The journey of dragon transformation starting from Demon Slayer

"Well... okay..." Sakura answered softly and carefully, but before she finished her words, her sister's face suddenly bloomed with a bright smile like a spring flower.

"Well! Just accept it!"

The elder sister nodded in agreement with great joy, and immediately the atmosphere between the two sisters returned to normal.

"By the way, I have something else to tell Sakura..."

"About the ribbon..."

Before the time of separation comes tomorrow, these two fragile sisters should cherish this hard-earned time as much as possible.

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The next morning, sunlight poured through the window into the spacious and bright living room of the Matou family.

The people of the Matou family drove a luxury car slowly out of their home at the time agreed in advance.

Four or five burly bodyguards in black suits were tightly packed into a spacious and luxurious car. They had serious expressions and their eyes were vigilantly scanning the surrounding environment that was constantly passing by.

The atmosphere in the car was very solemn. Of course, this was not caused by the silence of the bodyguards.

If it were just a group of professional bodyguards, the air in the car wouldn't have become almost stagnant.

This sense of oppression in the air emanates from the rear of the vehicle.

At this time, there was a unique person sitting in the back seat of the vehicle, and this person was the culprit who affected the environment inside the car.

He was an old man, known as - Matou-no-Wang, and his real name was Matou Zouken.

Yes, he is the former head of the Matou family who proposed to the Tosaka family for adoption, and he is also the actual person in charge of the Matou family.

Zouken Matou had a thin face and skin as pale as paper. He was wearing black Japanese clothes. His bald head and his hands and feet had shrunk to the point that people would mistake him for a mummy. However, his eyes were still bright under his sunken eye sockets, and his eyes revealed a cunning and sinister look.

To be honest, this Mr. Matou is a strange old man who is unusual in both appearance and demeanor.

At this moment, Zang Yan tightly closed his lips, as if he was thinking about something important. In his hand, he held a cane inlaid with a mysterious gem, which emitted a faint light.

The atmosphere in the car was extremely tense. The bodyguards did not dare to relax at all for fear of any unexpected situation.

They knew that Mr. Jiantong had a special identity and they had to ensure his safety. However, Mr. Jiantong sat there quietly, as if everything was under his control.

Let’s talk about Zouken Matou again.

Zouken's actual age is over 80 years old. He is the biological father of the current head of the family, Matou Tsuruno, and his younger brother, Matou Kariya.

However, what is strange is that the name of the head of the Matou family four generations ago was recorded as Matou Zouken. In the family tree, there is also a person named Zouken in the great-grandfather and the ancestors three generations before him. No one knows how many generations this man has ruled the Matou family.

Matou Zouken's real name is Machiri Zorgen. His real identity is actually the first head of the Matou family. He was directly involved in the making of the Holy Grail and is a great magician who has lived for more than five hundred years.

Due to the secretive nature of the magician, few people knew this information except Zouken himself. Even his descendants, the brothers Tsuruno and Kariya, were unaware of it. They only knew that he had lived for a long time, but did not know his original identity.

Finally, there is no doubt that the reason why Zang Yan survived to this day is that he must have relied on extraordinary evil magic to keep himself alive.

The magical characteristic of Matou is absorption, which is also the magical characteristic passed down from generation to generation by the magicians of the Matou family.

Magic that uses this property has the property of "definitely returning the results to one's own body". It can also be used to restrain others.

Matou Zouken directly uses this characteristic to absorb the life force of others through his familiars to prolong his own life.

Let me digress.

Zouken Matou - Machiri Zorgen's wish is true immortality.

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By the way, how many years ago did you come into contact with this generation's "Tousaka"?

Sitting quietly in the back seat of the car, Zang Yan looked at the scenery passing by and couldn't help thinking in his heart.

Yes, it was ten years ago!

When he noticed the daughter of the Zenjo family, it should have been from then on that Matou and this generation of Tousaka had a bond.

As a prominent family in the R-world of magicians, the Tousaka family attaches great importance to inheritance and bloodline, and has been passed down for as many as five generations.

As "Matou" who signed a contract with "Tousaka", Matou Zouken has been watching the growth of "Tousaka" since the first "Holy Grail War" and can be said to know the history of "Tousaka" very well.

Of course, knowing this is actually of no use to Zōken. Compared to his age, the "Tousaka" whose family heads are constantly changing are just children who have not grown up.

What is worth seeing is probably his role as the opponent of "Matou" during the Holy Grail War.

However, as time passed, the blood of the Matou family gradually declined, and it became difficult for descendants with the talent of a magus to be born. The problem of "not being able to obtain the Holy Grail" began to surface in front of Zouken.

In order to achieve his long-cherished wish of immortality, before that moment actually arrived, Zouken, a figure who runs through the history of the Matou family, began to select suitable mothers for his offspring, hoping to give birth to offspring with excellent qualifications to help him win the Holy Grail War.

However, fate is cruel, and the talents of Matou's descendants are getting worse and worse with each generation.

Even if one finds a suitable mother body and gives the offspring certain qualifications, it is still difficult for them to grow into a first-class magician.

No matter whether it is learning, training, or transformation, the upper limit is always stuck there and cannot be improved all day long.

Under such circumstances, let alone winning the Holy Grail War and obtaining the universal cauldron that can fulfill all wishes.

Zang Yan's wish is to be immortal, a wish that is basically impossible to achieve through ordinary means.

Even if one uses special magic to continuously extend one's life and can keep the body active by replacing it, the soul still has the concept of "freshness".

Zōng Yán's secret of longevity is to change one's own race, thereby mimicking a human. In simple terms, it is to transfer one's consciousness to a familiar, and let the familiar form the body.

Zōken's familiar is a bug. His body is a collection of bugs, and the bugs in his body perform human functions.

Zouken's original body died a long time ago. When his current body decays or wears out, he can eat the body of another person as a replacement to "revive". As long as his soul as the original body is not destroyed, he can continue to survive like this.

However, such magic also has its limits.

Although in theory he has escaped the restriction of genes and can be made into any image he likes with just one person's flesh, like clay, in reality he is still bound by the records of his soul, so Zōken cannot make any gesture other than his own soul.

This method of immortality had already shown substantial flaws two hundred years ago. The long period of time had eroded his soul, so even if he obtained a fresh body, it would begin to decay the moment it was obtained. Therefore, he had to replace his body regularly to prevent himself from dying due to excessive aging.

However, what bothers Zang Yan is that before it only needed to be replaced once and could be used for more than 50 years, but now it needs to be replaced every few months.

The pain and fear of the decay of his body gradually drove Zang Yan crazy, and in the end, the only thing left was the obsession of "not wanting to die", which was the true origin of Zang Yan's wish.

——Desperately covering up and resisting is the entire life of the man named Matou Zouken.

Finally, in order to fulfill his long-cherished wish, Zōken turned his attention to the Holy Grail, the omnipotent cauldron that can fulfill all wishes.

If it is the Holy Grail, it will surely fulfill his long-cherished wish, and he will be able to achieve true immortality.

To this end, Zang Yan arranged a series of plans, and Zenjo Aoi, a descendant of the Zenjo family, was one of the targets.

More than ten years ago, Zang Yan noticed the gentle girl who had outstanding qualifications and was very suitable to be a mother.

However, suitability is one thing, and as the first head of the family, he certainly could not go straight up to snatch people away. So what followed was the first encounter between Matou Kariya, the descendant with decent qualifications, and Zenjo Aoi.

Matou Kariya's talents are better than his brother Matou Tsuruno, and Zōken thinks that he and Zenjo Aoi will definitely produce good offspring to help him win the next Holy Grail War, so he arranged this relationship.

In fact, the two did not disappoint Zōken's expectations. As childhood sweethearts, Kariya and Aoi grew up together, went to the same school, and studied together.

Under Zang Yan's arrangement, this relationship is much closer than that of ordinary friends.

However, eleven years ago, Kariya realized the true nature of Zouken as a father.

Because he could not identify with the ugly insect technique and did not want to become Zouken's puppet, Kariya resolutely broke free from the shackles of his family and left the home that was like purgatory to him.

Coupled with the appearance of his rival Tokishin and his proposal to Aoi, Kariya decided to make Aoi happy and not want her to fall into the devil's den, so he gave up his feelings, left his family, and gained his own freedom.

Zōken was not surprised by Kariya's departure. Rather, it was because no one was not afraid of him as the true master of Matou.

After learning his true appearance, it is normal to feel fear. After all, everyone is afraid that he will take over their bodies and eliminate their will by some evil means.

Kariya is still grateful for being able to leave that home, but to Zōken, Kariya’s talents are not so good that he needs to take over a body.

However, as his wish to give birth to outstanding offspring was shattered, Zōken had to find another way out and find other ways to continue the magic of the Matou family and win the future Holy Grail War.

To be honest, Zouken's life was very long, so long that even Tsuruno's son Shinji could not compare to him. Sixty years was enough time for him to arrange a series of plans.

Even Zang Yan himself thought that if he wanted to truly seize the Holy Grail, he would probably have to plan for dozens or even hundreds of years.

However, just five years ago, the second child of the Toosaka family, Toosaka Sakura, was born.

This news aroused great interest in Matou Zouken.

Zenjo Aoi and Tōsaka Tokiomi, both of them have plenty of demonic blood flowing in their bodies. Although Tōsaka Tokiomi, as the father, has poorer qualifications, because of the complementarity of Zenjo Aoi, the offspring born by the two will definitely be much better than their own useless descendants.

Because the newborn baby might be at risk of dying halfway, Zōken chose to wait and see, and finally asked Tohsaka, his apparent ally, to adopt the baby when the time was right.

It doesn't matter even if Matou's bloodline is cut off, but Matou's magic must be passed on and his long-cherished wish must be fulfilled.

As long as he can seize the Holy Grail, he, Matou Zouken, will use any means necessary.

Thinking of this, Zang Yan, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, narrowed his eyes and gave a sinister smile.

"Haha, I'll give the Holy Grail to you this time."

"After sixty years, the Holy Grail will definitely be in my pocket..."

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The next morning, sunlight poured through the window into the spacious and bright living room of the Tohsaka family.

Following her father's instructions, Ying got up early, carefully selected a set of appropriate clothes to put on, and then quietly went to the living room of her home to wait.

At this moment, she was feeling a bit complicated, and could be said to be both nervous and expectant.

Sakura lowered her head, sitting on the sofa with her hands tightly clenched together, waiting for the agreed time to come with an uneasy feeling.

At the same time, his father also gets up very early.

It’s not so much that he got up early, but rather that he didn’t sleep at all last night.

Like his wife Aoi, Tokichi, the father, also stayed awake all night.

Aoi was tossing and turning because he was worried that Sakura would be adopted by another family. As for Shichen, he was irritable and restless due to a combination of reasons, and finally chose to spend a long night in the magic workshop in the basement.

His wife Aoi got up early to prepare breakfast. Although she was sad, life had to go on.

After the sisters woke up, Aoi took the two sisters who were not fully awake yet to wash and eat, while Shichen sat in the restaurant, quietly relying on the brewed black tea to refresh himself.

After the family had breakfast, Shichen and Aoi took the two sisters to rest in the living room. They carefully reminded Ying of some matters that needed attention, and then began to talk about the trivialities of life.

To be honest, Shichen was a little hesitant at first because he didn't know what to say to the ignorant Sakura.

But once he had spoken these words, he began to talk nonstop.

There is no doubt that Shichen felt guilty towards his little daughter.

It was because of his wrong judgment that Sakura came to this world and experienced the pain that she should not have experienced.

Of course, Shichen would not say that Sakura's birth was a mistake. He only felt that he, as a father, had not done a good enough job, so he was deeply trapped in the current distress and did not know how to arrange his daughter's future destiny.