Sumire Tohsaka

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"Do you remember?"

Today, Tohsaka Sakura and Tohsaka Sumire, who are in their teens, are lying on the same bed, and they rarely recall the past.

"what?"

There was a rare hint of confusion in Sumire Tohsaka's voice.

"At that time, Master let you choose which side to enter."

At that time, Li Mingqing said "We must also respect Sumire's wishes", told Tohsaka Sumire everything, and gave her the right to choose.

Blessed, or cursed?

"I also remember that you didn't let me choose."

Tohsaka Sumire looked at the ceiling and said calmly.

"Yes."

Tohsaka Sakura responded and gently closed her eyes.

"Am I a bad boy? Always so willful, making decisions that hurt you."

"Sakura is just..." Tohsaka Sumire paused for a moment, and finally found the right words, "Too good at patience."

Sakura always cares more about other people's feelings than her own pain.

So I always choose the path that will make me suffer again and again, as if as long as I can endure it, everyone can live happily.

It seems that at such a time, Sakura always chooses to sacrifice herself.

"But you're also afraid and in pain, aren't you?"

Like that time.

She had made a decision early on, but she was still too scared to look at her face before she was put into the experimental cabin.

"Sakura is an idiot."

She had said so to the child, then and now.

The process of throwing in is actually falling towards the sixth floor of the abyss.

Tohsaka Sumire still remembers that the moment she fell, she saw the real sea of ​​dead bodies.

Countless skeletons are scattered in the sea, those of humans, alien beasts, and creatures of the deep sea... The dark and vast sea.

The moment she fell to the bottom, she saw a scene like hell.

That was Li Mingqing's Little Garden.

All the monsters that failed the experiment and turned into living skeletons gathered here.They obviously lost their humanity and completely lost their human appearance, but the moment they saw them, they still clung to them.

The hands and feet that were no longer human-like were clinging to the glass wall of the experimental cabin, making an indistinct sound, and pressing the deformed head and face closer, looking at them.

Even though she was fully prepared, Sakura was still too terrified to make a sound.

"Sakura is an idiot."

At that time, Sumire Tohsaka suddenly spoke.

For the first time, the little girl who had been as mechanical and indifferent as a doll showed what could be called "angry".

"Why do such a thing?"

She turned her head, almost staring at Sakura.

"Is it okay even if you become like this? If you become like that, you can never go back!"

"Because I want Xiao Jin to live!"

In such a desperate situation, even if Sakura can endure and hold on, she is still just a young child, and she will eventually collapse.

"It doesn't matter what I become...whatever you want me to do..." Her voice was broken, and she faintly choked up, "I don't want to see you die, I don't want to see you like that again Already!"

It's fine if you don't make a wish.

she thinks.

If there is no wish...

"Do you want me to live like that?"

Sumire Tohsaka asked suddenly.

However, she did not wait for Sakura's answer.

The young girl sighed slightly, closed her eyes gently, her tone sounded like a sigh for some reason.

"Ok."

When she opened her eyes again, Sakura clearly felt that something had changed.

"You promised me that you would never make another wish!" She threw herself on the glass of the experimental cabin, her face pale with shock.

At the same time, there was a creaking sound from above the experimental cabin.

That was the sound of the cables tightening.

Li Mingqing is about to pull up this experimental cabin!

"Let's go home together, Sakura."

The instant the weightless feeling of falling was felt, Sumire Tohsaka suddenly spoke.

At that moment, Sakura clearly felt——

Time, stopped.

Then, young children witness the distortion of the world firsthand.

As easy as tearing a piece of paper, a huge opening was roughly torn out of the space.The invisible... door that shouldn't exist opened just like a joke.

The air began to deteriorate, and the concentration of magic power in the atmosphere also changed. The wind began to flow again, and the barrier between the two, whether it was the bulkhead or the distance, disappeared.

Sumire Tohsaka raised her hand, and her arm passed through the glass bulkhead as easily as through water droplets.

She took Sakura's hand.

--go home.

As if responding to her wish, the invisible door burst open!

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To this day, Tohsaka Sakura still feels incredible when recalling that scene.

That's not magic, and it's not magic.

It was just... miracle in its purest form.

As I walked farther and farther on the path of a magician, I understood more deeply than when I was young, what an unreasonable atrocity it was.

Opening the door connecting the abyss and the present world is no longer just a field of space manipulation, but a more profane... more untouchable... ultra vires behavior.

Such an incredible miracle unfolded before her eyes just because of such a simple, childish wish.

Miracles cannot be without cost.

What are the consequences of spatial connectivity?What happens when you open that door?What kind of future will Ripple, which distorts the world, bring?

The more you understand, the more you can't help feeling creepy.

Should I say lucky or unlucky?

The "relic" that Li Mingqing transplanted into Tohsaka Sumire's heart finally played its role.

That relic is the chain that measures the price.

It is also a tool for replacement costs.

From that day on, Sumire Tohsaka was no longer able to perform such a miracle beyond the specification.

At the moment when she was about to be killed by her own wish, the "relic" fixed on her heart finally played its due role.

It became the "anchor point" and "chain" that fixed Tohsaka Sumire's existence.

Her identity as a human being cannot allow her to achieve such a presumptuous miracle.

The channel that is always connected to the [root] was forcibly locked by this relic and locked the door.

From then on, every time you [open], you must first provide the magic power that can unlock the "chain".

This made the price measurable, and it also gave Sumire Tohsaka, who was unable to predict the size of her wish, a measure that could be used as a standard.

"If I can see Master again...I want to say thank you to him."

Tohsaka Sakura suddenly said this.

"Whatever he's doing it for...but none of that stuff is fake."

Yes.

Whether it's teaching Tohsaka Sakura carefully, or nurturing Tohsaka Sumire who hasn't even developed a personality... Li Mingqing is serious and careful.

She still remembered the way that person hugged their sisters and said that they were flowers of the abyss.

At least, that sentence is not a lie.His appearance at that time was not to deceive.

"Maybe." Tohsaka Sumire said flatly, "However, I still hate him."

Tohsaka Sakura smiled, without denying it, but reached out and gently held her hand.

She thought, but, even how to hate a person, he taught you.

Before that, you never learned how to hate others, so you never learned how to like others.

You just exist there as a matter of course, responding to everyone's wishes as a matter of course.

Whether it's laughing, staring, or speaking...all of them, to the young Sumire Tohsaka, are just the product of other people's wishes.

And even this, no one noticed.

Now that I think about it, it was a very... lonely thing.

"All along, Sumire has been protecting me."

Every time, every time, it was Xiao Jin who protected her.

So this time, at least this time...

Tohsaka Sakura held her younger sister's hand tightly, just like when she was a child - just like when they were still in the abyss and there were only two of them.

"I want to protect you too."

she said softly.

"I will protect you."

Even if you want to be an enemy of the world.

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The author has something to say:

The only designated victim (?) in this chapter is Li Mingqing.

Not only was he defrauded of all the research funds and precious equipment, but he also ran away with all the experimental materials on the eve of the publication of the paper on the night when the experimental results were published!

Li Mingqing!Both people and wealth are lost! ! !

But our scientific lunatic, Professor Bordeaux, won't mind this loss of property!

He can only sparsi!

Great!Sparsi! ! !