Fu Yuan sighed and frowned.
Here it came again...
"Big sister! Are you here?"
Before he had even finished speaking, he had already run up and familiarly sat beside Fu Yuan.
"..."
"Big sister, do you know? Today..."
It was another one of those trivial little things. Of course, just like always, it was all full of positive energy.
Little Shirou had already made up his mind. He had to keep a close eye on this big sister and absolutely not let her commit suicide.
Life was so precious. How could anyone just casually give it up?
Besides, big sister had been saved because of his reminder, so he had to take responsibility!
"..."
Fu Yuan looked at the enthusiastic Shirou before him, feeling rather helpless...
He had already said that he had only come up here to enjoy the view, but Little Shirou clearly did not believe him.
"...Um, big sister, when are you going down?"
Shirou was clearly nowhere near as mature and steady as he would be later on. Right now, he was full of childish innocence, radiating liveliness from head to toe.
For example, right now, he was tilting his head up and blinking those big eyes at Fu Yuan.
"...So why haven't you corrected the way you address me?"
Even though Shirou looked so adorable, and kept telling him about every funny thing he had discovered.
Why would he not correct himself? Fu Yuan had said it many times already! He was a boy!
"Hmm~ Calling you big brother just feels kind of awkward?"
Little Shirou was not entirely sure why he could not change the way he addressed him either, but every time, he habitually called him big sister.
Maybe it was because his slender body looked frail beneath the loose hospital gown. Maybe it was because his hair had grown all the way to his waist. Or maybe it was simply that air of desolation he occasionally revealed.
"Call me whatever you want... It doesn't matter anymore."
The sky was nearly dark. If Fu Yuan and Shirou did not head down soon, a very gentle nurse would gently ask them to leave.
One day,
Two days,
Three days,
A week.
Watching Little Shirou treat coming to the rooftop like a daily task, even Fu Yuan felt a little warm inside.
"Shirou, I still don't know your surname."
Upon hearing that, Shirou blinked in confusion. Was big sister taking the initiative to talk to him?
Giving himself a thumbs-up in his heart, he answered the big sister who seemed to have become normal.
"Iri. Shirou Iri."
"...That's a very, very gentle surname..."
Fu Yuan said this somewhat reluctantly. This was a little different from what he had expected.
He had thought it would be Amakusa...
"Mm-hmm, I think so too!"
Shirou was clearly very satisfied with his name. After all, it was the last thing his father and mother had left him.
"Let's go down."
Fu Yuan ended the conversation, only to realize that he no longer knew how to start one.
"Okay."
Shirou really was a good kid.
"Shirou, have you decided what you want to do in the future?"
On the hospital bed, Fu Yuan suddenly asked Shirou as though the thought had just occurred to him.
"Umm~ I don't know."
No matter how obedient he was, Shirou was still just a child. He did not have much of a sense of things like the future yet.
"Have you thought about how you want to live from now on?"
Fu Yuan, however, changed his previous silent demeanor and continued asking this child questions someone his age should not have had to bear.
"...First, I need to study hard and become really capable. Then I'll do things that can make everyone happy."
Shirou's expression clearly darkened after hearing the question. After all, for an orphan like him, an orphanage was probably their only destination.
But he quickly adjusted his mood. Was it better to say that children had no worries, or that Little Shirou was simply this cheerful?
"Shirou, you're alone now too, right?"
As if he could not read the room, Fu Yuan continued asking highly sensitive questions.
"...Yeah. My parents both died in that disaster."
Even the most cheerful child would inevitably feel sad when speaking of something like that.
Shirou was clearly no exception.
"Then how about living with big brother?"
Fu Yuan got straight off the hospital bed, extended his hand to Little Shirou, and asked.
Shirou stared blankly at the hand Fu Yuan had extended. His expression was clearly flustered, and for a moment, he did not know what to do.
"Could you hurry up a little? The floor is cold."
Fu Yuan was not in a hurry at all. Instead, he seemed very relaxed.
Only then did Shirou notice that big sister had gotten down without putting on shoes. His soft little feet were planted directly on the floor.
"? Hmm?"
Fu Yuan was somewhat puzzled. Why was there still no reaction? This was a little different from what he had imagined.
"Yeah!"
Only then did Little Shirou come to his senses and vigorously nod to show that he was willing.
"Then it's a deal."
Shirou Emiya... Shirou Iri. Fate really was interesting.
True Name: Fu Yuan Class: ? Gender: Male Alignment: Order·? Height: 158 cm·43 kg Strength: A+ Endurance: EX Agility: EX Mana: EX Noble Phantasm: EX Luck: ? Personal Skills: Riding (B): He had seized the Thousand Realms Shatterer, piloted a Floating Battleship (automatically), ridden Heavy Bunny, ridden an Emperor Honkai Beast, and stolen an Anti-Entropy Titan. Though he did not know any riding techniques whatsoever, this skill had still been forcibly elevated. Magic Resistance (EX): Under absolute suppression by Mystery, nearly all magecraft was useless against him! Presence Concealment (C): Though he did not know any skills for concealing his presence, it was a passive ability he naturally possessed after his swordsmanship reached an extremely high realm. Innate Skills Soul Materialization (EX): With an immortal and infinite soul as its foundation, the soul drove the body, achieving the effect of an unlimited energy source. Stigma (?): Something invented by a genius doctor from the Previous Era, though there seemed to be something wrong with this set. Stigma (A): A Stigma capable of affecting the soul. Void Sword Qi (A+++): A cultivation method for manipulating the energy between heaven and earth. Short-Range Force (A+): A skill fused into instinct through countless rounds of training. Neither changes in class nor loss of origin could lower it. One could imagine what Fu Yuan had experienced. Divine Servant: Restraint (EX): An ability rooted in the origin of another world??? Child of Purity (?): A skill possessed by those of pure white, making them especially sensitive to all kinds of things and granting them the world's protection. However, this skill was now nearly ineffective. Noble Phantasms Divine Punishment (EX): The ultimate creation that stole divine authority with a mortal body. It had no defensive or disruptive capabilities, abandoning everything in pursuit of the greatest possible destructive power. Unparalleled (A): This too stole divine authority with a mortal body, though this one seemed to be one of the mass-produced models. The only difference was that it seemed to contain an emotional attachment.
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Suggestion Sorcery Really Was Useful!
"No!"
The gentle nurse clearly did not agree with his proposal. This little brother was so cute—ptui, this little brother's body definitely had not recovered yet!
Not everyone was like him, coming out of the center of an explosion with almost no injuries!
"...I think Shirou can already be discharged."
Fu Yuan had a bit of a headache. Everything that had happened these past few days was completely beyond his expectations. Why did something as simple as being discharged have to be so difficult?!
"Mm-hmm, Nurse, Shirou thinks he can be discharged too!"
Although Little Shirou did not understand why his body, which seemed to have suddenly recovered overnight, had gotten better, now that he was well, he could not keep staying in the hospital and troubling everyone, could he?
"No means no! Where will you live if you leave the hospital now?"
Although the nurse was also somewhat confused by the physical examination report in her hands, no meant no. Life in reality was not like a game!
The nurse hoped they would stay a few more days. Perhaps some kindhearted people might come and adopt a group of children.
The chances of that happening were not low, and most of those families were fairly well-off.
"...I have friends here. I just hadn't contacted them before..."
Fu Yuan gave a reason the other party could accept, though it was not particularly convincing.
"You think I'd believe that?"
The nurse sneered when she heard that. Friends? Him?
As a woman, the nurse naturally would not give him special treatment because of his appearance. Besides, if he had friends he knew, what had he been doing for the past week?
"..."
Fu Yuan fell silent for a long time. While lamenting the kindness of the woman before him, he used Suggestion Sorcery without the slightest guilt.
Little Shirou still did not understand why the nurse had suddenly changed her tune, but after thinking about it... he still could not figure it out.
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