With an agitated breath, I drive the car as fast as my brain can without causing any accident, my thoughts are scrambled, my body is shaking, my eyes going numb, what the hell is going on? The moon seemed to be bathed in blood with a kind of black mass surrounding it, my eyes focus more on the road, I manage to distinguish the neighborhood where I am, I'm almost home, after four minutes I appreciate the door of my house, I quickly park the car in front of it, I quickly park the car in front of it, as I get out, my legs lose balance, causing my face to meet the sidewalk of the sidewalk, but this is now irrelevant, I place the keys nervously in the lock, after three attempts I manage to fit them and open the door, I close it again and put the lock on the door, my heart starts to relax, my breathing slows down, the danger is gone, my eyes close in search of a rest, my thoughts calm down, after two minutes I open my eyes to check my hand, just as I lay my eyes on it my worries return, three marks, black as coal, stand out, black as coal, protruding from my skin, I pull back with fear, these marks are in spiral form, they seem carved in my skin, the fear increases while I run towards the bathroom, when I arrive I desperately try to remove these marks, but, it is useless, they seem to be part of my skin.

-Stop trying, you will only damage your skin.

I hear that woman's voice again, my head turns slowly and slowly, my pupils move incessantly because of the fear that those words generate in me, when I reach my target it seems as if my nightmares come true, there she was, sitting on what seemed to be an invisible chair, with her feet crossed and a kind of black spear with a strange design, she has blue lines somewhat bright as well as in the tips of her hair, a white dress on the sleeves and hips, with ribbons in the form of bows, the back of her costume is black with blue areas, two blue ribbons, one on the chest and one at the bottom of the neck, black pantyhose that appear to be made of leather and a black ribbon that serves to separate her pigtails.

-We're in the middle of a war, you'd better stop admiring me so much.

What, war, amid my fear and now confusion, I manage to formulate a few words.

-What are you talking about?

-Don't break my patience, if I am here it is because you want to win the war of the holy grail, although it is curious, I only got basic information of the time and some data of this small city, but, I didn't get any vital information of the war, I only remember hearing someone's voice explaining to me: "You are about to be invoked to fight for the holy grail, it will be a war of seven individuals each one with their respective servant".

-But, I never tried to participate in this war, I never even tried some crazy summoning ritual or something like that.

-*Sigh*Look at your right hand

I listened to her words and I looked at the indicated place, appreciating again those strange marks.

-That you see are command seals, they are usually red and serve for a master to give an absolute order to a servant, the effectiveness of these depends on how you use them, commands focused on a single purpose as "unleash all your power in your next attack" will be performed effectively and without fail, but, more open commands like "Win the war" will be less effective to the point of being useless, these commands also allow a servant to perform actions that normally could not do, such as getting from one point to another instantly, an example of this would be to order "Come to my side this instant", with this I will be moved to your place immediately.

-But what do these so-called "command seals" have to do with the fact that I am involved in this madness?

-Let me finish first

When she said that, her look gave me a feeling of indescribable fear, I don't think I can speak again in this conversation.

-As I was saying, those seals are given to all who managed to be selected for the war, they reflect the will of a master to obtain the grail.

Although I understood much of his explanation, I still do not understand why I got these seals, who selected me to participate in this supposed war for the "holy grail" before my brain can delve deeper into the subject of the walls and the floor began to sprout that mass that had previously placed these seals on my hand, I backed in the direction of the young woman, that mass seemed to melt everything in its path as if it were lava, I started to move back with the mission of not being hit by it, but it was moving very fast and my eyes began to notice that it was already expanding over the top of the bathroom when I realized that some of this mass was about to fall on me, blue light filled the place and a lot of spears surrounded me and then deployed what seemed to be a shield that covered me in a kind of dome, my eyes focused on the young woman behind me, she was still with a carefree expression. Before I could say a word the spears disappeared showing that I was not in my home, it seemed more like a kind of casino, it was very large and was located in front of a roulette, but this had no number on it, I stop giving importance to it thanks to a person materializes in the middle of the big roulette, this one has long blond hair and has a white rabbit costume.

-I am Artoria Pendragon the ruler of this war, but before continuing with the introductions, I would like to give way to tonight's sponsor.

When I say this I realize that I am not alone, around the roulette there are seven other positions where six of them are occupied by humanoid-shaped masses and some characters in front of them, after a few seconds I hear some footsteps approaching and my eyes stop in a masked being with an approximate of 1.70m wearing an elegant suit and accompanied by two masses with human forms.

-I hope you are enjoying this pleasant evening, I am the representation of the holy grail of this war, call me "Begin".

What an original name

-I know my dear, but if you have a better option I would like to hear it.

He began to say those words while he was staring at me, with a penetrating look, I can only lower my head and remain silent.

-Well, after that little interruption, I must inform you that I have come to explain to you the rules of this war.