"Training Room", Matou Magical Workshop, Matou Residence,
Miyama Town, Fuyuki City
Ōita Prefecture
Japan
Sakura Matou
The manor in which it is forbidden to enter.
The rule that even the littlest of children known.
Although, none of the citizenry have realised the true nature of the master of this manor, they understand instinctively and stay away from this house. If they so would they round us all up and burn us with their torches and pitchforks like in those Westerns that my Brother always talks about.
It's hopeless in the end, noone can defy Grandfather, even Uncle Kariya…
We are to begin the summoning soon, for the War. The Fifth Fuyuki Holy Grail War, a grandiose name that masks what is hidden, a ritual of betrayal, blood, and slaughter, where no one will survive. Even my Sister and Senpai will be killed, if they defy Grandfather.
Brother stands beside me trying to conceal his full body furious shudder.
Although there is no training today, he is deeply aware of what was here, what was present only a few moments prior and what would fill the room a few moments after his departure.
"Begin the Incantation" demanded Grandfather softly, Zouken Matou, the Patriarch of the Matou Family of Mages, a failed lineage of over five hundred years from Kyiv, intones as if a machine designed solely to speak those words.
I began, behind me I heard Shinji's bag, still fresh from school plop to the ground with a dull unremarkable thud. Grandfather ignored it.
Let silver and steel be the essence.
Let stone and the archduke of contracts be the foundation.
Let my template Makiri be the Ancestor
Let rise a wall against the wind that shall fall.
Let the four cardinal gates close.
Let the three-forked road from the crown reaching unto the Kingdom rotate.
Let it be declared now; your flesh shall serve under me, and my fate shall be with your sword.
Submit to the beckoning of the Holy Grail.
Answer, if you would submit to this will and this truth.
An oath shall be sworn here.
I shall attain all virtues of all of Heaven; I shall have dominion over all evils of all of Hell.
From the Seventh Heaven, attended to by three great words of power, come forth from the ring of restraint, protector of the holy balance!
A thick woody scent filled the room.
Where was the Servant?
Is this Cedar(Sugi)?