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'thoughts'
"Active skill name or magic spell"
'Active skill name or magic spell in thought'
"speech"
action*
time*
noise*
Arc 5 - Chapter 2: Think Before Speaking
(Fuyuki Church: Front Entrance)
"By the way, how goes the battle? We've only been gone, for like almost half an hour." I ask Lancer, who was too busy trying to comprehend what's going on here. 'Huh, guess there are some things, that would shock the guy. Even with all the things he has experienced in his life.'
"I'm sure the battle went great for him since he alive and well before our eyes." Scathach said to her Master, "For now, we should leave and let Cu Chulainn handle his Master. I trust him enough to do what's right." Scathach knew the type of person her former student is and not afraid to leave a defenseless woman with him.
"Alright." I wasn't that eager to speak with Bazett who may or may not outright attack me just to win the [Holy Grail], even I wasn't even bothered to win the thing with how it is right now. But she might after recovering and act on attack first question second mental state due to her deadly encounter with Kirei. "Actually, I want to do something before the night is over." I said to Scathach and begin moving towards where the Servant Berserker's Master is.
30 minutes later*
(Einzbern Castle)
I knock down a good portion of the Einzbern Castle's wall with a well good kick, causing even Scathach to be surprised at how strong I am.
"Hi! Hi! Hi!" I grin happily at the shocking look on Illyasviel von Einzbern aka Servant Berserker's Master. Also the daughter of Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel von Einzbern.
Much like the other Einzbern homunculi, Illyasviel has crimson eyes and long white hair. Similar to her mother, Illya, short for her name, also bears a genetic resemblance to her ancestor, Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, who was responsible for the formation of the core of the [Holy Grail]. She is currently wearing a collared, purple long-sleeved shirt with a light purple scarf to match, a long white skirt and purple boot.
Though Illya was born through natural means, her body has been heavily modified before and after her birth to maximize the [Magic Circuits] in her body, making her the ultimate homunculus and a refined vessel for the [Holy Grail]. As a result of the modifications to her body, her physical body develops slowly and her father correctly assesses that her physical body will not develop secondary sexual characteristics. Also, she older than Shirou even with her petite body figure.
"Wh-Who are you?!" Illya shouted in surprise, with her Servant Berserker standing in front of her in a protective manner.
"Me? I'm the guy who came here to persuade you to stop fighting in the [Holy Grail War] and get to keep your Servant after I fix your body, so you won't die an awful death within a year and help you learn the truth of your parents too." I didn't feel threaten the way Berserker growling at me. With Scathach already has two [Gae Bolgs] in her hands, ready for a fight with Berseker. "Did I mention, that I'll also help you bring back your parents too?"
At this part, even Scathach is looking at me in disbelief, for my claim to bring Illya's parents back to life. While Illya herself is glaring at me with rage, for daring to bring up her parents.
"Berserker-!" Illya tried to order her Servant, trying being the keyword. Because in the next few seconds, everyone is shocked at the sight of seeing a gale blasting all over Berserker. Sharp winds cutting deep into the Servant Berserker's body, causing blood to spill everywhere if it had the chance to spill as even the blood was cut as well.
By the time sharp winds disappear. Everyone can see the bloody wounded Berserker fall to his knees and only through sheer willpower is what stopping the Servant from falling down completely and only barely resist by just falling to his knees only.
"BERSERKER!" Illya shriek in horror as she rushes over to her Servant with concern, but was pushed back by a weaken Berserker. "Berserker?!" Illya is baffled at her Servant's action and notices him staring at the person that mentions her deceased parents.
"Well, now the big guy is down. We can continue talking. You're lucky I held back or else he would be dead for sure. Not even with his [Noble Phantasm: God Hand] would save him." I grin at Illya, who looks back at me in horror. "After all, with this black saber in my hand that made from the conceptual death in mind. You should be happy I managed to hold it back from reaping your Servant's life." I even prove this by raising the black saber already unsheath in front of me, where it releases a presence of death itself.
Even Scathach who has a big relationship with death itself by going through countless battles, with her life always being near to the edge of death before could easily sense the familiar feeling from her Master's black saber. Making Scathach in disbelief, that her Master possesses such a weapon without noticing it and she was next to him the entire time and now with the weapon out in the open she could finally sense it.
Illya shiver as the sight of the black saber, something abnormal about it made her feel a deep pit of fear, causing her unconsciously hide behind her Servant, but enough for her to poke her head to the side to keep an eye on the two that blow up her castle.
Seeing how others are reacting to my black saber. I replace it back into its scabbard, causing almost everyone to sigh in relief that the presence of death is no longer in the area.
"Anyway, since this whole [Holy Grail War] is a bust. May as well just keep our Servants instead of allowing them to kill each other for a wish that would be doomed from the start no matter how well you word the wish." I begin to explain to Illya about the main reason of why her father and mother's death related to the [Holy Grail], including the fact that her father been trying to reach out to her for months before dying and the only reason he hasn't taken her away was due to her grandfather.
"Trust my Master, he knows lots of things many don't know." Scathach said to Illya, but she kept her eyes on her Master as she suddenly had thought pop in her head, where she most likely have found a worthy opponent to face against since she didn't even see how fast her Master's attacks were, nor did she hear the sound of her Master's black saber being drawn out.
'If my idea works, then there won't be a need to kill the other Servants at all to finish the [Holy Grail War].' I thought to myself while keeping a grin on my face and staring at Illya, who looks like she thinking real hard about what her available choices to pick. 'Now, to put this idea into action, then I can leave this world for another and maybe bring Scathach with if she desires to, best to have a companion that not a lover than no one to tag along at all. Plus, with her being my Servant. The chance of her betraying me is close 0% and will stay 0% if I use the [Command Seals]. Hopefully, that doesn't really happen.'
"How do I know if you're not just making me lower my guard before killing me?" Illya didn't trust the person that injured Berserker at all, but she does have a small hope of reuniting with her parents. Yet, she wonders what the price would be if such a thing is possible if it is possible.
"You just have to find out. Well, I'm going to head off, I just came here to give you this offer and to persuade you to accept it, but it's getting late already and I'm sleepy. So, I'll be off now. You can search for me if you decide to take my offer. Come on, Assassin." I said to Scathach, as I turn my back to Illya and her Servant; however, I kept my [Spiritual Sense] active like always.
"Coming, Master." Scathach give Illya one last look before following her Master back to the same place they've rented out to sleep for the night.
The next day*
(Motel: Room: 108)
"Master." Scathach call out for my attention while I was thinking about what I should cultivate on to pass the morning.
"Yeah?" I look at my Servant, who changed out of her battle outfits into a causal light shade of purple dress for the outdoors, with a black high heel and nothing else, but that doesn't prevent the beauty of Scathach from not showing. 'If only it was possible to be in a relationship with her. Well, at least with her along. I would be reminded, that it's near impossible to get a girl with my bad luck with the opposite gender.' I mentally sighed in disappointment. 'I wonder if I should just go find some random brothel to deal with my lust and be done with it. Fill just a bit of the void of being single than being disappointed with how the girls I have any chances with would just leave my life one way or another.'
"I have been meaning to ask you this after you explained your origin last night, and I've experienced the first dream cycle and honestly. I'm surprised you didn't have any health problems with all the sleep you've been having in the past. It's not healthy sleeping so much." Scathach frowns at how her Master's past is very confusing, but at the same time, she can see how easily he so different from others. "Yet, that's the only thing I have seen in your past, where I can only see you sleeping in class or anywhere else. Nothing out of the ordinary." However, what she didn't say on her mind was questioning how come her Master's parents were barely in his life. Something she could relate to a bit. "Anyway, my question is. Would you allow me to travel with you to the multiverse? I wish to see if there any worthy foes to face my spear. As I've faced many, many foes in the Land of Shadow and wonder what other foes I have no fought with before, to test my ability against them."
"Sure." I shrug my shoulders, as I've come up with a new set of [Spiritual Spells] for the [Spell Formation] to back up the [Dream-Traversing Technique], so Aqua's situation wouldn't happen again. Something I did not expect to happen, but if I do end up in another Inuyasha world, I'll be trolling Inuyasha for a long time or just outright kill him, even if it's technically not his fault for Aqua's death or whatever.
"Well, that's out of the way. Should we go out to do something? I even got this dress to go out." Scathach feels a bit uncomfortable staying in a small space for too long.
'To cultivate or not to cultivate, that is the question.' I carefully think about if I should go out and hang out with Scathach, where I may enjoy it or not, even though it's not really a date and just a hang out with a friend. 'Ugh... The thought about this making the situation seems more like I'm being friend-zoned before I even ask the girl out. Talk about depressing.' I thought with a bit of sadness. "Alright." I decide to go anyway or else Scathach would do something to annoy me or something.
"Great." Scathach secretly disappointed for not being able to teach her Master a lesson, that one should be more active and enjoy the outside instead of just staying indoor too long and with the morning almost over made it worse for Scathach.
'Huh? What's with the sudden chill?' I scratch the back of my head in confusion, but thought nothing of it and just head out with Scathach to hang out. 'Hopefully, Scathach isn't one of those girls that like to spend lots of money on useless things.'
A few minutes later*
(Fuyuki City)
"So, what do you want us to go first?" I ask Scathach, seeing how she the one that wanted us to go do outside activity when I could use this time to cultivate for a bit to pass the time before meeting with the other Masters, especially Illya, of the [Holy Grail War].
"We should go try local foods. I'm curious about the taste here." Scathach wonder if the food here is better or not compared to the food she eats most of the time in the Land of Shadow.
"Alright. There one right up ahead." I point at a food stall, "Look like they're selling yakitori." I just realize that I haven't had Japanese food in a long time, made by other people instead of me making it with [Dream Elemental Force].
"Come on, then." Scathach walk over to the food stall, that selling yakitori while ignoring the glances she getting from almost everyone in the street. Something she already used to, nor does it bother her at all. "Two please." Scathach said to the person making the yakitori.
"That will be 200 yen." The Street Vendor said to Scathach, who looks back at me since she doesn't have money.
I just reach into my right pocket, where I use [Dream Elemental Force] to create two 100 yen coins, then hand it over to the Street Vendor, who gave two yakitori already finished cook over to Scathach.
"Thank you for your purchase!" The Street Vendor gives both Scathach and me a bright smile.
"Here your share." Scathach hand me a yakitori while she eats her own. As we begin moving to search for any other food stalls, to try out the food.
Once we're a good distance away, "I'll be honest. I've tasted better." I spoke the truth as all foods made out of [Dream Elemental Force] are tasty, then again, if I think it's tasty, then it is.
"I can see your point." Scathach agrees with her Master, as she has tasted things way better than this yakitori. "I bet I can make something better than this. Come on." Scathach drags her Master to a grocery store.
2 hours later*
(Motel: Room: 108)
"How is it?" Scathach asks her Master, as she watches him eat her handmade yakitori, which took her a bit of research to learn how to make it.
I raise a thumb up to Scathach while chewing on the chicken, that's better than the one made by the Street Vendor, but still not the same rate as my own. But, I kept those thoughts to myself.
"So, with food out of the way, what should we do next?" Scathach glance out the window, where the sun is still out, not close to the time of setting. Then begin eating her share of yakitori.
"Eh, we can check on to see if your former student is doing alright or something, maybe you could go spar with King of Knights. Your choices, really." I said to Scathach as I finish off the last piece of chicken. Then, grab the next stick to eat.
"Tempting, but I think I'll do that later. I think I recall, that this [Holy Grail War]'s Servant Archer is someone worth facing if what you told me about him is true." Scathach grin at the thought about facing a copy of herself and many others, but knew that was just a dream if the limitations Servant Archer has on his [Magecraft] is real. Then, it may not be much of a battle. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to face someone using the same fighting style as hers, even if it a knock off version. "I'm interested in this [Reality Marble] of his." Plus, if Scathach truly wanted to fight a copy version of her fighting style. She would gladly face her former student instead.
'I wonder what Scathach's reaction would be if I were to use [Heavenly Abode].' I sweatdrop, that even though I held back some information since it would be a while before Scathach finds out about it during the dream cycle. "Sure. Go right away." I wonder if I should do anything to help Sakura out, 'Eh, I'll get to it when I feel like it.'
"Great. Let's go." Scathach finishes off the last yakitori and throws the stick in the trashcan near her. Then, stand up and head to the door.
I shook my head, then got up from my seat and follow Scathach out while thinking about if I should continue to work on my [Soaring Saber Art] and [Saber Aura] or work on finishing the [Fate Palace Four Symbols Awakening - Soul Fire Stage]. I'm just 1% away from completion. Then, decide to do it when it's time for me to leave since I won't care about the world's will being mad at me or not, upon finding out that I have the ability to create souls as by the time I'm done cultivating. I would be out of that world in no time.
30 minutes later*
(Emiya Residence)
"Where is he?" Scathach demand Rin, for the whereabouts of her Servant, causing the poor girl to sweat in fear and deeply want to run away on her bare feet at this very moment due to Scathach's warlust placing so much presence onto her, yet Rin isn't even given the option in the first place with Scathach being so close to her. All because Scathach's desire is to face this [Holy Grail War]'s Servant Archer.
"I must say, the food you made is delicious." I said to Shirou, who looks very nervous with a pissed off Artoria next to him, as they watch me eat their dinner without permission, nor did they stop me due to the fact that I made sure to use a hint of my [Saber Aura] to make them back off. Of course, I left my black saber inside my [Dream World] due to not wanting a certain future version of a redhead to scan it, to make a copy of it as he did with the King of Hero.
"Thanks..." Shirou replied, while nervously wonder how in the world these two people manage to find out where he lives and why they haven't started fighting with his group yet. Well, one came in, to demand Rin of where her Servant is while the other is the Master just begins eating the food Shirou made for dinner.
"Anyway, we were in the neighborhood and decide to drop by. Since I've discovered that the [Holy Grail] is literally a death trap no matter who is the winner." I decide to break some dreams while I'm at it. 'I wonder how Shirou would develop now, with many factors are now gone.' I knew that unless [Counter Guardian: Emiya] would pass on the [Unlimited Blade Work] over to Shirou by using it on Shirou, where he will learn how to use his own version of [Reality Marble] or somehow gain the [Class Card: EMIYA] for Shirou to instinctively learn and use the [Unlimited Blade Work].
"What do you mean by that?" Rin asks with a frown on her face, for her family was among the group that created the [Holy Grail] to reach the [Root], then to learn that it a death trap isn't something she likes to hear from a stranger, who is also another Master. An enemy to be precise, even now, she has her Servant ready to take action right away if her life is in danger. Though, that's kind of hard to do with another Servant very close to her, with a face eager to spill blood. Hopefully, not hers. As Rin mentally pray for her safety.
"It's exactly what I just said, the [Holy Grail] is literally a death trap no matter who is the winner." I finish eating the last plate of food. Then, placing chopsticks I used down before resume talking. "So, I'm going around looking for the other Masters and Servants to just stop fighting with each other, then just live the rest of our lives. Since if none of the Servants are killed, then the [Holy Grail War] will never be finished nor would there be any winner. Therefore, there won't be a sixth, seventh, or even any future wars from this point on. Since the [Fifth Holy Grail War] still going on. While the Servants themselves may not get the wish they wanted, but at the very least they get to have a second life technically. After figuring a way to gain a [Mana Source] to keep them from fading or just not fight at all while conversing their own [Prana]." I finished explaining what I wanted to everyone. 'I wonder if this war's Servant Caster is the same. If so, this makes things complicated or not. Depending on if I could reason with her.'
Thinking about this for a moment; I extend the [Spiritual Sense]'s range further until I've covered the entire city. While making sure no one could detect me doing so and to my relief, the Servant Caster is the same one as canon. This means the only different variation of this whole situation is myself and Scathach. This mean, that Caster won't be able to summon her Servant Assassin since that slot is taken by Scathach.
"What's wrong with the [Holy Grail], that made you think it's a death trap?" Artoria demands, since she needs the [Holy Grail] to grant the wish she desires, which is the main reason why she answered the summoning call into this war in the first place.
"Well, for one. There is the All the World's Evil within the Grail, which in this case, making the [Holy Grail] corrupted. Making all wishes upon it, to something into a worse version of it, if the wish in question wasn't already bad already by itself. In fact, Shirou. The main cause of the Fuyuki's fire incident is because of the corrupted [Holy Grail], where Kirei's desired wish took on the form of the fire." I pause for a moment when I scanned Sakura by accident, where I can 'see' all those awful [Crest Worms]. "If your desire to be a hero of justice, then Sakura would be your main target to rescue right now as we speak." I inform everyone about Sakura's current fate of being a second [Lesser Grail], with Illya being the first. Which made Artoria, Rin, and even Shirou pale at this news. Since I even revealed both of their pasts.
"Master." Scathach for my attention, with a serious stare focused on me.
"You need something, Assassin?" I give my Servant the attention she wanted.
"Give me permission, to rescue this Sakura and allow me to destroy this worm." Scathach said coldly, for she has no mercy for such being to do such cruel thing to a child and continue to do so up to now.
"Go crazy." I shrug my shoulders, not caring that I unleashed a monster-like warrior onto the world.
BOOM!*
Before anyone could react, I can, there is now a new big gap in the wall to the outside.
"Well, I may have to choose my words more carefully in the future." I thought out loud, then got up from my seat and head out while ignoring the shockingly disbelief look on the three faces, where they are too in shock to stop me from leaving. 'Maybe I should do a few more things in this world before leaving for another. I still got many, many things to gain from this world after thinking about it.'
