Chapter 3 – Tea ceremony
Next day, evening. The four magi are at the foot of the Ryuudou Temple. Illyasviel, Rin and Sakura wear yukatas and Shirou wears good clothes for the tea ceremony with these women.
"Is everyone ready?" asks Rin and the others nod. After the nodding the four magi go the stairs up. Fifteen minutes later the four magi are in the Ryuudou Temple. Shirou sees Issei Ryuudou…
"Good evening, Issei."
"Emiya? Good evening… What are you doing here with Tohsaka and the others?" asks Issei surprised.
"We want talk with your guests Miko and the other one." Shirou explains.
"With Miko-san and Mirai-san?"
"Yes."
"You four want talk with us? About what?" says a wise, feminine voice.
"Miko-san?" asks Issei and Shirou turns around and sees Miko, the bigger one of the guests. Miko goes to Issei and Shirou, looks in Shirou's eyes. Miko wears a temple priest's yukata with autumnal pattern and a big bell decorates her yukata.
"You're Shirou Emiya, a good friend of Issei Ryuudou, right?" Miko smiles.
"Yes. These three girls and I want talk to you and your friend, Miko-san. Please let us talk."
"About what? I'll talk some special themes only during a tea ceremony."
"It's about a special theme, Miko-san."
"Then… Are you all ready for a tea ceremony?" asks Miko.
"Yes. We're ready." Shirou answers.
"Well..." Miko turns around. "Please follow me, my four guests." Miko goes away and the four magi follow Miko to a hidden place inside of the Temple which is their privacy place. This place is a small shrine with a cherry tree and a lake. Miko and the others go into the shrine and the four magi see the shorter one, Mirai. Mirai has her fox ears and her three fox tails. Miko closes the door of the shrine…
"Jitsuzai*" says Miko and her fox ears and her two fox tails appear. The four magi look surprised and confirmed: Miko and Mirai are Kitsunes.
"So… We can begin now. Please sit at the table." says Miko and everyone sit at the table. "About what you four want to discuss with us?"
"We want the servants back without a Holy Grail War." says Rin.
"The idea is to open a 'door' between the servants and us and the servants go through the door." says Illyasviel.
"And we know that Kitsunes are experts in such kind of magic." says Sakura.
"That's why we want to talk with you, Miko-san and Mirai-san." says Shirou.
"How noble, how noble…" Miko giggles. "What do you think, Mirai-tan? Should we help them?"
Mirai looks at Shirou, Illyasviel, Rin and Sakura and her eyes begin to shine. The four magi are surprised because of her eyes. Some seconds later Mirai's eyes stop to shine, Mirai looks at Miko and says: "That would be good idea to help them-chu."
"Okay." Miko laughs. "All in all: You four magi want to open a dimensional 'door' to the servants; the servants go through the 'door' and the servants will reborn… In that case this idea would be possible… But is it able to ask which heroes should be reborn?"
"Heracles." says Illyasviel.
"Medusa." says Sakura.
"I don't know because he didn't say his identity." says Rin.
"Arturia Pendragon, aka King Arthur." replies Shirou.
"Arturia… Pendragon…?" Miko looks very surprised. "You're kidding, right?"
"No." says Shirou.
"Medusa, Heracles and the other heroes are in the Throne of Heroes and that's no problem to open a dimensional door to the Throne of Heroes… but King Arthur is probably in Avalon! That's a utopia! To open a dimensional door to Avalon would be the most difficult spells of this universe! That would – "
"But it's possible." Mirai interrupts.
"Mirai…." Says Miko…
"It's possible to open a door to Avalon… But…" Mirai stands up, goes to Shirou, sits down behind Shirou and leans on Shirou. "Would you do everything for the door to Avalon, Shirou Emiya?"
*Jitsusai (実在) = Reality