Well, the quiz was about to start, and these two were still arguing.
Gilgamesh went without saying, and Funny-Face Rin was clearly Rin Tohsaka.
To think these two really were natural enemies. They were the only ones still trading insults in the group now, and no one else could get a word in.
But considering that Ishtar would choose to fuse with Rin Tohsaka as a Pseudo-Servant in the future, it seemed perfectly reasonable that these two did not get along.
The only question was whether this was the little Rin from this world or one from another parallel world.
It should be this world's Rin. Hadn't Rin Tohsaka just said she would have her father teach Gilgamesh a proper lesson?
If Tokiomi Tohsaka learned Funny-Face Rin's identity without knowing Gilgamesh's, then gave Gilgamesh a tongue-lashing in the group, once Gilgamesh descended...
Haha, that scene would definitely be very entertaining.
"Hmm?"
Tokiomi Tohsaka, who was studying the system, suddenly felt a chill down his back, but when he turned around, there was nothing there.
"I'm so mad!"
Just then, Rin Tohsaka, still a little girl, came downstairs, her face puffed up with anger.
"Rin, have you forgotten what your father taught you? Mind your manners."
Tokiomi Tohsaka scolded her sternly, feeling somewhat puzzled.
Hadn't the girl been grieving because her younger sister had just been sent away? Why had she suddenly changed like this?
Just then, he saw the screen floating in front of Loli Rin.
(Group members could all see one another's screens.)
"Rin, don't tell me you...!"
"Father, you too!"
Loli Rin hurried forward and hugged Tokiomi Tohsaka's leg, saying angrily, "Hurry and back me up! Look at that guy called Gilgamesh. He's so infuriating!"
"Ah, uh..."
Tokiomi Tohsaka was still a little bewildered. He had been so focused on studying this screen that he had completely failed to recognize his own daughter's voice in the argument.
And since his older daughter had joined the group, then his younger daughter...
Could she be Tragic Sakura, who had remained silent all this time? But what did that name mean?
Meanwhile, the screen finally began playing a video.
[Inside a pitch-black basement, a gaunt, withered old man stood on a raised platform, gazing down excitedly. A flush even spread across his face, making him utterly revolting.]
[Behind him, a middle-aged man glared with eyes nearly bursting from their sockets, clearly holding back tremendous rage.]
[The camera turned downward, revealing an enormous pit densely packed with disgusting, sinister-looking worms.]
[And amid those worms floated the head of a purple-haired little girl with lifeless eyes.]
[Although the worms buried her body, it was still possible to tell that the little girl was completely naked.]
["For the first three days, she could still cry and scream from time to time. Starting on the fourth day, she couldn't even make a sound. I put her in the worm chamber this morning, only intending to see how long she could last. To think she would still be breathing after the worms ravaged her for half a day. This piece of material from the Tohsaka Family really is something I can't bear to part with."]
[The old man pointed at the little girl below and spoke at leisure, as though introducing a work he was proud of.]
["You bastard!"]
[The man wanted to attack, but even after a long while, he still had not thrown a punch.]
[Because he knew he was no match for the old man before him.]
["What will it take for you to let her go?!" the man roared hoarsely.]
["In that case, go and bring me the Holy Grail."]
[The old man sneered wickedly. "Exchange the Holy Grail for this child."]
["You want me to participate in the War of the Holy Grail."]
[The man said gravely, "You know I have no magical energy."]
[The old man said, "That doesn't matter. I can help you. You know the price."]
["Crest Worms, is it? Looks like you've been waiting for this day for a long time."]
[The man said calmly, "Do it!"]
["I'm sorry, Sakura. If I hadn't left back then, you wouldn't have had to suffer like this."]
["Don't worry. I'll definitely save you."]
The footage ended, and a line of text appeared.
[This is a multiple-choice question. Question: whose fault was all of this?] [A: Zouken Matou; B: Kariya Matou; C: Shinji Matou; D: Tokiomi Tohsaka.] [Please answer within five minutes. Exceeding the time limit will count as forfeiting.]
Bang!
Tokiomi Tohsaka slammed his palm onto the table before him, his entire face twisting.
How could he fail to recognize the person in that video? That was his own younger daughter.
Beside him, Loli Rin was also so frightened by the video that she could not recover for a long time.
Rebellious Spirit: "Sakura! Aah! Tokiomi Tohsaka, you bastard! Do you know what you're doing?!"
That was right. Rebellious Spirit was Kariya Matou.
He had left the Matou Family to travel precisely because he knew Zouken Matou's true nature. But what had he just seen?
Tokiomi Tohsaka, the man he had envied all his life, had actually delivered the little angel in his heart into the tiger's jaws.
At that moment, he felt he was about to go mad, and he also hated himself for leaving.
If he had still been there, he surely could have stopped all of this.
No, he had to hurry back immediately.
Meanwhile, Tokiomi Tohsaka was still in a state of tremendous shock and paid no attention to the voices in the group.
"Sakura! No, I have to save Sakura!"
Loli Rin was the first to recover and was about to rush to the Matou Family to save her younger sister.
"Rin, what's wrong?"
Aoi Tohsaka, who had come downstairs after hearing the noise, hurriedly caught Loli Rin.
Loli Rin said urgently, "Mom, Sakura's in danger! We have to save her!"
"Rin, I know you can't bear to part with Sakura, but this is for Sakura's own good..."
Still unaware of what had happened, Aoi Tohsaka assumed her older daughter simply could not bear to part with her younger daughter, so she offered words of comfort.
"That's not it!"
Loli Rin grew even more frantic, not knowing how to explain things to Aoi Tohsaka for the moment.
Chapter 3: The altered plot
(Aoi Tohsaka and Loli Rin)
"Dad! Hurry and save Sakura! Go save her!"
Loli Rin could only tug at Tokiomi Tohsaka's trouser leg and shout.
"Sakura, Sakura!"
Tokiomi Tohsaka finally recovered and roared like an enraged lion, "Zouken Matou, you old bastard!"
"Tokiomi, what on earth happened?"
Aoi Tohsaka also realized something was wrong and hurriedly asked, "Has something happened to Sakura?"
"Stay home and watch Rin. I'll bring Sakura back right away."
Tokiomi Tohsaka had no time to explain further and rushed out the door.
Sakura had only just been taken away. There was still time if he went now.
Loli Rin also began explaining everything that had happened to Aoi Tohsaka.
"To think it would drop a bombshell right off the bat."
Feng Xi shook his head. "Tokiomi Tohsaka is probably going to explode now."
It was not that Tokiomi Tohsaka did not love his daughters. He simply kept misjudging people.
In Capsule Servant, after learning the truth, Tokiomi Tohsaka had stormed the Matou Family alone and rescued Sakura, then arranged for her adoption into the Edelfelt family, distant relatives of the Tohsaka Family, after the Fourth War.
Meanwhile, the famous line, "It's all Tokiomi's fault," was also shouted by this world's Kariya Matou before he died.
"But giving us such a trick question right at the start..."
Feng Xi found it rather amusing.
Unless they knew that famous meme, people would probably only choose between A and B for this question.