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Chapter 305: Instincts Imprinted in Genes
🕑 Added 2025-04-20 16:10:08 +0000 UTCOriginally Nanaya thought that since Shion moved in with such fanfare, there must be some big move.
But in reality, Shion really just moved in.
She seemed to really treat this house as her own home and lived in the villa according to her own pace.
That being said, Nanaya didn't know what Shion's normal life rhythm should be like.
For the entire night, Nanaya didn't see Shion again except for the time when he saw her brushing her teeth in the bathroom while washing up.
Shion seemed to prefer just staying in her chosen room to anywhere else in the villa.
"So, is there any difference between living here and staying in a hotel?"
The next morning, Nanaya asked when he saw Shion in the restaurant.
"Why? Do you want me to take some action? Then I will attack you tonight."
Shion said to Nanaya provocatively, her tone was both true and false, Nanaya couldn't be sure whether the female boss really thought so.
But backing down at this time would go against his reputation as a tough guy.
So Nanaya said stubbornly, "Are you sure you want to come? Do you believe me? "
Nanaya made a circle with his hands, and the meaning was obvious.
Shion curled her lips: "Please deal with the stockings on the bed first. I don't like the smell of other women."
“Tsk.”
Nanaya's face immediately became embarrassed.
In the end, Nanaya could only helplessly answer: "I really lost to you. Okay, but you have to agree to a few of my requests in advance."
"How funny! Do you think you are the CEO of Disney or the bald guy from Sony? How dare you make conditions with me? Don't forget that you are still living in that apartment without me, okay?"
Shion put down the cup and pretended to listen attentively.
"But since you are my landlord now, I will listen to you reluctantly."
Nanaya rubbed his temple and stated his request.
Of course, Nanaya didn’t ask for anything excessive. They were just some routine and customary conditions for sharing a house.
For example, wash clothes separately, do not bring strangers to the villa, do not mix toiletries and tableware, etc.
These fragmented conditions amused Shion.
"Are you the landlord, or are you renting the villa with me?"
Nanaya didn't answer directly. He stretched out his hands and made an X in the air.
"The most important rule! No night raids!"
"Night attack?"
Shion sneered contemptuously: "You only slept for one night and you already have enough stock? You are already 30 years old, and you are so energetic? You better take it easy and don't hurt your waist."
"I'm serious, what would Rin think if she knew!"
Nanaya said with a frown.
"Okay, I promise you."
Shion looked at Nanaya meaningfully, but seeing his determined expression, she finally nodded and agreed.
Looking at Shion who looked as if it was her due, Nanaya felt a sense of guilt.
If he hadn't been so impatient and fallen into the trap set by Shion, things wouldn't have turned out like this.
[Should we take Rin with us? Forget it… If we get caught by paparazzi, we’ll be dead.]
In the end, Nanaya's solution was to hang a sign with Rin's name on the door of a secondary bedroom.
Although Nanaya also knew that his method of smoothing things over would not work, and that things would definitely get really bad when Rin came back.
But sometimes, covering one's ears and stealing the bell is not a solution.
"Rin, it's not that I didn't try hard, but that devil girl Washimine Shion is too powerful. I can't beat her!"
"Bah, your crying sounds better than your singing, and you're still being naive after getting the advantage."
Shion spat at the ugly sight of Nanaya lying on the door panel and howling.
Even though Shion made a lot of noise when she moved in, it can be said that nothing happened between Nanaya and Shion in the following few days.
Because both of them are very busy, Nanaya is busy finalizing the direction of FZ's story with Gen Urobuchi, while Shion is busy with various matters before the end of the year.
So the only time they saw each other was when they returned home at night and when they woke up in the morning.
When they got home in the evening, both of them were very tired. After discussing work briefly, they went back to their rooms to rest.
Although I have time, I don't have the energy to do anything.
In the morning, both of them had to rush to work, so they said goodbye and went out.
Although both of them had the energy at this time, they had no time.
So the two of them lived in peace until November.
During this period, Nanaya and Kyon finally finalized the general course of the Fourth Holy Grail War and gave it the name Fate Zero.
In fact, in the outline that Gen Urobuchi gave directly to Nanaya, there were already some outlines of the FZ story that Nanaya was familiar with.
For example, Caster's master is also a murderer, and the guy he summoned is also a guy who has something to do with tentacles.
But I don’t know if it’s because I wrote “Saya no Uta”.
Gen designed this counter-type servant to be 70% similar to Saya, an indescribable creature made entirely of tentacles.
This design was rejected by Nanaya for a simple reason: this design required a long text explanation to support it.
If it were a novel, it would be fine, at most Gen Urobuchi would be accused of having too many words.
But in a movie, it becomes very difficult to handle.
Most viewers won't be interested in a monster that takes several minutes to explain.
This is also the most direct reason why the C-series mythology (Cthulhu) is not suitable for the big screen.
If the length is shortened, the charm of the series will be lost, but if it is expanded, it will be too long and will end up being just a fan movie that only a certain group of people will enjoy.
All these years of directing career and more than a decade of futuristic vision have told Nanaya that most of the movies that are purely for fans are bound to fail.
Unless you build up a huge fan base through 20 movies first.
The current popularity of the Fate series IP may mean that future series of movies do not have to explain the settings of servant battles every time, but that’s all.
It is still impossible to achieve the situation like in later Marvel, where almost everyone knows the Infinity Stones by heart and the self-media sings praises crazily.
Similarly, the culture of the C system has obviously not reached this level yet.
"So, let's change it to Gilles de Rais, a madman in French history."
Nanaya said to Old Gen: "Not only can the characteristics of the tentacles be preserved, but they can also be directly integrated into the plot."
"As expected of you, Kiryu-san. This is a really great idea. It turns out that we are the same kind of people."
[No way! When did we become the same kind of people? ]
It’s a pity that Gen Urobuchi was so immersed in writing the story that he completely ignored Nanaya’s constipated expression.
Although Nanaya changed Caster's character back to the original historical Marshal C, this does not mean that Group C does not need to be modified.
For rating considerations, Nanaya retained Ryunosuke Uryu's nature as a murderer, but modified the plot in which he attacked children.
Or in other words, downplay the process so that his hunting range becomes wider.
Moreover, the plot where Marshal C hides the sea monster in the child must be replaced with an innocent passerby. These are necessary modifications for the rating.
Of course, this adjustment in scale can only be considered a fine-tuning, after all, the essence of the character has not changed.
In the FZ version created by Nanaya and Urobuchi, the character that has undergone the most changes and who must also be modified is Artoria.
This modification is a compromise to the market. After all, Artoria is currently the most popular character in the Fate series.
In the original FZ, Saber could be said to have been defeated from beginning to end.
There is nothing wrong with the character encountering difficulties, but it will make people feel very uncomfortable if he keeps being defeated, especially when this character is a very popular character.
As the project leader of Fate, Nanaya has a very good idea of how popular Artoria is.
Not to mention anything else, the San Fernando Valley producers alone offered $800,000 to obtain the rights to the character of Artoria.
This price is definitely considered high in the Hollywood market.
But the female boss of Nanaya was even more ruthless and directly offered a price of 1.5 million US dollars.
Even for this, several producers are still scrambling for it.
Although in Nanaya's opinion, the actress in the San Fernando Valley version of Fate was not even one percent as good as Lily herself in terms of appearance and temperament, the offline sales of the movie still exploded.
Anyway, 2005 hasn't even ended yet, and the producer who made the special version of Fate has already made back his investment.
By the way, after Shion sold it once in the San Fernando Valley, he went back and sold it a second time in Japan.
Of course, how popular Lily is is not the point. The point is that the audience will never accept an Artoria who is so different.
The original FZ was not taken seriously by the Type-Moon official, which led to too many personal opinions being added to it.
By the time Mushroom and others wanted to change it, it was too late, and they ended up covering it up with a nonsense statement about a parallel world.
Nanaya certainly doesn't want this to happen. After all, the official eating up of books is very damaging to the reputation.
Fortunately, unlike the FSN of the original world line, Nanaya himself had taken the content of FZ into consideration when making FSN, and made minor adjustments.
Therefore, it is easy for Urobuchi to embed his own story into FZ according to his own rhythm.
The only exception is Saber.
I don’t know what Urobuchi was thinking. During the discussion, he still followed his usual routine of being humiliated when talking about Saber’s experience.
Nanaya originally thought that Kyon was actually a hidden Saber Black, but it didn't seem like that.
If I really have to say it, it's probably instinct.
For a character like Artoria, Kyon would instinctively lead her towards the path of tragedy and heartbreak.
Just like mosquitoes want to suck blood and moths like to fly into fire.
This is an existence rooted in Gen Urobuchi's genes. In Type-Moon's words, this is probably the origin of him, Gen Urobuchi.
"Instinct you big head ghost! Old Kyon, you have to rewrite it for me!"
For the first time, Nanaya felt extremely satisfied with his identity as a capitalist.
