The Girl with Magic
In an apartment in Fuyuki City...
There lived a young girl all alone.
She was thirteen years of age, clad in a dark blue seifuku with a bright red neckerchief, and dark blue socks. She has waist-length milk-chocolate brown hair, dark brown eyes and a beauty of mixed ethnicity. Her eyes, nose and straight teeth don't look asian, let alone japanese as Japanese Teeth are kinda crooked. And she has very fair skin that Japanese Girls would slave years to have using skincare products.
She cooked breakfast of miso soup, fried ham and sunny-side up eggs, baked sweet potatoes she took out of the microwave along with a bunch of stuff you'd normally see in a bento. Croquettes, Nikkorogashi, and pickles, all of which she arranged into her bento box and closed it, before putting her breakfast on the table.
She then ate alone, following the '80% full' rule, before putting away the dishes, put on her sandalwood bracelet, turned all electricity off and went to the entryway to put on her loafers...and lastly, lock up her apartment.
Then went to school and went about her day.
But she never felt any connection to her peers no matter how popular she was for her looks, grades and she was in the Gymnastics Club. But for Middle Schoolers, its body conditioning as Gymnastics requires a strong body to pull off, before they can even THINK of doing events!
Even then, she looked into High Schools in Fuyuki City...
No high school has Gymnastics. So middle school gymnastics in her school are basically, to make whoever's in the club stronger. That's fine with her.
When school ended, it got colder at around 5:30 pm.
"...even if I got a hot shower, its still cold." she shuddered as she left the school, her hair still damp.
She then vanished upon turning left from the gates, unseen as she ensures she's the first to leave.
She reappeared in an alley in a market area of the city.
Her eyes glowed bright purple with black flowing in between, before she stepped out of the alley and began shopping.
Her purchases were normal so far.
Dai Asari. Large Prawns. Fish Fillets. Shiitake. Shimeji. Negi. Shungiku. Napa Cabbage. And Lotus Roots for variety.
For tonight's Yosenabe dinner.
But for typical breakfast ingredients, she shopped for those too...and then for her bento.
She felt the need to be unique this time 'round for tomorrow. She bought a bunch of Uni! "Unidon is classy for a bento...yum..."
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After eating her dinner...she took to vanishing, and appearing in an old mansion in Miyama District.
Its old, abandoned, but useful for her workshop.
It was owned by a magus lady in showa era. A foreign lady who's beautiful, powerful, wealthy and arrogant.
She herself is a magus.
Awakened to this potential as a child.
She was kidnapped at three years old, but no memory of her very short past except for her name. Sawada Juri.
She remembers a voice in her head, while tied up in a van with a gag in her mouth sack on her head that made it hard to breathe.
Little one...do you have a wish?
Out of desperation for her situation, she made one alright.
"I want to have magic so I can get myself free! I do know I'm being kidnapped!"
Her mind then got invaded with what she wanted...but in exchange, she lost all her memories except for her name.
She also awakened to Magic Circuits. She has 20 B-quality Circuits with an abnormal composition that enables for 'frighteningly quick' full-recovery of Od supply, hence despite her circuit limits, her spells are powerful if she went all out with no worries of power ever running out as she refills to full supply in a split-second, able to dish out countless spells powered with 500 units of mana if she was feeling THAT murderous. And 500 units in a spell is highly...destructive, other than the target of her ire being totally dead and in pieces.
She also has two Magical Attributes. Harmony and Assimilation. And she has had years to study how to exploit both.
Using magic to free herself of her bindings, she was about to get the sack off her head when the vehicle she was on made wild turns as the men up front began panicking in a language she couldn't understand, thus stuck herself like glue for safety so she won't get tossed around and get hit...and instinctively made a barrier for herself as the men screamed and next thing she knows that she's glad she made a barrier...
K-BLAMM!
Car blew up and when she finally got the sack and gag off herself, the car was goners, and her kidnappers on fire, screaming for help and turning into black sludge with bloodshot eyes and mouth, screaming in agony for help that will never come.
Everywhere around her was on fire! And black goop with red veins on it flooding the road...
It was a scene of hell. But she didn't feel scared as she knows nothing, even forgot to feel emotions. The mud was ankle deep when she stepped on it and the next thing she learned was...
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It was the suffering of one person spreading out through this mud.
She scooped it up in her hands.
'You...you're hurting all over...everyone hurt you and you wanna strike back even if those who hurt you are long dead.' she spoke to it. 'You want everyone to hurt like how they hurt you. But killing their descendants won't make the pain and memory go away...you'll hafta do something else worth the while.'
That got her laughter from the bubbling mud and the mud let her pass...and the presence directed her to safety outside of the burning Shinto, passing out in front of the nearest Police Station.
She was put in an orphanage, but nobody adopted her that she eventually became Ward of the State. Funded by the local church. She refused to stay in the Church and would rather live in a Daycare Center until she was old enough to fend for herself. Leading to the current situation of living in an apartment all alone.
Since then, she hears its voice that she was never lonely. So what if she didn't have friends in school? She wasn't alone and she converses with it. And aware that by touching it, she was corrupted but her will was strong that she was only 'slightly' affected.
She can also freely train her Magecraft in the workshop she made under this mansion she found near Einzbern Castle. It was formerly, a mansion belonging to a foreign woman. Its also her personal laboratory.
She has knowledge of Fundamentals. Elemental Magecraft. Summoning. Spiritual Evocation. Healing. Alchemy. Necromancy. Jewelcraft. Familiar Magecraft.
A copy of knowledge from magi who are first-rate masters of these fields who have been in Holy Grail Wars from the Grail War that immolated Fuyuki when she was a kid. Knowledge taken from Tohsaka Tokiomi and Edelfelt's style of Jewelcraft, Irisviel von Einzbern and Justeaze to complete knowledge of Einzbern Alchemy, Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald's mastery and understanding of four fields, and Matou Zouken's mastery of Familiar Magecraft. But all of them know Elemental and Healing Magecraft as an understandable necessity as part of Fundamentals.
So yes, she's a first-rate without even trying as it was granted to her by her wish at the cost of her past. There were other Masters, but not 'first-rate' enough.
But as her knowledge is a copy of theirs, she used it as a foundation to create her own original style of techniques, even crafted a Jewel-Ranked Mystic Eye for herself and modified her own brain to handle the power with skill and competence to not lose her sanity and personality. She also used 'herself' to engrave her own foundation, so she can be at full power no matter where she is.
She was baffled as to why experts before her hasn't figured out how to make such dream eyes. It was stupidly easy for her to. Or was it because of her wish that she can do absurd things even first-rate magi would remark how absurd it is?
Nothing is ever free. She accepted that.
Her friend indeed granted her wish, but he had to make do with what he can get as he wasn't a magician himself, nor was he Akasha to grant her wish. Otherwise her head will be full of lost magics by now from Age of Gods to Age of Man. That's fine with her. Some is better than none!
But one day...while cooking dinner, the voice spoke to her.
I found myself a 'mother'.
'Mother?'
Yes. A magus dumb enough to think he can control me through his granddaughter after breaking her is making her my mother. The broken pieces of Irisviel's Holy Grail that he took, he implanted in her and made her his own Black Grail but she was an unfinished product...she was merely an eighth of the Lesser Grail.
'...she won't be able to contain you and grant another wish y'know.' Juri pointed out. 'But she is sufficient to birth you?' fully aware he will ruin the world if he comes out for realsies, such a thing didn't bother her as all life dies eventually - he's just speeding things up but ending is all the same and inevitable so she really doesn't care for the consequences.
...ala premature birth as it depends on her mental state, but I'll take what I can get. Been trapped for so long I want to go out.
'Then why don't you curse the Einzbern?'
Why bother? They're dead as of AD 1300. The so-called family is a bunch of Homunculi and Golems. Even if I want to, I can't. So I settled for screwing over their representatives instead.
Juri sweatdropped.
'By ensuring they never win nor succeed, you've been paying them back twice now, you realize that, right?'
...oh yeah. Whoops.
'Idiot.' she chuckled fondly. 'So who's their rep this time around?'
Well, since Kotomine's wish for fire and your wish for knowledge is sorta cheap, this ritual is held ten years later from that day I set Shinto on fire that Irisviel's daughter Illyasviel is both representative and vessel. Be screwin' her over too and put an end to their foolish notions.
'Its foolish from the start...the Third Magic that enables one to become immortal by turning the soul akin to a perpetual motion machine, supplying endless energy? Immortality is a curse.' she told her 'friend' in contempt. 'The Magician of Third Magic realized that and disappeared from their students forever and make that magic 'lost'. Either that or Counter Force intervened. Because humanity in the future do not deserve it. Not even I as I have already understood how foolish it is, even if I figured it out. Too easy for me to yet Justeaze, the closest to figuring it out only knows a butchered version of it.'
Despite being capable of using the Third Magic, Justeaze is unable to use Heaven's Feel in a cost-effective manner. Justeaze's use of the Third Magic was like careful knitting. It would take several years to save just one person instead of instantly upon casting the magic like the true magician can.
Juri is also a Third Magician now by figuring out how to do it, but she's not stupid enough to advertise herself. The trouble that will bring, is NOT worth the fame.
Why?
Hello Sealing Designation due to HOW she gained it! That and the Einzbern Factory will chase her and make her an Einzbern in which she's not interested in even if its for her own safety as the Magic is an Einzbern Skill to begin with...or so they told everyone. Lies.
The Einzberns is a factory designed by students of the Third Magician to replicate their master's Third Magic. When it failed, they killed themselves out of despair, even if the factory continued running.
Well, the skill is HERS now!
Well, she's not human, she's a doll operating on a program. She lacks the creativity of humans. Even if she was a deviant that she got as far as 'careful knitting', its still lacking. the voice scoffed. Oh yeah, it'll start soon...once the girl starts absorbing souls, I will start slowly flowing into her body in a very hungry berserking state. Get out and don't come back.
'...'
She supposed her friend didn't want to eat her and that's OK too. If her soul is lost, she can't reincarnate...that'd be bad.
So she dropped out of school, citing 'Parents Job Transfer to Kyoto and I gotta go.' as her excuse...and left the country. All the while waiting for humanity's calamity. The Association will do something for humanity to prevail, so yes, getting out of Japan is a priority to reincarnate properly by killing herself before her friend's curse can reach her.
She supposed despite her acceptance, in a way she is still afraid of death which is natural by human nature...
She has determined the nature of the Masters...and if they succeed, well, there's a reward waiting for them at the end of it.