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Fuyuki City, from its name, sounds like a cold city where heavy snow would fall for several months straight.
However, Fuyuki City is actually a small coastal town in the Far East of Japan, with a relatively warm climate, where even hot springs can be found, and cold weather is rarely encountered.
Today, the weather in Fuyuki City was as pleasant and sunny as usual.
"Could you please open the window?"
The red-haired boy sitting on the Hospital bed said in a gentle tone.
In front of him was a beautiful nurse, dressed in a white nurse's uniform, with her skirt only covering her thighs, and below that, white thigh-high stockings that hugged the girl's legs, with lace patterns at the top.
However, this nurse was a bit careless; facing the patient's request, she still focused on the apple in her hand, peeling it, the peel continuously extending and hanging down to her hand, seemingly trying to peel the entire apple in one go.
"Could you please open the window?"
The red-haired boy was not impatient and repeated his request.
Only then did the nurse come back to her senses, quickly put down the half-peeled apple, and approached the bed, responding, "Oh, yes, Mr. Emiya."
The Hospital bed was right next to the window, and because there were two sides, given the flatness under the red-haired boy's quilt, he probably couldn't get up to open the other side.
The nurse helped open the window, and from there, one could see the main entrance of the Hospital.
People flowed continuously on the road, and the various aspects of life in Fuyuki City were playing out here; the red-haired boy surveyed the scenery outside, but the smile he originally had on his lips turned into a hint of confusion.
In the flower beds on both sides of the road, the ornamental flowers he often saw seemed to have thinned out considerably.
Just as the red-haired boy was wondering, the door to the ward opened, and a man and a woman walked in.
The woman was his guardian, Fujimura Taiga, who hadn't come for the past few days, and the red-haired boy had worried if something had happened to her.
As for the man next to her, his appearance made the red-haired boy hesitate a bit.
Matou Shinji?
He hadn't seen this friend for a long time.
While the red-haired boy hesitated for a moment, Kisaragi Rin had already walked ahead, looking at the patient with a surprised expression, and handed him a bouquet of flowers tied with a hair tie.
Kisaragi Rin whispered, "Emiya Shirou…"
Emiya Shirou, the protagonist of the Fate World, hesitantly took the bouquet of flowers; it smelled of soil and dew, looking as if it had just been picked.
Just picked?
Isn't this from the flower bed downstairs?
Although a bit confused, Emiya Shirou didn't think about it further, but placed the flowers by the bed, looked at his friend, and said, "Shinji?"
"Hmm… it's me."
Kisaragi Rin looked around the ward; besides a sweet nurse, there was nothing special.
Medea used her magic to observe carefully, and just as she was about to shake her head in denial, she paused, looking at Emiya Shirou on the Hospital bed, she was also a bit unsure.
However, isn't being unsure equivalent to being certain?
Under the nurse's hesitant gaze, Kisaragi Rin picked up the half-peeled apple and sat on the Hospital bed.
Well… since Emiya Shirou had no legs, there was naturally no need to worry about crushing him.
Matou Shinji's behavior truly bewildered Emiya Shirou; scratching his hair, he chose to look at Fujimura Taiga and asked, "Fujimura-nee, has anything happened recently?"
The normal Fujimura Taiga was quite boisterous, not quiet like Yukinoshita Yukino.
From Emiya Shirou's perspective, it would be more normal for Fujimura Taiga and Matou Shinji to swap their behaviors.
He also thought that Fujimura Taiga hadn't visited him these past few days, and Emiya Shirou guessed if something he didn't know about had happened…
"Nothing."
Yukinoshita Yukino replied flatly.
Although she had learned about Fujimura Taiga's character from Kisaragi Rin, noticing that Kisaragi Rin had no intention of disguise as Matou Shinji, Yukinoshita Yukino naturally didn't want to disguise as Fujimura Taiga either.
Moreover, Yukinoshita Yukino looked at Kisaragi Rin's current behavior and was already struggling to maintain her expression.
Kisaragi Rin was still peeling the apple with a knife, but as soon as he started, the peel that remained on the apple instantly broke off, breaking the nurse's heart.
Kisaragi Rin didn't care and continued, making the apple bumpy and then handed it to Emiya Shirou next to him.
Emiya Shirou looked down at the slightly oxidized apple in Matou Shinji's hand.
Seeing that the patient had no intention of taking it, Kisaragi Rin simply showed a puzzled expression and then brought the apple closer to Emiya Shirou, shaking it.
Emiya Shirou took it, and he bit into the apple.
Crunch
The sound was like the apples Adam bit into for Eve, defying the gods.
Seeing Emiya Shirou take a bite, Kisaragi Rin said contentedly, "Well… isn't there a saying, 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away'? Eat more, maybe you can be discharged sooner."
Unfortunately, Emiya Shirou didn't just have a headache or a fever; he had already undergone a double leg amputation.
Unless it was a golden apple, eating more apples would probably have no effect on his condition.
"Shinji, thank you for your blessing."
Emiya Shirou thanked Kisaragi Rin quite gently, which could be described as kind.
It made the several Heroic Spirits almost unable to hold back their laughter.
Seeing Emiya Shirou still like this, Kisaragi Rin sighed, touched the flat quilt, and said to the patient, "If you're sick, you can't recover sooner by just lying in bed."
Kisaragi Rin got up from the Hospital bed, pushed the wheelchair from the corner to the bedside, and lifted Emiya Shirou's quilt.
"How about we go play soccer together?"
Kisaragi Rin's black eyes stared at him, making the suggestion seriously.
"…"
Yukinoshita Yukino's face twitched, and she was almost unable to control her expression.
The nurse didn't know what they were trying to do and paced anxiously, wondering whether she should step in to stop them.
And Emiya Shirou also smiled, extending his hand towards Matou Shinji in front of him, and said, "Alright, but it looks like I can only be the goalkeeper now."
"Naturally."
Kisaragi Rin took Emiya Shirou's hand, helped him into the wheelchair, and as he pushed Emiya Shirou, Kisaragi Rin also politely waved goodbye to the nurse.
"We'll be back later."
"Hmm… maybe?"
They crossed the hallway, pressed the button, waited for the elevator to reach this floor, and as the elevator doors opened, Kisaragi Rin pushed the wheelchair and took Emiya Shirou inside.
As they entered the narrow elevator space, the smile on Emiya Shirou's face gradually disappeared; he looked at the hallway outside, where the nurse was hurrying over, shouting, "Wait for me, I'm a caregiver, I'll go with you."
No one pressed the open door button, and as the elevator doors closed from both sides, the light and shadow on Emiya Shirou and Kisaragi Rin's faces completely faded into darkness.
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