A/N : Hi there! This is the first time I ever write a fanfiction. So, in case there's many grammatical mistake please bear it with me since English is not my first language. I'll try to fix it any mistake later on, but getting this story out is my first priority. I accept any constructive criticism since it could help me to improve my writing.
The cavern was cold, incredibly cold. If it weren't for his magecraft warming his body up, Shirou might have gotten frostbite from the cave's chill.
Despite all that Shirou had faced on his journey up until this moment he was still nervous, and yet despite this nervousness the one known as Shirou Emiya continued advancing forward towards his goals. He wouldn't give up. Especially after everything that he has gone through to reach this point.
After what felt like an eternity he reached the innermost chamber of the cavern which held his sister...
The altar upon which she laid was made of stone. Everything looked to be made of stone, which was to be expected a regular cavern, but Shirou knew better.
Mana from the leyline below permeated throughout the room, filling the air and drenching everything inside it. There were runes and symbols everywhere, each serving a specific purpose in the ritual known as The Holy Grail War. The Ainsworths, for all of their faults, had put an absolutely stunning amount of detail and effort into everything.
He walked up to the altar that she was lied upon and saw her for the first time in months. He couldn't stop the smile that's forming on his lips. Finally, after months of being separated from each other, they are now able to see each other again.
He couldn't feel more happier than now.
As if sensing his presence, his little sister Miyu, suddenly begin to stir awake.
"Onii-chan…?" She whispered as their Amber eyes met.
"I'm sorry for making you wait all this time…" Shirou told her, "but I'm here now, and we don't have much time."
"Why… Why did you come here?" Small tears streamed down Miyu's face. "Back then, all those years ago, you said it yourself. that Kirutsugu and you only wanted to use me… To use my powers and have your wish granted. That you wanted to sacrifice me to save the rest of the world."
As she finished, the floodgates were opened. Tears streamed down her pale face, exemplified by the dull light provided by the ritual's circle. All Shirou could do was simply watch as she cried. After a few moments, she continued to speak. "Why!? Why did you come for someone like me! To use me like some tool, only to discard me once I've outlived my usefulness!? Why… Why would you do that to me…?"
Shirou just stood there as he watches his little sister fenting out her pent up frustration. He knew that Miyu is probably furious at him right now. He understand that and Miyu has the right to be angry at him and Kiritsugu.
After all, initially both him and Kiritsugu decided to adopt Miyu so that someday they can use her wish-granting power to perform a miracle in order to save this dying world. However, as time goes by, Shirou started to consider her as if she's his own little sister. It was why he decided to come here. It was why he decided to forsaken his ideals and dreams to be a Hero of Justice and willingly join in the Fifth Holy Grail War in order just to see her again.
He admits that a few years ago, he only saw her as a tool in order to save the world, just like Kiritsugu. However, this time it's different.
"Let me tell you what I wanted you to know back then but couldn't tell you, Miyu…" Shirou started as he pick out the seven Heroic Spirit cards that he have succesfully managed to collect from his battle in the Fifth Holy Grail War, from his pocket.
"It goes without saying that I wouldn't use you like that. I would rather see you live a long and happy life than willingly sacrifice you, even if it's for the sake of the whole world. 'Why would you do that?' you might be wondering… It's because I love you, Miyu. You're my precious little sister and someone who I would sacrifice even the world for without hesitation." As he said that, the seven Heroic Spirit cards in his hand then floats in circle before hovering right above Miyu.
After hearing his declaration, tears rolled down from Miyu's eyes. But, they were different than before. These were tears of joy.
Shirou approaches his little sister and held her hand with his own, "You know, Miyu... everything that I've done so far has always been a mistake one after another. What I'm about to do will probably be another mistake. However, I have a good feeling that something good will turns out with this one."
"That is why… I wish upon the Holy Grail,"
The air filled with Magic, the power of a miracle actualized.
Miyu's face filled with confusion at her brother's words; A myriad of thoughts crossed her mind, 'Hadn't he just promised her that he wouldn't use her? Hadn't he just said that he wouldn't throw her away! So then what could he possibly be using the wish for!?'
Her mind was brought to a complete halt by her brother's next words.
"I pray that you find a world where you no longer have to suffer… I pray that you meet kind people. I pray that you find great friends that you can laugh with. I wish... that you find a warm, small share of happiness." The Grail heard his plea. It heard every part of his wish.
His wish of wanting Miyu to find happiness. His wish for you to live in world where she can find love and Joy. His wish for Miyu to escape her cycle of Fate.
"Be happy."
With that, the Grail had started to work its magic. Using the magical energy that it had built up from the local leylines, it activated its miracle. The entire room had lit up from the runes surrounding the altar, the miracle that the Ainsworths had been preparing since they had stolen Miyu from his grasp had begun. The girl that he proudly proclaimed as his sister drifted into unconsciousness as she began to serve her purpose as the grail.
Shirou had completed his main goal, now there was only one thing left to do.
Shirou turn around as he saw a figure standing right in front of the entrance of the innermost chamber of the cavern.
It's a girl with blond hair tied into twin pig-tails and blue eyes. And she wears a revealing golden armor as her outfit.
Shirou had no idea who she is. But, he did know one thing about her though.
She's an enemy.
Shirou jumps down from the altar and then he took several steps away from the altar to confront the new arrival. "Sorry to bother you, but my sister is currently preoccupied at the moment. Do you mind waiting for a bit?"
"I cannot…" the girl reply with voice full of authority. "Your wish will not be granted. A Faker who slipped into the Holy Grail War Shall not seize the miracle!"
Several golden ripples forming right behind the girl in golden armor, and in a blink of an eye numerous blades were launched from the ripples right towards the redhead.
Shirou who saw this immediately reinforced his body with his magecraft in order to protect himself or at least to minimize the damage.
Some of the blades that were launched by the girl in golden armor managed to hit him, and the force behind the impact caused Shirou to get send rolling backwards like ball.
"For a mere flesh and blood human to stand against the King of Heroes is the epitome of foolishness." The girl taunted Shirou as she approach him. "You may grovel on the ground and beg for forgiveness. But, if you stand up once more, I will not show you mercy."
"I remember now." Shirou said as he raised his head slightly to glare at the blond girl who just attacked him. "I see now. You are the one from back then."
He finally remembered who the girl in front of him is. She is the same girl who have attacked him when Julian kidnapped Miyu back at the Sakatsuki shrine.
Shirou looked at the swords that surrounded him. Just with a mere glance, he can instantly recognizes that all of these blades are priceless Noble Phantasm.
"Be it western or Eastern. Ancient or modern. All of humanity's treassures are this heroic spirits power." the girl clarified right after the redhead finished looking at the blades that she just used to attack him.
"I see…, so that's why Sakura call it the 'Strongest Card'." Shirou muttered as he tried to stood up despite the warning that the girl just told him.
"Why you…" The girl frowned seeing that Shirou have decides not to heed her warning.
"Humanity huh? That's big , too big to be describe with words. It must be an enormous burden you guys are carrying. But you know what?" Shirou said calmly while internally pitying the Ainsworth for the enormous responsibility that they have to carry on their shoulder.
Trying to save this dying world is such a near impossible task. He admits that the Answorth intention is very Noble. He would've gladly join them of the method to save this world doesn't involve with sacrificing anyone's life. But, since their methods to save this dying world involving the life of his little sister. Shirou had no choice but to Rebel against them like a villain, and that's because-
"I also have something that I want to protect." Shirou stated firmly while staring directly at his enemy with a determined look.
"Be it personal or sentimental. It won't change a thing. And since you have decided not to heed my warning, this time I Angelica shall take away your pathetic life!" The girl who's now known as Angelica, declared as she launched several more Noble Phantasm from her Gate of Babylon at the redhead.
"Trace On!"
Shirou tapped into his magecraft as he projected a twin chinese falchions known as Kanshou and Bakuya into his hands, and with a precise precision, Shirou deflected the Noble Phantasms that threatened to shreded his body into pieces.
"What?! 'Trace'?! Impossible!" If Angelica was surprised she was able to hide it beneath her blank expression. "How did you able to use that power?!"
Angelica couldn't believe it. She just saw the red-headed magus use a power that belongs to a Heroic Spirit.
How did he managed to do that?
He didn't even have his class card installed.
"Don't be so surprised, Angelica. This is the boon that I received by performing a complete install with Heroic Spirit who's none other than my own potencial future-self." Shirou stated. "I perfected my future skills and magic circuits. And I even inherited his origin and element." Shirou finished his explanation. However, that explanation doesn't sounded right.
"No, I think it's more precise to say that each time I fight. This body is being invaded by Heroic Spirit EMIYA." Shirou stated after finding a proper explanation for his current condition.
"What was that about me being a mere flesh and blood human. You're slow on the uptake King of Heroes! Because the one you're facing is a true imitation of a Heroic Spirit!" Shirou taunted Angelica as he started projecting dozens of swords behind him.
"You goddamn, FAKER!" Angelica shouted angrily as she shots more weapons from the Gate of Babylon.
Shirou immediately charges at Angelica right after she launched her attack. He ran right straight at her while countering her weapons with his own forgeries.
When Angelica is nearly within his reach, Shirou jumped and perform an overhead slash at Angelica. However, his attack was blocked by her as she pulls a sword from GoB.
Several golden ripples that's created by Angelica, appeared right above of Shirou. When he noticed this, he quickly projects a shield to protect himself as Angelica unleashed a barrage of sword launching right at him.
The numerous Blades that hit the ground caused a thick dust cloud to form. When Angelica can no longer see the redhead amidst the dust cloud, she stopped her assault and wait for the dust cloud to disappear.
When the cloud disappear, she can see Shirou laying on the ground with his clothes considerably tattered. Though, he managed to survived the relentless onslaught.
"You may as well past the point of no return. And yet, the strength of your attack and the speed of your projection keeps on increasing. I don't know what kind of tricks you're using, but it's pointless. The only that awaits you is certain ruin." Angelica stated as she looked at Shirou's crouching form with a cold glare.
"I know that. The reason I endured all those battles that you considered 'futile', was because of my ties with her. I was able to survive this far because Miyu supported me." Shirou told Angelica as he forced himself to get back on his feet despite that his body is in pain. "I'm truly a pathetic older brother, aren't I? But, that's why I'm standing here. Ready to give up my own life to protect her."
Following his declaration, Shirou tore away his battered Jacket and extended his left arm. Now he knows just versatile and powerful Gilgamesh power is. Angelica is capable of creating Gate of Babylon at every angle that she wanted then to appear. And not only that, every weapons that's launched from the Gate of Babylon are Priceless Noble Phantasms.
Even though his own power can be considered versatile as well, it's slightly inferior and slower compared to Angelica's Gate of Babylon since his projection takes time to perform.
There's no way he can defeat Angelica with only his magecraft and swordmanship alone, It's not enough. However, little did she knew, Shirou still have one more Trump card that he can use.
"I am the Bone of my sword."
Shirou chanted a spell that connects him with his newly altered origin and element which is none other than sword.
"Steel is my body and Fire is my blood."
"I have created over a thousand Blades."
By the time he finished chanting his third spell, Angelica realizes that Shirou is up to something big and quickly launches dozens of Noble Phantasm at him on order to stop the redhead.
Unfortunately, before those Noble Phantasm were able to reach him, Shirou manages to project Rho Aias right on time to shield himself from Angelica's onslaught.
"Unaware of beginning, nor aware of the end."
"Whistood pain with many inconsistent weapons."
Seeing that her barrage of sword launching is not enough to stop the Faker, Angelica then decides to restraint him.
Several golden ripples appear all around Shirou, and from those ripples golden chains shot forward and wrapping themselves all around the redhead's body. Completely restraining him in place.
With a quick glance, Shirou instantly recognize the chains as the Chain of Heaven, Enkidu. An Anti-Divinity Noble Phantasm that can completely restraints and binds any Divine beings not even gods could escape from this binding. However, Shirou is a human, and not a divine being. The anti-divinity atribute in this chain is useless when used against a non-divinity being, for example a human like him. However, this chain is still strong enough to restraint him.
Though, it doesn't stop him from finishing his chants.
"This hands will never hold anything. Yet, my flame never ends."
Seeing that restraining the Faker is still not enough to stop him from finishing his chants, Angelica finally opted to finish him off from close-range. She ran towards the redhead while pulling a broadsword from the Gate of Babylon.
"My whole life..."
When the Faker is already within her range, she raised up the broadsword on her hands above her head, and then swing it down as quickly as she could with the intention to cleave him in half.
"Was still UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS!"
She was too late. By the time Shirou finished his chants, a thick white mist suddenly forming from his body, completely blocking the blond's view. But, despite that Angelica didn't stop her attack and continue to swing her broadsword downward.
When Angelica didn't feel her sword hit anything, she realizes that she must've have missed her target.
When the mist disappeared, she noticed that Shirou is have disappear from his spot. And not only that, when Angelica looks around her, she realizes that she's no longer inside the cavern below Mount Enzo, but in a completely different world.
It's a world of dark snowy field with unlimited number of blades, burried within the snowy ground. The only source of light that exist in this snowy world is a single full moon that floats in the dark horizon.
"Switching individual and collective, reality and fantasy, inside and outside. Overwriting the world with one's mind. The innermost thaumaturgy, Reality Marble."
When she suddenly heard a voice from behind her, Angelica turns around and she saw Shirou standing on top of a snowy hill of swords. Looking down at her from his position.
"Say, what do you think about this world?" Shirou asked as he pulls out the nearest sword from the snowy ground. "It's a world that holds and create an infinite number of blades. But, to me it looks more like a never ending graves."
All the blades in this Reality Marble symbolice just how many people that Shirou had to kill in order to protect his little sister.
"Sorry for the inconveniences, but I need you to keep me company until my blades runs out." The Faker stated as he points the tip of his sword at Angelica.
"If that's what you wish then I shall drag you down into the bottom of these graves." Angelica responded as several Gate of Babylon appears from behind her.
Shirou grinned after hearing Angelica accepting his challenge. He then said, "Well then. Here I come King of Heroes, I hope you store up enough weapons!"
Shirou then begins charging towards Angelica while countering each and every weapons that she launched at him with his own weapons that already exists in this world.
All that he have to do, is give the mental command and the weapons in his Reality Marble would obey.
"They are faster than mine?!" Angelica exclaimed quietly when she realized that the blades that Shirou launched to counter her Noble Phantasm barrage is faster compared to her. And she only noticed this when she saw all of the weapons that she was about to shoot from the Gate of Babylon suddenly being nullified along with the Gate itself, when the swords that the Faker shoots hit them.
"Too slow!" Shirou shouted while sprinting towards Angelica in full speed.
He send another barrage of sword launching at the counterfeiter of the King of Heroes, however his projectiles were blocked when the girl summon a wall of shield from her Gate of Babylon.
In order to take down that wall of shield, he's going to need a strong weapon with the strength of ten bulldozer.
"With countless treasures at your disposal, that heroic spirit is no doubt a king. Which is why you can so thoughtlessly looked down on a Faker like me! But you know what?" Shirou paused for a moment as he called forth a giant claymore that flew into his grip.
"THERE'S NO LAW THAT A FAKE CANNOT SURPASS THE ORIGINAL!" With that declaration, Shirou then deliver a powerful swing with his giant claymore at the wall of shield that Angelica summoned. And all that he needed was just a single swing in order to bring down the wall of shield.
"Curse you!" Angelica cursed as she witnessed the Faker managed to take down her wall of shield.
She summoned dozens of Gate of Babylon in order to attack the redhead. Unfortunately, before she can fire a single weapon from the golden ripples, her gates were easily nullified by a barrage of Shirou's sword firing.
"This is the end!"
Shirou grab the nearest sword that he can get his hand on and then deliver a precise swing at Angelica's throat in order to finish her off.
That attack should be enough to kill the girl who became the vessel of Gilgamesh's spirit. However, it wasn't...which is strange because he was so sure that the attack didn't miss.
The blade of his sword did hit Angelica's neck, however for some reason the attack only phase through her.
"Don't underestimate the Ainstworth, boy." Angelica said coldly before teleporting the Faker into the sky with her magecraft.
'Spatial Displacement?! It's just like Julian's!'
Shirou is utterly surprised when he saw Angelica capable of using the same magecraft as Julian. According to his knowledge, only a family member capable of performing the same magecraft as the other.
Does that mean Angelica is a member of the Ainstworth family?
"I've had enough of playing with you. This ends now!" Angelica said as she summoned two golden ripples on top of the falling redhead.
"Ig-Alima! Sul-Sagana!" From those golden ripples, two colossal swords comes out and they fell down in a frightening speed at Shirou.
This is bad!
If he doesn't do something then he's going to get crushed by those two colossal swords. There's not much that he can do to stop the the two colossal swords except for one thing.
And that is to create a replica of those two gigantic swords!
"Trace On!"
Using his Structural Grasping magecraft, Shirou analyses the swords in order to extract as many information as he could about the two colossal swords in order to recreate them.
However, since Ig-Alima and Sul-Sagana turns out to be a Divine Construct, the information that he managed to extract from the two colossal swords were limited to a certain degree. And that's because Divine Constructs are armaments that surpass human limits and knowledge.
He was able to analyze those two divine swords, mainly because now he possesses the same eyes as EMIYA. Even though he won't be able to create a perfect replica of Ig-Alima and Sul-Sagana. With the information that he managed to gather from the swords, he might be able to reproduce an imperfect, but still a promising replica of those two Divine Constructs.
Releasing a battle-cry, Shirou first projected a replica of Ig-Alima and throw it at the original. Unfortunately, the imperfect replica easily broke when it collided with the original. Though, he already knows that this would happen, after all compared to the original, the durability of his version of Ig-Alima is considerably weaker. But even so, it managed to do it's intended job in changing the trajectory of the original Ig-Alima's fall.
With Ig-Alima no longer threatening to crush him during the fall, Shirou then do the same thing with Sul-Sagana. He projected an imperfect replica of the colossal flaming sword in order to change the trajectory of the original sword's fall, away from him.
Now, with both Divine colossal swords no longer threaten to crush him, the Faker let himself fall on the snowy ground. Once he landed, he quickly gets up with a groan as he feels his magic circuits burning in stress after he forcefully projected two Divine Constructs. Which is a feat that should've been impossible to do even for him.
It was a miracle that he's actually able to projected a Divine Construct in the first place. Especially when he projected two of them simultaneously.
"Even though they may have been a cheap imitations. You still managed to project Divine Constructs while continuing in sustaining this Reality Marble."
Shirou glanced to his side before completely turning his body around after he heard Angelica spoke.
"Your very existence is flawed. You may have proven to be a hindrance in the last legend we have written and put into motion for humanity." Angelica stated coldly as she took an odd looking sword from the golden ripple that appear right in front of her. "Your irksome ability, your strange use of magecraft, and your abhorrent self-destructive conviction. They will be torn to pieces along with this world!"
A torrent of powerful destructive red magical energy enveloping the blade of that strange looking sword.
Shirou tried to use his Structural Grasping to analyze the sword, however when he attempted to do that, his senses cease completely.
'What the hell is that sword? I can't analyse it at all?!' Shirou thought in panic when he found himself unable to analyse that particular sword. Even with the use of EMIYA's eyes, analyzing let alone reproducing that sword is impossible.
Shirou sighed and close his eyes in resignation. Even though, he couldn't analyze that sword, he can still sense it's destructive power.
It's power is so frighteningly strong to the point that it makes the greatest Noble Phantasm he had in his Reality Marble looks like a second-rate weapon.
Realizing that there's not a single blade in his Reality Marble that can match that sword, Shirou prepare himself for a desperate countermeasure.
"Oh wow, I'm honored you'd bring something like that out for me. There's no blade in this world that can stand equal to it." Shirou muttered calmly as he commands every blades in his Reality Marble to come forth to his calling.
"So, while it may be rude. But, I have to pay you back WITH EVERYTHING I GOT!"
Weapons from swords, axes, spears, shields, halberds anything that would count as a weapon was summoned to his side almost like an entire army.
They floated next to him menacingly awaiting but a gesture to attack the enemy and impale her by the thousands. He himself wasn't too sure if this would work but it was the only thing he could do right now besides lay down and die.
Angelica who was watching looked unfazed by the sight of so many weapons join together. Her weapon erupted in an angry-red glow and emitted so much blood-lust Shirou could feel it even from far away.
"Return to the beginning- ENUMA ELISH!"
With that, the two attacks met; one swarm of weapons versus the origin of all weapons.
He could already feel his connection to the weapons breaking by the thousands and yet he ignored it in favor of focusing on the still-alive weapons. He was slowly pushing her weapon back as impossible as it sounded that even he was surprised.
"HAAAAAAH!" he yelled out and just when he thought he was going to win the exchange she spoke.
"IT'S FUTILE!" she yelled out harshly "EVEN IF YOU PILED EVERY WEAPONS IN THIS WORLD TOGETHER ITS WORTHLESS AGAINST THE STRONGEST!"
His feet left a sizable impact in the ground and he could see the tides now turning. Her 'sword' if you could even call it that, was now so close to him that not even his mightiest swords could stop it.
Excalibur? Destroyed, Gram? Destroyed, even swords that were said to be unbreakable broke in the face of the Noble Phantasm.
Every weapons that he launched at the torrent of destructive red magical energy, whether it famed ones, treasured ones, legendary ones, magical ones, Divine ones, Demonic ones, and dragonic ones. They all were torn asunder.
It truly was the ultimate sword that had no equals.
Surely enough, every heroes and blacksmiths who saw his acts will probably wanted to strangle him to death for the blasphemy that he's currently doing.
He didn't care though, he thought nothing of the weapons, and they resembled more to him like graves then actual treasures Noble Phantasms used by heroes. Like EMIYA he had no pride in his craft, and simply used the tools he was given.
Soon enough, the moon in the world darkened and Shirou knew unconsciously that she was gone.
Of course, with her gone he had no more mana to supply himself with and his Reality Marble would crumble in but a few seconds.
"Yeah, you got that right." Shirou said softly. "It's as you say..., there are times when just one thing can outweigh everything else in the world."
And with that, the strongest sword slammed into him and all he could see was darkness
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When Shirou began to regain consciousness, Shirou felt intense pain all over his body. It felt like he just got hit by a meteor.
Even so, even though the pain she was suffering was excruciating, the wounds on her body were not as severe as the pain she was currently experiencing. He only suffered a few lacerations and also minor burns to his body.
After a while passed, the pain he was suffering from began to gradually subside. When the pain subsided to a stage where Shirou could endure it, he then got up to a sitting position and looked at his surroundings.
Shirou found himself waking up in a quiet alleyway. There was no one in the alley except him, and there was nothing in the alley that could help him figure out where he was. The only items he could find in the alley were some old posters and a rusty green dumster.
'Where the hell am I exactly?' Shirou wondered in his thoughts as he tried to figure out how did he end up in this alleyway.
From what he can remember, he was fighting against Angelica with her Gilgamesh card installed, in order to buy some times for Miyu to escape to another world where Julian and the Ainsworths won't be able to reach her.
He had the upper hands during the battle at first when it was proven that his Unlimited Blade Works is a direct counter to Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon power. Unfortunately, the tables are turns when Angelica took out her Sword of Rupture in the last moments.
He was locked in a power struggle with Angelica for a moment as he tried to fight back her strongest attack with all of the weapons he had in his Reality Marble. Unfortunately, no matter how many weapons that he piled up together to fight back against the Sword of Rupture. It turns out that all of them are no match for the strongest sword. And when his connection with Miyu finally severed, he took a direct hit from the attack of the Strongest sword in the existence.
He was passed out back then, he thought that when Angelica defeated him back in that fight, she would try to bring him to Julian and imprison him so that they can use him against Miyu in case that they somehow manage to bring Miyu back. But, it seems that they decided to dispose of him instead. They must've thought that he's as good as dead when he took a direct hit from the sword of Rupture.
However, they are wrong.
He's not dead yet. He's still alive. And he hardly believe it himself.
It was truly a work of miracle.
Shirou stands up back to his feet and slowly walk towards the entrance of the alleyway with a stumbling gait as he decided to find out the location of his whereabouts instead of staying in that Alley.
However, before he steps out of the Alley, Shirou abruptly stop himself when he realized that he's still wearing his ragged clothings that already covered in dry blood. If he steps out to the city like this, surely he will only attract unwanted attention especially from the local police officer.
With that, after muttering 'Trace On' Shirou projected a new set of fresh clothes that consists of a long-sleeves black shirt, a slim blue jeans, and a black jersey jacket.
Shirou remove his ragged apparels and change them with the new one that he just projected. After he get change to his new fresh apparels, Shirou steps out of the alleyway and go on his quest to find out about his current whereabouts.
If he can finds out his current location, then perhaps he can find his way back home.
Back to his empty and lonely home.
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...At least, that was his plan from three months ago!
"Huh...since when did I became so unfortunate like this." Shirou complained lowly, his shoulders hunching in frustration over his abysmall luck.
Shirou has faced numerous tons of shits before, but being thrown into another world was the biggest shit that he have ever to deal with.
That's right people. Shirou somehow has been thrown into another world without any known cause. The reason why he's so sure that he has been transported to another world was because when he was busy searching for information on the day he got teleported into this world. He found out that Fuyuki City didn't exist. There's no mysterious explosion incident that destroyed a huge part of Shinto Town. There's no snow falling in the middle of summer. And there's no sudden calamity happening in every part of the world.
In the world where he came from, the world is dying and due to the lack of mana that keeps on dissipating in every single day. And because of this, there are many unexplainable phenomenon happening. Like snow falling in the middle of summer, animals dying without any known cause, and natural calamity happening in every part of the world.
However, in this world he didn't any of those weird phenomenon happening in this world. And that's what convinced him that he had been transported into another world.
It's been roughly three months since he got stuck in this world without any clear way to return. For the first month or so since he's start living in this new world, Shirou had done nothing but try to determine just how much it differed from his own.
On the bright side though, this world isn't so different from the world he came from, possessing similar histories & events that had led to the formation of modern society, so it wasn't as if he had to deal with any culture shock on the mundane front.
The Magical side of things, however, was a completely different story, evidenced by the first time he'd tried absorbing the raw mana in the air into his magic circuits, only to almost kill himself as the ambient Mana surged into his body, forcing him to trace several blades in order to avoid death by Prana Overload.
As it were, however, that brief experiment had made it very clear to Shirou that either the Laws of Magic were different in this world, or Gaea's influence wasn't as strong. Personally, Shirou was aiming towards the latter, due to the fact that, despite some time passing from his rushed trace, the Traced blades hadn't disappeared until he'd consciously ordered them to do so.
He wouldn't be able to confirm his suspicions until he came in contact with this world's equivalent of the Association, but from what little he'd managed to observe, and the presence of various non-human entities he'd sensed wandering around town, Shirou had soon concluded that, as bizarre as it sounded, this world's Age of the Gods had yet to end, and indeed had persisted to the modern era.
For less experienced Magi, such a thing would have been seen as a dream come true, a chance for them to take their research to new heights, and perhaps even achieve their clan's goal of reaching the Akashic Record. For Shirou, who had understood how dark the moonlit world is and experienced first-hand the power of those who lived through the Age of Gods, it was a daunting prospect.
Still despite all that, he's quite surprised that this world is relatively peaceful. He thought that with so many Phantasmal Species roaming the world without any restriction from Gaia's Will at all, there would be Chaos. But, it turns out that most of the Phantasmal Species in this world is rather peaceful and they seemed content to masquerade as ordinary humans.
This world is like the polar opposite of his dying world. This world is so peaceful and safe. He must say that he kinda like it here, this world almost has everything that he wanted, the only thing that missing is Miyu. He really hope that he could enjoy and share all the good moments that he had since living in this world with his little sister, but he knew that such thing is impossible for him.
He once tried searching for Miyu in case that she was also teleported into this world as well. However, after two months of searching without any results, Shirou came to a conclusion that she's didn't end up in the same world as him and she must've been teleported to another different world. He knew that attempting to do a dimensional travel without being able to use the second true magic would be impossible. However, that didn't stop him from keep on trying to find a way to reunite with his little sister.
In the last three months, Shirou has been vigorously train himself to improve his crafting skill and control over his Unlimited Blade Works, so that he can use his Reality Marble to its utmost limit to create powerful weapons. Powerful enough to enable him to travel between worlds.
He might've countless of powerful weapons in his Reality Marble that inherited from EMIYA, however none of them has the capabilities to travel between dimensions. Which left him no choice but to try to create one. And yet, despite the improvement that he have made in the last three months, apparently his skills is still insufficient to enable him to create such weapons. Much to his growing frustration.
Anyway, besides trying to create a weapon that would enable him to travel between dimensions, he also try to earned himself some money. He won't survive living in this new world with an empty pocket after all.
So, for his source of income, Shirou took a few part-time jobs here and there, and he eventually managed to save up enough money to purchase buy a decent-size two stories house. Although, he also projected some money to cover up the shortcomings of the house price.
He knew that the way he purchased his new house wasn't entirely 'legal', but at least he bought the damn thing. So no harm, no foul, right?
At the very least, he didn't have to spend the night in the parks and alleys anymore. Finally, after three months of living in the street, he managed to get himself a place that he can call a home.
A home far away from home that is.
Anyway, in the last three months his life in this is rather peaceful. Most of the time he usually spend his days to earn some money and creating weapons that will allow him to travel between parallel worlds.
Unfortunately, his relatively peaceful life eventually has to come to an end due to an unfortunate incident.
And it's all thanks to the E-rank luck that he also inherited from EMIYA.
Probably.
So, yesterday while he was working as a part-time waiter, a policeman entered the little restaurant where he works.
The policeman apparently noticed how young he is, and mentioned that he should be at school at the time, pushing him to go despite any and all protests that he hurled at him.
But, very simply, the policeman would have none of it. If he was caught again then he would get fined, and if he got fined then he would get a record.
Which meant that he would be in the system, and that definitely couldn't happen.
So after grimly realizing that the cops in the area now probably have a rough idea of how he looked like after that, and not to mention that he couldn't just forced the Policeman to just leave him be without using Hypnotism magecraft, since he can't even use that kind of magecraft to begin with, he decided to just go and enroll himself to a school like the Policeman told him to do.
Kuoh Academy was the closest high school available in town and Shirou wasn't too picky, so he applied to go and was eventually accepted after forging some papers and paying for the school fee.
And that was why the magus was heading back home, having woke up a little early to quit some of those part-time jobs that he had before after realizing that there's no way he can keep up with all of his Jobs by the time he started attending school again.
As of now, he was heading back home to change into his new school uniform, preparing himself for his first day. Which is today.
He just hope that he won't encounter any weird event in his first day at school.
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After he get changed into his newly rather stuffy school uniform, Shirou began to make his trek towards his new high school.
Ominous name & decidedly Western themed Architecture aside, the school wasn't all that different from his old high school, The Homurahara Academy.
From what he had heard about this school, it used to be a prestigious All-Girls School, famous for catering to the Educational Needs of Exceptional, both in terms of looks & academics, Young Women. The Academy had stood the test of time for generations, refusing to open the gates to male students until fairly recently, when the Director, for reasons Shirou had yet to find a valid explanation for, had decided to make the school Co-ed, allowing boys to enroll for the first time in generations.
No one was entirely certain just what had affected this change in policy. It certainly wasn't due to lack of funds, nor was it acceptance rates. Indeed, the entry requirements for Kuoh had actually been lowered in order to improve the male turnout for the year…which Shirou was ashamed to admit was probably the only reason why it was so easy for him to enroll himself in this particular high school.
Putting that particular issue aside, Shirou suddenly sensed something strange the moment he passed through the gate of his new high school.
Through his enhanced sense of smell, Shirou can detect various types of demonic energy scents coming from inside the main school building.
From the looks of it, there were more than just regular humans who take classes in Kuoh Academy. He had no idea whether these demons who also studies in Kuoh Academy are just like one of those peaceful Phantasmal beings that content to masquerade as ordinary humans, or maybe they are one of those blood thirsty monsters who likes to prey on ordinary humans that he have fought before in the last three months.
But, whichever catergories the demons in this school belongs to, as long as they didn't try to interfere with his business, he won't interfere with theirs as well.
Moving on, Shirou makes his way towards the school main building. As he walks, he noticed that his presence in this school had attracted the attention of every student around him.
Most of them were completely indifferent so far, some girls gave him shy smiles and some of the boys gave him challenging stares for whatever reason.
Weird. He didn't even do anything yet...
Shirou sighed as he try to ignored all the stares that he received from his soon-to-be classmates and enter the school building.
Shirou walked in the corridor of the school calmly. However, Shirou immediately stopped walking when he realized something. "Where is it, the principal's office?" Shirou asked who knows who while scratching the back of his head, confused.
Shirou walked again without knowing where to go, hoping to find the principal's office. At around the corner of the corridor, Shirou didn't see where he was walking and accidentally bumped into a student with a very long black hair tied in a long ponytail with an oranye ribbon until she fell down on her butt. Shirou looked at the student who sat in front of him for a while, until he finally bent down and stretched out his hand to help the girl up.
The student was still groaning and saw a hand reaching out to her. The student, without seeing who reached out to her, just grabbed the hand and started to stand up. The student patted her skirt to remove the dust.
"Sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." Shitou apologise to the girl that he just bumped into while scratching his cheek sheepishly.
"It's okay. It was just an accident after all." The girl said in a lady-like manner as she look up and come face to face with Shirou.
'She's pretty.' That's what Shirou thought right after he saw the girl's face. It's not something he noted out of admiration, it was simply a fact. But, besides that, Shirou can tell that something is off about her.
This girl might've look like an ordinary school girl, however she radiated a mix scent between demonic and tainted holy power. No normal human, not even a magus can radiate the kind of aura that this girl possesses. This girl could be one of demons that resides in this school, so he better becareful when he's around her if he didn't want his identity as a magus to be revealed.
At least...not so soon.
"Once again I'm sorry for bumping into you." Shirou apologise once again, still feeling guilty for making the girl in front of him fell to the floor.
"Hey it's okay. It's my fault too for not being careful." The girl said to Shirou while trying to reassure him not to feel guilty anymore.
"By the way, I'm Akeno Himejima. I'm from class 3-B." The girl introduced herself to Shirou as Akeno Himejima, a third year high school student from class 3-B.
"Oh, I'm Shirou Emiya. I'm a new transffered student here, in Kuoh Academy." Shirou then also introduced himself to Akeno.
"Ara ara, so you are a new transffered student huh. then welcome to Kuoh Academy, I hope you will feel at home attending this school." Akeno said, officially welcoming Shirou to her school.
"Thank you for the warm welcome, Himejima-san." Shirou said and smile in gratitude to Akeno for welcoming him to Kuoh Academy.
"So do you know what class you'll be assigned to?" Akeno asked Shirou while wearing a curious expression.
Shirou shook his head and said, "No, I don't know which class I will be assigned to. You know, I just arrived at this school and now I'm looking for the principal's office. However, it looks like I've managed to get myself lost." Shirou said while scratching his cheek in embarrassment.
"Oh, I see." Akeno responded while nodding her head. "Then, in that case, would you like me to take you to the Principal's office?" Akeno said, while offering her help to Shirou.
"Of course! Please lead the way, Himejima-san." Shirou said as he gladly accepted Akeno's assitance.
"Fufu, please follow me then, Emiya-kun." Akeno giggled before making her way to the principal's office with Shirou following right behind her.
After a few minutes of walking, Akeno stopped followed by Shirou who also stopped in front of a door with the words 'HEADMASTER ROOM' on it. "We've arrived Emiya-kun, this is the Principal's office. Now then, I guess this is where we part ways. I have to go to my class." said Akeno then started walking again leaving Shirou in front of the Principal's office.
"Himejima-san!" Akeno's footsteps stopped when Shirou called her, Akeno turned her head back. "Thank you for assitance. I really appreciate it." Shirou said as bowed his body slightly to Akeno in gratitude.
"You're welcome. See you later, Emiya-kun." replied Akeno with a sweet smile then walked back towards her destination.
When Akeno was out of sight, Shirou knocked on the door of the principal's room.
"Enter!" a voice came from inside inviting Shirou to enter. Shirou opened the door to the principal's room and entered the room. In the room there was a man in his 40s who was sitting in a chair doing something with the papers on his desk.
Shirou walked over to the principal's desk. "Excuse me, I'm a new student" said Shirou, grabbing the headmaster's attention from his job and looking at Shirou.
"Oh, so you're that new transffered student from London, right?" said the headmaster to Shirou, and Shirou nodded in respond. Shirou might've unable to use any hypnotism magecraft, but even so, he still have a trick up in his sleeves when it comes to creating fake identity.
"Yes." said Shirou briefly. The principal picked up a file that was in his desk drawer, and began flipping through the pages.
"You're going to be placed in class 2-A, wait a minute, there will be a teacher who will take you to your classroom," said the principal explaining to Shirou.
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"Ah, it must be him, come in" said the principal. The door opened and entered a man with black hair dressed as a teacher.
"Did you call me, Headmaster?" asked the man who entered earlier.
"Komura-sensei, I want you to take this transfer student to class 2-B." said the principal, pointing at Shirou.
The man looked at Shirou briefly before introducing himself. "My name is Komura Hirata, homeroom teacher of class 2-B." said the man introducing himself while bowing slightly.
"My name is Shirou Emiya, sir. I just move here from London." said Shirou introducing himself and bowing back.
The man or you could call Komura straightened his body followed by Shirou who also straightened his body back. Komura looked at the principal. "Then, please excuse us." said Komura bowing respectfully to the principal and then straightened it up again. Komura turned and walked towards the door. "Let's go, Emiya-san" said Komura.
Shirou also walked out of the Principal's office following Komura from behind towards his class. 'Why does it feel so quiet huh?' thought Shirou, because on the way to his class Shirou did not see a single student in the corridor. He looked at his digital watch that showed the numbers 08: 03. 'No wonder it's so quiet, school has already started.' Shirou thought again when he found out the cause of the absence of students who were seen during the filming.
Komura stopped in front of a door with the letter "2-A" written on it followed by Shirou who also stopped. "Emiya-san, please wait outside for a moment. Please come insideafter " said Komura giving orders to Shirou.
Shirou nodded. "Hi 'Sensei!", Shirou respond and then leaned against the wall beside the classroom door.
Komura slid the classroom door and entered it. Komura-sensei walked over to his desk. "Please pay attention, today we have a transfer student from London." said Komura-sensei, making the class silent and paying attention. "Emiya-san please come in." said Komura-sensei calling Shirou who was outside the classroom.
Hearing his name being called, Shirou staightened his body and enter the classroom. He write his full name on the blackboard with the chalk, and when he's finished he turn around to look at his soon-to-be new classmates.
Shirou was about to introduce himself to the whole students in class 2-A, but before he can even say a single words, The atmosphere in the classroom suddenly became chaotic after the students, especially the girls, saw Shirou's face which could be said to be attractive.
"KYAAA, He's so handsome, he was the guy from before right?"
"You're right, he's so cool and attractive, does he have a girlfriend, already?"
"I don't know, even though he already has a girlfriend, I'm willing to be his second, KYAAA"
… The silence was shattered by the shouts of the female students, while the male students looked downcasted. 'There's really no hope anymore' the students thought in unison as well as a gloomy aura above their heads while letting out anime-style tears.
Shirou can only smile awkwardly seeing his new classmates variable expression while sweatdropping, he wasn't expecting this kind of reaction from his classmates in his first day.
Though, he have to admit his current looks can be considered attractive to the female populations. In the last three months, due to his constant use of projection magecraft beyond his body could handle, he's physicallly starting to turn into EMIYA. And basically, now he looks like a younger version of EMIYA.
His previously auburn redhair have completely turn white, and his skin have turned slightly tanned. The only thing from his physical appearance that hasn't change was his otherwise ember-colored eyes.
Basically, now he looks more like a foreigner than a Japanese citizen.
"SILENCE!" shouted Komura-sensei after pounding the table making the whole class suddenly silent. "Now, Emiya-san please introduce yourself" said Komura-sensei while looking at Shirou.
Shirou nodded and looked straight ahead to the rest of class 2-A students. "My name is Shirou Emiya, I'm 17 years old, I moved here from London, please take care of me." said Shirou and bowed his body at the end of the sentence. Shirou straightened up again and looked forward.
Komura-sensei looked at the students. "Now, any questions?" asked Komura-sensei.
"Does Shirou-kun have a girlfriend?"
"Where is your house address?
"What's your phone numbers?"
"Be my boyfriend, okay?"
... and many more that come out of the mouths of female students. Shirou can only laughed nervously when being asked like that.
Komura-sensei slams the table again. "SILENCE!" shouted Komura-sensei causing the class to become silent again. Komura-sensei sighed. "Any other questions, besides that?" asked Komura-sensei once again.
A student with dark blue-eyes and long black haired in the first row raised her hand. "Yes, please Migawa-san." said Komura-sensei letting the student ask.
The schoolgirl nodded. "Shirou-san, if you moved from London, then why do you have a Japanese name?" The girl asked with a curious look followed by nods of other students who also agreed with the student, even Komura-sensei also agreed.
"Um .. I'm actually from Japan, but because of work, my family and I mover to London." said Shirou a little nervous when he said it.
Everyone nodded in understanding at Shirou's explaination. "Any other questions? If not, let's continue our study" said Komura-sensei. "Emiya-san please sit on that empty chair next to Nonaka-san." said Komura-sensei pointing to an empty chair in the last row beside the window.
"Yes 'Sensei!" said Shirou then walked towards the empty chair that's assigned to him.
The girl he was directed to go to was wearing the typical female uniform of Kuoh Academy and was quite the pretty girl.
She had neck-length light blue hair with a braid on the right side of her face and a white headband to keep her hair in order, despite the fact that she had an 'ahoge' on the crown of her head.
Her vivid yellow eyes, framed by the soft features on her face, locked onto him as he was making his way towards her.
The girl, Nonaka was her name, nodded to him in acknowledgement as he sat down to her left near the window.
First impression; a good person.
Nice.
"Well, let's continue our studies. Open your Physics book page 45." said Komura-sensei and lessons began.
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The recess bell rang, with the first period of the school ended, Komura-sensei left the classroom accompanied by some students who also left to have lunch in cafetaria.
With most of the students left the classroom, Shirou decided to leave as well to find a quiet spot where he can eat his lunch in peace. However, when he's about to start his search, only then that Shirou remembered that he's still didn't know the layout of this school.
"Damn, I forgot that I still don't know my way around this school." Shirou muttered lowly with a sigh.
While he's wondering what he should do, someone suddenly decided to come to his aid.
"Are you having difficulty in finding your way around this school, Emiya-san?" The girl, who sat on the table next to him, Nonaka asked him curiously.
Shirou turned his attention to the blue haired girl who have decided to let her presence known. "Oh, hey there...Nonaka was it?" Shirou asked and the girl simply nodded in response.
"Yeah...I do have a little bit problem in finding my way around this school." Shirou explained honestly. "This school building is incredibly huge, I even nearly got lost when I was trying to find the Principal's office this morning."
Nonaka nodded her head in understanding after hearing Shirou's explaination. "I see, then would you like me to give you a tour around this school, Emiya-san?" Nonaka said as she offered Shirou a tour around the school's premise.
"Is it really okay? I don't want to trouble you." Shirou said, inside he felt bad about asking Nonaka to give him a tour around the school.
Nonaka shook her head in disagreement. "It's no trouble at all, Emiya-san. In fact, it is my duty as the representative of this class to give a new student like you, a tour around the school to help you feel more familiar with this school." Nonaka explained.
"Is that so? Well then, in that case I'll gladly took your offer. Please lead the way, Nonaka." Shirou relented as he let the blue haired who turns out to be the class representative of class 2-A, to give him a tour around Kuoh Academy.
Nonaka nodded, she turned around and grabbed her bag to leave.
The magus watched her go, he quickly grabbed his own bag and followed after her.
Nonaka followed through with her duty as the class representative; taking him around Kuoh Academy to see all that the high school had to offer. Introducing him to all of the facilities and important areas.
Shirou had to admit, he was impressed at the sheer size of the place, even though it was ostensibly just a high school so far. Though apparently there were other parts of the Academy that extended beyond high school, though he wasn't sure.
The entire tour took only about a half-an-hour due to her quick and efficient introductions to everything they saw, makes him think that Nonaka isn't the kind of person who likes pleasantry and prefers to get to the point.
The tour ended with the two of them arriving at the school's rooftop. Which is strange, because the last time he check, the rooftop is not part of the tour.
At least, that's what knows from his previous high school.
Though, he had to admit the rooftop of this school does provide a beautiful view of the rest of the academy grounds available to them.
"Is this is a good place to stop the tour, Emiya-san?" Nonaka suddenly asked, causing Shirou to quickly turned his attention back to her.
"Oh...yeah, yeah! Thanks for showing me around the school, Nonaka! It was a real help!" Shirou said, expressing his gratitude to Nonaka for showing him around the school. "Well, guess I'll see you later in class, then. Bye, Nonaka! And thank you once again for showing me around the school."
The magus was already in the midst of turning around as he was speaking, preparing to leave the rooftop to find a place where he can be alone and eat his lunch in peace before the lunch break ended.
After all, there's only twenty minutes left before the second period start.
"Wait."
As demanded, the magus did indeed wait, freezing himself from opening the door to enter the stairs to enter the building again.
"...There is something that I wish to ask of you, Emiya-san." the young woman stated as much as asked, not exactly giving much room to deny what she was asking of him.
Shirou turned around and looked at Nonaka, his own ember eyes connecting with her yellow ones, a hidden intensity hidden within their depths.
"What are you... Shirou Emiya?" Nonaka questioned, no, demanded with a new sharpness in her eyes and face.
The magus frown as he sensing some semblance of hostility from his fellow classmate, internally shocked at what she was asking.
Indeed, her body took on a more aggressive tone as she spread her legs apart and clenched her fists, almost as if she was ready to fight with him at a moment's notice.
"What are you talking about, Nonaka? As you can see, I'm a human." Shirou stated calmly as he tried to appear obvlivious.
"Don't lie to me, Emiya-san! you seem to be human...but the foreign magical energy that I'm sensing from you suggests otherwise, and an unknown variable cannot be tolerated during this point in time." Nonaka said with growing antagonism, voice firm.
As she was speaking, a green aura began to envelop around her arms, a sword appearing from the energy, as well as a pair of metallic gauntlets that formed around her arms.
"I will ask you one more time...Shirou Emiya...what are you?" Nonaka finished, her newly formed blade pointing at Shirou.
He had made a mistake. He was careless.
Shirou had been too focused in handling the non-human threats in this world to the point where he forgot that there are also humans who are capable of using magical powers like him.
As a fellow magic users, there's no doubt that she can tell that Shirou is not a mere human anymore. Because by now, he have became a demi-servant due to having Heroic Spirit EMIYA possessing his body.
This blunder can only be described by Shirou in one word.
"...Shit."
A/N : Finally the first chapter is finished, and I can't believe that the first chapter of this story would be this long. Anyway, I won't lie to you guys. This story is heavily inspired by ReekingPrides' story called The Legacy of the most Unpredictable Ninja. It's a Naruto x High school DxD crossover. I used to be a huge fan of this story, and I'm incredibly saddened to know that this story is no longer continuing. I guess he no longer has the time to continue writing the story ever since he joining the Army. Which is why, since the chances of ReekingPride coming back to continue the story is relatively small. I have decided to write a story similar to his. I'm not going to make this story a multiple-crossover story like RekkingPride since I know that it would be too difficult for to do. But, I will only keep the crossover between Fate Series, High school DxD, and Shinmai Maou no Testament.
Okay, I guess that's all for now. Please let me know what you guys think of this chapter. Though, I can already tell that there will lots of critics. So, please be gentle, this is my first time writing a fic and English is not my first language nor my second. So, of course there will be grammatical error and misspellings.
Trace Off.