A boy who walks through the white sand of a bleached world.
A Girl who walks through the digital sea inside the moon.
Their world and stories are apart
Yet...
This time, no
Once again,
Their fate would intertwine.
Chapter Prologue: The Star that Fell and the Sovereign who Dreams
"Stargazer" POV
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15:38
Darkness is all I see, or maybe because my eyes are closed right now, but not only that I feel as though I am falling right now as my clothes flutter from the wind and the gravity pushing me down.
This... feels somewhat familiar with what is happening. I ask myself that question, feeling more comfortable. I decided to open my eyes to see the view of the sky and there was a clear blue sky, feeling the wind pushing me I decided to look down...
...to see the ground a few more hundred meters below.
"Ah, crap" I began to panic. Of course, normally there's someone with me who will save me but seeing that there's no one to rescue me, nor do I have someone on my side, it seems like I'm on my own right now.
I just got back from the Greek Lostbelt and this already happened.
I keep flapping my body like a bird, to see if I can at least slow my descent, to no avail.
Ok then calm down, calm down, I need to calm down after all I'm just falling from several hundred, not a big deal right?
There is no time to be sarcastic right now, I need to think of a few Ideas, this is what you excel right Fujimaru Ritsuka? You're good with dangerous situations, so think.
Right, maybe I have something that can help me.
I began to pick all of the pockets that I had only to find nothing.
What the hell, what's the point of having many pockets if you don't even have something in it?!
Calm down, plan "B" it is. I look down to see the trees of the forest closing in. Trees, right the branches!
If I can use the branches then maybe I can slow my fall, it will hurt a lot but at least I won't die. Then all I need is to strengthen my whole body using Reinforcement, but do I have the mana enough for me to make my body durable enough to at the very least completely only have a few cuts? Then I guess I have no choice but to use my command spells, but should I risk it? I don't know if Chaldea even supports me right now for all I know I'm not connected to them so that means my command seals won't regenerate.
I look down again and see the ground and the trees so dangerously close. Shaking my head to clear away my doubts and just decided to do it.
"Augh! Screw it!" I yelled and used the command seal to empower myself.
After all, Ritsuka Fujimaru can die, but the Master of Chaldea is still not allowed to die or rest until he completes his duty.
Using the mana generated from the command seal alongside my mana, I reinforced my body and closed my eyes waiting for the impact from the tree branches.
SELF DEFENSE PROTOCOL ACTIVATING
Huh?
Not long after the branches finally hit me starting from my back and only continuing from there. My face, the back of my head, my arms, forearms, stomach, chest, legs, and so on. I feel my face and forearms being cut as it is the only part of my body that is exposed right now.
Even though I feel the burning sensation whenever I get hurt, I feel that my fall is slowing down, and not long after my body hits the ground with a heavy thud, I stand up quickly and feel my face is now wet. Pulling back my hand only to see blood, probably from the numerous cuts I got from the branches, as for why I can stand up I don't know, maybe because my reinforced body absorbed the impact or maybe it's adrenaline doing its work, but that doesn't matter, I need to keep walking until I see someone or at least somewhere where I can rest.
The Moment I take a step my body suddenly crashes down, I don't know if it's fatigue or my body finally catching up from the pain or maybe because I'm drained with mana, but none of that matters for now. My eyes began to close as I began to lose consciousness. I thought to myself:
Man, I just got back from dealing with Greek Gods and this happened.
The last thing I see is a small glow on my finger dying, and there is a ring with a blue jewel.
I walked among the students of Tsukimihara Academy and got through my classroom, upon opening the classroom, I said hello to some of my classmates and sat at my desk when I noticed on my left and looked at, there my classmate a boy who was black hair and black eyes sitting on the back corner just beside the window, his name is འìէʂմҟą Ƒմʝìʍąɾմ, I raised my hands to greet him but backed down at the last moment due to awkwardness, I see him looking at me sideways,
Wow, what a jerk and an emo,
But before I could speak, Taiga-sensei came in and tripped herself.
I walked through the streets of Tokyo, Shibuya carrying many paper notes that I had. My bags are already full so I have no choice but to carry them using my hands. I sighed, as I tried to maneuver my way through the traffic of the people that were also walking, but then.
"Ah!" I yelp as someone bumped into and my papers scattered on the ground
"Sorry" The guy didn't even look at me and just walked after apologizing. I just sighed and picked the papers from the ground, luckily it didn't rain so the ground was not wet.
As I picked my papers I saw someone's foot and kneeling and picking my papers. I look up to see a boy with dark brown hair closing into black or grayish black and light blue eyes, his someone from my school, just beside my classroom 1st-year гเՇรยкค Ŧยןเ๓คгย.
"Need help," He said with a smile, while I just shyly nodded, and began to pick the papers in silence, but even with the quietness of the situation I felt a warmth in it, more specifically from the person in front of me.
I run among the streets of nowhere, wearing a mask due to the air being polluted by numerous factories in the city. I see the lower-class citizens on the street suffering, but I continue my run to find my destination.
"Miss, a spare of money please...?" I see a child with no mask and coughing, based on his looks it looks like he is no older than six years old. I want to give him a loaf of bread in me that I hide inside my robe. I can give him what he wants.
But that's also the only food that I no- we have for the entire week.
Ignoring the child, I continued my run.
Sorry, sorry, but we also need to survive.
Not long after, I went through a tunnel and there a shabby small house made of wood and ripped clothes appeared, I walk through swaying the clothes away, and said:
"I'm back"
"Hakuno? Why did you go out? I told you it's dangerous out there." I hear a voice, looking at the bed, a boy about my age, with a worried look. He originally had black hair, but due to constant stress the majority of it is now white, and his eyes once had warm black eyes, now have a bit of white on them.
I held his hand as he also clutched my hand, he squinted his eyes just to see me. This boy is гเՇรยкค Ŧยןเ๓คгย the last person I cared about.
"Sovereign" POV
10/9/2030
8:45
I open my eyes, remembering that particular dream that I had.
What a strange dream...
I think in the span of one night I dream three times, it's brief but for some reason, it resonates with me, but not long after I already forget about it like most dreams.
I shifted and sat and looked around
I woke up in a familiar bed and a familiar ceiling there I got up and saw myself naked, now that I think about it not long ago I don't even like sleeping naked maybe Nero is influencing me too much, and speaking of Nero, I saw a beautiful girl in my right sleeping soundly.
She has blond hair that is usually tied up but right now the same majestic hair is flowing magnificently and a slender body that most females would be jealous of and those curves though...
She is Nero Claudius, the fifth emperor of Rome and the saber amongst the roses as she would like to call herself
Wait No, Bad Hakuno Bad girl you only just woke up to focus yourself you got more things to do now.
I decided to get up but suddenly I was pulled down. I look to the right to see Nero sleeping with a little pout.
"Praetor..."
I hear her mutter under her breath, I smile knowing even in dreams I am still there by her side seeing that she is one of the servants I've had on my side since I found myself in the deathmatch. I hope that this feeling of loneliness will never fade away and this moment remains forever.
"Oh, My Husband wakey wakey I made the perfect breakfast just for you- WHAT?!"
Of course, that's just wishful thinking.
And just as I open the stupidly huge door I see Nero and Tamamo arguing; it seems like they are still talking about what happened this morning. Tamamo is a therianthrope being with the appearance of humans possessing fox characteristics such as the ears and tail. She doesn't mind being called a fox since she thinks they are cute, especially her fluffy ears. Tamamo has yellow eyes and long pink hair that she keeps tied up.
"Umm morning guys" I awkwardly said to them but...
"You Whore! What Happened to the schedule we were supposed to follow?! Last Night was supposed to be my Husband resting alone!"
"My Praetor is my Praetor and I'm her first servant. So it's natural that I can even break the rules a bit. Plus it's not like you're not planning to do the same, right? "
"...Maybe"
"HAH, I knew you are a sly fox!"
" So What! I am doing this to protect my husband from the hands of someone like you!"
"That's rich coming from you"
"What did you say?!"
Ok now this is getting out of hand, I decided to walk forward toward them it seemed like they still didn't notice me, and then.
POW POW
"" OWW How dare you do that to me-""
They suddenly stop as I glare at them. As fast as lightning, they sit in front of me on the ground. and there I only have one thing to say "Apologize"
They keep looking at each other with a glare before finally Apologizing.
"" I'm Sorry""
I sigh and smile nonetheless it seems like sometimes I feel like their parents, is it sometimes annoying, yes, but I still love them nonetheless. Thereupon seeing my smile, they stand up looking at me, I guess despite their indifference they still care about me all the same and I'm glad to have them as my servants.
After that whole debacle, I stand up and go to the bathroom, brush my teeth, and take a shower to freshen myself. After walking out of the shower with towels. Instead of wearing my usual white dress, I wore a bathrobe and a hair towel wrapped around my hair to dry it. I pass by the kitchen to see Tamamo, making breakfast. After passing by I went to the throne room and sat on the throne, not long Tamamo came with a japanese breakfast and tea. After saying thanks to her I took a sip of the tea and enjoyed the warm feeling of the tea going through my throat.
"Alright secretary, what's our schedule for today?" I said to Tamamo who is now on what I like to call secretary mode.
"As you wish my husband." She said, Alright time to work
10/9/2030
14:45
I groaned at the amount of paperwork I have that I need to sign, while also seeing people lining up to talk to me. I was just a normal girl before obtaining the Regalia, so this is new stuff for me, I usually have someone like Tamamo, Nero, or even Nameless with me and helping me, but unfortunately, Nero needs to oversee and take down an underground NPC trafficking back in her territory, while Nameless has to overlook his Café, Tamamo is doing everything she can to help, and I appreciate her help a lot.
I sigh, while stamping a paper after talking to someone from the army department from Nero's territory, saying something about the sudden rise of NPC trafficking and illegal work and the racial discrimination of the NPC on the lower chaste of the kingdom, and I respond by sending our Holy Saint to calm things down and letting her stay there until we caught the instigator.
"Dear, why don't you take a break?" Tamamo suggested, to me while I just smiled at her accepting her offer.
After that, I went through Mare Melum and went inside Nameless's Café. At first, I denied Tamamo's offer but she insisted, to the point she even gave me a look. So I have no choice but to take a break.
How the hell can Nero and Artoria do this kind of thing? I guess I'm not fit to be the king, but I can't give up now, the SE.RA.PH needs its protector, and I'm that protector. Since we don't know When Velber will arrive.
A few months ago There was what I would like to call the Velber Incident. An alien is coming a few thousand years from now and I being practically immortal need to prepare for that day. And we have a weapon made by the mooncell itself which is the regalia.
The Regalia is a ring on my left hand's ring finger, it is an authority given to me by the Mooncell itself making me the person who can use the power to access the power of the Mooncell itself to use it against Velber, right now I'm still trying to master it being it is a few months in my hands I still have a lot to learn.
I sigh as I sit down and there a tanned man with white hair is cooking something and looks at me before looking back to what he is doing.
"So, how's your day Master? Is it wonderful?" And there he is in his sarcastic voice. I just grumbled in my seat. The man looked at me and sighed, oh boy, here comes the lecture.
"Master, no matter how boring your position might be, you still have a responsibility to do these as you accept this role right?" He said that to me, and I just groaned.
"Yes, I know that Nameless, but still I feel like there are people more capable than me leading an entire goddamn world," I said to him and that makes me remember a few things, now that I think about it I never really have a background that's understandable since I'm just an NPC that is given Self-Awareness.
"Are you not happy with what you have, Master?" He asked me.
"Of course, I'm happy I have you guys, but I feel just that, do I deserve this kind of life" A few seconds later I realized just what I said
" W-Wait it's not like that I'm saying that I deserve you guys, It's just-" I tried to form words but Nameless just laughed it off, ahh his teasing me.
"Don't worry about it, besides, you fought hard for this kind of life, so at the very least you deserve a happy life after all the things you went through," Nameless said.
"Right, thanks Nameless, I'm glad you understand," I said to him
"It's nothing, it's a Servant's job to understand what their Master is going through and guide as best as possible." He said that and I can't help but laugh. He sounded like a mother talking to their child.
"What's funny?" he asks me with a confused look.
"It's nothing, thanks Nameless that help a lot"
"No problem Master, Alright Saber here is your ordered food"
"You have my thanks Red Archer"
And there on one of the tables is a blue saber whose face is like that of Nero. She is King Arthur, how she is a girl, that's for another time.
I decided to leave Nameless's cafe and teleport back to my castle. I saw a lot of people NPC, Spiritron Hackers, and the like going through their day. I smiled at them but sudden loneliness came through me.
No matter how many wizards are here, I'm sure that I'm the only master here, all the masters have been eliminated back in the Holy Grail War. I'm glad that I lived through it, but at the same time, I am sure no one can truly understand the way I lived. I'm pretty sure my servants feel the same way.
I, as Hakuno Kishinami, know my servants pretty well, from what they like and dislike and their desires, though save for a few. But I as a person, could never truly understand them at the very deeper levels, because we live completely different lives. They were summoned to accompany me, but when they were summoned they already had complete lives and already died, with or thought regrets. Their lives are entirely different from how I live, our experiences are different. They, my servants, understand me I'm sure because they have a second life as heroic spirits to accompany me through my story, but I never experience their story myself. Only glances from dreams and history books.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that their whole existence is a grand one compared to me, an NPC who somehow gained my awareness. So it's easy sometimes to fall into a deep loneliness, saying to myself I wish I could understand them more.
I shake my head, stop thinking like that! Be happy that you have a happy life and understand and love people who care for you. But I know that deep down, I wish to find a person who is similar to me. To my position, and what I am and was going through.
Can there be such a person out there?
10/9/2030
15:21
Finally, I'm done, God I hate this kind of work, I am in the streets just walking by to get some fresh air, as I walk by I see some of the residents bowing their heads on me, it's still weird, to be honest, yes I know that I'm their Queen I guess King is the right word, but I still find it weird since not too long ago I was just one of them, a normal person, so seeing them bow their heads in respect to me still weird.
Now that I think about it, I'm kind of surprised, no one is starting a revolution against me and trying to steal the Regalia from me, is it because of me Servants? Yeah, maybe, probably, they either just accept me or that no one is making a move because I'm the only one as of right now that has a Servant in SE.RA.PH.
"Master, can we go eat there?"
A small quiet voice rings then I remember that I have company with me.
She is a very small girl with tanned skin short white hair, and a white dress this is Altera a former enemy turned on our side, in the past, she was the beautiful adult self she once connected to Velber but after a change of heart she decides to rebel on the Alien and switch on our side, she kinda died back then, but she was reborn as her child self and no longer connected to Velber and become my Contracted Servant as a Saber Class Servant or the Heroic Spirit of the Sword.
Right now I'm accompanying her since she wants to eat outside. It took some convincing to Nero because she is like her mother sometimes, but she agreed nonetheless.
"Sure Let's go then," I said to her and she smiled Happily, seeing her smile erased all of my stress almost immediately.
After that short conversation, we began to go to the place Altera says she wants to go when suddenly...
Alert what..?
What is this... is something going on in the Mooncell..?
NOW TRANSPORTING REGALIA TO NEW WEARER...
WHAT?!
I suddenly feel a burning sensation in my whole body, augh..! my head it's like splitting itself and my body is like it's on fire..!
"MASTER! MASTER!"
I hear Altera yell and I see some of the people coming to my rescue but I can't make out the words coming from their mouths ugh...ugh...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I let out a scream as the pain kept going. It's like parts of me not underrating it's like HALF of me is being taken from.
Someone is trying to take the Regalia from me?! How That's impossible only The Mooncell itself has the power to take it back, I need to find a way, fast.
I access the Regalia gritting my teeth to endure the pain, I am searching to find a way to stop this at least.
SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...SEARCHING...
There I found a way I can't find a way to someone from taking my Regalia but if I decided to split the Regalia into two the other would go to one taking while I have half of it, this is pretty similar to what happened back then when I decided to split myself into three the difference this time is that I decided to split the Regalia's Power in Half so at least I can have the other half.
Even though what I'm doing is dangerous It's OK Being the regalia broken in half and going to the other person means that I am connected to the person so it's only a matter of time before we find that person and take back the other half.
After enduring pain other people might die from, the procedure is complete and my Regalia is still in my hands but the other half is somewhere, as I begin to lose consciousness, the last thing I see is, the other half going through somewhere Altera's crying face, and a vision of a boy standing in what seems like a place of a blank sheet of pure white sand.
