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Chapter 7: Preparing for the Assault
"You are planning to attack the Matous' Mansion." Rin stated looking directly at the proposer.
"One of the masters is hiding there and we have eliminated one of the three possible candidates." Sean added with equal seriousness.
"Wait! Sean-kun you think that Sakura-san is a Master?" Shirou asked, now realizing the predicament.
"Possible. It could be the old man and with good reasons. Matou Zoken is a renowned Magus that had been aspiring to immortality." The foreign teen attempted to calm the friend's worry.
"I finally completed the third tome and I can say with factual certainity that the Matous are a dark family. The old man had been using something called the Crest Worms to survive and make the other members of the family dependant to him."
Rin's eyes widened "What?!" Archer looked disgusted too by the horrible condition.
The last tome had described the Crest Worms as an instrument with a double function: siphon the users' lifeforce to the creator (Zouken) and, once properly incubated, they become artificial Magic Circuits and they are literally impossible to remove because it would kill the host.
"If you don't join us in this assault, it will not breach our temporary allian-" "I'm in."
Sean was stunned at the almost yelled intermission and stared Rin's form. Noticing his attention, Rin averted her eyes.
The theory of her and Sakura being originally sisters seemed to be gaining more proof...
"While I do appreciate your determination in this matter." Sean continued. "The real assault will start tomorrow."
"We just had a battle with Shinji and his 'Servant' few hours ago and, while I'm not even half of my magical potential used, I would feel safer to strike when everyone can give their 100%." The foreign teen continued looking at the japanese girl.
She wanted to protest, she wanted to say how she would be enough to deal with the old man. But couldn't and with good reasons.
When her father, Tohsaka Tokiomi, decided to make her the Heir of the Tohsaka Clan, he also decided to give her little sister to the Matous to avoid any ill feelings among the two siblings. It was possibly one of the decisions Rin had hated her father had ever done.
He had given her Imouto to a disgusting old man and god knows what the girl had suffered after so many years. Rin could remember how weak and frail Kariya-Ojichan looked in his last years.
While she usually would have never exposed herself to this level of danger, she needed to save her little sister from their father's mistake.
"While I understand your wariness to the attack against the Matous, why didn't you wanted to attack them now?" Saber asked.
The trio was now walking back home and the moon was high in the sky.
"I know you have enough energies to sustain more than one battle." Artoria continued, this time stopping walking together with Shirou.
Sean halted his movement too but didn't turn. "I'm trying to find a way to get Sakura away from danger and maybe removing the Crest Worms in her."
"Do you think it is possible, Sean-kun?" Shirou asked immediately, hoping to save his kohai.
"Possible, yes. Always." Sean replied but started to walk once more. "Easy? No. I will have to find an alternative incantation but I do have a possible solution to have her stay alive after this war."
They returned to walk back home. Tomorrow was going to be a long day.
Sean opened his eyes and found himself once again in the void. This was seriously getting annoying and it was the second time it happened.
"You are back!" The white-haired woman exclaimed childishly.
"Yep. But this time I will return the same kindness you gave to me last time." Sean said with a little smile in his face.
The woman tilted her head, not understanding his words. Then she understood what he meant by the huge hole where her stomach should have been.
In Sean's hand was a Tankgewehr 18. The WW1 Anti-Tank rifle was normally strong but the Reinforced bullet probably could destroy the armor of a modern tank now.
The woman seemed panicking and jumped away from him. Sean projected a sniper scope and attached it to the AT rifle. A shadow manifested from behind him but the with the swift response of the foreign teen left just a mass of dark liquid on its wake.
As he continued to destroy the shadow abominations, he noticed that the more he killed the more the woman started to feel weaker.
Then, holding her head in her hands, she screamed. Seeing this, Sean felt a burning pain in his head and almost fainted because of the horrible migraine.
...
So... This is the Grail Vessel.
'What?' A voice started to talk inside his head. Its tone make Sean sure it was a man but he couldn't recognize him from anywhere.
It collects the souls of Heroic Spirits anchored to this world as Servants.
And is then presented as an offering for the Great Grail summoning.
That. That was something not even the tomes mentioned. The whole concept of the Grail summoning is barely described and it doesn't instruct how to summon it, what kind of objects are needed.
Sean thought it was just the winner would have been able to summon it by a simple incantation but now it seems another object, the Lesser Grail, had to be sacrificed to summon the Greater one. But what could it be?
But why does it have the appearance of a human?
No. Just..No. NO!
What the heck were the Magi thinking?! The foreign teen thought that Magi lacked a common sense but this was beyond that. It was going to a degree of inhumanity that defied any logic or sense.
If there was something that Sean know was sure of was that another War would never happen in his watch. He promised that nobody will recreate this madness once more.
Ah... Can you hear me?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Hai, Emiya Kiritsugu.
...
As he heard those words, Sean found himself back to the void with an angry looking woman before him.
"You should have not seen this!" She turned, giving him her back. "Get out!"
She once again turned, this time with a strange dark and red dress on. "GET OUT!" As she yelled this, Sean was sent flying away...
