Chapter 779

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“Today was exhausting... And somehow, I ended up going through all sorts of misery!”

“Haha, yeah.”

Shirou and Illya crossed the road and headed home.

Along the way, Illya grumbled about all the inhuman treatment she had endured that day.

Shirou patted her head to comfort her, his thoughts turning to Chloe.

She looked exactly like Illya, and she looked up to him, too. Even that was the same.

They really were like twin sisters.

No, even actual sisters like Sella and Liz weren’t as alike as Illya and Chloe.

If only Chloe could get along with Illya the way Miyu did.

With that hope in mind, Shirou pushed open the front door.

And then—

“Welcome home, Big Brother!”

“What?!”

For some reason, Chloe, who should have been confined in the basement of the Edelfelt mansion, had arrived ahead of them and was waiting in the entryway.

Beaming, she ran up and hugged him around the neck.

“Big Brother!”

“L-let go of my brother already!”

Illya shouted angrily and tried to pull Chloe away from him.

“...Sigh.”

Standing at the bathroom sink, Shirou used the cold tap water to clear his head.

Getting Illya and Chloe to become friends was evidently going to be a long journey.

Their arguing drifted in from the living room again. Shirou turned off the faucet and was about to return when—

Someone appeared in the mirror.

“Miss Iris, when did you get back?”

The woman reflected in the mirror looked to be in her early twenties.

She had crimson eyes and long silver hair, and wore a pure white dress trimmed in gold, so magnificent and solemn that she could have stepped out of a religious painting.