"At least, at least let mom and Sakura escape."
Lin, who was in a desperate situation, made a decision with regret and unwillingness.
"Ying, give me all your bombs. I'll deal with these monsters, and you take mom and find a chance to escape."
"No, that's too dangerous. Let mom do it. She's an adult and must be better than you two kids."
Before Sakura could say anything, Aoi held her daughter's shoulders and waved her fist defiantly.
"No, mom doesn't know magic, and can't deal with these monsters. It's all my fault that things have turned out like this. 'You have to make up for your own mistakes and take your own responsibilities. Children of the Tohsaka family cannot escape responsibility.' This is what you taught me. In addition, you also taught me that 'an older sister should protect her younger sister.' So, I have to do it."
Rin looked at her mother with a firm gaze. At this moment, Rin truly lived up to the family motto of being calm and elegant.
"Rin..." Aoi's eyes were red and she was speechless.
"Ying, hurry up, it's too late." Lin urged.
Unlike her mother who was about to cry and her sister who was ready to fight, Sakura's expression remained calm, as if she didn't take the monsters around her seriously at all.
"Don't worry, sis. We'll be fine."
"Huh?" Rin was stunned.
"My brother is here."
Before he could finish his words, there was a sudden roar from the group of monsters blocking the entrance to the parking lot, accompanied by violent flames.
In order to block the road, the monsters that were close to each other were knocked over by the impact caused by the explosion, and were ignited by the blazing flames, making shrill screams.
In the firelight, there was a hazy figure holding a strangely shaped dagger and slashing at the still struggling monsters. While swinging the knife, he declared in a cold tone.
"Who allowed you filthy monsters to touch my sister? Die! Die! Die!"
The flames had not yet gone out, but the five monsters that blocked the way had all turned into blood.
In the blood and fire, the boy with blue curly hair and blue eyes wiped the blood off his face with his sleeve and shouted to the mother and daughter: "Run, quickly, leave the monsters behind to me."
Sakura reacted the fastest. She grabbed her mother and sister's hands and ran to the parking lot. When she passed by Shinji, she didn't forget to say to him, "Brother, be careful."
Shinji waved casually, leaving behind a back that he thought was handsome.
"Well, it's time to settle accounts. How are you going to repay the psychological trauma you left on my lovely sister?"
Shinji said this, disabling the short sword mode of his exclusive "God of War Bow and Sword" outfit and switching to a medium-range continuous shooting slingshot.
"Even if I ask you, you won't answer! Then I have to make the decision unilaterally."
Several rune stones of different shapes appeared in Shinji's right hand. These were his own creations. The big explosion just now was the creation of Scathach. Because the situation was urgent and needed a quick victory, and he couldn't expose his own treasure, he used this kind of magic bullet that was used less and less.
"Although it's not as powerful as the one made by the master, it should still be enough to make you die in agony."
The remaining monsters approached fearlessly, crossing the blood left by their companions.
Shinji opened the net bag of the "God Spear Bow and Sword", and a blue rune on the magic bullet installed inside was lit up - "i", which means ice.
The blood on the ground froze, and the already wet monsters began to slip on the ice.
Shinji sneered and loaded the second magic bullet.
"It's time for the execution."
... ...
On the other side, the mother and her two daughters were still running at full speed.
Because of the long-term intense exercise and the remaining fear in their hearts, they felt their chests becoming more and more stuffy.
But they didn't dare stop to rest. No one knew if they would be attacked again. Only by leaving this haunted place could they be truly safe.
The parking lot is not very large. After all, it is 1994, not the 21st century with excessive traffic, so there is no need for so many parking spaces.
In fact, there was only one car in the small parking lot of the Civic Park, and that was Aoi's black Toyota sedan.
No, it can no longer be called black. The originally smooth body of the car was now covered with purple-red liquid and pieces of flesh, as if it had been graffitied by a child. The twitching pieces of flesh were gradually melting into blood.
Monsters surrounded his car, and someone helped him destroy them.
Aoi, who had regained her composure, came to this conclusion easily. Soon, she became aware of a gaze—someone was staring at her from a place where the street lights could not reach.
"Who's there?"
Aoi shouted in a nervous voice.
The figure hiding in the bushes slowly appeared under the light of the street lamp. It was a man wrapped in a loose windbreaker with a hood worn very high on his head, as if to cover his face.
"Sorry, Aoi, for dirtying your car."
The man's voice was low and melancholy. He reached out and lowered his hood, revealing a face that was very familiar to the mother and daughter.
"...Kariya...?"
Seeing this face, the mother, daughter and three of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Although it was a little inappropriate to say this, the man in front of them did make them feel at ease.
"Uncle Kariya, were you the one who defeated those monsters?"
Facing Rin's curious gaze, Kariya shook his head.
"It's not me, it's my Servant."
The word "Servant" uttered by Kariya made Aoi feel dizzy and nauseous.
She sincerely hoped that she had heard wrongly, but Kariya seemed to betray Aoi's thoughts and stretched out the back of his right hand for her to see. Three unknown Command Seals were clearly engraved on the back of his right hand.
"Kariya... you..."
"Aoi, don't say anything, don't ask anything."
For the first time, the first time since he became an adult, Kariya interrupted Aoi.
"This is the fate of the three families, the matter between the Tousaka family and the Matou family, and between Tousaka Tokiomi and me. You... ...don't get involved. Take Rin and Sakura away from Fuyuki City and return to the Zenjo family. Sakura, stay with Aoi at the Zenjo family for a few days, and it will be over soon."
After saying this, Kariya put on his hood, turned around and walked into the shadows.
"Kariya, wait—"
No one responded to Aoi's final call, and the footsteps gradually faded away.
... ...
Outside the parking lot, Shinji was leaning against the wall playing with two rune magic bullets.
"Where is the master?" Kariya walked to his nephew's side and leaned against the wall like his nephew.
"I'm going to find Ryunosuke Uesugi. Since we're all here, there's no need for her to be exposed."
"really... "
Kariya nodded slightly, but found that Shinji was staring at him with contempt.
"Uh, why are you looking at me like that?"
"Because you are hopelessly stupid." Shinji covered his face and sighed, "It was a rare opportunity to be a hero and save the beauty, but you ruined it like this. What can I say?"
PS: In fact, Sakura's magic level is higher than Shinji's, but Sakura is a minor after all, and her tactics are not as flexible and changeable as Shinji's, and Shinji's real way to win is to kill you.