It was an hour later that Aoi Tousaka realized her daughter Rin was missing.
Perhaps because of the child's guilty conscience, there was a note left on the bedside table, saying that he would return to Fuyuki City to look for his missing classmates.
Aoi's eyes darkened with regret. During dinner, Rin mentioned Kotone and asked about the current situation of Fuyuki City several times.
Aoi shouldn't have been ambiguous at that time. Even if she had to be cruel, she should have explained it clearly to let Rin understand - forget about that friend.
I should contact Tokiomi—Aoi suppressed the whisper with her rationality.
Although Aoi does not have any magical skills, she is a magician's wife after all. She knows very well that her husband Tokiomi is in a state where he is unable to care about his daughter's safety. He is currently on the battlefield, and the situation he is in requires him to concentrate and do his best to save his life.
No, there was another person, a childhood sweetheart of hers, who returned to the Matou family after years of absence for the sake of his other daughter. This man truly loved Rin and Sakura, and this man... would not refuse her request.
Although Aoi felt bad about contacting him at this time, she couldn't care less for the sake of her daughter.
Aoi took out the phone book and dialed the number that Yanye had specially left for her.
The result disappointed her. It was not that Kariya rejected her request, but that Kariya was not at home at all, and it was Sakura who answered the phone.
Now there is no one to rely on, only I can protect Rin.
Aoi rushed out of the Zenjo family without changing her clothes and drove back to Fuyuki City on the national highway at night.
She didn't know where Rin might go, so she could only predict Rin's activity radius and search for her one by one.
If Rin takes the train back to Fuyuki City, the first stop is Fuyuki Station. From Fuyuki Station, it takes about 30 minutes for a child to walk...
The first place that came to her mind was the Citizens' Park by the Mion River.
The park's late-night silence is reminiscent of a cemetery.
There was no sign of life in the square. The useless lights illuminated the empty spaces everywhere, making the darkness between the spaces even deeper and the silence around even more eerie and frightening.
The air in Fuyuki City at night had clearly become bad.
Living with a magician, Aoi has become accustomed to a certain degree of weirdness, and she can definitely feel this strange atmosphere.
Aoi's eyes first looked for the bench where she liked to sit when she and Rin usually played together. This could be a kind of intuition, or it could be a blood connection.
The little figure in a red coat that he was looking for was right there.
Besides her, there is another girl who makes him secretly worried.
Aoi subconsciously wanted to call out her daughter's name, but was interrupted by a strong discomfort in her stomach.
She saw several alien monsters emerging from the shadows. They were monsters that were unacceptable to human aesthetics, and her two daughters were confronting these alien monsters.
If it was another time, and Aoi was left alone to face such a monster, she might be like Rin before, frightened by the fear of death and unable to do anything. But now, even if the fear was ten or a hundred times greater, it would not scare Aoi, because she was the mother of those two children, and in order to protect her children, the mother would not be afraid of any danger, including death.
"-cold!"
"-cherry!"
Aoi shouted as she ran towards her daughter, hoping to attract the monster's attention in this way.
"Mom? Danger!"
"Don't come over here!"
Rin and Sakura's reactions were exactly the same. The mother wanted to protect her daughter, and the daughter also wanted to protect her mother. Not to mention, their mother was just an ordinary housewife who didn't know how to do magic or fight.
Hearing her two daughters say this, Aoi ran even faster. She simply wanted to get to her daughters and protect them, even if it was just to buy a little time.
The two young sisters looked at each other and threw away what they were holding in their hands.
Rin lost the crystal piece she carried with her, and Sakura lost the rune stone she made.
The materials are different, the principles of magic are different, but they lead to the same result.
Excessive magical power is infused into the crystal;
The rune "F", representing fire, was released in the most violent way.
There is only one result - explosion!
There was no visible fire and the sound was very faint.
It's not that the power is weak, but that the explosion occurred inside the body of the alien monster, and both the sound and light were blocked.
The sisters confronted the monsters not because they were afraid or couldn't escape, but because they wanted to get closer to ensure that they could throw the "bomb" into the monster's mouth - just like Sakura did when she defeated the first monster in the alley and saved her sister.
The two sisters have similar aptitude in magic, and they have only been practicing magic for a few months apart, so naturally the scale of the explosion caused by their use of magic would not be much different.
The two monsters closest to them struggled and twisted as they fell to the ground. Their severely injured bodies blocked the advancement of the remaining monsters.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two sisters ran away. When they passed by their mother, one of them grabbed one of her hands and fled with her.
"Rin, Sakura, are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" Aoi asked anxiously. No matter what time, she always cared about her daughter the most.
"Mom, I'm fine."
"I'm fine too."
The two sisters answered at the same time, and Rin, the older sister, added another sentence.
"Where are we going now?"
"To the parking lot. I'm driving here. Once I'm in the car, they can't catch up with me. Just follow me."
After all, Aoi is an adult and has much more experience than the two children.
However, the controllers of these alien monsters seemed to have anticipated the escape route of the mother and daughter, and deployed several monsters in front of the parking lot entrance in advance. The road back to the park was also blocked by the monsters that were tracking them.
With powerful enemies in front and pursuers behind, more than ten alien monsters have blocked all possible escape routes.
Rin looked at her sister and found that she was also looking at her.
"Sakura, how many of these do you have left that will explode?"
"Three."
"I only have one crystal piece left... It's not enough, no matter which way I go. What should I do? What should I do?"
Rin forced herself to remain calm and composed, thinking quickly in her little head.
"Front, five monsters, one more... I can only try."
Lin took out a crystal piece from his pocket and stared at one of the monsters.
"Sakura, we—"
Before he could even say "let's go together", the monsters seemed to have received some kind of instruction and simultaneously tightened their mouthparts, leaving a small gap that was not enough for the "bomb" to pass through.
If their "bombs" cannot explode from the inside, they will not be able to cause any effective damage to the monsters. Sakura had just told her this.
"Am I going to die here? We're almost at the parking lot."
At this moment, Lin regretted deeply, regretting his rashness, which not only harmed himself, but also his mother and sister.
PS: Aoi is a typical traditional woman. After marriage, she focuses all her attention on her husband and daughter, and puts family as her top priority. So when Tokiomi says that she cannot disturb him, Aoi does not disturb him, so Kariya... ... you are a tragedy.