"Here." Taking out a few devil fruits from my inventory I handed them to archer, who analyzed them. Since I didn't know what devil fruits, I stole I thought of using archers' analysis to learn about the fruit.

"Bird-bird fruit model: hummingbird. Grants whoever eats this the ability to turn into hummingbird or a hummingbird hybrid. It used to be a normal strawberry 34 years ago until suddenly something changed in it, and it gained consciousness!"

"Wait consciousness? You mean to tell me that fruit is alive?"

"Not alive, but it does have a will."

"Do you know how it happened? Can you analyze it further."

"I cannot do that master, to analyze any further I need to analyze the consciousness of this, but my structural grasp sadly cannot do that." Archer shook his head.

"Here analyze this."

"Marble-marble fruit. Makes the user turn his body into marbles. Once awakened can turn surroundings into marbles. Used to be a normal grape 4 years ago until suddenly it changed. It does not a consciousness."

So, paramecia do not have consciousness but zoan does? Wait!

The manga told that the human-human model: sun god Nika escaped the clutches of the world government for centuries, it was also zoan. And there are methods to feed zoan fruits into objects. Does that mean all zoan have a will? How? Did someone place the will of actual people in the fruits, or they simply natural?

God damn it. My head hurts. Stopping myself from thinking further on this topic I regained focus on my current objective.

I took out all the devil fruits from my inventory. There are a total of 107 devil fruits here.

Archer seeing the number of devil fruits he had to analyze sighed.

"Give me a break."

After which I also took out the swords. Which I have 239 of.

"Curse my E-rank luck." Archer murmured after seeing the swords.

-scene change-

It took hours to finally analyze everything, especially since archer grew tired of it after 2 hours of non-stop analyzing. So, we took a few breaks in between. He analyzed while I noted and separated each one its own pile.

First, I separated the useless devil fruits from the useful ones, which unfortunately were a lot. The useless pile consisted of many devil fruits mostly regular zoans, but it also included some paramecia, like the icky-icky fruit which Makes the user have a disgusting aura. That's it, that fruit will only be useful if awakened, which gives the ability to make other people have a disgusting aura.

Sadly, the useful devil fruits only number in 16.

4 paramecia fruits, metal-metal fruit, stiff-stiff fruit, silk-silk fruit and a fruit that makes you a budget Gilgamesh, the store-store fruit.

2 regular zoan, the bird-bird, model: Alpine swift and sala-sala fruit, model: Rough-skinned newt.

7 ancient zoan, snake-snake model: Titanoboa, cat-cat model: Smilodon, snake-snake model: Gigantophis, dragon-dragon model: Kaprosuchus, dragon-dragon model: Aerotitan and dragon-dragon model: Carnotaurus.

2 logia, ash-ash fruit and rose-rose fruit.

And finally, one mythical zoan, bird-bird model: vermillion bird.

The mythical zoan fruit made me remember things that I wished were buried.

Shaking my head, I refocused on my current task.

Out of the 239 swords, only 57 could be classified as meitos. Unfortunately, none of them are supreme grade swords. Fortunately, there were great grade swords of which there are 7; skillful grade swords of which there are 16; and graded swords of which there are 34.

"Finally." archer stood up and stretched his body. he cracked his neck with resounding pop. "I'm going to go."

"Can I come?"

"You want to watch me go to the toilet? Never knew you had that kind of fetish master."

"Wai- I don't."

"Ah, good I'm not into men."

Archer walked when suddenly I remembered something.

"Wait! since when did heroic spirits have a need to go to the bathroom?"

"Since their heartless masters grant them, a true body made of flesh and bones and keep asking them questions when all they want to do is go to the bathroom in peace!"

"Sorry."

I watched archer walk away, through the trees.

Wait! did he say he has a real body!? the hell!

-scene change-

So, archer has a real body which is nice but problem is his power is in the realm of a normal human due to that. But at least he can train his body so that's good.

"Wait is that why you can't use your noble phantasm? Because you're no longer a servant?"

"No. My noble phantasm is not a weapon nor is it something I gained after dying. I had it when I lived, so that does not make sense."

"Then why?"

"I do have a theory, but to truly test it out we need someone who can use other types of magic."

"What is your theory?"

"I think the world is stopping me from using any external uses of magic. While reinforcement and structural analysis work because their internal but projection is external, same with my reality marble. When I analyzed the weapons, I felt them appearing within reality marble but I cannot trace them, because any magic that leaves the confines of my body gets destroyed."

"Oh. So, you are saying that this worlds Gaia hates magic?"

"Most likely."

"Sounds racist."

Archer stopped his work and deadpanned at me.

"Ahem, so what are you doing? And can I help?"

"No, what you need is rest and food."

"But I can help." Archer stared at me like he would tie me up if I did not listen to him.

"You have not had proper food in years, you have been forced to take drugs and had no proper rest. Your fallen angel heritage has kept you alive, but you need to recover if not you might just die."

"Sigh. How long?"

"at least a month."

"So, no training or any physical activities for a month."

"Yes."

"What if I ate the vermillion bird fruit."

Archer raised an eyebrow at me.

"If I ate the vermillion bird fruit, won't it heal all of my injuries."

"Healing injuries does not save one from malnourishment."

"But do eat it." Archer added.

"Why? You just said- "

"I'm not an idiot, the moment you learned the name of the fruit you've been acting strange. Its as if you are looking for an excuse to eat it. If you do I wont mind so eat it. But do remember while I'm no longer as strong as I was as a heroic spirit, I'm willing to lend an ear if you're willing to tell me."

I sighed but I told him. Maybe I am looking for an excuse. Might as well tell him about it.

"My Mother used to be a candidate to become the host of the vermillion bird, her clan killed her because they were afraid that mother would become its host and join Grigori."

"I see. So do you hate it? The phoenix, after all if it never existed your mother would be alive and you wouldn't have been enslaved."

"I don't know? I hate the himejima clan but at the same time I understand their position. I hate my father for not being there yet I understand that it was not his fault. I hate my sister for running away without me, yet I also understand her reason for that. I want to hate the phoenix but it was not its fault. It just chose the worthiest person to become its host. I…don't know what to do. Who do I hate? My father or my sister? Or should I hate the clan or the phoenix? Or maybe I should hate my mother for being a candidate for the stupid bird." Hugging my knees, I sobbed.

It's not fair, why do I need to understand them, why can I just hate them?

There was silence. The sound of the wind rustling, the fire crackling and my muffled sobs filled the surroundings.

"I understand you." Archer spoke softly. "After I became a counter guardian I was also in your position. Not knowing who to hate. I first hated my adopted father for entrusting me with his dream. Then after a few years I started hating the grail war itself, if the war did not exist the fire wouldn't have given birth to Shirou Emiya. then I hated Cu Chulainn, thinking that it was its fault that started my path to being a hero. I started hating everyone until I started forgetting them. In the end I started hating myself and my ideals." He spoke without emotion.

"So, I had a plan, destroy the ideals of my past self and stop the birth of the hero of justice…but I couldn't. Every time I tried to kill him, some part of me still admired those ideals. Some part of me still wanted him to be a hero of justice." He sighed but he had a smile on his face. "I can still remember what rin told me, that my dreams were not wrong. It's been years since then, but I still remember those words, those words made me strive even though I knew that my future was hopeless." He smiled at me.

"You don't need to hate anyone. People make circumstances and in return circumstances make people. you cannot blame one of them without blaming the other. I hated everyone until I started hating myself. You don't need to hate anyone nor do you need to forgive them."

"My advice; don't get stuck in the past, think about the future. You are a champion of luck itself, maybe one day you will gain the ability to rewrite the past. Until then enjoy your life."

"What was that, unlimited cringe works."

Archer scowled at me. and I laughed.

He's right. Lady luck called herself 'best-in-the-omniverse', she would have ways for me to revive my mother.

But I'm not going to forgive those bastards…

Taking out the fruit, I ate it. It tasted like liquefied garbage, but I still swallowed it.

Flames started appearing all over my body. healing every seen and unseen injury.

…can't wait to see the looks of their faces when I transform into their 'guardian deity'.

Flames covering my body crackled while I cackled out loud.

Archers worried face and his mummers went unseen and unheard.

"Was my advice that bad?" archer murmurs went unheard.

-chapter end-

Chapter 02 finished. MC categorized the devil fruits and swords, learned that archer has gained a true body, then got some life advice from him and then ate a mythical zoan devil fruit. I've also foreshadowed a certain event, comment if you found it.

Though I am slightly worried that I didn't bring Emiya's personality completely but overall, I'm somewhat satisfied.

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