My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

She asked Kariya curiously, "Tokiomi Tohsaka stole the woman you love? You hate him so much because of the mother of these two children, yet you care so much about his daughter?"

Kariya Matou paused, his expression hardening. Aoi's situation was a deep, lingering pain in his heart, a manifestation of his incompetence and cowardice. Therefore, he did not tell Kei about Aoi's situation.

When Hui said it aloud, the wound in his heart was torn open again.

After a moment of silence, he said to Hui, "Hui, please save Lin."

"Sure, but there's one condition."

"What conditions?"

"I want to know your story."

"..." Matou Kariya was surprised that Hui would make such a request. He nodded in agreement after only a moment. "Okay."

“Lead me the way.”

"Follow this mark bug."

Matou Kariya released a dragonfly-like Crest Insect, which flew out of the house.

Hui also vanished into spirit form in the room.

……

the other side.

Rin Tohsaka, who had been taking refuge in Zen City, returned alone.

Therefore, recent news reports are either about the extreme cold weather on the western Pacific coast or about how many children have mysteriously disappeared in Fuyuki City.

The extreme cold weather that Hui caused in Fuyuki City created considerable chaos, indirectly providing Caster with an excellent environment to commit his crimes.

He is now actively abducting children, at least several hundred a day.

In order to fight against the gods, he needs a vast amount of magic power.

The fear these children felt before their deaths was the source of the magic.

The mysterious disappearance of a large number of children naturally affected Rin Tohsaka.

Her best friend, Qinyin, has also disappeared.

Therefore, she made a special trip from Zenjo back to Fuyuki City.

Zenjo is right next to Fuyuki City, very close, only half an hour by train.

Rin Tohsaka changed into winter clothes, wore the magic watch given to her by Tokiomi Tohsaka, and secretly took the train back to Fuyuki City.

She was somewhat surprised when she returned to Fuyuki City.

When did Fuyuki City, which was never particularly prosperous, become so desolate?

Rin stood alone by the roadside, the biting wind piercing her to the bone like needles. The ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, several centimeters deep. Long icicles hung from the streetlights and eaves, like crystals or short swords.

Looking around, there wasn't a single pedestrian or car on the entire street, except for one police car that passed by every hour.

Is this really Fuyuki City?

Rin muttered to herself, and suddenly, the hands of the magic watch in her arms lit up with a deep red light.

This magic gauge is similar to a compass; the pointer reacts to magic.

Rin Tohsaka, young and fearless, discovered Ryunosuke Uryu, who was abducting children, guided by the magic pointer.

Then, following Ryunosuke Uryu, they arrived at the underground bar where Caster kept one of the children.

Taking advantage of Ryunosuke Amusei's complete ignorance of magic, Rin Tohsaka seized the opportunity to destroy the magic bracelet on his wrist.

The bracelet broke, and the children who had been unconscious in the room woke up, quickly alerting the police patrolling nearby...

Rin Tohsaka, who was at the peak of her life for the first time, watched from afar as her friend was rescued by the police, just as she was about to retire with her mission accomplished.

Sudden.

The magic watch in her arms spun wildly, then pointed to the top of her head.

Rin Tohsaka was shocked. She remembered what her father had said: if the magic gauge showed this reaction, it meant that extremely dangerous magic had appeared.

She looked up in horror and saw a tentacle monster with a gaping maw in the middle falling from the sky, about to land on her head.

Rin experienced the terror of death for the first time.

In that instant, she felt as if all the blood in her body had stopped flowing, her pupils dilated, and her whole body stiffened, leaving her completely motionless.

Just as the tentacle monster was about to touch Rin, at the critical moment...

Clang!

A golden battle axe-shaped Noble Phantasm shot out from nowhere, instantly blasting the tentacle monster apart. It continued its trajectory, striking the ground in front of Rin and creating a crater more than a meter wide before turning into specks of light and disappearing.

Chapter 390 The Facts

Rin Tohsaka stared blankly at the scene before her, not knowing what had happened, but she knew she was saved.

Experiencing such a dramatic turn of events at such a young age, she fainted.

Just as she was about to fall, she was caught by Hui, who materialized.

Hui picked up little Rin Tohsaka, glanced behind her, and muttered to herself, "Did she run away?"

Hui looked down and saw Rin's twin ponytails behind her head. Her beautiful eyes softened, and she began to look forward to her unborn child.

'If my child is also a girl, I'll give her pigtails too.'

'However, if it's a boy... boys can wear pigtails too, right? Well, who says boys can't have pigtails? Anyway, if he tries it when he's little, he definitely won't remember it.'

"Rin, how is Rin?" Matou Kariya's voice sounded from behind Kei.

He rushed here with all his might, panting heavily from exhaustion.

"The child is fine, he just fainted from fright." Hui handed Rin Tohsaka to him.

Matou Kariya held Tohsaka Rin in his arms, and when he saw her face, which bore a slight resemblance to Tohsaka Aoi, his eyes revealed tenderness and care.

Hui watched Yan Ye from the side, becoming increasingly curious about what had happened to this sickly man who looked like he was about to die.

"Hey, now you can tell me your story."

Yan Ye glanced at Hui, paused for a moment, and then said, "Okay, I'll tell you."

He carried Rin Tohsaka in a princess carry, telling his story as they walked.

Yan Ye spoke very briefly and finished quickly.

"In other words, the woman you like doesn't love you at all."

"It's my own fault for being useless. It's normal for Aoi to look down on me."

"You'd risk your life for a woman who doesn't love you?"

"As long as Aoi is happy, I don't care what happens to me."

"She's already married, she's someone else's woman, and she's had two children with that man. You don't care?"

Kariya was silent for a moment, then smiled and replied, "Sakura and Rin are both good kids."

"you……"

This time, it was Hui's turn to remain silent.

She originally thought that Matou Kariya, Tohsaka Tokiomi, and Tohsaka Aoi were like in the TV dramas, two men fighting over one woman.

But now I realize that there was never any competition involved.

From beginning to end, it was all one-sided love from Matou Kariya. In the words of his past life, he was a simp, the kind of simp who ended up with nothing, even his life.

Even though he's a simp.

Although this simp has the same problem as other simps—he actually fell in love.

Although... he's a simp.

Hui's initial intention to tease Yan Ye had vanished, and her heart became incredibly heavy.

She can disregard the lives of millions of strangers, but she cannot disregard the true feelings of one person.

At this moment, Hui Cai looked directly at the man in front of her for the first time.

He was undoubtedly a good man, but he met the wrong woman, which ruined his life.

At this moment, Hui could no longer describe him with the simple term "lapdog".

The term "lickspittle" is simply insufficient to bear the weight he carries.

Yan Ye concluded with a self-deprecating laugh: "Laugh if you want. I know that in your gods' eyes, I'm just a fool, willing to do this kind of trivial thing like love..."

“This isn’t some trivial matter of personal feelings,” Hui interrupted sharply.

Yan Ye was startled and turned to look at Hui.

Hui looked him straight in the eye and said, "Although you are cowardly, incompetent, and useless, your love for that Kui has touched me."

"In return, since you want to save Sakura, I can help you."

"W-What do you mean?"

"I already know where Matou Zouken is hiding."

"Where is he?" Yan Ye's heart pounded with excitement, like a surging sea.

"In Sakura's heart."

"Heart...heart?!" Yan Ye's heart, which had been soaring, sank to the bottom. "So that's how it is."

"Don't worry, I wouldn't have said this if I wasn't sure," Hui said, taking out a gemstone necklace from the ripples in the void behind her.

"This is the Noble Phantasm [Tears of the Forest], which has healing abilities. If I release it with [Annihilation Strike], it can bring back to life those who have just died."

This is the only healing-type Noble Phantasm that Hui found in the King's Treasury.

"That's great!" Yan Ye's mood, which had sunk to the bottom, was once again filled with joy. He looked excitedly at the necklace in Hui's hand. With this necklace, Xiao Ying could be saved.

He had no doubt about Hui's words, because Hui had proven to him twice that one should not use the barren thinking of mortals to speculate on the power of God.

"Wait, someone's coming." After saying that, Hui immediately transformed into her spirit form and disappeared.