'Ugh…' Cleria never liked meetings. It created a strain in her head, especially if the meeting had church people present in it. Don't get her wrong, she, in fact, was happy that she could see her beloved more than normal — normally, they would meet but they would have to create some kind of scenario where it wouldn't look suspicious to other people, they didn't want their relationship to be known by others yet.

'But Lucifer are these people annoying…'

"Is that really all? You guys are not hiding anything from us, right?"

"And why would we do that?"

"Heh! What a stupid question girl. Isn't it obvious? Because you people are devils."

She wanted to punch this random mob from the Protestant Church so hard that all his teeth would fall out of his mouth. In the first place, who the hell was he even?! She can't even remember his name. Why was she even wasting time talking with this random mob?

But she was a professional devil after all. She can't show any emotional side during a "political talk" like this. So, with the same smile that has been hanging on her face for the past hour, Cleria said.

"I would appreciate it if you would leave your stereotypical prejudice behind your home before coming to such meetings. This place is for discussion over political matters and not about what views you have on devils. If you want, we can always set a meeting where we can share our views with each other."

"Humph! All you devil's only know is how to play with words, but when it comes to action, you all flatten like an inflated balloon. Political, yes? Then can you tell me who created that explosion in your territory that could have potentially ended up killing civilians?"

Why does it even have anything to do with you? — Cleria so wanted to say, but she kept her remarks to herself. This territory was indeed given to them by the Shinto Faction to rule, but that didn't stop other Factions from entering it. Of course, Cleria had full right to question their presence in her territory, but attacking might — no, it will definitely be considered an act of breaking the status quo present between the Three Great Factions.

So while she can stop their involvement with them to a certain level, even she was helpless when it came to stop them from interfering with anything related to Kuoh. They can easily use the excuse of "we, people of Protestant Church, are doing it to help the people of Kuoh" and Cleria knew that many people would be happy to use any meant to use such an excuse.

Otherwise only Lucifer knows how she stopped herself from blasting these random mobs of Protestant Church who seem to annoy her at any given movement.

'Why did it have to be an abandoned building that got destroyed? It would have been better if it was this dude's house. At least there would be fewer idiots in this world who think too highly of themselves.'

"We indeed do not know who caused the explosion, we are incompetent. It would be highly helpful if the people from the Protestant Church were to enlighten this ignorant devil. I am sure that such smart people like sir would definitely know the cause of the explosion, no?"

"... I wasn't present in the town when the explosion happened."

"Then shut up and stay silent. We are trying to solve a case here and not to listen to the random blabbering of a manchild. If you have nothing to contribute to the talk, then it would be appreciated if you stay silent."

Oh. How she loved that fuming look on his face as if he had year-long diarrhea and is still trying to get that dump out of his stomach.

Cleria was a polite and gentle woman, but even a sage has its limit. After the same bickering of knowing or not knowing for an hour, she was already getting tired of it. If not for that she can't do anything drastic, she was sure that this random mob would have been dead by now.

"Akagi… stop those unnecessary comments or I'll have you leave this meeting."

"... I understand Sir Shidou…"

'Akagi? Blossom? The only thing that is blossoming is his idiocy seriously.' — Cleria snickered within her mind.

She looked towards the man who had just spoken — Touji Shidou, the head of the team of Protestant Church residing in Kuoh currently.

A middle-aged man with light brown hair, and above ordinary face, and standard priest's clothing — all in all, he looked average and someone who could easily be ignored in a crowded area. His position was his only salvation that made him stand out most of the people — and of course his ability to fight and him being the superior of her lover, who sat just beside him.

Cleria's face visibly relaxed when her eyes landed on her lover, Masaomi Yaegaki, who also held the same gentle expression on his face while looking at her. And of course such behavior might not be so evident to a viewer's eyes, Shidou definitely felt that ambiguous atmosphere rising with the two.

But maybe seeing other people present, he chose to remain silent.

"Since we don't know the cause of the incident, we can't really hold any further conversation over it." Shidou said, diverting the attention of the two love birds.

"I think we should do the investigation together." Masaomi softly added, looking towards Cleria for a second before going back to his friend. "This will increase the chance of finding the origin of the explosion faster than doing it alone."

Cleria immediately understood Masaomi's intention as she hurriedly added. "Indeed, that does make sense. With limited hands on my side, it would take a long time to fully investigate the cause. And your team also doesn't seem to have many..." She looked towards Akagi for a second before continuing. "... many useful people present. So doing the investigation does sound like a better option here."

Shidou frowned at hearing them. There were already some… nasty rumors going on about them, but it seems that they are not aware of it yet. He didn't want to blame his friend for something of which he didn't hold any proof, so he chose to remain silent. But their behavior definitely didn't favor their innocence…

"I'll think about it. I'll first report this to higher-ups and wait for their response over the matter. If they want us to interfere with it, then we will do the investigation together. Otherwise, we will treat this investigation as a separate mission whose purpose is only so we can make sure no such incident happens in the future that might end up harming the life of the citizens of Kuoh."

It didn't sound all that positive, but at least they can still use the excuse of investigating together to meet with each other.

With that, the meeting finally came to an end as the people of the Protestant Church took their leave. Cleria slumped over her chair and released a long breath — that was tiring, to sit there like a statue for more than an hour trying to not kill that random mob, whose name she had already forgotten, and try to finish the conversation as fast as she could.

In the end, with this whole talk, nothing was achieved except that maybe now she had an excuse to meet with her lover and spend more time with him.

Another sigh was released from the grey-haired woman as her body melted into the couch she was sitting on. A complete silence took over the room with only the "tik" sound of the clock being heard with each passing of the second.

She liked it… this silence…

SFX: Sound of the door opening

"Hm?" She turned around, glancing over her shoulder, towards the door behind her as a shadow of a person extended within the room from the entrance — before long, a person entered; a child would be a more proper description.

"Saeko… I thought you would be spending time watching over the casino today." Looking at the purple-haired kid, Cleria said.

It has been more than five years since I met her — a thought passed from her mind as she stared at the purple-haired girl.

"I found something interesting today at the casino and thought of reporting it; it might help in the investigation of the explosion of yesterday." Her soft childish voice filled the silent room for a split second before it was again engulfed in the only sound of the clock arm's ticking.

Cleria raised her brow a little, hearing her before she gestured to her to come and sit on the chair before her — her neck might start to hurt if she kept on glancing over her shoulder, towards the door behind her.

After Saeko took the seat in front of Cleria, which was occupied not long ago by the people of Protestant Church, she curiously asked.

"And what is it? You also seem to be in a good mood today." — she could feel her gossip-self getting excited, seeing the slightly excited look in the body language of Saeko.

She had known Saeko for more than five years now, and she was quite perspective of the mood change of her Peerage. One look and she could tell that Saeko definitely found something highly amusing today, in the casino.

Normally, Saeko didn't show such emotions even if she encountered something amusing or entertaining — to get such an obvious change in her behavior, she must have met or seen something greatly interesting, and Cleria was all open to hearing it. A dose of gossip was always welcome for her, especially after such a tiresome meeting, if it can be called one.

Saeko crossed her hands before her small chest that was already protruding out, making one imagine a bright future for her as a stunning and beautiful woman — she made a thoughtful expression, collecting her thoughts before speaking.

"I met a pair of siblings today, a male and a female. The male was about my age, or probably my age, while the female was around the early twenties." She stopped for a second before continuing. "Their names… are quite peculiar, to say the least — Noah and Atalanta."

"Did you say Noah?!" Saeko almost yelped, seeing her Master appearing in front of her all of sudden, gripping her shoulders.

"Ahem*" Cleria coughed before sitting back on her couch and looking at Saeko. "Forgive me… I got too excited there, as for why, I'll tell you later, you can continue for now."

Though slightly suspicious of the act of her Master, Saeko nodded before she continued her story. "I met them outside of the casino. It seems they lacked money, so they had come to gamble in the casino." Saeko looked towards Cleria before she smiled wryly. "But the surprising part is that it was Noah who gambled and not his sister, well, for the most part. And not only did he gamble, a child of my age who looked normal from all angles, but also won every single gamble as if he could predict the very future where the ball will drop. And if it was not enough, even his sister seems to be able to win every gambling."

"Did any Magical Device react when they were playing?" Cleria asked with barely hidden interest.

In the casinos, it was not a new thing for people to cheat. Every single person who has entered a casino once knows that cheating is the best method to win in it — that is why, more than 90% of people playing in the casinos are cheating one way or the other — but the staff cares less about such people. Since if they can't catch their cheating methods, they can only remain silent — such cheating methods were "allowed" in the casino normally, as long as they are not caught.

But it was different for methods that involved cheating through magical means since such methods could be found out easily by the help of Magical Devices — which were equipped by every big and supernatural affiliated casino.

If you can cheat without getting caught, then no one will ask you for anything. But if you are caught, then getting kicked out would be the least that would be happening to you — such a rule was known everywhere among upper echelons of both humans and devils.

What Cleria wanted to know was if any Magical Device reacted to Noah or his sister and if so, that meant that they knew the supernatural side of the world and also possessed the knowledge of magic — they might even possess a Mutant Sacred Gear.

But she was disappointed when Saeko shook her head. "That is the best part since not even a single device reacted to them, which proves that they didn't use any magic, at least, directly on the ball or any other devices."

"So the possibility of indirect usage of magic is still there huh…"

The Magical Devices didn't work all the time. They would only show some kind of reaction if the magic was used physically, for example, directly used either on the body or the surroundings — but, in some cases, a person's magic or Sacred Gear worked on a different pattern as it wouldn't affect the physical plane, in the least, during its usage; this was only possible by affecting the forces around the user indirectly.

The best example of such Sacred Gears or magic would be Luck — if a Sacred Gear or magic affects Luck, then it is impossible to find out about it since Luck is an intangible force; the same could be said for Probability Manipulation. Such Sacred Gears were rare but most sought out by all forces. After all, imagine if you can get someone whose Sacred Gear manipulates the probability around them — no one would want to mess with such a person, where a simple throw of stone can somehow lead to the probability of death.

"I can't really think of any other method." Saeko shook her head. "I would have believed that it was all luck as Noah had said, but a first win could be attributed to luck, second or third too; it can't be attributed to luck if you win every single game, something fishy is definitely going on then, and the only thing fishy could be the use of supernatural force."

"So there is a fifty-fifty chance that they are from the supernatural side of the world and are related to yesterday's explosion somehow?"

"No." Saeko denied. "They are fully related to yesterday's explosion."

"Oh. And why would you say that?" Though she had come up with the same conclusion, she was interested in knowing what Saeko had to say. It was good to take everyone's input, it helped one make a broader assumption than their initial one.

"Because if such an interesting character like Noah existed in Kuoh Town before, I would have known it for sure. His sister, Atalanta, is way too beautiful for a human and to be gone unnoticed. If they had lived in Kuoh for a long time, why would they be searching for money then? Did they go bankrupt? Kuoh is not a big town, so gossip about them should have been spread all over by now. And adding your reaction when I called Noah's name, it should be the kid you helped yesterday, right?"

Seeing her Master nod, Saeko continued. "So it pretty much adds up everything. You have met Noah yesterday, so there is a 90% chance that Noah and his sister have entered Kuoh yesterday — from where? No one knows — and Noah went to buy clothes for himself and his sister when he met you; surprisingly, the explosion also happened after Noah and his sister had arrived in Kuoh and you met them. Adding all these facts, I am completely sure that it was Noah and Atalanta who had caused the explosion yesterday. As for why, who knows?"

"Well… it was probably because I annoyed him too much and he wanted me to leave him. So, as to create a distraction, he might have asked his sister to cause that explosion."

"..."

Seeing the wry smile on the face of her Master, Saeko fully believed what she said was true. She knows her Master can be annoyed sometimes, and it becomes quite hard to make her leave you — if she was in Noah's position, then she might also blow up a building or two. Of course, if she can't kill Cleria.

"So, what are you going to do now? Should we investigate their background further, trying to find more about them? Are you going to report this to higher-ups?"

"What?! No way!" Cleria loudly blurted out before she calmed down. Coughing in her fist, she continued. "Look, Saeko, Kuoh is quite… dry town to live in. We finally found someone so interesting, how can we report them to higher-ups? Anyway, they only blew up an abandoned building while no one was killed or injured — devils do worse and no one gives a shit about it. As for their background check, yes, we can do that. But try to not let any of it spill outside, even to Uryuu."

Saeko raised a brow at her Master. She was already ready to get such an answer from her, but not the last part. "Are you and Uryuu-san fighting again?"

"Not that." Cleria sighed tiredly remembering her conversation with her "Queen". "It is just that he needs some time to clear his mind. Maybe I should give him a vacation or something after today."

Saeko remained silent and didn't talk further over it. She knew the… soreness of the relationship between them. She knew it was not her place to interfere, so she remained silent over it. Anyway, her loyalty lies with Cleria; if Uryuu ever desired to hurt her, her sword wouldn't wait for a second before reaching his neck.

"Anyway, we gotta know more about Noah and his sister." Changing the topic, Cleria said. "I'm currently searching over the rumor about King's Piece, so I don't really have much time on my hands." She looked towards Saeko, whom she had adopted five years ago, and smiled. "You would be the one leading this "mission" then. Not only do I want you to search over their background, but I also want you to initiate some kind of contact with them. And I am sure you would love to take it, after all, you've taken quite a liking to Noah, right?"

Seeing her Master's teasing grin, Saeko's face flushed for a second before returning to normal. "Time will tell." She stood up before leaving for the door while continuing to speak. "I'll do the background check on them. Maybe you can finally find a magician to form a contract with."

Cleria again sighed, but this time it was the sigh of excitement as she leaned back on the couch.

'So many interesting things happened in such a short time… Noah and Atalanta… definitely interesting people. They have just arrived in town and already created a situation where I can spend more time with my beloved. Maybe they are my lucky stars?'

While thinking of random stuff, Cleria soon fell asleep. It was not new for her to sleep on the couch, so her sleep was going to be quite peaceful.


"For now, this will do."

Even though he had lived his life in utter luxury in the past, Noah didn't care in the least about it. He was way past the stage where he cared about social status. Since, unlike others, he didn't need others' verification over it. He knew himself better than anyone, and he knew that his status was greater than anyone in the world.

It was not him boosting, but the pure arrogance of a being that has stayed at the peak all his life — something that was deeply engraved within his body and bones.

After leaving the casino, Noah went to the bank first to get the cash out before saving it in Space Storage — though he had to borrow Atalanta's Mana to make it since his was not enough. Then they went to a Net Cafe and Noah hacked into the Government Database to register himself and Atalanta as residence of Japan.

It wasn't hard, to be honest. He already knew all computer languages and just had to binge read the languages of this world to check the changes before hacking into the Government Database — though it sounded easy, if one didn't have any previous background with coding and hacking, Noah highly doubted that they would be able to hack into Government Database easily.

And having no supernatural being working in such departments of the Government helped a lot.

Since Noah was a minor, he can't really buy any property under his name, so they first had to go and get an ID Card for Atalanta and then register a property under her name — all of it was done by a slight use of Hypnosis, and now here they were, standing in front of a two-story building.

Noah wanted to get a mansion, not for its luxury, but since he still had Five Summoning Servant tries. Once he used them, he obviously needed a place for those five summoned servants to live. Though there was definitely space for five people in the house in front of them, it would pack the house a little too much.

'Guess I'll build a Space-Formation in this house, to expand its inner space a little more than it is shown outside.' — Noah thought internally before he looked towards Atalanta, who was using a flip phone in her hand.

The technology of this world was that of late 19s — well, they were in late 19s and if Noah remembered it correctly, the plot stars in early 2000s; around 2008-2010 — so there was no such things as touch phones, LEDs Monitors, 4k videos — though his world was already beyond the phase of watching videos on TV or Monitor. It had already entered Meta Verse and had even revolutionized it to the peak — Noah could imagine the annoyance he would feel while watching videos or movies on the TV.

Noah suddenly hit his fist on his other hand's palm, gaining Atalanta's attention, and smiled. "Since I am already becoming the richest person on the earth, let's take over this world's technology too."

Many supernatural factions would definitely try to stop such a thing from happening, but did he care? Not really. Once he decided over something, even if Ophis popped out from nowhere, he wasn't going to give a shit about it.

"As long as I can save children, I will try my best to help Master." Atalanta seriously said, making Noah smile softly.

"You really are a kind woman, Atalanta." Noah softly smiled and said.

"Master has it wrong." Atalanta shook her head. "If I was a kind woman, then I wouldn't have killed all the animals back in the mountain range. And if the situation is so desired, then I don't mind creating a carnage of bloodbaths — I am far from being called a kind woman as my kindness only extends to children, my allies, and Goddess Artemis."

"You don't have to help everyone to be kind." Noah smiled before looking back at the house in front of him where they will be living from now on. "Just helping a single person makes you a kind person for that person while helping hundreds makes you kindest — in the annals of history, even the evilest person is a kind person to someone. So when I say that you are a kind person, then it means that you are a kind person. It doesn't matter if your kindness extends over only to some specific people, kindness will remain kindness in the end."

A silence ensues in their surroundings with people passing by them while some staring towards Atalanta for longer than normal. After a second of silence, she looked towards Noah and softly asked. "Is Master a kind person then?"

"Me?" Noah raised a brow before a chuckle left his mouth. "It depends on my mood, and it is ever-changing."

"Anyway, let's check out the house we will be leaving in." Changing the topic, Noah took a step forward before entering the house, leaving Atalanta silently observing him from the back, thinking about something.


The house was as normal as it could be. At the entrance, there was a small opening where one would place their shoes or umbrellas, further in was a big space with couches and TV, probably the main TV Hall (?). At the side was a small kitchen that would only fit two-three people at a time.

The house was fully furnished with TV, ACs, kitchen appliances, sofas, and couches; it gave one an image of a normal house.

"It is not bad." Noah was quite satisfied with it.

After taking a look, he walked further inside the house, towards the stairs that led one to the basement of the house — he needed a house with a basement, that was one of the main requirements of a house he wanted. He needed a place where he could do certain things… experiments… Of course, if he wanted, he could build one himself, but why waste extra effort when you could get it with the house?

The basement looked… basement — 'Why did I even expect something special?' — he would in his past life, and so he also did in the current one. He thought he should bury these past habits… or not?

"Are you going to use the remaining summons, Master?"

"Yes." He was quite excited to use them. He always was a great addict of gacha, and now he was getting living summons, why would he not be excited? He didn't use the summons before since he didn't want to collect a group without a place to stay, but now he had one.

Cleaning someplace for the summon, Noah raised his hand before a magical circle bloomed in front of him, giving a blinding sheen. A silhouette of a person soon appeared within the light, making Noah raise his brow because…

"It's a child." Atalanta said, no less surprise than Noah seeing him summon a child. She couldn't think of any Heroic Spirit who was a child, so she was quite surprised that Noah summoned a child.

Well… the same could be said for Noah, since he had thought of summoning Artoria from Fate, thinking that since he doesn't possess anything related to her legend, maybe if he thinks about who to summon, the circle will summon it. After all, it was not the same summoning as what it was in Fate, but something completely different.

"Are you my Master?" A childish innocent voice left the mouth of the girl whose silhouette soon became clear.

She had blond hair tied in a ponytail — held by a black ribbon — and green ruby eyes, filled with innocence and gentle light. Her face held slight fat which made her look cuter. She was wearing armor while holding a sword in her hand.

Looking at her, Noah felt like all of his knowledge about Fate was a lie. After all, no matter how he looks at it, the child in front of him was Artoria Pendragon but a mini version of her.

"Hm? Are you alright?" She asked with a worried voice, looking at Noah, who was staring at her face with a dull expression — it looked as if someone had sucked his soul away.

She walked towards him, waving her hand in front of his face, curiously looking at him.

"I'm alright." Noah nodded as he collected his thoughts before looking towards the mini-version of Artoria Pendragon, the King of Knights. "What is your name?"

Hearing him, like a proud peacock, she raised her chest and inserted the sword into the ground before saying. "I am Artoria Pendragon, the future King of Britain!" Saying it, she deflated like a balloon, rubbing the back of her neck, and sweetly smiling. "Though I am a Knight currently."

"I see." Noah nodded in understanding before looking at her. "So… why are you a kid?"

"Huh?" Artoria looked towards Noah with confusion and cutely tilted her head. She looked down at her hands, finding them incredibly soft and tiny than what she remembered. Soon, as if hit by a panic attack, her eyes widened to the extreme before she exclaimed. "How?! I've become a mini-version of myself and a mini-mini-version of my future self!"

"You sure do." Noah nodded in agreement with what Lili Artoria said, making her eyes go soft as she looked towards her Master.

"What should I do, Master? I can't complete my duty as your Knight like this." Tears started to gather in her eyes as she imagined failing to do her first job as a Knight. After all, Lili Artoria was never summoned before as a servant. This was the first time, and now this happened — how was she supposed to protect her Master when she might need someone else's protection on herself?

"Well…" Noah looked towards Lili Artoria, who was on the verge of crying, before asking. "...can you use your powers? Are they still there?"

This was an important question since he wanted to confirm something. He had already called her status screen and it barely helped him in seeing what he wanted to see.

"I—" Artoria clenched her right hand before she looked towards Noah with even more tears in her eyes than before and said. "—can't… I can barely feel any Mana within my body… what should I do now?"

'Interesting.' he rubbed his chin while looking towards Artoria, who was mumbling about being a "failure as a knight". 'Is it because I "imagined" summoning her? I did try to mix Demonic Power during the summoning, trying to narrow the range, but it seems that it has some… negative effects to it.'

'Her Noble Phantasm was still there but it seems like her powers were reset to zero like me' — Noah internally thought while looking at Atalanta who was trying to pacify the crying Artoria — 'And like Atalanta, she is also reincarnated with Eternity and Infinity. The only thing that is highly different from her lore would be the new Skill in her status.'

'But… Can I summon people outside of Fate?' — thinking such, Noah thought of trying it out. So ignoring the sulking King of Knights, he raised his hand and used another summoning. This time, he didn't think of any character from Fate, but outside of the Fate while fusing his Demonic Power during the summoning.

The circle shined again, before another silhouette appeared within it — again, another child — Noah confirmed that the use of Demonic Power definitely was the cause of it.

"Servant, Caster. I am Moon God Empress Xia Qingyue." A childish yet cold voice left her mouth. Despite no magic being used, the air within the basement seemed to become heavy just from her presence — the temperature was dropping due to the natural cold her body was releasing as if rejecting everything of the world from approaching her; no, it was not she who was rejecting the world, but the world was afraid to approach her, not wanting to stain her with its ugliness.

Her crystal black eyes glanced at the inhabitant of the basement with such indifference that one might think that the viewer held no emotions of any sort, as if an indifferent emotionless observer, like a human watching someone dying behind a TV screen — there was no emotional attachment in her actions.

Soon, her eyes landed on Noah and froze — it was a brief pause in her actions of scrutinizing everyone, but not something that was excluded from Noah's eyes, who was observing Qingyue from the start.

"Are you my Master?" She asked, softly, her voice becoming warm by a visible margin.

Was it because Noah was her Master? Noah begged to differ. He knew her lore and he knew her more than she knew herself. No way was this change due to her knowing that he was her Master. Noah was certain, there was something else, something that was missing in this whole situation.

"Yes." He nodded with a soft smile, like a kind old man — though he was a child currently — "I am. My name is Noah, and you can call me such. This is Atalanta and Artoria, my other Servants."

Qinyue replied with a soft nod of her head, before soon realizing that everything seemed to become bigger than what she was used to. Looking down at her hands, her eyes shone with splendor, as if understanding her current situation, which, again, hadn't gone unnoticed by Noah.

"Can you use your powers?"

"I can't." A brief answer with a shake of her head. "I can feel them, they are still there, but I can't use them."

'Reverting back to the child and losing their powers' — Noah nodded. More or less, he understood the situation. As Qingyue soon walked towards Atalanta and Artoria, who seemed to completely forget about her initial outburst, Noah again initiated the summoning.

The light again filled the basement before another child silhouette appeared within it — short shoulder-length violet hair, dull, almost emotionless, violet eyes; the girl looked towards everyone with a dull expression. Her skin was pale and so were her lips — she looked like someone who had seen a ghost for real in their life.

"Servant, Berserker. Sakura Matou." After her brief introduction, she looked towards Noah before asking. "Are you my Master?"

'A Berserker? Well, taking into account her life, she does fall quite well in this category. I am more surprised that she wasn't summoned as an Avenger instead.' Noah internally thought. 'Her Noble Phantasm on the other hand… and her skills… Omnipresence? Wow… her Imaginary Numbers did quite some leap right there.'

"I am Noah and these are my other Servants." Sakura didn't show many emotions, it made Noah wonder if she is Sakura from Heaven's Feel route maybe.

Another light shone after Sakura joined with others before a slightly cold and slightly detached voice was heard by everyone.

"Servant, Saber. I am surprised that you could summon me." The… child said. She had the same hair and eye color as Sakura — Violet. Her hair was tied in a single braid that reached till her knee caps. While the same in color, her eyes held a splendor unlike any as they shone with wisdom. Her face… words weren't enough to describe it. Like Qingyue, though a child, she looked beautiful — though calling them cute might be the right term, knowing that they were only in their early ten. But that didn't hide the fact that both she and Qingyue will become breathtaking beauty in the future.

"Are you my Master?" She looked towards Noah with a slight surprise. "It is indeed startling to me to know that my Master is a kid less than 15s. And the fact that I've reverted back to my kid-self with no powers. Though there is a slight change, definitely a welcome one."

"Oh." It caught him quite off-guard. She was the second Servant that he just summoned who didn't end a sentence with "Yes" or "I can't".

She looked at her surroundings with a contemplative gaze, checking everything.

"Is this the new world?" She didn't seem surprised since the concept of a new world wasn't foreign to her. "I am quite interested in the entity who was able to summon me in this world."

She looked back towards Noah with a scrutinizing gaze. "And whether you can summon dead people or not."

The summoning didn't forcefully summon a Servant, but, instead, the Servants agreed to be summoned at the price of "one wish" — Noah was aware of that much. Atalanta wanted to save children like hers. Artoria… he wasn't sure, but he had a rough guess of her wish. Qingyue was a confusing case to even him since he knew she was hiding something, while he didn't know much about what Sakura wanted; though he could come up with a rough guess, taking account of her lore, it was a guess in the end.

And now hearing her, about summoning a dead person, he didn't need to think much to guess what her wish was. As he had summoned her, the memories of her lore had resurfaced within his mind. And the only dead person she would want to summon would be — 'Her twin sister. Though it wasn't hard to guess, knowing her love and regret for her.'

"I am not sure about that, but I indeed can reincarnate a dead person." Noah nodded with a thoughtful look as he remembered methods that he had created in his past life to reincarnate a dead person. If not for him losing his powers, he could definitely play the part of some ROB.

"I will be waiting then." The girl smiled before she bowed a little, just enough to show some respect. "I am Raiden Ei, the Archon of Thunder and Lightning. For today henceforth, I shall be in your care Master."

"Likewise." Noah nodded.


As Raiden joined with others, talking with them, Noah made a thoughtful face – placing his fingers on his chin. He had already used 4 Summons and he only had one left. He didn't know whether he would be able to summon Servants after this or not.

There was nothing mentioned on the screen except for – 1 Summoning Left – and it cleared nothing of the black-haired kid's doubts.

Will I be able to summon others after it hits zero? Is there a way to earn summon chances? Will the screen vanish once I use it?

He had questions, but no one to answer – this excited him. How long has it been since he has met something he didn't have an answer for? He can't remember. This excited him.

But since he only had one chance left…

'Let's summon her. To be honest, I am being partial this time.' – Normally, he wouldn't summon someone if he/she was not useful to him in the future, but he was willing to make an exception this time. 'Anyway, Moon God Empress, Archon of Thunder and Lightning, a broken girl that has Omnipresence, and a girl that has an even more broken ability than Omnipresence, and a Huntress that could blow up the whole country if she wanted – I don't think, once fully natured, anyone would like to make trouble with us. So using the last chance to summon a "normal girl" doesn't sound that bad.'

Since he had decided to become the richest man in the world with having full control over the world's technology, Noah didn't want it to be lackluster. He was definitely willing to make it more verdant and vibrant. He could only chuckle at himself; his mind visualizing the scene where the girls reach their full potential – the chaos, he could only imagine.

With such random thoughts, the black-haired boy raised his hand to call for his last Servant. The light of the summoning circle was already an old thing to him; he waited patiently for the ritual to end.

Pink hair, a childish face filled with innocence; big eyes filled with curiosity as her gaze directly landed on Noah. There was a pause as if something hit her consciousness and sent her to a momentarily stun state.

Mouth opened but no word was left as if waiting to say something but hesitating at the same time.

Really. It baffled Noah, again – she showed the same reaction if not slightly different than Qingyue; she was masked by her temperament while hers was blatant for all to see. Obviously, she was surprised to see Noah, as if seeing someone she thought she had lost and wouldn't see again.

"Noah…" Finally, a word came from her. Her voice was soft, melodious, and canorous – calling for the heartstrings of the listener.

Staring at him, her emotions finally seemed to calm down before she walked towards him with small soft steps – standing in front of him with her small soft hands clasped in front of her still-developing chest, she looked towards Noah before smiling softly.

"It has been a while… I thought you were lying when you said you would summon me in the past."

'Okay… I am pretty sure that this is not due to the use of Demonic Power that I've used during the summoning.' Noah silently looked at the girl in front of him that he vividly recalled from his past life as "one of the anime characters with whom he could personally feel attached" – not in an emotional sense, but more in an existence. Like how a soldier can understand what the other soldier is feeling, that kind of resonance.

"I don't remember ever meeting you." – He didn't hide his confusion and blatantly said, different hypotheses forming in his head, faster than a Karen saying "I want to see your manager". From what knowledge he had, he could come up with tens if not hundreds of hypotheses to his current situation, but a valid input was required.

A sad smile appeared on Inori's face before she shook her head. Looking into his eyes with a gentle expression, as if a gamer looking at his $1000+ gaming computer, she said.

"It is alright…" Talking a step forward, she held his hand and placed it on her cheeks that felt incredibly soft and smooth to Noah. "You don't need to know currently. Noah had said that he wouldn't remember me, but once he does, he would make sure to repay everything thousand folds. So it's alright. I can wait. So don't need to worry about it currently."

'Definitely a time fucker here…' He had learned every discipline in his past life which ranged from anything mortal to supreme. If someone asked him, does he know how to change the past, present, and future, then he could say with certainty that he can, providing that he is given the correct conditions to do so. And yet, if there was one thing that he had learned from his past mistakes, then it would be to never fuck with the past. A misplace of a single pebble could cause such big reactions that are beyond what a human can understand.

But the current situation definitely didn't give him any other explanation. From what he had come up with and matching with what Inori had said, Noah now knew for sure that some kind of time fucker was going on here, and he was least please with it.

"I see." He nodded, not taking his hand away from her face. He felt quite good touching her face – it was soft and squishy; he could get addicted to it. Anyway, he didn't need to think about it. If it was something related to time, he would rather wait for the truth to come in front of him than to alter the time himself.

"Anyway," Finally leaving her cheeks reluctantly, Noah looked back towards everyone and said. "Since the summoning is complete, I guess I should explain to everyone where we currently are and what our current condition is."

They were given basic world knowledge, like him and Atalanta were, but it was, in the end, basic knowledge – it was like reading a book's cover and not knowing what is inside of the book, that is basically how the Grail explained or gave them the basic knowledge of the world.


The sound of the clock on the wall produced a rhythmic tic with the coming of each second while the coffee maker kept pouring the coffee into the mug placed below it – the whole hall was silent with three children sitting on one couch, each holding a different or no reaction at all and three sitting on the other – while Atalanta made a cup of coffee for her Master.

The Huntress, as she waited for the cup to be filled with the black liquid (coffee), looked towards the six children sitting in the hall – her Master with two new Servants, Inori and Qingyue, sitting at his both side, both holding different expressions; while Raiden Ei, Sakura Matou, and Lili Artoria sat on the other side of the table, opposite to her Master and the two sitting on both sides of his.

Inori looked happy, joyful, as her whole body released the smell of a lovebird as she sat beside her Master – who looked stoic as he explained the current state of affairs to them – and Qingyue, who held no reaction to her face. Plain indifference as she silently listened to her Master while drinking the cup of tea (she didn't like the taste of coffee).

Lil Artoria tried her best to look serious and focused, but failed miserably as her ahego showed her emotions like an open book – she barely understood what her Master was saying. Raiden Ei silently ravished her tea while listening and Sakura Matou barely showed any emotions whatsoever – pale face with dull eyes, she almost would have looked identical to her Master if not for the violet hair and eyes.

When he had summoned them, Atalanta was astonished. She had, if not initially, thought that her Master had used Grail to summon them, or at least something similar, but after seeing them summon people she had no knowledge of except the future King of Knights, Atalanta was firmed at her belief that her Master didn't use Grail to summon her.

Throne of Heroes held no such Heroic Spirit named Xia Qingyue, Raiden Ei, Sakura Matou, and Inori Yuzuriha; especially, adding the fact that Xia Qingyue and Raiden Ei had called themselves Goddesses respectively. The Grail can't summon Divine Spirits… or at least that was how it was supposed to be, but it seems that such common knowledge doesn't apply to her Master.

Atalanta was a Huntress who had spent almost all if not her whole life in a forest infested with wild ferocious beasts; she was quite the perspective of living's reaction to anything. And after being with her Master till now, she had picked quite some habits of his – like how his eyes would narrow whenever he saw something interesting or how he would raise a brow whenever something unexpected happened or how he would softly smile whenever he had some particular plan in his mind (which never really end up with a happy ending, if she may so add).

They have been in this world for a week now, and she felt like she knew her Master for years – quite a frightening thought since it was not the case. Her Master, without her knowing, had made her feel so safe and relaxed that she felt like she was talking with some old comrade with no veils or mist between them.

For a Huntress like her, it was indeed a terrifying ability. Did her Master show all those reactions or habits to make others lower their guard around him? Creating an image of an honest person who couldn't hide his thoughts and emotions from appearing on his face did and would make someone lower their guard – Atalant experienced it directly today.

"Beep* Beep*" – the sound of the coffee machine, alerting its user of the completion of its task, brought the Virgin Huntress out of her reverie.

Taking the cup, she shook her head to erase all these unnecessary thoughts out of her mind. Noah was a child and her Master. He was going to help her in achieving her goal of saving the children like her, that was all she needed to focus her attention on as other thoughts might end up birthing a bud of doubt within her heart and she might never be able to trust her Master ever again, she didn't want that, not now at least.

She was just given another chance, another life, a new start – she didn't want to doubt the person who gave such things to her.

"Thanks." With a soft smile adorning his face, though his dull face didn't become cuter, her Master took the cup and drank it before releasing a relaxed sigh. "Good. It's been a while since I've tasted coffee. I almost had forgotten how bitter it tasted, definitely worth it."

The Huntress smiled.

"It seems Master likes coffee."

"A lot." He added with a sigh. "Though tea is good, I still prefer coffee over it. It makes your mind more active and the bitter taste reminds you of the hardship in life. Quite poetic, if I must say."

"Master likes poems?" She asked since Noah didn't look like someone who would read books on poems.

"I've read some." He affirmed with a nod. "Good ones and bad ones, both portraying the feelings and emotions of the authors, trying to reach something they can never attain yet wishing for it. I personally like people with such a mindset; always pursuing the unknown, trying to find what is beyond the horizon. It gives birth to a fresh mind and doesn't make your life dull and boring. And I hate everything that is boring, a little bitterness is what makes you feel alive and not the eternal sweetness. You will get tired of it soon."

Her Master became silent as if reminiscing about his past, his gaze softening by a small margin and his body posture relaxing further.

"Anyway, that was all there was to our current situation. Is there any question?" He asked, looking towards the other inhabitant of the room.

"What is your goal after this? I mean, what do you want to achieve after summoning us?" The violent-haired Goddess of Thunder inquired, looking straight into the eyes of the Huntress's Master.

Honestly, she looked rather cute – Atalanta thought. A child trying hard to look serious like an adult, it did create such an image, even though the person within the body of the child was maybe some millennium-old woman.

'It really is weird…'

"Oh. I forgot to tell…" Her Master made a surprised face before nodding. "…I am going to become the richest Young Master in the world, any questions?"

Yeah… he might be an adult, but he did act like a kid for sure – Atalanta smiled softly – but that makes him what he really was and not some stiff old man in the body of a child.


[Infinity]: Infinite has always been attributed to the "unknown". If there is an unknown, then there is Infinity. Whenever something reaches beyond the human mind, beyond what they can imagine or process, it is associated with Infinity. A horizon, you can gaze but never really reach it. A peak, you can imagine but never really see it. A being that you can see, but its shadow extends for the unknown. His power leaves marks everywhere in history, in the creation, and in the destruction, it can be gauged but can never be bounded or surrounded by a boundary. Such a being Noah was in his past life. His power, that can't be bound. His past, that can't be traced. His life, that can't be counted; such concepts of the unknown made people associate him with Infinity.

No matter how much he gains, how much he grows, there will never be an end to it. The bar is removed and there can be no end since you need unknown to know the Infinity — his growth will be unknown. His powers will be unknown. His existence will be unknown. He will be Infinity.

While Infinity is unknown, Eternity is Infinity. So while both sound the same, they are different in a sense. Infinity is the result of the unknown while Eternity is the result of Infinity.


Servant Contract — Modified.

A contract between a Servant and a Master, that connects their souls to each other in a tunnel where they can share their Mana with each other while allowing the Master to bound the soul of their Servants with Command Spells (can be used to gain an instant Mana stored within them).

Whenever a Servant is summoned, he is bound to one of the concepts of their Masters, Infinity in this case. Whenever Noah summons a Servant, they are bound to Infinity present within him, giving them the same concept of Unknown, Infinity, and the derived concept of Eternity.


My exams were in the process, so it was hard for me to write. After my exams, my computer goes brrr so it took me a week to buy a new one (set the parts, search the market to get the best price, and then assemble them just to realize that I don't have WiFi Card in it — since I don't use Ether. So it took me another day to get a WiFi card since it was already night and the market was closed).

Anyway, a brief note, this FF is a rewrite of the FF I'd upload on WN. Why? I just felt like I needed to… expand and make the story more descriptive and also add Servant/NP System and Atalanta while I am at it. While I am trying my best to write it fast and reach the point where I've stopped in WN, it will take some time — I don't want to rush it and then end up making something I am not satisfied with (like the original FF). So please bear with me.

Thanks for reading till here. Here is your banana 🍌