When Senpai came home that night carrying a woman she didn't question him.
She had complete trust in him.
Because she knew he would not throw her away.
No, what concerned her was the fact that he was shivering.
He was also carrying a woman who seemed injured.
So she gently took the woman from his hands and took her to the guest room and cleaned her before tucking her into the futon.
When she came back out she saw him..
His shivering was getting worse.
He was in shock so she brought a warm blanket and slowly wrapped it around him as she slowly helped him to sit down beside the table...
Food... Yes, food or a drink, was good for shock, she needed to get him some something to drink preferably warm.
Making sure he was comfortable first she entered the kitchen she began to heat up the water to prepare some of the red tea that he liked.
Once the tea was ready she poured it in a teacup gently carrying the tea to him and slowly placed the tea in front of him before she sat down beside him.
"Senpai?" she wrapped her arms around him gently trying to comfort the shivering boy.
"Sakura." he looked up at her. And she nearly gasped. "What have I been doing all this time? Everything I did. All my preparations."
His eyes.
His eyes were like hers.
"All of them were useless. D - Rank strength and C Rank speed? My ass. If I take into account Lancer speed and that was him holding back... Then I have severely miscalculated. My nanites were useless against something the could not catch and it barely held together against lancers attacks."
His voice was empty. It lacked the vibrant excitement that she was used to.
"Even with maximum reinforcement and Infinitron helping me taking the new calculations into account I can barely reach E rank in speed. My strength barely manages E-. If Lancer wanted me dead... I would have already been dead."
He was like her... Before he pulled her out of that pit of hopelessness. It was wrong... Senpai worked so hard. Every day and every night. To save her and to save the world. He didn't deserve to go through this.
She engulfed him in a loving hug.
"Senpai. It's alright. You've done so much. It'll be alright."
"But how? How? If I cannot win the grail war. If I cannot defeat Gilgamesh.... Then Angra Mainyu will be born and the world will end, you will die, I will die.."
He shivered once more and she kept didn't let him go as she kept comforting him whispering sweet words until he finally began to fall asleep in her arms.
Senpai faced Lancer? No wonder it shook him to his core. Facing a servant was suicide but from what she understood he had no choice in the matter.
Servants need to be fought with servants.
Not humans.
So she needed to summon her own...
She gently carried him to bed and tucked him in before leaning in to give him a peck on his cheek.
"Sweet dreams Senpai..."
As if in response to her thoughts her palm felt like it was suddenly on fire for a few seconds before it died down...
She let out a small smile as she saw what it was...
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Inside the underground workshop in a glowing white room, a magical circle crackled with magical energy. Sakura's circuit warming up as she began to channel it to the ritual.
Silver and iron to the origin. Mud and the archduke of contracts to the cornerstone.
The ancestor is my great master Schweinorg.
The alighted wind becomes a wall. The gates in the four directions close, coming from the crown, the three-forked road that leads to the kingdom circulate.
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Shut (fill).
Repeat every five times.
Simply, shatter once filled.
――――I announce.
Your self is under me, my fate is in your sword.
In accordance with the approach of the Holy Grail, if you abide by this feeling, this reason, then answer.
Here is my oath. I am the one who becomes all the good of his world, I am the one who rids out all that brings hopelessness in his world.
You, seven heavens clad in three words of power, arrive from the ring of deterrence,
O keeper of the balance ―――!
The wind blew hard one final time before it died down as the flowing circle dimmed and a lascivious figure rose up from the ground. A beautiful lavender hair except in a lighter shade than her summoner. Her eyes covered in a blindfold. Her clothes if they can be called that did nothing to hide her figure.
From what sempai had told her of the future the servant she would summon was Medusa and her appearance seemed to match his description.
"Medusa. I ask of you to lend me your strength. I ask for your help to save my beloved and to aid his goal in saving the world... Will you accept this contract?"
Medusa tilted her head slightly as if she was confused before nodding.
"Very well...You have strange preferences. If you require a sacrifice, do feel free to command me as you wish."
Her voice was soft like silk.
The command seal on sakura's hand glowed as if acknowledging the pact.
"Thank you..." Sakura sighed letting out a sigh of relief. "Thank you so much.."