[START OF PART 3]
Mr. Sajyou: “Ayaka. Are you in here?”
It’s passed 2pm same day.
Ayaka is looking at the microwave as she’s warming her food, when he Father walks in. She looks blankly at him, as she thought that nobody was at home. She wonders whether he just got home or if he was in one of the rooms that she wasn’t supposed to enter and if he was home, then did it mean that her sister was at home.
Mr. Sajyou: “Manaka isn’t here. I’ll be leaving soon, too.”
Ayaka nods and then wonders whether she should make two gratins. Before her father asks if she has been studying. Ayaka is wondering which studies he’s referring to, her magic ones or her school ones. So Ayaka quietly says she’s done it meaning she had done her school ones but wasn’t sure if she did her magic ones properly.Ayaka wonders if she has been busted on her lie, but her dad just responds with a “Is that so?” She nods, but her father doesn’t say anything. He then points out that she’s late for lunch and asks her if she followed the memo properly. Ayaka apologizes and says that she forgot to eat it, lying again.She then thinks to herself that she was waiting for her father or big sister to come home as it wouldn’t be delicious if she ate it by herself. Her father then asks her to set the table, she responds with a quiet “yeah.” Her father then corrects saying that she should be saying “yes.”Ayaka goes into the dining room, taking out forks and cups and setting the table. She hears the sound of the microwave and her father walks in carrying two gratins. Ayaka is thinking that they’re gonna eat together. Ayaka then asks about her big sister before eating and drinking her milk.
Ayaka looks at her father and he has a strange look on his face like he wasn’t thinking (like a zombie).
Ayaka: “Father?”
Ayaka says that she hasn’t seen that look on her father before and she has a spine chilling feeling like when she was cooking with her big sister a couple of days ago.
She notes that it was a terribly cold feeling. Her father says Manaka’s name trying to say something.
Mr. Sajyou: “The ritual will be held over a very important period. So take care to never get close to the back room, and I shouldn’t have to hear you calling out to us.”
Ayaka: “Right.”
Ayaka feels like there is someone in the room, nodding as she confirmed that someone was definitely in one of the back rooms that she shouldn’t enter. She then notes a similar experience where she saw a person’s shadow when she was going to the toilet several days ago.
She didn’t think that shadow back then was a bad person and wonders if they were a guest connected to the Holy Grail War. She wanted to ask about it, but she backs down from asking, because she was scared of what her father’s reaction might be. She then asks if her big sister is okay think that she wanted to scrape off the traces of that weird expression off of his face. She examines her father’s appearance, and notes there is a strange helpless feeling in them.
Mr. Sajyou: “That’s…….true. No. no, there’s no problem with Manaka. You shouldn’t worry about her, and I can’t find one problem in the ritual which will achieve this ambition that will come to pass.”
Ayaka: “Is, Is that so?”
Mr. Sajyou: “There’s no problem……..”
Ayaka feels like he is trying to say something, but he can’t for some reason. Before her father goes into a weird rant.
Mr. Sajyou: “Problem? There’s no, problem. She’s above alright. About anything and everything is doing well to the point that the Holy Church feels doubt. It seems that way even to me. Why has everything become like that? I was probably loved by magic, which I know by my natural gifts. I was loved by mysteries. But, even so, with regards to my Servant while he has a human body……..even by swinging his sword I can get to know him until we are already there at the Great Holy Grail’s location. Why? When, how was I able to know it? It easily belonged to me, it doesn’t exist in the many rituals in the Sajyou’s family lineage, I wasn’t taught it…..…. “
Ayaka is completely stunned by what he is saying, and doesn’t want to hear it.
Her father’s figure who was mumbling complaints about something, disregarding her who was in front of his eyes was very………
――――It was, very weird.
[END OF PART 3]