Chapter 797

[Editor's note: This chapter has been edited to remove content that breaks our content rules.]

All right... Tonight, I’m definitely going to make Iri tell me all her secrets.

With that thought, Shirou pushed open the front door.

“I’m home... Sella, is Miss Iri here?”

There was no answer.

When he entered the living room, he heard his sisters arguing.

“Th-that’s exactly what a big sister would do! That’s cheating, casually racking up big-sister points like that!”

“Huh?! Stop talking nonsense. Besides, you’ve been acting even stranger than usual today. Are you sure your head’s all right? There’s still time to get to a hospital, you know.”

“Wh-what was that?!”

Illya and Chloe were sitting on the same sofa, still continuing yesterday’s argument over which of them was the older sister.

Noticing Shirou’s return, they turned toward him at the same time.

“Oh, Shirou! Welcome home!”

“Hey, Kuro! You’re clinging to him again! Hurry up and get away from him!”

“Ahaha, no way!”

“Hey, you two. Stop fighting.”

Chloe happily hugged Shirou while Illya, wearing a fierce expression, tried to pull her away.

“Illya, Kuro... Where’s Sella?” Shirou asked.

“Sella and Liz went grocery shopping,” Illya replied. “They aren’t back yet, so they asked us to watch the house.”

“I see. Then what about Miss Iri...? I didn’t see her car outside.”

“Mom left this afternoon,” Chloe answered. “She said she had urgent work overseas.”

“Huh?”

Shirou was speechless.

He’d had a feeling this would happen earlier that day, but he really was a step too late!

The same thing had happened last time. She had come home, chatted with Illya for a while, then slipped away before Shirou had even seen her.

If he’d known this would happen, he should have been more insistent last night...

Chloe continued,