Starting With The Sefirah Castle In The Anime World-Chapter 152 - : The Weak Attack the Weaker

Upright Devil, Upright Death, Ace of Swords.

All negative.

A vision unfolded in Ren's mind—a bride vomiting blood, collapsing into a pool of crimson, her face devoid of life.

"A bloody wedding."

The moment he saw the imagery, Ren had already foreseen the fate of this wedding.

The end result was tragedy.

And the culprit behind the bride's suffering was obvious.

The real question was—why?

Ren shuffled the tarot deck once more and drew three new cards.

Reversed Devil, Ace of Swords, Two of Swords.

In his mind's eye, a man with a vicious expression chased after a murderer. A car accident occurred. A woman and a child were caught in the wreckage, and because the woman didn't receive timely medical attention, she died.

"A past grudge carried into the next generation."

The facts were clear—this wedding was an act of vengeance.

At the same time, Ren's dormant memories resurfaced. The case played out exactly as the divination foretold—unchangeable, inevitable.

In reality, the revelation was even more brutal than he recalled.

After consuming the poisoned lemon juice, Matsumoto Sayuri wasn't saved. She was pronounced dead on the spot.

Well, it made sense—after all, the poison was caustic soda. Once ingested, it would burn through her internal organs. There was no surviving that.

Even if she were rushed to the nearest hospital, it would take time to get there. Stomach pumping wouldn't be enough to neutralize the strong alkali.

Simply put, once you ingest caustic soda, death is inevitable.

Nearby, Ran and Suzuki Sonoko stiffened in shock.

"A wedding... drenched in blood? That serious?"

"Ren, is there any way to stop this?"

Ren didn't really want to get involved.

Of course, it wasn't because he didn't want to help, it was because the victim had already accepted her fate.

"Even if I interfere, some things can't be changed."

"The issue isn't just about saving her, the problem is that she already knows about the poison and is choosing to drink it anyway."

"Even if we stop her now, this will happen again sooner or later."

"At best, we'd only be delaying the inevitable."

Ren's words left Ran and Sonoko speechless.

If someone had tricked Matsumoto Sayuri into drinking poison, they could intervene and stop it.

But if she knew and still willingly drank it... what could they do?

"Then why not just have the poisoner arrested?"

Kaguya offered a direct and effective solution.

If they couldn't change the teacher's decision, then why not deal with the source of the problem?

"Yeah! That would solve everything!"

Sonoko clapped her hands. It was the simplest way.

Ren, however, said nothing. He simply looked at Sonoko.

"Even if the poisoner is the groom?"

"Even if... the groom!?"

Sonoko froze. She hadn't expected the person trying to kill Matsumoto Sayuri to be her own fiancé.

She imagined the scene, Matsumoto Sayuri knowingly drinking the poisoned juice her soon-to-be husband handed her.

Sonoko shivered.

She knew he poisoned her. She knew she had to drink it. And she still chose to die that way.

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"Ren, why?"

"A past generation's grudge."

Ren didn't hold back—he laid out the entire truth revealed by the tarot.

"Matsumoto Sayuri's father was a police officer."

"While pursuing a wanted criminal, he accidentally caused a car accident, hitting a woman who was out with her child."

"The woman was dragged into the chaos and ended up caught in the wreckage."

"The child begged Matsumoto's father to help save his mother, to send her to the hospital."

"But at that moment, all Matsumoto's father saw was the wanted criminal. He ignored the woman and kept chasing his target. And so... the tragedy happened."

"Matsumoto Sayuri only learned about this just before her wedding. On one side was the man she was going to marry. On the other, the father who raised her. Unable to make a choice, she decided to die in her father's place."

The motive for vengeance was crystal clear.

At that moment, the girls finally understood why the groom poisoned the bride.

He wanted her father to experience the same pain he had suffered years ago.

Sonoko clenched her fists in anger.

"That bastard... so he knew all along who Matsumoto's father was, and he still went after Matsumoto?"

Amamiya Ren nodded slightly.

"He used Matsumoto's love... just to take revenge on her father?"

"Then who will be responsible for Matsumoto's death?"

"Why didn't he just go after Matsumoto's father directly!?"

Sonoko gritted her teeth, furious.

She couldn't understand—why go after Matsumoto?

Why attack an innocent person?

"Actually, the reason is quite simple."

Chika spoke up with a disturbingly logical answer.

"If a public official like Matsumoto's father were targeted, it might drag in the Takasugi Zaibatsu, right?"

"So instead, the groom went after the bride."

"Even if he got caught, he could still claim it was just his personal vendetta, separate from the Zaibatsu."

Sonoko almost laughed at the absurdity of it all.

Ren didn't deny that possibility. But there was another, even simpler explanation.

"The weak attack the weaker."

"Because that man didn't know if he could take down Matsumoto Sayuri's father, so instead, he went after Matsumoto Sayuri, someone easier to kill."

This reasoning only fueled Sonoko's anger.

Not just Sonoko, even Ran looked ready to explode.

"Ren, is there any way to stop Matsumoto-sensei from making such a foolish choice?"

Ren thought for a moment.

"Then let's go talk to the bride."

(To be continued.)

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