Xingyue, is Xiaokai also considered Kai?

Snapped!

High five.

Click!

The camera that Ilya handed to the old man in the security room; the sound of the camera being photographed.

"Ivia—"

Then, Ilya suddenly reached out her hand, her eyes shining, and looked at Ivia with a smile that would make anyone happy.

"Please continue to guide me in the future!"

As a result, he was captured, just like Shirou Emiya had been before.

"Me too, after all, Ilya, you are my first love."

"..."

The security guard pretended to have a stern, expressionless face, but he couldn't suppress the urge to smile. He silently gave a thumbs-up and happily took one last photo.

Under the cherry blossoms blooming at the entrance of Suiqunyuan Elementary School, next to a sign that reads "Graduation Ceremony," stand two children with similar hair colors. The girl's hand reaches behind the boy's back, around his shoulder, and she secretly makes a peace sign.

A gentle spring breeze was blowing, a warm breeze belonging to spring, which ruffled the hair of the two people.

Then, in an instant, time seemed to stand still at that moment.

……

Meanwhile, somewhere not far from the primary school.

"Huh? Shirou? Where's Illya? Didn't I ask you to take a picture with her first?"

Sera, carrying bags of groceries, looked at Shirou with a puzzled expression. "Did your club just end today? Wait, you left from that direction, didn't you? What's going on? Has Illya already gone home?"

"No, it's just to give Ilya some private space. Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to perform well if there were people she knows around."

Shirou explained in a matter-of-fact tone.

"What do you mean? Private space? Could it be that you finally couldn't resist the urge to harm your sister? Mrs. Alice, it's my fault. Now I can only drag Shirou down to hell with me. Please forgive my incompetence all these years."

"..."

Looking at Sera's fierce expression, Shirou felt a little embarrassed and scratched his head. "I've always wanted to say that it's just normal family affection."

"Family affection? You mean when someone rushes to you when something happy happens, and all sorts of other things? People like you, with your gentle nature, are the easiest to like, okay? You should be more aware of that."

“I really want to deny what you said later, Sera, but let’s talk about what you said earlier.”

"?"

"Because they're family, that's why they're so open about it. After all, how could you be so open about having a crush or something?"

Shirou chuckled, recalling how Illya kept glancing in another direction during the photo shoot, her hands rubbing together, and her hesitant expression—it was all too obvious. This only made his smile widen.

"That's what it means to be careful, isn't it?"

"I don't understand what you're talking about at all. Anyway, is Ilya still at school?"

"In and..."

Shirou paused, seemingly remembering Illya's denial, then smiled again, "Let's take pictures with the girl who sits next to us at the school gate. Anyway, let's not bother her now; she's finally so happy."

"Since you've put it that way, then fine..."

Sera nodded, then turned around and saw Liselle, carrying a camera, swaggering behind her. "Liselle? What are you doing out here? And if you hadn't accidentally thrown away the groceries I bought as trash, I wouldn't be so late! I missed this year's Ilya photos!"

"Oh, it's Sera. I'm so sorry, I lost it by accident."

Lizzie's tone showed absolutely no remorse.

"Forget it, what are you doing now? Lu Xiang?"

"I'm filming the 'magical' moments of White Magical Girl. As a fan, I submitted it to Musashi's website to see if I can add any new storylines or characters. I received a reply to my previous submission saying it was a super great submission and it's already firmly in number one in popularity. If there's more content, we can add new magical girls to the show."

Lizzie gently waved the camera in her hand and continued calmly.

"When Madam comes back that day, she'll play the new Musashi character for Illya in front of everyone in the family: Ah, pure and flawless, more dazzling than colorless, the white magical girl... Hehe, I'm really looking forward to little Illya's expression at that time, just thinking about it is so interesting."

……

Time flies like an arrow; after a short three-day holiday, we entered the fifth grade of elementary school.

However, the arrival of the new grade didn't feel like much had changed for Ilya; it was still the same old routine. Perhaps it was because Ilya was able to give some answers when I was telling the story of Musashi, and she dared to look me in the eye for more than ten seconds... or rather, she could stare at me intently.

As for the three members of the 'Assist Ilya in Conquering Ivia' group, they were in a very difficult situation.

Not to mention that Karen's infirmary wasn't locked up as they had hoped because of her little tricks, and Karen even caught them red-handed, which almost made the person who came to get her furious. But they were persistent, pestering Karen every day during lunchtime to intercept her, although the effect wasn't much.

One night, as usual, Ilya returned the love letter to Ivia. After finishing her homework at home, she watched some Magical Girl Samurai and then went to take a bath.

Feeling the warm water all around her, Ilya closed her eyes and pondered how to dictate today's plot to Ivia tomorrow. If she didn't know that Ivia was still living in a tent, Ilya would have already planned to give her the DVD. But since she knew, there was no way around it; dictating it wasn't out of the question.

"Hmmmm~"

Ilya hummed Musashi's Ed and gently patted the Lion-kun doll floating in the water. Then she took out the magic wand that she had carefully kept after receiving it that day and started drawing randomly in the water.

"Pure and flawless, no one can surpass her, hehe..."

Since she was alone now, Ilya felt less embarrassed reciting those words.

"Noble and elegant, none can compare with her."

Then she got up and went to the other end of the bath, lowering her voice.

"Silence, silence... What is that?"

It was just a little game, but Ilya would play it once or twice a day while taking a bath. However, today, when she came to the other side, she noticed that a red light seemed to be flashing in the window.

Curious about what it might be, Ilya stood up and went to the window, squinting to see what it was, but she couldn't see clearly. The only thing she could sense was that it seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

Therefore, Ilya, who felt like a shooting star, immediately gripped her magic wand with both hands and made a wishing gesture.

Shooting star, my wish is—

"Huh?! How is this possible?! I was actually bounced back?! By a cheap magic girl wand??? It's all Rin's fault for using up too much of my magic girl power, and I can't get it replenished!"

Upon hearing the strange noise, Ilya opened her eyes and saw only a red magic wand that had appeared out of nowhere in the bathroom, and it was speaking!

This nearly scared Ilya to death; she shakily reached out her hand.

"That you—"

"Nice to meet you, I am the magic wand of love and justice~"

The red magic wand moved as if it were a person, "Little Ruby, over there, little girl, would you like to try becoming a magical girl?"

The air froze. Ilya and Ruby stared at each other for over ten seconds, but remained silent.

Ruby felt she needed to intensify her efforts, otherwise it might be difficult to win him over, so she said sweetly:

Are you my companion?

"Become a magical girl and join me in defeating 'the one I consider evil'~"

What exactly is going on with this thing...?

"Oh, were you just thinking 'how fake'?"

"No, no... um."

Seeing the black line on Illya's face, Ruby approached Illya, causing Illya to quickly wave her hand, but ultimately nod in acknowledgment.

"Oh dear, how pathetic! Are there no more gullible girls in modern times who dream of magical girls?"

What has this guy been rambling on about from the very beginning? I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about...

"Oh my, little Ivia, you're always waving your magic wand while you're taking a bath. It would be so sad for a magical girl to refuse you like this. Come on, be a magical girl and see how you can fly freely through the sky! Or shoot enemies with beams of light."

"Um, actually, that's not my name..."

Ilya retorted to Ruby in a low voice.

"But the magic wand in your hand..."

Ruby paused, then her tone became cheerful. "Ah, I get it. It's about having a crush, right? You engraved the name of your crush on something very symbolic, right? That's really youthful. Not bad at all."

"I feel like I can't keep up with your pace at all..."

Seeing that Ilya still wouldn't listen to reason, and looking at the Ruby's performance just now, he unleashed his ultimate attack—

"You can also use the magic of love to be all lovey-dovey with the person you like!"

"!"

"You reacted to that one just now, right? Your crush is this Ivia, right? Right!"

"No la!"

Ilya quickly shook her head, "No, not at all! It was just an accident. I got it in front of the zoo earlier. Before that, I helped my senior get two tickets, then tore one up and came back to life, so I had to give it away. After thinking about it, the only person I could give it to was the new student sitting behind me. As for helping with the cleaning—"

"Wow, suddenly being so serious and eager is really suspicious."

Ruby boasted, "But they're actually classmates? What an old story."

"No, I'm not old and toothless! And who exactly are you?!"

Enraged, Ilya instinctively grabbed her magic wand and swung it at the ruby.

Oh dear, little girl, a mere plastic magic wand can't hit me or hurt me!

The confident Ruby simply waited for the girl to easily dodge and then fall to the ground—

Oh dear, what an innocent child! Why... can't I move?!

The next moment, the ruby ​​was indeed knocked to the ground.

"This, how is this possible... Me, could it be that your magical girl power is too high, little girl? Ah, I'm dead."

After saying that, Ruby lay motionless on the ground as if dead.

"Is he really dead? He looks so strange..."

Crouching down and gazing at the unknown magic wand, Ilya murmured, "I should just throw it away."

But when she raised the magic wand, ready to throw it out the window, she realized she couldn't move it. She turned her head and saw that her finger was bleeding.

And the red magic wand, which was thought to be 'dead,' started talking again:

"It was much easier to hook than I expected."

"The bloodline was used to verify the owner's identity, a usage contract was formed through contact, and then the girl's power of love, which served as the key to activation, was all done in one smooth motion. Thank you for your cooperation~"

"Come on, there's only one last step. Say your name out loud—"

"I, Illyasviel von Einzbern!"

"Contract complete, Mirror Corridor fully expanded. Not bad, she's a rather adorable magical girl~ Illya~ I doubt anyone could resist her cuteness~"

……

The next day, early morning.

Last night, Ilya was caught up in a series of events due to the arrival of a strange magic wand. As soon as she arrived at school, she listlessly slumped onto her desk. At the same time, she kept groping around in the drawer of her desk, hoping to find out what would happen. In the end, she pulled out two bottles of milk.

This was actually because last night, after Ilya met Rin Tohsaka, the original owner of the Ruby, and discussed helping her find the card, she specially transformed into her magical girl form and went to the school at night to do what she had always wanted to do, which was to find an opportunity to deliver milk to Ilya, since she was thinking that after running away from home for so long, she might not be getting enough nutrition.

But no matter how early she got up in the morning, she couldn't get up as early as Ivia, and there was nothing she could do after school. So Ivia kept thinking about what to do, but the power of the magical girl gave her a solution.

And as she expected, Ivia knew that she had sent it herself, which is why she returned it.

Therefore, she perked up, turned around, and gave Ivia a thumbs-up:

"That's amazing! As expected of Ivia, she's truly incredible!"

Ilya sighed inwardly: "Finally, I can say those words in a reasonable way..."

"Can you finish two bottles by yourself?"

Upon hearing this, Ilya, who had been pouting, immediately turned back and muttered softly, "Two bottles are fine, it's not like I can't drink them all."

Ilya is so cute, she actually came to school in the middle of the night to deliver something to her crush—

Ruby, who was secretly peeping into Illya's bag, was marveling at how this was the mindset a magical girl should have. However, Ruby saw the silver-haired boy sitting behind Illya making eye contact with her.

Even if it was only for a brief moment, Ruby was certain that this was not an accident, but rather that he had truly discovered himself and seen through his... true nature.

No, Ilya, my new master, is this boy sitting behind you, this Ivia, really the ordinary person you described as "actually alright," "misogynistic," "aloof," "basically just okay," and "who might actually secretly like magical girls"?