It Was All Tokiomi Tohsaka's Fault!

"Breaking the bracelet Master Bluebeard gave me and causing me so much trouble... Though I don't like damaging the integrity of my materials before creating art, naughty children still need to be taught a lesson. Hmm, you're so good at running and jumping, so perhaps I'll start by severing the tendons in your hands and feet."

With a Sea Demon in front of her and a perverted kidnapper-murderer behind her, Rin Tohsaka was trapped in a desperate situation. Fear inevitably appeared on her little face, yet she still shielded the girl from her class as they retreated toward the side of the bar. But it was only a corner, with a wall behind it. There was nowhere left to run.

"This time, be good and don't resist me again. Otherwise, I'll cut open your stomach."

The children hid to one side. No one dared stand in Ryunosuke Uryu's way. But just after he said that to Rin Tohsaka—

"Bang!"

The Sea Demon at the entrance suddenly exploded. A small figure descended from the sky, using the force of the fall to stomp the Sea Demon to death. Purple blood and severed tentacles splattered directly across Ryunosuke Uryu's face as he stood in the doorway.

"Do you want to hurt my friend?"

Broly still held a paper box of takoyaki in his hand. The takoyaki balls that had fallen out because of his excessive descent speed only now dropped to the ground. He looked at Ryunosuke Uryu with some hostility as he questioned him.

This seemed bad...

Ryunosuke Uryu wiped the Sea Demon blood from his face. Broly's entrance was visibly abnormal, and he had even stomped to death the Familiar Master Bluebeard had used to protect him.

"Don't be so serious. I was just playing a joke on your friend."

Ryunosuke Uryu blurted it out, and Broly froze at the explanation.

"An opening!"

He noticed the boy's momentary distraction and immediately drove the knife in his hand toward the boy's temple.

"Watch out!"

Rin Tohsaka's warning came too late. Ryunosuke Uryu's knife struck, but it did not matter. The blade hit the boy's temple and simply could not pierce any deeper.

The tough sensation transmitted through his hand felt like stabbing thick leather, something Ryunosuke Uryu had never expected.

"What is a joke?"

Broly asked curiously. That was what he was focused on.

"Actually, this is a joke."

Ryunosuke Uryu explained with an awkward smile, withdrawing the knife.

"How could that be? He wanted to kill you, and he wanted to kill us just now too."

Rin Tohsaka directly refuted him.

"You little brat, is this any place for you to speak?"

As Ryunosuke Uryu spoke, he reached for Rin Tohsaka's head beside him. But before his hand could touch the girl, he was sent flying backward.

"Crack!"

The wooden bar counter shattered from the impact. His entire body flew into the wooden crates farther back, smashing those apart as well.

"You want to hurt my friend, you should..."

Before Broly could finish his angry words, he saw that the guy he had kicked away had been pierced through by countless broken wooden splinters. Hanging from the wrecked crates, he looked like he was about to die.

Where am I? Who am I? It hurts so much!

That was Ryunosuke Uryu's first reaction after regaining his senses. The instant he was kicked, his stomach had ruptured. The organs that produced adrenaline had turned into mush before they even had time to produce any.

His mind was very clear at that moment. He could feel the pain and wanted to howl, but blood was all that sprayed from his mouth.

So this is what it feels like to have your guts spill out... The intestines I've always been searching for were inside my own stomach all along. It hurts, but what a vivid color...

With an expression that was half crying and half laughing, yet horribly twisted by agony, Ryunosuke Uryu gradually stopped breathing.

Reflected in his lifeless eyes was a confused-looking boy. Broly had only one feeling now: he had not even used any strength, yet that person had fallen down. Should he keep being angry?

Rin Tohsaka stood somewhat dumbfounded. From facing certain doom, to her new classmate descending from the sky, to that new classmate being sneak-attacked, then suddenly kicking the Bad Guy to death—all those twists had happened in less than a minute.

"Suzune, don't look. Come with me."

After glancing at the dead Bad Guy again, Rin Tohsaka's face turned slightly pale at his gruesome death. Calling to her old classmate beside her, she carefully led her around the boy and headed outside.

Broly turned his head along with her movements, looking at her as though he had no idea what he was supposed to do next.

"You come too."

So, after walking past the boy, Rin Tohsaka still stopped.

Gritting her teeth, she took Broly's hand and led this dangerous new classmate away as well.

Outside, a patrol car passed by. Rin Tohsaka had Suzune go ask the police for help, while she used the opportunity to take Broly away from the area.

The appearance of the Disappeared children drew the surrounding patrol cars over, and caution tape was quickly set up around the Underground Bar.

"What exactly is going on with you?"

Only after hiding at the mouth of an alley and seeing that her friend was safe did Rin Tohsaka have time to ask about the boy beside her.

"What do you mean, what's going on?"

Broly did not understand.

"I mean you suddenly appearing, then kicking that kidnapper-murderer to death with one kick."

Rin Tohsaka said.

"I was eating takoyaki. After I finished my portion, while waiting for you to come back, I found that your Happiness Value had suddenly dropped. So I brought your takoyaki to find you."

Broly briefly explained what had happened. His gaze returned to the takoyaki in his hand, and Rin Tohsaka could tell from his face how much the boy wanted to eat it.

"Uh, if you still want to eat it, then go ahead."

"But this is your Food."

"I don't have much of an appetite right now."

Rin Tohsaka was telling the truth. The octopus tentacles exposed on the takoyaki looked rather similar to the Familiar tentacles that had blocked their path earlier. Combined with witnessing Ryunosuke Uryu's horrific death, which had practically split him in half at the waist, it would be strange if she had any appetite.

"Tohsaka, you're a good Wife!"

Broly looked seriously at the girl and suddenly said it.

"Huh?!"

Rin Tohsaka stared at him with Eyes Widened, only to see Broly begin eating the takoyaki with a satisfied expression.

"You really are a strange guy."

Broly had kicked someone to death. Even if the person he had kicked was a kidnapper-murderer, Rin Tohsaka was still somewhat afraid. It was an instinctive fear humans felt toward something that could easily kill them. But seeing Broly satisfied by a very ordinary serving of takoyaki, that fear seemed to gradually fade away.

"Strange?"

Broly did not quite understand. But before he could investigate the meaning of strange, Rin Tohsaka beside him continued.

"Thank you so much for today. If you hadn't been there, I might have been in danger."

Rin Tohsaka's Happiness Value is rising

Hearing the notification from the Crystal Palace in his mind, Broly only felt that his happiness had returned. If Happy Water was used as the equivalent exchange for Happiness Points, then at the moment the girl thanked him, he had gained several hundred more bottles of Happy Water.

"Thank you."

Rin Tohsaka extended her hand, wanting to shake Broly's hand, but he did not react as he looked at it, making her a little embarrassed.

"Give me your hand."

"Why?"

"Are you giving it to me or not?"

"Yes."

"Shake hands. Good friends. This means that from now on, you're my, Rin Tohsaka's, best friend."

"So that's how it is."

Broly felt that he had learned something new again.

"Oh, right, your home..."

Rin Tohsaka was about to mention helping him get home when the Magic Pointer on her chest reacted again.

"Thud!"

Another Sea Demon leaped down from a rooftop and crashed into the alley behind Broly.

"Wai—"

Rin Tohsaka's expression changed. Before she could warn him, a buzzing sound rose up. A swarm of insects flew past them, attacked the newly appeared Sea Demon, and devoured it completely at incredible speed.

"Rin, are you all right?"

A familiar voice came from behind her.

"Uncle Kariya."

Rin Tohsaka cried out in surprise, but when she turned around, she was somewhat startled.

"Sorry, I look a little ugly right now."

Under the streetlamp, a man tugged at his hood, seemingly trying to use it to conceal half of his ugly face. That side was wrinkled like an old man's, and something seemed to be wriggling beneath the skin. It looked horrifying.

"What happened to you?"

"Nothing. I'm just a little sick. But you—weren't you already at the Zenjou Family with your Mother? Why are you still here in Fuyuki City?"

"I... came to find a friend."

Rin Tohsaka hesitated, but she still told this Uncle who had always been kind to her why she was in Fuyuki City.

"This place is dangerous. You and your friend need to go back quickly."

Kariya Matou glanced at Broly, mistaking him for the friend Rin Tohsaka had come to find, and spoke to them both.

At around seven that evening, after receiving a call from Kariya Matou, Aoi Zenjou drove to Fuyuki City.

"Rin, how could you suddenly run back to Fuyuki City by yourself?"

After arriving at a nearby Park, Aoi Zenjou scolded her daughter somewhat angrily.

"Mother, my friend Disappeared. I was worried something had happened to her..."

Rin Tohsaka explained softly.

"It's good that nothing happened."

Aoi Zenjou said, then looked at Kariya Matou.

"Kariya, you protected Rin, didn't you? Thank you."

She said.

"And Broly. He protected me too."

Rin Tohsaka added.

"Hmm?"

Aoi Zenjou looked in the direction her daughter was pointing and saw a little boy.

"This is Broly. He's my best friend now."

Rin Tohsaka introduced Broly to her mother.

Wei Wu's Legacy

That inexplicable information Appeared in Broly's mind after he saw Aoi Zenjou.

But he could not understand what it meant, so he quickly threw it to the back of his mind.

Aoi Zenjou politely nodded at the boy but did not say anything else.

After all, she could hardly blame a child for causing her daughter to take such a risk.

Clearly, she had misunderstood something too. Broly had taken the blame for the Girl called Suzune.

"Protecting Rin is what I should do."

The child was ignored while the adults began their conversation.

"Simp Gets No House."

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm saying the words that suddenly Appeared in my mind."

Of course, children had their own conversations too.

"What is that?"

"I don't know."

Broly shook his head, then pointed at Kariya Matou over there.

"But I know he's a simp."

"So what exactly is a simp?"

"I don't know."

Rin Tohsaka was somewhat speechless, once again confirming that Broly really was a strange guy.

The children's conversation ended, while the conversation between the adults became heated.

It was mainly because Kariya Matou was participating in the Holy Grail War, which caused Aoi Zenjou to argue with him.

Aoi Zenjou simply could not understand why her Childhood Friend would suddenly participate in a deadly Holy Grail War.

"I did it for..."

Kariya Matou stopped. Once the sea had been seen, no other water could compare. There was no point in speaking of feelings that had long been buried in the past.

He could only say that he had misjudged Tokiomi Tohsaka back then. Otherwise, he never would have handed the person before him over to that man.

"What did you do it for? Say it!"

Under Aoi Zenjou's confused questioning, Kariya Matou could only find an excuse.

"I did it for your daughter, so she wouldn't become like me."

"What?"

"Don't worry. Zouken Matou only wants the Holy Grail. As long as I can get the Holy Grail for him, Sakura will be fine. I'll bring her back to you and Rin."

Aoi Zenjou: "..."

She looked as though she wanted to speak, but stopped herself.

"You don't need to worry about me. My Servant is the strongest."

Seeing Aoi Zenjou's expression, Kariya Matou thought she was worried about him and immediately said so.

"No, I just wanted to say that Sakura has already come back. She's staying at the Zenjou Family Villa with Rin and me now."

"What?"

"She ran away from the Matou Family, returned to the Tohsaka Family, and was then sent to me by Tokiomi."

Kariya Matou: "..."

Sakura had already run home. Then why had he paid the terrible price of having less than a month of Lifespan left to join this Holy Grail War?

Kariya Matou's expression now resembled the two biggest cards in a deck of Playing Cards. But could he blame the White Moonlight Childhood Friend before him? Or could he blame that adorable Girl who called him Uncle Kariya and smiled so sweetly?

He could blame neither. So he could only blame that guy.

That's right, this was all Tokiomi Tohsaka's fault!

"I see. That's good, then."

Rage burned in his heart. Kariya Matou forced a smile at Aoi Zenjou, then turned and left after saying that, without the slightest hesitation.

The fate of death for his body, eroded by Crest Worms, had already been decided the moment he chose to take part in the Holy Grail Ritual.

Though the goal he had worked toward was now gone, Kariya Matou had found a new one. In the little time he had left, he would grind that bastard Tokiomi Tohsaka beneath his heel.

Kariya Matou left, but his conversation with Aoi Zenjou had let Broly learn of Matou Sakura.

So they were sisters. Hmm, they were both good wives, and both gave him food.

As Broly thought that, Rin Tohsaka came over.

"Should I have my Mother take you home?"

"No need. I can get back myself."

"Come on, Rin, let's go home."

Aoi Zenjou called out to her daughter.

"Then, see you tomorrow."

Having seen how capable the boy was, Rin Tohsaka did not doubt that he could make it home. She waved goodbye to Broly.

After Rin Tohsaka and her mother left, Broly gathered his qi and lifted off the ground, flying toward the Fujimura Family estate.

He was so fast that he looked like a starving student rushing toward the cafeteria, rings of air bursting around him.

Fortunately, night had already fallen. Even if someone heard a strange sound, it would be difficult to spot the boy streaking across the darkened sky.