Returning from Takatsuki Sen's place, Ryuya personally cooked a table full of dishes. First, to let the girls at home enjoy themselves, and second, since he had dragged Eriri to the signing event today, he should let her eat something good too.
At the dinner table, the whole family chatted about various things. There's no need to elaborate on Arcueid and Altrouge competing for Ryuya's affection.
After dinner, Ryuya chose to spend the night with Yukino and Souji.
Early the next morning, after those who needed to go to school or work had left, only Zenru, Toru, and Ryuya remained in the house.
"Zen-chan, To-chan, go play by yourselves. I have some things to attend to."
Letting the two Tailmon go play on their own, Ryuya began a new Life Simulation.
[Please select a simulation instance, Current instances – Twilight of the Gods, Land of Trials (Part 2).]
After the Date A Live World ended, the system did not unlock a new life simulation instance for Ryuya and the remaining two were still the same.
One was the Hall of Gods, status unknown, but the difficulty is not high, and the general plot is something Ryuya could guess.
The other, needless to say, was the continuation of Snowfield City.
"System, the second trial in Snowfield City is to initiate the Fifth Holy Grail War."
"In the Fourth Holy Grail War, I sealed the channel connecting the Root to Earth. That should last about twenty years. So when I go back this time, it should be the Fifth War, right?"
[...]
The system did not answer Ryuya. It always spoke when it could and remained silent when it couldn't.
"Fine, I'll ask something else. If I choose the Land of Trials this time, will it pull people from the real world to become Masters like before? Like Yuki-chan, Kaguya, and the others last time?"
[Yes.]
"And the summoned Servants... will my other lovers from Camelot and Uruk appear?"
[Yes.]
"Then there's nothing more to say. Start this Land of Trials."
[Confirming Land of Trials (Part 2) activation. Instance composition, modification complete. Land of Trials (Part 2) officially begins. Instance permissions opened. Simulation participant count increased. Current instance open permissions: Automatically select characters from the real world with close relationships to the Host.]
[Characters selected: Sawamura Eriri, Hayasaka Ai, Arcueid Brunestud, Altrouge Brunestud.]
[Note: This simulation will still proceed with faction-based battles. Simultaneously, due to Host's permissions being unlocked, the Host will enter directly with their real-world body.]
[Simulation begins.]
As the portal before him opened, Ryuya said no more and stepped into the place he had left long ago… unmistakably, Snowfield City!
Snowfield City, winter. Inside the Einzbern Castle located in the suburbs.
"Mom, look at the snow here, it's so pretty!"
"Illya, how many times have I told you not to be so mischievous?"
Under the stunning winter scenery, the falling, drifting snowflakes shimmered with a crystalline glow under the sunlight.
Looking at her daughter, who shared almost the exact same features but was several sizes smaller, just like a doll, twenty years had passed in the blink of an eye since Ryuya left.
Having grown from that naive, innocent young girl into the current head of the Einzbern Family, Irisviel von Einzbern quickly inherited the position of head after Ryuya's departure… there was nothing more to say about that.
With Saber by her side, due to her excessive longing for Ryuya, she created a homunculus.
Using Ryuya's techniques, her own blood, and a little bit of blood Ryuya had left behind for experiments, thus, the girl named Illyasviel von Einzbern was finally born.
However, unlike the Illya from the original work, this world's Illya was born relatively late, only seven years old.
Additionally, her childhood was spent growing up with Irisviel's companionship, so she lived a very happy life.
"Mom, it's snowing again today. When will Dad come back?"
Having never seen her father since birth, the answer she always got from Irisviel when she asked was, 'When it snows, Dad will appear deep in the forest, coming to get you with multicolored light.'
Since she began forming memories, Illya had been waiting for Ryuya from the age of three and this year was the seventh.
Still not seeing any sign of Ryuya, the girl returned to Irisviel's side, her face full of disappointment.
"Illya..."
Feeling quite helpless about Illya's anticipation, but not knowing how else to answer her, Irisviel smiled wryly and shook her head, continuing, "Maybe Dad has something going on this year? That's why he's late."
"Illya, let's not worry about such things. How about we go see if the barbecue your Aunt Artoria is making is ready?"
Picking up her obedient daughter, Irisviel coaxed her...
"Hmm... Mom, I miss Sakura-nee and Rin-nee."
Pouting with a sad little face, compared to the too mature and righteous Saber, Illya clearly wanted companionship from peers more.
Although the two sisters were over ten years older than her, she still deeply loved her two sisters who had gone away to school.
"Sakura and Rin have classes. There are still... three hours until they come home."
Takami Sakura, Tohsaka Rin… these were the two daughters of Tohsaka Tokiomi and Tohsaka Aoi.
Ryuya had once said that Tokiomi's two daughters would have exceptional talent, so he requested the younger sister, Sakura, to be adopted into the Einzbern Family.
Given Ryuya's influence at the time, needless to say, Tokiomi naturally agreed to his request, even excitedly so.
After Sakura was born, Tokiomi sent this girl with remarkably high talent to the Einzbern Residence at the first opportunity.
After that, whether due to the inertia of history or the will of the world, Tokiomi, who had begun frequently interacting with Kayneth, encountered an accident on a plane to the Clock Tower. Both he and his wife, Aoi, died unexpectedly.
And Kayneth also died in that same accident. The reason was simple: the plane caught fire upon landing, crashed directly, and crushed Kayneth, who was waiting at the airport, to death.
It must be said Kayneth was unlucky. If he had waited properly in the main hall, nothing would have happened. But upholding the arrogance of a mage, he insisted on choosing a small private room, the 'VIP area'.
And that plane... crashed right onto him.
So, after that incident, the Tohsaka Family, without Tokiomi, quickly declined. Seeing the lonely Rin, Irisviel didn't say much and simply took her in to raise as well.
Of course, respecting Tokiomi's death, Irisviel did not change Rin's surname.
This is the life of Tohsaka Rin and Takami Sakura in this world.
Now, checking the time and knowing it would be a while before Rin and Sakura finished school, Irisviel, holding Illya, prepared to take the girl to find another good sister.
That would be Sola-Ui.