After that dazzling flash of lights, when you open your eyes you feel strong, fast, resistant, magical ... you feel ... invincible.
You quickly go to the mirror to check yourself and realize that not only do you feel invincible, you also look invincible.
The first thing you notice is your clothing that has changed. The brown uniform of the institute is transformed into a white tunic to which a green banner hangs, on that tunic is an elegant ... heroic green armor with golden lines that seem to be gold.
You also wear a long red cape that is golden around the edges and at the end has a golden fringe. Last but not least in your left hand you have a large ax of a heroic appearance despite being a weapon that would normally look barbaric. And let's not forget that a modern teenager would find impossible to lift with two hands, let alone with one and with the ease that you are doing. In your right hand a large green shield with lines and a drawing that you do not understand in gold.
Also now that you look more closely, your hair lightened going from its typical dark blue to a light blue or teal, your eyes have also changed to a bluish green ... and finally you are somewhat taller and more handsome (than what you were already) ...
If you had to define your current appearance with a single word, that word would be heroic.
Your sargent's voice takes you out wonderfully as he tells you with a somewhat derogatory tone that you're realizing that his voice probably sounds like this normally "maggot, if you've finished starring at your at the magnificant warrior you can become with my help there are some things what should I explain to you"
Turning from the window you nod "Of course sir. Would you please explain the essentials of our contract and what it entails?"
you hear emerald sigh and say between murmurs "calm emerald, it's the best you could get with the time you had ... at least it's polite". After another great sigh, Emerald resumes speaking. "Very good maggot. As you likely know, heroes with great feats are recorded to throne of heroes upon death. These legendary warriors can manifest as heroic spirits under certain rare circumstances. Recently however it has come to our attention that by methods unknown to us, those heroic spirits powers and personalities have been extracted and rendered into cards. These cards have great power and it is unknown what their full range of all their abilities is. Your duty to find and capture them".
After hearing that you can't help but feel shocked, and even a little afraid. Ignoring the possibility of some sinister force with the power to create these servant cards, the cards would be tied to great warriors of era's past. Even with the power he'd been granted shinji would likely be hard pressed to survive such a battle, let alone triumph.
Whether thru some facet of your contract or failure to suppress your mounting dread, something must have shown on your face. Emerald starts laughing and says "No need to worry maggot, I wouldn't be so cruel as to send you against even weakened heroic spirits. Not without training you and helping you adjust to your power first." after a pause to let that reassurance sink in he continues speaking "So be grateful since I turned you into a false-heroic spirit, with all that that entails. Understanding an explanation on how it works would require an education in advanced magecraft subjects that could take months or years for you to learn. For now simply be content in the knowledge that I look after my soldiers."
Giving a relieved chuckle yourself, you nod for Emerald to continue. "Fortunately , I'm not without the means to help you improve yourself. There is a method available for you to raise your abilities and skills in order to better match the foes that await you." Emerald states confidently.
You turn the information over in your head for a bit before addressing Emerald. "What do you mean by method?"
to which Esmerald replies "I'll explain in a second Maggot, but there's something I need to show you first. Now imagine that you are reading a book or playing a video game and open the status to see the statistics of your character."
you try to imagine it, but nothing happens, you try again ... nothing, you try again for the third time ... and finally when you open your eyes you see in front of you a screen that says...
Shinji Matou
force: C
agility: C
mana: E +
luck: E
resistance: B-
charisma: D-
NP: -
abilities
instinct: D
eternal arm mastery: E
You are surprised by what you see before you, a fact Emerald is quick to notice "Well done Maggot. Now that you've accomplished that task, I can continue explaining the basics. Your statistics are ranked from E, which is measured at 10 times a normal person would be capable of, up to A, equivalently 50 times a normal person performance.
A Noble Phantasm is the crystalized mystery
of a heroic spirit. It is based off their legend and humanities engrandization of their accompliments. As such you lack a noble phantasm since you do not have any accomplishments sufficient to create one.thanks to your status as a false heroic spirit if you achieve a feat notorious enough you will get your own, if not you can also get them temporarily by equipting a class card, once you have acquired one.
Once he finished you hear him mutter "mmmm, I feel like I forgot to explain something to him ... right. Ahem.", after that, he returns to his instructor voice and says "Maggot earlier you asked me to clarify the method of self improvement available to you. I shall now do so. Put simply, your current abilities and skills can be improved, and new skills learned, by creating a personal mirror world. Normally mirror worlds are where you will go to acquire class cards, however in your case I am capable of creating a special space for you to train using the same type of magic.
Hearing that shinji could barely contain his excitement. He already felt nearly unstoppable as it was. The idea that he could reach even greater levels of ability sent his thoughts racing.
The explanations that followed were less exciting. There was some expansion on the class cards and there conn3ction to the mirror worlds, as well as how to capture them. After droning on for a while Emerald finished by explaining that shinji would retain some of his abilities even untransformed, but two letter grades weaker, befpre showing him how to establish and maintain a mental link so they could communicate in puplic without shinji looking like a fool or madman.
After all that excitement you had difficulty falling asleep, and even doubt your recollection of event when you wake up the following morning. Only for Emerald's "Maggot this is no time lie about." To reassure you of the reality of last nights events. Emerald informs you that he'll be engaging some spell that will prevent others from seeing him, but won't effect you do to the contract.
Like every day when you get up you dress in the uniform and go down to breakfast with your sister Sakura and your father.
Speaking of sakura, while you go down you see her like every day finishing preparing breakfast, something that although you do not like to admit it you have to admit is that she cooks rich, both you and your father do not know how to cook anything beyond instant noodles.
Speaking of sakura ... well your feelings regarding her were always somewhat contradictory. At first you worried that she was there to replace you. Over the years however you realized how childish and unfitting such feelings were for a proud heir of the Matou family. Once you rid yourself of such useless emotions, you gained a health respect for her many hard earned talents.,She knows how to cook well, she's an excellemt student, and is one of the best performing members of the archery club. According to a number of male students she matches perfectly with the stereotype of an Ideal traditional Japanese girl (they had a word for it but you forgot it). Despite her many virtues you can't help but feel dissatisfied at her general submissive behavior and inability to assert herself. Both were unfitting of the matou name. As heir of the Matou and her older brother it was your duty to encourage her better herself. You'd tried simple peptalks and lectures before trying to exploit her crush on shirou emiya as motivation, all to little effect. Desparate, you'd resorted to some light and middling bullying to try and draw some sort of reaction from her. These attempts also ended in failure and with the more obvious methods of motivating her to change exhausted, you find yourself at a loss as how to proceed.
On the other hand ... your father, to tell the truth was as always somewhat distant, but nothing unusual in a clan of magus (no matter how much the Matou have fallen).
Without realizing it while you were thinking, you finished having breakfast.
You say goodbye to your father and leave on your way to the academy.
After a typical walk you arrive at the Houmura Academy, and head to the archery club like always. You practice a little, using the chance to show off for some first-year students. Once you've finished you hang around a little to flirt and boast in your usual fashion.
You head to the classes, and find yourself slightly offput by how they seem to drag on for longer than usual, yet nothing seems out of place. Then Fujimura sensei is suddenly revealing the addition of two new exchange students to the class, and asks them to introduce themselves.
When they enter the first thing you notice is that they are both prettier than average and that the blonde seems to be the stereotype of ojou-sama. After the tedium of the long day you can't help your interest, and you decide to pay close attention. Surprisingly they are Rin Tohsaka and Luviagelita Edelfelt.
Rin you know from your studies is the heir of the Tohsaka, the Overseers of fuyuki in regards to the moonlit world. Their claim preceeds the matou who emigrated here later.
Luviagelita is no less extravagant in terms of her origin, since she is Luviagelita Edelfelt, heir to
the Edefelts.
All in all it's very weird, as far as you knew both Edefelt and Tosaka were supposedly studying at the clock tower in London, and they are both exceptionally talented in magecraft. While Rin could have some mysterious reason for coming to Fuyuki given her lineage, Luviagelita appearance is much hard to explain away.
Emerald who had told you that he was going to be asleep since he is not interested in the daily life of a maggot at all, he suddenly spoke up "Maggot, they were probably sent to check what caused that great beam of prana that caused your transformation and all the phenomena that class cards cause, so if you don't want things to get too complicated I recommend you take no more than a week or two to start catching the class cards" startling you, something you can barely hide.
While you pondered this revelation, the bell began to ring, signaling the start of your lunch period. Gathering your things, you considered how you would like to spend your lunch.
[] with emiya
[] with sakura
[] on the roof
[] with some nice first-year students who invited you to join them
After a refreshingly eventful school day, you decide to go quickly home to finally use your new powers.
Pushing yourself harder you begin to sprint as you make your way back home. Your pleased to prove Emeralds assurances of improved abilites even while not transformed correct. Normally it would be hard to maintain this pace for more than a few minutes. Instead you feel like you are walking and that you could go faster, but you hold back, after all one of the most important rules of the moonlit world is to maintain it's secrecy.
Once you've reached the manor you quickly go up to your room and follow the steps that Emerald had told you to transform yourself. visualizing your ideal shape, focus on every detail and then the rest will do itself, and after a minute you finally feel a flash of light and you've been transformed.
When you finish transforming you see that Emerald is in front of you and with the typical sergeant voice of his he says "Maggot are you ready to train?"
Barely able to contain your excitement you answer "Yes sir, I'm ready!"
"Excellent" Then with the same mechanical voice that you heard in your transformation says...
"Adding imaginary axis to the five observable variables"
"Starting investment preparations"
"Creating complex space"
"Setting focal point"
"Forming an alternate path of 2 meters radius"
"Initiating partial reversal of mirror world circuits"
While he says all that you see that around you there is a black hole ... no, a kaleidoscope of colors ... and suddenly one moment you are at home and the next, too, but things are different. The sky no longer exists. The ground is a single blue mass, and the surroundings as well. The only thing unchanged is your house, but you and Emerald are the only lifeforms that remain.
while you are shocked speechless Emerald says something to you "Maggot, welcome to the mirror world, a place that only you can go and where you can do whatever you want without fear of repercussions. It's in places like this that you will battle heroic spirits to acquire class cards."
"We have a little over 3 hours before this begins to break down, so you'll need to spend them wisely, but I suppose I can answer any questions you have first, but only 3 or 4, can't let you waste valuable training time Maggot."
[] you ask
-[] write here what questions
[] train physically
[] train your skills
[] shadow fight
[] you experience
-[] write what you want to try
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