022: It's Over, I'm Not Pure Anymore, No One Will Marry Me, Boo Hoo Hoo

Many people knew what they were supposed to do at a certain point in time.

But whether they could actually do it was the difference between ordinary people and the strong.

An ordinary human with ordinary willpower often could not even carry out their own plans and resolutions. They knew they should study, knew they should lose weight, and so on.

Of course, in these countless worlds filled with reality and cruelty, those who needed to fight often faced an even crueler choice: becoming enemies with people they knew.

Rin knew what she had to do, and once she adjusted her mindset, she could truly bring herself to act. Honestly, Rimuru admired that about her, because it was something he himself had not been able to do at first—like with Misaka Mikoto, like with Saber.

Rimuru had always hesitated for a long time before finally making his choices. Only then had he grown into what he was now and learned that kind of cruelty.

Rin seemed exhausted. So exhausted that after returning home, changing clothes, and taking a bath, she actually fell asleep in the bathtub. In the end, Rimuru had carried her back to her room.

"How was she?" Lord Animusphere saw Rimuru return to the entryway and took a sip of coffee with a light smile.

Unlike most nobles, who preferred the pretentious elegance of light tea, Animusphere perhaps favored coffee more because he was a researcher.

"Her magical energy was somewhat overdrawn, so she fell asleep the moment she relaxed." Rimuru smiled as he came down the steps. "You could tell that while facing Kirei Kotomine, she'd been using reinforcement magic to maintain her combat abilities. She'd clearly been prepared to fight."

Since even her Baji Quan had been learned from Kirei Kotomine, Rin Tohsaka understood