The Babysitter of Heroes

by Laurence Wu

Benjamin is your average college student, he lived a simple life. But when he move to his grandpa's house, find golden cup which appears a Holy Grail that summons several servants in flesh and blood. He must not only deal with servants moving into his house but stop them from killing each other and cause chaos in the city. He did not sign up to be a caretaker for the Heroes AU 2005

18. Chapter 18

A/N: Hi People I am back to give you another updated chapter (12,287) and sorry that it take so long to post this when you had everyday life problems. Wow, I did not expect there would be a lot of reviews from the last chapter like 24 of them even half of it would are just questions, suggestions or ideas for me to answer to it. Which it is to go to be hard for reply back without make me look stupid in front of you but I would try to answer all of it.

Time to answer some of your questions.

Jennifer9612: I make Gilgamesh as an adult first but when he felt bored he would drink his Elixir of Youth to look around in the modern society without causing a problem. When he reverts back to the adult form he´s still arrogant, but he's a lot nicer than before which his personality would like in Fate/Extra CCC that is more stable and closer to how it was during life. Also with learning that is his best friend, Enkidu was summoned too, his personality has become more stable.

Feriyen: The command seals would be answered in the next chapter which it is going to be the main plot to the story real soon.(Hint: His sister would get lot of commands seals on her body which it would be mind blown by the Fate series main characters.)

Mongrel Alter: The Berserker class would only go out of control if they have another target that they wish to attack or in a battlefield that would take too long would make them go out of control for a while so wait for them to claim down. But at the same time, they are more mechanical Servant and the lack of complex rational thinking keeps them from being able to follow more than simple directions which it is fine by the way but it is also a double-edged sword for an example.

1: Sir Lancelot would follow Benjamin or his sister's general orders of targeting someone or something (why? his Alignment is Lawful Mad) but if he lays his eyes on Artoria or servants that look like her (such as Joan or one of those Saberclones servants ) in combat. He would target her or servants that look like her. But if he sees Mordred, he would try to kill her with a lot more rage at her then his king because he wants to pay his own sin by killing her first as she was the reason Camelot fell to ruin which can you blame him.

2: Lu Bu would follow Benjamin or his sister's general orders but listen to his sister more often because She looks cute enough to remind him of Diao Chan/his daughter and his unnamed wife which it is the only way to stop him from betraying her, and also Berserker Lu Bu is one step short of a machine so he is going to do whatever she want to do.

Catacus: Yes you are awesome too, here is an another awesome chapter for you to reading in your spare time.

MaxHd2490:I want to wait for that Fate/Extella to be released soon so that I can give more background to her in the dream scene but I would summon her anyway without it.

King of powers:Yeah, I know right, I don't know any characters who can survival a Berserker's punch which possesses power proportionate to an A-rank attack, even without being activated as a Noble Phantasm. Jekyll would be summoned both Assassin and Berserker class as a Double Summon skill. I would also modify some of the servant's stats, add Class skills or give them a Noble Phantasm that couldn't be used in their current Servant classes. For an example

1: Give Mordred a Mad Enhancement rank D which increasing her parameters a little bit and becomes a little bloodlust in her Saber class stats because she said that she is more suitable as Berserker class basically a Saber's stats in a Berserker Class.

2 Give Lu Bu his own horse Red Hare why? He feels very under power without it and that he feels like a punchbag, so make him more useful.

I think only Shirou can survival a punch from it but that because he has the Avalon inside of his body. Also, because Shirou doesn't have it in this story now, he would have to learn other stuff to make himself more useful like runes, alchemy, material transmutation which is the basis, formalecraft, witchcraft, bounded fields, non-elemental magecraft, reinforcement, alteration, structural grasp, mystic code and familiar creation. Because many fanfics keeping thinking that Shirou can only do projection and reinforcement so you see him use those stuff

Mythfan: Here is some action here in this updated chapter

ELLA: Why are you thanks me for?

Pullman: In this new Chapter I show Benjamin that he is perturbed and unsettle to his situation because he is frightened of any Magi to come after him which they are all ruthless monster that would kill him without a care in the world. The problem for Benjamin is that he is completely powerless and helpless (Heck, even Shirou when he first entered was not that helpless even if he is a third-rate Magus). I hope you see him as a more rounded individual now, And one more thing is I am not trying to turn him as a protagonist with special hidden powers backstory like all other fanfics and lot of anime or manga which many of them are a completely unoriginal series that taking every cliches you've seen a HUNDRED times, which can be found in many other shows, and in almost every case. So, Benjamin is a person who had been living a normal life up until this batshit happen now and he is not Special at all.

For the Guest reviews, your answers are at the bottom of the chapter.

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Two men stood in the darkness of an alley, looking out at the crowded streets. The artificial lights of the city were not enough to illuminate the narrow space between the building, making it the perfect place to observe without being seen.

With one of them leaning his back against the concrete walls, he looked around to see if anyone was following him and his partner, there was no one there. While the other was observing the rich soil of ley lines on the ground.

"That is the fifth ley-line we have had to search in two days. This is starting to get on my nerves!" the first man grumbled as he rubbed his hair annoyed. "How come the Holy Grail has not been found yet?"

"Can you be quiet, or do you want to attract unwanted attention?" the other man, who was Magus, replied calmly. "Just set up the boundary field before someone notices it instead of complaining about this."

Those men were Magi from the Magus Association. Not long after the museum incident, Barthomeloi Lorelei sent a handful of Magi and Enforcers to investigate where the Holy Grail was located and in what cities. Although they had no evidence as to where it could be, the parties knew that the incident had caused governments to be on high alert and increased the number of law enforcements within the nearby cities, to keep eyes on any possible terrorist attacks and improve the security of each one. The Magus Association couldn't afford to be seen by the Government's law enforcements, so each small party was in groups of two with one Magi and one Enforcer.

The first man who was an Enforcer began to work on the boundary field which concealed and prevented normal people from coming into contact with them. Any normal person approaching it would automatically go around it and find a different route entirely.

"Do we, at least, know where it could possibly be?" asked the Enforcer.

All they knew, for now, was that at any time what appeared to be a sign of the Holy Grail appeared at random throughout the cities and the surrounding area. And then when they got here at that location, there was no more sign of it and appeared somewhere else, giving false hope that it was there. It not only remains hidden but gains sentience after lying, what? so many months with the ability to control the ley lines across the region.

"No, not yet. There is a separate team currently conducting an in-depth investigation and I think it would actually be there. Our task is to keep these those ley lines hidden and to look for the actual location," replied the Magi, who tested the bountiful soil.

"These marks of the Holy Grail were lucky enough that they were not difficult for us to find when we are close to it, but it's tiring to keep patrolling around cities. Those signals are so goddamn random," the Enforcer said while he was putting on the boundary field. "Do you remember that one signal that was in the sewers?" he shuddered at that when he and his partner had to walk across the muddy water full of...things... that is best to leave it to your imagination. "That was truly a revolting experience of swimming in water and I kept thinking that the Holy Grail was messing with us."

"Yeah, apparently not all of them are random. One of them was near a police station and the other was near a park, it's like a pattern for each one. And the other team found a signal underneath a zoo, which that place was more stable," the Magi replied as he examined the soil.

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"Hey, are we done with the boundary field? Because you are awfully quiet back there," the Magi said as he turned around and noticed his partner was leaning against the concrete walls with his back faced towards him.

"Hey, are you smoking again? You do know I hate when you smoke around with me," the Magi said in an irate voice as he stood up and placed his hand on his partner's shoulder. He turned his shoulder to only see a long arrow stuck in his partner's throat that had punctured into the concrete walls.

"What the fuck!" the Magi shouted as he stepped back away and searched around the alley for any sign of an enemy.

He prepared to cast his spell and bring his weapon out of pocket, looking back and forth. "Where the hell are you?" he asked as he stopped to turn around to see the arrow a bit closer. The arrow instantly brought him fear when he realized that the arrow carried a strange energy inside it.

"Wait, this arrow...I recognize this energy," the Magi's eyes opened wide in terror as he saw that he was doomed from the very beginning. "This is-" shnnk And another arrow came right between his eyes that caused him to slump to the ground. The last thing he saw was a shadowy figure holding a strangely shaped bow.

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Chiron watched as his target collapsed to the ground. "Kill confirmed," he thought as he put his bow away onto his back.

He noticed Atalanta, who had hopped on top of the building where he was standing on.

"So, how many patrols did you kill?" Chiron asked as he surveyed the city

"Four kills," Atalanta replied as she stared down at the deceased corpses that were in the alley.

Chiron smiled at that number, "I got eight kills." Atalanta arched her eyebrows, looking angered. As soon as she was summoned into this world for the second time, that Archer of Black who she knew as Chiron. The one who taught Rider of Red (Achilles) was the same person who she fought against in the Great Holy Grail War, the one who possesses the same level of skill as her who she had never felt so humiliated being challenged by him.

Due to the Great Holy Grail War, her shot had always been knocked aside by him in the early battle so much that she now has an obsession to participate with him in everything to determine which of them was superior at bow and arrows.

"The enemies are already here on the soil. We killed most of them for now but more will come. We should warn our master about this," Chiron said, narrowing his eyes. "We should not let them get a foothold in this region."

Atalanta nodded her head as she knew that the enemies were making small camps here and there. Most of them were killed by her arrow that was painted black, the better to erase all chances of detection in a night battle. Not to mention that it traveled faster than sound. It only takes an instant for her to see the arrow coming out of her prey's chest, and it would all be over very soon.

Shouldering her bow, she turned around and dashed back to Benjamin's house with Chiron following behind her, leaving the dead corpse in the alley to be found by normal people and let the policemen figure out the crime scene to find out what was going here.

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Benjamin was in the kitchen and dining room, cooking food for dinner. He was using a large pan full of spiced and peppery tangy orange chicken, fresh steam that carried a delicious scent. Then, he dribbled the chicken with soy sauce, bouncing it around the pan and pouring it down to a plate. Next, he switched to the next pan that contained fried rice with bits of salt pork, corn, spice and shrimp. He turned the fried rice over one more time to let it cook completely. Benjamin squeezed lemon juice over the fried rice to give it a touch of acidic flavor.

He poured the fried rice into a bowl and went to the last pan, which was filled with bits of teriyaki chicken that were deep-frying inside. He poured some oyster sauce into it, letting it wait for a bit longer.

"Boss! When will the food be ready?" shouted Sakata Kintoki as he slammed the dining table. "Aaah, I'm GOLDEN hungry!"

"It's almost done, just wait for a minute or two!" Benjamin barked as he checked the comforting sound of the sizzling chicken. Upon checking that it was good to eat and ready to go, Benjamin carried three plates full of chicken and fried rice and walked to the dining table. He started dishing out the dishes of food to everyone who had taken a seat. Well, if you don't consider the fact that Lu Bu was too big to sit down in a chair, which would be broken into pieces, so he had to sit on the floor. He was still tall even when he was kneeled down.

Saint George and Ozymandias sat on opposite sides of the dining table. Alice, Sakata, and Enkidu were sitting in the middle of the table while Lu Bu was on the other side, waiting for the meals.

While Alice, Sakata, and Enkidu had happy faces, Saint George, and Ozymandias's faces were as cold and stoic as ever to each other. Lu Bu's face was still the same as always that emotionless white blank plain eyes.

"Well, here you go guy," Benjamin said as he took a seat. "Eat it up, ladies and gentlemen."

The Servants took a couple of the foods and took a bite. Their reactions and faces were impressed by the taste of Benjamin's food.

"This is incredible, Benjamin," Saint George noted, although he didn't take much of the food.

"I admit, this is quite good," Ozymandias said as he took a bite of the fried rice and sipped wine from one of Benjamin's glasses.

"This food is gold and you, boss, are golden too," Sakata Kintoki yelled as he spooned a large stack of the fried rice into his mouth and grabbed the orange chicken with his big hand and threw it into his mouth too.

"This is delicious, Master!" Alice shouted in a happy voice. "Alice would love to have tea with it."

Lu Bu gave an approving grunt to Benjamin, who was not sure what Lu Bu was thinking right now but he hoped that the food he made was good enough for him because Lu Bu just poured his bowl into his mouth without even chewing the fried rice.

"You have wonderful cooking skills, Benjamin," Enkidu pointed out as he slowly took a bite for each one. "You should become a cook in your future."

"Thanks, but to be honest, I don't have any idea of what I want to do with my life when I graduate from college," Benjamin said honestly. "And I can't seem to find a dream to pursue."

"Everyone has a dream Benjamin, but some of them will find their own dreams later and others will find theirs sooner," Enkidu added. "And you, Benjamin, are at the point of adulthood when you need to find a goal in your life now."

Benjamin smiled, secretly somewhat uncomfortable with the topic, "Say, about that, what are your dreams, all of you?" Benjamin asked as he stared at all his Servants.

Saint George returned with a smile, "My Dream is to save the world. I would die happy if I were to witness a time when people could finally stop fighting each other in favor of friendship and love." He then sighed, "I know that it is an unattainable goal, but I am sure that one day such it would be near to what I dream of, by God's will." Benjamin nodded in agreement at that dream.

"Alice's wish is to play with others and be a real girl to play with her Master forever and forever," Alice said with a happy voice. "Master, you are a very special one."

"World Conqueror, that is my dream plebeian," Ozymandias said as he drank from his wine glass. "This world is divided, fragmented and disordered and so it is my Divine right to bring order to this world from its current state." Benjamin could see that Saint George was angrily staring at Ozymandias but did not say anything.

"Would there be gold?" Sakata Kintoki asked. "And can I get gold for it." Ozymandias nodded. "Sweet! Hey Master, can you get me a golden retriever?"

"Nope, I would not give you a golden retriever just because you asked," Benjamin said annoyed. "Do you want to know how much a golden retriever costs in real life? What is your real wish?"

That is when Sakata Kintoki's face got really mopey and he put his face down on the table. This made Benjamin feel very worried that he said something wrong. "You do not need to say what your wish is, Sakata. We can just skip it."

"It is ok, Boss. I really do not want to keep this secret." Sakata Kintoki said with a happy but sad face. "My wish is the revival of Shuten-douji."

Benjamin remembered that Shuten-douji was one of Japan's Three Great Monsters who, along with the white-faced golden-furred nine-tailed fox Tamamo-no-mae, and Emperor Sutoku, who became an onryō (vengeful spirit) as a result of resentment, are called one of the Three Great Evil Yokai who bring terror and fear across Japan.

"You want the Holy Grail to revive Shuten-douji for you?" Benjamin asked Sakata Kintoki.

"Yes. Not to fight her, but just simply to meet her once more," Sakata Kintoki said sadly.

"Alright, we will find a way to revive her with the Holy Grail," said Benjamin who tried to give him a little hope. "If the Holy Grail is an omnipotent wish-granter, then wishing for Shuten-douji's revival is entirely possible, right?

Benjamin's words cheered Sakata Kintoki up and gave him hope and courage of seeing her again. "Thanks, Boss, and no worries about me, you've got me on your side, remember?"

"Thank you for that," Benjamin said as he turned his head toward Enkidu. "So, what's your wish Enkidu?"

"I didn't come here just to fight for myself, but for my king and my friend," Enkidu replied simply. "All of the world treasures belong to him, and this Holy Grail seems to be of value to him, so I will wait for him to be summoned to this world and give it to him."

"So Loyalty and duty are what caused you to be summoned here in this world," Ozymandias said as he grinned.

"Yes, loyalty and friendship," Enkidu rebuffed with a smile. "I hope that when my dear friend is summoned, I can welcome him back and hope that the Holy Grail would make a satisfactory gift for him. And I also hope that if I am to find anything else in this world to be added to his vast collection, I make sure I do so."

"So I see," Ozymandias nodded and smiled. "I really do hope you and your friend will get a chance to duel with me in the future."

"I look forward to it," Enkidu smiled at Ozymandias.

Benjamin felt his stomach drop at the Enkidu's words, "I am not looking forward to seeing that battle anywhere near to my house or the cities," he mused to himself. "I hope that Gilgamesh is not summoned to this world shortly."

Benjamin then shifted towards Lu Bu and asked the same question, "So Lu Bu, what's your wish?"

"▂▂▃▃▄▄▅▅!" Lu Bu roared at Benjamin, which caused his hair to blow wildly from his loud voice.

"Oh ok then I think from the way his Personality is like in his lifetime, I would guess that he wants to conquer the world with the power of the Holy Grail or be the greatest warrior who ever lived on this Earth and under this Heaven and to create a proper ending to the legend of his life," Benjamin thought to himself.

"Benjamin!" a loud female voice yelled while banging on the doors of his home, which immediately caused Benjamin to realize who she was. "Shit, she is already here," he thought as he stood up from his chair.

"Is that your sister?" Enkidu asked.

"Yes, it is my big sister Flanna and she is from the army," Benjamin answered the question. "I forget to tell you guys about her and that she would be here soon, so she is outside right now."

"Benjamin! I heard some disturbances inside!?" the woman pounded on the door harder. "Are you okay inside!?"

"Yes! I am fine and I am coming!" Benjamin yelled back and turned back to his servants, "Just make sure you do not do anything stupid in front of her."

"Don't worry Benjamin," Saint George said. "I am sure that your sister can handle what is going on here."

"I hope so," Benjamin said as he left the dining room and walked up to the door, slowly turning the doorknob open to Flanna, who was wearing a desert battle dress uniform military uniform. Her hair color is maroon, which ends at the waist but is in a ponytail and braided. Her eye color is dark red. She has light brown skin and a toned and fit body. She held her military bag over her shoulder and was staring at Benjamin with a stoic face before smiling at him.

"Benjamin," Flanna embraced Benjamin in which he welcomed her back. "It's good to see you, my little brother," she said happily. "Do you know how much I missed you when I was in the army?"

"Yeah, I miss you too Flanna," Benjamin beamed. "Well, not really if you want to know, but hey it's good to see you."

"Oh, really Benjamin?" Flanna said as she gave him a deadlock around his head. "How about now?" she smirked evilly.

"Ahh," Benjamin grumbled in misery. "Ok ok I really missed you. Let me go!" He struggled to breathe as his face turned white from being without air. "I need oxygen."

"This is actually what I want to hear from you," Flanna smiled as she released him and he was starting to retrieve his actual color with a cough. "Now, Benjamin I want to ask you something," she said with a stoic voice. "What was that baritone roar? It sounded like a human beast or something. And also, why are there two horses outside eating grass in front of the yard and an Egyptian ship parked right next to the house?"

This caused Benjamin to break out in a cold sweat as she glared firmly at him. "Please don't lie to me at all because I know when you are lying to me," she said in a dangerously neutral tone.

"Ok, this is it, there is no turning back now," Benjamin said to himself. "Let's hope she can take it easily, about all the magic and servants and stuff."

"Alright, but please don't freak out about what I am going to show you," Benjamin scratched his head as he led his big sister to the kitchen and dining room where the servants were.

That's when Flanna showed some reaction to her face-confusion, astonishment and uneasiness at each one but was more suspicious of Lu Bu whose aura was fierce. She was just staring at Ozymandias, who emanated majesty of a golden king.

"Benjamin, who are these people and what are they doing in your house?" Flanna questioned him while being cautious of Lu Bu, who was watching her with his emotionless white, blank, plain eyes. "In fact, who are they?" she asked with an uncomfortability at their mysterious radiance that made her recoil from being near to them.

"Um... let's see," he tried to explain to her. "Where do I start?"

She sighed deeply, "Just explain from the beginning to the end."

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Meanwhile, Chiron and Atalanta were crossing over buildings and rooftops to return back to Benjamin's house with their quickness. That's when Atalanta halted and stared at the nearby forest with her narrow cold, sharp eyes.

"What is it, Atalanta?" Chiron asked as he stopped running too and looked at what she was staring at. "You sense something over there? Is it the enemy?"

"It is," Atalanta said as she pointed and Chiron followed where she was pointing. What stood before them was a group of Magus which are nine of them is preparing the summoning ritual which was hardly standing in the middle of a clear, open field. Night had fallen and the trees surrounding them were dense and thick. In the ritual were a Viking's helmet, a golden laurel wreath, and a piece of armor with dried blood.

Most of them were standing by the summoning ritual preparing it and talking to each other. One of the magus was walking with a small gathering of people and children, which included the oldest ones looking like they were just primary school students. All of them were bound with rope and some were chained together. All of them wobbled as they walked like they were sleep-walking while the magus walked at the front leading them. Undoubtedly, the small crowd was controlled by the mental interference of magecraft.

"Hostages… right?" Atalanta muttered as she narrowed her eyes in anger.

"Definitely so," Chiron answered her, "But more like human sacrifices for the summoning ritual."

Atalanta and Chiron exchanged glances, their disquiet characteristics similar to those who had just witnessed something highly unpleasant. They sneaked close to the area and quickly crept on top of a tree like hunters creeping on a pack of deer. From such a distance - even if said watcher could see in the dark - Archers must have been nothing more than a moving dot to them.

A magus marched toward the one who was leading the crowd of normal people. "Can you tell me again why we need them for the summoning?"

The man sighed in annoyance at the stupid question again, "I'm going to say this one more time and I will never say it again, got it?" He sighed one more time and then explained, "One of the berserker servant's Noble Phantasms requires human blood to provide itself and it needs large amounts of blood produced. So going continues to survive by sipping the blood of a human being."

"Are you crazy sir? Do you know how many people are going to find out that an entire group of residents is going to be missing out of nowhere in the city?" shouted the magus, much to his fury. All the magi were responsible for guarding magecraft. Nobody would expose magecraft to the common people; everyone researched their magecraft underground. Those who failed to guard this secret would be put to death promptly by the Association. As long as something is related to the secrecy of magecraft, the Magus Association was firm and thorough in managing it. That was why this matter always made the magi's blood run cold.

In return, the man waved his hand as he always knew that rule. "Calm down, the operations were carried out smoothly. We cleaned and tidied up each of the private places, so I cleared the traces I left behind at each of the scenes," he said without any concern. This was something without blame. Magi themselves are already existences beyond common rules. They can ignore morality and usual perception of right and wrong. If they have to sacrifice innocent people, as long as it is covertly and secretly done, silent approval is given.

But this reckless act from Atalanta's perspective is never allowed. Her blood was boiling; the evils from this devil that are about to begin at any time made Atalanta furious. But what's pushing Atalanta forward at the moment wasn't her furious mood. Anger and hatred alone would not be able to turn Atalanta's heart into a sharp arrow. Those slaughtered children and using them as sacrifices made her cross the line. She reached for her bow and pulled an arrow back to its limit, and aimed it right at that man.

"Chiron, receive the catalysts and rescue the captives," Atalanta said as she prepared to release her arrow at him. "And I will abolish them all."

"Done," Chiron stated as he moved to a nearby shrub. "Ready when you are."

Atalanta let the arrow loose and watched it fly. In the blink of an eye, an unseen arrow, flying faster than the speed of sound, impacted directly onto the man's chest. The man flew backward, head over heels, and crashed into a tree. "Uu...?!" The bolt shattered the man's rib cage with the gore flying around in different directions.

"What the?!"

"It's the enemy's servant!"

"Where did that shot come from!?"

"It's an Archer-class servant! He is covered in the forest!"

"Where is he? I can't see anything, it's too dark outside!"

As all of the Magus searched around the forest to find where the location of the projectile came from. Chiron appeared out from behind the shrub and punched the magus's skull, which fragmented the bones to pieces from the inside of his head, sending him flying towards a tree.

"There he is!" shouted one of them. "He is right behind us."

A magus suddenly appeared beside Chiron and tried to slash him with one of his reinforcement swords. He blocked the attack with his fist and used his other hand to stroke the sword, which split it into pieces. Chiron swiftly grabbed the other sword from him and slashed the magus's chest, stabbing him through the heart, which killed him instantly and he fell to the soil.

Chiron quickly dashed to a nearby magus and shoved his sword right through the magus's chest. As he took the sword out the chest, he sliced another magus in half from the head and to the bottom.

The remain four of the magus were about to cast their magecraft at him until three arrows hit each one of them in the back and they all dropped to the ground. The last one panicked and tried to flee. That was when Chiron, with his marksman's eyes aim and sight, threw the sword at him and it shoved through his chest, killing him instantly.

The battle was over (if you even call that a fight. It was more like a curb stomp battle with blood and gore all over the place.)

The captives who were obediently following the magus's back opened up their eyes as if they were waking up from a dream. They looked about themselves helplessly, as if they couldn't figure out where they were. Then they let out a harrowing scream at the bodies of the magus and gore all over the place, as those nightmarish scenes were already engraved into everyone's mind.

Atalanta came out of her hiding spot and cut the binds off the children. Some of them clasped onto her shin guard and she rubbed their heads affectionately, which seemed to calm them down. The adults looked around to figure out how they got here and some of them held their head in pain by the mental interference of magecraft.

Chiron walked up to the summoning ritual and gathered up the catalysts.

As he walked up to the one of the adults, Chiron, whose voice was cool with clean air engulfing them with his existence, asked, "Does anyone have a phone? If you do, call the police."

Some of them pulled their phones out of their pockets or purses and dialed 911.

"Excuse me, sir," a man asked, "But what just happened to us and why are there dead bodies around us?"

Knowing that if he said what really happened here they would panic or not believe it, so he decided to say a half lie about the scene. "You have been kidnapped by a bunch of Satan-worshiping cults who were about to sacrifice all of you to summon a demon." He described to them as the adults were dreadful about what would have happened. "But thankful that we stopped them from doing anything to you."

"Wait, you look familiar," a woman said as she scrutinized him. "Are you from the museum incident that was on TV a few days ago?" The others were now studying him and Atalanta too as they looked somewhat familiar.

Chiron and Atalanta decided to leave very soon, like now. "Unfortunately, we are out of time. Well, it was nice to meet you all," Chiron said as he and Atalanta swiftly jumped away from them and leaped between branches, leaving the adults confused and curious about them.

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Back at the Clock Tower

Shirou, who just came back from Japan, and Rin arrived at the Clock Tower. They had been called to the Clock Tower by Lord El-Melloi II to discuss the recent events in America. Right now, they're waiting at the entrance for their escort, which was pretty strange to have an escort as no one in the Clock Tower would dare to attack a member of the Association as it would be seen as an act of open hostility.

"Your guard is down," a familiar voice called behind Rin, who knew who that person was and how much she hated to see that same person again.

"You wish," Rin said as she blocked an attack from the woman known as Luviagelita Edelfelt who stands at 160 cm, which is about 5.24 feet, and weighs about 49 kg, roughly 108 lbs. Her thin, lithe body is not something to underestimate either. She is capable of physical feats that one would not overall expect. Even though her breasts are of moderate size, she still is more than capable of working on their bouncy form to perform wrestling moves that would cause even the most skilled to cry out in pain. Her figure is something of an hour glass, although most of her assets are found up top.

Luvia herself prides in the beauty of her delicate features above all else, especially her voluptuous curls. Her hair is Golden Blonde in color, dancing around her face in a way that could only be done by something akin to Magecraft. Her fair face is only offset by her sharp Amber eyes that could shoot daggers a mile away at her foes or especially a certain Rival (Rin), that can switch quickly from haughty delight to immediate disdain. She physically resembles Rin somewhat, furthering speculation that the younger Edelfelt sister from the Third Holy Grail War may have married into the Tohsaka family.

She has a certain affinity for the color of blue and dresses in several outfits of blue. Her most common is a beautiful dress that one would only see on a noble of her stature. It is littered with delicate ruffles and a pleated skirt that allows for some fantastic maneuverability. Probably the most important feature of this outfit is its removable sleeves. Her feet are adorned with well-constructed, high-quality white boots which are only matched by the wondrous white colored gloves on her hands. She obviously has a plethora of outfits, but this is the most commonly worn.

"Hey, Luvia. How are you?" Shirou greeted with a warm smile as he claims that he met Luvia when they were both lost in London.

"Oh Shirou, how nice of you to ask. I am doing fine," Luvia replied as she hugged him and kissed on his cheek. Shirou blushed and Rin became furious and tugged Luvia away from Shirou. Even though he was Asian, she was smitten with him at first glance, more than likely partly due to the fact that Rin had him.

"You've gone too far, Luvia," Rin said angrily as Luvia always openly flirts with Shirou, which at one point she and Rin ended up in a scuffle in a self-defense class that destroyed up to eleven. And there was one other incident that occurred between Rin and Luvia, in which they destroyed the classroom of a teacher, and another one when she was allowed the ability to take an entire floor of a dorm for herself as she saw fit, but Rin ruined that for her by also claiming a room on the same floor which caused a fight to break out in which a silent agreement was forged within the Department of Mineralogy of Clock Tower that "Tohsaka and Edelfelt must not attend classes together."

You may think that they fight each other because if their similarities, but that is only half of the reason. The other historical reason was, you see, that during the Third Holy Grail War, the Edelfelts family members and the pair of twin sisters had managed to summon Saber, the most powerful Servant, and due to the power of their Sorcery Trait Ore Scales that give them capacity of effectively having two heirs to succeed their lineage and Thaumaturgical Crest, they were to summon two aspects of the same Heroic Spirit as two Servants.

The twin sisters were together for a time, but due to their bad relationship, the two split ways early into the conflict. In the end, the younger sister was defeated by the Tohsaka's family head of that time while the older sister ran away from the country promising never to come back. These events are the cause of the Edelfelts' prejudice against Japanese people and the Tohsaka family very much, which The Edelfelts had never forgiven them for this humiliation.

"Is that how you are gonna greet me? As expected from a gorilla, you lack manners," Luvia teased back as she wagged her finger.

"Okay, that's it. I'm kicking your ass," Rin angrily stated as she threw the first punch at her in which Luvia dodged it and stepped back a bit. "Oh Miss Tohsaka, you wanna go?" Luvia readied herself in a boxing stance.

"Okay, that's enough," Shirou stepped in between the battle ready girls. "Calm down, Rin. We came here to meet up with Lord El-Melloi II, not to fight."

"Eh? You guys are meeting Lord El-Melloi II?" Luvia asked with her eyebrows risen up.

"Yes. We were called to meet up with Lord El-Melloi II. Right now, we're waiting for our escort," Shirou explained to her, in which she loosened her boxing stance.

"Oh my, this is unexpected. He told me to escort his guests to the meeting room. I honestly didn't expect it to be you guys," Luvia said with a surprised face.

"Wait... you're our escort?" Rin was surprised as she thought Lord El-Melloi II's apprentice to be here and guide them to the meeting room. Why does it have to be her of all people?

"It appears so," Luvia said, smirking.

"That's great. You can take us to him," Shirou said happily, who still could not read the atmosphere between them. Luvia immediately locked her arms with Shirou's. "Okay Shirou, I will lead the way," she said with a smile on her face.

Rin pulled Luvia away from Shirou, "Just take us to him," Rin demanded angrily. "Now!"

Luvia huffed, "Very well." Luvia began to lead them to the meeting room. On their way, Shirou and Rin noticed two things: the lack of students and faculty members and a large number of guards on the campus. The guards were watching them and laid a protective Boundary Field across the four corners of the Clock Tower.

"Luvia, what's going on? Where's everyone? And why are there so many guards around here?" Shirou asked, worried that something was wrong here.

"You guys haven't heard it, have you? Luvia asked with one of her eyebrows up.

"Not really," Rin answered as she had just taken an airplane to Japan and picked up Shirou.

Luvia sighed and began to explain, "Ever since the upcoming of the new Holy Grail War, every magus from around the world is trying to obtain catalysts. Some of them infiltrated the Clock Tower to steal those catalysts. Of course, we stopped them, but the resulting battles caused some casualties. Some of them were students."

A look of uneasiness was formed in Shirou and Rin's faces.

"The Clock Tower had no choice but to cancel all classes until everything had calmed down and increased security around the campus," Luvia explained as the guards moved around the campus and classrooms.

"I see. That's a good decision," Rin said as she sighed in relief.

"But... that's not the only thing that happened," Luvia said without warning.

"What do you mean?" Shirou asked as he swallowed deeply.

"Recently, Gray, Lord El-Melloi II's apprentice, was attacked and an important catalyst was stolen from her," Luvia explained to them.

"That's horrible. How did it happen?" Rin asked, surprised at this development as she figured out why Luvia was here instead of Lord El-Melloi II's apprentice.

"Well... from what I've been told, a group of homunculus infiltrated the Clock Tower and attacked Gray while her guard was down. They outnumbered and overpowered her and she was left in a bloody mess. Then, they stole her catalyst," Luvia explained with her eyes narrowed.

Horror was on Shirou and Rin' faces. "This girl... Gray... is she..." Shirou asked but was interrupted by Luvia.

"She survived, but she's in a coma," Luvia said, already knowing what would happen if Shirou reacted to this disaster.

"I'm sorry," Shirou said as his face looked down on the ground. "I was not there to prevent it."

"Don't be, Shirou. There was nothing you could do to prevent this," Luvia reassured him as she placed her hand on his back. "In fact, no one would actually know that it would happen."

"They must have used a Bounded Field to make sure their fight didn't get noticed," Rin theorized.

"You are correct. Every magus was in a meeting discussing our next move. We couldn't notice anything," Luvia nodded her head.

"Also, this catalyst... what is it exactly?" Shirou asked Luvia as he wanted to know why someone would go to as much trouble to steal someone's catalyst right in the middle of Clock Tower.

"I don't know. Lord El-Melloi II never told me," Luvia answered. "In fact, he never told anyone what it was or to me at all."

"Can you at least tell what the catalyst looked like?" Rin questioned Luvia as she maybe didn't grasp what it was, but she could possibly identify what it looked like.

Luvia put her hand on her cheek. "Well, it was a long, thin bird cage and inside of it was a shape made up of numerous small cuboids, but on top of it was much more fine detail and much more complexity. It also had an engraving of eyes and a mouth on the front surface." She described the weapon as she saw it due to the Adra Castle Separation case which was about the recent death of the Adra Castle owner.

"At first, she was hostile to Lord El-Melloi II and Gray who had the intention of killing her because they were definitely incompatible and that they were the worst kind of Magus and the worst kind of people. Lord El-Melloi II was even more of a thief. If he could see through to the nature of the future Magi just by looking at the properties of their magecraft, in a way, it was like he was stealing the mysteries from their future. In the end, she cooperated with Lord El-Melloi II and Gray and that caused her to respect him."

That explanation caused Shirou and Rin's faces to become doubtful about that catalyst, as what kind of bird cage is that important for them to steal it. Of Shirou could hold or see the catalyst then that could allow him to understand the structure and design of the bird cage.

"Any idea what the catalyst is, Rin?' Shirou asked Rin who was deep thought.

"No idea Shirou," Rin answered Shirou.

"By the way, Rin," Luvia said, who tried to sound polite to her but at the same time try not to grin, "I heard that your workshop was demolished and stolen by someone. It's a shame that you cannot afford a catalyst for the upcoming war."

Rin crossed her arms, tired of this situation, "I am not in the mood to deal with that issue with you today."

"Oh, have you given up already?" Luvia let out a laugh. "Because very soon, when I summon my servant, I am sure to crush any and all of those who dare to stand in my way. And I know you lack any true skills, but you at least have enough faith in yourself. It would be one thing for your stuff to be stolen, including your catalyst." she said with a laugh. "You know you could ask me to buy a catalyst for you to summon a servant, but then you have to return the favor." That last word she said with a wicked smile.

Rin clenched her fists and gritted her teeth at that suggestion. Another reason why Rin hated her so much was that Luvia was incredibly rich and loved to flaunt her wealth at her and everyone else. You may think that Rin's Family was wealthy because they are one of the older Magus bloodlines lineages with a history worth about 200 years. That was half true; Rin's magic stuff was expensive to use each time.

As the successor to the Tohsaka family, Rin excelled in Conversion of power, which includes storage of magical energy in objects, typically jewels for Jewel Magecraft. As with the practicing of sorcery, charging these jewels has become a daily process for her turning them into powerful bullets. She can utilize the jewels for an instantaneous release of A-rank magic. However, in the end, they are merely disposable items, because their sorcery reduces expensive jewels to ashes after a single use. The Tohsaka magi are fated to be chronically afflicted with a lack of funds because of that (each one costs up to about 500,000 yen). And also thanks to her legal guardian Kirei's naïve honesty and crude management, most of the valuable property was lost to other people.

Because of that, she often had little spending money on her hand, when she returned to Fuyuki on a plane worse than economy class. Rin remembered Luvia mocking her by saying that if she got in financial troubles, she could take her on as a maid and give her a monthly salary that equals the yearly pay of the cheap waitress.

"I will think about it," Rin said with an angelic smile that felt like an ominous chill to the bone for Shirou as she glared at Luvia, who glared at her too with as much intensity as they could.

That's when they got to the door of the meeting room when Rin and Luvia stopped glaring at each other for now.

"Well, this is it," Luvia said as she opened the door and let Rin and Shirou walk in. The main victors who won the Fifth Holy Grail War and now are working together with Lord El-Melloi II about the main issue that is happening in the Clock Tower, as well as the upcoming Sixth Holy Grail War.

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Back at Benjamin's house and in the kitchen and dining rooms

Flanna had taken a seat opposite of the Servants' side, where they were watching her too. Each of them had different reactions to her. Saint George had an indifferent look on his face. Ozymandias's face lacked any interest in her, while Alice, Enkidu, and Sakata Kintoki had a happy and curious look on their faces. And last was Lu Bu, whose face had an unfamiliar expression staring her.

Flanna was wondering what the hell was going here and what was with all these people living in Benjamin's house. They all felt alien to her, they had this overwhelming presence of a being that was not human that seemed to make breathing more difficult as if the air had become suddenly thicker in the house. In fact, as soon as she arrived here, she saw many different trees and plants all over the place, making her question how the hell they could grow so fast as she remembered some of this.

And also about those foreign people that are now living here. Most of them appear fine to her, like that cute girl holding a book of Alice in Wonderland, and that Saint Knight, and that long, green-haired person wearing a plain tunic, or that Egyptian man with an aura of a king.

Except that big guy wearing red Chinese armor with his aura that was ferocious to look at, which to her credit, she did not flinch under his intense scrutiny, nor did she step back under his blood pressure. Flanna held her ground and met his stare with all of her willpower. If it was going to be a fight to the death, then she would face death with dignity.

She noticed Benjamin had returned from the kitchen, grasping a tray full of teacups or beer and placing each one on the table. He then took a seat opposite from her and glanced at her in which she glanced back.

"Um so, where do you want to start?" Benjamin said as he scratched his head nervously. Because I can try my best to explain it to you."

"First, can you explain who all these people are living in this house?" Flanna said as she looked at all of them slowly. "And can you tell me what that huge presence of weight on my shoulder is? And why do I almost feel the urge to bow down to that Egyptian man?"

"You see Flanna, they are called Servants,"Benjamin explained to Flanna, which caused her to furrow her brows at that title.

"So, Servants, right?" Flanna said as she folded her arms. "You're not talking about the regular meaning of the word, are you Benjamin?" she stared at each one. Some of them looked subservient to him and some did not.

"Well sister, despite the title of Servants, they are the spirits of epic heroes from legends and historic timelines. They are beings of a higher existence and were worshiped after death and became Heroic Spirits," Benjamin slowly explained to her, in which she nodded as she understood. "They are freed from the constraints of time itself and removed from the ring of reincarnation, moved to a place called the Throne of Heroes, as what you know the name's meaning to be. And to be a Heroic Spirit, you must do great heroic deeds in life to become one."

"So in other words, they are like a ghost of some sorts right?" Flanna asked, and he somewhat nodded in response. "Then why are they, here again, living in your house, eating food here? And why are some of them somewhat following your orders."

"Well, have you ever heard about the something called the Holy Grail?" Benjamin asked.

"The Holy Grail? Are you talking about the cup that Jesus Christ drank out of with twelve of his apostles the night before he was betrayed by Judas? Or the cup used by Joseph of Arimathea to capture the blood of Christ at the crucifixion?" Flanna suspected where she had previously known of the word. "Or the one from King Arthur's legends that are the principal quest of the knights of King Arthur to search for it? Or is it the Dadga's cauldron that is from the Irish Mythology that calls it the Cauldron of Plenty that is said to provide an endless supply of tasty food and drink to the worthy?" she said with skepticism in her voice as she once heard that there are 200 different cups and chalices across Europe who claim to be the Grail in several churches. She also heard that it was hidden by various groups like the Knights Templars, but those are people who are looking for attention and their claims were idiotic.

She expressed uncertainty about whether Jesus actually used the cup as there wasn't much to prove that there was something holy inside and not just some old cup that they found somewhere in some stupid place. She heard that according to legend, it has special powers and is designed to provide happiness, eternal youth, and food in infinite abundance.

"Wow, I did not expect you to knows so much about the Holy Grail," Benjamin said in shock as he was surprised at how his sister knew the different versions of the Grail. He knew about the Cup of Jamshid that was from the Persian Mythology and it was said to be filled with an elixir of immortality and was used in scrying. It was believed that all seven heavens of the universe could be observed by looking into the cup and that the whole world was said to be reflected in it, and divinations within the cup were said to reveal deep truths.

And there was another one called the Nanteos Cup which said that it has been attributed with a supernatural ability to heal those who drink from it and traditionally believed to be fashioned from a piece of the True Cross.

"Well, Benjamin, when you are in the US army and there is not much you can do around there," Flanna grinned, "There will always be a Bible somewhere on the USA base."

"Oh, that explains it. Well this golden cup is not part of Jesus' cup or King Arthur's cup," Benjamin answered to her subject. "You see, this Holy Grail was made by the Three Founding Families of Magus."

"Magus?" Flann inquired. "Like those wizards and sorcerers in fiction and fairytales?"

"Well, uh... how should I describe this?" Benjamin tried to explain this part, when Enkidu stood up. "Allow me to demonstrate clearly Benjamin," he said as Benjamin sat down.

"A Magu is a man or woman who studies and practices Magecraft or sometimes it's called Thaumaturgy, which is a magical science that is an artificial reenactment of a miracle. In other words, it is a copy of said miracles," Enkidu gave a clear definition of it. "The older the family of the Magus, the longer time they can replicate miracles easily and stronger than the young ones."

"So it's not really Magic at all," Flanna said with a look of amazement. "I cannot believe that there are miracles in this world."

"There is real Magic. They are called True Magic and Sorcery which can surpass Magecraft and all current sciences of that age. It can reach to an impossible scale and completely bypass the laws of nature. Those who hold the true miracles are named Magicians," Enkidu compared what is different between each of them. "There are five varieties of Magic and each one has a different effort on the wearer."

"The First Magic: Which allows the user to bring into existence any object without using anything in return and without following the laws of Reality."

"The Second Magic: The ability to manipulate and travel across different Alternate Universes."

"The Third Magic: The ability to materialize and manipulate souls which allow Heroic Spirits like us to exist here long after our deaths."

"The Fourth Magic: Is unknown but there was a currently existing magician who said that "it is there for sure," which may be dangerous to say what it is."

"The Fifth Magic: The ability to time travel and make the laws of conservation of mass shoulder the debts of a past without future."

"You understand now Flanna?" Enkidu asked. "I could say it again."

"Ok, I think I understand now," Flanna stated as she understood the difference between each one. "I hope, but that doesn't explain why you and the group are here."

Benjamin decided to explain that part. "Well, you see, a long time ago the Three Families wanted to reach a location called Akashic Records, which is a database for the world's history, and serves as a place where souls are recycled. That location stores and archives information of all possibilities and events, past, present, and future, of the world. It is the place from where all souls, including those of Heroic Spirits, recorded on the Throne of Heroes, originate from and to where they return after death."

"It is an ultimate ambition of the Magi to reach it and many of them focus their experiments into discovering a path to it," Benjamin said with snark. "I seriously doubt for them to actually reach that place at all with their entire life."

"So in another world, they want to be a god-like hood or desire power, right?" Flanna said with a grim frown, in which Benjamin nodded his head in agreement. "A bunch of mad power hungry Magi want to reach the center of the universe." She began to dislike this kind of people.

"Right, the group came up with a method to reach there, so they made a ritual which is known as Heaven's Feel or the Cup of Heaven to reenact what's left of the Third True Magic inside of the cup," Benjamin said with a sour face. "But there was one problem to it. The system could only allow for one person to utilize it. The first traditional Magi families wanted to reach Akasha, the other two traditional families only wanted the completion of the Grail, that is, the revival of the Third Magic back to them."

"So because only one person can use it, then the rest of Magi Families started to fight each other to use it," Flanna smirked at them when she had found a serious flaw in the system. "Well, that is good."

"Unfortunately, sister, this issue caused there to be a Holy Grail War," Benjamin said sadly which caused Flanna to be confused. "It is the only method by which the Holy Grail can choose who is worthy of possessing it. The Grail would select seven Magu to be a Master, each of whom are able to summon a Servant who would be given a second life for a chance to have a wish too with their partner to compete in the battle royal. And when only one Master-Servant team remains, the Grail will descend in a location, and then they will be able to make their wish."

Benjamin pointed at his Servants. "Each one is separated into a different class, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses, and weapons. But all can be played outside their assigned roles depending on the Master's choice of strategy." Benjamin then gave Flanna the book that was labeled "The Holy Grail War." She opened the book wide open and read it slowly. "You can read what classes they are and what role they play later."

"So, let's get this straight. There are Magi, heroic spirits and supernatural in this world which are hidden behind the scenes, a golden cup that can grant a wish which causes it to have a secret royal battle that spans all around the city over the heads of innocent and unsuspecting people with the last one standing winning, right?" Flanna asked Benjamin with narrowed eyes.

"Yes, and there is a rule that no one can break that reveals the existence of the Holy Grail War or Magecrafts to the common public. The Mage's Association would send Enforcers to deal with the one who caused it and cover the issue up. They also do not care about hideous crimes committed by magi, so long as they are not a threat that might reveal the existence of Thaumaturgy to the common public," Benjamin said.

Flanna slammed a hand on the table, sending a cold glare at Benjamin. "And I thought this could not get any worse. Holy Grail Wars? Magi? Heroic Spirits? Magic?" she said with a weird chuckle in disbelief before her face went to a dead serious stare, which sent Benjamin to break out in a cold sweat. "Is there anything else that you need to add to the table?"

"Actually, there is The Holy Church which hunts and holds a great level of animosity towards Vampires. They appear to coexist peacefully with the Mage's Association, though this seems to not have always been the case most of the time. They are a little better than magi, but most of the members are either religious zealots, very narrow-minded or are twisted and use their faith as an excuse to commit twisted deeds," Benjamin said as he fiddled his thumbs and stared at his shoes. "Well, the thing is, I and my servants have to reveal ourselves and magecraft to the world, which cause both of the organizations to go searching and trying to kill me when they found I am the one who caused it."

Slam!

Flanna banged her hands on the table and stood up. "BENJAMIN! DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT DEEP SHIT YOU ARE IN RIGHT NOW?!" she yelled at Benjamin, who jumped back at her roar. "AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE!?"

"What are they thinking, fighting a war like this in the middle of a goddamn city? Do those Mages have no common sense at all?" Flanna demanded.

"Sister, I really understand and share your feelings completely regarding those Magi, but to tell you the truth about them, they have little to no common sense when it comes to advancing Magecraft. That is to say that almost each and every one of them is a ruthless monster, viewing other living beings and lower classes like insects. And it is not unusual for them to experiment with their magecraft on living people or on themselves," Benjamin replied back to her. "And yes, I am in deep trouble, ok? And everyone in the world is hunting me down."

Benjamin's face turned pale and he was holding his head up with both arms propped on the table. "Everyone of them is either an either Kung Fu Wizards fighter or Archmagus which you and I would not last a min against them without actual defense against Magecraft, they would either opt to manipulate you through hypnosis or kill you if was too inconvenient."

"Benjamin, you are acting like those magi are invincible and that we are helpless to resist them," Flanna said with a determined glint in her eye. "At the all, they are human like us and can bleed like us." "They could be just hard to kill that all."

"What about the Holy Church, sister?" Benjamin asks with his face expressed horror. "They have executors who are like a first-rate murderer that has passed brutal and pious training to become mankind's weapon." "Their combat ability is extremely strong that they are almost equal to a Vampires, we stood no chance against any of them."

"I would love to see any of them can survive a shotgun blast to the face and the head," Flanna said seriously, even a bit angrily, staring deep into Benjamin's eyes which he flinching at her eyes. "Can they regeneration that kind of blast or towards the heart of the human body?"

"I don't know at all." Benjamin answer unsure. "But maybe or not?"

"Well, that is good at least you knows that they are not invincible at all," Flanna said in obvious sarcasm voice. "We can actually win against them if we play our card right and understand their characteristics, depending on their own unique strengths, weaknesses, magecraft, and weapons."

"Do you have a plan or something Benjamin?" She asks him. "Because if you do have at least one good strategy, I think you can improve yourself with my help." "At the all you absolutely have no fighting power or combat abilities which being on the front lines against them would only cause you to die prematurely and with little chance of providing any help." "Which her armor-piercing question give Benjamin to face down on the table which the rest of servants watch in worry.

"Well, I did send two of my servant to explore the city at night to know the every area and see any those magi or executors are here already." He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Yes, I absolutely am a rookie master if not able to controlled some of my servants and inexperience at tactics."

"Wait controlled? Flanna repeated at what Benjamin said about control his servants. "I thought you said you can command them like their title suggest what do you mean a rookie master if you are acting like you can not give them a simple order?"

"Opps, sorry about that I forget about the Master-Servant stuff," Benjamin stated. "Well you see when magi summon them with a summoning ritual use some basic magecraft to properly perform the summoning, they are given a Command Seals which give the Master the authority over them, those seals are like tattoos which can be used three times."

"Those seals are more than ways of telling a Servants a specific instruction or tell them to teleport somewhere, it is to prevent them from ran amok or kill the person who summons them." "Once they are used up, the servant is free to either find a new Master, allow themselves to fade away." He explains. "Depending on the relationship with each other, they can stay by their old Master even without it and those who are more antagonistic towards their old Master can kill them as they want to should they so desire so much."

"And yes you can have a command seals even when you are not a spellcaster." "It is possible for an ordinary person to become a Master, but this is rare," Benjamin said sadly as he looks down on the table again. "But for some reason, I have not been given a command seals every one of them in one of my hands ever since when I got my first servant."

"Great just great," Flanna said disbelievingly as she went limp in her chair. "How was your progress bond with your servants?" She questions as what little she can understand about Master-Servant dynamic is that a bad compatibility may make forming a bond impossible, bringing about hardships without being able to have faith in each other. A Lack of cooperation and understanding to each other were worth a whole army to the enemies who could potentially defeat them quickly with little to no effort at all. A good affinity with each other would be the higher chance of winning and advantageous over the enemies is crucial.

"I manage to get along with most of my servants so I thinking they can listen to my orders," Benjamin statement but points his finger at Ozymandias and Lu Bu. "Excepting those two, one has the mindset of a king because he is a king and will make sure that he is in charge, not me, the other guy is a Berserker which his background story is full of betrayals and is a Chronic backstabbing disorder."

Flann sighed in frustration. "Ok, are there any problem left before we make up a plan now when the enemies would found us?"

"Yes, I do have one more problem, is that I have the Holy Grail which is downstairs in the basement and it glue to the floor, it also summon more servants in the future like around one or two at the same time," Benjamin replied as he added one more problem to the table. "I have no idea how many servants are going to be summoned but what I do knows my house was going to be full of freeloaders and going to murder my bank account every day if they expect this much foods and stuff all of the time."

"Benjamin, you don't go buy stuff for them whatever they want something, just said no to them," Flann said as she rubbed her forehead. "In fact, if you keep do this for every time those new servants is summoned, you are going to run out of money soon which are your college budget." God, she imagines the servants are going to be like mercenaries with expensive upkeep and not much discipline as she pictures a lot of heroes that in legends or mythologies are like a huge fellow with a large sword that can shout so loud with no indoor voice that everyone can hear him from a long distance. Sure, being the maverick hero who doesn't answer to anyone and save the day by going against everyone's expectations looks cool. But those were the past time, here? in this present time, you just look stupid doing that and ruin everything with the plan.

"That is easy for you to said," Benjamin said sarcastically. "Almost every one of them is stronger and I do not want to be angry at me of I piss them something."

"How strong are the Servants?" Flann inquiring as she remembers how alien they are and the mysterious radiance that made her recoil been them.

That when Enkidu spoke up once more, answer Flanna's question. "Servant display strength and speed far beyond normal humans,break the law of the physical world, not bound by any normal logic so even the smallest of Servants will have little issue in carrying a heavy person and their inhuman movement speed and dexterity are enough to make them invisible to the normal eye." "The speed of the projectiles can travel faster than the speed of sound and also the weak servant who is physically weak compared to others can still show great feats of strength."

"We also happen to have parameters which are stats, it is determined by the Strength,Agility,Endurance,Mana,Luck and Noble Phantasm." "There are five main ranks, E, D, C, B, A, it goes from weak to the stronger and there is an addition to the rule that is the EX rank which indicates the weapon/ability cannot be properly measured it is in a league of its own, powerful to the extent of rendering comparisons meaningless."

"Hummm.." Flanna pondered before nodded in understand. "Alright I got it down but what the heck is a Noble Phantasm?" She asked.

"Well, a Noble Phantasm is Servant's most powerful attack which can be swords, lances, and bows, or support items, such as rings and crowns," Enkidu said as he points at Saint George's sword. "To explanation, this sword can shoot a beam of light at his enemies or can does massively increased damage to dragons type." "Sometimes it could be legendary armaments and abilities which don't have to be a weapon, it can be a specific ability or a unique mean of attacking or even the body of the hero, it could be anything."

"Ok, one more question how is Servant compare to a Magi or Executors?" She asks.

"To answer that question is that Magi or Executors are sturdier and stronger than normal people but to a Servant, it generally has absolutely 0 chance of ever being able to beat them in combat but there are a few rare exceptions but that for the weakest classes and heroes that have lower of close combat, the chances of beating a stronger Servant of a higher class is extremely low," He answers. "Near to an impossible chance to beat a very stronger hero."

"I believe that wrap-up everything about what is going here now and knows many problems we have to deal it," Flanna said as she grab her military bag and pull out a laptop. "The first step of the plan is to get some supply." She opens her laptop and start to type it keywords.

"Supply?" Benjamin question, raise his eyebrows. "What kind of supply are you order?"

"Home defense weaponry for us Benjamin," Flanna answers as she looks at him with a smile. "Of those Holy Church and Association think they can just come over here and do whatever they want because they have pious training and magical power than they going to have their bodies as warning to leave us alone."

"But sister I don't know how to use a gun or even how to shoot it well," Benjamin start to stutter. "In, fact why would I have to fight too I don't have any reason to be on the battlefield." "I also don't want to wants to kill anyone with my hand." While Benjamin does see a real dead body in past year in the city where there was sometimes a crime scene there which cause him to get use see dead bodies from time to time but to kill someone is a whole different mean to it

"Reason or not Benjamin, there would be more of them right?" Flanna said. "It's kill or be killed so don't expect any of them to show mercy to us as you said that almost of them are a ruthless monster." "Yes, I know that you are afraid of killing a person with your own hand that with some military training, you would get use to kill someone."

When she enter the United States Armed Forces for the very first time of shoot a person with her gun, she realizes that she feels kinda sick in killing an enemy but she regains her composure. She knows that in general of the real world, there are very few humans who can stand the thought of truly ending the life of another human without military training. The military has developed many studies over the years to evolve the best training curriculum to dehumanize the enemy and enable their soldiers to kill enemy soldiers. But even with that solution it still a problem to kill someone like when a soldier is tasked with actually shooting a real bullet shell that would end the life of another human being, many of her partners would rather intentionally miss the shot.

But in the end, most of her partner end up shooting the bullet soon or later which it was practice test by the way.

"Because I going to train you how to get use of killing a human being," Flanna said as she was done type and look at him. "Soon or later you would have trained to use a weapon of you are by yourself alone and don't have your servants to help defend you."

"It is a training from hell kind way?" Benjamin guesses as he dreads what kind of training he have to do to survive in battle and training.

"No, it not that kind of training Benjamin," Flanna gives"are you serious" face at him. "Where the hell do you get that information from?"

"I got that information from the history book and modern day special forces training book," Benjamin said he already imagines what the training look like. "So yeah it is something like that?"

"Benjamin, those kinds of training can be exaggerated for propaganda reasons so it can tempt people to believe that kind of thing and those books are by writers who don't understand and/or want to mentally wank over how tough US special forces training is, the US actually puts considerably more thought into it than that " Flanna said. "What I would give you is simple yet easy to understand training." "I could do that kind of training from hell by the way but we do not have any time to do that and you can't handle that kind of mentally which it leave you an over-stressing to the point of permanent damage to your brain."

"Oh thank god," Benjamin sighed in relief. "So what kind of training is going to be?"

"You are going to understand how to use medieval weapons first then a modern gun," Flanna said as she grabs a notebook from her military bag. "Once you understand some of it, you would make a better bond with your servants which hope that you understand each other well."

"But before all that Benjamin, I need you to tell what is your servant's true name, stats, class, and Noble Phantasm?" Flanna asked as she takes a pen out of her military bag. "I want to see their strengths, weaknesses, and some of their personality, I also want to see how useful, efficient, and usability of their ability or combat styles which I can tell each one would have a great reliability to it or not, I would found a way to make some of them useful in several ways." Flanna starts to write the words down in her notebook as she listens to what Benjamin describe each Servant's ability at the all it is going to be a long night before she and he are going to go sleep in their beds.

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So, a lot of things is going on here in this chapter. Magi from the Magus Association are here on the American tried to investigate where the Holy Grail was located and in what cities is at. But they are get killed by Atalanta and Chiron which after that they encounter a group of magus preparing the summoning ritual. One magus brings a small group of people, children included in which Atalanta and Chiron swiftly killed all the magus and free the captives. Chiron takes the catalyst and runs off with Atalanta.

Benjamin cooks foods with his Servants and tries to get to knows them which he found out that Sakata Kintoki has a wish in mind and Lu Bu not sure at all. And Benjamin's sister is here at home, Flanna who is a first lieutenant who fought in Gulf war, She is calm and take it easy at what he said about everything about magic, servants, and Holy Grail. So when she heard that The Mage's Association, The Holy Church come after him, she has no choices but to fight against them.

Meanwhile, back the ClockTower, Shirou, and Rin are waiting for their escort who reveal to be Luviagelita Edelfelt much to their surprise and found out what have happened here in the Clock Tower when they were gone. After walking for a while in which Rin and Luvia declare that they would fight each other with their servants in the Holy Grail war soon in the future

Time to answer some of the Guest reviews. Be careful I explain lot of stuff here

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 8: Hey when you give Ben a harem will he actually fall in love with a female servant maybe in the future they could get married: Yes, he would have a potential romantic interest or mild 'harem' under vibe for him, but it would be very minimally done and would not be overwhelmed, maybe like three or four romantic interests. And Yes they would get married in the future, It's possible for Servants to have kids because as long they have physical bodies to inhabit.

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 6: Hey could you do chapter Based on carnival phantasm: no I can not because I am not good at making a chapter funny for you people, sorry :(

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 1: How about an anti-magic weapon (Gae Dearg, and origin bullet) like a sword so that Benjamin can fight the magus: Yes, Benjamin would use Gae Dearg as unlike most other Noble Phantasms, the abilities of the spear are passive in nature. It does not require its name to be called upon in order to be utilized, allowing it to instantly affect whatever it strikes. Origin Bullet?, A big No because The bullets were created from Kiritsugu's first and second ribs on both sides being cut off, extracted from his body, ground into dust, condensed with a craft to preserve his soul, and sealed within sixty-six bullets as their core. I do not need to explains why?

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 1: Will benjamin get a reinforcement like when Souichirou Kuzuki got power up from Medea magic: Yes, She use an extremely strong version of Reinforcement on regular humans, greatly strengthening Benjamin and allowing him to harm another magus in few hits. If use of medieval weapons and modern gun with other Casters Class who can reinforcement Benjamin or his weapons with lot of buffs

Like William Shakespeare can use his skill Enchant that can even a pebble lying anywhere on the road into a Noble Phantasm

Like Hans Christian Andersen use his Noble Phantasm Marchen Meines Lebens that can provide healing magecraft and utilize his Noble Phantasm to support him like increases endurance and increases magic.

Like Alexandre Dumas who his special ability, Sublimation technically allows him to have upgraded versions of every Noble Phantasm in existence (except maybe EX-ranked ones) if only he invests time in it, right? He can recreate Gea Bolg if he wants strength, he recreates the Amazon girdle, if he wants stealth, he recreates the Cap of Hades, if he wants to fly, he recreates the winged sandals of Hermes.

All of that can make Benjamin and Flanna to a fearsome lethal joke character to borderline broken dreadful character but it would take a while to get there.

Guest chapter 16 . Apr 27: Hey if Ben sister does she have access to weapons and since Ben not a magus how about he uses technology against the magus because "heroes aren't born they are built" Ironman quote: Look at below for that is your answer, Yes, my two of my character would use technology and tactics against them because magus greater weakness is narrow mind and do not find convenience in using modern technology. Their strategy maybe looks good at first sight but can be very easily and quickly to find a way to counter it. They have way too much faith in their institutions of the Magi and are a horrible judge of character.

A good example in Fate/Apocrypha, their Red Faction Masters are group of ragtag of four mercenaries which are said to be greatest bounty hunter Magi in the world (They are not). Why them? a reason that The Clock Tower decided to send in 4 mercenaries, a Church official and a first-class instructor as their Masters, as getting the Japanese Grail Families involved would take mountains of paperwork and therefore, they wouldn't be ready in time because they only having 2 months to prepare. what? that is ballshit which in my point of view that is enough time to send a mail for them.

Guest chapter 17 . Mar 30: Hey if your gonna have Ben train with the other heroes like Chiron how strong would he be compared to the other magus (because in fate zero Kirei used mostly his skills to fight) and when jack the ripper appears will she call Ben father or his sister mother: His sister would train him to knows how to use a medieval weapons and modern gun first then train with other heroes and then off to the battlefield. Yes, Jack, the ripper would call Ben and his sister dad and mom

How is Benjamin compared to other magus is that he is like Jack-of-All-Stats (His biggest strength is his lack of any glaring weaknesses, and biggest weakness is his lack of any remarkable strengths.) they would underestimate him as useless joke character or do not take him serious at all. To only get kill by him with a surprise attack or use a reinforcement gun to by using surprise powerful attacks to quickly blow his enemies to smithereens . But to the Main Fate characters like Bazett, Shirou, and Rin, He may have trouble dealing with characters whose skills are more extreme than his if they're allowed to press their advantages. He would be like a Stone Wall to them unable to defeat them quickly to a battle of attrition to see who tires out first, buy time for him to get help from reinforcement.

How is Flanna compared to other magus is that she has the mindset of a soldier so rather than facing magus in a direct duel she uses very mundane tactics such as traps, conventional weapons, and explosives. Most mages consider these means improper and beneath their dignity to use themselves, so they rarely plan to counter them. And that's why those methods are the most effective on Mages. Most of the Magus are a firm believer in the superiority of magecraft over modern weapons. Use confusion fu which her attacks and motions are random (or seem to be), making them difficult to read and predict.

If she uses her close combat weapons in which how she use it, nothing fancy, just a thrust in the belly of the enemy or between the waist , if they had a some kind of shield, a slashing attack to hack the arm holding the shield. Go for the eye because it's soft, easily damaged, very painful, and causes a loss of vision. It's one of the first places you're taught to aim for in a self-defense class. No matter how thick the hide, hard the chitin or magically impervious the body, the eyes are a natural weak spot for any creature that has them. And last groin attack.

But to the Main Fate characters like Bazett, Shirou, and Rin, who Flann is like lightning bruiser would actually win again them as long her tricks was kept hidden and also them too if it's limited to one match and a surprise attack. In the second fight, it would see who tires out first or see if both of them have an another trick up their sleeve. Or it would be an even fight between each other.

Guest chapter 17 . Mar 30: How about you give Benjamin a weapon like a sword so that he could defend himself against the magus: No I would not give him a sword yet because in general swords require more training to use effectively compared to spears, axes, or bludgeons. I would give him a spear because it is relatively easy to train someone to use a spear effectively, as opposed to weapons like swords. To give you some idea, a decent spearman can be trained in six weeks. A half-decent swordsman would take a minimum of six months. A Polearms have the advantage of reach and specialization, making them the obvious choice for battlefield combat- a spearman can keep a swordsman in striking distance from a spot outside the range of his sword, thereby controlling the encounter and being more likely to win. The sword is only useful as a secondary weapon when other weapons have failed or the fight becomes close quarters. It served a different purpose and was not meant to be equal to a polearm.

I really do not understand why people think sword are so awesome and why is the Fate Series all about swords lot.

Guest chapter 17 . Mar 30:Weapon could be like Teigus from Akame Ga kill or Tapions sword from DBZ wrath of the dragon: No the tapions sword, I would not use that look up the above. Those Teigus look like they cause a more friendly fire to Benjamin himself and it said in the wiki that even if a user is strong enough to use a Teigu, it can still reject them, and a user's first impression of it affects their compatibility. The user must be compatible with the Teigu in order to wield it. It is worth more trouble then been useful and waste too many time.

Guest chapter 17 . Mar 30: When will you summon the Hassan and will of them appear at the same time because I think they could help guard the grail and gather catalyst for the summoning: Yes that is good ideas for them to found more catalyst and I going to show how real danger they are and how they are supposed to be used as an Assassin! I couldn't believe how idiotic the Magi where to dismiss them so easily, or how they used them so badly. Then again, the Assassin that was summoned (in both series) had the way to much of an inclination for open combat and Assassin is just a throw-away character(s) that was used in order to show off the other characters' strengths

Guest chapter 17 . Mar 29: Chapter pretty cool and I like the idea of the crossover also here's my idea for one how about one with Akame Ga Kill because it would be interesting to see the heroes fight against the empire and protect the people: That is interesting idea for a new story but I stop read the Mange because lot of characters I love killed off so suddenly that they never receive any proper Character Development to truly hit where me hurts the most and it is pretty easy to guess when certain characters are going to be killed. The overall story is starting to become pretty cliched in update chapters and they wasted a perfectly good plot.

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 6:When you do the x over with Gate will it be like ep 1 and if so will the invasion be in Japan or America: The Gate would be in Japan same place but I would make sure to get rid of the Gate's Anvilicious message and Anti-American stance by the author but at same time I would not try to make anyone, any nation, politicians, and journalists as an acceptable targets to portrayed as evil. And Patriotism would be good and bad thing at same time

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 25: When you summon Gilles de rais will he be a saber or caster: Both with Double Summon skill, first as Caster who still remember everything in the fourth Holy Grail war when Joan of Arc is summoned he would call Benjamin as a god and then she would give him a two-fingered jab to the eyes like in the past which turns him back to his Saber class which gain back most of his sanity. He would also turn back to his Caster class if Joan of Arc is endangered because he has EX-ranked mad enhancement as a running joke.

Guest chapter 17 . Mar 31:Will the avenger servants be summoning like Angra Mainyu and Edmond Dantes: Yes it already happens you would see Anti-Heroes in some of the chapters soon or later like Lu Bu

Guest chapter 17 . Mar 29:Will you summon the duplicates (saber lily, prototype, Medea lily, dark servants) and will Shirou and Rin be allies: The Lily would appear when they accidentally drink Elixir of Youth. The Prototype, my plan was to make Artoria Pendragon(female) turn into an Arthur Pendragon (male)like a disguise spell. Cu Chulainn and Gilgamesh (Fate/stay night) can change their Fate armor appearance into their Prototype versions. Vlad III (Apocrypha) would also change his royal outfit into his set of black plated armor (EXTRA) and would be deranged individual if he uses Legend of Dracula: The Succession of Blood which would cause him to calls Benjamin as his little brother and his sister Flanna his wife with a greatly disturbed affection. The Dark servant would appear too as the Alter Heroes.

And the last question, yes they would be allies but do not expect Benjamin to welcome the main characters at first sight because he would be possibly scared of any Magus who would come after him and would try figure out who is he. Flanna would be so intensely overprotective of him and will not hesitate to severely punish or even kill anyone who is a Magi or a Church member. She do not trust them and is suspicious of them been dogs of Mage's Association

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 7: What kind of relationship will Benjamin have with Shirou and Rin? And what will Rin's reaction be on Benjamin:not magus at all?: He would be first scared of them then he would be friendly to them once he knows them but at the same time, he would found that Shirou is little too nice and little too far on his idealistic side for his taste, Rin is bossy and stingy in his point of view. Flanna would think that Shirou is up to something because he is so nice and Rin is a manipulative person, mischievous girl and obsessed with having more money

And that last question, They would be let say really, really surprised at how a normal person, who wasn't aware of magic, can do this much damage and summoning many servants and questioning how he does it. Rin reaction would be like how Shirou get a Saber class while she got an Archer class but up to an eleven at her reaction which would be lot of rages

Guest chapter 17 . Apr 26: Your x over idea interesting and will you more like it with maybe Naruto, Akame Ga Kill, One piece: While I do love read those Manga and make crossover stories with any of them but I am not into them at all.

Guest chapter 16 . Apr 27 :How is Ben gonna summon saber if Avalon is with the Einzbern will he somehow steal it or he will use something else like king Arthurs crown, for example, You would see in the next chapter

Guest chapter 7 . Apr 27: you know what would be cool if the servants were in the Highschool of the Dead world fought the zombies and save the people: That is a good idea for a crossover, I would think about it but do not get your hope high because I do not think that anyone would enjoy of Zombie with Fate series mix with not much of plot inside, It would be few chapter of one-shot if lot of review like it and want to make it to because a full-length fanfic series.

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