Chapter 353: This TV Drama (Struck Out) Is Really Good

Su Lin stood on the platform, arms outstretched as if embracing the entire world.

A cross over a hundred meters tall rose into the clouds; rows of angels clad in crimson armor and bearing twin wings stood in formation, swords and spears crossed above their heads.

The sacred sound of all creation echoed across the world, while ethereal feathers of light drifted slowly from the sky like warm snow.

Under the witness of the Creator, family and friends gathered together, and countless heroes from past and present attended this century wedding.

The two newlyweds gazed tenderly at each other, their eyes seeing nothing else...

"Is this progress too fast?!" Weigong Shilang exclaimed, staring at the wedding venue around him, as if a field spell had been cast:

"Stop! I haven't said anything yet! Why is the wedding starting already?!"

In less than ten seconds, his life had been fast-forwarded to the endpoint of an if-path branch.

The music abruptly ceased.

"Both sets of parents have agreed—doesn't that mean the wedding should proceed now?"

Everyone cares about you...

That person must have done it on purpose?!?!

"Ling, Lixiang, Sakura—dinner's ready." Saber slid open the door to find eight people seated behind the television.

"Big Sister Ling?!" Mathers said, blushing but composed: "He..."

"Could you make a copy and take it back?"

The audio from the screen surfaced.

"Ah... it's already that time." Tenzan Lixiang checked his watch:

Su Lin's face showed confusion; he thought for a moment, then saw Sakura Matou lost in a daze and Tohsaka Rin gently biting her lip—suddenly, he realized how unfair it was to impose this 【love】 on others, and he understood:

Three royal guards approached from the side, each carrying a pure white wedding gown; halfway there, another guard appeared, heading toward Rider Medusa with a gown in hand.

Parvati: Are you unwell? If you're unwell, then it's bad... if there's anything you need help with, don't hesitate to come to me—like pest control or handling seaweed... do you need it yet?!

With that thought, your end was drawn in by the plot below.

You focused your gaze on the TV screen; such a timeless-looking television was still uncommon in the future, yet the image quality on the screen was still poor.

Lu Mingfei rubbed his messy hair and asked suspiciously: "Are you saying it's time to eat?"

Tenzan Lixiang quickly sat upright, accepting the cylindrical teacup with both hands: "Thank you, Tohsaka junior."

Why does that person behind me feel so similar to Ishtar Senior...

Shi Huan heard this, covered her mouth, fell silent for a moment, then asked softly:

——"How long have you been in this world? The secrets of the Penglai Ruins and the Yu Xu legacy are now in your hands—you must become... someone greater!"

"No need to worry—you're the former Holy Male of this Church, so in a broad sense, you're part of the bride's side." Su Lin's body began vanishing into the air:

Red hair, matching eye color, charisma that raises the mood, masculine face, never once spoken of his origins...

"Sorry." Tohsaka Rin smiled sweetly and pressed the play button:

"Ah, it's nothing—just a TV drama." Tohsaka Rin pulled Sakura Matou up and walked inside:

"Your mother's too hasty—you and Shilang haven't even had a betrothal ceremony yet."

"Please make yourselves at home! I won't disturb you and the junior!"

Tenzan Lixiang regretted his earlier four-possibility behavior—this person's personality was nearly identical to Ishtar's...

"I could only reach this point thanks to everyone's help." Mathers smiled, cradling the teacup.

"I'm a Servant of Chaldea..." Rider Medusa seemed to understand something, searching the crowd for her own self from the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki.

What kind of treatment is this?!

A forced topic shift—but Sakura Matou still smiled and picked up the thread.

"Puff!! Cough..." Mathers widened her eyes, coughing, staring at the two in horror—Tenzan Lixiang's face was merging with Weigong Shilang's in her mind:

"Please have some tea." Tohsaka Rin brought over the tea: "We've run out of black tea—only green tea remains."

This Kaguya-hime had produced punishment items of shadow-dust measured in tons, and even designed a series of trials, summoning a host of sea monsters...

Weigong household living room.

【With such a treasure in his possession, he has already courted death.】

"The movie's setting must be real?! I feel like I've been cheated..." Before Weigong Shilang could even exhale, Lu Mingfei, Kleine, Meng Qi, Song Shuhang, and others appeared around him—clearly using the player's teleport function.

"White Junior said he went to prepare a wedding gift." Song Shuhang's face showed clear anxiety, then vanished after uttering those words.

Mathers, seeing Tenzan Lixiang stop her, picked up the tea and took a sip to calm herself.

Weigong Shilang remembered—in that instant, that unfamiliar, luminous gaze...

Saber laughed: "It's fine—they'll come soon."

"What's this got to do with you? You're just freeloaders in this house." Tohsaka Rin fast-forwarded to the beginning of the scene she had just watched.

"Does Shilang have anyone else in his heart besides Weigong Shilang?"

Weigong Shilang quietly wiped away tears in Alice Fiore's arms, his eyes slightly red, yet he smiled at once:

"Have you ever watched jumping?"

Tohsaka Rin set down the remote and interrupted: "By the way, I just remembered something."

"By the way, between you two and Weigong Junior..."

"The Tianyi Sect, it's said, was founded by a few of them—including this universe's Creator—on a whim." Lord El-Melloi VII sat calmly beside the tea table, analyzing the situation seriously:

"That's necessary..."

The reason was to spar with and exchange knowledge with the Heroic Spirits.

"If you dislike Japanese-style weddings, I have a friend who can arrange a connection to Meiji Shrine."

A woman in ancient attire, eyes cruel, seized a handsome swordsman, pressed her palm to his crown, and in the next instant, the swordsman dissolved into light and was swallowed into her body.

Half a month has passed—you know well how much funding Tohsaka Rin's gem magic consumes; even with the Tohsaka family's wealth, it couldn't sustain such gem expenditure.

"So, when they get married, remember to ask you to be the witness."

These golden apples piled into a mountain-like shape.

"I was thinking of bringing up a reincarnation joke." Kleine sipped his tea, observing Weigong Shilang's expression: "Never mind."

A smile curled at my lips as I gazed at this small bronze earth.

"Big Sister Rin, what is he doing...?" Tenzan Lixiang looked bewildered.

"Come to think of it, the special effects outside are incredibly realistic, but have you ever seen that TV series from the future... where a cultivator from a spiritual realm crosses over into a modern city? That premise is really good."

"It seems the wedding was canceled." Meng Qi glanced at the latest message in the group, shook his head, and stepped backward, vanishing: "If they change their mind again, they can find me at Yuqing Palace for the witness."

"After all, selling merchandise using your image without giving you royalties? No, just ignore those words you just heard—pretend you didn't hear them."

"You've only seen the seventh episode so far... there are already dozens of discs here."

Finally, Weigong Shilang chose to rescue Weigong Junlang, smiling as he turned to Shi Huan and said:

But this isn't Tokyo Love Story!

"It's clearly a TV drama..."

"I almost forgot—do you want to join us? I can provide the Holy Garb of the Church of Light as the bride's attire."

Sakura smiled, her gaze like a spring breeze stirring: "Big Sister Tenzan, thank you for bringing everyone here."

"Why do you have to do this...?" Tenzan Lixiang sighed helplessly.

"It looks like the child is yours and Shi Huanxu's—the age matches too. Probably just some fungus lazily setting this up? Sorry, I overstepped."

"I feel everyone here is wonderful—all wonderful deities." Kido Sakura stared into the reflection in her tea, recalling past conversations with the Servants who had possessed her, including BB and the Sakura-series Servants.

Some Servants simultaneously thought in their hearts: 'Do these two immediately get married whenever they appear?!'

"Huh?" Tenzan Lixiang exclaimed: "No, it's we who should thank you for your hospitality."

Actually, I'd just been watching the drama from a nearby historical fissure, with a feudal superstition-dark deity beside me, sword in hand, staring at me.

"Marie!?" Tenzan Lixiang tried to stop her, but she had already run far away.

"Is it because of the venue? If not Water Mirror Peak, how about borrowing Eden? I'll go negotiate the location for you."

Crack—!

"Stella!!!"

"If we keep going like this, even after returning to Chaldea, we'll never finish watching—even one episode of a TV drama is too long; the rest is just worldbuilding." Tenzan Lixiang stared at the pile of discs.

"Now that you mention it... it really does look similar, that appearance."

In mythological history, that marriage alone would warrant several standalone tales!

Now only Kleine remained where he stood, his body as heavy as a feather, elegantly crossing his legs, holding a cup of iced black tea.

"Thank you, Dark Deity!" Shi Huanxu waved cheerfully, completely ignoring the strange glances from the Servants.

The door slammed shut hard.

But that silhouette looked far more worn than before.

"The Qin Qin Shi Huang seems unpopular among these cultivators—adding the request that he revert to his form in the General Human History for a group photo, it seems these are cultivators from his past life..."

"Big Sister Rin, you can't make assumptions just because they look similar! That kind of thing is terrifying!!!"

Weigong Junlang stood frozen, the gazes of these strangers—or perhaps familiar strangers—cutting like knives, though causing no physical harm, they felt as if they were scrutinizing him personally.

"Besides, Shirou isn't a flirt—he probably just misunderstood something."

Tenzan Lixiang watched the other with a smile, listening until the person's throat grew dry, then took the tray Marie handed him and pushed it backward.

Something felt off—there was a faint, inexplicable sense of fatigue.

Tenzan Lixiang and the others, who had originally planned to leave before lunch, were detained by several people claiming to be the Seventh, Eighth, and Seventh Senior Sisters of the Tianyi Sect, along with a group leader.

"One protagonist in a Holy Grail War only needs Saber."

"Among the Servants, including Jeanne d'Arc, some attitudes are also strange..."

I'd rather be chased by a dragon transformation than feel this.

"Marie, please be quiet." Hisaka Rin lifted Tenzan Lixiang's chin, studying him from side to side:

"By the way, we should also thank you, Hisaka junior—you only realized now, on this timeline, that everyone from the Seventh Holy Grail War has ties with us."

At that moment, Hisaka Rin also smiled and released her grip, saying:

"The age doesn't match up—it must be nonsense. These baseless hypotheses..."

"This senior disciple's power is weak; estimated to be at least planetary-level spiritual foundation. The others vary in strength..."

"Everyone's around the same age, and we're all male—just call me Hisaka, or Rin is fine too." Hisaka Rin pulled over a cushion and sat down casually.

Tenzan Lixiang suddenly felt an urge he couldn't suppress—he recalled what Su Lin had said about leaping down:

"Your mother doesn't matter—as long as Shirou has you in his heart, that's enough."

Rising from the cushion, he leaned over the wooden table, one hand reaching out to Tenzan Lixiang, brushing a strand of hair from behind his ear forward.

"Really?" Su Lin blinked, glancing around:

"I'm checking whether you look like Illya—did you inherit my genes?" Hisaka Rin lifted his chin, smiling warmly.

【Cupid: Ever since then, I've noticed his gaze hasn't left this person... You're the god of love; if you need to guide him or take a shortcut, I can help him figure something out.】

"If you're not satisfied, I do have a solution." Su Lin looked troubled and asked:

"I took this from Big Demon Head—he said it was a memory shared with Illya, and insisted I watch it." Hisaka Rin rubbed her hair, apologetically facing Saber: "Sorry, Saber—I left you alone to handle dinner; I got too absorbed."

"That's right... it's just a misunderstanding..."

"No, it's not a misunderstanding." Weigong Junlang forced a smile, his speech slowing:

"I'm upset because someone used my image without permission—and wore such an inelegant outfit... By the way, Sakura, don't you feel anything about this?"

Such matters should have been decided by the Servants' wishes, but after hearing that dinner was also included, they suddenly realized everyone had already begun a summer event in the neighboring island cave paradise.

"That's not what I meant!" Weigong Junlang pleaded desperately to Shi Huan: "Please restore this place to how it was before!"

"That's too little..."

Tohsaka Rin's face flushed red as she retorted:

"You're supposed to imagine these gods as you." Tohsaka Rin propped her right cheek on her hand, resting on the coffee table, waved her left hand, and picked up a remote to turn on the TV:

"You don't have enough time to watch after school anyway, and once he finishes, he won't have a chance to tell you the plot."

It was the same look she had every day back then, dumping her work on others and rushing off excitedly to watch Tokyo Love Story!

If somehow you ended up with a pair of parents like that, your entire life afterward would turn into a mystery story!

"Just a bit of curiosity and four trigrams—watch a movie together. Anime? That's just for him."

My body suddenly swelled, exploded, like a bubble bursting and dissolving.

Everything vanished like a mirage, along with the cross-shaped light before me and the clear, circular glow.

BB: Women despise the embodiment of tolerance. Stay like that—I'll prepare some spirit medicine for him later.

"Didn't you just say you were busy? Don't trouble yourself—thank you so very much!!!"

I just hope he won't play another prank on me...

"They're really impressive—such a young age, already shouldering the burden of saving human history."

The moment the door opened, no loud sound came forth—probably the mandatory background music for a Sub-Species Singularity.

If I keep staying outside this cave heaven, it'll be hard to calm down and relax; my mood might revert to how it was in a single day.

"Sister," Sakura Matou sighed, placed the biscuit down, and sat beside Tohsaka Rin: "Though the Matou household is ruined, our savings aren't gone yet..."

"..." Lord El-Melloi VII gazed for a moment, then quickly rose, picked up a wooden tray, and walked toward the island cave heaven.

"Huh? From the bottom of my heart, Mom supports monogamy..." Alice Fiore frowned and said:

"O... Oh, so that's how it is!!!" Mash hurriedly opened the door and fled from the living room.