Starting from Ainz Ooal Gown, simultaneously traveling through time

Chapter 225 Let's Go Home

An hour later, Aoi Tohsaka took Sakura from Kariya Matou. The little girl rushed into her mother's arms, and Aoi Tohsaka gently stroked her hair.

Matou Kariya stood to the side, his gaze sweeping back and forth between Tohsaka Tokiomi and Tohsaka Aoi, before finally settling on Tohsaka Tokiomi.

He said in a deep voice, "For Aoi's sake, I'll trust you one more time. But if you still want to sell Sakura to another magician..."

He paused, his voice lowering slightly, "Then you don't deserve to be Sakura's father. Even if it costs me my life, I will take Sakura away."

Tokiomi Tohsaka frowned slightly, about to speak, when Kariya Matou turned to Aoi Tohsaka, his tone much gentler: "Aoi-nee, I'm entrusting Sakura to you. If Tokiomi tries to force you to give up your daughter again, just tell me, and I will definitely not let him get away with it."

Aoi Tohsaka looked somewhat embarrassed and glanced at Tokiomi Tohsaka. Tokiomi Tohsaka was speechless, his lips twitching slightly. If this guy hadn't actually saved him just now, he would have given him a piece of his mind.

After finishing speaking, Matou Kariya turned to leave.

"Uncle Kariya, please wait a moment." Sakura's voice came from behind.

Kariya Matou immediately turned around, a smile spreading across his face, his tone as gentle as if he were coaxing a small animal: "Sakura, is there something you want to tell Uncle?"

Sakura took a smooth pebble out of her skirt pocket and handed it over. The stone gleamed slightly in the sunlight, like a polished star.

"Uncle Yanye, this is a beautiful stone I found. It looks like a star. I'm giving it to you so it can protect you."

Kariya Matou was taken aback. He thought Sakura was going to give him a farewell hug or kiss his cheek.

However, receiving a gift is nice too.

He took the stone, examined it, and suddenly squinted. There was a strange character carved on the stone, its lines simple yet powerful, like some kind of ancient symbol.

"This is... a runestone?" he murmured to himself.

Although he had long since left the world of magic, the basic skills he had accumulated in the past remained, and he recognized that it was a stone engraved with runes. As for what kind of runes they were or what their function was, he had no idea.

Tokiomi Tohsaka, who was standing to the side, didn't care about the gift Sakura gave him, but after hearing the words "runestone," his gaze involuntarily drifted over, and then his eyes fixed on it.

He snatched the stone directly from Matou Kariya's hand and brought it close to his eyes to examine it closely.

"Hey!" Kariya Matou snatched it back. "This is a gift from Sakura, and I don't want to give it to you."

"Those are runes." Tokiomi Tohsaka's tone became urgent. "This runestone is engraved with runes. What use is something like this to someone like you who has absolutely no magical knowledge?"

"Even if I don't use it, I'll be happy to just leave it on the windowsill to look at." Kariya Matou gripped the stone tightly. "Besides, who says I don't know how to use it?"

The two started arguing again over the small stone, and Aoi Tohsaka quickly stepped forward to mediate: "Tokiomi, Kariya, stop arguing."

She looked down at Sakura, her voice gentle, "Sakura, where did you get this rune stone from?"

Tokiomi Tohsaka stopped arguing and looked at Sakura with a puzzled expression. He had never given Sakura anything like this before, and that old monster, Ryokon Matou, would never give it to her. So where did she get it from?

Sakura tilted her head, blinked, and said in an innocent tone as if it were a matter of course, "I found it in the forest over there. My mother asked who gave it to me? I think—it must have been given to me by a forest spirit."

The three of them were speechless. How could such an obviously man-made rune stone be picked up so easily?

But looking at Sakura's innocent and naive appearance, they felt that it might be true. Perhaps, it really was a gift from the fairy?

How is that possible!

None of the three believed this reason, but they all thought Sakura wouldn't lie, so it was probably just a child's fantasy.

Sakura suddenly said, "Dad, this stone isn't important to you, but it's very important to Uncle Kariya. If Uncle Kariya..."

If I run into Grandpa, I can use it to scare him.

The three of them tensed up at the same time. This sentence revealed a lot of information, and Sakura seemed to know something.

Tokiomi Tohsaka crouched down, looking Sakura straight in the eyes: "Sakura, I forgot to ask you before, how did you end up in that forest? How did you leave the Matou family?"

Sakura smiled, her smile clean and calm: "Sakura doesn't know anything. It must have been a very powerful spirit who helped Sakura leave."

Tokiomi Tohsaka immediately realized that Sakura knew something he didn't, but she seemed unwilling to say it.

Aoi Tohsaka crouched down and tried to guide her: "Sakura, can you tell Mom what those elves look like?"

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"An elf is an elf," Sakura said with a smile. "Mom, I don't even know what an elf looks like."

Aoi Tohsaka wanted to ask more, but Tokiomi Tohsaka gently pressed her shoulder. "Never mind, don't force Sakura if she doesn't want to talk."

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He stood up, glanced at Kariya Matou, and said, "Kariya, since Sakura gave you this rune stone, you should accept it."

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Matou Kariya carefully put the stone into his pocket, and repeatedly reminded Tohsaka Aoi to take good care of Sakura and contact him anytime if there were any problems, before reluctantly turning to leave.

Tokiomi Tohsaka and Aoi Tohsaka took Sakura's hand, and the three of them walked towards the Tohsaka residence.

The voice rang in Sakura's mind again.

"Didn't you plan to ask your father those questions? Why didn't you ask them?"

Sakura didn't speak, but silently answered in her heart, "Mr. Seiryu, I did want to ask. But after seeing Dad—I couldn't say it. I'm afraid that if I ask, I won't really be Dad's daughter anymore."

The voice paused for a moment: "Your father treated you like this, and you still think about him?"

"Dad is a big jerk," Sakura thought to herself. "But—I really don't want to lose Dad again. I'm sorry, Mr. Seiryu."

"Whatever you want." The voice paused. "But what do you plan to do next? Continue being a good girl, only to be handed over to someone else by your father?"

"No," Sakura answered crisply, "I won't listen to Daddy anymore. I don't want to be a good girl, I want to be a bad girl."

"Oh?" The voice seemed intrigued. "How do you plan to play the bad girl?"

"I'll do the things Dad tells me to do, and I'll do the things Dad tells me not to do," Sakura thought to herself. "If Dad says he's going to give me away, I'll stay home and refuse to leave. If Dad says he wants me to learn magic, I'll refuse."

Study. That'll infuriate him.

"Good, that's ambitious." The voice carried a hint of amusement. "Just for that statement, if your father dares to force you to learn magic, I'll destroy his magic mark."

Sakura hesitated for a moment, then thought to herself, "Wouldn't this be a bit inappropriate? The Magic Crest seems to be the most important thing in our family, and it's said to be passed down from generation to generation, to my older sister—"

She suddenly stopped and passed it on to her sister—yes, that thing was meant for her sister, not for her.

A pang of bitterness welled up in Sakura's heart, quickly turning into anger. "Hmph, bad father. He gives all the good things to my sister, nothing to me, and then throws me into a place like that. This magic crest—I don't need it."