All of us sat in the living room of Luvia's house.

Once we exited the mirror world, Luvia and Rin all but demanded that I follow them to give an explanation.

Although I was still angry at what they had done, I still followed them due to the fact that I myself had a few questions that I wanted answers for.

"So, how did you come in contact with the class cards and how did you know to use them in ways that we did not know was possible," Rin asked in a somewhat threatening way, although I was not intimidated the least by it.

But This means,

No matter how much time passes,

You'll never be saved

I forcefully pushed back those memories to focus on the present, matching Rin's glare with my own.

"Before that, why did you think it was wise to involve my little sister in your mission?"

"It was not my desire to involve her, that stupid stick refuses to break the contract that it made with Illya"

"Hahaha! Ruby-chan will not go back to that hag ever again~"

My eye twitched in annoyance as I looked at the Kaleidostick, for a moment, I considered installing Berserker and taking control of it using 'Knight of Owner' then breaking it in two, but I controlled myself when I realized it would not be that easy, considering the fact that it was created by Zelretch himself, it must have contingencies against being controlled by unauthorized users.

"...why?"

I was immediately distracted from the stick when I heard Illya's small voice.

"Why are you fighting? why did you never tell me about this? why?" she slowly raised her voice which was filled with loss and confusion, but I still looked at her stoically, something I picked up from Archer.

"The same reason that you did not tell me about you being a 'Magical Girl'" I said in an even voice as she flinched at the accusation, collapsing in the sofa as she stared at the floor, unable to meet my eyes.

My expression softened as I got up from my position and walked towards her, putting my hand on her head as she slowly leaned into me.

"Illya, you were never supposed to be dragged into this world in the first place, ever since I found out about the moonlit world a few months back, I have been trying my best to keep you safe by keeping you ignorant of the moonlit world, but it seems that i have failed you yet again," I said wryly, It seems that no matter what timeline, Shirou Emiya is destined to fail in keeping his loved ones safe.

I felt her hug me tightly as her body started to shake as she sobbed into my chest, but then, I noticed something strange.

Ever since I merged with Archer, I could always tell when a person had active magic circuits, Sella and Leystritt had active magic circuits just like I could sense from Rin and Luvia, I also sensed the same from the girl Miyu.

Before today, I was sure that Illya did not have active magic circuits, but now, I could feel a powerful surge of Od from her, if my guess is right, she has a tremendous capacity for Od in her body, which was not surprising considering the fact that her Mother was an Einzbern homunculus, but how did Illya manage to unlock her magic circuits?.

"As much as I hate to interrupt, I would like to have my answers Emiya-Kun" Rin interrupted as her feet tapped the floor in impatience.

I once again slipped on my stoic mask as I began.

"Just like you and Luvia were assigned to retrieve the Class Cards in this city, I too was assigned the task by Zelretch"

"That is impossible, we have already retrieved the Lancer, Archer, Rider along with the Caster and Saber class cards from the previous fight, now we only have two more cards left before our mission will be completed, so tell me, what exactly are you going to do about that?"

"...That black thing in the mirror dimension" the small voice of Miyu cut across the room as she stared at me, I nodded towards her as I began to explain my end of the problem, I took out the Archer, Lancer, and Berserker cards and put them on the table just as Miyu and Rin put down their versions of the Class Cards.

At first glance, the two sets looked very similar, but the more one looked at them, the further they could tell them apart.

The secondary Class Cards were visibly a darker shade than the Primary Cards, they had the same depictions as their counterparts, yet one could not help but feel like there was something sinister about the Secondary set as if there was something inherently wrong with them, the letters on the secondary set were written in red while the words on the primary set were written in white.

"These, are the Secondary Class cards, they first appeared shortly after the first person responsible for the collection of the class cards was dispatched, unlike the primary class cards which were clearly made by human hands and contain the hollowed-out copies of the Heroic Spirits, this set contains the full power and Ego of the heroic spirit in them, they are also confirmed to be made by something that was clearly much more powerful than a human being, when I stumbled upon the Archer card a few months ago, I was given the responsibility to retrieve these cards by Zelretch"

Rin and Luvia had a dumbfounded expression on their face as the full implication of what I said slowly started to dawn on them.

"Y-You are telling us that all those servants that we were fighting, all the time we almost ended up becoming a smear on the ground, was all done by Servants who were not even able to utilize their full power?" Rin shouted as Luvia had a haunted look on her face, no doubt thinking back to the close call they had with the Saber class servant a few hours ago.

Even Miyu was reacting to this news with barely contained fright in her eyes.

But soon, I started to realize that something was not right, or specifically, someone.

Illya had not moved a single inch from her position as she still held on to me, but I could sense that there was no strength in her grip. I slowly started to shake her only to realize that she had fallen asleep in that position.

At first, I thought it was because of exhaustion, but when I pressed my hand against her head, I felt an abnormal amount of heat, she had come down with a high fever.

"Sorry, It seems that we need to stop our questions for today, I need to take her home to rest," I said, I did not care for the protest that Rin and Luvia tried to put up before I sprinted out of the house and to my home that was directly opposite to Luvia's home.

"Shirou, you are late again- What happened?" Sella said concernedly as she looked at the unconscious Illya in my arms.

"She is having a high fever so I brought her home"

I sat tiredly on the couch of our house as I felt the Emiya crest slowly cool down, all that fighting I did had ended up taxing both my innate circuits as well as the family crest.

But before I could fully relax, I heard the front door open as the scent of blood and power rushed to my nose.

My sixth sense manifested as a sense of smell.

I gave no visible change in my position but i placed myself in such a way that if a threat made itself know, I would be able to immediately respond to it.

But all of my strategies came crashing down when the two people came walking into the room, a single moment later, one of them ran and jumped on me, tackling me to the couch.

"Shirou~ I missed you~"

"Welcome home, Mom," I said tiredly, already used to her antics.

I then looked towards my Father who had the same stoic face that he always held, he nodded towards me as I did towards him, we never did need words to communicate with each other.

But all of my happiness at seeing my parents came crashing down the moment my mother opened her mouth.

"Ne Shirou, what is this I am hearing about you being involved in the Moonlit world?"

I seriously hate my E rank Luck.