Ch 19

Rider kept searching the city when she felt another servant following her.

She went on to a rooftop, thick mist surrounded the area.

"This mist.....you must be the servant that killed Berserker. I was searching for you anyway. I want to make a deal with you"

Assassin walked through the mist and stood in front of Rider.

"What made you think we will make a deal with you?"

Rider went quiet for a while before saying "I will not participate in this war anymore and I have information on the master of caster and help you in defeating him and his servant"

'Assassin, let her speak' This is an unexpected advantage but he's willing to take the gamble.

"I want to speak to your master"

"My master is listening to our conversation" Assassin said as her master wanted to stay anonymous during the whole war.

However, Rider still insisted "No, I want to speak to him in person. This request of mine is very important"

"Alright, Let's make a deal fair and square"

A man who looked extremely ordinary with short height, an average figure, and brown hair walked through the fog.  This is Cael's disguise he used to appear in public.

Rider saw the command seals on his hand to confirm that he's the master of Assassin.

"What do you want?"

Rider is hesitant but she took the risk.

"I want you to help me save a person called Sakura from the Matou family and master of Caster servant. She's my actual master, her brother took command seals from her becoming my temporary master. Now, the Master of Caster appeared saying he wants to save my actual master but I don't trust him"

There is silence after Rider's proposal.

"I have several Questions," Cael said after hearing her.

"Go on"

"Why do you care about this Sakura? Aren't you just a dead person, don't you have the wish to revive?  Why does a heroic spirit, an immortal and powerful being goes to such lengths for a mere human, with whom you probably didn't even spend time with?"

Rider clenched her fist but then, she calmed down and said "It's a matter of personal interest. I don't care about my past, I want to help her while I still can"

Cael remained silent, Rider understood he was not satisfied with her answer.

"Alright, Look, I see myself in her. She's forsaken by the world just like me, it is only a matter of time before she loses everything and becomes a monster. I want to prevent that, I don't care what the cost is "

Cael could sense a pang of severe guilt, pity, Anger, and a sense of helplessness from Rider.

"Now, I can tell it's your personal issue. For my next question. Why didn't you just kill off the master and servant? Is the caster servant that strong?"

"I didn't know the servant, he didn't bring his servant or at least I couldn't sense his servant. The main problem is the master himself, he is extremely threatening. He told me about his ability of 'Gravity jail', then there is another ability where he could create from nothingness. He gave me this katana, called it 'One cut killer' Murasame"

Rider summoned a red katana.

"May I observe it?"

"Sure"

Cael took the katana and observed the curse on the sword. He used [Origin Analysis] on the sword. After which he returned it to rider.

'Good news is it's not true magic. So, the master of the caster is a reincarnated person with cheats. | Gravity jail | is a sacred gear from DxD, this katana must be the sword of Akame from Akame ga kill, It is certainly made from nothingness but there is also the presence of energy in its creation which is not any type of prana. So, it's not true magic, It is a type of Creation magic or skill. This explains a lot about my 18 possible deaths'

Cael didn't consider himself to be special, after all, everything is a possibility in this world. So, the reincarnation of another person is not surprising. 

But what really annoyed him is

'He has bloody cheats!! And All I got is a bloody regenerative item. Ok, cool down, something is better than nothing, I'm not completely hopeless, I'm a talented Magus better than anyone ever could be'

Still, Cael has some doubts like

"What kind of idiot reveal his secrets and he can create something absurd like this? Why did he give this to you?" Assassin asked with suspicion, her thoughts aligned with Cael.

Rider expected this " Do you have any spells to read minds? That's the only way you would believe me, the reason he gave me this sword is absurd, I won't blame you if you didn't believe me after I said it myself"

Cael opened his smartphone and enchanted it with some mental interference runes.

"Focus on your meeting with that Master and transfer your prana through this mobile"

Rider did, after which the meeting between the master and Shinji appeared, and after that, her meeting with him appeared in video format.

Cael gagged when he heard the name 'Soren Uzumaki' and what's even more absurd is, Soren, is just 15 and looked like Naruto Uzumaki.

'No, he might have the body of a 15-year-old kid but he might be mentally older like me. But his actions are clearly stating that he's just a hormonal teenager with absurd power. Still, I refuse to believe he just told his powers like that without a plan, maybe those are just diversions, he might have other abilities more Overpowered than what he's showing, what if he has nine tails?'

Literal Millions of scenarios and ideas appeared in Cael's mind to deal with this cheat Reincarnate.

"Alright, last question, Why did you set out to find us?"

"When your Servant killed Berserker, the masters of Saber and Archer asked Shinji to ally to defeat your servant. Now, I understand what they mean, I can sense Divinity from her. I thought about allying with you since I don't know where else to go"

"We might not stick to our promises? What would you do then?" Cael said he want to hear her answer.

"Then, I will kill you both without hesitation"

Cael smiled at Rider's answer "I like that answer. I accept this deal, I will save your master, and you can still participate in the war, you don't have to give it up. Consider this as a gift to build trust between us. But, first, we have to kill that Teenager Soren. He's the biggest threat"

"I am not at my peak due to my current master. I'm using a bounded field to feed on the souls of school children still, it's not enough"

"Hmm, I can kill this Shinji and take away his command seals. I will support you until I saved your actual master, I have prana for it, assassin is proof. If you don't want it that way, I can take you to a place where you can harvest the souls of a lot of people to power yourself"

" My apologies, I don't trust you with either method but If you made a contract with me with conditions that you will transfer the command seals to Sakura after saving her and you won't harm me with the command seals, I can accept your first method" Rider still didn't trust them, this is just an alliance created on mutual benefits and personal interest.

"I accept "  Cael didn't mind either way. He didn't have any ideas about killing Rider, this is after all a pointless war.

"Soren will come tomorrow night to Matou's household. He made a contract such that he will come alone without his servant. So, he can't summon his servant"

Assassin interjected after hearing this "Then, we will deal with him on the way to the matou's household. Master, we can't fight the master and servant when we don't have complete information, we have to use this opportunity to ambush him and kill him"

For her, this mysterious master is the greatest threat after the demigod servants. She has seen what he could do and witnessed his absurd abilities.

She doesn't want to lose out in this war. This is an opportunity to kill one of six enemy masters.

Cael agreed with Assassin's plan.

He just wants to get rid of this enemy without a fight. The enemy this time is too dangerous to be left to grow.