And so with the defection of Ilya von Einzbern from the House of Einzbern to the Emiya Alliance, the Fifth Holy Grail War had taken a true shift in the balance of power.

Assassin and Gilagemsh along with their master, Kirei, were outnumbered, outpowered, and outgunned.

Rider and Archer was missing.

Berserker, Saber, Lancer, and Caster along with Kiritsugu, Ilya, Shirou, and Harry were in an alliance.

Kiritsugu didn't waste time. He kept Berserker, Shioru, Harry, and Ilya behind while he led Saber and Lancer to engage Kirei.

The battle was to take in front of the church where Kirei used as his base.

Gilgamesh was already waiting outside.

Assassin stood by his side with his insufferable orange book in his hand.

Kirei stood behind them.

Then the attack came.

The first attack was a sniper rifle fire aimed at Kirei.

Unfortunately for Kiritsugu, it was unsuccessful. Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon opened up and shot down a esoteric shield of red and white to protect his 'master.'

"Uncouth mongrel, striking from the shadows," Gilgamesh growled. "That's this bastard's job!" he shouted as he jerked his thumb at Assassin.

Assassin looked up. "Did you say something?"

If anything, it only made Gilgamesh more angry.

Without order or prompt, Gilgamesh widened the output from from his Gate and began to launch unlimited rain down upon the forest surrounding the church.

Saber threw her master over her shoulder before jumping out of the ground he had set his rifle on.

Lancer appeared by their side as the forest around them erupted in fire.

Assassin was quick to disappear and engage Lancer, pushing him towards the erupting forest around them.

Saber and Kiritsugu was then left with Kirei and Gilgamesh, once more like the past.

"I was waiting for this day," Kirei said as he brandished his swords.

And then they clashed.

Gilgamesh struck first by opening a barrage of swords from his Gate.

Saber dutifully rushed in between Gilgamesh and her Master before parrying all strikes away with fluid and graceful ease. Then once the barrage stopped, she unhesitatingly charged in with a burst of prana in front of her.

Gilgamesh was forced to pull out a shield from the gate, but it marred his view.

Saber took advantage of this.

And activated something Kiritsugu had given her.

When Gilgamesh saw it, he didn't see how it could be important, not when it looked like she was trying to keep it out of his reach. So he struck at it.

Only to see Saber's grin just before she let it go.

"Boom."

Gilagamesh's eyes widened.

Too fast for him to defend himself, the explosion ruptured in front of his face.

And all of his swords disppeared with him.

Kirei's eyes widened. "I ... am surprised. You do not fought as you did last war," he told Saber.

Kiritsugu shrugged. "What can I say? I rubbed off on her."

Saber glared at him.

Then the two charged as one at Kirei.

Assassin and Lancer were ... fighting, but not in the sense that Saber, Kiritsugu, Gilgamesh, and Kirei had been.

No, they were fighting a mental war.

Both of them were masters of their respective field, and masters have their own mental war.

Each twitch of their limb, each peripheral look, and each change in the stance were enough for the two.

Suddenly, but perhaps not unexpectedly to those who know him, Kakashi pulled out his book again. "I surrender."

...

"What?"

Kirei was a master swordsman. Make no mistake, he was in the end only man, but even to that end, he was a master swordsman. He parried both Saber and Kiritsugu in tandem with his fan of swords.

Saber stood in the front, using her skills with her sword to make a variety of moves with such speed that most swordsman would not be able to parry. Especially not with the speed that she attacked and maneuvered.

Kiritsugu stood in the back with his pistols. Unlike last time, he did not use the antiqued guns. Instead, he used dual modern handguns, Smith & Wesson Model 500.

At the face of this new gun, empowered even more so with Wind runes that Kiritsugu inscribed into each bullet and on the barrel, Kirei found his supply of swords quickly dwindling and his prana running out.

In a gamble, Kirei threw a multitude of swords at Kiritsugu while he kept Saber tied down with another barrage.

Then to his surprise, Saber ignored the blades.

She dove through them, allowing them to strike and hit her in her shoulder and leg.

But with this surprise move, she unleashed Excalibur and struck down Kirei.

And with that, victory had come to the Emiya Alliance.

The battle was short and decisive. The sudden change of tactics and a little bit of dirty playing had done wonders.

Assassin officially changed hands to Kiritsugu, who took on the Servant out of gut feeling that he should.

Still...

There was no prolonged battle like the last war.

In fact, this war was over within three days' time.

Regardless, the entire Emiya Alliance gathered and celebrated their victory.

The next day, they went to where the Holy Grail was kept, and unleashed Saber's Excalibur.

It was over.

"...Then why aren't we disappearing?"

That leads the alliance to one question.

With the grail gone, the magi the Servants were bound to should not have been able to sustain the Servants. In fact, it had already been a day since the destruction of the Holy Grail and yet all of the Servants of the Emiya Alliance remained.

As one, they turned to Harry.

He was usually at fault for something like this.

Harry didn't look unhappy nor apprehensive about the situation as Kiritsugu was. Kiritsugu was half-convinced that the Holy Grail was not destroyed.

Kiritsugu frowned for a second before he looked about.

"Harry, what did you do?" he asked as he began to realize that something was off.

Harry grinned sheepishly. "Caster and I made some changes."

Now, it was everyone's turn to look at Tamamo.

"Caster?" Kiritsugu asked.

The fox-girl sheepishly chuckled as she scratched the back of her head. "W-Well, I realized that Master Harry used the wrong incantation in the first place-"

Everyone's head turned to Harry again.

"Harry?"

"I just used the incantation in the tome! See, here!" Harry quickly opened up the tome he was carrying around, not in his pocket dimension, and flipped through the pages. Once he found the page he was looking for, he quickly presented it to the rest of the family. "Here."

"... 'Summoning Spells for the Lonely.' What's with the title?"

Kiritsugu snatched the book from Harry, much to the boy's displeasure, and began to read through the chapter.

However as minutes passed by, he grew paler and paler.

"...Kiritsugu?" Saber asked, somewhat perturbed by the man's silence and growing paleness.

He ignored her and kept on reading.

Then, after five minutes of reading, he closed the book.

"...Lancer."

The man looked at him expectantly.

"...Caster."

The girl looked at him expectantly.

"Congratulations on your second bodies."

"What?!" Saber shouted as she shot up.

"Harry didn't use the Holy Grail's summoning rite," Kiritsugu explained. "It's a completely different ritual. Harry, how did you get the necessary power requirements for this?"

"Umm Umm Umm," Harry muttered before he paused. Everyone held their breath to hear the secret to this power source. "Ah, I remember! The land!"

"The land?" everyone but Harry repeated.

"Uh huh. The land. There was something in the ground. I think it was those leylines that the book talked about. So I stuck a sipping straw through it... I think."

This was a problem with Harry that Shirou and Kiritsugu had long recognized.

He talked in images instead of technical terms. It was nothing bad for a kid his age, but sometimes, it was irritating.

"Harry, please explain to me -"

"Umm, dad?" Ilya spoke up.

"Yes, Ilya?"

"I think Harry drained the local leyline."

"...What?"

Ilya quickly explained how when she entered the city, it had less mana in its air than the Black Forest, where no leyline passed through and where the Einzberns had their castle. She had found the fact that a spiritually rich land would lack mana in the air. In fact, she talked about how there was a distinct "drainage" of mana in the air. The ground held some that she could drain, but nothing outside of that. Even the amount that was there was slowly draining away as well.

Devoid of magic.

Kiritsugu had a blank face, but had he been anyone else, he would have been gawking in horror.

Shirou gawked in horror anyway.

"...We might want to leave Japan before their ministry comes after us."

However, they were not that lucky.

The Mage's Association had expected something from Kiritsugu, so they had sent a team of enforcers and a single diplomat.

No matter what anyone else may say, Mage's Association knew the cunning and power of Kiritsugu. They weren't willing to let someone like him away from their grasp.

Just when the Emiya Alliance was about to leave their home, they appeared.

50 Enforcers and 1 diplomat.

Lancer, Saber, Caster, and Berserker all got on guard. Ilya prepared what little magecraft she could under the circumstances.

Harry was busy reading the tome.

A veritable army by the standards of the Moonlit World, especially when all 50 of the Enforcers were veteran elites.

Kiritsugu knew he was trapped.

As powerful as the Servants were, their focus would be too split with 50 enemies.

The diplomat stepped up, and smiled.

"It's been a while, little boy."

"...Zelretch?"

The True Dead Apostle Ancestor, the Wizard Marshall, and the de facto "king" of the Mage's Association grinned. "Took a while for you to recognize me, eh?" he asked. "Bah, but let's get to negotiating. You know you're not leaving this place in one piece otherwise."

Kiritsugu frowned but nodded.

In the end, this was how it went.

Kiritsugu agreed to work for the Enforcers and Mage's Association. In return, Zelretch would provide personal protection for the entire "House of Emiya," which extended to the now truly living Servants.

Hell, Zelretch was just giddy knowing that there was now a truly living demigod, even if that said demigod was a man whose priority was fixed on protecting the Einzbern homunculus and had enough power to devastate Great Britain as a whole.

Some of the Enforcers voiced their disagreement with Zelretch.

Zelretch promptly knocked them out.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, was how the House of Emiya was brought to United Kingdoms of Great Britain and how the story truly starts.