A few minutes earlier, Yuu had hauled himself up the rocky slope toward the Einzbern forest, scrambling over loose stones and dead branches until he found a decent vantage point.
Nothingness ran through his body like a constant electrical current, automatically canceling out anything that tried to mess with him—poison, curses, mind control, the usual magi bullshit. But he could also push it outward, creating a bubble that blocked magical senses from picking him up. Combined with his N...
2025-08-18 02:07:45 +0000 UTC
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"—!?"
Both Emiya and Diarmuid went dead still.
"...A warhorse..."
The beast was a monster of steel and flesh. Moonlight slid over its white coat, every muscle sharp beneath armor thick enough to shrug off a tank round. Its hooves burned, leaving faint trails of mana with every step.
Even without unleashing whatever trump card it was hiding, that thing's charge could crush ordinary Servant like an insect. The sheer magical output radiating from both horse and rider ma...
2025-08-18 02:06:32 +0000 UTC
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Dawn spread soft pink light across the eastern sky.
Since arriving in Fuyuki, Diarmuid had been making himself known, walking the city openly with both swords strapped to his back. He wanted a fight, and he wasn't hiding it.
But so far, nothing. No other Servants had taken the bait.
Not really a shock, though. Close-combat Servants like Rider, Lancer, and Saber couldn't sense much beyond a few blocks. Running into another one this early would be pure luck. And the others—e...
2025-08-17 01:28:02 +0000 UTC
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Moonlight spilled across the land like liquid silver, washing everything in pale sheen.
The city kept pushing forward with its relentless march of progress, but this corner of the world had been left in the dust. Here, far from the bright lights and busy streets of downtown Shinto, an old factory sat forgotten in the shadow of a grass-covered hill. Steel beams and broken bricks scattered the grounds like the bones of some industrial giant.
Pale light filtered through the collapsed...
2025-08-16 02:35:30 +0000 UTC
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The summoning had gone smoothly, and Waver had genuinely hoped to end the day riding high on his success. For once, something had actually worked out according to plan.
But—
"…How did it turn out like this?"
In the sharp winter wind of Shinto's civic park, Waver sat hunched on a bench like a lost child, his thin frame trembling. His teeth chattered as much from nerves as from the cold. He pulled his coat tighter around himself, but it didn't help much against either the ...
2025-08-16 02:34:58 +0000 UTC
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Yuu wore the Night Veil, and to any observer—even a first-rate magus—he appeared utterly ordinary. Perfect camouflage, though it came with the annoying side effect of blocking his own magical senses. But that's what he had Serenity for anyway.
Miss Ba shuffled over with steaming plates of mapo tofu. He blinked at what she set before him. The dish looked like a volcanic disaster zone—red chili powder heaped so high it resembled a miniature mountain range, with pale cubes of tofu sc...
2025-08-15 01:00:23 +0000 UTC
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Getting every Servant in the War to willingly let him record their Saint Graph was about as likely as world peace breaking out tomorrow. The second method came with its own headaches. If a Servant died and he wasn't there to record it, the soul fragments would slip straight into the Lesser Grail before he could intercept them. Which meant he might actually have to get close to battlefields—a prospect that ranked somewhere between "unpleasant" and "potentially fatal."
Originally, his p...
2025-08-14 07:11:04 +0000 UTC
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On a luxury cruise ship sailing through the middle of the ocean, Kayneth sat in an opulent cabin with a warrior carrying two swords standing at his back. His expression turned gloomy as he thought about the events of recent days: his fiancée’s increasingly cold attitude and his student’s spectacular betrayal had left him in what could generously be called a foul mood. For a man who considered himself nobility incarnate, the whole affair was turning into quite an undignified mess.
...
2025-08-14 07:09:56 +0000 UTC
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They were talking casually when Riddell suddenly perked up with excitement. She obviously had some juicy gossip to share. "Oh, wait—I just remembered something absolutely hilarious that happened yesterday. Our dear Lord El-Melloi had one of his precious relics stolen by his own student. Ha!"
Yuu's eyebrows climbed toward his hairline. "Stolen? Which relic?"
"Some sort of cloak."
"Do you know who took it?"
"Started as an Accounting Department mix-up, of all things." R...
2025-08-13 06:24:45 +0000 UTC
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Yuu stared at the circuit patterns carved into the rock face and felt a headache coming on. "Well, this is going to be the highlight of my week."
The magical array was considerably more complex than anything he'd encountered in his textbooks, which was saying something since Clock Tower coursework generally erred on the side of "needlessly complicated." He didn't need to decipher the entire system—just the specific connection points between the Lesser and Greater Grail, and figure out...
2025-08-12 01:34:03 +0000 UTC
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"Iri, we should get moving." Artoria pushed herself up from the car seat and stepped over to stand beside her Master.
Irisviel studied her Servant's profile, trying to piece together what exactly had happened to turn the once and future king into someone who treated conversation like a luxury she couldn't afford. Artoria had the social skills of particularly antisocial granite, and she'd never bothered explaining what she wanted from this War. The woman who'd supposedly united Britain a...
2025-08-12 01:33:27 +0000 UTC
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"And that's how I became Serenity's Master," Yuu concluded, as if accidentally acquiring a deadly Servant was just another Tuesday evening inconvenience.
Irisviel drove through Fuyuki's winding streets in contemplative silence, her destination being Ryuudou Temple. She had mentally prepared herself for combat tonight—maybe a few confrontations. What she hadn’t anticipated was Yuu returning with what appeared to be a very clingy assassin.
Artoria occupied the passenger seat wit...
2025-08-11 03:17:14 +0000 UTC
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Artoria's eyes never left Yuu's car as she bounded across rooftops, maintaining her distance like a particularly dedicated stalker—though one with considerably better athletic ability than most. She kept herself exactly one street behind, a shadow among shadows.
Yuu's grip on the steering wheel grew tighter with each passing block. The empty road stretching ahead under the pale streetlamps had an uncomfortable chill to it, the sort that made you wonder if you'd accidentally driven int...
2025-08-10 03:26:52 +0000 UTC
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Serenity stood motionless at the center of the circle, as still as a weathered monument left forgotten in some desert wasteland.
Dead again.
She'd poisoned another one—before she'd even learned his name properly.
Her nails, her muscles, every fluid in her body. The woman who bore the title of Hassan was a walking contradiction—a girl in appearance, but poison in every molecule of her being.
She was like those "Poison Maidens" from ancient Indian legends, except the...
2025-08-10 03:25:44 +0000 UTC
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After a long moment, Yuu pulled back slightly, his expression becoming more serious. "Now, what's this about 'sorry for dragging me into this'? That's a really hurtful thing to say."
"…S-Sorry."
"You don't need to apologize for that." His tone softened. "Look at me, Iri. You're my partner in this. That means we face things together, right? That means I get a say in what risks I'm willing to take."
"…Mm." She nodded, though her eyes remained downcast.
"If you start ...
2025-08-09 02:02:37 +0000 UTC
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There was supposed to be some old legend about magi in the Age of Gods slipping into other realms through meditation. Yuu had always figured it was mostly bullshit, but now? Maybe not.
He stared at the ceiling, trying to process what had just happened.
Birds were already chirping outside—that annoyingly cheerful morning soundtrack that meant he'd been sitting there way longer than it felt like. The curtains had that telltale glow that screamed ‘you've been up all night’. A n...
2025-08-09 02:02:03 +0000 UTC
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The sun found its way through Sakura's curtains, drawing a thin line of light across her sheets. 7:28 AM on the nightstand clock.
She was already awake. Had been for a few minutes, actually, just lying there in that space between sleep and the day. The air had that autumn bite to it now, the kind that made you want to pull the covers higher but also somehow made you feel more alive.
Sakura sat up and pushed the blanket away. She should have been grateful. Irisviel cared about her,...
2025-08-07 00:07:02 +0000 UTC
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Archer’s eyes moved around the church like he was cataloging every corner. When he looked at Kirei and his father, his expression didn’t change. But when his gaze swept past Tokiomi, a meter behind them, his pupils contracted slightly.
“Already made arrangements with an ally before the summoning? Looks like I’ve got myself a pretty resourceful Master. Talk about drawing the short end of the stick.”
He kept that cocky stance as he continued. "Here's the thing—I don't k...
2025-08-06 01:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Manaka had gone overboard. The stack of textbooks and workbooks on Sakura’s desk looked like something out of a cram school horror story. If she actually finished them all, she could probably skip straight past elementary school without blinking.
Still, Manaka was patient. She went over math problems one by one, explained history like it was a bedtime story, made science feel like magic.
Programming, though? That was different.
She didn’t explain anything. Didn’t even ...
2025-08-06 01:57:14 +0000 UTC
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[Changed Manaka’s way of addressing Yuu from "Master" to "Sensei" to avoid confusion with the existing use of "Master" in the Nasuverse.]
The rain had stopped by the time they got to Akihabara. The sky looked washed clean, and puddles turned the pavement into mirrors that caught the buildings overhead.
Irisviel got out of the car in her stocking feet, carrying her broken heels. The wet concrete felt cold and gritty through the thin fabric. She hated it, but the ...
2025-08-05 00:33:36 +0000 UTC
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The rain kept falling, as if the sky had forgotten how to stop weeping.
Through the car window, the city dissolved into watercolor brushstrokes, all soft edges and bleeding light. Inside their small sanctuary, Irisviel's fingers trembled as she worked the buttons of her white blouse.
She couldn't lift her head. The memory of his touch still lived on her skin, a warmth that seemed to pulse with her heartbeat. Even now, fully clothed, she felt exposed in a way that had nothing to do...
2025-08-04 03:22:12 +0000 UTC
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The sun had ducked behind the clouds while they walked, and Yuu felt the shift in the air before he saw it—that subtle change that meant weather was coming. The breeze picked up, rustling through Iri's silver hair and making the trees around the pond sway.
"Iri," he said, and something in his tone made her look over.
"Hm?" She looked up at him, her red eyes curious.
"About your Magic Circuit..."
The thing he couldn't stop thinking about since she'd first walked into ...
2025-08-04 03:21:36 +0000 UTC
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In her bedroom, Sakura tugged the curtains closed and hit the power button on the desktop computer.
The thing wheezed to life with that familiar fan noise, and the screen flickered on to show blue skies, white clouds, and some generic grassy field wallpaper.
She climbed up into the desk chair, which was way too big for her. First she got her knees up on the edge, then kind of hauled herself up onto the seat with both hands.
Once she was settled in and turned around properly,...
2025-08-02 03:30:40 +0000 UTC
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Sakura flicked on the TV early that morning.
“Ooh, this kind of story is right up Manaka-nee’s alley,” she said, settling back into the couch.
If Manaka had actually heard that comment, she probably would have flashed one of those sweet, angelic smiles that somehow made people's blood run cold.
King of Knights didn't respond—maybe because she agreed, or maybe because she was too busy working her way through another slice of cake—but she gave a little nod.
The...
2025-08-02 03:30:05 +0000 UTC
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At the inn, the kids scattered to their assigned rooms—two or three to a room, sleeping bags rolled out across tatami mats. Ms. Matsushima had barely finished explaining the afternoon schedule when Keita Minato was already huddled up with his usual crew.
"Guys," he said, keeping his voice low. "I spotted something on the way here. Adult bookstore, maybe three blocks from the station."
Ryo perked up immediately. "Seriously? But we can't buy anything. We're like, obviously kids."<...
2025-08-01 07:25:00 +0000 UTC
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Kirei held the silver case in his lap, feeling its weight. Tokiomi had given it to him just hours ago—a relic, the kind of ancient artifact that would serve as an anchor for summoning a Heroic Spirit. The fact that his mentor had entrusted him with it meant something. Trust, maybe. Or just necessity.
The Holy Grail War was coming. Legendary figures from history would be dragged back into the world to fight each other all over again. And this case held the key to calling one of them.
2025-08-01 07:24:26 +0000 UTC
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Manaka's voice drifted from the kitchen, a bright melody weaving through the familiar sounds of chopping and sizzling. She couldn't remember the last time she'd felt this light, this genuinely happy.
That troublesome woman would finally be gone. As for Sakura—well, she was hardly competition at this stage. A quiet laugh escaped her as she stirred the pan. Really, Master ought to notice how hard she'd been working lately. All the effort she put in deserved some recognition, didn't it?<...
2025-07-31 04:24:18 +0000 UTC
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They climbed out of the car and walked through the gates of the estate. Even in land-scarce Tokyo, the Reiroukan family had managed to maintain a spacious front lawn. A small girl with long black hair sat cross-legged in the grass, her hands flowing through motions like a routine. Threads of black silk slithered around her, weaving themselves into intricate shapes that slowly began to resemble the outline of a bird.
Irisviel's eyes went wide. She recognized that spell immediately—it w...
2025-07-31 04:23:41 +0000 UTC
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"Yuu, the results go far beyond what I was expecting," the Ryougi head said, shaking his head in amazement. "Are you certain this payment is adequate?"
What Yuu had accomplished wasn't just restoration anymore—it was like the sword had been reborn entirely, transformed into something that might have been even better than the original.
Yuu's smile was easy, almost casual. "Think of it as a birthday present for Shiki. I know it's arriving a bit late, but better late than never, ri...
2025-07-30 00:08:19 +0000 UTC
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They made their way into Taitō ward, where the temple complex sprawled across a hillside thick with old trees and traditional buildings. The approach to Kaminarimon gate was packed with tourists, their voices creating a constant buzz of chatter and excitement.
After passing through the gate and making their way down the busy shopping street, Yuu started steering them through the thickest parts of the crowd. Irisviel found herself grabbing onto his coat sleeve to avoid getting separated...
2025-07-29 04:38:33 +0000 UTC
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