Chapter 23

Emiya Shirou just wanted to speak, but suddenly felt that his sleeve seemed to be grabbed by someone.

He turned his head subconsciously and found that Elysia hid behind him shyly, her immature face was slightly pale, and her pink pupils, which had always been filled with joy and carefree, also flashed extremely rarely. There was an unprecedented look of fear.

Emiya Shirou couldn't help being a little puzzled, since the day he took Elysia out of the house and in contact with the outside world, this child has always been an extremely cheerful, social terrorist who is not at all shy.

When the spring snow melts, she will send the flowers she picked to every acquaintance; when the sun is shining, she will take the initiative to go to the farmland outside the town to help other residents in the town harvest the orchard together. When the harvest season is coming; when the fallen leaves are flying, she will paste the fallen leaves of various colors into lovely picture scrolls, and tell other children the stories she hears every night; Draw the shape of the note and sing the ballad from the book without any scruples.

Even in the face of strangers, Elysia will always show a pure and friendly smile. It is also because the child naturally opens up to everyone she meets to the point that she integrates so quickly with the residents of this small town.

As it is now, it is probably the first time in Emiya Shirou's memory that he had seen Elysia with such an emotion close to fear compared to when she met a previous outsider for the first time.

Although he was puzzled, Emiya Shirou didn't think much about it. After all, before today, Elysia had never encountered such a long line of military jeep convoys all parked in front of her. In addition to the woman who rolled down the window, both her appearance and her speech, there is also a fierce and violent atmosphere everywhere in the voice, which will make people feel intimidated.

Not to mention Elysia, even Emiya Shirou himself couldn't help being a little apprehensive when he saw the picture of the long convoy suddenly stopping in front of them in the yellow sand flying wantonly.

Suppressing a little uneasiness in his heart, Emiya Shirou held Elysia's tender little hand that was slightly sweating, and squeezed it gently, signaling her not to worry, and then took a step forward, using his body, which was even shorter than Elysia's, stood in front of her calmly.

He raised his head, looked straight at Himeko's sharp gaze without the slightest fear, and took a deep breath gently: "Sorry, there are only two of us in our family."

According to normal thinking logic, when the two children are facing strangers alone, Emiya Shirou should try to avoid talking about his family situation to each other.

After all, no one can guarantee whether the strangers have good intentions or evil intentions towards them, but after carefully looking at Himeko's clothes and the outfits of other people in the car window, Emiya Shirou, who realized that the other party was probably a soldier, decided to reveal his information first.

After all, since the other party is a soldier, they must be able to easily find out his personal information through official means. Since concealment itself has lost its meaning, he might as well use this kind of information that will inevitably be exposed to get as much information as possible from the other party. Over there in exchange for some trust...even a degree of sympathy.

Emiya Shirou is not the kind of rigid person who will abide by all the rules. Rather, since the day he started learning magic, he has embarked on a path that has little to do with the word "rules". Especially on occasions when someone needed his care, even if he felt a little sorry for these soldiers, he didn't mind using them a little bit in a way that didn't touch their bottom line and wouldn't cause them any harm.

Sure enough, just as Emiya Shirou thought, after he said those words, the harsh atmosphere around Himeko froze suddenly, replaced by a strong embarrassment and bewilderment.

She subconsciously apologized: "Cough...sorry, I didn't know..."

As the youngest captain of Fire Moth at this stage, Himeko's fighting ability and psychological quality are beyond normal, but in terms of social experience, who sharpened herself as a sharp edge is not even as good as Emiya Shirou who has been living in the town.

In addition, Emiya Shirou's immature appearance of only six years old is indeed too vague, so Himeko is completely unaware that he has been secretly calculated by the other party without knowing it.

"It's okay, Auntie." Emiya Shirou shook his head, calmly pretending to be tender, "However, let me ask, why did you block this town? Did something happen in the town?"

"Ah... Auntie??"

Himeko's face turned blue, she straightened her face and forced herself to say in a stern tone: "This is the business of us adults, children should not worry about it. Also, you should call me sister, not auntie! I am too young!"

After saying this in a bit of embarrassment, Himeko suddenly opened the car door and jumped out of the passenger seat.

"You, sit in the co-pilot." She opened the back seat door, gave an order to a female soldier sitting on the seat, and immediately pouted in the direction of Emiya Shirou and Elysia, not holding back "You two, get in the car and we'll take you back to town."

"..."

Emiya Shirou frowned slightly.

Based on his past experience, he silently took one of the class cards out of the simulator's warehouse into his trouser pocket, then turned his head and looked at Elysia with a consulting look. Elysia glanced.

After noticing Emiya Shirou's gaze, Elysia was stunned for a moment because she didn't understand, but in the next second, she was smart and immediately understood the meaning of this gaze.

Emiya Shiro was asking for his own opinion.

If she thinks it's okay, then they will get into the other person's car together, but if she shakes her head here, Emiya Shirou will try to reject the other's proposal.

No matter what choice Elysia makes, Emiya Shirou will do his best to cooperate with her.

This is not only an all-round consideration for her, but also a manifestation of full trust in her.

No matter what the reason was, it was an undeniable fact that Elysia felt afraid at this moment.

Now that he has already made up his mind to take good care of Elysia, for Emiya Shirou, it is of course his responsibility to keep her away from the things she fears.

After understanding this, Elysia suddenly didn't feel afraid, instead, she was filled with sweetness and warmth from her heart.

She shook Emiya Shirou's palm and lightly blinked her big eyes that no longer showed any fear, and the pink pupils were as dazzling as ever.

Seeing the tacit interaction between these two little puppies, Himiko, who has been single until now, suddenly felt an indescribable heartache and a feeling that his entire stomach was completely filled with dog food.