Didn't Shirou say back then that he'd stay up all night working on the manuscript? In the end, he still went "coo coo coo." Later, to avoid the heat, he even seemed to have gone traveling, abandoning Sakura for ages and making her wait bitterly for a full half month!
More importantly, he too had been waiting for updates for a long time.
"So you believed me. That's good." Shirou said this without the slightest self-awareness. Of course, it was only an act. A shrewd fellow like him wouldn't fail to read the room.
Even knowing that Shinji was actually being sarcastic, he still shamelessly came over. His skin was thick as a city wall anyway.
After all, Shinji was his only friend proficient with computers.
So Shirou could only drag Shinji into this.
"What did you come to me for?"
"I need your hacking skills to help me with something."
"No way."
Shinji refused Shirou without hesitation.
He was planning to pull a little hard-to-get trick.
Only then would Shirou be forced to come crawling back, letting Shinji toy with him in the palm of his hand and willingly write what Shinji wanted to see—like a route involving someone who looked like a younger sister but was actually an older sister!
Shirou nodded regretfully and walked out the door.
"All right, then. In that case, I'll have to look for someone else."
Shinji was dumbfounded. Was this some kind of counter-counterplay?
"Hey, Shirou, wait! Wait!"
Shirou smiled, a confident smile.
This was exactly the effect he wanted.
When it came to playing games, Shinji was still too young. Shirou saw through that little hard-to-get routine with ease.
As a master of conversational tactics and a classic old schemer, Shirou Emiya was now going to teach Shinji another lesson in