What happens when you summon Emiya Shirou in Chaldea

Talking with Merlin

Shirou was in a situation every magus in every time of every world would wish or kill to have.

And that situation was having a conversation with Merlin, the magus of flowers.

Right now, Shirou and Merlin were having a conversation in Chaldea's cafeteria, sipping on tea and having snacks of the sort.

And why were Shirou and Merlin having a conversation?

Because of two things.

One was that Merlin wanted to thank the man who made his student and her alternate versions happy.

And the other was that Merlin was bored.

So, he decided to do this.

"I'll admit, this tea is quite interesting Shirou," Merlin said as he sipped on a cup of Japanese-style green tea Shirou made for him earlier. "I never had this type of tea before, even in Camelot."

Shirou smiled. "Glad you liked it Merlin," he said as he took a bite of a rice cracker he picked up earlier. "You should try the rice crackers as well.

"Why thank you...Queen Shirou," he said with a teasing tone of voice.

Shirou sighed. "Please don't call me that..." he muttered.

As Merlin continued to sip on his tea while grabbing a rice cracker for himself, Shirou's thoughts went back into the past as he thought of the events that brought him here...

(A few hours ago...)

Shirou was walking down Chaldea's hallway, minding his own business.

When out of nowhere, a storm of flower pedals was floating around him, confusing him.

"What the...?" Shirou thought as his sight was temporarily blinded by the amount of flower pedals in front of him. Eventually, the flower pedals stopped floating in front of him and flew to another direction. "What's going on? Why were there flower pedals floating in front of me?" Shirou thought.

However, as Shirou looked at the flower pedals that fell onto the ground, he noticed an envelope on the ground. Shirou then picked up the envelope and opened it, wanting to know who the sender was since it didn't have anything that printed on it.

Inside the envelope was a note.

And it said this:

Dear Shirou, I hope that you aren't busy right now, but I hope that you can join me in the cafeteria for a daily chat.

From Merlin.

P.S: Don't try to reject it or else I'll force you to come here with magic.

Shirou sighed. "Well this is not what I expect today to end up..." Shirou thought as he was done reading the note. "But then again, every day in Chaldea is always unexpected with these many servants around here..."

After a few minutes of thinking, Shirou decided to go to the cafeteria to have a chat with Merlin.

Just to avoid the hassle of being carried off to the cafeteria by Merlin's magic. Root knows what would happen if he rejected the invitation.

The thought of that made Shirou shudder instantly.

"Well...I better get going then..."

(Back to the present...)

"So, how's Arturia and her alternate versions doing?" Merlin asked as he sipped on his tea.

"They're doing fine."

"I see. Have you been treating them well? Especially when you're "alone" with them?" Merlin asked with a coy smile on his face.

Shirou sighed after seeing that smile from Merlin's face, knowing that smile wants to know if anything "interesting" happened between Shirou and the Arturias. "Yes. And Merlin, we haven't done "that" yet."