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Investigate Port Ruin

THWACK!

With her shield slashed against the skeleton, Mash observed it reduced to black dust before dissolving away. The Fujimaru siblings approached and Ritsuka asked, "We have dealt finished on our end, Mash."

Mash nodded and reported. "The hostile life-form has been removed here too."

"I didn't know what would happen with that monster, but," Olga Marie walked out from her hiding spot as usual when they faced in combat. She approached Mash with a proud grin. "I expected nothing less of a Servant's body. Such power."

"Not that it makes them look any less scary," Mash frowned at her words displeased at the compliment. She set her shield aside on her right. "Director, I have a question for you. The Fuyuki in our data and this Fuyuki are just too different.

"What happened in this city, exactly? What are your thoughts, Director?"

"Let's see, history must've been slightly disrupted. That's the only reason I could think of," Olga Marie replied. With their eyes and attention fixated on her, she shifted to them back. "Mash, Fujimaru, I'm only going to say this once, so listen up.

"Chaldea observes the future through an Earth model called Chaldeas.

"At the same time, a familiar called Laplace compiles past records.

"You can say Laplace job to gather data on history that wasn't made public and information that was buried in the darkness that no one knows."

The group went down again while tuning in to the Director's explanation.

"According to Laplace's observations, an unusual Holy Grail War was confirmed in this city in 2004."

Mash's single violet orb widened. "Holy Grail War? You mean the Holy Grail of legend? The magical chalice that is the root of all magecraft, the one that is said to grant its holder's wishes?"

"Eh? Is it actually that powerful?" Ritsuko widened her orbs in the revelation too.

"From what myths said, the Holy Grail was claimed to be a golden chalice containing Christ's blood. It's a chalice used by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in his Last Supper. And, to collect the blood of Christ upon his crucifixion.

Ritsuka explained to his sister. "With the Grail containing Christ's blood, it's undeniably the most powerful source of magic.

"They not only showed up in Celtics and Arthurian legends.

"But many other legends and myths heroes were pursuing it too."

Olga Marie nodded. "Yes, that's the one."

"So, that's why those Masters were searching for the Grail… A most powerful artifact by the son of God's blood." Ritsuko muttered to herself.

"Mages in Fuyuki city competed for the Grail, and in order to activate it summoned seven Heroic Spirits," Followed by a grim expression, the Director resumed.

"That was the start of the Holy Grail War. Unknown to anyone, Servants were summoned to this town.

"The Fuyuki Holy Grail War is simple. Seven Masters fight each other. The last one standing gets the Grail. Chaldea learned about this in 2010. My father," Olga Marie shook her head and amended. "I mean, the previous director used this data to build the Summoning System.

"That's what makes up Chaldeas's Heroic Spirit Summoning System, Fate.

"Our third invention after Laplace and Chaldeas."

While the sibling's pair nodded, Mash noticed and inquired, "Third? Isn't that the Near-Future Observation Lens, Sheba?"

"That was created by Professor Lev. Well, I guess you can say we both worked on it," Olga Marie showed a proud beam at the memories. "Anyway, this is where Servants come from. Seven Servants fought here, and in the end, Saber was victorious.

"The town wasn't destroyed, and the Servants shouldn't have been noticed by anyone, but," Another sweeping scan of the city, Olga Marie decided. "Now this is happening. We should assume that the outcome changed due to this Singularity.

"The anomaly in 2004 brought about an alteration to human history and as a result, we're no longer able to see 100 years in the future. That's why it's our job to repair this anomaly. Somewhere here is the reason history has been disturbed.

"Once we analyze and eliminate it, that will complete our mission. All of us will be able to return to the present," Finished her explanation, the Director shifted her attention to Ritsuka who had raised his hand.

He put his hand back down and asked, "Was there any Heroic Spirits summoned at Chaldea?"

"Of course. But it didn't go well, there weren't many successes," Olga Marie shook her head with a disappointed expression. "According to the data, three were summoned, but I only know of two."

Three fingers lifted up from her hand, her index finger slightly pulled apart from the other two as she revealed. "The previous Director summoned the first. Second and third arrived after I became Director."

"The second fused with Mash," Olga Marie's orange orbs directed at the violet-haired Servant. She suddenly let out an irritated sigh, "And, well, you know, the third. The weirdo lives in Chaldea. Leonardo da Vinci."

A second passed, Ritsuka tried to process what the Director mentioned before yelling in shock.

"Did…. Did you say…. Leonardo da Vinci?!"

"GuOOOOOOO!" A familiar ear-piercing screech caught their attention. Their head turned to the front to meet a familiar group of armed skeletons heading to them.

"Not these guys again! Get rid of them, Mash, Fujimaru!"

Olga Marie ran off at once to find a shelter from the battlefield.

Ritsuka swept his head to the running Director. "Hold on, is it that Leonardo da Vinci? The same da Vinci that painted Mona Lisa?!"

"Damn it, Ritsuka.

"Save your fanboying of historical people later!

"We got murderous boneheads coming for us!"

Ritsuko dragged her brother's right arm along as Mash had charged ahead into the battlefield.

Ritsuka stood firm as he tried to pull his arm back. "But, it's Da Vinci! The one who painted The Vitruvian Man, Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper painting, and invented early flying machines!"

Ritsuko rolled her eyes and pointed at the army of skeletons. "War is hell, Onii-chan. Now let's kill those things or we have a dead body of our Director to bury later."

As Ritsuko signaled to him of Mash taking down their enemies alone. Ritsuka huffed with his pipe armed. "Fine, let's kill these morons first."

-0-

A moment later, Mash set down her shield with a heavy sigh, "Phew, the battlefield is over, Masters. I'm relieved that we pulled through again."

"Good work, Mash," Ritsuka grinned, setting his pipe on the ground with a huff.

Ritsuko patted her back and smiled, "Yeah, thank you, Mash!"

Mash showed a faint blush at their compliments and acknowledged, "Yes. I am happy that I can be useful to you, Senpais."

As they beamed at each other, Olga Marie's voice approached them with concern. "Hey, Mash. Is it possible that you can't use your Noble Phantasm?"

"Noble Phantasm?"

Ritsuka repeated with a curious expression.

The violet-haired Servant nodded with a frown. "Apparently, I don't even know which Heroic Spirit fused with me…"

She glanced at her shield and added. "And, I'm unable to use the power of its Special Arts, the Heroic Spirits's secret weapon—known as a Noble Phantasm."

"Mash-chan?"

On cue from Ritsuko's voice, Mash shifted to them with her head nodded. "Ritsuko-senpai, Ritsuka-senpai, I'm sorry for explaining this so late. Servants are equipped with a unique skill called a Noble Phantasm. It's derived from each hero's legend and great deeds and is a secret weapon.

"But, I am unable to wield my Noble Phantasm." With another glimpse at her shield, Mash turned her gaze back to the siblings. "I can somehow use it as a weapon, but its output is decreased. I can't even release its True Name. In fact, I don't even know what the origins of this weapon of mine might be."

While Olga Marie remained silent, Ritsuko turned to her brother.

"Any idea of mythical heroes using a shield as a weapon?"

"Not that I can tell," Ritsuka narrowed his orbs and leaned his head to check out the shield. "Or at least, from what I remember, Ritsuko. My tablet may or not have documents I've downloaded on this. Other than that, I don't recognize this shield anywhere."

"I see…" Ritsuko nodded solemnly.

"In any case, you can think of me as a failed Servant," Mash then corrected. "Or maybe just a capable kouhai* that can get even stronger. I have no leads on the Heroic Spirit that fused with me too, but with both of you as my Masters, I will figure it out as I grow."

"Mash…" Ritsuka stared at with surprise at her faith to them.

Olga Marie nodded in agreement. "That's true.

"Masters have the ability to analyze their Servants parameters, skills, and matrixes."

The Director shifted her gaze at the siblings and went on. "Fujimaru Ritsuka, Fujimaru Ritsuko… As a Master, once you both become good enough, you should be able to analyze Mash's Servant data.

"Any Servants you make a contract with from this point should be the same. First, you need to learn their True Name and Noble Phantasm. As your trust with them grows, your Servant's power will grow too."

Turned her head aside, Olga Marie let out a scoff. "Well, it's not like you both have that much potential in you. The fact that you two can't use Mash that well shows that. Once we get Chaldea's Rayshift capability back online, we will shift a first-class Master here.

"Then you both are fired," The Director with her index finger lifted and pointing at the Fujimaru Siblings.

"Newbies with no combat experience can spend their time terrified in some corner in Chaldea."

"Wasn't that you who kept hiding like a coward while we do all the dirty work?" Ritsuka and Ritsuko thought in synch with a glare on their faces.

But, a thought stuck in Ritsuko's mind. As she remembered from Romani's words about Olga Marie, Ritsuko asked with a curious expression. "Could it be that you're worried about us?"

Knowingly she struck the spot, Olga Marie's face turned red and flustered. "O-Of course! Y-You and your brother especially are only out fighting force here! If you and he gets taken out, who's going to fight?"

"Hmm, in other words," Ritsuka picked up his pipe and lay across his shoulders. One of his eyebrows raised as he questioned, "Weren't you the one scared and spending quality time 'terrified in some corner'?"

"I wasn't! Not in the least!" Olga Marie's orange orbs glared at Ritsuka. Though, it simply caused her glare less taken seriously to the raven-haired Master. She reminded with a yell. "You should be respectful to your elders!"

"Anyway, I'm glad you three understand each other better now."

Mash stepped in to prevent any further escalation into an argument, "Let's move before any more of them show up."

While the Fujimaru siblings nodded to agree, Olga Marie stormed ahead as she grumbled to herself. As they walked off, the siblings grinned at each other while following the Director from behind.

End of Section 4


One event after another... JP and NA are driving me crazy from the grinding OTL
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Overthinking for the plot too far and how readers react made me unable to sleep properly...
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