What Yoru Machi said left both Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou completely stunned.
Yoru Machi had arrived with overwhelming force, acting decisively and ruthlessly, killing Zouken Matou, the current head of the Matou Family, at the slightest disagreement.
His incomparably powerful strength filled Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou with deep despair.
Faced with someone so decisive and far stronger than Zouken Matou, they had thought they would be unable to escape death tonight. Yet the way things were unfolding now seemed somewhat beyond their expectations.
"What? You were just ready to fight to the bitter end to escape, but now that I'm letting you live, you don't want to leave?"
Yoru Machi was speechless as he looked at Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou, who stood frozen in place.
What Yoru Machi did not know was that it was not that Kariya Matou and Sakura did not want to leave. It was that, in their current state, where could they even go?
As Yoru Machi had said, Kariya Matou's body had been enhanced and eroded by Crest Worms. At most, he could live for another half month. He could not even find somewhere peaceful to live and raise Sakura to adulthood.
Send Sakura back to the Tohsaka Family? But would the Tohsaka Family still accept Sakura as she was now?
Previously, it was only because he had believed there was no hope left that Kariya Matou had let Sakura seek out that sole possibility.
But now they understood that Yoru Machi was not a bloodthirsty demon. On the contrary, the fact that he had helped Sakura remove her future troubles showed that he was a trustworthy and honorable man.
His life had little time remaining. Before he died, he would settle one last matter for Sakura.
"Unknown mage, let us make