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By that calculation, Orange is indeed approaching fifty years old.

Even for magicians, the age of ordinary people is not very meaningful. Orange is still young now. Whether it is her appearance, atmosphere or first impression, she will only be regarded as around twenty-five years old.

Aoko is only four years younger than Orange.

However, Xijian wouldn't complain about Chengzi's age, because upon closer examination, it was actually her age that was more unusual.

"You're almost forty and still like this, what do you think?" Orange continued to tease with a smile.

“I don’t think your sister is such a bad person. Is she really that unpopular with the opposite sex?” tide Jian knew Cheng Zi’s quirky sense of humor, so she followed up with her question.

Orange laughed even more freely: "Speaking of which, you don't know this. When Qingzi was in elementary school, she had a crush on the tutor who came to our house to teach her. Thinking she liked that teacher, Qingzi planned to confess her feelings before the teacher left—"

"Wait a minute, big sister! What are you saying in front of outsiders?" Qingzi shouted.

Her childhood embarrassing past was dug up, and even the easygoing Aoko could no longer turn a blind eye and a deaf ear.

After all, the fact that the incident eventually became a dark chapter in history was largely due to Orange's interference.

"Oh, indeed, this shouldn't be said in front of you." Orange seemed to realize this only then, but she was actually saying it to Aoko.

"Huh?" Aoko didn't react.

But Orange leaned close to Shiomi's ear and added, "If you want to know what happens next, let's wait until we've settled into the hotel and talk about it tonight."

"Then let's leave the suspense for now." tide Jian shook her head repeatedly, but also felt deeply relieved.

While at Chaldea, Touka was clearly very aware of the status quo. Even if it didn't suit her personality and habits, she would actively participate in Chaldea's affairs and demonstrate her outstanding talents as a Grand Magician.

Therefore, she always looks somewhat serious, even in front of tide.

Orange was thinking about just as much as Shiomi at Chaldea.

However, after participating in the spirit transfer and meeting her younger sister Aoko, who was also likely there for this singularity, Touko's behavior has become cunning and rough.

Undoubtedly, after seeing her blood relative, even if their relationship returned to how good it was when they were children, she couldn't help but relax and tease Aoko for amusement.

“Wait a minute, am I the outsider?” Qingzi pointed to herself.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems quite reasonable.

After all, no matter how much he tries to repair his relationship with his older sister, it will never be the same as it was when they were children.

Listening to Orange and Shiomi chatting and laughing, Aoko almost thought of just leaving them there.

Anyway, whether it's the older sister or this magician who seems anything but simple, they should be able to solve the problem here...

As Aoko, with her shoulders drooping and head hanging low, followed them across the bridge outside the Kumano Onsen Ryokan, another set of footsteps approached them.

Despite wearing women's high heels, her steps were as steady as a rock; she was a master of footwork.

Thinking this, Aoko raised her head.

A woman with long, purplish-red hair stepped forward and spoke to Shiomi and Touko, who had stopped.

"Not bad. If you hadn't arrived in five more minutes, I was planning to come and meet you." Scáthach smiled and glanced at Aoko behind her. "Looks like you weren't delayed because you were doing something strange in the mountains."

“Master…” Shio reminded Scáthach to be mindful of her image and immediately changed the subject, “Why is only Master here? Where is everyone else? Did they get separated too?”

"Well, there was a bit of an unexpected situation. Mo... no, I mean, Ash went into the hotel first. You'll find out when you go in too."

Chapter Sixty-Two: Many Acquaintances

Morgan never used the name Ash again after deciding to make the Queen of Winter reign over Britain.

A name that should have been buried deep in memory.

Morgan, however, reused it.

During the twenty years that he lived with Shiomi as a servant, Ash was a more ordinary name than Morgan le Fay, who was famous in the history of humankind but easily attracted unwanted attention.

2001 was the year Morgan began to be known by this name.

When Scáthach used the word "unexpected situation," she sounded very relaxed, clearly not the kind of situation that needed to be worried about.

After meeting up with Scáthach, Shiomi and Touko followed her into the hotel. Once they pushed open the door and entered the lobby, Shiomi immediately understood.

At this moment, Morgan was sitting on a sofa on one side of the hall, chatting intimately with Sakura and Kallen, with Rin Tohsaka also present.

In 2001, Rin was 14 years old, Sakura was 13 years old, and Kallen was only 12 years old.

They are all around the age of entering puberty.

“We were supposed to wait for you two to come over outside the gate so we could discuss our next move,” Scáthach explained to Shiomi, crossing her arms. “But unfortunately, those three kids were having fun together and ran into us outside the hotel.”

“…Hmm…” tide Jian thought it made perfect sense.

He wasn't the kind of old-fashioned parent who insisted that girls be well-behaved. Rather, he wanted to see Sakura and Kallen running around during the day, which was exactly what he wanted.

Undoubtedly, after Sakura and Karen saw Morgan outside the hotel, Morgan, to be on the safe side, did not hide from them and followed them into the hotel lobby, where they rested and chatted.

If it were me, the result would be similar.

I never expected to see those children at this age again. tide Jian has to admit that time flies.

At that moment, Sakura and the others noticed them and waved happily in greeting.

Shio also smiled and waved, pretending to be herself in this era, to stabilize the situation first.

He could only pray in his heart that he wouldn't run into "himself".

After all, no one can say for sure what impact the encounter between different versions of themselves from different eras would have on the singularity.

“But it’s strange, is this really the famous hot spring you mentioned?” Scáthach said. “There aren’t many guests here.”

As Scáthach said, there were only a few people sitting on the sofas in the hall.

And coincidentally, most of these people were familiar faces.

Because Shiomi remembers that when her family came here for tourism in 2001, in addition to these familiar faces who had indeed visited before, there were also many guests she didn't recognize at all.

"It's not just a problem of not having enough customers; the people who come are all quite extraordinary." Orange smiled helplessly. "It looks like this hot spring trip is going to be quite lively."

Because there are few guests, when a new guest enters the hotel, he will naturally attract attention and be looked at.

Then, among these guests, two women dressed in kimonos came over.

"I didn't expect to meet you here, Orange." The woman in the white kimono greeted Orange.

Orange shook her head and laughed: "I didn't expect it either... But how should I put it, you look much more feminine than before, Shi."

Ryougi Shiki.

One of the only two employees in that peculiar agency when Orange opened Garan no Tsukai.

“You look a lot different than you did a few years ago.” Ryougi Shiki smiled quietly as well.

"Are you traveling alone?" Orange said. "It doesn't seem like it."

“Of course I came with my husband and daughter, but they’re in their room right now,” Ryougi Shiki said. “If you want to meet them, I can take you there.”

"Let's talk about it later. I'm here for tourism too," Orange said. "It's rare for us to meet, so let's sit down, have some tea, and chat."

As she spoke, she waved to Shiomi and then walked away with Ryougi Shiki, leaving the woman in the red and black patterned kimono behind.

Although the woman who was just talking to Ryougi Shiki was not there to see Touko.

"It's been a long time since I last greeted you. How have you been, Mr. Shiomi?"

“You are… oh, Asagami Fujino.” Shiomi remembered.

When he went to see Chengzi in early 98, he rescued a female student who was surrounded by thugs. Later, due to special circumstances, after failing to collect a debt from Chengzi, he asked her to take care of her.

It has been three or four years now.

“You look much better than before.” tide Jian smiled and said, “Don’t mind me. You’re here for tourism too, so enjoy this hotel.”

"It's all thanks to you. I won't disturb your vacation any longer."

Fujino answered with a graceful smile, then turned and left.

She only came to greet her former benefactor to avoid being impolite.

“You’ve done quite a few purely good things too,” Scáthach said. “I thought you were the type to mess with any woman.”

"I know Master has a low opinion of me, but there should at least be a lower limit." tide Jian scratched her head in a dilemma.

He then noticed that Aozaki Aoko had somehow gotten a paper bag and put it over her head, hiding to the side and observing the situation without saying a word.

Now even someone who wasn't suspicious before has become suspicious.

"What do you mean? Are you going to be with your precious daughter, or are you going to sit down with us and sort things out?" Scáthach pointed at Artoria and Skadi.

The two people were already seated in massage chairs, comfortably enjoying a 20-year-old technological product.

"I'll go say hello to Sakura and Kallen first—" Shiomi said, then suddenly stopped mid-sentence.

"What's wrong?" Scáthach raised an eyebrow slightly.

Shiomi looked thoughtful: "If Asagami Fujino is here for tourism these days, why would she come to say hello? With the current number of visitors, she should have already seen me."

“Either she’s been in her room the whole time, or—” Scáthach’s smile sharpened, “she hasn’t seen ‘you’ here before today, so there’s no question of her greeting her past benefactor.”

Then, the appearance of one person quickly provided a plausible answer to this doubt and speculation.

It was a strangely dressed white-haired man with dark skin, wearing round sunglasses.

The inn's owner, Kumanoin Gisuke.

“Mr. Shiomi, you and your family only registered five people when you checked in, but now there are so many more people, which is not in accordance with our rules.” The owner grinned, looking dissatisfied. “Moreover, you and your wife left the child and only returned three days later. If you don’t come back today, I will call the police.”

"What did you say?"

汐见9以为自4己听错8了，2但师4父按住3他的肩膀3，示意0他没有5听错。

The good news is that Shiomi no longer needs to worry about bumping into her past self, or even about taking covert actions.

The bad news is—

Even Xijian herself couldn't immediately figure out where "Xijian Tianxi" and "Morgan" from 2001 had gone.

Chapter Sixty-Three: A Abundance of Talented Individuals

However, the hotel owner's next words inadvertently provided Shio with some points of reference.

"What do you mean, what are you talking about? Weren't you a psychic who came to assist this hotel with exorcisms?" the hotel owner said with a straight face. "But you suddenly disappeared and no one can contact you."

"...Sorry, I went to pick up some people who were helping out."

Shiomi's brain raced, and combining this little bit of information, she came up with a reason that was somewhat plausible.

Clearly, the boss's words just now implied that he suspected "Shiomi and Morgan from 2001" had gotten into trouble for secretly carrying out exorcisms and had gone missing.

The disappearance or death of tourists who come for exorcisms is a greater blow to hotels than the disappearance of ordinary guests, and it will affect future business.

"The people who are helping..." The innkeeper looked at Scáthach next to Shiomi suspiciously, then slowly turned his face to look at the others. "Well, since they are helpers brought by Mr. Shiomi, even though it exceeds the limit, we can still allow these people to join. But you will have to pay the extra hotel fees."

“No problem.” Shio-mi readily agreed.

Although I feel a bit guilty towards my past self, I can only stay here under this pretext for now. Anyway, once the singularity is repaired, this part of the record will be corrected.

In the end, your past self will only see an inexplicable expense that seems out of nowhere.

It's often said that one should live beyond one's means, but Lingzi Transfer allowed him to achieve the miraculous feat of living beyond one's means.

"Aozaki Touko?"

Just as Xijian was negotiating with the boss, a short-haired woman came down from upstairs, interrupting the atmosphere of the negotiation at the front desk.

The other person called out Orange's name in a rather surprised voice.

tide Jian was also taken aback and recognized the short-haired woman's identity.

Bazett Fraga Markremitz, the designated seal executor of the Mage's Association.

Coincidentally, in 2001, Orange was still the designated magician who was sealed away, and was wandering the world, cleverly avoiding the activities of the Magic Association.

Orange made a deal with the Mage's Association to lift the seal, which happened on the eve of the Fifth Holy Grail War.