A Lifetime of Rin Tohsaka

Therefore, they probably share a sense of mutual understanding that is difficult to describe in words. They also lived under the same roof for several years while studying in the UK.

Although he mostly took care of her in daily life, Shirou knew in his heart that he also received a lot from the girl. Without Tohsaka, he wouldn't have been able to have a stable life in London during those years, allowing him to devote himself to learning Magecraft and related knowledge.

Well, for him, Tohsaka, even if they weren't lovers, was a trustworthy comrade-in-arms he could rely on, a partner he wanted to be friends with for life, and someone he would welcome to stay at his home for a while from time to time. Or perhaps they were like family.

However, this Tohsaka, who is like family to him, shows him no mercy whatsoever.

"Wait a minute, didn't you kick me into the Thames back then? Why does it have to be like this every time we meet?" Shirou retorted, finally remembering the whole story.

He initially entered the Clock Tower as Tohsaka's disciple to study together.

After angering Tohsaka, every time they met, her reaction was extremely extreme. After growing up, the little devil became a super dangerous demon woman.

It's true that girls change after they grow up and become women.

Ah... coming back to that, it's just that Sakura is always so gentle and considerate, waiting for me at home. Sometimes, she'll appear behind me without warning, even when we're hundreds of thousands of kilometers away overseas.

"Yes, ever since that day, I've lived a shameful life, being ridiculed by the entire Clock Tower. But thanks to that, my studies have progressed very smoothly, and even my martial arts have improved by leaps and bounds. Hitting the punching bag with your picture on it, even my fist technique level has increased by leaps and bounds, it's incredible." The girl said, shrugging.

"Is... is that so? That's great." Shirou replied awkwardly.

"Yeah, that's great. So I decided then and there that every time I see you, I'll beat you up!" Rin Tohsaka clenched her fist, and the killing intent she had been holding back erupted completely. A black aura that seemed to swallow the sky surged up behind the girl.

"Shirou, don't dodge! I'll just hit you once, just a light tap on the head." The girl laughed and threw a punch at Shirou's face.

"I told you! Stop dodging!!!" the twin-tailed girl shouted, rushing in front of Shirou, bending her knees and crouching down to strike Shirou in the abdomen.

Shirou felt a tightness in his abdomen. Even though he hadn't been hit yet, it felt like something was pressing down on him, causing a sharp pain that seemed to go right to his bones. He shuddered and quickly rolled over and jumped backward.

The girl's punch shot into the sky, blowing the leaves off the large tree above, leaving a bare gap in the lush green tree.

Shirou yelled in frustration, "A punch like that would blow my head off in an instant!"

"Ugh, a person's head isn't a watermelon! It won't just shatter into pieces and fly all over the house because of a punch that hits too hard." The girl said, waving her hand with a spoiled young lady smile.

"Tohsaka! You learned True Magic from the Fearsome King of Mages, and you've gone mad just like everyone else!" Shirou exclaimed, looking at the girl in astonishment.

"You finally said it! You'd better be prepared!" The girl with pigtails frowned and glared fiercely at the boy.

Some people might not recognize the names "Fearsome King of Mages" or "Grand Marshal Shugia Zelretch," but if you mention his most resounding title, even the inhabitants of this other world will recognize it.

The Second Magus, an observer of parallel worlds, freely travels between them. The Second Magic Magician's Mystic Mage's Formal Wear she created includes the Jewel Sword, capable of unleashing the strongest magical cannon from another world with every strike, and the red and blue True Magic, which directly created magical girl of Servant level.

His greatest achievement was single-handedly confronting the falling star and destroying the physical body of Crimson Moon, the most terrifying Moon King in another universe. However, he himself became Dead Apostle as a result, and his weakened body was less than one-tenth of his former strength.

Perhaps it was because of his ability that he could see his own future, in which he was destined to die. Or perhaps it was because the Fearsome King of Mages was an eccentric person. Unlike other True Magic, he had always been actively taking on disciples. Even in Shirou's previous life, he had dozens of disciples.

Among them are the most ordinary disciples, who were simply taught some things because of a chance encounter. It is said that the head of household of the Tohsaka household, who was not expected to succeed and thought that things wouldn't get any worse, gave the blueprints for the Jewel Sword, which was also the foundational subject for learning the Second Magic.

Then there are the Magecraft's disciples, and then there are the most watched and coveted disciples of the True Magic who are vying for the right to inherit the Second Magic.

However, it is said that this is also the most dangerous course. While the chosen geniuses pursue unparalleled glory and opportunities, an equal number of geniuses are also destroyed. Many of the most gifted and elite geniuses break down or go insane not long after learning the Second Magic.

Only things that are unique and beyond the reach of both Magecraft and science can be considered True Magic. True Magic is a precious miracle independent of the world, and also something like a curse of destiny. To learn True Magic is to reach the source, and then there is the danger of being devoured and assimilated.

Even if one becomes True Magic, one will still be bound by the Root to some extent, and will be forced to do certain important things.

Therefore, those without talent simply cannot reach it in the first place, nor is there any need to even try. However, True Magic, to be honest, is like a poison that drives people mad. As far as Shirou knows, the geniuses who tried to learn the Second Magic went insane.

Rin Tohsaka's talents in the Five Great Elements suggest that her future achievements will place her among the top 100 in the history of the Mage's Association, making her comparable to famous figures throughout history.

So even some professors in the Clock Tower felt sorry for her choice to study the Second Magic, but if she didn't have that level of talent, there would be no need to study the Second Magic.

However, Shirou didn't know what happened afterward. After all, he chose to part ways with Tohsaka and volunteer alone in war-torn or disaster-stricken areas around the world, so he stopped paying attention. Now it seems that this woman really has gone mad.

"Shirou! Die! I'll forgive you if you die ten more times!" Rin Tohsaka grinned maliciously, her clenched fist gleaming with a bright light.

Shirou actually sensed the alien-level energy within it, the same energy he had felt when analyzing the Jewel Sword before.

"Enough talk!" The girl leaped high into the air and unleashed a punch infused with the power of her Second Magic, slamming it towards Shirou on the ground.

Shirou dared not be careless; his eyes flashed with white light. Only by exerting all his strength to defend himself could he withstand such a powerful attack.

The ground sank directly, creating a crater more than two meters wide and several meters deep. There was no air beneath their feet, and they fell straight down.

"It's not over yet!" Rin Tohsaka gritted her teeth, not letting go of the opportunity to attack in mid-air. She spread her arms and legs and pounced on the boy, pinning him down and slamming him to the ground in a lying position.

"You're still the same as before..." Shirou felt a burning pain in his back, as if his bones were about to break.

At that moment, due to the violent tremors, rocks fell from the top of the sinkhole that had slumped down. Shirou saw a rock falling from above and smashing down on the back of the girl's head.

Shirou suddenly grabbed the girl's shoulders and pressed her down, turning their positions upside down and pinning her beneath him.

Rin Tohsaka, her eyes burning red with rage, focused solely on attacking, completely unaware of the danger she might face. Even while pinned to the ground, she threw a punch straight at the boy's head.

This time, however, there was no way to avoid the punch.

Shirou stared at the powerful, gleaming fist flashing before his eyes, and could only resign himself to his fate and close his eyes.

However, the expected excruciating pain did not occur.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that the girl's fist had stopped shining and was hovering above his head, causing the falling stones to be deflected.

The girl gritted her teeth, grabbed Shirou by the collar, and reversed their positions once again.

"What?! Fight back! Why?! You always do the same thing, all you do is run away, can't you ever improve? If you keep doing this, how can I fight back?" The girl sat on Shirou's lap, clenching her fists tightly before forcefully pulling them back, and said angrily.

Looking at the girl's face, Shirou said with remorse that they had been separated for more than ten years, and he was no longer the person she knew.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry," Shirou said softly to the girl.

"What are you apologizing for? Have you ever done anything to wrong me?!" Rin Tohsaka said angrily.

Shirou simply stared at the girl without saying a word, thinking to himself, 'How could I possibly lay a hand on you when you have that expression on your face the whole time...?'

"And you're so great! You said you were going to pursue your ideal of becoming Hero of Justice, not wanting to drag us into this, and then you just left! And then one day, you just disappeared without a trace. Do you think I felt, all alone in London?!" Tohsaka cried out, tears welling in her eyes.

The girl knew Shirou, a boy with a baby face but a much more mature and composed demeanor than he appeared. He wore a simple, plain shirt and had a friendly, approachable smile that suited him perfectly, like a boy next door.

However, his smile always carried a sense that it might shatter or be shattered at any moment. Although he was an overly kind-hearted person who was otherwise impeccable, he also maintained a distance from everyone.

So in fact, the girl sensed the boy's future, but because of a moment of spite, she let him leave.

Later, I only found out about Shirou's whereabouts by asking Sakura and Teacher Fujimura.

For three months, they received no news from Shirou.

She had just begun investigating the area where he was active when she discovered that a massive accident had indeed occurred. A nuclear power plant had malfunctioned, nearly causing a horrific disaster—a meltdown of the reactor core that could have resulted in the immediate deaths of hundreds and the infection of thousands, turning the area into an environmentally polluted no-go zone for decades. Yet, miraculously, only one person died.

Although the man's body had been burned to black ash by the electric current, the last surviving staff and the evidence left behind suggested that he had risked his life to shut down the machine, thus saving everyone else from disaster.

However, this claim was simply too One Thousand and One Nights, so apart from a few staff members who personally witnessed the red-haired boy not fleeing but instead running inside, everyone else treated it as a joke and quickly forgot about it.

However, Rin Tohsaka understood when she heard this story.

At that moment, she thought, "Ah... it really happened." Although she hadn't confirmed it, she felt it; a voice in her heart was telling her that the person was Shirou.

Therefore, she felt deep regret for the rest of her life. If she could have stayed by his side, she would never have let such a thing happen, or even if she had crippled Shirou, she would never have let him take such a risk.

"Because... Tohsaka has always been very strong, so I believe in you. I'm sure you'll live a wonderful life." Shirou said with a wry smile as his collar was grabbed. In his mind, Tohsaka was the strongest and most reliable woman, more reassuring than anyone else he knew.

The girl yelled in frustration, "Of course I'll do it! There are plenty of excellent male Magecraft in the Clock Tower who want to pursue me, who would stay with a guy like you who does things halfway through but never finishes?! If you're not happy about it, then you'd better leave me with a child!"

How could I possibly let the Tohsaka household lineage end! But there was nothing I could do! Who told me to come into contact with the Second Magic and see parallel worlds! In all those parallel worlds, you suddenly disappeared one day."

"I'm sorry..." Shirou said to the girl again.

"I already told you, I was just taking it out on you! Seeing you makes me angry, so I had to vent!" Rin Tohsaka said angrily.

"Are you calmed down now?" Shirou asked.

"Hmm... I've calmed down a bit," Rin Tohsaka replied.

"Well then, Tohsaka... it's about time you got up. Your current attire is a bit too revealing." To Shirou, the girl looked almost exactly like she was wearing a swimsuit; she was practically a bikini-clad warrior from a traditional Japanese RPG game.

It's rather indecent to straddle a boy's stomach like that.

The girl then realized the problem and her face turned bright red.

Boom!!

Like a volcanic eruption, the boy flew straight out of the cave, spun five or six times in the air, crashed off a tree branch, and finally fell into the grass.

Chapter 310 Rin Tohsaka's First Life

"Whoa..." Shirou felt as if his head had been hit like a golf ball or a baseball and then he had been on several roller coasters. Fortunately, he took protective measures before being hit, but even so, he was still dizzy.

The girl truly showed no mercy with that punch. Perhaps because she knew Shirou could definitely defend against it, she didn't hold back at all.

Compared to such attacks, the memory of hiding in the classroom and using reinforced desks to block the endless stream of Gandr magic bullets feels so much more familiar.

At that moment, the girl jumped out of the pit, a mischievous smile on her face, her lips twitching slightly as if to say, "It felt good."

However, seeing that she seemed eager to throw a few more punches, Shirou decisively ignored it all.

"Speaking of which, Tohsaka, weren't you actually dragged into this place by the witches?" Shirou said, rubbing his head.

The girl frowned, looking at the boy with an expression as if he were an idiot, and said, "Huh? Who do you think I am? If I were still easily swayed by a witch, my Grand Master would be happy to watch the show... well, whatever happens to him now that he's missing is fine, but the past head of household of the Tohsaka household will be crying!"

"Haha, you're right," Shirou replied with a dry laugh.

"It's all because of someone who was just messing around. I can't enter your world without magic, so when I sensed you were in the small world, I came here on my own," the girl who jumped out of the pit said angrily, arms crossed.

"Eh... Ah, I'm sorry, I even made you come all this way to see me." Shirou said apologetically to the girl. In fact, Chaldea had already detected three special worlds from the beginning.

One is her own world, Mash came looking for her here.

Gudako went to another world, to the Tohsaka area. It's said that Fou was also teleported there, but for some reason, she's now with the white god.

Rin Tohsaka crossed her arms and retorted, "Who would do that for you? In fact, the world we live in collapsed not many years after you died because of some strange events, and then inexplicably, gods appeared."

Then, instead of dying, I was reincarnated into another world, and Sakura probably did too. This time, I'm just here to find that god's method and then give him a good beating!

"That's pretty reliable, but it's best not to do it until you're fully prepared for the risks," Shirou said with a helpless smile, finding it strange that his other self was about to get beaten up.

But as expected of Tohsaka, she didn't consider anything else; all she wanted to do was beat up that god who could create everything and keep Human Evil in captivity.

'She really has gone mad, though I'm no better,' Shirou thought to himself.

Several years passed after the Grand Master left that world, and there was still no news of her. As the person in the world who had the deepest research on the Second Magic, she was regarded by the Clock Tower as a potential True Magic.

Her mentor, the modern-day Lord El-Melloi the Department of Modern Magecraft, would also be proud and would want to use this to gain related benefits. If his disciple became True Magic, with this achievement, he might be promoted from the fourth rank of priest to the Pride scribe. He might even be able to try to reach the rank of succubus before Director Kaineth in his lifetime.

After all, the Mage's Association is extremely strict in its ranking system. Besides knowledge, application is also very important. Someone like the Second Prince has a wealth of theoretical knowledge and is unparalleled in teaching and educating, but unfortunately, his own magical power is low, and his combat ability is severely lacking. Therefore, even as Lord, he has always been stuck at the priesthood.

Even Gudako, the savior saved the world and restored Human Order, only reached the fifth rank of Cause.

As a descendant of the Red Branch Knights, which existed in the first century AD, he was the best in physical combat among all the Master who participated in the Fifth Holy Grail War. Under certain circumstances, he could even defeat the Servant Bazett.

She is proficient in Rune Magic of the combat type, and the Mage's Formal Wear she wields, the Reverse Light Sword, is the short sword held by Lu-G, the Celtic God of War of the Age of Gods. But even so, she is merely a priestess.

In a particular type of Magecraft, only those who have reached the pinnacle and surpassed all predecessors can be promoted to the Grand Class, representing the strongest expert in that field. Apart from some old monsters, among the young people, there are only a few like the puppeteer Touko Aozaki.

Magecraft who reach this level, while not as prestigious as True Magic, are indispensable members of the association. Even if they leave the association and are granted the protection of Sealing Designation, they can return and have the seal lifted at any time if they so choose.

After all, Magecraft is a high-risk profession. Everyone loses an arm or a leg at some point, let alone when the other party can provide a body that is exactly the same as the original.

Of course, the so-called ranks are really just a game among insiders. For example, the curry-loving Ciel sister, Siel, from the Burial Agency of the Church of the Holy See, a rival force, has Magecraft knowledge comparable to that of Grand Class, but professionally speaking, she's not even Magecraft.

There's also that silly guy who studied at the Clock Tower for a few years and then suddenly left, not even reaching the lowest rank. But that's because he was low-key enough; if his talent as Magus were fully revealed, he would be among the rarest in this era.

If someone is targeted by the association's higher-ups, they will be immediately placed under Sealing Designation protection order, and what awaits them is being preserved in formaldehyde.

Back when Shirou was causing trouble outside, Rin Tohsaka did a lot of work to help him navigate the higher-ups in the guild. As for his rank and the assessment of the three primary colors, those things had nothing to do with Tohsaka, who had chosen the path of True Magic.

However, when he thought of his mentor, although he was sharp-tongued, he had indeed received a lot of care from him. He could only watch helplessly as his students surpassed him one by one, rising to the Pride (a high-ranking official) or even Sewei (another high-ranking official) before graduation.

However, in that world, everything was too late, or rather, everything happened too fast. Before humanity could learn how to save nature, the world had already collapsed.

After the Grand Master disappeared, the world was doomed. After spending ten years, she had only mastered the crafting methods and usage experience of a few special costumes, such as the Jewel Sword and the Kaleidoscope Wand that transforms into magical girl.

Despite her immaturity, she didn't stop everything, nor did she choose to rely on True Magic to leave this world. Instead, she faced everything with everyone until the very last moment of her destiny.

However, before the moment of death arrived, the white god appeared first and transferred the surviving humans to another world. She seemed to be given special treatment and was teleported to another world alone.

Moreover, she started all over again as a child, preventing the tragedy of losing her parents, but without Shirou and Sakura. So she focused all her energy on becoming stronger.

From the time he could walk, he practiced Magecraft and boxing, integrating the two, and then continued to study the Second Magic. Although he cannot say that he has completed it completely, it can be said that it has begun to bear fruit.

When she was in junior high school, her Baji Quan surpassed those of her fake priest master, and she beat him to a pulp.

Magecraft also gained the approval of her father, a top-notch Magecraft. Afterwards, her father, Tokiomi Tohsaka, confidently handed over the Tohsaka household to her, and he and his wife put aside their work responsibilities to travel the world.

Although she secretly wished they could stay by her side forever, it seemed too cunning of her to monopolize their love and only be happy herself. So she kept trying to find the boy and her sister.

After that, the Fifth Holy Grail War came again, and Gudako came knocking on his door. Various things happened during that time. The boy also appeared. Although Shirou doesn't have this memory now, it's something that will happen in the near future.