Shirou remained silent, kneeling in place as the girl continued to stare at him with blatant hunger, her hands still outstretched and presenting that bunch of possibly drugged sweets. Despite her leporine features, she doesn't seem to intend to do any harm to him, if he ignored the lust in her eyes that is.

His silence seemed to encourage the girl to excitedly take a step closer to him, causing Shirou to raise his swords slightly, and making her back off a little.

He did not move out of his stance in hopes that it would dissuade her from getting too brazen in approaching him.

"V'z Orgunal! Jung'f lbhe anzr, zvfgre?" Shirou did not understand a single word that came out of the rabbit girl's mouth.

"こんにちは、あなたは日本語を話しますか?" A confused look told him that Japanese wasn't spoken here.

She deposited the candy back into her pockets and held her hands out in a welcoming gesture, giving Shirou a beaming smile as she did so. The way she was rubbing her inner thighs together was really starting to unsettle him.

The faker continued to back away, nodding at whatever the girl was saying. That seemed to be a wrong response, as the rabbit girl leapt at him with surprising speed.

"Lbh'yy znxr n svar uhfonaq~" She pushed him to the ground, desperately grabbing at his shirt as she straddled him, trying to force a kiss.

What the hell?!

Smacking her away with the flat of Kanshou's blade, Shirou reinforced his legs and took off, the trees blurring out of focus at his speed, only stopping until the footsteps behind him faded. He hoped that not all the natives were this inclined to molesting random strangers.

Before long, the forest around him changed as he walked on. Mushrooms as tall as trees, and the ground was coated with a layer of mycelium rather than grass like a fungal blanket cast over the ground. The entire place was unusually quiet, no birds, no insects, nothing.

Scanning his surroundings, he kept walking-

"Gvf dhvgr n qvfurnegravat fvtug, vf vg abg?"

Shirou stopped, turning at the smooth voice coming from a heavily shaded area off to the left of the trail, body warming up as he channeled prana through his circuits.

A dark-haired woman stepped out of the unnaturally dark shade of a great mushroom cap and took a few steps towards him.

A red velvet Victorian coat with a ruffled white silk shirt covering her well-endowed chest adorned by a red silk scarf, and a perfectly tailored pair of black trousers graced her long, shapely legs, ending in a pair of fantastic red inch-high heeled shoes, all adorned with a playing card motif of spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. A snazzy top hat topped off everything.

"V frr, fb lbh qba'g haqrefgnaq guvf ynathntr."

The strange woman then pointed a hand at him.

"Genafyngr."

Shirou exploded into motion, ducking to the side and lunging, the tip of Bakuya hovering at the woman's throat.

"What did you do to me?"

"A translation spell, nothing more, so please put away your swords." The women did not seem fazed at all.

She took another step closer, and sniff the air around him before giving the mage a confused stare.

"You have a large amount of spirit energy, and have been exposed to my spores for several minutes now... yet you do not take me?" She was looking Shirou up and down with a critical eye now, while he was thoroughly confused.

Well, it's good she isn't the molesting type.

"Here I was, fully expecting to have found myself a husband in such an unexpected location when you came into my sight, yet…"

The woman narrowed her eyes at his wrapped hand.

"Tell me, sir. What is your name?"

"...Ah." She suddenly started. "You hesitate because I am being rude. My deepest apologies. My name is Elizabeth."

"Emiya Shirou." The women hummed at that.

"I presume you're not from around here." She started with a smile. "This trail leads to the capital, where the royal palace is found. Be wary, traveller, for the land grows ever more eccentric as one approaches the Queen's abode."

"Why would I want to keep moving towards the royal palace?"

Elizabeth laughed aloud for a moment before responding. "Do you not desire to return home, mister Shirou? Venture westward past the palace and you'll reach Lescatie, which forms the border between this territory and the rest of the world. The Lilim known as the Queen of Hearts is the Lord of this land. She is able to bring people in, and send them back out as she wills, but she is rather ...whimsical at the best of times. It's better to seek out her sister, Druella."

"I see, thank you for the information."

Elizabeth gave him a mildly remorseful look. "Such a shame too. You are rather far from unattractive…" She walked off towards another path. "Well, good luck on your journey, mister Emiya Shirou."