On the pedestrian walkway in the middle of the Miyou River Bridge connecting Shinto and Miyama Town, Shinji was pinned against the railing as Rin clutched his throat tightly and shook him violently over and over.
"You! Bastard!!"
The voice she forced through clenched teeth and the veins bulging on her face made it abundantly clear just how badly the girl wanted to strangle the culprit who had made her lose so much face.
"Just die already! Go to hell! Idiot! Moron! Imbecile!"
Watching Rin vent sentence after sentence, far more fiercely than she usually argued with Shinji, Shirou did not dare say a word.
Of course, he could not help thinking that only in front of Shinji would the honor student known as Tohsaka Rin reveal this side of herself.
Nearly suffocating with his neck being squeezed, Shinji's eyes gradually lost focus, while a relieved smile resembling the rising sun, as though he had seen through all worldly concerns, slowly appeared on his face.
"Miss... please be gentler..."
Hearing those words from Shinji's mouth, Rin's expression immediately darkened. Shirou seemed to realize something as well and hurriedly tried to dissuade her.
"Calm down, Tohsaka! Shinji's hallucinating already! If this keeps up, he'll really die!"
Only then did Rin release Shinji, though her forehead was still completely dark.
"Cough, cough..." Shinji fell to the ground and coughed a few times. His eyes gradually regained focus, but once he came to, he first looked around in every direction.
"Emiya, where's that super cute, super hot miss who said she liked me and wanted to give me her first kiss?"
"Uh..." Shirou tugged at the corner of his mouth, awkwardly unsure how to answer.
Meanwhile, red anger marks burst out one after another on Rin's forehead at that question. She narrowed her