"I absolutely will not allow Master to get all lovey-dovey with the Performer alone!"
Mash broke into a radiant smile. "Oh my, isn't this Emperor Nero? What a coincidence."
"Damn that tone-deaf, overdeveloped sow! How dare she interrupt my alone time with Senpai? Believe it or not, I'll smash your Saint Graph to pieces and sink you into the sea to feed the sharks!"
"Oh my, Master, so you were here."
Su Mo's head was yanked away again and forcefully pressed into someone else's chest...? Wait, was this really a chest?
"Ow, that hurts! What is this thing? It's so hard it hurts my face."
Su Mo shouted reflexively. Sensing that the other person seemed to have been struck by his words and had loosened her grip considerably, he raised his head and looked over.
A girl with an angelically adorable face and golden hair tied up in a bun... wasn't this Artoria Lily?
"E-Excuse me? Has mine... already reached the point where it hurts people's faces? But... but I've stopped growing."
Su Mo heard the sound of a sword being drawn and his face changed in fright.
"No, wait... Lily, don't misunderstand. You yanked my head so hard just now that I twisted my neck. That's why I said that."
"Master, one must be honest. Miss Lily's frying pan is beyond saving."
Mash nodded along and commented seriously, "Miss Lily's can fry eggs once it's heated."
"Why not just call it a teppanyaki grill?"
Shing!
The sound of a sword being drawn...
"I'm going to kill you all!!!"
On the night before the final battle, Su Mo had not rested properly at all. Lily, who had been dealt such a blow that she turned dark, chased him around and slashed wildly. What left him physically and mentally exhausted was