Author's Note: The first Mature Rated 'Digital Human' story in the series! Starting off the Special Chapter (After Chapter 24 in FanfictionNet's URL) in Digital/Lunar Hearth. This story features multi-crossover elements in that there are two Servants summoned from non-Fate and non-Danmachi universes, the very same as in the special. Two other Extraverse Servants will be summoned, up for suggestions on those. This chapter has some identical scenes to the special, but a large portion of it is entirely new.

WARNING! This story might contain 'dark' elements including: Insanity, Madness, Gore, Borderline Erotic Material, Murder, Alcohol, Abuse, and most importantly to all those obsessive fans… Character Development featuring mild morality and personality shifts.

A crooked branch hangs off the tree, she stands there with the decision to save it, but the Extra within the realm of gods finds herself chained by hands seeking to fulfill their own desires while breaking her own. Now, the Extra must push forward to save the branch from falling into the darkness while keeping her soul untainted.

Digital/Ashes

Chapter 1: Chained Unto Me

Hakuno Kishinami, Victor of the Moon Cell Holy Grail War, Owner of the Regalia, Digital Human… a fourteen-year-old magus girl that had been an artificial intelligence within an interior cyberworld created by a device billions of years old known as the Moon Cell Automaton. This young teenager has torn apart person after person through kill-or-be-killed Tournament all for the selfish desire to survive, a desire that fought and won against the dreams and wishes of one-hundred and twenty-four participants known as Masters.

A bloody deathmatch where friends murdered friends, lovers slew what who they loved, family struck against family.

Her aimless motive to survive, her abilities and skills, tempered and forged with each passing week had created a Master that stood above all the corpses that had entered the Core of the Reality-Shaping Observational Construct, the Moon Cell.

Still, at that end, all that had awaited was her imminent deletion… Her origins as a human AI that had miraculously gained self-awareness served as her doom inside the Core, recognized as but corrupted data, all that made Hakuno Kishinami would be erased.

But, she made a wish.

To experience a world of fantasy.

The events spiraled, spinning and churning, the straight path of a world filled with gods and their Familia had already broken apart into a different path upon the Inheritor of the Moon's appearance in Orario. The ticking gear peacefully went on its way, a Goddess of the Hearth granting asylum and Falna Blessing to Hakuno Kishinami.

Then the gear began to creak, its metallic shine breaking apart, showing the rust underneath as the moon lit up its faults. A distant star, devourer of civilizations, the piece known as Velber had given chase and split apart a Regalia into two, one in its possession, the other in the Digital Human's.

Now it twists and contorts the Dungeon, embedding its roots deep underground, seeking it to halt and disrupt the Moon Cell by controlling its Ruler… But, the lunar origins of the magus girl served to create problems…

They come.

Deities of different pantheons.

The eyes of the world cannot ignore the starlight that showing itself in the corner, it comes outward… But that light cast itself over the shadow to reveal the disgust.

Our story begins in a crucial moment, where a Greek Goddess, Artemis, kidnapped Hakuno Kishinami… In another timeline, a Lunar Hearth would burn brightly this moment into hope… But a Hearth also leaves behind Ashes...

External Threat to Designated Inheritor Detected.

The robotic voice went through the mind of a fourteen-year-old girl with pale skin, long wavy brown hair having a strand in front of each ear, her golden-brown mixed eyes staring downward as her legs and hands, body crawling on harsh marble flooring. The tannish-brown school uniform adorning her felt hot, sweat dripping from her pores which were sponged up by the black pantyhose coming up to her middle thighs, almost reaching the skirt of the academy outfit.

Hakuno Kishinami took quick, deep breaths, trying to inhale as much oxygen into her system while exhaling carbon dioxide. Her fingers trembled, attempting to futility grasp the flat surface of the ground, Hakuno's feet burned with a stinging sensation and her lungs felt like they were on fire from the intense running.

Her gaze settled on the Regalia attached to her right hand's finger, then shifted to the dormant Command Seals on her left hand.

There had to be a way to summon a Servant.

The Artemis Familia was right on her trail and they knew every nook and cranny of their own mansion. She could scarcely make her way through it, every hall seemed to lead to another and the doorways led to rooms marked as dead ends, as she was still a floor too high to even consider jumping through a window.

Not that it would help, getting injured by a reckless action such as glass from a broken panel would not help in escaping Artemis or her Familia members.

She forced herself back on her feet and sprinted around the corner.

"Gotcha!" A blue-haired girl exclaimed, only a few short years older than Hakuno, the Artemis Familia member grabbed the brown-headed teenager with forceful intention.

"Let go," Hakuno replied as she struggled against the young woman's grip, but she was fighting a losing battle. Her Hestia-given Falna, the Blessing of the Gods that improved their Child's Attributes, had never functioned correctly, preventing her from ever improving her physical abilities through that method.

So, she improvised.

Hakuno's magic circuits surged with magical energy, the brief image of an enflamed city torn by war served as her trigger, the only remnant of her original counterpart.

Awaiting Regalia Holder Input.

"Code Cast: Hack!" She shouted aloud, palming her palm against the woman's breast just as the digital magecraft fired off with a visible display of yellow electrical arcs and tiny floating square-shaped data particles

Her assailant coughed up blood in shock, drops paint upon Hakuno's cheeks as the magus escaped her temporarily stunned foe who collapsed to the ground. Hakuno Kishinami didn't wish to do harm, but her survival came before her fellows unless they were close to her, then Hakuno wouldn't put herself for them.

Weeks of the Holy Grail War served as lessons on that reality.

She wiped the blood from her face with the long sleeve of her uniform but didn't stop moving, always keep going, never go back.

To head back was to die.

The glistening moonlight shined through the window shills, a Full Moon that lit the halls, as if guided Hakuno Kishinami towards her required destination, strangely enough, it darkened behind her, leaving those giving chase to travel without light. Ironic, that the Familia of Artemis, a Goddess of the Hunt and the Moon, had that very orbital body going against them.

She bashed through a double doorway, coming across a vast straight stairway that leads down to a circular marble decoration of a floor, but her attention focused to spot what seemed to be the exit way out of the mansion. The magus girl made hastily down the steps, but in her quickness she stumbled, it served as fortunate to avoid a few arrows that sailed over her from behind, however, the result had her falling painfully down the stairs to the ground level.

"Ack," Hakuno coughed out spit as her muscles screamed in agony. Her willpower and determined mind forced herself upright despite her body's screeching alarm for rest, adrenaline pumping through her nervous system to numb the sensation until a later time. "Almost out…" She trailed off as she stood up, wincing and grabbing her side, something must have been pulled or broken during the fall.

Another arrow flew and Hakuno leaned sideways, avoiding the shot and making her way towards the exit. Her free hand pushed against the doorway and with a heave, opened it wide to let the bright moonlight shine through and the scent of the forest fill her nostrils. She took step by step to the outside, her shoes tapping against the stone path.

She collapsed to her knees, Hakuno breathed heavily.

"Hakuno Kishinami, why do you flee from me?"

The Digital Human turned around, her fist clenched as she felt a sense of wrong radiate off the figure that stood at the doorway. Her mind felt a compulsion and the wrongness vanished into fascination and comfort upon looking at the deity standing there, with snow-white huntress clothing marked with fur and leather and charcoal black hair-

Her magic circuits flared, coursing with magical energy that washed away her affliction.

There was no method out, she lacked any better magecraft spells, didn't have the physical abilities to fight, and even if Bell were here her fellow Familia member wouldn't be able to handle it. She needed a Servant, something able to fight off a deity, if only for a moment enough to escape.

Input Received. Queuing Summon Matrix.

"You're…" Hakuno forced herself back on her feet, stepping warily away. "You are not my goddess, Hestia is," She stated.

"For now, indeed she is," Artemis didn't deny Hakuno's statement. "But there are methods to transfer a Falna Blessing between deities, I will have Hestia's cooperation once you've seen the benefits in joining my Familia."

Hakuno's expression turned into a scowl, causing Artemis to blink in surprise at its raw intensity. The magus girl spoke, "I refuse, let me leave."

"No, you will not!" Artemis shouted at her, "You're mine, you will be mine, you're so much tied to me unlike anything before and I will keep you at my side," Her expression dimmed down to a discomforting smile. "Oh, I will have you at my side all the time."

The Digital Human didn't like that look at all. "I'm my own person, my choices are my own."

"Not in this world," The deity replied. "And not in a minute," She revealed an oddly shaped arrow, its tipped curved into a metaphysical heart piece.

Hakuno quickly raised her palm to use a Code Cast, but Artemis reacted with such haste it would be comparable to a Servant, the arrow released, and the young girl's sight could only watch it come right at her.

Summoning Matrix Activated.

A high-pitched sharp echoed, the sound of metal impacting against metal, Hakuno's eyes widened as a golden shield deflected away the incoming arrow, it was attached to large figure's whose ghostly skin gleamed in the nightly lunar light.

"Are you alright… Master?" It was a young masculine voice drew her attention away from the hulking figure. A slightly tannish-white skinned boy around her own age, garbed in dark gray leather, fur, and cloth garments stood next to her. A holster around his front carried a quiver attached on his back, likewise, there was a bow which's string wrapped over the boy. His hair had a dark brown hue, it was cut short, not even passing the ears, a concerned look decorated his face as he looked at her and Hakuno could spot a knife holstered in a waist holder.

What stood behind the boy, and therefore, before her, was the subject of Hakuno's shocked stupor as her attention returned that what rid the arrow.

It was a massive man with bulking muscle, his skin so exceedingly pale he looked like a ghost from a storybook, broken by red tattoo markings that trailed down the left-hand side of his back. He was bald, but Hakuno could see gray facial hair growing off from the sideburns and forming into a full beard. The hulking figure had a lone leather shoulder pad on his right that wrapped across his backside and the front, which left most of his upper body exposed. Finally, the man's lower body was covered by cloth and leather-skinned from an animal hide, cured and stitched into a belt, pants, and boots.

Also, cloth wrappings folded around his arms, with what looked to be iron chains fastened to them.

However, the most imposing part lay with the weaponry adorning this unknown figure. On the man's left was a golden shield that had recently dispersed Artemis' arrow away, while in his right hand firmly held a large well-crafted long axe that's steel glowed blue with mystical energy attached to a wooden pommel.

Then, twin blades crafted with hellish design, sharply contrasting the axe in every aspect, the metal looked cracked and worn, yet was woven together in a way that seemed impossible to create by mortal standards, attached to pommels that were intimately designed to improve the presence of the weapons, which the prior noted chains were attached too.

"Thank you," Hakuno responded to the boy's query. Her left hand stung with a burning feeling of pain right over the upper palm where the Command Seals reside, but she didn't see it to confirm the summoning of a Servant. The boy and man were both Heroic Spirits, her Servants, that had heeded her call.

"That's good," the boy said. "I'm… We're… Archer," He said. "Just call me Atreus, as for Father…"

"We'll have the discussion later," The hulking figure of the man stated, he had not changed his stance since the summoning, standing prepared against Artemis. At least, she knew this man to be the younger Servant's Father.

Hakuno Kishinami felt her magical reserves had plummeted to a low point, likely due to the summoning having consumed a significant portion of her od. She glanced towards Artemis, the mental compulsion from before hadn't returned when she did.

Artemis warily had her bow aimed at the man, an arrow already nocked in the string, "I do not know what spell brought you here, or who you are man, but do not stand between myself and that girl."

"I'm not yours," Hakuno retorted.

"You should step away, Artemis," He spoke with a clear tone of suppressed anger, simmering just under the surface, this large man did not approve of the goddess' actions.

The Goddess of the Hunt frowned, her gaze settled on the newly arrived Servant, "You hold an air of familiarity, perhaps some forgotten aspect of my pantheon, but that will not aid you in dissuading my choice," She pulled on the bowstring. "Hakuno Kishinami belongs to me."

Atreus argued, "We can't do that, she doesn't want to be with you."

"Stand back, boy," His Father responded, the man's gaze turned to Artemis. "You do not want this, this desire, it will consume you and her until there is nothing."

"I do not have to believe the words of a man," Artemis refuted. "I will obtain what I wish!" She released a volley of arrows.

"Atreus, watch around you!" The Father Heroic Spirit roared as he brought his shield forward, defending against the attack easily and with a heave of his right arm threw the axe at Artemis. The goddess dodged the incoming weapon which whisked past her with a trail of frost behind it.

The man charged at her with his right hand raised and Hakuno noted the thrown weapon hastily switch direction back towards him like a returning weapon, Artemis must have heard the approaching axe as she made a sharp turn that saved her at the last second. He grabbed his weapon with both hands, the shield from earlier folding together into a gadget on his left arm and the Servant heaved the axe horizontally with great strength.

Artemis bent backward and the axe sailed over her, she backpedaled and nearly kicked the Heroic Spirit by the neck, but he avoided it narrowly. He continued with his assault by swinging his weapon in multiple angles, but the goddess was quick on her feet and had reflexes that matched her opponent's sheer strength.

"Hakuno, move!" Atreus pushed Hakuno towards the forest, knocking her out of the stupor from watching the Servant's Father.

She noticed what he meant, the other Familia Members of Artemis were starting to encircle them. If they were successful, then Hakuno and her Servants wouldn't be able to escape until all enemies were defeated. Which could lead to injuries as the battle continued on, and with her current od reserves, she wouldn't last in a prolonged battle.

Archer had the right idea, retreat and fight another day.

An arrow flew and Atreus dodge rolled out of the way by instinct, it hit the rock right at Hakuno's feet. She turned to see Archer already equip his bow and arrow for combat, releasing a string and sending his own ammunition soaring with astounding precision and speed, the arrowhead piercing into one of the girl's shoulder and the kinetic force behind it made her lose her footing, falling on her backside.

Hakuno Kishinami ran for the treeline, ignoring the pain that coursed through her body from earlier incidents, she stopped abruptly upon reaching it and glanced back to see her Servants. Atreus avoided arrows with experienced ease, untouched on the battlefield, while also replying to many attacks with his own which a majority hit their marks with crippling accuracy… Preventing the Familia Members from further attacking, not killing them.

His Father, on the other hand, fought with a ferociousness and wisdom carved from someone with years upon years in combat. A restrained anger, but it served as a tool to control his swings and allow him moments to plan and enact accordingly.

As someone who's seen many Heroic Spirits over the course of the Moon Cell Holy Grail War, Hakuno Kishinami could identify such traits.

Then, his fist slammed into the side of the mansion, it went through the wall as if it wasn't even there. He grabbed the pillar with both hands and tore it from its foundation, then proceeded to swing it like a bat. The scope of the attack prevented Artemis from weaving her way out of it, striking her dead on and sending her flying into the building.

"He's strong…" Hakuno trailed off in amazement, it was always impressive to see the capabilities of Heroic Spirits.

He discarded the pillar and retrieved his axe with a wave of his hand, it returned to him from being embedded in nearby tree trunk like a boomerang, the weapon's pommel coming back to his hand. The man then burst into to a sprint towards Archer's direction, his hands grabbed the duel blades on his back, they wreathed with crimson flames at his touch, ready to do their wielder's bidding. He spun one of the blades with its iron chain and thrust it forward in time it to pierce and hook a girl who had come up towards Atreus, she screamed in pain as she was pulled towards him, her hands went to separate the blade from her abdomen but only served to bloody them. He took back his blade from her body and punched her across the chest, sending the young woman hurling to the ground with a solid thud, unconscious in an instant.

The rest of the Artemis Familia paused their attacks right then and there as if shocked by the brutality, allowing Atreus and his Father to escape towards Hakuno without worry of attack. Hakuno Kishinami started to jog towards the forest, but then the man lifted her up as he rushed next to her and proceeded to carry her deeper into the forest with Archer right behind them.

Hakuno ideally wondered about him, she never had a father figure before, Dan Blackmore was more of a grandfather-like individual than a father. Though, perhaps her Servant's name was actually the word Father in the first place?

Time seemed to crawl at a slow pace, a quiet serenity only interrupted by the wind and the rustling of leaves blown by the breeze, they had been retreating for what seemed to be twenty minutes now.

"S-stop," Hakuno said, wanting to a halt, her dd reserves were strained, the summoning of the duo had taken a significant amount of magical energy. She needed to rest, and rushing headlong into the forest in the Servant's hold, while having escaped Artemis and her Familia, did nothing to aid her now new pressing concern.

"Father," Archer spoke, and the man stopped and placed her on a nearby fallen log, his grizzly face looking down on Hakuno, eyes examining her for a brief moment before deciding to observe the surroundings.

The girl looked to them while she rested and tilted her head in confusion, "What about my Familia's home?" Hakuno questioned. "We can head there."

"They will expect us there," The man replied.

Archer walked up to her, "We're at the outskirts of Orario," He said. "The… Moon Cell…?" He questioned the term. "It provided some information, if we can go deeper into the woods we'll come across a place that the Artemis Familia doesn't know."

"Monsters?" The magus girl asked.

"We can handle them," Archer replied, he then smiled. "Never had much time for an introduction, I'm Archer, my True Name is Atreus, it's a pleasure to meet you."

She smiled back, "I'm Hakuno Kishinami," The magus girl said and looked towards the older Servant. "...And?" She questioned.

"You will refer to me as Kratos," His tone of voice had a feeling in it, one she thought felt like he'd experienced a brief moment of memory from her reference to him.

She didn't wish to get on his bad side, even if he was her Servant.

"Alright," Hakuno said. "Kratos… Are you my Servant too?"

"It is what I am, but not who I will be," Kratos spoke.

He clearly didn't appreciate the word 'Servant'.

"Sorry, didn't mean any offense," Hakuno apologized, Kratos grunted in a nonchalant response. She continued, "Are you and Atreus a Heroic Spirit contracted with me?" She rephrased it.

Atreus responded, "I was the one who answered the summon," He said. "But Father arrived as well, we journey together and made our legend together."

"No," Kratos said. "It is not our legend, it is yours," He spoke to Atreus. "But I will be with you to its end. This is just another part of it."

"So you're both… Archer?" Hakuno questioned in confusion. "Or do you mean, Atreus, you are Archer, and Kratos is apart of your legend?"

"I think so," Atreus said, "Yeah, you might be right, Hakuno."

"Enough talk, you've rested enough," Kratos stood up, "Get up, we will not linger in one place too long." He shifted his weight, taking a step away and turning to begin traveling once more, the small echo of the chains chiming with his sharp movements.

Hakuno Kishinami took a deep breath, they'd only rested for a few short minutes. Her od reserves were low, but as long as she didn't have to use any Code Casts in excess, she should be alright until they find a suitable place to rest. Though, as Heroic Spirits, Archer, and by proxy, Kratos, didn't need to sustain themselves with nourishment, only Hakuno's magical energy.

But that served as a double-edged sword as Hakuno noted that her magical energy was not recovering at its previous rate, likely because a portion of it was constantly drained to supply the Servants. It was still slowly doing so, but it was minuscule and would require a lengthy amount of time without sleeping or eating.

If she slept, then her od would likely reach it's filled state. The magus was more tired than anything right now but would restrain herself from slumbering until they reached a safe haven or her Familia's home.

Still… Why was it so dangerous to return to Hestia and Bell?

Actually… Now that she thought about it, her Familia's home didn't have the same security measures as the Private Room back in the Moon Cell. So it could be attacked and destroyed by the Artemis Familia…

She hoped Hestia and Bell would be alright.

Atreus went up ahead of both Kratos and Hakuno, scouting a bit more with his bow gripped in both hands, no longer tied over his body. The young Servant took an abrupt stop before a river that winded deeper into the forest. Arteus glance around, before he pointed toward something, "Over here! There's an old rowboat"

"Is it water worthy?" Kratos questioned.

"Looks alright," The boy answered, "Big enough for all three of us, but I don't see a paddle."

Kratos reached his arms up to a large tree branch and snapped it off with little effort, then took his axe and cut it at certain places, creating a makeshift wooden paddle before sheathing the weapon on his back. The large Heroic Spirit carried it to a worn row boat which he glanced over for a moment before tossing the paddle in it and placing to hands on the boat's end, then pushing it into the riverside and heaving his body on it.

Atreus jumped in the boat without a word, like it was a natural occurrence, the rowboat shifted but remained floating on the surface.

The warrior looked to Hakuno, "Get in, girl."

She didn't jump on to the boat, instead, taking a large step over to it, her balance was good and she sat next to Atreus, who was across from his Father. Kratos took the makeshift paddle and pushed the entire rowboat away from the water's edge and onto the river's stream.

Anger… Denial… Frustration… These were emotions that the Goddess of the Hunt and Moon, Artemis, experienced in near unison after her complete humiliation at the hands of that male brute. Her mortal body was sore from the sheer strength behind those hits and if it wasn't for the laws placed upon the restriction of using one's divinity, she would have cast it upon Hakuno Kishinami so that the girl couldn't have possibly resisted her allure, and have the strength needed to destroy that pale ghost of a man.

Admittedly, Artemis had been underprepared for such a fierce battle. The two males had appeared out of nowhere in a display of light, but the brief vision showing a massive, floating cube over a lunar chimeric sea filled with ruins had spoken volumes that Hakuno was responsible for the act.

It had been a challenge… The Inheritor of the Moon would not be so easily taken… No, there will be a hunt for her soul.

But, for now, Artemis would nurse her Children's' injuries, the brute and his brat had harmed her girls, especially one of her eldest whose abdomen had been pierced and burned by those oddly familiar blades. She had yet even begun on why the weapons reminded her of her own pantheon, but they were still in the hands of that muscle-headed berserker.

"Lady Artemis," Her currently youngest member, Lia, spoke up, her shoulder bandaged and the wound treated from the arrow that had struck her during the battle. "Perhaps Hakuno really doesn't want to join…?"

"Do not think of such, Lia," Artemis replied sweetly. "Your upcoming little sister is just chained by those evil males, just like many of our Familia."

Lia nodded, "Men are really awful."

"Indeed, we'll have to tell Hakuno about it…" Artemis trailed off. "I believe I should write a letter to my dear Orion for some help."

"But she currently- I'm sorry, he's currently busy on that hunting trip you tasked her- him," Lia had to correct herself a few times, but it wasn't because she was mistaken.

Orion was a girl… But was Artemis' lover as well, and the Goddess addressed Orion in a masculine matter per Orion's request. It served to keep Orion's gender identity a secret as well.

"I'm sure he will be more than willing to put it on hold to help us… Persuade the Hestia Familia," Artemis smiled, but the gleam in her eye spoke of measures, not unlike her brother… Apollo.

Hakuno Kishinami found the boat ride to be very quiet, Atreus rarely spoke as he was busy filtering through the information likely granted to him by Moon Cell and Kratos didn't say much unless it was necessary. In fact, the warrior ignored Hakuno for the most part, but took an occasional glance away from Atreus and the river towards her, as if checking to make sure she remained on the boat. Not that The magus minded Kratos' silence, as she herself wasn't much of a conversationalist, though that was partly due to her lack of interacting with people than any desire to be left alone.

The Digital Human checked her left hand where her Command Seals, carrying three powerful Command Spells, lay. Hakuno thought she had consumed at least two in the Holy Grail War, but apparently, on her resummoning of a Servant, they had been replenished entirely.

Absently, Hakuno wondered if Command Spells would even work on Kratos, the warrior could be considered an aspect of Archer's legend and as such was tied to Atreus and not Hakuno, who Atreus was contracted with. But, it would likely function identically, not that she would ever use a Command Spell forcefully on her Servant or his Father.

The boat shook as Kratos used his strength to paddle into a natural docking location along the shoreline, the waterborne vehicle sliding onto a dirt ramp. He stood up, along with Atreus, and immediately left the boat, prompting Hakuno to follow suite as to not be left behind or scolded by Kratos.

He can be a bit scary, if by his sheer presence rather than killing intent like a Berserker.

But, any more thoughts were disrupted by the appearance of hostile predators.

"Wolves!" Atreus shouted in alarm, "Never seen wolves like that before," He commented afterward.

Hakuno Kishinami stood safely behind Kratos and Atreus, the animal group before them were indeed wolves, but of a strange sort. Likely they were actually monsters deriving from the Dungeon's creations but had populated the wilderness before Orario's construction. They had all the properties of wolves but stood one-hundred and twenty centimeters tall, nearly as large as an adult human, and certainly taller than herself. Also, bony protrusions like spikes came off their back shoulders and upper knees, there were about half a dozen of the creatures in total.

Her magic circuits flared with what little spare od reserves remained.

"Prepare yourself!" Kratos spoke as he drew forth his axe, blue runes glowed on the metal that encased the weapon's blade with ice.

"Nista!" Archer spoke an unknown language as an arrow flew from Atreus' bow, impacting against a wolf which was stunned as the arrowhead embedded into the hide.

Another wolf charged at Kratos recklessly, but the warrior's shield unfolded from its sheathed form and bashed the monster, disrupting its momentum and allowing Kratos to swing his axe, slicing through skin and flesh. He swung again in the opposite direction causing more damage by following through with a brief spin, both hands now gripped to the weapon as he completed his move striking down with a vertical finisher.

The oversized wolf's head was encased in ice before it was crushed to the ground and split into two, afterward its entire body burst apart into purple flakes and particles.

Hakuno had a doubt on whether or not they needed her help with this fight at all.

"Take this!" Atreus kicked the same wolf's jaw that he sniped earlier, leaped into the air and fired an arrow into the wolf's backside. The young Archer Servant landed on the other side, where he released a volley which pierced the monster's skin multiple times before it faded away into violet particles.

"Left side, girl!" Kratos called out as he threw his axe at another wolf, its entire body was frozen as an icicle.

She had been ready, battle experience gained from the Holy Grail War served as a preventative measure from being stuck in a stupor at her Servants' actions.

"Code Cast: Hack!" Hakuno shouted while having directed the spell towards a monster that tried to flank Atreus, causing it to buckle forward and skid along the ground with a whimper, entire body crackling with yellow digital electric arcs.

"Thanks, Hakuno!" Atreus said, charging at the wolf with a knife and leaping on its back, using the bony protrusions as leverage to balance himself and stab the skull with a well-crafted knife, killing it.

Kratos had already eliminated the wolf he threw the axe at, shattering the body with brute strength while it was frozen with a mighty kick. He recalled his axe to his hand as he took a sharp forty degrees turn and heaved it at another target, freezing the wolf in place. But he didn't rush in, rather drew forth the twin blades wreathed in flames and dropped them lower with the chains before thrusting them upward in a slicing movement, which severed a monster canine that had attempted to pounce him from above in two.

The warrior then spun one blade with its chain and then threw it at the final, frozen wolf, impaling it and bringing it over where he used the other blade to dissect its inner organs out through the torso, but a second after it vanished into particles, having taken to much damage.

He replaced the blades to his back and recalled the axe, doing the same.

"That was brutal…" Hakuno said; while Hakuno had seen acts of brutality in the Holy Grail War, it wasn't the same gore against enemy programs like with the monsters of this world, quite a stunning experience, but she wouldn't be in shock from something like this.

It still pales in comparison to what some of those enemy Heroic Spirits did.

Though this hardly the last time she would see something like this here, Kratos had done something similar to one of the Artemis Familia members earlier, though not as severe.

Hakuno Kishinami glanced around, just ahead she spotted a wooden cabin. While not well-kept, it wasn't as run down as she expected, so it could serve as a temporary resting place.

She was very tired.

"Can we rest here?" Hakuno questioned, it was best to ask her Servant… Servants…? It was still a confusing subject on how to address Kratos as a Servant or not, he admitted being one, but denied it at the same time.

"Hm," Kratos looked around, possibly inspecting the region. "Very well."

"I'm sure he'll stay up, I can too!" Atreus said. "I guess that's a benefit for being a Heroic Spirit now," It was looking more and more like this was the first time Atreus had ever been a Heroic Spirit.

Not that Hakuno minded in the least.

She walked forward and opened the cabin door, examining the interior decoration, whoever had been here before didn't bother taking their belongings or packing up their decorations. The place was dusty, dirty, and likely had a few bugs, but it wasn't too far off from the church floor conditions of the Hestia Familia's home.

It would take a bit of time, but she could crudely clean the place well enough to sleep in… But, she wasn't Caster and didn't have much experience in clean duty.

Her head hurt as the image of a fox girl smiled brightly at her.

"I'll help you out," Atreus offered, stepping inside to get to work.

"Thanks," Hakuno replied and began by grabbing a broom.

Huh… Wonder why Archer carried that small notebook around...

Atreus's Journal Entries

Hakuno Kishinami - She is our 'Master', or at least that's what the Moon Cell told us. Apparently, she's something called a Digital Human and became the Moon Cell's Ruler after winning the Holy Grail War, so doesn't that make her a queen? Hakuno doesn't seem to act like a queen, she actually is very quiet and respectful, not like any of the rulers where we come from. Father doesn't seem to mind her too much, I think he's reminded of something when he looks at her, maybe mother? But I can't see why.

Moon Cell - It's full name is 'Moon Cell Automaton' but that's too much of a mouthful. All I know so far is that it's an incredibly powerful device that's older than even the Earth and all the gods! It sees everything and records them, even better than Mimir! Somehow, though, it decided it needed a Ruler and Hakuno was chosen… Perhaps I can find out more about it from her later?

Code Casts - A special type of magic, or magecraft, that Hakuno uses. I don't know much about it, but Hakuno seems to be proficient in its use. I wonder how it compares to what Freya can do?

Artemis - She's a goddess that wanted Hakuno for herself and likely for bad reasons. She seemed to want to influence our 'Master' with magic, but Hakuno resisted it. Artemis is probably after us because we rescued Hakuno. Hopefully, we can avoid fighting her.

Dire Wolf - These are unique looking wolves and quite impressive, but I also know they aren't actually real wolves, but monsters born from the 'Dungeon'. They like to flank and pounce, but Father and I have plenty of experience in dealing with that.