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Chapter 236: The Defense of Tōsaka Tokiomi Is Broken

"You really can't understand?"

Toosaka Tokiomi frowned. He had the classic mindset of a magician, so he didn't think that what he did was wrong. Instead, he thought that the ideas of Matou Kariya and Ke Ling were outrageous.

It is difficult for ordinary people to understand. Tōsaka Tokiomi can accept it, but Matou Kariya, who is also a magician and comes from a magic family, cannot understand it. He can only conclude that Matou Kariya is a freak. It can be seen from the fact that he voluntarily gave up inheriting the Matou family that Matou Kariya is not normal.

"Have you ever considered why he made such a different choice?"

Ke Ling was speechless. He opened his mouth and briefly explained the situation of Matou Zouken.

In fact, Tōsaka Tokiomi cannot be considered a "bad guy". He can even be considered a responsible and upright good person.

Although as a magician, he does not have a very good talent for magic circuits, but he works hard enough and has researched many innovative magics. He is able to gain a lot of wealth by operating the magic patents in the Clock Tower. He is known as a genius in the Magic Association. This is all due to his efforts that are not seen by others.

He has a good reputation in the magic world, and when facing ordinary people, Tōsaka Tokiomi has always had the self-awareness of "high position and heavy responsibility", and he faithfully performs the duties of the manager of the spiritual land.

Toosaka Tokiomi's way of managing the sacred land in Fuyuki City is to convert it into commercial land for rent. Then he will rely on magic and mysterious means to make the tenants of the commercial land avoid all kinds of bad luck, disasters and spiritual obstacles, and easily achieve commercial success. When the tenants succeed, he collects rent, and it is a mutually beneficial relationship.

This model can be regarded as opening up a new model for the management of spiritual places. The gem magic used by the Toosaka Tokiomi family is extremely expensive and can be called krypton gold magic, but under the management of Toosaka Tokiomi, the Toosaka family has never worried about money.

As for the embarrassment that Toosaka Rin faced after taking over, it was all Kotomine Kirei's fault. Father Kotomine, who had already died from AOE, was obviously not good at management.

Let's put it this way, Tōsaka Tokiomi's reputation in the magic world, in Fuyuki City, and in the eyes of those who know him is completely positive: a genius magician, a reliable friend, a perfect father, an excellent spiritual land manager, and an upright and balanced modern aristocrat.

Of course, for Matou Kariya, the term "perfect father" definitely does not exist, and it should be replaced by "heartless beast".

However, Matou Kariya's opinion was definitely filled with some "personal grudges". Although he did not say it, Matou Kariya still cared deeply about the affairs of Zenjo Aoi.

On this basis, Matou Kariya naturally looked at Toosaka Tokiomi through a filter. He never thought about explaining the matter to Toosaka Tokiomi. He had a preconceived notion that Toosaka Tokiomi was a beast who pushed Sakura into the fire pit with his own hands.

"How could this be? Matou Zouken is actually the Machiri Zorgen? In pursuit of immortality, he has fallen to this level? This... I really didn't expect it."

As expected, after learning the truth of the matter, Tōsaka Tokiomi felt terrible. His face suddenly became very ugly, and the look he gave Sakura was full of apology and regret.

To put it bluntly, Toosaka Tokiomi could completely accept suffering for the purpose of converting the magic attributes. Although it was a bit of a waste of Sakura's rare attributes, but if she wanted to accept the magic inheritance of the Matou family, it would be better to convert to the magic attributes of the Matou family. This was beyond reproach. He believed that Sakura, who would inherit the Matou family in the future, would not blame him, and would even be grateful for his actions.

However, if he could not inherit the magical heritage of the Matou family and had to serve as a breeding machine to satisfy Matou Zouken's ambitions, Tōsaka Tokiomi would not be able to accept that at all.

What he wanted to give Sakura was a future as the heir of a magic family, which he believed was a far better future than being a mortal. He could have a clear conscience about this, but the current situation had completely changed his approach.

"You don't know the Matou family at all!"

Seeing Toosaka Tokiomi like this, Matou Kariya continued to accuse him relentlessly, but this time Toosaka Tokiomi did not refute him.

"I thought the Matou family could be trusted. At least they are an orthodox magic family. It's not uncommon for them to adopt a successor."

Toosaka Tokiomi shook his head with a painful expression and said that he really didn't expect the Matou family to become like this. In this way, Matou Kariya's behavior did not seem strange, because Matou Kariya had seen through the distortion of the Matou family.

"Xiaoying, I am sorry for you"

The more Tōsaka Tokiomi thought about it, the more annoyed and regretful he became. He felt extremely sorry for having trusted Matou Zouken out of respect for tradition.

They are all magicians, so they naturally cannot snoop into other people's magic inheritance at will. As an upright mage noble, Tōsaka Tokiomi abides by tradition, so he did not conduct any background check and trusted the Matou family, one of the three traditional families in Fuyuki City.

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Looking at her father's face full of remorse, tears flowed down Sakura's face. When she was being tortured and eaten by the marking worms, she had fantasized countless times about a reunion and countless times about her father coming to save her. However, these fantasies were shattered time and time again until they turned into complete despair.

Her father didn't come, and her mother didn't come either. The person who was willing to sacrifice his own life to save her was Uncle Yan Ye. It was Uncle Yan Ye and Uncle Ke Ling who rescued her together and killed the horrible old man who tortured her.

At this moment, Sakura only remembered that it was her father who decided to send her to the Matou family, and her mother supported it. Only her sister cried and shouted that she didn't want her to leave home, but her sister's words could not affect the final decision.

Sakura took a step back and hid behind Matou Kariya. She didn't look at Tōsaka Tokiomi, nor at her biological father who had abandoned her. She had made her own choice, and a year had completely changed her.

This small action has explained everything. Ke Ling believes that at this moment, Toosaka Tokiomi will definitely understand the feelings contained in this sentence: "Are you serious about taking a half step back? Such a small action can cause such great harm!"

As expected, a mask of pain was already on Tōsaka Tokiomi's face. This noble magus who took elegance as his life creed was completely defeated.

He had no choice but to be defeated. First, the Holy Grail War that he had painstakingly planned for many years was lost on the first day. Then he found out that he had pushed his daughter into the fire with his own hands. As if it were raining cats and dogs, misfortune would always find its way to the unfortunate ones. Tōsaka Tokiomi was hit hard.

The perfect life he had built through his own efforts was completely shattered in just two days.

"Tousaka Tokiomi, you have come to this day."

Looking at Toosaka Tokiomi who had completely broken down and was in a state of disarray, Matou Kariya curled his lips. He had no intention of targeting Toosaka Tokiomi anymore. Instead, he took Sakura out of the room and handed Toosaka Tokiomi over to Ke Ling.

To be honest, seeing Tōsaka Tokiomi, who always acted like an "elegant aristocrat" and a "winner in life", become like this, was a relief for Matou Kariya.

But Matou Kariya is not a bad person after all. Since Tohsaka Tokiomi has realized his mistake, he will let Tohsaka Tokiomi go for Sakura's sake. Matou Kariya takes Sakura away. Only Ke Ling and Tohsaka Tokiomi are left in the room. Ke Ling also attacks without hesitation.

"Sa!"

A drop of Demon King's blood injected into Toosaka Tokiomi's body and started the transformation directly. Toosaka Tokiomi did not resist at all. Firstly, he was at the lowest point in his life and felt that everything had lost its meaning. Secondly, he did not think he could defeat Ke Ling and Berserker. There was no need to resist at all. After all, even the invincible Archer had fallen!
"What is this?!"

However, Toosaka Tokiomi obviously did not expect what would happen next. Ke Ling did not kill him, but instead gave him a new fortune.

Toosaka Tokiomi felt that his magic circuits had changed. Not only had the quality improved, but the quantity had also increased. He used to have mediocre qualifications, but now he could be truly considered to have amazing talent. This amazing change left him dumbfounded.

As a traditional magician, the shock this kind of thing brought to Tōsaka Tokiomi was far greater than that brought to a half-baked magician like Matou Kariya.

It was even more shocking to Tōsaka Tokiomi than "eternal life", because the Tōsaka family had come across the matter of "eternal life" before.

The "gem magic" inherited by their clan was learned from an "immortal", Kishua Zelrich Schbain-augu, the "ancestor of gem magic", the "second magician", one of the oldest magicians active since BC, and the "magic marshal" who stood at the top of the magic world.

Toosaka Tokiomi didn't know the reason for the immortality of "Jewel Man", but compared to the shock of immortality, the increase in magic circuits and the qualitative change were things that Toosaka Tokiomi had never heard of.

Talent is something that no matter how powerful a magician is, he cannot change it. Even the "Second Magician" Kishua Zelrich Schbain-augu, who stands at the pinnacle of magic, cannot do it. Otherwise, how can he be called talented?
In fact, the first head of the Toosaka family, Toosaka Nagato, who was lucky enough to meet "Mr. Gem", had very poor talent.

Toosaka Nagato couldn't even be considered a formal disciple of "Jewel Master". At most, he was just a student who was taught a few things casually. However, he also escaped the law that "Jewel Master's disciples will be ruined", which was not a bad thing.

And now, Toosaka Tokiomi felt that he seemed to be as lucky as his ancestor Toosaka Nagato. Just like his ancestor Toosaka Nagato met the "Gemstone Man", he was very lucky to meet Lord Ke Ling.

And what Lord Ke Ling gave him was even more than what "Jewel Old Man" gave to their ancestor Toosaka Nagato. Of course, this was mainly because the most important thing given by "Jewel Old Man", the "Jewel Sword", could not be made by the Toosaka family at all. Their family has indeed not produced any particularly outstanding magician so far.

However, the gift of fate must have a price tag secretly marked on it. Now, it depends on what Lord Ke Ling wants to get from him. "Mr. Baoshi" didn't want anything, he just stayed in the Toosaka family for a while, but Lord Ke Ling didn't seem to be as casual as "Mr. Baoshi".

[Ding! Obtained the special transformation ghost servant "Tousaka Tokiomi". ]

[Ding! Gain the special trait "The Mistake of This Life".

"The Mistake of This World": When this state is turned on, the enemy will blame you for all mistakes. 】

The transformation was completed. As expected, Toosaka Tokiomi was indeed a special ghost servant, but this special trait made Ke Ling a little overwhelmed.

"The scapegoat, huh?"

The corners of Ke Ling's mouth twitched. This special trait was quite abstract, but when he thought about it, this special trait seemed to be a perfect match with Matou Kariya's "rebellious spirit".

["Rebellious Spirit": When fighting with people with different opinions, overall ability increases by 5%]

As long as [The Wrong of This World] is activated, [Rebellious Spirit] can be said to be 100% effective. Wow, Matou Kariya and Tōsaka Tokiomi are indeed a pair of endless enemies. Even the special traits obtained from the transformation can be coordinated.

"Master Ke Ling, what do you need from the Tohsaka family?"

After reading the "contract", Toosaka Tokiomi quickly accepted his new identity, and his mood had greatly improved compared to before. The improvement of his talent and the acquisition of immortality were qualitative changes for him, which meant that he was qualified to reach the pinnacle on his own, just like the immortal "Jewel Man".

As a test-taker and problem-solver, what Tōsaka Tokiomi lacked was talent. Now that he had talent and time, he felt that his future was bright. Even without relying on the power of the Holy Grail, he might be able to achieve the same success as "Jewel Man".

Besides, since he has obtained "eternal life", it means that he will still be qualified to participate in the next Holy Grail War sixty years later, touch the root, obtain magic, and master the essence of the world. A bright future seems to be beckoning to him.

"You don't need to do anything for now, Tokiomi. You should understand that you can only move forward now. If you can't make great achievements and obtain an extraordinary status, then what awaits you is only the Sealing Designation, or even the pursuit from the Holy Church."

Ke Ling looked at Toosaka Tokiomi and didn't find it strange about this guy's change of attitude, because he gave Toosaka Tokiomi hope, the hope of reaching the root.

This is undoubtedly the most attractive thing for a magician, especially for a traditional magician like Tousaka Tokiomi. This move can be said to have completely grasped his lifeblood.

The so-called root can also be called the "Root Vortex" or the "Akasha Record". Similar concepts appear in many works, such as the "Gate of Truth" in "Fullmetal Alchemist".

To put it bluntly, the root contains "ultimate knowledge", "all causes and effects", "cosmic life information database", and "collection of mysterious knowledge", which records all thoughts, words, and actions that occur in the world at every moment, and the fundamental causes and laws of all things in the world.

Very few people can truly reach this state, almost zero, and now, Toosaka Tokiomi at least has a glimmer of hope. This is certainly enough to make Toosaka Tokiomi, who has always aimed at this, change his attitude. He must hold on to this glimmer of hope and will do anything for it.

"I understand, Master Ke Ling."

Of course, Tōsaka Tokiomi understood what Ke Ling said. As an orthodox magician and magic inventor with a certain reputation in the Magic Association, he had a much greater sense of crisis than Matou Kariya.

Once the changes happening to him are discovered by the Magic Association, he will be sealed and captured for research. There is no doubt that those bastards will unite as never before because they all want to crack the secret of the increase in magic circuits.

Unless he can eventually reach the height of "Jewel Man", who is also immortal, "Jewel Man" has a transcendent status in the Magic Association. The people in the Magic Association don't have the courage to seal "Jewel Man". Strength is the hard truth. When you are strong enough, others will naturally have to reason with you.

This time, Toosaka Tokiomi was even more motivated. He had to seize the time and work hard to make himself stronger.

(End of this chapter)