Fate/Kaleid Emiya: The 2nd Magus Killer
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Plan? What plan?
- Location
- Malaysia
AN: YOROKOBE SHOUNEN AND SHOUJO! Ahem, congratz, everything seems to be going fine... which means things are going to be horrible weird at some point. Everyone loves Command Seals, and well, I can see from the comments where things are heading so just take your munchkin prize and be happy. Things are about to be stirred up by your actions now.
Fate/Kaleid Emiya: The 2nd Magus Killer
"Mmm… urgh…"
What the heck happened…?
You were lying face up in your bedroom, judging by the sleep charm that Medea had placed on the ceiling to give you dreamless sleep.
A welcome blessing after all that happened recently.
Although everything seems a little dull, slow and woozy.
"Oh, Shirou! You're awake!"
Medea was right by your side apparently as she shifted such that her face blocked most of your vision.
Close, her face was really close.
"Uhhhh…"
"Hmm, you look like you're still a bit groggy. Ah! It's because I forgot to remove the spell that reduces what you could feel. I'll fix that right up." She says as she crawls above your body and sits on your chest.
She muttered something before gathering a spell on her finger, lightly tapping your forehead with it.
All of a sudden, you feel normal.
"Huh! Just like that?"
"Mmhm! Just like that! It's magical isn't it?"
"Haha…"
It was now that you recalled what you had requested from Medea.
"Then, it's done?"
"Yes, please examine them to your liking, Shirou. I used up twenty of those normal bullets to make them. I figured that a higher concentration of your soul in each bullet compared with your father's bullets would be more effective."
She held up the case with the .30-06 Springfield bullets now loaded with your crushed ribs and your Origin preserved within them.
Twenty Origin Bullets… you had a good inkling on how to use them compared with another version of EMIYA that used those gunblades. You didn't have time to develop such a use of Unlimited Blade Works, so this is essentially your short cut.
Better yet, you can hide your real capabilities using these bullets.
"Thank you, Medea. You didn't find it too… distasteful, right?"
"Huh? N-no, it was fine. Master's body was very interesting to look through. I had to work quickly through as your skin began knitting itself together with blades but I managed to get a handful of your ribs out to use."
The fact that you were already healed to maximum health did not require mentioning.
"Great! You worked really hard Medea. I'm sorry I still put you up to this."
"It's fine, really! I'm just glad that Shirou trusted me with his body, hehe."
Medea and you shared some laughs and smiles for awhile before getting back to business.
With the TV screen, we kept an eye on Sakura and waited until she left school.
Now all there was to do was wait until there would be no witnesses.
After scrying through the nearby areas, we went ahead of Sakura while Medea went to setup a bounded field that shielded us from interference.
We would have to make this quick.
You took a deep breath before committing to your choice of action.
This was to make sure that Sakura wouldn't have to be hurt any longer. She's been through enough, both in your world and this world, that you know for sure.
And so, you stepped out of the corner and turned around to face Sakura.
"Eh, Senpai?"
...This world really is cruel.
It's like being made to chase after the reflection of the moon on a lake.
Seeing her now, you can see that she was stubbornly strong just like your Sakura.
Only that she was shaken, likely because of the Holy Grail War being a new burden on her.
'Sakura… this time, even if it's for a short time, I'll hold that trembling shoulder of yours.'
"Yo! Sakura! Fancy meeting you here. Do you… live near here? I just decided to take a walk around all of a sudden so, ahaha…"
"Um… yes, my house is just that way. Um, Senpai? Are you feeling alright? What's with those clothes?"
She looked at you as if you were a weirdo.
'No Sakura, please don't look at me like that! These are professional clothes I swear!'
"Oh, these? I was going through Kiritsugu's old clothes and found these! It kind of makes me look like one of those detectives from Noir fiction, doesn't it? It has this vigilante hero feel to it as well."
You put your fingers in a tick shape on your chin while looking smug while nodding to yourself like a child that thinks he's cool.
"Aha...hahaha! You need to go home and change Senpai! If anyone from school saw you in those clothes, they'll think you're an Otaku. Shinji-onii san will probably make fun of you and-"
Your face darkened considerably at hearing that bastard's name.
Drat, that shouldn't have happened.
"I-is it something I said, Senpai?"
Ah, that must have spooked her huh?
You walk towards her.
"No, nothing's wrong. I was just… worried for you, that's all."
"Senpai…" She perked up all of a sudden, looking determined, "Thank you for worrying, but everything's fine. Really!"
"... Sakura. I'm sorry." You smile the best you can.
"Huh?"
You grip her shoulders gentle with your hands.
"I'm sorry it took me so long to notice…"
"... umm, what is this-"
"That you were hurting for so long."
As you said those words, you felt her body going stiff.
"W-what are you talking about Senpai? Everything's just-"
"Caster, do it."
The moment you called out Medea's Class title, you see the spark of recognition go off in Sakura's eyes before her body went slack.
From behind her, Medea had her staff just at where the back of Sakura's head.
You caught her limp body and Medea teleported the three of you back to the Ryuudou Temple.
We had fortified the entrance against certain expected threats, thankfully it was unneeded as the process went undisturbed.
It was horrific. The Crest Worms had been in her for years, growing alongside her nerves until it was now swarming her entire body like a full body Magic Crest.
A Magic Crest on one part of the body already feels like a foreign object. You couldn't imagine what it was like having something foreign in all of your body.
Well, you could… but that was like two different versions of EMIYA being forced to share a body and having each other's souls destroy each other.
Sometimes when you chanted EMIYA's aria when using the Archer Class Card, you felt as if it was killing your body due to our differing ideals.
Even then, that was but a short moment compared with what Sakura had been dealing with all her life.
One saving grace was that Crest Worms were still part of Thaumaturgy and Pain Breaker was classified under Anti-Thaumaturgy.
It could undo anything short of death and heal nearly anything. But if the damage was done by magic? It was even more effective.
Essentially, "Pain Breaker" performs automatic repairs not by means of time manipulation, but by calculating the proper figure one originally had. Crest Worms and the way it integrated to become part of her nerves and magic circuits were simply not "proper", especially since it was done by Magecraft.
If Atomic Gatorade was useful for anything, it was the idea of mana crystals.
Medea used your prana to make magic crystals before grinding them into shards and made a trail of them from Sakura's body to somewhere else.
She was willing to hold Rule Breaker and use it in concert with Pain Breaker during the operation, allowing her to both heal and break the connections between Sakura, the connection with the Crest Worms and it's connection with… something else.
The worms that couldn't die peacefully fled Sakura's body and went for the closest mana source that it could devour easily.
The mana crystals.
Like moths to the flame, all of them were purged from her body using healing magic and the power of Medea's Noble Phantasm's.
Occasionally shifting her focus, Medea would utter a word and ignite the grouped up Crest Worms when enough gathered.
The heart was the final part.
Medea took some time to prepare some statis spells just in case something went wrong.
This part needed to be done quickly.
You look upon the sleeping Sakura, took a deep breath and plunged your hand into her chest.
You swiftly grasped and pulled out her heart just as Medea uttered healing spells with her staff in one hand while using Pain Breaker to it's maximum abilities with her other hand.
The amount of prana that went into such an operation must have been large, but thankfully, whatever strange condition you're in had benefited Medea so that she was not even winded from something like this.
Taking the other dagger with a grim expression, she stabbed it into the now removed heart.
"Rule Breaker."
It was finished.
Even if you thought that, Medea still had to delicately transfer the Command Seals from Sakura to yourself through a slow process. She didn't have Kirei's secret passcodes to have immediate transfers but she did research the Grail enough to apparently derive a way to transfer Command Seals and separate them from existing contracts.
If anything, you'll need to keep Sakura safe in your base for a while until she recovers. You suppose you can keep her with Bazett.
But now, you need an immediate plan to deal with this Zouken Matou.
You doubt an Archmagus would be dealt with that easily. (Pick one, write-in…)
[ ] Kiritsugu always said that a precision missile strike can solve many problems, you wonder why he told you that on Mother's Day… it's time to nuke the worm nest.
[ ] Follow the ancient Chinese method of slaying the entire family, you can nuke them too, but you'll personally get rid of Shinji.
[ ] Bide your time and work with Caster to make an exorcism Mystic Code, use it to banish Zouken. Who cares about Shinji? You can go punch him whenever you want.
[ ] Write-in
The summoning circle was set. You needed back up as soon as possible especially with Lancer doing the bidding of Kotomine Kirei.
You got lucky so far in not encountering Lancer, or that we weren't found out yet but that won't be for long. It's time to consider a projected Catalyst or whatever you can get right now. (Pick one…)
[ ] A sword used in the Hundred Years' War that belonged to someone that would become notorious. (Gilles de Rais, Saber. Warning: Prelati Spellbook is very distinctive)
[ ] The image of a Holy Sword that embodied the Sun, sister blade of Excalibur (Gawain, Saber)
[ ] A sword belonging to the most heroine in the Hundred Years' War (Jeanne d'Arc, Saber)
[ ] The scalpel of a doctor that had another personality (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Roll 1d2, 1 for Berserker, 2 for Assassin)
[ ] Caliburn (Roll 1d10, 1-8 for Saber Lily, 9-10 for Arturia Pendragon)
[ ] The Image of the Strongest Holy Sword in existence (Roll 1d10, 1-6 for normal Saber, 7-8 for MHX, 9-10 forDarth Maul MHXA)
[ ] Brahmastra (Rama, Saber… with Sita being somewhere and sad stuff will happen)
[ ] An amazonian weapon (Roll 1d2, 1 for Hippolyta, 2 for Penthesilea. Classes randomized)
[ ] A Cross Staff, still a weapon (Saint Martha, Rider)
[ ] Ascalon (Saint George, Rider)
[ ] Durandal (Roland, Saber)
[ ] Sword of the Kupriotes (Iskandar, King of Conquerors, Rider)
[ ] Sword of Boudica (Boudica, Saber)
[ ] Yew Bow (Robin Hood, Archer)
[ ] Stella (Arash, Archer, STELLLAAAAA!)
[ ] Hrunting (Beowulf, Saber)
[ ] Sword of a War God (Altera/Attila the Hun, Saber)
[ ] A nameless Dagger (Medusa, Rider)
[ ] Aestus Estus: The Original Flame (Nero Claudius, Saber. Roll 1d2, 1 for Normal, 2 for Bride)
[ ] Balmung (Sumanai Siegfried, Saber)
[ ] Diatrekhōn Astēr Lonkhē (Achilles, Rider)
[ ] Durindana (Hector of Troy, Saber)
[ ] Moraltach and Baegaltach (Diarmuid of the Love Spot, Saber)
[ ] An image of a demonic sword, Arondight (Lancelot, Saber)
[ ] Clarent (Mordred, Saber)
[ ] Failnaught (Tristan, Archer)
[ ] Caladbolg (Fergus mac Roich, Saber. Roll 1d100, 1-90 for Fergus, 91-100, Mebd)
[ ] Crocea Mors (Caesar, Roll 1d10. 1-6 for Saber, 7-10 for Rider)
[ ] Mac An Luin (Fionn Mac Cumhaill, Saber)
[ ] Fleur de Lys (Le Chevalier d'Eon, Saber)
[ ] A cutlass of a certain pirate (Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Rider)
[ ] A few dirks (Random Hassan, Assassin)
[ ] Some Knives (Jack the Ripper, Assassin)
[ ] Medea's Golden Fleece (Jason, LOL)
[ ] Yourself (EMIYA, Archer)
Fate/Kaleid Emiya: The 2nd Magus Killer
"Mmm… urgh…"
What the heck happened…?
You were lying face up in your bedroom, judging by the sleep charm that Medea had placed on the ceiling to give you dreamless sleep.
A welcome blessing after all that happened recently.
Although everything seems a little dull, slow and woozy.
"Oh, Shirou! You're awake!"
Medea was right by your side apparently as she shifted such that her face blocked most of your vision.
Close, her face was really close.
"Uhhhh…"
"Hmm, you look like you're still a bit groggy. Ah! It's because I forgot to remove the spell that reduces what you could feel. I'll fix that right up." She says as she crawls above your body and sits on your chest.
She muttered something before gathering a spell on her finger, lightly tapping your forehead with it.
All of a sudden, you feel normal.
"Huh! Just like that?"
"Mmhm! Just like that! It's magical isn't it?"
"Haha…"
It was now that you recalled what you had requested from Medea.
"Then, it's done?"
"Yes, please examine them to your liking, Shirou. I used up twenty of those normal bullets to make them. I figured that a higher concentration of your soul in each bullet compared with your father's bullets would be more effective."
She held up the case with the .30-06 Springfield bullets now loaded with your crushed ribs and your Origin preserved within them.
Twenty Origin Bullets… you had a good inkling on how to use them compared with another version of EMIYA that used those gunblades. You didn't have time to develop such a use of Unlimited Blade Works, so this is essentially your short cut.
Better yet, you can hide your real capabilities using these bullets.
"Thank you, Medea. You didn't find it too… distasteful, right?"
"Huh? N-no, it was fine. Master's body was very interesting to look through. I had to work quickly through as your skin began knitting itself together with blades but I managed to get a handful of your ribs out to use."
The fact that you were already healed to maximum health did not require mentioning.
"Great! You worked really hard Medea. I'm sorry I still put you up to this."
"It's fine, really! I'm just glad that Shirou trusted me with his body, hehe."
Medea and you shared some laughs and smiles for awhile before getting back to business.
With the TV screen, we kept an eye on Sakura and waited until she left school.
Now all there was to do was wait until there would be no witnesses.
After scrying through the nearby areas, we went ahead of Sakura while Medea went to setup a bounded field that shielded us from interference.
We would have to make this quick.
You took a deep breath before committing to your choice of action.
This was to make sure that Sakura wouldn't have to be hurt any longer. She's been through enough, both in your world and this world, that you know for sure.
And so, you stepped out of the corner and turned around to face Sakura.
"Eh, Senpai?"
...This world really is cruel.
It's like being made to chase after the reflection of the moon on a lake.
Seeing her now, you can see that she was stubbornly strong just like your Sakura.
Only that she was shaken, likely because of the Holy Grail War being a new burden on her.
'Sakura… this time, even if it's for a short time, I'll hold that trembling shoulder of yours.'
"Yo! Sakura! Fancy meeting you here. Do you… live near here? I just decided to take a walk around all of a sudden so, ahaha…"
"Um… yes, my house is just that way. Um, Senpai? Are you feeling alright? What's with those clothes?"
She looked at you as if you were a weirdo.
'No Sakura, please don't look at me like that! These are professional clothes I swear!'
"Oh, these? I was going through Kiritsugu's old clothes and found these! It kind of makes me look like one of those detectives from Noir fiction, doesn't it? It has this vigilante hero feel to it as well."
You put your fingers in a tick shape on your chin while looking smug while nodding to yourself like a child that thinks he's cool.
"Aha...hahaha! You need to go home and change Senpai! If anyone from school saw you in those clothes, they'll think you're an Otaku. Shinji-onii san will probably make fun of you and-"
Your face darkened considerably at hearing that bastard's name.
Drat, that shouldn't have happened.
"I-is it something I said, Senpai?"
Ah, that must have spooked her huh?
You walk towards her.
"No, nothing's wrong. I was just… worried for you, that's all."
"Senpai…" She perked up all of a sudden, looking determined, "Thank you for worrying, but everything's fine. Really!"
"... Sakura. I'm sorry." You smile the best you can.
"Huh?"
You grip her shoulders gentle with your hands.
"I'm sorry it took me so long to notice…"
"... umm, what is this-"
"That you were hurting for so long."
As you said those words, you felt her body going stiff.
"W-what are you talking about Senpai? Everything's just-"
"Caster, do it."
The moment you called out Medea's Class title, you see the spark of recognition go off in Sakura's eyes before her body went slack.
From behind her, Medea had her staff just at where the back of Sakura's head.
You caught her limp body and Medea teleported the three of you back to the Ryuudou Temple.
We had fortified the entrance against certain expected threats, thankfully it was unneeded as the process went undisturbed.
It was horrific. The Crest Worms had been in her for years, growing alongside her nerves until it was now swarming her entire body like a full body Magic Crest.
A Magic Crest on one part of the body already feels like a foreign object. You couldn't imagine what it was like having something foreign in all of your body.
Well, you could… but that was like two different versions of EMIYA being forced to share a body and having each other's souls destroy each other.
Sometimes when you chanted EMIYA's aria when using the Archer Class Card, you felt as if it was killing your body due to our differing ideals.
Even then, that was but a short moment compared with what Sakura had been dealing with all her life.
One saving grace was that Crest Worms were still part of Thaumaturgy and Pain Breaker was classified under Anti-Thaumaturgy.
It could undo anything short of death and heal nearly anything. But if the damage was done by magic? It was even more effective.
Essentially, "Pain Breaker" performs automatic repairs not by means of time manipulation, but by calculating the proper figure one originally had. Crest Worms and the way it integrated to become part of her nerves and magic circuits were simply not "proper", especially since it was done by Magecraft.
If Atomic Gatorade was useful for anything, it was the idea of mana crystals.
Medea used your prana to make magic crystals before grinding them into shards and made a trail of them from Sakura's body to somewhere else.
She was willing to hold Rule Breaker and use it in concert with Pain Breaker during the operation, allowing her to both heal and break the connections between Sakura, the connection with the Crest Worms and it's connection with… something else.
The worms that couldn't die peacefully fled Sakura's body and went for the closest mana source that it could devour easily.
The mana crystals.
Like moths to the flame, all of them were purged from her body using healing magic and the power of Medea's Noble Phantasm's.
Occasionally shifting her focus, Medea would utter a word and ignite the grouped up Crest Worms when enough gathered.
The heart was the final part.
Medea took some time to prepare some statis spells just in case something went wrong.
This part needed to be done quickly.
You look upon the sleeping Sakura, took a deep breath and plunged your hand into her chest.
You swiftly grasped and pulled out her heart just as Medea uttered healing spells with her staff in one hand while using Pain Breaker to it's maximum abilities with her other hand.
The amount of prana that went into such an operation must have been large, but thankfully, whatever strange condition you're in had benefited Medea so that she was not even winded from something like this.
Taking the other dagger with a grim expression, she stabbed it into the now removed heart.
"Rule Breaker."
It was finished.
Even if you thought that, Medea still had to delicately transfer the Command Seals from Sakura to yourself through a slow process. She didn't have Kirei's secret passcodes to have immediate transfers but she did research the Grail enough to apparently derive a way to transfer Command Seals and separate them from existing contracts.
If anything, you'll need to keep Sakura safe in your base for a while until she recovers. You suppose you can keep her with Bazett.
But now, you need an immediate plan to deal with this Zouken Matou.
You doubt an Archmagus would be dealt with that easily. (Pick one, write-in…)
[ ] Kiritsugu always said that a precision missile strike can solve many problems, you wonder why he told you that on Mother's Day… it's time to nuke the worm nest.
[ ] Follow the ancient Chinese method of slaying the entire family, you can nuke them too, but you'll personally get rid of Shinji.
[ ] Bide your time and work with Caster to make an exorcism Mystic Code, use it to banish Zouken. Who cares about Shinji? You can go punch him whenever you want.
[ ] Write-in
The summoning circle was set. You needed back up as soon as possible especially with Lancer doing the bidding of Kotomine Kirei.
You got lucky so far in not encountering Lancer, or that we weren't found out yet but that won't be for long. It's time to consider a projected Catalyst or whatever you can get right now. (Pick one…)
[ ] A sword used in the Hundred Years' War that belonged to someone that would become notorious. (Gilles de Rais, Saber. Warning: Prelati Spellbook is very distinctive)
[ ] The image of a Holy Sword that embodied the Sun, sister blade of Excalibur (Gawain, Saber)
[ ] A sword belonging to the most heroine in the Hundred Years' War (Jeanne d'Arc, Saber)
[ ] The scalpel of a doctor that had another personality (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Roll 1d2, 1 for Berserker, 2 for Assassin)
[ ] Caliburn (Roll 1d10, 1-8 for Saber Lily, 9-10 for Arturia Pendragon)
[ ] The Image of the Strongest Holy Sword in existence (Roll 1d10, 1-6 for normal Saber, 7-8 for MHX, 9-10 for
[ ] Brahmastra (Rama, Saber… with Sita being somewhere and sad stuff will happen)
[ ] An amazonian weapon (Roll 1d2, 1 for Hippolyta, 2 for Penthesilea. Classes randomized)
[ ] A Cross Staff, still a weapon (Saint Martha, Rider)
[ ] Ascalon (Saint George, Rider)
[ ] Durandal (Roland, Saber)
[ ] Sword of the Kupriotes (Iskandar, King of Conquerors, Rider)
[ ] Sword of Boudica (Boudica, Saber)
[ ] Yew Bow (Robin Hood, Archer)
[ ] Stella (Arash, Archer, STELLLAAAAA!)
[ ] Hrunting (Beowulf, Saber)
[ ] Sword of a War God (Altera/Attila the Hun, Saber)
[ ] A nameless Dagger (Medusa, Rider)
[ ] Aestus Estus: The Original Flame (Nero Claudius, Saber. Roll 1d2, 1 for Normal, 2 for Bride)
[ ] Balmung (
[ ] Diatrekhōn Astēr Lonkhē (Achilles, Rider)
[ ] Durindana (Hector of Troy, Saber)
[ ] Moraltach and Baegaltach (Diarmuid of the Love Spot, Saber)
[ ] An image of a demonic sword, Arondight (Lancelot, Saber)
[ ] Clarent (Mordred, Saber)
[ ] Failnaught (Tristan, Archer)
[ ] Caladbolg (Fergus mac Roich, Saber. Roll 1d100, 1-90 for Fergus, 91-100, Mebd)
[ ] Crocea Mors (Caesar, Roll 1d10. 1-6 for Saber, 7-10 for Rider)
[ ] Mac An Luin (Fionn Mac Cumhaill, Saber)
[ ] Fleur de Lys (Le Chevalier d'Eon, Saber)
[ ] A cutlass of a certain pirate (Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Rider)
[ ] A few dirks (Random Hassan, Assassin)
[ ] Some Knives (Jack the Ripper, Assassin)
[ ] Medea's Golden Fleece (Jason, LOL)
[ ] Yourself (EMIYA, Archer)
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