Tohsaka Rin didn't know what to think.
Emiya-kun, the kind, idiotic fool… was a magus.
That thought simply didn't compute.
Especially the thought that he was a freaking True Magician!
That basically put him on the same level as the Dead Apostle Ancestors!
She froze at that thought.
JUST HOW LUDICROUSLY POWERFUL WOULD HE BE IF HE EVER BECAME A DEAD APOSTLE?!
There would be no way he wouldn't be granted a position as an ancestor… if she had heard right then the tenth slot was still open.
The worst part was that if he ever did become an apostle, he could just make more blood to drink if he ever needed to.
Hell, he might even end up just as dangerous as Zelretch!
But then there was another point…
Did she really care?
Sure she may have given up her Archer to him but it wasn't like she really could've stopped him from taking the prick away from her if he wanted to, five on one was not favourable odds for her after all.
It just meant that she had given up willingly and ensured her safety instead of risking a fight and getting herself killed.
Though he clearly didn't realise that she hadn't been confident at all when stating her terms.
Nor did she expect him to accept a Geass to those terms.
But from what she had managed to determine from that brief encounter, Emiya really was as kind and helpful as he always appeared to be.
Which meant he should've been a crappy magus.
But he was a True Magician instead, even if he denied it, the servants all seemed so… exasperated at the fact that he had denied it.
Though the fact that there hadn't been any reports of sudden sickness causing people to drop down in exhaustion… she decided it was probably best to believe the Servants instead of the redhead.
She was definitely gutted that she had surrendered so easily, especially after her father died in the Fourth Grail War but this was different.
Her father had been confident in his ability to win the war, confident that his servant was undefeatable… and the enemy had aimed at him directly.
All that strength had been useless when there had been no-one to protect him himself.
And she was proud… not stupid.
And facing five servants and a True Magician was easily going into the region of outright stupidity.
"Hello Rin-chan," she froze in the middle of road before looking up and seeing a sight she wished she never had to… a small girl with bright red eyes and snow white hair.
And standing right behind her, looking completely menacing… was a giant with bronze skin.
The sheer aura it put out was definitely that of a servant.
She was definitely regretting not trying to get a place to stay at Emiya's for the duration of the war.
And for travelling alone.
So right now, she was all alone, facing off against an Einzbern Homunculus and a Servant, clearly Berserker (since she already knew that all the other servants belonged to Emiya)…
She was so screwed.
"Einzbern," she almost growled out, earning a light grin off the girl.
"What's wrong Rin-chan?" the little girl asked in a far too sweet voice, "why don't you call out your servant?"
Rin definitely felt like throttling the girl for that question but ended up saying what she could.
"And what use would that do against a Berserker like that?" she asked, earning a frown off the little girl.
"Just because you're going to die doesn't mean you should just give up Rin-chan," the Einzbern representative stated with an obvious amount of disdain.
"Oh, I get it, you just want to kill my Servant so he can't find a new master don't you?" she asked as smugly as possible.
"Well, I guess killing two birds with one stone is normal isn't it," the girl said with a grin, "especially when they're only an appetizer for the main event."
Rin felt her blood boil at that statement, to be dismissed so easily was just infuriating.
"Oh, so if I'm just the appetizer, then who's the main dish?" she asked with her growl still in her tone.
"Onii-chan," and with that she found herself frowning.
"Who?" she asked in confusion, earning a small laugh off the girl.
"My adopted Onii-chan… Emiya Shirou," Rin couldn't stop herself from just staring at the girl flanked by a giant.
She was hunting Shirou?
Did she have any idea what she was getting herself into?
"Uh… Tohsaka… what are you doing?" she froze as she watched the Homunculus stare at the boy she knew was there.
"Emiya-kun… this girl wants to kill you," she stated as she turned to face the redhead, quickly noting how he was dressed in surprisingly tidy clothes, "and why are you dressed like that?"
"Huh? Well, I was just on my way to work… so why does she want to kill me?" it was clear that he was confused as to why the girl would want to kill him.
"Because she is a master," she stated bluntly.
"Hello Onii-chan," she almost cringed at the sweetness in the little girls voice… and even more importantly the complete ignorance she was displaying and silently wondered what the girl would do when she found out that Shirou had ALL the other servants in the war and could STEAL hers as well.
"Uh… hello?" he sounded unsure.
"Why don't you call out your servant Onii-chan," the girl asked in what she was certain her typical 'I am going to kill you and you cannot do anything to stop me' tone.
"Uh, well I don't want to be late for work," Rin couldn't stop herself.
She just had to facepalm at that excuse.
Probably because she knew it wasn't an excuse but the truth.
"You won't be going to work Onii-chan," she noted how Shirou just frowned at that declaration.
"Uh, I need to go to work, they're already short staffed as it is," Rin could see the irritation beginning to creep onto the enemy masters face and almost had to snort.
Trust Emiya-kun to ignore the danger he was in and think about going to help out at work.
"You won't be going because you'll be dead!" the Homunculus finally seemed to snap at his casual dismissal of her threats, "Berserker! Kill him!"
And then the giant jumped at the True Magician.
Before finding himself getting pummelled by two blurs, one blue and the other purple.
"Yo Berserker," Lancer was back and Rin began to wonder if he was going to repeat what he said against Rider who was also readying herself for another attack, "we never did get to finish our fight did we?"
"Uh… can you guy's deal with Berserker? I really do need to get to work," trust Emiya-kun to keep talking about that.
"No need," and with that a certain red coated Archer appeared behind the giant and gouged a grove into the back of the hulking giant before dodging backwards.
"Rule Breaker," and with that he once again found himself gaining a new bond as Caster appeared behind the giant and plunged her knife into the wound caused by Archer… seriously though, why was an Archer using a sword?
"Well… that was just as quick as I thought it would be," Rin muttered just loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Y… y…you stole Berserker from me?" the white haired girl seemed to go pale and her eyes began to water, "damn you! Why do you always have to steal everything from me!"
She couldn't stop herself from blinking.
"First dad, now Berserker!" the girl was definitely upset, "I HATE YOU!"
"Huh?" Shirou seemed to be completely caught off guard by that declaration, "what do you mean I stole your dad from you?"
"Don't you dare deny it!" the snow haired girl shouted in anger, "if it wasn't for you then dad wouldn't have abandoned me!"
She could definitely see the absolute confusion in the boy's features at that.
"Oi kid," oh great, now Lancer was going to be getting in on the conversation now, "that guy's a moron so unless you explain it properly, there is no way in hell he's going to understand what you're saying."
Rin found herself sweat-dropping at that statement, the worst part was that she couldn't even make a case to defend the redhead.
"Dammit, if it wasn't for you then Kiritsugu wouldn't have abandoned me!" okay… now Rin was confused, who the hell was Kiritsugu?
"Huh? Wait… are you telling me… that Kiritsugu was your father?" the tone of his voice was bland as he made that question.
"Yes! Don't you dare pretend you didn't know!" the girl was definitely angry and was probably not really thinking of the fact that the boy she was yelling at now had her servant.
"Uh…" the redhead just rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, "he never told me."
That seemed to freeze the girl in her tracks.
"Now, I really need to get to work, but if you want you can come with me and we can talk more there," the boy was being surprisingly reasonable, "besides, the Grail War is over now."
"What do you mean it's over now?" the red eyed girl asked with narrowed eyes, "not a single servant has been defeated."
"Yeah, well that's because I've now got all of them," that made the little girl blink.
"Is that some kind of joke?" the Einzbern homunculus asked with clear irritation, "how do you expect me to believe you have the prana to support a full seven servants?"
"He' s a True Magician, his prana supply is infinite," Caster simply stated bluntly over a quiet cry of 'I'm not a True Magician', "now, I would advise that you either run away or you take up my master on his offer… if you delay him anymore there is no guarantee Assassin won't kill you."
That was when Rin finally noticed the dark cloaked Servant standing in a ready position to kill the shortest of the collected individuals.
And then the girl made a sound similar to a boiling kettle.
"Fine," she stated with an air of finality, "I'll go with you to your work place and then we'll talk more."
"Uh… I know this is a little late but aren't you all forgetting something?" Lancer asked with a blank expression, making everyone look towards him, "like what I said about there being a servant in the Church."
That made everyone frown.
"But there are only seven servants in the war and Shirou already has all of them," she decided to put in her own piece of wisdom, causing the blue clad Irishman to shake his head in the negative.
"Nah, there was definitely another servant, how I don't know, but there definitely is," now that thought made her feel a chill run down her spine, there were only supposed to be seven servants and Lancer was claiming there was an eighth? If that was true then just how much else would be different.
"Uh… I really don't have time for this… I'm going to be late anyway without you lot talking about more stuff," Rin had to admit that it certainly was amusing to see him getting so low because he was going to be late for work.
"Where do you work?" Caster immediately asked.
"The Copenhagen," and before he could say anything else, the purple cloak had covered them all before vanishing to reveal that they were no longer on the residential side of the river but in an alley just behind the very bar he had mentioned, "that's handy, now could everyone please astralize?"
And with that, only Shirou, the Einzbern girl and Rin were left in the alley.
"You know Emiya-kun, I still expect those jewels…" she didn't even have time to finish her statement when a bag appeared in his hand and was promptly handed to her.
Upon opening it she found herself coming to a decision.
She was definitely going to try and seduce the boy before her.
Because being handed over one hundred million yen worth of all sorts of precious stones without a second thought was just too great an incentive to pass up.
Besides, out of all the boys in school, he had always been the one she liked the most.
"So, uh… sorry, what's your name?" Shirou asked the little girl while scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Illyasviel Von Einzbern," the homunculus stated with a curtsy, "but you may call me Ilya."
"Alright then Ilya-chan, just let me explain everything to my bosses and then we can talk," and with that the red head placed a hand on the girls head and ruffled her hair in a friendly manner before heading into the pub.
Rin herself though noticed the blush that was creeping onto the girls face and decided to say something very simple.
"He's mine."
And with that, the dogs of war were unleashed.