"By the way, Akatsuki, I..."
Akatsuki placed her finger against Tohsaka Rin's lips. "Rin, memories can be ambiguous sometimes. Since it's in the past, there's no need to dwell on it now that you've remembered. After all, humans are creatures that must always look forward."
"In other words, those things really happened?"
"The theory of multiple worlds isn't exactly news in the world of Magicians. For instance, we're chatting here right now, but perhaps in a different worldline, we're currently entwined in bed, whispering words of love to each other, just like in your memories."
Tohsaka Rin was stunned for a moment, then looked at Akatsuki suspiciously. "Weren't those things all forced on me by you unilaterally?! When did I ever whisper words of love to you! You hentai True Ancestor!"
"Ah, I've been found out? Ehe~"
Seeing that Tohsaka Rin still clearly remembered everything that had happened, Akatsuki stuck out her tongue and playfully tapped her head with her fist, attempting to act cute to get away with it.
"'Ehe' my foot!"
"Well, but didn't you start taking the initiative later on? You even insisted on joining in while I was with Arcueid..."
"Ah—ah—ah—!"
Seeing her business from another worldline being exposed, Tohsaka Rin hurriedly made a loud noise, trying to drown out Akatsuki's words with her own voice.
"Why did you, as a Magician, have to succumb to primal urges!!!"
Tohsaka Rin complained about the version of herself in her memories.
"Rin, calm down. Have you forgotten the Tohsaka Family's motto?"
Akatsuki placed both hands on Tohsaka Rin's shoulders, her crimson pupils gazing into Tohsaka Rin's blue ones. For some reason, Tohsaka Rin seemed to see something inexplicable within them.
"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."
Tohsaka Rin unconsciously adjusted her state to match Akatsuki's breathing rhythm. Logically, the loss of composure from her brain overloading just now shouldn't have happened to her.
Their eyes met.
The two seemed to be drawn to each other, gradually leaning closer.
A moment later, a silver thread of saliva broke between them after a short, hurried kiss.
"It feels different from my memories..."
Touching her lips with her fingers, she felt that the kiss just now was completely different from the rough, forceful, and overbearing kiss from Akatsuki in her memories. Tohsaka Rin suddenly felt her face burning. "Maybe it's because I drank too many cold drinks at the Hyatt Hotel earlier."
Tohsaka Rin thought to herself.
"I want to do it again."
Just as Tohsaka Rin was dazed, Akatsuki suddenly spoke.
"Eh?"
"A kiss, let's do it again."
Without her realizing, she had been pressed against the wall. In the Western-style residential area of Fuyuki City's Miyama-cho, Tohsaka Rin looked at Akatsuki, who was almost pressed against her, her mind going blank.
"Rin?"
"Akatsuki, are you asking for my opinion?"
Tohsaka Rin felt as if she had misheard. In her memories, Akatsuki was willful and completely self-centered; as long as her desires were aroused, there was basically no possibility of anyone refusing. Yet, such an Akatsuki was actually asking for her opinion for a kiss now.
"Is it not okay? Rin."
Her heart rate was accelerating.
Tens of minutes later, Saber, who was taking a walk through Miyama-cho after having a late-night snack in Fuyuki City's New City, happened to stumble upon Akatsuki and Tohsaka Rin kissing.
"Pardon me! Enjoy yourselves!"
Saber left without looking back, terrified that Akatsuki might pull her in as well. Although Akatsuki had already done many excessive things to her ten years ago, she had always been resolutely opposed to this kind of thing outdoors. For her, the dignified king of knights, to be so unseemly in the wild, she would rather be killed by Akatsuki; at most, she would just return to the Throne of Heroes!
"Wait! Saber!"
"Ah, we've been spotted? Then from now on, I'll just have to be intimate with Rin openly."
"That's not the point!"
Akatsuki caught Saber and brought her back. She and Saber listened to Tohsaka Rin's explanation for a long time, but the result was that the more she explained, the worse it sounded, until finally, Tohsaka Rin's own brain crashed.
"Rin, you don't need to explain. I understand everything."
After listening to Tohsaka Rin's explanation, Saber looked at her with considerable sympathy. A feeling of shared misfortune suddenly welled up in her heart; the Tohsaka Rin before her was so similar to her self of ten years ago, forced to submit to Akatsuki with no power to even resist.
Akatsuki watched Saber, who had suddenly empathized with Tohsaka Rin, and slowly mentally typed a '?'. Of course, it wasn't that she had any questions, but rather she suddenly felt that something had gone wrong with Saber during the time she was away.
However, watching Saber comfort Tohsaka Rin from up close was a scene you wouldn't see in the original story. As two of the three heroines with their own routes in FSN, both their looks and character charms were quite high.
"Lord Akatsuki."
Matou Sakura's voice sounded from behind her.
The once petite Little Loli had now grown into a graceful young woman. She was currently wearing her school uniform, her cheeks flushed as she looked at her while panting. The sound of her hurried breathing reached Akatsuki's ears; she must have rushed over without stopping the moment she got the news.
"Sakura."
"Lord... Akatsuki... You're back."
Matou Sakura tried her best to remain calm, but her trembling voice betrayed her.
"Yeah, I'm back. And I told you, didn't I? There's no need for honorifics."
She embraced Matou Sakura's trembling body, just as she had when she rescued her from the Matou Family ten years ago.
Surrounded by the three heroines, Akatsuki couldn't help but sigh. Perhaps this really was the worldline where everyone could be happy. That fellow gaia (the black-haired Little Loli) had finally done something decent.
However, after her return, both gaia and alaya had lost contact. What happened? Were they up to something again?
"Akatsuki!"
It was Arcueid's voice. The princess of the True Ancestors was happier today than she had been on any day in the past few years. The moment she saw Akatsuki, she rushed over and pulled both Matou Sakura and Akatsuki into her arms.
"Akatsuki, I missed you so much!"
"Arcueid, I missed you too."
The moment she saw Arcueid, Akatsuki knew; it must have been Justeaze who informed everyone. She would have to find an opportunity to thank her properly.
But for now, the most important thing was the snow-white neck before her.
Thinking this, Akatsuki bit down gently on Arcueid's neck. The long-awaited blood entered Akatsuki's mouth—the soft body, the faint fragrance entering her nose, and the sweet blood.
"A long-awaited taste of blood (love)."
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