"Hohoho, shirou emiya.”

“Please be good to him.

Love him as if he were my own.”

“You’ll try.

By the way, you’ve never been able to choose between the two men in your life, haven’t you?”

“Because if I do, I’ll lose both of them, and I can’t bear that.

I love them both very much,” Snow Inspector Kotomine said with an intensity that bordered on hysteria.

The scene within the room that had just disappeared was being made up anew.

Hawaiian snow inspector Kotomine - was halfway home, had a sudden panic attack.

From the time when I first saw Redman’s message on my phone to the time that I was about to ask her to marry me, I’d been a single man and I’d had no qualms about saying to the world that I would always be a bachelor.

Yet the next instant, I found myself in front of a particularly pretty Tokyo apartment building with a potted azalea in front of its entrance.

I’d made it to that point with a resolution to ask Redman to marry me if she wanted to, but I was no longer sure what my feelings were.

The fact that she was the most important person in my life, and that she felt the same way, didn’t make the situation any easier to resolve.

But as I stood there and tried to regain my equilibrium, the image that flashed through my mind seemed to catch me off guard.

I was standing in front of my mother, and we were standing in front of a park.

It was summer and the days were long and bright and the air was warm.

There was a light