Merlin and the Yukinoshita Sisters' Deal

"Merlin!?"

The Yukinoshita Sisters could not help revealing looks of astonishment.

Naturally, they knew Merlin.

Although they had remained at Yao Guang-Chaldea headquarters, they had watched every installment of the Light Screen footage and rewatched the recordings afterward.

For these unfortunate sisters, the Light Screen footage was, in a sense, spiritual sustenance.

Because what the Light Screen footage revealed was hope.

Hope for eliminating Mystery, and hope for them to return to being human—although becoming Mystery creatures had made them Transcendents with powers others envied, the price of becoming monsters was far too heavy. At every moment, they wished to become human again.

Because only by becoming human again could they possibly return to living beneath the light, fall in love with someone they liked, have children with someone they loved, and live out an ordinary life—yes, perhaps the sisters had once paid no heed to mundane daily life, but after enduring so much misfortune, the ordinary days others longed for had become what they desired most.

Beyond that, the greatest hope that might exist within the Light Screen footage was also what the sisters wished for—perhaps among those powerful supernatural abilities, there was one capable of saving their parents, of saving those who had died.

Though that possibility was so small it could almost be ignored, to the sisters, it was still a sliver of hope—a future they had to grasp.

Thus, the sisters paid close attention to the newly emerging Transcendents and the Light Screen footage.

What they desired most now was for a Transcendent capable of helping them to appear. So long as someone could help them, they would willingly pay any price.

Under such circumstances, upon seeing Merlin, the sisters were initially startled. Then, they could not help becoming somewhat excited, yet also extremely tense, turning