"Shirou, after school I'm going shopping with my bestie. I'll leave cleaning the Archery Club to you. I'm sure you'd be willing, right?"
Shinji, looking somewhat smug, spoke to Shirou Emiya in a bizarre tone while daintily raising a finger.
Shirou Emiya had long since quit the Archery Club and was about to head home, but upon hearing Shinji's words, he could only sigh.
"Fine. Go do your thing."
As an absurdly nice guy, Shirou Emiya simply did not know how to refuse others.
Besides, he and Shinji used to be quite close. Even now, he still considered Shinji a friend. When he injured his arm a year and a half ago, Shinji had even arranged for his younger sister Sakura to come to his house and take care of him.
He just did not know what had happened. As they grew older, this friend of his seemed to have become increasingly strange, and the way Shinji looked at him felt off as well.
In the original story, Shinji actually had pretty good luck with women. He still did now, though the nature of it was somewhat different...
"Huh? Right, Tohsaka specifically reminded me to get home early today, didn't she?"
After painstakingly cleaning the Archery Club all by himself, Shirou Emiya stood in the familiar range and struck an archery pose, reminiscing about the past.
But then he noticed that the sky outside was already filled with stars, and recalled Tohsaka Rin's reminder earlier that day.
"Whew, good thing I don't have to make dinner for Taiga today. Otherwise, she'd probably have starved to death by now."
Upon realizing how late it was, Shirou Emiya's first thought was relief that Taiga Fujimura had said she would not be coming over for dinner that day.
As for Tohsaka Rin's