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Apple Street Agency FF F/SN Set 10 years after UBW Good Ending
Prologue : The girl in purple
The blazing sun was burning the endless stretch of featureless sandy desert. Shimmering haze of heat waves projecting illusions of oasis on the rim of the horizons, making it look as if the sand itself was being vaporized by the sheer heat of the sun.
Putting all his observations together, today was obviously hotter than the day before today, the day that passed two days ago, or to compress it all, since the days he spent in this uncivilized desert of Mesopotamia which roughly translates to 2 weeks time, and that was just considering that it's only just past seven in the morning.
Even a Dropout of the Mage's Association like himself could see that the whole place was going to turn to hell pretty soon...not a very good indication at all.
Of course, Shirou had every right to think so. They were in the final stage of their excavation mission and another heatstroke induced delay would not get them through his client's deadline, something like that happening definitely meant absolute disaster to his already near bankrupt private detective agency.
Moreover, this particular project was a once in a decade opportunity to rid them of their Norwegian sponsor's Ego-Shattering teases. Two birds in one stone...quite an archaic cliché, but there was none other vocabulary in his head to describe it.
It all started three weeks ago in their office in North Ireland. Shiro, Rin and Saber were slacking off in their office just like they had been doing for the past month.
Of course, that doesn't mean that they were actually enjoying that particular situation.
To put it bluntly, 'lucrative' Customers were very rare in their place, for the year they started their business, they had on average of only five customers setting foot in their building every month. To add to the dismal tally, the cases were far from pocket filling, nine of the ten customers would come to offer seemingly trivial jobs like searching for their lost cat or dogs.
There was this one particular court-related case that landed them big money in the tens of thousands, but even that was soon exhausted by the enormous food bill Saber generated single handedly.
As a result, they've been pretty much relying on their self-proclaimed sponsor (also Rin's former rival) for pretty much everything down from electricity bills to foods.
Their sponsor never really asked for any returns though, her reason was simply that she was enjoying the downfall of her red rival more than everything else, thankfully Rin was sort of able to cope with that. Sometimes She would talk in her sleep like,
"Laugh all you want Luvia we didn't ask for anything. Voluntary tributes are more than welcome here."
high and loud, but lately that too started to lose volume, much to her husband's worries.
If anybody asked about the possibility of returning to the Mage's Association, that was definitely a possibility. Sure, she was a five star Magus which meant she would always be welcome there whenever she wishes to return.
Although She never outright denied that possibility, she was always been hesitant about going back, her excuse was that there was a high chance the exiled Puppet master was going to get her tails sniffed on by the association if she does that And that would in turn cause the woman to unleash the wrath of her mystic black boxes on them.
While true, establishing a network with an exile of the Association was definitely a bad move. Shirou always knew deep down that that was only half the truth.
Barring that, while true that no doubt Rin was definitely one of the brightest Magus of his generation, she was also definitely not a CEO material, at least not a money landing CEO.
Rin's Visionary Global agency plan seemed a far fetched plan, too far fetched that it plunged them to near brokerage. But that day, this particular situation was about to change, and she was going to reap the fruit of her long labor.