I am the bone of my sword.

A smile from a broken man which saved an even more broken boy.

Steel is my body and fire is my blood.

A heroic knight who answered his call. Yet he was unable to save her.

I have created over a thousand blades.

Pursing a dream that was borrowed, forsaking everyone.

Unknown to death

Walking through the boundary of life and death for an impossible dream. Cutting all his bonds.

Nor known to life

Killed as a scapegoat. But they were not at fault. It is simply human nature. As long his death could stop peoples suffering, he was happy.

Have withstood great pain to create many weapons

Working for the spirit of humanity in hopes of saving people even after his death. Afterall saving people is not wrong.

Yet those hands will never hold anything.

He was no savior, he was a killer, he was someone who should've have never existed.

I have no regrets

She told him that it was not wrong, a person who he forsook for his ideal. His dream, no matter how stupid or how hopeless it was, she told him that his dream was not wrong.

For this was my choice

I have no future. I shall kill of the enemies of man for all eternity; thus, I cannot find the salvation I seek But I found hope. Hope from a person that I've long forgotten.

So, as I pray

But even hope cannot stand the ravages of time. I feel myself losing the hope that I gained until…

Unlimited blade works

…all that remained was a machine.

-scene change-

He was standing in a land of swords. A lonely battlefield. His ideal world. His reward for saving people. the crystallization of his ideals.

A familiar yet unfamiliar feeling came upon him. A summoning? Looks like he will be called for a grail war.

He accepted. Maybe he would be summoned in the fourth holy grail war and then he could kill his father, and then find his younger self and kill him for good measure.

He disappeared in a flash.

He was summoned in the middle of a forest. His master, a child. Long black hair, a single yellow eye stared at me, the other had a vertical scar going through it. His bones were visible, he was too thin. He was dressed in rags that seemed to be tearing at the seams.

Yellow met grey. His eye viewed me with familiarity. Does he know me? or does he know my younger self?

Emiya spoke. "Servant archer answers your summoning. I ask you this, are you, my master?" he knew he was, but he still said it. Memories of a beautiful knight asking him the exact question appeared in his mind.

The boy nodded. he tried to access his reality marble so he could project a something that could heal him. he couldn't.

he tried projecting again. The world destroyed the mana before it could even take shape.

This has not happened before. It's as if the world hates mana. Emiya tried reinforcement which thankfully worked.

he needed a weapon. He was in an unknown place where he could not use his projection. Considering his luck, he was probably surrounded by enemies.

"Master, do you have a weapon that I could use? My projection seems to be not working." He seemed surprised and slightly afraid. As he thought, he knows about him, or the very least he knows about his skillset. A normal magi would've laughed at him for relying on something as basic as projection.

"Do you know why?" the boy spoke, his voice raspy as if he has no water for some time.

"I do, or at least I think so but first we need to feed you something" Emiya replied. The boy needs food, his body is clearly malnourished. he used his structural grasp on him. While it's not as effective it still could get me some information on his new master.

Oh. Looks like my master's a phantasmal creature. Thankfully he is not a vampire. he hates vampires.

His new master, brought out a sword. From where he does not know. Taking the sword, he analyzed it. "Made up of tempered iron. Have existed for 10 years…nothing exceptional." An iron sword used by a rank 9 adventure belonging to the adventure's guild. Who was later killed by a beast known as primo geovishap.

After that he left towards the forest.

Emiya tried using alteration on the iron sword. Unfortunately, it did not work. So structural grasp works but not alteration. But what about a bounded field? He raised his hands and tried to create a bounded field, which again did not work.

After some more testing, which was not a lot due to him being a third-rate magus, he learned that as long as mana is kept inside, nothing would happen. Not even his reality marble can be used. But also spells that don't directly affect the world can also be used, such as structural grasp. And if him being unable to use his magecraft and noble phantasm wasn't bad enough Emiya also learned that his parameters have dropped! All his parameters have been degraded to the level of a normal human.

After some scouting, he realized that they are on an island.

Quickly hunting down a boar and picking a few plants, and tearing down a vine to tie the sword on his back. He returned to the camp.

"I have many questions that need answered, but first you need to eat something and then sleep." The boy needs to sleep.

"Huh! I can tell you now you know."

"Eat, sleep and then you can answer my questions." He spoke. Emiya looked straight at him. For some reason he felt as if he thought something bad about him.

Cutting off the meat into small pieces and then sticking them onto a stick, Emiya placed them on the fire to cook. Now normally he would give something healthier for a malnourished child. But due to him being a phantasmal creature his body has no such problems like humans do.

"Here."

"Thanks." The boy bit into it and squirmed in delight. Emiya couldn't help but smirk. Afterall seeing people enjoy his food always gave him satisfaction.

-scene change-

It was currently morning, Emiya did not sleep last night, more like he couldn't. after the boy went to sleep, he analyzed himself and the boy properly. Which brought him some troubling information.

The good news, analyzing the boy he learned that he comes from a different world, where the age of gods hasn't ended. The boy is the child of Baraqiel which makes him the grandson of God. He wondered how the church would've reacted to it.

Useless thoughts aside, the boy has not inherited much from his father. The only thing he has inherited is a phantasmal creatures physiology, the ability to speak all languages and two mystic eyes.

His right mystic eye has the ability to charm people, a very-weak charm, the charm is not strong enough to make people obey his commands, it merely makes him more desirable.

But the real power comes from his left eye which has been cut. His left mystic eye was strong that it would be classified as rainbow ranked, it's as if someone took the second true magic and turned into an eye. Further analysis answered many questions. Like why did he not have any power from his fallen angel heritage? The answer; its due to his mystic eye interfering with it. The fallen angel side of his was devoured to nurture his mystic eye, so while he was born a half-fallen angel, his eye simply devoured it. So, he is more like a 1/5th fallen angel than half.

It also explains why he was able to come teleport to this world. Unfortunately, whoever cut his eye also made sure his left eye was damaged but thankfully not destroyed. His eye is healing itself slowly, from at the rate of his healing speed he would need at least hundreds of years to completely restore itself. Which should not be a problem for him considering he will live long.

More good news is that the power of reinforcement and structural grasp has increased. Maybe it's due to that fact that world does not interfere with internal magecraft or maybe it's because that the only one who uses magecraft in this world is Emiya.

Also, more good news, is that somehow, someway the connection between him and Alaya isn't there. He doesn't know how, maybe it's because this world is outside Alaya's interference or maybe it's due to the fact that he was alive again.

But he won't think about it too deeply. Alaya always finds a way. No matter how or when, she always finds a way to drag him back.

Yes, after severe analysis of himself, he discovered that his body is not a mere vessel granted from the holy grail but it also isn't his true body. it's as if someone constructed a new body exactly like his own and placed him in it. Due to this, his parameters are all at the level of a normal human and due to this body being one not made from the holy grail he lacks his class skills. But thankfully since it is a real body, he is able to train and grow.

Emiya sighed. He should wait until his new master wakes up. Then he can finally clear up all of his questions.

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His master woke up 4 hours later. Emiya cooked breakfast for him, which his master quickly devoured faster than yesterday. Thankfully his appetite and speed are nowhere near a certain king of knights.

Currently both him and his master were seated Infront of each other.

"'kay what do you want to know?" his master asked him. Looks like he was much more spirited than yesterday.

"Everything. About you, about this place and my purpose in being summoned." Emiya acted as if he knew nothing about this world. He wanted to know how much will his master tell him and how much will he hide.

And thus started a very long explanation, from the very beginning of his masters first life to their current predicament. Never would he have thought that his master would be a reincarnation. Most part of his story was so ridiculous that he wanted to kill someone.

Seriously a city believing that they are above everyone, them being allowed to do anything without punishment. What the hell is wrong with this world? And why didn't Alaya send him to clean up the garbage that reside here. His master called them man-children and from everything he heard about them he would have to agree.

Then comes the power system of this world. According to his master, this world possesses fruits that could grant powers, from a simple power such as controlling fire to powers that let the person jump forward in time, without any casualty! Which idiot thought that making powers such as this was a good idea.

Then the other power system, haki. A system where they weaponize willpower, able to destroy things from the inside, able to sense strength, emotions and even able to see the future. And also, another power which makes numbers completely useless.

This world is ridiculous!

"This world is the strangest world I have seen." Emiya told his master, afterall as a counter guardian he has seen some a large number of parallel worlds. he even once met a female version of Cu Chulainn. Just remembering that meeting sent a shiver down my spine. The bitch even tried to sleep with him. He would rather serve Alaya without complaint than sleep with a parallel version of that dog.

"Wait till you see the giant walking elephant with an island on his back."

"Ha." Emiya let out a laugh. Now that was simply ridiculous. But seeing my masters smile, he realized that he was not joking.

The mere size of such a beast would make him nigh-undefeatable. Emiya truly hoped that it won't become an enemy. he sincerely does not want to face such a thing.

"Damn my E-rank luck." But then again knowing his luck, the beast would probably try to kill him if he met it.

-scene change-

"Here." My master gave me the strange fruits, which he called devil fruits, to him. the fruit looked odd, with spirals adorning it and a beak like protrusion on the side. It does not look safe for consumption.

Emiya analyzed as told. Information flooded his brain. A normal strawberry that one day mutated and gained a consciousness. No consciousness is not the correct term. Its more like the fruit suddenly gained a will of its own. A very weak will, but a will nonetheless.

Emiya was given more fruits to analyze some fruits that could let the whoever eats gain the power to manipulate a concept, like the stiff-stiff fruit which is able to stop movement of anything attacked by the beam. Which according to his master is called a paramecia type.

Then they are the fruits that able to transform the user into a specific element. The rose-rose fruit makes whoever eats it able to manipulate roses. The user can breakdown their body into rose petals but also can transform their body into thorny vines. Which is called a logia-type.

And the other fruits, able to give the user the power of a specific animals, but these group can be further divided into three parts, regular, ancient and zoan. From analysis, regular devil fruits give the ability to transform and gain the properties of normal animals. Ancient zoan gives the ability to transform into prehistoric creatures. And lastly mythical, gives the ability to transform into a mythical creature, which they have one of, the bird-bird fruit model: vermillion bird.

the boy has been staring at it for quite some time.

My master told me, how his mother used to be a candidate to host his worlds vermillion bird. And how she was killed due to it.

Now he has never been good at giving advice, the way he views the world and the way others view the world is completely different, so sometimes his advice is not usable for other people. but he tried giving some advice that could help the boy.

"What was that, unlimited cringe works." Emiya scowled. Seriously? Here he was trying to help this brat, yet all he got in return was the brat making fun of him. ungrateful brat.

Master took out the mythical devil fruit and ate it. His face cringed in disgust as if he ate a lemon, but he still swallowed it.

A few seconds later, fire started appearing on his body, slowly healing his injuries.

The boy started laughing like a third-rate villain.

"Was my advice that bad?" he muttered to himself. Was his luck so bad that he accidently made a villain while trying to help.

Well wouldn't be the first time.

-scene change-

It's been two months since he was summoned by Arashi. Many things changed.

First, his skill in the sword has increased, a lot. Analyzing the swords gave him many ideas on how to increase his skill. Training methods, for swordsmanship and haki were analyzed.

His favorite technique was the flying sword slash which is Performed by swinging the sword with enough force and speed to create a powerful pressure in the form of a compressed air blade, allowing the user to attack from a distance. Which he has been trying to improve readily.

Also, the six powers have also made it quite useful. To harden his body like iron – funny considering that people used call him the magus of wrought iron – or to simply cross the distance. They are extremely versatile, making it quite useful to learn. Due to that Emiya has been trying to learn all six techniques.

He has mastered three of the six, Tekkai which hardens the users' muscles to the level of iron, allowing them to withstand and effectively nullify any damage they might have taken from attacks, Soru allows the users to move at extremely high speeds in order to avoid attacks, as well as to attack at higher speeds and with greater power and Shigan is a close-quarter combat technique, in which the user uses their finger to pierce the target's flesh, at a very high speed. The resulting wound is roughly the size of a bullet wound.

But the most useful thing he has learned has to be haki, observation haki to be precise. Currently he can sense the presence and strength of others using it. And has a radius of 3km. According to Arashi the next stage is emotion sensing and then after that is future vision. he wont lie, but just thinking about gaining the ability to see the future makes him…happy? Satisfied? Something along those lines.

Though it was not easy to awaken. he had to blindfold himself and dodge beams of fire from Arashi. And he was pretty sure his master awakened something.

Speaking of Arashi, he told Emiya that they would become pirates! Which would be pretty interesting.

Also speaking of him…

"Desolation blast." Fireballs rained down on me, but he easily weaved through them. He has gotten better, a lot better.

His Ōdachi aimed for his neck trying to decapitate him, but Emiya jumped back avoiding it.

"Sonic zephyr." He flapped his wings, creating a shock wave which pushed him back slightly. To which he grinned.

We have been fighting for hours now. Which is enough.

"Okay enough playing…" he kicked the ground ten times at an instant. Appearing Infront of him, with his falchions on either side of his neck. To which he cursed Emiya

"You should really stop naming all your attacks, master."

"Did you say something, Mister-I-recite-an-entire-poem-before-I-attack."

Emiya couldn't help but scowl. Dammit. Its not his fault that the requirements of his reality marble make him recite a long aria.

Emiya looked at his master again. He has gotten healthier, his heritage as a phantasmal creature alongside eating the devil fruit has increased his healing rate by a lot.

He looks completely healthy; all of his scars and injuries have been healed except two. The scar that goes form above his eyebrow to above his lips and the branding on the back of his hand, the hoof of the soaring dragon. A person who doesn't know him would think that he was a normal child, even he would sometimes think like that.

But him screaming and crying in his sleep reminds me that no matter how happy he looks he is still…

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After reminding his master of the gacha, master started praying for some good rolls.

He was not sure what he pulled but was pretty sure it was something good by seeing the grin on his face.

Emiya truly hoped he could draw kanshou and bakuya. he truly misses them. While the current ones are good, but they are not the married swords that accompanied him for a long time.

"I gained a companion." Arashi told me with a huge grin in his face. Seeing the grin Emiya was confused. "Is it someone I know?" why do I suddenly feel I'm in danger.

The magic circle appeared Infront of me. at first, I was confused but when SHE appeared my confusion turned into dread.

We don't have enough resources to keep her fed! It's okay, just because she was summoned doesn't mean she knows me.

"Servant saber has answered your call, I ask you this, are you my- Shirou!" shit. She knows me.

"Master because art thou a heartless bitch."

Once we become pirates, I should probably search for something that could help with accursed luck. Maybe there is a luck-luck fruit that can help me.

-chapter end-

Today we have entered the mind of our favorite counter guardian.

Sorry for the long wait I've have to go on a trip and my mother refused me taking my laptop.

Anyway, while on the trip I've had many new ideas. And many potential crew mates for the future crew.

Amerikhan786: my bad for not giving hints on the reason why. But I hope it was solved.

P34644563: I'll admit my story is not the best but its not that bad. is it? Also, he escaped to the east blue because he was atop the redline and thus could easily go because unlike others MC had flight capabilities. So, he does not have to use a slow boat and fight against the weather. Hope that helps.

Roymustang949: OG, otherwise it would not be fun to have my favorite loner on the crew

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