking down at the entire map, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should shoot an arrow as a warning.

Because he suddenly realized that although Lin Shiye was very strong, he was still a child, even younger than Ilya, which made him feel a bit like his left and right brains were fighting each other.

"Hoo hoo... Stop chasing."

Lin Shiye ran to a park and plopped down on a bench.

"I give up, I'm exhausted."

Was he really tired? Actually, no. He just saw that Ilya was tired and deliberately gave her a way out. Otherwise, he really thought this girl could chase him all day.

"Hmph." Ilya lifted her foot, panting, and gently kicked his calf with her little boot. Then she sat down next to him and leaned back in her chair to catch her breath.

"So, why are you here?" Lin Shiye asked first.

"What, can't I go out for a walk?" Ilya brushed a stray white hair from her forehead.

"Einzbern's castle is too boring."

"I thought you were going to say you were here to scout the enemy." Lin Shiye stood up and walked towards the vending machine not far away.

What would you like to drink?

"Water is fine, thank you." Ilya blinked.

"With you here, the Holy Grail War won't even start, right?" She counted on her fingers.

"Let's not even talk about Rin Tohsaka, Shirou Emiya, and Sakura Matou. You already have several Servants under your command. The rest are either Saber, who has no information whatsoever, or Lancer, the green-haired guy who plays house all day long, and there's this shiny golden guy who just loafs around all day..."

Lin Shiye nodded, drank his cola, and walked back.

"Where's my water?" Ilya looked up at him.

"What water?" Lin Shiye asked innocently.

"Didn't you ask me what I wanted to drink?" Ilya stared straight into the other person's eyes.

"Hmm, I asked you what you wanted to drink, not that I said I'd buy it for you." Lin Shiye gave him an expression of concern for a mentally challenged child.

Ilya: "..."

"Just kidding, the water's here." Seeing that the other person was about to get angry again, Lin Shiye quickly handed over the water he had hidden behind his back.

Ilya rolled her eyes at him, unscrewed the cap, took a couple of sips, and then steered the conversation back to the topic.

"Didn't you guys take care of the Black Grail? I checked the Grail activation device hidden underground afterwards, and guess what happened?"

"That filthy thing has come back to life?" Lin Shiye wasn't surprised. After all, it was all the evil in the world, and it wasn't so easy to eradicate it completely.

"No." Ilya's answer surprised him for a moment.

"The entire activation device vanished into thin air. It wasn't destroyed; there wasn't even a trace left. The Mage's Association has searched for a long time but hasn't found a single clue."

Lin Shiye immediately understood.

Only he himself, or that group of elusive and secretive Time Jackers, could have destroyed such a large device so quietly.

"Your intelligence work is quite thorough," he said jokingly.

"You're not secretly watching us every day, are you? It's wrong to spy on other people's happiness, Ilya!"

"No, Illya denied it immediately, and then fell silent."

The air was silent for a long time, so long that Lin Shiye thought she wouldn't speak again, before he heard her hug her knees and say in a very soft voice:

"I want to kill Shirou Emiya."

"But I can't bear to part with him... He's the only thing Kiritsugu left in this world."

What's going on? Why bring up such a sad topic all of a sudden?

Lin Shiye is really not good at comforting people.

From Ilya's perspective, her mother was turned into a cup, her father abandoned her to raise another child outside the family and ignored her completely, and she had to endure the pressure from the Einzbern family day after day.

There's no way to comfort her, after all...

Parental love... I've never seen anything like it in my two lifetimes.

"Your father might not be what you think," Lin Shiye said cautiously.

"You seem to know quite a lot." Ilya hugged her legs, buried her face in her knees, and said in a muffled voice.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You know what kind of bastards the Einzbern family are without me having to tell you," Lin Shiye said, suddenly remembering the information that Kirei Kotomine had shown him before.

When Uncle Hai appeared, he almost slaughtered the Einzbern family, but Ilya stopped him in the end.

"In a family like that, your father probably wouldn't even be able to see you if he wanted to. Maybe every time he tried to visit you, the Einzberns would turn him away?"

Ilya froze.

"That's just your guess," she retorted stubbornly, though her tone softened noticeably.

"Whether it's true or not, you can just ask Fujimura-sensei," Lin Shiye offered the most practical advice.

"She's known Kiritsugu Emiya for so long, she probably knows quite a bit."