Intercepted by Shinji and his Servant Rider, Ritsuka and Salter prepare themselves for their first fight in this Singularity.
Rider jumped in the air and and tried to stab Ritsuka using her weapons, but Salter got in front of her and managed to block the hit.
"We just managed to establish comunications and you're alredy in a fight? You're incredible senpai" - Mash said from Chaldea.
"I know I know, but... There's something wrong about the Medusa here, she's not fighting like the one at Chaldea" - Ritsuka said as he watched Salter and Medusa fight.
"That's because she's not getting enough mana" - Da Vinci appeared out of nowhere - "Her Master, that Shinji guy, is a terrible mage. He can't provide her with the power to fight. She's incredibly weak at this point, and Salter should make quick work of her" -
"So that's the deal... Alright then. Salter, finish her off!" -
With one swing of Excalibur Morgan, Medusa was sent flying against a building, crashing and taking serious damage.
She wasn't given a single second to breath as immediatly after that Salter hit her with a powerful strike after a Mana Burst. The hit was powerful enough to send Rider several meters pass the building, ending up in a park.
Medusa tried to get up from the ground but Salter appeared, intented on finishing the fight as fast as they could. With her foot, she started crushing Medusa's throat in the hopes of killing her.
"Well, when Da Vinci said your Master wasn't giving you enough Mana to fight, she wasn't joking" - Ritsuka said while approaching her.
"Where is... My Master?" - Medusa said, barely even capabe of speaking with Salter's foot on her neck.
"He stayed behind, he was mumbling something about 'My Servant lost' or something like that, I never bothered too much with that he had to say" - Ritsuka said - "But that's not the point. Be real with me, he's not your true Master, right?" -
After he said that, Medusa froze in the spot. Turns out, Da Vinci informed Ritsuka that that miserable boy that pretended to be a Master wasn't actually Rider's one, but rather was simply using her in place of the original.
"I'll cut you a deal, join me and my Servant and we'll join you with your true Master, how's that?" -
"What are you saying? Making such a proposition to a Servant that tried to kill you..." -
"Oh Medusa, if you knew what my life is you wouldn't be saying stuff like that. Besides, I'm not going to allow a pretty lady such as yourself to be under someone like Shinji. So, what do you say?" -
After he said those words, Shinji came straight running from the entry of the park with his Command Seals in hand, getting ready to use one of them in order to release Rider's Noble Phantasm, but before he could even say a word, Salter attacked him and with a swing of her sword, she cut his arm clean.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" - Shinji's screams could be heard all around the park.
"Thanks Salter, that should get him out of the way" - Ritsuka then started to walk slowly to Shinji before getting right up close to him - "Now, I hope that served as a warning as to not get near us, every again, you understood?" -
Bleeding heavily, Shinji only shook his head in fear before blacking out because of his injuries.
"Are you going to call for help?" - Medusa asked, looking at the unconscious Shinji.
"Leave him, he's worth nothing at this point" - Salter said before turning around - "Are you coming with us?" -
"Ah... Yes, I will" -
Medusa, Salter and Ritsuka abandoned the park, leaving Shinji's nearly dead body without caring about what would happen to him.
When they were at a safe enough distance, Medusa made a contract to Ritsuka and started to recieve the mana from Chaldea, all to ensure she could stay summoned until they managed to get her back to her original Master.
"Now that we've ensured that you'll stay summoned, I believe introductions are in order" - Ritsuka said as he smiled at Medusa - "Hi, I'm Ritsuka Fujimaru, she's my Servant. You can call her Alter" -
"Hello" - Salter simply said as she stayed at Ritsuka's side.
"My class is Rider, but I believe you alredy know my True Name, And I wonder how do you have such knowledge" - Medusa said.
"I'll tell you later, for the moment we need to find a place to rest the night. Tomorrow we'll search the city for the other Masters and try to find Medusa's one. Lucky for us, thanks to Mash we alredy have everything we need" - Ritsuka said as he pulled from his pocket a credit card.
Before leaving, Queen of Sheba charged this credit card with some of Chaldea's fonds (she got scolded later) in order to help Ritsuka in case he needed to buy anything. It was charged with enough money to pay for a 5 Star hotel room for about a month and a half, all included.
"Thanks Sheba, I hope they weren't too rough with you back in Chaldea. Now everyone, let's go" -
Walking around Fuyuki searching for a hotel to stay, Salter was constantly hugging Ritsuka's arm as well as giving bad looks to every woman that looked at him.
"She's a jelous one, isn't she?" - Medusa, in spirit form, said to Ritsuka.
"Yes, but I love her because of that" - Ritsuka said as he gave Salter a kiss in the cheek and then continued walking.
"Dumb Master..." - even as she said that, a blush appeared on her cheek.
After walking for a while, they ended up at a pretty good 4 Star hotel and decided to settle for the night.
"Hi, a room with 2 beds please" - Ritsuka said as he passed his card.
"Just two?" - Medusa asked.
"I'm sleeping with Salter, and I guess you don't want to sleep with both of us" -
Rider immediatly knew what they both were going to do, so she agreed to sleep in another bed.
Tomorrow would be a pretty long day.
Yes, I kinda wanted to get rid of Shinji as fast as I could, he's probably not returning to the plot, at least not soon.
Now, a question for the readers, would you like if Ritsuka and any of the SN girls entered a relationship or I just leave him with Salter?