Monkeys May Not Appear on Auspicious Clouds

He slept exceptionally well. The next day, when the sun was already high in the sky—no, it was noon beneath dense clouds that looked ready to unleash a downpour—Broly was awakened by notification messages from the Crystal Palace.

Notification: Matou Sakura Happiness Value is decreasing.

Notification: Rin Tohsaka Happiness Value is decreasing.

Notification: Matou Sakura Happiness Value is increasing.

Notification: Rin Tohsaka Happiness Value is decreasing.

What did it feel like to wake up and find all your stocks in the red?

Though there was one notification of an increase mixed in, overall, the drops had been massive.

Matou Sakura's Happiness Value, which had long since exceeded three digits, was now barely over twenty.

Rin Tohsaka's Happiness Value, which had risen to seventy yesterday after she found a friend, had now fallen to a single digit.

Broly did not know what had happened, but he knew perfectly well what he had lost.

In an instant, Broly's ki erupted violently.

A tornado swept through the room. The tatami floor caved in, the roof was blasted straight off by the ferocious airflow, and debris flew everywhere.

The enormous commotion drew the Fujimura Family over, but none of them dared approach the room whose door and walls were gradually being torn away. They could only stare in terror at the boy standing at the center of the horrifying airflow.

"What happened, Broly?"

Only after Fujimura Taiga, the young girl who had chosen to take the day off and stay home, came over to ask what had happened did the massive whirlwind of airflow finally subside.

Debris clattered to the ground. Broly's eyes were slightly red, and his voice was filled with grievance and pain. "Fujimura-oneesan, my Happiness Points are gone."

"Huh?"

Fujimura Taiga did not understand at first. Only after approaching and questioning him did she learn that Sakura, whom Broly had previously kept by his side, and the girl he had met at school who sat beside him—two Crystal Palace reserve members recognized as Capture Targets, whose Happiness Values had already been raised very high—had suddenly suffered a massive drop in Happiness Value.

Knowing what kind of life the boy had lived before, and understanding what Happiness Points meant to him—that they could be exchanged for food that would allow him to live a happy, normal life—Fujimura Taiga immediately understood why the boy was on the verge of breaking down.

"Broly, don't panic. The most important thing when you encounter a problem is to stay calm. Panicking is useless, and so is losing your temper. What we need to do now is think about how to solve this problem."

Fujimura Raiga had just arrived when he heard his own granddaughter using the words he had taught her only the day before yesterday to lecture the boy who had caused such a huge disturbance. His expression became subtly complicated.

"Mm, I understand."

Broly nodded and tried his best to gradually calm the ki that was still churning within him under the influence of his emotions.

"Then what should I do now?"

"There is always a reason for a drop in Happiness Value. We should find those two girls and ask what caused their Happiness Values to decrease.

Your classmate lives rather far away, but isn't Sakura in Fuyuki City? We can go to her home and ask about the specifics."

Fujimura Taiga offered her suggestion, but Broly shook his head. "I heard last night that Sakura and my classmate are actually sisters. She's gone to be with her mother now."

"Uh, then let's go to your classmate's house."

"I don't know where she lives."

"Ah, this..."

Just as the adult and child were at a loss, Fujimura Raiga walked over and cleared his throat, reminding them, "Taiga, don't forget that our family has connections. I can call that school's principal directly and have him look into where Broly's classmate lives."

Though the old man did not know what had happened, the destruction inside the house made him realize that this matter might be very important to Broly.

Although he no longer hoped to take Broly into the Fujimura Group, it was still important for his granddaughter to maintain a friendly relationship with this child.

"Grandfather, that was perfectly timed!"

"Thank you, Grandfather."

One should thank others for helping. Broly looked at the old man, then lowered his head in thanks.

"It's nothing, it's nothing."

Fujimura Raiga waved his hand and hurried off to call the principal of Branch 1 Elementary School in the Fuyuki Outskirts.

"You two must be hungry. Go eat first. The principal didn't go to school today, and it will take some time for him to get there and investigate the information."

While Broly was eating, the Emiya Family came over to ask what was going on. Once they learned that Broly had caused the scene, they returned home.

The disturbance had given them quite a fright. They had thought some Servant had attacked, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

After Broly finished lunch, Rin Tohsaka's address was also found.

"Young Lady, Young Master Broly, sit tight. I'm starting the car."

Ever since the day before yesterday, Broly's form of address in Scarface's mouth had been upgraded from Kid.

As the vehicle traveled down the road, Broly only felt that it was slow. He could fly, but even with an address, he would not know the way. He could only continue patiently letting Scarface drive him.

Fortunately, the Fuyuki Outskirts were not far from Fuyuki City. Half an hour later, they arrived at the entrance of the Zenjou Family's Villa at racing speed.

"Is anyone home?"

Fujimura Taiga went over and knocked on the door.

"Who are you?"

Someone who had heard the commotion came to open the door. Upon seeing the group of three outside, especially Scarface, he frowned.

"We're here to see Lady Aoi Zenjou."

Fujimura Taiga said. After getting married, Aoi Zenjou should have taken her husband's surname, but since she had come here to seek refuge, she had reverted to her original surname to avoid drawing attention.

"What do you want with her?"

The man at the door was from the Zenjou Family and knew some things about the Holy Grail Ritual. Hearing that someone had come looking for Aoi Zenjou, he immediately became wary.

"My child is friends with her two daughters. They arranged for us to visit today."

Fujimura Taiga made up an excuse.

"Huh?"

The man looked toward the distant sky, where dark clouds had gathered. They had come to visit just as a heavy rain was about to fall?

"Sorry, but they never mentioned this to me. Besides, their whole family already left this morning."

"Where did they go?"

"Sorry, I can't tell you. Well, if you really know them, you should have their number, right? Why not call and ask them yourselves?"

"It's because we couldn't get through to Lady Aoi Zenjou's phone that we came here to ask."

If she could have reached Aoi Zenjou by phone, Fujimura Taiga would have called long ago.

"Then I'm afraid I can't help you."

The man shrugged. From the young girl's reaction, he could tell that what she had just said was only an excuse. Who knew whether they were bad people?

Just as he was about to close the door, it suddenly would not budge. Young Master Broly had stretched out a small hand and held the door in place.

The man looked at the boy holding the door open. Refusing to believe it, he pushed harder, only to discover that he was weaker than a child.

"What are you trying to do?"

he demanded.

Young Master Broly had little patience. He raised his hand, aimed at the front of the mansion, and fired an Energy Blast. After blowing the entrance and eaves into nothing but dust, he shifted his palm toward the man trying to shut the door.

"Talk, or die."

His voice was childish, but with the eaves now gone, the man did not dare take it as a joke.

"They went back to Fuyuki City this morning. A stern-looking man came to pick them up. I don't know exactly what they went back to Fuyuki City for. Please don't hurt me or the Zenjou Family."

Spilling the Beans, the man quickly revealed the Tohsaka family's whereabouts, not daring to conceal anything.

A married daughter was like water thrown out. Aoi Zenjou was married, after all. The Zenjou Family had taken them in temporarily out of consideration for their kinship, but if someone powerful came knocking, they did not dare stop them. They knew how terrifying the Mage World was.

After getting back into the car, Scarface prepared to start it. When he noticed the boy was still standing outside, he hurriedly said, "Young Master Broly, aren't you getting in? Shouldn't we hurry back to Fuyuki City?"

"This is too slow. I'm flying back."

"Flying back?"

Before Scarface could react, Young Master Broly slipped beneath the car, effortlessly lifted the vehicle with its two passengers inside, and flew toward Fuyuki City.

A few parts fell off the car along the way, forcing him to slow down somewhat, but they still returned to Fuyuki City in under two minutes, arriving directly above the Tohsaka Residence.

After descending from the sky and setting the car down, Young Master Broly noticed that the two people getting out of it did not look too well.

Although the flying car had not been especially bumpy, the intense sensation of being pressed back into their seats had given the two inside a terrible fright.

"Broly, next time you take people flying, remember to tell them beforehand."

Her heart pounding wildly, Fujimura Taiga did not even have time to marvel that he could fly. Instead, she immediately began lecturing the boy.

"Uh, sorry."

Seeing Fujimura Taiga's current unhappy state through the Crystal Palace, the boy realized he had made a mistake and lowered his head in apology.

"It's fine. It's not your fault. It's ours for experiencing flying in a car for the first time."

Fujimura Taiga let out a breath and comforted him.

After trying hard to calm herself, she soon recovered enough to produce points again.

"Let's go ring the doorbell."

Fujimura Taiga took the lead again, heading toward the entrance of the Tohsaka Residence.

As she pressed the doorbell.

At the Emiya Family home, Emiya Kiritsugu, who had been keeping watch through modern surveillance equipment, also spotted them.

"No, why did that child go to the Tohsaka Family?"

Irisviel happened to be nearby. Seeing the three of them on the monitor, she looked somewhat surprised.

Emiya Kiritsugu recalled that when he had first encountered the boy, the Tohsaka Family's Younger Daughter had been with him.

Connecting it with the huge disturbance next door earlier, Emiya Kiritsugu came to a conclusion: this matter might be related to the Tohsaka Family's Younger Daughter.

"Looks like no one's home."

After ringing the doorbell for a while, no one from the Tohsaka Family came out to answer it.

"Bang!"

Hearing that, Broly did not hesitate. He raised his foot and kicked down the huge iron gate, directly breaking in.

"Ah, this... excuse us!"

Seeing this, Fujimura Taiga wanted to say something, but there was nothing she could say. She could only offer that polite remark before hurriedly following him.

But before she could get close to Broly, the Defensive Magecraft in the Front Yard of the Tohsaka Residence activated. The Gems embedded in the statues lit up, and Energy Beams shot toward the intruder.

Broly was hit. He glanced at the Energy Beams striking his body. They were too weak to even break his skin, but the clothes Fujimura Taiga had bought for him were burned.

He had already been in a bad mood, and now he was even angrier. Raising a hand, he fired two Energy Blasts, one to each side. With two loud explosions, the Front Yard of the Tohsaka Residence was blown apart, and the Magecraft Defense System set up there was directly annihilated by the terrifying energy explosions.

Fujimura Taiga: "..."

Should she be glad that she had rung the doorbell before entering this residence last time, or glad that Broly had not simply broken in and blown up the entire yard?

"If there were anyone in this residence, they definitely would have noticed a commotion that big just now."

After searching the Tohsaka Residence from top to bottom without finding a single person, Scarface said that.

"But if they returned to Fuyuki City and didn't go home, where else could they have gone?"

Fujimura Taiga frowned.

"There's one more place."

"Where?"

"The Matou Family."

Broly thought of the place where he had first crossed over. Although he did not know the way, he remembered its general direction.

Today was a terrible day!

That was what Young Sakura thought. Not because the weather was terrible, but because today, someone had to return to that nightmare-like House of Worms.

Late last night, her mother had suddenly said many things to her and her Older Sister. The gist of it was that their father wanted her to return to the Matou Family, continue as the Matou Family's Adopted Daughter, and inherit the Matou Family's magecraft.

She had cried and made a fuss, but it was useless. Her mother had tearfully said that it was her father's decision, and as a daughter of the Tohsaka Family, she had to obey.

Young Sakura had been devastated when she heard the news and had begun to lose faith in her family. But her mother loved her—she could feel it. Her mother had wanted to keep her and have her Older Sister take her place as the Matou Family's Adopted Child.

Her Older Sister loved her too. Though she was afraid, she had pretended to be strong. With no way to change their father's will, she had been willing to take Sakura's place and go to the Matou Family as an Adopted Child. Sakura felt the warmth of her family through that.

"Rin, you are a strong child. Don't be like your Younger Sister and run away from the Matou Family."

Tokiomi Tohsaka, dressed in a red suit, said those words and tried to pat his Elder Daughter's head, but Rin Tohsaka dodged him.

The more she had once admired her father, the more she resented this man after learning of his decision last night.

"All right, I know you cannot understand me yet. But you will understand when you grow up."

Tokiomi Tohsaka sighed. He could understand why his Elder Daughter was upset.

"Then, head of the Matou Family, Rin will—"

"Wait."

Before Tokiomi Tohsaka could say the rest of his request, he was interrupted. The one who interrupted him was his Younger Daughter.

"Sakura, what is it?"

"I've decided. I should be the one to return to the Matou Family as the Adopted Child."

Young Sakura still remembered the pain of worms crawling over her body. The thought that her Older Sister, who had been willing to take her place as the Matou Family's Adopted Child, would suffer the same thing made her unable to hold back any longer at this final moment of handing over the Adopted Child.

"Sakura, are you sure?"

Tokiomi Tohsaka was somewhat pleasantly surprised. Compared to having his somewhat timid Younger Daughter inherit the Tohsaka Family, he actually preferred for his more mature Elder Daughter to inherit it.

"Sakura, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Aoi Zenjou tugged at her.

"Yeah, didn't we already agree that Older Sister would go to the Matou Family this time?"

Rin Tohsaka said as well.

"Older Sister is good to me, but I can't make her cry. Compared to Older Sister, I'm actually more used to the feeling of worms crawling over my body."

She could no longer feel her father's love. She could feel her mother's love, but she could also feel that her mother loved her father more. Only her Older Sister loved her.

Young Sakura did not understand what impulse was, but she did not want her Older Sister to lie in a pile of worms and cry. If someone had to cry, then she had already cried once. Crying one more time probably would not matter.

A forced smile appeared on the girl's small face. She did not know why the "Grandfather" beside her could still be alive and whole even though his head had been blown up, but it did not matter. Suppressing her fear, she walked over to him and said, "Grandfather, I'm coming home. Older Sister doesn't need to join our family."

"Sakura, you've become even stronger."

Zouken Matou smiled, but it was a smile filled with deep malice.

"I imagine you'll be even more capable of accepting Grandfather's modifications now."

Tokiomi Tohsaka failed to notice anything. An incomparably elegant smile appeared on his face as he began praising his Younger Daughter, who had once again become a thing of the past. "Sakura, even though you're no longer a child of the Tohsaka Family again, I'm still proud of your courage."

Young Sakura bit her lip and turned her head away. No longer as naive as before, she had no desire to acknowledge this man who had once been her father.

The sky was dark and heavy, on the verge of a heavy rain, and Young Sakura's mood had sunk to rock bottom as well. It seemed no one would come this time...

"Eh?!"

All of a sudden, Young Sakura's eyes widened. What did she see?

She saw a car speeding toward them through the cloud-choked sky.

"Rumble~"

Amid flashing lightning, Broly descended from the heavens with a car slung over his shoulder!