(A/N: I was given two reviews that the stat for Joker needs to be changed. I admit that stats writing are not my best work. I mainly just put letters based on strengths on their own world and not using Fate's world as a basis. Still, that will definitely leaves tons of error, so I'll be changing them. New stat is down there. Thank you and please help me with those ABC rank because I really don't know how strong C is compare to D and B or the difference between A and EX.)
"Welcome to the Velvet Room," Igor opens up the greeting with his usual greet, before opens up to a new dialogue, "Ah, it seems we have a special guest today.
Lavenza is disturbed a bit as her eyes stares straight toward the imposing figure before the two residents of the Velvet Room.
This man has a very huge build, wearing black clothing with his face having load of hair all over the skins.
The man now smiles at him, speaking to the long-nosed resident, "So, he is your choice of champion?"
"I believe in what this guest of mine is capable of."
"But why the new face? You have two lives who are constantly making sure Death not coming into their worlds and you have someone with the first god of Shinto by his side. Why the one with a Satan, though?"
"Why? I believe his power can still grow beyond that. I believe he can do more than just killing a fake god."
The man with facial hair seems to be thinking of something, "To leave the fate of a world on a rebel's hand, we sure sounds alike."
Igor grins wide, "Aren't rebels can also be considered heroes?"
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"Ruler-class Servant?"
Akira is now serving tea toward this blonde girl.
This strange foreigner, who just comes in as if she is dress to kill, tried to strike him down with her pole weapon just now.
Now she is drinking her tea inside her dark blue jacket with a shirt and a tie underneath it, making her looks like she is wearing a schoolgirl outfit of some kind.
His stare somewhat startled her as she wonders, "Wha- what were you looking at?"
"I was just wondering why a Ruler appears in the Holy Grail War. I am not well verse in this grail war stuff, but from what I was given the info of, the war is between a team of seven against each other. Ruler is not part of the war, right?"
Ruler nods, "Yes. I was summoned by the grail itself to overseer the war."
"Why?"
"You did not know of this? The war is no longer a free for all with seven teams against each other. This is now a Greater Grail War."
"Greater… Grail War?"
That info do seems to be registered inside Akira's brain, but he really couldn't think of the meaning of that word. It will take a really long time to study all of this material.
Luckily for him, Ruler decides to answer that for him, "Instead of the usual format of the war, it is now a team battle of seven teams of Master and Servants against another seven. Both sides will be fighting each other till one team is finally defeated."
"And the winners will get their wish, correct?"
"Indeed. Now, answer my question. What kind of Servant are you? Why do you inhabit a body of a human?"
When she asked him said questions, her eyes are glaring straight toward him, as if she is really strict as her work as Ruler.
"I don't know."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I was sent here from my own world to investigate some sort of abnormalities. I don't know why I inhabit another's body for that matter either."
"I see…"
Ruler suddenly turns toward him, closely looking at him before she speaks up, "Your name is Akira Kurusu. I have never heard of a hero with such name before. Are you perhaps a Counter Force?"
Counter Force? What on earth is that supposed to mean?
She keeps on staring at him, now seeing his confused face and opens up, "You don't know what a Counter Force is?"
He shakes his head, "I don't think I get all the information I need of this world. Either that or I get all info very slow."
Sigh, she mutters, "Counter Force is a deterrent force empowered by Alaya in order to protect mankind from any danger. If you didn't know that, then that must mean you are not one. That begs more questions; who sent you here?"
Em… Igor?
"Holy Grail?" is the answer he chose instead.
He feels like his current existence is closer to the Holy Grail than to the long-nosed man. It's like his power is thanks to that golden thing.
"Then… you are like me. I am also being employed by the grail."
Somehow he feels like they are speaking of two different things here…
She whispers to herself, "An unknown Heroic Spirit that is not a Counter Guardian… I don't know what else you are supposed to be, but I had a feeling that something strange happened in this war."
"Jeanne D'arc."
Eh? Maiden of Orleans? Why would she bring her name up?
Akira sees that Ruler is giving a calming smile at him, "That's my name. If we are both being employed by the same Master, then I have no reason to hide my name before you."
"Thanks…" he nods, "Then, you trust me?"
"I have a feeling I should."
"Then, how do you know my name? I didn't remember telling you that."
"As a Ruler, I have a skill called True Name Discernment. I can learn the names of all Servants if I ever sees them."
True Name…
From what he can learn, Servant's True Name must be guarded at all time as exposing one can expose their strengths and weaknesses. Does that mean he has the advantage here?
His Personas may have been heroes, demons, angels or gods, but none of them seems to be acting like what their names are. He knows that Cu Chulainn has this spear called Gae Bolg, which is really dangerous in his myth, but he has never seen that guy using his spear for any special attack. At least he gives buffs for all Phantom Thieves on the front. At most he have inherited some of the cool spells when he is being fused into, and none of them is a spear skill.
Still, Setanta, the younger Cu, act by himself earlier without him telling what to do. Personas usually don't do that. That is something he needs to figure out why.
"Ah, we have a guest?"
Both of them quickly turn around, now seeing a girl with black hair in pink top and yellow dress enters the room, looking at them both.
His self of this world remembers her. She is his cousin, Tsubasa Oribe, who he lives with as of this moment.
It seems he heard from her that both her and her sister, Ayaha moves into Fuyuki all the way from Tokyo because the company they are working with is about to have a branch in Kyushu.
Ayaha just took him in as part of the juvenile program.
That's all they told him.
Tsubasa quickly moves close to them both, bowing at him, "Sorry, Kurusu-san. I was meeting a friend before and my sister is going to work till tomorrow, so I had to go home by myself. That's why I am late."
Jeanne suddenly stands up, "I should be going now."
"Wait," Akira follows her action, "Do you even have a place to stay tonight?"
"I'm living at the church nearby."
Tsubasa quickly speaks up, "It's already too late. A woman shouldn't be walking around at night."
"Aren't you the same thing?" Akira turns toward her, startling her and turning her action into rubbing her head sheepishly.
The sole man shakes his head as he enters the kitchen, "Just stay here till next morning."
His cousin stares at him, "Kurusu-san, what are you doing?"
"I'm going to cook something for dinner tonight."
"Eh, you know how to cook?"
No, this world's Akira shouldn't know how to cook. This Akira never transferred to Tokyo and lives inside a café…
Tokyo… Shuujin…
What happened to this version of the members of Phantom Thieves? Are they fine? Will they faced the same thing without him around, or will their lives becoming worse without him around.
Akira shivers when he thinks about them…
They may not be his real friends, but he couldn't help it that he feels worried about them…
Jeanne speaks up, "Thank you for your hospitality, then."
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Hmm…
Last night is strange…
But what's stranger is the lack of Velvet Room in his dream.
Usually when he sees something big like this, Igor always appear to offer some words for him.
But that Igor was a fake, and he probably just wanted to see how much of a progress his 'game' goes.
Therefore, he has no idea how the real Igor works…
Do they actually kill the Personas just to fuse them or strengthening them, or that's just Yaldaboath unable to do jack shit about those stuff?
Now that he thinks about it, does Goro Akechi went into the Velvet Room too? Did he do executions too?
Now he is hoping that a door into that place is around here in this world. There is no way he would just wait till all of his Personas appear inside him. He feels like while waiting for his strongest sets of Personas to appear, he will have to go with what he have for now.
It is by luck that he manages to pull out Setanta, one of those that are quite dependable to some extent, last night.
Not sure if he is going to be lucky again next time…
"Hmm?"
Wait, he didn't sense Jeanne nearby, and she's not in Ayaha's room, where she's supposed to stay in for the night.
Did she actually get out earlier in the morning?
She really wants to be that neutral, huh?
Shrugging off, Akira walks down there, now reaching toward where the dining table is, now seeing Tsubasa preparing lunch boxes.
"Boyfriend?" is his first reaction, seeing those two boxes.
The black-haired girl quickly pulls her head up toward him, looking confused before turning back toward her box and is in shock, "Ah, no! One of these is for you, Kurusu-san!"
"Me? That's nice for you to do that. Thank you."
"It's nothing." she shakes her head, "Until not too long ago, I was caught up with my own work that I didn't learned about you being convicted as a criminal until my sister told me about taking you in."
Ah… that one…
"I didn't say that you are one. I don't believe that a nice person like you ever becoming a thug and start attacking people…"
"I was framed," Kurusu speaks up to her, "The guy seems to be a big shot that he is able to fool the police that I hit him. He was too drunk and falls down on his own, yet the cops just listen to him. I bet he even threatened a woman he harassed there to play along."
"That's… horrible…"
"Don't worry about that. I'm sure karma will catch up to him."
Things may not be as different as in his world, but he knows that at least one person will hunt him down; Akechi
He believes that since Phantom Thieves aren't around and if Akechi do gets his Persona here, that guy is as good as dead. That detective is truly crazy. That power of his can easily defeated any Shadows to a pulp.
But, if he didn't gets his Persona here, then Shidou is nothing but a drunkard who may have been working with an already existing political group but unable to force others to get psychotic breakdown without being seen as suspicious. It is thanks to Akechi he manages to go that far after all.
The only thing he is still worried of is his friends here. Kamoshida may still treat the school like his own. Madarame may still use his students' talents for his own gain. Kaneshiro may still be ruling Shibuya as of now.
Okumura… well, he did bad stuff. To be honest, now that he thinks about it, Okumura isn't the worst person, unlike those three he mentioned before, the problem with Okumura isn't so dire as the rest of them.
Sure, workers aren't doing well under him. Sure, competitions are pretty much dead around him.
But he is not the only douchebag treating their workers like that. There is this thing in Japan called 'karoshi' and 'black company', so that's not new.
And people compete against their competitions all the time, one way or another.
The only reason why Phantom Thieves were after him are all because of personal reasons.
They need a big shot so that people started to believe them, and Haru is going to be married to an asshole. Those are just selfish reasons for them to chase after his heart.
Still, one thing he is scared of now is the well beings of his friends. Without him, they are pretty much-
"Ah, Kurusu-san, we are already late!"
He is snapped back to the real world, quickly feasting his eyes upon a panicking young girl who is staring toward the clock, "We should be going by now!"
Giving his box to him, she quickly packs her stuff as she now holds her bag in one hand and a toast on another… wait…
Akira now just stares at him, "You're not going to run with that thing in your mouth, right?"
"What are you talking about!? Let's hurry up already!" she screams out as she grabs his hand and pulls him out of the house in a hurry.
But how did she pull him again? With which hand? Of course, the one that held the toast, which is now inside her mouth.
She did…
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Apparently, he is now a student of this place called Homurahara. The uniform is as brown as it could get that it doesn't' seem to suit him. Also, he is in his third year.
Somehow, in a different world, he pops out from his mother way too early.
Meeting his friends now is going to be so awkward…
Following Tsubasa from behind, the two finally reaches the academy, without having his cousin hitting a male student while running (or it would have become a trifecta of Anime Cliché 101) as they barely even make it.
"Kurusu," a male voice seems to be greeting him as the two are already on the other side of the gate, exhausted from all of the running (at least she is).
Hearing his name being called out, he turns to his left, seeing a spectacled man with blue hair staring straight at him, "I didn't strike you as the late runner type."
Issei Ryuudou.
The president of the Student Body. A strict person to boot. Very strict that he can be really scary in his determination.
Is all Student Council presidents have to be strict?
He also wants to be a monk.
That… is not information he think he'd care to get…
"Sorry about that," he quickly gives off an excuse, "I was too tired last night that I slept in this morning."
There is also the fact that he barely has any clue on where the school is. He just arrived there last night after all…
"Tired?" Issei seems to be walking closer to him, "I hope you're not doing anything weird last night."
"He's helping me out with the club cleaning yesterday."
Another voice comes into the conversation.
This time the owner of the voice is a red-haired man who seems to be kind enough judging from his face of tranquility.
Shirou Emiya. The janitor of the school.
He is not a literal janitor; he is just a student. But somehow he has this repairing skill and is always around to fix anything in this school. He is also seems to be a do gooder that helps people out for no reason.
Is he naïve or is he just that nice? This world's Akira's memory is only limited to a non-Phantom Thieves observation so he has no idea.
Issei now turns toward him, "Why would you do clean a club? You are part of the Student Body!"
Shirou simply shakes the back of his head, "Shinji just didn't clean the archery club enough, so someone had to do it."
"Emiya, how many times must I tell you not to be nice with that guy?"
"He's a friend, Issei."
"A friend doesn't talk about their friend behind their back."
"That's just how Shinji is. He probably has a reason for acting like that."
Akira just stare at the two arguing about this one guy named Shinji, not realizing that both of them are already reaching their class, with Tsubasa already joining her friends somewhere else.
He senses a stare, quickly turns around to see the one who owns this strange, suspicious aura.
From his point of view, he is peering outside of the class, toward Tsubasa and her peers, noticing that while all of them are having a conversation of their own, the one with twin tails as her hair is actually glaring at him, before looking away as if she is actually interested with whatever her friends are talking about.
He can also feel something unknown behind her, but he sees nothing there so he couldn't identify this strange feeling of being watched.
"Trickster," Arsene's calling out to him from inside, "A gentleman thief should use any advantage they have in order to achieve what they desired, especially if the advantage is well within their abilities."
He sure speaks a lot ever since appearing in this world. Akira feels the need to actually find an entrance to the Velvet Room to ask for details if he didn't meet Igor again tonight.
Wait, abilities… Does he still have those skills he has from Confidants?
If he does, then that also means his most useful skill, Third Eye, which can reveal something unknown before him, should be around as well.
Normally, he won't be using that in the real world because there's no need to. In real world, Third Eye only reveals stuff that he can just find with his normal first and second eyes.
But what about this world? He can even summon Personas outside the Metaverse, so using Third Eye may reveal something more, right?
Let's try it out!
Focusing all he can, his vision is slowly dimming. Everything around is darkening, as if someone just lowering the brightness of the TV screen.
!?
Whaaaaaat?
Gh-ghost!
There's a ghost behind that twin tailed girl!
A ghost of silver-haired girl in red jacket, with red outli-
Red outline figure?
In Metaverse, a Shadow is outlined blue, yellow or red as an indication of how dangerous they are when facing in battle, from easiest to hardest.
But this figure has red all over her…
Why does the Third Eye labeling a ghost like that?
Ah!
Servant!
Of course, there are details he got in his brain that he just decided to skim over!
A Servant can turn invisible before normal human to avoid the war to be known by non-magi, subsequently hiding the existence of the moonlit world as well.
That's no ghost! That's- actually that is a ghost, not in a haunting way…
Wait, then that girl is her Master. Why else would she stick close to he- crap!
The figure already notices of him looking at her and is now paying more attention to him.
Quick! Look back to the fro-
"I hope you are not one of those students that have crushes on that Tohsaka," Issei doesn't sound too happy at him.
"Tohsaka?"
That's her name?
The other Akira didn't seem to recognize her, so the name didn't register in his brain at all.
Issei is still glaring at him, "Rin Tohsaka; the diva of Homurahara. She has been playing the hearts of so many men around her. Don't be fool by her personality. She is a manipulative witch; the worst one of all."
"Don't be like that, Issei. Tohsaka isn't that bad of a person."
"Says someone who is still befriending a guy who hits his sister on daily basis."
"Shinji isn't hitting her every day. He just has his off day. You are just exaggerating stuff here."
Who is this Shinji they keep talking about?
"Good to see that you are still alive, Emiya."
With them now turning their heads toward their sides, they are now looking at a blue-haired man with hair so wavy, one can easily confused it with dyed seaweeds.
Ah, so this is Shinji Matou. This guy is labeled as annoying by the other Kurusu.
He then slowly turns toward him, "And you seem to be so well too, it seems."
The man is about to walk away from there to join a group of girls as Akira quickly calls him out, "No thanks?"
"What are you talking about, transfer student?"
"We cleaned up the club for you and you don't even give us any thanks? If I were to make my friends to a chore for me, I would at least treat them or something, not just walk away for the sake of desperately flirting with the ladies."
Shinji seems to be smirking, "Sure, I'll be giving you thanks for trying to be Homurahara's brownie's second in command."
"That doesn't sound very sincere," Akira mutters.
Matou just ignores him, doing his own business with Shirou quickly speaks up to him, "Just let him be, Kurusu. I just really love helping people out."
The leader of the Phantom Thieves now turning toward the redhead, "What the heck is Homurahara's brownie?"
"It's a nickname they gave me. I helped around the school with anything."
"Without getting paid for?"
"Why would I? I do want to help out, that's all."
"Why?"
"I…" he seems to be hesitant, "I want to be an ally of justice."
…
What does justice have anything to do with helping people with their chores?
It seems he didn't need to ask that question, as Shirou keeps on rambling, "I want to be a hero for everyone, and this is just the first step for that. When I grow up, I want to help people even in the times of need. If something bad happen to them, I want to save them all."
Is this guy… a chuuni? Did he watch way too many shonen anime?
It seems he needs to ask this guy some more, but that will have to wait because the clumsiest teacher he has ever seen is now doing the homeroom roll call thing.
Note to self; this teacher hates her name so much… or a certain animal. He has no idea which is which…
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At first he was scared that he had to re-learn everything from the beginning considering he literally had to restart his life from day one of being transferred.
Luckily he is older here, so at least some of the subjects are quite new. So new that he may be in trouble of not knowing everything here.
It's not like he didn't know everything. Before while studying with everyone in the café, he took some of the chances to glance over Makoto and Haru's notes just for fun.
At least he still did not change in how he approach his studies; looking somewhere else before being called out by a teacher to answer something.
Now he only needed to find a place to eat.
His first choice is the rooftop, but somehow he felt like if the rooftop is accessible for everyone in the first place, people are just going to use that place to hangout.
So he traverses throughout the school, looking for a good place as his feet just brings him all over the place.
He finally stops before a club house, now looking straight before the entrance.
He remembers how big this place is to clean, and two people took a really long time to even clean this up, let alone one person. Shirou must be really dedicated to his 'ally of justice' decision.
Seriously, how is cleaning a club has anything to do with justice?
Maybe for different people, justice means differently? Akechi's justice is all about enacting revenge against a single man with any means necessary. For the Phantom Thieves, their justice is helping those who are unable to help themselves and changing the hearts of corrupted ones without the need of bloodshed. Shirou's possibly about helping people out no matter the cost.
Truthfully, he thinks that Shirou could be a really good Phantom Thief, but something just feels off about him. The way he said those words… are those all there is to it? Does he really mean what he said, or is there something else he didn't tell about justice that he believes in?
Akira's attention is now back to the club.
His eyes quickly wanders all over the place, looking for something.
Nobody is watching him, good.
Carefully, he enters the place without making any noise.
Unfortunately, he didn't realize that the same twin tailed girl is peeking at him from the nearby building.
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Joker has decided that this place is a really good place to eat all by himself, so good that someone else has the same idea as he is.
Sitting at the gallery of the archery club is a girl with purple hair, who notices of him entering there as she asks him, "Who might you be?"
"I should be asking you the same question. Should you even be allowed to be in a clubhouse in this hour?"
"I… I am a member of this club. What about you?"
"I-" he doesn't have any comeback for that, "I thought nobody is around here at this moment."
The girl suddenly looks down, "I… I shouldn't be in here too."
He sees how the girl seems to be pained over something unknown, as if she is hiding her true self and those last words she said has a different meaning to it.
Well, this could be a chance for him make some friends. Who knows, maybe there's a Confidant to be found in this world?
"How about this? We could keep this a secret between us."
"S-Sure…" she stares at him for a moment.
Akira goes to sit a bit far from her, as he starts munching onto the food prepared by Tsubasa.
It's quite good. Did she cook this? He should try and ask her later.
Moments later, his head turns back toward the girl, "Akira. Akira Kurusu."
The girl seems startled by him, "I'm sorry?"
"That's my name."
"Ah… so you are the new transfer student my brother spoke about."
"Brother?"
"I'm sorry," she quickly responds to him, "I am Sakura Matou, Shinji's sister."
Hmm….
Kurusu gives off his comment, "That's impossible. You two look nothing alike. Have you seen your brother? He looks like he is made out of seaweed. An annoying one."
A smile somehow appears before her, "Yes… he does looks like one."
"I bet no matter what recipe you tried, he will never taste as good as any other seaweed."
Sakura chuckles a bit, mumbling, "He's just going to be a waste of an ingredient, isn't he?"
"Not even putting tastier seaweeds around him will make it any better. In fact, he's just going to make things worse. So bad that using him is banned in cooking competition."
Sakura chuckles some more.
And thus, they are bonding over seaweed-bashing.
Definitely nothing is harmed in the process of this conversation.
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It took them awhile to actually finish the food and gets out of there.
As both of them are out of the club at the same time, they are greeted by a voice that makes them think, 'speaking of the devil'.
"Sakura, I know you are always all over that Emiya, but I didn't know you would feel the same to Kurusu. What kind of a bitch you are?"
Sakura stops on her track, seeing Shinji moving closer to her as she mutters, "N-Nii-san… it's not… I just…"
"Or perhaps you are no longer holds such feeling for him anymore? Then, it should be fine if I told him about us, right?"
"N-nii-san, please don't do that!"
Wha-?
From Akira's point of view, he sees Sakura screaming out in fear. Her face looks horrified and she seems close to tearing up.
Whatever he threatens her with, he knows that is something she prefers to keep a secret about.
Ti must be truly horrifying secret that she seems desperate to not even know of this.
"You!"
!?
This guy is now pointing his finger Akira. What does he wants now?
"How about I tell you about us siblings instead? You are not Emiya, obviously you should be fine keeping this secret with me. Of course, you may no longer yourself if you hear this out."
"Nii-san!"
This guy… if he has a Palace, there is no way it would be shocking. There is no way an asshole like this only stays in Mementos…
Kurusu opens up his mouth, "I would love to hear a secret. Everyone would feel such thing about a secret."
Sakura now turns toward him, "K-Kurusu-senpai?"
"But are you sure you want to do that? You may hurt your own sister with that secret of yours, but then nobody will like you, that's for sure. Not even those girls you are flirting with. Not even, say, this girl named Tohsaka."
He remembers his other self's memories. He remembers that in his first day here, this guy was rejected by this person named Tohsaka. He doesn't seem happy from that.
Akira now moves closer to him, his eyes deeply stare into his, "That's a great thing about a secret. Both the owner and the secret keeper are affected by the consequences of breaking that one secret."
That's not quite true, but he seems to be not bright enough to know this bluff.
Shinji looks really pissed and now turning back toward Sakura, who immediately looks downward as he walks away from there.
Akira turns to see the violet-haired girl, holding her hands together as if she accepts something that is about to come to her. Is her brother hit her a lot? Did he humiliate her a lot? Is that the secret she holds dear about?
Nah, it's a bad thing to pry open on someone else's Pandora's Box.
"If you want someone to talk to, I am always around for that. You shouldn't be carrying a terrible secret all by yourself. It really hurts the more you keep it to yourself."
The girl pulls herself up, startled by his words, only to see him giving a faint smile at her, "Don't worry, I keep so many secrets, I barely remember which is which."
Still not true, but if she takes this bluff, she could at least feel better about something.
Now, he would like to try something out.
Pulling out his phone, he sees the icon for the Metaverse is still around.
Why isn't he is surprised by that? Oh yeah, summoning a Persona is possible here, so why not carry the app around.
Pressing the app, he sees that it functioning well like always.
Let's see…
"Shinji Matou."
CANDIDATE FOUND.
Sakura just stares at him as she hears a voice coming from the phone.
Just what is he doing there?
"School."
CANDIDATE FOUND.
Thought so, Akira though. The guy is making it easy to know the location. He is like Kamoshida; carelessly showing their emotion of something they hold dear.
The only problem is to learn what does he think his school is.
He then turns toward the girl beside him, "Your brother isn't a very nice person, yet Emiya is really adamant of calling him a friend."
"They used to be friends, but nii-san… he's… our family…"
She stops herself there, making him wondering what else she would say afterward.
"Well, no time for that," he mutters, "Break's over. Don't worry, I'll make sure to stop your brother from doing anything like that."
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Finally, after going through some more studies, the school ends.
It seems Shinji is the first one to pack his stuff, looks like he is hurrying himself to get out from that class, even ignoring some of the girls around him.
He also turns toward him and Shirou before walking out through the door, speaking toward them all, "Just make sure you two didn't get home late again. There's going to be a really good sculpture if you do."
With that stupid smile of his, he simply walks away, leaving a really strange, absurd and oddly specific statement for the two.
He now turns toward Shirou, "Cleaning something else today?"
"No, I'm just going to straight to home today. I already promised that it is my turn to cook dinner tonight. Besides, my parents are finally coming home for a vacation."
"Sounds good. I'd rather not see any sculpture tomorrow. Who knows what kind of art Shinji wanted to show us?"
With the two now moving far off from each other, Akira decides to stay near the gate, waiting off for the students to not flock around there anymore.
If the Palace is the school itself, then the entrance should be the gate. It is better not to jump into the Palace when the destination is not very clear.
Always use the door to enter a huge place with enemies around. That's simply Manners 101.
Still, he needs to figure out the third keyword for the palace or it won't open for him at all.
Usually the team does the thinking and he just stands around being silent and stuff. His friends just love talking that they contribute 90% of the conversation.
Now, he will have to do it all alone.
Well, better not have others involve with this.
Let's see…
A Treasure holds the Palace's existence, and it seems both of them will correlate with each other in term of theme naming. Does that mean Palaces are created with the Treasure in mind?
It could be, seeing that a Treasure may have been something that turns someone into what they are. Kamoshida's glory as an athlete is what turns him into what he was. Same goes for Madarame and his student's talent, Kaneshiro's obsession with money and Okumura's poor childhood.
That said, no doubt Shinji's Treasure and Palace is the same thing.
Sakura did mention something about their family. Is there something he hates about his family? What teens like him usually wish to do to their family? Something about the family that changes him as a person?
Did he received and order or something from his family? But why school? Why not his own house?
Maybe he uses the school to vent his frustration on something? Something about the family?
Hmm…
Well, Akira may be spitballing here, but he might as well try it out.
"Shinji Matou's house."
CANDIDATE FOUND.
Owh? His home IS his Palace? What is so special about his house that he sees his school as such?
Might as well take a look at it.
The air around him started to rippling of black and red, and the sky is now darkening.
He has arrived in the Metaverse.
"K-Kurusu senpai, what is this place?"
!?
Oh crap!
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sakura walks out of the school's building, looking down as usual. There is no club for today so she has no reason to stick around any longer.
In truth, she wishes that she didn't need to return home this quick. That house is a hell for her.
She never calls this place her home. That house is never a place for her to treat like one.
Not to mention, with the way her brother acted today, she afraid he is going to do that again tonight. She always uses club as a way to not be in that house for that reason.
But today…
Maybe she could stick around with Shirou-senpai?
No… he said that his parents are finally returning home. There's no way she is even invited for that occasion…
Ah, Kurusu-senpai is there.
Is her waiting for her? Maybe he's waiting for her brother instead?
He said he's going to change her brother.
!?
Is he going to fight him? No! That's too dangerous!
Kurusu-senpai is going to be dead! Her brother is going to summon her to kill him!
She needs to stop him from doing that!
He is one of those people nice to her. She doesn't want to lose a friend like that!
"Shinji Matou's house."
CANDIDATE FOUND.
Wha-? It's that voice again!
What were he doing with that phone? What is he trying to pull off exactly?
!?
The sky turns… dark? Already?
Sakura keeps on looking all over the place. She feels really confused right now.
It's evening, but not even close to dusk, but now…
Wait….
WAIT….
Why is her house stands there, right at where the school is supposed to be?
This place… feels like…
Wait, is this… Reality Marble?
"K-Kurusu-senpai, what is this place?
She turns to see Akira in shock, muttering, "Sakura, you're not supposed to be here right now…"
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Wha-!?"
A girl with twin tails quickly run forward toward the gate, looking around as she mutters, "Where are they!? Where did they disappear to? What's just going on!?"
She's not the only one who's confused.
Somewhere at the entrance of the school building, Tsubasa just stands there, gasping in shock, "Wha- He just-"
And outside of the school, Ruler simply stares at the gate, muttering, "He uses his Noble Phantasm on broad daylight?"
I guess someone has influenced Akira badly in term of fucking things up.
So, the new stats…
True Name: Akira Kurusu
Alignment: Trickster Neutral
Strength: ?
Endurance: ?
Agility: ?
Mana: ?
Luck: ?
(Stats subjected to Persona)
Skills:
Persona Magic: A+
Presence Concealment: B+
Third Eye: A+
Eye of the Mind (False): B
Noble Phantasm:
The Mask of Oneself: Persona Summoning: E – A+
Dimension of Desires: Metaverse: A++
Stealing One's Heart: Treasure Theft: A
?: EX
As you can see, all stats are now ?, because in Persona, stats are based on Persona, thus why Joker and those before him keeps on fusing for better ones. Unless you are like me; fusing Persona just to get those lovely or badass looking Persona.
I will have to say this again, and here I hope you guys actually read this, because then you have no excuse for screaming at me for somehow giving Akira tarot-based servant class.
Akira DID NOT gets into the world of F/SN. He goes into the world MASHUP for both Nasuverse and SMT-verse. We do not use Nasu-only rules for anything. We use both of them.
It's just so happen that this story takes place in Fuyuki, because why not? Who knows? Maybe I decided to switch location to Tokyo instead? Or Trifas? Or Ylisse, somehow… who knows?
Let's talk about Confidant. If Sakura is a Confidant, which arcana do you think she is? (This is merely a discussion, answers may not be put into the story)
No, I'm not making Akira/Sakura pairing here. I still don't know if I'm going to do pairing or not, or if he is already dating someone prior to the story or not. But I will definitely take the Valentine scene as canon. That is way too funny to ignore.
Again, I still need suggestions of Masters and Servants, not Servants only. The HGW is still going to happen regardless Akira goes to Palace or not. In fact, some of those Masters and Servants can be a potential for future Palaces so pick your poison well.
Again, it can be anybody from Nasuverse and SMT-verse. For those who are asking, it's Greater Grail War, so 7 vs 7. The spot of 1 Saber, 1 Archer, 1 Lancer and 1 Rider has already been fulfilled.
Next: The meeting of Masters of Blue. Also, Palace exploring.