【The golden list screen shifts from black to white.】
【In the middle of the screen, Tohsaka Rin slowly opens her eyes in her room.】
【The sound of cooking from the kitchen outside clearly reaches Tohsaka Rin’s ears.】
藤原 Chika: “G-Ghost?!”
Kagura: “Didn't Emiya Shirou die?”
Golden Ship: “Hey hey! Maybe some powerful person saved him! Like, that… magic guy!”
Severus Snape: “Magic cannot reverse death.”
【“Senpai! Senpai!!” Tohsaka Rin rushes out of bed, not even bothering to change out of her pajamas, and runs to the living room.】
【At this moment, Emiya Shirou is seriously cooking. Hearing Tohsaka Rin’s voice, he quickly stops what he’s doing and instinctively hugs Tohsaka Rin who is charging towards him.】
【“Rin…? What’s wrong?”】
【Tohsaka Rin doesn’t speak, she just silently sheds tears, savoring this moment of happiness.】
【Emiya Shirou seems to understand something. He doesn’t speak and gently comforts Tohsaka Rin.】
【At this time, sunlight shines through the window and falls onto the room. Tohsaka Rin happens to be standing in the sunlight, while Emiya Shirou is in the shadow.】
【Click.】
【The door is pulled open, Medusa, wearing her normal clothes, returns with groceries in hand. She is also standing in the shadow.】
【She watches Tohsaka Rin and Emiya Shirou embrace, and silently smiles, offering her blessings.】
Zixia Fairy: “Wuwuwu—Such true love! It’s so touching!”
Shirogane Nozomu: “Now lovers are reunited, congratulations to you both!”
Albedo: “Something’s off. There’s something… lacking in this scene.”
Yotsuya Miko: “Could it really be a ghost? Listening to you guys, it feels really creepy all of a sudden!”
Hatori Hanzo: “The meaning of this composition… I think maybe Tohsaka Rin standing in the sunlight is the only one who survived.”
Agatha: “Could this girl have awakened the same chaos magic as Wanda?! Impossible…”
【Dinner time.】
【Tohsaka Rin, Emiya Shirou, and Medusa sit around the dinner table, like a real family.】
【There are no shadows from the past, no gloomy days, only her senpai, Emiya Shirou, who loves her, and her sister Medusa, who always cares for her, loves her, and is tolerant of her.】
【After dinner, Medusa returns to her room, while Tohsaka Rin embraces Emiya Shirou and falls asleep.】
【“Haah—! Huff…!”】
【Tohsaka Rin suddenly wakes up from her dream. The heartwarming scene melts away like a dream bubble.】
Yukinoshita Yukino: “So it was all a dream?”
Uchiha Madara: “The world of dreams is beautiful. If you wake up, you’ll only see a cruel world.”
Raiden Shogun: “As long as you keep moving forward, you will lose something. If everything had been frozen in time, Tohsaka Rin might not have lost anything.”
In the Fate world, Kotomine Kirei can’t stop smiling. He’s laughing so hard, his face turns red.
In the Marvel world, Thor looks worriedly at Tohsaka Rin. To him, seeing his loved ones again only to have them disappear like a plaything is like being tortured by a thousand cuts. Will this little girl be able to overcome her sadness?
【The entire house is quiet. A set of keys is placed next to the pillow.】
【The air is so fresh, the mood is so pleasant, the body is so relaxed. All of this reminds Tohsaka Rin that maybe none of this is a dream.】
【She walks out of the room. The whole house is lifeless and silent.】
【“Senpai? Senpai?”】
【“Hey…Senpai…”】
【Tohsaka Rin walks through every corner of the Emiya residence, but there is no trace of anyone having been there.】
【“Senpai…Sen-pai? Ah! Could he be playing hide-and-seek with me…”】
【Tohsaka Rin deceives and brainwashes herself over and over again, but her heart already knows that her senpai is dead!】
Viego: “Pain—It hurts so much! To survive by any means until only one remains? How meaningless and fragile it is.”
Tai Kamiya: “She’s the one being saved, yet he’s left alone! What kind of salvation is that?!”
Raven: “Mental breakdown is a common thing, I hope this little girl doesn’t go crazy because of his death…”
Herrscher of the End: “But I still have to say————Emiya Shirou is dead!!!”
Fate world, HF timeline.
Tohsaka Rin looks at her pale and pitiful self on the Golden List, unable to believe her eyes. Tears immediately stream down her face.
She was so full of anticipation for a future with Emiya Shirou… But a future without Emiya Shirou is definitely not a future she wants!
【Tohsaka Rin completely breaks down! She kneels on the ground and cries helplessly, “Senpai… Senpai! Come out, senpai! Come out… senpai!”】
【“I’m all alone… How can this be! Senpai… I can’t live without senpai, Senpai! Senpai! Senpai!”】
【Everything has settled. Emiya Shirou’s soul has been destroyed and his body is nowhere to be found. Medusa, after bringing Rin back, collapses and exits the stage. Emiya Shirou’s guardian, Fujimura Taiga, has been too grief-stricken to visit again.】
【Only Tohsaka Rin remains, filled with sadness, using time to soothe the wounds in her heart.】
Kyubey: “Such a powerful potential… It’s a shame that I didn’t get to collect this massive despair.”
Emilia: “It’s so heartbreaking… Why did the two people she loved end up like this?”
Yukinori Yuzuki: “Compared to her, the pain of a short separation can be washed away.”
Fujiwara no Mokou: “What can soothe the pain? She, the short-lived one, can only carry it for her entire life, to relieve it.”
In the F/Z world, Tohsaka Tokiomi holds his head in pain.
This should not be!
He may be a magus, but he also loves his daughter. To him, having his daughter grow up healthy and successful is the thing he looks forward to most.
And a lonely, aging Rin is definitely not the future he wants! It’s absolutely not the future Rin deserves!
【And her promise with Emiya Shirou still remains in her heart, “When spring comes, let’s go see the flowers together.”】
【Tohsaka Rin declines her sister Tohsaka Rin’s invitation to move back to the Tohsaka mansion, buys the Emiya residence, and plants cherry blossoms herself.】
【Year after year, spring is the season Tohsaka Rin looks forward to the most, hoping for Emiya Shirou’s return.】
【Her days are uneventful, with no visitors. Tohsaka Rin just waits day after day. She believes that sadness will not come. She believes that Emiya Shirou will come back.】
【But there’s still one thing she worries about…】
【“…It’s too slow, Senpai. At this rate, won’t I become a grandma?”】
【“When that day comes, I hope I’m still alive.”】
Shirogane Tsukiyo: “Will spring return? It will, it will definitely!”
Itsuka Kotori: “Won’t you try to do something? Tohsaka Rin’s world is a world of magic! What if there’s a way to bring Emiya Shirou back?”
Kujo Kujyo: “The truth is cruel. Even the five great magics that transcend the rules of the gods can’t bring back a soul that has been destroyed.”
The Gemstone Merchant: “Oh, little girl. The Second Magic might be able to bring back a living Emiya Shirou, but that Emiya won’t be the Emiya Tohsaka Rin is waiting for.”
Sakuya Izayoi: “Life is a matter of lifespan… Humans spend their entire lives waiting for that love, yet they themselves are worn down by the passage of time.”
【The sunlight is warm, time is long, and sometimes it passes so quickly as if to torture people.】
【To welcome the arrival of that day of their promise, Tohsaka Rin continues to plant those flowers of atonement, day after day.】
【“Until my sins are forgiven, I will wait here for spring.”】
【Time flies.】
【Spring returns again.】
【The hillside is already covered in cherry blossoms.】
【And on that hillside, Emiya Shirou waves to Tohsaka Rin.】
Artoria: “I sincerely wish you and Shirou could meet in Avalon… Wait, didn’t Avalon protect Shirou?”
Zhongli: “Though I don’t know what Avalon is, I guess your contract with Emiya was severed, right?”
Barnagie: “You can’t see each other until death… ”
Wanda: “Making someone who has love in their heart wait alone until the end of their life is the greatest punishment.”
In the Naruto world, Pure Land.
Yamanaka Rin is already sobbing uncontrollably. Hatake Kakashi worked hard for her for half a lifetime, and she has waited for him in the Pure Land for decades.
After death, the two were finally reunited. Unexpectedly, Tohsaka Rin spent her entire life alone, and even after death, she is unable to see Emiya Shirou again.
…
More to come at night.