Many days had passed. Gilgamesh acted arrogantly towards everyone he met but still tried to fit in with the flow of Minami's life. The girl had been lucky enough at this point to keep everything secret; Yutaka wasn't necessarily suspicious nor did she desire to know anything she didn't need to know. Minami had come to the Izumi residence in order to visit her sick friend after school, leaving Gilgamesh behind at the house where he helped Honoka with housework, much to his disapproval.
"If only I didn't have to get sick all the time." Yutaka said as she laid in bed.
"I'll still be here for you even if Gil...I mean, Ryouji's in my life right now. You still mean a lot to me." Minami stood beside Yutaka on one knee; as she was sitting there Yutaka noticed that the bandage Minami was wearing hadn't come off yet.
"Has your hand gotten any better?" Yutaka asked innocently, not suspecting any kind of foul play.
"Or better yet, was your arm even injured to begin with?" The two girls turned to see Konata walk into Yutaka's room with her carefree, yet mischievous smile. "Hehehe."
"What do you mean onee-chan? You know that Minami-san's left hand was injured on her way home from school and she has to wait for it to heal?" Yutaka defended her friend.
"Oh? Were you there when she 'injured' herself? Haven't you noticed that she's been able to use her left hand perfectly?" Konata reached out to grab hold of Minami's left hand; the girl was rather shocked but otherwise did nothing to resist. Konata then pressed on Minami's left hand gently. "If Minami-san's hand was still injured she'd be feeling pain right now."
"It's true. You're my friend Yutaka, and I can't hide it any longer." Minami took off the bandages of her left arm to reveal a set of Command Spells, which shocked both Konata and Yutaka.
"Hehe, Minami-san, I didn't know you were secretly into Fate/Stay Night to the extent where you'd give yourself a tattoo that looks suspiciously like a set of Command Spe...wait, those aren't real Command Spells, are they!" Konata was greatly shocked.
"But they can't be..." Yutaka said in denial.
"She's right; these are real Command Spells. I somehow ended up becoming a "Master" when I read out loud suspicious incantations from a book of the school library. My "Servant" is none other than Gilgamesh, the original King of Heroes. I don't think you'll believe me and I don't blame you..."
"Are you serious! That's way cool! I want to be a Master too!" Konata said excitedly.
"Then how come we've never met this "servant" of yours?" Yutaka asked.
"You've already met him. Ryouji Matou? He's actually Gilgamesh. He doesn't have any interest in fighting or killing, nor is there a Holy Grail War going on. As far as everything went, my summoning of him was just a simple accident; if I wanted to I could send him away any time I wanted to." Yutaka couldn't believe what she had heard.
"Hmmmm, this actually makes sense. That guy had way too much resemblance to Gilgamesh anyway. Now I know why you wanted to know about Fate/Stay Night from me."
"So you lied about that childhood friend of yours?" Yutaka asked. She sounded disappointed.
"...I'm sorry. I didn't think you'd ever believe me if I told you the truth; I had no other choice. I didn't want to get any of you involved." Minami sounded regretful as she held her head down.
"You don't need to apologize Minami-san! You just did what you had to do." Yutaka said cheerfully.
"Why wouldn't I NOT want to get involved in something so cool? Masters and Servants aren't even supposed to be real, yet their existence is right in front of us! Minami-san, show me the book you used to summon Gilgamesh!" Konata asked excitedly.
"That book...was destroyed by Gilgamesh. He said it had no purpose." Minami said, sounding almost relieved.
"Awwww. I wanted to summon Haruhi." Konata's excitement instantly turned to disappointment.
"Gilgamesh?" A lone Minami stood before a different Gilgamesh, one who was very slowly but surely de-materializing on the spot. She should have come to expect this but had been pre-occupied by many other things.
"Heh, you really thought it WOULDN'T come to this? I've used up nearly all of your mana and thus am vanishing." Gilgamesh said without a tone of regret or sorrow; the two which he did not express were all over Minami's face.
"Do you really have to go now?" Minami asked.
"What's this, you WANT me to stay? My my, I would've thought you'd be happy to return to your normal life."
"I almost feel...as if it's too early." Minami admitted. "In trying to conform you to this world you've essentially become apart of my life along with those around me. You can't leave...if you did, it would cause a great disruption."
"So that's the way it is huh? So much for me trying to fit into your peaceful world. But tell you what; I'll be able to stay in this world if you can find an external mana source for me to feed on."
"Mana...source?"
"What, weren't you completely informed by the material that housed me as a fictional character? Or did you simply think those rules didn't apply to this world? All you humans seem to have a small amount of "mana" within you, albeit a small amount. A whole human's worth is enough to let me stay around for a few weeks at most if I don't use any Phantasms, which I have no need to use."
"So what you're trying to say is, that you could continue to stay in this world by taking an energy source from other humans that is not commonly regarded as being real nor has any apparent use?"
"Exactly. Remember how I managed to stay around for 10 years by absorbing the souls of orphaned children? What a cunning dog Kirei was." Minami sounded a bit shocked to hear that something in fiction was slowly making itself a reality in Minami's world.
"You're not going to go around killing people to preserve your existence, are you?"
"That's up to you. You're the one who wants me to stay. So take your pick: either kill off a few meaningless lives to continue yours without disruption or let them live but have your new life become broken." Minami held her head down in thought from hearing the King's proposition.
"I see now that it would be very easy for me to take a life by your hand in this position...but knowing that it's the only way to keep you around...I just don't know. Someone being forced to kill others for the sake of keeping one person in their life alive? How can anyone make such a decision?"
"Such is the reality of Fate/Stay Night; this is your reality now, so get used to it."
"How did it come to this? These concepts of "Servants", "Masters", and even Gilgamesh; they're supposed to be works of fiction that don't interfere with the flow of the world we live in. How is it even possible for any of these to be real? Now that I think about it, it all started when I read from that suspicious book I borrowed from the library. If Gilgamesh hadn't torn it to shreds it...very well, I have to discover the secret of the book itself. I found it in the school's library and thus must discover the author's name and the origins of the book; multiple copies of it may exist. But what to do with Gilgamesh..." Minami was faced with a tough decision.
"So what's it going to be? You have only a while to decide before I truly fade from this world for good. Tell me what you want; life, or death?"
Minami thought for a moment before finally raising her head to make a decision; "I want you stay with me." Those words put a wide smile on Gilgamesh's face...