Japan, Homurahara Academy.
Wearing the Homurahara Academy school uniform, Tohsaka Rin, who was known as the number one beauty of Homurahara Academy, stood at the school gate.
Looking at the dark clouds in the sky and the drizzling rain that rendered the streets in a somewhat hazy color, a look of annoyance couldn’t help but appear in her eyes.
“How annoying, I clearly left my umbrella on the guest table on purpose today…”
Thinking about how she had specifically checked the weather forecast this morning and prepared to bring an umbrella, only to forget it when she left, Tohsaka Rin couldn’t help but stomp her foot in frustration.
“Tohsaka-san?”
Just then, a familiar voice came from behind her.
Turning around, Tohsaka Rin saw a young man about her age walking toward her.
“Mitsuyuki?”
Looking at the handsome young man before her, Tohsaka Rin couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.
Mitsuyuki saw her standing at the school gate and then looked at the rain falling outside the school; he naturally understood what was going on.
He couldn’t help but smile slightly.
“What, you have a problem?!” Tohsaka Rin glared at Mitsuyuki.
Mitsuyuki stepped forward with a smile and handed her the umbrella in his hand, saying, “If you don’t mind, Tohsaka-san, please use my umbrella.”
“Use your umbrella?”
Startled, Tohsaka Rin looked at Mitsuyuki in confusion and asked, “Then what will you use?”
Just as the words left her mouth and Mitsuyuki was about to answer, an extremely gentle voice suddenly sounded from the side.
“As for Brother, he can just use my umbrella.” As the voice fell, a girl with long purple hair arrived in front of the two.
“Sakura…” Tohsaka Rin’s eyes widened slightly, but she quickly acted as if nothing was wrong and said, “What are you doing here?”
“Hello, Tohsaka-senpai.” Sakura Matou came to Mitsuyuki’s side and politely greeted Tohsaka Rin.
“Sakura, did you bring a spare umbrella today?” Mitsuyuki looked at Sakura Matou, who called him brother, in confusion.
Sakura Matou shook her head gently and said, “Dearest Brother, we can share an umbrella.”
“You two sharing an umbrella?
How can that be!” Before Mitsuyuki could speak, Tohsaka Rin, who was beside them, widened her eyes and was the first to object.
“Exactly, I can just run back, it’s just a bit of light rain…”
Hearing this, Sakura Matou just looked at Mitsuyuki quietly and said, “Dearest Brother, have you forgotten?
Just a month ago, you were bedridden with a high fever for an entire week.”
Her voice was very gentle, but it made Mitsuyuki feel an inexplicable pressure.
Watching this scene, Tohsaka Rin couldn’t help but curl her lip.
She stepped forward and reached out to Mitsuyuki, saying in annoyance, “Give it to me!”
Mitsuyuki subconsciously handed her the umbrella.
She then took the umbrella and left with a look of frustration.
Looking at her departing figure, Mitsuyuki couldn’t help but shake his head with a bit of helplessness, muttering, “It seems that not only did I fail to grind for favorability today, but it even decreased instead…”
Although his voice was very small, Sakura Matou still heard it.
“Does Dearest Brother like Tohsaka-senpai?”
“Like?” Mitsuyuki looked at Sakura Matou, who was staring at him, thought for a moment, and said, “As for me…
I mainly just want to cling to her golden thighs.”
Not to mention those thighs are nice, and they’re recognized as the kind one could play with for a whole year!
“But speaking of golden thighs…
Sakura, you are also an incredible one, in many ways.”
Sakura Matou tilted her head, looking at Mitsuyuki, who was showing her an ambiguous smile.
“…Dearest Brother, since that high fever, you really seem to have changed a bit.” After a long while, Sakura Matou spoke again.
“Is that so?” Mitsuyuki smiled and said, “But I’m still me; it’s just that I’ve recalled some things that were originally forgotten.”
Recalled…
things that were already forgotten?
…
…
The rain continued to fall.
When Sakura Matou and Mitsuyuki arrived at the residence—the castle that looked even more gloomy under the dark clouds—Mitsuyuki, who had put down the umbrella, had his shoulders slightly dampened.
“Dearest Brother, you…”
“It’s fine, it’s fine.” Mitsuyuki waved his hand and said nonchalantly, “After all, I can’t let you get caught in the rain, Sakura, right?”
Sakura Matou didn’t reply; she just turned around and walked quickly into the house, wanting to immediately get a change of clothes for Mitsuyuki.
But she stopped instantly in the hallway.
Mitsuyuki looked in that direction and saw a hunched, short old man ahead…
Zouken Matou.
He glanced at the returning Sakura Matou and Mitsuyuki, and without waiting for either of them to greet him, he left on his own.
Only after he left did Sakura Matou move again.
Subsequently, Mitsuyuki returned to his room first.
His room appeared slightly plain, except for an extremely eye-catching long katana resting on a rack in a corner of the room.
Mitsuyuki glanced at it, then looked around.
Then he stepped forward and placed his hand on it.
The next moment.
[Catalyst: Onikiri!
Quality: legendary epic.
(In legend, the famous sword that severed the arm of Ibaraki-dōji.)
Detection: Non-absorbable.
Note: The host has not met the conditions to absorb a legendary epic grade Catalyst.
Please first find a ‘modern mystery’ grade Catalyst to absorb!]
Mitsuyuki ignored the 2D screen that only he could see, picked up this Catalyst, and drew it out.
The blade was already damaged and covered in rust.
And just at this time.
“Hey, is Mitsuyuki there!”
The door was roughly pushed open, and then a young man with exceptionally prominent seaweed-like hair walked in impatiently, carrying a box.
“Oh, you’re here.
Here, the stuff you asked me to find!”
Matou Shinji threw the box in front of Mitsuyuki.
Mitsuyuki didn’t mind his roughness; his eyes just lit up as he quickly tore open the box and took out a broken blade from inside, which, like onikiri, was also snapped.
[Catalyst: Kashuu Kiyomitsu
Quality: modern mystery.
(One of the swords of the genius swordsman Okita Souji, the captain of the First Unit of the Shinsengumi at the end of the shogunate era.)
Detection: Absorbable!]
“I say, why did you suddenly get interested in these katanas?
You made me rummage through the house in the backyard for so long before I found it!”
Matou Shinji said to Mitsuyuki with an impatient look, “Just this once.
Don’t bother me again next time, I’m very busy…”
“Shinji!” Mitsuyuki interrupted Matou Shinji’s words.
“What?”
“I love you!”
Matou Shinji was stunned, looking at Mitsuyuki.
Then, frightened, he took a heavy step back and shouted at the excited Mitsuyuki, “What are you saying, you guy!”
“Love you to death, Shinji!
You’ve really been a big help.
As expected of the universally recognized harmless Shinji-kun, love ya!”
Matou Shinji couldn’t listen anymore and ran out, muttering “lunatic” as he ran, which left Sakura Matou, who was passing by him, very confused.
“Did something happen?” Sakura Matou walked into the room, looking at Mitsuyuki, who was playing with the broken blade in the room.
“It’s nothing…
By the way, Sakura, what is it?”
“The hot water is ready.” Although Sakura Matou was puzzled, she still replied, “Dearest Brother, please go take a bath.”
Mitsuyuki nodded, put down the broken blade, and left the room with Sakura Matou.
And after they left, Zouken Matou appeared outside the door at some point.
He glanced at the two Catalysts lying on the floor in the room and then at the receding figures of Mitsuyuki and Sakura Matou.
“…Just a mortal without a Magic Crest, why even bother.”
As the words fell, Zouken Matou once again disappeared into the darkness.
After coming back from a bath and changing into casual clothes, Mitsuyuki looked at the Catalysts on the ground.
He thought to himself, “System, attribute panel…”
The next moment, a semi-transparent attribute panel appeared in front of Mitsuyuki.
[
Host: Mitsuyuki
Identity Background: Transmigrator
Heroic Spirit: None
Cheat: Heroic Spirit Training Manual
Heroic Spirit Training Manual: By using a catalyst—a Catalyst—as an anchor, the host’s projection can be sent to the time period when the Catalyst existed to perform event simulations.
When the simulation ends, everything the host experienced in the current time period will be engraved in the Heroic Spirit Training Manual, and from this, a corresponding Heroic Spirit will be derived!
And because that Heroic Spirit is the host himself, he can be directly summoned through the Heroic Spirit Training Manual using himself as a catalyst!
]
Everything started from that high fever a month ago that Sakura Matou mentioned.
The sudden high fever had left Mitsuyuki bedridden for an entire week.
During that period of dazed confusion, a flood of memories suddenly surfaced in Mitsuyuki’s mind, and he remembered many things—things from his past life!
At the same time, his ‘cheat’ awakened at that very moment.
It woke up as the host’s memories resurfaced.
When his memories returned and he realized he was actually a Transmigrator, and simultaneously discovered that the Matou Household he was staying in was actually a worm-infested den…
Mitsuyuki’s face turned pale in an instant!
He had actually stayed here in a daze for five whole years!
Unable to keep his composure, Mitsuyuki almost chose to run away that very night!
Fortunately, the existence of the system and his cheat gave Mitsuyuki the confidence to quickly calm down; after all, if he acted suspiciously, he would surely be turned into worm fertilizer by Zouken Matou.
Because the time for the Fifth Holy Grail War was already very close!
Once he understood that his cheat used Catalysts as anchor points to allow him to travel through history like Chaldea and shape Heroic Epics through simulations, Mitsuyuki naturally began searching for Catalysts.
The Onikiri and this Kashuu Kiyomitsu were both found by Mitsuyuki…
Actually, Zouken Matou had quite a few Catalysts here.
After all, he had been making preparations for the Holy Grail War for a long time!