With a heavy heart, Rin followed Waver and the others to William Brishisan's room.
Before even entering the door, she smelled a thick scent of blood.
Seeing the scene in the room, Rin covered her mouth, blocked Sakura and Fujino from the doorway, and then began to gag.
Waver frowned as he looked at William Brishisan's corpse. His limbs had been severed with a sharp weapon, and his entire torso had been ripped open. A snow-white spine, mixed with blood and shredded muscle, was exposed to the air. More importantly, William Brishisan's head was nowhere to be found.
Himekuri Adashino raised her arm, using her sleeve to hide her expression, and spoke in a cold voice.
"How tragic. Lord Waver, what do you think?"
Waver ignored Himekuri Adashino. Instead, he crouched down, a magical light emanating from his hand, and began to examine the corpse.
At this point, Rin could no longer stand the bloody scene. She pulled Sakura and Fujino away from the crime scene and walked toward the rear of the train, intending to get some fresh air there.
When Rin brought Sakura and Fujino to the rear storage car, a figure appeared before her that made her hair stand on end.
Seeing Manaka before her—covered in blood, wearing a morbid smile, and staring at her obsessively—Rin hurriedly shielded Sakura and Fujino behind her.
"Sajyou Manaka!"
"Rin-chan, you've come? Rin-chan, this is my gift to you! Please take it."
As she spoke, Manaka opened a box on a nearby table, pulled out William Brishisan's head, and casually tossed it at Rin's feet.
Because Rin had protected her too well, Sakura, who had always lived in a peaceful environment, was terrified the moment she saw the head. She let out a scream and covered her eyes, not daring to look again.
Fujino, who had experienced much alongside Rin, was in better shape. Although she felt some physiological discomfort, she forced herself to endure it. While supporting Sakura, a rainbow light appeared in her eyes, ready to assist Rin in attacking Manaka at any moment.
Manaka seemed to only just notice Sakura and Fujino behind Rin. Her eyes filled with murderous intent as she looked at them, and a terrifying magical energy erupted from her, enough to make an ordinary Magus tremble all over.
'Oh no!' Rin immediately realized that Manaka had shifted her target to her sister and disciple. She cried out in her heart and quickly shouted.
"Fujino, take Sakura away immediately! Go find Lorelei, Kayneth, and Marisbury for help, quick!"
"Rin-chan, this is our date. Why look for others?"
A burst of black and red magical energy exploded from Manaka, instantly pulling the entire carriage into a certain alternate space.
"Rin-chan, after I deal with these two people who are disturbing our date, let me eat you up!"
Hearing Manaka's words, Rin's expression became grave.
"Sakura, pull yourself together! Fujino, you take care of Sakura first."
After speaking, Rin pulled out a gem containing starlight, recklessly drawing the starlight from the gem in hopes of quickly entering Starlight Mode.
"Rin-chan, are you going to reject me? I'm so sad! Rin-chan, you're a bad child!"
"Gah!"
Rin, who was accumulating starlight, looked in disbelief as a spike extending from her own shadow pierced through her abdomen.
Intense pain struck in an instant, and Rin vomited a mouthful of blood. The severe pain forced her spellcasting to be interrupted, and the starlight she had just gathered into her body began to run wild inside her as her magical energy went out of control.
"Master! Die!"
Seeing Rin heavily injured by Manaka, Fujino was instantly enraged. She recklessly used her Mystic Eyes of Distortion, intending to twist Manaka apart.
Manaka nonchalantly extended a slender hand, easily blocking the twisting force from Fujino's Mystic Eyes with just one finger.
At that moment, Sakura heard Rin's cry of pain and Fujino's roar. Her feelings for Rin finally suppressed the fear in her heart. She opened her eyes and saw Rin kneeling in a pool of blood, and her heart trembled.
"Sister, what's wrong? Sister, don't scare me!"
Rin looked at Sakura beside her, clutching the wound on her abdomen, and forced a smile.
"I'm fine, Sakura. Quickly find a way to escape with Fujino. We can't beat her."
"No, I won't leave my sister behind."
Sakura, who had long been carefully protected by Rin, had often hoped she could help her sister, but reality had repeatedly made her feel her own powerlessness. Her accumulated emotions finally erupted at this moment. It was as if a switch inside Sakura had been flipped. Her eyes went hollow as she turned to look at Manaka.
"It must be you. It must be you who hurt my sister. To think you'd make my sister like this. This is all your fault. Yes, it's all your fault!"
Rin watched in shock as Sakura's hair gradually turned white and blood-colored patterns appeared on her skin. 'Is this a darkening? No, Sakura definitely hasn't come into contact with all the worlds evils. This feeling is... origin! Has Sakura's origin awakened?'
With an indescribable expression on her face, Sakura sat in the pool of blood Rin had shed. Holding Rin, she began to hum a spine-chilling nursery rhyme.
As Sakura hummed, a figure resembling a broken Little Red Riding Hood appeared. Then, Little Red Riding Hood pulled a chainsaw covered in tentacles from under her skirt and charged toward Manaka with a ghostly wail.
Fujino also noticed Sakura's "mutation." Seeing Sakura's familiar entangle Manaka, she quickly stopped her Mystic Eyes of Distortion. She glanced at the now-terrifying Sakura, took a deep breath, and then knelt on the ground to begin praying.
Manaka tilted her head, looking somewhat curiously at the charging Little Red Riding Hood. She then extended her left hand and grabbed the chainsaw swinging at her. With a jolt of magical energy, she shattered the tentacles that were trying to wrap around her from the chainsaw.
"Oh, has your origin awakened? As expected, Rin-chan, as long as I'm with you, I can see unprecedented sights."
Then Manaka extended her right hand, which glowed with Reinforcement Magic, and grabbed Little Red Riding Hood's head. Crack! As Manaka applied force, Little Red Riding Hood's skull was crushed.
With the death of Little Red Riding Hood, a tear rolled down the corner of Sakura's eye. Her singing became even more high-pitched and strange. Combined with the sound of Fujino's prayer nearby, it produced a bizarre chemical reaction that made one feel as if they were in heaven and hell at the same time.
Following Sakura's song, the corpse of Little Red Riding Hood on the ground squirmed. A furry claw extended from the belly of the corpse, and then a bipedal Gray wolf crawled out from within Little Red Riding Hood's body.
A three-meter-tall Gray wolf with a hideous face, having just crawled out of Little Red Riding Hood's corpse, let out an excited howl and then swung its massive claws at Manaka.
At this moment, Fujino also stopped her prayer, and a massive Magic Circle appeared with her as the center. Rin, currently lying in Sakura's arms, felt a mysterious magical energy healing her wounds.
"Master, the temple is complete. Once you've recovered, take Sakura and run!"
Realizing Fujino's plan, Rin anxiously reached out her hand, trying to grab her.
"Stop, Fujino! If you undergo Servant-ification here, without a Holy Grail or spiritual pulse to provide mana, your mage circuits will burn out!"
Suddenly, a massive wolf head was smashed into Fujino, sending her flying just as she was about to undergo Servant-ification. As the Big Bad Wolf died, a silly smile began to surface on Sakura's face.
Manaka slowly walked to Rin's side, ignoring the dazed Sakura who stood there smiling foolishly. She snatched Rin from Sakura's arms and kissed Rin on the lips.
"Mmph!"
Having her first kiss stolen in a sudden attack, Rin felt an unbearable shame and indignation, biting Manaka's lip hard.
Manaka released Rin, used Healing Sorcery to heal her, and then vanished from Rin's sight while touching her bitten lip.
"Rin-chan, I look forward to our next date!"
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