"Sorry, miss, but I'm not your Servant!" The Command Spell on Duke's hand told him that he had returned alive from the Root to the Human World.
There was one thing that bothered him, though. After taking a trip through the Root, he did not feel as if he had changed at all. There was no inherited wisdom or knowledge in his mind, and he had not caught even a glimpse of the world's beginning or end. It seemed he had gone through all that for nothing.
"Did I miss something because I fell asleep?"
Duke mocked himself, then swayed to his feet. If he had guessed correctly, this was the Fifth Holy Grail War, and this impoverished young lady before him was Tohsaka Tokiomi's daughter, Tohsaka Rin.
Which raised a problem. He had obtained the Fourth Holy Grail War, and fate had changed so drastically that even his own mother would not recognize it. Even if the Fifth War began, it should have been sixty years later, so...
This was actually Tohsaka Rin's granddaughter!
"Hey, girl, what's your name?"
"How rude. When asking for a lady's name, shouldn't you at least put some clothes on?" Tohsaka Rin's eye twitched as she pointed at Duke and shouted, "Or are you simply a pervert?"
Showing up in the home of a girl living alone in the middle of the night wearing nothing but underwear—even if he was a Servant, calling the police would not be wrong!
"You're making a fuss over nothing. Plenty of heroes carry out justice in their underwear!" Duke shrugged, completely unconcerned about his appearance. "If I were a pervert, you'd be finished already. Hurry up and tell me your name. It's important!"
"Asking my name the moment you show up, yet claiming you're not a Servant..." Tohsaka