".Hello?"
The atmosphere inside Hinako Akuta's house was somewhat awkward.
The other party had come looking for him, but he himself knew very little about anything related to her.
With a helpless expression on his face, Shirou Emiya could only tentatively greet the girl before him.
"I have nothing to say to you."
With her bound hands behind her back, Illyasviel opened her eyes and glanced at Shirou Emiya before retreating to the wall and closing them again.
She was outright refusing to communicate.
There was no helping it, but he still had to find a way to try talking to her.
"Your name is Illya, right?"
"Illyasviel von Einzbern, correct?"
Shirou tried saying her full name, hoping to gauge her reaction.
"So you know my name and family name? Big brother—"
She deliberately drew out the word "brother." Shirou Emiya could clearly hear the sarcasm and disgust in her voice.
Big brother... Come to think of it, when she had attacked him last time and retreated with Berserker, hadn't she called him "big brother" too?
What exactly was going on?
He didn't know anyone from the Einzbern Family.
"What do you want?"
"Right now, I only feel that overlooking that crazy woman was a huge mistake—if she hadn't been there, how could you possibly be sitting here face-to-face with me, big brother—"
There came another drawn-out "big brother," but Shirou Emiya felt no happiness whatsoever.
This girl... was definitely not normal.
"I just want to know why you attacked me. That's all."
Shaking his head, Shirou Emiya decided to put everything else aside and ask the question that puzzled him most.
"...The only thing you care about is something on this level."
Illyasviel sneered and closed her eyes again.
"If that's all it is, then don't talk to me."