Insectification... (Is This Children's Day?) / Does Getting Stronger Cost You Intelligence?

Fu Yuan tried to lift her up, and then... succeeded.

Two seconds after setting her down, things returned to how they had been before.

Fu Yuan: "..."

"So this really can happen!"

"It's over, it's over. Sister Himeko wasn't lying to me before, was she?!"

Fu Yuan was no longer in the mood to care about the one clinging to him. Thinking about it, he felt like he was no different from a scumbag!

"..."

Holding his tea, Kariya Matou stared blankly at the scene before him...

This loli—no, little girl—was not to be underestimated!

"Damn it! Why hadn't I thought of this when I was little?!"

At that moment, Kariya Matou dearly wished time could turn back. Then maybe he would not have been a loser... probably?

Kariya Matou felt that he had gradually found the reason for his failure—his skin simply had not been thick enough...

Kariya Matou set his tea on the table. Seeing Fu Yuan apparently lost in some fantasy, he did not disturb him.

After a while, bored, he went to the basement and brought out a copy of Basic Magic Explained...

That was right, Basic Magic Explained. To be precise, the Matou Family now had quite a few magical tomes: those Old Worm had hidden elsewhere... as well as the Imaginary Numbers sent over after the Aozaki Family compensated Irisviel, since they had no use for them...

As for why those Magi had not snatched them away... a three-layer safe, concrete flooring nearly as tough as silicate cement, capable of withstanding sustained missile bombardment for a short time...

And he normally only took out one book at a time...

It could be said that no one else knew the Matou Family still possessed so many magical tomes.

Just like that, the living room briefly