Hello and welcome to chapter fifthteen, enjoy.
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"Whats happening?" I said to myself, "Where am I?" I ask myself as I open my eyes.
I can see the sky from up here, 'Weird, why is the cloud purple?' I wonder as I try to take a closer look at the cloud.
'My eyes hurt.' I closed my eyes, or at least try to, I can't get them to close, it hurt.
When I look down, I see the people I know, I saw Ritsuka, Artoria-san, Arcueid-san, Shiki-san, Iori-san and most important of all, Caster-san who was looking up at me.
His eyes hold a lot of emotion within, hurt, disappointment, sadness, anger...
"Why- Please don't look at me like that Caster-san." I took a step forward... I try to take a step forward, my right leg just don't obey me as if it was stuck on something, 'Ice' It was ice that was covering my leg, preventing me from moving forward.
I look around to in order to find the sources of this and my eyes land on a lond black hair lady who was strangely cover in a note of golden light.
The lady said something that I couldnt hear before she disappear into nothingness, leaving behind only a black cat mask.
I struggle against the ice, try to move despite the coldness, I move and move and eventually, broke the ice.
By the time I do that, Artoria-san and Arthur-san had already charge their attack at me, "Why did they do that?" I dont understand why.
Why did they attacked me, I didnt do anything.
I move forward despite all the pain... Pain? I don't feel pain, what am I talking about?
Arcueid-san attacked me, I ignored it.
Ritsuka uses her summon to attacked me, I ignored it.
... Why?
I try to move, my struggle, why, why did I do this? Why did I endured so much? My struggle is for who?
My eyes wander aimlessly, try its hardest to find a reason why, I don't know if I can even find it but I continue to look and it miraculously land on it, land on him.
Caster-san.
Ah.
Please.
"Anyone, please."
Father,
Mother.
Caster.
"Please..."
"Hey, are you listening?" The woman whose name is Yuki Shimiki ask me while looking at me with a worried face .
"I... I am fine, just... Remember something." I, Kitsuki Ginhime answer to the best of my ability.
Yuki put her hand on her temple, 'What am I thinking, of course she is gonna get distracted, a child her age shouldn't bear this kind of burden...' She think to herself.
After a moment of thinking, Yuki put her hand down and said, "... How about telling me what's on your mind then, it seem pretty heavy to me."
Kitsuki open her mount, unsure of whenever or not she should tell Yuki her dream, no, nightmare, "I am... Actually thinking about my future." She lied.
Yuki smile then said, "Dream huh? You know, I have a dream too, a dream I hope to achieve when thing go back to normal."
"I want to become a writer, no, its more like, I want to write a book about someone, someone very special to me." Yuki confess as she glance at a nearby drawer.
"More than a month ago, I used to have a curse, its a very specific curse that will activate and slowly take my life force away each and every time I experience strong emotion, because of that, I travel away from Japan and to the middle east to try finding a cure to my curse." Yuki said as Kitsuki paid close attention to her story, after all, she always have a weak spot for flashback in a story.
"I try my hardest to find it, I searched every corner for it but sadly, I couldn't find it and in an act of hopelessness, I lock myself in a room and wait for my eventual demise." Yuki said while open the drawer revealing a red book, "Then at my lowest point, he came, a person who I never met before open the door to my room with the herb I was looking for on his hand."
She then crack a few laught at the memory, "Honestly, without him, I would probably rot in that room aged ago." Yuki finished her story, "And so to honored him, I want to write a book described every of his great deeds."
"And what is his name?" Kitsuki eagerly ask, "... Emiya, its Emiya Shirou." This... Shock the blond Master.
"Emiya? Isn't that..." Kitsuki didnt finish her question when Yuki join in, "The one we are searching for? Yes it is him, also for the book name, while I haven't come up with the final name, the one I had now are 'Star that will guide humanity', how do you like the sound of it?"
"Umm, it sound... Nice, but that wasn't what I meant to ask." Yuki tilted her head a little, "Oh, so what do you meant to ask then?"
"That name, Emiya Shirou... That was actually Caster-san name." The air drop, "H-Huh? Ginhime-san, a-are you sure that is your Servant true name, thing like that isn't something you can joke about." Yuki observe the blond hair Master, trying to find any implications that she is lying only to find none.
"No, he introduced himself to me when we first met so I remember it very clearly." And with this, Yuki's Mind race to try and find a acceptable answer to this, 'No this isn't possible, Shirou can't be a Servant, its impossible to become a Servant in this day and age, coincidence? No, there is zero record of any historical figure with the last name Emiya let alone Emiya Shirou, a contact with Alaya to become a Counter Guardian and then got summon here? No that can't be, if he is then this timeline will become a paradox, then the only logical answer left is...'
"Multiveresal Travel?" No, it shouldn't be possible right? But that was the most reasonable answer that she, Yuki can come up with.
But then something interrupt them, a bright light shine from the outside and enter through their small window, the light was so bright that both Yuki and Kitsuki had to brought their hand to shield their eyes from it, "W-What is that?!" Both of them said at the same time.
Seeing there is nothing they can do to stop the sudden light, both of them decide to stay here for now.
With just a few second later, the light got weaken, weak enough to make Yuki and Kitsuki feel safe to put their hand down, 'Caster-san, did you see that?!' Kitsuki said through their link but got ignored however.
'...Caster-san?' She repeat just to receive silent as an answer yet again, "Yuki-san, I am gonna go check on Caster-san, you stay here." Kitsuki said and rush toward the door leading to the hallway.
It was at this moment did Yuki feel a chill run down her spine, and she know exactly what it meant, "No wait you can't there is-!" it was too late as Kitsuki burst the door open and rush down the hallway.
'Cmon faster, faster, faster!' Kitsuki mind racing, encourage her to keep moving and ignore everything else, "NGHARGGG"... Including that horrid scream coming in front of her.
She go and go and go, even though she doesn't know where she is going, she continue to go until in front of her are a black figure, similar to the one Caster-san and her encounter when they first arrived here, "GRHA..." It cry out as it leap in Kitsuki direction.
"Get out of my way." She punch it, sending it fly and hit the wall, it however was stronger than she expected as her hand was bleeding out from just punching it, 'A broken bone, nothing much.' She think to herself as the necklace from her pocket shine a dim purple light.
Another two sneak up behind her as they jump on top of her, "Thats the best you can come up with?!" She turn around and grab the left one arm.
Then swing the left one body at the right one at fully force causing the left one body to tear right out and got send flying along with it's partner.
She drop the arm on her hand as the necklace continue to shine, "Dont get in my way." She run then grab onto one of the infected head, ripping it from its body and throwing it into another one.
She wipe the blood on her face that she get from ripping that Infected head earlier, "He must be up there, I got to hurry." The necklace shine once again.
"GRHGAA" More scream coming from behind her, "Nuisance." She said as the crystal shine one last time as it break into million pieces and at the same time Kitsuki feel as if something broke inside of her, something like that of a rope binding her for a long time have finally been broken.
She reaches her hand out, "Seirina." The word come out of her mouth as naturally as the wind, its almost as if she had been saying this a million time in her life.
Multiple large crystal manifest from thin air, more specifically, it manifest right inside the infected, ending it's life immediately.
A normally useless creation spell when fall into Kitsuki hand got turn into something else entirely.
Fos is a common spell use to create crystal depend on the user mana, the more mana got pour into the spell, the brighter and larger the crystal will get.
Kitsuki version however, it utilize the user voice, when activated the spell got divided into two step, step one is preparation, anyone and anything got affected by the user noise such as heart beat, breathing noise,... those who hear it will be mark.
Then once Kitsuki activated the second step, which is saying the spell name, anyone and anything that have been marked by the user voice with instantly replace the target structure with crystal, Kitsuki can choose which marked object to crystallize by thinking about what she want to crystallize.
"I-I did it." Kitsuki said in satisfactory, "GRRRR." But its not time to rest as behind her are three more infected.
'When will this end?' Her mind instantly disregard that question as three sharp white crystal start to hover above her, "Vlastos!" She point at the three Infected as the three crystal spin and then fly at the three Infected head at an incredible speed, immediately ending its life.
Vlastos too, is a simple spell, its an accelerate spell use to increase the amount of speed in one object, the amount of speed increased heavily depend on the user mana.
What at first is satisfaction from successfully perform two spell turn into unimaginable pain as Kitsuki kneel down while grabing her heart and coughing at the same time.
As time went on, the coughing got worse and worse, now she is coughing blood and experiencing headache plus her heart, magic circuit hurt like it was on fire.
"GRRHH..." Another cry, this time coming from behind her, an infected manage to snuck up on her, 'D-Damn it, c'mon, c'mon, MOVE!' Her body just do not obey her at all as the Infected keep approaching her.
But before it could attack, three gems with different color got throw in front of it face and explode mid-air, completely demolish the infected face
"Be careful, you will never know when those thing came from." A voice belong to a black hair girl with a cyan eyes, "Tohsaka, Tohsaka Rin is the name, we never really have the chance to greet each other properly so nice to meet you."
Outside the base
"How far are we from the tower Ciel-san?" Shirou, the tanned skin Caster asked, "We are almost there, just a bit over one minute and we will arrive there." Shirou nodded to the information.
"... Just to be sure, the light that shine earlier was the sheath of king Arthur, Avalon right?" Ciel, the blue haired Excetuioner ask while driving the jeep head straight to the source of the light.
Shirou nodded as he look over the tower, "And how did you know all of that? I thought Avalon was lost ever since that fourth war happened." Ciel ask suspiciously.
"...I..." Should he lie to her? Of course, but what kind of lie would it be? "I actually met king Arthur before." Shirou answer, he does admit it is technically not a lie but it is the best one he can come up with right now.
"... I see." He could tell that she did not buy it at all but she will play with it for now, "We have arrived." Ciel stop her jeep in front of the tower.
The tower is a tall structure standing proudly at one thousand and five hundred feet, its design take inspiration from the Eiffel Tower with the main colors being yellow and red, 'Its like a parody of the Tokyo Tower.' Shirou thought to himself.
"Emiya-san must be up there, lets go." Ciel said while looking around, 'Strange, there is no Infected anywhere, its usually very crowded here.' She look back to the Caster Servant who is looking at their base.
"Are you still worry about your Master? Don't worry, Rin is a very capable Mage, she should be able to handle it with the help of Yuki." Shirou nodded at Ciel reassurance.
'!' Shirou instinct kick in as he turn around, trace Kanshou and Bakuya to dash in front of Ciel, blocking a strike that would have kill her otherwise.
"An Infected!? So there's still some around here!" Ciel said as she reached for her black key and prepare to throw them at the attacker.
The attacker back away and dodged the black key that was flying toward his shadow and refocus his attention to the tanned man, raising his blacken blade and struck the man with each blow aim for vital organs yet all of them get parried by the Caster's blades.
"Ciel-san! You go and bring Emiya-san to safety, I will stay here and distract him!" Caster said as he parried another lethal blow but it manage to destroy Kanshou and Bakuya and left him defendless "Understood!" Ciel answer, jumping up while also didnt forget to throw three Black Key at the knight shadow, temporary halting him.
The knight of course break free easily but waiting him is a speeding red arrow which hit directly at his left eye and also explode on contact, creating a small smoke.
"Trace on!" Using Structure Analysis to inspect the blade the attacker is holding, 'A Servant, should have expect that.' Taking advantage of the knight temporary blindness, Shirou decided to test a theory out.
Then coming out of that smoke was none other than the knight who is gripping tightly on his blade, he then proceed to charge at the Caster Servant, aiming to cut his head but got parried by a long golden sword 'Cal#bur#'.
The knight hand start to shaking, not from fear nor anger but rather recognition, '... That confirm it, so he still somewhat have the ability to regconize that.' Shirou knock the knight's blade back, creating distance between them, "I am the bone of my sword." The knight dash at Shirou, throwing a barrage of attack, this time faster, and deadlier than ever.
'Caliburn isnt going to hold out much longer, time to think of something else.' Caster brainstorming to try and find a way to buy more time, "Trace on!" Five nameless Noble Phatasm appear above the knight as it start to fly toward the knight who dodged it all effortlessly.
"Steel is my body,..." Shirou jump up after creating the distraction and land on the leg of the Tower, "And fire is my blood." The knight followed by jumping and slash at Caster.
"I have created over a thousand blade." Shirou dodged causing the knight to destroy the Tower legs, causing the Tower structure as a whole to be titled, 'It was close, his speed is even more deadly than when he was still alive somehow.' The knight throw his sword at Shirou, "Unaware of loss..." Shirou mind race as he trace a sword axe to block the flying blade, he then proceed to trace three nameless Noble Phantasm hovering around himself, pointing at the knight who tensed in respond.
"... Nor aware of gain." Then not even a second later, those three start to accelerate at the knight whose sword just fly back to him, he then use the weapon to deflect all three of the nameless Noble Phantasm flying at him, "Have withstood pain to create many weapon." Shirou back away while throwing the sword axe at the knight like a boomerang.
The knight chase him like a wild beast, and somehow deflect the sword axe in the process, "Yet, it will remain reachable." He step aside just enough to dodge the blade that was swinging down at him, "So I called forth..."
It look at Shirou's face, "Unlimited..." The space suround them erupt in flame, "Blade Work!" Devouring both of them in intense light.
The knight open his eyes, they are no longer in the abandoned city, surounding them are a waste land fill with sword with seemingly no end and replacing the night that was an beautiful evening covering the place.
"This is my Noble Phantasm, if you can even remember what is was." Caster said, looking down at the knight from a hill, "It create a world fill with sword, the pinnacle of sword, and I believe I also had your too." The knight tighten his grip.
"Its honestly sad, to see one of the first Knight of The Round Table be reduced to this mindless beast." Countless sword began to materialize behind Caster, "If you were to remained your sanity, I wouldn't be able to fight back as much as I have now let alone being able to deploy my Noble Phantasm yet here we are..." Shirou raise his hand as a rain of swords fall into the knight.
The true identity of the knight was only available to Shirou thanks to the sword he is wielding as the knight physical form is beyond recognition.
He is one of the first Knight of The Round Table, the foster brother of King Arthur Pendragon, son of Ector, for he is none other than...
Sir Kay.
Saku Village
"So the village just undergo an attack?" A lady with a purple cloak ask, "Yeah, thanks to the blond hair girl, the silver hair boy and the black hair lady that we manage to get saved, otherwise we would suffer a far, far more horrible fate." The old man answered.
"... Do you happened to know where they are now?" The old man shake his head, " Unfortunately, they leave before we could give them a proper thank you." The woman ponder a bit before turning around, "Thank you for the information, I will go now if you excuse me." The woman start to head for the village gate.
"So turn around and go here is a mistake, at least my curiousity got satisfy..." The woman said to herself as she appoarch the Nibyu mountain, "Hm?" a noise of leaf moving cached her ear.
When she look at the source of it, which is a bush, jumping out of it is a rather strange creature she had never seen before, "A white squirrel? Wait no a fox? Dog?" It noticed her as it eyes light up, "Fou?" It cry out in curiousity as it appoarch her.
Instinctively, she reach out, forgetting that she herself had a curse, "Wait! No!" It was close, she almost touched it, "Fou?" It cry out once again, this time jumping on her shoulder, "W-What! Get off!" she try her best to get the beast off, but fail miseribly.
"Guess I'm stuck with you now." She sigh to herself, why do this had to happened to her...
Meanwhile at Chaldea
"Ritsuka is about to approach another dangerous place huh." Nemo said to himself, "You know them captain, getting into dangerous place is risky but often time rewarding." Sion said at the other side of the table.
"And there is also the Demon Lord situation there." Kadoc meinton, "Those crystal growing out of it... Its definitely ORT crystal, we are pretty much confirm that that is where ORT reside." Nemo said, still remember vividly their encounter with its Lostbelt variation.
"And by the way Brunette was speaking about the Demon Lord, I was actually hoping we could team up with him." Sion said as one of Nemo marines join their conversation, "Brunette-san is very polite, she act just like a princess!" Then another one join in, "Yeah Yeah, she explain everything so patiently and so easy to understand that even I get it!" Then another one and another one.
This keep on going until Nemo had enough, "Hey you guys, this is enough, get back to work." That seems to get the marines back to do what they was doing before, "Aye Aye Captain." They all respond at the same time.
"But in all seriousness, Brunette really feel like a princess similar to those we had met before unlike Annette but I suppose that's just me." Sion said.
"Still I couldn't think that Camazotl was able to reincarnated there, let alone ORT." Kadoc said as grab the coffee from the table, "Yeah, I dont know how it was even possible but it happened." Sion said also reach out for her coffee.
"That being said, you have been looking around alot Goredolf, what are you looking for?" Nemo ask, grabing his coffee, even though he didnt really need it, "No, I just feel we are missing something, someone very important but I don't know who." Goredolf ponder to himself.
"We are missing someone?" Kadoc take a sip out of his coffee, Goredolf squint his eyes, try to find something that would jog his memory when he found a dog pawn sticker in one of the staff member bag, "Fou?" Everyone froze, try to remember when was the last time they see the little beast.
Only to realize... "FOU WAS MISSING!?"
And that mark the end of chapter fifthteen, hope you enjoy and I will see you next chapter.
Additional information:
True name: Thúy Kiều
Class: Caster
Height: 166 cm
Weight: 40 kg
Gender: Female
Alignment: Lawful-Good
Stat:
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: E
Mana: EX
Luck: E
Noble Phantasm: A
Skill:
Clairvoyance: E
Figure of the star: B
Golden rule (False): B
Passive Skill:
Item creation: A
Beauty of calamity: EX
Magecraft Geniuses: A
Noble Phantasm: Truyện Kiều – Story of separation, destruction and eventual reunion
Description: When she first materialize in this world, she wore a very fancy white dress with golden outline, the dress also had a flowery texture with a slightly darken white color, she had a transparent white cloth that act as a scarf, her hair back then was tie to a bun instead of letting lose. Why does she wear a black dress and have a cat mask now? Probably because she valued simplicity if I have to guess... Did I meinton that she didnt wear any shoes back then, I still wonder how she didnt hurt leg on accident.
Omake: Wrong one... Again
"... Urghh, where am I?" Shirou said as he open his eyes to an unfamiliar ceiling.
Surround him right now are a white futuristic corridor with room and some more corridor that lead to who know where.
It was then a particular sound catches the hero of justice ear, 'A snore?' When he look to the side, await him are his master who sleep like there's no tomorrow.
'I should probably wake her up.' After getting up from his current position, he called for his Master, "Hey Master, wake-" But of course nothing goes as planned as his attempt to wake his Master up got interrupted by a door got open right beside them.
"See ya Master, don't forget to come at the training ground tomorrow okay?" And comming out of the room was a silver, emerald hair lady with a rather... Uhh, revealing silver outfit.
"Hmph? Isnt this the cafeteria number one chef? Wait or was it 'The cafeteria number two chef'?" The silver hair lady ponder to herself while the tanned skin servant just stare at her face confusingly, "Errr, its probably somewhere up there, anyway what are you doing lying down here?"
"I was... Wondering the same thing." He decided to play along for now, the silver hair lady raise an eyebrow, "And this girl, who is..." She leaned in closer to inspect the sleeping girl.
"..." The unknown girl narrow her eyes, "Umm, miss? Can you please-" A purple light erupt causing the silver hair girl to close her eyes.
Once the light dim down, the girl open her eyes to see both the sleeping girl and the tanned servant to disappear as if they were never their in the first place.
A sound of a door open behind her and come out of it are a young man with black hair, "Ok, change of plan lets go to the cafe- Oh hi Kukulkan." The young man greet the girl who paid him no mind.
"Kukulkan?" It seem that the silver hair lady has finally notice the man as she turn around, now acknowledging the man presence, "Oh Master, I umm, heard you want to go to the cafeteria sooo, want me to accompany you?"
The man nodded making the woman beam, "Then what are we waiting for lets go!" She hold the man hand, dragging him to the cafeteria.
"Ah I almost forgot, back then what got you so focus?" The man ask halfway into their journey, "Hm? Oh its nothing Master, just thinking about something... Something that felt oddly and terrifyingly familiar." She tell her Master.