Kirei Kotomine and Sakumura Anno could never be like Tohsaka Tokiomi and Gilgamesh.
Kirei Kotomine was no standard magus. From the very beginning, he had never regarded Sakumura, with his fiercely independent will, as a familiar he could command at will.
As for Tohsaka Tokiomi, no matter how much he grovelled before Gilgamesh, he stubbornly believed himself to be the Master, the one in control, while Gilgamesh was merely a familiar.
That arrogant attitude was precisely what brewed the tragedy.
"Your father didn't know even the slightest bit of who you really were. Should a father-son relationship like that be called tragic? Or should you be grateful that he truly never knew?"
Sakumura was in a good mood. Holding the controller, he continued working his way through the game.
After his tireless exploration, he had nearly unlocked every ending in Tokimeki Memorial.
Every time he cleared an ending, he took screenshots and posted his game data on the forum on his laptop. He also attached the guides he had figured out along the way—what gifts the heroines liked, the order in which to choose date locations, how to sensibly avoid bomb events, and so on.
His forum account, "[Sakumura★Anno]," had reached a remarkably high level thanks to the flood of likes and comments. The account itself had also gained a massive following.
It could be said that he was now the world's foremost authority on Tokimeki Memorial.
The kind who understood it better than Konami itself.
"The latter."
Kirei Kotomine picked up the other controller and sat down on the floor.
"If my father had known what sort of person I really was, he might have chosen to send me to an orphanage back then."
"With his personality, he wouldn't have killed a demon like me, but he would have