"Trace... on!"
Under the light blue magical weaving, a silver-white sword appeared in Shirou's hand.
Then, Shirou stabbed the sword in his hand at the octopus monster that had caught up.
Thorny————!
The viscous liquid splattered out, staining Shirou's clothes with filthy blood.
Unlike Kotone, Rin, who is a magus, couldn't help but widen her eyes when she saw the magic of Shirou's "Projection" and the blue Magic Circuits that appeared in his hand.
"It's... are you a magus too?"
Before Rin could finish speaking, several monsters rushed out of the deep darkness and swept in!
"Trace on!"
Above these octopus monsters, several swords were woven from blue light, and then suddenly fell like sharp arrows under Shirou's control.
"Hey, wouldn't it be nice to stop killing the pets that Grandpa gave me like this?"
Uryuu Ryunosuke was still holding a child who was "confused" outside. He was going to take the child back to "play" together, but he didn't expect the others to be rescued by a kid.
This upset Ryunosuke, especially when the kid didn't seem to be afraid of him at all.
"I'm going to kill you too."
Shirou glanced at the two children held in Ryunosuke's hands and replied.
Sure enough, Uryuu Ryunosuke, who heard this, was enraged. As a murderer, he had a certain sense of pride in not being arrested until now.
But today, he was provoked by a child who was like prey in his eyes.
"It's decided, I'm going to have a good time with you!"
Uryuu Ryunosuke's sadistic eyes were staring at Shirou.
It seemed he had successfully attracted the hatred.
This was exactly what Shirou wanted.
If the other party were not a little neurotic, but instead possessed an extremely calm and killer-like personality, then Shirou would find it tricky. After all, Ryunosuke still had two children in his hands.
Then, in order not to harm Rin and Kotone, Shirou ran into another alleyway.
Halfway through the run, he suddenly turned around, raised his right hand, and raised his middle finger. He gestured at Uryuu Ryunosuke and shouted:
"Come here!"
Uryuu Ryunosuke never thought that such a simple gesture, coupled with an unpretentious line, would be enough to make him angry and provoked.
"What a disobedient child. It seems that I am going to teach you a good lesson today!"
Ryunosuke gritted his teeth as he said this, then ignored the children around him and rushed toward Shirou's back without hesitation.
They rushed out of a laneway, turned several roads, and finally came to an open field in an abandoned factory.
There, Ryunosuke saw the kid stop and immediately smiled contemptuously.
"Haha~ No way! You really know how to run, specifically running toward a dead end!"
At the same time, Shirou also turned around and looked at him with the same smile.
"I have to say, you're running so slowly. I deliberately slowed down, but you're still so winded."
Hearing this, Uryuu Ryunosuke's expression changed, and he looked at Shirou in disbelief.
"What!?"
Although he was only facing a child who was 7 or 8 years old, Uryuu Ryunosuke had a bad feeling unlike ever before.
Ryunosuke, whose intuition was like a bell frantically alarming him, took out the knife he was carrying without hesitation and rushed toward Shirou.
And in the mid-air not far behind Ryunosuke, which was imperceptible, a pale blue magical light surged, weaving a long sword that reflected the silver-white moonlight.
Then, driven by Shirou, the long sword shot toward the heart of Uryuu Ryunosuke!
Whoosh————!
In an instant, it crossed a distance of several meters. Before Ryunosuke had time to react, the long sword pierced him directly!
Uryuu Ryunosuke, who hadn't even been able to get within two meters of Shirou, looked down blankly at the blade of the sword that pierced through his chest. The cold tip of the sword kept dripping blood that belonged to him.
"How could it be..."
Ryunosuke, who hadn't finished speaking, finally fell slowly with a hateful gaze toward Shirou.
Seeing this, Shirou waved his hand, and the long sword that had pierced into Ryunosuke directly turned into light and disappeared.
[You have obtained the soul of Uryuu Ryunosuke. Do you want to extract it?]
Shirou, who had just walked to the gate of the abandoned factory, suddenly heard the sound of the system.
He had killed this person twice in a row, and both times he gained the soul of the other person.
However, there was no need to get duplicate things the second time.
"Get rid of this soul."
[Understood.]
Shirou didn't look at the corpse again, but walked in the direction where Rin and the others were.
Fortunately, the battle just now took place like a flash of lightning. Since Ryunosuke himself was a murderer and a child abductor, Shirou didn't have any psychological burden after the kill.
Not long after leaving the abandoned factory, Shirou saw a small red figure trotting toward him.
The girl's little face was full of worry.
"Fujimaru-san, are you alright?"
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
As Shirou was talking, he suddenly remembered something and quickly grabbed Rin's little hand and walked toward the other side.
"What's wrong...?"
Rin was dragged behind Shirou, blushing in hindsight.
"Speaking of which, what about Kotone?"
Shirou took Rin away from the location of Ryunosuke's body as he changed the topic.
"I... That... I put Kotone on the train and came back. I didn't think I could let you go on an adventure alone, because I'm a magus."
"I see."
Shirou nodded.
"Huh? Aren't you surprised?"
Rin didn't expect that after she revealed her identity as a magus, the other party was not surprised.
"Since I'm also a magus, I can tell that Rin is the same."
Shirou replied.
Not to mention that he already knew; just based on the scene of the magic used by Rin before, anyone who wasn't blind could see it.
As he spoke, Shirou led Rin toward the Civic Park leading to the river.
...
Not long after Uryuu Ryunosuke died, Caster, who was building his own magic workshop on the other side, received this message.
"No... my friend I just met, Ryunosuke... Who killed you!!"
Caster was in the dark—not an empty darkness, but a glue-like, condensed darkness, a rancid erosion, a black beyond the limit—darkness.