Chapter 680

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Irisviel looked thoughtful. “Well, I wouldn’t mind having an ally in the future.”

Aoi Tohsaka’s expression clouded. “After what happened last night, Shirou seems to dislike me now… How should I apologize so that he’ll forgive me?”

After considering the matter for a while, Irisviel suddenly thought of something.

“Mrs. Tohsaka.”

“Yes?”

“Does Shirou know you’ve divorced Tokiomi Tohsaka?”

“…Ah.”

Now that she mentioned it, he really didn’t.

The Tohsaka family had never announced it publicly.

Everyone believed Tokiomi Tohsaka had simply gone to London to further his career. It would never have occurred to them that he had divorced his wife.

Even their allies, the Einzberns and the Matous, knew nothing about it. Irisviel had only heard because of her personal friendship with Aoi.

Shirou had no idea that Aoi Tohsaka was now single.

It was only natural that he would have reservations.

If helping one person find happiness meant breaking apart an otherwise intact family, that would defeat the purpose.

“Shirou was taking that much into consideration for my sake, even though there was no need…?”

“What are you going to do?”

“I-I’ll explain everything to him properly. I cut ties with that man almost ten years ago…”

Her first marriage had been a political alliance between two families.

Such things were extremely common in the world of magecraft.

As a daughter of the Zenjou family who could not inherit its Magic Crest, she had received the finest upbringing and education from childhood, all to prepare her to marry the head of the Tohsaka family.

Freedom had never been hers to begin with.

Of course, Aoi did not resent the obedient life she had led until now.

Her two daughters were the greatest