Within the endless Sea of Imaginary Numbers, a body with eyes slightly closed floated aimlessly. Upon seeing her, the Primordial Mother wanted to draw closer to confirm if she was one of her children.
However, before Tiamat could approach Akatsuki, Akatsuki had already opened her eyes.
Time and space lose all meaning within the Sea of Imaginary Numbers. Akatsuki herself did not possess the Imaginary Numbers attribute; if that Black-haired, straight-haired Loli had sent her future self into the Sea of Imaginary Numbers and sealed her, she might have had to wait a while to find a way out. Unfortunately, to be safe, she had led her future self into the root instead.
After entering the root and returning to the Temple of Time, she became Super Akatsuki. Furthermore, the magical attribute of her familiar in another world line, Matou Sakura, happened to be Imaginary Numbers. The combination of the two allowed her to find the path back with little effort.
However, this planet is fragile. At Akatsuki's current level, even following the path back to the original world would cause a series of irreversible consequences.
It would be bad if she accidentally crushed Tohsaka Rin, Matou Sakura, or anyone else to death.
So, she chose to wait.
Waiting for an opportunity... "From today on, you are my slave!"
Tohsaka Rin declared this while pointing at Illya, who was leaning naked against the outer wall of the bathroom. She had returned to Japan with a mission, but unfortunately, her willful Mystic Code had no intention of cooperating wholeheartedly. Instead, it had dropped her from high altitude and had even found a commoner as its Master. It was simply unreasonable!
"Oh ho, Rin, robbing the cradle is... Wa-wa-wa... Violence is forbidden!"
"ruby, shut up!" Tohsaka Rin felt like she was going crazy as she forcefully pried at the wand in her hand. In recent years, first, a certain True Ancestor who loved teasing people went missing, and then her father, Tohsaka Tokiomi, for some reason restricted her living expenses to the level of a normal life. He called it: 'You are already a mature Magician; you must learn to earn money yourself to ensure your practice of Jewel Sorcery.'
"Ow, ow, ow!!! I said violence is forbidden!!! You violent woman!"
Illya curled her body up and shivered in the corner. Even if it was summer, she couldn't stay outside naked. Having been taught by Lady Justeaze since she was a child, Illya mustered her courage to ask the person and the wand in front of her.
"Can I go back and put some clothes on first?"
On the other side, in Fuyuki City Park.
"sapphire! Get out here! Now is not the time for your selfishness! If you delay any longer and that sow Tohsaka Rin beats us to collecting the class card, what will we do!"
In the darkness, Luvia, who like Tohsaka Rin was looking for the Mystic Code lent to them by the Grand Master, arrived at Fuyuki Park. Although this park, which Fuyuki City spent a lot of money maintaining every year, was not as grand as the Shinto Civic Center, in Luvia's eyes, it barely passed the mark.
In Luvia's view, everything now was due to the selfishness of the Mystic Code, causing the card collection mission to stall shortly after arriving in Japan. If the Grand Master found out about this, she didn't know what would happen. More importantly, if Tohsaka Rin found ruby before she did and collected the cards first, wouldn't she fall behind?!
She would never allow such a thing to happen!
"sapphire! sapphire! Come out now! You..."
By the light of the streetlamps, Luvia saw a young girl holding the sapphire wand and wearing clothes that looked like a cosplay outfit. For a moment, she was stunned in place.
Those clothes were undoubtedly sapphire's handiwork.
"I will do the work of collecting the cards. In exchange, please provide me with a place to stay, food to eat, clothes to wear, and give me a place to belong."
Luvia stared blankly at the girl who had spoken such shocking words. She didn't understand why a girl who had nothing to do with her would say this, but since sapphire had already registered her as its Master, there was no other way.
"Are you serious? Card collection is not child's play; if you're not careful, you could die."
"I know. The class cards can manifest the power of Heroic Spirits through a Magician. It's very dangerous."
Luvia sighed. Since the other party knew about 'class cards' and 'Heroic Spirits,' it meant she was also from this side of the world. The exchange conditions she just mentioned were probably because she was a child from some Magician family who had been expelled for some reason.
This thought only existed for a moment. Luvia didn't think much more about it; since the other party was unwilling to say, she wouldn't ask. She would just treat it as a transaction.
"Since you've said so, then be prepared." Luvia, resigned to her fate, opened the folding fan in her hand. "What's your name?"
"..." The other party was silent for a moment, then deactivated her transformation and answered, "Miyu."
Luvia looked at the girl calling herself 'Miyu' and frowned. Because she wasn't a local, she didn't know if the girl was giving her surname or her given name, but seeing the girl's current outfit, she fell silent.
Clothes, pants, and shoes picked up from who knows where, covered in filth, as if she had just crawled out of a trash can.
For some reason, she was drawn to this 'Miyu'.
"A place to stay, food, clothes, a place to belong..."
With a'snap,' in just a few seconds, Luvia had made her decision. "Miyu, from today on, you will serve as my personal maid. Your job will be a lady's maid, responsible for my daily life. But at the same time, you are also my sworn sister. I grant you the surname 'Edelfelt'!"
"Yes, Miss Luvia."
At this moment, she went from Miyu Sakugetsu to Miyu Emiya (adopted by the Emiya family as Shirou Emiya's sister), then from Miyu Emiya back to Miyu Sakugetsu (taken from Shirou Emiya by Julian), then from Miyu Sakugetsu back to Miyu Emiya (Shirou Emiya's wish after winning against seven), and finally, Miyu Emiya became Miyu Edelfelt (now).
"Auguste... No, Auguste hasn't arrived in Fuyuki City yet... Forget it, that's not important." Luvia pointed her fan at Miyu. "Follow me."
Within the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, Akatsuki stroked Tiamat's massive head. Waiting for the right moment, she was quite bored. She didn't care what purpose the'self' thrown into the root had, as long as she didn't disturb her being a NEET Princess.
The Primordial Mother, Tiamat's true body, was right in front of Akatsuki. She was enormous, though Akatsuki felt the light body produced after her own collapse was even larger.
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