Please Play FGO With Me

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "Hello everyone~! Is anyone playing FGO with me today?"

All Sisters in the World Come From My Treasure Hoard: "I'll pass tonight! I have a date with Little Sis."

Dancing While Doing Laundry: "Count me out too, I still have to draw tonight."

UMR: "I need to catch up on some anime tonight."

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "Eh? Isn't there anyone who wants to play FGO with me?"

"Ah..." Speaking of which, this person seemed quite familiar with Yukino. The name Sabre reminded Shirou of a certain clingy Dachshund named after a cookie brand. He seemed to know who this person was.

Emiya: "Good evening, have you finished your studies for today? You'll fail your exams."

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "Eh?! Why are you suddenly saying such a buzzkill thing?! That condescending tone of yours feels really familiar! Are you going to play or not, just say it clearly."

Emiya: "I'll play, but how do we play this game together?"

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "Hee hee! You log into your account, then invite me to your support, and I'll invite you to mine!"

Emiya: "I see, but my account seems really weak. I basically have no gold cards."

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "It's fine, just put your strongest characters on support. We're playing together, so it'll be more fun!"

Shirou then switched back to the game interface and found the support settings. He put up high-level characters from all classes, like Teacher Qiao in the Rider class, and for the Caster class, he put up Merlin, who he had leveled to over 80.

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "You have Merlin! That's more than enough."

Emiya: "Is that so? Good then."

UMR: "Having Merlin and not having Merlin can be two different games, you lucky dog!"

Emiya: "I don't really understand. Also, why doesn't this game have a chat function? Isn't it inconvenient for communication like this?"

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "No... If there was a chat function, all sorts of experiences would be ruined. Look at how people online, without any worries, just let loose..."

Angel Who Saves the World With Pay-to-Win: "Tch... It's like seeing people show off their cards in new ways every day."

All Sisters in the World Come From My Treasure Hoard: "And then there are annoying guys who comment on your support list."

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "Right, right, like with your account, Emiya, a bunch of strangers you don't know would come out and criticize you, saying things like 'Why would you use Holy Grails on Teacher Qiao?'"

Angel Who Saves the World With Pay-to-Win: "Or someone sees your Merlin and asks if you're showing off? 'Man is bound to die, but Europeans...' and stuff like that!"

Dancing While Doing Laundry: "Like if you don't have Scathach and put up Heracles, don't you have any feelings for Heracles?"

Sabre Don't Run Wild!: "Yeah, yeah, it's just super annoying!"

Emiya: "Is that so..."

All Sisters in the World Come From My Treasure Hoard: "Exactly! Like why are there only 'sister' type characters on top? Is it wrong that I like it like this! Saber Lily is super cute! Illya is the best! Medusa Lily's white stockings prprpr!"

Dancing While Doing Laundry: "Exactly! What's wrong with liking panties!"

All Sisters in the World Come From My Treasure Hoard has been muted for one minute.

Dancing While Doing Laundry has recalled a message.

Sparkling Rapier User: "Everyone, please use polite language and don't lose your temper (lol)."

Dancing While Doing Laundry: "The group owner is so scary..."

Shirou scrolled through this child's support list and found it filled with alluring characters showing off their panties.

Sweat beaded on Shirou's forehead. He felt that even playing games wasn't as simple as he imagined. All sorts of talented people, with different goals and preferences, were playing the same game.

Chapter 19: Komachi Weaves Her Own Trap

After the topic in the chat group ended, Shirou looked up and saw that Komachi had already finished eating and was now hunched over her desk doing homework. Shirou didn't want to disturb her further in the room, so he took the cups and saucers onto a tray and went out.

The school Komachi wanted to get into was the same international school Shirou attended, the most famous preparatory high school in the area. Besides various preferential treatments for excellent students and gifted students, its international program also offered pathways for studying abroad, attracting many students from other cities to enroll.

Therefore, the entrance exam was also a level higher than other schools. Although this child wasn't particularly bright academically, sometimes when he took her to school, he might end up carrying her schoolbag for a bit on the way, and she would run into the school empty-handed, like a cute little thing.

But with effort, she could still find a way. As her brother, he would always support her from behind.

After that, Shirou chatted idly with the big shots in the group, exchanging support unit clicks with 'Sabre Don't Run Wild!', and grinding the game until late at night. As a newcomer to the game, he gradually learned about it with the explanations from the veterans.

He could only improve his strength little by little, as Da Vinci had said, and prepare for facing monsters.

Time flew by while playing the game. It was already past one in the morning.

Shirou yawned and walked out of his room. He saw that Komachi's room had just turned off its lights, so he decided to log off and rest as well.

Inside her room, Komachi had just gotten into bed. She turned her eyeballs and heard Shirou's footsteps leaving. She then covered her mouth and giggled, opening her phone. Now, no one in the world could stop her from playing FGO!

After all, aren't junior high school students people too? Studying all day, of course, they need some entertainment to relax their brains. Playing FGO for a while would be a great way to soothe her overtaxed brain.

A moment later, the chat group displayed:

Yuuki Aoi-chan has come online.

Yuuki Aoi-chan: "Wahaha, in the prime of youth, why sleep? Let's all grind FGO together!"

Komachi knew that there were still plenty of people in the group who were awake, waiting for her to rally them and get these night owls to play with her.

As expected, someone responded immediately. Komachi smiled as she watched the new messages pop up.

Emiya: "You're a candidate for the entrance exam, right? Go to sleep obediently!"

"Whoa!" Komachi, inside the room, was so startled she almost fell off her bed.

Not far outside the door, Shirou clearly heard the shriek of being caught from his sister's room, followed by a dull thud. He looked at the chat group on his phone with annoyance.

Yuuki Aoi-chan: "...Um, I was actually hacking your account. Goodbye."

Yuuki Aoi-chan went offline.

Dancing While Doing Laundry: "Whoa, caught red-handed. Looks like I absolutely can't let my brother know about this group."

Sabre Don't Run Wild: "Agreed..."

Emiya: "Well then, I'm going offline too. Everyone, please get some rest. Goodbye."

With that, Shirou put his phone away and went to rest.

This day, the young man, as an Ally of Justice, teamed up with the girls to defeat the monsters invading their world, and then saved his own sister from the path of becoming an internet-addicted gaming maniac on her journey to cultivation. It was truly a perfect day.

The next day, after Shirou made breakfast.

He then left for school. Although the battle in the alternate dimension yesterday had minimized the harm, the mutated Chimera had displayed destructive power beyond imagination. The school gate was still in ruins, drawing surprised gasps from the students arriving at school.

However, for a well-funded international high school, this was not a major problem. Shirou didn't linger and walked directly through the gates of the international high school. Before he had taken a few steps, he suddenly felt a presence approaching from behind.

"Hey!" A cheerful shout came from behind.

Immediately, Shirou felt something hit his back.

Turning around, he saw a cheerful girl holding her backpack in one hand.

Her tea-pink hair was slightly permed, shoulder-length, with one side tied up in a high bun. Her school uniform jacket was unbuttoned, her gentle and ample chest pushing up the white shirt underneath. A guileless, somewhat childish smile played on her lips as she looked at the young man.

"Good morning, Shirou! Hehe."

"Oh, good morning, Yuihama." Shirou nodded at the girl and continued walking forward.

"Are you coming to the club this afternoon?" The girl hopped along, matching his pace as they walked towards the school building.

"Mhm, I'll be there today. I practiced Kyudo yesterday too," Shirou replied.

The girl with the bun was his companion in another club, not the Kyudo Club, but the Service Club.

He had joined the Kyudo Club merely as a condition for being admitted to the school through special recruitment. As for the Service Club, he was strong-armed into joining by his homeroom teacher, Shizuka Hiratsuka.

"You're always being asked to help people, so joining this club is perfect. No objections allowed! It's decided!" Thus, Teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka had unilaterally written his name on the club application form.

In a way, this person was more reckless than Fujiwara-senpai.

The club activities of the Service Club basically involved lending a helping hand to those facing difficulties. He would work with two other girls to accept requests from students, upholding the belief that teaching a man to fish is better than giving him a fish, and fulfilling the responsibilities of a helper. Honestly, it was indeed a very suitable club activity for him.

Through these activities, he and Yukino and Yuihama had helped many people, and he had learned some valuable lessons and grown in the process.

"Good morning, Shirou-senpai, Yuihama-senpai!" At this moment, a girl ran up, greeting them in her unique, drawn-out, somewhat cutesy and charming tone.

The girl's name was Iroha Isshiki. Although she was a first-year student like Mash, she had already been elected the new student council president by popular vote.

"Yo, Iroha," Shirou said.

"Senpai, walking to school with Yuihama-senpai so early in the morning, are you two perhaps meeting up to go to school together?" Iroha Isshiki asked in an exaggerated tone.

"No, no, Iroha-chan. We just happened to meet at the entrance," Yuihama replied, her face slightly flushed, waving her hands in denial.

"By the way, don't you have student council work? Is it really okay to be here?" Shirou reminded her.

"Ah! Oh no, this time! Everyone's waiting! Senpai, senpai, I have to go! Goodbye." Iroha Isshiki ran off in a panic.

The reason the girl became student council president was actually related to a request from the Service Club. Various things had happened in the process, and for Shirou now, the girl was like a mischievous and troublesome junior.

After bidding farewell to this junior, Shirou and Yuihama entered their classroom and walked to their respective seats. Yuihama greeted her group of popular friends.

Shirou, on the other hand, sat down and took out his phone, intending to complete his daily tasks while he had time.

In fact, besides Iroha, Shirou had become acquainted with many other people through the requests accepted by the Service Club, and had even become friends with some of them.

"Good morning, Shirou." An adorable figure in sportswear ran over with a pure smile. Her big, round eyes sparkled as if they could speak, and her skin was snow-white. She was so cute, it was as if she had stumbled into the mortal world from heaven.

But that person was a boy. Because it's very important, I'll say it again: that person is a boy!

"Ah, good morning, Saika."

"Shirou, you've started playing FGO too? When did you start? Were you playing secretly? You refused me when I invited you before!" Saika leaned in, asking with some dissatisfaction.

"Well, I only started playing these past few days. A junior from my club gave me an account," Shirou explained.

"Is that so? Then let's add each other as friends! What's your name?" Saika asked with a relieved smile, also taking out her phone and opening the game.

"Sure, my name is Not a Eggplant," Shirou said.

"Eggplant? That's a strange name. The kid who gave you the account, she must be that first-year transfer student from the Kyudo Club, right? How is she like an eggplant?" Saika asked.

"Well, sometimes she really is a bit like one..." Shirou recalled Mash's appearance after transforming, then asked, "By the way, Saika, do you know Mash?"

"Ah, she's been going around school inviting people to play FGO, even the cafeteria ladies and teachers, so she's quite famous.

Some members of my tennis club were also persuaded to play this game, but after downloading it, they were abandoned. They were so disheartened that they didn't come to practice for two weeks. I think someone told them, 'As long as you play FGO, I'll always be with you or something like that,' so they were deeply hurt," Saika complained.

"Ah... I'm sorry. She doesn't mean any harm, that kid," Shirou apologized for Mash, who was sometimes a bit out of touch.

According to Da Vinci, this game could be considered Mash and another girl's autobiography.

That child would be the one who, during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, would speak to French soldiers in English, then hold up her shield and claim she hit them with the flat of her sword. Later, in the sixth chapter, she was the airheaded one who, despite wearing a cloak, still held up her large shield to infiltrate Camelot.

Chapter 20: Shirou's Friend List

During the Service Club's activities, Shirou helped Saika practice tennis. After that, Saika, through her own efforts, became the captain of the tennis club. It was through this that they became friends, and the Service Club's work was quite meaningful to him.

"Eh? Shirou, you've started playing this game too? That's surprising!" A short-haired girl with glasses walked over and said.

"Right! Tesla x Edison is great, and Little Sun x Arjuna is also amazing! Also, between Hayama and Tobe, who's the top and who's the bottom? Can you add me as a friend too?" Ebina asked, her face flushed with excitement and panting.

"You can, you can..." Shirou ignored the first part and agreed.

However, ever since Ebina made a request at the Service Club, she seemed to have somewhat remembered the favor and no longer made any extreme remarks about him as a romantic fantasy. Perhaps this was also a good thing that happened after Shirou joined the Service Club.

"Shirou-kun, if you're interested in any male Heroic Spirits, you must tell me. Whether it's the King of Heroes, the Child of Light, any Heroic Spirit, four-star, five-star, or even Angra Mainyu, I'll put them in my support slot for you." Ebina pushed up her glasses and said with a confident smile. She had spent all her New Year's money to collect various pairings.

When you have Young Emperor and Young Gil, you want to see Great Emperor and Gil standing together. When Old Saber appears, you want to gather the Knights of the Round Table for him. Isn't this the basic nature of a fujoshi?

But even so, this game still felt like a bottomless pit, drawing her in to continue spending money.

"..." Shirou turned his head away, thinking, What exactly do you want me to answer?

At this moment, in the back, the dumpling-headed girl who was originally chatting with her friend Miura seemed to be watching the situation here with great interest. Shirou glanced over and their eyes met.

Yuihama smiled lightly, waved, and then turned her gaze back.

Her small group consisted of Miura and Ebina among the girls, and a group of four boys led by Hayama. He was the school's popular guy, helpful, trusted and liked by his classmates, as well as the captain of the soccer team, with good character and conduct. Although they didn't usually interact much, they got along well as classmates.

"Shirou, you're playing FGO too? Add me as a friend too," Yumiko Miura said, also noticing the situation.

"..." On the other side, a silver-haired girl with a single ponytail and a somewhat delinquent aura silently took out her phone, wanting to say something but hesitating.

Ebina saw this and pounced on the girl with a mischievous grin, "What, what? Sashi Sashi, you want to add Shirou as a friend too, don't be shy to say it."

"Hey, don't hug me! What's wrong with adding a friend!" The silver-haired girl pushed Ebina away, then blushed shyly, secretly glanced at Shirou, and quickly looked away.