(A/N: It seems 'Yes' to DLC Persona wins, even though there is no poll to back that up. But don't worry, the only DLC Persona I'll be using is Picaro version and even then…)
It is the morning that Akira and Sakura decided to walk to the school together.
With Tsubasa already dashing her way off to her designated location, the two are now left on their own, thus why they are walking together as of now.
That morning felt peaceful for both of them, moving forward with their own pace without the need to worry about the world.
Unfortunately disturbance can come in various forms, for example, an annoying big brother who has little to no respect toward anyone that isn't named 'Shinji Matou'.
"I knew it, you slutty girl!" he calls out from their back, interrupting their walk.
Sakura is the first to turn around and sees him, startled by his appearance, "N-nii-san…"
It appears that even after the whole debacle inside the Palace, she is still shaking upon seeing him.
It's probably because real person gives off a different feeling than the Shadow version. The real version often appears as the sinister version of the cognition one, what with them hiding their true selves before everyone.
Shinji moves close to her, speaking out loud, "You really don't mind sleeping anyway as long as there is a man around, huh? This is indeed your true self."
"Nii-san… I…"
Akira steps forward, calling out to him, "Shut up, Shinji."
The blue-haired dude looks startled by his words, grumbling in anger mix with shock, "Y-You…"
But then he forms a smile on his face, "Would you like to hear the secret I said yesterday? You will not want to hang out with this bitch again if you hear what she always does at home."
Akira is now staring straight toward him, before snickers with a grin as he walks away, pulling her hand and herself with him.
"S-senpai…"
"Don't worry. Once everything is over, you will feel better about yourself. In fact, he won't even think about hurting you anymore."
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
And so they go for a journey deep inside the man's psyche.
Sakura has decided that she would like to use a pair of knives tied up around with a chain, somewhat a strange combination that she really insist of using.
Doesn't seem that she has a hard time using it.
She also insists on being called as Sakurider… yeah… she isn't very creative with naming here…
So he decided to go with Viper instead. You know, her summoning a snake monster in the myth and all…
For some reason, all Persona users he met is able to jump around like an athlete the moment they become one, and she is not an exception.
They first go and walk around the first floor. In any exploration, it makes a lot more sense to cover the closest floor first.
The first floor isn't that bad. There are few rooms, mostly either filled with girls in skimpy clothing or men who called the ruler "Shinji-sama."
"Did he really see himself as that important?" Sakura wonders as they just finished off a group of Shadow that praises his 'achievement'.
Akira shrugs, "Probably what he wishes for. If you look at how he speaks at school, you can tell that he really want people to look at him as if he is a big deal. What is he like at home?"
The girl mumbles, "Mostly being ignored. My grandfather focuses on my training way too much to even look at him. He is a magus. Most magi won't pay much attention toward anyone who is not capable to produce a really good magic circuit, unless that person has a strange trait that makes them rare."
"That sounds like your typical medieval setting; If you are not rich, not a noble, not a warrior or even a scholar, people just won't look at you."
The two goes to explore some more, now reaching the dining room and lo and behold, they see someone interesting to even be put in there.
"T-Tohsaka-senpai!"
Yes, they found the twin-tailed girl, Rin Tohsaka, tied up in chains and sitting at the dining table. She even wears sexy clothing like other girls they found.
The girl looks silenced and less grumpy, at least that's the opposite of what he sees her before.
Sakura goes toward her, checking her out as she turns back toward Akira, "Senpai, what is this supposed to mean? Why is she her instead of inside those rooms like other cognition?"
Akira now looking around. He sees pictures of Shinji and Rin together, going on a date and even a picture of them naked together on a bed.
Definitely NSFW.
He wonders, "Is your brother has some sort of crush toward Tohsaka?"
She quickly nods, "Everyone knows about that. He seems to have a strong obsession toward her, even after so many rejections."
"He must really want to go on a dinner with her that she appears to be locked inside the dining room. And all of these pictures are just what he wishes to do with her."
"This is… too much…"
The girl turns to look at the cognition once more before muttering, "What if we free her from here?"
"It's a cognitive. A cognitive rarely changes if we tried to do so from the inside. She may have been recaptured by the guards before escaping here."
"I see…"
"Killing her won't do any good either. She's just going to pop up in the same place again."
They then decided to move toward where the living room is supposed to be at, where they sees a really disturbing thing to happen in this disturbing place.
Shadow Shinji is talking to a corpse.
"That's Zouken Matou, my grandfather…"
Sorry…
Wait, what?
"He doesn't look very healthy," Akira turns toward Sakura as the two are now hiding behind a huge statue of Shinji, "Is he always looks like that?"
She nods, "He does look a bit inhuman. Sometimes I feel like he is secretly a ghost of some sort."
"Have you ever asked him about that?"
A shake of a head is given instead, "She looks too scary for me to even ask about his face."
The two are now peeping at whatever the two are speaking right now.
"Master Shinji," the old man mutters, "You truly are my proudest kin."
The man with seaweed helmet scoffs at his words, "That's a given. I am a prodigy of all magus community after all. My achievement is bigger than what those losers have. That is why I am the heir of the Matou line, not some random strangers forcing themselves to be called as a Matou."
Shinji then decides to walk away from there, "I am a busy man, old man. Do not dare to interfere me with how I live my life."
The old man slowly turns away from him, now facing the statue itself, "I know you are there. Do not think you can hide your presence away from this old man."
!?
Akira and Sakura slowly walk out of there, facing the old man as he snickers, looking at the presence of one of them, "My, my, this is quite interesting. Has the divine harlot herself rebel against Wizard Marshall? Truly a despicable move, I will say so myself."
Sakura suddenly felt a pain right around her lower area, stumbling backward as she mutters, "G-Grandpa…"
"Sakura…" the man slowly approaches her, "Have you gone mad? Have you forgotten your role within this family? You are supposed to be a tool for Master Shinji to grow. You are a tool that I've groomed the moment I took you away from your beloved mother. Now, go back to your room, harlot."
"N-No…"
"What was that?"
"NO!"
She stands up once again, now pulling her blindfold off from her.
Gorgon appears behind her, ready to strike the old man down with her tail.
She screams out, "I will not be my brother's plaything anymore! I am my own person now!"
"Of course you are," Akira steps forward, nodding at her, "That is why you have a Persona. You should no longer be tied up to whatever your fake self is supposed to be. If you want to beat this old man down, then do it."
"I shall help you with that," Joker tears off his own mask, summoning a red eyed bipedal moth creature called Mothman to help.
"Very well. You seem needing more training to obey your master," the old man slowly pour out black ooze, now turning into a huge creature with nothing but his giant jaw and eyes, Abaddon.
Aside from that, tons of flying locust-like worms are swarming around him like a see-through tornado.
Some of them fly toward the two, but not before some of them ended up being petrified by Gorgon's eye beams and falls onto the floor, only to be crashed on impact.
Akira steps forward, shooting down some of them as he sends Mothman to fly toward the target, "Maragi!"
Most of the worms are being burned so bad they fall and die onto the floor.
He then grabs onto the Mothman midair before jumping close toward the creature, shooting the Shadow repeatedly on its head.
Sakura sees the opportunity and runs forward, now calling out, "Psio!" and shoots out balls of multicolored surface that hits onto the creature, hurting him badly.
The two then goes to shoot more Psio hitting him repeatedly till Abaddon is seen falling unconscious.
"Sakura, now!"
The two jump toward the Shadow, and in blurry effect striking him repeatedly.
The girl throws her knife and strike down the finishing blow as she lands onto the ground and moves her hair away from her face with a push.
FREE AS A BIRD!
Joker snickers, looking at his junior standing proudly as he turns to look at the remain of Zouken-Abaddon.
?
He quickly notices something shiny on the floor and goes to pick it up.
A key?
His eyes now wander all around the room. All of the rooms in this floor have been explored.
This key should be…
"Senpai, that key looks like for my brother's room…"
Room? Why would a key for his own place be guarded by his grandfather?
Sakura seems to have the answer for that, "Senpai, I have a thought, but I don't know if it's true or not."
"Any info would be great."
"I have a feeling that despite his issue with our grandfather, my brother still views him as a strong magus with a strong influence. Our late father once complained of having to live with a 'prickly old man' yet he did nothing about that. My uncle dies thanks to him forcing the worms inside his body."
"If my brother were to keep a Treasure, that would mean his room, right? I didn't know if he views other places inside the home as valuable as his own room."
Kurusu wonders of where this theory could go to, "Did you mean to say that Shinji may have left this key under your grandfather's safe keeping as a measure against the intruders?"
That might be true. Why not test it out?
?
"Sakura, what's that on the floor?"
His finger is now pointing toward where she finished her attack before, as there seems to be something wriggling on the floor.
Viper goes to pick up and inspects it before throwing it away, "No idea. Maybe that's one of the worms?"
That thing looks creepy, and still living.
They probably should just get out from there already…
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Hmm!?"
Back in the real world, the real creepy walking corpse suddenly looks panic.
He turns around all over the place as he is heard mumbling, "Sakura… the worm… that's impossible…"
Ever since yesterday, he has been feeling this weird feeling of moving to a different place.
Whatever Sakura is feeling, he can feel the same feeling right away.
It is not a familial bond if one might think, but a rather sinister bond at that.
He would normally investigate the cause of this strange feeling. Sakura is a valuable specimen and a talented person to be bestowed the name Matou, so her safety would be his priority.
Besides, he needs her life force to stay alive.
He would rather not lose to that imitator family. It is a miracle that family still able to have their daughter alive after butchering his trademark magecraft like that.
Bacteria? Really?
There's a whole lot of reason why he prefers worms than a group of cellular organisms.
He would go and investigate this strange feeling, but then he also felt that Sakura has grown a new power inside her.
He could not explain what it is, but he can tell that she has created some sort of new magecraft.
A new magecraft, under the name Matou? What an achievement his granddaughter has achieved.
Probably thanks to this transfer student named Akira Kurusu. Ever since he is around her, he can feel her developing into a fine magus.
But now?
Now he feels something off.
He can no longer feel Sakura inside his person.
His body has grown weaker…
Could it be… the worm has detached itself from her? How? Why?
The… that new magecraft…That must be the reason why!
There is no other explanation! That must be it!
Damn… now he needs to find a new host… quick…
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The road toward the weed's room isn't very hard.
The second floor is very big, bigger than the ground floor. The roads are all over the place, like a labyrinth mix and matching badly that one can simply walk on the walls to find a way out.
The puzzle here is just him pushing buttons for the right order, and the order is spelling the word 'MATOU'.
Seriously, what kind of Wizard Marshall this kid wishes to become? At least gives off a really challenging puzzle…
He feels like this is how far his distortion goes…
Is this the sign of his shallowness?
The enemies he met, even Kamoshida and Kaneshiro has some form of intelligence within their Palaces. They are some of the cunning people that took advantages on humanity's unwillingness of involvement.
This just goes to show how much he underestimate the moonlit world…
It's sad… It's just… sad…
Now, standing before the room, Sakura unlocks the door and goes to open the path into this dude's room.
The room is really big. Too big to be called a room.
This place, while a bedroom with an incredibly huge window, also contains the biggest picture of him in this house, sitting on a throne while almost naked, being surrounded by women in bunny girls outfit, even Sakura and Rin.
And also Shirou…
Huh…
Also… Shirou?
Shirou Emiya… in bunny girl costume…?
"Sakura, where is the nearest trash can?"
But Sakura did not notice of the (horrifyingly fetishized) picture frame.
Instead her eyes are fixed at the huge light in the middle of the room.
Owh, yeah. That thing…
He has been doing this job for a year that he almost not noticing of that.
Joker decides to explain to her, "This is the Treasure, but it is not in its complete form."
"Is that why we have to send him a calling card?" she turns to ask him that.
He nods, "If we told him that we are trying to steal something valuable, his mind will immediately thinking of whatever that thing is. That thing will be his Treasure given form and at that point we can simply grab the treasure and walks away from here."
"What do you think the shape will be?"
"Depends. Let's hope it's not one of those bunny girls in the photo."
"Senpai, what are you talking about? What bunny- AAHHH!"
The girl turns completely red, quickly runs toward the picture in a futile attempt of covering it, "Senpai, don't look!"
Too late.
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"I'm home…"
Shinji goes to enter the Matou Residence that night after a long hour of walking inside the forest.
He just got home from the meeting and it is nothing more than a waste of his time as he-
The house is dark.
Is Sakura still at that asshole's place again? She must have really enjoying herself there that she forgets who she is in this family!
He should have just gone to eat at a fast food restaurant somewhere if he knows that this is going to happen.
"Sh-Shinji?"
That voice… "Grandpa?"
The old man creeps out into the living room, looking weak as he mumbles, "How is the… meeting?"
"It's stupid. I don't need all of those weaklings to win this war. My Lancer can defeat all of them no problem."
"Need I remind you not to be a fool in this war?"
"Fool? Grandpa, you are the idiot one here. The Master of Rider is a child in coma. Assassin is a stripper. Caster has a father-complex issue. Master of Berserker couldn't even bother bringing his Servant along with him. Honestly, only two people other than me in the team that could even stand a chance against the enemy."
"This is why you could never be as good of a magus as your sister. You are quick to judge who's strong and who's not. Do not forget that even the weakest Servant can kill you like breaking a toothpick. That Servant of yours isn't even yours originally. She's your sister's. You will never be your sister, no matter how much you put yourself inside her."
The old man tries to walk away from there, but he suddenly stumbles as Shinji quickly goes to help him.
"Grandpa, are you even okay?"
"I'm… I'm fine… I'm just old…"
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That brings us toward the next afternoon, during lunch break.
Somehow not even the teachers realized about the posts.
Taking the inspiration from Ryuji, Akira and Sakura quickly goes to the school early in the morning and posted the calling cards they took the whole evening designing and copying…
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Akira is simply standing near the photocopy machine at a convenience store, even waving at the shopkeeper while doing so.
A brown haired woman appears entering the shop as she goes to look around the place, before settling in with a can of carbonated drink as she hangs around beside him, taking a bit of drinks.
Her eyes quickly turn to see the papers being copied on the machine and reads a bit of it, "Strange papers."
He turns to look at the papers and quickly responds to her, "Owh, yeah… I am… going to humiliate an asshole tomorrow."
"Humiliate? That looks like blackmail to me."
"It's just… an adventure of mine. It's a heist, but I call it that."
"Adventure? I had an adventure before. Can't remember how it ended. I think I died…"
What?
She suddenly pulls herself up, seeing a blonde female outside of the shop, signaling her to come out as she goes out quickly.
He swears that he notices of her pulling out a gun. It seems she is also putting it on her head.
Hmm…
Owh, the papers are finished.
Xxxxxxxxxxxx[PRESENT]xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To make this not a joke for him, they purposely arrange the cards into the shape of his Command Seal. You know, proving the point.
Akira and Sakura simply watch from afar, as they quickly walk away from there.
Sakura seems to be really excited of this, almost giving an obvious smile for him, "This… this should be it, right?"
"Yeah. The Treasure will materialize right now and we will be able to steal it from him."
"See you later, then!"
Kurusu goes on the separate ways toward his class, only to meet the girl who he is pretty sure has been stalking him from afar.
"Can I help you?"
"What are you doing with Sakura Matou?"
"I'm sorry?"
I know who you are, Akira Kurusu."
This girl…
"Thank you, Tohsaka-san. The fact that you know my name means that you really do know me."
"You know me?"
"Yeah, Sakura speaks a lot about you."
It's a lie. She isn't really doing that.
It's Issei who has been decorating her name with a variation of the word 'witch'.
But he would like to play a part in reuniting two sisters together.
Thanks to her startling reaction with a blush on her face speaks how much she actually cares about her.
But he would rather not wasting more time getting unwanted attention.
He would rather not attract an unwanted attention of a magus at this moment, not when he has a life to free.
"Nice to speak to you, but I would like to go back to my class. If there is nothing el-"
"You are one of the Masters of Red, isn't it?"
…
"I'm sorry?"
Rin glares straight toward him, "I saw you the night you fought Lancer. He tried to kill you and you have two Servants saving your ass."
That… night? The night he first arrived there?
"At first I thought you are a fellow Master of Blue, but now I know you are not. It must have been a misunderstanding with Lancer back then."
And her point is…
"Whatever you are planning to do, DO NOT drag Sakura along with you. If I find out that you put her in harm's way, none of your Servants will be able to protect your soul."
That's very suspicious… did she even tried to hide the fact that they are sister?
"Don't worry. I'm not gonna harm your girlfriend."
"Gi-What are you talking about!?" she turns red, so red that it seems somebody just explode a can full of red paint on her face.
"She's not your girlfriend? That's weird. Why are you overprotective to her? It's not like you two are sisters…"
"I- I just don't want you to do anything stupid, you stupid!"
"You could've just warned me not to harm anyone in this school, but why specifically mentioning her name. Are you perhaps has a crush on her instead? I can hook you two together."
"B-BAKA!"
Her scream is so loud that people around them just start flocking, looking at her stomping her way away from him.
Issei appears beside him, mumbling, "Great work, my comrade. You are not one of those boys not easily distracted by that witch."
Sakura is also there, looking at the two figures each other, wondering what just happened to the seniors of hers.
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Enough dilly-dallying.
It is time to end this increasingly uncomfortable Palace.
Going straight to the safe room on the second floor, a method which Viper keeps bombard him with tons of questions, most on whether or not this method of fast travel is similar to Second Magic.
For the last time, Sakura, it's not. This place isn't even real. There is no way fast travel needs to be as realistic as the real world.
Pushing themselves straight into Shinji's bedroom, they arm themselves, ready for any fight, but instead seeing Shinji and Lancer standing toward a strange, floating object.
"So, you guys are indeed the Phantom Thieves from the calling card. I was quite confused when I read the cards. It almost feels like that Emiya guy's language."
He then slowly turns around, looking forward to both of them, grinning wide as he screams out, "I am now wondering who are these idiots that announce their intention of stealing my Magic Crest!"
Magic Crest? That floating huge thing behind him that looks like a rock with lines all over it? Isn't that's supposed to be a Mystic Code?
Shadow Shinji is now starting to ramble, "Do you have any idea how valuable this thing is to me? It makes me who I am today. I am not a Wizard Marshall without this crest."
Akira would like to disagree to that notion, "So, you are saying that it is because of that crest that you are a Wizard Marshall, not because of an awesome achievement or something alike?"
Shinji suddenly burst in laughter, "Do you even know how stupid you sound like right now? Of course it is because of MY magic crest that I am a Wizard Marshall! Strength and might is what decides the rank!"
"This is stupid…"
Sakura mumbles, slowly turning into a burst of anger, "This is too stupid, nii-san! You are not even a magus in the first place and you already imagine yourself in the same position as the great magus Zelretch and Barthomeloi Lorelei themselves!? You hardly do any sort of magecraft in your whole life! The only you ever did is flirting around and getting rejected by the school idol!"
She steps forward, brandishing her knives, "You can't even get laid without a help of your own sister! And now you are thinking yourself as the greatest magus ever lived?"
The girl turns toward Akira, "Senpai, you told me before that the Palace you visited previously all have their own depths of psychology that forces them to see the world and look down upon others differently than others. I don't think my brother has the same depth as those people you mentioned."
"Look at that picture!" her finger is now pointing toward that giant picture of weirdness, "This picture sums exactly what this Palace is all about. He just wants to get famous and some pussies!"
Hmm…
She's not wrong. Some assholes are just simpletons.
But to be basic while possessing a Palace… how is that even possible? Basic people like that should just appear in Mementos, not having a Palace of their own…
Is there even Mementos here? He should really check these out…
"You… BITCH!" Shinji now screams out real hard, grabbing the stone's surface as he screams out, "You want to see what makes me a Wizard Marshall!? Then witness my own awesome magecraft!"
Some of the lines on the stone slowly move toward him, enveloping himself with so many circuits that his body started to swollen. The stone just decreases itself in size.
Seriously, this guy didn't even have a basic knowledge on magecraft. That thing is NOT a Magic Crest; that is a MYSTIC CODE!
He grows in size, with his hands and legs slowly turning into some sort of chair underneath his now naked body. His body turning blue and what's left of his previous being is his hair on his face… that is now… protruding like a penis…
This guy is now Mara…
A blue-haired giant Mara sitting on an organic looking wheelchair.
Yup, that thing has been promoted into a Ruler of a Palace.
Compare to this guy, his own Mara seems nicer to look at.
That Shinji-Mara thing is now screaming out loud, "THIS IS WHAT MY MAGECRAFT IS! I AM NOW POSSESING THE BEST WEAPON NO MAN COULD EVER COMPARE!"
Owh, god… did he just talked about his penis?
Sakura shivers as she mutters, "Senpai, can I stay at your home again today? I really want to take a nice shower at your place…"
"I would like to have one too. How about we finish this guy off as quickly as possible?"
Nodding toward each other, Joker runs straight ahead first, moving close to the dick monster before being forced to evade the hair chain from Lancer.
She spins her polearm weapon around, smiling as she mutters, "You don't think I would let you getting close to my Master just like that, don't you?"
"I was wishing you would. If he is as good as he proudly sees himself as, that master of yours won't be needing you around."
"True, but I wouldn't want to share my perfectly good prey with him."
Lancer now charges forward, going for a kill.
"Setanta!"
The bowl-haired Persona appears out of the mask and quickly deflects the weapon off from him, before smashing his spear right into the Servant's chest.
Instead of pain, she chuckles, "You don't think it would be that easy to just kill a Servant, no?"
"It's pretty much the same thing as other Shadows, but that also mean that if I hit you enough, I can defeat you right here, right now!"
"Jack Frost!"
"Hee-ho!" a cute snowman replaces Setanta, now blowing a huge chunk of ice that freezes some of her leg, putting her on one place.
Akira now pulls out his gun, rolling to the side twice as he shots her, making her feeling really hurt before he replaces Jack Frost with another, "Okuninushi!"
A warrior-looking Persona now appears, slashing her repeatedly as he jumps over him, throwing something as he shouts, "Frei!"
A ball of energy appears near her, hurting her as the ice cracks and frees her, not without hurting her.
Sakura is quite busy with Shinji, running all around the place as she is trying so hard avoiding spells over spells raining at her from the dick-on-the-wheels.
"Cybele!"
Gorgon pops up, now shooting one of the wheels and petrifying the circle object, halting his movement.
"WHA- WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS! WHY CAN'T I SWING MYSELF AROUND ANYMORE!?"
This guy just couldn't stop cringing her.
Gritting her teeth, she jumps away and starts spamming her Gandr at the riding shaft.
"Y-YOU! I AM IN CLIMAX RIGHT NOW, AND YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SAY NO!"
"God damn it, stop it!"
Sakura screams out, throwing her chains around as the foreskin is getting hit stabbed repeatedly.
But this seems to agitating the guy even more, as his head slowly turning white.
Akira quickly notices of this before screaming out, "Viper, watch out!"
Unfortunately the girl in blindfold trips and almost falls onto the floor when Mara goes to shoot a beam straight toward her.
"Izanagi Picaro!"
A figure in red and black checkered outfit appears grabbing Sakura out of the way from the white beam as it hits the wall behind her instead.
At the same time, Akira falls onto the ground, feeling some sort of pain in his chest. It feels as if he just used a forbidden technique of some sort.
His Persona simply disappears from the sight of all.
"It seems those mysterious picaresque Persona is not something you should call upon. They are connected to you faintly and does not seem like they are leaving your world of origin anytime soon."
Ah… well…
He didn't really like those Personas anyway.
They just popped inside his mask suddenly, without any explanation whatsoever. Even Caroline and Justine didn't know where they come from, simply stating that they were 'paid' to be part of him.
He did not recruit them, nor did he fuse other Personas to get them. It feels like cheating sometimes.
Now he feels weaken when using one of them. It seems his position as a Servant do affects them. He can't pull them without drawing a larger amount of mana then others.
Well, normal Personas are not that bad.
Lancer sees this outcome and starts chuckling, "It is finally time for me to create a new art then…"
BANG!
The female tries to get close to him, but doing so just making herself vulnerable to a non-mana attack like the bullets.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
"Sorry, miss, but the only art I would join is not one that hurts my body. Arsene!"
His starter Persona appears once more, and now shooting out a huge curse attack, "Eigaon!"
"AAArrghh!"
With Lancer is thrown to the back, Joker turns his attention toward Shinji and charging forward, getting close to Viper, "Now!"
Pointing his gun and her finger, the two shoots a barrage of bullets and spells toward the 'curved sword on wheels' repeatedly, making him hurt for every single attacks, even the follow up where the two now unleashing spells over spells onto the poor limp… thing…
Alright, enough of gross name calling.
If he wants to get his way with ladies, he can try this one.
"Alice!"
A small girl in blue and white dress appears before him, now smiling at him, "Thank you for finally calling me, Father. I've long for this day once more."
"Father?" Sakura stares at him, "Senpai, I didn't know you can make a child with a Persona…"
"That's not-… She's not-…"
Sighing and giving up, Akira simply mutters, "Alice, strike him down."
"Die for me!"
"IS THAT A REQUEST!?" Mara now slowly moves toward where the three are at, "OR AN ORDER!? DOESN'T MATTER TO ME! THERE IS NO WAY A MAGUS AS STRONG AS ME SHOULD EVEN NEED TO LISTEN TO- WHAT ARE THEY AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE!?"
Shadow Shinji seems startled, seeing so many giant teddy bears running forward and bumping onto him. The back of the bears seem to have bombs strapped around them, and each bumps ignite flames and explodes them upon contact. More and more appears, exploding onto him and letting him suffering some form of curse damage.
With one last scream and fireworks, he falls onto the floor, turning back into his more favorable humanoid appearance.
"Well then," Kurusu, having his mask back on, moving straight to the floating stone that seems to have a size of his palm, conveniently.
His hand is about to grab the stone, but a voice calling out to him.
"Please, don't!"
The two turns back toward Shinji, who slowly pulling himself, scraping through the floor with his right hand trying to reach out to the stone.
"That stone… that is everything for me! That stone is what making me important! Without it, I'm just a nobody! Nobody loves a nobody! I need that thing!"
"Nii-san," Sakura sits beside him, offering him a smile, "The way you lives right now, is not what makes you important. You are famous for a wrong reason. You neglect responsibilities, constantly making fun of others and forcing others to do your bidding."
"But… but I… I just want my grandfather… to acknowledge my strength! I want him to admit that I am a good magus!"
"What's so good about being a magus? I never did any magecraft until today and that doesn't inconvenient me. A magus is just people lazy enough to not get a technology of their own. They burn up their own magical circuit just to cook something when others can just flip a switch for that."
She stands up, glaring down at him, "Nii-san, being likened by someone like grandpa is a curse. Even your father scared of him. Just go away and reform yourself. Maybe then you can be as popular as Shirou-senpai."
Shinji stares at her. His face loses expression; only confusion lingers.
Slowly, he disappears off from the room.
KRRRRRRR….
"Senpai, what's that sound?"
Ah…
"I forgot to tell you this," her senior turns around, facing her with the stone in his hand, "when a Treasure is being taken away from its place and the ruler of the Palace is gone, this place is going to collapse soon."
"Wha- we need to get out of here then!"
"You do realize there is a huge window we can use, right?"
"But this is the second floor…"
PRANG!
Ignoring her words, Joker simply smashes himself out from the window and even forcing Viper to join her as well, as they both reaches the outside quite easily, seeing how their legs are still fine.
The Metaverse for them is probably what Earth is for Kryptonite, minus the flying and the super power…
The two now turns to see the house crumbles into nothingness, and back they are to the outside world, looking at their school, standing still with nothing changes.
Seeing this reminds him that he needs to have a Mona-car of his own in this world.
The sole male in there turns around, speaking up to her as he asks her, "Does your brother even know what a Mystic Code is? That Treasure is definitely one."
"I don't think he knows what a magecraft really is. My grandfather is not too bothered to teach him and he has nobody else to do so."
"I bet he didn't even know what a mana transfer is."
The sole female there is now staring him, "Senpai, I didn't know what that is too…"
Owh…
…
Well, this is awkward…
Akira quickly looks down, seeing something in his hand, "Hey, look, the Treasure has turned into a book."
"That's…"
"You know what this is?"
She explains, "That is the Book of False Attendant. That Lancer… I summoned that Lancer before but one of my Command Seals is residing in that book so that my brother can become a Master like he wants to. Isn't the Treasure a stone before?"
It's his turn to explain, "A Treasure takes a form of something that makes them what they are, but it can also be affected by the cognition of the ruler. Magical circuit is what makes a magus, essentially. Maybe for him, having a book that controls a Servant makes him a magus."
"I see," she looks down at the book, before startled at something, "Wait, how did we get this book, then? My brother must have been at home or somewhere else."
"This is just a copy of an original," he passes the book toward her, "It's an exact copy, through and through."
"What are you going to do with this now?"
"Maybe I should destroy this thing? It has no use for me."
"You don't want to have your Servant back?"
"I don't want to join the war."
A voice suddenly interrupting them, bringing them to an attention of someone familiar to him.
Ruler, in her Servant's outfit, is now standing before them, looking directly at him, "Servant Fool, I wish to speak to you regarding your role in the Holy Grail War."
Xxxxxxxxxxx
Curses…
Losing his source of energy, Zouken thought it would be a good idea to use Shinji's body temporarily while he either finds her or a new, suitable source.
This boy's body isn't very good. He has no talent of being a magus but he is of no use to a man like Zouken.
But then, something feels not right about this kid's body.
He feels an overwhelming amount of energy that fully rejects him off from the host.
That strange magecraft… it felt the same as what pulls him off from Sakura.
This cannot be. He must go and find other host.
Zouken struggles to even move in that form. He slowly loses controls of his familiar, and now he is but a single worm, flying around, looking for whoever is still around this evening.
Quickly, he found Sakura, walking toward a direction along with a black-haired boy and a blonde girl.
That boy… he must be Akira Kurusu…
He can feel something strange about this boy. This kid… must be an exceptional magus.
He should have his body… yes, that should be it.
This can be Sakura's punishment for rejecting him. She should know not to cross him.
PIUU!
!
The worm falls off onto the ground, hurting and bleeding as Zouken is now feeling confused with what just happened.
Did he just get shot with a gun?
A voice is heard looming toward him, "Zouken Matou, you have been recognized by my master as a threat to his plan. As a Godslayer, it is my duty to dispose of any threat against him."
PIUUU!
Xxxxxxxxxxxx
"I… I have a confession to make…"
It is supposed to be a normal school assembly, but someone had the nerve to stand before the teacher, facing the students in the middle of the day.
"Everyone… I hated most of you… You guys were just losers to me… you guys… I felt that none of deserve to even get close to me…"
He suddenly kneels down, "I am the worst person… I… I raped my sister every night… I blackmailed her and do such… such crime just to vent my anger…"
"YOU WHAT!?"
Rin's voice is heard screaming, now pulling herself out from the crowd as she glares straight to him.
That day, a male student is arrested for sexual assault and a female student is arrested for attempted murder…
Sorry, guys.
FSN Shinji is one character that the only people that likes him or even able to tolerate his actions. He barely has any redeeming quality and there is also the fact that he is not well develop for a villain. He basically has nothing that could make him a better person or a dangerous antagonist.
Instead they (TypeMoon) settled him as a loud, obnoxious asshole (Fate and UBW) or a rapist dead while having sex (HF).
Heck, even his Extra version is developed more than him. In fact, Unarmed Shinji-kun is a better character (see if anybody get this reference).
Count that all up, and his Palace is there because his lust way too strong and there's literally nothing in there.
Thus why, this is how his Palace ends.
Next: Ruler demands Akira to be fully involved in the war as the Red Team is now gathering in Fuyuki, ready for a fight. At least one Servant from each team is going to fight.