Fate/Glass Moon
______________________________4. "Fake Heroes"
Disclaimer : Kara No Kyoukai, Tsukihime, Melty Blood, Fate Series, and Angel Notes are owned by Kinoko Nasu and Notes. Therefore, I claimed nothing.
____________________Fuyuki, 15 October 2010 02:15, Tohsaka Residence.
It's been years since I cooked some dinner for more than one people last time in this town. As I brought the food with a steel food cart to the dining room, I saw one, no, three more people aside Shiki and Rin who sat across them.
While Rin was busy chattering with the woman she knew about, Shiki was in an awkward situation.
The woman wearing a red leather jacket outside her yellow hakama was sitting politely while staring at the shy Shiki.
"U-umm, could you please stop staring?"
That's the last word I heard from Shiki before I went in the kitchen to cook more food again.
"Owie." The pain from last time's spar coming at my hand again when I was busy cutting the vegetables.
"Want some help?"
A man, probably older than me was went inside the kitchen. His looks were almost similar to Shiki, except the neat haircut and he's a bit taller than him.
"Ah, thanks." I smiled awkwardly and continued cutting the veggies while he stirring the soup inside the hot pot on the burning stove.
"It's okay. You got a little tired from the spar, right?"
The man laughed cheerfully as he tasted the finished soup.
"Well, I guess I'll bring this one to the dining room first. I'll leave the stir fry to you, uh…"
"Emiya, Emiya Shirou. Your name?"
"It's Kokutou Mikiya. You can call me Mikiya. Then, I'll go first, Emiya." He grinned and brought the soup out to the dining room.
"Okay." I poured the oil to the pan and began cooking the spicy veggie stir fry.
"Shirou!? Has the stir fry done yet !?"
The annoying yell from Rin was came from the dining room. Geez, being her assistant was really troublesome for me.
"Yeah. It'll be done soon!"
I gave a sigh as I added some salt and chili to the stir fry and mixed it on the frying pan.
___________________Fuyuki, 15 October 2010 02:30, Outside Kotomine Church.
CLANG! CLANG!!
Clashes between metals was heard aloud in the calm night at the wide cemetery outside Kotomine Church.
WHOOOSH!
"Tch."
Archer was did a back somersault to avoid Lancer's spear stab.
"Strange. It's strange indeed you damn weirdo! You don't have a bow, or even an arrow . Then why you're in the archer class !?"
Lancer swung his lunar spear madly to the calm archer who just blocked it with his long dark rifle numerous times.
"Maybe it's because my weapons were ranged ones, I wonder?"
Archer glanced at his rifle a moment before he focused at blocking Lancer's attack again.
CLANG!
After one powerful stab from Lancer, Archer was only pushed back two meters from him without any bruise because he barely managed to block it with his weapon.
"Archer, NOW!!!" Ilya shouted Archer giving him signal to fire his rifle.
"Black Barrel ___"With a quick response, Archer loaded his long dark rifle with one thick, but long bullet, then aimed his rifle to Lancer's stomach in such a short time as the time itself stopped.
"_____Fire."
As he pulled the trigger,
BANG!!!!
a powerful blast drove Lancer meters away from Archer and almost ripped his stomach apart from the damage Archer inflicted to him.
"Shi…shit…I won't forget this time" Just before Lancer fell, he suddenly fades away as if he's being teleported.
"Damn, we're late." Ilya gripped her hands in a pissed off manner.
"Don't worry, that kind of wound won't heal in one day though." Archer put his rifle back at his back holster.
"I hope so." Ilya walked past Archer before the soldier followed him. "___Say, Archer. Did you remember your name now?" Still walking, the young master glanced up at her tall servant.
"Sorry, Ilya. But like I told you, I even forgot my name when I was alive. But I wasn't called Gun God for nothing." Archer smiled awkwardly at his angelic master.
___________________Fuyuki, 15 October 2010 02:35, Outside Kotomine Church.
After those two was nowhere in sight, Sion opened a window curtain which facing the ruins of cemetery.
"Geez, even if the fight's got nothing to do with me. At least they shouldn't fight in the place I swept before."
Sion covered her face with her left palm angrily before a sound of knocking heard at the main door. "Yes, you can come in."
Sion called the guest outside respectfully as she closed the curtain and lit the lights.
"Sion, can you do me a favor?"
As the door opened, a crimson-haired woman with a professional-like suit walked in with a dark-skinned man who covered in delicate tattoos and wore a bloody red clothes only around his lower and at his head as a bandanna.
Few minutes later…
"Ah, so you've got a Berserker-class servant, Bazette ? Though, he wasn't like one."
Sion sat on a free bench in the hall.
"Then what do you need from me?" She smiled at the woman called Bazette kindly.
"Well, it's nothing much. But can you lend me the etherlite? I need it to maintain Berserker's sanity since It drains me so much mana with him being berserk all the time."
Bazette stood before Sion as she crossed her hands with worry.
"Well I'd like to, since you got some experience with it…"
She thought for awhile.
"…but in one condition…" Sion snapped her right finger.
"What is it? If it's something I can afford then I'll accept it." Bazette looked at the ceiling calmly.
"Then, could you give me one of your fragarach daggers? I haven't studied all about it yet."
Sion clasped her hands as if she remembered something.
"Hmm, since you're the mediator, I have no problem for it."
"Then, it's a deal."
Bazette gave her a handshake before the mage traded Sion's invisible etherlites and one of her Fragarach dagger which said to be the rare noble phantasm that held by a living person.
_________________Fuyuki, 15 October 2010 02:48, Tohsaka Residence.
"Hey, you."
"Hm? Can I help you with something, Ryougi-sa__"
"Just Ryougi is fine. Man, you're no different than Kokutou."
"Kokutou, you mean the man that went to the kitchen?"
Shiki pointed at Mikiya who just came back from kitchen holding a glass of coffee.
"Looking from your gestures and how you talk, yeah. Putting that aside____were those Mystic Eyes Of Death Perception?"
Ryougi pointed at Shiki's eyes with her spoon.
"Oh, so you knew about them?"
Shiki just calmly drank his juice despite his noble phantasm was revealed.
"Not just that, I have them too."
Shiki nearly spurted his juice when he saw Ryougi activating her eyes before him before turned it off a moment than Shiki, the woman's eyes were more colorful than Shiki's bright blue eyes.
"But I think you can manipulate it more than me since you already died and became a Servant." Ryougi changed her serious glare into a kind smile to him, though it was more like forced.
"Speaking about Servant…why you're counted in as a heroic spirit, Tohno-kun?" Rin jumped into their conversation as she finished with her meal.
"Hmm, there are many reasons but…"
"Well, did you heard the rumors in the Church and the Association ? I heard it about two years ago or less ."
Aozaki Tohko who just recognized Shiki looks dragged her chair closer to Ryougi as she butted in the conversation too.
"Rumor?" Shiki rose his eyebrows in interest.
"They say there was a human not a member of the Association nor Church who became a vigilante and hunting Dead Apostles all alone. And when the last fight ensued, he was alone killing the newly formed 27 Dead Apostles whose members was perished except who worked under the Church but unfortunately perished while doing so." Tohko lit her cigar and puffed a smoke
"And who told you that kind of rumor?"
"My acquaintance from the Church."
______________Misaki, 15 October 2010 02: 53, Streets_______
A dark-blue haired woman sneezed in the middle of the cold night. Her appearance is that of a nun, but looks can deceive since the tattoos inside her robe were covered perfectly.
"Eh? Was it just me, or did somebody just talked about me?" She tilt her head in confusion as she ate a chip of curry-flavoured snack she held all the time.
______________Fuyuki, 15 October 2010 03:00, Tohsaka Residence________
__then she continued with a scary smirk, "The Church was divided into two sides thanks to his efforts. The one side considered him as a hero for his deeds in defeating threats that even both the organization have gave up against, but the other remaining considered him as a heretic for using the powers that was not "given from god" and he's indirectly co-operating with some mages and alchemists the Church despise. As for Mage's Association, there weren't any of the conflicts or debates because the small thing and just accept Shiki as a "hero" out of interest. Therefore, in some people minds, Tohno Shiki is one of the heroic spirits and worshipped as artificial gods for some sick peoples."
"Sick peoples… you're scared me." Shiki's left eyebrow twitched.
"Hmm… so that's how it is, then it's the same case as last war's archer who was the "future" Emiya Shirou and assassin that was Sasaki Kojirou who didn't even a heroic spirit after all." Rin gave them her conclusion as the answer.
"Exactly." Tohko nodded calmly.
"But still, the Mystic Eyes Of Death Perception had a fatal weakness in this war." Ryougi added the fact.
"Hmm, I barely seen any weakness from the eyes when I saw the fight with Shirou. So, what's the problem?" Rin avert her gaze and pondering which one the woman talked about.
"Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, Tohsaka. But my eyes can't perceive the death of a phenomenon. Emiya Shirou is alive so I can see understand the "death" of him, it's more like some old sayings that "You can't kill the thing that already dead" or something like that."
Shiki was awarded with a heavy punch to his cheek from Rin.
"___I took back what I said about we'll surely win this war. It's been years since I punched someone for an annoying attitude."
Rin sighed as she shook her left palm back and forth because the pain from the punch.
"O, ow…showry phor anghering you." Shiki rubbed his cheek in pain.
"You have Shirou on your side, right? So that's not really a problem if you just use him for the assault while Shiki create openings for him. And besides that, it is certainly unique in a way since usually normal magus can't beat a Servant, isn't it?"
Tohko smiled sarcastically while puffing another cloud of smoke.
" But Shirou doesn't a normal magus either." Rin chuckled .
"Aside from that, why did you knew almost everything about me? I just realized it a moment ago." Shiki fixed his glasses and frowned at Tohko suspiciously.
"It's because I'm Aozaki, and the glasses you wore all the time you were alive was mine. By the way, that bastard Aoko gave her regards just when I checked my messages awhile back." Tohko pointed Shiki's glasses with her cigar, then showed him her open clamshell cell phone with messages from Aozaki Aoko, her sibling in it.
"EH!? The same family with sensei!? I-I'm sorry to bother your sister during my lifetime." Shiki jumped from his chair and repeatedly bowed to Tohko in panic.
"Oh, god. He's a Servant yet he didn't acted like one."
Rin sighed with shame.
"Speaking of which, I think we forgot something."
Ryougi snapped out from her confusion as she looking around for something and ended glancing at me who was calmly ate my second meal.
"Hm, what is it? Is there something you need?"
I stopped my meal and moved my gaze to Ryougi.
"____nothing. I'm just amazed with your disconcern of things, Emiya."
Like what she said, she was looked at me with pure amazement with her eyes.
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