Normally, the church would be empty. That was the default state, and the best way to hide the secrets and horrors that had accumulated over the years from the city of Fuyuki. For Kotomine Kirei, the church was not a sanctuary, despite his work to ensure that he maintained his cover as a priest. It hid that, for the better part of a decade, he hadn't actually done much of note.
However, he now had taken the Command Spells of a certain magus. The church had a rule of non-interference, but then again, these were not Kirei's Command Spells. None of the church equipment, if someone decided to try and check, would show that he was a master.
"Soon. Soon we will find out." It was a ominous whisper of a fact of life, a curiosity that needed sating. The Grail had some sort of corrupt spirit within it. Kirei was curious what would happen if it was born into the world. That was the simplified version, at least. "Lancer, keep watch."
"Yeah, whatever." The Lancer sounded sullen, sitting down on one of the pews, his muscles barely moving at all. "Get your sleep. I wanna go hunt."
Perhaps he was disappointed. Kirei didn't care. The Lancer was only a tool. The real weapon was within the church. Speaking of-
"Wait a minute." Kirei froze as he passed the dias. The book of command was a list of the servants that had been summoned to the war. It was a administrative tool first and foremost, basically useless except to know that the war was about to start. At least, that was the normal situation. Kirei's eyes slowly widened. There were entirely too many class names in it.
"Gilgamesh what the hell did you do!?"
"Alleviate my boredom." The afformentioned heroic spirit, a young blond haired boy, spoke up from the shadows, striding in with a skewer of chicken in his mouth. "I thought this was shaping up to be boring and you weren't providing entertainment, so I fixed the problem."
"What have you done!? There's fourteen servants!"
"Fifteen, there will be a ruler in- right now." Gilgamesh answered dryly. "I'd hurry and fix those bridges you burned, Kotomine, or your demise will be hilarious." There was no sound of amusement in Gilgamesh's voice as he continued to walk to the back door, kicking it open absently. "Sometimes the simple sayings are best. As the kids say, sucks to be you."
Kirei just stared as the door closed. It was rapidly becoming obvious everything had gone to hell in a handbasket in the nary a hour he had left Gilgamesh to his own devices.
"How does he do it?"
"By hating your guts." Lancer chuckled from behind Kirei. "Spites a powerful motivator. The hell did you do recently to piss him off?"
"... It can't have been the tofu... could it?"
"Beats me." Lancer shrugged, grinning. "This is gonna be awesome."
Of course, Lancer thought that this would be awesome. He was a bloodthirsty, battle hungry warrior.
Kirei wasn't sure if it was time to curse god or not, but anything resembling a plan had now gone out the window. Badgering Rin would be ineffective, she no doubt already knew that the war had extra servant slots now.
All he knew was this war was no longer something he had any way of actually influencing. The Grail only needed seven servants in it. This would almost certainly end up in a race to the bottom.
"... I need to organise this fast." He muttered to himself. "Factions. That is the only way to make this work."
"Too late, the Grail already organised us. We're Black." Lancer chuckled. "Oh, wait, organised me. Sorry, I forgot you don't count as a real Master." The blue haired spearman stood and stretched, smirking. "Don't mind me, just gonna go find my fellow Black Servants. Later."
"Lan-" It was too late. He was already gone. Kirei just put his fingers to the bridge of his nose. This had been going so well earlier too.
Ah well, it'd be easier to work out how to twist the knife after some tea.
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In this quest, you will play as...
[ ] Kishinami Hakuno (Male)
[ ] Kishinami Hakuno (Female)
[ ] Bazett Fraga McRemitz (Majorly Pissed Off)
You will summon...
[ ] Write in Servant
Due to the Great War being invoked in insufficient spiritual lands, certain Master Privileges have been revoked. You will have to keep track of Servant Stats on your own, you can only see the status of Servants that you can see right now.