"Sella, I'm really fine."
Inside Illya's bedroom, Sella frowned as she looked at the thermometer in her hand. Even though Illya had emphasized multiple times that she didn't have a fever, Sella didn't think so.
As a maid of the Einzbern Family, since the Mistress and Master had entrusted their precious eldest daughter to her, she shouldn't let her suffer any harm, let alone go to school in this condition.
"Absolutely not." Sella's tone was serious as she looked at Illya with a sharp gaze. "Just rest well today. I'll call the school to request a leave of absence for you."
As Sella closed the door, Illya's room fell into a dead silence.
One minute later.
"So boring..."
"Oh my, is Illya feeling bored?"
"ruby, how should I put it? Suddenly having nothing to do makes me feel lost."
Wrapping herself in the quilt, Illya stared blankly at the ceiling. The Saber class card from last night was truly terrifying; even now, she still remembered that feeling of horror.
"In the end, we didn't even succeed in recovering a single class card..."
"Don't be too discouraged." ruby patted Illya's head with her wand body. "You've already done very well, Illya. It's just that your luck was a bit bad."
"But what was up with that Saber class card yesterday! That completely exceeded the scope of a Shadow Servant! It was exactly like a Heroic Spirit from legend!"
ruby also felt a pang of fear recalling that Saber. "By the way, Illya, has your body fully recovered? You need to properly get rid of the fatigue caused by overusing mana."
"Sigh, ruby, you're saying the same thing as Sella. Right now, I just feel very bored."
"Then how about calling Miyu? After all, you'll be fighting together from now on. It's not a bad thing to get to know each other better."
"That's true! But the phone is downstairs. If I go down now, I'll definitely be caught by Sella. Once she gets angry, it's terrifying. I remember last time when Big Brother wanted to take over the cooking and housework, I felt like Sella almost intended to assassinate him."
"Illya, you're too naive!" ruby suddenly flew up straight. "Did you think I was just an ordinary Magical Girl transformation device? Phone mode, activate!"
"Ring, ring, ring... sapphire-chan, are you awake?"
"Oh! ruby, you actually have this kind of function!"
"Hello, is that Sister?"
sapphire's voice came from ruby's side, followed by Miyu's confused voice. A few seconds later, Miyu's voice emerged from ruby's body.
"Illyasviel?"
"Hello." On second thought, Illya suddenly felt that bothering someone like this might not be very good, so she added, "Sorry for the interruption."
"What's wrong?"
"Um, it's nothing major, just wondering what you're doing and such."
"I'm at home. Luvia told me to rest at home today."
Listening to Miyu's calm voice, Illya somehow felt her own heart calming down as well.
"I see. You're just like me, with nothing to do and bored out of your mind."
"How is your body? Are you feeling unwell from overusing mana?"
"I did have a bit of a fever, but I'm better now."
"I see."
Both sides fell into a brief silence, and ruby couldn't stand it anymore.
"Honestly, why are you two so awkward? I get it, it must be inconvenient to talk over the phone, right? Then let's switch to video mode!"
As she spoke, something like a projection device extended from the bottom of ruby. "This can project what sapphire-chan sees! 3, 2, 1, start!"
"Wait, wait."
Before Miyu could finish, the video had already opened. Miyu was seen standing helplessly in front of sapphire, wearing a black and white maid outfit.
"Ah! A-A maid outfit?!"
"Th-This isn't my hobby! Miss Luvia forced me to wear it!"
Illya could no longer see Miyu, who was covering her bright red face with both hands. At that moment, a switch inside her heart was flipped. Illya grabbed ruby and shouted at Miyu.
"Miyu, I want to see you! I want to see you right now! Come see me wearing that outfit! Hurry up!"
Whether it was the atmosphere or the fact that she was wearing the maid outfit, Miyu's momentum was overwhelmed by Illya. Facing the panting Illya, she subconsciously agreed and ran toward Illya's house across the way.
A few minutes later.
"Ex-Excuse me..."
Miyu pushed open the door to Illya's room somewhat hesitantly. However, she didn't see Illya immediately; instead, she was pounced upon by Illya the moment she entered.
"Wait, Illya?!"
"It's real! It's a real maid! An elementary schooler maid!!"
"Wait! Illyasviel?! Stop it?!"
The struggling Miyu soon discovered that Illya's strength at this moment was greater than she had imagined. Even though she used all her strength, she still couldn't resist Illya.
"This little girl Illya can be quite scary sometimes."
"Indeed."
"Miyu! Hurry up and call me Master!"
"Eh?! Generally, isn't it 'Miss'?"
Facing Illya, who was pinning her hands down, Miyu frantically tried to escape, but Illya had no intention of letting her go so easily.
"Hurry up!"
"M-Master!"
Faced with Illya's terrifying aura at that moment, Miyu subconsciously called out the word "Master."
And all of this was seen by Sella, who was carrying snacks and black tea. She had originally just wanted to bring some food and drink to Illya and her classmate, but she witnessed this bizarre scene.
"I-Illya!"
Sella's voice allowed Illya to regain part of herself. A moment later, Sella placed the black tea and snacks on the table. She stole a glance at Illya through the crack in the door, already thinking about how to apologize to the Master and Mistress for her failure.
But at the same time, seeing Illya act that way toward Miyu in a maid outfit, how could she, as a maid of the Einzbern Family, stay calm? The maid power that had been dormant for many years was unleashed at this moment.
After a bout of fussing, Illya was on her knees, performing a gesture of apology toward Miyu. Miyu sat on Illya's bed with her clothes in disarray.
"I'm really sorry! I don't know why, but a switch suddenly flipped deep in my heart!"
"It's... it's fine."
Miyu silently straightened the maid outfit on her body, then asked Illya with a hint of concern, "Is your body okay now?"
"Ah, yeah, it's been fine for a while. In the end, that black Saber from last night was still defeated by Miyu. I didn't help much again."
"Eh?"
Miyu looked at Illya in surprise. On the other side, sapphire poked her sister ruby, signaling her to go outside to talk.
On the balcony.
"Eh? That black Saber was defeated by Illya?"
"That's right. At that time, Lady Miyu's life was in danger, so I could only focus on treating her with all my strength. Therefore, I didn't dig out Sister or Tohsaka Rin and the others. But that Black Saber was indeed defeated by Illya herself."
As she spoke, sapphire pulled out a section of something like a data cable from her body and transmitted everything from last night to ruby.
"Wait, wait, sapphire, this is too intense... it's coming in... ohhh..."
"Sister!"
After a brief data transfer, ruby recalled the scenes from last night in her mind and remained silent for a long time, until Miyu's scream came from the room behind her.
At this moment, Miyu, wearing the maid outfit, was being pinned to the bed by Illya in her pajamas. Illya had lost her reason, and her eyes were now filled with heart-shaped pupils.
"Illya! We've come to visit you!"
Just then, the door to the room was pushed open, and Illya's friends, led by Tatsuko, ran quickly into the room.
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