While Durandal was raising her fist to mercilessly hammer Otto's face, smashing his Soulium body to pieces, what was Li Zihan doing?
The answer: playing video games with Sirin.
"I lost."
In Sirin's room, the young man's voice rang out.
Having already lost three games in a row, the boy looked at the large "GAME OVER" on the NES screen and tossed the controller aside.
"Mn, I won again this round ☆~."
The purple-haired girl hugged her game controller and lay prone on a strangely shaped, fierce-looking HOMU pillow to announce her divine power.
The expression on her face didn't change much, but her voice was clearly much lighter, and her fair, slender calves swung back and forth in delight, gleaming like pearls under the light.
Clearly, defeating someone who seemed like a legendary hero, or even a god, in the realm of video games was something quite worth celebrating for Sirin.
"Tsk tsk, one more round."
A certain someone sitting next to Sirin huffed coldly and picked up the controller.
And then...
There is a term called a four-game losing streak.
"Obviously, Ah Li, you can't beat me, Sirin, in the realm of games ☆~."
Perhaps because her friends had returned to her side one by one, Sirin, who was much livelier than her character setting suggested, climbed up from the pillow. Shaking the game controller in her hand, she triumphantly declared her victory.
"Hey, hey, you're going too far! How do you know I'll keep losing?"
Li Zihan, who had been holding back the entire time, looked at the gloating girl and twitched his lips.
This girl's gaming skills were just as terrible as in the future, yet she possessed a mysterious confidence that she was invincible in games.
However, since this made her a little happier, he would just keep playing with her.
The young man, who didn't mind losing a few games to his lover, thought to himself, then shouted loudly as if he were truly unconvinced.
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river! Do not bully the young for being poor!"
Sirin was stunned, seemingly shocked by the domineering declaration a certain someone had plagiarized from Student Xiao Yan.
After a long while, she opened her thin lips and asked very seriously.
"What if... Ah Li, you still can't beat me after thirty years?"
"..."
Listening to Miss Sirin's question, Li Zihan fell into deep thought.
"Then... thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river! Do not bully the old for being poor?"
Li Zihan's voice wavered a bit.
Changing just one word felt like... the coolness factor dropped significantly.
"Ah Li, Sirin will remember this sentence for you, and remind you in thirty years."
Evidently noticing the change in a certain someone's expression, the corners of the girl's mouth curled up into a slight smile.
"Mn, I lost again."
The young man, who had gone a bit easier on her while playing, patted the little head of the girl beside him dotingly.
"Hey, hey, don't pat my head, I won't grow tall!"
The girl, whose height was actually already lagging significantly behind Seele and the other Sirin of the same age group, yelled at the guy next to her.
"You're not short anymore."
Li Zihan shrugged and said.
"Seele and Sirin are in the same age group as the current you, and they are 6 or 7 centimeters shorter than you. Teri-derp is pushing fifty, and her height is a touching 145cm."
"Are there really that many people shorter than me? ☆~"
The girl, who had always felt she was quite short, murmured as she listened to the data.
Then—
As if suddenly realizing something, her eyes went wide.
"Wait, all the names you just mentioned are girls."
"Hahaha, let's continue playing."
The young man, who had just thrown away the controller, nimbly picked it back up and started a new game.
"Hey, hey! You explain yourself clearly to me right now!!"
The girl with long purple hair ground her little white teeth, leaped fiercely to the side of a certain guy, and instinctively learned the skill of pinching the soft flesh at his waist without a teacher.
"That kind of thing is hard to explain clearly."
The guy, whose relationship with Seele and Bronya had always been negative distance, had wandering eyes.
"As expected of a scumbag."
Looking at a certain someone with a disdainful gaze very close to that of the future Paramecium, the little Pufferfish increased the force of her pinch on his waist.
"I just want everyone to be happy."
The young man righteously put on a Shirou Emiya face and said such words.
Miss Sirin paused, and then—
Expressionlessly pinched down.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch—lighter, lighter!!"
The young man cried out in pain.
"Hey, hey, hey, if you pinch my kidney and injure it, you'll be the one suffering a loss in the future."
"What kind of loss?"
Miss Sirin relentlessly pinched a certain guy a few more times, then huffed coldly and crossed her arms over her chest.
"You'll know when the time comes."
Li Zihan muttered softly.
However, speaking of which, if he were to make a request of that nature to Miss Sirin, would she agree?
The young man, who had always let his desires run free, fell into deep thought.
Then he looked up and gazed at his lover very sincerely.
"By the way, can I sleep in your room tonight?"
"Sleep in my room?"
The girl, who didn't think it through immediately, was stunned for a moment. She carefully considered the possibility of a certain guy suddenly wanting to live with her...
And then—
Her entire face flushed red, looking as if it might drip blood.
"Wanting to do that kind of thing with the current me..."
"A-Are you a perverted lolicon?!"
"Although I don't want to admit it, I might really have lolicon tendencies."
Very directly, the young man spoke to Miss Sirin, whose figure, while not exactly voluptuous, was not bad either—enough to make Old Immortal Fu Hua weep daily.
"That kind of thing is absolutely forbidden before marriage!!"
Seeing a certain bastard expose his own XP, the girl froze.
Then she stood up, pushed the bastard directly out of her room, and slammed the door shut fiercely.
"At the very least, it's forbidden before engagement!"
Which means, it's okay after engagement, huh.
Locked outside the door, the young man recalled the subtext in the girl's words, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his lips.
It looked like before long, he could job-change into a Dragon Knight.
In a very happy mood, the young man calculated the time and walked toward the living room.
Durandal should be back soon; he should prepare some tea and snacks for her according to the schedule Rita told him.
But, speaking of which, Welt and Otto have both been dealt with. Next, he should go deal with the High Immortal of this era.
So, let me first confirm where the High Immortal is.
The young man possessing composite Clairvoyance smiled slightly, a dreamlike rainbow light shining in his eyes.