"After I left, someone else launched another attack? And before attacking, they cleared out the familiars placed by the other nearby factions?"
Inside the Assassin group's base, Sakumura, who had already picked up the game console, frowned as he looked at Kirei Kotomine.
"The familiars I placed were destroyed as well. I got the information from my father."
Kirei Kotomine had finished bathing and was sitting on the sofa in pajamas. He took a sip of tea while watching the character Sakumura was controlling.
"By the way, why do you keep calling that character named Rei Ijuin? Isn't he supposed to be a rival in love or something?"
Kirei Kotomine was somewhat puzzled.
"Then arrange new familiars. Place them farther away this time, so neither the defenders nor whoever attacks again notices them."
"As for why I keep calling Rei Ijuin... Kirei, you need to understand something."
Sakumura let out a long sigh, then turned back to meet Kirei Kotomine's eyes.
"The term 'rival in love' can only be used when two people are interested in the same person."
There was a faintly deadened look in his smile.
"...I understand."
Not knowing what else to say, Kirei Kotomine could only take another sip of water.
"Still, judging from the events you've experienced so far, it seems like this character has quite a few things worth digging into?"
"Yeah... that's true."
Sakumura nodded without denying it. In fact, that was his own suspicion as well.
Rei Ijuin seemed to have quite a few secrets. He definitely hadn't appeared merely as a rival-in-love type of character.
When Sakumura couldn't date the other heroines, he made a few extra calls to Rei Ijuin and triggered a storyline, which piqued his interest. After that, whenever he was unable to go on a date, he