[Chapter - 5]: Becoming Some Crazy Old Man's Student & Nasu-Marketplace
Looking at the sun rising up above the clouds, Shirou sighed deeply," Ah~ Beautiful Sun, where have you been? I missed you. I soo deeply missed you~" Truly, he started to hate that damn moon.
" Mmm, I disagree Young man. I would love it if the Moon came back." An ancient male voice said, right next to him. Looking over, Shirou's eyebrows twitched, seeing who It is.
He... looked old... he would guess he was around his mid-forties. He was clad in a gentleman's suit with a black billowing cape, having spiky gray hair and a graying beard. He stared at him with his eerie red crimson eyes and a smirk forming on his face. Shirou has no doubt taking amusement from something he did.
" Sup, old man," Shirou said casually with a small nod to him.
" Hahaha!" Laughing, the old man smiled," My dear boy, Shirou, you never cease to amaze me."
" I'm sure I do, Old man Zelretch of the Kaleidoscope," Shirou said In a carefree manner. He doesn't know why. But the dimensional traveling Vampire/Magician doesn't scare him, unlike many others who would meet him.
" So, how are you liking your new life in this new wonderful world?" Zelretch asked with an odd smile, sitting by him on a wooden bench In a park In the morning.
" I say, I like It very much here." He answered, with a smile on his lips.
" Good. Good." Zelretch nodded, with a strange smile, looking at him.
" So, what do you want, old man?" Shirou asked, not beating around the bush, retaining a very thin grin.
" Whatever do you mean, my dear boy, Shirou~?" Zelretch asked, performing a low chuckle.
" You need something from me?" Shirou inquired, looking at The Magician of the Second Magic.
" Straightforward aren't you?"
" What can I say, I like getting to the point when talking to someone."
" Mmm, Shirou Kotomine, how would you like to become My Student?" Zelretch asked, possessing an unusual smile on his lips.
" Sure. It sounds fun." Shirou answered right after the Magician asked him. Truly, he has a feeling, becoming this old man's student is going to be fun for him and his new Teacher.
" Hahahahahaha! Good. Very Good!" Laughing, Zelretch pulled out a black small box and gave it to Shirou.
" Oh? What's this?" Shirou mumbled, looking at the box on his lap.
" That my dear Student is the access to Root's Vagina. Have Fun~!" Saying this, the Zelretch disappeared somehow.
Watching the old man disappear, Shirou sighed with a twitching eyebrow," Fuuuuu~ I feel bad for future me... Truly I do."
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After some chilling at the park for some time, Shirou left with a hip In his steps.
Walking deeper Into London, he performed some twists and turns, before stopping at a simple wall In a dingy, dirty back-alley sketchy area, with little more than a trash can and some other bits of garbage here and there.
Looking at the wall, Shirou pulled out a paper from his side and smiled,' So this is the place, my new Teacher told me to come.' In that box, there was nothing but one paper In it and a bag of what looks like a weed. And knowing who and what is Zelretch, then he does not doubt something is otherworldly fucked up about that weed and the paper.
Scanning the paper and finding a Greek word on it, Shirou sighed,' I'm so lucky I took Greek language classes before crossing over...'
Placing his right hand on the wall and the paperback In the box on his side, he chanted," Άνοιξε."
*Whoosh!*
Right when he chanted and touched the wall, he faded away Into It, possessing golden particles around him.
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*Blink...Blink...*
Fluttering open his eyes, Shirou's mouth twitched,' Where did that fucking old vampire send me?' In front of him was something that came out of Harry Potter.
A red-brown brick wall appeared before him that slides like ice, shifting around one another as the entire wall folds in on itself, revealing some sort fucked up fantasy marketplace you see In one of those Isekai Animes/Mangas.
Walking with other beings that materialized by him other fantastic sights appear with each twist and turn as Shirou makes his way down the crooked streets, a small cage of hummingbirds emit angelic choirs as they flap, Hymn-ing birds probably.
Beings of different races and origins walk run by him stepping In magical shops, selling all kinds of magic stuff anyone could want. Then, now and then, you'll see people trying to sell their own products from their hands or carts at the sides.
Looking up, Shirou's eyebrow twitched, finding purple skies and two bright golden Moons In the sky hanging there without an In the world.
' Where In the Root, am I?' He thought, possessing an odd calm expression.
" Ey, first-timer?" An odd-sounding female mature asked behind Shirou.
Looking behind, Shirou can see a mature female with long dusty gold hair and bright blue-purple eyes. She wears a long black and gold robe, at both of her sides, are short black swords, hanging from her hip.
" Enlighten me," Shirou asked, plainly with a very thin smile.
" What do you desire? Honor and pride, Beautiful Women? Power and influence? Money and Riches? Revenge? Or… To transcend all such things? For what do you risk your life to come here? Whatever you desire, you will find it here, in the Nasu-Marketplace, Where humans and the likes come to buy and sell otherworldly stuff." She explained with a bright sunny smile to the now blank face Shirou.
' Did that damn vampire send to Tower of God or something? Because I for one would remember something like this In the Original work.' Shirou thought, thinking he crossed over to one of those AU's worlds, especially after remembering, Eucliwood Hellscythe.
" Well, fuck me." He mumbled, smiling for some unknown reason.
" Gladly~!" The mature lady moaned out walking faster to the Seven-year-old: Shirou Kotomine.
However, she suddenly blinked seeing the young Priest not there anymore.
" Bloody hell! Not again!" She heard him yell out, somewhere.
" Ah~ I'll find you, my Priest." She mumbled, then walked away Into a dark alleyway.
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" What In the flying fucks Is wrong with this world!?" Shirou said, still running away through the crowd of fantasy otherworldly beings.
Looking at him, people thought oddly,' Who takes their child to one of these places?'
Not caring what other people are thinking, Shirou became faster and quieter.
Sensing this, Shirou smiled slyly,' Who knew running away from a group of pedophilias, counts has training.'
*!*
Suddenly sensing something, he stopped and fell Into a water pond.
' I hate this world.' He said to himself, getting out of the pond soaked and cold, while spitting a couple of golden coins out of his mouth.
Watching this, a bull-human young child looked at an older female bull-human and asked cutely, pointing at Shirou stepping out of the pond," Ma, why can he swim In the golden pond and I can't? It's not fair!"
" He's human. That's why." She said, plainly walking away from the young Priest with her child.
" The crazies, ma?" The child asked.
" Yes, son. The crazies."
Watching this, Shirou's mouth twitched,' The crazies? What the fuck is that? Are you five years old, or something?'
*Beep!-Beep!*
Reacting to his words, a white truck parked In front of him. Following this, a young girl about his age with silver hair and golden eyes, stepped out of the truck, wearing a white and gold Priest-looking rob.
Walking to Shirou, she asked emotionlessly," Are you, Shirou Kotomine?"
" Yes, who's asking?" Shirou nodded, with an odd smile on his lips, eyeing the girl and the truck.
Hearing Shirou, the young girl nodded and gave him a small box that appeared In her hand and then left to her truck, disappearing Into thin air.
Looking at the box, blood-red letters emerged from it at the top, reading: [ To- Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg | From- Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg ]
" I don't if I should, laugh or cry, at this..." Shirou mumbled. Because he shouldn't expect anything else than this.
' Having yourself from a different dimension mail you something. Now that's just something else.' He thought, now walking away from the golden pond.
' Well the texts in the paper said only pick something up, so I guess my work here, wherever here is done.' Thinking this, he wandered back Into the crowd.
Then, after asking few different beings for directions and for the way out, Shirou found himself before a plain white wall. Putting his hand on it, he chanted In Greek," Αδεια." And disappeared from that odd dimension.
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" *Huff!* Never going-*Huff!* there again." Shirou said, inhaling some air, feeling that heavy sensing off his chest. It's felt like a ball was around his heart at all times. Likewise, while walking around, he found out he can't use any Mana or Od, somehow.
Looking up, he found a smirking Zelretch sitting on a wooden bench by a blue beautiful river.
" Do I just teleport?" He asked, finding this river very familiar.
" Yup~ Was it Fun?" Zelretch asked, pulling a long fishing rod from somewhere and started fishing.
" Yeah... It was fun..." Shirou sighed out, walking over sitting by him.
Giving the old vampire the small box, his eyes began sparkling unusually," I guess this is yours."
Glancing at the box, Zelretch chuckled In a strange hazardous manner," Oh! Zelretch-69, delivered what I asked for."
" Zelretch-69?"
" Yes. With my Magic, we assigned each other numbers for easy access for Us." Zelretch exampled, putting the small box In his gentleman's suit with a rare childish glee.
" Okay... So can I ask something?" Shirou asked, feeling he doesn't want to know what's In the box.
" Sure, go ahead."
" Where In the fucking Root's Vagina, did you send me?" Shirou said, calmly, very calmly.
" The, Nasu-Marketplace," Zelretch answered casually, pulling a fish out of the water, then letting it free with a small smile.
" Yeah, I know that much. I'm just asking, where is this Nasu-Marketplace, at?"
" Somewhere. Somewhere far-far away from Us." He answered ominously.
" I dislike you," Shirou said, simply to the old vampire. He doesn't hate the old man, he can't. No, he just dislikes him, as much as he dislikes himself.
" Me too. Me too." He answered back, with a smile on his lips.
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Only after some time fishing did Zelretch get up and said to the bank face Shirou next to him," Well, I'll call you when the time is right." And then like that, he disappeared as he performed In the morning.
Looking at the moon rising up and then the Mr-Wannabe-Houdini, Shirou's mouth twitched,' Fuck me.'
With these odd thoughts, the young Priest started running back to the Church now he's In Fuyuki City, using Magic bullshit from the Second Magic-User.
Making some unusual twists and turns, he made it to the Church. Walking In, he went straight to his room and fell asleep on his bed.
~[A Few Hours Later]~
Walking Into her First Servants chambers, Gilgamesh suddenly started smelling Shirou In bliss.
However, smelling something off about him, her eyebrows twitched,' I smell multiple different women on him.'
With gleaming eyes In a rage, Gilgamesh walked out of the room, after taking Shirou's black T-shirt,' Who dares to take this King's treasure!?'
Watching this, Kirei Kotomine simply thought,' Oh? The cook's back.' Truly, he started to miss that brat's cooking. But he won't tell him that, because that would give him confidence, and that's something he doesn't want him to have.
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