"Hmm...?"
At that moment, Artoria suddenly noticed something.
Ten years ago, she seemed to have gone shopping with Irisviel around here.
Shinto was a newly established city, and ten years ago, it had been in the height of its development. Many of Shinto's current sights had been built during that time.
To others, that might have been ten years ago. But for Artoria, it had not been that long.
The scenery of the past seemed as vivid as ever.
"Come to think of it, Saber's clothes were all altered from Rin's and mine. Saber doesn't have any clothes of her own, does she?"
Artoria was currently wearing a little Western-style dress, and it looked quite good on her. Her figure was also better than before, making this blue-and-white dress with black stockings fit her even more perfectly.
But as a "popular character," how could she keep wearing the same outfit all year round?
"That won't do. Casual clothes are nothing more than a means of concealing my identity—"
White proactively moved closer.
Her gentle fingers lightly waved before Artoria's eyes.
"No~ way~ Saber is a girl too."
Girls did have their advantages sometimes. It would not work if Shirou, as a boy, said something like that. But coming from White, another girl, it was perfectly appropriate.
"But Taiga Fujimura brought me some supplies before. Besides, I abandoned my identity as a woman long ago." Artoria still refused.
"Then—Saber means she's a boy?"
White's words left Artoria speechless. "Uh—I never said that. But as a king, I was indeed raised as a man."
"I see." White nodded. "Then—as a boy, it's only natural for Saber to accompany a girl while shopping!"
She had been checkmated.
Artoria felt rather awkward.
And those eyes of White's made Artoria feel as though she could