"Tohru, wake up."
Tohru, lying on the sofa, vaguely heard Shin's voice in her sleep, as if calling for her to wake up.
In her daze, Tohru just thought she was dreaming—after all, she usually dreamed about Shin quite regularly, so she didn't take it seriously and instead reached out her hand.
She had originally wanted to embrace Shin in her dream, but unexpectedly, the hand she reached out didn't embrace Shin's body. Instead, someone grabbed her hand and pulled her up from the sofa.
Being forcibly pulled to sit up, Tohru finally snapped awake, and the dazed expression on her face instantly faded, replaced by a somewhat surprised look.
She looked around at the situation and found that she was actually sleeping on the living room sofa now. But she clearly remembered falling asleep in Shin's bed at night.
In fact, the reason she was now on the living room sofa was because Shin had just used "Black Bird: Requiem" to enter the bedroom and, without waking the others, used telekinesis to lift Tohru out.
After all, Tohru was the head maid of the household, and as a dragon from another world, Tohru's acceptance ability would be stronger too. Some troublesome matters naturally still had to be handed over to her to arrange.
"Come back to your senses, Tohru. I have something that needs your help arranging next."
Shin, who had pulled Tohru up, smiled helplessly as he spoke to her—because it was Shin, Tohru still listened, and her body shuddered as she completely woke up.
Only then did she notice that there weren't just her and Shin in the living room—behind Shin stood several more figures, and without exception, they were all female.
Seeing this scene, Tohru's whole mood soured. She seemed to have already guessed something, and asked Shin in a somewhat incredulous tone:
"Shin... these people, they can't all be...?"
"...Pretty much that's the case."
Although Shin didn't explain in detail, Tohru understood at first listen. These girls' relationship with Shin was definitely that very complicated kind—they were her rivals.
And what made Tohru even more dejected was that before, when Shin brought girls home, at least he only brought one or two at a time. This time, he actually brought several back at once!
Rin Tohsaka, Sakura Matou, Reines, Mordred... just the ones in the living room already numbered four. This made Tohru's expression barely able to hold steady.
In fact, in the side guest room there was still an unconscious Medusa.
"Anyway, next they'll be temporarily staying at home for a while, so help them arrange things first."
Seeing Tohru's very unhappy expression, Shin could roughly guess what she was thinking, so he rubbed her head, then leaned in to give her lips a kiss, which counted as consolation.
And sure enough, this method of consolation was super effective on Tohru—Tohru, whose expression had still been somewhat displeased, immediately turned from cloudy to sunny, patting her chest and saying:
"No problem! Leave it to me, Shin!"
"Then, I'll be counting on Tohru-san."
Seeing that Tohru seemed to have agreed, Reines also poked her head out from behind Shin, smiling as she spoke to Tohru.
Of course, Reines also realized that Tohru probably wasn't an ordinary maid either, but rather someone with a more intimate relationship with Shin—this made her feel alarms going off in her mind.
She exchanged glances with Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Matou, and for a moment the three actually reached a tacit understanding.
Tohru's work ability was something Shin was confident in—although she was clumsy and awkward at first, her learning ability was very strong, and she had long since become a great maid.
And unlike the original work where she could only do housework, the current Tohru had profound attainments in taking care of others—after all, there really were quite a few people in Shin's household.
Fortunately, Reines and the others could eventually return to their own world, otherwise Shin was really a bit worried that the large mansion provided by the Shinomiya family would eventually not have enough rooms.
After handing Reines and the others over to Tohru to arrange, Shin returned to the Fate/Stay Night world, landing again on the ground at Ryuudou Temple.
The instant Shin appeared, Bazett and Waver, who were guarding the center of Ryuudou Temple, reflexively went on alert—only after seeing that the arrival was Shin did they relax their vigilance.
"Already arranged, right? Next we just need to wait for the Holy Grail War to completely end and the Grail system to enter dormancy."
Shin smiled as he explained the situation to Bazett and Waver, then looked at Waver.
"How much longer until the Grail system completely enters dormancy?"
"Just now I went to observe the situation inside the Greater Grail cavity. Because all the black mud was pumped out, Fuyuki City's leylines are about to start refilling it with magical power."
Waver quickly provided an answer.
"It should be about two days from now. That's when the Grail system will enter dormancy and the magical power replenishment period."
"Then to be safe, I'll bring everyone back in three days."
Hearing this, Shin also nodded and made a decision—it seemed the household would be quite lively for these three days.
However, the people in Shin's home were all quite obedient to Shin's wishes, so there probably wouldn't be any objections. At most, there would be some jealousy.
Leaving the Fate/Stay Night mission world again, but this time he didn't leave using "King's Army," but rather through the system.
Because Shin had already completed the main quest, after leaving the Fate/Stay Night world through the system this time, he couldn't enter through the system again.
The next time he wanted to return to Fuyuki City, he could only use his own "King's Army" to enter the Mages Association, then fly to Fuyuki City—though for Shin this wasn't much trouble anyway.
After all, with Shin's speed, flying from the Mages Association to Fuyuki City was just a blink of an eye, hardly a waste of time.
And more importantly, as Shin exited, the mission world selection interface finally changed again.
[Respected Zuke, please select the mission world to enter: 1. Dragon Ball (Main quest generating); 2. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Main quest generating); 3. TYPE-MOON (Main quest generating)]
[Respected Zuke, your special mission worlds are: 1. Touhou Project; 2. One Punch Man (Today's remaining refresh count: 1)]
[Respected Zuke, your remaining gameplay sessions today: 2]
"All three main mission worlds have changed to 'Main quest generating'... Wonder which will be the next mission world."
Shin looked at the mission world panel, pondered for a moment, then shook his head—anyway, which world would generate the next main quest wasn't something he could decide.
"Then... it's also time to enter the One Punch Man world and meet that 'God.'"
To be continued…