2 Newfound power

My eyes fluttering, disbelieve can't describe what I felt. Gone were the rusted gears floating about on the sky. The barren wasteland shifted into the verdant green of nature. The rust and blood on the swords jutted and scattered have been replaced with beautiful moss and shrub entangling as they were protecting them.

The world of blades still silent, yet no sadness or sorrow could be felt. The sky shined the color of crystal blue as trees planted their roots on the ground and hill. Is this really my soul?

Scanning every nook and cranny of the unlimited blade works, I fell upon the sight of a hut. Smokes and whiff of metal hanging from its chimney as the sound of clashing hammer and steel could be heard from it.

I approached and open its creaking door.

"You've come." Came the sound of an old person, his bearing was tired yet his face stood strong against the searing heat of the forge.

*break*

Ugh…

Upon his wake, the boy felt an encumbrance on his chest.

'Is it Rin again?' Thought the boy trying to remember what happened last night.

Let's see, after the ordeal, we left exhausted and went into deep slumber right away. It was very unusual for Rin to leave me alone at night. He remembered her defenseless anus, Wait…

How could I remember something that never happened? I never dated Rin nor went to the clock tower lest became the executor of the church. Without a hint, numerous painful stab and head pounding headache could be felt from his head. The boy tried clutched his head in pain as numerous memories rush his head in euphoria, no shout nor grunt could be heard from him as he tried not to wake up both girl each on his arms.

Thousands of unknown memories invade his mind. The memory of his head about to roll to the bucket in the middle of a guillotine, it was all to protect the people who turned their back on him. He could felt searing pain on his throat as he was the one sitting under it. He could feel it all, the pain, the joy, The sadness, everything he memorized.

A good minute has passed, a minute that felt another eternity for him. Steadying his breath he tried to recollect his memories, it was weird-no-it was absurd to felt the memory that not even his, he even recalled the memory where he was in a wedding suit and in front of him was the queen of the clock tower in her glory of wedding gown. And the other memory was him become the husband of Sion Eltnam Atlasia or even the fifth, it was…terrifying experience even for him.

He could throw up in sheer terror right now. Rin and Sakura were more than enough and handful for him, already.

Shirou was never a bright person, but the memory other than the emotion and pain he also could felt and gain the experience of him from the memories. Thanks to that, he really didn't break a sweat when the memories rushed in like thousand hammers pounding his head.

Still, trying to felt the presence of both girls in his arms, he almost forgot the weight on his chest thanks to the earlier event. But wait, who?

"Ehm, Mr. Shirou please don't move too much" came somewhat sleepy tone of a young girl, her head was rubbing the center of his exposed chest as she tried to find the best sleeping posture in instinct.

The voice was familiar to him, how could he when he already experienced the memory of his parallel counterparts.

"L…Luvia?!" Said Rin in surprise beating him to it.

*break*

She didn't like this, really didn't like this.

First, she got thrown up to another world, met a goddess in her dreams that really similar to her in more than one way and became her playthings, then her rival (self-proclaimed) was sleeping safe and sound on Shirou, HER (and her sister) Shirou.

But thanks to all of that, she could meet him once more, him and his heroic action or whatever.

"Then do tell us Luvia, how could you be in here?" With a tick mark on her forehead, she said. The girl in question was all relax and smiling as she wrapped her hand on her beloved Shirou.

"Ara? Isn't it obvious this is my room after all" true to her words the room they slept in was also similar to the mansion bedroom Luvia lived in, she recalled. With Victorian furniture you could only think from a noble and antique somewhat rustic atmosphere floating about, she remembered the position of each furniture recalling the time when she visits luvia home.

Of course, she remembered, how could her when she was invited personally to a magus home. She needs to be wary of her surrounding lest she fell to a trap hidden in every sight.

"Well, Luvia could you stop this for a while…" Shirou tried his best smile as he faced his kouhai who enveloped in black aura and tendril, her smile didn't help at all.

"What is it, Miss Sakura? Can we just share? Shirou is a beast and handful man after all, it's best if we share you know and who knows what we could do with four of us at night" with a sweet smile she said to Sakura who started to works in full-mind imagining in every possible way as her faced marred in sweet red of hue.

Ah, my sweet kouhai has become defenseless anu…girl…it's not that!

"Sigh, whatever..." Rin groans in a very uncharacteristic manner. How could she when she met a goddess that really wanted to make her to facepalm and rolled on the ground then dig herself 2 feet under, she really need to reevaluate and fix herself, she groaned once more.

As to break the awkward atmosphere the Rin currently couldn't break with her antics, a maddening laugh could be heard from below specifically.

"Ha...HAhahaha"

*break*

"Eh, what happened archer-Nii" Kuro poked the archer in red with a wooden stick she found nearby the basement, not willing to closed her distance with the creep archer.

"Fuh...Hahaha…hahaha!!!!" he was sitting there on the ground, with a facepalm he laughs uncontrollably.

"Nee…How long he has been like this?" Sakura said to no one in particular as she stared the piece of a sack that once her sempai.

"Don't know, he's been like this for ten minutes I guess" Illya muttered in response as to not to riled the archer attention.

"Wake up you fool!!" Like a ballistic projectile that fired from artillery, Rin flew with her newfound strength and kick the archer straight to the head.

Dust began to pile up as the archer has been pushed to the wall, crack and pebble falling down.

"Hahaha!!" He laughed once more, but he noticed the figures that stared at him previously. Of course, he noticed he just didn't have the attention to do so as he basked in the euphoria of a void contract to the will of humanity.

Yes, finally! He was free! Free of the push-over and torturous boss of his! Free from the millennia contract he made with the will of humanity!

Recollecting and calming his thought, he addressed to the one who kicked him in the head with full power. "Isn't this Rin, how you're doing." He tried to say in cool-tone, not noticing the blood falling from his forehead.

"How you're doing, my ass, It was creepy could you stop that you faker!" she spat in hateful tone though longing could be felt from hers.

"Well can a man who finally retired from his job to cherished this moment" Smirking he tried to peek the various figures standing behind Rin.

Huh, looks like at least I could find the peace I wanted or not, perhaps. I don't want to fate creep her yandere way to me once more. Well, who were we talking again, of course, she will.

And then again I never see Illya with tribe-ish clothes, though it really suited her and refreshing.

*break*

"Then let me clear this once more, Rin has the goddess Ishtar as her pseudo-manifestation, Sakura with the goddess Parvati, and Shirou with the legendary blacksmith Muramasa, Luvia with the goddess Astraea, even Illya with three Norse god housed inside her" Archer cringed as he addresses each of his company power, they became powerhouse in their own.

There's nothing impossible in this world, in his life as a counterforce he had encountered various bizarre phenomenon and coincidence but Humans as a pseudo servant with heroic spirit even divine spirit at that inside them? What a truly absurd existence.

Clock tower could have entirely a field day, just thinking about the thought alone.

"Then any backlash about this dream of yours?" Irisviel questioned them in doubt. Of course, she is any sane person dealing with god that have been long dead would.

"No, though she said she was curious with this new world then refrain to takeover and content with watching although she said she will take over once in the occasion" Rin in thought contemplated each of the words the divine spirit said.

"It was the same for me, and…she said she will fully support my decision" It was Sakura this time with a healthy blush as she remembered the goddess advice upon the topic of love.

"The old man abruptly challenged me in combat, he was advising me and decided to choose me as his successor. Then he was gone in a flash like blown in the wind." Recalling the old man who taught him the way to defy his fate as he once denied the blade he forged.

"Same with sakura-nee san" Illya happily beamed as she sat on her reawakened father.

"Ara, although I somehow hate this it was the same with Rin" She left her gaze, and it irked the person in question so much that she started to grit her teeth.

"Then with all of this settled, let's move on to the next topic, dear will you?" With a nod, Irisviel shifted her gaze to her beloved husband. Last night was very eventful for them as in the morning they remember their supposed counterparts memories, though it won't change their plan to bask in new memories they will make in this new start.

"E-hem...then I will report the finding I found last night….firstly as you know this is an almost entirely different world with an entirely different history, constellation, and geography. Cultures and technology that resembled the early Renaissance with some mishmash from the industrial age, but this is not the issue." Everyone tried to digest every word he said.

"The god, this world never experiences the collapse of the golden age of gods. I'm sure we felt the large influx of divine aura on every spot available on the city" Illya chimed in under his, he ruffled her hair, "Haha, that's right Illya."

"Well this is not surprising, supposedly with different legends come different conclusions, though it is almost impossible for a timeline that has been diverged from the early genesis of the planet and survived the timeline 'trimming' and prosper for thousands of years." Rin cusped her chin lost in her own thought.

Like all things the universe is very finite on its capacity and energy, every on so century it will cut down a certain amount of parallel world that it has been deemed 'too excellent' or 'rotten'. Supposedly universe was painted as a giant tree then the branches were what it called as parallel worlds.

Parallel worlds were different outcomes, what 'if' this would happen instead of the one we currently experience. What is happening to the cat inside the box is it dead? Is it alive? When we open it and found it dead then the outcome where the cat is alive was considered as parallel; a branch.

Since there are almost infinite possibilities of outcomes, a parallel universe could choose every good outcome and advanced too quickly surpassing its counterparts. Similarly, if it chose every bad outcome it could crumble quickly and wither away.

Sometimes a parallel world could advance too far ahead that it was no longer resembled ours and cannot be considered as 'parallel' anymore. But the universe has very finite energy to maintain this so-called system known as 'parallel worlds', so it will erase the universe that has this kind of outcomes before it reached the state known as 'different world' and this was the same with 'parallel world' that lags behind its counterparts.

Rather than a branch this world could be considered as a 'trunk', a branch may prosper and bear fruit but it won't survive that long.

"Well compared than what we've passed through before, this shouldn't be that surprising" Sakura added her own thought as she sat beside Shirou.

"And we will absolutely need each other if we wanted to survive in this world"