They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

Master Yue, with his head lowered, put the noodles into the wok at the speed of a professional ramen maker. Then he subconsciously raised his eyes and saw a radiant, crystal-clear, fair, and almost "metamorphic" face. Even Master Yue, with his many years of experience in face-reading and having seen countless women, was stunned for a moment.

"You're great, young man. You actually managed to get such a top-notch girlfriend. This old man of mine has really broadened his horizons." Master Yue must have been a playboy or a street hooligan with dissolute habits in his early years, otherwise he wouldn't have spoken in the tone of a pure old pervert.

Emiya, who was sipping noodles, almost choked, "Master Yue, don't just say that!"

"What, what? So senior brother asked me here just to seduce me?" Xia Mi raised the corners of her mouth, revealing two small fangs, and crossed her slender arms in front of her plain chest as a defensive gesture.

"On the surface, you don't care about me, but in fact, your heart is full of admiration. So, while Senior Sister Nono is away, you plan to confess your feelings to me, your junior? ... How cute (oh kawaii) ~"

"Don't try to cooperate with Master Yue to add to my drama!"

Emiya thought to himself, can I eat this last bowl of noodles properly?

"...Senior Sister?" Master Yue caught a glimpse of something wrong.

After a few seconds, a red-haired girl dressed in fashionable and beautiful clothes came with a white-haired young loli and sat on the other side of Emiya.

Oh wow.

Master Yue's eyes turned subtle. One with three? Young man, you should be restrained when picking up girls.

"Master, serve us... eight bowls of ramen, with the same toppings as the one next to you!"

Nono estimated his and Melyuchina's appetite and quickly ordered.

Then she tilted her head and looked past Emiya at Xia Mi, who was sitting on the table on the other side, holding her cheeks with her hands and waiting for the ramen to be served.

"When I came over just now, you seemed to be laughing happily, Junior Sister Xia Mi, what are you laughing at? Do you mind if I come and sit in on it?"

"Hmm?" Xia Mi moved her slender fingers together and covered her mouth, as if trying desperately to suppress the naughty smile that kept welling up in her. "Wow, do you really want me to tell you? Actually, actually, just now-"

"Wait a minute, don't--" Emiya put down the ramen bowl again. He realized it but it seemed too late.

"——Just now, Emiya-san confessed his feelings to me! Just now, you wouldn't have thought that, though on the surface, he's so close to the hot and generous Nono-san, in reality, he's actually the type of person who admires and likes the cute and coquettish junior sister!"

Xia Mi covered her mouth with her hands and smiled, her eyes flashing cunningly under her long eyelashes, and the high ponytail tied behind her head swayed back and forth as if she was smiling.

"..."

Nuonuo seemed stunned by these astonishing words, as if she had received a great shock. Her eyes swept over Emiya and Xia Mi, who were sitting together, and she seemed to recall that something had happened between them at the Emiya residence, something she didn't know about...

Emiya thought that with Nono's intelligence and sharpness, she should be able to see that this was an obvious joke, but Nono...

This was a stark contrast to her usual fiery temper, and she didn't immediately start a fight to refute him. At any other time, Nuonuo would have launched into a high-pitched voice and fought anybody who tried to provoke her for three hundred rounds, defending her three-dimensional defense.

"Don't listen to her nonsense, Xia Mi is just joking!"

Emiya couldn't bear it anymore, so he reached out and patted Nono's shoulder, trying to dispel the inexplicable depressed mood that lingered around her.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I didn't think much about it." Nuonuo held the chopsticks between his fingers and fiddled with the long and thin strips of ramen in the bowl listlessly.

Nonsense, your expression clearly shows that you are overthinking it!

"?"

Melyuchina ate mouthful after mouthful of ramen from her big bowl. She looked at the strange interaction between the few people with a bit of confusion, but she really found it hard to understand.

Finally, she blinked her eyes and suddenly remembered the triangle relationship between Lancelot, Guinevere and King Arthur that she had read in the book. The chaotic thoughts in her mind finally gained a bit of clarity.

Hey, the man, the woman, and the mistress. It seems like if I put them in their place, they'll all fit...

It turns out that human emotional relationships are triangles! Triangular relationships are the most stable geometric structure!

Melusina suddenly had an epiphany, and she thought that she had learned from her studies during this period and had applied it to practice, and had understood some truth of the world.

As for Master Yue, who had been staying out of the matter, he was quietly making ramen and stirring the soup pot the whole time, with a smile on his face and not saying a word.

He was satisfied, as he had made some money and had watched a good show.

"It's good to be young... Really good, really good. Playing with three people at once, and even deliberately making an appointment with the three of them together, laying the situation out in the open. I think you have big plans, young man. Are you planning to play with all three of you at once?"

Master Yue was secretly giving a thumbs up in his heart, admiring Emiya's "big picture", while a heavy low pressure gradually lingered among the few people.

Emiya had to put down his chopsticks. He really couldn't finish the last bite of ramen... The atmosphere alone made it difficult for him to swallow.

"Xia Mi, don't make such jokes next time. Look at Nuonuo's expression..."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Xia Mi stuck out her tongue, the tender pink shape drawing a few strands of saliva between her lips. She said sheepishly, "I didn't expect Senior Sister to react so strongly. Next time, I'll try not to make confession jokes that would embarrass and humiliate Senior Brother Emiya!"

But the ramen master suddenly spoke up and gave a different opinion:

"What's so shameful about confessing? People grow up through embarrassment. You young people are in the best years of your lives right now. If you don't try to be with the person you love most, it would be a pity, right?"

Master Yue felt that the time had come, and decided to put aside his low-key attitude as a master and offer a small assist.

"Although you're from out of town, I don't think you're some poor country-dwelling student. When you're older, you might have a chance to work for a big company in Shinjuku. Or even become a big shot, and own all the buildings and land from the south end of Ginza Street to the north end..."

"But at that time, when you, no longer young, walk to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the building and look out at the sea of ​​people, you can't help but think of your vibrant youth. You were clearly living a happy life, but you failed to seize the opportunity. Simply because you cared about your reputation and were afraid of embarrassment, you handed the chance to grasp your own happiness to others..."

"You'll regret this, right?"

Master Yue stared calmly at the soup pot, reciting his experience with the tone of a veteran. Any listener would be tempted to think back years, imagining themselves then, reminiscing about those glorious days...

High, really high.

After savoring it for a while, Nono, whose thoughts were drawn in, was the first to look up.

"Master Yue, you are right, absolutely right!"

Her heart burned with passion, her eyes sparkled with light. She was like a frozen traveler who had just been emptied of a bowl of warm chicken soup on a cold day, a refreshing warmth coursing through her body...

Little witch Nono should not shrink back, she should attack bravely with great courage!

"That's right, Master. I understand it too!"

Xia Mi actually joined in the fun, applauding Master Yue's speech. I really don't know what she was thinking - but the answer was soon revealed:

"Brother, did you hear that? You don't cherish such a beautiful sister in front of you. When you really lose her, you will regret it~"

"You're almost there!"

"Oh, I understand too!" The white-haired, childish girl on the other side of Nono shouted loudly.

Emiya glared and saw that Melyuchina was listening too. No, do you understand?

Melyusina turned around, smiled brightly, and raised her fingers to make a "three" gesture to Emiya.

"Huh?" What kind of secret code are you speaking here?

Chapter 141 What, I have a son! ?

Master Yue is unexpectedly a very good conversationalist. He can liven up the conversation atmosphere around him as soon as he opens his mouth. His eloquence is extraordinary with just a few words. He doesn't seem like a ramen chef at all, but a master of love psychology.

Emiya couldn't help but imagine that this old man was once a dissolute young man who had defected from a powerful family. He had always "loved beauty over power" and refused to inherit a multi-million fortune. He would rather live on the streets selling ramen than be with his beloved. However, his love was envied by the gods, leading to his premature death. So the old man stayed at his widow's stall day after day, reminiscing about the past...

Hey, something doesn't seem right. This old man watches porn all day long, so he's definitely not a serious guy. I guess he doesn't have that many emotional entanglements. Master Yue is just trying to pick up girls in an indecent way to make it easier for him to have affairs with other people!

"Master Yue, your ramen skills are excellent! Next time I have the chance to come to Tokyo, I will bring my friends to eat at your place again!"

When it was time to pay the bill, Emiya stood up with the girls around him, and exchanged a few polite words with the ramen old man with a smile. The latter had no idea what the brat was thinking and making up stories about him in his heart, and thought that he had used his superb love skills to order a bunch of nice love stories, which made Emiya understand something.

"That's right! This is the result of decades of hard work. Do you think I'm just bragging, young man?"

Master Yue was in a very good mood and happily said goodbye to the group of young people from other places. At the same time, he cleaned up the big bowls with residual noodle soup and chopsticks and tableware. He also firmly took down the cloth curtain hanging on the side of the window and folded up the benches and put them away. It was obvious that he was preparing to close the stall.

"Master, are you closing your stall so early?"

Emiya looked outside and saw that although it was already late at night, it was actually still very early before midnight. Even the last JR train had not arrived yet, and the nightlife of Tokyo people had just begun.

Generally, people like Master Yue who sell ramen from door to door on a mobile cart usually keep their business late at night, so it is not uncommon for them to work until the early hours of the morning before taking a break.

Could it be that Master Yue has just given in to his old age? Emiya glanced at the shelves of adult films neatly arranged on them. It didn't look like that. Perhaps when the old man felt sleepy, he would pull out an AV disc and play it to wake himself up.

Master Yue shook his head and said, "My business here is mainly for those students from Donghua University. If it's any later, there will be no other customers. People like you who come from other places are rare customers, no matter how late you are."

The old man's gaze passed over these young, energetic, handsome or beautiful young men and women, and fell on a Lexus sedan that suddenly stopped on the side of the road in the distance.

"...After all, if it's too late, even if someone comes, they may not be guests. You are still young, so you should pay attention to safety at night. See you next time."

"Goodbye, Master Yue."

"Hey, Master, goodbye! Free relationship coaching is awesome! Next time we meet, I promise you'll see me get married. Then, you'll be the matchmaker, and we'll send you an invitation to the wedding!"

Xia Mi smiled, leaned against Emiya and waved goodbye, and tried to pretend to hold Emiya's arm with her other hand to play the "New Couple Game", but was slapped away by Nono's hand that reached out from behind. Then Xia Mi reached out again to stop Nono from holding her arm. After several exchanges of hands, the two people's palms were crackling, and they were secretly punching each other behind Emiya's back.

"Hahaha, girl, you should try harder and don't let go!" The old man was like a senior cheerleading team in the audience, fanning the flames and cheering.

"Hey, Assistant Xia Mi, are you itching to do it again?"

"Oh no! Senior Sister Nuonuo, my hand just slipped. I don't know what happened, but before I knew it, Senior Brother Emiya reached out and took my hand. Wow, that was scary. I was so scared. Thank you for reminding me~"

"Hey, hey, you guys can make a fuss all you want, but please don't make fun of me, okay!"

The youthful atmosphere gradually faded away.

Master Yue watched the group leave. The red hair of the man and woman in the middle flickered under the neon lights, like a bright and ostentatious floral dress from the Showa era, bringing back unpleasant memories. He remembered that his deceased French mother also had red hair... The old man couldn't help but sigh.

As Master Yue rolled down the window of the van, he still couldn't help but look at the red color in the distance. It seemed that the feeling that brought back memories was the reason why the old man was willing to communicate enthusiastically with this group of young people.

At the same time, without turning his head, he said to another old man who came towards him from a Lexus luxury car:

"It's Aha. Hey, why are you here? I told you not to come see me anymore. I don't want to get involved in family affairs. And don't send those young girls of yours to me. They deserve a better place. Hey! Yui, Chiyoko, Taku, Toie... they and I are living a good life!"

Master Yue spoke with an air of old-fashioned elegance, but his words were full of complaints, revealing the old man's frivolous life. How could he be called a street-dwelling ramen chef? He was clearly a lecherous old man experiencing life! To the average person, it even sounded quite Versailles.

"No matter what you have done, the past is the past. Future generations will judge your right and wrong, merits and demerits. But you are still the former head of the Uesugi family and the 'emperor' who led the family." The white-haired old man who came towards him had a kind face, but he spoke to Master Yue respectfully.

"Ah He, don't mention those things in front of me."

Uesugi's face turned cold, the nostalgic look on his face quickly fading, as if he had lost all interest. He untied the towel tied around his head and draped it over his left shoulder, turning his back to pack the van. The shadow cast by the neon lights cast a shadow over the ramen chef's expression.

Master Yue’s real name is Uesugi Yue, the “Emperor” of the Eight Snake Clans in the last century, but he was only an emperor in the past.

Because the Snake Eight Clan killed Uesugi Yue's mother, he angrily rebelled against his family decades ago. He would rather sell ramen on the street than continue to stay in that pretentious and ruthless family.

Few people know about what happened back then. Apart from Uesugi Yue, only the head of the Fuma family of the Snake Eight Families, Fuma Kotaro, and the head of the Inuyama family, Inuyama Aga - who Uesugi Yue calls "Aga" - know the inside story.

There were no records left of the Imperial bloodline's betrayal of their family, so the younger generation had no way of knowing. The reason these few people knew about it was simply because they were old enough and had lived long enough.

After betraying his family, Uesugi Yue thought that he and the Eight Snake Families had become tired of each other and that it would be best to simply ignore each other.

Even if Inuyama He secretly paid decades of land tax for an entire street for Uesugi Yue, allowing the latter to sell ramen freely in this old street for the rest of his life, Uesugi Yue didn't think he would be moved to change his mind and have any additional connection with the family.

But Inuyama He didn't mind Uesugi Yue's cold attitude. He came over to help Uesugi Yue put away the small stool. He was also a white-haired old man, but he was very skillful in helping. He still spoke in a respectful tone:

"You're interested in the guest who just left? Do you want me to provide you with information about Emiya Shirou?"

"Emiya Shirou... yes..."

Uesugi Yue thought of the red-haired young man among the group. He suddenly noticed Inuyama He's choice of words and asked, "Wait, you guys have been paying attention to him?"

"Of course, he couldn't know about it while hiding in the alley selling ramen. But now, almost everyone in the dragon slayer world is paying attention to him. He's a hero who can kill the Dragon King. Even Sensei Ange admires him. And with his Japanese identity, rumors are gradually spreading within the family that Emiya might be a hidden royal bloodline."

"Oh, young people these days are truly remarkable... No wonder you followed me here," Uesugi snorted coldly. "It seems you're eager to bring him back to your family to be your emperor, right?"

Inuyama He shook his head. "No, the family already has an 'Emperor'. We are just following the instructions of the head of the family to win over this Emiya. It just so happens that there have always been people from the Inuyama family secretly watching this place. They found out that Emiya Shirou was in contact with you, so I just happened to receive the news and come here."

Uesugi Yue suddenly stopped tidying up. Hadn't the "Emperor" bloodline been cut off since he betrayed the family? Where would a new emperor come from?

He remembered that he had taken precautions when he stayed overnight with Yui and the others, and there was no possibility of having a new baby.

Uesugi Yue couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this.

"You guys are such a bunch of idiots. When I left the clan, I killed all the breeding girls you arranged for me, and the royal bloodline is extinct... Now you're actually coming up with this 'fake emperor' idea? What's the point of this fake? Are you just fooling yourself?"

Uesugi Yue hated his own royal blood. The reason why the three inner families gradually declined was because the concentration of dragon blood was too high. Most of the fetuses born were dead. Once this happened, they had to be disposed of directly, resulting in two lives... So he refused to have offspring with women.

"No, the emperor in the family is real. He has passed the bloodline test and is definitely of pure imperial blood."

Inuyama He raised his head and looked directly at the elderly former Emperor of Shadow, his eyes showing no sign of hesitation due to any lies.

The rag Uesugi Yue was using to wipe the window glass slipped and fell to the ground with a thud. He turned around abruptly, his eyes wide open like a furious King Kong, his back thick and his hair and beard standing up. "What did you say? How is this possible?"

In an instant, Uesugi Yue placed his palm-leaf fan-shaped hand on Inuyama He's shoulder and shook it violently until the latter coughed violently twice due to the imperial-level force, and the force instantly weakened.

Inuyama He took a few breaths and cleared his throat.

"Remember during the war last century, when our family hoped to find a path to evolution with the help of the Third Reich's technology? At that time, some radical members of our family held ideologies similar to those of the Ghost Clan. At their instigation, we provided the Third Reich with the Emperor's genes... your genetic sample."

"So, the Emperor in our family, the Fuma family head and I suspect, is the test-tube baby created by the Germans using your genetic sample. However, you left the family long ago without any regrets, and we all agreed that it would be best not to disturb you, so we have never told you this suspicion."

"Can we create a test-tube baby with just that little bit of genetic sample? Are you sure you're not mistaken?" Uesugi Yue said anxiously.

In fact, Inuyama He was a little surprised by Uesugi Yue's attitude. He thought that the former Shadow Emperor neither cared about the family nor hated his royal blood, so he should not be very concerned about his sudden child... He hesitated whether to reveal "Uesugi Eri", the family's secret weapon.

"Nothing is absolute. If you need it, you can do a paternity test."