Broly slept extremely comfortably.
The next day, it was already high noon when he woke up—or rather, it was noon under a sky covered in dark clouds, looking as if a heavy rainstorm was about to fall.
And what woke him was a notification from the Crystal Palace.
[Notice: Matou Sakura’s Happiness Value is decreasing.]
[Notice: Tohsaka Rin’s Happiness Value is decreasing.]
…
[Notice: Matou Sakura’s Happiness Value is increasing.]
[Notice: Tohsaka Rin’s Happiness Value is decreasing.]
…
What did it feel like to wake up and see all your stocks plummeting?
Although there was one notification mixed in saying a value was rising, overall, everything had dropped sharply.
Matou Sakura, whose Happiness Value had long since surpassed three digits, now had only a little over twenty left.
Tohsaka Rin, whose Happiness Value had risen to seventy after finding her friend yesterday, had now fallen into the single digits.
Broly did not know what had happened.
But he knew very clearly what he had lost.
In an instant, Broly’s ki erupted violently.
A tornado whipped up inside the room.
The tatami floor collapsed downward, the roof was directly blown away by the fierce airflow, and miscellaneous objects flew everywhere.
The tremendous commotion drew the people of the Fujimura household over.
However, they did not dare approach the room, whose door and walls were gradually being ripped away.
Their eyes were filled with fear as they looked at the boy standing at the center of the terrifying current of air.
“What happened, Broly?”
Only when the girl who had chosen to take the day off from school, Fujimura Taiga, came over and asked the boy what had happened did the massive tornado of airflow finally calm down.
Objects fell to the ground with a series of clattering sounds.
Broly’s eyes were slightly red, and his voice was filled with grievance and distress.
“Big Sister Fujimura, my happiness is gone.”
“Ah?”
Fujimura Taiga was somewhat confused.
After approaching him and asking a series of questions, she finally understood what had happened.
The little Sakura who had originally been by Broly’s side, as well as the desk-mate girl Broly had met at school—both of them were recognized by the Crystal Palace as capture targets.
They were also reserve members whose Happiness Values had already been raised very high.
But now, their Happiness Values had suddenly plummeted.
Knowing clearly what kind of life the boy had lived before, and understanding what Happiness Points meant to him—that they truly represented the food he could exchange for in order to live a happy, normal life—Fujimura Taiga immediately understood why the boy was now on the verge of breaking down.
“Broly, don’t panic.
When you run into a problem, the most important thing is to stay calm.
Panicking won’t help, and neither will losing your temper.
What matters most right now is thinking about how to solve the problem.”
Fujimura Raiga had just arrived when he heard his granddaughter using the very words he had only taught her the day before yesterday to instruct the boy who had caused such a huge commotion.
His expression became somewhat subtle and complicated.
“Mm.
I understand.”
Broly nodded and worked hard to gradually calm the ki still surging inside his body under the influence of his emotions.
“Then what should I do now?”
“There must be a reason why their Happiness Values dropped.
We should find those two girls and ask what caused it.
“Your desk-mate lives a bit far away, but isn’t little Sakura in Fuyuki City?
We can go directly to her and ask about the specific situation.”
Fujimura Taiga gave him an idea.
But Broly shook his head.
“I heard last night that Sakura and my desk-mate are actually sisters.
She has gone to her mother’s side now.”
“Uh, then we’ll go to your desk-mate’s house.”
“I don’t know where her house is.”
“Ah, this…”
Just as the older girl and the little boy were both at a loss, Fujimura Raiga walked over and coughed once, reminding them,
“Taiga, don’t forget that our family has connections.
I can directly call the principal of that school and ask him to check where Broly’s desk-mate lives.”
Although the old man did not know exactly what had happened, seeing the house destroyed like this made him realize that this matter was probably very important to Broly.
Although he no longer hoped to recruit Broly into the Fujimura Group, it was still very important for his granddaughter to maintain a friendly relationship with this child.
“Grandpa, your timing couldn’t be better!”
“Thank you, Grandpa.”
When someone helped you, you had to thank them.
Broly looked at the old man, then lowered his head and thanked him.
“It’s nothing, nothing.”
Fujimura Raiga waved his hand, then hurried off to call the principal of Miyama Town First Elementary School.
“You two must be hungry.
Go eat first.
The principal didn’t go to school today, so it will take some time for him to rush over there and look up the information.”
While Broly was eating, the people from the Emiya residence came over to ask about the situation.
After learning that the scene had been caused by Broly, they returned home.
The commotion just now had startled them; they had thought some Servant had attacked.
In the end, it had only been a false alarm.
After Broly finished lunch, Tohsaka Rin’s address was also found.
“Miss, Young Master Broly, please sit tight.
I’m starting the car.”
Ever since the day before yesterday, the way Scarface addressed Broly had been upgraded from “kid.”
The car drove along the road.
Broly only felt that it was slow.
He could fly, but even if he had the address, he did not know the way.
So he could only continue patiently letting Scarface drive them there.
Fortunately, Miyama Town was not very far from Fuyuki City.
Half an hour later, they arrived at the entrance of the Zenjou family’s villa at racing speed.
“Is anyone there?”
Fujimura Taiga went over and knocked on the door.
“Who are you?”
Someone heard the movement and came to open the door.
When he saw the trio outside—especially Scarface—he frowned.
“We’re here to see Mrs.
Zenjou Aoi.”
Fujimura Taiga said.
After marrying, Zenjou Aoi had originally taken her husband’s surname.
However, since she had come here to take refuge, she naturally had to conceal her identity somewhat, so she had resumed using her original surname.
The man at the door was a member of the Zenjou family and knew some things about the Holy Grail ritual.
Hearing that someone had come looking for Zenjou Aoi, he became somewhat wary.
“Our child is friends with her two daughters.
They had arranged for him to visit today.”
Fujimura Taiga made up an excuse.
“Eh?”
The man looked toward the distant sky covered in dark clouds.
They had come to visit when heavy rain was clearly about to fall?
“I’m sorry, but they never told me about such a thing.
“And besides, they already left this place this morning.”
“Where did they go?”
“Sorry, I can’t tell you that.
Hm, if you really know them, then you should have their phone number, right?
Why not call and ask them yourselves?”
“It’s because we couldn’t get through to Mrs.
Zenjou Aoi’s phone that we came here to ask.”
If she had been able to get through, Fujimura Taiga would have called long ago.
“Then I can’t help you.”
The man shrugged.
From the girl’s reaction, he could tell that what she had said earlier was just an excuse.
Who knew whether they were bad people?
Just as he was about to close the door, he suddenly found that he could not shut it.
Broly had reached out with his little hand and was holding the door in place.
The man looked at the boy blocking the door with his hand.
Refusing to believe it, he pushed with all his strength, only to discover that his strength could not compare to that of a child.
“What are you planning to do?”
He questioned them.
Broly had no patience.
He raised his hand and aimed an energy blast at the front of the mansion.
After blasting the doorway and eaves into ashes, he moved his hand and aimed it at the man pushing the door.
“Either talk, or die.”
His voice was childish.
But now that the eaves had vanished, the man did not dare treat those words as a joke.
“They returned to Fuyuki City this morning.
A solemn-looking man came to pick them up.
As for what exactly they went back to Fuyuki City to do, I don’t know.
Please, don’t hurt me or the Zenjou family.”
Like beans spilling from a bamboo tube, the man quickly revealed the whereabouts of the Tohsaka family, not daring to hide anything.
A married daughter was like water already poured away.
Zenjou Aoi had, after all, already married into another family.
Out of consideration for kinship, the Zenjou family had accepted them temporarily, but if someone powerful came looking for them, the Zenjou family did not dare stop them.
Because they knew the terror of the world of magi.
After returning to the car, Scarface prepared to start the engine.
When he realized the boy was still standing outside the car, he hurriedly said,
“Young Master Broly, aren’t you getting in so we can hurry back to Fuyuki City?”
“This is too slow.
I’m planning to fly back.”
“Fly back?”
Without waiting for Scarface to react, Broly crawled under the car and easily lifted it up with two people still sitting inside.
Then, gathering his ki, he flew toward Fuyuki City.
Because some parts fell off the car along the way, he had no choice but to slow down a little.
Even so, in less than two minutes, they returned to Fuyuki City and arrived directly above the Tohsaka residence.
After descending from the sky and placing the car on the ground, Broly noticed that the two people getting out of the car did not look very well.
Although riding in the flying car had not been especially bumpy, the intense force pressing them back into their seats had given the two inside quite a fright.
“Broly, next time you’re going to fly while carrying people, remember to tell us in advance.”
Fujimura Taiga’s heart was pounding so violently that she did not even have the energy to exclaim, So you can fly?!
Instead, she immediately began lecturing the boy.
“Uh, sorry.”
Through the Crystal Palace, Broly saw Fujimura Taiga’s current unhappy state and realized that he had made a mistake.
He immediately lowered his head and apologized.
“It’s fine.
This isn’t your fault.
It’s our fault for experiencing flying in a car for the first time.”
Fujimura Taiga let out a breath and comforted him.
After working hard to calm herself, she soon returned to a state where she could generate points again.
“Come on.
Let’s go ring the doorbell.”
Fujimura Taiga once again took the lead and walked toward the entrance of the Tohsaka residence.
At the same time as she rang the doorbell…
At the Emiya residence, Emiya Kiritsugu, who had been keeping watch through modern surveillance equipment, also discovered their presence.
“Wait, why did that child go to the Tohsaka residence?”
Irisviel happened to be beside him.
When she saw the three people on the monitor, she was somewhat surprised.
Emiya Kiritsugu remembered that when he first encountered the boy, the younger daughter of the Tohsaka family had been by his side.
Connecting that with the huge disturbance next door earlier, Emiya Kiritsugu came to a conclusion.
This matter might have something to do with the Tohsaka family’s younger daughter.
“It seems like no one is home.”
After ringing the doorbell for a while, no one from the Tohsaka household came out to open the door.
Bang~
Hearing that, Broly did not hesitate.
He raised his foot and kicked down the large iron gate, directly breaking into the property.
“Ah, this… Excuse us!”
Seeing this, Fujimura Taiga wanted to say something, but in the end, there was nothing she could say.
She could only offer a polite phrase and hurriedly follow him inside.
However, before she could get close to Broly, the defensive magecraft in the front yard of the Tohsaka residence activated.
The gemstones embedded in the statues lit up, and beams of energy shot toward the intruder.
Broly was hit.
He glanced at the energy beams striking his body.
Too weak.
They had not even broken his skin.
But the clothes Fujimura Taiga had bought for him had been burned.
His mood had already been poor, and now he became even angrier.
He raised his hand and fired two energy blasts, one to the left and one to the right.
With two booming explosions, the front yard of the Tohsaka residence was blown apart.
The magecraft defense system arranged there was directly annihilated by the terrifying energy explosions. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
Fujimura Taiga: “…”
Should she feel lucky that they had rung the doorbell the last time they came to this mansion?
Or should she feel lucky that Broly had not directly broken in and blown up the entire courtyard back then?
“If there were people in this mansion, there’s no way they wouldn’t have noticed a disturbance as loud as that.”
After searching through the Tohsaka residence and finding not a single person, Scarface said this.
“But if they returned to Fuyuki City and didn’t come home, where else could they have gone?”
Fujimura Taiga frowned.
“There’s another place.”
“Where?”
“The Matou residence.”
Broly thought of the place he had arrived at when he first crossed into this world.
Although he did not know the route, he still remembered the general direction.
…
Today is a terrible day!
That was what young Sakura thought.
But she did not think it was terrible because of the bad weather.
It was terrible because today, someone had to return to that nightmarish house of worms.
Late last night, her mother had suddenly said many things to her and her sister.
The general content was that their father hoped she could return to the Matou family, continue being the Matou family’s adopted daughter, and inherit the Matou family’s magecraft.
She cried.
She made a fuss.
But it was useless.
Her mother cried and told her that this was their father’s decision, and as a daughter of the Tohsaka family, she had to obey.
After hearing the news, young Sakura felt despair.
She also began to lose faith in her family.
But her mother did love her.
She could feel that.
Because her mother hoped to keep her and let her older sister go in her place as the Matou family’s adopted child.
Her sister loved her too.
Even though Rin was afraid, she pretended to be strong.
Since they could not change their father’s will, she was willing to go to the Matou family in Sakura’s place.
Because of that, Sakura felt warmth from her family.
“Rin, you are a strong child.
Do not be like your younger sister and run away from the Matou family.”
Tohsaka Tokiomi, dressed in a red suit, spoke those words and reached out, wanting to pat his elder daughter’s head.
But Tohsaka Rin avoided him.
The more she had once admired her father, the more she now resented him after learning of his decision last night.
“All right.
I know you cannot understand me right now, but when you grow older, you will.”
Tohsaka Tokiomi sighed.
He could understand why his elder daughter was emotional.
“Then, head of the Matou family, Rin will…”
“Wait.”
Before Tohsaka Tokiomi could finish saying the words be in your care, he was interrupted.
And the one who interrupted him was none other than his younger daughter.
“Sakura, what is it?”
“I’ve thought it through.
I should be the one to return to the Matou family as the adopted child after all.”
Young Sakura still remembered the pain of worms crawling over her body.
When she thought that her sister, who was willing to go to the Matou family in her place, would have to suffer the same thing, she could not help speaking up at the final moment of handing over the adopted child.
“Sakura, are you certain?”
Tohsaka Tokiomi was somewhat pleasantly surprised.
Compared with having his somewhat timid younger daughter inherit the Tohsaka family, he actually preferred his more mature elder daughter to inherit the Tohsaka family.
“Sakura, what nonsense are you saying?”
Zenjou Aoi tugged at her.
“That’s right.
Didn’t we already agree that this time, your big sister would go to the Matou family?”
Tohsaka Rin also said.
“Big Sister is good to me.
I can’t let Big Sister cry.
Compared to Big Sister, I’m actually more used to the feeling of bugs crawling over my body.”
She could no longer feel her father’s love.
She could feel her mother’s love, but she could also feel that her mother loved her father more.
Only her sister loved her.
Young Sakura did not know what impulse was.
But she did not want to see her sister lying in a pile of worms and crying.
If someone had to cry, then she had already cried before.
Crying one more time should not matter too much, right?
A forced smile appeared on the girl’s little face.
She did not know why the “grandfather” beside her was still alive and whole after his head had been blown apart, but that no longer mattered.
Holding back her fear, she walked to his side and said,
“Grandfather, I’m home.
Big Sister doesn’t need to come into our family.”
“Sakura, you have become even stronger.”
Matou Zouken revealed a smile.
But it was a smile filled with deep malice.
“I imagine you should be even more able to accept Grandfather’s modifications now.”
Tohsaka Tokiomi did not hear anything wrong with those words at all.
An incomparably elegant smile appeared on his face, and he praised the younger daughter who had once again become part of his past.
“Sakura, although you are no longer a child of the Tohsaka family again, I am still proud of your courage.”
Young Sakura bit her lip and turned her head away.
This time, no longer ignorant and innocent, she did not want to pay attention to the man who had once been her father.
The sky was gloomy, as if a downpour was about to begin.
Young Sakura’s mood had also fallen to rock bottom.
Surely this time, no one would come again…
“Eh?!”
Suddenly, young Sakura widened her eyes.
What did she see?
She saw a car flying at high speed through the dark, cloud-covered sky toward them.
Rumble~
Amid flashing lightning, Broly descended from the sky while carrying a small car!