It can be said that Matou Kariya's visit was completely beyond Tosaka Tokiomi's expectations.
Although he knew that he and Aoi were childhood sweethearts, and had a good relationship with Ryunosuke, and even liked Rin and Sakura very much, Tokiomi didn't think that he would become friends with him.
Rather, after he refused to inherit magic and gave up his family business, the two parties were completely in two worlds - the world of mortals and ordinary people, and there was almost no possibility of intersection between the two.
If he was really attracted by magic miracles like the Universal Wishing Machine to join the war, he would definitely eliminate him without hesitation, so before the Holy Grail War started, he could rely on the magic blood in his body to keenly sense the danger and leave early.
Fuyuki, in Tokiomi's opinion, is already his regular performer.
So when he heard that he and Ryunosuke came to visit together, Tokiomi could hardly conceal his surprise.
"If you don't want to see him, I will see him off for you." Kotomine Kirei, who was discussing last night's information with Tokiomi, stood up.
There seemed to be some change in this second disciple, but it seemed that there was no change. Although there was no problem in getting along with him in a normal manner, Tokiomi subconsciously treated him a little more politely:
"No, Qili, Kariya is very aware of the gap between us. If he came here specially, or with Ryunosuke, something important that we don't know about must have happened." Tokiomi put down.
The pen that added a mark on the map stood up and said: "Let's go greet him."
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"I'm sorry, teacher, I couldn't make it back last night due to an unexpected accident."
As soon as Tokiomi and Qili walked into the living room, Ryunosuke Ubu stood up and apologized profusely, and Matou Kariya also stood up.
"No, that doesn't matter." Tokiomi Tosaka looked at the two people in front of him with a very surprised expression. According to common sense, they are familiar people, but according to the standards of a magician, they are now completely unfamiliar.
A complete stranger.
Ryunosuke is still normal. Although his magic power has increased significantly, and the characteristics of magic have changed from "flow" and "transfer" to "absorption" and "shaping", traces of those who clearly learned from him can still be seen in the fluctuations of magic power.
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But Matou Kariya...
Tokiomi took a few steps towards Kariya with an inquisitive look, then circled around him in confusion before stopping - this rather inelegant behavior was enough to reflect the shock in his heart.
"You inherited the Matou family? No, that's not right..." Tokiomi tried to ask, but immediately denied the speculation himself.
The Matou family's magic attribute is water, and its characteristics are absorption and transformation. This gentle characteristic allows it to tolerate magic of any other attribute, and it will be a very good assistant in battles between magicians.
It was precisely because of this that Tokiomi considered passing Sakura, whose magic attributes were difficult to be compatible with others, to Matou Zouken.
But now, the magical properties possessed by Matou Kariya simply surprised him.
The magic power in him gives people the contradictory feeling of being absent and actually existing at the same time, but it will be exchanged with each other at a certain moment. No, it is not exchanged, but transformed into another completely opposite quality.
This is a very rare dual attribute of "virtual" and "real", and the magical attribute is an extremely practical "transformation". This attribute... Even Tokiomi's calmness and self-control cannot prevent his thoughts from scattering in that direction -
—This is completely a magic attribute tailor-made for Sakura!
Could it be that Matou Zouken had completed it before withdrawing from the Holy Grail War?
"We are all magicians, so I won't say any unnecessary nonsense." Seeing Tokiomi realize and understand his newly acquired power, Matou Kariya said: "If you lose this Holy Grail War, you will risk it again.
If you have any ideas about who to adopt Sakura to, how about you give me priority?"
"I will not fail." Tokiomi responded briefly, but deliberately refused to answer the second half of Kariya's sentence.
He knew very well that if by chance, he really failed in this Holy Grail War, then in order to prepare for the next war, he would not be able to take apart the family's magic seal and pass it on to his two daughters, and the one who was most adapted to gem magic would
It was the eldest daughter Tohsaka Rin, and as for Sakura - Tokiomi looked at Matou Kariya's determined expression in front of him and decided to ignore this problem for the time being.
"Um...teacher, if strictly speaking, I am the one who inherited the Matou family." Seeing that the atmosphere between the teacher and his friend had become tense, Ryunosuke Uyuu tried to intervene and smooth things over.
In order to enhance his persuasion, Ryunosuke opened his right hand to gather magic power. A light blue power creature made entirely of water and very similar in appearance to a golden dragon fish appeared in his palm. As he tightened his hand, the magic creature gradually lost its form.
It turned into a ball of water-attribute magic energy wrapped around his fist.
"So what happened last night?" Tokiomi carefully observed the ball of water and then asked his disciple.
"Well, that's it..." Ryunosuke looked around, walked to a relatively large table, and slammed down the water balloon on his hand, but it did not scatter. Instead, he began to build a miniature tower with water flow.
's mansion.
Matou Residence? Tokiomi nodded and began to watch the reappearance of his disciple's casting.
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Scene reenactment is an unlucky spell that has fallen from [Magic] to Magic, and then been removed from Magic. The reason is that with the popularity of scientific products such as photography and videography, the "mystery" contained in it has disappeared.
In addition, the accuracy with which it reproduces things will fluctuate depending on whether the caster pays attention to it. If those who study science can figure out 3D projection without a screen, this spell will probably disappear completely. As a photographer, Matou
Kariya thought indifferently.
Reproduced in the diorama of the house on the table, you can see the lifelike Ryunosuke Ubu and Kariya Matou, who walked through the miniature building in search of inheritance, and finally approached the underground warehouse.
Huchi - a huge insect suddenly appeared and directly opened its mouth to eat the miniature Matou Kariya.
"Hey!" Kariya slapped Ryunosuke on the back angrily, causing the water flow to reappear in the scene to ripple.
What is this guy doing? Is he playing tricks? I didn’t see Tokiomi Tokiomi and Kotomine Kirei laughing!
"Sorry, sorry... I was so shocked at the time. My first impression was that you were eaten." Ryunosuke scratched his head, stretched out his hand to disrupt the three-dimensional image and cast the spell again.
In the scene that reappeared, Matou Kariya was knocked to the side by a round creature before he was bitten by the giant insect. It even raised its hind hooves and kicked the giant insect's head.
Judging from the appearance and proportions, it is a half-human-tall pig?
"They seemed to be restraining the giant insect from leaving. They did not fight with each other, but the conflict intensified after the two of us entered." Ryunosuke waved his hand, and another giant tiger and a tiger appeared in the three-dimensional model of the underground warehouse.
Image of a raptor.
What happened next was that the three summoned beasts fought fiercely with the giant insect that wanted to attack Ryunosuke and Kariya. The two tried to help but with little effect. In the end, Kariya did not know what he had done, and the summoned beasts were all covered with blood.
The light came out, the combat effectiveness increased a lot, and the giant insect was finally killed.
In the end, the images of the three soul beasts and the giant insect merged into the bodies of Kariya and Ryunosuke respectively.
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"...So you strengthened those three summoned beasts to pass the test?"
Even from Tokiomi's perspective, Matou Zouken's test for future generations was really too much. He had to either rely on his own strength to kill the giant insect, or use his talent to control beasts to strengthen the three "guards".
No matter which one, it will be a problem for those descendants with little magical talent.
"Yes, after conquering the three summoned beasts, we spent some time cooperating, and after several attempts, we finally killed it and obtained the Matou family's magic seal." Ryunosuke showed the strange pattern on his wrist.
"But after conquering them, my magic properties became virtual and real, completely rejecting those markings, so I had to transfer it to Ryunosuke first." Kariya said while rubbing the animal ring on his wrist, the golden pig.
The virtual images of the jasper tiger and the flower-feathered parrot appeared behind him.
"Don't worry, as long as your offspring has the water attribute, I will send it to you not far away." Ryunosuke vigorously patted Kariya's shoulder.
"Ryuunosuke, I remember that I taught you how to preserve and transfer magic seals?" Tokiomi felt a sense of crisis that his disciple had been snatched away, so he asked.
Generally speaking, people who are not immediate family members will never be able to accept engraving transplantation. Even someone with a tolerant attribute like Matou must adjust himself to an appropriate level, and Ryunosuke...
"But it will dissipate soon." Ryunosuke called out the silver golden arowana again. If it stood upright and attached some armor and jointed limbs, it would indeed look like the giant insect.
"Uncle Kariya——" "Uncle Kariya, you——Tsk, why is Ryuunosuke here?"
Two little girls with twin tails and short ponytails ran into the living room. Sakura looked at the soul beasts curiously, while Xiao Rin once again expressed her dissatisfaction with Ryunosuke.
Seeing that his daughters finally woke up from being underwater early yesterday after running around all day, Tokiomi temporarily put aside his questions about Ryunosuke and Kariya.
"It's almost noon, let's eat first," Tokiomi said.
"Okay, I will send Sakura and Xiao Rin to Aoi in the afternoon." Kariya answered naturally.
"...Okay, thank you." Tokiomi had originally planned this, so he nodded in agreement.
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"When you send them back, please find a way to convince the teacher's wife that you don't have to worry. I will do my best to protect the teacher's safety."
"You protect yourself for me. How can a magician as powerful as Tokiomi get your turn to protect me?"
"Because Master Mu doesn't have a specific concept of magic, why don't you perform it live?"
"Forget it, the Chancheng family is..."
This operation was a complete failure, and he didn't know how he would be taught a lesson when he got back. Tohsaka Rin lay languidly on the car window and looked out, hearing the long-winded instructions from Kariya and Ryunosuke to each other.
Speaking of Kariya's new magic trick, it's quite interesting. Sakura is still hugging that... fat pig that won't let go. It's squeezed to death. She turned her head and glanced at her sister who was happily hugging the golden pig. Even with Rin's
I can't say it's dirty even if I'm picky, after all, it's a summoned beast that can transform into a spirit.
In addition, the red-headed uncle and white-headed sister I met turned out to be heroic spirits. I couldn't tell it at all, but that Winter - no, Caster's gem magic was really good.
Rin took out the useless photo ruby, tilted his head and looked at it, then used his magic power to try to turn it into a horse.
After the small explosion sound, the image crystal turned into a... fat and short horse.
It was all the fault of having a reference nearby! Rin threw it away in anger.
Boom! "Oops."
The gem hit a passing orange-haired little boy on the head.
"I'm sorry, please give it back to me." Remembering that his father had taught him not to let ordinary people see gems, Tohsaka Rin apologized without sincerity and stretched out his hand.
"No, it's nothing. You look like a pig."
The little boy picked up the gem good-naturedly and handed it back.
"It's a horse, a horse!"
Rin gritted his teeth.
"Uh... Okay..." The little boy's hand had a weak and almost imperceptible magic wave, making the pudgy gem horse gradually become taller and stronger: "Give it back to you."
Rin was completely stunned. At this time, Kiriya started the car. After grabbing the gem horse, she hurriedly asked the boy: "My name is Tohsaka Rin! What's your name?"
"Name?" The boy tilted his head slightly: "Shirou."
