The Color in Mind's Eye

Sajyou Manaka braced her hands against the ground, her body trembling slightly, and expended a great deal of effort to finally crawl back up.

Panting heavily as she looked at Aoko Aozaki before her, she murmured, "Is this Aoko Aozaki? She feels like the complete opposite of Touko."

Yuan Shikai stood to the side, the corners of his mouth curving up slightly into a faint smile.

He then explained, "That's just a surface phenomenon. Aside from their affinities being different, their personalities are actually pretty much the same—they're both a bit ditzy."

Sajyou Manaka nodded thoughtfully and continued, "Still, I always feel like Aoko Aozaki is a lot like Rin-nee, especially that ditzy vibe. It's an exact match."

Yuan Shikai smiled and corrected, "Your intuition is very sharp, but you've got the timeline backward."

"Given the current time, Rin is still just a tiny tot. In terms of age, Aoko is much older than Rin, so we should really say Rin is like Aoko."

However, Yuan Shikai did not voice his true inner thoughts.

In truth, far beyond just Rin Tohsaka, even Akiha Tohno and Azaka Kokutou were characters modeled after Aoko Aozaki.

Regarding the incident where Aoko beat someone up, it ultimately ended hastily with Oshima committing sexual harassment first and Aoko Aozaki acting in legitimate self-defense.

Feeling utterly humiliated by the affair, Oshima lacked the face to remain at the school any longer and slunk away to transfer elsewhere.

As for Aoko, because of this whole ordeal, titles like "Violent Maniac," "Female Tyrant," and "Tomboy" spread like wildfire across the entire campus.

Even so, this outcome conveniently warded off those simps who had originally intended to keep pestering her.

Sajyou Manaka: "Why not go meet her? Now seems like a pretty good time."

Yuan Shikai: "We'll wait a