The Otherworld Card Collector

"you are leaving?"

When Shirou Matou sat up, Akizuki Hanayoko was a little reluctant to leave.

These days, with the care of Shirou Matou, she finally regained the happiness of being a woman.

But happiness is always short-lived.

Shirou Matou would not stay overnight at her house, and she would not let Shirou Matou stay overnight at her house.

At present, everyone is doing these things in secret and it is impossible to put them in the open.

So even if you are reluctant, you still have to let go.

But after letting go, she bit her lip and finally spoke with determination.

"Shirou, I've noticed that Saijin Kouzo's behavior is a little strange."

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Chapter 154: Shirou, I want to divorce Akizuki Kozo!

"What is it?"

Shirou Matou, who had already left the head of the bed, sat back down.

Akizuki Hanayoko saw this and couldn't help but feel a little sweet in her heart.

However, she did not forget why she called out to Shirou Matou, so she nodded and answered.

"That's right, Shirou."

She told Matou Shirou concisely.

Matou Shirou nodded slightly as he listened.

In short, Akizuki Takashi's behavior has been a little strange recently.

They have been sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams for nearly a year. Although they are all familiar strangers, they are still familiar with each other, right?

It's like having a puppy at home.

After a year, when the puppy sticks out its butt, you will know whether it wants to fart or poop.

If Akizuki Hanayoko didn't pay attention to Akizuki Kozo, then it wouldn't be a big deal.

But precisely because of Matou Shirou's reminder, Akizuki Kayoko now also carefully observes Akizuki Kozo's every move, and naturally she will find some discordant aspects of the other party.

nature;

Anyone who looks at it under a magnifying glass will have problems.

But in this situation, Akizuki Hanayoko didn't dare to be careless, so she took this opportunity to tell Shirou Matou.

Shirou Matou also listened carefully, and pinched his chin as he thought about it.

Akizuki Hanayoko said that Akizuki Takazo has been leaving home early and coming back late recently.

She didn't dare to alert the enemy by what she did, but she still told Shirou Matou about it.

However, Shirou Matou did know why Akizuki Kozo went out early and came back late.

After leaving Akizuki's house that day, he ordered Tendo Mako to find information related to Akizuki Kozo.

These days, he has received relevant intelligence from time to time, and after combining it with previous intelligence and sorting it out, he has his own set of thoughts based on the current situation.

To put it simply;

First, as a university professor, Akizuki Kozo is not only very good at hormone-related research, but is also proficient in chemistry.

So the laboratory he applied for at Jiabei University was a chemistry laboratory. In other words, hormones were a hobby and chemistry was his main occupation.

According to the information obtained by Shirou Matou, the experiment of Akizuki Kozo's team has reached a critical point recently, so it is normal for them to leave early and return late.

Second, it was thanks to the pinhole camera installed by Akizuki Hanayoko.

So now Shirou Matou assigned this task to Kurokawa, asking her to keep an eye on the signals coming from the pinhole cameras in the study and the master bedroom (installed by Shirou Matou himself) as much as possible.

Kurokawa told Shirou Matou that while he was working at Akizuki Kozo's house, he was mostly dealing with chemistry-related experiments and didn't discover anything else.

Judging from these circumstances, there seems to be nothing wrong with Akizuki Takashi.

But;

"He's been going to the basement more lately."

The basement is the key.

Shirou Matou immediately had an idea.

"Then let's go to the basement and take a look."

"Of course you can, but Shirou."

Akizuki Hanayoko reminded.

"I don't have the key to the basement."

The door to the basement has always been locked. If you want to go in, you need a key to open the door.

But only one person has the key to the basement door.

That is Akizuki Takashiro.

After knowing this, Shirou Matou did not hesitate and spoke directly.

"Go and have a look first."

"it is good."

Qiuyue Huadaizi didn't say much after hearing this.

The two got up together. After Shirou Matou saw Akizuki Hanayoko make the bed, restore it to its original state, and cover up the evidence, he opened the door.

Now there are only him and Akizuki Hanayoko at home.

the reason is simple.

It is 2:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday. Airi Akizuki and Marina Akizuki are in class, while Kozo Akizuki is at university.

The course schedule for university teachers is very casual, so many people have side jobs besides teaching.

Akizuki Takashi's side job is to do some chemistry-related experiments, and then exchange the experimental data or results for money or patents.

So at this time, he usually doesn't stay at home, but stays in school.

As for why Shirou Matou is here.

Naturally, he consulted with the higher-ups of his school and decided that as long as he could maintain his seventh-place grade, then leaving early or even not coming to school would be no problem.

This is very convenient for Akizuki Hanayoko.

Shirou Matou came openly, and she also accompanied Shirou Matou to practice the tricky sword slash openly.

When the two arrived at the door of the basement, Akizuki Hanayoko couldn't help but sigh with regret.

Just as she thought, how could Akizuki Kozo, who was not considered careless, forget to lock the door after leaving the basement?

What's going on?

"Let's go back, Shirou."

"and many more."

Under the slightly wide-eyed gaze of Akizuki Kayoko, Shirou Matou took out a test tube from his trouser pocket.

The point is not the test tube, but the thing that looks like soil in the test tube.

Matou Shirou poured it out and stuffed it into the keyhole.

After a while, the soil solidified and became hard, to Akizuki Hanayoko's surprise.

"It's not as good as a real key though."

"Click."

"But it's fine to use it a few times as a temporary key."

As Matou Shirou finished speaking, the door to the basement opened.

Akizuki Hanayoko saw this and couldn't help but ask.

"Shirou, are you saying—"

"——That's not the case. I'm just used to making sure there are as few accidents as possible before I do anything."

Shirou Matou knew what Akizuki Hanayoko wanted to say, so he interrupted her and continued.

"Let's go in and take a look."

"Ah."

Akizuki Hanayoko nodded.

She followed Matou Shirou inside.

This basement was not as eerie and scary as she had imagined.

But...

“There are so many bottles and cans.”

“There are many other instruments whose names I cannot remember.”

If Akizuki Hanayoko had read a lot of novels about other worlds, she might have called this place the alchemist's nest.

Naturally, Shirou Matou couldn't recognize them all.

But he didn't need to know all of them. He only needed to flip through some of Akizuki Kozo's research materials on the workbench in his 'workshop' to get the answer.

"This is where Akizuki Kozo makes O-stimulants and O-sleeping drugs."

"Yes, really?"

Akizuki Hanayoko glanced at the information in Shirou Matou's hand, and that was all.

She couldn't understand a thing.

However, even though she didn't understand, she was willing to believe Shirou Matou, so her expression became a little bad.

After all, she knew what aphrodisiacs and sleeping pills were used for, and she was not an innocent child, so she couldn't possibly not know.

And you did it behind our backs.

Anyone with a little suspicion would think you are doing something shameful.

Akizuki Hanayoko was silent.

"Why do you think Takashi, um, Akizuki Takashi does these things?"

"I'm not sure, but it's definitely not for your benefit."

After all, who would need sleeping pills and aphrodisiacs to benefit their family?

Shirou Matou also noticed the change in the way Akizuki Hanayoko addressed him.

The family, which was already in danger, seemed to have finally become a mere shell of its former self at this moment.

But it's true.

When you are sure that the head of the family is deliberately trying to harm your two children, it is really too difficult for you to be optimistic and treat the "head of the family" as a human being.

Now she is thinking about when is the best time to divorce.

After all, staying in a home like this, she was really afraid that if she didn't check, her child would encounter an accident.

But then again.

If I get divorced, I will be back to being a single mother raising two children.