Shinji: Just Hang in There. It'll Be Over Soon.

Kariya, who was nominally the assistant Director, called "cut." He hesitated, looking at the monitor, and asked in a very uncertain tone, "This take should be okay, right?"

"Wait a minute, let me take a look."

Shinji hurriedly got out of bed and stumbled to the monitor to check the footage that had just been captured.

"Not bad. Let's leave it at that."

Shinji a step back and sat down in the chair.

The makeup artist quickly went over to touch up his makeup, while another female makeup artist approached Sakura, who was still sitting on the bed.

"Well done, Sakura. Although your performance could use a little more polish, you're still my little sister." Shinji gave her a thumbs up.

Shinji is very lenient with his younger sister; as long as her performance isn't too bad, he will praise her.

Sakura's performance certainly can't compare to those of professional actors, but among ordinary girls, her performance is quite good.

When the character is quiet, she has a poignant and touching quality; but when the character turns evil...

Cough cough.

In short, just like the split personality of the character [Matou Sakura], Sakura's own multifaceted personality makes her performance seem very effortless.

However, Shinji would never tell Sakura about this; he didn't want his dinner to turn into Engraved Insect sashimi, especially without soy sauce.

"Hmph, brother, what you say sounds very nice."

Leaning against the bed, Sakura fiddled with her legs and complained, "They say I'm the heroine in Heaven's Feel? Is there any heroine as miserable as me?! My treatment is so much worse than Artoria and Rin-neechan's!"

Think about the other two versions of the female lead: one is a majestic King of Knights, and the other is a dashing melee mage. How come she turned out like this in her own version?

"Brother, am I your sister?"

Sakura squinted and retorted.

Shinji retorted, "How can it not be? When you stole my allowance when we were kids, did I say anything? If you weren't my brother, would I have let you get away with this?"

"Then why did you make me into this kind of character?!" Sakura demanded angrily.

"Isn't this what the script requires?"

Shinji's gaze was unfocused.

Shinji for the character design; it's clearly the mushroom's fault.

In the past few years, while studying Filming, Shinji carefully reviewed all of Nasu's important works and discovered that Nasu used templates extensively when writing characters.

The main female lead is definitely a somewhat eccentric and out-of-touch type of character, whether it's Artoria, the Princess, Ryougi Shiki, or Aoko.

Next, the second female lead must be a military-savvy commentator, with Rin being a typical example. Others like the upperclassman, Touko, and Azu are similar.

The third female lead is basically a miserable character who has suffered a lot of humiliation. Asagami Fujino, Kouhaku, and her own younger sister Sakura are all in this position.

In fact, the fourth female protagonist, who usually has a vague presence and is supposed to be the younger sister in the setting, but is not actually the younger sister in reality—Hana, Akiha, and Illya are all such characters.

Therefore, Shinji could swear to the light bulb in his head that his younger sister's miserable situation was all Nasu's fault.

Unfortunately, the Second Master simply couldn't bring himself to say such things.

He could only vaguely say, "This isn't something I can decide. I just set up a script with a third female lead, and it just so happens that you, Sakura, are the third female lead."

Sakura raised her eyebrows. "Is that so? So, in your mind, your sister is such a dangerous, lying person who would even try to kill you!"

"Cough cough!"

Shinji coughed twice, glancing at the surrounding staff as a way of reminding Sakura not to go too far.

However, it was all for naught.

Ever since filming began for the main storyline of Heaven's Feel and Sakura received the entire script, the two siblings have been clashing over the script for quite some time now, and the rest of the crew is used to it.

"Come on, give those two siblings some space."

Kariya smiled and prepared to lead the rest of the crew out of the room.

Bang!

Shinji kicked his own second uncle.

"Stop gloating over my misfortune!"

Throughout the entire process, Shirou Emiya sat calmly in his chair without saying a word, as if afraid that Sakura and Shinji would come after him.

He knew the siblings too well; when they were down on their luck, they always liked to point their guns at others.

The scenes to be filmed during this period are all quite bizarre, and Shirou doesn't want to get hurt because of a small misunderstanding.

Because Shinji is currently filming scenes of Sakura being inhumanly abused at the Matou Family.

These are some of the more concentrated scenes with explicit content in the HF route, including the scene where the Second Master tries to force himself on Sakura but gets shot in the head, as well as many other scenes that are almost Restricted rating.

However, Shinji strictly controlled one point when filming this part: absolutely no scenes showing nudity.

Although this is a TV series that will definitely be rated R-rated in the future, Shinji doesn't want to get into any trouble.

Especially since Sakura is his own sister, it would be very troublesome if she were to be used by someone with malicious intent.

Therefore, Sakura's abuse at the Matou Family consisted only of encounters resembling evil black True Magic, such as insects crawling all over her body. The only physical abuse involved was when the Second Master tried to force himself on Sakura, but he was killed and had his head blown off.

The R-rated of the HF series is more reflected in the various bloody and violent scenes and the dark plot, rather than what people might expect.

However, since it's a TV series going to air on HBO, Shinji couldn't very well not have a single scene showing his nipples.

So he still hired professional body doubles to film some minor nude scenes, such as the female passerby being attacked by the Zouken, the female passerby being attacked by the old man, and the female passerby being attacked by the grandfather.

After all, when being bitten by Engraved Insect, clothes and such would naturally tear, so the addition of this nipple-revealing scene was very natural and harmonious, not at all contrived.

"You little brat, you won't let me have my way, huh?!"

After hearing Shinji's explanation, Old Master Zouken slammed his cane down hard.

"Serves you right."

Artoria, who was watching the scene unfold, commented. "Master, you have only yourself to blame for your disrespect towards women."

Rin curled her lip in disdain. "This guy always likes to film the darker aspects of human nature. Come to think of it, which of the characters he films has a good ending?"

These are the two TV series that have been filmed so far. Shinji has filmed a total of three FSN series and one Fate/Zero series, and none of these characters have had a good ending.

Some characters might do quite well in one part of FSN, but die a horrible death in another.

Even Shinji himself is incredibly villainous; his only fates are being killed or paralyzed in bed.

Of course, if Shinji hadn't taken the initiative to make fun of himself first, others might not have been so quick to accept his own script.

"Speaking of characters whose endings in all three storylines were decent..."

Sakura suddenly turned her gaze to Rin.

Artoria, as if struck by a thought, also looked over.

"What... what are you doing?"

Rin sensed something was off.

Artoria explained, "Rin, you're the character who had a happy ending in all three FSN series, aren't you? Could it be that Master likes you?"

"..."

"Rin-neechan." Sakura patted Rin's shoulder, "Please be extra careful when filming the kidnapping scene in UBW. I'm afraid my brother might do something bad to you."

Chapter 97 Shinji: Just bear with it, it'll be over soon.

In the film set, which was decorated like castle ruins, Sakura quietly watched Shinji direct the crew during filming.

Tohsaka Rin, bound by ropes, sits in a chair facing the camera, looking at Shinji with a strange gaze.

Prior to this, Rin had no feelings about this scene at all; it was just a scene required by the plot.

After all, Shinji is always very proper when filming, and he is very strict about controlling scenes involving hugging and cuddling.

Unless the people performing in front of the camera are a married couple or lovers, Shinji always uses forced perspective shots to prevent any possible "accidents" from happening.

The same applies to the scenes involving Sakura that were filmed previously.

Filming was basically done on a closed set. Apart from a few essential crew members and members of the crew like Kariya and Shirou, no one else was allowed to watch or participate in the filming.

Rin's state of mind has changed since their last conversation.

Even though Rin felt that Shinji wouldn't be interested in her, much less take advantage of Filming to make advances towards her, a voice deep inside her still spoke up.

What if?

What are you looking at?

Noticing that Rin had been staring at him, Shinji asked curiously.

"It's nothing," Rin said guiltily, turning her head away. "I just remembered that you did the same thing when we were little."

"Well, I was just ignorant when I was little."

Shinji touched his nose, looking slightly embarrassed.

Rin was talking about the things they did when they were kids.

"You acted as the villain who kidnapped me, Sakura as your henchman, and Shirou even came to the rescue..." Rin sneered, "This setup really does resemble the current situation."

Shinji rolled his eyes and said, "The source of inspiration, huh?"

The so-called source of inspiration, of course, refers to this scene, which inspired my childhood role-playing games.

Shinji wanted to tease Rin, who was acting like a little adult, so he came up with that whole play.

By the way, that role-playing resulted in a huge loss for the team.

The hero Shirou, who was supposed to save the damsel in distress, was no match for Sakura and instead got a severe beating.

So, Shinji, taking advantage of his status as the "mountain king," groped Little Rin's black stockings to his heart's content, almost making the little girl cry.

But Shinji's smugness didn't last long, because Sakura saw him touching Rin, and in order to appease his sister's anger, he had to give her three months' worth of allowance.

This is why Shinji often tricked Rin and Shirou out of their allowances when they were kids, because he gave all his own money to Matou Sakura.

"You rascal, you're not going to act like you did when you were a kid, are you?"

As the long-buried memories were unearthed, Rin's heart grew increasingly fearful.

Is Shinji, that bastard, really going to do something to me?

"What do you mean? I was just tickling you, it wasn't anything shameful," Shinji retorted stubbornly.

Anyway, Shinji wasn't even fully grown back then, so as long as he kept tickling and teasing, no one could accuse him.

When he was young, Shinji harbored the idea that he might marry Rin in the future, so he was quite close to her and did a lot of scumbag behavior.

Later, after thinking things through, he lost interest in that area and naturally stopped bothering Rin.

Nowadays, let alone filming this kind of scene, even if it were a passionate scene of fighting in bed, Shinji wouldn't feel much desire for Rin.

Of course, one should still try to take a bite of the tofu if possible, otherwise Second Master, who is used to "plucking feathers from a passing goose," will feel like he's been taken advantage of.

This isn't the first time Shinji has filmed a scene like this. If Rin hadn't been the one appearing on camera, Shinji probably wouldn't have cleared the set this time.

Japan is relatively conservative; in Europe and America, filming nude scenes is no more difficult than filming regular scenes, even though the industry in Europe and America has very detailed regulations on filming nude scenes.

Everyone knows that Europeans and Americans love to say one thing and do another.

Most female celebrities in the Western entertainment industry are willing to strip in front of the camera without any psychological barriers.

Even if there are obstacles, they are usually new actresses; actresses with a little experience are already seasoned veterans.

After all, following the rules exactly would take too much time and effort, which is not worthwhile at all. It's better to just take the photos and be done with it.

As long as there's no video evidence, watching it won't hurt you; it's not like you'll lose anything.

Kariya gestured to Shinji, indicating that the set should be cleared before filming.

Shinji took advantage of the last bit of time before filming began to have a brief chat with Rin.

"Alright, don't be nervous when we're filming later. Just bear with it for a bit, it'll be quick," Shinji said businesslike.

Why are you talking about it like you're giving someone a shot?

Rin's eyelids drooped, and she looked speechless.

Shinji retorted righteously, "Bullshit! Your house is the needle!"