Tanuki Rise of the Yokai Clan

Usually, Tamazuki would collect the Master of the Holy Grail and only let them go when he got the Grail, so this was also the case with Berserker's Master, but it seemed he couldn't do that since Kariya Matou, Berserker's Master, had passed away.

On the corner of this dungeon, his body lay on the ground painfully, yet with a peaceful smile.

While Saber felt weird at first, she couldn't help but frown at the tragedy of this pitiful man who was being played by fate all the time.

Kariya's wish was simple, and that was to save Sakura, the daughter of the woman that he loved, yet what he met was only tragedy after tragedy.

Yet, such a wish was impossible to realize, especially when he was surrounded by the malice of this world.

It was as if his existence existed to be tortured and enjoyed by those with crazy heads.

Fortunately, his fate changed.

Kiriya's death was more at ease as he died due to his Prana, blood, and flesh sucked dry by Berserker.

Was such a fate better?

It was hard to say, but compared to the original when he was being played and forced to strangle the neck of the woman he loved, making her have a dead brain due to the lack of oxygen, this death shouldn't be too bad, especially when he saw the terror and scare on the face of Zoukeno who had tortured him much.

Watching the person Kiriya wanted to die the most before he died was already the greatest gift he received.

Take that!

Kirya thought.

Still, before he died, he had a dream where he saved Sakura and brought her to return to Aoi and Rin as they spent their days happily. It might be only a dream, but that dream was enough to put a smile on him, whose body was wrenched by worms.

"What do you want to do with him?" Saber asked.

"Should I cremate his body?"

After all, they were nothing but strangers.

"Maybe you should bury him?"

"Well, I will do so."

It might be a little trouble, but it was okay with him.

"Are we going back now?"

"No, there is something that we have to do first."

"What is it?"

"There is someone that I need to save."

Tamazuki walked out of the dungeon, and Saber also followed.

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"......."

Sakura lay on the bed with a muffled voice as her body was in intense pain.

'Who?! Who is that?! How dare they?!'

Even if his entire body was devoured by Tamazuki before, he didn't die since his body had never been in the physical form of a human normally. Instead, he put his soul into the worms he had created.

As long as those worms existed, he was okay.

He might be weak, especially when his body was devoured, but there were still a few worms that existed outside, especially inside Sakura's body. He had been living so long, and his only enjoyment was to toy with his family.

When Kariya realized everything, it would be late.

Zouken wanted to see that expression on Kariya.

That despair... that terror... that hopelessness.

Zouken couldn't get enough!

However, Sakura, who was in pain, could only stay silent as her body spasmed from the pain until suddenly, the door of her room was opened.

Two figures appeared.

One was a beautiful young woman who was frowning deeply, and the other was a young man with a face like a being from heaven.

Was he an angel?

'Ah... am I going to die?'

Sakura felt that it wasn't bad, especially when she thought about the pain she felt in this house.

Her life had never been good, especially after she was abandoned by her family.

Her father, who threw her out of the house to this hell-like house; her sister and mother, who forgot her; then Zouken, who threw her into the worm holes where her body was bitten, and tortured; then lastly, Kariya.

Kariya might wish to save her, so she could go back to her mother and sister, yet could she truly return to that place?

To the place that had abandoned her?

No way!

Maybe death was better.

As she shed her tears, feeling relieved by salvation, she could feel that her body was warm and felt all the pain in her body disappear. It had been a while for her to feel like this, and she forgot about this feeling.

It was so wonderful.

"...thank you."

Even if her voice was weak, she still said those words.

Yet, Zouken, who was inside Sakura's body, was screaming in pain, wriggling like a worm.

Watching this little girl, Tamazuki thought that maybe death was too cheap for Zouke, so he decided to torture him.

As he tortured Zouken, Tamazuki didn't forget to heal Sakura's body and took out all the worms inside her body. All the worms from Zouken had entered various parts of Sakura's body from spines, and all the holes on her body, torturing her every day, but all of them were taken out by him by using "Degrenate."

"That lowlife!"

Saber grinding her teeth in anger as she thought of the torture that this little girl had experienced. Tamazuki might be able to heal Sakura's body, but her mind?

"...by the way, this is the daughter of that married woman, right?"

"Um."

While he felt weird at the way Saber mentioned Aoi, he nodded. "Her husband told his second daughter to go to this house, and the others couldn't stop it."

Fortunately, Tokiomi died.

Then, under his care, Sakura woke up and blinked her eyes, watching the two of them.

"...am I not death?"

"Of course not." Tamazuki was speechless. "From now on, you will be following me, and I won't abandon you. Are you okay with that?"

"......."

Sakura stared at Tamazuki with her usual blank expression, but something was brewing inside her mind.

This something was known as a "hope" and "expectation."

"Yes."

"Do you want us to bury Kariya?"

"...Uncle Kariya?" Sakura thought for a moment and didn't feel surprised by Kariya's death. Nevertheless, she agreed to help them. "Yes."

The three of them buried Kariya at the cemetery after he manipulated the minds of the people who took care of the cemetery and then bought the land to bury Kariya's body.

Frankly, due to the lack of land in Japan, most people would be cremated, and the family would create a small shrine for the ashes of those who died.

As for the cemetery? It was too expensive, but money wasn't a problem for him, so he did that.

As for Matou's family house? Tamazuki had cleaned them up by burning that house with his fire. While it might bring unnecessary trouble, it didn't matter since he knew the police would think of it as a gas leak or something.

Then, when everything was over.

He returned to the world of shadows with Saber and Sakura.

"From now on, this will be your home."

Sakura, who had been holding Tamazuki's leg, watched her surroundings curiously as she looked at two beautiful older women in front of her while thinking this place would be her new home.

"As for them, you can think of them as your new mother."

"......"

In Sakura's mind, she wondered why she had a lot of mothers.

Nevertheless, everything will be good for Sakura from now on.