I watched Evangelion and every time I wrote Shinji in this Fanfic I can't stop thinking about the Shinji from Evangelion,oops sorry It's called Unlimited depression works. Shinji opened his eyes. It was bright at first but when his sight adjusted, he saw the plain ceiling, maybe a Japanese-style house which was rare. So now he is in the traditional district, he thought. Wait—did they kidnap him? "Ah—" "Great, you make a noise the first thing after you wake up." A familiar voice groaned "Tohsaka" "Good morning Shinji" She said, her teeth clenched "What happened? Rider— Sakura?" "She ditched you don't you remember?" Rin asked "That bit—" "Watch your mouth, Shinji-kun" Another voice emerged from the hallway "Emiya-senpai" Illya resumed to smile "You can still fight in the grail war" He gazed at her "What do you mean?" "We'll become allies, we'll share information 40% control of our own servants and we'll decide the winner in the end" Rin answered "now we have three masters, if we have you it'll make us four which is the majority and we'll have better chance of winning" "I'm not a master" he remarked "but you could have the grail in some circumstances so, Deal or not?" Illya held out her hand. Shinji quickly slapped it alway "I-" "You've always wanted to be a mage don't you?" She took aback her hand "fine, but don't expect me to go friendly friendly" "Yeah! That's the spirit!" Illya shouted in joy "I'm trying to concentrate here Illya!" Waver screeched through the porch. "Let's have breakfast, I'm hungry!" Illya ran out of the room. "She's acting like a 5-year-old again" Rin signed "you better come too" "S-saber?" "What is it, master?" She looked at the white haired "is that three cups of instant noodles I just saw?" "Yes, is there anything wrong with that?" "YOU BEAT THE RECORD,you actually beat it!" Illya grinned "you managed to lower it to the tenths!" "Wait-what? You ate nothing but instant noodles your whole life?" Rin asked "No, but very often" "Now who the hell is this?" Waver groaned "I'm a servant, Assassin" the man eyed everyone in the room. "And I request we go investigate Ryuudou temple" "You're a bit late" A voice called her from behind. "I'd reckon you'd say that, it's only five minutes why are you being fussy about it?" "I believe you had something in my possession?" The priest walked up to the girl. "If you refused I'll have no choice but to confiscate it back" "Here, you could have it" She handed him the golden piece. "Thank you for your cooperation" He said as she disappeared away. "So you managed it?" The blond haired spoke "Yeah, we'll start the ritual soon enough" The priest turned to face the king of heroes "We'll get to see that miracle again, my king" "Hey kid" Rider called his master who was reading something at the moment "What? I'm busy" "What is a holy grail war to you" He was silent for a moment before replying "A war " Rider signed, his master really needed someone to teach him more self-esteem. "What is your reason for fighting?" The boy in front of him went silent again, this time nothing came out of his mouth. It was dead silence, the younger one completely ignored his existence. Since the battle at the school, it proved his master was a stubborn one. Of course, the amount of Mana he received was enough to spam several Noble Phantasms with three Mages supplying him but withdrawing from a fight was impossible now and that was going to cause a lot of problems in the future. "Fine, I just want to be recognized okay?" Waver broke the silence. "This stupid reason is what keeps me fighting" His master turned away. Rider grabbed him by the collar. "Wait what?" "You calling you dreams stupid is an insult to mine I had a dream that was impossible and laugh at me all you want but I'm still dreaming the same dream after 2000 years." Nobody said anything after that. After all, they were minding their own business. -that night, dinner "It's a deal then, you'll join forces with us and in return we'll go raid Ryuudou temple" Illya smiled "If we got every servant to join, we'll have a grail war in a less violent way!" Rin looked at the older. "Senpai, why are you doing all of this?" "To be honest, I'm kind of wondering too" Saber said quietly. All the attention was drawn to Illya, who answered "I want to be an ally of justice of course!" "t-that's quite a big dream" Caules commented "Why an ally,not a hero or something?" Rin asked, her chopsticks dipping in the soup. Illya's smile turned into a sad one. "Because someone has already took that place, he saw himself as unsuccessful but to me, he was a hero" They fell in deep silence as time passed on, soon it was 2 am. The others have gotten asleep and were waking up while some stayed up waiting all night (mostly servants). "How will I be of use to you?" Shinji asked "investigate the area while all of us are fighting" Rin pointed out. "Me, Archer , Saber and Illya will be the front lines battling Caster" "While, Caules and Melvin are the back lines, since the two of them can heal,well only Melvin but Caules got the basics anyways" "Waver and Rider will stop the master" "So scouting and interesting the area belongs to you and Assassin" "Why is my role so simple!" Shinji shouted "I wouldn't think that if I were you" Archer shook his head "Every role is important, I believe in you Shinji-kun" Illya smiled "That smile that would illuminate the whole world" Saber said "what did you say Saber?" Illya tilted her head "Nothing" Now that everything was settled, they all headed out to mount Enzo. It was late at night when the Mage's mana are at its peak. They were walking for about ten minutes when the mountain came visible to their view. Assassin readied his sword when they passed through the gate. It was a strong bounded field. Everyone could feel it. It didn't cause them any harm but Illya felt a bit of her mana reserves were taken away. They went up the steps to the temple. It was a long walk, with 100 plus steps to get to it. The temple looks the same when Illya first saw it but what changes it is the atmosphere. It seemed more scary than in daylight. "Master…" Assassin growled Both servant and Master were nowhere to be found. It was normal though, every master tended to hide when about three masters were coming to them. The only ones who won't are only suicidal masters in Illya's point of view. "Something's coming from the sky!" Rin's screamed A pair of weapons hit each other. Archer was the one who dashed to the front and intercepted that blow. Another one stood behind him. The same weapons Illya remembered going through her, those three, long blades. "Shirou Kotomine" Well sorry for the very late update as always. Sorry for it being short like always. Well, After awhile Our harem protag EX finally made an appearance.