"Roar～"
A hungry tiger pounced on its prey.
Woken up in fright at 4:30 a.m., and by 4:35 he had rushed over, facing Taiga who was beaming coldly, "Shirou, explain this clearly to me, or else your sister is really going to get angry!"
Facing Taiga holding a tiger bamboo sword, Shirou remained steady as the sea, and called out to the system, 'Get to work, system, clean up the mess you caused yourself.'
["Would you like to enter hosting to appease Taiga?"]
'Yes.'
Shirou's expression became blank.
He stepped forward and grasped the hand Fujimura Taiga was holding the bamboo sword with.
"Fuji-nee."
"If you're begging now, your sister won't…"
Before Taiga could finish, Shirou raised her hand and placed it on his own chest. The bamboo sword dropped to the floor, clattering noisily.
Just like that, Shirou held Taiga's calloused hand, and like a machine, emotionlessly spat out, "Sorry, Fuji-nee. I like you too much, that's why I confessed to you even in my dream."
'YAMETE! STOP IT, SYSTEM!'
Shirou was on the verge of breakdown, 'What are you doing? Are you trying to kill me?'
"You… what did you say?", The tiger's pupils widened in disbelief, and on that boyishly cute face, a blush appeared.
'She's shy? actually shy!', Shirou was dumbfounded.
He actually saw shyness on the face of the Tiger of Fuyuki.
'Is this even reasonable?'
Noticing Shirou's gaze, Taiga became flustered and angry, "Shi… Shirou, I-I'm your sister… No! Half a mother! How could you say such things!"
Though she tried to appear angry, her shy expression really didn't make her scary.
After terminating the system's hosting, Shirou finally regained control of his body.
He hurriedly let go of Taiga's hand, stood in a military posture, and explained, "Sorry, Fuji-nee. I didn't explain clearly just now. What I meant was, I thought I was dreaming… No, I was half-asleep. That's not right either!"
Shirou rambled incoherently, thought long and hard, then said, "Anyway, since Fuji-nee takes such good care of me, of course I like Fuji-nee, but that kind of liking is like familial affection, completely without romantic feelings between man and woman."
"Then what was with the marriage proposal?", Taiga interrogated.
"I was half-asleep and mistook you for Rin!", Shirou righteously declared.
He claimed not to know Rin, or rather, he did know Rin, but Rin didn't know him.
As the high student council president of Chaldea Academy, Rin was graceful, had long legs, a beautiful face, and was the dream girl of most students in Chaldea.
Not to mention she had a gentle and adorable little sister, Tohsaka Sakura.
The two of them were known as the twin flowers of Chaldea Academy. Marrying either one was considered a blessing earned over eight lifetimes.
Therefore, using Rin as a scapegoat, although unethical, was undoubtedly the best option.
After hearing this, Taiga showed a half-believing, half-doubtful look.
"Really?"
"Absolutely!", Shirou raised his hand to swear, "If I lied to Fuji-nee, then I'll—"
Before he could finish, Taiga interrupted him.
"Forget it."
Facing Shirou's gaze, Taiga turned her head away, acting tsundere, "I'll reluctantly believe you this once. Next time, don't play such a prank again."
"I promise I won't!", Shirou nodded frantically.
In his heart, he was already cursing the system to death.
If not for it, none of this would have happened.
After the quarrel with Fuji-nee, it was 4:45.
Luckily, Miyu hadn't been woken up, or else Shirou felt that besides jumping off Fuyuki Bridge, he had no reason to keep living in this world.
"Mmm～"
The tiger returns to its den.
Taiga leaped onto Shirou's bed and snuggled into the blanket.
"Shirou, as punishment for waking me up, I'm sleeping here. Wake me up when breakfast is ready."
"Fuji-nee," Shirou said helplessly, "it's not even 5 yet, I want to sleep a bit more too."
"..."
No response, Taiga was already sound asleep.
Helpless, Shirou could only refocus on the system.
According to the system's information, he roughly understood that the world he was in was not the familiar Type-Moon world, but a place where a similar flower had bloomed.
There was no magecraft here, no Age of Gods, no Holy Grail War, only a normal, ordinary daily life.
Fuyuki City, as the most developed city in all of Japan, had long surpassed Tokyo and become the most powerful city in the country.
Among them, the most renowned academy was Chaldea Academy.
That's right, you heard correctly, Chaldea Academy.
It wasn't a place to repair singularities, but had become the number one school in Japan.
His little sister was also Emiya Miyu, the same Miyu from Magical Girl Illya, but not Illya.
Foster father was still Emiya Kiritsugu, and foster mother was also Irisviel.
Only thing was, after adopting Miyu, the two had gone on a world tour, and aside from sending money every month, they completely ignored them.
Therefore, now he and Miyu lived together, with Fuji-nee occasionally dropping by to be taken care of by him.
"Sigh!", Shirou sighed.
He had once fantasized about becoming the heroic Shirou, cutting down all enemies for Miyu's sake. Now the dream was broken. Reality proved he was just an ordinary teenager.
No encounters with beautiful girls, no blonde glutton with ahoge, no red Archer to give him OP cheats.
Luckily, he had a cute little sister. Otherwise, reincarnating into this world would've been too tragic.
What's more, the appearance of the system gave Shirou new hope. He looked at the system's panel regarding Strength and Agility.
At first, Shirou thought this was based on Heroic Spirit stats, but thinking deeper, that wasn't likely.
If it were Heroic Spirit stats, even E rank should be able to bend rebar barehanded.
After all, that represents the human limit.
But in reality, Shirou couldn't even carry a normal adult without difficulty, let alone bend steel.
So, after studying it a while, he understood. This panel was fully based on human standards.
For example:
E = Trash
D = Weakling
C = Normal human level
B = Olympic elite, minimum medal contender, and consistently at that
A = Human limit, but as humans claim there's no limit, there are extensions like A+
As for EX, those who know, know. Basic operation for a Type-Moon succubus.
In summary, besides having a face that draws a few more glances, he was total combat power 5 trash.
No, not even combat power 5.
What fighting chicken? A real man should be like Clark Kent, catching bullets barehanded.
Shirou made up his mind to train.
'System, get out and start working.'
["Please confirm hosting task."]
'Start by improving strength.'
["Would you like to enter hosting with the goal of improving strength?"]
After selecting "Yes," the panel vibrated.
A few lines of text appeared.
[Is your brain full of rot?]
[Are you completely useless in life?]
[Do you always delay the things you've decided to do every day?]
[Does your alarm clock always get snoozed for ten more minutes?]
[Now you don't have to worry about missing the 4 a.m. breeze.]
[Can't get up? The system pulls you up.]
In just the blink of an eye, Shirou began to move on his own.
That's right, his body moved by itself, sprinting toward the Tiger's training field.
'Not bad, that's it. So this is the proper way to activate the system.'
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