"I am Sakura Matou. I have nothing to do with your Tohsaka Family, so please do not use concern as an excuse to get close to me. Your behavior only disgusts me."
Even when facing the gentle mother she had once loved most, Sakura no longer felt the slightest affection.
When she had been trapped in the sea of worms, wailing day and night, Sakura had once cried out in her heart for help from her so-called closest relatives. Yet whenever she remembered that it had been her so-called parents who had pushed her into the Abyss, her heart experienced an even deeper despair, time and again.
The Magic Circuit modifications wrought by the sea of worms had brought her only physical pain, but the betrayal and abandonment by her family had wounded her on a spiritual level.
Sakura could not understand it. Compared to her lively, mischievous older sister, she had always been more sensible and obedient, yet she had been the one abandoned.
And abandonment alone would have been one thing, but while she had been suffering after being adopted into the Matou Family, her entire family had happily gone to an amusement park for fun.
If it had not been for Teacher Yoru Machi, she might still have been lying in the Matou Family's lightless worm pit, right?
Now that she had been saved, her so-called parents and closest relatives were standing before her, using the identity of family to show that pitifully insignificant concern?
Seeing his once obedient and sensible daughter become so rebellious and arrogant, Tokiomi Tohsaka immediately frowned, inwardly deciding that the Matou Family's upbringing was truly inadequate.
Then again, it made sense. The Matou Family, with its dwindling bloodline, had long been like a candle flickering in the wind. Having declined so far,