Chapter 4

EMIYA smirked as Sona furiously tried to shut Saji up, "There is also the fact that my Sacred Gear has technically three ultimate states of activation, one of which is very hazardous for the user's welfare if that user is not me."

Issei, in curiosity asked, "What are the five spells and three states of activation?"

The others quickly looked at him to see what the answer was, and he didn't disappoint, "Structural Analysis is the spell that allows you to see the composition, dimensions, abilities, and history of an object. Projection is the ability to make what amounts to a hard-light hologram out of magical energy, in other words a solid illusion. Reinforcement is the ability to strengthen any of the first three aspects you gain from Structural Analysis of what you are applying it to by filling gaps in its structure with magical energy. Alteration is the ability to change any aspect of the same first three things you get from Structural Analysis. Combination is the ability to fuse anything together with anything else in all of those three aspects that are again gained through Structural Analysis. All five were fused together into one over-arching school of thaumaturgy I made myself called Tracing. Which I developed through using all those spells the wrong way for so many years that something went right and I became able to Trace legendary weapons just by looking at them.

"The three states of activation are the Reality Marble, Scale Mail, and Juggernaut Drive states. Two of those should be recognizable to those who know about the Red and White Dragon Emperors. The Scale Mail allows the wielder to be covered in silver dragon-like armor and equip the abilities of forty-eight weapons or artifacts to the user's body, and the Juggernaut Drive turns the wielder into a large silver dragon, and the abilities of every artifact I, and all the alternate versions of me, have ever seen are equipped to the user's body. With the Juggernaut Drive there is also the matter of anyone who is not me either going insane by using it or popping out of existence for the same reason. The Reality Marble is my soul…"

Motohama held up a hand as the others were barely wrapping their brains around the other stuff that he said, "Did you just say your soul?"

EMIYA nodded, "Yes, my soul is a world all to itself called Unlimited Blade Works that possesses the ability to copy the information of and reproduce any weapon or magical artifact that I have seen. The third state of activation is the ability to impose it on the world around me. The other three are essentially channeling portions of its power through the body of the user. Now, Yuuto Kiba, or if we go by your real name, Isaiah, you will be the first person I will test."

Kiba's eyes widened, "How do you…? Why me?"

EMIYA smirked unpleasantly, "So I can drill something through your thick skull, and our abilities are similar in function, so I can teach you and Issei more than the rest of them. Now, summon your strongest sword, and let us see how it measures up. Trace on."

Everyone there watched with wide eyes as he summoned a beautiful pair of black and white Chinese Dao. The devils could feel that the blades were somehow dangerous to them despite not being holy swords. Kiba summoned up a large blade that was larger than usual and possessed the trait of energy amplification, absorption, and redirection for the purpose of strengthening the blade. When EMIYA quirked a brow, accompanied by his characteristic smirk, at the blade, Kiba blasted forwards with all the speed he could muster for the biggest non-lethal hole in EMIYA's defense, the white sword shifted out of position so Kiba would have a clear shot at the man's shoulder. He forgot that he was not dealing with an ordinary man.

EMIYA smirked as shook his head, batted the incoming sword away with his black blade and spun the white one to aim for Kiba's neck. Kiba managed to let go of his original sword and summoned a European looking sword that boosted the wielders flexibility enough that he got out of the way of the incoming blade, only to have his second sword shattered by the black blade in his opponent's right hand.

EMIYA snarled slightly and said the same thing as he shattered a newly summoned blade with either Kanshou and Bakuya, "Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak." He lashed out with a kick to the stomach that caught Kiba off-guard and sent him skidding through the dirt, "Your blades are weak, you are not using your full strength. You were born with two Sacred Gears, use them and your natural power together boy. Do not concentrate on your loss, do not follow a path of misguided revenge. Live your life for the sake of your Master, who cares about you. Use the power given to you Isaiah, and stop concentrating on the past, or you will be consumed," he punctuated his next words by summoning a copy all twenty swords Kiba had made in the air around him and flinging them into the ground around the downed boy, "like I was!"

Kiba looked next to him, and saw his reflection in the copy of the first blade he made, and when EMIYA's words registered in his mind, something broke, and he felt that same all-consuming rage that he felt at Excalibur and Valper being directed towards this man in front of him, he formed a sword and stabbed it into the ground, thinking of all the different attributes he could remember in a single instant, "Sword Birth!"

Blades erupted from the ground and raced their way towards EMIYA, who had dismissed his dual-blades. The instant that they reached him, they shattered as he swung a sword that had not yet been seen in this world. A blade that was a combination of two supposed opposite energies, holy and demonic. A sword that held no attribute other than its own strange nature, yet Kiba felt a resonance with that blade from deep in his soul, something about the blade was calling out to him.

EMIYA shook his head, '"The Sword of the Betrayer' is B Rank Noble Phantasm with a durability beyond what is normally held by B Rank Noble Phantasms. It is also the primary sword of Heroic Spirit Yuuto Kiba, with those that have attributes being slightly higher in rank. This boy is what you can achieve if you stop your little pity party and grow up. In fact, you can surpass it with my help, you are, after all, not the only one who suffers from something called survivor's guilt. I built my whole life around my own survivor's guilt, and in the end, it broke me. It will do the same to you if you don't let it go." EMIYA dismissed the weapon and shook his head as he turned his back on the stunned boy.

Everyone was stunned into silence at the display of violence with no pity or quarter given to the boy who was still struggling with past trauma, and EMIYA pointed at Tojo Koneko, "Your up."

Koneko's eyes widened when he was suddenly behind her, glowing green lines filled with magical power tracing their way over his exposed skin and clothes, "You're too slow."

The punch that followed rocketed her over the destroyed field and into a nearby tree that had partially survived Rias' blast of power. She managed to flip around and land on the trunk with her feet first. Her knees bended to absorb the shock, and then she launched off with a powerful thrust of her tiny legs that finished destroying the poor tree and sent a shower of splinters into the air. She raced back at EMIYA using as much of her natural power as she dared, and EMYIA actually smiled, but it turned into a smirk a half-second later when he used her charge against her, grabbing her arm as it passed where his head had been just moments before and Judo flipping her hard into the ground.

EMIYA traced a trio of Black Keys and flung them into her shadow from her place on the ground, and Koneko ended up stuck fast, "You won't be able to move unless you lose your full power. Your sister, who possesses the same powers as you, didn't go power hungry and abandon you after killing her master. She was being experimented on by her master and killed him to protect you from the same fate. Your sister loved you above all else, to the point where she was willing to be forever hunted and potentially killed by the rest of the underworld so you could be happy and safe, but you rejected her and thought that using your power would lead you to killing Rias. You are wrong and you need to remember that your power is not your sister's power. Grow up, Tojo Koneko."

A bolt of lightning traced in and almost struck him, but he leaned back at the last possible second and summoned his black bow and a crooked looking sword that he knocked, altered, and fired, while jumping and in mid-air, with pin-point accuracy to the left of the airborne and crackling Akeno. The sword drew her lightning to it and sped off into the distance where it exploded inside of a cloud, causing thunder and lightning to crackle and boom, and Akeno was drained dry of her demonic lightning.

EMIYA shook his head, "Why do you not use your power, oh warped one?"

She snarled, "What do you know?"

EMIYA shook his head again, "There is one thing that remains the same, no matter the timeline, and that is the fact that Baraqiel was in fact defending your home from three powerful Yokai that your family called upon to keep him busy while they went after your mother the day she was killed. The poor man almost died for his family, and instead of coming into his arms so that the both of them could be comforted, his daughter told him that she hated him and ran away to suffer all alone. She has become so used to personal suffering, that she has forgotten how to distinguish between suffering and pleasure. She has forgotten that fear, pain, and remorse are not erotic sensations. She has forsaken a heritage that would allow her to defeat the entirety of Riser's peerage singlehandedly. You know so little of the world through your warped view of it, Himejima Akeno, daughter of Baraqiel."

Akeno looked at him with wide eyes, filled with fear and regret of and for her past actions, the way she looked at him was so pitiful, "Do you think that my father could ever find it in him to forgive me, even though I have become part devil?"

EMIYA smiled at her, not unkindly this time, "Dark-kin, and are you not his daughter, Akeno? If he is any kind of father, that is enough."

The other parents there actually smiled a little and nodded their heads at this, but Kazuto's mother spoke up, "Do you really need to be so harsh with them?"

EMIYA nodded with a slight frown and waved his hand at the three contemplating members of Rias' Peerage that he had already systematically defeated and verbally dressed down, "Only with these three, and one other when Rias undoes the seal on his room. I can teach only a few of them something. Sometimes things need to be broken before they can be rebuilt, and as far as teaching goes, there is little that I can teach to Koneko and Matsuda, because they are naturally martial artists and teaching them my brand of magic would be counterintuitive instead of complementary, though there is a way I may be able to help Matsuda get stronger."

Matsuda and his parents perked up on hearing that, and the boy asked, "How so?"

EMIYA nodded, "You actually have six different variations of od, what you would refer to as ki, in your body, and that is actually a far more flexible and rewarding power-source then my brand of magic called magecraft."

Matsuda's father asked, "How are there six different variations?"

EMIYA smirked, "There are actually more than that, but he only possesses six. The first three are a result of some mixed blood flowing through his veins. Of course, there is the normal human ki, and from his yokai and miko heritage, he has yoki and miko-spirit-energy. The yokai and miko heritage is from his mother, and she is a descendant of the great half-demon Inuyasha and his wife Higurashi Kagome."

Everyone looked surprised at that little tidbit of information, and Rias realized that she had essentially struck what amounted to a gold-mine of combat potential amongst her peerage members, but one thing stuck out to her, "What about the other three?"

EMIYA winced slightly, "They are something that is not natively used in this universe, but they exist all the same, and are technically the same thing named Reiryoku. The normal human variant is technically the dead's variant of living ki and its inverse hollow power, which is the dead's variant of yoki, and its live human mutation Quincy power. He has these because he was dead and you revived him, Rias."

Matsuda scratched his head, "What good are they?"

EMIYA sighed as he motioned Issei over, "Reiryoku in particular is very dangerous unless it is carefully contained and controlled. With it, if your soul power, if you will, greatly exceeds that of anyone around you, you run the risk of literally crushing their soul into ity-bity little pieces and killing them accidentally. As yours is right now, I am the only one who can feel it because I am a Spiritual Entity, and it is large, but not so large that it could harm others, or that they would even feel it. However, if you started to draw on it with no training or regulator then your ability to control it could slip completely, and it could destroy those around you. There is also the fact that, because you are technically part Hollow and part Yokai, you run the risk of losing complete control and being like the Strays that Rias and Sona have to deal with that got power hungry and lost control of themselves, and they started to eat human flesh and souls to fill a void, or 'hollow' within them when they, after a fashion, lost their heart. That is why it is so dangerous to resurrect the dead. Technically the others who have been resurrected possess it as well, but they are of no real danger like this one is."

Issei created the sword that EMIYA had sent him the blueprint for, and he held it up, "What exactly is this thing, and why does it have something to do with death gods?"

EMIYA smirked as he took the blade from Issei, "This is a Zanpakuto, the weapon of a Shinigami, but this is one with no name. They are used to control and regulate the Reiryoku of their wielders, who are called Shinigami, but they are actually the souls of the dead who possess an unusually high amount of Reiryoku." The blade started glowing blue, yet the others could feel no magical power coming from it, and EMIYA pointed it at Matsuda's stomach, "I have altered this so that you will be able to learn to control and wield all your power, not just your dead power, but to bind it to you, I will need to stab it through a spot just above your stomach. You will need to decide whether that is something you want or not."

Matsuda didn't even think for a moment, "If it can keep me from killing and eating my friends, then yes I will do it."

EMIYA nodded and stabbed the glowing blue sword through the boy and they watched as a transformation took place. A bright flash of non-magical light and the boy was standing there in a strange black and white outfit that Rias recognized as a Shihakushō, and the reason for why all the things EMIYA had talked about sounded so familiar, and she only had to say one word, "Bleach."

EMIYA took one look at the sword and, using his tracing abilities, saw that it was named Subarashī Mikkā, or Great Mimicker. The sword's spirit was in the form of a colossal white canine with various markings on its face, that was larger than twenty-seven buses stacked into a rectangular, three high by three wide by three long cube and it had the ability to perfectly copy the forms, powers, and techniques of other Zanpakuto's Shikai and Bankai, which meant that he had gotten extremely lucky that this was a world where Bleach existed as an anime. EMIYA nodded, half to himself and half to Rias, "Then it would be a good idea for him to watch and read the series to understand the full scope of his abilities, and as a training aid for him."

EMIYA internally winced as he also saw that, unlike normal Shinigami, Matsuda's appearance would change in both his Shikai and Bankai forms, and he had a third form, also unlike other Shinigami. In his Shikai form he would essentially become a throw-back to his ancestor Inuyasha, just with black and white clothing instead of red and white. In his Bankai form he would essentially be somewhat of a cross between a human and a dog, kind of like the usual depictions of werewolves with white fur. In his third form, he would fully transform into a giant dog demon similar in stature to his Zanpakuto spirit, and he would be able to manifest copy-cat Zanpakuto around him in a similar manner to EMIYA's tracing abilities. In all his forms he would have a hole in the center of his chest and a canine themed bone mask over his face with crimson slash marks under his almost completely red and glowing eyes, and a black upturned crescent moon in the middle of his forehead.

After the little internal reprimand for giving a teenager access to power like that, EMYIA turned around and completed the training with the others. It went about how one would expect, especially when he got to Issei, whose mind had been warped under his influence to a state fairly similar to his idiotic younger self. Needless to say, they were plenty of bruises to go around after the "training session."