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"And that solves that, you're finally ready."
Aozaki Aoko said, while sitting on a desk and extending her arms above her head.
She was examining Shiki's sixtieth attempt at Graduation Air.
He managed to successfully recreate his dagger. Although it drained quite a bit of his mana, he mastered the technique quite quickly.
"Well this settles it, you only need to remember what I taught you about the history of the grail and the founding families and you will be fine in this Holy grail war."
Shiki let out an exhausted sigh, this was hard and he needed to master three different spells, Reinforcement, Graduation Air and Structural grasping. Although he had to admit, these were far easier than maintaining his sanity against the things his eyes force him to see.
"Well now! We will get to the important part!"
'Aren't we done yet?!' Was what Shiki thought before he saw his teacher take out some sort of red liquid and start drawing on the ground.
"Um, S-Sensei… What are you—"
"Magic Circle!"
"What?"
"We need a magic circle to summon a servant! Here! Old man Zelretch even sent you a catalyst."
Aoko took out a small envelope from her pocket and tossed it at Shiki who caught it with shaky hands.
He opened it and took out what seemed like a… Small… Cross? It was weird and missing the top part…
"What is this, sensei?"
"What are you? An idiot? Use structural grasp and you will know."
She replied while still drawing the red circle on the ground.
Shiki closed his eyes and gripped the 'thing' tightly.
"Analyze Start…
Identifying main material… complete…
Understanding main utility… complete…
Analysis complete…"
"Oh so it's a hilt of an old Japanese sword!"
"Bingo! Now bring it over here! We will use it as a catalyst to summon the wielder of that weapon!"
Shiki smiled and approached Aoko, then she took the hilt from his hand and placed it in the middle of the circle.
"Alrighty, I already wrote the chant required and gave you a quick mana regeneration potion so you should be good. Here's what you should read to summon."
She handed him a paper with some writings on it.
"Okay, here goes…"
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The chase continued for more than half an hour, the servant's speed was unrivaled but the enemy used the terrain to his advantage, constantly jumping across gaps and leaping between trees, until a spear was sent his way and would have pierced him through the stomach if he didn't evade it miraculously.
The servant stopped for a moment to ascertain where her master was and when she looked again, the attacker was gone.
She bit her lip for a moment before she retreated to where her master was.
Scathach was certain of who was her master's enemy, by her use of the primordial rune, she was able to decipher his identity.
Bazett caught up to her eventually and the two stood in the middle of a forest silently.
"Master, let me properly introduce myself, my name is Scáthach, and I am the Lancer class servant in this Holy Grail War. Can I ask your name?"
Bazett smiled for a bit and answered:
"My name is Bazett Fraga McRemitz, and my goal is the grail. I originally planned to summon Cú Chulainn but I summoned his teacher. Sorry to have summoned you by mistake, Lancer."
"No offense taken Master. If you wish to discuss that attack that happened a bit after my summoning, I can tell you the identity of the enemy."
Bazett frowned for a moment and replied:
"No need for that, I already figured it out. Only one person in Fuyuki who has access to Black Keys. It's him, that priest…"
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In a basement full of worms, black stinky worms, layed a girl with pink hair, she stared at the ceiling with teary eyes, she didn't want this, who would? She didn't need this, who needed? She wanted to be a good girl, do what mom and dad told her, but they abandoned her, they gave her to an old man who puts her in this place every night. It has been eleven years. And every night she had to lay between these worms. Allow them to enter her, and feed on her magical energy. For what? Her so called grandfather.
But it wasn't so bad now was it? She could go see her senpai when she wanted. That alone kept her alive in this hellhole. Little did she know that her senpai didn't care about her for one bit.
The worms squimed within her, and she let out a small moan of pain. She couldn't handle it. This pain, this dirt. It isn't her. It shouldn't be.
Later that night, her grandfather called for her to summon her servant.
She visited church earlier that day and brought her grandfather a surprise.
The summoning completed, and before her stood a healthy looking woman with big breasts that were barely restrained by what looked like a white coat revealing a bit of her chest area, her pink hair was let loose across her shoulder and she carried a huge cross.
"Servant Rider, Saint Martha. It's nice to meet you master."
Zouken stood in the corner horrified and angered by what he was witnessing, he couldn't handle the divine aura for more than just a stare and he was disassembled into a pile of worms.
"Rider, I am your master, Sakura Matou, but you will be following the orders of my brother, Shinji Matou. I order you with a command spell, you will not, under any circumstances, harm anyone with the name of Emiya Shirou, but aside from that, you shall follow my brother's command to the letter."
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Shiki closed his eyes to the blinding light, but when he opened them again he was stunned for a bit.
"Nothing? Huh, I guess you do not have the ability to summon a servant…"
Aoko said after sighing.
"Well what now? I can't get the grail without a servant right?"
"Of course not, but you can get a servant in other ways. You can steal a master's command seals or just stumble into a masterless servant."
"And how am I supposed to do that?"
"You gotta figure that out on your own. My mission ends here. Good luck on yours Shiki."
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Another chapter finished. This one focused more on Shiki instead of Shirou for the obvious lack of screentime that Shiki had in previous chapters.
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