Zongman: Evolution Paradise

"You're nowhere to be found, and Sakura's gone too. I thought..."

"Hey!"

Just as Rin was about to continue blaming Jolyne, she saw Yukino Yukinoshita sitting in front of the car.

In Rin Tohsaka's eyes, she was an English teacher named Taiga Fujimura, which made Rin immediately stop her unladylike behavior and give Jolyne a "you're dead" look.

She could only see Jolyne and Yukino Yukinoshita; the other Heroic Spirits were all nearby, but they had all been hidden by Medea's magic.

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at Rin Tohsaka, unsure how to express her inner thoughts.

"No way, there are actually people who believe that terrorists used gas to blow up a school?!"

Is gas explosion a rule in the Fate world?

Jolyne replied to Yukino Yukinoshita with her eyes: "Don't ask, the answer is a gas explosion."

With so much happening yesterday, Jolyne naturally didn't notice Rin Tohsaka, who was searching for him everywhere.

It's complicated to explain, and with Medea present, Jolyne showed no intention of doing so.

Medea smiled and ran her hand across Rin Tohsaka's eyes, instantly making her stare blankly.

"I'll ask you, you answer: Where did Tokiomi Tohsaka go?"

"died."

"How did you die?"

"He died in a fire ten years ago."

Rin Tohsaka's answer completely confirmed Jolyne's and Yukino Yukinoshita's suspicions.

After all, this is the third Fourth War Master to die in the fire ten years ago.

If this can still be considered a coincidence, then Jolyne needs to investigate whether someone else is secretly writing destiny.

Chapter 236 The Future Battle for the Righteous Wife

Rin Tohsaka is the current head of the Tohsaka family, so she must know more inside information.

Jolyne continued, "What caused the great fire ten years ago?"

This question caused Rin Tohsaka's eyes to flicker, and she even showed signs of breaking free from control. This made Medea let out a soft exclamation and quickly increase her magic output. If an ordinary person were to break free from magic, it would be a real disgrace for the class of magician.

Calmed down by magic, Rin Tohsaka answered tremblingly, "They all say that the fire ten years ago was caused by the Tohsaka family... They had too much debt, and the Tohsaka family was almost bankrupt due to the compensation... I became the current head of the Tohsaka family and have been trying to make up for the family's losses in that fire..."

After that, Rin Tohsaka didn't mention any more valuable information.

She wasn't entirely clear on what exactly happened ten years ago, or rather, even if she had known everything back then, it had already been altered.

After all, Zouken Matou of the Matou family had become an ordinary old man in the incident ten years ago when the supernatural powers were expelled. At that time, Rin Tohsaka was just a little girl who had just learned a little magic, so how could she possibly resist?

After asking the questions, Medea used magic to make Rin Tohsaka forget everything and go home. Turning her attention to her master, Medea asked, "Shall we go find that Shirou Emiya now?"

"of course."

Jolyne had been eagerly anticipating seeing the protagonist for a long time.

After all, with his leg broken, who wouldn't want to help Shirou Emiya jump high on the playground again?

It might be able to summon Alaya directly.

As she was leaving, Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly remembered something, turned to look at Jolyne, and asked curiously, "By the way, I remember you took her sister into that space, right?"

"Yes, Matou Sakura is indeed inside."

Sakura Matou is currently in the workshop, and Jolyne didn't try to hide it, giving a direct affirmative answer. I wonder why Yukino Yukinoshita brought this up.

"Ugh."

Yukino first sighed dramatically, then looked at Jolyne with a sorrowful gaze, leaving Jolyne puzzled.

"I thought Lady Jolyne would take that twin-tailed girl with her too, since they are quite rare twins, and I felt she would be the type Lady Jolyne likes."

Without a doubt, when Yukino Yukinoshita changed her address from Jolyne to Jolyne-sama, she was definitely trying to get back at him verbally.

Jolyne raised an eyebrow and immediately retorted, "Miss Yukinoshita, I remember you also have an older sister, right?"

"……I was wrong."

After a moment of silence, Yukino Yukinoshita began to regret her words. Although she and her sister didn't get along very well, Yukino Yukinoshita still didn't want Jolyne and Yukinoshita Haruno to be involved.

Lily, who was Medea's mouth double, quickly hugged her and cutely pointed to herself, saying, "Why do you need to go find any sisters? Medea and I are right here with Master."

When Lily mentioned it, Medea gave Lily a reproachful look, then brushed her braid behind her ear and observed her master's reaction.

In some ways, Lily and Medea's relationship is much more interesting than that of ordinary sisters.

“Of course, Lily.”

Jolyne ruffled Lily's hair and gave Yukino Yukinoshita a provocative look.

"Miss Yukinoshita, do you think I'm the kind of person who needs sisters?"

Seeing Jolyne's meaning, Yukino Yukinoshita retorted with her eyes, "Lord Jolyne is truly amazing. I admire you greatly. I just hope that Lord Jolyne won't be killed by a woodcutter's axe someday."

"A machete?"

Jolyne is indeed having a bit of a headache. Lily and Medusa are a little better off, but Esdeath and Medea are both the kind of people who believe "the main wife must belong to me."

Jolyne had already put in a considerable amount of effort just to get the two of them to get along normally like this. It was unimaginable what kind of offensive they would launch if they encountered the current main heroine, Saeko Busujima, in the main world.

"It's a bit troublesome..."

Thinking about the possible scenarios, Jolyne suddenly felt that this Holy Grail War could end a little later.

Hmm... We can spend more time developing our relationship later, and we can also invite Saeko and the others from the main world to Fuyuki City for a hot spring bath so everyone can get to know each other better first.

Banishing these troublesome thoughts from her mind, Jolyne said, "If nothing unexpected happens, I will return Matou Sakura and Matou Zouken to this world after the Holy Grail War."

Jolyne cannot guarantee anything until she knows the true nature of the extinction event in Fuyuki City.

After hearing the flag that Matou Sakura had set, and thinking that she had called him "Onii-chan" a few times, Jolyne casually decided to put her in the workshop.

On the one hand, it can avoid the ridiculous plot of "the female lead is kidnapped and the enemy asks the male lead to give up resistance".

On the other hand, with no one she knew anymore, Jolyne's need to maintain her identity naturally decreased.

Only by detaching oneself from the identity of Shinji Matou can one do things that were originally inconvenient to do.

"If everything goes well, let Matou Sakura and Tohsaka Rin be best friends in this world."

Jolyne made a decisive decision.

The car arrived safely at the hospital provided by Rin Tohsaka, ridden by Saber.

Judging from the signs outside, this is a large private hospital. The exterior design alone is enough to deter many people with limited budgets.

Even now, during these two quiet times, neither in the early morning nor in the late afternoon, the building is already bustling with people.

Since there were no parking spaces nearby, Jolyne had to manually return the vehicle to her workshop after parking it nearby.

"Lily's Otherworldly Adventure, Part 3!"

Lily looked ahead, raised her arms in front of her, and shouted energetically.

Ignoring Lily's energy, Medea snapped her fingers at her younger self without expression, making up for the regret of not being beaten when she was a child.

"Ugh... What are you doing?!"

Ignoring Lily's resistance once again, Medea used magic to sense the situation in the hospital, and shook her head in confusion, saying, "I still can't sense any magic."

"Could it be that the other person isn't here either?"

Esdeath was a little irritated. After what happened yesterday, although she had already released her urge to fight with her master, she was still itching to do so.

Saber and Medusa stood together, not caring too much about these things. After all, other Servants and Masters had to consider these matters, and the two of them only needed to fulfill their duties as double-flower red sticks.

On the other side, Yukino Yukinoshita looked at Jolyne's actions with a question mark on her face.

"Lord Jolyne, what are you doing?"

"Let's pick flowers."

"I know, but what flowers are you picking?"

"In the flower bed."

"..."

"Miss Yukinoshita, you have no manners at all. You didn't even bring a bouquet of flowers when you visited a patient."

"???"

Chapter 237 Emiya Shirou

Fuyuki City, judging from its name, sounds like a cold city where it snows heavily for months on end.

But Fuyuki is actually a small seaside town in the far east of Japan with a warm climate. You can even find hot springs there, and you rarely encounter cold weather.

Today, the weather in Fuyuki City was as sunny and breezy as ever.

"Could you please open the window?"

The red-haired boy sitting on the hospital bed spoke in a gentle tone.

Before him stood a beautiful nurse in a white uniform, her skirt barely covering her thighs, and below that, white stockings that hugged the shape of a young girl's legs, with lace trim around the edges.

However, this nurse was a bit careless. Despite the patient's needs, she was still focused on the apple in her hand. She was peeling the apple, and the peel kept extending and hanging down to her hand, as if she was trying to peel off the whole apple in one go.

"Could you please open the window?"

The red-haired boy was not impatient and spoke again.

The nurse snapped out of her daze, quickly put down the half-peeled apple, and approached the bedside, replying, "Oh, okay, Mr. Emiya."

The hospital bed was right next to the window. Because there were two sides, and given that the red-haired boy was lying flat under the blanket, he probably couldn't get up to open the other side.

The nurse helped open the window, and looking out from there, you could see the hospital's main entrance.

The streets were bustling with people, a microcosm of life in Fuyuki City unfolding here. The red-haired boy surveyed the scenery outside, a hint of doubt creeping onto his smiling lips.

The ornamental flowers he often looked at in the flowerbeds on both sides of the road seemed to have bald patches.

Just as the red-haired boy was wondering what was going on, the door to the ward opened, and a man and a woman walked in.

The woman was his guardian, Fujimura Taiga, who hadn't come over for the past few days, and the red-haired boy had worried that something might have happened to her.

The appearance of the man beside him made the red-haired boy hesitate.

Shinji Matou?

He hadn't seen this friend for a long time.

The red-haired boy hesitated for a moment, but Jolyne had already walked ahead, looking at the patient with surprise and handing him a bouquet of flowers tied with a hair tie.

Jolyne whispered, "Emiya Shirou..."

The protagonist of the Fate universe, Shirou Emiya, hesitantly accepted the bouquet of flowers. They still smelled of soil and dew, and looked like they had just been picked.

Just picked?

Isn't this the one in the flower bed downstairs?

Although somewhat confused, Shirou Emiya stopped thinking about it. Instead, he placed the flowers by the bedside, looked at his friend, and asked, "Shinji?"

"Um...it's me."

Jolyne looked around the ward and saw nothing unusual except for a sweet-looking nurse.

Medea activated her magic and examined the object closely. She was about to shake her head in denial, but then stopped. Looking at Shirou Emiya on the sickbed, she was also a little unsure.

However, isn't being unsure the same as being certain?

Under the nurse's hesitant gaze, Jolyne picked up the half-peeled apple and sat on the hospital bed.

Well... anyway, Shirou Emiya doesn't have legs, so there's no need to worry about him being crushed.

Shinji Matou's behavior left Shirou Emiya somewhat bewildered. Scratching his head, he turned to Taiga Fujimura and asked, "Fujimura-nee, has anything happened lately?"