Aigaion wrapped her arms tightly around Higashino Kanade's neck. With her face hidden behind his back, she wore a sly smile, like a fox whose scheme had succeeded.
If I don't act a little worse, how will Dad let down his guard and spoil me even more? Aigaion thought smugly, then whispered so softly into Higashino Kanade's ear that it was almost impossible to hear:
"Dad is such an idiot."
"Master!"
"Dad!"
Seeing Higashino Kanade arrive carrying Aigaion, everyone immediately stopped training and greeted him.
"Don't mind me. Just keep training."
Higashino Kanade waved for them to continue, then found a tree and sat down. He set Aigaion free to play on her own while he leaned lazily against the trunk, silently watching his two daughters train.
Twelve years had flown by. The three little girls who had once needed Higashino Kanade beside them to fall asleep had all grown into young women, each mature and striking. Anywhere else, they would be considered peerless beauties.
What puzzled Higashino Kanade was that, after twelve years, his three disciples were still stubbornly single. Aside from him, there was practically no trace of any other men around them. One after another, they had evolved into Grand Magi. Hadn't their original wish upon the Holy Grail been to find love?
Higashino Kanade had already prepared himself to break both legs of their boyfriends, yet those boyfriends simply refused to show up. He was starting to wonder whether the Holy Grail had stood all three of them up.
Fujino, the eldest of the three disciples, was already thirty-four. If she stayed single much longer, she would become an old lady. Though Fujino took excellent care of herself and looked like a mature older sister of twenty-seven or twenty-eight, everyone grew old eventually. None of