Xyrin Empire

Chapter 537: 537

Ilya had stayed in Shadow City for two days but ultimately had to return to her world. Believe it or not, Miss Tohsaka was now looking after this young girl. She had arranged a school for Ilya in Britain and they were going to live together. Ilya was staying put because she was waiting for a new body, which was why she hadn’t left with Tohsaka until now. Now, she needed to return to attend school.

It was evident that the little girl had quite a grudge about having to attend elementary school obediently.

Anyway, I was certainly taken aback when I heard the news. Tohsaka Rin? The penny-pinching miss who would buy almost-expired instant noodles, who would scrape off the gold plating from her dad’s old mirrors to sell it and replace it with copper, who would note down even a single borrowed dollar in her memo—she was taking care of Ilya and arranging her education and living situation?

Had that girl recently thrown herself into the Somali business or something?

I was not really worried about Tohsaka’s ability to take care of Ilya. Despite bearing the title of a ‘Miss,’ Tohsaka was absolutely not a delicate princess type. She had faced poverty from a young age and was quite adept at life; she knew how to sustain herself on the lowest cost or pull out all stops to support her family business. A girl ‘seasoned’ by such experiences surely wouldn’t falter in daily life, but rather, I doubted the idea that Tohsaka, who would occasionally be excessively stingy, had suddenly come into a fortune. Where had she found such money to become so generous?

“Big brother, do you remember that the night before you left, Sister Tohsaka stopped Pandora and said she needed help?”

That was the question I posed to the other party before Ilya’s departure.

“I kind of remember, but Pandora later mentioned it was just a trivial matter, and I didn’t probe further… uh, I think I can guess what Tohsaka was up to.”

“That’s right,” Ilya, standing at the World Gate and waving her little hand, looked nonchalant, “Now, Sister Tohsaka is wealthy! She said she wasn’t comfortable leaving me with brother Shirou and, having recently come into some money, decided to take me along… Well, Ilya does wish she could stay in Japan so she could visit big brother often.”

I was momentarily stunned, eventually letting out a sigh: a penniless miss truly knew no bounds!

Also, let’s not forget, Ilya, aren’t you actually older than Emiya Kiritsugu and Tohsaka Rin? Calling them ‘big brother’ and ‘big sister’ at your age, isn’t that an issue? We only need one Lili doing the false loli act without morals!

Although, from all aspects, Ilya did belong to the ‘Loli’ category in her Race column…