49 I wanted them to try!

*9:45 am, Rizaha, Shiro's house*

Minami walked out of her room yawing before closing the door, she was wearing her pink nighties that showed off more of her skin.

She walked over to Shiro's room and knocked on the door before opening it when she got no response.

Peeping inside, she switched on the lights to look inside the empty room, "He's not back…" She sighed.

She closed the door and went downstairs to meet Muramasa sitting on the chair with his sword resting on the table.

"Good morning master, sleep well?" Muramasa asked, he was instinctively able to sense her presence.

"Morning Mura," She uttered as she walked down the stairs, "Did you notice Shiro isn't back yet?".

"It has only been a day, I'm sure he's fine" Muramasa replied while still focusing on his katana.

"If you so, he should have sent a message or something"

Minami walked over to the kitchen to grab a drink from the fridge before sitting beside Muramasa.

She grabbed the remote control on the center table and began changing the channels for something to watch.

"What are you doing Mura?" She asked.

"Trying to strengthen my sword, it's a skill I have, feels nostalgic though" Muramasa smiled.

Minami looked at him for a while before averting her eyes, "Souka.".

She groaned after tossing the remote to the side with her head resting on the chair armrest.

"I'm so bored!"

She kept groaning, and her eyes suddenly glanced at the ceiling, she noticed little sprinkles of dust falling on her face.

She sat upright and stared harder at the ceiling until she started hearing a creaking sound.

"Is someone upstairs?" She asked herself.

Muramasa's eyes widened when he suddenly sensed something, he grabbed Minami and whooshed out of the building before the house went crumbling to the ground.

Muramasa took Minimi and landed on an opposite building that was in front of their now broken home.

Muramasa placed Minami on the roof before changing his focus to the collapsed building, "There was definitely someone in there with us" He muttered.

"Urrrgh!"

Minami yelled, stomping her leg on the roof as frustration started to take over, "What the hell! This is the second building these assholes are destroying! Where are they?".

She asked using her eyes to look around still she spotted someone in full body armor walking out of the crumble.

Muramasa immediately summoned his sword before stretching it in front of Minami who was about to confront the person.

"Don't take this so lightly master, that is no ordinary servant".

. . .. . . .

"Shiro Tenma, finally get to meet you, you really caused me a lot of trouble," Kirie said before standing up from the boulder he was sitting on.

"Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't know who you are, and I really don't care," Shiro responded.

Morgana grinned, "Watch your tongue boy!" She yelled before aiming her staff at Shiro.

"You might want to calm down there grandma" Gilgamesh voiced with her arms tucked with her floating swords already aimed at Morgana.

Kirie walked past Morgana, using his hand to lower her staff, "Calm down, Morgana, don't flare up like that" He uttered.

"But master, this brat should know his place" Morgana glared at Shiro.

Kirie smiled, "It's not really that much of a big deal".

Shiro paid no mind to what was going on, instead, he used his eyes to scan all the enemies around him.

'Total of 7 servants, this dude isn't joking around,' Shiro uttered.

'Would you like me to attack, I can easily take care of the witch, I have high resistance over magic,' Saber said.

'And I wouldn't mind going another round with the fake Gilgamesh over there' Gil uttered before waving at Goldy who immediately frowned his face.

Shiro was communicating with his servants through telepath, and they didn't show any sign that they were cooking up a plan.

Kirie was heading toward Shiro slowly with a gentle smile on his face, "Shiro Tenma, let me offer you a deal, why not join me -"

"No!"

"I didn't quite catch that-"

"I refuse!"

"Refuse? You rejected the offer without knowing what it is?"

"I've seen how this goes sadly, you ask me to join you in defeating the others, blah blah blah, why don't we just skip to the part where you tell me your plan and I whoop your ass for being a bad boy" Shiro voiced out.

"And why would you think that I have an alteria motive?" Kirie asked.

"It's pretty obvious, you are after the lesser grail," Shiro said.

Kirie frowned before pacing his approach toward Shiro, "Where did you hear that from?!" He yelled.

When he got close he suddenly felt a shocking zap on his leg that forced him to move back.

"A barrier?" Kirie muttered.

"I'd stand back if I were you," Scathach said with a sadistic look on her face, "You can choose to ignore me and let your body melt into goo, that would be fascinating to watch".

Kirie smiled, none of his servants had uttered a word, except for Morgana, the rest were silent and didn't draw too much attention to themselves.

"Let me ask you something," Kirie raised a question.

Shiro walked toward Kirie, standing at the other side of the barrier while his servant stood behind him.

"Sure, I'd love to," Shiro replied with his red eyes glimmering as he looked at Kirie.

"What do you know about this Grail war? A standard grail war needs 7 servants, if so then why do we have over 100 servants and masters participating in this one?

Does that mean we need to sacrifice more servants? What if I told you it wasn't even close to being that?" Kirie grinned.

"Get to the point already" Shiro voiced out.

"All your life… sorry your previous life, you've been running from your fear of…"

Shiro felt angered almost immediately, the mention of his part suddenly struck a nerve inside him.

"Running?" Shiro laughed, "I don't know how you know about my past but I wasn't running, no no no, I was doing them a favor."

"You were doing them a favor when they stoned you to the ground? You were doing them a favor when they locked you inside the art room overnight? The same favor when they pushed you in front of a speeding truck!".

"Oh, so what!" Shiro yelled as his eyes brightened even more.

"So what, what if I wanted them to treat me that way? What if I wanted to be the victim? What if I wanted them to break me, hit me, defeat me, ?... What if… What if I wanted them to try?" Shiro grinned as he stared Kirie in the eye.

. . . . .

A/N

Comment your thoughts on this chapter, and I know I haven't asked a question like this in a while.

But which character do you hate so far?

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