The sky was clear, the sun was bright, and Fuyuki City greeted another beautiful day as usual. In a lavish and spacious courtyard, a Little Girl with twin-tails was intently admiring the clouds in the sky.
Or rather, she was staring blankly at the sky, utterly bewildered... There's no doubt that this bewildered Little Girl was no ordinary Little Girl, because how could a naive and lively Little Girl be in such a bizarre state of bewilderment? That's right, this was Rin, who had just finished his transmigration.
Rin had successfully arrived in the Nasuverse. Fortunately, he wasn't thrown into prehistoric times to play with True Ancestors, Dead Apostles, and Phantasmal Species, nor did he fly to the Steel Earth at the end of the world, which would have meant the end of his story.
Perhaps his unwavering devotion moved the gods, or perhaps it was his obsession with Tohsaka Rin that even the origin couldn't erase. He descended upon Fuyuki City, descended to the time when Tohsaka Rin existed, descended to the Tohsaka Family, and descended upon… Tohsaka Rin herself... Damn it! He crossed a dimensional distance for this deep love, abandoned everything from his past to come to his goddess's world, and as a result, he became the goddess of his dreams... Rin's current mood was one of utter collapse...
When he woke up yesterday, he saw himself in the reflection of Tohsaka Rin's mother's eyes, and Rin was completely flustered! He disregarded his weak body and sprang up from the bed! "What! I'm Tohsaka Rin!?"
At that time, Tohsaka Aoi, her mother, was terrified, thinking that her daughter's brain had been damaged by the high fever. She quickly pressed Rin back onto the bed, and then rushed Rin to the Fuyuki City hospital, checking internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, neurology, neurosurgery... and even dentistry. They didn't even find a single cavity.
Throughout the entire process, Little Rin, who was Rin, was completely lost in a dazed state of shattered dreams, allowing herself to be manipulated. The obsession that even the origin couldn't erase was completely destroyed at this moment, leaving a thorough blank.
"Miss Tohsaka's health is good, and her previous high fever has also subsided. Her current condition, rather than being a damaged brain nerve, seems more like she's suffered some severe mental blow. I've seen a few cases like this, but they were all young men and women encountering serious emotional problems. Miss Tohsaka's case..."
The diagnosing doctor paused here, and even his gaze towards Tohsaka Aoi became strange.
It was 1985, and the patient's birth date filled in the medical record was 1983. A two-year-old Little Girl encountering serious emotional problems... This precocious phenomenon was truly without limit.
Helplessly, Tohsaka Aoi had no choice but to take Tohsaka Rin home, until now.
On the way home, Tohsaka Aoi had sighed while driving, "What exactly is going on? Although I was prepared, is the Magus's world really so cruel? If Tohsaka Rin..."
Although he was in an unconscious state, Rin still vaguely understood. The reason Tohsaka Rin was like this was because she underwent a Magic aptitude test at the age of one. The result, however, was beyond everyone's expectations. What was supposed to be a nearly zero-risk test resulted in Tohsaka Rin experiencing an overload of her Magic Circuits, with her entire Magic Circuits continuously operating in an overloaded state, unable to stop.
From then on, Tohsaka Rin's body became weak and powerless, and she often suffered from persistent high fevers, confined to bed, unable to speak clearly, and constantly at risk of dying young.
Yes, I remember now, it seems there was indeed such a saying. Rin recalled a theory he saw in the 3d world: Tohsaka Rin had an accident shortly after birth and was at risk of dying young at any time. This is why Tohsaka Sakura, who was one year younger than Tohsaka Rin, was born, to ensure the continuation of the Tohsaka Family's magecraft.
From the current situation, Rin could roughly analyze what was happening. Tohsaka Rin had accidentally triggered an origin awakening during that test!
Regardless of reincarnation, humans, following the directionality of their birth, acquire a body and intellect. They then form a personality or ideas different from their original directionality due to different experiences. An origin awakening causes the existence to be swallowed by its origin. The personality formed within less than a hundred years is overwritten by the original directionality from the time of its initial beginning. At the same time, the body dominated by the origin gains immense power. This is an origin awakening.
And his own soul consciousness was not erased in the origin. An origin awakened person is undoubtedly a gateway opened between the present world and the origin. Thus, his soul consciousness flowed down, submerging Tohsaka Rin's original personality and becoming the awakened personality of Tohsaka Rin!
So, did I... kill Tohsaka Rin? No, don't put random blame on myself. I'm not some benevolent saint who believes all responsibility is my own. Even if I hadn't arrived, Little Rin's personality consciousness would have been submerged by the origin consciousness fed back from the origin. Perhaps the Tohsaka Rin in the actual Fate was originally Tohsaka Rin's awakened origin consciousness, only it awakened too early for anyone to notice.
So, the only change from the original was that I, as the origin personality, gained a memory from another world. Therefore, there wasn't too much of an accident.
Looking at Tohsaka Aoi, who was silently shedding tears beside him, Rin suddenly felt a surge of guilt. He had taken over someone else's daughter's body and was still letting her worry about him. So, he looked up and forced a smile: "Mom, I'm fine, don't worry."
Tohsaka Aoi looked at Rin in the passenger seat. Seeing her obedient daughter still smiling and calling her "Mom," she immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She smiled and gently ruffled Rin's full head of black hair. "Little Rin, be good. Go home and rest well. Be healthy, okay?"
"Mhm."
Damn it, I came to the 2d world (anime/manga world) and got my head patted before I even got to pat a girl's head!
But what should I do now...? Rin, who had been staring blankly ever since breakfast this morning, gazed at the clear blue sky, then sighed deeply after a long while, collecting his thoughts. After Rin's consciousness descended and the origin awakening was complete, this small body quickly recovered its health. After a night's rest, he was already able to sunbathe in the courtyard.
Looking helplessly at the exquisitely made, well-fitting dark red dress on his body, Rin couldn't help but feel a surge of suicidal impulse. Was this supposed to be reliving childhood? But this was a girl's childhood! How do I deal with this? Who can guide me? My teachers never taught me this!
His soft, tender little hand couldn't help but slap his smooth forehead. This Little Girl was very troubled.
"Sakura, look, that's your older sister."
Just then, a familiar yet slightly unfamiliar, loving voice rang out. Rin looked towards the source of the sound. In the shade of a tree under the bright sunlight, the beautiful and gentle Tohsaka Aoi was half-crouching, smiling as she looked at Rin. In her arms, she was holding a Little Girl who had just turned one year old.
"Sakura..." The moment Rin saw the girl, he immediately realized that this was Tohsaka Rin's biological younger sister, Tohsaka Sakura, who was one year younger. Rin couldn't help but call out softly in a daze, stood up, and ran over step by tiny step.
"Sis... ter."
Her newborn, delicate skin was as white as snow, and her bright, lively eyes looked timidly at Rin. Dressed in purple children's clothes, she shrank back into Tohsaka Aoi's arms, a little scared.
Her adorable appearance made Rin, who was lost on the path of life, unable to help but smile. He raised his equally tender small hand and gently poked Tohsaka Sakura's smooth, delicate little cheek. It was as smooth as milky white jelly, and the feel was simply perfect. Little Sakura, who was poked, pouted her small mouth in fear, her eyes welling up with tears as she shrank further into her mother's arms.
So cute!
Her pitiful appearance was truly unbearable! Rin, completely unconcerned, also threw himself into Tohsaka Aoi's arms, hugging Tohsaka Sakura. Their two equally soft and delicate faces rubbed against each other, and the already scared Little Sakura cried out in a 'waah!'
Tohsaka Aoi smiled and embraced both sisters, saying happily, "Tohsaka Rin, it's so wonderful that you like Little Sakura so much. Little Sakura was born after you fell ill. Because your body was weak then, and Little Sakura was still too young, I never let you sisters meet. In the future, you two must get along well. Little Rin, you are the older sister, you must protect and take care of Little Sakura."
Rin, who had been closing his eyes and rubbing faces with Little Sakura, suddenly trembled all over when he heard the final "protect and take care of Little Sakura." His eyes widened, and scenes he had seen in another world flashed before him.
In a dark, damp room, in a huge insect pool, amidst countless slimy, boneless Engraving Worms (Kokuinchu), a purple-haired girl with vacant eyes had only her small head exposed, bobbing up and down among the swarm of insects. Countless Engraving Worms repeatedly entered and exited her tiny body...
A Little Girl with vacant eyes, moving mechanically like a puppet, devoid of any emotion, utterly desolate, walked step by step towards an old man as thin as a stick, his body shriveled and withered like a mummy. Then… Rin's hands tightened, grabbing Little Sakura's shoulders and pulling her away, staring intently at the tender face before her.
The lifeless eyes, the desolate and utterly despairing countenance, perfectly overlapped with this pretty face before her.
Her heart felt as if it were tightly clutched by an iron claw, squeezed as if it would burst. Yes, she was Sakura! She was the girl destined for a tragic life, she was Rin's sister, and now, she was my sister!
Looking at this slightly timid, lively, and shy girl, then recalling the utterly despairing and numb "puppet" she became a year after being adopted into the Matou Family, two lines of clear tears streamed down Rin's face without her even realizing it.
"Sister… it hurts." Little Sakura looked at her sister, whom she was meeting for the first time, with both confusion and a hint of fear, as Rin's involuntary grip had hurt her.
"Ah!? I'm sorry, Little Sakura, I didn't mean to! Did I hurt you? I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry…" Rin snapped back to reality, quickly let go, and apologized repeatedly, raising her hand to wipe away the tears on her face with her sleeve.
Rin couldn't explain why she was crying, nor why she cared so much about Little Sakura's feelings. Perhaps it was Rin's lingering consciousness, perhaps it was sympathy for Sakura's tragic life in her previous existence, or perhaps, it was the instinct between blood sisters... Rin quickly wiped away the tears from her face with her sleeve, forced out a strained smile, and said to Little Sakura with utmost seriousness and determination: "Little Sakura, I will definitely protect you well, protect you from any harm, not let anyone bully you, not allow anyone to cause you pain. I will shield you from all hardships and tribulations. I will definitely make you happy!"
As she spoke, tears once again spilled from her eyes, falling like broken pearls onto Sakura's hand. Sakura raised her small hand, looked at the tear drops on it, and said with a mix of confusion and concern, "Sister, cried…" As she spoke, she reached out to wipe Rin's tears.
"Ah? Ah, ah, no, Sister isn't crying, no!" Rin quickly wiped her face again with her sleeve. Aoi, hearing Little Sakura's voice, also reacted, letting go of her arm and looking down at Rin, whose tear stains were still visible, and asked worriedly, "What's wrong, Little Rin? If something is bothering you, tell Mama."
"No, nothing, I'm just too happy." Rin wiped her tears with her sleeve while smiling, "I'm so happy that I still have a sister, that I can be Little Sakura's sister, and that I can protect her. It's truly wonderful. Sakura, I will definitely protect you well, believe me!"
"Is that so? That's wonderful, Rin." Seeing the harmonious relationship between her two daughters, Aoi smiled from the bottom of her heart. For her, this family was her everything; her husband and children were her world. As long as they were safe and sound, she was perfectly content.
Little Sakura was, after all, too young. She barely understood what her sister was saying and couldn't grasp its meaning. However, a child's heart is also the most sensitive. Even if she didn't understand, she could still tell that her sister cared about her. After looking at Rin's serious gaze for a moment, she mimicked her and nodded seriously.
A joy originating from the bottom of her heart surfaced on her lips. I'm sorry, Rin, I didn't realize my impulsive action would lead to this situation. I didn't get to see you, but instead, I occupied everything you had. However, facts cannot be reversed, and the outcome cannot be denied. We can only face everything with equanimity. Since I possess everything of yours, let me take your place and walk under this sky as Tohsaka Rin. I will protect Sakura, protect Mama, revive Tohsaka's magecraft, and change all the sorrow in this world!
From now on, there is no longer Rin in this world, only Tohsaka Rin!
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