With Sakura Masayoshi's assistance over the past few days, the Hirata Family's affairs had finally been settled.
Sasuke had informed Shirou Emiya about the Crest Worms and asked him to pass the information on to Rin Tohsaka.
As for how Shirou Emiya and Rin Tohsaka intended to investigate, that was their business.
Life in the Sakura household returned to normal.
It was nearing evening.
The shopping district in Miyama Town, Fuyuki City, was a maze of intersecting streets.
Especially on Friday evenings, the shopping district became packed with people.
As the sun set, its lingering glow spilled across the streets, illuminating the dazzling array of goods in the shop windows and bathing the entire shopping district in warm golden light.
Today, Fish Fresh House was exceptionally busy.
Perhaps because it had been closed for the past few days, customers had been coming nonstop since it reopened.
Since the shop had closed so suddenly, with no one inside at the time, many regulars had even worried that something had happened to Fish Fresh House. So when it reopened, quite a few people asked Sasuke what had happened over the past few days.
Whether that counted as passive hunger marketing or not, there had been especially many customers these past few days.
Sasuke explained things to the customers as he cleaned fish.
Customers nearby who had bought fish from Fish Fresh House even once generally never went anywhere else.
As a result, no other fish shop could stay in business in the shopping district.
Especially after Sasuke took charge of Fish Fresh House, more and more customers kept coming back.
There were many reasons for that.
First, the old fish shop's reputation was impeccable.
Second, the fish fillets Sasuke cut were truly flawless.
As for the other reasons, they were probably just