I, Rin Tohsaka, Will Be a Demon God in Type-Moon

Chapter 44: Chapter 43: My Path of Growth, Rin Tohsaka - Starlight Form - Wings of Light Deploy

Night fell.

Kirei Kotomine led Fujino Asagami into a roadside mosquito shop. The small shop was empty except for the server and chef. After ordering a 'devilishly' spicy Mapo Tofu and a bowl of rice, he handed the menu to Fujino Asagami.

"What do you want to eat?"

Fujino Asagami stared intently at Kirei Kotomine, afraid the man would disappear. Ever since meeting and talking with Kirei Kotomine that evening, Fujino Asagami had seen him as a lifesaver.

Fujino Asagami casually took the menu, her eyes never leaving Kirei Kotomine. Staring at him, she spoke to the server.

"The same as him!"

Hearing Fujino Asagami's reply, the server broke out in a sweat and advised her.

"Miss, this gentleman ordered devilishly spicy Mapo Tofu. Are you sure you want the same?"

Fujino Asagami nodded and insisted.

"The same is fine."

Soon, the server brought the food. After placing the dishes in front of Kirei Kotomine and Fujino Asagami respectively, he casually pulled over a stool and sat down, staring at Fujino Asagami. The server intended to dissuade her immediately if she couldn't handle it.

Fujino Asagami didn't even look at the lava-like Mapo Tofu in front of her, still staring at Kirei Kotomine.

Kirei Kotomine, after taking a spoonful of Mapo Tofu, nodded with slight satisfaction. Then, looking at the motionless Fujino Asagami, he said.

"You eat too. This place has good flavor, but it's still a bit worse than Hongzhou Yansui Hall Taishan."

Fujino Asagami nodded and continuously scooped Mapo Tofu into her mouth with her spoon.

The server watched Fujino Asagami, dumbfounded. Compared to Kirei Kotomine, who had come several times and always ordered devilishly spicy Mapo Tofu, the server couldn't imagine that Fujino Asagami could also eat this monstrous dish. Since starting work at this restaurant, Fujino Asagami was the second person the server had seen who could eat such Mapo Tofu.

Of course, the server didn't know that Fujino Asagami had never experienced the sensation of spiciness. Spiciness, as a form of pain, had disappeared from Fujino Asagami's life years ago, along with her congenital insensitivity to pain.

Kirei Kotomine smiled and nodded at Fujino Asagami, growing more satisfied the more he looked at her. Her hollow eyes, her hollow heart, and her ability to eat this earthly treasure – 'Fujino Asagami, you truly are my treasure!'

After dinner, Fujino Asagami took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from her forehead and followed Kirei Kotomine out of the restaurant, carrying her schoolbag.

Kirei Kotomine walked briskly along the quiet street, occasionally glancing back at Fujino Asagami, who was silently following him. He was contemplating taking Fujino Asagami to the local Church for lodging tonight and then finding a solution for her congenital insensitivity to pain through his father tomorrow.

Kirei Kotomine suddenly stopped. Seeing Souren Araya emerge from a small alley, Kirei Kotomine tensed his muscles, ready for action. Now completely focused on 'saving' Fujino Asagami, he was extremely impatient with the reappearance of Souren Araya. Frowning, he said in a deep voice.

"Souren Araya, I've already conveyed your message to Rin. What are you doing here?"

"Kirei Kotomine, Fujino Asagami is my pawn. You cannot take her."

Upon hearing Souren Araya's statement, Kirei Kotomine silently crouched down, pressed himself close to the ground, and instantly darted behind Souren Araya, viciously elbowing him in the back.

Fujino Asagami stood frozen in place, unsure of what to do as she watched Kirei Kotomine fighting Souren Araya. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Are you the one Kirei is willing to save, even at the expense of his own daughter?"

Fujino Asagami turned her head. Touko stood there, a cigarette dangling from her lips, with one hand on Fujino Asagami's shoulder. Rin was the one who had spoken, standing beside Touko.

Curious about the person Kirei Kotomine was so eager to save, even more than his own daughter, Rin had dispatched a Magic Beast to follow Kirei Kotomine after he left. As night fell, Rin's familiar discovered Souren Araya near Kirei Kotomine. Thinking Souren Araya was planning another scheme, Rin hastily dragged Touko over.

When Fujino Asagami turned her head, Rin's mouth twitched. Well, Rin was certainly aware of Fujino Asagami's notorious reputation. However, no matter how hard she thought, Rin couldn't have imagined that Kirei Kotomine would end up involved with Fujino Asagami. 'My little butterfly has caused quite a stir,' Rin couldn't help but tease herself.

At the same time, Kirei Kotomine, who was fighting Souren Araya, also noticed the arrival of Rin and Touko. He took a step back, disengaging from Souren Araya, and asked Rin.

"Rin, why are you here?"

"Oh, I detected that 'monk's' magic. Touko and I were nearby, so we came to check it out. Who knew we'd run into you? Alright, Kirei, leave the rest to me. I have an old score to settle with this 'monk'."

With that, Rin pulled out a notepad with a gem-encrusted cover – her self-made Shorthand Codex. Touko, meanwhile, grabbed Fujino Asagami's shoulder and pulled her behind her.

Rin casually opened a page of the Shorthand Codex, tore off a red sticky note, and the note transformed into flames in the air, roaring towards Souren Araya.

"Unbreakable."

Rin watched as the flames were blocked by a barrier. Calmly, she tore off three sticky notes of different colors: red for fire, yellow for earth, and green for wind.

Under the influence of magic, the concrete ground gathered into irregular spheres floating in mid-air. Flames blazed on the surface of the spheres, and a powerful wind acted as propulsion, continuously accelerating this magic meteor and intensifying the flames.

Souren Araya, seeing the incoming meteor, calmly extended his hand, formed a mudra, planted his feet firmly, and shouted.

"Unbreakable, Vajra, Scorpion, Heavenly King, Top Sutra, King Manifestation!"

As six layers of barriers manifested, the meteor was frozen. Soon, as the magical energy was depleted, only a pile of charred concrete fell to the ground.

Rin shook her head, seeing her magic intercepted, and unhappily stuffed the Shorthand Codex back into her small bag.

Souren Araya, seeing Rin stopped, didn't dare to relax his vigilance. He maintained the barrier and said to Touko.

"Touko, are you planning to interfere?"

"I have no such intention. Even if I did, you'd have to deal with Rin first. Don't underestimate Rin, you know. She was just testing her Noble Phantasm on you. Look, it's starting."

Light, countless lights, ancient starlight, converged towards Rin as Touko finished speaking. This was Rin's new magecraft, combining Celestial Magecraft with False Myth Magecraft (Rin advanced from False Fairy Tale Magecraft through her research on Servants, myths, and various legends), capable of all-around amplification – Starlight Form.

As the starlight converged, its brightness exceeded the limit of human eyesight. Souren Araya couldn't help but close his eyes.

At this moment, Rin, having completed her magecraft, uttered the incantation for the dedicated attack spell under Starlight Form in a clear voice.

"Wings of Light Deploy!"

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As Rin chanted, the starlight gathering on her body's surface shifted to her back. It extended from her back, forming countless light belts that created enormous wings. Then, from the tips of the wings, the beams changed direction and stretched infinitely, with countless light beams shooting towards Souren Araya.

The starlight disintegrated everything in its path, the air, the ground, and then directly struck Souren Araya's barrier. Souren Araya's six-layered barrier, under such an attack, only resisted for a few seconds before shattering, followed by Souren Araya's body...

As the light faded, Fujino Asagami rubbed her eyes and looked closely. Rin was now wrapped in a thin veil of starlight, with hundreds of starlight belts forming wings behind her. As the light belts undulated, she floated effortlessly about a meter off the ground, looking like a goddess from mythology.

Fujino Asagami gazed at the goddess-like Rin with fascination, her hollow inner self stirring.

Rin slowly stopped releasing magic, dispelling the starlight, and landed on the ground as lightly as a feather. She looked at the ground she had just decomposed with her magecraft and at Souren Araya, who had fallen to the ground riddled with holes. She raised her hands and looked at them in disbelief, 'Did I really do this?'

Rin Tohsaka, using Starlight Form for the first time, never expected her envisioned magecraft to be so powerful. Now, with Starlight Form, Rin could probably contend with practical Magus of the Color ranks.

Just as Rin was marveling at her Starlight Form, Touko walked over to Souren Araya. After a brief examination, she realized it wasn't Souren Araya's true body. Touko roughly inserted her finger into the wound on the corpse's head, then brought her finger, stained with brain matter, close to her eyes for a detailed observation, understanding everything.

Then Touko turned to Rin and said.

"Rin, this isn't my old classmate; this should be a clone he's controlling."

Then Touko showed her finger stained with brain matter to Rin.

"Look, this brain matter clearly belongs to two people, and my old classmate happens to be an expert in transferring consciousness through brain matter."

Rin looked at the brain matter on Touko's hand with disgust and gagged, covering her mouth.

"Touko, don't show me such disgusting things!"

Touko shook her head, 'When did I start overlooking that Rin is still just a little girl?' Then she wiped her finger stained with brain matter on the clothes of the corpse on the ground.

At this moment, Kirei Kotomine also arrived beside Rin with Fujino Asagami.

"Rin, I'm planning to take Fujino Asagami to the Church. Do you need me to cover things up here?"

Rin looked at the street that had been destroyed by her magecraft and nodded at Kirei Kotomine.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Kirei."

"Yes, I'll be troubling you with Kallian and Shirou during this time..."

Garan no Dou.

In the room assigned to Kallian and Shirou, Kallian was sitting on the edge of the bed, sarcastically criticizing her 'brother'.

"Stupid Onii-chan, do you know how foolish your actions this afternoon were? If you had angered them then, we might already be corpses. Not to mention, Kirei might have moved against us first. Do you understand, you foolish Onii-chan?"

Shirou Emiya scratched his head awkwardly and said sheepishly.

"Well, Kallian, no way. How could Father move against us? Although Rin is a violent girl, she wouldn't go as far as to kill someone, would she?"

Kallian gave Shirou Emiya an annoyed glare, despairing at this naive idiot who had only just begun to touch the world of magecraft.

"Stupid Onii-chan, we are in the world of magecraft, not the world of ordinary people. Have you forgotten the 'great earthquake' in Fuyuki four years ago?"

Shirou Emiya's pupils contracted. How could he forget? The towering flames, the flowing black mud, the fleeing crowds, his ruined home, and his own parents lying at his feet. Shirou Emiya clenched his fists.

"That was caused by Magus?"

Kallian looked at Shirou, whose eyes were red. She jumped off the bed, walked in front of Shirou Emiya, and flicked his forehead forcefully with her finger. Seeing Shirou Emiya emerge from his memories, she nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, and the one who caused all this was someone we know. However, foolish Onii-chan, do you really want to know?"

Shirou Emiya looked up at Kallian and nodded.

Seeing Shirou Emiya's serious expression, Kallian began to slowly tell him the past of the Holy Grail that she had heard from Risei Kirei.

"Rin, Father, Uncle Tokiomi, the Holy Grail, All the World's Evil. So that's how it was. Kallian, if we eliminate All the World's Evil and the Holy Grail, will things like what happened back then never happen again?"

"Don't you want revenge, foolish Onii-chan?"

Shirou Emiya shook his head calmly.

"I don't have such thoughts. From the day Father rescued me from the ruins, I decided that I would follow Father and become a righteous hero who saves others."

Kallian looked at Shirou Emiya, who declared his dream with determination, and murmured.

"A hero who saves others? Go for it, Onii-chan. Kallian will support you too."

In a public cemetery on the outskirts of Kanfushi City.

Souren Araya slowly turned his head and looked at the figure who had just entered the cemetery.

"Souren Araya, your taste is still so poor, choosing to meet me here. Speak, where is Touko?"

"Cornelius Alba, don't rush. Facing Touko now would be suicide. You need a lot of manpower."

Upon hearing Souren Araya's words, Alba glared fiercely at Souren Araya.

"Souren Araya, what do you mean? Didn't you notify me that Touko was hiding here? Do you think I'm weaker than Touko?"

"No, Alba. Touko isn't alone right now. She has the Fifth Magus, the Fairy Tale Witch, and that genius girl, Rin Tohsaka, with her."

Upon hearing that these famous figures in the magecraft world were with Touko, Alba felt a desire to retreat.

Cornelius Alba, fifty years old, but appearing as a young man in his twenties. His strength as a Magus was first-class. He had no interest in the Vortex of the Root, believing it was enough to pursue the domain of Mystery. He was also one of the few Magus who believed it was unnecessary to trace the Root.

Seeing Alba's hesitation, Souren Araya's mind flashed with the above information. He then slowly spoke to the conflicted Alba.

"Alba, I have found the path to the Root. If you can prevent Touko and the others from interfering with my plan during its execution, then in return, after I complete my plan, I will assist you in killing Touko!"

Cornelius Alba, upon hearing Souren Araya's proposal, remained conflicted and did not readily agree as Souren Araya had expected. This hesitation stemmed from the immense pressure the Second Magus's warning and the prospect of opposing the Fifth Magus placed upon him.

After a period of deliberation, Alba turned to Souren Araya and asked, "Souren Araya, tell me your entire plan. I need to be certain of it before I can make a decision..."

Section 46: Chapter Forty-Five: I, Rin Tohsaka, Will Take a Slice of the Holy Grail Ceremony in Kara no Kyoukai!

The Holy Grail War, or rather, the Great Deception War, is a ritual that condenses a vast amount of magical energy to create an 'Almighty Wish-Granting Machine.' It deceives Heroic Spirits who died with 'regrets' into descending as avatars to fight each other for this 'Almighty Wish-Granting Machine.'

Garan no Dou.

Rin was intently studying how to use as little magical energy as possible to deceive Servants into descending for the down-and-out Holy Grail War she and Touko were involved in.

Yes, down-and-out. Unlike other pseudo-Holy Grail Wars with grand rituals and the frenzied siphoning of ley line energy, and unlike the proper Holy Grail War with its mature system and the Third Magic's enhancement, all they had was a broken vessel left over from the Fourth War and a few magi who wanted to trick Servants.

Just as a flash of inspiration struck Rin, the familiar sensation of being spied upon returned from outside the window. For Rin, inexplicably, a large number of magi had openly arrived in Kanfushi City these past few days. They would frequently come to the outside of Garan no Dou to peek inside; they couldn't be driven away, nor could they be killed off.

Annoyed, Rin tossed aside the pen in her hand, walked to the window in irritation, pulled out a gem, chanted a jewel magecraft, and then fired multiple jewel magic bullets at the floor of the opposite building where the peeping was coming from.

Having received Rin's payment, Touko had already sold off the gems half a month ago and spent them all, falling back into her destitute state. Seeing Rin's extravagant spending, Touko trembled with heartache.

"Rin, don't do that! Is it really necessary to waste so many gems just to deal with a few magi of this caliber?"