Heroic Spirit: I, Shinji, have tried my best.

Chapter 272 I am the strongest

Shinji took the letter and read its contents before his expression began to relax. Sakura also continued.

"Actually...Rin did persuade me to go to the Clock Tower to study, but since I'm not particularly interested in magic, and since you haven't come back, Nissan, I want to stay here and wait for you..."

"Really? It seems like it's my fault..."

"How could that be? Nisan, you must have something very important to do, which is why you stayed out for so long. Anyway, as long as you can come back safely in the end, I will be satisfied!"

"..."

These words... made him feel even more guilty.

Then Shinji continued to listen to Sakura telling him about what happened to her some time ago and the interesting things that happened in college.

Shinji also listened attentively, and occasionally made comments. The two of them talked and laughed, and the warm atmosphere of the past seemed to have returned...

“…By the way, Nissan, what have you been doing in the past two years? Can you tell me about it?”

"As for me... it's a long story, but it's completely related to the Holy Grail."

Shinji spoke mysteriously. In fact, so many things had happened to him during this period of time that he didn't know where to start.

When Sakura heard about the "Holy Grail", she realized that her brother had left for an important reason...

"Will it be... dangerous?"

"...It's a lie to say it's not dangerous. Anyway, I have escaped death several times. Fortunately, I am lucky. Otherwise, you might not have a brother like me..."

"!"

"no!"

Hearing what Shinji said, Sakura immediately became serious:

"Nisan, why do you keep doing those dangerous things? What if something unexpected happens?"

"Besides, there is no one who can hurt us now, so why can't we take fewer risks, and... and..."

"…We have already won the Holy Grail War, do we still have to face those dangers…"

"Sakura..."

"…Um."

Shinji stared at Sakura, who was about to cry, seriously. Strange dark red patterns gradually appeared in his right eye. The complex and weird pupils gave people a terrifying feeling, as if one would get lost in them just by looking at them.

Sakura stared at the eye for a while, then she remembered that it seemed to be her brother's ability, and it seemed to be a very powerful magic eye...

Oh, she remembered that Nissan's other eye was not...

As Shinji pushed aside the long hair covering his left eye, an even more eerie purple eye appeared in Sakura's sight.

"This...this is!"

"Sakura...actually you should have more faith in your brother."

"..."

"I left because I lacked the decisive power... Even if I defeated the Holy Grail, I couldn't be sure what more difficult things I would encounter next..."

Sakura stared at Shinji blankly, taking in the reliable confidence on his face.

“…Now I am the strongest!”

"..."

"…What's that…What's the strongest? Nissan, you must be hungry. I'll go make you something to eat…"

Sakura was stunned by the scene just now. Her cheeks flushed and she was about to walk away, but was stopped by Shinji halfway.

"…I'm not hungry, but I'm a little sleepy right now, so thank you, Sakura…"

“…Eh? But it’s not dark yet…”

"But I haven't had a good sleep for a long time. You don't want me to die of exhaustion here, do you?"

after a while…

Shinji was lying on a large white bed, holding a small pink pillow in his arms, sniffing the fragrance on it.

Looking carefully at the surroundings, the decoration here did not look like his own room, because neither the girls' school uniforms in the closet nor the dressing table next to it could appear in his own room.

So it was obvious that Shinji did not go back to his room to sleep.

"...Hmm...I thought something was missing. Now I should be able to have a good sleep..."

Just as Shinji was enjoying the faint fragrance around him, the pillow in his arms was suddenly and forcibly pulled away.

When he looked up, Sakura was holding a pillow and looking at him unhappily:

"Nisan! Pillows should be used properly."

Then he placed the pillow flat on the head of the bed, gently pulled open the quilt and crawled in, consciously replacing the pillow's position.

Hmm... now it tastes even more right.

A warm feeling surrounded him, and then he felt sleepy and closed his eyes unconsciously.

We didn't do anything abnormal, we just cuddled each other and slept together, and a beautiful night was spent peacefully...

When Shinji opened his eyes drowsily the next day, the people around him were gone, but he could hear the noise in the kitchen through the bedroom.

The two people who met again after a long separation did not have any grand celebration. They just spent the time in a plain and simple manner, as if they were back to the old days.

"Really? I've actually slept till now... Is this what it feels like to be home? It's really so relaxing that it's intoxicating..."

Shinji sat up and stretched, then put on his clothes and returned to his room.

Although it was said to be his own house, now when he looked at it, even he felt it a little unfamiliar and had to recall it slowly.

He reached out and touched the table top. It was not covered with dust because he had been away for a long time. Instead, it was very clean. It was obvious that someone had been taking good care of it.

Except for this place, other places were the same as when he left, as if two years had left no trace here...

Wait… this is…

Shinji compared the things around him with the memories in his mind, but after a while he found a strange box. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember the origin of this box.

But since it was placed in his room, it should be something related to him...

Thinking of this, Shinji immediately couldn't wait to open the box, but he didn't expect that the things inside were really related to him.

"This is... my phone! Oh my god, I haven't seen it in a long time..."

"And these are my high school uniforms? And this one seems to be Medusa's holy relic, and these..."

Shinji simply flipped through the other things, and there seemed to be nothing noteworthy. They were all things he had used before or were related to magic.

As for the cell phone, after Shinji tried to turn it on, the screen lit up immediately.

"Oh! It can light up, what a great technological product..."

"Let me see what's inside... Hmm... It doesn't seem to be much. There are very few functions."

“…This is, a photo album? Oh, photos from the past, so nostalgic…”

Shinji was flipping through the photo album with a nostalgic smile... Suddenly, he seemed to see something incredible while flipping through the pages quickly, and immediately turned the pages back again.

Then he opened his eyes wide in surprise and admired it...

"Well... I remember... By the way, I think I still have that guy's line..."

Shinji switched the interface to contacts, and as expected, he found the familiar name among the few contacts.

An evil smile gradually appeared on his face...