At 5 a.m., Shirou was startled awake.
'What's going on? Why is my body moving on its own?'
["It is now the scheduled time to enhance muscle strength."]
'Wasn't I supposed to get up at four? Isn't this too late now! There's no time to make breakfast.'
["Then next time at four?"]
'Forget it, five is fine.'
With no Holy Grail War present, Shirou had no intention of witnessing Fuyuki City at 4 a.m.
He went to the bathroom, and in the cup were only two cute-looking toothbrushes.
One of them was the one Illya brought. Only then did Shirou remember he forgot to buy a new toothbrush yesterday.
'Should I just pick the one from the trash can and make do with it?', He genuinely suggested that.
The system ignored him, went outside, and shoved a twig into his mouth to brush carefully.
Shirou: ∑(O_O;)
'Stop! Stop it right now! That hurts! There's gonna be blood for sure!'
["Please remember to buy a toothbrush and replace it every three months."]
["Special reminder: your little sister's toothbrush should be replaced too."]
'Miyu?'
Shirou looked at Miyu's toothbrush, thinking how she put that into her mouth every day…
'Pah! What am I thinking, that's my little sister!'
———
After washing up, Shirou went to the dojo.
He repeated yesterday's training. Still painful, but Shirou gritted his teeth and persevered. An ally of justice never collapses on the road ahead.
Not bad, today he only fainted once, a great improvement.
Looking again at the status panel—
'Oh ho ho, even Agility has a small improvement. Not bad, not bad.'
'But is Strength that hard to improve?'
'Two days, and still not at C.'
And again, he forgot to do a comparison test, 'Forget it, a real man doesn't care if he can't break an electric pole with his bare hands.'
He made a decision. Set a small goal first. To surpass a Super Saiyan.
After stretching, Shirou looked at the time. Only 6:30, a bit surprised.
'Looks like the system compressed training time to give me time to make breakfast?'
'System, stop playing dead. Come out and help me cook breakfast.'
["Housework EX, cannot be hosted."]
'Specify cooking: Chinese cuisine, start moving.'
[...]
["Cooking EX, cannot be hosted."]
'Then go sweep the floor.'
["…Sweeping E."]
'Fine, I get it, you're useless.'
Shirou nodded in satisfaction. No matter the time or place, ask the system.
He made breakfast at lightning speed and even had time to clean up a bit.
10 minutes past 7, the two young ladies still hadn't woken up.
'Looks like they went to bed too late yesterday. I have to get them to sleep earlier.'
"Shirou, oh! Today's breakfast is so lavish!", The tiger drooled.
"Eh?", Taiga rubbed her eyes.
"What's wrong, Fuji-nee?", Shirou, who was planning to wake up the two, asked.
"Nothing, I must've seen it wrong," Taiga wasn't sure. Just now, it looked like the food was glowing.
'Learned something, didn't you, system?'
["…This is unscientific!"]
He forcefully booted up the two and brought them to the sink. After all, those two were small, so there wasn't any crowding.
"Miyu, Illya, hurry up. If you dawdle, you'll be late," Shirou urged.
Miyu woke up fairly quickly; her ability to take care of herself was decent to begin with.
Illya, on the other hand, still looked groggy.
"It's okay, Shirou. I'll have Liz take us there."
'That means being chauffeured?'
Even so, it still took about forty minutes.
"Hurry up, Illya. As the big sister, you should set an example for the two of us," Shirou figured this counted as lecturing.
"Got it, got it," Illya yawned, "Shirou, why do you sound like a housekeeper? You might as well brush my teeth."
'System.'
["Delegate function available, would you like to activate?"]
'You seriously have that?', Shirou couldn't resist trying.
"Illya," Shirou's face went expressionless.
"Yes?", Illya, slightly startled by his cold voice.
Before she could react, Shirou had grabbed her by the armpits and faced her toward the mirror.
Miyu got pushed aside, eyes wide open.
"Onii-chan!"
"Mmm~", Warm water, toothpaste squeezed, everything done in one motion.
He pinched Illya's cheeks to make her open her mouth.
"Wah wah wah~", Fast and gentle movements.
Three minutes, precisely on time.
"Spit out the rinse water."
"Mmm~", Illya obediently did so.
Then wash face, apply skin care, well, no need for that.
According to System Shirou's judgment, skin care products might actually harm her skin. [T/N: Not might, it's a fact.]
Once everything was done, Shirou pushed Illya out of the bathroom, "Go eat breakfast."
Just four simple words.
After speaking, he looked at the stunned Miyu.
"Um, Onii-chan. I can brush my own teeth," Toothbrush still in her mouth, Miyu was full of uncertainty.
'My Onii-chan… is not acting normal!'
In the end, Miyu also failed to escape Shirou's claws, forcibly receiving a full morning wash, and came to the living room.
"..."
"Can someone explain what just happened?"
Shirou's fists clenched. Just five minutes. In five minutes, the living room was in chaos.
Fujimura Taiga, like weightlifting, lifted Illya above her head.
"Fuji-nee, what are you doing holding Illya like that?", Faced with Shirou's soul-question, Taiga sheepishly put Illya down.
"Shirou, this girl…"
"Shirou, this woman bullied me!", Illya reversed the blame.
"What did you say, you brat?"
The Fuyuki City tiger snarled, "Wanna bet I'll have Shirou throw you out of my house?"
"Shirou would never do that!", Illya got up in her face, "I'm way cuter than you!"
"Hah? You little devil!"
"Hmph! You uncultured swine!"
"What did you say?", The tiger roared.
"Shirou," Illya leaned close to his ear, "Don't hold back. Just say the word, I'll take her out by surprise anytime."
"You little brat!", Taiga was fuming, steam almost coming out of her head.
"You two, enough!", Shirou cleaned up the mess all over the floor, "If we don't hurry, we'll all be late today."
"Crap!", Taiga could already foresee that they'd definitely be late today.
Sure enough, although their fight didn't affect the food, cleaning up the living room wasted a lot of time.
———
When they got to school, they were already ten minutes late.
"L-Late?", Miyu had a look like the sky was falling.
She was a model student, and today she was late, by ten minutes no less.
"Sorry, Miyu. I won't let this happen again! It's all that Taiga's fault," Illya sincerely apologized.
'Hmm?'
'Why did Illya so naturally call Fuji-nee by her first name?', Miyu looked at her, eyes full of confusion.
'Are they close, or not?'
"Sorry for being late," First period was Kuzuki-san's class, and Shirou apologized seriously.
But his tone didn't feel sincere at all, not even a hint of fluster or guilt.
Kuzuki adjusted his glasses, "Come in."
"No, I was late. Teacher should punish me."
Shirou: "?"
'What did I just say?'
Perhaps he'd never met a student who actively asked to be punished, Kuzuki's brain seemed to freeze for a moment, then restarted, "To know your mistake and correct it is a great virtue. Come in."
'Teacher, you're the best!', Shirou gave a mental thumbs-up.
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