Given Rin Tohsaka's pride, she would obviously never ask Jiang You for help, nor would she accept it. So, after mocking her for a while, Jiang You bid her farewell and walked towards Medea's backstage.
"So you finally extended your demonic claws to others after all?" Seeing Achilles' state, Medea snatched her from Jiang You's arms in a protective, mother hen manner.
"You're crazy." Jiang You made an internationally friendly gesture. "You know better than I do what's going on with her Noble Phantasm, right? So, can you help?"
"...You really did find the right person. Her Noble Phantasm can usually only be deactivated by herself." Medea still found time to boast at this moment. "But my Noble Phantasm just so happens to be effective... Alright... After she rests for a while, she'll be fine. You didn't take advantage of the situation to do anything weird, did you?"
"..." Jiang You scratched his head. He hadn't taken the initiative to do anything, but he had made some rather intimate gestures under the guise of a beast's instincts. When she woke up, she would definitely be furious. Jiang You didn't want to invite this trouble, so he might as well leave quickly. "By the way, where's Jason? How come I don't see him? Look, I even brought his junior fellow disciple here."
"That guy? That guy got the carpet all dirty when he came back. Now he's recovering in the basement." Medea pointed to the door leading underground, from which an ominous aura emanated. Faint screams could even be heard.
"...You didn't turn him into a puppet, did you?" With Medea's abilities, even the most severe external injuries could be healed almost instantly. It was completely incomprehensible that Jason hadn't fully recovered.
"I graduated from that kind of thing long ago. I have no interest in collecting such an annoying puppet." Medea collapsed onto the sofa and started fiddling with her figure again. "I just prepared a medicinal bath for him. It's just that modern materials aren't very effective, so it takes a long time. Also, this potion is a bit irritating to wounds, so it will hurt a little."
"Uh..." Achilles felt like he couldn't handle this sister-in-law... former sister-in-law either. So he decided to go check on his senior fellow disciple early. If it really didn't work out, he would just take his senior fellow disciple and run away. "You guys chat first. I'm going to see Jason."
"Then I should probably be heading out as well." Jiang You yawned. Even in the game, the fatigue accumulated in reality would reflect on the character.
"Tomorrow is Wednesday... so you'll still appear around six or seven, right?" Medea said casually as she painted her figure.
"Right, same as usual. You're all used to my daily routine, aren't you?" There was no need to make up excuses for old acquaintances. Sometimes, it wasn't a good thing for minor characters to be too intelligent; when the plot advanced, it was just the right time to go to work and cause trouble. Jiang You had more than once submitted feedback in surveys asking if Konami wanted to stop taking money from working people. What kind of setting synchronized with the real world was this?
"Sometimes I even wonder if you have a job to go to." Medea had asked before, but Jiang You had brushed her off.
"You guessed right, I do have to go to work," Jiang You replied with a smile. After all, no one would believe it if he said it.
Medea sighed. Jiang You's answer actually made her a little panicked. If someone with Jiang You's abilities couldn't speak up about it, it probably involved the essence of the world: "Given your situation, it's even weirder that you have to go to work. Are you hiding some secret? If you need to, tell us about it. I believe with your thick skin, you won't hold back with us."
"You're right," Jiang You said, nodding. He currently only had Medea as his Caster (a certain Fairy Queen was a living person, and even her class affinity leaned more toward Berserker), so he had to make the most of her. "Speaking of which, I've been thinking lately..."
Seeing the Great Serpent Jiang You trying to seize the opportunity to get free labor from her again, a vein bulged on Medea's forehead. She teleported Jiang You out immediately, choosing to escort him away.
"Speaking of which, I haven't seen Illya lately." After he granted her permission, Prisma Illya would often run off to play in the library. Given his relationship with Illya, she should also be appearing in the library frequently to see him, but she hadn't been seen for several consecutive days recently, which made Jiang You feel it was a bit strange. However, Minamoto no Raikou hadn't reacted at all, so he figured he probably hadn't missed any plot events. Jiang You shook his head, planning to look for her tomorrow. He had just finished clearing the dungeon for Witch A, so he had plenty of time.
Just as Jiang You was about to log off, a small hand grabbed his arm.
It was Melusine. She had been following Jiang You around this whole time, but she was so quiet and so small that he had almost forgotten she was there.
"What's wrong?" His relationship with Melusine hadn't been very harmonious before. You could only describe it as "deep water and scorching fire," after all, the Aurora incident was hardly a gesture of goodwill toward Melusine. He still hadn't gotten used to her suddenly becoming so well-behaved.
"You promised to do something for me before. Breaking a promise is not a trait a higher being should possess." Melusine looked up, her amber eyes meeting Jiang You's. "Because you could have just refused from the start."
"Sorry, I forgot for a moment." Jiang You finally remembered that when he summoned Melusine, she had made a request, but he hadn't taken it to heart. "Go ahead and say it. As long as it's not an overly difficult wish, I can grant it. You should understand the prerequisite conditions."
"I told you back then," Melusine nodded slightly. She hadn't considered the other side of the deal at all. Jiang You was a bit unimaginative. "Just something involving only me, a very simple matter. Can you find a place where no one will disturb us?"
"Something you don't want others to hear?" Jiang You glanced around. Because they were near the card shop, the foot traffic was still quite heavy. Just what was Melusine planning, that it had to be hidden?
"Although I dislike being watched by lower beings," Melusine blinked, the corners of her mouth curling into a slight smile, "if you have this particular habit, I don't mind. Humans don't care if there are bugs nearby when they're mating, right?"
For some reason, Jiang You saw the words "coquettish" and "alluring" in that smile, as if she were inviting him. It took him a moment to process it, and he instinctively asked, "What kind of behavior?"
Melusine gently pulled Jiang You's arm, having him lean down and put his ear near her lips. Her lips parted slightly as she softly whispered the word Jiang You had almost deleted from his dictionary: "Reproduction."