Stray Chapter 4: Thanks to Yukinoshita for not killing students

  The real world, Moriya Shrine.

  At the dining table in the living room, the magician lowered his head and drank the porridge with a calm expression, while the girl sitting opposite was silent.

   The atmosphere seemed to be a little tense, so that even the morning light shining in from the window seemed to freeze, and the floating dust seemed to be motionless, not moving at all.

   There is no dialogue or eye contact between the two, and the air is quiet.

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   In the entire shrine, there are only two of them at this moment, at least if you don't count the other side of the boundary line, which is located on the other side of the shrine in Gensokyo, this is indeed the case.

   is mainly the previous Great Holy Grail incident, which has not yet been resolved. Currently, the world in Xia Ran's inner universe has unfolded and continues to develop along the vector of time.

  Because the return was too abrupt, Xia Ran and Artoria were inexplicably disconnected during the land reclamation. Two people in the entire team quit at once, and they were still very important leaders with top combat power. All at once, the overall strength of the entire team was reduced by more than 99%.

  Well, yes, Arturia and Xia Ran's overall strength account for 99% of the entire team...

   Although it is said, in fact, removing Arturia does not affect anything. Whoever and Xia Ran's overall strengths add up to this proportion share. Like more than 90% of the rich people in the world...

   But in any case, this is a very unfriendly development for the rest of the people who are still trapped in the Great Holy Grail. After all, the weight of all the evil in this world is unparalleled. It relies on the weight of the concept to defeat the enemy—

   Then, if the concept of evil in this world is made into a conceptual dress, its power can even be equal to Xia Ran's most proud dress work at present, that is, "Shadow of Lungominiad".

   This thing can definitely become an existence like a handed down holy relic in the Fate world. What heroic Servant, the ancestor of the dead disciple, really comes to die, and it is not easy to use how much.

   So, thinking of other people who are currently caught in the vortex of malicious power of the Great Holy Grail, even if Xia Ran says everything is under his control, it is okay to regard it as an experience, even if it is the worst the situation, the spell he set in advance will also protect their safety...

   But that's what he said, but Artoria was always worried, she had to go in and break through that dungeon again, protect them, and save Irisviel by the way...

  ——Although Xia Ran always felt that the "by the way" she said was actually the most "main" purpose, but there was no way to refuse Arturia's request, so she could only agree and send the other party into your own inner universe.

   And Ouyang Mingzhu just happened to hear about it, so she volunteered and signed up, hoping to participate.

   Although it was a temporary idea, Miss Ouyang actually has her own ideas.

  The teacher's teacher, the teacher's sister, the teacher's friend... This is a good time to build relationships! Must be caught! As long as she succeeds, she can naturally integrate into the teacher's world.

   is really a godsend for her!

   Well, that's basically the case, so now in the shrine in the real world, only Xia Ran and Yukinoshita are left.

   Time passed by a minute and a second, but the atmosphere between the two did not change. It was as stiff as it was about to freeze. It was dull, empty, and cold. That was what Xia Ran had experienced many times. air.

  It's been a long time...

  Unconsciously, his thoughts drifted to the yesterday's time that seemed to exist only in memory, and the magician breathed softly.

  Although he is a little nostalgic, he doesn't want to relive this feeling at all. After thinking about it carefully, he finds that he doesn't seem to have a good solution. After all, what happened in his room this morning... …emmmmm…

   Obviously he is very honest, and Mingzhu is really just a pure teacher-student relationship, but Yukinoshita doesn't seem to trust him very much.

   "Okay, I'm done eating... Yukinoshita-kun, see you later."

   Trying to pretend that nothing happened, Xia Ran, who felt quite a headache, put down the tableware and chopsticks in her hands, put her palms together and said something, then she stood up.

  "Wait, what are you doing?"

   The black long straight **** the opposite side did not lift her eyes, she just asked coldly.

  "Go to school, after all, it's already at this point..."

   The magician seemed to be a little confused. He coughed lightly, raised his fist to his mouth, and cleared his throat before saying, "You know, I have always loved learning, and I am strict all the time. Ask yourself..."

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The    girl frowned slightly, and finally raised her head to look at him: "Going to school? This time?"

   "...Yes, is there any problem?" Xia Ran nodded again and again, as if he didn't know what was wrong. In order to confirm his precise grasp of the time, he rarely looked at the wall. wall clock.

   This thing is purely a decoration. I don't know when it started, it has lost its meaning, because basically no matter what time, no matter if there is anyone in the family, no matter who it is, I will never cast my eyes on this thing. .

   Even Yono Yukinoshita, who often came over to eat and drink, often raised his wrist gracefully or took out his mobile phone when he needed to confirm the time. He probably never noticed that there were still wall clock.

   If the wall clock could think and have a soul, it would probably be very annoyed.

   This is simply a deep insult from the soul level, insulting its meaning...

  Yes, yes, this is the point...

  Xia Ran glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and then looked at the sun outside the house. According to the altitude and azimuth of the sun, he substituted the local latitude and longitude, and once again confirmed the most accurate time. error.

  Tsk, there are still errors, it's really a waste, it's useless at all, throw it away...

  While he was thinking about it, Yukinoshita Yukino pouted a little, still frowning: "Are you serious?"

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   Huh? Why do you feel that you are not serious, even though you do want to slip away first, but this is also your daily action arrangement.

  Xia Ran looked back at the straight black girl with a straight face in confusion. She couldn't understand the girl's thoughts... Could it be that Yukishita-san wants to go to school with him?

  Although the space here at Moriya Shrine is connected with the high-end apartment where Yukino Yukinoshita lives alone, the two of them went to school separately before, mainly to avoid some troubles and not want someone to gossip at school...

   Of course, the more important reason is that the girl is too thin-skinned, and she deceives herself that there is no special relationship between the two.

  So, she figured it out now? Or did you take the initiative to make changes because of a sense of crisis? Thinking like this, the magician blinked and coughed again: "Do you want to come with Yukishita-san?"

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   "Are you serious?" The girl's eyes became suspicious, "It's still summer vacation, why are you going to school so early in the morning? Did you make an appointment with someone? Is it Kato-san, or not? what girl?"

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   "Summer vacation?" Xia Ran reacted with some hindsight, "Hey, are you still on summer vacation now?"

  "...what do you say?"

The    girl glanced at him and lowered her shoulders slightly, as if she was relieved, and she seemed to let out a sigh that couldn't be lighter than she had a headache.

  , who was still subconsciously alert just now, suddenly found that this guy seemed to have sincerely forgotten the specific date and time in the real world, and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in her heart, and even the previous anger seemed to fade away at once many.

   "...It seems...it seems like it is..." The magician recalled seriously, and found that he was really confused about this. It seems that although the holiday is coming to an end, it is indeed not over yet.

   He looked back and looked at the girl opposite, and found that the other girl was not wearing the same uniform as other girls today, nor the iconic mini plaid skirt and black stockings with white edges, except for the sides of the hair. Still tied with a red bow ribbon outside.

   and wearing a light, plain dress with a ribbon under the chest, giving it a softer-than-usual feel...

  Well, and the shoes are also high-heeled sandals without straps. I didn't notice it at the first time. It was a mistake...

   "What are you looking at?" Yukinoshita Yukino asked softly, shrugging her slender legs under the table, a little embarrassed, this man suddenly had a thoughtful look on his face, putting his hands on his chin and thinking He was still looking at himself carefully.

   If so, that's fine. After his eyes swept over him one by one, he bent sideways, as if he wanted to see what shoes he was wearing.

   Who is like this? ! It's normal to look at others, but his behavior is really too rude!

   "Look at you..." Xia Ran replied as a matter of course.

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   silently clenched the knife and fork in her hand, the girl felt very complicated for a while, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy or angry, but the subconscious impulse to stab the other party was very clear emerge in the bottom of my heart.

   also seemed to sense the sense of crisis. Xia Ran hurriedly sat upright, but he still found out that Yukinoshita's classmate's dangerous gaze was sweeping around him, as if he was looking for a place to attack.

How come    has not calmed down, and looks even more annoyed...

   He hesitated for a while, but still showed a harmless smile, and explained it again kindly and cautiously: "Actually, Mingzhu is really just my student..."

   Although he had explained it many times in the morning, even when the girl was cooking breakfast in the kitchen with a cold face, he had said it many times around the other person's body. However, it seems that the effect is not very good.

   "...I know, you already said it, don't say it anymore." Yukinoshita Yukino replied coldly, without putting down the knife and fork in his hand.

   This guy missed the point at all!

  Student Students, even if you are a student now, who knows if it will be in the future!

   And how could there be so many, she thought that just being a Gensokyo would be enough to touch her nerves, but she didn't expect...

   So, is this person planning to tell himself in a few days that he even has children? !

   Don't say this? Then what should I say... The magician had a headache. He quickly started to think about it, and finally remembered something that could be used to divert the girl's attention. I ran over in a panic for a long time, so that I broke the adultery...

  ahhhhh, so much so that there were some trivial little misunderstandings - a weird long dream she had "last night".

  "Yukishita-san...Let's go out for a walk, I have something very important to tell you..."

   just glanced at the bright silver knife and fork in the girl's hand, Xia Ran felt that it was better to leave here as soon as possible, and she couldn't let Yukishita keep holding such a weapon.

   So let's go out and talk, you must change the environment and let her put down the knife and fork.

   Huh?

  Have something important to say to yourself?

   was obviously stunned for a moment. The girl opposite met his eyes. Her soft lips remained slightly open, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her big eyes were slightly uneasy. shaken.

   Is this person finally enlightened?

  "... OK."

   After a long while, she exhaled both hesitantly and confusedly, nodded heavily, and then as if trying to cover up, she showed her usual indifferent expression, and quickly brushed her long hair. stand up.

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  The shrine on the top of the mountain, located on the shore of Lake Fengshen Lake, is a transit point connecting fantasy and reality.

   is also a famous scenic spot in Chiba City, because the scenery is just right, just imagine——

   The main hall of the shrine is majestic and high, and the torii gate is low. The pilgrimage route is a hiking trail, paved with square stone bricks and flanked by imperial columns on both sides.

Besides the two sides of the    mountain road, there are also swathes of maple forests. The scenery is serene and beautiful, even if it is not autumn. If in autumn, the maple leaves all over the mountains fall one after another, and the red is deep and thorough, and the whole mountain seems to be burning.

   Therefore, Moriya Shrine has always been a well-known scenic spot in Chiba City. After all, in a modern city, land is expensive. In an area close to the city center, there is such a natural scenic spot, which will certainly attract people's attention.

  It's a pity...

  The gradual loss of faith among modern people is a general trend. Therefore, even though there are many incense customers at Moriya Shrine, there is not much power of faith that can be collected for the two gods.

   Rather than saying that the people who visit the shrine are believers, it is better to say that they are tourists. They just go up the mountain to see the scenery. The nature is similar to going to the park for a walk. Even visiting the shrine is just incidental— —

   Seeing the temple burning incense and kowtowing to the Buddha, most of the modern people are like this. In fact, they don’t have any unrealistic expectations at all.

   This kind of formalism is completely a passing scene, and there is no belief in it. Therefore, although many people visited Moriya Shrine every day in the past, tourists mainly came to see the scenery and relax. , visiting a shrine is nothing more than a piggyback gift...

  Although he has contributed a lot of incense money, Moriya Shrine has a great business, and it is never money that is lacking, but solid faith.

  If they can, they would even give money to buy faith...

   That's it, because the situation is getting worse and worse, Moriya Shrine finally plans to completely abandon the basics of the outside world and relocate into Gensokyo. If Xia Ran hadn't accepted the basic plan of the outside world of Moriya Shrine, then the existence of Moriya Shrine would have disappeared from the entire outside world, and the gods would disappear.

   Moreover, Suwako and Kanako's plan was to move the entire shrine, including the Aeolus Lake, from the material world and from people's memories.

   At that time, no one would know about the downtown area of ​​Chiba City, there was such a lake and mountain scene, there was such an ancient shrine... Even if someone was too inspired and passed the saving throw, in the face of In the cruel "reality", self-doubt is inevitable.

   And after the magician took over the external foundation of Moriya Shrine and worked part-time as the gatekeeper of Gensokyo, he also made a patch for this situation.

   Moriya Shrine has no secrets and has not disappeared in Chiba City. It is still a famous scenic spot in the hearts of many people.

   But no one will come to harass again, mainly because the entire city has been set up with implied spells, so that many people will be affected unknowingly, that is, knowing that there is such a place, but always Unable to act for various reasons.

  ——Maybe because of thinking about it, I felt that I didn't want to go out, so I gave up the idea...

  ——Or just came to the foot of the mountain, and suddenly remembered something urgent, so I could only leave in a hurry...

   In this way, most people who are not necessary at all and are purely tourists who come to visit and see the scenery can be ensured that the tranquility and tranquility of Moriya Shrine will not be affected. After all, the reason why Xia Ran agreed to guard the gate was because it was originally a leisure job.

   instead of preparing to open attractions...

   Directly opposite the shrine, by the lake of Fengshen Lake, there are also a large number of imperial pillars around. Ripple ripples also appeared on the blue sky of the lake.

  The scenery is really quiet and beautiful.

   Against the backdrop of such a scene, the magician was in high spirits, gesturing, and explaining to the expressionless girl behind him—

  "...that's it, that dream you had was not a dream, remember a few years ago...ah, no. Remember what I promised you last night? That's my answer..."

   "It's a very interesting world. It's completely different from the fifth century AD in your impression. It's a world dominated by magic and mystery. You did live and study there for a whole year..."

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   This means there is something very important to say to yourself?

   Yukinoshita Yukino looked blankly at the person in front of him, then looked around, as if to confirm whether there was anyone at the scene, should he push this guy into the lake to drown at this time...

  But in the end, she just gave up a little sigh.