Not having to flee for my life felt great.
"Lady Hakuno and Archer, please head to the conference room now. Leo has a few more things to tell you." Gawain smiled brightly.
"Okay." Shirou was about to put Hakuno down, but she looked at him unhappily. "All right, all right. I'll put you down once we get to the student council room, okay?"
Just then, Shinji approached from the side and happened to run into Shirou.
It reminded Shirou of what Gawain had said.
"Hey, Shinji." Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, Shirou greeted him.
Yet Shinji stared at Shirou and Hakuno in shock.
"You actually hooked up with Hakuno?"
Chapter 31: Secret of the Inner Moon
Hooked up?
Shirou immediately realized something—this Shinji did not seem to be the parallel-world Shinji he had previously assumed him to be. He was his own good-for-nothing friend, who had secretly hacked into the Moon Cell?
But if that explained it, Shinji's previous behavior might make sense. Gawain had said that before Shinji went to the conference room, he had made a huge fuss with Leo over a debt of 150,000 SM. The condition Leo had reluctantly agreed to was merely clearing the third stage.
However, Leo was definitely not that kind of conscientious capitalist. Cut him open, and he would be black to the core. He would never offer such generous debt forgiveness terms.
Then why had Leo done it?
All sorts of possibilities flashed through Shirou's mind, but in Gawain's eyes, it took on an entirely different meaning.
"Is this catching someone cheating? Could it be that I was right after all—Shinji is actually a girl!" Gawain said in shock. "Though there is no rise to the chest... but then again, the King was much the same, so it is