Speaking of the most famous holy place of worship in Fuyuki City, it must be Ryudo-ji Temple located on the top of Mount Enzo.
This temple, which has a close relationship with the Holy Grail War, has a long history. It is said that it may be older than Fuyuki City and has a very high status in the hearts of local people. However, due to the particularity of Japanese Buddhism, temples are usually not very popular. On the contrary, during major festivals, the flow of people in the temple will reach a terrifying height.
Even though He had calculated the time carefully and chosen the relatively low time between the two peaks, it was only relative. Compared with the usual quietness, it was still crowded.
Based on past experience, Tsuru did not drive the car directly to the parking lot attached to the shrine, but parked the car a little further away and then walked along the foot of the mountain.
Not far from the parking spot there is a fork road leading to a hill adjacent to Ryudo Temple, where there are a few houses scattered around, most of which are mountain villas for upper-class people.
One of the rooms in the villa belongs to the Matou family and is currently used as Aozaki Touko's workshop.
At this time, the owner of the workshop was standing at the fork in the road waiting, accompanied by the last member of the Matou family, Justisia Rizleich von Einzbern.
"Happy New Year, Justisa, Sister Orange."
Relying on the contractual connection between him and Justisa, Shinji was the first to notice the two and waved hello, followed by the whole family exchanging New Year greetings.
It was not until this time that Shinji realized that he was not the only alien.
"Justisa, you really look good in this dress."
It was true that Justisa was wearing a kimono, but her kimono was too plain, without any patterns at all. It was just pure white, even whiter than her long silver hair.
"Is there something wrong?" Justisa looked confused. "I think it's quite suitable. What do you think?"
"I think it's fine, it's beautiful." said Fujino.
"Yeah, yeah." Ying nodded repeatedly, "Just like the legendary snow woman."
It snowed heavily in Fuyuki City the day before yesterday, and there is no sign of the snow melting yet. In this icy and snowy world, a beautiful woman with white skin and silver hair wearing a white kimono, no one would believe that she is not a snow woman.
Shinji turned around and exchanged a glance with the adults: "That's the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if your look was on the city news tomorrow."
Although the Einzbern family has basically no contact with the outside world, this is Fuyuki after all, the only place that Einzbern pays attention to. If they are discovered, things will be troublesome.
"You don't have to worry about that." Orange yawned lazily, "I helped her deal with that dress last night. Ordinary people won't notice the existence of Yustisa. Look around you."
The passers-by were all looking at this big family. The members of the Matou family were all very good-looking, from top to bottom, no one was less than 80 points, and the types of people were different. People would believe that they were a crew of an idol drama. However, none of the onlookers looked at Yustisa.
Shinji thought about it and said uncertainly: "Is this technique 'hiding trees in the forest'?"
"That's right." Orange nodded. "As long as we make some small changes to the environment, we can divert people's attention."
The best way to hide a tree is to hide it in the forest, and the best way to hide a snow girl is to hide her in the snow. Orange just attached a simple hint magic to his clothes, and made passers-by mistakenly believe that Justisa was a pile of inconspicuous snow. This crown magician who is ready to challenge the highest hall of magic at any time has demonstrated with practical actions that the higher the level of magic, the better. The simplest magic can also produce unexpected effects if used in the right place.
"It's high. It's really high."
Shinji was impressed. In terms of actual combat ability, he was better than Orange, but in terms of the application of magic, he might never catch up with Orange in his lifetime.
"By the way, Sister Orange, you're not wearing a kimono either."
Orange wore a white shirt, dark trousers and a coat as usual. But today, she didn't wear the orange coat she usually wore, but a dark green one, which was a new look for the new year.
"Because her old illness has come back again." Justisa winked at Shinji.
Orange's old problem is that she can't get up in the morning, and sometimes she gets dizzy due to low blood sugar. The reason why Yustisa didn't stay at the Matou mansion last night was to prevent Orange from oversleeping in the morning, but even so, Orange still didn't have time to put on a kimono, so she just put on some clothes and came out.
"I'm really sorry that I couldn't resist the temptation of the quilt." Orange said listlessly.
"Have you had breakfast?" Shinji didn't find it strange and asked out of habit.
"No." Orange shook his head, "Not in time."
"I knew it, Fujino, Sakura." Shinji snapped his fingers.
The two girls handed out a handbag each from the left and right.
"Teacher, here are milk and sandwiches."
"And coffee and cigarettes."
These things were of course specially prepared by the three of them. Breakfast was made by Sakura, coffee was specially brewed by Fujino and put in a thermos cup, and before Shinji left home, he specially took a pack of cigarettes from his father Tsuruya and put it in Fujino's handbag.
With these, Orange will be able to quickly get rid of his lethargy and revive in full health.
"How about it?"
"It's getting exciting!"
—Ahem, these two sentences only exist in Shinji’s imagination. In fact, Orange didn’t even say thank you. He took the two handbags and started to replenish his energy.
After traveling together for such a long time, they already knew each other's living habits. Just like Shinji and the others were well prepared, Orange also knew that they would prepare in advance, so he struggled with the quilt for nearly an hour without any scruples.
Such tacit and thoughtful preparations naturally caused "dissatisfaction" among several elders.
Elsa, the hostess of the house, complained first: "Ah~ I really envy Miss Orange. Why doesn't anyone treat me like this? Sure enough, my son and daughter have grown up and started to rebel."
Her husband Tsuruya echoed, "Yes, yes, I really miss the old Shinji and Sakura."
Kariya sighed in a pretentious manner: "You kids, ah~"
Sakura and Fujino were shy and felt a little embarrassed when they heard this.
Shinji couldn't stand it anymore and started to fight back: "Let's not talk about mother first. She did love us a lot in the past. But what about father and uncle? How dare you say that? Do you want me to expose your dark history?"
"It will explode if it explodes."
"We have a dark history, don't you?"
Yan Yehe was not to be outdone.
"Then I'll go first? I found a manuscript in the secret compartment of my home library. The name of the manuscript is "Dark Swordsman"—"
"Ahhh, don't mention that name, don't mention that name." Kariya felt as if he had received ten thousand critical hits.
PS: Orange hiding in the quilt: "I am already a useless orange."
PS2: Aoko was okay when she was a girl, but after she became an adult, she seems to have become a "useless girl" like Orange.
PS3: Professor Leif, also known as the Demon Pillar Florence, split into three personalities before becoming a Demon Pillar. One personality liked Orange, one personality liked Aoko, and the last personality thought that these two were causing trouble, so he committed suicide, thus avoiding the human burning in the FSN world line. Well, if the last personality did not commit suicide, he would have entered another timeline and finally fell in love with Mashu (wrong) - tsk tsk, the professor has a good eye.