Rin would never make a mistake. The girl lying on the ground was Qin Yin, her best friend.
"Qinyin!"
Rin called out anxiously, but Qinyin remained motionless and did not respond.
Qinyin's wide-open eyes were out of focus and lacked their usual brilliance. There was no expression on her face, and she looked like an exquisite doll.
If Rin's hands hadn't been able to feel the warmth of a human body and the beating of a heart, she would have thought her best friend was dead.
"Kotone!? What has been done to you? What should I do? Is there any—"
Rin looked around, trying to find something that could help.
Not only was the help not found, but something even more terrifying appeared—the man who made Rin feel dangerous, the man holding the two boys.
For a moment, Rin felt like she was being stared at by some ferocious beast.
Her whole body seemed to be frozen and she couldn't move. She couldn't even scream. The terror frightened the young girl.
The man turned his eyes and caught sight of Rin. He was stunned for a moment, then spoke to Rin with a brighter smile and a gentler voice.
"What's wrong, are you lost?"
"No, that..." Rin's body and mind were controlled by fear. She couldn't finish her words and didn't know how to say them. She could only stutter and tremble.
"You came just in time."
The man seemed not to notice Rin's expression and walked towards her with a smile.
The moment his hands loosened, the two boys he was holding seemed to lose their strength and fell limply, just like Kotone who was in Rin's arms.
"We're planning on having a party, but we don't have enough people. Can you come and help?"
It was not until this time that Rin realized that there were not only Kotone and the two boys lying on the ground, but also several other children.
The man just squatted among the children, in front of Rin, and held out his hand to her.
"A party is more lively when there are more people, right?"
Out of fear, Rin subconsciously opened the man's hand, but felt a sharp pain in her hand, as if she was pricked by many needles.
"What happened just now?"
Rin looked at her hand. Although it was only for a moment, she knew that the pain was not an illusion. It was a reaction to the invasion of magic power into her body.
The introduction to the secret gem magic of the Tohsaka family is to use magic power to change the shape of gems. This kind of training can improve the magician's coordination between mental strength and magic power. If there is a problem in any aspect, the shaping will fail.
When Rin first started, she often failed because she injected too much magic power, causing the gems to shatter and the excess magic power to rebound upon herself. At that time, the pain in her hands was the same as it is now.
Rin's eyes involuntarily focused on her retracted left wrist, where there was a purple bracelet emitting magical fluctuations.
"Is that what the pointer is pointing to? Is that what made Qin Yin like this? These children must be like that!"
On the other side, the man whose hands were opened by Lin lost his patience. The sunshine and gentleness on his face disappeared, replaced by the expression of a beast staring at its prey.
He reached out again, trying to grab Rin.
Lin shrank away and used his hands and feet to jump to the corner of the bar.
The man licked his lips, and while trying to avoid stepping on the child on the ground, he moved closer, with a hint of ferocity in his narrowed eyes.
But this time, Rin was not frightened, but bravely fought the man.
Relying on her petite body, she climbed onto the bar and threw the debris at the man.
The man protected his head and face with his hands and continued to move closer.
How much strength can a child have? She will be beaten as many times as she wants. It won't take more than a few minutes for her to give it all back. The man must have thought so. But he ignored what was on the bar. In addition to various beverage packages, there was also a four-by-four cup holder with sixteen glasses neatly placed inside.
Lin pushed the cup holder out with force, and the cup holder left the bar and hit the man's feet heavily.
"It hurts." The man was suddenly hit hard and screamed, waving his hands around.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Rin grabbed the man's left wrist. Her goal was not to avoid the man's capture, but to destroy this ominous magic prop.
The magic power from the bracelet invaded Rin's body again, and the pain from the invasion made her face pale.
But soon, Lin could no longer feel the pain. The courage and consciousness that she had finally mustered were fading away bit by bit, as if someone was singing a lullaby in her ears.
This is the effect of the bracelet, which injects magic power into the target's body through direct contact and seizes the target's consciousness.
Gradually, Lin's vision became more and more blurred, and the man's face became unclear. He could only vaguely hear his smug voice.
"What? It seems you are still willing to help."
The sound woke Rin up and she remembered what she was supposed to do.
She gritted her teeth and turned on the switches of the magic circuits in her body. Forty main circuits and thirty auxiliary circuits were activated at the same time, and the magic power stored in her body poured out like a flood.
There is no skill involved, nor is there any intention to use any magic. It is simply releasing magic power to fight against the magic power emitted by the bracelet.
Although Rin is young, he possesses qualifications far beyond that of ordinary magicians. If the body of an ordinary magician is a pond, Rin's body is a reservoir. Even if this reservoir has not been fully utilized, the magic power stored in it cannot be underestimated.
Azure magic power emanated from Rin's eyes, hands, and body, lighting up the dim bar and blending with the purple (harmony) magic power released from the bracelet.
The magic pointer hanging on Rin's neck and pointing to the bracelet began to swing, sometimes pointing to Rin and sometimes pointing to the bracelet. It can be seen how fierce the struggle between the two magic powers is.
"Strange, what's wrong?"
The man whose left hand was grabbed by Lin was confused by the scene in front of him. He had no idea what was going on and just stared blankly.
As time went on, Rin's magic output became stronger and stronger, the bracelet's magic was expelled from her body, and the swinging pointer began to shift in her direction.
When Rin was completely free from the influence of the bracelet, all her magic power flowed into the bracelet through her hands. This scene was exactly the same as the seawater backflowing into the Weiyuan River during a rainstorm.
She recalled what her father had taught her when she failed to shape the figure for the first time. Magic is a rigorous and precise project, and the more magic power you use, the better. Excessive magic power will destroy the magic itself.
Linxian wants to destroy the bracelet in the same way.
"This kind of thing!" Amid Rin's roar, the output of magic power reached its highest value. The roaring magic power made the magic pointer finally stop on Rin's body, which also exceeded the limit of the bracelet's tolerance.
There was a loud bang, and the bracelet shattered into pieces in a flash of light, like a gem that had failed to be shaped.