After some brief pleasantries, Touko Aozaki, who had just entered, recalled her original question. She lifted the struggling little figure behind her and asked irritably.
"And who is she to you?"
She had only gone out to buy a pack of cigarettes. Yet the moment she returned and entered the house, she spotted an unfamiliar, restless face wandering around the shop downstairs.
Samael looked at Chloe, who had been caught red-handed, then at the several mana-storing gemstones Touko Aozaki was tossing in her hand. He immediately understood that the girl had likely wanted to prolong her time in Servant form by stealing a nearby mana source, only to be caught with both the culprit and the evidence.
Having been stolen from personally, the ancient serpent rolled his eyes without hesitation and decisively distanced himself from her.
"Sorry, don't know her! Not familiar!"
"D-Don't abandon me...!"
However, the moment Samael finished speaking, the culprit, nervously twisting the hem of her clothes with her fingers, turned pale in alarm. Looking at Samael with tearful eyes and a trembling pout, she whimpered.
"I'll be good! Chloe is her master's slave... I'll absolutely obey any command...!"
The moment those words came out, everyone was stunned.
Master?
Touko Aozaki's eyes swept over the brown-skinned elementary schooler, barely half her height. Her gaze darkened, and her silver teeth ground together.
Slave?
Artoria glanced at the captured enemy prisoner, looking thoughtful yet disdainful.
Command?
The two Einzbern family maids poked their heads in from outside the door after hearing the commotion.
Now the center of attention, Samael felt needles against his back. His face stiffened slightly as he turned a murderous gaze toward the instigator of the slander and let out a sinister snort.
"Since you like role-playing so much, I'll indulge you."
The moment that eerie