I, Rin Tohsaka, in the Garden of Sinners: Da Vinci-chan! / I, Rin Tohsaka, in the Garden of Sinners: A New Conspiracy, a Temple, and an Unexpected Turn

Rin looked at the building opposite her, now riddled with holes from the explosions, and nodded in satisfaction. Ignoring Touko's complaints, she returned to the table, picked up the phone, and called Kirei Kotomine, asking him to handle the cleanup.

Only after finishing all that did Rin turn back to Touko and speak.

"Touko, do you know what those Magi outside have been doing these past few days? This is your territory. Aren't you going to do anything about them?"

"Judging by how they're dressed, they should be from Schonberg Abbey. Cornelius Alba probably sent them. I knew him back at the Clock Tower, and he's the next abbot of Schonberg Abbey. That guy Alba has always been jealous of me since our Clock Tower days. It's perfectly normal for him to send people to watch me after discovering I'm here."

Rin thought back on Cornelius Alba. After racking her brain for a while, she finally found him in some corner of her memory. Oh, so he's the flashy guy dressed like a red envelope who chased Kiritsugu Emiya's father and had a bit part in Kara no Kyoukai.

"Tch! I bet that old classmate of yours, Souren Araya, was the one who called him in. Enough about that 'red envelope.' Touko, do you have a way to solve the mana problem? I've basically completed the design on my end. As long as we have enough mana, we can begin the experiment."

Touko walked over to the table and picked up the ritual blueprint Rin had drawn.

"Mm, for such a small amount of mana, can't we just draw from a leyline? It shouldn't have much of an effect on one."

Aoko, who had been sitting on the sofa watching the news, stood up and loudly refuted Touko.

"No! We agreed before that we wouldn't draw from leylines. Most leylines around the world are under the Mage's Association's surveillance now. Drawing from one will only cause even more trouble."

Touko set down the ritual blueprint and turned to Aoko.

Didn't you say most? Aren't there still some that aren't being watched? We can just go to one of those.

"Heh. Those leylines are either controlled by Dead Apostles or located in places humans can barely reach. The only one you can access is on the continent across the sea—but do you dare go there?"

The moment Touko heard mention of that mysterious continent, she shuddered and hurriedly shook her head.

"Looks like leylines are out. It'll be troublesome, but there's no other way. Rin, capture those people outside and turn them into mana sources to supply the ritual."

Rin considered it carefully. For the time being, that really seemed to be the only option.

"Then, Touko, you'll make the mana sources? Aoko and I will go capture people? Arisu will look after Kallian and Shirou?"

Aoko stood nearby with her arms folded, signaling that she had no objections. Arisu slowly nodded as well. Only Touko looked troubled. She gave Rin an awkward smile and said,

"Rin, I have a small problem that I need your help with."

Rin looked curiously at Touko, unable to understand what difficulty she could possibly have.

Touko certainly had a problem—she had no money. Her extravagant spending habits meant that her daily meals depended on Rin and Arisu buying groceries. Without them, Touko would probably have starved to death and switched bodies several times over by now.

"Rin, I don't have the funds to buy the materials and equipment needed to make mana sources. Young miss of the Tohsaka family, how about giving me a little support?"

Rin stared blankly at Touko. She had never expected that to be the "problem." But money gave Rin a headache too. Once magecraft became involved, the required funds were never small. Though the Tohsaka family had accumulated considerable wealth under Tokiomi Tohsaka's management, and Rin asking him for a few million dollars would not have been difficult, she had already taken ten million dollars' worth of gems from him a month ago. She truly felt too embarrassed to ask him again.

At that moment, Arisu noticed Rin's predicament and asked Touko,

"Touko, how much do you need?"

The moment Touko heard Arisu speak, her eyes gleamed with "gold." How could I have forgotten? There's another young miss here. Arisu Kuonji, the daughter of the Kuonji Group, is rich too, isn't she? I can't let this fleece slip away either. I'll ask for ten times as much.

Having made up her mind, Touko awkwardly smiled at Arisu and rattled off a long list of materials and their prices.

Arisu watched Touko go on and on about materials and prices, frowning impatiently.

"Just tell me how much, Touko."

"Arisu, it's not much. Thirty million dollars will do it."

Aoko watched Touko's nervous eyes and the three fingers she held up unnaturally, then nodded to herself. It was obvious that Touko had inflated the price. Equally broke herself, Aoko did not expose Touko's trick. Instead, she planned to ask Touko for a share after she got the money.

Arisu nodded readily, took out a bankbook from her clothes, handed it to Touko, and said,

"Touko, take the bankbook and withdraw it yourself."

The "golden" gleam in Touko's eyes turned into dollar signs when she saw the bankbook. She carefully accepted it and nodded.

"Rin, Arisu, I'll go withdraw the money first. I'll leave the captures to you."

Seeing Touko hurriedly heading outside, Aoko quickly shouted,

"Wait! It isn't safe outside right now. I'm coming with you."

Touko turned around, saw the threatening look in Aoko's eyes, and did not dare object. She could only nod in agreement.

After the Aozaki sisters left, the "two young misses" remaining behind merely found it strange that the sisters had not argued today.

As Aoko followed Touko downstairs, she stopped her in the stairwell and held out her left index finger and thumb in a gesture.

"Touko, if you don't want me to tell on you, I want a share too..."

I, Rin Tohsaka, in Kara no Kyoukai—Da Vinci!

"Ah!"

Boom!

Inside an abandoned building, a Magus was sent flying by Rin's iron fist. He slammed heavily into the wall, then slowly scraped down its surface like a painting hanging on the wall before collapsing onto the floor.

Rin Tohsaka had always possessed extraordinary talent for combat. After years of Baji Quan training, if she had to describe it, she had reached the level of transformed force.

Though Rin was still somewhat young, leaving her strength and other physical abilities below those of an adult, the boost from her powerful Reinforcement Magecraft allowed her to break into the temporary base the Magi of Schonberg Abbey had established in Kanfushi City using nothing but Baji Quan.

On the other side, Aoko knocked down a Magus with a high kick. Numerous magic circles appeared around her right fist, and then a great burst of blue light shot from her elbow backward.

StarMine, StarBow!

"The Fifth Magus! A rocket thruster?"

Boom!

The Magi only had time for that final cry of astonishment before Aoko's fist smashed heavily into the ground. The immense force made the entire abandoned building tremble. Flying rubble sent all the Magi hurtling away, and as the floor shattered, they fell to the level below.

After casually sending several Magi flying, Rin suddenly sensed astonishing mana coming from beyond the wall behind her. She immediately sprang into the air, knocking out two unlucky fellows with hand strikes in midair. The instant she landed, she used them as shields and faced the wall.

The moment Rin completed that series of movements, the wall exploded and rubble flew everywhere. A stream of blue mana grazed past her, punched through several walls, and shot out of the building.

Rin shoved aside the unlucky people she had used as shields, waved away the dust, and complained to Aoko in the next room through the huge hole in the wall.

"Aoko, what are you doing? Do you know you nearly hit me just now?"

Aoko looked awkwardly at Rin and gave an embarrassed laugh.

"Well, I didn't hit you, did I? Rin, I have something to do. I'll leave the job of transporting these people to you. I'm off."

With that, Aoko casually blasted open the wall beside her, jumped from the seventh floor, and vanished from Rin's sight as though fleeing.

Rin helplessly covered her forehead and sighed. Then she took out a phone covered in Sakura stickers and called Kirei Kotomine.

"Kirei, I'll have to trouble you again this time..."

After leaving, Aoko wound through a maze of alleys and soon arrived at Kanfushi City's bustling shopping district. Happily pulling a bank card from her pocket, she excitedly kissed it, hummed a little tune, and began her shopping spree.

The rooftop of Garan no Dou.

After finishing a day of shopping, Aoko happily hummed as she became the last to arrive at the ritual site.

The ground had already been covered with the Servant-summoning circle Rin had drawn. In the rooms downstairs, more than fifty Magi captured that day had each been immersed in life-support-like devices positioned around the room's edges. Their mana was continuously drained into the magic circles on the ground. These circles were linked together, funneling mana through complex pathways into the Holy Grail at the center.

On the rooftop, Rin nervously watched the time displayed on her phone. When five minutes remained before midnight, she nodded to Touko beside her.

Understanding immediately, Touko went to the roof's edge and carried the spare body she had made for herself into the center of the summoning circle.

At the same time, Rin took out a painting from nearby and placed it beside the circle.

When Aoko saw the painting Rin had brought out, she stared at her in shock and asked,

"Rin, isn't that Da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi, the one borrowed by the Kanfushi City Museum for its exhibition? Why is it with you?"

"Oh, I went and 'borrowed' it this afternoon. Don't worry, I left a replacement behind. We can return it after we're done using it."

At that very moment, in Kanfushi City Museum, the heavily guarded spot that should have displayed the world-famous Adoration of the Magi had been replaced by one of Rin's casual doodles...

As midnight arrived.

Rin stepped beside the summoning circle and began to chant...

The summoning circle grew brighter and brighter with Rin's chant. When the light faded, Touko's spare body at the center began to change. Her hair continuously lengthened, its color shifting from orange to brown. When the series of transformations ended—

The Servant who had possessed Touko's spare body slowly stood up.

"Please treat me well. Servant Leonardo da Vinci—yes, Master, I'm the omnipotent one who belongs solely to you!"

Aoko stared at Da Vinci in astonishment.

"Huh? Rin, I thought you took that painting to summon one of the Three Magi in it. Why did Da Vinci come out? Wait! Da Vinci is a woman? And why can Da Vinci become a Servant? Aren't Servants ancient heroes? What kind of hero is she supposed to be?"

Listening to Aoko's questions, Rin shrugged.

"Ah, doesn't her appearance look familiar to you, Aoko? With things like Servants, forget Da Vinci—even some writers have become Servants. You'll get used to it."

After carefully observing Da Vinci's face for a while, Aoko exclaimed in surprise,

"Mona Lisa!"

Da Vinci tilted her head in confusion as Rin and Aoko discussed her with the others. Wearing an adorable expression, she said to Aoko,

"Ah, you noticed? And don't you think I'm extremely cute like this, miss?"

Da Vinci tilted her head, made a V-sign beside her eye, and acted cute for Aoko.

Aoko looked at the cross-dressing master before her—no, this was no longer cross-dressing—and clutched her chest. I was actually charmed by her!!!

After acting cute for Aoko, Da Vinci turned and surveyed her surroundings, giving Arisu and Touko on the rooftop a once-over as well before asking Rin,

"Master, are you planning to research Servants?"

Rin nodded, looking at Da Vinci with a touch of admiration. As expected of the omnipotent one. She reached the correct conclusion just by casually looking around.

"Da Vinci, you don't need to call me Master. Just call me Rin. Yes, since you've already seen through it, there's no reason to hide it. Our purpose is indeed to research Servants."

After hearing Rin admit that she had summoned her for the purpose of researching her, Da Vinci shrugged and helplessly spread her hands.

"All right, Rin. You prepared thoroughly. Summoned in this state, I have neither Noble Phantasms nor the ability to use my powers freely because this body restricts me. It seems I can't resist. In that case, Rin, may I make a request?"

"Of course."

"Then I hope to join you in the research."

"Of course. We chose to summon you because we hoped that, as the omnipotent one, you could help us with the research. Your request is completely fine."

Da Vinci gave Rin a gloomy look and complained,

"Did I just sell myself and help count your money too?"

I, Rin Tohsaka, in Kara no Kyoukai—A New Conspiracy, a Temple, and an Accident.

Souren Araya's hideout, Ogawa Apartments.

One of Alba's subordinates was currently kneeling fearfully before him and delivering a report.

"Lord Alba, our base was attacked this afternoon by the Fifth Magus and Rin Tohsaka. Though we resisted with all our strength, we were no match for them. Most of our people were captured."

After hearing his subordinate's report, Alba's face twisted with rage. With an angry roar, he grabbed a teapot filled with scalding water from the nearby coffee table and smashed it over his subordinate's head.

Though the subordinate kneeling before Alba was left with a bloodied head and a wide area of blisters from the scalding water, he did not move at all. Only when Alba furiously shouted, "Get out!" did he scramble up, clutch his head, and flee the room.

Damn Touko. Damn Fifth Magus. Damn Rin Tohsaka.

As Alba continued cursing Touko and the others inwardly, the urge to retreat rose within him once again. Indeed, faced with the Fifth Magus's intervention, any normal Magus would abandon all plans and withdraw obediently.

But Souren Araya, standing beside him, would never allow Alba, this chess piece, to withdraw so easily.

"Alba, are you afraid?"