Chapter 721

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Shirou was startled.

This was the first he had heard of it. Tohsaka had never told him anything about this...

Wait!

Was that why Tohsaka had inherited the position of family head ten years ago?

The possibility had never occurred to him.

“So Mrs. Tohsaka has been single for ten years now.”

Shirou fell silent.

Auntie Tohsaka had spent all those years devoting herself to Rin, while still hoping to reconcile with Sakura. It must have been lonely for her...

“Well, if that’s how you feel, Shirou, I won’t say any more.”

“Huh?”

Shirou was surprised. He had not expected Irisviel to drop the subject so easily.

Knowing her, he would never have thought she could be persuaded that readily.

“Is something wrong, Shirou?”

“No, nothing...”

“About Auntie Tohsaka...”

“Just do what you suggested earlier and find a chance to ask her for help,” Irisviel said. “With Mrs. Tohsaka’s character, I’m sure she won’t go telling everyone.”

“Right.”

Shirou nodded, deciding to visit Auntie Tohsaka sometime when Rin was out.

He did not notice the faint smile that crossed the silver-haired homunculus’s face.

He did not have to wait long.

A few days later, Aoi Tohsaka contacted Shirou and asked him to come over to repair their heater.

Tokiomi Tohsaka had been a model magus who thoroughly rejected modern innovations. Until a few years ago, the Tohsaka household had still used a charcoal-burning fireplace, practically a living fossil.

But one winter after Rin became head of the family, the fireplace had been retired and replaced with electric heating.

It was more convenient and safer, but when it broke down, fixing it was beyond even Homurahara’s Miss Perfect, Rin Tohsaka.

Rin happened to be