Time goes back to last night. Tohsaka Rin looks at the dark clouds covering the sky. The pitch-black color piled up and blocked the already scarce moonlight. The neon colors brought by the artificial light sources everywhere in the city not only failed to fill this gap, but instead made it look more like a demon city.
Is Fuyuki City so scary at night?
The cold night wind blew across her face, causing Tohsaka Rin to shiver subconsciously and tighten her red coat.
But obviously, the other person in her thought the exact opposite of what she did.
"Ah, this is really amazing. It is indeed a modern city. Don't just stand there. Move quickly and find the largest wealth exchange site in this city. As long as I show a little bit of my power, those mortals will definitely rush to offer me sacrifices!"
"How could I, who is only in elementary school, know about this kind of place? Besides, aren't you a goddess? You are too vulgar!"
Although she was afraid of the city late at night, Tohsaka Rin still showed a dignified temperament when facing the out-of-line goddess.
Last night, while she was sleeping, Tohsaka Rin vaguely heard such a sound.
"I am the goddess Ishtar. The goddess of beauty who rules over Venus. You should respect me, fear me, and worship me."
Originally she thought it was just an illusion, but when she woke up in the morning and saw her changed body and the strange weapon floating beside her, Tohsaka Rin realized that she seemed to be involved in the Holy Grail War. She didn't know why she was possessed by the legendary goddess, Ishtar.
Why did it turn out like this... The first time I participated in the Holy Grail War, the first time I had a Servant I could rely on, two happy things overlapped. And these two joys brought me more joy. What I got should have been a happy time like a dream... But why did it turn out like this...
It was all thanks to Ishtar that the elementary school student Tohsaka Rin could make such a mature exclamation.
This goddess has no interest in the Holy Grail War, nor does she want to take the initiative to seize the Holy Grail. She is only thinking about building her own temple and lying down to accept offerings from humans. Not only that, perhaps because of her personality, she seems quite unreliable in many things. In order to cover up the traces left unconsciously by the other party, Tohsaka Rin feels exhausted.
The most annoying thing is that this goddess has no awareness that she is a trouble at all!
"I can't help it. You are so poor. In this cruel world, only treasure can bring me a little warmth."
"Woo, relying on the savings of an elementary school student, are you really a goddess?"
Tohsaka Rin's cheeks puffed up as she tightly held the small bag in her clothes, which contained the gems she had collected since she was a child. However, since she had not yet officially entered the world of jewellery, the number was not large. Even so, it was a considerable fortune.
"Not now! I'm a goddess, so I still have some common sense. What I mean is that both you and I are fatally lacking in the attribute of the Golden Rule."
Tohsaka Rin turned her head to the side, a questioning look on her face.
Although she has not had much contact with her family's property, she is still aware of the fact that her family is a prominent family in Fuyuki City. Various properties and various strange incomes allow the Tohsaka family to live a rich life while maintaining the expensive gem magic training. Will she be short of money in the future?
"Why, don't you trust my judgment? I am the goddess Ishtar!"
"Who would believe the words of a goddess obsessed with money?"
"Ahhh!" Ishtar screamed madly in Tohsaka Rin's mind, "After all, it's all because of you that I became like this! We are such a perfect match that you've influenced my personality! I should have been more majestic and cold!"
"Humph, you suddenly took away the control of my body and said those things on your own. I don't blame you at all."
According to Ishtar, she and Ishtar are now special beings called Pseudo-Servants. In order to ensure that both of them can live a normal life, Rin will control them during the day and Ishtar will control them at night.
At first, Tohsaka Rin flatly rejected this condition, but the other party proposed a condition that made her heart move.
In exchange for gaining control of the body at night, Tohsaka Rin can use the power of Ishtar as a Servant to accomplish what she wants.
"Let me make it clear first. After you finish looking at that little girl named Sakura, you will immediately give your body to me until you go to school tomorrow. I also used the excuse of going to school first to perfunctorily write a note for your mother Aoi. After this is done, the rest of the time is mine!"
"I know, but let me make it clear first, don't do anything weird with my body."
Tohsaka Rin replied somewhat gloomily, saying that it was precisely because she could rely on the power of her servants that she ignored her father's ban and came to the dangerous battlefield of Fuyuki City alone.
Because she had a reason to come.
Ever since Sakura was sent away, she has never seen her sister again, even though her father said this was the best way out for Sakura and sternly warned her not to treat Sakura as her sister anymore, but as the heir of the Matou family who must be kept at a distance.
The stubborn Toosaka Rin refused to completely obey this point. Even if she couldn't touch him, it should be fine to just look at him from a distance.
Tohsaka Rin recalled what happened when she just got off the train. Uncle Kariya was completely different from what she remembered. He looked thin and weak, like a zombie in a horror movie.
Although the other party's attitude was still as kind as usual, and he sent her to the tram, gave her a few instructions and then left, she still felt the chill from the bottom of her heart.
According to the fragmentary information obtained from asking my mother before, Uncle Kariya has returned to the Matou family.
Would the magic of the Matou family turn people into this?
Even though she knew that magicians were a group of paranoid and twisted people, and that there were very few magicians as good as her father, when she actually came into contact with other magicians, Rin Tohsaka still felt trembling.
"We have to go and see what's happening with Sakura."
Tohsaka Rin's innate justice and kindness make it impossible for her to abandon her own sister. Even if it means breaking many taboos, she must get the answer.
"Bored humans always look for trouble. I advise you not to have too high hopes. The man we met before had a body full of disgusting bugs. If you enter a family like that, you will not have a good ending."
"You don't have to say anything..." Tohsaka Rin looked at the Matou residence in front of her. There was a dark iron gate and no light in the old-fashioned building. If a horror movie used this place as a filming location, they wouldn't even need a set.
But for Tohsaka Rin, the Matou House has another meaning.
This is the magic workshop that has been passed down by the Matou family for a hundred years. Invading it without permission would be tantamount to declaring war. But even so, thinking of Uncle Kariya's miserable state, who looked like a corpse, Tohsaka Rin couldn't bring herself to stop.
——This is what she must do.
She took a deep breath and suppressed all her fear and anxiety. As the heir of the Tohsaka family, she had to remain elegant at all times.
But at the moment when the iron gate was about to be pushed open, Tohsaka Rin, as a little girl, couldn't help but seek comfort from her only support.
"Ishtar, I can use your strength."
"Of course! Although we haven't merged yet and exist as two souls in one body, as the master who has signed a contract with me, the relationship between us is very strong. According to the knowledge given by the Holy Grail, in the words of this country, we are aibo!"
"Thank you," Tohsaka Rin said with a relieved look, "That's right, you are the goddess of war. In the mythology book in father's study, the Bull of Heaven you released is a powerful beast. If there is a threat to a place like the Matou family, you can flatten it with one kick."
"This…"
Suddenly, Ishtar showed an awkward yet polite expression and fell into a guilty silence.
"?"
Tohsaka Rin's face turned pale, "Ishtar, you won't..."
"I lost it accidentally, hey!"
"Hey, you! Ahhh, I really can't trust you!"
"How can you blame me for this! Logically, I am the only one in this modern world, but when I went to borrow Gugalanna, I found that it had been borrowed. It's unreasonable! But it doesn't matter. Without it, I am still an invincible goddess!"
"Who on earth did you learn this habit of failing at the critical moment from? Never mind! I'm going in!"
Tohsaka Rin shouted in despair in her mind, and as if she had accepted her fate, she pushed open the door of the Matou family's den, which was like a devil's cave.