Chapter 17: Fujino's Heart
Shinji and the other girls are ready to take action as soon as they spot any signs of vampires.
This is Fuyuki, our home. No matter who you are, if you dare to come here to be presumptuous, we will definitely not let you go - this is their common belief. Everyone here has lost their home once, so they cherish the new home they created together.
However, the various combat forces of the Maki family entered the state, but the vampires did not cooperate at all.
"No strange cases, good security?"
This is the answer that the technical section police who are familiar with the Kiriri family told Shinji. Not just casually, but from the latest statistics from the 110 wiring center (the Japanese police number is also 110), because of the installation of the monitoring system, the crime rate and alarm rate in Fuyuki City have decreased, and the law and order has reached the best ever.
There are no bizarre cases, but the final investigation results are either hoaxes or the informants themselves are scared. Like the serial abuse and murder cases ten years ago, the collective hallucination of the sea monster or something has become a legend, and now Fuyuki City is peaceful, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a song and dance.
Hearing the news, Shinji had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
First of all, this peace will soon be shattered by a new Holy Grail War. Hopefully, there won't be a bad combination like Gilles de Rice and Ryunosuke Yubu this time. He and Kiritsugu will also try to control the explosive attribute as much as possible, and try to avoid causing damage to the surrounding area.
Secondly, what about the vampires who said yes? Sister Shi said that there are vampires haunting, and there must be some traces found, but why hasn't the police received any news here?
Vampires are not servants who can sustain their existence with a supply of magical power, and like humans, they need to eat regularly, i.e., take blood. People who have been sucked by vampires either die directly or become servants of vampires, which will inevitably cause some impact on the surrounding area.
Is it that this time the vampire hid it too well and didn't alarm the police?
Or is the vampire's range just outside of Fuyuki City?
Either way, it won't be long before the answer is known, because it's already dark, and it's time for the vampires to come out and move.
found an excuse to condolence, ordered a large number of takeouts, and Shinji and Sakura naturally stayed in the police station. While chatting with his own employees and people's servants, he quietly monitored the densely divided display screen.
Around nine o'clock, Shinji finally found a suspicious target in the ever-changing picture.
A woman, about 16 years old.
Even though he has black hair, his eyes are red.
It was already an early winter night, but he was wearing a single coat, and there was no sign of being afraid of the cold such as curling up or shivering.
What's even weirder is that he is not afraid of the cold, but he covers his face.
I checked the number of the camera a little, and found that the location was actually in Fukayama Town, not far from my home.
Sakura was able to identify the girl and make sure that she was not a resident of the neighborhood. Fukayama Town is an old town, and there are few new residents, and the neighborhood of the Maki family is a wealthy area, so there are not many residents, and even if you can't name them over time, you will be familiar with each other.
Shinji's nerves tensed all at once.
All indications show that this woman is definitely not simple, even if she is not a vampire, she is inseparable from the mysterious world, and it is not impossible to target the master of the Holy Grail War.
The moment the camera location was determined, Shinji made a decision: Sakura stayed and was on duty here with Kiri-e, while he went over to reconnoiter with Fujino, who had evolved super vision, and Kiri-e's "dual existence".
In order to prevent the mysterious woman from going away, Shinji directly opened the magic bag and put the "double existence" of the fog painting inside, and carried Fujino on his back and flew from the sky.
The intimate contact that has not been seen for a long time makes Fujino a little red-faced and at the same time feels a burst of joy from the heart. With a quieter personality than Sakura, it's rare for her to be bold once. His hands wrapped around Shinji's neck, his chest pressed tightly against his back, so tight that he could hear his own heartbeat.
The night wind was very cold, but Fujino didn't feel it at all, but felt that his face was so hot that he didn't even listen to what Shinji said to her.
Fujino is still a blank slate emotionally. When she was a child, because of the loss of pain and the rejection of her clansmen, she has always lived a life with no real feeling. Until Shinji walked into her world, helped her retrieve her pain, and gave her a new home. It was the first time she felt that life was so real, and the first time she experienced the warmth of people's hearts.
From that time on, a girl who was just beginning to fall in love lived in her heart, a boy several years younger than her. She watched him grow up slowly, watched him gradually mature, watched him pay silently for this family, and the feelings in her heart deepened little by little with the passage of time.
But even after the age of twenty, Fujino still rarely lets his feelings be exposed. Because there are many girls around him, and she is nothing among those girls, she does not have the perfect appearance and body of Elquit, she does not have the illustrious family background and status of Loreleia, she does not have Sakura and he have known him for a long time, and she can't express her heart as boldly as Mist Painting.
Look, I'm so ordinary, without characteristics. Therefore, she never fought for anything, but silently watched over him behind her back, the first and only boy in her life to walk into her heart.
Unwillingness, loss, jealousy, or something, of course, there are also there, and when I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, I also thought about whether to make a change to fight, but every time I saw him to herself, the same smile as when the two first met, she gave up again.
The urgency of the fog painting, she had a hard time understanding and didn't want to understand, maybe at that age, she would become as bold as her, but for now, at least for now, it was enough.
Just looking at him like this, living with him like this under the same roof - a man who silently likes him, and occasionally fantasizes that he can notice his humble self, and can have some intimate contact that goes beyond etiquette, as he is now.
Deeper—no, I can't think about it anymore, if I think about it again, I maybe—the heat on my face spreads to my whole body, and there is a trace of charm between my blurry eyes, and my breathing becomes heavy unconsciously.
"Fujino, what's wrong with you? Is it too windy and uncomfortable?"
Provoked by Shinji's voice, Fujino's out-of-control emotions finally subsided, and he replied with a red face:
"No, it's okay......"
"Hmph, leave her alone, it's very comfortable to be carried by you. The virtual fog paint came out of the magic bag, and snorted dissatisfiedly, "Usually silent, she thinks more than anyone else, and the whole family is the most sullen for her." ”
Fujino, who was counted down by Himeyou, didn't respond, but just buried his face behind Shinji's back, and his mind was spinning with careful thoughts that only belonged to him.