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Chapter 17 - Garden Of Flowers

"Who are you trying to scare?" Ryouma walked towards her, the concentrated mana barely an inch away from Ryouma's heart.

"Well I'm here, don't miss it!" Ryouma helped Rin to point at the exact location of his heart.

Rin had seen blood many times but it was her first time about to kill someone by her hands.

"Weak," Ryouma slapped her face.

Rin stumbled backwards her brain just couldn't calculate what just happened.

Ryouma turned around before giving her a cold glare. "A magus always walks with death!"

With that word Ryouma started talking with Illya.

Rin recounted how many she heard it from Kotomine Kirei.

But right now she understood how true those words truly are.

Being a magus she needs to have resolve to kill or get killed.

Illya arrived before Rin, "Don't take it to heart, his is just scared to see us die."

Ryouma from where he was standing shouted, "I don't!"

With the help of Illya, Rin finally got up from the ground. Heading inside the house.

Their conversation ended as such.

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Meanwhile Shirou finally arrived at Matou resident, the gate was open, and the door was open.

"Sakura?" I shouted but no sound came.

Going through room by room. I finally arrived at Sakura's room...

On her bed Shinji's corpse is still warm. Even tho he wasn't the great person at least we were friends.

I closed his eyes. From the corner of the room many insects started to create a body.

"She did this, can you still stand by your words?" Matou Zouken spoke.

I didn't speak but my gaze fixed on him.

"Oh, being calm even before me?"

"Zouken!" My hand on my shroud ready to unravel, yet a dagger hocked on chains hit Zouken's head.

Looking behind it was Rider, she didn't even said a word before grabbing me and jumping off the 3rd floor.

Millions of insects exploded the room shattering every glass.

After we landed, "Sakura is back." With that she disappeared again.

Hearing those words I started running back.

I arrived in front of my house just as I entered the bright sky turned black.

It's clearly done by magic, I couldn't care less about it, 'The highest magic energy is in the backyard.'

Arriving there I didn't make a move... I analyzed everything before me.

Rin on the ground bleeding, Ryouma stomach pierced and hanging on a wall.

Illya is far back not injured.

'Rin is only losing blood she has the longest time... Ryouma wounds are the worst, it's hard to know if he is alive...'

My gaze slowly shifts back on the main figure. Sakura.

"Sakura! We can save you! You don't need to attack anyone!"

Sakura looks at me. I keep calm, walking slowly towards Rin.

Her heart is still beating, she isn't in serious danger. 'That's good.'

Sakura speaks, "If you were here to save me why did you go for her!"

Looking at her, her eyes lost the light she had just before.

Before I could speak I was kicked by someone.

It was Rider she kicked us away. Getting impaled instead.

"S...Sakur..." A reddish black puddle opened beneath her.

"Rider, you have some use for me." Sakura slowly looked back at me.

When suddenly a familiar calm voice started talking. "Shirou, pull out the blue flower!"

Shirou didn't understand what it meant. Looking at where the voice came from, it was Ryouma.

But before Ryouma could say more. His neck was cut, with blood gushing out, his head fell off the body.

Shirou only stood there with horror. Meanwhile Illya had pulled the blue flower.

"Hahahahaha." It was Ryouma's voice yet the laugh was sadistic laced with madness.

"I was bored hanging on the wall!" his body started to move on its own.

"You should have thought of me as the biggest enemy here! That was your first mistake!" The body ignored the veil pierced in his chest. The head on the ground started burning with a blue fire.

With each second his head was reconstructed at a visible speed.

"Let me show you what a genius magus fight is like!" Ryouma head fully constructed so everyone could see him having a mocking smile.

Before he could move anymore Sakura fired off another veil piercing his head.

Ryouma's head split some brain chunks flying towards the ground, even one of his eyes falls off his sockets hitting the ground.

Ryouma staggers for a moment before another blue fire starts burning the pieces.

And Ryouma's head regenerates with the veil in his head.

"Illya, Shirou take Rin and escape!"

Another veil pierced him but he just regenerated.

Sakura switching tactics aimed for Shirou and others, but Ryouma jumped in front of the veils getting pierced.

Shirou after getting out of the residence got flashbanged by the bright day light.

"Illya, take Rin to Kirei!" looking at home.

'Ryouma was still there. Maybe with him I could save Sakura!'

'Huh?' I instinctively summoned a sword it was a no name sword so it broke but it stopped the sword which was heading towards Illya.

A majestic black sword only fitting for Saber!

'Dammit I need to unravel my shroud!' Just then, "OI, SABER COME AND HELP YOUR MASTER!" Ryouma's mocking voice was loud enough to hear.

Followed by Sakura's scared voice followed, "Saber, help me!"

Saber stopped her movements before quickly rushing back to the house.

Illya was already far away, so I entered behind Saber.

Ryouma pierced by multiple veils covering his body, lifting Sakura by her neck.

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