"Miss Rin? We should go to school too, right? ”

After Illya and the others disappeared around the corner of the street with Ji Feng, the spirit Berserker Kiyohime reminded Rin Tosaka in a respectful tone.

The girl who noticed her gaffe secretly blushed, but on the surface, she still maintained her usual calm expression of "unconsciously revealing a sense of pride", and also politely whispered to Berserker, who was the temporary partner of "Yoli":

"Well, excuse me, Miss Berserker.

However, there should be nothing to do at school, and if the other party's Servant doesn't take the lead, Miss Berserker should bear with me for the time being. I can solve the conflict between the masters myself, and there should be no magician in the school who is stronger than me, not even one who is close to me. ”

"I see, Miss Rin.

Rest assured, I won't trouble you. ”

The strange Berserker summoned by Illia Sfil is not only not brutal at all, but gentle and sloppy, and is completely the most traditional image of Yamato Nadeshiko in Japan, and even the Berserker's inevitable class skill "madness" does not seem to have any effect on her temperament and reason, which really makes Rin Tosaka feel extremely strange.

According to Ji Feng's guess, this Servant, who was dressed in an elegant kimono and had a pair of white horns on his ears, may be a youkai named "Kiyohime".

In the story of "The Tale of the Past and the Present", Kiyohime falls in love with Ahn Jin, a beautiful male monk who comes to her door to stay on the way to practice, and tries all kinds of ways to keep Ahn Jin that night. In desperation, An Zhen promised to visit the temple in Kumano first, and then she would definitely come back to marry her.

Kiyo-hee believes Ahn Jin's promise and lets her go. But she waited for a long time full of joy, and of course An Zhen did not come back to her, which made her finally realize that she had been deceived at all.

The deceived Cheong-hee is so desperate, lamented, and angry that Ahn Jin has broken her promise that she doesn't even wear shoes. frantically chasing her beloved day and night, tasting all the hardships along the way, and when she was about to catch up with An Zhen, she was no longer like a human being, and a ghost was not like a ghost. Therefore, An Zhen was so frightened that she ran away, and Qing Ji chased after her all the way.

Chasing to the side of a big river, An Zhen took the first step to cross by boat, but Kiyohime, who crossed the river without a boat, jumped directly into the river and turned into a big snake to continue chasing.

After running to the temple, the big snake that Qing Ji turned into also chased after him, and the monks in the temple couldn't deal with the big snake. Can only treasure Ann into a large bell. Although Kiyohime wrapped the bell with a snake body, she was never able to see An Zhen as she wished because the bell was extremely strong, and finally in despair, she gave birth to a red lotus fire that burned everything, and burned herself, the bell, and An Zhen who couldn't get out of the bell to ashes.

"If you can't live with your beloved, then die together." Although Romeo and Juliet is also such a story, Rin Tosaka feels that it is fundamentally different from Kiyohime's story.

Not...... It may be a little sorry for Qingji who is protecting her, but Rin Tosaka still feels that An Zhen is not wrong at all except for telling a lie that anyone will tell, but after falling in love at first sight, she has to leave the other party behind, and she has to chase after she finds out that she has been deceived. After becoming a big snake, Kiyohime still had to pester the other party and die......

It's scary! This kind of unrequited love for no reason is so terrible that even magicians can't help but tremble! There's no craziest tail crime in the world!

If you think about it, isn't this just a crazy girl! Even if the story itself is a little poignant, it can't hide its essence at all!!

"Huh? Rin-san, you seem to be shaking. Is it because it's cooler in the morning?

It's really strange in Japan now, even though the weather is not hot, but the girls are still wearing short skirts. You must know that in the past, women could not show their calves in front of people, even in hot weather, and even peasant women who had to work in the fields would not show half of their thighs. ”

Seeing Rin Tosaka walking, he suddenly shivered. Kiyohime immediately cared for her in a slender and gentle voice. Then the talkative girl who had to chat even if she was looking for a pen pal to write a letter casually sighed at the clothes of the girls who appeared on the way to school one after another, and Rin, who was looking for a suitable reason for her trembling, hurriedly took her words:

"Haha...... It's a Japanese tradition. It is said to be to exercise the physique and hone the will. In addition, there are traditions such as pouring cold water on one's body in winter and jumping into cold water during coming-of-age ceremonies, but it is not forced that everyone has to jump in. ”

"Where is this Japanese tradition? Didn't I just say that girls in the past were not allowed to show their calves in front of people, so it was even more impossible to wear short skirts when it was cold.

In addition, the purpose of the purification ceremony you mentioned is to show piety or communicate with the gods, and ordinary people do not dare to pour cold water on their bodies when the weather is not hot enough, and once they get sick, it will be terrible. Especially for delicate women like me, even the cold water used in coming-of-age ceremonies and other cleansing ceremonies is actually lukewarm water that does not simmer, and often comes out to change clothes immediately after dipping it.

Is the current Oriental magic declining to this point, Illya and the others are originally Westerners, but Miss Rin in Japan...... Your mansions are completely Western-style. ”

When it comes to Japanese traditions, Kiyohime can't help but sigh, and Rin Tosaka can almost imagine that she is shaking her head and sighing.

Although Rin Tosaka also knows a lot about the history of magic in Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, she can only be forced to wear the hat of "not understanding tradition" at this time, but in the face of Kiyohime's faint accusation similar to "forgetting her ancestors", she still can't help but defend her family:

"That...... I'm sorry, but our Tosaka family was originally a foreign religious believer in Japan, and then it was because of a passing foreign magician that we entered the magic world, so our family had nothing to do with Oriental magic from the beginning......"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't want to accuse your family, the little girl is so rude.

Merely...... Seeing that the world and this Japan have become like this, I am a little ...... I'm not used to it. ”

In the void, Kiyohime quickly apologized to her as soon as she heard Rin Tosaka's justification, and Rin Tosaka could almost see her bowing to herself in fear.

A girl like this, along with Rin Tosaka, who is a girl, can't help but feel pity, and it's really hard for her to accept that this gentle and courteous Yamato Nadeshiko is actually Kiyohime...... Even she had a hard time accepting the other party's Berserker identity. But if she wasn't Kiyohime, what kind of Japanese female Heroic Spirit would she be in line with Berserker's rank? (To be continued.) )