With the Spirit Twins falling unconscious, the tumultuous night finally passed.
In the morning, harsh sunlight spilled onto the beach, illuminating the cool sands of Hitogami Island.
Despite yesterday's baptism by heavy rain, it couldn't dampen everyone's excitement. The noise from the inn grew louder and louder.
Soon after, the inn's main door was flung open, and groups of boys and girls in swimsuits walked out of the inn.
They carried beach balls, or brought along swimming rings, beach mats, and parasols as they left the inn, heading out with excited hearts.
This was the first day of Laichan Middle School's school trip. Due to the weather yesterday, they hadn't been able to properly enjoy Hitogami Island's beach. Today, they intended to make up for what they had missed.
Although the beach was very attractive, with many beautiful girls in swimsuits showcasing their lovely figures, some people chose to stay in the inn instead of going out.
Illya, who had woken up early, declined Kurumi's invitation to go out and have fun. She stayed alone in the inn, sitting on the floor drinking tea while listening to the joyful sounds from outside.
This made ruby somewhat unable to bear it. With so many beautiful girls in swimsuits outside, it had to stay in the inn with Illya—it was too boring.
"Really, why not go play with them, Illya-san? Are you worried about the swimsuit issue?"
"Actually, you don't need to worry about the swimsuit exposing your modest figure. Your setting was originally that of an Elementary School Student. And Illya-san in a swimsuit is very cute; you definitely wouldn't lose to those guys outside!"
"You just want to go out and take pictures, right? Don't think I don't know you have a storage function similar to a camera."
ruby had a storage function akin to a camera. sapphire, in order to investigate a certain matter, had once seen ruby's memories through some method.
As Illya recalled, it seemed to be about ruby peeping on Illya, the three Little Lolis, Tohsaka Rin, and another girl while they were bathing. However, that memory was eventually deleted by sapphire.
Illya believed this guy must have recorded what happened yesterday, but she didn't say it out loud because she knew ruby would absolutely not delete that memory.
Probably aware of the trouble it caused yesterday, ruby didn't recklessly continue speaking. It just swayed its body discontentedly, flying around the room.
Soon, Illya, who was drinking tea in the room, heard sounds from outside. Not long after, the room door was pushed open, and a girl with orange long hair peeked her little head inside, looking into the room.
"You've come, Yatogami Yakushi. I thought you would arrive sooner."
It seemed Illya had known Yakushi would come. Her expression was calm as she drank tea, emanating an aura that made Yakushi uneasy, like some kind of master.
ruby quietly moved above Illya and discovered that the tea in Illya's cup had actually been finished long ago. She had only been striking a pose of drinking tea just now to put on an act.
What? You say you were really drinking tea? Are you trying to make me laugh? Could it be you were drinking air tea?
"Pardon the intrusion."
Having witnessed Illya's intimidating power, Yakushi spoke cautiously, entering the room very carefully.
At this moment, she lacked her previous chuunibyou demeanor. Stripped of that chuunibyou exterior, she was just an ordinary girl with the identity of a Spirit.
"Um... you seem to know I would come. Do you know the purpose of my visit?"
Yakushi couldn't help but ask. Illya's mysterious demeanor made Yakushi feel that the other had already anticipated the purpose of her visit.
Coupled with the scenes from inside the Imaginary Space yesterday, Yakushi became convinced of this idea. This An extraordinary loli must know the purpose of her coming.
"Hehe~ What other purpose could you have? The person closest to you is Yatogami Yuzuru, and the thing you care about most should also be Yatogami Yuzuru, right?"
Although phrased as a question, the affirmative tone made Yakushi certain that Illya definitely knew the purpose of her visit this time.
Taking a deep breath to calm her nervous emotions, Yakushi performed a dogeza on the floor, lowering her head with a sincere attitude.
"The purpose of my coming is actually to hope you can help me. Help me realize this A faint wish. I cannot do this myself, but I have a Premonition that you can definitely help me accomplish this."
"Oh? A woman's intuition? And something even you can't do? Are you actually trying to get rid of me, an outsider?"
Illya looked at Yakushi curiously. She was very interested in what Yakushi had said and wanted to know what she wanted to ask her for.
What kind of slim hope was it that even Yakushi couldn't achieve?
Yakushi clenched her right hand, and her expression grew increasingly agitated as she thought of the wish in her heart.
The reason she hadn't acted with Yuzuru was that she didn't want Yuzuru to know about this matter. Yuzuru absolutely couldn't know about it.
"I..."
"Wait a minute... things seem to be getting more interesting."
Just as Yakushi was about to speak, Illya suddenly raised a hand to stop her and looked towards the sliding door of the room.
Because the inn had wooden floors, footsteps could definitely be heard clearly.
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