A/N: This chapter was finished faster than I thought.

Chapter 2: Preparation for war

Waver velvet was having a tough time with his servant. Not only was he summon a witch in a rider class instead of caster. Rider is also having a little bit of stealing tendency. Every time they pass a library, Rider will ask him if she could go in there and came back with a lot of books. When he asks "What are you doing in there? Rider." She replied with "Borrowing a book, ze!" But he knows that she didn't "Borrow" because there is no registration of borrowed book anywhere inside.

Rider said that she needs as much book as she wants because, to win this game she needs to have a knowledge of an outside world as much as possible. If the book she has is about geography or any real-life knowledge that is, but all he sees was a massive ton of fantasy and sci-fi book. In fact, as of this moment, they already return to his temporary house and laze around doing nothing except reading and watch TV.

At first, he was skeptical of his servant, but now he was sure that this servant is the most useless person he ever comes across, she can't even clean her shit right. Immediately after she's done with one book, she moves on to another without a care in the world. This irritated him to no end.

"Rider! When will you start to clean your shit! I have to work off my ass just to clean the mess you made, and we still haven't fight anyone yet! I thought that we need to win the war!"

"Oh, stop being an ass about it. I know what I'm doing, ze. I'm just waiting for a right time, ze."

"Rider, do you have a plan in mind?"

"Let's see here, I admit that my ability as a rider is pretty good, ze. But I don't know what power our opponent has or what they had in store. Going out there and showing off my ability too fast would be suicide for me, so I let them assume all they want about my ability, ze!"

That's true, other masters should have no idea what rider can do yet, and neither does he. Since the start of the war, Rider hasn't shown him any kind of supernatural ability as a servant yet. What she does show him are all the actions that human being could do. So, this is why she keeps quiet about it.

"There is another thing I'm curious about though Rider, what is your wish for the holy grail."

"Why do you ask?"

"Well, I don't think I have that many ambition or ideas about what I should do if I end up winning. My only goal right now was to get my recognition from the magic community. They think that I am weak, I am just a nobody without talent. But I hope to prove them wrong by bringing the grail back with me. I hope that you could give me any ideas."

"Hm, it's not like I don't understand you, ze. I do, I really do. You know, when I was starting practiced magic, nobody ever actually has any kind of hope for me. They say that a human should never act like one of those monsters and should live my life as a human, even my father. But that beside the point, what I want to tell you is never give up in magic, ze. You should be able to reach your goal eventually."

Waver feels somewhat glad that there is someone in this world who honestly gave him advice instead of "you should give up and accept who you are" without any kind of encouragement. He keeps getting a laugh from his fellow classmates as much as it is, he will keep getting ridicule every day if he does not change. Even if his servant word was only just a simple word of encouragement to move forward, that was enough for him to know that there is someone who believes in him.

"Thank you, rider."

"No problem, ze!" a grin appears on her lip and suddenly dies down "But you did ask me about my wish correct?" He nodded, and she continues "Hm…I don't know if this is going to be understandable to you but what I want is getting back to being human, ze. Living my life as an everyday people, having a friend, go drinking, that kind of stuff, ze. I have no other things I want."

"You only want to live as a human?"

"Well, that's one wish, ze. But my other wish has no way to make it possible without killing a lot of people in the process, ze. Even if I want that wish to come true as much as it is. I can't live with myself knowing that I fucked up the entire world over you know? Ze."

Even Waver himself who is a Magus doesn't think that he has enough what it takes to screw the entire world to get what he wants. Also if that action brings the world a positive consequence in the long run. He doesn't think he can sleep every night without having a nightmare. That only serves to solidifies the fact that he genuinely has no magus mentality in himself, he was something else that exists between both magus and human. But then…

*Smack

Rider suddenly slams her book shut which scares the hell out of Waver.

"Man, that book was so great, ze! Hey, Waver, do you know anywhere else I can borrow a book?"

Oh boy, this is going to be another long day isn't it, sighed Waver.

…..

Fill, fill, fill'er up, fill…

"Repeat four times, wait, was it five times? Um… destroy each when filled, is it?"

Fill, one. Fill, two. Fill, three. Fill, four. Fill, five.

"Alright! That makes it five times. Okay!"

Ryuunosuke Uryuu was a very busy man. Today was like the typical day for him. Go to work and stay with his customer to discuss business with him. But this time, he also brought his book left from his family to read for his client too. If they are listening, that is.

"…At all tree murder scenes, a mysterious pentagram drawn with the victims 'blood was found."

"Maybe I went a little too far…"

*TRUCK

As he said that, there was a sound of something hit the floor. It was one of his customers that require his service today. Too bad, they didn't survive.

Behind the crouch, however, was a little kid. Look to be no older than ten years old. Have his hand tied and mouth covered to prevent his escaping. It was Ryunnosuke's greatest pleasure to watch him twist with every move he takes.

"Hey kiddo, do you believe in the demon? Newspaper, TV, Radio, they all say that I am a demon. But, if a demon is real, wouldn't it be a huge insult to them?"

He saw fears start to be brimming up inside a kid eyes at every word he spoke. For Ryunnosuke, this was like a play to him. He was an actor waiting to be watched by the viewer, they gave him a reaction, and he tries to please them as much as he can.

"Hey, if a demon did appear, would you die for me?"

Then he feels an intense pain brew up in his right hand, it seems to be a mark of some kind. A tattoo maybe? What got his attention the most was the smoke that fills up the entire room, however.

Did he really summon a demon? That's so cool.

What behind the smoke screen, is a woman look to be very weak and frail. She has a purple hair with pink pajamas as her choice of cloth. Her purple eyes dart around the room looking at his art. She must be fascinated by his work!

"Might you be my master perhaps? You got quite a "Hobby" there."

"Um, nice to meet you. My name is Ryunnosuke. My hobby is killing, especially a little kid!" he announces proudly.

"Never mind that though, I have a snack for you! Would you like to eat this?" Her eyes dart to his sides and look down at a helpless body of a little boy.

"It's not like I like killing children you know? But I guess this is a necessary step for me to win this war."

She walks step by step to stand before a child's eyes. In his point of view, what he saw was not a terrifying demon, but a gorgeous woman stands before him. But that soon turns into fear.

"I'm sorry, but I had to do this."

Suddenly, the boy body jerk back as he feels a cold soft hand inside his body.

"Ugrwwwwwwwwwwww!"

"It would only hurt just a little bit, but it will calm down soon enough."

The boy body suddenly blows itself up into a particle of light. Every spectacle of blood and organ turn itself into a pure element. Including his blood from a floor, all disappear into nothingness and flow into caster body.

"What did you do?"

"You see, every living being in this world is made up from every kind of elements. One basic thing about elemental magic is that you need a source to use that element efficiently. This kid aptitude appears to be an earth element, so now I can use earth magic effectively."

"Wow, so what you're saying is that you can clean up my arts after I'm done with them. That's so cool!"

"It's not that cool actually, this the most basic of basics that I can do. I still have tons of trick that I could offer you, master."

"Wooo! I will follow you then! Please show me more! I don't care about what you're here to do. But let me follow you!"

"Alright, master. But first, I think we should get out of here before the polices come. Here, follow me."

She waved her hand, and a portal door to another realm was open before Ryunnosuke eyes. What he witnesses was something out of this world. He couldn't even believe something like that could have existed even if he was summoning a demon herself.

"Welcome to my great unmoving library, master."

…..

Kayneth was not pleased, to say the least. To think that his supposed servant was stolen by his own student and was used in war as his own. He will not accept this, he already came this far, and he will not back down from a single nuisance like him.

He was hoping that he could still get a servant with significant power despite having no catalyze right now. But that hope is diminishing every second as he waits for smoke to clear above the summoning sign.

A woman appears to be no older than her 20s was walking out when the smoke clears just as natural as the flow of water. She has a red hair, wears some kind of eastern cloth and hangs a scythe on her shoulder.

"Hm hm hm. Is this guy my master then? Wow, I can't say I'm impressed."

If Kayneth had any doubt before, it turns into a spiral toward hell. What did he just summon, and her personality is unbelievable. Was she insulting him in their first meeting? How insolent!

"Shut up! You are my servant, and you need to listen to me as your master."

"Yeah yeah, regulation and all that stuff, servant Lancer at your service."

"Well lancer, if you want to win this war, you need to follow my every command. Do you understand."

"What? If I don't do as you say, will you use that command seal to order me around? Nah, I don't think you be that stupid to use it on me every time you know?"

If he wasn't angry before, he was pissed now. How dare this servant talk back to him like that. His hand was slowly rising, and a bright red light covered the rune in his arm.

"Lancer! You will learn of your insolent and respect me. I order you t-"

"You can stop right there, Kayneth. Lancer, you too, stop teasing him."

"Aw man~ Did you see a look on his face? That was kinda funny."

A woman beside him was Sola-Ui, his soon to be wife. She was one person that Kayneth hold dear to his heart the most beside practicing magecraft. When he heard her voice, it calms him down to a point where he put down his hand and take a deep breath.

"Lancer, Prepare yourself. We will go out in a few minutes."

"Alright, but let me do my own thing, okay?"

"No"

"Father, all servant has already been summoned."

"That's good, now we can actually begin the holy grail war! We should execute our plan too, Kirei."

"Yes, father."

Chapter 2 end