"Mom, do you think this looks good?"
Rin happily held a strange oversized mask over her face. With her small head and huge mask, she looked rather comical.
Aoi covered her mouth and smiled indulgently.
"Rin looks good in anything."
"Then I'll give it to Sakura."
After hearing her mother's praise, Rin looked satisfied. She then hung the ridiculous mask over Sakura's gentle little face.
Sakura could not help looking bewildered. Why had it ended up on her?
Still, the three of them had been very happy these past few days. They no longer had to worry constantly about Tokiomi's safety, and he could keep them company and play with them.
These were wonderful times they had never had before.
As long as they could be together with their mother and father, those were the happiest days.
Just then, an almost hysterically joyful voice rang out.
"Aoi! Sakura! Rin!"
Following the voice, they saw Kariya Matou, his face full of delighted surprise, though it could not conceal its twisted appearance.
When he lowered his hood, quite a few pedestrians on the sidewalk cried out in fright and hurried away from him.
His current appearance was truly terrifying and grotesque.
Fortunately, it was broad daylight, so people merely kept their distance. If it had been nighttime, he might have scared someone to death.
Kariya Matou had never been particularly handsome, but now it was difficult to feel any fondness for him at all.
Especially with the rotten stench clinging to him and that excited expression on his face, even Aoi and Rin instinctively took a step back.
Only Sakura politely called out to him.
"Uncle Kariya."
Hearing that word, Kariya felt as though his entire body was about to ascend to heaven.
He had struggled, fought, and endured for so long