Chapter 768

How did it feel like Little Yukino suddenly had a Black Archer vibe?

Working 007 every day, her face stiff from smiling, relying on magecraft to sustain her life—her older sister Haruno would be crying~~

"Gochisousama deshita (Thank you for the meal)."

Luo Zhi finished the meal that wasn't sold anywhere in the outside world, the main ingredients being the limbs of sub-divine level magical beasts.

It was mainly because Little Yukino was only just a Fourth Rank lifeform and couldn't consume too many divine-level ingredients.

"Since you're done, go wash the dishes. I'm going to take a bath first."

Yukinoshita Yukino, with her wifely temperament, blushed slightly and rolled her eyes at him before untying her apron and walking toward the bathroom with a change of clothes:

"Remember to restore the magecraft barrier when you leave."

Although she was still living in the apartment she had rented in the past, she had still set up multiple layers of magecraft barriers.

It wasn't out of fear of anything else, but to avoid her sister, Yukinoshita Haruno—that Chiba-based sister-complex—from continuing to monitor her using various methods.

She didn't want her daily life with Lord Zhi to be livestreamed.

"Hai, hai, hai."

Luo Zhi rolled up his sleeves and laughed as he went to clean the kitchen.

Saying "Itadakimasu" before eating and "Gochisousama deshita" after eating isn't actually something you can say randomly in Japan.

Especially when eating out with others.

The full phrase for "Gochisousama deshita" is: "Thank you for the meal."

Generally, it's said when you're a guest at someone's house, or to your wife, to thank her for her labor.

If you say this while dining out with others, it's equivalent to asking them to pay the bill, which is quite impolite.

Therefore, what Luo Zhi meant just now was actually: "Wife, arigatou."

However, Yukinoshita's housekeeping ability was indeed quite outrageous.

Even if it didn't reach the EX-rank set by the original Fate author, it was at least A-rank or higher.

In truth, the settings for characters in slice-of-life anime are often more exaggerated than those in battle anime.

An eighteen-year-old genius scientist who can even invent something as heaven-defying as a time machine.

A super butler, a human-shaped Gundam, someone who can fight monsters alone, or physically withstand tactical nuclear bombs—if placed in *Naruto*, *Bleach*, or *One Piece*, they would be at least Kage-level or Yonko-level.

And yet, they just deliver takeout.

The Yukinoshita sisters are considered decent; Little Yukino's setting is that in one month, no matter what it is, she can easily reach the level of a professional expert, catching up to the achievements of a normal person's entire life.

And Yukinoshita Haruno only needs a week, or even three days...

In fact, it's even more outrageous than Shinomiya Kaguya, who is also set as a super genius.

Sometimes, looking at the absurd development of the spiritual universe, Luo Zhi couldn't help but complain: what kind of genius beautiful girl setting is this?

In short, the Yukinoshita of the past was all-rounded but not deep.

And now, for the sake of a certain scumbag, besides magecraft, she has devoted herself to studying cooking, and her level has improved by leaps and bounds.

Nowadays, she has reached a super level that even Luo Zhi finds satisfying; she could win a Special Grade Chef title in *Chuuka Ichiban! *.

Has Lord Zhi gone back?

In the bathroom.

In the hazy water mist.

The clear water flowed down her delicate, fair, and glowing skin, first over the slopes of a quite regrettable curvature, then over the soft plains, and then the curvature suddenly became exaggerated...

Scrubbing her silk-like dark hair, Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't help but be lost in thought.

She forgot to ask again today whether the Sky Curtain had Lord Zhi's hand in it...

Just now, that meaning—it should be the same as the world's current speculation, that the mastermind is indeed Lord Zhi, or at least one of them, right?

And is the purpose the same as what everyone is guessing now?

To enhance the strength of Earth's humans to welcome some terrifying future?

But just how terrifying a future would it be to require the Sky Curtain to project everyone's strongest self into reality?

Too many.

Too many.

Everyone has too many doubts and hopes for this strongest person in the world to provide answers.

She couldn't get in touch with Shinomiya Kaguya's side, and she didn't really want to.

So the pressure came to her...

But when the two of them were together, she would forget all serious matters; now that she was alone, they all came flooding back.

Soon.

She wrinkled her fair nose and quickly gave up.

Although Lord Zhi looks unreliable, he is actually a quite rational person.

He would naturally tell her what he could, even if it was in a joking tone; if he couldn't say it, she shouldn't ask.

Lord Zhi is the person she is close to, not some inexplicable great cause or "big picture."

Sure enough...

The girl sighed.

She and the Heroic Spirit Black Archer are not the same person; she can't be that rational, that focused on correctness, that firm, and she still has her own closeness, her own selfishness.

She is just an ordinary seventeen-year-old girl who hasn't experienced so much loss and pain, and doesn't want to experience it...

In truth, if she were really pursuing correctness, how could she accept the greed of that idiot Lord Zhi...

"Lord Zhi?"

Wiping her hair as she walked out of the bathroom, Yukinoshita Yukino called out casually.

Although using a cleaning magecraft would be the same, due to psychological factors, she always felt she needed to wash it herself.

So now, her lifestyle habits hadn't changed.

"Has he gone back..."

Yukinoshita Yukino paused as she looked at the quiet living room.

The magecraft array had indeed been restored, and there was only some residual magical power in the living room and kitchen; had he sat in the living room, gotten impatient waiting, and gone straight to another woman?

Even the girl who pursued correctness couldn't help but puff out her pink cheeks.

It was clearly her day, and it wasn't even midnight yet.

A long time later.

The girl was too lazy to wipe her hair anymore, so she used a magecraft to dry it and threw herself onto the soft bed.

Her slender body lay on the soft bedding, hugging a pillow and curling inward, and the girl let out a long sigh.

"Idiot~~"

She squeezed the pillow tightly, her mind a mess.

It's unfair.

Lord Zhi already knows everything about her—what she thinks, what her ideals are, what she longs for, what she fears... he has even seen all the possibilities of her past and future.

Yet she knows nothing about this idiot.

Where did he come from? Are his parents still around? Does he have siblings? What are his ideals? What does he crave? And what does he fear?

If you like someone, how could you not want to understand him?

And it's not like that story Lord Zhi told her about a certain pink-haired girl in a future ninja world, whose mouth was full of love but who never tried to understand the other person's thoughts, only possessing honeyed confidence, and in the end, she was still disliked...

In the end, even after having a daughter, the other person didn't recognize her, and their photos were just collages of Team Taka's photos.

Thinking of a story Lord Zhi had told her, Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't help but frown.

This is definitely not love.

She was talking about the pink-haired girl named Sakura.

Perhaps she wouldn't have understood in the past, but now she understands... this is the feeling of liking someone!

You want to understand, understand what he thinks, what his hobbies are, want to comprehend him, want to know everything about him, and you won't be honey-confidently demanding the other person to accommodate you.

Experiencing bit by bit how "she" felt about Lord Zhi during those journeys, the "correct" Yukinoshita Yukino analyzed calmly.

Her face was calm, but her earlobes were unknowingly turning red, and she couldn't help but hug the pillow tighter, muttering like a girl: "So, Lord Zhi is a greedy big idi..."

Wait.

The pillow?!!

The girl looked down abruptly.