"Since I'm the Land Manager here, there's no way I'd obediently hand him over to you."
"You call the winner of the Holy Grail War a good citizen?"
Ye Sizhen smiled faintly.
Amemiya Shirou... Just as the rumors said, he was an incredible man. Had he really made his enemies go this far to cover for him?
Interesting.
Rin Tohsaka felt that she would never be able to understand it.
But Rin, who had just experienced the atmosphere of dinner at the Amamiya Residence, could understand that Shirou actually yearned for a peaceful life more than anyone.
I must protect his everyday life with that child, Sakura, the girl thought to herself.
Rin Tohsaka stared at the beautiful mage in a qipao and said, "If you don't plan to leave, then let me continue my 'greeting' from earlier."
Ye Sizhen raised an eyebrow.
She had indeed sensed resolve from the twin-tailed girl—she had merely misunderstood it slightly.
She had mistaken Rin Tohsaka's resolve for her sense of responsibility as the Land Manager.
"I see. Please allow me to apologize... I underestimated you a little earlier, Miss Tohsaka."
"No need. You're going to get beaten up by me next, anyway."
I don't know whether to call myself lucky or unlucky today, Rin thought.
On her way out that morning, she had impulsively brought along a few extra jewels. She had never expected them to actually come in handy.
If she hadn't had sufficient ammunition, Rin truly wouldn't have been confident about fighting an unknown external mage.
Ye Sizhen, however, was in a completely different situation from Rin Tohsaka.
Before this, she had converted an abandoned factory in the outskirts of Fuyuki City into her workshop, and stored all her Magic Crests there.
The ultimate purpose of her visit to Japan was