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"SHIROUUU!"

A familiar scream wakes me up. In my vision is something looking familiar, it has brown hairs and yellow stripes. Also it remind me of a tiger…

What? A tiger in my room? Maybe I'm still dreaming. With that thought, I lower my head and close my eye once again.

"Waiiitt! D-Don't go back to sleep! I'll curse you if you dare! SHIROUUUU!"

Somewhere far away a tiger howls desperately as a mighty lion proceeds to take it down under the conflicted gaze of an angel.

In the end the tiger is saved by her extraordinary lungs power, her screams loud enough to stir me from my slumber.

"Stop screaming."

I mutter irritatingly.

Then as I open my eyes, I freeze upon seeing indeed a tiger being taken down by lion under the gaze of an angel, who is Fuji-nee, Saber and Sakura.

"Just get out, all of you."

I stand up, a hand over my eyes.

"I'll join you in the dining room… soon."

I add almost plaintively as I notice the three of them aren't moving. I feel relieved when they finally leave my room.

"What a morning." I sigh tiredly.

After some explaination, I finally grasp the situation.

Fuji-nee and Sakura came to my house as usual, and Saber went to open the door. Upon seeing Saber, Fuji-nee went wild as she charged into my room while screaming. Seeing that, Saber quickly took her down to prevent any harms to me.

'Can't believe that I forgot about this.'

I think quietly.

"Shirou! Who is this girl?"

"There is a perfectly reasonable explaination to this."

I says trying to calm the beast down. Unfortunately-

"Shiiirouuuu..."

The fearsome beast mutters as she glares at me. It was a troublesome fact but despite Fuji-nee lack of skills at housework and usual brings havoc anywhere she goes, my guardian has a lie detector that work extremely well against her charge.

'I've summoned a spiritual entity by magic who is a heroic spirit of a long gone hero in order to participate in a tournament for an almighty wish-granting device.' don't really seem to fall under the "perfectly reasonable" explaination.

And I don't know what will happen to her if I said that. The last thing I want is another Lancer or Berserker goes after my guardian.

"This is Saber. My father acquaintance."

"Kiritsugu-san's acquaintaince?

Then she comes to visit Kiritsugu-san?"

"You can say that. But Fuji-nee, you have to help the archery club to day right? Aren't you... late?"

"AHHHH! I AM LATE! And I didn't eat breakfast yet!

Shirou! Make the food appear, now!"

"That demand might be quite unreasonable…

By the way Sakura, aren't you late too?"

"Okay, I'll be going now. I'll be back this evening after school. And-"

Her eyes narrow as she make a trembling Sakura on her motorbike behind her.

"This talk is not over yet!"

With this, Fuji-nee vanishes from sight.

"What a morning." I sigh tiredly, again.


The night come to Emiya residence, and at my door right now is a familiar black hair girl. On her side is a huge suitcase.

"What are you doing here, Tohsaka? And what is that thing?"

"From today, I'll live in your house, Emiya-kun. This is my luggage."

She says something uncomprehended.

"Huh? Why?"

I ask despite knowing the answer.

"What are you talking about? You and I are an alliance, right? It makes things easier this way. Now, where is my room?"

She comes into my house naturally like this is her house.

It's not like I don't want to. The truth is I plan to invite her to my house for the same reason. But, why now of all times?

"Wait, Tohsaka!"

I try to stop her but the voice of a dangerous tiger makes me freeze.

"Shirou, I have come back."

Yes, it is Fuji-nee, and Sakura too. Good timing, I must say.

"SHIROUUUU! Why is Tohsaka-san here?"

Fuji-nee starts screaming again at the sight of Tohsaka. Sakura even drop her bag.

"Good evening Fujimura-sensei, Sakura."

Tohsaka greets them politely.

"What a day." I sigh tiredly for the third time.

After some explaination, Tohsaka has made them give in, accept the fact that Tohsaka will also live with me from now on. She is really good at threatening people. So the rumour she makes the Treasurer off school for a week is true. But I can see that they are still not convinced.

"Then I will stay here, too!"

Fuji-nee exclaim.

"What...?"

"Me as well, senpai."

"What?! Why?"

"You, a boy in puperty lives together with two young girls.

As your guardian, I will stay here to watch."

Things start to escalate into something ridiculous. This is even more ridiculous than the whole HGW thing, I must say.

"And you Tohsaka-san, tonight you will be sleeping with me and Sakura, you as well Saber-san."

"No, I won't change my room. I need to be at Shirou's side all the time.

This is my deal with Shirou for not let me sleep in his room. I won't accept any change"

Saber says, which cause Fuji-nee and Sakura to gasp. Don't says something that easy to misunderstand, Saber!

"SHIROUUU! What does she mean?"

Tohsaka starts giggling at the corner. Don't laugh and help me, woman.

Sigh, this is gonna be a long night. And I thought I can have a peaceful dayoff to rest.


I, Tohsaka, and Sakura are walking to school.

The problem last night has finally settled down, with Fuji-nee, Sakura and Tohsaka staying with me. It seems I have to have a meeting at school. Can't risk being found out by the other two.

"Hey Tohsaka, let's meet at lunchtime."

I whisper to Tohsaka. She nods slightly understand my intention.

An awkward silence. It's too unbearable.

The awkward air mostly comes from Sakura and Tohsaka. They glance at each other a few time, but avert when their eyes meet. I wonder what are their relationship. I'm sure it's more than senpai-kouhai.

My thought is interrupted by an eerie feeling. What is this? I look at Tohsaka.

"We will talk about this later."

I nod. All things will be solve at lunchtime.

Unbeknownst to me, Sakura look at me with a worried face.


School Rooftop

"So, what is the thing at the school gate?"

I ask.

We are currently at the rooftop to avoid people.

"That is a boundary field. Someone set it up to suck people energy."

"A Master then."

"I think so too."

"Such an abject trick."

Saber's voice come from my hand. In my hand is a transmission device. I leave Saber home because she can't go into Astral Form.

She objected it at first. But when I said that I form an alliance for this situation as well, she stop objecting. Saber, even Tohsaka, seem surprise that I thought about this all when I made my proposition.

So, I use this device to not leave her out of the meeting, which is unfair considered that she is my partner in this battle.

"What is that, Shirou?"

Tohsaka also starts to call me by my first name, too.

"It's a transmission device, which help people to communicate with each other more conveniently. I have one for you, too."

I throw her another one. She catches it and stares at it strangely. It seems that all magus don't know how to use modern technology. She don't even know how to use the air-conditioner.

"Why do we have to use such a complicated thing like this? Magecraft is way more simple and convenient."

"Well, I can't do that.

Furthermore, we are fighting against magus. So using things they don't know are more efficient."

She seems to agree my reason as she stop arguing.

"Back to the topic, do you know who set it up?"

I ask.

"Unfortunately, no. But I think it is Caster.

Caster has been doing this other people for a while. I try to track Caster down but fail."

"I think the one did this is none other than Shinji."

"Huh, why?"

"It's obvious. He is a Matou, one of the three founding families. Consider his personality and the fact that he has been absent lately, it must be him."

"I see. I know he is a Master. But to think he would do something like this."

"Huh? You already know he is a Master?"

"Yeah, he is a Master, but not a magus. He comes to me a few times to form alliance, which I refuse."

"So you only want to test me, huh."

"Well, I need to confirm my partner's capacity."

"I see. But there's one more thing.

That guy,... I don't think he is a Master."

"What?! What do you mean?"

"I mean the Master who summons Servant and bears Command Seal is Sakura, while Shinji is the one control the Servant."

"D-Don't be absurd! How can he do something like that?"

"He can't. But his grandfather can. I met him before, and I know that he is not some normal old man. He must be the most powerful in the family and he knows many things about the HGW. So, here is my theory.

The two of them act under their grandfather order.

Sakura, a more qualify Master, will summon Servant and supply prana. But because she don't want to fight, he uses Sakura as a hostage to force Rider obey Shinji. He also manipulate Shinji's action"

"S-Such a thing..."

"I know it is hard to believe. But it is the most logical. Their grandfather, Matou Zouken is the mastermind."

"Are you really an amateur, Shirou?"

"It depends on how you define it. What I did is just use the information I gather and bring out a conclusion I think it is the most reasonable. Nothing much."

"Are you mocking me just now?"

"Huh? Well, enough about me. About Shinji's Servant, it must be Rider."

"Why Rider? Caster can set a boundary field too."

"From you story, Caster has been attacked civilian, right? If she already set a huge boundary field in this school, why bother attack other civilian."

"So, what should we do?"

"Can you destroy this thing, Tohsaka?"

"No, I can only make it weaker, this thing is too big for me."

"Then we will do that. If I can, I really want to meet Rider alone."

"What? Are you stupid? Do you want to get killed?"

"As I said before, Shinji is just a temporary Master. I don't think Rider appreciates it. So I think we can negotiate."

"Negotiate? What do you want to do?"

"Of course I want to save Sakura. I don't know what is going on in the Matou residence, but it is not good for Sakura. I think Rider will like this idea."

"But how can you meet Rider, alone no less?"

"I don't know. Maybe if I get lucky."

"I don't agree, Shirou. It's too reckless."

Saber, who has been silently the whole time, speaks up.

"Don't worry, Saber. If worse comes to worst, I'll use the Command Seal."

"Even so, it's still dangerous. Please, bring me with you."

"No, if sees you, Rider will retreat."

"But-"

"Listen to me, Saber. This is not your battle, it is ours.

You are not alone. I'm here with you. Rin and Archer too.

It's not a bad thing to rely on other, you know.

I'm your Master, so… have faith in me."

Saber falls silent at that. Am I being too dramatic? I'm really not good at this kind of thing.

"Okay, I believe in you, Master."

Saber, she calls me Master again. I wonder if this is a good or bad thing.

"All right. Now, we will start the operation after school.

Tohsaka, you and I will weaken the boundary field. If we run into Rider, let me handle it. Any questions?"

"What do we do if Shinji know about this?"

"Let him know. My plan is to provoke him into active the field."

"What?! You do know that this thing will harm many people, right."

"Yes. By provoke him, we can know when he'll active it. And we can take countermeasure.

Considered his personality, he won't care if the Field is weakened and still active it. So we can minimum the damage."

"So this plan is to control the time he will active the field, correct?"

"Yes, there are two scenarios:

First, Shinji will hide and wait for a good time to active the field. It will make it harder for us to determine the specific time.

Second, Shinji will negotiate with us. Maybe he will ask one of us to become his ally. Which is the most stupid decision."

"Why?"

"That way, I can provoke him more easily."

"Oh?"

"Any more questions?"

"No."

"Good. Now it's time, let's get back to class. See you after school, Tohsaka."

"Okay."


"Let's begin the operation. What do we need to do, Tohsaka?"

"We need to find all the sigil which is put around the school and destroy it."

"Okay, let's go."

Tohsaka go to the library, I follow her.

"Is there a sigil here?"

"I think so. I detect mana in here."

I suddenly stop.

"Shirou?"

I put my hand on the bookshelf.

"Trace on."

My mana begins to run through the shelf.

"Found it. It's under the books"

"There really was one. Good job."

I smile at that.

After a few hours, we finally neutralize all of it.

"Finally done, now we should wait for Shinji-"

A scream echoes through the school.

"This way."

I run to the schoolyard. There, I find an unconscious female stundent.

"This girl, she's been drained dry!"

"Drained dry?"

"Of her mana... Her life force, if you like. She hardly has any blood left.

If we don't do something, she will die."

"Can you do something, Tohsaka?"

"I should be able to stabilize her with this gem."

A green light over the girl. She start to cough. It seems Tohsaka can take care of her. I suddenly feel a presence in the jungle.

"Tohsaka, I leave her to you."

I stand up and walk to the jungle.

"Hey, where are you going, Shirou?"

"It seems that luck is on my side."

Finished, I run into the jungle. No one is in my sight. But suddenly a silhouette jumps at me.

"Wha-"

I dodge it on time. Looking back, I see my attacker. A beautiful purple hair woman. But the most noticeable feature is her blindfold.

She jumps into the sky, a chain shoot at me. But I still manage to dodge it.

"I'm surprised. You aren't going to use a Command Seal."

"Sorry, I don't have many left."

"Ah. Unlike my Master, you possess courage."

"Your Master, hah? Do you mean Matou Shinji?"

"Huh?"

"No need to feign ignorance. I already know. I even know Sakura is your true Master, correct?"

She don't reply back. So I continue.

"The real reason I don't call my Servant is because I want to talk to you."

"Talk to me?"

"I have a proposition, would you like to hear it?"