Fated Destiny Book Three

by FatedWriter

In the year 2025 Chaldea Security Organization has completed the Second Grand Order postponing Humanities destruction yet again. With the second singularity completed, they still have more questions than answers. While new faces join Chaldea to bolster their cause, there are those among the organization who are plotting its downfall. Will the group uncover who is behind everything?

10. Chapter Ten Revelations

Chapter Ten

Revelations

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As I cruised down the Highway, the bustling city of Philadelphia finally came into view after the five hour long journey. Even though I had left the snow storm behind me in Pittsburgh, I could see that Philadelphia already had on a light blanket of snow, while the sun shined weakly in the sky. It wouldn't be long before the snowstorm in Pittsburgh came to Philadelphia and more snow would stack on top of the already existing snow. On the bright side of things, the later half of my trip home wouldn't be in a snow storm. Not that I minded the snow, it just wasn't fun to drive in. I pushed my foot further down on the gas and sped along the rest of the way to Philly, with flurries of snow kicking up around my car as I raced down the highway.

Shortly later I would find myself regretting my decision to rush to get here as I was now grinded to a halt in bumper to bumper traffic. This is why I didn't like going to cities, because of all the goddamn traffic. Although that did leave one to question why I lived outside of Pittsburgh and not in a small town. That was a good question, one I did ask myself often amid a bunch of other questions. I didn't have a very good answer for that question, the best answer I could give one was that I lived on the outside of the city and going to the outskirts wasn't as bad. That and Pittsburgh was a wee bit smaller than Philadelphia, and by wee bit smaller I mean 1.2 Million people smaller. I had lived in small towns in my life and I had come to miss having access to the stores I had access to while living near in a Small City. Maybe one day I would move to a smaller city with a population under a hundred thousand, however that would have to wait for another day. All these questions would have to wait for another time as well, because today I was going to find out from Ms. Tohsaka who had been behind the bombings and perhaps behind all of the singularities as well. This meeting with Ms. Tohsaka did leave me feeling a bit nervous now that I was close to finding out what she had discovered. I had tried my best for the past two weeks not to let my mind become occupied with what I would find out, however all this time suppressing these thoughts was now slowly eating away at me as I sat in traffic. What information did Ms. Tohsaka possibly have to show me? Where did she get it from? How did she find it when Clock tower had been unable to even find a single lead? Who was it at the top of Chaldea Security Organization that was behind things? Was I really being watched by Chaldea? Have they always been watching me? Were they watching my Sister? Or have they been watching everyone? If so that must mean they have the authority to do so, and there are only a handful of people who could even authorize such a thing. I had formulated some opinions or you could say theories on who had been behind the incident, but I didn't have much information to formulate these theories so they were really just opinions. Before I had learned it was someone higher up, it had been my theory that it had just been some disgruntled Chaldea employee that carried out these bombings to get revenge for something like hating their boss or not getting a raise. It might sound crazy, but people would shoot up their workplaces for stupider things than that. However that theory fell pretty flat, because I don't think not getting a raise or hating your boss would cause you to want to end humanity, or at least I don't think it would be enough reason. I didn't know to be honest; I had avoided thinking about the larger picture and hadn't really put much thought into who was behind all of this. Which probably wasn't a smart move on my part, but I didn't exactly have much to go on except for vague words from Alter Saber and the ramblings of a mad man like Gilles. So all I had was my opinions, disgruntled opinions as I rested my head against the wheel waiting in traffic…

Eventually I escaped from the slow grog of traffic and was moving again. I glanced down at the clock and saw that I had gotten here a bit early, for it was only twelve pm. Ms. Tohsaka and I were suppose to meet for dinner, but that wouldn't be for at least a few more hours. I wonder if I should look around a little bit or if I should just go find Ms. Tohsaka right away. I guess I should find a parking space first before I do anything. I drove up and down the streets of Philadelphia for awhile until I found a suitable parking garage and headed inside where I parked on the top floor. I pulled up the parking break and turned the key to the engine and it drifted off to sleep. All that was left was to get out of the car and find Ms. Tohsaka, simple enough right? "Yeah right, trying to find anyone or anything in this city was not easy." I thought to myself as I opened the door and my feet hit the ground. Once I reached the bottom of the parking garage and was out on the street I looked left to right to see a few people walking up and down the street. I had half expected for Ms. Tohsaka to appear out of nowhere like she had last time, however that did not appear to be the case this time. I reached into my coat pocket and pulled out my smartphone, Mashu, Shadow, and my own smiling face greeted me on the home screen as it turned on. I swiped my thumb across the screen and navigated through my phone to my messenger and I selected Ms. Tohsaka's contact and shot her a message.

"I just got in Philadelphia Ms. Tohsaka, where should I meet you?" I asked her. A few minutes passed by and I was about to think perhaps Ms. Tohsaka had dragged me out here just to send me a message saying that it was all a big joke and she wanted to make me waste money coming here. However I did receive a reply.

"Oh? You're here quite early, that's unexpected. However I can't say I hate when a man actually shows up early, it's refreshing to be honest. Unfortunately for you, I am still exploring the city at the moment. So you'll have to wait a few hours." Rin replied and I stood there scratching my head.

"What the hell am I supposed to do for three or four hours?" I quickly inquired.

"I'm sure you'll figure something out, there's plenty to do here. When I've found a place to meet up I'll send you a text message, until then!" Rin replied and I let out a groan as I stood there furrowing my eyebrows. I tucked my phone back into my coat pocket and looked around thinking what the hell I was gonna do for three hours? I had no idea, maybe I could try and do some shopping while I was here, but I didn't want to go any deeper into the city, because I was liable to get lost and then I would certainly be late to my meeting with Ms. Tohsaka. I guess I'll wander at least a little for a while until Ms. Tohsaka finishes her sightseeing tour. It was only a few minutes and I found that my feet had instead lead me to a bench overlooking the riverfront. I walked in front of the bench and plopped down with an oomph. I rested back against the bench with my hands crossed across my chest, looking up the river I saw an Old Battleship that had no doubt been turned into a museum while looking down I saw nothing much but industrial areas along the river. Eventually I just looked up into the sky and sat there in deep thought….

A Few Hours Later

I had spent my hours watching the ripples on the waterside of the river as the occasional boat would pass by. The sun was beginning to set in the sky and it was then when I felt a vibration in my coat pocket. I pulled my phone out once more to see a text on my front screen from Ms. Tohsaka telling me to meet her at a place called the Delaware Crossing. Man what an odd name for a restaurant, but I guess it's not too surprising since we were sitting on the Delaware River. I swiped my screen and shot Ms. Tohsaka a text message.

"Where exactly is this place?" I asked.

"Mm it's sitting on the Delaware River off of any roads tucked in between of several buildings." Rin replied and I smacked my forehead in frustration as I opened up my map app and searched for where this place was. Much to my annoyance, it was located on the other side of the city opposite of where I was.

"It's gonna take me awhile to get to where you're at. Since you so kindly choose a place on the other side of the city." I sent a message letting Ms. Tohsaka know.

"Take your time, but don't take too long." Rin replied and I could only grumble to myself. I was too much of a cheapskate to take a taxi so I guess I was walking. I could just follow the river to get to where Ms. Tohsaka was no need to go through the city directly.

It had been an hour, but eventually I reached the other side of the city and had reached a point where the main road that followed alongside the river curved and went westwards. At the end of the corner of this road was a small park on the river side with several benches facing the water and some bushes and plotted trees. Past the small park I saw an pathway that was tucked in between of several buildings and the river. I slid my hands into my pockets and headed towards the pathway, reaching the entrance to the pathway I saw it lead alongside the river with several storefronts and several more benches were spread out along this pathway. With so many benches in this city you could never complain that you couldn't find a place to rest. I made my way down that path glancing at the shops as I did and keeping an eye out for Ms. Tohsaka, and eventually I found her. Ms. Tohsaka was sitting outside of a cafe, at her table sipping happily from a small coffee mug, not having a care in the world.

"You seem to be enjoying that expresso Ms. Tohsaka." I said as I approached her and placed my hand on the back of the chair facing her to pull it out.

"Well Yes I am." Rin replied. "I have to, since the tea you Americans drink is completely awful." Rin said.

"You better watch out Ms. Tohsaka, we'll dump your tea into the harbor if you go on trashing our tea." I said jokingly as I pulled my jacket off and took a seat in front of her, scooting forward.

"Hmph very funny Christopher. Any tea that came from Japan would arrive on the West Coast not the East Coast." Rin said as she placed her teacup down. Opening her eyes she revealed her emerald colored eyes. Rin was wearing the same outfit I had saw her in last time, her red coat was sitting on the chair behind her and she had on a white turtleneck and black leggings and long dark brown boots. "So I assume since we're both sitting here the last singularity was a success?" Rin inquired.

"It's as you say. We wouldn't be sitting here if it had been a failure." I replied as I rested my hands on the table.

"May I inquire as to where this grail war took place?" Rin inquired as she interlocked her fingers.

"This time it was during the Hundred Years War in France." I replied.

"I see, an interesting time to say the least. Did you meet Joan of Arc?" Rin asked.

"Oh yeah, I sure did. The whole singularity centered around her and an alter version of herself." I said and Rin's eyes widened a little in either surprise or confusion.

"You're telling me that the world almost ended this time because of a battle between two Joan of Arc's?" Rin asked looking almost unconvinced.

"Well I'm not a History Major Ms. Tohsaka, but I think history would have been a bit different if there had been an evil Jeanne D'arc running around the world burning everyone with Dragons." I said just as Waiter came by and put a glass of water down, I thanked them with a nod of the head as I picked it up and took a sip.

"T-That's true…" Rin murmured as she seemed to grasp my simple and straight to the point answer.

"Anyway where's Arturia?" I inquired as I placed my glass of water back down.

"Well, I very well can't drag her around everywhere I go." Rin said as she rubbed her hands. "Arturia has a life outside of my own; she has kids to look after, a troublesome husband to watch over, and a job to work. The Christmas season is also upon us so I'm sure you can figure out that she's busy, even though Shirou does help out a lot." Rin added.

"I can visualize the image now, the King of Knights working in the kitchen while kids run around the house causing trouble and her husband watching the News as she yells at him to help." I said amusingly as I stroked my chin.

"Oh No! Arturia doesn't do any of the cooking! Shirou does all the cooking around their household since Arturia is an absolute terrible cook, but Arturia does her part and keeps herself busy with looking after the kids and cleaning the house. You could say she's the man in their relationship." Rin said and I raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? I see." I replied.

"Yes. Now I also see you didn't bring your servant with you? The red headed woman with the matching red spear." Rin said.

"No I didn't bring her along with me. I didn't tell anyone where I was going; I just told them that I was visiting an old friend." I said and that caused Ms. Tohsaka to chuckle.

"Oh we're old friends now? Usually it takes more than just one or two conversations in Japan for someone to become "Old friends"." Rin said sounding amused as she rubbed her cup.

"I had to tell her something alright!" I exclaimed. "It was the best thing that I could think of at the time." I said and Ms. Tohsaka only chuckled some more.

"I'm surprised she let you go that easily, Arturia would never have let Shirou leave the house during the grail war without a long and heated debate." Rin said.

"Yeah well I don't think Lancer particularly cares what happens to me." I said and Ms. Tohsaka raised an eyebrow. "Anyway, are you ever going to tell me exactly how Arturia is still even in this world or how your Grail war played out?" I inquired as I wagged my straw at her, causing water to go everywhere before I put back into my cup.

"Well I think it would only be fair to tell you, but it's not exactly a short story…" Rin said.

"Well I didn't drive for five hours and then sit around staring at the water for another three hours to hear short stories." I said.

"S-stare at the water for three hours! I told you to go out and do something; there were plenty of things to do in the city idiot!" Rin exclaimed. "What kind of idiot stares at the water for three hours!? How can you even do that?" Rin demanded.

"The same way I lay and stare at the stars for hours at a time." I replied and Rin was taken aback at my response. "Besides how can you expect me to casually go shopping while you're holding vital information that's been keeping me on the edge of my seat for two weeks?" I said and Rin furrowed her eyebrows.

"A-Alright I get it!" Rin exclaimed. "I guess I really hadn't given much thought to how on edge you must be feeling since I've been sitting on this information for several months now." Rin said as she let out a sigh. "So I guess I'll start with how our Grail War played out. Although I'm sure that I don't need to tell you every single detail because you experienced some of it for yourself." Rin said as she interlocked her fingers.

"Before you go any further and we get lost in that conversation, perhaps we should order dinner." I suggested and the mood became a little less dreary as Rin's face light up.

"Yes you're quite right, pretty soon we might not even have an appetite to eat!" Rin exclaimed. "I think I'd like to have a Philly cheesesteak, I had heard this place made pretty good ones!" Rin added.

"Yeah I think I'll have that too, I mean there's no better place to have a Philly cheesesteak than in Philadelphia." I said amusingly. The Waiter came up to our table and took our orders before heading inside the cafe, and a few minutes later was back with our orders...

I wiped my hands with my napkin before I placed it down next to my empty plate before looking up. Across from me Ms. Tohsaka wiped her mouth with her napkin and placed it down as well. We had finished our Philly cheesesteaks and now sat there silently staring at one another. I cleared my throat as a way to try and get the conversation moving again.

"Ahem Ms. Tohsaka, now that we've had dinner shall we proceed with our conversation." I said as I coughed into my hand. Ms. Tohsaka sat there for a moment silently before she interlocked her fingers once more as she rested her face against them.

"Yes as I said before I won't go into every single detail since I'm sure you've read the reports on the Holy Grail War yourself, not to mention you experienced it for yourself." Rin said and I nodded my head. "Although be it drastically different from our own war." Rin said.

"I've read the reports that Clock tower has available, but they weren't particularly informative." I said as I rested my arms on the table.

"Well the reports only tell part of the story, I'm sure you are aware." Rin said as she glanced up at me. "It was twenty years ago during the colder than usual winter months as it is now, that the fifth Holy Grail War began. It was only ten years after the fourth one, which was highly unusual given that there is usually a span of sixty years between wars." Rin said.

"And why did it only take ten years for the Fifth Grail War to start?" I inquired.

"I can only really theorize, but I'm pretty sure that the wait time was reduced drastically because the Grail utilized energy left over from the previous war." Rin replied before continuing.

"Anyway, The Fifth Holy Grail was like all before it: Seven Masters summon seven servants and they fight to the death until only one remains, or at least that's how it was supposed to go. As I'm sure you are aware things didn't work out that way." Rin said.

"Hunger games was a thing before the Movies even happened." I said jokingly.

"If Hunger Games had powerful Historical figures and Legends who brutally slaughtered one another, then sure." Rin said. "I can only give you my perspective of how the Holy Grail War played out along with what Shirou and Saber have told me." Rin said and I nodded my head. "For my part the Grail started off when I finally finished an annoying puzzle that my Father had left me and opened up a box where I found a smashed up catalyst and pendant. I of course was disappointed, but little did I know how important that pendant would end up being." Rin said. "The next day after school I began the summoning ritual to try and summon Saber. As you already know I summoned the Archer class Servant much to my extreme disappointment." Rin went on.

"Archer was extremely arrogant, annoying, and cynical. When we first met he was sitting there smugly in the ruins of my house after he crashed through the roof, then he had the gall to question if I was worthy of being his master and then down right refused to follow my orders." Rin said and I saw her eyebrow twitching furiously as she seemed to remember. "Well after using a command seal I sure showed him who the Master was and we had a lengthy discussion afterwards, he also informed me that he had no memories of who he was. Which had been a lie, but I'll explain that later." Rin said.

"The following day I told Archer who I was, and I experienced some more of Archer's sarcastic side. I spent that day showing Archer around the city so he could get a lay of the land, and at the end of the day on top of a skyscraper he said "Oh you should have just took me here to begin with, as I can see everything up here."" Rin said in a mocking tone. " I carried on as normal to school with Archer, it was then when I discovered someone had put up a blood forge barrier around the school and well that really pissed me off." Rin said. "So Archer and I spent all after school taking out all the sigils to the barrier to try and slow it down. It was on the roof where Archer and I encountered our first enemy of the Grail War, The Lancer Class Servant. Lancer came off as extremely sarcastic and a bit playful, but I could tell that he was no joke." Rin said and I sat back in my seat. "That sounds nothing like Scathach who was stubborn, unfriendly, hostile, and dangerous to all around her. That Lancer could have never gotten along with Scathach; they would have hated each other." I thought to myself before listening to Rin carry on. "Archer and I got off the roof as quickly as we could to gain the advantage over Lancer…." Rin said just before being cut off.

"Wait, Wait. Wouldn't you have the advantage on the roof since spears have the advantage of having a wide reach? So wouldn't you want to get in as close as possible?" I asked.

"Are you saying this because your Servant is a Lancer?" Rin inquired back.

"W-Well not really." I said awkwardly as I rubbed the back of my neck. "I don't know much about spears other than what I've watched in videos and observed from Lancer." I said.

"I see." Rin said calmly. "Well incase you had forgotten my servant was an Archer class servant so I thought he would want to have as much range as possible to use his bow, that and being cornered is never a good thing idiot." Rin said as she took a sip from her water. "Little did I know Archer fought using blades so they fought in melee combat." Rin added.

"Is he even classified as an actual Archer then?" I inquired.

"Hell if I know." Rin replied. "Anyway, Archer and Lancer fought a pretty brutal battle while I got my first taste of real battle. I realized then and there that battles between servants really were no joke. For some reason Archer and Lancer seemed to really hate each other more than you would expect servants to hate each other, but at the same time they would make snide and sarcastic remarks to the other. Trying to provoke one another." Rin pointed out. "It's not really an important detail, but just an observation I made. Anyway Archer and Lancer fought up until Lancer was about to use his Noble Phantasm and I thought it was going to be all over…

"But As luck would have it a certain boy had stayed at school late at night to clean the archery club and interrupted Lancer and Archers fight, saving both of our lives, but at the same time it had cost him his own." Rin said. "As per the rules, Lancer sought him out and killed him. I found the boy laying in a pool of his own blood stabbed through the heart, when I turned him over I recognized him as a boy that a friend of mine visited and stayed with regularly. So I used the gem my father had left me to reconstruct his heart and save him…." Rin said.

"Or perhaps Ms. Tohsaka felt guilt…." I said just before I felt a sharp pain in my foot as Ms. Tohsaka slammed her heel down on my toe.

"Shut up you idiot, I told you that it was because it was a friend of mines dear friend and I couldn't handle the thought of her having to find out the boy she admired and respected had been killed." Rin said and I felt as she lifted her heel off of my toe. "I had returned home afterwards and Archer came back telling me he couldn't have tracked down Lancer's Master, but he had gone and retrieved the pendant that I had used." Rin said. "Or so I had thought he had, but anyway. It was then when Archer reminded me that Lancer would hunt down and kill the boy after he found out that he was alive. So Archer and I rushed to the boy's house to try and save him." Rin explained. "However it turned out that the boy had not needed saving as he had summoned the Seventh Servant, The Saber Class." Rin said.

"Arturia Pendragon? So that means the boy you saved was that Shirou fellow." I said and Rin nodded her head.

"Yes that's correct. Upon arriving at Shirou's house, Saber almost immediately killed Archer and I catching us off guard. If it hadn't been for Shirou telling Saber to stop and some cunning on my own part, I'd probably be dead." Rin explained.

"So I guess you could say that the debt was repaid immediately afterwards?" I said.

"I guess you could say that, Shirou, Saber, and I had a lengthy discussion afterwards as I explained to him what he had gotten dragged into and what servants were. He was as humble and kind as I had heard; he didn't even bother pretending like he had been able to hold Lancer off until he summoned Saber." Rin said before continuing. "It was then that I decided to take Shirou and Saber to the Church so the Overseer could explain the rules and what the grail wars were to him and let him decide if he wanted to participate in the grail wars." Rin explained. "It wasn't a particularly interesting conversation so I won't bore you, the Overseer was Kirei Kotomine and he explained to Shirou the rules while Shirou argued against the whole idea of the wars and even wanted to give up his command of Saber until he finally gave in at the end." Rin said.

"Kotomine… I've heard of that name, we actually found his body in the Fuyuki Singularity, he had been killed at the church." I said and Ms. Tohsaka's eyes appeared to flicker.

"Well I can't say that I'm really sad that he died, In fact I would say I'm quite glad to hear he got killed again." Rin said.

"Yes I had heard he was a real scumbag who had been the "Evil Mastermind" during the Fifth Holy Grail War." I said.

"Well you're right, so that saves me some trouble of explaining that all to you." Rin explained. "Now then after we finished our conversation with Kotomine we were attacked outside of the Church by Illya Von Einzbern and her Monster of a Servant Berserker, to sum up that fight Berserker basically wiped the floor with us even though Archer had provided Fire support from afar, and Saber had done a lot of the heavy lifting. All the while Illya watched on amusingly." Rin said.

"Wait if this Master Illya was there, and Saber was fighting berserker, why didn't you just tell Archer to snipe this Illya girl while Berserker was distracted." I suggested.

"Y-You're suggesting I should have told Archer to snipe a little girl?" Rin exclaimed.

"Well I'm just saying!? The point of the Grail wars was originally to kill the masters and servants; I'm just saying you would have saved yourself a lot of trouble!" I exclaimed and I heard a grumble from Rin.

"You're probably right, but suffice to say Hercules, her servant, was really a Monster who completely beat Saber down. The fight ended with Shirou throwing himself in front of one of Hercules attacks to try and save Saber who was beaten pretty badly. Shirou almost got sliced in half from Berserker's massive sword." Rin said.

"That sounds like a great way to make use of your chance at a second life." I said sarcastically. "Really showing his gratitude to you for saving his life." I added.

"Tell me about it…. Well suffice to say I think we were all so dumbstruck by his stupidity that we ended the fight and went home." Rin said. "Shirou of course didn't die from his wounds, as once Saber and I carried him home, his injuries appeared to heal themself and after that I left him and Saber to their own devices." Rin said. "After that I heard that Shirou eventually revealed Saber to the other people staying at his household with Saber being allowed to say after she beat Shirou's de facto godmother." Rin said. "Meanwhile Archer and I attempted to hunt down Caster who was spreading mayhem about the city by draining people of their life source." Rin said. "We didn't have much luck on our end, and my next real meeting with Shirou would be at School where I would find him without his servant like a big idiot. You could say I got a little mad and tried to kill him, but it was interrupted as an innocent girl ended up getting attacked and we stopped what we were doing to help her. Shirou ended up saving my life again as he took a spike through his arm to protect my head from getting impaled." Rin said.

"Jesus Christ, how many times can this boy get stabbed?" I said scratching my head.

"Oh don't worry we haven't even finished the story yet, he gets stabbed plenty more." Rin said. "After that Shirou went out to stupidly try and fight Rider who tried to kill me, I stepped in saving him from Rider and we ended the fight as I took him back to my place to heal his injuries. His injury had healed up like last time and it was there that we made a truce to take out the other Master at school and stop him from harming the students. Suffice to say that truce just ended up lasting the whole war." Rin said and I had figured that much.

"You two just keep saving each other over and over then repaying your debt over and over." I said and Rin sighed.

"Yes I know this." Rin said. "Shirou also told me about his training and father. Anyway after he went home I had heard Saber had gotten pretty mad at Shirou for not summoning her for that fight." Rin said and I imagined Scathach chewing me out if that had happened. "The next day we had made a promise to look around school and take out all the sigil's to try and get a response from the Master who put up the bounded field. We took out a lot of them that day, but after I had left Shirou ended up being brought to school where he found a massive one and Shinji Matou revealed himself to be the Master of Rider and person who put up the field to Shirou. I had gone back to Shirou's place to look for him, but I hadn't found him there and Saber was impatiently waiting for him as well. Eventually he came back and told us that Shinji had made him an offer to join up, Shirou turned it down however. It was then when we discussed Caster, who Shinji had given Shirou information that Caster was up at the temple with an Assassin Servant, then Saber and Shirou had some argument about Caster, because Saber wanted to go up there immediately and fight her but Shirou was like oh no that's not happening." Rin said.

"I think that Saber was going to go up there and fight her that night, but unfortunately for Shirou and Saber, Caster had already made plans to bring Saber to her. Caster ended up kidnapping Shirou so Saber went to rescue him where she fought Assassin while Archer had also decided to intervene and protect Shirou. That didn't turn out so well as Archer had almost killed Shirou up at the temple after they had a fight, this would only be the beginning of a deeper hatred between those two. Saber also got her ass handed by Assassin so she almost fainted and those two ended up dragging themselves back to Shirou's house while Archer fought against Assassin, I ended up finding those two almost passed out in the front door of the house." Rin explained. "After that they explained to me what happened and they got into another argument where Saber wanted Shirou to stop trying to fight and let Saber do all the fighting and Shirou was like No I don't want you to fight by yourself and get hurt, and then I intervened and Saber allowed Shirou to fight only if Shirou would agree to train under Saber. Shirou agreed to Saber's conditions and the following day they beat each other till Shirou bleed." Rin said with the wave of her hand. "I ended up scolding Archer pretty hard and used a Command seal on him forcing him not to attack Shirou again until our truce had ended." Rin said and that made me start to wonder if I could use a command seal on Scathach to stop her from punching me. "While Saber and Shirou were beating each other, Shinji came up to me at School and made me the same offer he made to Shirou. I turned him down of course which made him mad." Rin said looking quite pleased with herself.

"The next day when I was telling Shirou about this at Lunch, Shinji activated the barrier to try and kill us all and use our mana to make Rider more powerful." Rin said. "Things didn't really go his way of course as Shirou used a command seal to summon Saber after getting thrown out a window by Rider, I had tried to call Archer to assist us, but he didn't arrive until after the battle was over." Rin explained. "After I barely held off Rider, Saber and Shirou came back to help me. Rider was no match for Saber and Shirou made Shinji turn off the barrier, but it didn't end there because Rider ended up using her Noble phantasm to escape with Shinji. After that Shirou called Kotomine to help with the hundred of students who had passed out from the incident, and yes he surprisingly did actually help the students, I guess to make himself less suspicious." Rin said before I could open my mouth. "After that Shirou, Saber, and I met up with Archer and we talked things over in the woods. Archer and Saber got into an argument and Archer teased Saber, which was highly unusual, and they almost fought one another till I stepped in. Shirou told me that Saber and him were going to go hunt down Shinji and Rider while I went home with Archer." Rin went on. "Shirou and Saber basically went up and down the city searching for barriers that Shinji might have put up until they eventually found Rider and Shinji at the top of a skyscraper, it was there where Rider and Saber went Noble Phantasm to Noble Phantasm and Saber's Noble Phantasm Excalibur completely wiped out Rider and her Phantasmal beast. With Rider dead Shinji fled for his life and Arturia passed out because she had completely drained almost all her mana when she used Excalibur, Shinji wound up being killed by Berserker and Illya who had been watching the fight." Rin explained.

"I can't say I feel bad for Shinji." I said and Rin nodded in agreement.

"I didn't particularly want him to die, but I don't feel bad that he is dead. He wasn't really a good person and treated his sister horribly." Rin said which only made me reaffirm my opinion. "Anyway when I dropped by Shirou's house I found him with Saber in her room and after examining her I explained how dire his situation was, since Shirou could not replenish Saber with mana Saber would not be able to restore enough of her mana to be able to fight and if she tried to fight she would disappear. I basically told him that his only real option was to force Saber to do drain peoples life force so save her, Shirou of course refused. It left him pretty troubled and he spent most of the day looking after Saber, until he eventually went out I think to try and gather his thoughts." Rin explained. "However he ended up getting kidnapped by Illya due to how weak he is. I had stayed at Shirou's house to look after Saber, it was when Saber woke up and looked around for Shirou and couldn't find her, that she came to me and pleaded for my help to rescue him. I couldn't really refuse and I brought Archer along with us begrudgingly, since he had been against saving Shirou and wanted to leave him to his fate." Rin said.

"I can't say I'm surprised since he had tried to kill him." I said which caused Rin to sigh.

"Well anyway Saber lead us to Einzbern Castle where Illya and Berserker were." Rin said. "We found Shirou unharmed in the castle as he had escaped captivity, so with Shirou in hand we fled the Castle. However it wasn't that easy." Rin said.

"It usually never is." I said with a chuckle.

"No it never is, we had foolishly tried to escape through the front door. We had thought that Illya and Berserker left to find to go find us. Instead they had been there all along watching us, Berserker and Illya confronted us when we tried to leave." Rin went onto explain. "Saber was in no condition to fight so I told Archer to cover us while we escaped, but Archer told me if I would be okay if he killed Berserker. I told him to go ahead and kill Berserker." Rin said and her eyes saddened. "But that idiot ended up getting killed as Berserker was too much for even him. Archer did however give us enough time to escape far into the forest however." Rin said in a somber tone. "It was there where we made a desperate move to replenish Saber's mana." Rin said and for the first time Ms. Tohsaka appeared to be a bit flustered. "Shirou transferred some of his magical circuits to Saber so she could regenerate mana again to be able to fight." Rin said.

"Ms. Tohsaka, your face is getting so red that it might melt the snow." I said with an amused grin on my face. This only caused Ms. Tohsaka to get even more flustered as she shot her head up from behind her hands.

"S-Shut up you idiot! The process involved getting very close and physical to each other." Rin said and I raised an eyebrow. "Also stop calling me Ms. Tohsaka it's weird and makes me feel old! Just call me Rin!" Rin exclaimed.

"Alright, Alright! Carry on Rin." I said as I waved my hands in front of me. Ms. Tohs… I mean Rin only narrowed her eyes at me before she let out a sigh and carried on.

"Well anyway, that was sufficient enough to allow Saber to regenerate Mana to fight again. We then proceeded to formulate a strategy to fight Berserker and Illya. We choose to ambush him in the forest where Shirou would support Saber and I would lay in wait to launch a surprise attack on Berserker with my gems. It didn't quite go as expected as Berserker once again wiped the floor with Saber as she couldn't use Excalibur without the risk of fading away, my ambush also didn't go as planned either because I got caught in Berserkers hand and even though I blew his head off with my stash of gems. I only took one of Hercules lives, and since he had twelve lives, and Archer had only taken six of his lives. I was in quite the predicament, and Berserker crushed me in his arm until I passed out." Rin said as she pressed her face against her hands. "When I woke up I found Saber and Shirou standing there with a sword stabbed through Berserkers chest. Shirou had apparently used projection magic to project one Saber's Holy sword Caliburn that she had lost, that sword had been enough to slash off Berserkers arm and take the rest of his lives. There was a brief moment before he disappeared and all that was left was Illya. Saber was going to kill Illya, but Shirou stopped her of course. Instead we took Illya back to our place much to our displeasure." Rin said.

"It ended up being a brilliant decision on Shirou's part, as I figured out Illya was the Vessel for the Holy Grail. So having her with us actually put us at a major advantage." Rin said.

"Wait I don't understand?" I interjected. "What do you mean she was the vessel of the Holy Grail?" I asked.

"Illya was a homunculus, while mages are living beings with magical circuits; Illya was magical circuits with a human body." Rin explained and I let out an oh as I sat back in my chair.

"Well anyway if you've been using your official Rin Servant Tracker, you'll know that there were only a few more servants left in the running. None of them we thought could provide a major threat to Saber. Or so we thought…." Rin murmured. "Our next target was taking out Caster who had silently been watching the war from the sidelines, with the exception of draining innocents in the city of their mana and that one time when she kidnapped Shirou, but that had all taken a backseat to Berserker." Rin said. "However with him gone, we could focus all of our attention on Caster. We had known that Caster was at the Temple, but not who her Master was. Archer had suggested that her Master was being used at a Puppet, which I agreed with. We also had suspicion that the fourth Master was at our School. So we spent the course of two days searching the school for any clues as to who the fourth master at school was and eventually we learned from one of Shirou's close friends, Issei Ryuudou, that one our school teachers Souichirou Kuzuki was living with a strange yet beautiful woman who was suppose to be his wife, so he seemed to fit the bill of someone who would be Caster's Master. So we decided to test him out to see if he really was Caster's master." Rin said. "We laid in wait to ambush him at an abandoned gas station on the route to the temple, and suffice to say things didn't go well. He was indeed Caster's master, but he wasn't your typical mage, he was a trained assassin who had been taught to kill people since his childhood. We got our asses kicked by Caster and Kuzuki, Kuzuki was even able to fight Saber believe it or not." Rin said.

"You guys sure do get your asses kicked a lot." I said pointing out.

"And you don't get your asses kicked in the singularities? You're telling me that everything goes smooth sailing and no problems happen at all?" Rin exclaimed angrily at me as she slammed her hand down on the table causing the few people at the cafe to turn our direction.

"N-No. We usually get our asses kicked a lot too…" I murmured as I rubbed the back of my head.

"That's what I thought, if you didn't I would have to take back all the worries or concerns I had for you people." Rin said. "Well anyway, Shirou managed to project Archer's twin blades to try and put up a fight, he did little to slow him down however, but at the same time he did give Saber enough time to recover and try to take out Caster. After this Caster offered us to join forces, but we refused her outright because she wanted a human sacrifice to summon the grail. After we refused her, she retreated with her Master. That was only a short lived retreat, because she had went to our house and kidnapped a close friend of ours who while not a mage, had the magical circuits needed to sacrifice her for the grail." Rin said. "She also managed to use her Noble phantasm on Saber, rule breaker, which sealed Saber's Noble phantasm Excalibur." Rin said.

"A Noble phantasm that can seal other Noble Phantasm? That does sound a bit useful." I said.

"Quite useful, I'm sure you can figure out that it put us in a pickle." Rin said. "I suppose there's no point in hiding it, but the person in question that was kidnapped was my Sister Sakura." Rin said and my face did fill with worry as I was concerned what would happen to Rin's Sister. "Since Mage families can only have one successor, my sister Sakura was given to a rival mage family who had been unable to produce a proper mage heir. That family in question was Shinji's family." Rin said and I couldn't help but ruffle my eyebrows a little. "You can now understand why I didn't feel bad about Shinji dying, on top of him already being a bad person. You can also understand how I would be desperate to want to get my sister back and return her to safety; even though we were separated I still truly loved her." Rin said.

"Of course, I have a sister myself and while she isn't who she used to be, I still love her as my sister." I said and Rin nodded her head in understanding.

"Shirou and Saber of course agreed to help me get Sakura back since Sakura was also their close friend. So the three of us rushed to the Temple where we ended up finding a trail that led us to a large cavern in the side of a mountain where Caster had built a massive city filled with golems, and where she was doing the ritual to bring forth the grail." Rin explained.

"That sounds like the Cavern where we found the Greater Grail and Alter Saber! It wasn't far from the temple and was off the beaten path in the woods." I exclaimed.

"It was probably the same place then, it has powerful magical ley lines there." Rin said. "So after we fought through all those golems we reached Caster and Kuzuki, it was there where we fought them. Shirou faced against Kuzuki alongside of Saber while I had to end up fighting my sister to save her, while I managed to save Sakura, Caster was still a threat and I had to fight her. You'll be surprised to hear that I did manage to get the upper hand on her, but it was short lived as Saber and Shirou had been completely beat down by Kuzuki. Kuzuki's intervention saved Caster and I thought that she was about to kill all three of us, but….."

"But it was then when Archer appeared out of nowhere and impaled Caster and her Master with hundred of swords." Rin said and my eyes widened a little bit in surprise.

"Excuse me? Archer? You told me Archer was dead." I exclaimed.

"I thought he was dead too, but Archer survived his fight with Berserker and had been living on through independent action that every Archer class possesses." Rin explained. "At first I had been overjoyed to see Archer still alive, but that joy disappeared rather quickly as Archer tried to kill a weakened Shirou who was barely saved by Saber. I angrily told Archer to knock it off, but he didn't care since I was no longer his Master and trapped me in a cage of swords." Rin went on. "It was then and there that we learned that it was his goal of killing Shirou Emiya, for Archer was himself a Future version of Shirou Emiya. The Shirou Emiya who had lived to fulfill his dream of becoming a Hero of Justice, but his dream didn't quite go as well as expected so he wished to end Shirou in this timeline in the slight hope that he would disappear off the throne of heroes." Rin said as her eyes saddened once more. "Saber tried to fight back against Archer, but she was weakened from the previous fight. However she was still strong enough to beat back Archer a little bit, as he didn't have me as a Master anymore, but ultimately he used his Noble Phantasm Unlimited Blade Works which encased us in reality marble of a land filled with swords where he was able to compete with Saber." Rin explained and I remember that massive marble that had encased Caster and Archer in the first singularity, so that's what that had been. "He spawned hundreds of swords he was going to throw at us which would have surely killed Shirou and I since Saber couldn't defend us and herself at the same time, but instead of us all dying Shirou charged forward and met his blades head on with copied versions of his own." Rin explained and I shook my head.

"This Shirou fellow sure does some stupid stuff." I said.

"Well his stupid idea was enough to cause Archer to end his Noble Phantasm, but in the heat of the moment he ended up kidnapping me. He knocked me out and I don't know what happened during that time and when I woke up, but Shirou told me that he was using me as leverage and Shirou and him agreed to fight one another in the ruins of the Ezienbern castle which after Archer made his retreat from the crumbling cave, Saber and Shirou took Sakura back home to safety." Rin explained.

"When I came too I woke up inside a storage room of the castle after I had a dream of how Archer's life ended, I found Archer sitting in the corner of the room and ended up yelling at him to no avail. Eventually he left to go fight Shirou where the two of them had a battle more of ideals than of actual blades, but Shirou was able to beat Archer in the fight miraculously with Saber observing from afar." Rin said and I was little surprised to hear a human beat a servant, but then again that Teacher fellow had beaten Saber pretty hard. "I was told from Saber that Shirou was able to overwhelm Archer's ideals with his own passion and drive, not because he wanted to be a Hero of Justice anymore, but because he had come to value himself above others and there was a happiness he was now seeking and wouldn't let Archer take that away from him. I don't know if I need to tell you what that is, but I imagine you can figure it out yourself." Rin said. "That and I had heard from Arturia that Archer had been prepared to stab Shirou in the end, but stopped short. So really I imagine Archer could have won, but Shirou beat his will to fight." Rin explained.

"That sounds like whole cluster fuck of fighting your future yourself." I grumbled as I crossed my arms.

"If you want to know about what happened in that fight you'd have to ask Arturia." Rin said. "Anyway while those two were fighting Lancer had actually come to assist me and cut me free, telling me he was on orders from his Master. Lancer let me go and I ran off to find Archer and Shirou standing in the Main hall with Shirou's swords driven through Archer. Now you'd think we were finally close to ending this war, but surprise! Another Archer appeared and impaled Archer with hundreds of swords. Archer threw Shirou out of the way and saved him as his last action." Rin said and my eyes widened a little.

"Another Archer! I guess there was an Archer party and he showed up late!" I said jokingly.

"Do you have to constantly interject with your commentary and jokes?" Rin inquired.

"I like to think in another life I was a comedian." I replied with an amused grin, however Rin did not look at all amused as she ruffled her eyebrows at me.

"ANYWAY, this archer killed my archer and that kind of pissed me off. Even though Archer had wanted to kill Shirou, I still felt bad for him and Archer did have a kind and gentle side to him at times." Rin said. "It turns out that this golden haired Archer had history with Saber, because they had fought each other in the previous grail war. Goldie then explained to us how the Holy Grail was actually a weapon and we were all fools, which was a pretty big shocker. Goldie was going to resume his fight with Saber and probably would have killed us all though if it hadn't been for the castle coming down from the fire Lancer had lit, so Lancer ending up saving my life twice I guess." Rin said. "And with that we retreated back to Shirou's place and discussed what had happened. Saber told us about her encounter with that Archer from the previous war and their interaction." Rin explained.

"Now I know I haven't told you all the boring details about our conversations, because then we'd be here all day, but I'm pretty sure you can figure out for yourself that Saber and Shirou were lovey dovey for each other, and Shirou had the great idea of going out on a date with Saber near the end of the war to try and win Saber's heart!" Rin exclaimed clapping her hands together.

"What a perfect time for a date!" I too exclaimed.

"Yes of course, although I did encourage them to have this date because I wanted it to happen and I liked them both. So I guess I'm just as guilty as they are." Rin said and I furrowed my eyebrows a little because I found it impossible for Rin to want that. "I was not on this date, but I did find Shirou in his room after the date and discovered they had an argument. When I told Shirou, that Saber had not come back he ran out to find her. Now they ended up making up and you'd expect things would have gone smooth sailing, but nope! Goldie showed up as they were coming home and completely demolished them. This is because Goldie had this obsession with wanting to marry Saber." Rin exclaimed with a raised finger. "Now it turns out that Goldie is the Epic Hero Gilgamesh, which he's not really that epic since he's really a complete douchebag and arrogant bastard. Now Gilgamesh literally has every single sword and weapon ever made in history and he can use them as noble phantasms, so he even has the original Excalibur. So seeing that Gilgamesh is completely overpowered you'd think Saber and Shirou would have been killed, but it was all thanks to Shirou that they managed to hold off his attack with the use of Avalon which had been implanted in Shirou by his Father who had saved him in the Fourth Holy Grail War, and dun dun! Shirou's Father was Saber's master in the Fourth Holy Grail War! So because Shirou had Avalon inside him that was why he was able to summon Saber and explained how he was self healing." Rin explained.

"What a coincidence. Now they're married! It's almost like Fate brought them together!" I said cheekily.

"We're getting ahead of the story; you wanted to hear how our grail war played out so first so hush!" Rin said and I put my hands up in mock surrender and shut my mouth. "So they came back completely wasted, but they were able to heal themselves thanks to Avalon. Now I don't want to say too much, but I'm pretty sure they ended up doing some stuff in Shirou's bedroom based off of the noises I heard coming from their bedroom. So it was safe say that Saber had ended up falling for Shirou. Now there's a little bit more than that and I'll try to explain it as quickly as possible, but basically since Arturia is King Arthur she wanted to redo the selection of the King so Camelot would not come to ruin and she felt responsible. Shirou ended up falling in love with Saber and wanted her to forget and the past and accept what happened and be with him. Now I'm pretty sure Shirou eventually wore her iron will down throughout the war, but I think that fight with Archer and Shirou helped, alongside of what Shirou did protecting Saber against Gilgamesh." Rin said. "Now that's out of the way and you know how lovey dovey they are, Saber explained to Shirou all about the Fourth Holy Grail War and his Dad, so Shirou went out the next day to ask Kotomine questions about the Fourth Holy Grail War and it was there that he ran into Lancer again and ended up being stabbed, again, through the chest." Rin explained and I let out a surprised gasp, pretending to be surprised that Shirou had been stabbed again. "Now while this had all been happening Illya's health had been getting worse as the War progressed due to her status as the vessel of the Grail, so I wanted to talk with Shirou about it and I couldn't find him so I asked Saber. Who I found looking up into the sky like a love-struck maiden." Rin said as she let out a snicker and I couldn't help but chuckle too. "I asked Saber where he was and she didn't know either, so after we put our heads together we concluded he was at the church and she set out to find him at the Church, it was there where she found Shirou, Lancer, and Kirei finally revealed himself and his ambitions to use the Grail to destroy all of humanity, since Gil had explained to us earlier the true intention of the Grail." Rin said and I nodded my head. "So she confronted Lancer and Gil, who were both Kirei's Servants, but apparently Gilgamesh didn't sit so well with Lancer and those two ended up fighting allowing Arturia and Shirou to get away where they healed one another. Lancer ended up being killed by Gilgamesh after they had fought for several hours I'm told so the curse that had been inflicted on Shirou disappeared." Rin explained. "Now while that was happening, there was a ring on the doorbell and thinking it was Shirou and Saber rushed to the door, only to end up finding Kotomine. I was still in no shape to fight after the fight with Caster and Archer taking me hostage, so Kotomine easily beat me and explained to me his intention and also informed me that he was the one who had killed my Father in the last grail war. This of course infuriated me, but there was little I could do about it. Kotomine just left me in my poor shape while he went to go retrieve Illya, who he needed to summon the Grail." Rin said as she gritted her teeth before calming down after a moment. "Eventually Shirou and Arturia came back and found me in that sorry shape and cleaned me up, I told them that they needed to forget about me and go kill Kotomine and Gilgamesh and I gave Shirou the dagger that Kotomine had used to kill my dad and told him to kill Kotomine with the magical energy I had stored inside of it, a bit of an ironic way for Kotomine to be killed on my part I think." Rin said with a chuckle. "I told them that they better defeat Kotomine and Gil even if it killed them, but if I woke up and found that they both weren't sitting across the table from me I would have killed them again." Rin said and I raised my hand up to my mouth as I chuckled.

"That sounds like something you would say Rin." I said and Rin let out a grumble.

"Yes I suppose it does." Rin said.

"So Shirou transferred Avalon back to Saber so that she could fight Gilgamesh, which also meant Shirou was in far more danger. However it was something that had to be done I believe." Rin said with a nod of her head. "Shirou and Saber rushed to the Temple where Kotomine and Gil had cleared everyone out earlier to make preparations to summon the grail, but there were some complications along the way. Assassin was still alive so Saber had to fight off against him before heading to face Gil, Saber told me that they had an honorable fight and it ended of course in Saber's victory." Rin said. "Now then, Shirou had run off ahead of them and he actually ended up confronting Gilgamesh and the two of them fought for a brief time with Shirou somehow managing to keep Gil at bay with his own projection magic, but without Avalon or a large store of mana there was little he could actually do." Rin explained. "It was not until Saber arrived to finally fight Gil herself, that Gil let Shirou run off to face Kirei." Rin said. "Shirou found Kirei and confronted him where he ended up being engulfed in the dark curse that Kirei had inflicted on Shirou's father in the past, but Shirou managed to prevail thanks to his strong conviction and connection to Arturia and while it may sound a bit cheesy, the two of them were able to overcome Kirei and Gilgamesh because they had conquered themselves and a strong love had formed amongst them, so strong that Avalon was able to power Saber up enough to beat Gil and help Shirou escape from Kirei's curse and stab him through the chest." Rin said and with that she took a deep breath. "And with that they were both defeated and Shirou saved Illya and Saber used Excalibur to destroy the Holy Grail." Rin said and let out a deep sigh of relief as I checked my watch and saw that Rin's explanation had took well over an hour.

"I see, so I guess it is I who should be thanking you, Arturia, and Shirou for saving the world." I said.

"No thanks are necessary, I didn't do much anyway." Rin said as she rubbed her hands shyly. "It was all Saber and Shirou's doing, I just slept in the house during the last decisive battle." Rin said.

"Well I can hardly blame you; you were all tuckered out after all." I replied jokingly.

"Haha very funny." Rin said. "Now then, you wanted to know how Saber still exists in this world." Rin said and I nodded my head. "Well I can only tell you what Saber told me and I believe Saber to be telling the truth because I mean she's obviously here." Rin added.

"Well obviously." I said.

"Now then. Arturia no longer wished to seek the Holy Grail so she was removed from the Throne of Heroes and thus her contract with the world has ended." Rin started off. "Now technically speaking Saber was and still is a living being. She had told me that she couldn't go into spirit form because of Shirou's inexperience, but in reality she can not do so because she was still alive. Since she always came to a Grail War before she died, she was still considered a living being and she explained to me that she was almost like a Counter Guardian in a way, much like Archer had been." Rin explained. That almost sounded like Scathach's existence actually, however as far as I was aware Scathach did not have a wish. "Now then, since she no longer wants the grail her contract with the World had ended, but Saber still did have a wish!" Rin said as she raised a finger. "Now as Arturia told me the World felt sorry for her and wanted to thank her for preventing the destruction of mankind so it offered her one wish only, one wish that the World would grant her. And Saber's one wish was to be with Shirou and the world granted her that one wish." Rin said.

"I see, so the World basically felt sorry for all the shit that it put Arturia through and wanted to say sorry." I said.

"In a way I guess you could say that. I don't really know if a world can feel sorry, but Arturia had to go through a lot of stuff in her life that's for sure. Two Grail Wars, fighting for a cup that she thought could grant her wish but was really just a weapon, on top of her original life as a King. Now usually unexplainable things like that would infuriate me, because I don't like not knowing things." Rin said and I chuckled. "However for this one such occasion I make the exception, because I'm really just glad that Arturia is with us." Rin said.

"Well that makes sense, I wouldn't really question if my best friend was allowed to live again and be with me. I'd just be happy." I said as I sat up straight in my seat. "Well Rin I'd like to thank you for telling me how your Grail War went about and thank you for revealing to me the secret of how Arturia was allowed to stay in this world." I said with a nod of my head.

"No problem, it's the least I can do after what you told me." Rin said as she raised her glass and took a sip of water…

"Now don't take this the wrong way Rin, but do you think perhaps Arturia choosing to stay in this world and be with Shirou was itself a cause of the mess we're in." I said with shrugged shoulders and Rin narrowed her eyes.

"No there's no way Arturia's decision could be what caused our timeline to split off onto a timeline that would lead to the destruction of the world. And if it was, would you not have been sent back to 2004 to stop her from doing so, not fighting an Alter version of herself?" Rin inquired. "Of course you would! So don't be stupid." Rin exclaimed.

"Alright, Alright! That makes sense, it was just a thought!" I said with raised hands up in surrender.

"Besides I'd rather not lose the past twenty years of my life even if that was the case." Rin said.

"Well which would you prefer? Losing twenty years of your life? Or your entire life?" I asked and Rin gaze seemed to burn into the back of my skull.

"I couldn't possibly answer that, nor do I think there is any point in answering hypothetical questions that have no bearing on reality." Rin replied angrily.

"Alright Rin I get the point. I'm sorry I brought it up!" I exclaimed shrinking back into my chair. "I don't want you to lose your best friend nor do I want two children to lose their mother or a husband lose his wife." I said. "I wouldn't want to wish such a thing on anyone! It was merely a thought I had." I added.

Rin's eyes softened a little bit and she looked over her shoulder and reached down to grab something out from a bag by her side. A moment later a brown journal and several folders were thrown down into the middle of the table.

"You don't need to have such thoughts, as you should know I've already discovered who was behind the bombing at Chaldea." Rin said as she took one of the folders and flipped it open. "And the person, who was behind the bombing at Chaldea that claimed all of those lives, must be the person who is responsible for these irregularities in time or singularities as they are called. I mean they have to be." Rin said. "That is after all why we came to meet in the first place." Rin added.

"It's not like I forgot, we just got side tracked, that's all." I said.

"For someone who said he couldn't think about anything except for what I had to tell him, you got easily sidetracked." Rin said.

"Well technically you were telling me something. Just not originally what we came to meet for." I pointed out. "Besides I think it was okay to get sidetracked a little bit, since all my mind was thinking about was this moment. So it was good to let my mind think about something else just for a little bit." I added.

"Perhaps you're right." Rin said. "Now then shall we proceed with what I have to tell you?" Rin inquired. I proceeded to sit up straight in my seat and placed my arms on the table as I leaned forward.

"Well it's as you say, that's why we're here." I replied.

"Very well then. As you can see while you've been away fighting in Singularities I've been investigating and gathering as much evidence as I possibly could…. and I think that I finally gathered enough evidence to all point to this one person as being responsible." Rin said. "I've gathered personal journals, official documents, and reports." Rin added as she shuffled through the folders and they all had Chaldea Security Organization seals on them.

"May I ask where you got such sensitive material?" I inquired.

"Almost all of the documents and papers here before you are from the personal office of Professor Lev Lynor." Rin said and I raised an eyebrow.

"You couldn't possibly be suggesting that Professor Lev is behind everything? He was killed in the bombings so that's impossible!" I exclaimed. "Unless he wanted to die so he wouldn't have to face the consequences, but still! What possible reasoning could he have for such a thing?" I exclaimed.

"No, No. I'm not suggesting Professor Lev. Quite the contrary, Professor Lev himself was trying to stop this from happening." Rin said.

"If not Lev, then who?" I asked as I now sat on the edge of my seat…

"General Amara Iselma of Chaldea Security Organization." Rin said as she threw an open folder towards me that had a picture of a very beautiful looking woman with mid back length blonde hair and diamond blue eyes wearing a Chaldea Security Uniform buttoned up all the way.

"Amara?!" I exclaimed taken aback with wide looking eyes as I sank back in my seat, my eyes filled with disbelief. "No way! There's no way that Amara Iselma be could behind this, she is extremely loyal to the Director and would never possibly go against her. She can be a bit strict and cruel at times, but she's too loyal of a person to possibly betray the Director." I stated while Rin only narrowed her eyes at me.

"The facts are right in front of you. Everything has been documented and written down by Professor Lev..." Rin stated. "I found records that Lev had in his office had that go back as far as six years ago showing that Amara has been playing the long game and has been going behind the Director's back for a long time." Rin said and I ran my hand through my hair as I picked up the folder and began to read through its contents. Flipping over the first page past a personal bio Lev had constructed on Amara, was a mission report that involved the collecting of an artifact, what it was, was blacked out. At the bottom of the Mission reports that involved acquiring said artifacts was the Director's name, and as flipped the pages over I found more and more mission reports of missions that I had never heard of and they were all signed by the Director. Most of these missions involved collecting artifacts, which details were blacked out. But then there were other missions that involved exchanging such artifacts for sums of money that ranged from the hundreds of millions to a billion dollars, all of those missions were signed off by Amara Iselma. None of it really made any sense to me, because while Chaldea was tasked with retrieving dangerous artifacts, that was left to Anderson's forces which included me. While these looked like special ops groups doing these missions, some of these people were unsanctioned personal, meaning they didn't work at Chaldea.

"Okay so clearly Amara is doing missions behind Chaldea's back, but what does that have to do with blowing up Chaldea and destroying humanity?" I asked as I closed the folder and placed it back down on the table.

"Well you saw that all the operations involved selling artifacts were only sanctioned by the General, yes?" Rin asked.

"Yes." I replied.

"Well obviously you need money to do something shady, like stealing artifacts from your own Organization?" Rin said as she handed me a folder and I opened it to find letters written in a female's hand writing that were addressed to people who I had never heard of. As I read the letter it talked about how Amara wanted the said person to steal an artifact from a Chaldea warehouse. When I flipped the page over I found more letters and eventually I found papers that listed amount transfers and bank accounts.

"As you can see on that page, Amara was wiring substantial amounts of money to people outside of Chaldea to steal Artifacts from Chaldea for her, because obviously she wouldn't want it to be tracked back to her." Rin said as she reached forward and pointed flipped over the page to reveal drop off locations and other details. As I read through the papers and documents I stopped as I recognized the details of one of these warehouses.

"What is it? Do you recognize something?" Rin inquired.

"Yes I do, in fact I'm starting to remember some of this now…. It was a few years ago that Chaldea started to notice we were missing artifacts from our facilities and Chaldea dispatched people from my department to investigate these incidents, stop them, and get the artifacts back. However it was four years ago that artifacts quit disappearing, but it was only after we put stopped several attempts and recovered multiple of the artifacts." I said as I closed the folder and put it back down on the table.

"Would you care to tell me let me in what happened?" Rin inquired.

"Perhaps at another time Rin, it would be quite a long story and we've already had one long story for this afternoon." I said. "Anyway that still does not explain why Amara would want to blow up Chaldea and destroy humanity." I added.

"You said some of the artifacts were recovered, not all of them?" Rin inquired.

"No there was one artifact that we never recovered. I don't know what it was, but I know it was super important to higher ups." I replied.

"Well you never recovered it, because that's the artifact that Amara was after all along. In Lev's journal he recorded Amara's activities along with his own personal thoughts." Rin said as she patted the book. "Amara was only ever after one artifact Christopher, every single other one was just a diversion. Because Christopher, Amara's real objective all along was to steal the one and only Holy Grail in Chaldea's possession…."

"WHAT?!" I exclaimed as I leaped up out of my seat and slammed my hands down on the table. "You're telling me that Chaldea Security Organization had a Holy Grail in our possession?! BUT HOW?" I exclaimed.

"SSSHHHH! Keep your voice down idiot!" Rin hushed me as she rose her finger up to her mouth. I looked around to see some people staring in my direction. I lowered myself back down in my seat and recomposed myself to the best of my abilities.

"How did we have a Holy Grail in our possession…?" I asked in a low skeptical voice.

"I don't quite know the details. I couldn't find any information on why, but there are several mentions to a Holy Grail throughout Lev's journal, Lev describes how Chaldea had been in possession of one Holy Grail that allowed it to complete several of their projects." Rin replied as she interlocked her fingers. "My guess is that you would have to ask the Director how and why they were in possession of a Holy Grail." Rin added.

"I can't believe we once had a Holy Grail, did Lev say where it is now?" I asked and Rin shook her head.

"No it would appear the Lev had discovered that Amara had stolen a Holy Grail, but had been spending the past months trying to find out where Amara was hiding it." Rin said. "He also writes how he confronted Amara on her treachery and deceit, demanding that she turn over the Holy Grails location." Rin went on. "However it would appear as if that didn't go over well with Amara threatening to kill Lev if he ever told the Director." Rin added before she pulled out a piece of paper and placed it in front of me. "Lev had quietly been observing her after that point, but it was a few weeks before the first singularity that Lev confronted her again telling her to turn over the Holy Grail and that he wouldn't tell the Director if she returned it." Rin went on. "I'm sure you can imagine that didn't go over well, because listed here are several materials Amara purchased that are used to make high explosives." Rin said as she tapped the paper in front of me. I looked it over and she was right, every single one of these materials listed is what one would use to essentially make a bomb. "That took some personal connections on my part to recover that, it came straight from her office. In Lev's last journal entry he described how he was going to tell the Director about what Amara had done, however as we know now that never happened because Lev was killed. I'm willing to bet that Amara set off those explosives to kill Lev along with anyone else who might pose a threat to her." Rin stated.

"Okay so I'm convinced now that Amara is behind all of this and you have the evidence to back it all up. However, that still does not explain why she would want to destroy humanity." I asked.

"That's part I couldn't figure out, I combed through Lev's Journal over and over and looked through everything he had gathered, but if there was a reason, Lev must have never been able to find out why." Rin said with a sigh as she clasped her face with her hands.

"Well what do you know about Amara Iselma?" I asked and Rin opened her eyes to look at me with a concerned look.

"Why are you asking me?" Rin objected. "You work with her, so shouldn't you know!" Rin added.

"Yeah I work with her, but I've only talked with her on a few occasions." I replied. "She has a reputation of being extremely strict in the way she treats men under her, but I don't personally blame her for that. And that's because she has to keep all the average and semi mages in line under her command, because she commands our general forces which are made out of mages who don't possess enough talent to qualify for any of our special divisions. So she's like a tough drill Sergeant in that regard." I explained.

"Well that's the outcome of rushed training. One does not simply rush through the art of magecraft." Rin said.

"Okay whatever Rin, Anyway the she's a very skilled mage I know that much and I also know that nobody ever wants to get on her bad side. However the few times I've talked to her when she's off the clock she seems rather mellow and friendly. She's popular with men AND women at Chaldea…." I said as I furrowed my eyebrows a little. "But other than that I don't know much about her, I've never asked about her personal life and she has never seemed interested in talking about herself or her family." I said and Rin ruffled her eyebrows at me in return.

"Just tell me what you do know." Rin replied.

"Alright fine." I said raising up a hand. "What I do know is that Amara the daughter to the head of the Iselma Mage family, Rosalind Iselma a very prestigious family at the Clock tower." I said. "From what I understand she was the heir to the family, but lost her title because she is somewhat of the black duck of her family." I said as I scratched my cheek.

"Do you know why that is?" Rin asked and I shook my head. "It's because the Iselma family is a well known alchemy family that has pursued the creation of, the most beautiful person, for generations as their path to the Root." Rin went on. "So one who would muddy herself by taking on a combat or fighting role would not be worthy of the head of such a family." Rin explained.

"How would creating the most beautiful person help them reach the Root?" I asked.

"Well this is what they believe and I quote "Beauty is a sympathetic curse: as we appreciate art, the more it purifies our souls and spirits; the true nature of the feeling we express with the term 'beauty'. So if we were to witness something of extreme beauty, then we would be able to push our soul up into a higher plane of being all at once."" Rin said. "That is how they have explained it and I'm not one to judge, they are quite a prestigious family who are well known alchemist so they must be doing something right." Rin said and I was only left there scratching my head.

"Well I guess for a Family that puts emphasis on beauty, it would make sense that they would see fighting as something that is not beautiful." I said. "That still doesn't really explain why she would want to destroy humanity?" I pressed Rin.

"Well I have a few theories, but I think the only way you're going to find out is by asking her yourself." Rin replied.

"Would you care to offer up some of your theories?" I inquired.

"Well I figure it could be one of two things." Rin said and raised her finger. "Number one: This is the most childish option, but perhaps she is doing so to get back at her family for taking away her position as the heir. However as I said it would be childish to destroy humanity just because you were kicked from the line of succession" Rin said and raised a second finger. "Number two: She believes that the only possible way for one to reach the root is for humanity to come to an end, I think this option is more likely because there are some mages in the past who have had this same line of thinking." Rin said before she lowered her hand. I sat there for a moment silently thinking as I scratched my head.

"Well they all sound kind of far fetched, but I guess I really won't know until we question her." I said as I sunk into my chair.

"So have you figured out what you're going to do?" Rin asked.

"Not a fucking clue. I still need to go over and read everything you've given me before I try to present it to the Director and even then it will still be extremely hard to try convince the Director." I said.

"Well how much does the Director trust you? Or should I say, how much of the Directors ear do you have?" Rin asked.

"There are only two people at the top that have the full trust and faith of the Director, the first one is Professor Lev and the second one is Amara Iselma. From what I gathered Lev was the one the Director trusted and looked up to the most. However Professor Lev is no longer with us so that means Amara has the Director's ear all to herself." I said as I shut the folder in front of me.

"Well let me suggest to you this then, every single thing here is from Professor Lev himself. Use that to your advantage, if Lev is the person that the Director trusted the most, and then showing her this evidence and journal from Lev should be able to get the Director to believe you." Rin said. "I also suggest you share this information with people who hold High level positions at Chaldea and convince them with the evidence you have. With enough of Chaldea's higher ups backing you up, that might give you some weight to back you up when you make your case." Rin said and I scratched my cheek.

"I know some of the higher ups, but not a lot of them." I replied. "But I think you're right, if I show them this maybe we can uncover some more evidence to show the Director. Or perhaps you are right; Levs word might be enough to convince the Director." I said as I sat up and began to collect the documents and Lev's personal journal into one pile, before I put them into a briefcase I lifted up a briefcase I had brought with me and put the documents inside before closing it shut. As I looked up to face Rin she had a small smile on her face as she looked at me.

"I hope that I've been able to help you Christopher, hopefully this will be enough to bring Amara to justice for the people she's murdered and possibly even put a stop to the Singularities themselves." Rin said.

"That would be nice, wouldn't it? Then I could go back to my boring office job instead of getting stabbed and shot at." I said and Rin let out an amused chuckle. "But really thank you Rin for everything, this means a great lot to me. I know that it must have not been easy and that doing this you even put your life in danger. Amara is not a person that you want to trifle with and the Iselma family is very powerful as you said." I added.

"Well the Iselma family may be powerful and Amara herself may be skilled, but you're talking to Rin Tohsaka, the head of the Tohsaka family." Rin said as she jerked her thumb back at herself with a confident smile.

"Of course, nobody stands a chance against Rin Tohsaka." I said with a chuckle.

"Are you laughing at me?" Rin exclaimed.

"No of course not!" I said and continued to chuckle much to Rin's dismay…

"Ahem, but really Rin. I want to thank you again Rin for all of your help." I said and Rin nodded her head.

"You're Welcome, but it was my pleasure." Rin said placing her hand on her chest and bowing her head. "It was fun to do something new and dangerous, and I'm glad to be helping stop the destruction of humanity. I mean I am part of humanity after all." Rin said.

"Are you sure about that Rin?" I said with an amused grin on my face. This caused Rin's eyebrow to twitch furiously as she stepped on my foot once more and I let out a gasp.

"Owe Owe Owe! I'm sorry Rin!" I said as I flinched. Eventually the pressure on my foot was removed as Rin retracted her foot back to the other side. "To show my thanks I'll pay for Dinner." I added which caused a satisfied grin to appear on Rin's face.

"Thank you that's very kind of you Christopher." Rin said amused.

"No problem Rin." I replied. With that we waited for the waiter to come by and I handed him my debit card and the signed receipts. As we sat there waiting for the waiter to return snowflakes began to flutter down to Earth and Rin and I looked upwards into the sky to see dark clouds in the sky and snow falling down.

"It's lucky that our conversation has all but finished up, for the snow has arrived." Rin said and paused for a moment. "You certainly get more snow here in America than we get in Japan." Rin stated.

"That we do." I replied.

It was only a few more minutes before the waiter returned and I took my debit card and tucked it into my wallet, which I slid back into my jacket. The snow wasn't letting up as it continued to fall. I pushed my chair back and stood up from my seat before pushing it back in and taking my coat. Rin was doing the same on the other side and when the both of us had our coats on we stood across from one another.

"Thank you once again Rin for everything. I truly appreciate it and I will see to it that Amara receives justice for the people she killed and hopefully with her arrest we will also see an end to the Singularities." I said. "So once again Thank you Rin and I wish you safe travels on your way home to Japan." I said as I extended my hand to her, Rin grasped my hand and we shook.

"You too Christopher, drive safely home and if you need me for anything, just give me a call and I'll do my best to help you in anyway I can." Rin said with a smile and we released our grip on each others hands and returned them to our sides.

"I will. Goodbye Rin." I said as I reached down and picked up my briefcase. With that, Rin gave me a slight bow and we parted ways.

"Goodbye Christopher and Good luck."

Thirty Minutes Later

The snow was beginning to come down harder as I made my way back towards my car. I had decided to cut through the city this time instead of following the river back to the parking garage this time. When I had checked my phone, it had told me that cutting through the city would be faster than following the long way back to the garage. However I don't think that was true at all, because the sheer amount of people on the sidewalks told a different story. I looked around the city to see the city street crowded with people going up and down the sidewalks and the roads busy with traffic as everyone was probably rushing to go home now as it was getting dark outside. As I walked down the streets I looked up and saw that Christmas wreaths hung from the Light poles and every where I looked the stores were brimming with lights. Christmas was only a week away and I still hadn't gotten anything for Mashu, Scathach, or Jeanne. I wondered if I should consider stopping in any of the stores to look for Christmas gifts or… I shook my head. "What the hell are you thinking about Christmas for? Rin just told you who was behind that bombing almost three years ago? More important how and the hell am I going to explain to the Director that one of her most senior officers was the one behind the bombings that killed all of those people and possibly the singularities themselves. This was still a lot of information to take in and I needed to go over everything when I got home, I still wasn't sure what I was going to do. Maybe I should confide in Scathach…."

Suddenly I stopped in my tracks as I felt myself pushed back and then it was followed by a sharp pain in my chest. A loud shot echoed in my ears soon afterwards, I slowly brought my free hand up to my chest where I felt an incredible burning sensation, I placed my hand where it hurt and my glove immediately became wet with something sticky pouring all over it. I looked down and lifted my hand from my chest to see red liquid died my black gloves crimson, this was followed by drops of red liquid now dripping down to hit the white snow beneath my feet painting it crimson. My vision had already begun to blur at this point and everything was now a haze as I looked at my feet. It only took a brief second before I felt all feelings in my legs give out...

Then everything went black...

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