AN: Well this chapter took longer than I thought, probably because it's about 3x longer than the first chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own F/GO or Type-Moon. If I did I would be swimming in that gacha money.
For the 2nd time this night, Cú found himself engaged in a fight against a fellow heroic spirit and was beginning to feel that this war might not be as boring as he thought, after days of being passive and only performing reconnaissance. Not only that, he was also given the orders to fight and kill rather than to merely test his opponent for the first time as well. All in all, Cú pushed back the thoughts of his hatred against the priest and let out a howl as he enjoyed the fight against the new servant.
After the initial exchange trading blows with the mysterious servant, Lancer grunted as he was pushed back from a particularly strong blow he blocked from the blonde knight, noticing a gesture that the black hair master made as he felt the enhanced strike forcing him back. Feeling a bit annoyed by being pushed back by, from his point of view, a small girl and how she was concealing her weapon with some sort of magecraft, Cú attempted to taunt her into revealing her weapon (a sword from what he could tell), only to be mocked by her claims of her weapon being a bow. Clearly not getting her to reveal any helpful information, Cú readied a battle stance again before charging at the blonde to kill the master behind her.
Getting into another exchange with the knight, the Hound of Ulster noticed how the girl not only managed to parry all his attacks, but seemed to know his fighting style, as if she already fought him multiple times, knowing exactly how to counter him, leaving him to go on the defensive as the quicker and arguably stronger servant pushed him back again. Despite this Cú still had one last card up his blue jumpsuit and that was his noble phantasm, Gáe Bulg, a weapon that if in range and activated, could reverse casualty itself to strike its target in the heart. The problem he was currently facing was everytime he attempted to activate Gáe Bulg to eliminate the enemy master, his blonde servant would move in and force him back, canceling the attack. With no other option, Cú retreated back a fair distance to get out of the range from the servant that was probably Saber's attack, and began focusing mana into his spear, preparing his noble phantasm, intent on taking care of the blonde first.
As Saber charged towards Lancer, Ritsuka's eyes widened as he realized that Cú was preparing his noble phantasm, quickly screamed: "Saber, retreat! It's a trap!" Upon hearing what he said, Saber hastily pivoted, trying to get out of range of the noble phantasm. As the glowing red spear ignited with red mana and Cú began running towards Saber, Ritsuka saw that she wouldn't make it out of range in time, prepared his mystic code, yelling "Predictive evasion", casting the spell on Saber.
As Cú's feet crushed the ground below him, he announced his noble phantasm's true name, and the red spear left his hands and went straight for the blonde's heart, yet she managed to get out the way, the spear missing her entirely. Rewriting casualty, the spear once again headed towards the knight, this time on course to hit her even after she dodged. Luckily for Saber, her instincts and her master's predictive evasion spell allowed her to see the new trajectory of the spear, and once again she managed to avoid a killing blow from Lancer's noble phantasm, ducking as the spear grazed her left shoulder.
Lancer's face grimaced, eyes looking like they were ready to bulge out, in disbelief that his attack that could rewrite casualty to hit his target's heart missed, and the wound seemed to be already healing. "So you escaped my mightiest blow Saber." Lance heatily stated. Readying his spear once more, Lance prepared to once again attack Saber, but before he could move a step, a familiar annoying voice of a priest caused him to stop.
"Lancer retreat, remember your orders," Lancer's master, Kotomine Kierei, urged. "Wasn't it you that told me to kill the new master, you shitty coward?" Lancer sniped back through the mental link. Hearing no response from Kotomine, Lancer faced Saber and her master, groaning: "I messed up." Cú began walking away from them, following his orders. "My master told me that If I use that move, it has to kill, but since you dodged it and my lord is a coward, he's ordering me back home. But as a warning, I don't care if you can dodge my undodgeable attack, if you follow me, you'll die, this time I'll make sure of it," the lancer informed and jumped onto the roof, running away from the house.
Saber rised up, preparing to follow when Ritsuka spoke up. "Artoria wait, you're still injured, and Cú is still able to fight."
"I'm fine my master, even with this scratch, that dog is still no match for the King of Britain, "as the knight spun around and faced her master. "Even so we still have problems here to deal with, especially making sure my master knows what's happening." Ritsuka reasoned, pointing to the injured redhead, who could only watch in shock from what just happened.
"Who the hell are you? And what's happening here?" Shirou demanded, seeing the focus now turned on him. Casting a healing spell from his mystic code to finish healing Artoria, Ritsuka calmly explained, "You right now are in a Holy Grail War as a master, and right now I am your servant. Due to my unique abilities, I can also summon servants, albeit to a contrainsed extent and this is Artoria Pendragon, King of Britain, and my saber class servant." Artoria then faced Shirou and introduced herself, "Please call me saber, I'll do my best to protect you."
"Uh I'm Shirou Emiya, I still don't really know what's going on but seeing how you saved my life please call me Shirou." and the redhead offered a handshake. Unnoticed by Shirou, Ritsuka's face briefly showed shock before he shook Shirou's hand with a smile.
"Emiya? Is he related to one of the Counter Guardian Emiyas or is Emiya a more common last name than I thought and this is just a coincidence?" Ritsuka contemplated as he tried to piece together the odds of a boy that looked like Sengo Muramasa had the same last name as one of his other servants.
"Masters, there is a servant and master approaching our vicinity, shall I engage?" Saber inquired, breaking Ritsuka's line of thought. Noticing the 2 approaching magic signatures approaching, Ritsuka quickly turned towards Shirou.
"Shirou, did you encounter any people like Lancer today?" Ritsuka pressed.
"Uh-h I think there was a white hair tan guy was a black and a white blade, wearing a red coat fighting Lancer earlier when I accidentally stumbled into them fighting."
Ritsuka pondered in silence when Saber yelled: "They're approaching the gate! Your orders?"
Coming to a decision, the last master of humanity stated, "If they fought against Lancer, they could be potential allies, Saber be prepared to fight if necessary, Shirou get behind us just in case, the fighting might not be over yet."
"Stupid stupid stupid…" Archer heard Rin mutter as they raced towards the Emiya estate to protect Shirou Emiya, much to his dismay. When Rin realized that the Emiya boy could be in danger from Lancer after dropping him off at his house, he silently cursed at the prospect of going to save his past self from death again. Alas due to the command seal Rin used on him to obey her after he initially taunted her when summoned, the red bowman dutifully picked up his master and ran towards the boy's home. After reaching the front gates, the counter guardian felt that something was wrong, feeling that he was supposed to fight somebody before he could reach the house.
"You feel it right? There are 2 magical signatures in the place, y-you think that we're too late?" Rin nervously questioned, hoping that the boy she just saved wasn't skewered for the 2nd time this night.
Archer then realized that there were indeed 2 magical signatures in the estate, despite him not recalling 2 magic signatures staying in the household at this point in time, probably explaining why he didn't encounter anyone beforehand as he vaguely remembered, seeing how he was certainly sure that he should of met and defended against Saber before reaching the front of the gate.
"Yes I do feel there are 2 magical signatures behind the gate, if that's the case the boy is mostly dead, we should leave." Archer dryly replied.
The white haired servant noticed that his master clenched her fist and began shaking, and realized he might have made a mistake.
"That of course doesn't mean that Lancer isn't still here," Archer continued hoping that she wouldn't do anything rash, "The presence we sense right now might be Lancer and his master, and we c-." Before Archer could finish his promise to strike Lancer down "in revenge" for killing the boy, Rin ran right up to the gates and pushed it open before stopping in shock as she saw another black hair and blue-eyed person stare right back at her.
After hearing what Archer said about Shirou being probably being dead, Rin felt angry at herself for failing to protect Shirou, an innocent in the war, and someone who her sister considers to be highly important, and upon hearing Archer suggest that Lancer could still be here, focused her anger on the servant stabbed Shirou through the heart. Letting her temper get the best of her, she ran to the gate and prepared to avenge Shirou, only to find someone that wasn't Lancer and someone that looked like her long lost brother if she had one along with a female clad in silver and blue armor, staring back at her.
Both of the black hair and blue-eyed masters opened their eyes in shock, one wondering who these 2 interlopers were and why they were here, and the other wondering how he encountered another person that looks like a doppelganger to some certain servants he knows showing up right in front of him. Suddenly Archer swiftly moved in front of his master with his 2 favored blade summoned into his hands to protect her from any threat, and Saber lunged forward, taking the Red servant's sudden movement as a sign of aggression and prepared to defend her masters when for the 2nd time this night a redhead interrupted a fight between two servants again.
"Wait, Stop! Tohsaka? What are you doing here?" Shirou shouted.
"Emiya, you weren't killed by Lancer?" Rin yelled back.
"Wait, you two know each other?" Ritsuka interrupted.
"She's my classmate, but I don't know why she's part of whatever this is!" Emiya explained, confused why Rin, the model student (and his crush), would be part of whatever this Holy Grail War is.
Looking for answers on what's going on, Rin continued to press Shirou, "Emiya-Kun, what happened here, who are these people?"
Before Shirou could reply, Ritsuka answered for him, "My name is Ritsuka Fujimaru, and I'm the master of saber. I however have a question for you master of archer, why are you here and why did you think Shirou here was killed by Lancer." Rin's eyes widened as she heard him call her the master of archer despite no evident evidence of her servant showing that he was an archer and noticed the red command seals on his back hand showing from the opening in his gloves.
"During my fight with Lancer, a certain idiot stumbled onto the fight and Lancer following mage protocol tried to kill him but I managed to save him. After returning him home, I realized Lancer might come back to finish the job, so I rushed back here to save him again, only to find you and your servant instead, Fujimaru. Now tell me why are you here and what is your interest in Emiya-Kun?" Rin retorted back, feeling cautious about this potentially dangerous new master.
"You were the one that saved me? Why didn't you tell me about it, Tohsaka?"
"I-it wasn't a big wasn't a big deal, it was partially my fault for not making sure there wasn't anyone at the school first. Plus if I had it my way you wouldn't be here with knowledge of the Holy Grail War. Now Emiya-kun, tell me this, are you a master?" The gem mage responded as she glanced towards the back of hands trying to catch a glimpse on any command seals.
"If you don't mind Tohsaka-san, I would like to discuss some things with Shirou first," Ritsuka spoke up before pulling Shirou into the shed before she could reply and closed the door behind them with Saber guarding the entrance.
"Shirou, you seem to know this master, so let me ask you this. Do you trust her?."
"I don't really know her that well personally but she's a model hardworking student at my highschool. I didn't even know that she was a mage until right now. But if what she said was true and really did save my life, I owe her, and for her to check up on me it's clear that she's a caring person. Because of this I feel that she's trustworthy and we could use her help as well."
Thinking back to his servant Ishtar, Ritsuka remembered them saying that her vessel's personality held back some of her worst personality traits, to the point where Gilgamesh could find her tolerable. If the master of archer is the same vessel that held Ishtar, then she probably is a good person and could be trusted. Finalizing a plan, Ritsuka told Shirou his idea.
"From what I can tell, I agree that Tohsaka could be a potential ally. How about we invite her into the house and we can discuss the Holy Grail War?"
"Sounds like a plan to me."
Opening the shed door Shirou offered Tohsaka to go inside to discuss the situation. Seeing that the mysterious man wasn't hostile and that it was her best opportunity to get answers, she agreed.
Staying behind to let the 2 real masters and Saber go in first, Ritsuka walked up to Archer. "You already know my true name don't you boy?" Archer stated, analyzing the boy in front, feeling that he knew this master from somewhere.
"You don't seem shocked that I know who you are Archer, or should I call you Counter Guardian Emiya? I'm surprised you're here to fight a grail war, because I once heard from you that you didn't have a wish for the grail in the slightest." Letting out a grin Ritsuka continued. "Although It's nice to see you again even if you aren't the Archer I know."
Confirming that the boy knew who he was, the Wrought Iron Hero let out a sigh. When he first barged into the courtyard, he immediately noticed the black haired boy in the black attire that he didn't recount meeting. Back when the barged through the gate, the servant used his hawkeye ability, carefully tracking this mysterious man, and was taken back when it appeared like the boy recognized him. As a counter guardian from the future, it seemed unlikely that anyone could recognize him yet he couldn't let go of the feeling that this boy somehow knew him. His suspicions were then given weight when the boy called Rin the master of Archer, something that set off warning lights in his head. While it's entirely possible that he could have just guessed correctly which servant Rin had, combined with how he appeared to recognize him, Archer had a terrifying thought. If this boy truly knew who he was and was about to talk with Rin, his identity might be revealed, complicating his plans to prevent his past self from going down his cursed path. He briefly considered just telling Rin that the whole thing was a trap while Shirou and this Ritsuka boy were talking in the shed and bolted, but that could only push the problem further down the road and leave him with a lot more questions than he liked. With that option out of the way Archer thought of the next most responsible option, convincing Ritsuka not to reveal his identity. Considering this boy knew him, and that he was happy to see him, it's very likely that the boy in front of them could work with him and be trusted. Either that or the boy is a world destroying maniac responsible for the death of millions and another version of him had to be called by the counter force to stop him. Yeah, Archer was really hoping for the former.
"You're right, I'm not the Archer you know, my reasons for joining this grail war is completely personal, but before I tell you, I have a request, you must not tell Rin or Shirou who I am."
"That is something I can certainly do but may I ask why?" Ritsuka questioned, eyebrows raising at this unique request.
"As you know, the boy you protected is called Shirou Emiya and I am Counter Guardian Emiya." Taking a deep breath, the Emiya dropped the bombshell. "If Shirou Emiya does not give up on his ideals he will eventually sell his soul to Alaya, condemning himself to a life of endless slaughter, only being able to clean up the messes of humanity and become me, Counter Guardian Emiya."
Not expecting that answer, Ritsuka's blue eyes widened at the reveal of his master's future identity, followed up by several questions of how the redhead that summoned him could become like the man standing in front of him. Recomposing himself, Ritsuka responded to Archer's request.
"This is the first time I heard such a thing from you but I can see why you wouldn't want to mention this to your master or to Shirou, but I must ask, how do you intend to prevent Shirou from following your path?"
"I don't know what version of me you met, but I assure you making a deal with Alaya is not something a person should make. I'll just beat it into my past self's head the flaws of his ideals, and guide him away from this self-destructive path. " Omitting out the details of killing said past self if he doesn't stray away from that path, but relieved that this mystery master wouldn't throw a wrench into his plan, not yet anyways.
Hearing Archer's words, Ritsuka let out a sad smile at the irony of his statement before agreeing and walked towards the house.
"It seems we left Rin and Shirou alone for long enough. Let's head into the house to discuss what's happening."
"Yes, let's join them." Archer hastily agreed, being so caught up in hiding his true name, he remembered he just left his master alone with a servant.
"Turns out there's still a lot I don't know about Emiya-san" Ritsuka thought, thinking about what Archer said and prepared himself for the discussion ahead of him.
When Rin first entered the Emiya household, she noticed the broken window and the shattered glass that covered the floor. "What's this, you got a huge hole in your window!"
"It's hardly my fault, I had to jump out of it to escape the lancer guy."
"Wait. You fought Lancer on your own before Fujimaru-san fought off Lancer?"
"Not really, he mostly just played around with me while I attempted to run."
"Not even trying to make yourself sound good? I see. You don't pretend to be something you're not huh?" Bending forwards, Rin hovered her hands over the broken glass shards, quietly chanting "Minuten vor SchweiBen". With a blue glow, the glass shards rearranged themselves and the window repaired itself, good as new.
"Tohsaka…" Shirou muttered in awe, "You really are a mage. Huh?"
"Aren't you one too Emiya-kun?"
"Not really, I can't do anything like what you just did."
"What do you mean you can't?" Rin asked in shock, "Working with glass is one of the most basic things you learn as a mage!"
"I don't know any basics or fundamentals." Shirou explained.
"No wonder I couldn't tell you were a mage," Rin sighed.
As the two walked towards the living room, Shirou spoke up: "Tohsaka-san, I can't express to you how thankful I am for you saving me, I am forever indebted to you, if you need anything, tell me and I will help."
Feeling her face slightly go red, Rin brushed off Shirou's proclamation: "Like I said it isn't a big deal, it's partially my fault as Second Owner that you got stabbed in the first place." With that the 2 masters and Saber sat down at the table and waited for Ritsuka and Archer to arrive.
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Slightly panicking, RIn just realized that she just left herself alone in a room with a saber class servant from a master she wasn't sure she could trust yet and quietly began having a meltdown in her head. Seeing the blonde servant stoically sitting there, with no hints of moving, relieved her fears a bit and only let out a breath she didn't know she was holding when Archer and Ritsuka showed up.
Sitting down near Shirou, Ritsuka began the discussion, "So before we begin, let me ask you this Tohsaka-san. What is your wish for the grail?"
"I have no wish for the grail, I merely seek to obtain the grail for the grail, it's been Tohsaka's dream for generations. I fight because there's a battle to be fought. Now let me ask you Fujimaru-san, why do you seek the grail? Also why did you save Emiya-kun? Unlike me you had no obligation to save a random bystander in the war and risk yourself fighting Lancer?"
Stifling, the last master of humanity let out a sigh, accepting Rin's explanation and prepared himself for the long explanation ahead. "I saved Shirou because he was someone who needed saving and I was there to help." Hearing this Shirou perked up while Archer narrowed his eyes, carefully listening to what the boy was saying. "My wish for the grail is pretty much to save the world."
At Ritsuka's statement, both Archer and Shirou went into shock, one feeling happy that there was another that shared his dream and another contemplating homicide to prevent the boy from following a path like his. Rin kept a calm poker face, staring straight at his blue eyes with her own, at slight disbelief of his words.
"Although before I explain that, I should reintroduce myself to all of you. My name is Ritsuka Fujimaru, last master of humanity from pan-human history, and I work for Chaldea, a security organization in charge of protecting humanity's future. I'm here as a servant under my master Shirou Emiya, and I intended to use the wish fulling properties of this grail to restore my timeline after a beast of humanity destroyed it. Any questions?"
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"What?" Rin's poker face broke as she tried to comprehend his statement, while Shirou went mute. Meanwhile Archer was carefully considering Ritsuka's words, understanding how this last master of humanity could know him. If a beast of humanity was involved in his timeline, it would be completely reasonable for the Counter Force to send him to help and it's possible that he could have met him that way.
"It's a long story but if I had to shorten it down, in my timeline there was only one grail war in Fuyuki in 2004 unlike in this timeline where this is the 5th. In my timeline, Marisbury Animusphere won the grail war and used his wish to create Chaldea, an organization to protect humanity. I eventually got recruited to Chaldea in 2015 due to my high servant compatibility and ray shifting ability, which is needed to essentially travel back into the past and resolve irregularities in human history called singularities. Back then I was just an average person, the only reason I got recruited was because they found out I was rayshift and master compatible through a blood drive and offered me a job. Back then I didn't know anything about the moonlit world but when Chaldea's first mission launched, we were sabotaged from the inside that led me to be the only master available. Turns out a demon god pillar took over our main engineer, and started a plan to incinerate human history by creating singularities, and using the incineration to fuel their main goal of reforming the world so death doesn't exist. I somehow managed to luckily defeat the demon god pillars and restore human history…"
"So you practically saved the world?" Shirou asked in awe.
Smiling back, Ritsuka humbly replied,"Me? Kind of, I was a pretty inept master with little skill in the beginning, I had a lot of luck and met helpful servants that got me through a lot of the singularities. If it wasn't for them I would be dead."
"That is quite a story, though how can we ensure you've been telling the truth? Plus if you already restored human history why are you here seeking a wish from the grail?" Rin questioned.
"That's because after we defeated the demon god pillars, a foreign alien god invaded and erased all the texture on Earth, removing our proper human history and replacing it with a blank white landscape." Ritsuka's face grimaced thinking of the hellish landscape and the lostbelts that inhabited it. "The alien god brought down lostbelts which are timelines in which history diverges and there is no more progress for mankind. Me and my allies managed to destroy all of them and beat the alien god but our world is still wiped clean. That's why I'm here to fight in this grail war, I made a deal with alaya to be summoned as a servant for a grail war and use the wish to restore our proper human history."
With his motivations laid bare and the bombshell dropped, a wave of silence overcame the conversation, as Shirou, Rin, and Archer thought about what Ritsuka just said.
"Wait, the world is going to end in 2015? That's 11 years from now!" Shirou shouted. "There's a way to prevent that and everyone dying right?"
"In this timeline? I would say no. From the info the grail has given, this timeline already slightly differs from my own, as this world has the 27 dead apostles ancestors while in my world, the organization doesn't exist at all to my knowledge."
"Dead Apostles?" Shirou asked, unfamiliar with the term.
"They're practically vampires although it's much more complicated than that, but back on topic about the end of world and the grail war, we're not here to discuss dead apostles here." Rin supplied an explanation to Shirou. "Unless one shows up that is."
"Yeah, like I said this world is different from mine so the events that led up to the incineration of humanity in my world might not happen here. Another things that was different in my world was that there's only ever been one grail war in our timeline in 2004, won my Chaldea's director." Ritsuka paused thinking of all the other differences he noticed in this world with his own before focusing his thoughts on Lev.
"Though if you ever meet a man called Lev Lainur make sure that he's a human. The whole incineration happened because he became a demon god pillar and started the whole process." Ritsuka bitterly remarked.
"Thank you for your insight Fujimaru-san but the question remains how do we know you're not lying? For all I know you're just a great actor, and trying to garner sympathy so I'll just work with you. Tell me, if you really are a servant, why do you have Saber? Rin grilled Ritsuka, trying to catch him in a lie.
At her words, Ritsuka felt a slight anger, clenching his fists as she interrogated him, believing that he was lying about all the trauma and hardship he faced, just like Clock Tower did when he restored human history. Just as quickly the master calmed down, realizing that his story did sound ludicrous and unlikely especially because they were in a grail war. Taking a deep breath, Ritsuka prepared his explanation.
"As I mentioned before I have a high master affinity. That ability allowed me to form bonds with every servant I met and with the help of Chaldea, I managed to form contracts with multiple servants at once. When I agreed to fight in a grail war and become a servant, that ability I had before translated into the ability to summon a servant with my command seals. Although it seems that I can only summon servants from an available class container and I still need to have a source of mana to prevent my servant's saint graph from degrading too much."
Upon hearing his ability Rin slowly began formulating a plan. The identity of Archer always nagged her, but if the man in front of her had contracted with multiple servants, and recognized her servant as Archer, then maybe he would know who her servant was.
"Exactly how many servants have you contracted with? Was my Archer one of the servants you have contracted with before and that's how you called me Archer's master?"
Unseen by Rin and Shirou, Archer narrowed his eyes and passively glared at Ritsuka, as if daring him to reveal his true name.
Ritsuka gathered himself, as he prepared to answer her question without jeopardizing Archer's true name, he decided on some half truths.
"I have summoned many servants, one of which is a version of the Archer you summoned. But even then I did not know his full name while he was with me. What I do know however is that he's a counter guardian."
"Tsk" Archer inwardly was relieved that Ritsuka honored his request and glanced at Rin, who seemed to be trying to comprehend what the boy had just said.
"The boy is right, I am a counter guardian, that's probably another reason why I can't recall my own name."
After a brief moment of silence, Rin spoke up again, "Well if you can't tell me his true name, what about his ability as a servant and his noble phantasm?"
After another brief pause, Ritsuka replied back, "Archer-san is a very reliable servant and is able to hold his own against other strong servants, despite not having a noble phantasm of his own."
"He doesn't have a noble phantasm?"
Archer seeing Rin's disbelief decided to back Ritsuka's statement. "The boy is once again correct, I do not have a legend of my own nor do I have any weapons of my own that would qualify as a noble phantasm. Although I'm a bit hurt that you don't have faith in my abilities, I did hold up Lancer tonight right?"
"Pardon my ignorance but what's a counter guardian and noble phantasm?" Shirou spoke up, trying to follow the conversation, but was unable to understand the terms.
"A-" But as Ritsuka began his explanation of the terms, Rin interrupted.
"Pardon me Emiya-kun but I'm afraid we should be wrapping up our talks for an alliance. I'm sure your servants would be happy to explain all the terms you need to know later but I'm a busy person so let's try to come to a deal." Turning her focus to Ritsuka, Rin layed out her deal.
"In exchange for helping Shirou get through the grail and come to each other's aid if we can, I want the true names of all the servants you can recognize in this grail war, along with their abilities and skills. In return we'll provide you with any info we come across that can help you identify them. How's that?"
Giving a polite smile, Ritsuka pointed towards Shirou. "He's the master and while I agree the alliance sounds nice, the final decision will be made by Shirou. So Shirou, do you trust Tohsaka-san and find the terms to be agreeable?"
Without hesitation Shirou answered, "Yes, I trust Tohsaka-san here fully, she did save my life and I owe her one."
"Like I said Emiya-kun, it was partially my fault you got hurt, I was just doing my job." Rin snapped, with a slight red tint in her cheeks. "But I will remind you, remember that servants are summoned here to fight a grail war for a wish. Keep that in mind as you make decisions in this grail war." She added.
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"Well if no one has any objections to the alliance, me and Archer will be taking our leave. Let's meet again sometime tomorrow to come up with a plan to win the grail war eh?" Getting up from her seat, Rin began to walk towards the door before stopping. "Oh yeah I forgot to mention, but do make sure to declare yourself as a master to the Church, you do know where that is right?"
"I know the rough location of the Church given to me by the grail?" Ritsuka offered.
Letting out a huge sigh of annoyance, Rin turned back to face Shirou, "I guess it can't be helped, I'll take you to the church myself, is that alright with you Emiya-kun?"
"Sure."
As negotiations ended, the group got up and headed towards the Church.
AN: This chapter ended up being longer than I planned and that's why it took a while for me to write it. Hopefully as I practice writing more, I'll be able to churn out chapters quicker. On the topic of that, Next chapter will hopefully be done in January, although it'll probably be shorter so I can actually write and finish it.
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