Shirou sized up the hostile programs nearby. On average, there was only one hostile program within every hundred meters. With a little detour, they could avoid them. Even if he wanted to save up that way, there weren't enough terrain programs for him to fight.
"We should borrow money instead."
Hakuno led Shirou back to the School Building.
The School Building was quiet, but there were still people inside. The first person they found was Kiyohime Sesshoin.
"Miss Sesshoin!"
Kiyohime lowered her head somewhat disappointedly. "Isn't that rather distant? I thought our relationship had grown much closer."
"Um, Miss Kiyohime!" Hakuno changed her form of address and took her hand. "Miss Kiyohime, we need your help!"
"Hm?"
Hakuno explained what had happened. Kiyohime listened with great interest, but when Hakuno asked to borrow money, Kiyohime looked quite troubled.
"Is that so? I can't believe Rin would do such a thing. But I'm sorry. This body has long since withdrawn from worldly affairs. I gave up things like money long ago."
Hakuno then went to find Ginako, Gatou, and Julius.
In the end, only Julius, wearing a pained expression as though he had been drained of every last coin, handed over 800 SM.
It was completely insufficient.
"Eight hundred SM... Even converted into yen, it doesn't seem like it would do much. If it were yuan or dollars, we could at least buy something." Shirou walked around the School Building in disappointment, hoping to find someone else.
"Nobody has any money. Why is everyone so poor?"
Among the Masters they knew, there were monks, nuns, assassins, and shut-in nerds.
"Even the landlords have no surplus grain these days." Shirou instinctively avoided a certain tycoon from a Western European financial group who was swimming in money. That tycoon looked far too shrewd.