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Chapter 20: Waking of the Wizard Marshal
Shirou had thought that so far he had experienced the weirdest/creepiest awakening in his short life.
Sadly, the day after the happenings at the Church he found himself proven wrong.
As his sleepy eyes opened at the need of waking up, two purple eyes were staying at him intensely.
He wouldn't have minded that much and let it pass so early in the morning.
Thing was that the individual with the face so close to him was also sitting on his stomach.
"Good Morning."
The greeting was answered with a girly scream from the now fully awaken Emiya and as he tried to get away from that embarassing situation, the sound of the door of the room being opened froze him on place.
"Onii-chan, what's the proble-!" The once looking worried Illya stopped at seeing the predicament without context.
A perfectly healthy Sakura Matou was sitting on her Onii-chan and looked quite unfazed by the intruder.
The first thing Shirou prayed to do was explain the situation and try to avoid a serious beating from his little but quite hot-headed sister.
Still Shirou knew that he was not going to have time to dodge a dangerous encounter with Illya.
The aforementioned girl seemed to have gained a demon-like aura and Shirou could have sworn he had seen the Shinigami behind her.
His thoughts were quickly interrupted when he noticed that his sister was making slow but determined steps towards him.
The boy did what he would always do in those situations.
Making an impressive speed, Shirou moved towards the window and jumped away.
Meanwhile Sakura looked the scene blankly, yet an amused glint started to appear visible in her eyes.
Few minutes later and several heated words between the two siblings with the involvement of the two maids.
"Pervert!"
"Shirou-kun is just a growing boy."
Through embarassment and threats against his 'dignity', Shirou survived for the first time to the harsh punishment of the young Einzbern.
Once the two had calmed down, they both addressed the issue at hand.
"Shirou-san looked quite interesting and I wanted to see why."
Illya tilted her head while Shirou scratched his head, the two siblings confused by her words.
"What do you mean with 'interesting', Matou-san?"
Flinching a little at the name used to address her, Sakura nodded calmly.
"When I look at Shirou-san, I feel my face heat up and I feel like if there are butterflies in my stomach."
This time only our dear protagonist looked still confused, but now a bit worried.
"Oh, do you feel sick Sakura-chan?"
A quick [Observe] calmed him as he noticed that Sakura's was actually better than the last time he had used his ability on her.
Yet he felt dumb at this possibility.
Could it have been related to the fact that now Illya was facepalming at him and giving weird looks towards Rin's sister?
As he was about to voice his inner questions, he heard that someone rang at the entrance door.
Seeing the two girls looked a bit confused by this, Shirou thought it wasn't something planned.
Slowly, the young Emiya went to the entrance room and opened the door.
"Greeting Emiya Shirou."
...
Shirou eyed the golden-haired teen and took a step back inside, panicked and shocked by the predicament.
The King didn't address the distress in Shirou's visage and merely walked inside.
"Move, we need to discuss your future training."
Gulping at the steel-like tone used by the former Archer and he followed him back to the living room.
Gilgamesh halted a moment, his red eyes gazing at the two other beings in the room.
Yet, his eyes stared the now looking surprised and embarassed von Einzbern.
He smirked before sitting in one of the empty sofas.
"Wha- Why?" "Questions will be answered later, Emiya. I noticed something not even I had foreseen."
The Servant stood silent few seconds before continuing. "You are the child of the Homunculus and that man, aren't you?"
Illya seemed to reel back in surprise at the question. Slowly, she nodded and asked.
"Did you knew my Mama?"
Gilgamesh's smirk intensified, yet he seemed to relax a bit at the naive question.
"Your mother was one of the most well-done homunculi ever done. She seemed quite interesting as Sa- an aquaintance of mine seemed to ease her guard with her. It is sad Kotomine had to kill her to reach the grail."
"Who- Who is this Kotomine?" Illya seemed to have deflated as the information she had just heard was quite bland and somewhat insulting towards her mother.
The King of Uruk was interceded by Shirou. "A dead man, Illya. Kotomine Kirei has payed for his injustice."
He would have worded it better but the young Emiya had answered quickly and without giving better words to calm down the now looking frail girl.
Still the sentence seemed to reduce the sadness of her sister as she leveled her head, showing a small, satisfied smile.
"Now that the issue has been solved. Follow me, Emiya."
Gilgamesh quickly walked away from the room and the house.
The young Magus followed but not before giving some 'explanations' about the man.
"He's just an hermit magus. Nothing to worry about."
He paled a little at the thought of the Servant hearing this excuse as he had witnessed firsthand how much prideful Gilgamesh was.
Finally, they reached the playground of the near park.
It was empty and perfect for the kind of talks Shirou was going to hear.
"You have proven that you got potential, Shirou Emiya. But sadly you are lacking in your way of growth."
His smirk returned full power as the young Emiya felt a bit of Killing Intent on him.
"So I decided to improve your shape and form by personally train you. Be grateful as you are the second person to actually achieve this."
Shirou prepared his mind to a second barrage of NPs but was shocked when the servant merely used a Reinforced Baseball Bat to attack him.
Quickly, in his hand he [Traced] a scymitar but, to his increasing surprise, it broke quickly under the might of the sport object.
He tried to dodge several times the strikes coming his way but every single one of those hit him. Painfully.
Finally, Shirou spotted a small opening in Gilgamesh's guard and as he tried to stab forward an hit, he was once again repelled with a swift swing.
"W-W-why aren-t's you using the Gate?"
The question seemed to stop the assault as the King thought about the answer. Or more like thought if he should answer that.
"Compromised by your little 'thing', Emiya. It seems this [Game] has influenced my Treasury and so made it unfit to use against you."
Shirou blinked confused. Silently, he brought up the Skill Menu to see anything related to this and blinked this time in surprise at the results of his search.
Gate of Justice (LVL 1 - EXP 0/100) - Active Skill developed after interacting with the infamous Gate of Babylon. Gate of Justice can be considered a different skill as Gilgamesh's as it can be used to store everything you came in contact with. Its function is very similar to older versions of the Game's Inventory.
Blessing of Bablyonia (LVL MAX.) Your determination and sense of justice has captivated the attention of the blades. Your drive to master your abilities has furthered the possibilities of fully bonding with the Gate of Babylon. This skill will give you the use of Gate of Babylon only if permitted by Gilgamesh himself. Reach higher levels and this Skill might be upgraded.
This opened a lot of opportunities and new possible means of winning battles.
The possibility of storing an unlimited amount of food to use to recharge HP was the first thing that came to his mind.
But Shirou knew that he still had to work hard to survive in the Moonlit World.
"A-Anyway, where are you staying exactly? You didn't mention it.."
Gilgamesh kept giving blows to the weak guard of the boy as he answered.
"That young girl, Tohsaka, has given me the rightful permission to live in her mediocre home. I decided in the mean time to restore his former state as the one it had when I entered it was unfit for a king.."
Rin looked around the studio that once was her father's and moved to the only seat in the room.
Sitting on the chair and putting her feet on the table, she gave once more a look around before smiling greedily.
She got an entire mansion for herself and no adults to order around.
The loud sound of cackling echoed through the empty hallways of the Tohsaka Mansion.
Shirou didn't know why but he felt the need to facepalm towards a person he was familiar with, but he didn't know which.
His inner self shrugged it away as he once again focused fully on getting beaten to death by the insane training of Gilgamesh.
A part of him wondered if Fuyuki had finally got a longer period of peace than before..
Meanwhile under Ryuudou Temple, in the cave where the Greater Grail was hidden, the essence that once possessed the now deceased Kirei Kotomine finally reached its original place and, with a quick thrust, managed to return back inside.
The effects of this unusual spiritual breach were immediately evident as a small crack appeared on the surface of the Cup of Heaven.
An almost unperceivable dark pulse echoed all over the world.
In a distant South American Village, a being of immense power moved in its sleep.
Something interesting was going to happen and maybe it was time to finally wake up.
The monster known as Type Mercury or ORT was finally showing signs of life and it was not something that went unnoticed.
Lord El-Melloi II, previously known as Waver Velvet, walked quite pale in the unused hallway.
It's been years since a situation like this has ever happened and now his superiors at Clock Tower had decided to call in the best candidate for the incredibly insane job.
Finally, he reached the end of the hall and slowly opened the door.
The room seemed to have barely changed ever since his first and last visit years ago and was surprised to see the person he was searching sitting on the same place as before and looking incredibly as old as before.
"Oh Good Morning, El-Melloi. How is doing? Finally the greedy fingers of your superiors having lost their thirst in trying to keep the HG around?"
The man looked stunned for a moment but nodded nonetheless.
Clapping his hands once, the older man jumped away from his chair and walked around the young Lord.
"It's interesting how I will see the destruction of something I helped to create. I admit it was a mistake but it kind of bring back some nostalgia."
Waver gulped before handing a series of files to the still smiling vampire.
As Zelretch picked those and started to read the words, his smile vanished and a grim look appeared to his usually joyous face.
"This.. This is truly bad. It seems I let this matter go for far too long."
He returned the papers to the Lord before stating something stunning.
"Young Waver, pack your things. You will accompany me to Fuyuki."
"S-Sir?" While he had grown to be a very reserved and calm individual, the Wizard Marshal was quite good at bringing back part of his shyness from his teenage years.
"It's time to destroy the artefact and I think you might enjoy going to the place that changed your resolve, mightn't you?"
Lord El-Melloi II looked unsure but, after some traitorous thoughts reminding him of Iskandar, he accepted.
He wanted to truly see how the city had changed since his last visit.
AN
Fheew. This chapter had been quite an interesting one as I am now trying to bring the story to a faster pace. Don't worry since this is because I'm very close to start the last section of this Arc and it is certainly not going to finish quite soon. (I planned ten chapters for this long, final section of Arc 1). I hope this time I didn't mess grammar too much.
News: I created a twitter account to use as an announcement account and maybe something for more quicker and visible polls. If you want to follow important announcement about the fanfic or from almighty me you should. Kinda.
Twitter Account: Is in Profile's Bio. It seems some keys are not accepted...
Also GUYS WE BROKE THE 200TH REVIEW MILESTONE! THIS STORY IS TRULY REACHING AN HEIGHT NOT EVEN MY MOST ILLOGICAL THOUGHT POSSIBLE! THANK YOU ALL!
Review Q&A!
Indra Uzumaki: Thank you and I will value the name change more.
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AngelaVargas1: There, Gilgamesh lives with Tohsaka. So you kinda win the bet. The choice is more to avoid the Emiya Household to become too much small for our poor Shirou. Also Thank You!
the DragonBard: I already explained that LUCK in the Game is different than standard Fate's Luck.
renextronex: Those two are Active Skills. Even in the original Gamer the two main important abilities are Active Skills.