The atmosphere at the Emiya household was somewhat subdued today.
Xiang An was eating and drinking with abandon, while Hinako Akuta sat beside him, seemingly without much appetite as she nibbled at the snacks Anno had made.
Of the Matou siblings, Matou Shinji ate while seeming to ponder something, whereas his younger sister Sakura occasionally looked up in Shirou Emiya's direction as she ate.
As for Adelson, after tasting a few bites, he barely ate anything else—he had never been particularly interested in food, even though the meal truly was delicious.
Issei Ryuudou had no appetite at all. So many bizarre things had happened to him, and Ryudou Temple had now been destroyed. He had grown up there since childhood; with his home gone, he was sad, furious, and helpless, able only to take a bite here and there.
Rin Tohsaka took a bite, then looked up and secretly observed the people gathered around the table. Archer, meanwhile, kept looking around rather than eating, his expression constantly shifting as he glanced at Anno one moment and Taiga Fujimura the next.
"Say, you've been looking around this whole time, haven't you?"
Taiga Fujimura set down her chopsticks and narrowed her eyes at the somewhat suspicious-looking man.
He certainly had an Asian face. But why was his skin so dark and his hair so white?
Were there really people like that in Asia?
"Ah, um, sorry. It's just that the furnishings here look a lot like those at my home, so..."
Archer had no idea what to say and could only offer a rather stiff explanation.
"Here, this is Chestnut Kinton."
Shirou Emiya, wearing an apron, set a plate of the classic dessert on the table, smiling helplessly as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
He and Saber had been busy