"Are you sure buying this is fine?"
In a bookstore, Tohru looked at Mordred with a doubtful expression.
Mordred had used "having something she wanted to buy" as an excuse to lure Tohru out, so naturally she had to buy something—otherwise it would look far too suspicious.
So Mordred casually picked a shop, then randomly grabbed an item from the shelves, planning to say this was what she wanted to buy.
The problem was that Mordred had a careless personality. When choosing items, she completely failed to pay attention to what kind of shop she had entered.
She chose a bookstore, and only after stepping inside did she realize that the shelves were filled with books.
Panicking, she randomly pulled one down without even checking the cover and immediately said she wanted to buy it.
Only after speaking did she discover the horrifying truth—
What she was holding wasn't a normal book at all, but an H-manga.
Worse still, Tohru had already clearly seen the book in her hands, making it impossible for Mordred to put it back even if she wanted to.
"Y-yes, I want to buy this."
Facing Tohru's suspicious gaze, Mordred's smile stiffened to the extreme, but she could only grit her teeth and nod.
This was bad.
In Tohru's eyes, she had probably already turned into a strange person who "specifically went out just to buy H-manga."
If Tohru knew Mordred's usual personality, she would probably already be full of doubts.
A tomboyish knight deliberately coming out to buy H-manga?
No matter how one looked at it, something was definitely wrong.
However, Tohru didn't understand Mordred and didn't know that her character design was absolutely not the type to buy H-manga.
So at this moment, she merely regarded Mordred as a somewhat closet perverted girl. Although speechless, she still helped pay for it.
While paying, Tohru couldn't help but complain:
"It's just buying a book. Why did you have to drag me along? I thought you needed to buy a lot of things and couldn't carry them by yourself."
Originally, Tohru had followed Mordred out because she thought Mordred needed help moving items.
After all, Tohru was a dragon—and one who could use magic. Even if many heavy items were bought, she could easily bring them home.
She just hadn't expected that after coming out, Mordred only bought a single book.
This was completely wasting time.
"I've bought the book, so let's go back."
After leaving the bookstore with Mordred, Tohru prepared to return. She still needed to prepare dinner.
Although there were still maids left behind by the Shinomiya family in Shin's house, she still preferred to cook personally.
She was even thinking about whether she could find another chance to feed Shin more of her tail meat.
"Uh… wait, I still have things to buy."
However, Mordred clearly wasn't planning to return yet.
She knew very well how terrifying Shin's stamina and endurance were.
At school today, she had already been tormented by Shin for a long time.
Given Shin's abilities, Rin Tohsaka and the others at home were probably still not finished even now.
According to Reines's plan, Mordred had to stall Tohru for a while longer.
Originally, Mordred didn't want to cooperate at all.
But Reines had told her that if she refused, she could just wait to be dragged into the "battle" later.
Having already been exhausted all morning, Mordred really didn't want to suffer again, so she could only grit her teeth and cooperate.
"There's more?"
Tohru frowned slightly as she looked at Mordred.
She had already vaguely sensed that Mordred's actions had some hidden purpose.
However, no matter how she thought about it, she couldn't imagine that Mordred was stalling her so Shin could do bad things at home.
Considering that Mordred could be regarded as a "guest," Tohru finally chose to continue accompanying her.
After all, she was Shin's maid.
A maid couldn't neglect guests.
Seeing that Tohru didn't seem to plan on investigating further, Mordred quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just now, she had clearly felt an extremely dangerous aura from Tohru—an instinctive suppression that even affected her bloodline.
Mordred immediately understood that this was pure dragon-kind pressure.
After all, she was King Arthur's daughter, and the blood of the Red Dragon also flowed within her.
It seemed that when Shin introduced Tohru as a dragon before, he hadn't been joking at all.
She had just personally experienced it.
"That's enough, Shin-san. I really don't have any strength left…"
In the living room, Reines lay sprawled over the floor cushion like a puddle of mud, not even wanting to move a finger.
They said there were only exhausted oxen and no ruined fields—
But if the one plowing the field wasn't an ox, but a Gundam, then even reinforced concrete wouldn't survive.
What had originally started as just pushing Rin Tohsaka a little had long since spiraled out of control.
At this point, Reines and the others were completely unable to stay uninvolved.
The living room was in utter chaos, clearly having gone through an intense "battle."
Not only Reines—Rin Tohsaka, Sakura Matou, and Medusa had all collapsed, powerless.
Even so, Rin Tohsaka still called out angrily:
"Shin, don't pity her—keep going!"
It was obvious that although she enjoyed the process, she was still extremely dissatisfied with Reines and the others for dragging her in against her will.
Since they had started this, how could they just end it whenever they wanted?
Rin Tohsaka wanted Reines to properly learn her lesson.
"Forget it."
Shin smiled and shook his head.
"Tohru should be back soon. You don't want her to see you all like this, right?"
He had no interest in forcing things.
They were already completely out of strength—there was no point continuing.
Moreover, Mordred couldn't stall Tohru for too long.
If Tohru barged in and saw this scene, she would probably explode emotionally again.
"Hehe, I knew Shin-san wouldn't be that cruel."
Reines instantly switched from a pleading expression to a happy one.
She reached out and wrapped her arms around Shin's arm, speaking in a soft, coquettish tone:
"Then Shin-san, take us to the bathroom. We can't clean ourselves up like this on our own, right?"
Reines had the willfulness unique to noble young ladies. Using such a voice made her sound unexpectedly pleasant.
Shin smiled, lifted Reines up, and prepared to take the people in the room to the bathroom to wash up.
To be continued…