"Ah."
At the Emiya Residence, Shirou Emiya suddenly woke with an inexplicable feeling of emptiness.
Turning over his hand, he found that the traces of the Command Spell that had still remained on it had completely vanished.
"Mr. Anno."
Shirou Emiya knew why.
After hesitating for a moment, Shirou, no longer sleepy, decided not to go back to bed. He straightened the blankets, got dressed, and walked into the courtyard.
There, he unexpectedly found Sella, the former head maid of the Einzbern Family, sitting in the courtyard as well.
"Sella?"
Shirou Emiya blanked for a moment before calling out to her instinctively.
"Ah, Emiya."
"Why are you still awake, Sella?"
Shirou Emiya sat on the steps at the edge of the courtyard and glanced at Sella.
"If the young lady and Leysritt weren't dormant because of their condition, perhaps... the three of us would be sitting here together right now."
Sella gave a bitter smile, gently shook her head, and lowered her gaze to her hands folded over her knees.
"The Einzbern Family is gone."
According to the news sent back from Germany, the Einzbern Family had ceased to exist.
Jubstacheit had been killed. With that, the Einzbern Family had collapsed on its own, leaving behind nothing but a group of homunculi bearing the Einzbern surname.
The family she had loyally served for so long was simply gone. Though she had already resolved to live in Japan with Illya, Sella still felt a heaviness in her chest.
It was not that she mourned the Einzbern Family, which had always exploited her and her fellow homunculus sisters. She was simply worried... about the future.
Not only her own future, but the futures of those Einzbern homunculus sisters as well.
Looking at Sella's expression, Shirou Emiya thought for a moment and more