Fate/Off the Rails (and onto hiatus again)

[X] Huh, funny. Just met a servant to claims to be a Saber.
-[X] Which if I had to guess means there is another set of servants running around, so someone is either exploiting the mother of all loopholes or something has gone horribly wrong with the grail itself.
--[X] So to answer your question Shirou, as bad as Zeus and Hera's love life.

I started to giggle to myself. "Huh? Did I say something weird?"

I waved him off. "Nah, nah. It's just that I had met a servant, Hakuno's I think, who claims to be a Saber." His face took on a more grim tone. "As to the situation of it all, which if I had to guess means there is another set of servants running around, so someone is either exploiting the mother of all loopholes or something has gone horribly wrong with the grail itself. So to answer your question Shirou, as bad as Zeus and Hera's love life."

"Is it the one where the guy gives birth to a kid through his skull and has sex with like any hot women within general vicinity except his wife?"

"Yup, that's the one."

"It's that bad huh?"

"I'll be honest with you, if this was a NORMAL Holy Grail War, there will still be property damage, a handful of dead bodies caused by the crossfire and maybe a lot of bad blood if anyone survives. This one here? I'm not quite if I'll live to see the sun dawn tomorrow."

A solemn expression formed itself over Shirou's face. "Do you think we'll be able to stop whatever's happening? Before any of this gets out of hand?"

I looked at him as I considered my words with care. The sound of Rin still kicking the tree being a distant echo in my mind. "Shirou... There is no guarantee that all your hardwork will be paid off. The world does not repay kindness with kindness and malice with malice, it just does not care. Life does not care, what's the point? Bad things happen to good people for no reason, good things happen to bad people for no reason; it just is. What I'm saying is, there's no way to know if we can avoid anything that will cause damage to this city. No... wait... I'm just complicating it... What am saying is..."

"She doesn't know." Right beside Shirou, the Lancer in black appeared out of thin air. "She doesn't know, and neither does all of us." She had not changed her posture and her face was covered so I had no clue as to what she was thinking, even her voice is calmed leveled. Shirou on the other hand was like a book, if the book was written with plain simple words in bolded caps. He looked down at the ground, downcasted.

"So what you're saying is that we can't save anyone?" Lancer stood still but this time I can feel a bit of hurt from her.

"No no Shirou, it's not that we can't save anyone. It's just that... We can't be sure if we can stop all the damage."

He turned to Lancer with a resolute expression. "But if we let even a little of it happen, there's someone who's still to get hurt, someone who's still going to lose something, someone could die."

"Shirou, we can't save everyone. It's the simple truth."

"Still..." He looked at his good hand as it tightly balled into a fist. "That won't stop me from saving people form this war."

"Even the opposition?" He looked shocked at Lancer, his eyes wide. "There are Masters and Servants in this war who're cruel for the sake of cruelty. There are Masters and Servants in this war who seek the grail for noble causes. There are Masters and Servants in this war who simply want their dreams to come true. Tell me, if we are to stop whatever chaos that comes as a direct result of this war, what will you do? Will you kill them? Talk them down? Compromise? It's not that easy Shirou, it never is. In this war, there is only one certainty, that it is inevitable that blood will be spilled. One way or another, there will be bloodshed."

"But..." He's shaking now, his face contorted with frustration. "This is all wrong. There has to be another way... A way where no one has to die." For the first time in the conversation, Lancer looked away from him. Seems like it's just as hard on her as it is on Shirou. I think it's a good time to step in...

[X] "Come on guys, let figure this stuff later after we get to stop Rin from kicking the poor tree and calm down enough to make a gameplan at Luvia's place."

[X] "Sorry Shirou but it's the cold hard truth. It's good that your so nice but... sometimes our choices aren't so open."

[X] "At least you're honest about your willingness to save everyone. Not many can claim that, even actual heroes. Maybe we can't save everyone, but we can at least try and do as much as we can. No promises on me spilling blood though."

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