The Long Night

Although Tohsaka Rin had imagined many different scenarios for meeting her sister again, she had to admit that this was one of the most awkward.

"Come to think of it... why are we here?"

Tohsaka Rin coughed and looked around. She knew Fuyuki City so well that she recognized this as the area near the old residential district at a glance. But she had been in an office building in the New City District just moments ago.

"That's a characteristic of Imaginary Number Magecraft. I can open a passage from any space and then teleport through it. Since I had been watching you, Sister, I was able to rescue you so quickly."

"Mm... thank you..."

Although Tohsaka Rin had only asked casually, Sakura quickly gave her an answer. However, upon hearing it, Tohsaka Rin's heart sank. Teleportation was already a magecraft close to the level of magic among modern magi. She had never expected Sakura to be able to use magecraft of this level so effortlessly. Needless to say, it was a huge shock to Tohsaka Rin.

"Is that your ASSASSIN?"

Tohsaka Rin hurriedly changed the subject and looked toward the girl standing behind Sakura. Even to Tohsaka Rin, the girl's outfit was extremely strange. She now understood why ARCHER had seemed reluctant to describe her. She genuinely had no idea how to put it...

Standing behind Sakura was a girl who looked slightly older than her, with golden hair and red eyes. She had a dazzling mane of long blond hair, along with ears sticking up from her head like wings. Of course, since she was a Heroic Spirit, that alone was not especially strange. The strangest thing was not her appearance, but her clothing.

The girl wore something resembling a one-piece swimsuit, with a holster strapped to her