"Haah? No way! You want me to abandon you and run away by myself?"
"..."
Shirou sighed, having forgotten that Miyako had always been this kind of person.
"If you want to act tough, suit yourself. But are you planning to drag Sakura into this too?"
"Mm..."
Ayako Miyadera wavered, and then—
"I'll fight alongside you too!" Sakura said with a resolute expression.
You've got to be kidding me, Miss Sakura...
Shirou felt somewhat desperate. Why are all the girls around me so reckless with their lives?
The encircling men watched with mocking sneers, as though they were enjoying a ridiculous stage play.
"Are you done discussing things?"
Shirou drew a deep breath.
With that motion as the starting point, the boy changed his course of action.
Rather than conceal his magecraft in front of Ayako Miyadera, he made protecting her and Sakura his top priority.
"----"
Shirou silently let magical energy flow through his arms and legs, completing Reinforcement in an instant.
His experience fighting bare-handed...
There had been almost none during his time in the Fae Kingdom, but he had accumulated plenty since returning.
After entering middle school, he and Shinji often got into fights with upperclassmen.
Of course, Shirou could not use magical energy when fighting ordinary people. In Shinji's case, he simply could not use magical energy in the first place.
At the beginning, all Shirou had over ordinary people was superior eyesight. His usual training was canceled out by his opponents' advantages in age and numbers.
But little by little, Shirou grasped the tricks of unarmed combat.
Now, he could even use his hands and feet like swords—
Come to think of it, Morgan and Touko had both said that my attribute was "sword," so I should naturally be able to use my hands like