1 Another world in another world?

(3rd POV)

In a hill of a deserted world with black gears gyrating in the sky and an infinite amount of swords anchored on the ground like grave markers, there was a tanned man with white hair standing on the edge of the hill with several swords stabbed on his back. He was walking while stabbing the ground with several rusty swords as if it was representing his sins. Then he looked at the horizon and frowned as if he realized that he was betrayed by everything he ever trusted.

(MC POV)

"Uhr", I groaned as I woke up. Then I put my hand on my face and complained in annoyance, "That dream again". Then I got up from my bed and put on my school uniform and went to the bathroom to do my daily necessities while thinking of these dreams. Since I reincarnated in this world, I had dreams about this tanned skinned man in that desert world filled with countless swords stabbed on the ground. I even doubted if this was really a dream because of how realistic it was.

And yes, I am not from this world, I was just an ordinary man that died by the unknown and had a chance of a second of life. Apparently, before I was reincarnated, this body's previous owner was caught in an incident, where the entire city was caught in a massive fire and the cause of this incident hasn't been discovered yet. And in the end, this boy was saved by a man named Emiya Kiritsugu, and became the sole survivor of what people described this incident as "Hell".

At the time when I occupied this body, I was recovering for months in a hospital and apparently, I was diagnosed with severe amnesia. Also, Kiritsugu visited me during these months until I was discharged when he asked me if I wanted to become his adopted son. I accepted as I trusted him after he visited me many times and he didn't look like a bad person, so from that day on, I was a new member of the Emiya household, and got a new name, which was Emiya Shirou.

Having a new name didn't perturb me at all, because, at the moment where I dwelled in this body, my main memories faded as if they never existed in the first place, leaving only some vague memories.

Also, the Emiya household was a family of magus. I was surprised when Kiritsugu told me that, after all, I was just a normal guy that got reincarnated, although reincarnation is a supernatural occurrence too. So I was eager to learn magic, or magecraft like what Kiritsugu calls it, but I was refused when he said it was too dangerous to be involved in the supernatural world. He only agreed to teach when I argued that I could use magecraft for self-defence.

And to use magecraft, a magus needed to open his magic circuits, so Kiritsugu opened mine and to his surprise, I had 42 magic circuits with average quality, which amount is way above compared to the average magus, and he said he will definitely teach me magecraft or else I would become a laboratory rat for other magus if they found me.

The only magecraft that I was able to use was [Reinforcement], [Gradation Air] and [Structural Grasp], and although it was just a few, I didn't complain as it was already great to use magecraft and it was easy to train with only a few than with a lot of things to train.

I shook my head to stop thinking about this matter before closing the tap, I looked at the mirror in front of me. I was a teenager with auburn hair and golden-brown coloured eyes and, to be honest, I consider myself handsome.

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After analysing myself in the mirror, I walked out of the bathroom, slowly walked down the stairs, saw my adopted mother, Irisviel von Einzbern, preparing breakfast, and my adoptive father, Emiya Kiritsugu reading a journal on the dining table.

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When they saw me, they smiled for a second before returning to their work while greeting me.

"Good morning Shirou," Said my adoptive mother while making some tamagoyaki.

"Good morning Shirou," Greeted my adoptive father while flipping the pages of the journal.

"Good morning mom, dad", I greeted both of them while sitting at the dining table.

Then my mother placed our food on the table before hearing the sounds of steps descending the stairs and approaching where we were. Suddenly, the door burst open and a wild white-haired loli appeared.

"Good morning everyone!" Greeted an energetic loli.

"Good morning Illya," I greeted her back. This was my younger step-sister, Illyasviel von Einzbern. She was the biological child of Kiritsugu and Irisviel, being herself 8 years old and me being 17 years old.

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"Good morning Illya," Greeted both of my parents while they smiled affectionately. Then we continued our peaceful breakfast before leaving the house to get to school.

I and Illya walked to school together like other days because our schools were near each other.

At the school, I was known as The Ace of The Archery Club, because when I was in middle school, I tried various clubs and I discovered that I had great talent in archery, so I joined the club and rapidly became the top in the club.

Then we separated when we were near the school gate and I walked towards my class. After walking through the classroom's door, I checked the time and it was still some time before classes. So I placed my bag on the table of my seat and walked to one of my friends that I made.

"Good morning Hajime," I greeted, which surprised him because of my sudden appearance.

"A-Ah, it's just you Emiya-kun, good morning, I've already told you to not scare me like that,'' complained Hajime. He was Hajime Nagumo, an introverted guy that was barely able to make friends on his own, due to his shyness and awareness of strangers. We became friends in the last year of middle school when I saw him reading a manga, which piqued my interest, as I was a fellow otaku as well. We became closer after a while and I discovered that he was a big fan of modern weapons and vehicles.

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We chatted for a while before two girls approached us. One had waist-length black hair that is tied back in a half ponytail and brown eyes. She was Kaori Shirasaki, and along with my sister, she was also one of the popular girls in my school, receiving the title of Idol, not only because of her beautiful appearance but also for her gentle personality.

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And the other had violet hair, which she styled with a red-pink ribbon on the left side, and violet eyes. She was Matou Sakura, the younger sister of Matou Shinji, who was my classmate.

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"Good morning Emiya-kun/senpai, Hajime-kun/senpai," Kaori and Sakura greeted us with a smile.

One of the things I noticed is that Kaori seems to give more attention to Hajime, maybe she loves him? But because of her attention to Hajime, he became the target of jealousy and hatred of male students, they even started bullying him and threatening him. Of course, when I discovered this, I beat the shit out of them and made them apologise to Hajime, and because of this incident, our relationship became closer and we were like best buddies.

"Good morning, Kaori-san, Sakura," I greeted her back.

"G-Good morning, K-Kaori-san, Matou-san," Hajime stuttered and because of this, the present male students looked at us with jealousy and hatred. I don't mind it as it won't affect me, but if they start to do something like bullying or something like that, I will approach them, and then beat the shit outta them when I get anywhere close to them.

We continued to talk when we heard the sound of the door opening and a petite woman with a childlike figure and dark brown hair and eyes entered the classroom. She was Aiko Hatayama, our Japanese teacher.

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"Alright students!" Aiko-sensei voiced out while clapping her hands "The class will start now,"

Every student in the classroom moved to their seats and Sakura was preparing to leave for her class.

Then Aiko-sensei was preparing to start our lesson and Sakura was reaching the door, but suddenly a magic circle appeared on the floor and started to shine.

"Woah!"

"What is happening?"

"Is this a prank?"

Everyone was in uproar and making a lot of noise and Aiko-sensei was trying to calm them down, but I was the only one that had a calm and serious expression.

'A magic circle? Who put it here? And why would someone want to put it here?' I thought, but I was interrupted from my thoughts when the light became stronger and blinded us.

When the light died down, I found myself in a completely different place and the students were looking around and in astonishment as they didn't realize what was happening now. But they broke off their thoughts when an old priest talked to us.

"O' heroes from another world, please save us from the evil demons!"

(E/N: Daga Kotewaru)

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