Having made up her mind, Rin peeked out from behind the pillar, and to her surprise, Tohno Shinkyu was no longer in the hall.
Did he run away? No, he doesn't even have the intelligence to run now. Completely demonized, he should be filled with thoughts of slaughter and a craving for blood. And having lost his sight, he would inevitably use his senses to search for prey... That's it, with my ability to conceal my presence, as long as I don't intentionally reveal myself, he won't be able to find me. So after failing to find me, he must have gone to another place to kill people.
Rin turned to look at the Tohno Family bodyguards she had embedded in the wall earlier when she entered. They, who should have still had a breath left, were now torn beyond recognition, their arms and limbs scattered on the ground, a hollow opened in their chest, and fragments of their internal organs spilled everywhere.
"Ugh..." Rin clutched a pillar and retched. Regardless of her past or present life, it wasn't that she had never seen such a scene before. Matou Kakuno at the Matou Family had been even more brutally tormented by her, but at that time, Rin's reason had been clouded by anger and a desire for revenge, and due to extreme mental exhaustion, her perception of everything external was very dull; even if she saw it, she had no energy to feel anything.
But this time was different. Seeing someone being torn apart alive in front of her for the first time while fully conscious, Rin, whose mindset was not yet strong enough to view life as mere ants, still couldn't help but feel a wave of nausea.
I need to adapt to such scenes quickly. In the future, when dealing with Dead Apostles and other non-humans, such situations will undoubtedly be common, and I won't have time to feel sick then. Tohno Shinkyu must have gone inside to hunt. The servants in this villa are probably few left, which saves me the trouble of silencing them... No!"
Rin suddenly remembered that Kohaku, Hisui, and Akiba were still in this house! She hadn't seen them during the fight with Tohno Shinkyu; they must have been scared and hidden. But now Tohno Shinkyu had demonized and gone mad, hunting here. Having lost his sight, he would become doubly sensitive to scents and presences!
"Hurry and chase!"
Once again casting her detection magic, Rin's mind reflected a 3D analytical map of the entire Tohno Family mansion.
On the first floor, a life form with an abnormally large life force was moving back and forth among a group of weak life forms; it was likely Tohno Shinkyu preying on the servants who were huddled together in fear.
There were a few life responses on the second floor, likely Tohno Akiha and Tohno Shiki, along with a few personal attendants; there was no need to worry about them for now.
Damn it, hopefully Kohaku and Hisui weren't among that group of servants.
Rin dashed into the corridor, rushing towards Tohno Shinkyu's location.
Because Rin planned a surprise attack to kill him instantly this time, she didn't use Mana Burst to charge directly.
Instead, she utilized the 'wolf's' footwork and breathing coordination, fully concealing her presence, silently and swiftly approaching like a night spirit cat landing without a sound.
Rin pressed against the wall by the entrance of the room where Tohno Shinkyu was slaughtering, cautiously peeking inside.
Inside a large room, shattered corpses and internal organs were scattered everywhere, blood had already flowed out of the room, an indescribable, living hellish scene.
And the Demonization Tohno Shinkyu, with gouged-out eyes and covered in blood, crawling in the room, was the culprit behind this scene.
Rin knew this was absolutely not the time to feel disgusted.
Suppressing her physical discomfort, she scanned the broken bodies in the room, finding no children, which proved that Kohaku and Hisui were not among them.
What a stroke of luck.
At this moment, Tohno Shinkyu had fallen into a state of stillness because he couldn't find any prey, which doubled the difficulty for Rin to approach quietly.
Moreover, the magical energy fluctuations when launching an attack were impossible to conceal, making it difficult to avoid being discovered by Tohno Shinkyu.
This strike had to kill him, otherwise, Rin would find it very difficult to generate combat power normally for a short period.
"Someone must distract him," Rin thought, frowning in annoyance.
As if responding to Rin's expectation, a series of scattered running sounds echoed in the corridor opposite Rin, approaching from a distance.
Tohno Shinkyu in the room also stirred, evidently having detected approaching prey.
"Roar!..."
The beast-like Tohno Shinkyu burst out of the room, his four claws directly gripping the wall as he charged in the direction opposite Rin.
Just then... "Hisui, quickly!"
"Sister, I can't run anymore... Ah!! Monster!"
A pair of twin sisters, only five or six years old, with burgundy short hair and identical appearances, appeared at the corner of the corridor.
Upon seeing the completely inhuman Tohno Shinkyu pouncing towards them, they instantly froze in terror, not daring to move.
Actually, Rin's original plan was to let Tohno Shinkyu pounce on whoever came, and then strike when he was attacking his target and absolutely couldn't react or counter-attack.
But when she saw that the people who appeared were these twin young ladies, she instantly lost her composure!
The Wujing twins, Kohaku and Hisui!
Identical appearances, burgundy short hair, and different eye colors matching their names—Rin recognized them at a glance; they were the goal of her coming to the Tohno Family!
"Xi Ba! What kind of melodramatic crisis plot is this! At the last moment, the heroine suddenly barges in to mess things up, completely ruining the protagonist's foolproof battle plan! Forcing the protagonist to fight the final boss..."
No matter how many complaints Rin had in her mind, her actions didn't slow down in the slightest.
Tohno Shinkyu moved a step ahead of Rin, instantly covering half the distance between Rin and the Wujing twins.
At this point, no matter how fast Rin sprinted, it would be impossible for her to reach them before Tohno Shinkyu.
Perhaps if Tohno Shinkyu came into contact with the Wujing clan's purifying blood, he might revert from his Demonization state, and then Rin could kill him with ease.
But if that happened, why did Rin come to the Tohno Family in the first place? For the Tohno Family's assets?
"To hell with that! As Rin, who has touched the mysterious and stepped into the hidden world, she wouldn't value money that much.
Her purpose in coming was to fulfill her wish from her previous life, to save the Wujing twins so they wouldn't have to face such a tragic future.
Now, to kill Tohno Shinkyu, she would watch them die in front of her? That's putting the cart before the horse!"
Mana Burst: External Release!
Rin instantly ignited all the magical energy in her body!
She released the magical energy outside her body, causing an explosion at her feet!
She instantly caught up and flew above the pouncing Tohno Shinkyu, reaching into her pocket and crushing a magical energy gem, instantly restoring her internal magical energy to a full state.
The Wujing sisters, consumed by fear, were paralyzed with terror by the horrifying and grotesque Tohno Shinkyu.
However, facing the pouncing demon, Kohaku, who stood in front, was the first to regain consciousness.
Almost instinctively, she used all her strength to push her younger sister Hisui back into the corridor around the corner, while she herself lost her balance and fell, closing her eyes in fear and curling into a ball.
"Sister!..."
"Projection: Durandal!!!"
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