After Mordred left, the only 'outsider' left in the room was Jeanne. After Fiore indicated that she wanted to talk to Lancer about something, Jeanne also very consciously went out first, and Siegfried also dematerialized and left the room.
The room became quiet again. Without a doubt, Lancer, who was not good at dealing with women, chose to remain silent again. However, the good news was that there were still three cat-stars in the room. After kneading the face of the lazy Alu in his hand into a strange shape, the other party did not resist and just patted Lancer hand with a paw to signal him not to disturb its rest, and there was no other reaction.
On the other side, Fiore also lowered her head and kneaded Tiger's —————— belly.
Because of the reason for the magic she studied, Fiore was not very popular with small animals, and coupled with the fact that pets raised in a magus family basically all have the same ending in the end (as test subjects), the very sensible Fiore had taken the initiative to stay away from small animals since she was a child. But at this time, facing Tiger who was not afraid of her, she still couldn't hold back.
If it were in the past, she might have happily hugged the other party in her arms and rubbed against it wildly, but at this time, because her mood was complicated, she was just simply kneading Tiger's belly without saying a word.
'How should I communicate with Lancer?'
'Since the other party has returned, it should be easier to communicate, right?'
'What if I say something wrong, will the other party leave?'
'If the other party leaves, then what do I do? No, what will Yggdmillennia do?'
...
She had already thought about what she was going to say before coming here, but when the moment came, she forgot what she was supposed to say and could only sit there in a daze. But the more she thought about it, the more she didn't know how to speak, and the more she didn't speak, the more chaotic her mind became, and the more she didn't know what to say.
The almost vicious cycle made her mind a mess.
"Fiore..."
"Mr. Lancer! Can you stay with me forever?!"
As soon as the words came out, Fiore's face couldn't help but turn a little red, because she knew she had said the wrong thing.
'What do I do, will Mr. Lancer refuse because it's too awkward? It's over...'
"Although that's impossible, staying for a while is not a problem... Hmm? What's wrong?"
After Lancer finished speaking, he looked at the somewhat strange Fiore and couldn't help but use his hand to push aside Fiore's bangs and then place his hand on the other party's head.
"Your forehead isn't hot, so why is your face so red?"
"No, it's nothing! It's nothing!!"
Fiore, whose face was even hotter, quickly grabbed Lancer wrist and took his hand away, and then lowered her head with a red face.
'What a strange girl.'
Because neither of them had been speaking before, the room was too quiet, so Lancer also wanted to find some topics to break the strange atmosphere. So he planned to ask about Siegfried's situation, but he didn't expect the other party to ask this question before he could even say a word.
If he couldn't have agreed to the other party before, then because of the 'side quest', he could stay for a while, so it didn't matter, and...
'Is it because she's shy? After all, a girl being touched on the forehead by an unfamiliar man would probably be disliked, right?'
Because the atmosphere in the room became a little strange again, Lancer had to bring up the previous 'topic'.
"That, Miss Fiore..."
"Just call me Fiore!!"
"Uh... okay, that, Fiore, why was Saber following you just now? Where is Archer?"
Although he didn't know why the other party suddenly became a little agitated, Lancer chose to ignore it for now. He didn't want the atmosphere to return to that strange state from before.
"Archer went with my uncle to treat those homunculi... Hmm, what's wrong, Mr. Lancer?"
"Since you told me to call you by your name, then you should also call me 'Lancer'. As for why, Gord doesn't look like the kind of person who would care about homunculi, does he?"
Lancer had never had a good impression of the person 'Gord', after all, when he was just 'released', only the other party showed obvious hostility towards him. Furthermore, the other party also played a big role in Darnic's 'possession plan'... no, it should even be said that without the other party, Darnic's plan might not have even been possible to achieve.
And based on the time they had spent together, he could also roughly see what kind of person the other party was, the type of person with a very strong sense of self-respect. This kind of personality cannot determine whether its owner is a good person, but it can be known that they are not easy to get along with.
And without a doubt, in Lancer opinion, Gord was a person who was very difficult to get along with. He had seen him a few times and had hardly ever given him a good face. As for those homunculi? At least in the few times Lancer had seen him, he had also not given them a good face.
In response, Fiore just showed a helpless smile.
"My uncle's personality is a bit... irritable, but in reality, he is still very concerned about the family. For him, his lifelong wish is to surpass the Einzberns, so he is still very concerned about the situation of the homunculi."
Although Fiore did not say it explicitly, Lancer actually knew that the so-called 'concern' was just similar to the concern of a 'researcher' for a 'test animal'.
But at least the image of the other party in Lancer mind also changed from the 'villain character who won't live past three episodes' to the 'bad guy who might try to be a small BOSS, because a BOSS with a dream can always live for two more episodes'.
Although the topic was a little strange, a young man and woman alone in a room were actually discussing a greasy uncle, but it was good that this topic at least calmed Fiore down a lot.
"Mr. Lancer... Lancer, you said you would stay for a while, is it because you have something to do?"
Knowing that she must have been overthinking just now, she forced herself to calm down and then directly asked this question that she herself and the other people of the Yggdmillennia family were concerned about.
Don't look at how she made a lot of demands in her conversation with Shirou Kotomine this time with a strong demeanor, but in reality, she also knew that the other party was just a messenger, and the ones who truly made the decisions were the Lords of the Clock Tower. Theoretically, as long as 1/3 of the Lords did not support it, there would be no big problem for Yggdmillennia, but all of this was built on the premise that Lancer could stay.
From this, it can be seen that Fiore's attitude towards handling things is still too naive.
Darnic would absolutely not entrust the 'future' to any uncontrollable factors, he was more willing to rely on himself, and Fiore? In this matter, she was too reckless, completely relying on her own subjective wishes to trust a certain person. If she had entrusted the wrong person, then the entire family might be in danger, but the premise was that she had misjudged the person...
"I do have some things that need to be dealt with. I will be staying here temporarily until I finish dealing with them."
Lancer couldn't tell the other party that he had a side quest called "The Revival of Yggdmillennia" to do, right?
And looking at the brilliant smile on Fiore's face, he felt even more reluctant to say it...