Chapter 2

Part 3:

"Of course"

"..huh?" said the orange haired girl. Why the surprise i wonder

"Sorry?"

"Ah, no. I was just surprised you accepted it too fast" isn't servant purpose was to help the master?

"The ones who accepted our call did not respond that fast so i was caught unguarded" ah, maybe i indeed responded way too fast. I guess someone would ask "Are you my master" or something like that first. Anyways, what's done is done.

"Well let's forget about that. You said ones who accepted our call so am I correct to assume there are others?" Weird from the information I'm getting, most people shouldn't be able to sustain a servant, but if what this girl said is correct, I'm not the first summon.

Perhaps that guy is also a master? Hmm no he doesn't seem to have command seals. Maybe he surpassed the mana leaks.

"That's correct Mister… i forgot to ask what is your name mister knight"

I turned back to look at the girl. This girl looked so feeble I'm surprised she could sustain a servant, nevermind more than one servant. I extended my hand towards her but then i noticed i was wearing armor i never worn for a long time. After my demonshade armor melted into my bones i never felt the need to ever wear armor but it seems he even restricted that so i need to wear an armor. But Hallowed Set among all the choices? I clenched my fist to make sure but it seems I'm still just a skeleton under it.

"Mister, is everything alright? There was nothing wrong with summoning right?" She asked the later question with a bit worry 

"Uh no, sorry i was just surprised that's it" She looked like she would straight up faint at the sight of my body. I guess I should stick to wearing my armor till i get to know her more.

"Name is Emiya by the way. Nice to meet you, Master"

"Ah, you can call me Gudaku rather than Master. Nice to meet you Mister Emiya" She started to smile after that. She still has that innocence in her it seems.

"My name is Mash Kyrielight. Nice to meet you too Emiya senpai" Purple haired one spoke. She reminds me of her too much now that I look at her. Even calling me by senpai.

"Romani Archaman" 

"Well then now that the instructions are over can we see his parameters" A voice spoke suddenly. Some sort of speaker? Hmm interesting, it seems current technology is lacking compared to that guys inventions. Well what he made was way beyond whatever i saw before.

"So should I know who our little spy is?" I asked and suddenly a hologram appeared next to me.

"Haha of course! I am the Genius Leonardo Da Vinci" She sounded quite arrogant but Leonardo Da Vinci? She looks like Mona Lisa than the artist

"I thought you were a guy" 

"Oh I was but I created this body after Mona Lisa herself. She was the ideal beauty I pursued during my life, so there is nothing wrong in having become that beauty itself" He said like there was nothing wrong with it. I guess calling him a she would be better.

"..I expected more of a reaction from you. Anyways let's look at your parameters shall we"

Then suddenly the information he gave to me came in front of all of us. It was the same thing as the paper he gave to me.

Some time passed and it looked like they were having a little hard time ingesting. Is it really that hard to accept?

"W..What sort of skills are these? Also a Ruler? I never heard of it before… perhaps it is one of those extra classes." Romani broke the silence first.

"God Slayer(EX)... i never heard of any legend about that other than scathatch. Also what is this Last Man Standing(A+). How can he be the last one standing when he is summoned as a servant"

"Ah, to answer that question, I never died, rather I made an agreement," I suddenly butted in. I guess it now makes sense why they struggled with it. Let's see, it seems there exist parallel universes, I guess it should be fine to lie a little. "I am from what you can call a parallel universe if you want to know"

"Oh.. but it's still hard to believe. A king, crafter, god slayer and the last one standing. Trace? it does sound similar to what Archer has is it not"

Wait what? Someone that has similar skill to me huh. Is it perhaps that guy? 

"Master, now that you looked at my parameters can I also meet with the other… servants"

"Of course, Mash can show you around while on that. I will have to take Gudaku with me for a while though so will it be okay to talk with your master a little later" Leonardo turned to me suddenly and then Master telling her to stay

"No problem. Well then Little Miss shall we go?"

"L..Little Miss? Ehem okay let's go this way then Emiya-senpai '' She looked frustrated at that. She should also be a Servant right? she feels so weak though. I wonder why.

We walked towards the door and got out to what seemed to be a white corridor. I cannot say it looks amazing but I guess it does the job. Well then since two us are alone it should be okay to ask it right now i guess

"So little miss, I am feeling that you are also a servant but you seem rather.. weak. Don't want to offend you i was just curious" I asked without looking at her and continued walking

"Ah none taken. It does make sense since I'm what you would call a Demi-Servant" Hmm yeah servants graph on humans basically "but I cannot use the full power of the said servant. I don't even know who he or she is, so I am stuck like this. This area is where most come to relax " She stopped for a second and showed me the place with tons of stuff around and we went back to walking

"That seems… unfortunate. I guess that servant wants to test you first." That seemed to make the most logical sense to me but still i wonder why?

"That's what I thought too , but another servant said that this way would make me stronger and didn't say his name to me because of that. If you don't mind it can i ask about you as well senpai"

"Hmm sure, ask away"

"Could you tell me the place where you came from" Ah where i came from? Well it was a hellish place with dangers everywhere. A place that was hard to live in with everyone trying to kill you… but 

"It was beautiful." indeed it was beautiful. Some may say are you stupid or something but that place is where I meet my people and they meet me. It will always be beautiful to me.

"That seem nice but how did it all end then?" I did not want to answer that. Lucky me

"Well Little Miss it seems we arrived at the cafeteria" she looked a little studied at that. It seems she realized I don't want to answer that question.

"Ah.. well. Right! Here is the cafeteria, the place where most servants eat" I thought servants did not need to eat. I guess its to remind them when they were human.

We entered the door and there were three people inside. One was cooking while the other two were sitting. The girl in black was eating.. burger? always the guy in blue was drinking what i assume beer. The other guy in red was wearing an apron and cleaning.

The guy in blue seemed to notice us entering and brought his and up, his palm looking at us. Seems like he's welcoming us. So I did the same to him. He started so smile after that

"It seems we have a newcomer huh" He suddenly said, making the other two look at us. 

"Come come sit next to me" while patting the seat next to him. It seems Mash was being called back so I went ahead and did as he said.

"So newcomer how is it do you like the place? Cu Chullian by the way nice to meet ya" The famous hound huh. He seem more like a magus with the stick he is carrying to me

"Hey hey hey, i may have been summoned as a Caster but i'm indeed the real Cu Chullian" 

"Well it seems like an okay place" I was not lying while not as great as my home and lacking technology compared to that guy this was still better than most i saw. It was quite large too.

"Name is Shirou Emiya. People used to call me Ethernal King if you want to know '' He was at first a little surprised but seemed to be trying to remember something. Weirdly enough the girl and the apron guy turned towards me. 

"Hmm nah i got nothing about Ethernal King but Shirou Emiya huh. I guess that name is everywhere I go" he said, smiling. Did he perhaps know me before? but i don't seem to remember him.

"Have you entered the holy grail war before?" The girl in the black asked me to stop eating her burger. But holy grail war? what's that? It seems i was not given information about that

"No? What that anyways" Suddenly the girl seemed to be sad and went back to eating. But the apron guy started looking at me intensely.

"Did I say something wrong?" I guess this sounded more of a joke as Cu started laughing.

"Hahahah. No, no. You see, we participated in a war called the Holy Grail War. A war where 7 Masters summon 7 servants in the hopes of attaining Holy Grail and funnily enough your name is same as this miss's master." Oh… that makes sense but it still doesn't explain the apron guy.

"Don't call me miss again" suddenly a strike from the black armored girl. She pulled out a weapon and directed it towards Cu. That weapon is giving me some weird feelings though I must admit. It seems to be affected by bloodlust too.

"Your sword seems to be affected by bloodlust and overall seems to be weakened. May I perhaps look at it?" I hope i didn't sound rude but that sword indeed interested me.

The girl turned his head towards me again and started giving me looks with a dangerous glint in his eyes. I guess i did sound rude

"No." and turned her around again. She seems like it would be hard to befriend.

Cu suddenly came close to me and wrapped his arm on my shoulder with his other hand brining his drink to the air.

"Hahah you saved me there buddy. Let's drink shall we?!" compared to the girl this guy seems a lot more easygoing 

"I would love to but i fear i cannot"

"Oh perhaps a believer?" It seems there is a misunderstanding. Since Master is not around here it wouldn't hurt to remove the mask at least

"Ah no, it's more of a biological inability" I said and started to remove my mask.

With me removing my mask they seemed surprised about my lack of skin and organs. Cu was the first to open his mouth

"Ah you were an undead? Sorry, I don't mean to offend ya but my shishou doesn't have the best impression of undead…"

"Ah, I think you got that wrong. I'm not an undead i just lost my skin and organs and am alive by some curses, immortality and because of certain trinkets i made but i will say this was before i came here so i maybe yes right now i'm undead"

This seemed to make Cu and others even more confused. Suddenly apron guy spoke

"Who are you?" a simple question indeed but i did not answer and just gave a smile. Well I tried at least and changed the subject.

"Anyways I still don't know you two's names. Care to enlighten me?" Apron guy seemed to want answer but was cut off even before he got the chance to speak

"I'm King Arthur also known as the Tyrant King." I… I did not hear that wrong right. Perhaps even these guys are from a parallel world. Lets forget King Arthur being a girl, There is a possibility of the story being changed or whatever but the Tyrant King? Now that's new.

" Nameless. You can also call me Archer" heh doesn't want to share his name. He turned back, continuing his cleaning again with Arthur turning back to eating her second burger

"Man, these guys are so boring, right?" Yes indeed but I do too prefer being quiet. Suddenly Cu got up, took up his stick and turned towards me.

"Wanna duel. I may not be able to use my spear but i'm pretty good at runecraft too" this guy really seems to miss his spear huh. Perhaps i should give him a spear

"Do you want a spear?" 

"Of course! The spears around here are not of good quality and this guy doesn't give me a spear too" said Cu pointing at Archer. Didn't he call himself Archer why would he have spear

"Well it may not be your old spear but I can give one of mine. I would made you one but i'm lacking ingredients" this seemed to make his eyes shine

" I doesn't matter if its at least better than what they have here" I gave a chuckle at that

"So what type of spear do you want? Currently i think the ones i can give you are more of a lance but is it okay?" I could give him gungnir, brimlance or diseased pike. These are the ones that resemble spear more than others and it would be better to not give him something ranked more than B

"Well that is rather sad but anything is better than this stick." He seemed to really dislike being a caster

"Well how about this then. Choose between one and three"

He seemed to think a bit then pulled out two of his fingers. Well Brimlance it is then. I traced the Brimlance out and he seemed to be really excited. Archer looks even harder than before. I wonder why…

"A-Amazing. Looks super cool!" Cu seemed to be really happy about it and as he took it from my hand he started to swing it around. Thankfully not hitting anything but i must admit he has really good skills with a spear.

"That's a weapon crafted from an elemental. You killed one to make this?" Oh it seems this Archer guy is not so simple. To even understand where its made from. Perhaps he is the one that has similar skill to me. I started to look at Archer while Cu was hugging the spear.

"That's right. It wasn't the nicest elemental so I had to kill it. I did use it to make this spear but i must say this wasn't the best of my works"

"You call that not good enough?" 

"Well compared to my other works it's not the best. I see you have eyes for a weapon, are you a smith too?"

"No, but I do smith to pass time sometimes" So he is one, could have just said so.

Arthur seemed to be more interested than before.

"You said you killed an elemental. Did you meet with other elementals?" so she was interested in elemental.

"Yes I did indeed but to be honest none of them last longer to tell a tale. This particular elemental I killed was one of the stronger ones. If you wanna know they were the ones that attacked first so it was all in order to protect my people."

"If you guys are done talking can we go back to our duel." Ah right the duel. I wonder which weapon I should use.

I wore my mask again and checked to see there was nothing wrong with the armor. Hmm maybe ark of the ancients? it is around the same level as brimlance too so it would make sense. I could also use the anarchy blade but that seems a bit too much. Well Ark of The Ancients it is then but before that there is one question left.

"Are we gonna duel here?"

"Oh right let's go to the Duel Arena then" and when he was going for the door a hologram appeared before us

"Emergency, we have a singularity. Could you all please come to the summoning room" and with that hologram disappeared

"NOOOOOO! Our duel!"

"Well we can always do it another time don't be sad and i dematerialized the spear with that

"NOOOOO! My Spear!" he.. he looked like he was gonna cry. Well sorry but you have to use your stick in the singularity. Hmm now that i think about it what is a singularity

"Anyone wanna explain what a singularity is?" From the name i can only figure out much" while Cu was still on ground trying to find his spear Archer seemed to be already gone so Arthur was the only one.

"It seems the history of mankind is in danger and its cause are those singularities. We go there, fix what's causing the problem and return" and with that she gone out. Well she did at least answer me. Now what to do with Cu

A Little Later

"We don't have enough energy right now on Chaldea so we can't transfer all of you guys. Is there anyone who wants to stay behind? We can only transfer, excluding the master, 3 servants." I cannot do that now. Thankfully Archer and Arthur was willing to stay behind so our team was Master, Little Miss, Cu and me.

"Well then we are going to transfer you guys to the singularity. Are you guys ready?" Romani asked and without confirming it he started transferring us. Amazing. Suddenly our vision started to blur.

After we landed on the singularity without any issue Master tried to contact others but it seems there was a problem. The only things we managed to hear was where we landed and what time but after that it got disconnected 

"So contact is dead?" and it seems Master was not happy about it

"Don't worry master, we are still with you so there is nothing to be scared of" and it seems what i said did make her a little more relaxed but she really is too green. Perhaps I should let her experience and get used to it unlike what i did before and cause her dead because I tried to take on everything. 

So currently we are in France a little after their saint died. Now the real question is how are we gonna find the problem.

"Master, it seems some wyrms are approaching" ah and here is our problem. Well, I wonder how strong these wyrms. 

"Cu do you know how strong they are?"

"Huh wouldn't you know better. You killed an elemental before but not a wyrm?" Well i guess asking him was my mistake

"I did kill wyrms before but it's been quite a while and the ones i killed were mostly deep water ones" 

This brings out the question which weapon I should bring out. Since Chaldea seems to be still recovering and how it seems I pull mana from there rather than master, I shouldn't summon those strong weapons. Hmm I guess Old Lord Claymore is okay in this case. With that i summoned the Claymore into my hands.

"Woah a claymore? I thought you would use more of a weapon that's similar to Arthurs."

"Well I'm a smith. I use every weapon I make but that's not what's important. How close are they now?"

"Bummer. They are almost here.. 3…2… aaaand here" with that 6 wyrms appeared before us. 

Without a warning Cu casted first and took down one of them. I guess he prepared while they were coming. Mash seems to be around Master shielding her so I guess there is nothing wrong with attacking them.

With that said I put a little power inside the claymore and it started to glow and I jumped to the first wyrm I saw. I slashed him with the claymore and it passed like butter. Were they supposed to be this week? i guess their fire resistance was not much compared to underworlds fire.

I do suck at air battles with this weapon but it seems Mash and Cu already took another 3. Am I getting old lagging behind a kid, I wonder. Anyways with that since i couldn't reach the other two while falling i threw my Claymore on them killing one and making the other behind it fall to the ground. With that it became an easy kill as Cu killed it as soon as it landed with an spike.

"That some cool magecraft you got there Cu" and indeed it was. Till now the mageraft i saw was not that great at least other than Calamitas. Archmage and such indeed used amazing magecraft but they all generally focused on one type of magecraft while what Cu used seems to be able to make other type of mageraft as well.

"This is nothing compared to what shishou can use but thanks anyways. Can't say the same to you since you just threw your weapon" he said smiling towards me. He is indeed right i couldn't show any swordplay but i did have my reasons

"They were just weak and died instantly. I guess they were more of a scout units more than anything" and he seemed to agree with me too.

"H~Hello? Finally it seems it's working now" Connection is back. Master seems happier now

"Romani! We were just attacked by some wyrms now. Is there any place we can go into" 

"Ah yes there is indeed one rather close to you. Just follow this direction" and suddenly a mark appeared so we followed it and indeed there was a place there. A town. It seems to be also guarded. Trying to enter the town guards stopped us and asked for our identities.

We do indeed look nothing like a villager nor some common people. 

"We are just travelers and were attacked by some wyrms. We come here to seek protection" Master seems to handle herself quite fine. 

Guards spent a few more minutes looking at us and discussing between themself but in the end they opened the gates and let us enter.

The inside of the Town was.. well it looked poorer than what i imagined. It was not bad but even the poorest looking place from my kingdom was better than this. There does seem to be a lot more people than it should be. I guess there were a lot of people that got assaulted by those wyrms. 

"So master, what's the plan? To find information we could always use the old reliable asking the around bar or the barkeep" Cu mentioned. It seemed like a solid enough plan right now so we went with it and entered the first bar we saw.

It was as expected of a bar, loud noises and a lot of people. There seemed to be someone cloaked sitting next to empty chairs so we sat near him or she doesn't really matter.

"Hey barkeep give us your finest beer" Cu did call out for a barkeep but we had two childs and one person who couldn't drink(me) with us.

"Just bring one beer" I corrected Cu and the barkeep came back with his beer.

"Two silver coins for our finest one" he put the beer in front of Cu and i took out the needed money from my little piggy bank. While Mash and Master seemed to question how do i have money Cu didn't really taught and just started drinking.

"Say barkeep what's happening around here. This town seems to be loaded up and there are Wyrms attacking people outside." I used this chance to inquire about what was happening.

"It seems you guys are not from here and with those clothing i assume i'm correct. Well you see Dragon Witch Jeanne is the reason these wyrms are attacking us. That witch after coming back started destroying every town and village. I fear this place won't stay long as well so my advice, go back to where you came from. I'm also planning to go somewhere else" and with that said he left us to attend other.

"Master, it seems Jeanne is our problem." and with that Master started to think a little

"Yeah but how are we gonna find her and how did she even come back after dying? Perhaps she is a servant rather than the cause of it all." That was rather smart. It is indeed a wonder and if she is a servant then who is behind her.

It seems Cu has finished his beer as well so we started to go back and make some sort of plan to capture Jeanne. But it seems we have an unwanted follower behind us. Cu seemed to take notice of it as well so while we kept walking he casted a trap and it did indeed catch the follower.

It seems our follower was the cloaked person in the bar but why would he even follow us.

"Well well well. Lets see who our little spy is" and Cu dropped her hood and let us see her face. I am calling the said person because it seems she was a female. This sounded really weird now that i think about it.

"Wait!"

"I'm not a spy, I just wanted to talk with you guys. I'm also a servant summoned for the battle"

She does know about the Holy Grail Battle and from what my Master and others said going from the previous experience the most likely thing that's causing this singularities is the said Holy Grail War. With another servant appearing that makes it certain then. 

"Well then how could we know what you're saying is correct and you're on our side?" Cu did indeed make a good point. It did have its flaws but still a good question.

"Because I was summoned as a mediator for this War and my job is to keep the war in place but I was weakened when I was being summoned. The witch Dragon Jeanne seems to have the Grail as well which shouldn't happen so i am also trying to stop her like you guys"

That seemed plausible. I will let the Master take on from now on so I stepped a bit to my right.

"What's your name then?" Master going for the direct approach and it seems our stalker is debating whether she should tell us or not. Well if not then we can kill her.

"It Jeanne" heh?

"My name is Jeanne d'Arc"

"...what?"x4