Fate/true reality: Fate series for The Idiots, The Tests and The Summoned Beings series (Baka to Tesuto to Shokanjuu series)
Fate/true reality: 02 August 2013 ~Prologue~
08 April 2013; Hyougo Prefecture; Nishi Ward, Kobe City; Fumizuki High School; School Auditorium; 2:10 PM onwards
~Excerpt from the translated version of Baka to Tesuto to Shokanjuu Volume 12.5's "And So, It's Spring..." (see more in Baka-Tsuki's Baka to Tesuto to Shokanjuu Volume 12.5)~
(At the opening ceremony of Fumizuki High School for Academic Year 2013-2014...)
"W-we shall have added explanation from the newly assembled 'student council that is meant to ensure safety'." [Sumire Shi'ino (Class 3-B)]
(The Disciplinary Council were now summoned by the broadcaster into the podium of the School Auditorium)
"I'm the President of the Disciplinary Council, Yuuji Sakamoto of Class 3-A. I will like to welcome all freshmen, and at the same time, I shall explain some particular issues to take note of. This is—" [Yuuji Sakamoto (Class 3-A)]
"Vice President of the Disciplinary Council, Toshimitsu Kubo of Class 3-A. Please take care of me." [Toshimitsu Kubo (Class 3-A)]
"Our school has a rule that states that love is forbidden among Fumizuki students." [Yuuji]
"This rule is set so that everyone can understand a student's responsibility is to continue working hard, and not forget to study, based on the nature of this being a prep school. The objective isn't to limit the freedom that forbids love." [Toshimitsu]
"Our disciplinary council is established to expose those that break the rules, and need to be corrected—" [Yuuji]
"Wait a second—!" [Akihisa Yoshii (Class 3-D)]
(Akihisa's voice echoes in the gym as he shouts.)
"!?" [Yuuji]
"!?" [Toshimitsu]
"...so you came, Akihisa." [Yuuji]
"...Yoshii." [Toshimitsu]
"I won't agree to this rule!" [Akihisa]
"Don't be ridiculous. None of us will be on your side. No matter how you shout alone..." [Yuuji]
"I do have an ally!" [Akihisa]
"...Oh?" [Yuuji]
"Yuuji, no matter what kind of dirty means you use to drag Ms. Himeji and Ms. Kirishima along...there is still justice willing to stop evil Come on, let's stand together and beat down this barbaric Student Council!... Right now, I shall request a summoning battle against the disciplinary council... with the freshman Yoshimitsu Kubo!" [Akihisa]
"WHAATTT!?" [Yoshimitsu Kubo (Class 1-F)]
"Interesting. Bring it, Akihisa. Let's see how much your strength can stand against me." [Yuuji]
"How can I possibly lose to you…! We'll definitely win and prove that your ideals are wrong!" [Akihisa]
"Mr. Yoshii, please stop! Don't get me involved in this-" [Yoshimitsu]
"It's fine, Yoshimitsu! A first year can summon too! I'll teach you how to do it! You don't have to worry!... Let's begin, Yuuji." [Akihisa]
"Got it, Akihisa!" [Yuuji]
"Summon!" [Akihisa]
"Summon!" [Yuuji]
(Akihisa and Yuuji had called out their Summoned Beings to battle against one another)
"Take this!" [Akihisa]
"Take this!" [Yuuji]
(Both of their Summoned Beings had clashed with their wooden swords, as if Akihisa and Yuuji are still fighting against one another)
"Alright, Yuuji! Let's settle this today!" [Akihisa]
"Don't kid me, Akihisa! How can you best me by yourself?!" [Yuuji]
02 August 2013...
The Examination Summoning Battle.
It is a system used by a certain school, the Fumizuki High School, that involves all the students being able to call Servants, or rather― the 'summoned beings'. These small beings imitated their Masters... or owners and equipped with a specific weapon. Summoned beings are then used by the school's students to battle each other... Be it a competition between two specific classes or a special event that will also involve its usage.
There are certain rules and regulations to follow in order to conduct the battles properly. For example, a teacher of a specific subject is required to activate an ESB field around him/her. With that, The summoned beings then gain life points proportional to their summoner's latest test score on the ESB field subject as it is dependent on the teacher supervising the battle. Once a certain summoned being had its life points reaching zero, the owner of that being will be considered defeated by the system. In case of the competition between classes, students involved can recover points by taking tests within battles. During these 'recovery' tests, a student can take as many tests as they can in order to 'recover' life points. However, it also means that these tests will reset your life points according to the latest test score. Meaning, it is possible to get life points lower than the previous one through it. Once a class claimed victory in a competition between it and the other class, the former can get new school materials, switch class facilities if they are from a lower class, or request that no changes be made. That's all what every student knew about the system since one had entered Fumizuki High School.
As for a certain 'Ultimate Idiot' named Akihisa Yoshii, he grew on fighting alongside with his friends on that school, and a lot of important events happened back then, most of which involved battle strategies that worked well according to the situations being seen on that time. The reason behind his class's battles is to prove that they can compete with the higher classes and win, although in reality, it had something to do with anything else, which made him feel that he really is an idiot ― the true kind that he was... and may still be.
It has been six years since said school had implemented this system. However, its true origin is quite unknown to the students of that school. And yet, as being told by a certain principal to its students about the system's supposed importance...
"As everyone knows, this test summoning system is an education system only our school has, a symbol that allows our school to gain attention from both domestic and foreign areas. Many students worked very hard to in this war between school year with the help of this system, and the entire process was really exciting."
However, with that being said...
The Fumizuki High School is not the only school that implemented that system. Certain schools, such as one in said country, two in United Kingdom, one in France, one in Germany, and one in Greece, had already applied this in their rules and regulations long before Fumizuki High School do so, but not in ways the school did in the system. Even then, none of the students of those schools that may have come to Fumizuki High School had knew the true origin of that system. Many that AKihisa had talked to believed it was simply made for the school purposes and how the schools handled the system.
And that's how it goes back then...
...Hyougo Prefecture; Nishi Ward, Kobe City; Fumizuki High School; School Quadrangle; 2:20 PM onwards
Until on that afternoon when blood starting flowing down to the ground...
"Ah!"
It was on that time that Yoshimitsu was struck by a crimson lance to his back.
"Yoshimitsu!"
Before he might fell onto the concrete ground of that quadrangle, Akihisa alertly get him on his front.
"A-Akihisa..."
"Hold on!"
After Akihisa grabbed Yoshimitsu from the front, Akihisa hurriedly make an attempt to pull out and throw away the crimson lance, with its tip now being filled with blood of his acquaintance, out of shock on what happened right now.
Why is this happening?! Akihisa thought.
"I... am fine... Akihisa..."
"Y-You are not fine, Yoshimitsu!"
"I... am really... You don't have... to worry about me..." said Yoshimitsu as he shows a smile on his face. Even then, Akihisa is not convinced that Yoshimitsu is really okay.
"N-No, I won't!"
"B-But... But..."
After that, the younger of the Kubo brothers eventually lose consciousness. He, who was still shedding tears because of his worry to his acquaintance, then tried his best to carry the wounded friend towards somewhere but that is not the only thing that he is worried about though as he once again thought upon looking at a certain someone in front of him...
That Yuuji! Akihisa thought with an anger expression.
"I'm sorry but... this is the end, Akihisa." said Yuuji with quite a confident expression on his face.
"What are you doing, Yuuji?!"
"I had no choice, Akihisa."
"A-Are you a jerk?! Why do you attack Yoshimitsu?!"
"You just don't understand the real situation and what am I doing here. Besides you are an idiot... one of your kind; therefore, I had no time to play fools with you, Akihisa. Finish him, Lancer."
"If that is the best for you, Master."
And then, that certain violet-haired lady, who may looked like the older version of a certain beloved of Yuuji wearing violet-colored tights, proceeded to chant something. Then the air around the so-called Lancer starts dancing. A transparent halo then twirls in circles to show a flock of similarly-shaped crimson lances— In fact, there are four of them. He immediately started to run away from his friend and that woman Yuuji called Lancer, as he carried Yoshimitsu and decided to go to the hospital without hesitation or even looking at them.
Eventually, that flock of crimson lances floating in the air around Lancer were left loose, rushing towards Akihisa. This might have been the end of me... But... I need to save Yoshimitsu first before I will be killed here... He thought as he runs away continuously, away from his former friend.. However...
STTTIIING! STTTIIING! STTTIIING! STTTIIING!
Upon hearing those sounds, as he looked back towards Yuuji and that Lancer, a certain blue-haired man in glasses and laboratory outfit appeared in front of me, with the blue-haired person has his right hand already raised, creating a certain bounded field in front of him.
Then from Akihisa's perspective...
"Are you okay, Akihisa Yoshii?"
A certain shoulder-length brown-haired lady in long sleeve red shirt and a long maroon skirt had appeared in front of him. As he sees this person, he felt surprised.
"Yuuko?"
At that girl's perspective...
She then looked at the back of his right hand, and saw something in his hand that surprised her a bit.
She then thought, Command Seals? So Akihisa is actually...
"I will help you protect from Sakamoto's advances, stupid idiot. You must bring Yoshimitsu to the nearest hospital."
"What do you mean Yuuji's advances? He is my friend too."
"Just go. I and Caster will stop him and his Servant from attacking anyone else including you."
"Caster? You mean..."
Akihisa then looked at that blue-haired man, who then take a glare at him. That glare made Akihisa to feel nervous at him somehow.
"Most importantly, for the nth time I will ever told you this: do not perform any summoning here, no matter what."
"W-What―?!"
CRRRRAAAGGG!
Before Akihisa was able to speak, a crimson lance lands on the ground near both of them, creating a small impact on contact with that ground.
"Run!"
Without hesitation even if she seemed to be accompanied by the that blue-haired man, Akihisa immediately began to run away further from that battlefield without ever looking back. Even so, another flock of those similar crimson lances that are summoned somewhere in mid-air projected swiftly towards him.
WOOOOOOSH! WOOOOOSH! CRAAAAAG! WOOOOSH! CRAAAAAG!
With that, Akihisa was forced to run faster than before as he tried to dodge any of those crimson lances out of fear.
After some time, the attack was stopped for some reason.
What had happened? thought Akihisa as he looked back to where Yuuko and Yuuji located. He then observed the blue-haired Caster and the violet-haired Lancer fight one another using similar crimson lances, seemingly fighting fair and square on one another, as well as Yuuko looking at him with her right hand extended towards him, with a noticeable black orb summoned on her right hand, much to his surprise.
WOOOOOSH!
Another of those lances was about to hit Akihisa much faster than before... in his body, in fact. But...
TWITCH!
The lance then rolled away from projecting towards Akihisa and landed on a ground near him, creating a much weaker impact on contact because of it. Akihisa stared at Yuuko, who nodded at him and then turned away from him to Yuuji as she observed the fight between Caster and Lancer, as well as reading Yuuji's movements.
As much as he may wanted to help either one of them, he had no choice but to continue to get Yoshimitsu into a nearby hospital. He may have escape that battlefield...
02 August 2013; Hyougo Prefecture; Nishi Ward, Kobe City; Fumizuki High School; Near The School Gate; 2:30 PM onwards
However, as he is about to reach the school gate, he then saw that area now being filled by a small group of undead beings ― there are five of those warriors of the undead wielding swords and bows, in fact. Every one of them seemed to wait for a certain someone to come, so he immediately hide to a certain building near that gate, along with his unconscious first year student, whom he put on a certain floor for a while.
Those monsters! W-What was really going on?! thought Akihisa who was rather worried as he then looked at the unconscious acquaintance of his, why would that girl insisted to stop me from doing so then even if the principal requested me to perform such act? I have no choice. No matter what, I shall use my summoned being right now to stop those monsters that appeared right now and save Yoshimitsu from this danger.
With that, he immediately opened the ESB field through the usage of a certain bracelet that was a gift of a certain principal of the school to him before the summer vacation started. And finally...
"Summoned being... Summon!"
As a student of Fumizuki High School, it is natural that he can summon the ESB avatar given to him by its system.
On that time, a small gust of wind blew in front of Akihisa, enough for him to cover his vision with his arms and to fall down to the ground suddenly. In fact, it was a surprise that it happened like that when he only does summoning said avatar. Eventually his vision started recover in a matter of seconds in order to see his summoned avatar in front of him, after that small burst.
But instead―――
A certain teenage girl clad in battle-dress wielding a large white lance, appeared standing valiantly on where he expected his avatar to be summoned. Not only he felt surprised with this...
This girl... she must be a summoned being, right? He thought.
"I ask you... Are you my Master?"
"M-Master?" said Akihisa who was still rather surprised.
"Your Ruler Servant has come in response to a Master's call..." said Ruler which was then followed some words only she could hear.
"What do you mean... Ruler... Servant?" said Akihisa as he thought to himself, Who is she? Is she like those two strangers that I had seen with Yuuji and Yuuko back in the quadrangle? I don't get everything.
Shortly after...
"This kind of presence... There are many Servants summoned in this War. A fight for the Holy Grail... once again."
"Holy Grail?"
Holy Grail... It is the name of a legendary sacred vessel that received the blood of a certain messiah. According to legend, it is said that the Holy Grail can grant any wish and is designed to provide happiness, eternal youth and food in infinite abundance.
"The Holy Grail War has not properly started and yet..." said the girl, who has an unhappy expression, "As the 'Standard-Bearer who Correctly Guides the Holy Grail War', I won't allow this to happen."
"I don't understand everything."
Akihisa whispered, making sure that the Ruler will not hear those words.
"Master... Despite that you may not have the idea of this Holy Grail War, since you are the one who summoned me, my weapon will henceforth be at your side. Your fate is henceforth my fate. The pact is now sealed."
On that time, he only felt shocked as that girl looked at him seriously, although it seemed that he do his best not to show it to the girl in that battle-dress. He then speak immediately.
"Magus, Master, Servant, Holy Grail War... I don't really understand everything about what had happened right now!"
"Then tell me... What do you think of your right hand? Of those symbols that you have right there."
Akihisa then looked at his right hand. There are symbols tinted in red that was found at that back of that hand.
"This is..."
"An evidence that you are here for an attempt to have your wish fulfilled by the Holy Grail..."
"A wish?"
"Yes."
He then thinks for a while, then he looked at his unconscious friend and told her...
"It is my wish to save my friend from danger and bring him to a nearby hospital."
"That wish was quite temporary for someone being chosen by the Holy Grail for such a long time. That is definitely not your true wish, Master..." said Ruler, much to Akihisa's surprise... "But, I will be performing my duty as your Servant... After all, it is my duty to assist you in this War."
"..."
"Wait!"
The Servant Ruler immediately left him behind and run towards those fighters of undead on her own wielding that large lance.
From that time on, his previous understanding about the Examination Summoning Battle system will be replaced with the future events like this that will be going to add to his story as an idiot, as a seemingly normal person and most of all, as the Master of that girl named Ruler... as his encounter with that girl will make everything around him will be changed... or rather, the lives of everyone who will be participating in this Holy Grail War will be changed forever.
With these kinds of mysteries happened in this city recently, everything had changed. I must face everything I wanted to know... About the Exam Summoning Battle and this so-called Holy Grail War... About my friends that became quite different what they were before... I have no idea but I must face it no matter what, thought Akihisa as he observed those symbols in his right hand.
He then decided to continue to move on and follow Ruler so he will bring his unconscious friend to a nearby hospital successfully. Then...
What wish that I may have that needed to be granted by that so-called Holy Grail? I must find out myself...
~Song Played: Oath Sign by LiSA~
NEXT CHAPTER: Fate/true reality: 26 July 2013 ~Summoning Ancient Heroes... The Beginning of the Summer Vacation...~