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Chapter 1: Copy, Angsty and Worm
I know well enough that the Nasuverse is a place filled with the worst thing an Anime could require. Fan Service.
It could be good if it was moderated and didn't touch the limits between Ecchi and Hentai, but Prillyaverse was a stark example of perverted moments lingering every single episode, may it be 'comic' ones or HF-level of dark shit.
But the pressing issue was the one girl, three years 'older' than me, pressing her face toward mine, her lips positioned and ready to catch mine. A low growl, a muffled 'no' managed to reach her ears as her brows narrowed but she continued.
It wasn't anything perverted, I do reckon as I considered 'why' she was doing so. Condemned to have an imperfect body that couldn't produce enough prana to sustain itself with the world deteriorating it moment by moment.
It wasn't lust that forced her into this, the sinful tease being just a secondary thing to her mind as only one thing roared within her mind, something that was quite visible from the closeup.
Survival. She needed to receive mana from the quickest way possible, saliva and... I was scared.
Seeing this from the point of view of a seven years old, this was scary because unwanted, while from the point of view of a 20ish young man, this was scary because unwanted AND because jail was terrifying.
This was not alright! I shrieked in my head but my mouth was closed, trying to defend itself from the incoming unrequited kiss.
I braced myself for the seemingly unavoidable fate that was now few millimeters from me, my eyes narrowing as I tried to push my head further on the ground, hoping to gain some relief from the distance.
It was a single fleeting moment, but I was quite surprised when Kuro's eyes widened in panic and she jumped away, dodging a thunderous blast of blue coming from... Luvia.
...I had totally forgot about her. The blonde was now donning the Kaleido Sapphire attire, cat ears and tail included.
But I felt the need to voice a 'small' issue with her intervention...
"WHY DID YOU TAKE SO MUCH TIME!?"
She 'eeped' at my outburst and her full-face blush became evident to my glare, making me understand that... I went a bit too far.
I forgot that the girl shared my 'age' and that she was quite the sheltered brat, naive about part of the world.
Maybe she had heard about perverted men but to see a female being the aggressor was... surprising.
"Net! Make a net!" Apologies needed to wait as I noticed that the snarling pseudo-Servant had yet to project EMIYA's favoured blades.
The blonde paused for a moment and seemed to panic until a blue light formed a small bundle of reinforced rope in my waiting hands, my legs already moving towards Kuro.
"A net? Do you think it will work, Matou." I let a faux scowl at my surname being mentioned but I replaced it quickly with a smile as I knew what I needed to say to stop her from acting up against me.
"Fancy words coming from someone in your predicament, Illyasviel von Einzbern."
I think the extra attention I put in the correct pronunciation was what truly made her surprised as her attempted projection, the familiar prana configuration to recreate copies of EMIYA's UBW, collapsed due to her distraction. I jumped onto her, net unbundled as the struggle began.
Few punches passed through the simple barrier as I tried to close it around her, landing right to some sore spots of my skin, still recovering from the quite recent beating I took thanks to Clock Tower's security.
I gritted my teeth in pain at the brutality and the flurry of physical attacks the girl decided to throw while trying to shake away the net but... I did it. With an angry Kuro secured away, I turned on the ground and felt my legs aching.
I was extending myself too much, I reckoned as I failed to get up. I turned to see Luvia approaching us with a concerned look towards me. "J-Just tired and a bit- a bit bruised."
She nodded but her worry was still there. "I-I need to you create a sweet treat filled with some prana. S-Sapphire, can you help her with the task?"
"Yes." The Mystic Code replied as she instructed the newfound magical girl in the creation of the small piece of food.
It was a big cookie, something that made me frown at the texture as it was almost too white but I took it out of the blonde's hand and moved it right above the snarling Einzbern, the girl didn't skip a beat in biting an acceptable chunk out of the treat and.. she munched at it calmly. Her eyes widened a little as the prana invigorated her body while the sweet taste soothed her mind and she stared at the cookie hungrily.
"I can give you the rest of it.." I started, biting down the pain running in my limbs. "If- If you promise us to not do anything drastic. W-We don't want to hurt you, Illya."
She blinked as I muttered her name once more. "H-How do you know who I am?"
"I know lots of things and... my arm here is going sore with the shenanigans I've been through. I will explain later."
She stared hardly at me for few moments before nodding. "B-But you are not friend with.. her?"
Luvia looked confused and I sighed tiredly. "No, we are not allied with your other self."
Another surprised look but she finally nodded once more and I lowered the cookie close to her face, letting her munch at the treat a little longer as I tried to keep an amiable stance in front of the distrusting pseudo-Servant.
This was going to be a long day.
We had settled to sit in circle in a small hiding spot between the deep foliage.
I was lying on the ground while the two girls were chatting together as I tried to catch some rest.
"So you are... from a parallel universe?" Kuro had seemingly accepted our goodwill and was engaged in quite the Q&A with Luvia.
"That is correct." The blonde was quite enjoying being away from the previous action-filled, insane moments, the relaxed expression on her face showing this much.
"And you are here for... the cards?"
Blue eyes narrowed as the Edelfelt thought about it. What was her mission her?
She turned to stare at my resting body. "Why are we here?"
I blinked at the question and sighed, hoping to give enough stuff for them to not ask further. "We are here to make sure the Cards are secured in a safe place AND deals with the one that put them in this universe."
Her tongue clicked in her teeth. "Truly? Is the situation really demanding this much of a following."
"A following?"
I grimaced as my mind was not up to answer everything now. "This universe is set in 2004, 10 years from where we come from, and its main quality is the fact the Holy Grail was dismantled before the Fourth War."
Kuro blinked at the answer. "1994? Isn't that the time the Fourth Heaven Feel was supposed to happen?"
"T-Then why you want the Grail dismantled?"
My hands were on my face as I groaned loudly before the two staring at me. "I have... reasons! Reasons I know that Illya will be eager to tell you about in regard of the Grail's sacrifice."
The blonde frowned. "Sacrifice?"
"Despite the competition being mostly known for the battle between 7 Heroic Spirits led by 7 Masters, the truth is that the Grail existed to facilitate a clear path to the Root. The means for this to happen was the Einzbern's unique talent in Wishcraft."
"They overpower a conduit tuned to Wishcraft with the souls of the Heroic Spirits and the one from the Homunculus used to channel the spirits to stabilise the process."
"But then why everyone says that it is any possible wish if it is just calibrated to reach the Root?"
This time I... didn't have an answer and we both turned to Kuro, the tanned girl fidgeting in her seat before realising that she was being stared at. She flinched a little but ended up answering our little dilemma.
"It... was manpower."
... "W-What?"
"Seven Servants is the least amount of energy required to permit a connection to the Akashic Records and there were only three Masters ready to share a single wish. Other influencial individuals were greedy at the time and so the founders set a lure for their desires."
"The Holy Grail, catfishing Magi since 1814."
Kuro blushed at those words. "I-It wasn't that bad. I- I mean- Sure, Nagato had warned both Justeaze and Zolken that it would have been a bad idea but how should have they known that the mess that were the 2nd and 3rd War were going to happen?!"
..."I think I will take a nap. Please don't try anything on me, Illya."
"W-What about the ones that are searching for me?" Her concern wasn't misplaced and I groaned, giving a glance to the currently floating Kaleidostick. "Sapphire, from what I remember you should be able to contact Ruby. Could you try and send a message to this universe's countepart of your sister to prepare a meeting in two hours by the Edelfelt mansion?"
"Why?" I blinked tiredly at the panicked question.
"Because we need to settle down the 'feud' you have with the other Illya without you being killed one way or another."
She opened her mouth again to protest but paused, closing it quietly and deciding to think about my words.
Sapphire nodded my direction as she tried to get hold of Prillya Ruby's prana pattern, no more questions being asked as I finally let the stress of this long day take hold over his consciousness. Slowly I was lulled in a state of sleep, my mind fending off against the nightmares of the life I had at the Matou mansion as I tried to achieve a good rest.
It was unnerving that I had just an hour to nap as I still had so much to do before the mind-blowing encounter.
We had moved to a nice café on the edge of the city, knowing that going in the more inner sections could increase the chances of encountering some people that would mistake the tanned Einzbern with the fair-skinned one.
The first thing being making sure I could trust Kuro to not murder Prillya.
I started the debate with a simple topic, weather, and proceeded to make some simple demands over where we were going.
"B-But she took my place!"
I sighed at the loud rebuttal. "She didn't do anything, it was mostly your parents' decision at that point."
She snorted, crossed her arms close to her chest as she tried some pouting.
"From what I understand.. you wish to 'slay' your counterpart and.. then what?"
Luvia's question was a legitimate one as the Einzbern looked surprised at that specific query to something she hardly considered in her initial plans.
"I... getting along with Papa and Mama would be difficult if I.. killed her." I nodded with a smile but she still huffed disgruntled. "B-But I am the real one."
"Technically you are wrong about that." Thank God I had some paper in my backpack as I started to write down things I was going to say. "You are the Einzbern-created personality that is usually active in a Justeaze-model, which was sealed away from Kerry and Iri and then got out of 'your' body."
Truly a confusing but fascinating topic. "You are could be considered a Pseudo-Servant. Your main body is Illyasviel von Einzbern but the 'clay' used to build it up is from Counter-Guardian EMIYA's Heroic Spirit."
She flinched at the name and I paused a moment to try and remember if Kuro knew or not about the Archer Card's identity.
"H-how do you know that?"
I opened my mouth to answer when Luvia slammed her hands on the small metallic table. "No excuses, no lies!"
I blinked in surprise at the outburst. That was the very situation I had wanted to avoid, knowing full well that this was not ideal for my survival plans.
But then again I needed to have the Edelfelt's loyalty to avoid any possible issue with her.
"I will say that... I know many things of the Moonlit World." I looked at Luvia and then back at Kuro. "About the past, the present... and the future."
"Preposterous!" Seriously? A seven years old girl capable of using that word? That reminds me so much about the strictness of the Magus families and the early education they give to their children. "Such a capacity w-wouldn't be keep unknown, especially because it would-" "Warrant a Seal Designation?"
She closed her mouth, paling a little as she now noticed my dry expression at that horrible fate. "I-I didn't mean-" "I know you didn't mean it. I know that you are a good person."
"But?" I glanced at the Einzbern, the tanned girl recognising that I had something that needed to be said.
"The reason I am concerned about this meeting is that... you might not like how you behave around some people."
The blonde frowned. "How I behave? What would my older version be doing to be given such accusation-"
"You are daily engaged in a petty competition with the second apprentice of Zelretch, which is not me in this timeline, about trying to win the heart of a red-head boy that frankly doesn't have much charisma to start with-" "H-Hey! Oniichan isn't that bad!"
I paused, the dreadful words piling up inside my throat as I delivered a really harsh truth about Kuro. "You mean your biological Oniichan?"
She frowned. "He is adopted-" "But you share now a patter similar to his own. Biologically speaking, thinking of him that way is incestuous."
"B-But my other self-" "Is her adoptive sister and that would also be immoral before the laws of... the entire world!"
She pouted a little and I decided to add some extra salt to the open injury. "You should also not contemplate engage in 'activities' with Miyu."
..."You mean Edelfelt's younger sister?" At this Luvia looked confused at the news that she had a younger sibling.
"Yes but also no. Her 'adoption' is something related to this whole 'Cards' Debacle and her real name is... Emiya Miyu."
..."WHAT?!"
I sighed once more as I decided to give a full explanation of this timeline, without going to touch too much about the future section of it and getting some truthful oaths to not speak about anything I was telling them.
An hour passed quickly and soon we were on our merry to reach the Edelfelt Mansion.
I bet it was a shocking sight from the two morons to see two 7yos and a tanned Illya enter the office room they were waiting us for the meeting.
Rin was pale, her mind already imagining the chaos that would be created by two Luvias, while her blonde colleague was confused at best.
"Good morning and thank you for accepting the offer for negotiations regarding some issue my newest minion- Owh!" Even without her Class Card Installed, Kuro's punches stug like mad to my poor skin.
"S-She is the one that tried to hurt me!"
It was an interesting sight to see Prillya's funny reactions from this persepctive, the girl was exaggerating the whole outburst but it wasn't... that horrible to see from a simple elementary-grade school girl being thrown in this magical girl plot without any instructions for the use.
At least this wasn't Madoka I was speaking with!
"Indeed and she is quite ready to-" I blinked her direction, Kuro trying to appear unaware of my stare. "To?" She pouted and I sighed and gave a nod to chibi-Luvia, the girl materialising another mana-filled cookie in my hand.
"I can give some compromise but-" She didn't let me finish as she stole the treat out of my hands and munched at it quickly, gulping and then bowing in front of a confused Miyu and Illya.
"I'm sorry for... trying to hurt you."
..."EH!?"
"There is a lot to say and..." I grimaced as I was prepping myself to remind everyone about two present threats in the near future. "And it is not all that funny."
AN
The meeting will continue next chapter as... there is a LOT TO SAY AND AVOID!
Also big thanks to this early support and I hope I am not asking for too much if I ask you just a small feedback once in a while. Just to let me know if you have suggestions I might use for the plot, maybe even something that Prillya doesn't truly show in the canon series like..
WHERE ARE THE MATOU HERE?!
Review Q&A!
Daggerxxx: Ye, Canon!Shinji sucks.
Guest (Chapter 1): Yeah but he is seven-years old and even with older, sexier women I don't think it would be alright to have him get 'that' kind of attention. Maybe in the distant future... Also Shinji/OC is going to be reminded that.. one of his enemies is going to be a version of his little/old sister. But yes, Zelretch is quite limited as he is said to be somewhat serious when it is required and I don't think he would let a Corrupted Grail be unchecked for no apparent reasons.
merendinoemiliano: Thank you!
Guest 2 (Chapter 1): Yeah, Kuro is here!
BlueXtreme: He is quite the bastard in canon, that is why he is good material for a hardcore attempt to redeem his character via OC-I.