Rin watched the explosion caused by the collision between the Witch-King Slayer and the wind bullets, not daring to be careless. She stood her ground and began to gather starlight.
The massive explosion caused the people around them to instinctively clear a larger space for Rin and Lorelei's battle.
Kotomine Kirei, who had been nervously watching the duel, took advantage of the opening to ask the Jewel Old Man.
"Jewel Old Man, what do you think?"
"Rin is no match for that girl Lorelei. Once the magecraft battle begins, if Rin has no trump cards, she'll be quickly defeated by that girl Lorelei."
Hearing the Jewel Old Man's answer, Kotomine Kirei turned his head unwillingly towards Rin Tohsaka, who was gathering starlight on the field. Go, Rin! I believe that little girl who used to toy with us back then won't lose like this!
At this moment, affected by the daytime, Rin, who was gathering starlight much slower than usual, finally entered Starlight Mode at the last moment as the dust settled.
"Starlight Mode, Wings of Light Deploy!"
Lorelei emerged from the dust and looked at Rin, who was floating in the air. She lightly dodged the starlight and, using wind magecraft, leaped into the air, also ascending.
"Nice magecraft, but it's not enough—Wail!"
A colossal storm appeared, with winds comparable to a Category 17 typhoon. It surged from the magic circle in front of Lorelei and, the moment it touched Rin, blew her away.
Fujino, still a considerable distance from the battlefield, saw Rin being blown away. The rainbow light in her eyes flashed, and she unleashed her Twisted Magic Eye towards Lorelei.
Lorelei, who dodged Fujino's attack, became furious. She hadn't expected anyone to dare interfere with their duel and roared.
"Crush them!—Wailing Wind!"
The gale changed direction and swept towards Sakura and Fujino in the distance.
Rin, blown away by the gale, casually tossed aside the shattered gem fragments she had used to block Lorelei's attack. She anxiously flew towards Sakura and Fujino. Through the distortion in the air, Rin easily recognized that the attack was her Twisted Magic Eye.
Just as Sakura and Fujino were struggling to resist Lorelei's attack, Rin finally arrived. Feeling that she was in the wrong, Rin charged directly into Lorelei's magecraft attack range, taking the hit. Enduring the intense pain, she made a gesture towards Lorelei.
Lorelei stopped her magecraft and approached Rin Tohsaka. Looking at Rin kneeling on the ground, clutching her stomach and chest, and vomiting blood, Lorelei frowned and asked in confusion.
"Why?"
"Cough, these are my sister and disciple. Please forgive their unintentional actions."
Lorelei turned her head away haughtily.
"Pointless emotions. You have no ability to resist now after taking the full force of Wailing Wind. I'll allow you to rest for a day before we fight again."
Rin hadn't expected Lorelei's magecraft to directly attack internally through her skin. Feeling that her internal organs were in tatters and she was barely holding on to life with mana, Rin stubbornly shook her head.
"No need. Fujino interfered with the duel first. It's fair that I took your attack. I can still fight. Water of Life!"
A large amount of mana was converted from Rin's magic circuits, and a pool of clear water appeared above Rin's head, drenching her.
Lorelei nodded as she watched Rin recover and stand up again. She felt a degree of recognition towards Rin but was somewhat puzzled by the cost of this magecraft.
However, if Lorelei knew the true cost of Rin's magecraft, she likely wouldn't feel recognition but would try her best to kill Rin. The Water of Life was a spell used by Vasilisa, the leader of the A Certain Magical Index's Annihilation White Book. While it might be a mysterious and powerful magic in the A Certain Magical Index world, in the Type-Moon world, due to the distortion of the magecraft foundation and Rin's modifications, it became a one-time-use magecraft that consumed immense mana. The cost was that anyone drenched by the Water of Life would gradually become a Dead Apostle with each use, and their hearts would also be twisted into those of serial killers!
Rin suppressed the bloodlust rising in her heart and, feeling her magic circuits completely drained, said to the anxious Sakura and Fujino beside her.
"You two, no matter what happens to me, you are not allowed to interfere again, understand!"
Sakura and Fujino, who had only managed to resist Lorelei's magecraft for a short while with all their might, helped each other up from the ground. Regretting their weakness, they glared at Lorelei until they felt the impatience in Rin's eyes and reluctantly nodded.
"Alright, let's decide this with one final blow."
"Yes, Rin Tohsaka, regardless of the outcome, I, Bartholomello Lorelei, acknowledge you."
Rin and Lorelei ascended into the sky again, forming a standoff.
At this moment, Rin used a Command Spell in her hand to establish a mental connection with Da Vinci in Japan.
"Da Vinci, I need to use a Bounded Field. Can you activate it now?"
"Wow! Rin, who did you run into that you need to use that!"
"Da Vinci, stop rambling. Just tell me if it can be used."
In the Zenchou Villa on the outskirts of Fuyuki City, which should now be called the Tohsaka Villa, Tokiomi Tohsaka had purchased it from the Zenchou family after the Fourth Holy Grail War. Currently, the villa had been converted into a magecraft workshop by Rin, Touko, and Da Vinci over the past few years. Da Vinci, who had just received Rin's communication, glanced at a massive instrument beside her and nodded hesitantly before replying to Rin through their contract.
"Perhaps, should, possibly, no problem."
Rin looked at Lorelei, who was growing impatient, and impatiently said to Da Vinci through their contract.
"Da Vinci------! I need certainty!"
"Ah! Rin, you know as well as I do, this device was only used once after it was built, and it only lasted for 3 minutes. I don't know either, but it definitely won't be a problem for a short time."
"No problem for a short time? Then Da Vinci, link up!"
"Alright, since you've decided, Rin, then of course I'm, OK!"
Da Vinci flipped the switch, and the mana from the mana furnace instantly flowed into the instrument. The instrument then activated, and Da Vinci stepped inside. The soul fragment of the Winter Saintess located within the instrument also emitted a brilliant light.
Feeling the continuous flow of mana through their contract, Rin smiled slightly. System—cooperate with me and begin!
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Chapter 61: The End of the Duel.
Lorelei looked at the unfamiliar street before her with a face full of curiosity. Under the bright starry sky, a row of giant windmills stood beside a deserted modern street.
Lorelei turned around to face Rin, who had suddenly appeared behind her.
"A Bounded Field? Is that your trump card? But I'm curious how a human like you can use Magecraft of this level."
After speaking, Lorelei channeled magic into her eyes and instantly saw through the Command Spells on Rin's left hand, which were concealed by a Mirage.
"Remote mana transmission! A Servant from the Holy Grail War? Then that's a Command Spell in your hand, isn't it? I don't know how you did it, but it's meaningless—Wail!"
"As expected, it's still this move."
The violent storm reappeared, completely engulfing Rin.
Lorelei, watching Rin being swallowed by the storm, paused her Magecraft in confusion and warily observed her surroundings, muttering to herself.
"What exactly is the effect of Rin Tohsaka's Bounded Field?"
"The effect is, of course—Heaven's Punishment!"
A girl wearing strange clothing, with a cross hanging from her tongue, holding a giant hammer, leaped from a nearby building and landed in front of Lorelei. It was Rin Tohsaka, who had transformed into Wind of the Front using her Bounded Field.
Through a new function called 'Memory' that the System had activated in recent years, which served as a mental landscape, combined with a device researched by Da Vinci that could activate soul fragments of the Winter Saintess, Da Vinci, after acquiring a large amount of mana, fed it back to Rin through a contract, thereby realizing the Bounded Field 'Infinite Phase - Demon God Forbidden Realm' for the first time in this world.
Lorelei clutched her head in pain, kneeling on the ground, staring intently at the Wind of the Front before her. Although her appearance had changed, Lorelei could still tell from the expression on Wind of the Front's face that this person was Rin.
"Lorelei, surrender."
Lorelei endured the severe headache and quickly thought of a countermeasure. What kind of spell is this? Is it the effect of this Bounded Field? No, if that were the case, I should have been affected the moment I entered the Bounded Field. Wait! This spell only started working after Rin transformed into this state.
Rin Tohsaka, who had transformed into Wind of the Front, looked at Lorelei kneeling weakly before her. She raised the hammer in her hand, preparing to deliver the final blow to Lorelei.
Just as the hammer was about to smash into Lorelei's back, a gust of wind erupted from Lorelei's body, forcing back Wind of the Front.
"I understand! You deliberately made this avatar look like this, didn't you? The purpose was to provoke me."
Rin pouted at Lorelei. Do you think I wanted to look like this? It's how Wind of the Front dresses, ah! It seems I am Wind of the Front right now.
While Rin was distracted, Lorelei seized the opportunity, raised her hands, and a massive magic circle unfolded with Lorelei at its center.
"Submit!"
Dozens of giant tornadoes, like docile giant pythons, coiled around Lorelei.
Rin narrowed her eyes, staring at Lorelei suspended in mid-air, protected by dozens of tornadoes. She swung the hammer in her hand forcefully. As the hammer swung, huge masses of air, like blunt weapons, collided with Lorelei's tornadoes.
As Rin attacked, the 'pythons' came alive. Some began to roar and charge at Rin, while others revealed their ferocity, whipping up large amounts of debris to form walls protecting Lorelei.
Wind of the Front swung her hammer, unleashing wave after wave of 'air blunt weapons' that continuously knocked away the tornadoes. Using the ruined buildings as cover, she charged towards Lorelei in mid-air. I'm still too weak. The original Wind of the Front should have stripped Lorelei of her consciousness the moment she deployed the Heaven's Punishment spell.
The System's so-called Memory function was to manifest the mage battles that had occurred in the A Certain Magical Index world, allowing Rin to learn by watching these mage battles.
Because Rin had been busy searching for holy relics all over the world and conducting new research, she could only barely recreate Wind of the Front with the System's assistance. Lacking an understanding of the spells, Rin could only mechanically use them. Coupled with the drag of her own strength, the Rin who had transformed into Wind of the Front could not even unleash half of her combat power.
Lorelei looked at Wind of the Front rapidly approaching her, and she also had no way to deal with it. Although she possessed almost the strongest magic circuits among Magus, after several consecutive large-scale spell castings, Lorelei was already struggling to even control the tornadoes, and she didn't have enough mana to make any other preparations.
What Rin didn't know was that Da Vinci, far away in Fuyuki City, was trembling as she watched the constantly exploding pipelines around her.
Rin, it's no good, it's going to explode!
Lorelei looked at Wind of the Front, who was raising her hammer and smashing towards her, in despair. Am I going to lose?
Boom! Da Vinci's equipment could no longer withstand it.
Suddenly, the scene instantly shifted from the Academy City under the night sky to the sun-drenched El-Melloi Estate.
Rin Tohsaka awkwardly held up her hand, looking at Lorelei before her.
"The weather is very nice today!"
"Is that so? Go to... Ugh!"
Rin, with quick reflexes, stepped forward before Lorelei could cast Magecraft again, leaped up, and used a scissor hold to grip Lorelei's neck. Simultaneously, after falling to the ground with Lorelei, she forcefully twisted Lorelei's right hand.
Lorelei's left hand desperately pushed against Rin's leg, creating breathing space for herself. At the same time, her peripheral vision caught sight of the crowd that was beginning to approach them. Filled with anger and frustration, Lorelei made a decision she hadn't even expected herself: she opened her small mouth and bit down hard on Rin's smooth thigh in her absolute territory.
"Ah! You bit me, let go quickly."
"I won't bite, you're not as good as me."
Rin felt the pain from her thigh and was filled with anger. She retaliated by biting down on Lorelei's fair forearm.
Jewel Old Man, who had walked over first, held his forehead and looked at the genius girls fighting on the ground like two little girls with a headache. He took off his cloak and threw it over both of them, covering their battle-damaged clothes.
"Alright, separate now. Mind your appearance. This duel ends here!"
Rin and Lorelei simultaneously released each other, exchanged a glance, and hmph-ed at each other.
Then, the separated pair, with their heads lowered shyly, huddled around Jewel Old Man's cloak until they entered the castle to change, under the escort of the mercury maids sent by Kirei.
In the spacious main bathroom of the castle, Rin leaned back comfortably by the edge of the pool, looking up at the bathroom ceiling. Fujino and Sakura, whose clothes were in tatters from Lorelei's previous attack, stared at Lorelei sitting beside Rin with hostile eyes.
"Rin Tohsaka, consider this a draw! As someone who fought me to a standstill, I permit you to proudly announce your achievements to the Magecraft world!"
Rin turned her head and saw Lorelei's fair thigh beside her. She opened her mouth, hesitated for a long time, but ultimately did not bite.
Lorelei, with her head lowered, saw Rin's mouth opening and closing as she stared at her thigh. Shyly, she pulled the bath towel down a little further.
"Hey, there's no need to be so stingy! It's not like I only bit you once! You bit me too, didn't you?"
Rin turned her head, touching the throbbing wound on her thigh. She pouted, If I could beat you, you'd be waiting to be bitten to death by me today, hmph!
Chapter 62: After the Battle and Morning.
Waver looked down at the dozens of cigar stubs in the ashtray beside him, then turned to look at the night sky outside the window and sighed.
"Why haven't Rin and the Jewel Old Man come out yet?"
Late at night, Rin lay on the soft, large bed, her body aching. Da Vinci's complaints could be heard, disturbing her.
"Rin, I'm so miserable! The explosion destroyed a third of my workshop. I hadn't even finished cleaning up when Touko grabbed me and lectured me all afternoon. I just finished tidying everything up. Rin, you have to compensate me!"
"Alright, alright! I'll mail you the most famous cuisine from Britain tomorrow as compensation!"
Da Vinci, covered in dust in Japan, heard that Rin would bring her a gift and happily used the contract to transmit her joyful mood to Rin. However, Da Vinci didn't know that British cuisine was now infamously bad worldwide in modern times. And the gift the little devil Rin was preparing to send Da Vinci was the famous "Star Gazing Pie."
After finishing her conversation with Da Vinci, Rin looked at the night sky outside, unable to sleep. She recalled the Jewel Old Man's guidance from the day, thinking about the pile of new research topics and the upcoming Holy Grail War. Restlessly, she picked up a magecraft tome from the bedside table.
"Sister, has Master slept yet?" x2
Just as Rin picked up the book, she heard voices from outside and put down the book, speaking towards the door.
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