005, Fuyuki City Was Still Peaceful Today!

"I can't agree that they're someone impressive, Archer." Rin folded her arms, sounding slightly annoyed. "If they really were a first-rate Magician, then at the very least, the barrier they set up shouldn't have been discovered so easily—no matter how you look at it, this utterly undisguised setup looks like a barrier made by some third-rate hack."

Rimuru chuckled and nodded, just about to speak when his Master gave an order. "Then, Archer, I'll leave the task of searching for the barrier to you while I'm in class today."

Rin's command made Rimuru abandon the suggestion he had been about to make. He curled his lips into a smile and nodded.

Having grown used to being the captain, occasionally acting as an executor who followed commands was not bad either.

After all, Rin had performed fairly well so far. In a sense, although she had the habit of dropping the ball at crucial moments, the price she paid for that was being almost perfect most of the time. That trait had clearly been inherited from Tokiomi Tohsaka and could be considered a characteristic of the Tohsaka Family.

Like a gemstone—flawless and lustrous, with only the tiniest imperfection hidden within.

After bidding Rin goodbye, Rimuru had just planned to head to the rooftop. Great Sage's cheat-like 3D perception map had already clearly marked all twenty-one points of the barrier.

But as he headed toward the stairs, Souichirou Kuzuki suddenly passed him at the corner. Only after they brushed shoulders did Rimuru pause slightly.

He had suddenly remembered something.

"In the original story, the brain-dead idiot who activated this barrier should have been Shinji, right?" Rimuru froze for a moment—rarely showing a trace of confusion.

"Then with the Matou Family wiped out, who set up the barrier?"

"Matou Sakura? No way... with