Chapter 16: All of This Is Tohsaka Tokiomi's Fault!

"You broke the bracelet Bluebeard gave me, and caused me this much trouble. Although I don't like destroying the integrity of materials before artistic creation, a naughty child still needs to be taught a lesson. Hmm, since you can run and jump so well, how about I sever the tendons in your hands and feet first."

With a Sea Demon in front and a kidnapper-murderer making perverted statements behind, Rin Tohsaka fell into a desperate situation. Her small face couldn't help but show fear at this moment, but she still protected her classmate girl as they retreated toward the side of the bar. However, that was just a corner; behind it was a wall, and there was simply no way to retreat.

"This time you be obedient, and don't resist me again, or I'll cut open your belly directly."

The children hid to one side; no one dared block the way in front of Ryuunosuke Uryuu. But just after he finished speaking these words to Rin Tohsaka.

"Bang~"

The Sea Demon at the entrance suddenly burst open. A petite figure falling from the sky, relying on the force of the fall, directly stomped the Sea Demon to death. Purple blood and severed tentacles splattered directly onto Ryuunosuke Uryuu's face as he stood at the entrance.

"Do you want to hurt my friend?"

Broly still held the takoyaki paper box in his hand. Then, because his own falling speed was too fast, the takoyaki balls that had separated from the paper box only now fell down. He looked at Ryuunosuke Uryuu with a somewhat hostile gaze and questioned him.

【Seems like things are a bit bad……】

Ryuunosuke Uryuu wiped the Sea Demon blood off his face. Broly's entrance method was visibly unusual, and he had stomped to death the Familiar Bluebeard used to protect his safety.

"Don't be so serious. I was just joking with your friend."

Ryuunosuke Uryuu spoke without hesitation, and this explanation made Broly stunned for a moment.

"An opening!"

He discovered the boy's momentary daze. The next moment, he thrust the knife in his hand toward the boy's temple.

"Be careful."

Rin Tohsaka shouted too late. Ryuunosuke Uryuu's knife struck true, but it was irrelevant, because the knife stabbed into the boy's temple and simply wouldn't go in.

The resilient texture transmitted to his hand, feeling as if stabbing into thick leather, completely caught Ryuunosuke Uryuu off guard.

"What is a joke?"

In response, Broly asked curiously. His focus was unexpectedly there.

"Actually, this is a joke."

Ryuunosuke Uryuu explained with an awkward laugh, retracting his knife.

"How is that possible? He wanted to kill you. Just now he also wanted to kill us."

Rin Tohsaka directly refuted his words.

"Stinking brat, is this a place for you to speak?"

As Ryuunosuke Uryuu spoke, he reached out to grab the head of Rin Tohsaka beside him. But before his hand touched the girl, the man flew backward.

"Crack~"

The wooden bar counter was directly smashed to pieces. His whole body flew toward the wooden crates further back. The wooden crates were also smashed apart in turn.

"You want to hurt my friend. You should……"

Broly's angry words hadn't finished when he saw the guy he had kicked flying. His body was pierced by a large amount of shattered wood splinters. He hung on the shattered wooden crates, looking like he was about to die.

【Where am I? Who am I? I'm in so much pain!】

This was Ryuunosuke Uryuu's first reaction upon coming to his senses. His belly had turned to mush the instant it was kicked. The organs that produce adrenaline hadn't even had time to produce adrenaline before they turned into meat paste.

At this moment his mind was very clear. He could feel the pain. He wanted to wail, but only blood sprayed from his mouth.

【So this is the feeling of intestines piercing through a ruined belly? Turns out the intestines I've been searching for were in my own belly all along. It hurts so much, but such vivid colors……】

Ryuunosuke Uryuu, with an expression that seemed like crying yet laughing, but twisted from excessive pain, gradually lost his breath.

In his lifeless eyes was reflected a boy with a bewildered expression. Broly's current feeling was only one: that he hadn't used force yet, and the man had already fallen. Should he continue being angry?

Rin Tohsaka was somewhat dumbfounded. From facing a desperate situation to a new classmate falling from the sky, to the new classmate being sneak-attacked, then violently kicking the bad guy to death with one kick — these twists all happened in less than one minute.

"Suzune, don't look. Come with me."

Looking once more at the dead bad person, Rin Tohsaka's complexion turned somewhat pale because of the other's miserable death state. She called out to the old classmate girl beside her and led her, carefully bypassing the boy, toward the outside.

Broly turned his head following her movements, looking at her with a look of not knowing what he should do next.

"You come along too."

Therefore, Rin Tohsaka stopped her steps after walking past the boy.

Gritting her teeth, she actively took Broly's hand and led this dangerous new classmate away together.

Once outside, a patrol car happened to pass by. Rin Tohsaka had Suzune go find the police for help, while she took the opportunity to lead Broly away from this side.

The appearance of the missing children caused the surrounding patrol cars to gather. The area around the underground bar was quickly cordoned off with police tape.

"Just what is going on with you?"

Hiding at the alley entrance and watching her friend get to safety over there, only then did Rin Tohsaka have the leisure to ask about the boy's situation beside her.

"What do you mean 'what's going on'?"

Broly was somewhat confused.

"I mean you suddenly appearing, then *pa* — one kick, kicking that kidnapper-murderer to death."

Rin Tohsaka said.

"I was eating takoyaki just now. After I finished my portion, while waiting for you to come back, I discovered your Happiness Value suddenly dropped. So I brought your takoyaki and came to find you."

Broly concisely explained his situation just now. His gaze returned to the takoyaki in his hand. Rin Tohsaka could even see from the boy's face that he really wanted to eat it.

"Uh, if you still want to eat, then eat it."

"But this is your food."

"I've lost my appetite somewhat right now."

Rin Tohsaka spoke the truth. The octopus tentacles exposed on the surface of the takoyaki were somewhat similar to the Familiar's tentacles that blocked the way just now. Plus, seeing Ryuunosuke Uryuu's death state — practically cut in half at the waist — it would be strange if she could have an appetite to eat anything.

"Tohsaka, you're a good wife!"

Broly looked seriously at the girl and suddenly said.

"Eh?!"

Rin Tohsaka's eyes widened as she looked over, only to see Broly eating the takoyaki, a satisfied expression appearing on his face.

"You really are a strange guy."

Broly kicked a man to death; even though the guy who got kicked to death was a kidnapper and murderer, Rin Tohsaka still felt some fear — this is a human's instinctive dread toward an existence that can easily kill them — but now, watching Broly satisfied by a perfectly ordinary takoyaki, that sense of dread seemed to gradually disappear.

"Strange?"

Broly was somewhat at a loss, but before he could probe the meaning of "strange," he heard Rin Tohsaka beside him continue speaking.

"Thank you really for today; if you hadn't been here, I might have been in danger."

【Rin Tohsaka's Happiness Value is rising】

Listening to the notification chime of the Crystal Palace in his mind, Broly only felt that his own happiness had returned again; if Happy Water were treated as the equivalent exchange for Happiness Points, then at the moment the girl thanked him, he had gained several hundred more bottles of Happy Water.

"Thank you."

Rin Tohsaka reached out her hand wanting to shake hands with Broly, but Broly looked at her hand and did not react, making her a little embarrassed.

"Give me your hand."

"What for?"

"Are you giving it or not?"

"Here."

"Shake hands, good friends; this represents that from now on, you are my, Rin Tohsaka's, best friend."

"I see."

Broly felt he had learned new knowledge again.

"By the way, your home..."

Rin Tohsaka was just preparing to talk about helping her get home when the Magic Power compass at her chest reacted again.

"Snap~"

Another Sea Demon leaped down from the rooftop, smashing into the alley behind Broly.

"Li—"

Rin Tohsaka's face changed; before she could warn him, a buzzing sound rang out, a swarm of Crest Worms flew past from her side, attacked the Sea Demon that had appeared, and devoured it completely at extreme speed.

"Rin, are you alright?"

From behind came a familiar voice. "Uncle Yan Ye."

Rin Tohsaka cried out in pleasant surprise, but when she turned around, she was a bit scared.

"Sorry, my current appearance is a bit unsightly."

Under the streetlight, a man tugged at his hood, seemingly wanting to use the hood to hide half of his unsightly face; that face was wrinkled like an old man's, and beneath the skin there seemed to be something wriggling inside, looking extremely terrifying.

"What happened to you?"

"Nothing, just a bit sick; as for you, didn't you already go to the Zenjou home with your mother? How come you're appearing here in Fuyuki City?"

"I... came to find a friend."

Rin Tohsaka was a little awkward, but still told this uncle who had treated her well the reason she appeared on this side of Fuyuki City at this time.

"It's very dangerous here; you and your friend had better hurry back."

Matou Kariya glanced at Broly, mistook him for the friend Rin Tohsaka was looking for, and said this to the two of them.

Around seven in the evening, Aoi Zenjou, having received Matou Kariya's phone call, drove over to this side of Fuyuki City.

"Rin, how can you suddenly run back to Fuyuki City all by yourself?"

In the nearby park, after Aoi Zenjou arrived, she spoke to her daughter somewhat angrily.

"Mom, my friend went missing, I was worried something happened to them..."

Rin Tohsaka explained in a small voice.

"Good that nothing happened."

Aoi Zenjou said this, then looked toward Matou Kariya.

"Yan Ye, it was you who protected Rin, right? Thank you."

She said.

"And Broly, he protected me too."

Rin Tohsaka added a sentence.

"Hm?"

Aoi Zenjou looked in the direction her daughter's finger pointed, and saw a little boy.

"This is Broly; he is my best friend right now."

Rin Tohsaka introduced Broly to her mother.

【Wei Wu's Legacy】

Upon seeing Aoi Zenjou, this inexplicable piece of information surfaced in Broly's mind.

But he could not understand the meaning of the information, and quickly tossed it to the back of his mind.

Aoi Zenjou politely nodded at the boy, but didn't say anything.

She couldn't very well accuse a child of letting her daughter do something adventurous.

Obviously, she also had some misunderstanding; Broly took the fall for that girl named Suzune.

"Protecting Rin is what I should do."

The child was ignored, and the adults began their dialogue.

"Simps Don't Get Houses."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying the words that suddenly surfaced in my head."

However, children also have children's communication.

"What is that?"

"Don't know."

Broly shook his head, yet pointed at Matou Kariya over there.

"But I know he's a simp."

"So, what exactly is a simp?"

"I don't know."

Rin Tohsaka was somewhat speechless, once again confirming the fact that Broly is just a strange guy.

The children's exchange here ended, while the adults' exchange over there became intense.

Mainly because of Matou Kariya's participation in the Holy Grail matter, Aoi Zenjou therefore had an argument with him.

Aoi Zenjou simply could not understand her former childhood friend, why he suddenly wanted to participate in the deadly Holy Grail War.

"That wasn't for..."

Matou Kariya stopped; once the vast sea was too difficult for water, some past feelings hidden away, speaking them out now held no meaning.

One can only say that back then, he misjudged Tohsaka Tokiomi that person; otherwise he definitely would not have handed the person before him over to the other party.

"What was it for, just say it!"

Under Aoi Zenjou's uncomprehending pressing, Matou Kariya could only find an excuse.

"That was for your daughter, so she wouldn't end up like me."

"What?"

"Rest assured, that guy Zouken Matou just wants to obtain the Holy Grail; as long as I can get the Holy Grail and give it to him, Sakura will be fine, I'll let her return to your and Rin's side."

Aoi Zenjou: "..."

She was somewhat hesitant, wanting to speak but stopping, stopping but wanting to speak.

"You don't need to worry about me, my Servant is the strongest."

Seeing Aoi Zenjou's expression, Matou Kariya thought the other party was worrying about him, and immediately said so.

"No, I just wanted to say, that child Sakura has already returned, she's currently at the Zenjou Family Villa, living together with me and Rin."

"What?"

"She ran out of the Matou Family, returned to the Tohsaka Family, then was sent here by Tokiomi."

Matou Kariya: "..."

Sakura had already run home, then what exactly was he paying the miserable price of a remaining lifespan of less than a month for, to participate in this Holy Grail War?

Matou Kariya's current expression resembled the two biggest cards in playing cards somewhat, but could he blame the white moonlight childhood friend before him, or could he blame that cute girl who calls him Uncle Kariya and smiles so serenely? He couldn't blame either, so he could only blame that guy.

【That's right, all of this is Tohsaka Tokiomi's fault!】

"Is that so, then that's good."

Anger burning in his heart, Matou Kariya barely showed a smile to Aoi Zenjou; after finishing those words, he turned and left, without a shred of hesitation.

His body eroded by Crest Worms, his death's fate was already decided from the moment he decided to participate in the Holy Grail Ritual.

Although the target he strove for was now gone, Matou Kariya found a new target: in his few remaining days of life, he would ruthlessly trample that bastard Tohsaka Tokiomi underfoot.

Matou Kariya left, but the dialogue with Aoi Zenjou just now let Broly learn of Matou Sakura's news.

【So they're sisters, hmm, both are good wives, both gave me food.】

As Broly thought this, Rin Tohsaka leaned over.

"Shall I have my mother send you back?"

"Not needed, I can return on my own."

"Let's go, Rin, time to return home."

Aoi Zenjou called out to her daughter.

"Then, see you tomorrow."

Having witnessed the boy's power, Rin Tohsaka didn't doubt his words about returning home, waving as she bid farewell to Broly.

After Rin Tohsaka and her mother left, Broly also raised Qi, feet leaving the ground, and flew toward the Fujimura Family's direction.

The speed was so fast, like a starving student rushing to the cafeteria, rings of air waves appearing around his body.

Fortunately, night had already fallen; even if someone heard strange sounds, it would be hard to find the boy flying quickly across the darkened sky.

(Chapter End)