"Shin, if things continue like this, the house will eventually become too small someday."
On the way to school, Katou Megumi puffed out her cheeks looking at Shin, unable to help but complain to him.
Although she had long accepted the fact that there were many girls in Shin's house, she still couldn't withstand Shin bringing back several girls all at once like he did today.
The residence that the Shinomiya family provided to Shin was indeed quite spacious, with many rooms inside, enough to arrange a room for each girl... but there were limits to that too.
Katou Megumi was somewhat worried that if things continued at this pace, even in that spacious mansion, there would eventually come a day when there wouldn't be enough rooms.
"Don't worry, Reines and the others are only staying here temporarily for a few days."
Shin smiled reassuringly—after all, those people from Fate/Stay Night would eventually have to be sent back to their original world by Shin.
They were brought over now mainly to wait for the Holy Grail system in Fuyuki City to completely subside and ensure that their connection with the Holy Grail system was severed.
After the Holy Grail system in Fuyuki City completely subsided, Medusa and Mordred would no longer be affected by Fuyuki City's Holy Grail system, and they could be sent back.
Reines and the others were the same—although they very much wanted to stay with Shin, there were things in the Fate/Stay Night world that they needed to care about.
For example, Reines's goal was to revive the El-Melloi name. Although she couldn't realize this wish through the Holy Grail, now that the Mages Association had become Shin's possession, Reines only needed to go back and manage things a bit to easily occupy enormous influence in the Mages Association. Reviving the El-Melloi family would naturally be a simple matter.
Rin Tohsaka also had to go back to manage the Tohsaka family, and Sakura Matou similarly planned to take the Matou family into her own hands.
To put them at ease, Shin also granted them a small portion of "King's Army's" ability, allowing them to travel between their world and Shin's world.
By then, the rooms at home would naturally become available, and it wouldn't be like Katou Megumi said—not enough rooms.
"Is that so?"
Hearing Shins assurance, Katou Megumi also breathed a slight sigh of relief. She really was a bit worried that several more girls would suddenly be added to the house all at once.
After all, if there were too many girls, Shin's attention would definitely be dispersed quite a bit.
Although Katou Megumi seemed like a personality that didn't care much about these things, she was still a girl after all, and still hoped that the boy she liked would look at her a few more times.
At the same time that Shin and Katou Megumi left home for school, on the other side, Yukinoshita Yukino had also packed her bag and gone out.
However, unlike Shin and Katou Megumi, Yukinoshita Yukino's situation was somewhat inauspicious.
"...What on earth is this? Is it my imagination?"
Walking out the front door, Yukinoshita Yukino looked at some vague black shadows on the street and couldn't help but furrow her brow.
After getting up in the morning, she had seen from her room's window that there seemed to be many strange shadows outside.
Those shadows weren't ordinary shadows, because many shadows existed separately from people's bodies, just wandering around the street like that.
Originally, Yukinoshita Yukino thought she might just not have slept well, so she was having hallucinations like double vision.
But after she left her front door with her school bag, she realized that it wasn't merely a simple hallucination.
Because on the road, she could see those black shadows floating on the street even more clearly, and they would even pass through some people's bodies.
Yukinoshita Yukino instinctively felt that there was something wrong with these things, but she had never encountered such a situation in her past life, so she didn't know how to react for a moment.
Just as Yukinoshita Yukino was walking toward school while thinking about what these black shadows were, she suddenly discovered that a black shadow was blocking her path.
Although Yukinoshita Yukino knew that these black shadows could pass through people, she obviously didn't want to touch these things that looked very inauspicious.
So she almost instinctively stepped to the side, continuing to walk forward without touching this black shadow.
However, Yukinoshita Yukino's action seemed to activate the black shadow blocking the middle of the road all at once.
The next moment, that black shadow suddenly flew in front of Yukinoshita Yukino, blocked Yukinoshita Yukino, and then emitted a somewhat blurred voice:
"You... can... see... me?"
Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't hear clearly what this black shadow was saying, but could vaguely guess that it seemed to be asking questions like "Can you actually see me?"
She subconsciously opened her mouth wanting to say something, but the instant she opened her mouth, Yotsuya Miko's face suddenly flashed through Yukinoshita Yukino's mind.
She suddenly remembered that previously, Yotsuya Miko had come to the Service Club to find her, talking about supernatural events, evil spirits, and such things.
At that time, Yotsuya Miko seemed to have said that evil spirits would often ask her if she could see them.
And Yotsuya Miko felt that if she answered them, bad things would happen, so she had always been ignoring them.
At that time, Yukinoshita Yukino hadn't cared, simply thinking that Yotsuya Miko's paranoia had made her imagine a set of "rules" belonging to evil spirits, just like chuunibyou.
But now... it seemed she had encountered a situation similar to Yotsuya Miko's?
Thinking of this, Yukinoshita Yukino immediately felt a chill. She directly ignored that black shadow suspected to be an evil spirit, then continued walking forward.
Although she didn't know why she had suddenly woken up able to see these "evil spirits" today, Yukinoshita Yukino already had a vague guess in her heart.
It must be related to that black feather Shin gave her.
"Shin said that carrying this thing might allow me to obtain Stand aptitude... Could it be that being able to see these things is also part of the process?"
Yukinoshita Yukino's heart was beating violently. She looked at the black shadows on the street somewhat vigilantly, but didn't dare to keep staring at them.
She suddenly understood why Yotsuya Miko had acted so neurotic when she saw her.
Having to face these things every day, no wonder Yotsuya Miko would be mentally exhausted.
She still remembered that Shin had paid special attention to Yotsuya Miko... Now thinking about it, probably what Shin called "Stand users" really were beings who could see evil spirits.
"If that's the case, does that mean I already possess Stand aptitude...?"
Yukinoshita Yukino thought this in her heart.
"Then, can I go find Shin today?"
For some reason, thinking that she had a reason to approach Zuke, Yukinoshita Yukino's heart suddenly welled up with a feeling of relaxation.
To be continued…