Minami cleaned the tears from her cheeks and began walking toward Shiro only for her path to being blocked by Rider.
"What are you doing?" Minami asked.
"I'm sorry Minami but I can't let you get any closer" Rider uttered, "in case you forgot the only reason he has white hair and a change in attitude was exactly because he tried maintaining multiple servants at once,".
Minami had her eyes on the ground as she responded calmly, "He won't be maintaining them, he'll only be helping me with the summons,".
"And what makes you so sure it won't have the same effect?" Rider asked.
Minami groaned before looking Rider in the face, "What's your deal? Why don't you let him decide?" She yelled.
"My master is both gullible and stupid, no doubt he'd help you if he sees a cute maiden crying begging for his assistance," Rider responded.
"Let me pass," Minami said with a cold tone as the tattoo on her body began to glow.
Rider didn't budge, she just stood there with the chains on the dagger dangling around her legs.
"Gezz, can you guys stop with the shouting, my head can't take anymore,".
Shiro uttered as he opened his eyes to see Rider in front of him and Saber standing beside him.
"Shiro?" Saber uttered, she sat on his bed and began searching his body to see if there were still any burns.
"What are you doing?" Shiro asked.
"Great there's nothing." Saber sighed, she took a deep breath before landing a straight slap on Shiro's cheeks.
Everybody in the room gasped at the sight except for Gilgamesh who struggled to hold down her laughter.
"Why the hell did you slap me-"
"Don't be so reckless you Idiot, I don't know how but you used my noble Phantasm, but that was a holy light, if I didn't have Avalon with me nothing would have healed you!" Saber yelled.
"She's right you know, you have to be more careful with your life, we need you if we are going to win the holy grial," Gilgamesh uttered before moving closer.
Shiro sighed, scratching the back of his head as he listened to them, "Fine, I won't act so reckless next time," He uttered.
He suddenly spotted Rider standing in front of him with her back faced, "Rider is something wrong?" He asked.
They all hummed with different tones since they already knew what was going to happen.
"Shiro, you should go back to sleep," Saber uttered, using her hand to push Shiro to the bed.
Before he could lie down, Minami yelled at the top of her lungs, "Shiro! Muramasa is dead! please help me!".
Shiro jolted up from the bed, "The hell?" He exclaimed.
Shiro stood up from the bed and stomped over to Minami to see her standing in front of Rider crying buckets.
"What do you mean Muramasa is dead?" Shiro asked, Rider could see the rage building up inside him as his eyes glowed.
Minami fell to her knees crying, "He was killed by a servant of the red faction, I tried, I really tried but… he still…"
Shiro paused for a second before punching the wall beside him, leaving a huge hole from the force.
"Damn it!" Shiro muttered with his red eyes glowing even brighter.
"But you can help me right? Why don't you just summon him." Minami uttered while she raised her head to look at him.
"Uhn?"
"Alright that's enough," Rider voiced out, "Master, you still need to rest-"
"No no, wait it might work, I can summon him back." Shiro muttered with a grin on his lips which led to Minami smiling.
"Are you insane, have you forgotten what happened the last time you summoned Scathach!" Rider yelled.
Scathach sighed, "Come now, don't bring me up in your lover's quarrel,".
"Relax Rider, I've gotten stronger since then, I'm sure I can handle one more servant," Shiro smiled.
....
Shiro crossed his legs on the bed as he began to speak with his system, the rest of the team all stood away from him and just watched.
'Alix!'
{...}
'Awesome, show me the board of servants,' Shiro uttered.
{Request confirmed}
A huge pixel showed up in Shiro's eye view and a long list of servants with their pictures and stats was shown.
"Nice." He spotted a servant called Jeanne and she immediately caught his eyes, after observing her stats he moved on.
'Servant, Muramasa,'
{Affirmative}
Muramasa's stats showed up with the icon summon at the bottom, 'Time to come home He uttered.
. . . .
When Shiro opened his eyes, Minami immediately pounced on the bed and moved close to him.
"So? Did it work?" Minami asked with a bright smile on her face.
Shiro looked to the side with a sad expression on his face, "I'm sorry, but… summoning another servant is impossible for me right now," He uttered.
Minami gave a weak chuckle, "What do you mean impossible? You told me you would," She muttered.
"I thought I could, but if I want to summon Muramasa, I'll have to give up one of my servants," Shiro uttered.
"Then do it!" Minami yelled, "You have four servants, you can easily sacrifice one from me right?"
"Minami I…"
"We are friends ain't we, I'm sure you can do this much for me, I'm not asking for much, just a servant, please I'm begging you" Minami began to tear up.
Shiro sighed before looking Minami in the eyes, "I'm sorry but I can't, my servants mean the world to me, I'm sorry"
Saber and Shiro's servants couldn't help but smile when they heard him say that.
Minami slowly stood up from the bed, "I see how it is, we're only partners when you benefit from it… I never knew you to be so selfish".
"I never said I wasn't going to help you, it's just going to take some time"
"Forget it" Minami uttered, her expression went numb as she stared at Shiro, "You had me as a friend before… but now, consider me your enemy".
Minami uttered before walking out of the door.
Gilgamesh sighed with her arms tucked, "Well, she's gone, I could end her now if you want," She uttered.
Shiro ignored her and just fell back on the bed with the pillow covering his face, 'Damn it!' He groaned.
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A/N
I'm so sorry about the late update, I was working on something, (Still am) .
I hope you enjoy this chapter and vote for the book .