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Uma Musume Pretty Derby: To The Basement [160]

After receiving enough seeds from the gardener-uncle, Mizuno’s next task was to choose a plot in the public garden to serve as his experiment field.

After some calculations, he realized that to obtain reliable results, he would likely need to plant thousands, even hundreds of thousands of times, to gather sufficient experimental data. So the land had to be large.

And because of the nature of this experiment, it wasn’t suitable to conduct in public view. The plot had to be secl...

Uma Musume Pretty Derby: To The Basement [159]

“We’ve got carrot seeds, chrysanthemum, lily, rose, and carnation. Which would you like?”

In the little garden pavilion, the old gardener opened a wooden cabinet in front of Mizuno, pulling out a massive drawer—three meters long, two meters wide, thirty centimeters deep.

Inside the huge drawer were neatly divided square compartments, each storing seeds of different plants.

Because Mizuno hadn’t prepared cereus (night-blooming flower) seeds in advance, and the ones ...

Uma Musume Pretty Derby: To The Basement [158]

“Ugh—ah~.”

Mizuno forced his sore, aching body to stretch lazily in front of Symboli Rudolf, pretending he had slept well, as if last night he’d gotten enough rest, sitting up slowly from the bed.

Even though every bone in his body creaked in protest, even though his chest throbbed with bursts of pain, he still put on the face of someone unbothered, greeting Rudolf with calm ease.

“Good morning, Luna.”

“Good morning... hmm...”

But Mizuno’s oddne...

Uma Musume Pretty Derby: To The Basement [157]

After securing the fifty vials of [Plant Growth Potion] and stowing them safely in his four-dimensional pocket, Mizuno didn’t linger at Tracen Academy a second longer. He mounted his bicycle at the gate and hurried back to the boys’ dorm before dawn could break.

By the time he arrived, it was already 4 a.m.

He parked the bike quietly in the shed, tiptoed up to his door, calmed his breath, braced himself, and pulled out the key.

The instant the key turned...

Uma Musume Pretty Derby: To The Basement [156]

“Want it! Of course I want it!”

Even if this plant growth potion’s effect wasn’t as good as Mizuno had hoped, it was still his only hope right now.
As for the side effect—plants sucking up outside nutrients without limit until they died—that was something he’d have to research how to overcome himself.

“How much for one?”

“Well...” Tachyon pinched her chin, eyes rolling up toward the ceiling.

“Originally I planned to price this growth potion a...

Restricted-Class Shinigami [130]

Before long, the day of Shiba Kaien’s wedding arrived.

A captain of the Third Division getting married was no small matter in the Seireitei. Even if the other division captains did not attend in person, they all made sure to send representatives along with wedding gifts.

From Fourth Division, those attending—besides Nobu and Isane—included Iemura and Aoshika.

None of them wore shihakushō today; instead, they were dressed in slightly more formal black attire.

In ...

Restricted-Class Shinigami [129]

When Kiyone came home in the evening, she finally saw her elder sister, and her eyes lit up instantly. She hurried over.

Isane was in the middle of preparing dinner. Seeing her sister return, she only gave a small smile.

“You’re back.”

Kiyone wore a peculiar grin, her eyes darting mischievously over her sister without saying a word.

Isane felt uneasy under that stare. Of course she knew why Kiyone was looking at her like that. Her cheeks warmed, but she forced he...

Restricted-Class Shinigami [128]

At first, it was two soft pieces of porcelain, lightly touching, a warm, slick little snake testing its way forward, like tender moss in the plum-rain season, feeling along damp crevices to climb upward.

Isane’s inexperience showed through in her timidness, like a cat stealing a bite of fish, afraid to wake the master of the house, but in the instant the door yielded, the sweet and tangy air inside began to swell like a rising tide.

Soon enough, both the kitten and the snake wer...

Restricted-Class Shinigami [127]

Kotetsu Isane stepped into the room with a slightly dazed expression. She recognized most of those present. Shiba Kaien was the first to greet her with a smile.

“Vice-Captain Kotetsu.”

“…Captain… Kaien.”

Isane couldn’t even describe what she was feeling right now. Thinking back to all her pointless imaginings since yesterday, she suddenly felt it was all absurd—tinged with a kind of indescribable bitterness.

Forcing a smile onto her face, she found hers...

Restricted-Class Shinigami [126]

“Tachikawa, back at the Academy you had top marks in almost every subject—except Kaidō, where you weren’t first, right?” Kyōraku Shunsui asked slowly.

Nobu was a little surprised, but nodded.

“The top in Kaidō in my year was Aoshika. He’s also in Fourth Division now, a very hardworking member.”

Kyōraku chuckled.

“Then why is it, that your Zanpakutō’s ability happens to be Kaidō-based?”

Nobu hadn’t expected someone to bring up this ques...

Emiya Shirou Doesn't Want to Work Overtime [210]

“Is that so?”

Amakusa Shirou Tokisada stared at Shirou Emiya as if he could see straight into his soul.

He made no attempt to refute Shirou's words—not because Shirou had persuaded him, nor because Amakusa lacked counterarguments.

Indeed, there were countless ways he could challenge Shirou’s beliefs, countless arguments he could raise against him.

But it wouldn't change a thing.

For both Amakusa Shirou Tokisada and Shirou Emiya, debating their ideals was ...

Emiya Shirou Doesn't Want to Work Overtime [209]

Blood!

No—it couldn’t even be called blood. Those scattered fragments were pieces of Shirou Emiya's very soul, torn free beneath the black-and-white twin blades.

Two swords pierced deeply into Shirou’s shoulders.

An intense weakness surged through his entire being.

But he had no time for this. He couldn't remain here. He had to move forward.

This was a race against time, and Shirou knew better than anyone that he couldn't afford to stop for even a single mo...

Emiya Shirou Doesn't Want to Work Overtime [208]

Naturally, if Shirou Emiya wished to find Amakusa Shirou Tokisada within the Greater Grail, he would have to undergo the same trials.

Even then, it wasn’t enough simply to pass these tests—if he failed to reach Amakusa before he finished altering the Grail, all his efforts would be in vain.

Thus, Shirou Emiya wasn't merely facing the Grail’s internal trials. He had to race against time itself, reaching Amakusa at the heart of the Grail before the alterations were complete. 2025-08-30 12:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Emiya Shirou Doesn't Want to Work Overtime [207]

Silence.

Silence.

Utter silence.

From the instant Shirou Emiya entered the Grail, every sound vanished, leaving only boundless silence behind.

All things seemed tranquil, as if everything around him had fallen into absolute stillness.

He felt like he was drifting through an infinite cosmos, floating endlessly through an unfathomable void.

It seemed that time and space no longer existed here.

Zzzzt—!

Suddenly, a strange, electric crack...

Emiya Shirou Doesn't Want to Work Overtime [206]

At this moment, Astolfo, fully armored, was enveloped by a pervasive purple poison mist. Even protected by [Incursio], empowered by a [Command Spell], and shielded within the spectral space of Hippogriff, he still couldn’t completely ward off the poison's effects.

Gathering the last reserves of strength from everyone, Astolfo shouted with all the passion in his heart:

“End this now—Hippogriff!!!”

Using the last shred of his strength,...

Starting a New Life in Tokyo by Inheriting a Shopping Street [55]

Staring at the bowl of noodles before her, Kizaki-obaasan sank into self-doubt. Her very faith in ramen was beginning to waver, as if the decades she’d spent making it had all been a lie.

Though she hadn’t watched this disciple make the broth or knead the dough—time hadn’t allowed it—just one look at her still-too-fragile build told her enough.

Not to mention the boiling, scooping, and draining process she had seen with her own eyes, all full of flaws.

Of course, K...

Starting a New Life in Tokyo by Inheriting a Shopping Street [54]

“Uuu… so scary, I was wrong…” Akiyama Tamako was trembling as she pleaded for mercy, looking for all the world like a little girl getting scolded for misbehaving.

“Your mom is…”

Chiba Shuuichi didn’t even know how to describe it. She was already the mother of two children, yet still reacted like this.

Tsuki was equally speechless, rubbing her temple. “Nothing we can do. My mom’s most afraid of Kizaki-obaasan.”

Hearing the two of them, Kizaki-obaas...