Ikki went home and didn't return in the afternoon. Shirou knew very well that Ikki's trip home was by no means a happy occasion. On this journey, Ikki would face his greatest setback, a massive blow to the beliefs he had held until now. Ikki left without telling anyone, but when Shizuku later learned the news, she immediately chased after him. They must have met at the Kurogane family home by now!
"How boring. I feel a bit lonely with Ikki not around!"
Lying on his bed, Shirou silently stared at the upper bunk, sighing with a sense of loneliness. Although Shirou knew many people at school whom he could talk to, their relationship was limited to that. Apart from Ikki and the others, Shirou rarely interacted with anyone else. And under his long-term cold treatment, the female students who often revolved around him at the beginning of the school year had now recognized the reality, calmed down, and no longer pestered Shirou all day long.
And today was no different. Now that Ikki and Shizuku had gone home together, Stella, who knew nothing, had been invited by Student Council President Touka-senpai to the student council, to thank her for her previous help.
Although Shirou and the others were also invited, Shirou declined. After all, he didn't want to get involved in any more mysterious incidents. Besides, Nagi Arisu had rarely been seen lately, busy with who knows what. As a result, Shirou had no one to talk to at this moment.
"This is truly boring!" Shirou, sighing again, suddenly jumped out of bed after a moment of silence. "It's too boring by myself; I'll open the shop for a change today!"
With that, Shirou quickly tidied up and left school. His destination for this trip was the patisserie he had lived in when he first arrived in this world.
Speaking of the patisserie, Shirou had originally reopened the shop during his school days just to avoid those crazy female students. But now that they had calmed down, Shirou rarely went back to open the shop.
Only occasionally, when he truly had nothing to do, would he go back and open the shop for an afternoon, passing the time by researching dessert-making and creating delicious food. After all, in this world, Shirou didn't have a forge to pass the time. However, he also really enjoyed researching dessert-making and creating delicious food. He loved the process of continuously improving his skills through his research. As a result, Shirou's dessert-making skills rapidly improved, quickly catching up to his level in making other dishes, and even surpassing it in some aspects.
This also made every customer who tasted his desserts at his shop unforgettable. Some even wanted to invite him to develop his career abroad. Shirou naturally didn't care about these things. He never kept customers' contact information, and his shop's opening hours were at his whim. Therefore, many customers who came here on others' recommendations often left empty-handed. This also made Shirou's reputation resonate within the dessert circle. Besides positive reviews praising his superb skills, there were more negative reviews about his poor service attitude.
Returning to his own patisserie, looking at the shop that hadn't been open for a long time, Shirou tidied it up before reopening it. Since he hadn't notified anyone beforehand, no one knew that this patisserie hidden in a small alley had reopened at this time.
After tidying everything up, Shirou took out the ingredients he had just bought on his way back and began researching various new desserts. The Emiya family in this world had left him too many dessert recipes, areas he had never touched before, so Shirou was very interested in them. In his previous research on desserts, he constantly sought ways to integrate the techniques he learned from the DanMachi world into desserts. After all, in Orario, dessert development was not very prosperous, completely inferior to other cuisines. And now, Shirou was integrating different techniques from both worlds to research better desserts.
Just as he was continuously researching desserts, a sudden opening sound came from the otherwise quiet patisserie, followed by slow footsteps. "Is there a customer?" Thinking this, Shirou walked out of the preparation room and looked at the customer entering his shop. Then, he saw a beautiful figure.
Pure white hair cascaded down to her waist, and exquisite features adorned her bright face. This was a white-haired beauty, radiating a strong presence. Aside from her stunning appearance, what interested Shirou even more was her casual posture. Everything seemed so natural, yet Shirou could feel the terrifying power hidden within her slender limbs. It was actually her! The moment he saw this woman, Shirou immediately recognized her identity. Biwa, Edelweiss! The world's most heinous criminal. The world's greatest swordsman!
A terrifying individual who once, with a single person and two swords, annihilated an enemy army of five hundred thousand. She was also one of the top powerhouses standing at the pinnacle of this world.
"Excuse me, are you the chef of 'Emiya House'? I'd like to try your signature dish." Emiya House was the name of the shop Shirou opened; it wasn't his bad taste, but a generational sign in this world. Hearing the statement from the most heinous criminal, Shirou, whose acting skills were superb and showed no flaws, said with a smile, "Then you'll have to wait a bit, since I just opened!"
"It's fine, I can wait. After all, I've been here several times already!" The pure-white girl (a thirty-year-old single girl?) slowly sat down in a chair and said calmly.
As the world's greatest swordsman, Edelweiss's favorite thing was not practicing swordsmanship, but desserts. She loved desserts, not just eating them, but also making them. It might sound a bit absurd, but as the world's greatest swordsman, the reason Edelweiss practiced swordsmanship was merely as exercise to lose weight because she ate too many desserts and got fat. And it was this exercise that created the world's greatest swordsman; fate truly played a trick.
Edelweiss, who loved desserts, often learned about making desserts online and joined some dessert discussion websites. This was how she learned about Shirou's existence. A dessert master she knew, after tasting a dessert made by Shirou once, marveled at its dream-like taste. It was also through his recommendation that Shirou's reputation exploded in the dessert world.
But unfortunately, every customer who traveled thousands of miles to get here rarely encountered Shirou's shop being open. After all, ever since Shirou recognized Stella as his sister, he had to prepare three meals a day for five people, so he naturally had no time to open the shop here. Therefore, by the time Shirou's reputation spread abroad, he had already stopped opening the shop. This meant that many people had only heard of his reputation but had never tasted his desserts.
And Edelweiss, who also came here to taste desserts, had already been hovering nearby for several days. And today, she finally encountered an open 'Emiya House'!
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