Aozaki Touko was undoubtedly a person of astonishing talent.
In just two short years, Touko achieved the rank of Grand in the Clock Tower, the reason being her use of cutting-edge doll technology to create a body identical to her own.
This meant that if she were to die accidentally, her consciousness would transfer to the new body, replacing her original self without any loss.
Outsiders were not clear whether Touko's replication technology merely transmitted memories, creating a copy of herself in the world, or if it could continuously and completely transfer her consciousness and soul to the new body.
Therefore, many Magicians, including Cornelius Alba, scoffed at Touko's achievement, believing that even if a new Touko replaced the original Touko, it would no longer be the same person.
However, the truth of the matter remains known only to Aozaki Touko herself.
Thus, as long as she wasn't obsessed with the Aozaki Family's Magic, she wouldn't end up with the nickname "red of hurt"; she would be a first-rate, highly reputable super genius at the Clock Tower.
Besides her extremely high achievements in doll Magic, Touko also re-established the foundation of Rune Magic in modern times, allowing Rune Magic, which had long since lost its effectiveness with the departure of the Age of Gods, to shine again.
Furthermore, it was said that she even possessed several Rune Stones from the Age of Gods...
In short, after achieving so many astonishing accomplishments, Touko decided to make a run for it.
On an afternoon shortly before her planned escape, she loaded purchased C4 plastic explosives into miniature spider dolls she had created, also utilizing the spatial expansion effect of Imaginary Number Magic to ensure these explosives had sufficient destructive power.
The technology used in the spider dolls themselves did not involve any exclusive techniques that Aozaki Touko had publicly disclosed; it was the kind of thing that could be bought if one had money.
That evening, as Cornelius Alba, who had been busy all day, returned to his bedroom at home, a violent explosion occurred.
Mr. Alba, who was considered to have a "promising future" as the next abbot of the Schopenhauer Abbey, was thus blown to death in his own home.
The Clock Tower's Department of Law immediately dispatched an investigation team, but no clues were found suggesting Cornelius Alba had been assassinated by a fellow Magician.
If anything, in recent years, a Magus named Kiritsugu Emiya in the Middle East frequently used similar methods, combining modern technology with traditional Magic, to assassinate Magicians, earning him the title of "Magus Killer."
This led the Department of Law to suspect whether someone had hired Kiritsugu Emiya to act.
Touko herself was naturally not on the list of possible suspects, as she had no apparent connection with Alba beyond speaking a few times.
Unless the Jewel Old Man, capable of traversing time, personally conducted the investigation, her crime could not be discovered.
The reason she chose this method of assassination was precisely because Aoko's previous letter had incidentally mentioned the deeds of Kiritsugu Emiya, and had warned Touko to be careful of that man...
As for inadvertently making Kiritsugu Emiya take the blame, Touko didn't care at all.
Because she had done a little research before, Kiritsugu Emiya's father, Norikata Emiya, was led by Cornelius Alba when he was designated for sealing.
This move of hers could be considered helping Kiritsugu Emiya get revenge, so what's wrong with him taking the blame for her?
In short, Alba was dead, and Touko's burden was lessened considerably.
On the day Lord Barthomeloi proposed issuing a Sealing Designation against Touko, Touko had greeted her teacher in the morning, and by the afternoon, she had fled the Clock Tower with all her belongings, heading to her planned destination.
Touko believed that her sister understood her well enough and possessed considerable combat strength.
If she wanted to defeat her younger sister head-on, she would need to make sufficient preparations, such as a sufficiently powerful familiar that would enable her to counter her sister's overwhelming Magic Bullets and those strange, self-developed "Magic."
After two years of continuous searching, she had a target.
Touko believed that if the intelligence she had gathered was true, then even if her younger sister had fully mastered the Fifth Magic, she could still put up a fight with this "familiar."
Touko had once found clues about the target in a precious record.
It was a living, pure Phantasmal Beast, a remnant left in the present world when the mystery of the surface world vanished.
In the early eighteenth century, in a werewolf community in Europe, a golden infant was born.
The villagers of the werewolf village regarded this golden infant as the golden animality of the forest god, placed great hopes on it, and named it "Lug," which means "sun."
However, as time passed, the villagers were disappointed to find that this infant would not grow; it would not change after transforming into a human or werewolf form of about ten years old, and it had no gender at all.
So the werewolves finally realized that this thing was not a werewolf at all, but some other existence disguised as a werewolf.
Touko speculated that this Phantasmal Beast might have partially realized the Third Magic, which is the existence of "soul materialization."
If she could take this golden wolf as her familiar, with its degree of return to the Age of Gods, modern Magicians would be completely unable to affect it, and she would absolutely not lose to her younger sister.
In fact, Touko had obtained this record long ago, but because Aoko's prophecy was a warning, she had never devoted enough energy to verify the record and find the specific location of that werewolf village.
She sent a challenge letter to her younger sister: eight months later, Aozaki Touko would return to her loyal Misaki Town to reclaim everything that once belonged to her.
Of course, Touko herself knew that this would not be easy, so she had to get that golden wolf as soon as possible, and then, according to her prepared itinerary, embark on a tour of the European continent, improving her strength while also getting acquainted with the golden wolf Lug and training their cooperation.
Sitting on the train, Touko's lips curled into a slight smile.
She looked at the natural scenery of the foreign land outside the window, and her mood couldn't help but become light and airy.
The thought of her smug, annoying younger sister begging for mercy in front of her in the future made her incredibly excited.
As long as she got the golden wolf and defeated her younger sister, everything would naturally get better, wouldn't it?