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Chapter 11: Karma

"Sakura, I decided to accept the Matou's adoption request."

One day, it all happened suddenly. Sakura didn't expect that after being called by her father while she was playing with her sister, she would receive this news.

"Both you and Rin possesses outstanding talent as magi."

Talent. That's what she has. Both sisters has the same amount of magic circuits. Rin has the five-element affinity while Sakura has the Imaginary Numbers, a rare affinity to access the imaginary number space.

"This is for your own good."

Sadly, every magus family can only have one heir in the end. For the two sisters to not have a conflict, Tohsaka Tokiomi chose the best decision to adopt Sakura to other magus family.

Though, is it really the "best" decision?

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'W-what's happening?'

"Don't be afraid, little Sakura."

Zouken Matou said so with a cynical tone. His chuckles made it even more ominous.

Boom-!

Just as she was about to be pushed to that pit of hell, the metallic door sealing this hell flew all the way to the other side of this basement. The metallic door implanted itself to the wall very deeply as a result of "too much force" being applied to it.

"Tsk. Tsk. I blame Tohsaka Tokiomi for all this."

A soft yet firm voice resounded in this enclosed basement, surprising Sakura. As Zouken looked towards the source of that voice, he saw a young boy wearing a huge black robe. 

His face can't be seen very clearly due to the darkness, but he was sure that the intruder is very young.

"Who are you?"

"Me? I'm just a passing-by magus who decided to contribute to society."

Zouken readied the worms inside this basement, as well as the thousands of bugs that he kept here. He is very vigilant as he sensed the bounded fields outside was broken by the intruder alone.

Drawing the first attack, he sent out a large wave of blade wing worms towards the intruder.

"Turbulence Wind."

A wind wall consisting of sharp wind suddenly appeared out of nowhere, cutting all the worms that got close to it into pieces. Then, he followed it up with <Ring of Fire>, a flame mage craft.

The intruder sent a batch of turbulence wind at Zouken, cutting him into pieces.

Though, it wasn't effective as he is seen reforming in the worm pit after that attack. The intruder hurriedly went to the staircase and grabbed Sakura in his left hand.

"Only this? You'll die if you keep it up."

"We'll see about that."

Shiro used the same attack again, the Light of Judgement. Magic circles appeared as light rays were summoned out of it. Each light ray pierced through many worms before burning them with its high temperature. Still, it was proven useless.

Zouken sent out a batch of bugs again as a retaliation. Only, their effect is unknown as these ones are not shown on the wiki that Shiro had read before.

"Heaven's Protection."

Another batch of magic circles appeared before forming a rainbow dome, isolating him and Sakura to the outside world. The bugs tried to break through, but to no avail.