"Say, Kirei, what are anime and games?"
In the car headed for Kyoto, Sakumura flipped through a promotional booklet as he asked Kirei Kotomine.
"...Well."
For once, Kirei Kotomine had encountered a question he found difficult to answer.
"Why are you interested in that?"
Unable to answer, he could only respond with a question of his own.
"Because from what I've observed these past two days, it seems to be something young people nowadays enjoy. What is this called... Tokimeki Memorial? What a strange name. Is it the memory of your heartbeat after killing someone?"
"Wait, a dating game? Romance can be a game?"
Sakumura involuntarily felt his scalp tingle. Though he could not explain why it was tingling.
"...It should be something like simulating real-life romance through a game?"
This was a blind spot in Kirei Kotomine's knowledge. He could only infer what it was from its name.
Yet perhaps because he had voiced that thought, he found it even more incomprehensible.
He was someone who did not understand love.
He had once had a wife, and she had even borne him a daughter, but Kirei Kotomine did not understand what love was.
"Assassin, you said you once had a wife, didn't you? What do you think of this... dating game?" Kirei Kotomine asked Sakumura as he drove.
"My wife... Let's not talk about that." After a moment of silence, Sakumura shook his head.
Was it because his wife had died of tuberculosis?
Kirei Kotomine observed Sakumura's attitude and pondered this.
Sakumura kept flipping through the promotional booklet. After looking through it for a while, he sighed.
"Still, I do want to understand what is currently popular. If I get the chance, let's buy a copy of this game."
"You want to buy it? Do you know where to