Chapter 10

"Sakura, this is a thank-you gift for the person who helped you; give it back right away."

Tohsaka Tokiomi could only turn his head and instruct the little daughter beside him.

"Uh, okay."

Having just been accepted back by her father, Young Sakura was still very obedient; she wanted to return the sapphire in her hand to Broly.

However, Broly did not take it, merely furrowing his brows slightly, a hint of hostility appearing in his eyes as he looked at Tohsaka Tokiomi.

This man was stopping him from raising the girl's Happiness Value, which was blocking him from obtaining food — he was already courting death.

But the other party was Young Sakura's father; if he killed him, the girl would definitely be sad, and this made Broly hesitate, not knowing what to do for a moment.

"This is a gift for you; I want you to be even happier."

After thinking it over, Broly could only display the Wanpa Star tyrant savage's manner, saying forcefully to Young Sakura.

Young Sakura: "Eh!?"

Tohsaka Tokiomi: "Hm?!"

The other bystanders watching this scene almost all had exclamation marks popping up over their heads.

"Things have gotten interesting."

Mr. Gold expressed his opinion on this; he could very clearly distinguish that this boy was speaking the truth.

A little boy saying he wants to make a little girl happier is usually just a joke, but now that it's confirmed as true, isn't that very interesting.

Of course, part of the interesting aspect here is thanks to Tohsaka Tokiomi; on the face of this neat-handwriting man, the look of surprise currently revealed gave a sense of contrast.

It gave Mr. Gold a bit of interest: so this rigid fellow can make this kind of expression too, wonder what other expressions he can make.

【He's just a child; the meaning he expresses might not be the same as what I understand!】

Telling himself this in his heart, Tohsaka Tokiomi put on a false smile.

"Such words cannot be said casually to women, even if they are young girls.

As a man, one should be elegant, maintain a gentleman's demeanor……"

Tohsaka Tokiomi began instilling his elegant gentleman knowledge into a child.

"I only make my own wife happier, and would not say such things casually to anyone else."

Broly listened humbly, thought for a bit, then gave his reply.

"Self-proclaimedly calling a woman 'wife' is also a very impolite, un-gentlemanly behavior."

Tohsaka Tokiomi spoke again.

"But she IS my wife."

Saying 'wife' with his mouth, but thinking of the food the girl fed him yesterday — including the worms he feasted on in that basement — Broly's words were very firm.

"What do you mean?"

Tohsaka Tokiomi couldn't figure out the boy's attitude, until Young Sakura tugged his clothes hem and, in a relatively tactful tone, told him about how she had no way to repay the life-saving grace and had already agreed to become the wife of this young man who saved her from the worm pile……

Tohsaka Tokiomi fell silent first, then had a bit of a breakdown; immediately after, this person claimed it was just a joke between children and couldn't be taken seriously.

"She gave me food, so she has to take responsibility for me!"

At this, a line floated up in Broly's mind, and he directly took it out to use.

Once these words came out, the scene fell silent for a moment.

Broly's statement was too novel; everyone needed to digest the meaning within it.

"Then if I give you food, would I also have to take responsibility for you because of that?"

After a while, Tohsaka Tokiomi finally asked.

"You can't take responsibility, because you can't become my wife!"

Broly answered this question with a straight face; his serious appearance made Mr. Gold finally unable to hold back a laugh.

Some absurd words, if spoken by an adult, would definitely be absurd to the extreme, but if spoken by a child, they can be treated as a child's wild imagination.

Mr. Gold likes this kind of imagination.

"In this era, isn't there sex change surgery?"

This was something he saw in some hospital ads while watching TV out of boredom.

"In that case, Tokiomi, you just go get that surgery, turn into a woman and become this child's wife!"

Mr. Gold directly gave this elegant gentleman subordinate of the present world a prankish bad idea.

"Of course, if you don't accept this era's sex change technology, this King's Treasury also has Gender Change Potion that can be bestowed upon you."

"King of Heroes, you jest."

Tohsaka Tokiomi's eye and mouth corners twitched; he replied to his Servant with one sentence, while internally constantly admonishing himself to be elegant, to maintain a gentleman's bearing.

"If you truly want Sakura to become your wife, then you still have a very long road to walk; at the very least, you must make yourself into an extremely outstanding person."

From the exchange just now, Tohsaka Tokiomi also recognized that this child's cognition might have problems.

But he had no intention of correcting the other's cognition; instead, he proposed his own conditions as a father for a future son-in-law.

This condition has one and only one: the excellence of the person as a son-in-law; as for what the definition of excellence is, that is naturally as strict as possible.

"So-called excellence means surpassing ordinary people by a notch, being able to do things ordinary people cannot do……"

If this child before him can truly become an extremely outstanding person in the future, then so what if he seeks to take his little daughter as wife; presumably at that time it would also be something he himself could accept.

"Outstanding?"

Broly frowned, memorized this word, but not entirely because of Tohsaka Tokiomi's words — there was also the Crystal Palace's prompt.

【Becoming an outstanding person is indeed beneficial to the Host capturing his wife.】

"Then how do I become an outstanding person?"

Broly asked.

"That you must think about yourself, but my advice is: at all times, maintain an elegant and graceful gentlemanly style……"

Tohsaka Tokiomi continued to instill his own elegant worldview, while the Crystal Palace's prompt merely stated that there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes, and excellence is a rather subjective opinion, leaving it to the host Broly to judge for himself.

Regarding this, Broly only wanted to ask, what is Hamlet, is it edible? He always has this habit; whenever a new noun appears in his mind, he always asks if it can be eaten.

Usually, he would not receive a response.

【Hamlet is a tragic story, and cannot be eaten.】

However, this time the Crystal Palace gave a reply.

Having obtained the answer, Broly lost interest.

His focus returned to how to make himself an excellent person.

Although the Crystal Palace told him to judge for himself, wasn't there someone right before his eyes he could consult?

"What is elegance, what is grace?"

Tohsaka Tokiomi did not realize the terror of Broly when he acts as a curious baby; when Broly asked him this, he even gave the boy his own interpretation of elegance and grace with a somewhat pedantic willingness to teach.

However, when Broly's follow-up questions came one after another, turning into a ten-thousand-why question-asking machine, even someone as elegant as Tohsaka Tokiomi found it somewhat unbearable.

"Enough!" This man roared in a somewhat ungraceful manner, but upon realizing his loss of composure, he hurriedly coughed once and recovered his previous elegance.

"What I mean is, there are some matters at home, making it inconvenient to continue hosting the two guests."

Tohsaka Tokiomi found an excuse and sent the two people out respectfully.

"If there is time in the future, I will invite the two of you to the Tohsaka Family as guests again."

In other words, if there is no invitation, it is best not to come.

The door was closed; Fujimura Taiga felt a share of sympathy for Tohsaka Tokiomi who had driven them away.

Broly's behavior of asking questions continuously just now reminded her of what happened in the Public Bathhouse last night.

At that time, she was just like that man just now, trying to explain some things clearly to a curious child who asks ten thousand whys.

The result was a crushing defeat, then she became angry from embarrassment and chose to end the topic.

"Can you tell me..."

Broly, still unsatisfied, looked at Fujimura Taiga.

"It's noon, want to go eat?"

Fujimura Taiga shifted the topic before the question could be asked.

Hearing it was eating, Broly threw the elegance problems he still hadn't figured out to the back of his mind.

"Yes!"

He replied obediently.

"Huu~"

Having sent Broly away, Tohsaka Tokiomi let out a long breath.

"Truly, you have worked hard."

Mr. Kin sympathized with this unlucky Master.

If it were him, if he were asked like that, he would definitely be unable to resist taking action.

Originally he still felt Tohsaka Tokiomi this guy was boring, but now he felt the other party also had some redeeming qualities.

At least, the elegance and grace of an adult male, Mr. Kin now gave his own affirmation to it.

Hearing this, Tohsaka Tokiomi blanked for a moment, not expecting this King of Heroes who seemed like a Tyrant would also say such words, and for a moment felt somewhat ashamed.

"My grace and elegance are still not cultivated enough; just now I was broken through by a child, I must practice more."

After Tohsaka Tokiomi sent his daughter back to her room and came out, Kotomine Kirei walked over and asked: "Teacher Tokiomi, regarding Miss Sakura's matter, do I still need to investigate?"

"No need. There were no tricks played on Sakura's body; she should have taken the opportunity to run out of the Matou Family. Although the act of running away from home was a bit mischievous, it also let me discover some problems with the Matou Family."

Tohsaka Tokiomi narrowed his eyes, walked to the side, picked up the receiver on the table, and used this old-style telephone to dial the Matou Family's number.

"Hello?"

After the call connected, a hoarse voice came from the other end.

"Sakura has already returned home."

Tohsaka Tokiomi did not beat around the bush, and said so directly.

"Worthy of the Tohsaka Family Head, easily snatching her back from the hands of the person who abducted Sakura."

Matou Zouken offered a word of flattery.

"I did not snatch her back; she found her way back herself, and furthermore told me some of her experiences in the Matou Family."

Tohsaka Tokiomi's tone was cold, with no discernible emotional fluctuations.

"Is that so?"

Regarding this, Matou Zouken asked back; he did not quite believe Tohsaka Tokiomi's words.

This efficient speed of finding her back made him think this was just a play directed and acted by Tohsaka Tokiomi himself.

"Matou Family Head, do you not have any intention of explaining to me?"

Tohsaka Tokiomi asked.

"What do you want me to explain?"

"Explain why my adopted daughter was thrown into a pile of worms by you, explain when your Matou Family's Magecraft inheritance changed from the Water Element into worms."

Tohsaka Tokiomi asked in a deep voice; now one could hear the meaning of demanding an accounting.

"The World is changing, the Matou Family is the same; the Magecraft passed down in the past let the bloodline of us Matou Family Magi fall into decline. For the sake of inheritance, our Matou Family always needs to make some changes.

Whether it is modifying the Main Family's Magecraft Element, or taking a child with excellent aptitude from your Tohsaka Family, it is all merely to let our Matou Family's Magecraft inheritance continue on. This is my answer.

I wonder, is the Tohsaka Family Head satisfied?"

The Matou Family's decline is an objective fact; changing the Family Magecraft Element for the sake of Family Inheritance, Tohsaka Tokiomi could also understand, because if it were him, he would also do so.

"You shouldn't keep things from me regarding this kind of matter."

Tohsaka Tokiomi said.

"Head of the Tohsaka Family, have you forgotten that our two families are not only old allies, but also rivals competing for the Holy Grail? Would you lay all your cards on the table to your own rival?"

Zouken Matou retorted.

"I wouldn't."

After a moment of silence, Tohsaka Tokiomi answered.

"So, are you planning to send Sakura back to the Matou Family, or do you have other plans?"

Zouken Matou asked again. Now the choice was in Tohsaka Tokiomi's hands. If that man didn't plan to send his daughter back to the Matou Family, then he would have to consider scheming to get a child with Magecraft aptitude back to the Matou Family for modification.

It wasn't worth falling out over. Tohsaka Tokiomi's strength as a Magus was not weak. Moreover, as a Master participating in the Fourth Holy Grail War, he had now summoned an extraordinary Heroic Spirit. If he really acted unreasonably and attacked with his Heroic Spirit, just relying on the Heroic Spirit summoned by that half-baked Matou Kariya, they truly couldn't stop him.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

Sitting on the sofa, Tohsaka Tokiomi's fingers tapped on the table. If only the Holy Grail Ritual hadn't opened this early, if he could delay just four or five more years, he would have schemed for an extra share of Magecraft Inheritance for his youngest daughter.

But unfortunately there was no such hypothesis. Tohsaka Tokiomi also hadn't anticipated that his youngest daughter would possess extremely high Magus talent, just like his eldest daughter.

When he learned of Sakura's talent, the Holy Grail War was already imminent. Tohsaka Tokiomi also had no surplus capacity to make arrangements for her.

So, upon learning that the Matou Family needed a Successor to inherit the family's Magecraft, he felt incomparably fortunate.

Even now, knowing that the Matou Family's Magecraft Element had already changed from Water to Crest Worms.

The Matou Family, which needed a Magecraft Heir, remained the optimal choice before him to entrust his youngest daughter to.

"I will let Sakura go back, but please be gentler when modifying her Magecraft Element."

Tohsaka Tokiomi's reply left Zouken Matou startled.

After hanging up the phone, this old man only then spoke to himself in a somewhat uncertain voice: "Could it be that abducting Sakura really wasn't his arrangement? Forget it, regardless of whether it is or not, the Tohsaka brat being willing to send his daughter back is a good thing.

Hm, I have to call that guy Kariya back, lest someone else from the Matou Family abducts important experimental material again."

(Chapter End)