Chapter 32: First Blood

Bazan was pulling his victim by the nape as he walked through a dusty tunnel illuminated by torches. Reaching in front of a cell he threw the now unparalysed magus into the dusty jail room. Leaving the steel gate locked the self-important mystic eye uses said

"Alright, this is your room." while snickering the Middle Eastern man added 

"It is no 3-star room but do try to make yourself at home." 

Now freed the frail magus got up from the food and approached his kidnapper with outrage shouting "Hey!". As he held the bard of the gate his hands were socked by yellow sparks highlighting the door to be an enchanted one. The mystic eyes user said in a taunting voice 

"A mage`s body is an ideal resource. I plan to make full use of it, so don't damage the merchandise."

The mage in white coat now serious and sacred asked 

"You are treating me like a sacrifice?"

"See you later junior" replied Barzan with nonchalance unfound in a scum like him. 

"I will bring you some food and water later." he continued only to be replied by a 

"Go to hell!"

Seeing Barzan leave the mage started having a tantrum and cursed Barzan by saying things like 

"he must have been fodder at Clock Tower hence he ran away to boonies to put on airs."

Waken up by his tantrums the other resident of the cell said with an annoyed voice 

"Hey, can you keep it down?"

"Fuck you." replied the admitted mage as he began rambling about barrier structures and breaking this bounded field as the mystic eyes effect has completely worn off.

The other man in the cell was of similar age to the newly captured magus, he had silver hair and silver eyes and was wearing a similar explorer`s outfit to the man throwing a tantrum. rubbing his eyes Melvin Weins the solution to the emiya family`s problem and the current target of the magus killer seemed to recognise his prison mate and asked 

"Waver ?"

"You are waver velvet?" said Melvin visibly pleased and excited. Waver the master of the rider in the 4th holy grail war had an amusingly contorted expression as he recognised his prison mate and said 

"Melvin..." After this word left his mouth the excited tuner jumped at him pulling him into a hug and said 

"That's right! Your old friend from school Melvin Weins."

"Oh boy! I am so glad to see you here." saying this the happy expression on the tuner`s face rapidly collapsed as he began puking out blood. Seeing this the expression on the 3rd surviving master`s face changed and he dodged the blood vomited by his friend as he said 

"Hey don't puke all of a sudden!"

After supporting the vomiting melvin, waver took his friend to the wall and they both sat down as he asked 

"You still have the habit of puking blood at any given moment?" 

"Anyways why are you even here?"

Melvin who was wiping his blood from his mouth with a handkerchief said animatedly 

"That senior had me sold on the idea of making a riskless and profitable investment, hence I visited Iraq and ended up here."

nodding his head the mediocre magus said 

"So it was him. That Barzan guy again." in contrast to the tense waver Melvin with a lazy voice said 

"I had visions of beautiful Arabic women but got ripped off on tuning of 30 million dollars."

With a defeated sigh waver uttered 

"You are a scum on earth. Do you know that?"

"Hey that's no way to talk to a friend waver." said the tuner.

"I don't remember us ever becoming friends!" blabbered waver begrudgingly.

"Oh," said Melvin as if hearing this for 1st time and said

"Well, what about you? Didn't you go to Japan with the money you borrowed from me?"

Hearing this triggered the memory of the ex-master, he remembered the time months ago. how he asked to borrow from Melvin to go to Japan after stealing his teacher`s catalyst. How he took advantage of Melvin`s quirk and promised the man an interesting story and how Melvin replied with the confidence of a ruler

"Of course! To hear an interesting story I am ready to give anyone money from my mom`s purse."

And how he in his overconfidence claimed to turn the whole clock tower upside down after his return. Pulling waver out of his memories Melvin said with joy apparent in his voice 

"So, I am dying to hear your interesting story. How was Japan?"

"Resting your head on a geisha`s lap must have been something. Huh?"

Hearing his friend`s rambling made Waver`s eyebrows twitch furiously as if they would escape his forehead. Furiously breathing out he exclaimed 

"I am sorry!, I don't have that kind of story to tell." his hands started trembling as he was suffering from PTSD and he said 

"I was useless. in that holy grail war!"

Melvin shocked asked with a concerned expression 

"So the story you were going to tell me was about the holy grail war?"

Raising his head with a sad sigh waver said 

"Yes, you have heard about it too?"

Hearing this the white-haired man took a pregnant pause and said 

"Just a rumour...…that Professor Kayneth died a horrible death"

"Apparently his body was in a ghastly condition. Hardly any of his magic crest could be recovered."

"What a waste."

Hearing this waver with trembling hands and dilating pupils asked 

"Who killed professor?

"I heard it was a sabre class heroic spirit," said Melvin casually before asking with interest 

"Is it true that they summoned former heroes as familiars?"

The face of the sabre was dancing in front of Waver intensifying his trauma and with a tired voice he said 

"That is what holy grail war is, legendary heroic spirits killing each other. A death game."

Saying so waver began to roam the room and get a feel for the bounded field surrounding them.

As they were talking about the bounded fields they heard the sound of small explosive charges going off as the bounded field surrounding the room disappeared and the grill door fell off its hinges.

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Kiritsugu and shirou slowly prowled the corridor as they advanced with weapons trained towards the front. They moved forward until they came across the wall having multiple doors installed revealing prison cells.

Shirou wanted to say something but was silenced by his father`s hand gesture, then shirou opened his circuits and focused on enhancing his hearing but didn't achieve any success hence was forced to flood his boy with prana and achieving a minor overall enhancement.

With this he heard the sound of chatter which was ineligible, slowly advancing towards the source they found it to be from a cell. They paused to hear a line about the holy grail war being a death game, to which the magus killer fully agreed.

Then hearing the conversation between the 2 youths about the bounded field, kiritsugu concluded them to be captive mages. He whispered to shirou 

"This is a bounded field based on that door and it is very shabby, i will break the door with a breaching charge and simultaneously breaking the ward."

"The two people inside are most likely prisoners, so we can collect information about Barzan from them."

Shirou nodded his head as the magus killer set up the door breaker explosive beside the hing of the gate.

(A/N: so guys it's been a month of me writing this fic and my free time has run out. People say "When life gives you a lemon make lemonade" but what to do when life keeps giving you giant fuck yous. So enough bitching about my shity life what I want to say is I am changing the schedule to 1 chapter per 2 days, I am not free enough anymore to wallow in my self-pity.

I am never dropping this book so I will at most change the schedule, I will finish this project whatever it takes.)