Night is beginning to fall

Rin is here.

In order to find a friend Kotone.

Yesterday and today, Qin Yin didn't come to school.

The head teacher said that she was at home on sick leave, but the rumors in the class did not spread like this.

Even if Rin calls her home, the other party's parents don't want to pay attention to Rin.

Nowadays, there are child abduction incidents in Fuyuki City, which cannot be solved by simple search activities. Even if the police are called, it is difficult for the child to come back. The teachers at school, Kotone's relatives and friends must not have realized this, only Rin knew. Because Rin knew that seven magicians, including his father, were fighting a war in the city.

Kotone has always trusted Rin. Whether it's when she is bullied by the boys in her class, or when the librarian pushes her with work, Rin will step in to help her. Being so trusted and respected by her classmates is a source of pride for Rin. "Always be elegant" - Helping her every time is a good opportunity for Rin to practice her family motto.

Right now. Kotone must have been waiting for Rin to save her.

In fact, she can turn to her father, who is a magician, but her father is one of the participants in the "war" and has not called since he went to the Fukayama Town Museum last month, and her mother has strictly ordered him not to disturb him.

It's like the tone of saying "never go out at night".

Rin had always followed her parents' words, but she couldn't sit idly by and let her friends in danger go.

After getting out of the car, the icy aura of Fuyuki City calmed Rin a little.

She opened the magic pointer that her father had given her, and it pointed in the direction where the magic was strongest.

However, seeing the pointer's reaction, Rin was stunned.

"What kind of ...... is this?"

The hands, which usually just shake slightly, are spinning wildly. The phenomenon that she had never seen before cast a shadow over Rin's heart.

But it's not a way to keep the pestle, so let's take a look first.

It's just that...... Being alone is troublesome.

In fact, the city of Fuyuki has already issued a curfew. Recently, there have been a series of murders and abductions, and yesterday there were even a series of terrorist bombings in Xindu and the harbor area. The police appealed to citizens to go out less at night, and smart people heeded the order.

The red police lights came on in front of him, and Rin was afraid to hide in the shadows of a building. Patrol police cars slowly drove to see if there were any citizens walking alone on the street. If they see themselves, the police will not let them go. In that case, I won't be able to save the sound.

Watching the lights fade away, Rin was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

"!!" was about to poke his head out of the shadows of the building, but Rin suddenly shrank back again.

Under the dim street lamp, an orange-haired man walks by, and what makes Rin care is that this man is holding the hands of two small children.

And the two children lost their eyes and followed the man like dolls.

What made Rin even more concerned was that the magic pointer in his hand pointed straight at the purple glowing bracelet on the man's wrist.

"...... that?"

In a moment's astonishment, the man burrowed into the dark alley.

"It must be!" Rin was very sure of his judgment, both a magical prop and two strange children, acting strangely, it must be the abduction murderer of Fuyuki City, if you look for it like this, there will definitely be a clue to the sound of the piano!!

Rin cheered up and picked up the pointer in her hand.

The man had already gone into the alley and was nowhere to go, but the magic pointer kept pointing in one direction, which gave Rin a purpose.

Walked into a dark alley......

Following the pointer's instructions, I don't know how many buildings I passed through, Rin finally stopped at an underground entrance.

It's a staircase that leads to the underground, and it's supposed to be a bar or something underneath, and it's desolate and deserted due to the recent curfew in Fuyuki City.

A strange chill rushed from under his feet, and Rin swallowed his saliva.

He patted his face, plucked up his courage, and walked down the stairs.

When I opened the door, it was a bar or a café or something, but it was a mess, as if someone had been flipping over it.

Rin walked in.

The gloomy room had a strange fishy smell emanating from it.

Rin took two steps.

"Yikes!"

From a child fell at Rin's feet, startling Rin.

Rin looked at the child.

"Koto-tone, Koto-tone!!"

Coincidentally, it's the friend I'm looking for.

Rin lifted Kotone up, but the eyes lost her eyes didn't respond, and Rin shook her anxiously.

"Kotoon!!Kotoon!!"

The sound of the piano remained unresponsive.

The magic pointer points straight to the sound. "Did you get done to something?" may have been used some kind of magic, Rin thought.

- What to do?

Then......

Rin froze.

Raise your head and look behind you.

A man stood there, still holding the hands of two children.

- This is ...... The guy just now.

"What's wrong? Are you lost?" said the man calmly.

"It's not...... Rin ...... panicked didn't know what to say.

"Coincidentally, we're having a party~ But the number of people is a little insufficient, you ...... Can you help too?" the man took the child's hand and let go, and the two children, whose eyes had lost their looks, naturally fell.

Rin retreated in horror, and it was at this moment that her eyes fluttered unconsciously, but she accidentally swept into the room.

It was supposed to be a table and chair used to entertain guests, and several children sat on it. All unconscious.

"Ahh

"Sa~You can come too~" The man reached for Rin, intending to grab her

Rin reflexively waved his hand away.

"Bang!" As his hand touched, there was an electric shock-like sound, which made Rin's hand tingle like an electric shock.

Rin, who quickly retreated, saw the purple glowing bracelet on the man's wrist with some strange tattoo.

- He's ...... Use that bracelet to control those kids!!

Rin thought with certainty that those children in a trance were staring at the bracelet in distraction.

"Hey...... Don't run away......" The man's voice began to become impatient, and he pounced on Rin.

"Ahh

Push away the clutter from the chair in front of the long table and climb along the chair to the table.

The man drew closer.

Rin took the bag on the table and threw it at the man, and the man blocked it with his arm, and then Rin tried to lift the box containing the wine glass, and the heavy box was pushed open by Rin and smashed to the ground, which happened to hit the man's foot.

"It hurts!!!"

"It's now!!" Rin reached out and gripped the bracelet on the man's wrist.

- As long as you enter the magic power that this magic item can't withstand at once, you can destroy it!

This is a lesson learned when I was learning magic in the past, when magic failed because of improper control of magic power, but now, there is no need to control it, you just need to infuse the magic power of your whole body into it.

"Buzz ......" The magic-infused bracelet made an eerie sound.

The bracelet poured out ominous magic, surging upwards along Rin's arm.

The magic of the bracelet was poured into the bracelet instead, and the power of the bracelet was activated, and the aura of magic surrounded Rin, making her eyes slowly lose their brilliance.

“！！！！”

- Almost hit!

Rin, who was almost eroded by magic, was in a state of limbo that lifted his spirits.

"Damn!!" Rin's palm holding the bracelet intensified, and a torrent of azure magic poured out from her body. "What is this!!!!

It's hard to believe that such a powerful magic comes from a little girl about 7 or 8 years old.

The high-quality magic circuit is what makes Rin such a powerful talent.

"Oo!!!!!oo

The magic hands hanging around his neck even spun wildly because of the huge magic power.

"Strange...... What's wrong?" the strange scene made the man very puzzled.

"Buzz ............"

"Smack!" Under the powerful torrent of magic, the bracelet shattered.

"Wow!!" I don't know if the broken bracelet fragment hurt his eyes, and the man covered his face and cried out in pain.

Rin hurriedly jumped off the table and ran to her friend's side.

"Koto-in-sound!-piano-in-tone!!"

Due to the shattering of the bracelet, the magic that caused the children to be in a trance also disappeared, and at Rin's call, the sleepy piano sound rubbed his eyes and woke up.

“…… Rin-chan: Where is this?"

The sound of the piano who woke up looked around, and all the children who had been ** indulged in spirit woke up, some were at a loss, and some were frightened and cried.

"There's no time to cry now!! everyone run away!!" Rin yelled excitedly.

Rin commanded the children to escape from the room.

"Hey...... Don't run, uh......" The man rubbing his eyes stopped halfway through his words, and he saw the shattered fragments of the bracelet beneath his feet. "Oops...... Isn't Bluebeard-sama angry......"

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Police patrolling the streets spotted a large number of children and quickly assembled a team to deal with them.

At this time, Rin quietly left the group and burrowed into the alley on the side.

She's not a missing child, and it's a problem to get pestered by the police here.

However, Rin is still very happy with the joy and sense of accomplishment of successfully rescuing his friend.

"Alright...... Let's go back. ”

Then......

"Smack!"

The magic hands made a strange noise.

The "Hoo Woo Woo ......" hand rotated wildly, making a sound like electricity from time to time, and finally, the frantically rotating hand stopped, motionless and pointed into the depths of the alley.

Rin remembered that his father had said that if the pointer reacted so much, he would never be able to deal with it.

Panicked, Rin just wanted to turn around and run away.

"Smack!" appeared out of nowhere and fell in front of Rin's ...... It's a disgusting mass.

Octopus-like tentacles twisted into a ball, wriggling disgustingly, wet and sticky bodily fluids splattering everywhere.

What terrified Rin was ...... This creature exudes an extremely ominous, terrifying magical aura. Almost suffocating.

"Shhh...... Hiss...... "I don't know if it's the scream of a creature or the sound of tentacles rubbing the ground, but the creature is close to Rin.

Frightened, Rin lost her self-control and stood helplessly, unable to move, trembling with fear.

"Hiss......"

Then......

"Huh...... ...... without warning. Flames rise.

The disgusting creature burned out almost instantly, leaving no trace.

"Little girl~ If you go out alone at night, there will be strange people~" An unfamiliar male voice came from behind her, and Rin hurriedly turned around.

See ...... It's a smile full of sunshine. "It's all right......"

"Uh...... No, it's okay, thank you...... Huh?" Rin, who reflexively thanked her, suddenly paused, and looked at one of the two little girls following behind the man...... "Little, Sakura?!!!!!!"

"Sister!"

Rin shouted cheers and pounced on Sakura.

"Sakura!!It's Sakura!! it's so good, it's so good!"

"Sister......

The two sisters, who had been reunited after a long absence, had wet eyes and hugged tightly.

"It turns out that this is the important thing that Papa said~ It's Sakura's sister~"

Illya, who was grabbing Karn's pants behind him, said.

"Sakura-chan, great! Are you alright??!! that person from the Kiri-chan family didn't abuse you," Rin looked at Sakura's body in a panic, groping around.

"No, it's okay...... It's better to say that I'm not from the Jian Tong family. Sakura was a little touched by her sister's worries.

"Huh, what's going on?"

"I'm ...... now Surname Moro!" Sakura, who was a little shy, hugged Karn behind her. "I'm ...... now It's Brother Karn's family......"

"Huh, what's going on?"

"Originally, the people of the Makiri family wanted to do bad things to me, but it was Brother Karn who saved me and took me in as his family, so my surname is Moro now, not from the Makiri. ”

"Yes...... Is that so? It's a bit of a blur...... Thank you for saving Sakura......! Mr. Kahn. Rin tried to pretend to be a lady.

"Haha~ No, no, no~ Anyway, you can find a place to talk slowly~ It's still early. Merely...... Your mother is here~"

"Huh?" Rin was stunned for a moment.

Sakura on the side had a little more inexplicable look in her eyes.

In the distance, a woman was wandering anxiously down the road, looking for something.

"Mom——!" Rin called out loudly, anyway, his mother had already appeared, and no matter how good it was, he still couldn't hide the fact that he left home and ran to Fuyuki City without permission.

The woman, who heard the child's call, spotted Rin and rushed over.

"Rin!Rin!Are you okay?!How can you come to Fuyuki City? It's too dangerous!" Aoi Tosaka hugged Rin anxiously, just like Rin had just hugged Sakura.

"It's all right~ Mom'......" Rin bowed her head in shame knowing the unwisdom of what she had done, in fact, if it hadn't been for Karn, she might have died.

"Hmm...... Great!" The worried mother sighed reassuringly. Then...... She just noticed the three people behind Rin. So, in an instant, his eyes saw his former daughter. "—Sakura......" Aoi Tosaka stiffened and didn't know what to say.

The sudden reunion after a year made her unable to calm down for a while.

Sakura, on the other hand, looked at Karn with some humility.

"Hehe......" Karn rubbed Sakura's hair. "I'm not one of those disgusting magicians~"

Hearing Karn's words, Sakura nodded deeply and happily, then looked at Aoi Tosaka. "Mom's ......"

"——!!" Aoi Tosaka covered her mouth in gaffe and shed tears of grief.

The daughter who was abandoned in the past is still willing to call her mother, which makes Aoi happy and very guilty and sad at the same time.

Sakura hugged Aoi Tosaka very warmly.

"Sakura!——" Aoi finally couldn't help crying.

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The mother and daughter reunited after a long absence, and Aoi didn't care about the other people next to her, so she couldn't press her heart and excitedly asked about Sakura's various things.

After exchanging for a while, Aoi bowed to Karn in shame and grace. "I'm sorry, but I'm a little out of touch because I'm sorry to be reunited with Sakura, so please forgive me, Mr. Karn. "During the exchange just now, Aoi had already learned about Karn from Sakura.

"Ah~ No, I understand. And this scene is quite touching~ Although it is a little ironic. Karn's words were tingling.

"......" Aoi lowered her head irrefutably.

Even though it was her husband who sent Sakura to the Makiri family, Aoi, who supported her husband's everything, couldn't defend anything, and even Rin on the side bit her lip in shame.

It is an irrefutable fact that he and others abandoned Sakura.

"Mom...... Needless to say, Sakura is happy now. Sakura said in a very gentle voice. "Brother Karn, though he also has strange abilities, is not a magician, and although there are many magicians' sisters in the family, they are the ones who cherish their families the most. Sakura...... I was very happy to be able to live with my brother Karn, and I was not dissatisfied, and I was even a little grateful to my father for sending Sakura to the Makiri family, because so Sakura could meet her brother. So...... Mom and sister don't care, Sakura is ...... now The reason why Brother Kahn speaks so badly is because he is a person who cares about his family very much, so please don't care about your mother. ”

Mature words like an adult come out of the mouth of a 6-year-old girl, making Aoi feel even more guilty.

At this time, there was a wave of magic power in the west of Fuyuki City, the intensity of the magic power fluctuation was not high, but the spread was very wide, and the entire Fuyuki City could feel it.

The magic made Rin's pointer move again.

Here's the signal.

"It's not early, we still have some things to go~" Karn said.

"Ah...... Be...... I'm sorry for delaying you......" Aoi looked at Sakura very reluctantly, but didn't keep it.

This is the sorrow of the magician family.

"Wait a minute!" Rin shouted at this point. "That...... Mr. Karn, please tell me how to contact you! I'll be sure to look for Sakura again!"

"Oh?" Karn looked interested. "Then, when you want to find me, go to the Clock Tower. The people in charge there have been abused by me, and if you give me my name, someone will tell you where I am. But...... If you're qualified to meet them. Try to be a magician, and of course, preferably a little bit of humanity. ”

"Hmm!" Rin nodded heavily.

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There's a lot of water in this chapter.,In short, Rin is explained.。

As for the question of why the night of the wild goose did not appear, it was naturally Karn who did it. Hypnosis and the like...... Don't care.