The man's eyes were injured by the strong light produced by the broken bracelet. He didn't care about Rin who was right beside him. He covered his eyes with his hands and screamed.
At the same time, the magic power that occupied the children's bodies and took away their consciousness quickly dissipated as the bracelet broke, and the children lying on the ground gradually regained consciousness.
"Kotone." Rin immediately ran to her friend's side, watching her eyes gradually regain their spirits, and her face becoming more and more lively.
"Rin... where is this place?" Qinyin looked at Rin, then looked around blankly, as if she had not yet realized what was going on.
At the same time Qinyin woke up, the children around her also woke up. Some of them screamed loudly, and some cried loudly out of fear.
At the critical moment, Rin fully demonstrated the family motto of the Tosaka family - "Always stay calm and always stay elegant."
"Now is not the time to cry, everyone run away."
She yelled to everyone, pulled her best friend and ran out first.
Seeing someone taking the lead, the other children also ran out.
By the time the man recovered from his temporary blindness, the children had already run away without a trace. He could only squat on the ground helplessly, picking up a piece of bracelet fragment, with a sad face.
"Will the master be angry?"
...
The commotion of the children on the street naturally attracted the attention of the police. Nearby police officers rushed there as quickly as possible, protected the children, comforted them, checked their identities, and contacted their parents.
Before the children were discovered by the police, Rin quietly left the crowd while no one was paying attention and observed silently in the alley across the street.
Looking at Kotone who was closely protected by armed police officers in the center, Rin was finally able to take a deep breath.
What happened tonight involved magic, which is a mystery that ordinary people cannot know, so Rin cannot appear in front of the police. Although Rin felt a little regretful that she could not receive the gratitude of other children, as long as Qinyin was safe, Rin was satisfied.
"Okay, let's go back."
Before leaving, she once again picked up the magic pointer given to her by her father and whispered in the direction of the Tohsaka family.
"Dad, I did it."
Before he finished speaking, the magic pointer suddenly began to tremble, more violently than any other time, and even "jumped" directly from Rin's hand, floating in the air and swaying up and down.
The flat magic pointer tilted upward under the traction of the magic source, and the pointer was firmly locked in the direction of forty-five degrees upward.
Amidst the piercing and strange sound of "Giiiiii", an unidentified object fell from the sky, and the magic pointer also fell down. This scene reminded Rin of the instructions her father gave her when he gave her the magic pointer.
"Rin, you have to remember that you can't handle something with such a big reaction right now."
That time, Tokiomi was experimenting with the magic book that had left a psychological trauma on Rin, and the reaction to the unidentified object that appeared before his eyes was even more intense than that time.
This was an extremely ugly creature. Its wet body, tentacles covered with countless tiny fleshy buds, and the large ring-shaped mouth in the center of the tentacles all made Rin feel disgusted.
But Rin couldn't spit it out. The despair and fear that were even stronger than when she faced the kidnapper alone oppressed her nerves and gnawed at her soul.
Danger Danger Danger —
The body was hugged tightly, and every hair stood up.
Rin's innate talent for magic tells her what kind of crisis she is in.
The so-called magic is nothing more than recognizing and accepting death - this is the first hurdle that all apprentice magicians must overcome in the process of training.
The cold touch of "death" is so concrete, reaching the abyss of despair.
There is no escape from it, and no understanding of it.
On the first day Sakura entered the Matou household, she felt the approach of "death" when faced with the overwhelming swarms of crested insects.
When Yustisa opened the magic circuit for Shinji, he also felt a despair that would be remembered for the rest of his life.
At this time, the young Rin was forced to experience the horrific nature of magic firsthand.
In the frozen vision, the monster stood up with the support of its tentacles and crawled towards Rin.
The monster's movement speed was not very fast. With Lin's speed, he might not be able to outrun the monster even if he ran at full speed. Even if he couldn't outrun it, he could run to the street and call for help.
However, Rin couldn't do it. The feeling of being surrounded by "death" made her unable to move even a finger. She could only wail in vain with a voice that could only echo in the alley and could not be transmitted to the outside world.
"Don't come over here, don't don't, absolutely don't, no no no no no no no no—"
The monster's sharp teeth flashed with cold light, and the flesh on its body and the gaps between its teeth dripped with mucus with a strange smell.
Getting closer.
Closer.
The tentacles with red fleshy granulations were about to touch Rin's body.
Just when the tentacle was a few centimeters away from Rin's face, Rin heard the sound of something passing by her ear.
She thought it was caused by the cold despair that shattered her soul. She thought that her thoughts and senses were beginning to collapse.
But the next second, she overturned her judgment because she heard a familiar voice, a voice that was the same as the sound of the piano, no, a voice that was more important than the sound of the piano.
"Sister, run!"
Sister, there is only one person in this world who calls her that, and that is her younger sister Sakura.
The affection and bond between the sisters made Rin forget her fear and get rid of the shadow of death. She turned her head away from the monster in front of her and saw her sister, who had been stained with the color of the Matou family, holding her hand and running towards the alley.
At the same time, a faint explosion was heard behind the two girls. The body of the monster that was about to eat suddenly began to swell and twist, accompanied by waves of blood mist.
Ten or so seconds later, the monster that had made Rin feel a fatal danger twitched and fell to the ground.
At this time, Ying had already run out of the alley and out of the bar street with her sister.
The cold wind blew across her cheeks, and the scenery on both sides quickly receded. Lin had never thought that her sister, that quiet sister, could run so fast, even faster than herself who was the top athlete in the school.
Is it the effect of jogging every morning
Should I try it myself
Rin was lost in thought as he let Sakura pull him forward.
When she came to her senses, she found herself in a park not far from the center of Xindu.
"Hoo~Hoo~Sakura, thank you for saving me." Rin said to her sister, panting, "But how could you-"
Because she exercises every day, Ying is in much better shape than her sister. She carefully wiped the sweat off her sister and answered somewhat embarrassedly.
"Mom, no, Aunt Toosaka called and said sister, no, you left a note and ran away from home..."
Rin could no longer listen to what Sakura said next. She only had one thought in mind.
"Oh no, oh no, my mom found out. I'm going to get scolded when I get home."