A blizzard carrying shards of ice smashed against the glass cover of the streetlamp, blurring people's vision along with it.

Even so, it still could not hide the two figures standing at the mansion gate.

Tohsaka Rin's raised toes sank into the snow, and tiny flakes clung to the edges of her black thigh-high stockings.

Alvin held her slender waist tightly.

The instant their lips touched, even the wind and snow seemed to freeze in place.

Matou Sakura stared blankly at the century-like kiss unfolding in the blizzard.

It was a scene she had imagined countless times and now it had finally come true, except the heroine was not her.

Tohsaka Rin finally came back to her senses as if waking from a dream and said instinctively, "Sakura..."

Before she could finish speaking, Sakura raised her eyes, which seemed completely devoid of emotion.

The snow beneath her feet melted and began to boil, exposing the asphalt ground below.

She stepped barefoot across the boiling asphalt, melted snowwater soaking her pale, tender feet.

Her silver hair danced wildly in the cold wind.

In almost an instant, Matou Sakura's makeup and even her entire temperament underwent a complete transformation.

Her kimono had been replaced by a crystal-like dress woven from Kama's blazing flames.

Compared to before, her current appearance was especially bold, with large stretches of smooth, jade-white skin exposed to the air.

Although the outfit was not overly seductive, compared to Matou Sakura's usual conservative style, it was a total change.

Tohsaka Rin was already stunned by what she saw.

Even though Alvin had mentioned Sakura's abnormal state earlier, she still had not expected that the person before her, who seemed to have transformed from a human into a goddess, would actually be her own younger sister.

The weak, self-doubting Matou Sakura used to inspire pity and a desire to protect her.

But now, after this "evolution," her beauty and presence were completely unleashed.

"Watch out!"

Before Tohsaka Rin could fully take in the change in her sister, Alvin suddenly sensed danger approaching and swept her up into his arms.

With a startled cry from the girl, he leapt upward with Rin in his arms.

Just as they reached the top of the streetlamp, her stocking snagged on a rusted iron railing.

With a tearing sound, a section of her porcelain-white thigh was revealed beneath her skirt.

The girl hurried to cover her skirt, but Alvin pressed her into his chest and said, "Don't move."

"Alvin, what exactly is happening..."

Tohsaka Rin suddenly felt a chill run through her body as she looked down from the streetlamp and instantly felt her scalp go numb.

At some unknown moment, the ground had already turned into a boiling black swamp.

Matou Sakura stood at the center of a whirlpool, and a dark shadow spread outward from beneath her feet, covering the entire street in moments.

From the black mire, more than ten strange creatures formed from condensed shadows silently emerged into the storm.

Tohsaka Rin stared fixedly at the scene and said instinctively,

"What are those things...?"

"This is probably a mutated product formed from the fusion of the black mud and the tide of chaos."

Alvin's expression was extremely grave as he kept his eyes locked on the shadow beneath Matou Sakura's feet.

He had taken part in the previous Holy Grail War and had personally seen what the "black mud" controlled by Sajyou Manaka looked like.

Back then, he had not felt much threat from that black mud.

But now, he could feel an intense sense of danger from this mass of black mud.

Tohsaka Rin looked at her sister and said in a low voice, "Sakura... don't keep going down the wrong path. There's still time to turn back."

As long as the magical barrier over this city is undone, and the corrupted Greater Grail is purified together… everything can still be saved.

Matou Sakura raised her hand and caught a snowflake that had been dyed black, and said. "Am I really the one who kept making mistakes, Sister?"

"I was thrown into the Matou family like a discarded ball since I was little… I suppose you can't understand that feeling. After all, from the moment you were born, Father had already decided to entrust the future of the Tohsaka family to you."

Tohsaka Rin froze, almost instinctively saying, "That was because Father—"

"Because Father did it for my own good — is that what you want to say?"

Matou Sakura calmly cut in.

"Then Sister was also doing it for my own good when you kissed Senpai in public just now?"

Rin's expression visibly stalled, and even her face turned a little awkward.

Welll...even the most silver-tongued person would find it hard to argue under those circumstances.

Although it was influenced by the Desire Barrier, if she herself hadn't harbored any "desire," the barrier's power wouldn't have worked at all.

Which meant… in her subconscious, she really did have special feelings for Alvin, and the Desire Barrier merely amplified them.

Matou Sakura tilted her head. "Nothing to say?"

She had expected Rin to fall silent because of this.

Unexpectedly, after a brief pause,

Rin quickly shook her head. "No… although I was indeed at fault in this matter, but—*

At this moment, the girl paused and looked toward the girl on the long street. "Do you really think the person you love can be handed over to someone else through 'transfer'?"

"If you truly like him, then come and take him openly, with your own strength, not with outside power!"

Tohsaka Rin stared at her younger sister. "Or do you think feelings can be won through tricks? That once I step aside, he will definitely become yours?"

The atmosphere seemed to freeze all at once.

Alvin was slightly taken aback, then quickly cast a subtle look at the girl beside him.

To be honest, he had never expected that Rin, who always doted on her sister, would say something that sounded so much like issuing a challenge.

Matou Sakura also seemed not to have expected it.

She lifted her head slightly, studying her sister with surprise, as if seeing her for the first time.

For a brief moment, a hint of softness appeared in Sakura's beautiful eyes.

"You're right, Sister."

Very quickly, a breathtakingly enchanting smile curved on her lips. "If you like someone, you should take the initiative and seize him…"

Bzzz—

Alvin suddenly heard the sharp sound of insect wings beating near his ear.

Then the buzzing spread across the long street like a tide.

Desire insects burrowed up from deep beneath the snow, the pink glow from their abdomens dyeing the snowy ground an ambiguous peach color.

Whoosh!

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