Medea didn't hide her gaze, and Kisaragi Rin quickly noticed it.
"What flavor does Medea like?"
Pulling her to the ice cream stand, Kisaragi Rin asked Medea.
Medea's gaze drifted, her head felt hot, almost tilting backward. After a while, her lips finally let out a faint sound, "...Strawberry."
"Boss, one strawberry."
Soon, Kisaragi Rin, holding the strawberry ice cream, found a spot and sat down with Medea.
As Kisaragi Rin took a bite, Medea, who was waiting, also swallowed her saliva.
Gulp~
"We're sharing ice cream now. Just thinking about it makes my brain burn. What was that magic to calm myself down, Medea? You've tasted everything from Master. This is just an indirect kiss, why are you being so shy...?"
Due to excessive shyness, Medea even forgot that she had the Talent of High-Speed Divine Words; the magic to calm herself down could be completed by simply issuing a command.
Various thoughts mingled together, causing pink spiral patterns to continuously swirl in Medea's Mystic Eyes.
When Kisaragi Rin offered the ice cream, Medea instinctively leaned forward, and the opening and closing of her lips and teeth were no longer controlled by her brain.
It was cold, she had bitten into the ice cream.
It was hot, like a narrow encounter on a battlefield.
It was sticky and wet, possibly cream melted by the high temperature, or something else unknown.
The pink of the strawberry flavor intertwined with the pink hearts overflowing from Medea's body, making it impossible to tell which sweetness was superior.
When Medea came back to her senses, she found that the ice cream in front of her had completely disappeared.
"...It's gone?"
Medea asked foolishly.
"Do you want to buy another one?"
Kisaragi Rin picked up a tissue to wipe the cream from Medea's lips, feeling that this girl was somewhat similar to Spider Mother, usually mature and charming, but becoming incredibly pure and shy at crucial moments.
"No, I don't want to buy another one," Medea shyly shook her head, refusing.
Then she unconsciously mumbled, "I should have bought a large one just now."
If it weren't for the lingering strawberry taste in her mouth proving what had happened, she would even doubt if she had just eaten ice cream with Kisaragi Rin.
"This must be because I'm not yet accustomed to my new body," Medea was convinced.
Kisaragi Rin opened his phone and saw the Line message Yotsuya Miko had sent him.
Yotsuya Miko: Kisaragi Rin, are you free on Saturday?
Kisaragi Rin: No.
After replying, Kisaragi Rin closed his phone.
Regardless of Medea's reasons, given her personality, her willingness to give up last night to Esdeath to avoid him being caught in a dilemma meant that Kisaragi Rin should genuinely reciprocate Medea's feelings and make up for it with a sufficiently wonderful date.
Hmm... Only then could Kisaragi Rin avoid dying by a cleaver one day.
Medea's Rule Breaker was far more lethal than an ordinary cleaver.
One stab and no one would make a sound.
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At the same time, at the Deer God Shrine on the mountain.
Yotsuya Miko, who had finally received Kisaragi Rin's reply, didn't pay much attention, because she was sitting with Yurikawa Hana in the tidied hall, discussing her acquaintance with Kisaragi Rin and her impressions of him with Tohsaka Rin.
"He sounds like a decent person."
Tohsaka Rin folded her arms. Although she already knew that Matou Shinji and Fujimura Taiga, whom she had encountered a few days ago, were all Kisaragi Rin, now that her and her sister's fates were in the hands of this "President," she was quite unsettled and wanted to understand everything about him.
"Rin, Master Kisaragi is really quite good. The fact that he didn't directly attack us already proves it, doesn't it?"
Irisviel defended Kisaragi Rin. Her butt still hurt a little, but Sadako's words had indeed given her some trust in this Kisaragi Rin.
Hmm... With 18 points of basic charisma, the Lord of Demonic Garment, and the dominion of Demonic Hell Sanctuary, Kisaragi Rin, with these three bonuses, was quite approachable to Strange Tales, almost comparable to the allure of a little boy to a priest.
"That's right, Master is very considerate."
Caren also chimed in.
Hearing such an address, Yotsuya Miko felt both a little embarrassed and a little expectant.
Hmm... what she was looking forward to was that the Deer God Shrine had a way to resolve her Mystic Eyes.
During their casual chat, Yotsuya Miko noticed that among these Miko, some called Kisaragi Rin by his name directly, some called him Master or Shrine Master, and some added "Brother" or "Lord" after his name.
Although the addresses varied, they all indicated differences in status.
According to Yotsuya Miko's judgment, there must be a deeper connection between them and Kisaragi Rin, and that might be the "supernatural" she had been looking for all along.
"..."
Tohsaka Rin, refuted by Irisviel and Caren, didn't want to speak.
Just as Irisviel said, they were alive thanks to Kisaragi Rin's help. Now, not only were they not forced against a window to become tools in an H-anime plot, but they were also given identities, choices, and power... This was already immense respect and gentle consideration.
"But all you Strange Tales look completely charmed, which really worries me!"
Tohsaka Rin complained in her heart, unable to help but look at her sister, Sakura.
She also looked preoccupied.
"Miss Tohsaka and Miss Matou, are you still in school?" Yotsuya Miko continued to ask.
Although she knew that Kisaragi Rin was the Shrine Master of this Deer God Shrine, apart from the two sentences they exchanged at their last meeting, it was hard to say they had much acquaintance. Yotsuya Miko was thinking about how to express her needs.
This question reminded Tohsaka Rin of Homurahara Academy, which was also destroyed on that world line.
"...I guess you could say we dropped out."
After a moment of silence, Tohsaka Rin replied.
"Although continuing school in Chiba is an option, the shrine needs daily upkeep, so Sakura and I have decided to become full-time Miko."
Managing the shrine was just the surface; the deeper reason, of course, was that Tohsaka Rin wanted to become stronger.
At this moment, Yurikawa Hana suddenly asked with great interest, "Excuse me, does the shrine still recruit Miko? Yotsuya Miko and I are both pure maidens!"
Many understaffed shrines would recruit female high school students to become part-time Miko, and as intermediaries between gods and humans, shrines also required the purity of their Miko.
This Deer God Shrine was so large, and the few Miko in front of them were certainly not enough. Thinking of Kisaragi Rin, the Shrine Master they mentioned, Yurikawa Hana suddenly became very interested in working as a Miko at this shrine for a while.
"Eh? Miko?"
Yotsuya Miko felt a slight urge after hearing her friend's suggestion.
However, this kind of thing wasn't something they could decide. Sakura and Tohsaka Rin exchanged glances, then still shook their heads and said, "I will help you ask. The recruitment of Miko needs to be decided by Kisaragi-san."
...They chatted for a while longer.
Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana left.
Looking at the Miko around her, Tohsaka Rin sighed and instructed, "Sella, please take down the personnel introductions that were just put up."
Having just put them up and already encountering someone they knew, Tohsaka Rin felt that if she continued to display them, many girls who knew Kisaragi Rin would visit daily.
It's better to have less of this trouble... Tohsaka Rin rolled up her sleeves, ready to get to work.