Fate Final Order
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Well this sucks
Wait, that was an understatement of all time to sum up my current predicament.
This was totally, absolutely, completely terrible beyond human language could describes. The feeling of hopelessness, not being able to do anything was just beyond unbearable. All of this thanks to that motherfucker and his minions.
I remembered when I just defeated that demon God while he assumed a human form while pretty much was so close to dying. Goetia, the mad sentient magecraft created by King Solomon (I personally know him as Romani Archman), the Human Order Incineration Protocol. He was planning to recreate Earth to his liking, one where the very Concept of Death itself does not exist.
The plan was failed of course. I and Mashu rayshift to the final Singularity, the Grand Time Temple Solomon, to face Goetia (still assumed he was Solomon at the time). All in all, we got helps from every Heroic Spirits we met from every Singularities and Sub-singularities when facing Demon Gods Pillars. When we were facing Goetia himself, Mashu sacrificed herself to protect me from the light beam that incinerated the whole planet in the past , present and future.
And then he came, Roman later came and revealed that he was the real Solomon and used his first Noble Phantasm, something that even Goetia had no idea about…and completely erased himself from existence, which includes the Throne of Heroes. Close to dying , I built up some courage to myself to confront Goetia and finished him off with Mashu's Shield.
The time temple collapsed and I hurriedly ran towards to the rayshift point to get out. Goetia, appears again and this time, he became a human now. Claimed that he finally understood the meaning behind human life and tried to soil my victory. Even without the command seal, I beat him again with one hit and he seemingly dying in content. Good, let's just hope that was the last time we're gonna see him.
I almost reached the rayshift point and the path I was ran into was suddenly crumbling. Luckily, someone prevented me from falling. When I looked up, I couldn't hold my tears when I saw Mashu holding my hand firmly. I don't know how she was still alive after being disintegrated by the light beam, and frankly I don't give a fuck at the time. My always reliable Kouhai smiled at me as she pulled me up.
"Let's go home, Senpai."
She said those words to me in gentle loving tone that I might fall in love with her, even thought I'm also a girl myself. I was about to answer that, but I noticed the stone platform she was sitting started to crumble. Even if she pulled me up, even some nano seconds delay could leads us to our death that is pitch black of nothingness below.
I won't let it happen. I won't let it happened again. I won't let Mashu die again.
Without hesitation, I pushed my Kouhai further to the rayshift point. She widened her eyes in pure horror when I started to fall into the seemingly bottomless abyss. She tried to reach for me but the rayshift sequence started to pull her up instead, causing her to scream for my name. I just let out a grin at her as I issue my last order as a Master to my most trusted servant.
"Live, my servant. That is an order!"
And with that said, my vision dimmed into pitch blackness.
Time has passed, no idea how much, if there is any to begin with in this vast nothingness. I felt like I have been here for eternity. I can't see anything. I can't hear anything. I can't even feel anything, not even the feeling of starvation nor fatigue. My consciousness was awoke the whole time, aimlessly stuck in this blasted place. Only one thing that made this situation didn't feel so bad.
Mashu was still alive and I was able to protect her this time.
Time flies again, and this time I discovered something that would have made me jumped around like a monkey in pure joy if I could.
I started to feel again. I can feel now. I may still can't see or hear, but I definitely can feel again now. I felt like I was laying onto something soft. I don't know what it is, but one thing I was sure now.
That I'm alive.
I still have no idea what happened to me, but I was damn sure I'm alive. Perhaps waiting for time to pass again will give me a clue about my whereabouts.
And thus, I waited again. This time, I counted each second of it. Unfortunately, I lost count around the number eleven millions. After doing some math, I knew that at least time has passed for almost five months. I inwardly proud of myself that I was probably just made a world record or something. Too bad I cannot write it down with my name and brags it to the world.
Without realizing myself, I somehow found out that I was able to move now. This is a good news to me since with this, I was now sure that I still have a body. However, to say that my movement was very limited was a huge understatement. I was almost immobile. Seemingly that I was stuck in a very tight place and somehow survives after all this time.
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A sudden realization struck me like a speeding train.
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I…was inside of a Mother's womb…my mother's womb.
This explained the soft surface that surrounded me, which made me almost immobile and also the fact I can lives without food or water…at least not directly.
I was awed at the fact that Reincarnation is a real deal. I always thought that such thing like that only exist in some Fairy Tale or some books. Although with this new information, I have so many question now.
Based on what "information" I got from those Fairy Tale and some books, it doesn't guarantee that I will be reincarnated as human. There is a chance of me being reincarnated as an animal or plant. Even if I was lucky enough to be reincarnated as human, there is nothing to guarantee I will be reincarnated as a girl, I could be a boy for all I know. Which kind made me wonder, if this whole reincarnation thing was some sort of prank pulled by someone, why the hell they let me keep my consciousness as a girl if they're gonna put me into a boy body.
Time flies again, but this time, I didn't count it on in favor of planning my incoming live. This reincarnation stuff made me thinks about "What if". What if I was born as a boy, what if I was born as an animal or plant, what if I was born in a completely normal world, what if I was born in a similar world like in my previous life.
So many what if that it almost driving me crazy stuck in here. I barely held the urge to rip open my mother's stomach just so I can get some fresh air to calmed my mind.
Of all sudden, I felt my mother's womb shuddered as if it's about to explode.
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Oh shit. It's time already. My mother was about to give birth to me. She seemingly to be struggled pushing me out, so why don't I lent her a hand. I squirmed inside my mother's womb as I tried to move upward (from my perspective anyway) towards the "exit". My mother tried to push me out again and I continued helped her by squirming around.
"Come on, dear. I can see the head coming out."
"I'M TRYING."
Ah….it's been long time since the last time I heard something. I heard voices that most likely belongs to my parents. I heard the male voice which most likely was my father keeps encouraging my mother to push harder. I felt a pair of hands gently supported my half-born body and my mother screaming on the top of her lungs while cursing at my father.
"I'll break a bone or two of your bones after this is over dear, you hear me."
"yes, yes, dear. I hear you, you can beat me up after our baby is born."
If I had the capability to laugh right now, I would have rolling my ass of right now. I will definitely memorized their banters in my mind. This shit is just too funny to forget. I was snapped out of my thought when my mother let out a feral scream that made Elizabeth sounds like a lullaby song as she pushed me out of her completely.
I wanted to thanks to her, but sadly I can't right now. All I can do now is to cry.
And then I cry.
"Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhh, waaaaaaaaaahhhh, waaaaaaaaaaahhh."
"it's a girl dear."
Well, that's a relief. At least one of my concern has gone now. I don't need to pretend a male it seems. I don't think I can get rid of femininity anyway to be honest. I felt myself seemingly being washed by a warm water to get rid of the bloods all over my tiny fragile body.
"Let me see her, let me see her."
My mother was frantically screaming, most likely wanting to make sure I was okay. I felt myself being wrapped in some warm blanket and being handed to my mother who cradled me carefully as if I would break any second if she's not careful enough.
"Oh my, she is beautiful."
"Waaaaaahhhhhh, waaaaahhhhhh, waaaaaahhhhhh."
"There, there, you must be hungry…"
My mother gently pressed my face to her chest so she can breastfeed me. Now that she mentioned it, I'm suddenly feel hungry. So I did what a newly born baby should do, started sucking. It was….kinda strange and uncomfortable since I am technically a nineteen years old and I'm being breastfeeding by my mother. But hey, I need to do thins so I can grew up right.
"How is our little Ritsuka?"
I heard my father asked my mother….and he and mother seemingly had decided a name for me beforehand. Still, it was nice that I still retained my original name. Although I got a feeling that I won't be a "Fujimaru" anymore.
"She is perfect."
My mother sounds very happy after giving birth to a healthy baby.
I mean, who wouldn't.
August 17th 2008 11:26 A.M - Earth, Asia, Japan, Kuoh, City Park
"Alright everyone, for our art class today is free drawing. Sensei wants you to draw something and presents it to your parents. And since we're doing outdoor class today, you can seek for inspiration from drawing in this park. So, happy drawing."
"YES!"
Well, this felt so unreal.
I can't believe it I'm sitting right here as a 6th grader student….again. To be honest, I cannot even remember how it felt being an elementary student. Not only that, I'm technically an adult right now, it just so bizarre for me to be here, even though I had to do it. I mean, come on, I am a fucking thirty years old woman who was trapped inside of a eleven years old girl's body.
It has been eleven years since I was reborn and thankfully, things have gone as smooth as ice. No magic, no dead apostle, no some demon god who planned to incinerate planet, just a nice old normal life. Something that I hoped to last long until I passed away.
Being a baby again has its pros and cons too.
The pros were that I can basically get away for making troubles….most of the time anyway, there were few instances when my mother was utterly livid because I keeps breaking stuffs while I tried to regain my mobility. I soon realized that trying to walk around with my mother favorite mug at the age of six month was a really terrible idea.
The drawback was of course, my movement was very limited, especially at the first months after I was born. I had to wait for few weeks until I can see anything, few months until I can crawl myself, and another months until I can properly walk on my own. Of course the most annoying of being a baby when you had to pop and cannot go to bathroom on your own. There was one instance when I can't even sleep properly just because my dense of father cannot even tell that I need a new diaper.
Just thinking about it was enough to give me nightmare for a night.
Also as expected, while I may retained my first name (and also surprisingly my appearance as well), I am no longer a "Fujimaru" anymore. My family name is Hyodou, so that makes me Hyodou Ritsuka. Both my parents now are people who worked on the medical field. My father was a doctor while my mother was a nurse. This made me think that I perhaps should become a doctor. Yeah, Dr. Ritsuka sounds very cute right.
Beside, that man was a doctor too after all.
I also have a younger brother in this second life, something that I never had during my previous one.
Hyodou Issei.
He was born five years after my birth. He seems like a younger copy of my father to the point he was a little jealous because my mother spoiled Issei too much and rarely giving him attention. As I said earlier, I never had a younger sibling before so being the elder sibling is an entirely exciting experience. I swore to myself that I would protect him from any kind of danger. Both physically and mentally.
There was one time when I sent a drunk, yet perverted old man to hospital when he was about to corrupt Issei's innocent mind with his filthy way of life. My parents were lecturing me for hours, telling me that I shouldn't have done that. But when I told them about my reasoning, they suddenly changed as if they were a completely different person and took back everything they just said to me for hours.
Now, onto the free drawing Sensei assigned to us. Everyone seemingly looked around to find their drawing objects. I then was about to looks for inspiration as well but stopped when I saw onto my papers. I noticed that the papers had already been filled with some drawings. One of the drawing was a picture of me when I was first in my previous life, wearing the familiar Chaldea white Mystic Code, sitting ln a bench next to my best friend Mashu with a familiar form of Fou on my Kouhai lap.
There are also the others drawings as well.
The drawing of me in the forest along with Jeanne d'Arc, Saint George, Siegfried, Kiyohime, Elizabeth Bathory and Mashu, eating some roasted boars Siegfried kindly hunted for us during Orleans Singularity.
The drawing of me attending a feast inside of Nero Claudius castle during Septem Singularity.
The drawing of me along with Mashu tried to set up the sail on Francis Drake's Golden Hind while in the middle of a thunderstorm during Orkeanos Singularity. There were also the the crews and Francis Drake's herself, barking order from the haul.
The drawing of me and Mashu sitting in front of a fireplace inside of our hideout in London Singularity. Jekyl, Hans Christian Andersen, William Shakespear and also Mordred were seen inside of the drawing.
The drawing of me sitting under the moonlight with Florence Nightingale on my side just before the final battle in the America Singularity.
The drawing of me having a night feast provided by Tawara Touta with the villagers of Jerusalem and also the heroic spirits that appeared during Camelot Singularity.
And lastly, the drawing of me having a feast inside of Zigurat temple along with King Gilgamesh, Merlin, Medusa and Mashu. There were also other servants who appeared in Babylonia Singularity as well such as Ushiwakamaru, Benkei, and King Leonidas.
I stared at the drawings with critical eyes. Did I draw these pictures while lost in thought. Because there is no way any other person could have draw this except for me. I then noticed there is one more paper in my hand. I also noticed my other hand was holding a pencil with its point facing at the paper, meaning that I just finished drawing this.
I couldn't help, but shed some tears when I saw the picture I just sub-consciously just draw.
It was a picture of me, seemingly grope Mashu who looked embarrassed on her chest from the back with the laughing Da Vinci and Romani on the background.
I remember this. This scene happened just before we headed to the final Singularity to face Goetia.
A sudden realization struck at me like a speeding truck.
I…missed them. I missed them all.
"Oh my, what a lovely drawing you have here Ritsuka-chan."
I heard someone spoke from behind me. I recognized the voice to be my homeroom teacher. But I paid her no mind and continued to stare at the picture while tears started to flow harder than before.
Haruka-sensei was a nice person. She is also pretty nice looking too with her shoulder-length brown hair and a pair of matching eyes. She always helped her students and treated them like her own children. She had helped me a lot in the past too, mainly when I need to reach something high.
"And the drawing you just finished…" Haruka-sensei seemingly looked at the picture in my hand and paused for a moment before continued. "….Umm, it's still beautiful but…don't you think the drawing is a bit inappropriate Ritsuka-chan?" She must be referring the way I drew myself grope Mashu from behind.
But I didn't answer her as tears started to drip onto the picture, ruined it for a bit.
"Ritsuka-chan?"
I could hear her voice filled with worry when I wasn't answering. She then bend down to see my face...only to see it filled the tears that has been continuously flowing out of my eyes. Her face turned into the one that shocked.
"Ritsuka-chan, you're crying."
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No shit Sensei, anyone with eyes could have figured that out.
"Wait, what am I saying. Why are you crying? Who did this to you?"
Haruka-sensei asked…no, she outright demanded me to answer her. I know she was worried since as far as she knew, I was the type of person who never cry even when I was hurt or when the other children pulled a prank on me.
But this kind of issue was not something that can be solved with anyone helps, not even my parents can help me right now.
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I think I need some time alone. I hope she can get the message.
So I stood up, carelessly drop all my stuffs and started to walk away. I could hear Haruka-sensei gasped as she stood to her feet. I fastened my pace but she quickly caught up on me.
"Wait Ritsuka-chan? Where are you going?"
Haruka-sensei asked as she held my arm, preventing me from leaving. I'd love to explain it to her, but she will never ever understand the pain in my heart right now. So I tried to shake her off me but her grip seems too strong. I felt my patience was slowly fading bit by bit.
"Leave me alone."
I spoke…no, I threatened her with a low voice that made her flinched a bit, but her hand still holding me still. She seems set herself out to help me, but what I need right now was a little privacy.
"No until you tell me what happen. You're not the type who can cry so easily. I can help you Ritsuka-chan."
Something inside me was snapped out of control when she said those last words. I can feel my body was moving on its own and proceed to grab Haruka-sensei by her hand and with the newly founded inhuman strength, I slung her over my shoulder and slammed her onto the ground really hard that it made a loud noise.
The woman let out a shriek of surprise when pain ran through her body. She moaned in pain before looked up at me glaring at her.
"I said…Leave. me. alone."
I spoke to her with the tone that said obey before I started to leave. I noticed that everyone, be it my classmate or the people who visited this park today, were all staring at me. I ignored them as I continued marched my way out the park. Even I noticed the students who often pulled a prank on me moved out of my path.
August 17th 2008 11:39 A.M - Earth, Asia, Japan, Kuoh, City Park
"Ow…."
Haruka groaned as she lay on the ground after Ritsuka slammed her like in that wrestling show she watched on TV. Her entire body felt as if she had been squashed by a fully loaded container ship. Pains continued to run through her entire body whenever she tried to move.
"Haruka!"
The brunette heard a female voice called out for her. As she looked up, she saw a woman around her age with short black hair and black eyes ran towards her. The woman was her colleague, Maaya Ayako, the English teacher for Haruka's class. Haruka knew her since the day she was transferred to Kuoh Town and had been her closest friend since then.
"Are you alright?" Ayako asked her colleague in worry. But said colleague could only twitched her eyebrow in rather annoyance.
"My most brilliant student just pulled a smackdown on me. Oh yeah, I'm very much unharmed." Haruka replied, her voice dripped with sarcasms.
Ayako just sighed at her friend's antic. "Ha ha, Very funny." She drawled as she tried to help her to stand, only for Haruka to yelp in pain.
"Hey careful, Ritsuka-chan didn't pull out her punch back then. I feels like shit right now." Haruka complained as Ayako gently helped her up this time.
"You're very lucky that the students aren't nearby or I would have finished what Hyodou started." Ayako growled, not amused by Haruka foul language before she moved on to more important topic. "Anyway, what happened? I have seen her upset before, but she seems to be utterly livid on something now."
Haruka groaned as she tried to explain it to her colleague what happened. "Something made her cry, that never happened before. She is smart, strong, independent girl. For her to get emotional like that means that it must be something serious." Haruka rambled as she rubbed her sore body in pain.
Ayako just sighed at her friend. It's a common knowledge that Haruka did really fond of her students. Hyodou Ritsuka happened to be the one she likes the most. To be honest, Ayako did also think Ritsuka is just too good for elementary student. She had seen Ritsuka solved an equation could only be find in the collages, speaking 7 different languages to her when she wanted to test her English prowess, she was also excellent in sports too.
Ayako did hear Ritsuka dreamed to be a doctor and she was damn sure she could achieve it at young age if she wished to.
"Any idea what could it be?" Ayako inquired curiously.
"That's what I wants to know. And when I was about to ask her, she told me to leave her alone, but I didn't listen and then, you know what happened." Haruka rambled as she spotted the drawing Ritsuka just finished and picked it up. "I know damn sure it has something to do with this."
Ayako snatched the paper out of Haruka's grip and looked at the picture. She whistled in awe when she do so. "Who would have thought Ritsuka-chan is swinging that way." She noted as she impressed with the amount of details Ritsuka put into her drawing.
"I know right. She is like what, eleven years old. Does she even know what sex is." Haruka rambled as she stretched her body a bit.
"Knowing how clever she can be, I would be more surprised of she doesn't know it already." Ayako disagree, earning a nod of agreement from her colleague.
"Anyway, we should catch up with her. As much as I wants to say she can take care of herself, an eleven years old in the middle of big town like Kuoh alone is a terrible idea." Haruka spoke as she began to walked away.
"I'm coming with you…." Ayako spoke as she caught up with her friend. "….at least there would be someone who would find your dead body if Ritsuka-chan decides to kill you for not listening to her."
"Let her kill me, as long I got the answer I was looking for, she can snaps me in half for all I care."
August 17th 2008 11:40 A.M - Earth, Asia, Japan, Kuoh, ?
Okay, what the fuck Ritsuka.
Why the hell did you do that for.
Pulling out the wrestling move Quetzacoalt taught you during Babylonia Singularity on the person who had been nothing but care for you. I wonder if Haruka-sensei hates me now, cuz I'm damn sure I will hates myself if she do. I now gotta think for a proper apologize for her.
But I'm still not telling her my problem due my….troublesome circumstances.
Not watching where I go, I noticed myself being ended up in some barren alley. There was nothing here except for some fully loaded garbage cans. The smell was even worse than my father's socks. And being the daughter of doctors now, I tends to pay more attention to my health now.
"This sucks. Better get out from here."
I was about to turn around and left the terrible alley….
"Aaaaarrgh!"
….Until someone's scream made me froze on my spot. I slowly turned my head and looked deeper into the alley. The scream was come from the deepest spot of the alley. My rational side tells me to get the hell out of here or I will regret it for the rest of my life. But unfortunately, my curiosity beat rational thought to bloody pulp.
So I slowly walked deeper into the alleyway, taking few turns while on the way. Fucking awesome, this place looks like a labyrinth, I could have get lost in here if I hadn't remembered my way in here. Fortunately, I didn't need to walk for too long until I heard something.
(Clang) (Clang) (Sriiing)
I knew this sounds very well. I had heard this numerous times before during my previous life as Ritsuka Fujimaru.
The sounds of a battle.
I knew this because I had been in one before, like numerous times and on the bigger scale.
The sounds came from the next turn. My body went autopilot and sneaked up towards the corner and pressed my back onto the wall before peeked to where the sounds came from. I just hoped it was just some gang war or something similar and totally not related to anything supernatural.
Oh, how I wished to punch myself in the face for jinxed it.
Because what I saw was definitely anything supernatural. Some creatures having the body to that of human, but I can tell from black feather wings and the bat wings on their back that they weren't human. I don't know what they are. I have never seen any creatures like these before even in my previous life. Perhaps I will gains more info about them by observing the scene here.
Though I must be careful cuz I got the feeling that these people will kill any unwanted witnesses on the spot.
"Do you worms have any idea who you're dealing with."
The guy with the bat wings spoke to a dozen of feather winged creatures that surrounded him. He has a short light orange hair and tanned skin, wore some kind of ceremonial robe. Some glowing magic circle were floating above his palm.
"Some random devil who unfortunate enough to be caught within Grigori territory?"
One of the feather winged creature answered a bit jokingly, earning an agitated look from the bat winged creature who apparently was a devil.
"Random? I am Silvio Andromalius of Andromalius Clan. A high ranked pure-blood devil from the 72 pillars. When I returned to Underworld, Devil Faction will declares war on Grigori."
I narrowed my eyes when the devil gallantly introduced himself.
Andromalius
That is the name of one of the demons from Ars Goetia. I even met him during the battle in the Time Temple. He blocked my way after I and Mashu escape the Demon Gods Pillar Sabmock. He was about to kill us, but we were saved by Edmond Dantes and the other servants who appeared in the sub-singularity.
This kinda disturbs me since the 72 pillars are in this worlds too.
"Oh really? I thought most of your clan were extinct after the great war and civil war. Looks like there were not as few as we thought."
I raised an eyebrow when the creatures Andromalius said to be a Fallen Angel mention the wars. And it seems like most of the 72 pillars were gone. That is a good thing to me.
"Who cares. If we kill him now, less devil clan we should worry about."
Another Fallen Angel spoke to his friend. Not really care whether Silvio was a high ranked devil or just an ordinary one. Devil is a devil after all.
"Do your worst worms."
With Andromalius declaration, the fight ensues.
I observed the devil used some sort of fire spell to attack and it seems stronger than the like javelin that Fallen Angels used. Andromalius seeming doing just fine when he took out three Fallen Angels at once with his initial attack. He seems to have quality while the Fallen Angels have the quantity.
I watched Andromalius took out three more Fallen Angels, his quality seems to win against quantity. But I learned the hard way during Babylonia singularity that quality doesn't guarantee you victory.
It was proven when a light javelin stabbed his tights, causing him to scream and halted his movement for a second. But that delay was enough for the other Fallen Angels to rain him down with light javelins, stabbing the devil in many places, killing him in an instant.
"Man, this guy is so damn persistent."
"Yeah, the fucker almost toasted my face. My girlfriend will dump me for sure if that happen."
"I'm more concern on what Azazel-sama gonna say when he heard this mess."
"He won't. We're just going to say that we lost our men to a powerful stray devil. If he heard about us murdered the royalty one…."
"…."
"Let's head back to the base from now on."
I watched their banter and mentally wrote down some important parts of their conversation. This Azazel person seems to be an important person to the point that his own subordinates feared him. She also noticed the political tension between Devil and Fallen Angel.
Noticed they were about to leave, I was about to leave as well.
(Praaaaaaang)
"WHO'S THERE?!"
Shit.
Without further ado, I started to ran for my life. How the hell I made that rookie mistake. I already carefully watch my steps so I wouldn't be found out. Did Lancer E rank luck rubbed on me even in this new life. I feels like someone just pulled a prank on me.
Just a little more, I almost arrived to the nearest crowd just passing that turn and I will be saved…maybe.
Just when I was about to pass the last turn, I crashed onto something as hard as a brick wall. I was thrown to my butt and without a chance to register what happened, I was lifted by my collar of my uniform to face the Fallen Angel from before.
"Well, well, you seriously have some bad luck there little missy."
He spoke at me, his face was too close to my liking. I cannot just punch him since my eleven years old girl hand would only make the punch feels like a love tap. And I cannot just kicked him in the ball due out of my reach. So I did the only thing I could do to fight back right now.
I bites his hand really hard, drawing some bloods in the process. When he let go of me due to pain, I waste no time and tried to ran again.
However, the others Fallen Angel saw this and grabbed me by the back of my uniform and threw me backwards. I slammed onto the wall really hard that the force was strong enough to leave some crack on it. I slide down onto the ground and then just sat there with me leaning onto the wall.
"You damn brat, you will pay for that."
"What should we do to her?"
"What else? Dispose her of course. She probably eavesdropped to our conversation back then, it's too risky to let her alive now."
I listened to their conversation while I just sat there motionlessly. My body felt so weak, I tried to muster as much strength as I have, but no avail. I cannot move my hand…hell, I cannot even lifted my finger.
"Well, considering none of us know the memory alteration spell, I guess killing her is fine. We cannot afford this incident to be found out after all."
Is that it.
I finally get a second life and I'm going to die before I even reached the middle high school. Am I going to die even after I finally become an elder sibling. Am I going to die before I even fulfill my dream becoming a doctor.
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DON'T FUCK WITH ME!
I have faced a fearsome Draconic primordial Earth Goddess and a mad Demon Gods who can incinerated Planet in the past, present, future, simultaneously. There is no way I'm gonna die to a lousy Birds.
Power. I need power right now.
# #### #### ###### #### ### ####ed.
I snapped my eyes open when I heard something. I couldn't make of it what it said since the sentence as if was being censored by something.
# #### #### ###### Love ### Hatred.
I heard the sentence again, it was more clear this time. I got the words "Love" and Hatred.
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Why do I feels like I have heard this words before.
I #### #### ###### Love ### Hatred.
Yes I definitely had heard this before. This words were spoken by a tragic man who was betrayed by his trusted people. A tragic man who was thrown by his trusted people to a place equivalent to hell. A tragic man who later become the personification of vengeance.
I #### gone ###### Love and Hatred.
The words felt like it was trying to urge me to call out for something. The Embodiment of the ultimate mysteries of a hero that symbolizes one's existence through historical facts and anecdotes. More specifically, the name of the place where the tragic man was thrown into.
I have gone beyond Love and Hatred.
"Enfer Chateau d'If!"
As I finished calling out those words, the world around me seems to be frozen. The cars on the road, the birds on the sky, and the Fallen Angel who was about to kill me with his light javelin, it's as if the flow of time has been halted. Everything is stopped from moving.
This is a Noble Phantasm. A crystalized mysteries powerful armaments made using the imagination of humans as its core, as well as a weapon and ability owned by Heroic Spirits.
Specifically, this is the King of Cavern, Edmond Dantes Noble Phantasm.
On visual showing, this Noble Phantasm allows the users to move so fast as if time is not moving. But after using this Noble Phantasm to myself, it was actually much more terrifying than that.
In actuality, this Noble Phantasm allows the user to escape even abstract prison such as time and space. Time seemingly stopped, but that is not the case here. Time was still flowing as usual to normal perspective, but to me, time was halted from its track due the fact I no longer be bound to its rule.
To put it lightly, at this state, time has no more value than garbage to me. In theory, this Noble Phantams should allows me to travel through time as well.
But I can test out that theory another time. Right now, dealing with these birds was the priority.
I fired the black-blue lasers Edmond always used to attack his enemy at five Fallen Angels before moved out of the way of the last one who was about to kill me. I deactivated the Noble Phantasm and then, time seemingly to move again.
Five Fallen Angels were dead instantly by the lasers I fired at them while the last one was confused when he only stabbed the concrete wall with his javelin. He then turned around, only to find out I was standing in the middle of his fallen comrades.
"You! What did you do to my comrades?!" The last Fallen Angel demanded as he prepared another javelin of light in his hand.
I said nothing and just slowly walked towards him. Black-blue aura spread out my entire body, giving the ominous feeling through his spine. The Fallen Angel took a step back each time I approached him until he was backed against the wall behind him.
Feeling cornered, the Fallen Angel let out a primal cry as he threw his javelin to me, only to see it disappeared and before he knew it, something stabbed through his hand that caused him howled in pain while on his knee. He looked at his hand to find out the spear he just thrown at me had pierced through his own hand.
His other hand summoned another javelin and just like the previous one, the javelin suddenly pierced through his own hand before he registered what happened. He howled in pain again but I quickly shut him up by delivering a punch to his face.
"You're going to answer my question. Fails to comply will makes you suffers this…"
I walked towards his back while he was bounded by his own javelin, took a grip onto his left wing and with the newly found superhuman strength, I tore it off in one pull. He let out another painful scream as bloods flowing out off his back like a river.
"…Do you understand?"
"Y-Yes."
I was pleased a bit by this. And proceed with my first question.
"First, aside of the Devil and Grigori, how many faction exist out there? Name few of them and what they consists of."
There is a reason why I asked this. From what I can get from their previous conversation, it seems this world was in the verge of war between many supernatural factions. I suspected Devil and Grigori weren't the only factions exist out there.
He paused for a moment, probably trying to figure out why I ask such question. I took a grip onto his remain wing and give it a little pull to send the message to him. He seems to get it and answered my question.
"There are a lot of them, one mythology at least has one faction that represents them. There is Heaven consists of our counterpart, Angels. There is also Shinto Faction led by the Shinto trinity. And there are factions such as Greek, Norse, Hindu, Buddha and many more."
I widened my eyes in pure shock at his answer. If what he said is the truth, then the facts that many supernatural factions exist means that in this world, the Age of Gods hasn't come into conclusion.
Fan-fucking-tastic. This world is even worse than the previous one. I bet King Gilgamesh would be displeased at this news. He utterly despises Gods for taking away his only friend….and for being a spoiled brat which he specifically refers to Ishtar.
"My second question, what are the Great War and the Civil War you fools talked about earlier?"
If I wanted to protect anyone dear to me in this blasted world, I needs to familiarize myself with this world's history. Those two wars they mentioned earlier might serves as a good starts.
"The Great War happened thousand of years ago between the Devils, Heaven and Grigori. The devils were under the leadership of the Four Satans, the Heaven was led by the Biblical God while Grigori led by our leader Azazel. War ended in stalemate hundred of years ago with the Devil lost their leaders and the majority of their clans. Heaven and Grigori also lost most of their forces as well, but not as bad as Devil."
I listened really carefully about what he just said. Based on what he said, it seems like Devil is the loser in that war. Their leaders are dead, most of their kind are extinct, that sound like a great loss alright. Unlike the Heaven and Grigori sides who still have their leader at the very least.
Wait, if their leaders were dead, I don't think they will let the power vacuum for so long. The new leaders must have been chosen then.
"Who are the current Satan?"
"Huh? Why would you want to know that?" I frowned at his reply and proceed to give him another "message" to stop asking questions. "Ow ow ow, fine fine, I will keep my mouth shut." I then loosen up the grip on his wing after he understand his predicament.
"The current Satan are Sirzech Luficer from Gremory Clan, Serafall Leviathan from Sitri Clan, Ajuka Beelzebub from Astaroth Clan, and Falbium Asmodeus from the Glasya-Labolas Clan."
I raised an eyebrow when the Fallen Angel mentioned their name alongside with the Clan name. That could only means one thing.
"They aren't not the direct descendants of the original four I assume. And if my hunch is correct, the true descendant wanted to continue the war but was opposed by the current Satan and their supporters, that is the Civil War you talked about earlier and the true descendant lost."
The Fallen Angel looked at me with the face of amazement. "Wow, for a mere brat, you're pretty clever to put two and two together." He spoke again but quickly shut his mouth when he saw my expression.
"My last question and we're done here." I heard him mumbling "Thanks god, finally." as he seems to wait patiently for my question. I also needs to wrap this up since I have been wasting my time more than to my liking. "Last question, are you a higher rank Fallen Angel or just a foot soldier?"
"Um, I'm just a foot soldier. Why do you ask?" That question took him off guard for a second but he answered anyway. I just gave him a blank look as I ignited my hand in black flame, sudden realization hit him like a truck.
"That's a relief. No one is going to miss you then."
"W-w-w-wait hold on, please wa-GYAAAAAH!"
He begged for his life but I didn't listen as I lite his body in the black flames that slowly eat away his entire body before it disappeared, leaves nothing left, not even ashes.
The flame was another of Edmond Dantes Noble Phantasm.
The Monte Cristo Mythologie.
Edmond Dantes nature as the incarnation of vengeance, materialized as his body and as a Noble Phantasm. Said to have been tied to the 14 relics Edmond Dantes founded during his lifetime, it has burned a magic crest and circuits into his body and soul, a power equals to that of the Age of Gods, that allows him to materialized his magical energy as poisonous flames that burn the very soul of his victim.
I stared at the remaining five corpses of Fallen Angel and decided to get rid the bodies by burning them with Edmond's flames again. Grigori may somehow will track this mess back to me, so I don't want to take any chances.
I really despised taking life of others, it always leaves a terrible taste in my mouth, even when I killed Goetia in the Time Temple. But this is necessary to take in order to survive and protect my family in this even crazier world.
After making sure nothing is left behind, I then left the alleyway and headed back towards the park to regroup with my groups. My mind wandered elsewhere about what should I do next. I may have awaken some neat power that allows me to use a Noble Phantasm, but it would be near useless against so many threats out there. I'm gonna need some allies to fight alongside with me, a lot of them to counter many different threats. Not only that, I need to hone my new power and raised some resources as well.
Looks like my schedule will be twice as tight from now on.
To be continued
Afterword: I'm so excited about this story. Ever since I played Fate Grand Order, this story is already within my mind for so long. So yeah, that's the premise of this story. As you have noticed, I'm using the female Ritsuka in this story (just like my avatar in the game). Gudao is just too bland and is just your generic shounen protagonist that doesn't appeal me at all (Even Shirou has more interesting design). And as you have noticed, I will be using the first person PoV when Ritsuka is around and third person PoV when she isn't.
Any kinds reviews are most welcomed here and if you're interested in becoming my friend in the game. Just tell me, I will give you my id number. (I'm a F2P player so don't expect full SSR supports okay. I only have 7 in my 8 months of playing the game).