Chapter 65: As if I wouldn't know what you're like. (cont.)

Shirou snapped back to his senses and blinked. "Huh?"

"I always felt like you, Assassin, had a lot on your mind. You always had a smile on your face, but there were even more calculations in your heart than smiles. You could trick someone without even trying. Sometimes I thought you were quite scary. Have you been calculating against me too?" Jeanne d'Arc opened her mouth and began eating the meat.

Back then, meat had been a luxury.

When the army won a battle, she could eat some, but there were too many wounded. Jeanne d'Arc had still tried her best to give it to them.

So although she had been the commander and was always allotted some meat, very little had actually made it into her mouth.

Being able to eat meat to her heart's content now was something that made her very happy.

"You only noticed now?" Shirou glanced at her.

"I noticed long ago, but I felt that although you were calculating against me, you should be a good person. Whatever you were plotting wouldn't harm anyone, so I let you have your way." After saying that, Jeanne d'Arc ate another piece of meat.

The meat immediately dwindled by nearly a third.

Shirou's eyes widened.

Did having a face identical to Artoria's mean having an identical appetite too?

That was truly astonishing.

"I have the feeling you're secretly saying bad things about me."

Jeanne d'Arc could not help muttering.

Shirou paused. "Was that a revelation from your Lord?"

"No, it was my intuition." Without hesitation, Jeanne d'Arc speared another piece of meat and put it into her mouth.

Only a third of the meat remained now.

Amid the mysterious silence, Shirou decisively changed the subject.

"I'm not plotting anything. I just wanted to relax for a while,