"Or should I say, magic doctor?"
Roman heard Shirou's jab and looked thoroughly embarrassed, scratching his head. "Could you stop bringing that up?"
"But the way you transformed really does make you seem like one," Shirou couldn't help remarking.
Roman gave up struggling.
There was no point arguing. He might as well slack off some more.
"The situation suddenly became rather delicate," Illya said, watching the group chat away happily.
"Thanks to Merlin?" Shirou stroked his chin. At least they could still talk things over properly with the other side.
"Merlin—ah, forget it. I'll let him off this time..."
Without realizing it, he took a careful look at Shirou.
He suddenly noticed that Shirou looked a little like Gudako, especially that hair color, that familiar snarky style, and the fact that he knew Gudako—
"May I ask what your name is?"
"Shirou Emiya."
Emiya?
What a familiar surname.
"You... you're Gudako's father?!"
Chapter 20: Strawberry Cake
"You... you're Gudako's father?"
Magic Roman said so.
But those shocking words scared Shirou half to death.
"You can't just say whatever you want—no, wait, you absolutely can't just say whatever you want!"
Shirou knew perfectly well. Gudako really could be considered his daughter. Though she was the daughter of a version of him from a parallel world, one who had even been born somewhat earlier than him. But if they actually ran a DNA test, she would still be his daughter!
Yet Roman seemed not to hear Shirou at all and continued asking, utterly tactlessly, "I wonder who Tohsaka Rin is?"
Hearing that, Shirou couldn't help turning to look at the people behind him.
Sakura's face immediately darkened.
The instant Roman mentioned Tohsaka Rin, Sakura understood. Her senior had a child, but not with her.
Shirou hurried over to explain, "Sakura, it's not