"Ah, Senpai."
"Mm, it's okay. I'm very sad, but I was prepared for it in the end. It's just because Grandpa... Mm, it's okay."
"After some time, my brother and I will probably both return to school. I'll leave Teacher Fujimura to you for now, Senpai. Thank you."
"Mm, I'm fine."
After hanging up, Sakura let out a long sigh, then fell backward onto the bed.
She stared blankly at the ceiling for a few seconds before sitting up again, kicking off her slippers, curling into a ball on the bed, hugging her legs, resting her chin on her knees, and opening her flip phone as she tilted her head.
So much had happened lately.
First, three Command Spells had appeared on the back of her hand, declaring her the Matou Family's Master for this generation's Holy Grail War.
She had actually been rather surprised and anxious about it.
After all, by all rights, the position of Master should undoubtedly have gone to Matou Shinji, the legitimate heir of this generation and the family's only son. Yet in the end, she had become the Master instead.
After speaking with Matou Shinji and the two elders, the final answer was—
Matou Shinji had no wish that required the Holy Grail.
His sense of belonging to the family was one reason, but as for his own wishes, he had always felt that if he used the Holy Grail's power to fulfill them, then whatever he gained—those things, that power—would no longer be pure.
Doing it himself was best.
And so, in the end, that position fell to the Matou Family's newest member, one whom even the Holy Grail had acknowledged—Matou Sakura.
As for Matou Sakura's own wish...
If she had to say, she had none.
Before, she had inherited the family's wish