A Pleasure Freak's Moment of Pleasure (Three updates, ten thousand words complete)

To the people in the real world, the blue spearman's entrance was abrupt, and his attack was just as sudden. Neither had been remotely expected.

Still, they knew that he was Kotomine Kirei's Servant. Kirei had arranged for Shinji Matou to contract with Gil-chan, so sending Cu Chulainn to secretly follow Shinji and protect him made perfect sense.

The only real surprise was probably how decisively Cu Chulainn had intervened when Tohsaka Rin was being humiliated, knocking Shinji Matou unconscious with a single punch.

Of course, strictly speaking, such behavior was hardly surprising from Cu Chulainn, the Child of Light. After all, Shinji Matou's earlier conduct undoubtedly made him exactly the sort of person Cu Chulainn despised most.

By contrast, Cu Chulainn had fought Tohsaka Rin and Red A when they first encountered one another. To a pure warrior like him, that counted as a connection, and he regarded them as opponents.

It was hardly strange for such a wild warrior to step in when someone he considered an opponent suffered the lowest sort of humiliation.

Well, there was no helping it. Shinji Matou really was asking for a beating. Ordered to follow him in secret, Cu Chulainn had probably witnessed plenty of his disgraceful behavior and had long since had enough.

This attack was merely the eruption of all that pent-up frustration.

Whatever his reasons, people in the real world responded with comments like, "Cu Chulainn's a real man!" "Nice work, Dog Bro!" and "Hit him harder, Lancer!"

As for "Dog Bro," that was an affectionate nickname some people had given him. Since Cu Chulainn was also known as the Hound of Culann, a nickname like that was perfectly natural.

Thanks to his timely entrance, Cu Chulainn enjoyed a massive surge in popularity.

Then, just at that moment, another