Money... At 3 PM, as usual, the staff of the Misaki Town logistics company, dressed in dark blue work uniforms, arrived next to a newly arrived truck. They unlatched the back cargo door and began to load and unload packages and mail as usual, delivering them to customers according to their addresses.
Misaki Express, Mission Accomplished! It has always been a resounding name in the logistics industry!
But today's delivery was a bit different from usual...
Just as the box door opened and they were about to start unloading the neatly stacked express packages, suddenly! A twin-tails popped out from the opposite side of the packages!
She looked around, then her big emerald eyes blinked as she looked at the logistics workers who had opened the box door and were staring blankly at her, and she murmured, "Oh, have we arrived?"
Then, in a cheerful and lively loli voice, she said to the logistics workers, "Hello, uncles! Excuse me, is this Misaki Town?"
The logistics workers, who hadn't yet recovered, subconsciously responded to her question, "Ah, ah, yes..."
"Oh, then I've arrived. Goodbye, uncles!"
With a whoosh, she leaped directly from the three-meter-high pile of packages to the ground, ignoring the scattered parcels, and with a series of "swish-swish-swish" bounces, she was gone in a flash.
"Whose child is this? How did she get into the cargo box?"
"She must have run away from home, otherwise why would she hide here? These kids nowadays..."
"I really don't know how the last station checked the goods, letting a child sneak in."
"What are you still doing standing there! Quickly check the goods! If anything is damaged, the company can compensate!"
"Oh! Right, right, right, this child, really doesn't understand things."
"Actually, that girl was quite cute, it's just, she ran a bit fast..."
That cute, bouncy, and fast-running twin-tails was, of course, our five-year-old Young Miss Rin!
Our Young Miss Rin, ever since she began her journey of running away from home a week ago, considered that she had caused trouble for her father, protected her sister, broken her mother's heart, taken equipment, quit the guild, and left with her gems. If her mother were to be caught and brought back, the dark room would definitely be hers to sleep in!
And so, as our Young Miss Rin stepped out of the Tohsaka Family home, she finally realized how terrible her actions were. So, with a pair of panda eyes from seven days and seven nights of no sleep (a side effect of Projection Magic), she ran all the way to the logistics company's cargo pile.
Here, we can't help but sigh again that Projection Magic is truly a versatile and excellent magic for home travel, running away from home, arson, robbery, and daily life! Our Young Miss Rin went directly to the logistics company, jumped onto a logistics truck scheduled to depart at dawn, and then used a five-year-old magic gem to cast Projection, projecting a large package box to put herself inside!
The logistics slip outside read Misaki Town, directly having the logistics company send her straight to her destination.
But why did it take a whole week to arrive? That's because she jumped onto a truck heading to a seaport to deliver goods to Japan's outer islands. If Young Miss Rin, who had slept for three days and three nights in the package box, hadn't heard the sound of the ocean waves, she would have been sent to Shikoku Island!
Young Miss Rin, pulling back from the brink, decisively replayed the previous scene at the port, then faced the sea to reflect on her mistakes. After that, she got smarter!
So Rin first went to a pawn shop and pawned a crystal sculpture made with magic power, exchanged it for some money, then went to a logistics company and personally issued a package to Misaki Town. Then, with patience, she tracked that package all the way. After seeing the express package bound for Misaki Town loaded onto that specific truck, Young Miss Rin then ran up herself, projected a package, and got inside.
Thus, Young Miss Rin, along with that package, traveled through three different locations, repeating the same routine at each logistics station: confirming the package's whereabouts before jumping back on. After a journey of four days and three nights, Rin finally arrived at another fated place in the Moon World: Misaki City.
This is where Night of the Magician and Tsukihime's story take place. Not far from here, Mihonoseki is where kara no kyoukai takes place.
However, Rin was now about to set about changing the first plot point she would soon face here: Kohaku and Hisui being sent to the Tohno Family!
And with that, Rin also faced the biggest life crisis since her transmigration!
Money... Yes, it was money. Simply put, Young Miss Rin was out of money... Otherwise, Young Miss Rin wouldn't have bothered with three or four days of logistics to get here; a train ticket would have been much simpler.
As for why she didn't pawn a few more gems, please note, what kind of magic does the Tohsaka Family practice? There are no regular gem supplies coming in now; each one used is one less. How could she play if she exchanged them all for money!
As for why she didn't use Projection Magic to project money like before, it's because, as mentioned before, the essence of magic is the unknown. The more people recognize a magic, the lower its mystery and the weaker its power. It's fine if it dissipates without ordinary people noticing anything unusual, but once it dissipates where people can see it, the mystery of Projection Magic will decrease. After a few more times, it would probably only be useful for projecting money.
Unless absolutely necessary, Rin would never project money. Fortunately, she wasn't discovered.
Indeed, financial crisis is also our Young Miss Rin's eternal cute point; it's the same in every world of the multiverse!
And so, on a street in Misaki Town in the evening, a strange sight appeared, causing passersby to stop and take a second look.
A twin-tails loli, with tears streaming down her face, sat on the roadside steps, eating the last yakisoba bread from her pocket. Please call her the impoverished Young Miss: Toh-sa-ka Rin!
"Go to hell! Why must there be such a plot!"
(A projected brick flies towards the camera...)