Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC bla bla and bla.

"Talking." = Normal talk.

'Why are we still here?' = Thinking.

Sooo… after a friend of mine recommended fate go, and, four months later, here we are.

Awkwardness aside, let me explain what you will be getting from this fic.

Protagonist will be my OC, of course, Alexander, which you can get info, how he looks, etc. about him from my profile.

Alexander(OC) is a Friend-Insert, He personally told me that Jeanne is his waifu, unsurprisingly, mine as well. So there is a chance for single or double pairing only, most likely a small harem, (if there is enough requests, I might even do a mass harem.) it's all up to you.

This is an M-rated fanfic, for all sorts of reasons, mainly the lemons, dark humor (fite me if you think dark humor isn't the greatest there is.) and among other dark stuff that may or may not disgust you, although I will keep things somewhat light-hearted, I don't like adding too much drama.

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And with that said. Enjoy the Story!

Alexander POV

The Abyss.

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"…Character Creation, huh…"

I scratch my chin as I examined my options; I'm currently in a pitch black room... Space? There is nothing around me, I can't even feel the 'ground' I'm currently standing, 'this is my home.

"Okay, I will go with my original looks…white hair, 5.9 foot height, and... right… gender, male, of course…" after that, another prompt shows up.

"Please select the type of your mortality."

Hmm… I'm going to be 20 years old, and uhh... Let's go with only the eternal youth, yes. I have a feeling it is necessary to avoid some of that obvious drama when I ultimately decide to romance a servant, and I don't want to worry about my age any time soon, I can still get killed though. Yippee!

"Select Abilities… Unlimited Stamina… And; Master of Lockpick… Hmm, I think that's it..." I press okay and move on, also yes, first one is pretty obvious, its a must to have for quality lemons, other ability is… Well, lets just say that its a surprise tool that might help us later. (read: I'm going to forget about it in a few chapters.)

Okay, now that basic settings are configured, it is time put in the 'fate' stats, well, keep in mind that this isn't one of those glorious gamer fics, I will try to refrain from adding any confusing numbers, except the ones like, I dunno, that random servant having EX ranked NP, or something.

I will be a 'slightly' above average Joe when it comes to athletics, my circuits will be very high quality, also have enough of them to easily hold a contract with… 20? No; too much, how about… Eight… No, how about six, yes, six 5-star servants? Good point to start right? And abnormally big Prana & Od reserve(s) and fast regeneration, most of my spells will cost me a lot to cast them.

As far as my affinity goes, I will be most proficient in healing and buffing, although that doesn't mean I can't get better at other things, with practice of course, and whole lot of trial and errors.

I will not need to chant or do anime call outs to cast my spells, because I hate chanting and frankly find it stupid, except Command Seals, of course.

Also, mind you, it isn't going to be 'authentic' as one might call it, I.e with runes or Mystic Codes. My magic is something much more potent. Versatile, amazing, all around awesome.

Hopefully not OP. But I'm sure writer can do something about that.

"And done, now…" I press save, and move on to the next prompt.

"Choose your starting kit."

I'll go with the regular ol' Fantasy Roleplayer set, with essential stuff such as portable anvil and forge, a multi-tool workbench etc. And done, Next.

"Do you want a pre-existent family?"

Hmm, I could have fem!Ritsuka (Gudako), as a sister-cousin slash sister-daughter or something, and keep it in the family, wink* but…

Y'know what? Let's just say no and instead replace her with myself… And done. No known family. The usual overused orphan background, 'this is what I have.

"Choose your name."

My name will be Alexander Tormond… That surname is there to fill the blanks. No other significance.

Oh, right! You probably asking yourself; 'What the hell did I just read?' or something right? Look, I normally skip this part, but decided not to this time, all I'm going to say is…

This isn't some VR bullshit where I will suddenly wake up half dead half in comatose.

I repeat, this isn't some VR bullshit. Nor there is any fucked up weird dramatic plot twist in any shape or form, nor did the truck-kun plowed my body and some random unicorn decided to save my soul and reincarnate me into this, you see and read what you get, Okay? This is very important for you to understand. If you are still confused, you can check writer's profile, there is plenty of info about me. I will never mention (maybe a reference here and there) or explain my 'true' backstory, or how exactly did I end up here, because that's up to you, reader, to imagine what's what. Interpret the 'true' backstory to your own will. Badump tus.

Hmm, lets see... You could say that Zelretch with his Kaleidoscope got involved and threw the random guy #54 (aka, the little ol' me.) at this story because of some unknown reason, but no, I'd say good thinking and praise you, that seems like a decent plot to work with, either way, he will be around, considering he is such a meme. Poking his nosy posy nose around where it certainly doesn't belong.

Well, now that I'm here, he isn't the only immortal guy who does things on a whim, just for more or less his own amusement. In a nutshell, that is what I am. But on a much, much more grander scale.

Anyway. Now that my character is ready and I made several things clear, let's skedaddle.

...

"Base sequence: human genome confirmed…" A voice announced as I came back to my senses,

"Alignment: #4$+!-1-%%$#." The voices become unintelligible for a second. Before continuing on like nothing happened.

"Welcome to the data center for the future of humankind. This is the security Organization for the preservation of humanity, Chaldea."

"Fingerprint, voice print, and DNA authentication cleared. Magical Circuit assessment is complete."

…Can we just skip this part? Thanks. But I'll go through it just in case if there is anything that writer put his grubby little hands on it.

Darn Skippy!~

...

I walk along the hallways of Chaldea, armed with a layout-map, I have my brief-case in my hand (my starting kit), I'm currently wearing a black ushanka, although it doesn't go very well with the default Candidate clothing they forced me to wear.

Anyway-

"Fou!" suddenly a flying white-furred creature jumps on my face, I move to grab the little fur-ball, but no avail, because Fou dodges my attempt.

"Fou! Fou!"

He starts to lick my face, I moved my head back, I grunt as I threw a feint attack, only to change it into a tackle-

With it, I successfully manage to capture Fou, and proceed to pet him senseless.

"Uh, he seems to like you Senpai, that's surprising." Ah, the reliable Kouhai with the… the… pink hair? Light pink hair? Light purple hair? Pale purple hair? God damnit, I miss the good ol' days when the hair colors were much more simpler.

"Uh... Who are you?" I have to make it sound like I don't know her, also I don't plan on revealing anything, nor try to change stuff from the get go, so let's stick to the Canon for a while. (remember this line of thought.)

"Who? Me?" She cutely looks around, blinking; before looking down, damn, that glasses look good on her, her pale purple eyes… This adorableness should be illegal let me tell you.

I sigh and put the fur-ball down on to the ground, but he just jumps on my shoulder, so I basically wasted both my time and inexhaustible energy doing that.

"Fou!" Fou glares at me, I look at him with a blank look.

"Am I really that interesting?" after an inner turmoil of sorts, she meekly speaks up.

"Yes?" I said with a half grin, and a bit of confusion.

"I never really had a chance to use my name, I'm afraid that I won't leave a good first impression…" She stresses while shaking her head.

"Anyway Senpai, can I ask you a question?"

"You didn't tell me your name, but okay…" I say under my breath, and raise an eyebrow, she is… She is very eccentric, isn't she? I should probably tell my name first, but I strangely feel… Stubborn... She must say her name first. It sounds weird, but that's how I feel.

I actually have a character and feelings here you know? Unlike many other fanfics all over the place. I compute emotions and shit. Ya feel me?

"Why were you laying here Senpai?"

"…Must have passed out." I shrug indifferently.

"I see-" She tries to reply something, but Fou interrupts her with a cry.

"Kyao!"

"…I completely forgot. I still haven't introduced you yet, have I, Fou?" I raise my hand to stop her.

"Hold up, you didn't introduce yourself either." My words cause her to sweet drop.

"R-Right, I'm Mashu Kyrielight, and this squirrel-like creature is Fou, sorry for that, Senpai." She nervously rubs her left wrist.

"Don't worry about it. I'm Alexander Tormond, nice to meet you Mashu." I extent my hand for a hand shake.

"Fou!, Mykiou!" Fou jumps away from my shoulder and dashes away, Mashu shakes my hand after extending hers a bit nervously, her small hand fits perfectly with my larger one.

"Oh, He ran off somewhere again." she releases my hand and looks at the direction Fou fled.

"Energetic little feller." I commented.

"Yeah, normally he doesn't go near anyone aside from me, he seems to like you, Senpai." Mashu replied, her nervous attitude seem to disappear each passing second.

"Congrats. Now you shall be the second caretaker of Fou in Chaldea." She smiles at me.

Footsteps could be heard as a man, dressed in (almost) all green, reminds me of a leprechaun, that weird 17th-19th hair style that noble men used to wear with a wig…

Yeah… Ugh, fashion sense, am I right? Gotta hide those receding hairlines, wink.

"Ah, there you are Mashu, you shouldn't wander around without permission." He speaks with a confident, 'I totally won't stab you in the back.' tone, also he does that weird squinting eyes you see in a typical anime.

…Here is the thing, right? There are three things in the world that you should never, never never ever, trust…

A Pharaoh, a leprechaun and… Windows XP, best take this to your grave, because if you do the mistake of trusting neither one of these, you are bound to get a golden knife stuck in your back, or an unexpected blue screen o' death that suddenly deletes every single data in your hard drives, both ends are equally scary, right?

"Oh, someone is with you… Hmm.." he somehow narrows his closed eyes at me, before flashing a knowing smile.

"Ah, the last minute addition magi from the Clock Tower right? I'm Lev Laniur, one of the technicians employed here." He holds out his hand.

But however, I don't do the same. Honestly, you'd feel a little weirded out if someone called out pretty much anything there is to know about you, how the living fuck did he managed to deduce me? With just a mere glance? Also yes, I do have a 'backstory' for plot development. Nothing more. it may or may not play a role, I don't know. It might not even get mentioned never again after this particular scene. Who knows? Its up to writer.

"I'm Alexander." I say curtly, ignoring his extended hand. Holding back a disgusted cringe.

He frowns deeply for a second.

"Alexander… I don't know what is so special about you, 48th candidate, but I hear that you climbed the ranks within the Clock Tower quite quickly, despite your… Lowborn status." His expression turns back to normal, though he is clearly suspicious of me... Just like I wanted, Demon, Ouch, by the way, hits right where it hurts… Not! Hah, I don't even offer a response.

"Director's orientation is about to start. You should hurry; she'll blow up on you if you are late to that." Lev said, he opens his eyes for a half of second, before closing them once more, giving me a glimpse of his... unique rapist eyes, so to speak…

Oof, not even trying to hide things, are you? Fucking arrogant demonic bastard… I shake my head after narrowing my eyes in suspicion, the poor Kouhai of mine looks on confusingly, feeling the tension in the air, but she can't tell what's up.

Whilst we were glaring to each other, Mashu meekly called out to me.

"Orientation is in the Central Command Room, I can lead you there, if you want Senpai." I look away from the leprechaun, and smile at Mashu.

"I'd love that."

She mirrors my smile.

Ignoring the look I'm getting from the green MacStabby 'Green' Backstabbingson of the top 10 anime betrayals, I say;

"After putting my belongings to my room, sure." I nod, lifting my brief-case to show emphasis, and continue with;

"I certainly don't want Director to blow up on me." Fuck subtlety, am I right?

She wordlessly nods without losing her smile and walks away; I feel the suspicious looks that Lev sent to my back as I proceed to follow her.

…

"This is Central Command Room, Let's see... Your number is single digit Senpai, you're in the front row…" Mashu explained.

So this is the point I'm supposed to pass 'out', and get away scot-free from the explosion right? But what if I stay here? What will happen then? Will I die? Will I survive? Let's us find out what happens, eh? (Remember what he said about 800-900 words ago.)

I find my… position, right in front of Olga, whilst Mashu goes to stand in the corner, because she is you know... In team A, also she is technically a staff, considering what truly she is.

Lev is here too. Hm…

We locked eyes for a second (more or less considering his usual squinting eyes), full of passion and love, but alas, I said no. Pff!

That was sarcasm by the way, in case you don't get it.

"Now that we are all here, let's begin."

Olga Marie Animusomething, aka the Director, aka one of the most pathetic, pitiful, anime character I ever seen or witnessed, white hair, check, orange eye color, check. I sort of want to save her, so…

"Welcome to Special Organization Chaldea. I'm the director, Olga Marie Animusphere." Marie starts her speech, her voice sounds independent and strong, but that's just an illusion. Normally I wouldn't do this, but I changed my mind, I want to change and spice things up for you guys.

"You have been selected, or discovered from each nation for your rare talents." She continues on.

If… I do this…

I hold back the urge to grin, that could work…

I drone out the speech and cautiously clutch my hand, my irises starts to glow blue… Just for a full second.

"Holy shit…" I mutter under my breath, Lev done some work, there are explosives everywhere, especially around the control panel where Marie will use it to issue commands during the first mission, no wonder they couldn't find her body… Ugh, I wouldn't want to be a janitor here for damn sure.

This is very convenient intermediate analyze spell, it helps me find gunpowder, or any other explosive stuff, and certain mysterious brands of vodka for some reason.

"Do you have any questions?" Olga, still yet continues with her speech, I have some ample time to work with.

I stealthily slide my left hand into my pocket as it starts to glow faint blue, to avoid getting detected, I rewire the explosives around the control panel and where I would expect her to be during the explosion-

"-What are you doing?" Olga turned looked at me suspiciously as I slowly pulled my hand out, thank god she can't see my left side...

"Nothing, M'am." I try not to put any sarcasm in my words.

She narrows her eyes, as she examines me, before widening them as if she realized something.

"Candidate 48th? You are the rumored magus from the Clock Tower... Tch, Oh How I wish I was at least half blessed as you..." Olga whispered the last part, quiet enough for me to not hear it, but I enabled subtitles. So...

Sigh, She is not only pathetic, pitiful, but also envious? What a combo.

After that, she spared me a one last glance and continued her speech...

Well, moving on, if Marie survives, she survives, I gave her a chance. Mashu will... Ahem, survive anyway. She is still in that corner; her eyes still haven't left my figure, watching me silently, can't really tell if she saw what I did, but oh well, that took a lot out of me. I barely kept myself from breathing heavily as my Prana levels go down. It will regen real quick though.

"Good, if there are no further questions, then-" Olga, goes on and on.

After another five minutes of Marie explaining random stuff about rayshifting that none of us really cares… We finally come to the part where we go enter our coffins, for some of us, quite literally…

Before I enter my designated coffin, I rewire the explosives nearby so that I won't explode.

After that, I wait with the bathed breath, anticipation running through my veins…

-I hold my ears as explosions went off, alarm starts to ring…

"Emergency, Emergency! A fire has broken out in the Central Power Station and the Central Command Room-"

The announcement went off as I kicked my coffin open, after pumping Prana into it; aka Reinforcement, otherwise I don't think I can break this shit with my feeble fleshy leg.

"Cough* Fucking carbon dioxide…" I look around. There is fire, the sphere is on fire (no, it isn't), everything but me; is on fire. With fire…

-Moving on, I immediately start to search for Mashu.

"Central Area's containment wall will activate in 90 seconds. All staff must evacuate from Gate 2 at once."

...

"Mashu!" I locate her by the pink… Light-pink hair of hers, pale purple? Fuck, I shake my head and run towards her, there is a debris is right on top of her, threatening to flatten my cute Kouhai… if it weren't for her coffin of course, because it created a life triangle, saving her from... y'know.. Turning into a pancake?

I grab her shoulder, carefully and ever so gently, pull her towards me.

"S-Senpai… Please save yourself…" She weakly whispers, as I manage to pull her out of there, and hold her in my hands.

"Shush... I got you." Her glasses must've fallen, a trail of blood trickling down her head.

"Senpai…" Mashu weakly clutches my shirt.

"Generator operation stopped. Power level critical."

Sigh...

"Switching to the backup generator, error. Please make the switch manually."

Roman isn't here, hm… I'm pretty sure he would first check this place then ran off right? Something really did change here. I wonder what changed Solomon… I wonder what changed… Probably because writer didn't want to copy paste too hard from the actual Canon. Writer and his insufferable pride… I like it though, a change of pace is always good.

"Central Area's containment wall will activate in 40 seconds. All staff must evacuate from Gate 2 at once."

Once more announcement goes off, but I refuse to let her go.

"Senpai-" Mashu coughs,

"-Leave me, There is still time for you to escape." She looks up to me.

…This is a must, Matthew, this is a must…

"Ah…"

"Warning all observation staff. Chaldeas' state has changed."

There she comes.

"Now rewriting Sheba's near-future prediction data."

Anytime now.

"Unable to detect the existence of mankind. 100 years in the near-future on Earth."

C'mon…

"Unable to confirm human survivors. Unable to guarantee mankind's future."

Badump, Badump.

"Chaldeas… has turned bright red… No never mind, that-" Mashu speaks, with clear pain.

"Central Area, sealed. 180 seconds till internal containment procedure."

"…We can't get out now that… They shut off the area, S-Senpai…" Mashu said, weak and pained, probably about to pass out from blood loss.

I wanna heal her so bad, but... She needs to be a success. For you and me both.

I just hug her lightly.

"Everything is going to be fine." I said, my voice tone is soothing. Like a melody.

She forces a smile.

"Coffin Vitals: Masters. Baseline not reached."

Okay, once more countdown begins.

"Scanning for potential Master;"

Huh, I think that's a different line, Why?

"Potential Master Found; Candidate No. 48, Alexander Tormond, reset as Master."

Sigh, these announcements… On a side note, I will 'save' Mash by my own means, a different way that will hopefully surprise ya. And hopefully with no cheating.

"Unsummon Program, start. Spiritron Conversion, start."

"…Um…Sen…pai?" her voice is so weak, so fragile, I may be cold, but not that cold, so, I started to feel a little bad, but this is some necessary evil mate.

But… Gods dang it, I get attached way too easily, don't I? But that's perfectly fine. I am me. Me is I.

Adorable and cute things are my kryptonite. Probably yours too. And that's perfectly fine. No need for a change.

"Would you mind… Holding my hand?" I wordlessly answer by grabbing her left hand that has been holding onto my shirt.

"Rayshift starting in three." This reminds me of a rocket launch in NASA. To be honest with you, I half expected a group of scientists walking around with clipboards in their hands somewhere in the background.

"Two."

"One."

Prepare for insertion, crap, now I wanna play some siege. Play some ranked with my bae valk and IQ, get MVP all day everyday.

"All procedures clear. First Order, commencing operation." Basically reader, I got sucked in to some weird black hole slash worm-hole thing that you commonly see in a space sci-fi setting slash story. Makes sense right? Herr' we go!

…

I come to my senses as I open my eyes; a perpetually burning and utterly destroyed city comes into my view as I lay there. The smoke and ashes makes me cough lightly for a second, before I ultimately decide to get up into a sitting position, Jesus, with the amount of smoke and soot in the air, I'm surprised that Ritsuka didn't get lung cancer just by breathing in this stinking garbage, Eternal Life does give me immunity to every last disease that exists, be it fiction be it real, so we are good on that department, only thing that can kill me is physically inflicted wounds.

Any mental attacks won't work on me because of my cheatsy willpower, I do not take shits from no one.

"Fou!"

Fou jumps on my face, making me smile as I pet him.

"Senpai… No… Master, are you okay?" I look to the side and see Mashu.

Fan-service Armor, check. Larger than thou shield slash table, check. Demi-servant that everyone likes cough* mostly because she costs 0 to have in your team.

Mash the Demi-Servant, Shielder Class.

"Yes… Cough* I'm fine, what about you? And what did you just called me?" I smile reassuringly as I continue to pet Fou, who basically melted in my hands with a whimper slash purr.

Mashu sighs in relief, and replies with;

"I'm currently at my optimal strength; I'll answer your second question later." She looks around for second, her eyes searching the perimeter.

"First, look around you, Senpai." Mashu said.

"It seems we are in a burning city… That doesn't burn out? Wait… Hold on, is that marble slab is... On fire?" I look at it with fascination. There is no kindling on top of it. Marble, by its lonesome; is on fire. You don't see that every day.

Suddenly, there is a shrill scream, and we were quickly surrounded by cloaked, blue eyed, wait, ghost type's right? Fuck; I remember having to farm these bitches for that ghost lantern thing. It isn't a fun experience when there isn't an event that you can abuse the shit out of. Although the 30 to 40 percent drop rate isn't that bad compared to the other… Silver items.

"Linguistic communication impossible. Identifying life-form as hostile." Mashu raises her shield, before looking at me.

"Master, your orders?" I instantly jump behind her, the cloaked fuckers doesn't wait for an invitation.

"…Smash them!" I raise my hand as it glows bright orange, Strength buff spell, I reckon with my current Prana pool, I can cast about ten good buff spells before my Prana reserves runs dangerously low, but with my absurd regeneration, it shouldn't take too long to fill it back up again, Also I barely hold myself back before I said something like; S'Mashu them! Pff, get it? I'm such an amazing jokester.

Sigh, just end me.

"-Huh?" she looks at herself for second, feeling light and powerful, ready to intercept them.

Three of them attack from the front, which she easily turns them into tiny little bones with a single shield bash, Skeletons? Okay never mind then.

Evil bones are a bitch to drop when you truly need them… Cough, anyway.

"Weaker than expected." Mashu commented as she turned to deal with other cloaked skeletons, I follow closely behind her. A fire ball form in my hand, I add adequate amount of Prana into it. Not to make necessarily more powerful, but to make it… Numerous instead.

"Mashu, crouch!" I order, which she listens without any complaints, raising her shield to cover her entire body.

I take cover behind her and wordlessly aim in their general direction, and throw the fireball, it splits into many smaller flame bullets, hitting four to six skeletons. Best AOE ish fire elemental attack I currently have. It shouldn't even make a 1 star servant blink though. I dunno, it might work as a distraction, at least? I thought that this wouldn't work on these skeletons, to be honest with ya.

"Master, wow…" Mashu looked on as the skeletons explode into tiny little pieces, but alas, there is too many of them for this to work… And I have too low of a Prana pool to spam this level of offensive spells left and right in a quick succession; though, that's the only one way to improve my Prana levels, sort of like capitalism, where you have to spend money to make money. Such is life.

"Mashu, these guys aren't really that powerful, but those sharp weapons won't mash- Nevermind! Just don't underestimate them." I deliberately stutter to stop myself before I can spout out another stupid pun, and switch for a buff, and give her a massive speed buff, this time, I put almost half of my remaining Prana into the spell, normally it would take time to cast this high quality magic, even for a pro, but since I picked buff type spells as my affinity, it comes to me quite easily.

"-Yes, master, your orders?" she blocks a javelin that otherwise would've taken my head off.

"Deal with them. With my power within you." My voice is resolute.

"Okay, Master!"

I watch with a mirthful look as Mashu, goes home on these bastards, her speed is beyond impressive, she doesn't let them turn around to face her, let alone counter-attack, her light-pink hair slash light-purple hair almost leaves a trail behind her, Art of work, really.

"Phew. It's finally over." Mashu walks over to me, a questioning look on her face, and asked;

"I didn't know you were this proficient in magic, Senpai." She looks impressed, if that small smile on her face says anything, also she looks fucking adorable when she looks up to me like that.

I smile and raise my hand up as it glows bright blue with Prana, I answer her.

"Aw, You are making me blush, if weren't for you, I most certainly would've died." I chuckle nervously, and look at my glowing hand, before glancing at her.

She wordlessly beams at me, feeling flattered, her head held high.

"You seem fine Senpai, that's relieving, I was concerned." Mashu said.

"So… What happened to you? You were wounded heavily…" I asked. Gotta still keep this 'a moving. Ya get me homie?

"I don't remember how exactly happened, Senpai, but it seems that I have survived by fusing with a Servant…" she looks down, sad.

As a very affectionate, and totally not rapist like a certain green wearing motherfucker, I instinctively move to comfort her, but a hologram appears and stops me in my tracks.

"-Right, I finally got through! Hello? This is Chaldea Command Room, Do you read me?" holographic Roman exclaims, making me flinch a little at the loudness of it.

"This is Mashu Kyrielight, and Alexander Tormond, we are with the expedition team, Rayshift was mostly successful." Mashu introduces us. Relaxing a bit.

"Oh, thank goodness at least somebody is alive, I'm glad; you are the only ones I could get in contact with." Roman sighs in relief… He takes a good look at Mashu.

"Mashu, what's up with that outfit? I didn't raise you to dress like that!" Roman said.

"I transformed into this, because I can't protect Senpai properly with the uniform." Mashu explains.

"What do you mean? Did you hit your head? Or was it that…" Roman asked, looking confused.

"Sigh* Please check my condition. I think you'll understand the situation better." Mashu sighs.

"…Whoah! Physical strength, Magical Circuits, Everything's improved! You're not so much a human, but-" Roman exclaims in surprise, again, I make an annoyed expression at the loud voice he keeps on using.

"So you become a servant after fusing with one?" I interject into the conversation.

"Yes, during the explosion servant's master died, so in exchange for dealing with this singularity, he offered me a contract. " Mashu continues to explain after nodding in affirmation.

"You are a Demi-Servant now? Wow…" Roman said, sounding impressed.

"Does this Heroic Spirit still have his consciousness?"

"No, he gave his combat abilities then vanished." Mashu replied to Roman's question.

"He never revealed his name, I have no clue on who exactly the Servant was." That sad look returned with a vengeance, can I hug her now?

"Nor what kind of Noble Phantasm I'm holding, at this point there's too much I don't know." She looks away, not meeting my gaze.

I couldn't take it anymore and envelop her body in a big, tight hug, making her gasp in surprise.

"S-Senpai…" Mashu looks up to me, a bright blush on her cheeks, her shield is inconvenient and currently poking my back, but oh well…

"...Everything is going to be fine, Okay?" I repeated, gotta stay confident for her.

…

"O-Okay, Senpai…" a few seconds later she responds, I pet the back of her head.

"You'll manage; I believe in you, I am your Master after all." Motivational speech and all that good stuff.

"Sniff* Sniff* My little girl is growing up…" Roman comments off screen, but ultimately gets ignored.

After a good few seconds, I release her, she nods with conviction.

"Okay, Master. I will protect you with everything I have." Her face is still bright red, but she sounds… Resolved, like as if she found the real reason why she existed… I kind of like that. Yes, you exist to protect me, and provide fan service, of course.

"Good." With that I turn to the holographic Roman.

"Explain." I sound more pissed off then I expected, not exactly angry, you don't wanna see me angry. Seriously. Just don't.

I quickly glance around fiery and hellish landscape that is the Fuyuki city.

Because It tends to end with the world on… Fire. Pff get it? Yeah, I should just stop with the bad puns. I know.

"Wait, I'm checking your vitals- WOAH! What the hell is this?" Roman exclaims, using his loudest voice yet.

"What?" I ask, getting more annoyed by the minute, wait hold on, now that I looked at his hologram, how the fuck does that work? You know what, never mind, I'm not gonna question it.

"I-I can't get a proper read on your vitals, all of your stats are… Bugged? I can't see them at all!"

"What do you mean Doctor Roman?" Mashu asks. Confused.

"Only thing that comes up is your name, and your vast amount of magical energy source, but all of your abilities are represented with three question marks…" is he…. Salivating? What the fuck?

"-Doctor, you're breaking up. 10 seconds until the connection is lost." Mashu said, bringing Roman back from his stupor. I'm just going to think that salivate thing as a glitch in the graphics alright? Phew.

"We'll continue this conversation on a later date, there is a strong leyline reading about 2 km from where you are, southeast, Mashu should be able to tell where it is." Roman said.

"Okay." I respond, looking at Mashu, that hug must've helped a lot, she seems a lot calmer now.

"Be careful, I'm trying my best to keep things together here as we-" Roman gets cut off as the connection goes offline.

…

"Well, that was… Interesting." I shrug with a smile.

"Master, your orders?" Mashu's voice sounds professional, although I can feel her nervousness, but that amount should be fine enough for now.

"Let's move." I said.

Mashu nods in response as Fou jumps on her shoulder.

"Fou!"

…

"Senpai, we are almost there." Mashu informs me, the trip was relatively peaceful, we ran our way here, rather than walk, the road had its bumps with many debris, utterly destroyed cars, chunks of buildings, etc, but with a little bit of parkour and free running, this ain't that much hard; Mashu looked astonished when I managed to keep up with her. Unlimited Stamina is the shit. It took us around 10 to 15 minutes. Since we also had several encounters with several hostile group of skeletons, and zombies.

"Stay on your toes; I sense a group of enemies ahead of us." I warn her. Magical creatures have quite the presence, even a newbie can sense this much. Also, by the way, my Prana pool has been fully regenerated half way through here. That's what? 7 ish minutes? Usually it would take a day of rest for a normal mage. Depending on how much he forced his limits.

"Yes, Master." She raises her shield as we walk; I'm one step behind her, following closely.

…

"This is it?" I looked around, after dealing with the group of skeletons and half-zombies, quite easily I might add, I didn't had to use too much Prana, but I did so anyway, just to improve the amount of Prana I can have, and overall get better at cast my various spells.

"Yes Senpai, I'm setting up the summoning circle now." She slams her shield onto the ground, and proceeds to do so.

Also, isn't this the point where we meet up with Marie? If she is not here, that means… She survived. Considering she has no aptitude for rayshifting, it would make sense, while I was theorizing; Mashu had already finished the summoning circle… Summoning chamber, can't wait to see what I'm going to summon. Heh. But let's refrain from that for now, I think we can beat Alter Altria.. Arturia… Artoria… Y'know what? NA version of the game refers to her as Altria, so that's what I'm going to do, fucking hell, I swear these translators…. Either way, if you know who Lancer turned Caster shows up, we can do this the non cheaty way. Or I'll have to summon Servant. I don't think Mashu can solo Alter Altria, even with my buffs.

"Ah! You guys managed to set up the Leyline? Good job!" holographic Roman said as he appeared.

"…Now what do we do Doctor?" Mashu meekly asked.

"You guys must find the reason why this city is an anomaly, we suspect that the Holy Grail is at play here, if it is, you must find and capture it at all cost." Roman explained.

"I wonder what happened here." I ask casually, I know what happened, you probably do too, its practically running through the motions at this point.

"In 2004, Fuyuki city witnessed a Holy Grail War, seven Servants, seven masters-" Roman basically turned into a walking Wikipedia.

"I know what a Holy Grail War is. So never mind. I forget I asked anything." Roman looked like a kicked puppy when I said that.

"Doctor, we need to find the Holy Grail?" Mashu asked.

"Yes." Roman sniffs, his voice tone is sad.

"Oh, Roman, how is the Director? Did she survived?" I ask a question that I should've done when we first contacted him. My bad.

"Olga? Yes, she is currently resting in the med bay, she hit her head pretty hard, otherwise relatively unharmed, it's a miracle more than anything else." Roman said.

Diddo, I AM A MIRACLE! I don't have to listen to her sorry little ass during this section! That was my plan all along! TAKE THAT! I know what a Servant is! Hahaha…

You should thank me, you know? Because writer would've no doubt add some lengthy ass fuck filler conversation here, that every last one of us already knew about, just to increase word count, this is the actual reason why I saved her, trust me, he has no shame, I'm ninety point nine percent sure he would write more than two to three thousand words with that filler text bullshit by its lonesome.

"But you might want to rest before heading out, I can send some rations as well." Roman offered.

"That… Sounds good. How about you Mashu?" I turned towards my adorable Kouhai, I don't really need it, but she looks a little on the edge. So it might be a good idea to take a moment of relaxation, get bonded for a bit, you feel me?

She wordlessly nods and kneels down against her shield, Fou jumps onto her lap. I half smirk and sit down on the other side of the shield, Roman sends us supplies after a few moments later.

...

...I grab a granola bar to chew upon, since I don't really need no food, water, or sleep (because sleep is for da weak) to survive. Because of my UNLIMITED STAMINA!

Dartigan, piss off.

After a few minutes of resting...

"Say… Mashu, what is your favorite color?" I ask a completely random question as I leaned the back of my head against the shield, damn, this is like, my fourth granola bar. Fucking delicious. Chocolate chips.. Hmhmh…

"H-Huh? Senpai? Where did that one come from…" I could hear her fidgeting from the other side of the shield. I stop stuffing my face with the granola bar.

"Well, I want to know more about you." I say.

"I like pink, red, blue, purple, yellow-" Mashu counts on as I start to laugh.

"W-What's wrong, Senpai?"

I lean the back of my head against the shield. And say;

"You almost said every color out there; does that mean you don't have a favorite?"

"Y-Yes…" her voice is a whisper, I barely heard it, hm, interesting, I mean my favorite color(s) isn't even a real color, so I shouldn't talk this way should I?

"Tell me a bit about yourself." I ask another question.

"If you insist Senpai, I can tell you a few things about my life in Chaldea?" she answers my question with a question.

I hold back a sigh, let's just skip this part, I wanted to see if I can get some new info from her. But apparently I was wrong.

Darn Skippy~

...

"Are you ready to move out, Senpai?" Mashu asked as I stood up.

"Yes, let's go find this Holy Grail." I nod. But an idea suddenly came to my mind.

"Mashu give me your hand." I extent my hand.

"H-Huh? W-Why, Senpai?" her cheeks adore a healthy blush, but none the less she extents her gloved hand, albeit nervously.

I smile and grab her extended hand, and cast the magic spell I had in mind, a crest appears on her palm, after that, I release her, she curiously looks at it.

"What is this Senpai?" Mashu questions, inspecting it.

"Basic communication spell. Just in case if we ever get separated, just send some mana into that crest, I can cast a better one once we are back in Chaldea." I explained, after spamming it a few hundred times to get better at it, of course. Also, Prana basically means Mana, pretty much the same fucking thing except Mana in actuality, translates both into Prana and Od, Only a true fan would know the difference. I'm not explaining what they are, gfys.

She nods with a smile. She hasn't questioned me about… you know, my prowess with magic, not only that, a normal guy wouldn't be so cool headed, like as if I had prior experience with something similar to this cluster fuck of events, but oh well, I'll try to answer her questions when she actually asks.

Also, I know that I can use the Command Seals to telepathically talk with her and shit, but if I get gud with this spell, I can cast it for pretty much anyone, not just my contracted Servants.

…

…

On the way to the bridge, we encountered even more skeletons, I stopped counting my kill count at 16, Mashu's even higher than that.

"…Stop." I whisper as I raised my hand, Mashu silently do as she was told.

"Do you sense that?" I walk next to her as I narrowed my eyes at the bridge, we haven't crossed it yet.

"Yes, Senpai… A Servant." She raises her shield, looking alert.

"I don't think the Servant wants to sell us cookies and milk." I simply stated with a silent chuckle.

"I agree, whomever they are, they don't seem to be friendly, otherwise they would've came out already..." Mashu paused for a second before continuing.

"Cookies sounds great Senpai, can I have some after this?" She smiles expectantly at me.

"Sure-" I stop myself from talking as an ingenious plan formed in my mind, an almost unnoticeable smirk on my face.

"You know what? If you do well here, I'll bake you some cookies later." I said, will the carrot & stick trick work on her?

"...I'm not a dog Senpai." She pouts. Although I can't miss the curiosity sparkle in her eyes when I said 'bake'. She is interested, and that's all I need to know.

"Well, the offer still stands..." I shrug, and continue talking;

"Let's just go meet the Servant." I shake my head as I walked ahead; Mashu takes the lead immediately, not letting me go first, in fact, she lightly glares at my attempt. Oops.

I feel like I forgot something, hmm…

I tense up, while putting my hand on Mashu's shoulder.

"Look…" I point at the shadowy figure ahead, waiting, looking at us from the end of the bridge.

"That's-" Mashu tries to say something, but stops when the Shadow Servant launches itself toward us. Is that- Medusa? She threw a hook like weapon with chain- Shit!

"Enemy! Engaging!" Mashu raises her shield; I take a step behind her, her shield collides with Medusa's hook, it wraps around the shield, I would kiss her if she said 'Get over here' as she pulled Mashu towards her, but two no's is what I get, since Mash stood firm, while Medusa futilely tried to pull her of balance. After that failure…

Medusa pulls her hook weapon thing back with its chain, and dashes with reckless abandon to attack Mashu.

I instantly realize the problem before even they clash, so I prepare a buff spell, a speed one.

Mashu groans as she blocks the Shadow Medusa's unrelenting strikes, though the fight is more or less even from what I can see. Mashu needs a little tie breaker.

"There!" I cast the spell on Mashu, she glows bright yellow, giving her the edge she needs to overthrow the Shadow Servant.

Medusa jumps high to throw her harpe, a greek sickle like weapon, again. I finally remember what they are called. An Impossible feat for me, seriously, I feel proud.

"Slow!" Mashu easily evades the harpe, and charges towards Medusa as she lands.

With her improved speed thanks to my spell, Mashu overwhelms Medusa, bashing her to the ground, she couldn't even react; Mashu follows up with a mighty jump stomp using her shield, crushing the Shadow Servant.

"Damn, that was brutal." I comment while shrugging, the Shadow Servant dissipates into nothingness, it seemed a little too easy. I don't think things would have ended this quick if she was the real deal.

"That was all thanks to you Senpai, without your magic, I doubt I could beat her…" Mashu looks down, that sad, depressed look returns. Aww, can I hug her?

"What about your NP?" I asked.

"NP? What's that?" She tilts her head in confusion.

"NP is short for Noble Phantasm." I explained. She frowns at my words.

"I-I don't know anything about the Servant I fused with, so I can't use his Noble Phantasm." Mashu explained, looking down with sadness.

"This is CQ. This is CQ. Please respond!" Holographic Roman called out as he opened the connection.

"Reading you loud and clear CQ, over." I make radio static noise at the end of my sentence.

Roman smiles, and asks;

"Any luck with the Holy Grail?"

"None so far." Mashu answers, shaking her head.

"Wait, I detect a group of magical readings near your position! Be ready to fight!" Roman exclaims.

…

Just like he said, we were quickly surrounded by more skeletons, albeit these ones have more charred flesh, you might as well call them zombies.

Not giving a shit, I prepare fire balls in both of my hands, add more than enough Prana into them, also I kind of regret not picking holy magic as one of my affinities, I don't know any holy spell currently… No doubt holy magic would destroy pussies here with the amount of undead enemies we faced. I can try to learn some when we are back in Chaldea.

"Mashu! Stay near and make sure none of them reaches to me!" She nods sharply, jumping back, staying just in front of me, ready to intercept any enemy dares to attack her precious Master.

I raise my hands, and aim.

"Kobe!" with my glorious war cry, I throw the fireballs, on the way, they split into 10 to 13 fire bullets, incinerating almost all of the skeletons, or zombies, leaving a few behind, that Mashu swiftly put them out of their misery as they try to attack us.

Just as we were done dealing with them, Roman exclaims in a hurry;

"Oh no, I detect a Servant! Heading your way, both of you need to get out of there!"

"No. There is no time." I say with conviction, narrowing my eyes.

Mash wordlessly nods, looking ahead.

"Ahah! I finally found a prey. The Grail shall be mine!" Shadow Servant glares at Mashu, ignoring me entirely. Wait, they can talk?! Why didn't Shadow Medusa talk then? Sigh, never mind.

"It's an Assassin Class, Mashu." I smirk, realizing who he is. She nods as she gets ready to attack.

Although the Shadow Hassan, not to be confused by the 'big papa (with the) huuuge dick', as I like to refer him, aka the "First Hassan", anyway, the Shadow Servant goes for an attack before she can,

"Argh! Fast-" She grunts while blocking Assassin's dagger, who leaves no time for her to counter attack, she barely manages to block his strikes.

No doubt it's a matter of time before she gets overwhelmed, but with my timely intervention… I prepare a speed spell on my left hand, a strength one on my right, showing off my multi-tasking ability. Use more than half of my Prana to back them up.

"Huh?" While they are in a blade lock, I cast the prepared spells on Mashu, she widens her eyes as she starts to overpower the Assassin, surprised, Shadow Servant jumps away, breaking the blade lock, he seems to be preparing an attack of sort, his long, completely bandaged right arm emitting a dark aura, but Mashu keeps up with him, delivering hits after hits. Her boosted speed surpasses an Assassin class Servant's.

"...!" With a grunt, akin to a silent war cry, she continues her assault, while the assassin tries to evade, to no avail.

"N-No way…" with a pained scream, and a last, mighty bash from Mashu, Shadow Cursed-Arm lays defeated, after that it dissipates into nothingness.

"Nice one Mashu!" Roman cheers.

"Well, it's all thanks to-" Mashu being ever the humble, tries to send the praises towards me, but gets interrupted.

"I detect one more Servant headed to your way!" Roman said.

"Huh? Assassin got defeated by you? Heh, you look like a foe worthy of my blade…" a new comer, Shadow Servant called out, readying for battle. Halberd raised.

"That's a Lancer class! Be careful!" Roman said.

Wait, that's Benkei right? His blackened out silhouette isn't that hard to recognize.

The boost I gave Mashu still hasn't ran out, so I prepare a lightning spell, for a little shock therapy… while Mashu readily intercepts Benkei's halberd. Sparks flew everywhere as the halberd met the shield.

"You little girl…" Benkei growls, trying to overpower her, failing miserably.

"Take this!" Mashu evades to the right, although Benkei tries turn to face her once more, and would've got a free hit on her if…

I didn't throw the lightning I prepared at him.

"Huh?"

Just for a second, he gets distracted but nothing else, and that's all Mashu needs.

"...!" Mashu bashes him, hard, sending him to the ground.

Disorientated, he gets up faster than Mashu can do a follow up. Mashu holds steady with her shield held high in front of her.

"I'll get you for this…" He moves to attack her once more, halberd raised overhead for a slash.

I combat rolled to my left to get a better angle, and throw another lighting just before Benkei's attack connects with Mashu's shield.

"Argh!" Benkei cries out, once again distracted, Mashu bashes Benkei's arms, knocking his weapon out of his twitchy hands, after that, she hits him hard with the side of her shield.

Though, Benkei manages blocks the strike with his hands, but with Mash's boosted strength, he founds himself on the ground once more.

Before he could get his bearings together, let alone get up, she finishes him off with a jump stomp, leaving him flatten and battered on the floor.

"Target Eliminated." Mashu says with an even tone as the Shadow Servant dissipates into nothingness.

Wait. Isn't this the point where the you know who Caster shows up all mighty? …Oh, you little cheeky mothertrucker, what have you done writer? I look around, before turning to Mashu.

"There is a Leyline spot nearby. We need rest, non-stop fighting ought to tire you out." I say to her.

"No need Senpai-" She shakes her head as I interrupt her.

"No no, you deserve it; also I realized that we need help badly." I explain.

"Hm? What are you planning to do Senpai?" she tilts her head.

"Summon another Servant." I say.

She, surprisingly, frowns, for a second, before turning her expression to neutral.

"I-I see…" she looks down, probably thinking something silly like, I dunno, maybe thinks I'm disappointed in her, or perhaps don't trust her capabilities.

I smile, and walk towards her.

"Hm?" she looks up to me as I envelop her in a hug, causing her to take a sharp breath.

"S-S-Senpai…" her cheeks blush a deep red.

"Look, I have full trust in your abilities, but if you have another Servant helping you, you'd have an easier time defeating other enemy servants." I explain while lightly caressing her back, sending shivers down her spine.

After all, Shadow Servants are all well and good; she can deal with them with my help, but against a full blown Servant who can use their NP? I don't think so. I wouldn't be able to distract them for openings with a feeble lightning bolt, even in game they let you have a four star servant before pretty much right from the get go.

At first, I thought I would be getting Caster Cu Chulainn, but since writer didn't let me to have him, I'm going to summon a Servant now rather than later.

"O-Okay… That makes sense..." She shyly leans her head against my neck, her voice is barely a whisper.

Darn Skippy

…

"Ah." I gaze upon the summoning circle, Mashu standing back to give me some space, with Fou in her hands.

I pause time.

I pull out my phone.

Now then, is there a summoning simulator? I google for it, and find one…

"You know what? No I won't use this…" I shake my head, and close the Chrome, and find my random number generator app.

And let's see… There is 168 Servants in NA version of the game, so if we count out Mashu that would mean I'll have to do it from 2 to 168, PS: its their ID by the way, find a Wikipedia or check it out in-game.

Whatever comes up, I'll summon them, I also can veto the shit out of them if I don't like them.

But before we go on with this, let's prey; c'mon with me, I clasp my hands together with my phone in the middle, I close my eyes…

Please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt, please be Melt.

Sure, its one out of 168, some would say this is stupid, but I think this is much more fun, I believe in my luck.

…I got 16.

Archer Arash? Really? Vetoed!

Another try!

5? That's Saber Nero, and she is integral (The North Remembers) to the story, maybe later down the line, Vetoed!

Another try!

36? For fucks sake, Caster Mozart?! Really?! (though I love him because he can get an instant 50 crit star if you know what you are doing) Vetoed!

Yet another try!

3? That's Saber Alter Altoria. Hm… Tempting, Maybe later, Vetoed!

104? That's a black- I mean, Caster Geronimo, Vetoed!

One more try…

Oh…

OH!

Is this allowed? Can I get away with this? Hehehehe…. You know what? Let's do it, it's going to make the whole Orleans Singularity a huge fucking joke, but it sounds interesting, and something to challenge writer a bit….

I un-pause time.

Here is the hardest part.

A chant, the summoning ritual needs one, though I'm leaning towards skipping it, but you know what? No.

Now I need to think of a very cringy chant for you to enjoy.

Ahem; I gathered my wits as I start to chant.

"…The time, the story, the legend, it all starts with vigor, but ends so swiftly…"

"God thinks all, sees all, but interferes none when you truly have need, He let you down so swiftly…" I continue with my chant.

"Even if there is light, there is truth, there shall be always darkness, lies." I could see the summoning circle starting to glow.

"A legend shines and fades, a legend spreads both hope and despair." The glow gets stronger. Hehe, this is going into my cringe compilation. I'm going to drop it as a 10 hours of constant loop.

"Let yourself known. Let all lies become truth." Almost there…

"God hears everything, but yet he turned a deaf ear to you." One last line…

"I summon you, Vengeance reincarnate! I command you to incinerate all of my enemies!" I chanted loudly. Just an octave higher.

Glow fades.

Within the summoning circle there is a female figure that wasn't there a moment's prior.

She speaks up.

"Servant, Avenger, summoned upon your request."

…

…

...

...I can't help myself and do a double fist pump, while squatting a little, and looking upwards.

"YES!"

"…What a strange reaction you got there… Master." Alter Jeanne D'Arc the Avenger, quipped with sarcasm, a permanent smirk on her face, her golden eyes narrowed.

See lads, this is why you start your fallout character with 10 luck. Also as far as her appearance goes, she seems to be in her… Third stage ascension, Long white /platinum hair, her third stage armor, although she is wearing her furred cloak from the first stage, Huh. I like the look.

Believe it or not, I actually did got 106 from the RNG, no lies, sure, its not Meltlilith, but I ain't complaining.

I'll get her too, sooner or later, let me promise you that.

"Are you done checking me out?" Jalter deadpans while crossing her arms over her chest.

"Right… I'm Alexander Tormond." I mimic her precisely, crossed arms and everything.

A few seconds of silence passes, with both of us looking at each other in the eye, although she more or less seems to glare at me, sizing me up, judging me. Mashu is still silent in the background, watching us closely.

Jalter sighs, shaking her head slowly before speaking up;

"Whatever, I'm Alter Jeanne D'Arc. It's not like it matters anyway." I lose my deadpan look and uncross my arms, my lips tugs up to a smile.

"Nice to meet you, Alter Jeanne." I raise an eyebrow as she shrugs with indifference, hmm, I shouldn't mention the Ruler Jeanne, though obviously we need to talk about the whole existential crisis thing, sooner than later.

Because I want the Ruler Jeanne in my team as well. She is a must, no compromises.

"Sure, Master." she rests her flag spear on her cloaked shoulder, the tip of it pointing directly behind her.

I'm currently a very happy chappy boy in case you can't tell my lad. Can't wait for the Orleans Act…

Oh boy, now you made me so excited.

...

Darn Skippy*

"So… You are saying that the humanity is danger, and you are the only hope to save mankind from its damnation?" Jalter asks, an eyebrow raised, as I explain the sitch to her.

"...Damnation wouldn't be the exact word I would use, but that's basically it." I say, Mashu nods while examining our newest addition to the team.

"And, who are you?" She turns to Mash this time.

"O-Oh, me? I'm Mashu Kyrielight, class Shielder, just like you, I'm contracted to him." Mash introduces herself. Also, I rotate between Mash and Mashu when I refer to her, because reasons. I'm a total baka.

"Ohh, I can sense it. Master, you have a very... unique mana pool. Being able to have a contract with two servants at the same time is no easy feat, but with the amount of mana you have, it shouldn't be that hard for you." Jalter said, sounding impressed.

Well, as far as Prana consumption goes, comparing her to Mashu… is like comparing Everest to a.… Table-top ironing board (yes, not even an actual terrain.), holy shit. Wow, I can feel the strain… PS: you can google image it for the reference.

Jalter grips her flag spear tight, her lips form a natural smirk, that let me first hand feel the charisma that simply oozes from her being, making me a little stiff down there. If I'm being honest with ya.

"You desire my help, you shall have it." She nods with vigor. Her smirks gets a little too wilder, head tilted downwards slightly…

"Let my flame incinerate your enemies, Master."

...I'm in love.

…

"...Woah, so this is the servant you summoned huh." Roman contacted when we left the summoning circle, and proceed to search the city for clues, but with my super awesome ability to detect Servants, I'm deliberately leading us straight to Altria. I'm good enough to put a Ruler to shame. A little something I cheated to add, so that We can actually do some progress.

"She is amazing, isn't she?" I turned my head to look back and wink at Jalter, who looked staggeringly unimpressed at my joked attempt of a kiss-ass compliment.

Some would say that this whole thing is going to cause some problems, I don't care, I have Jalter. As long as she is on my side, I'm pretty sure I won.

"Heh. Of course I'm amazing." Jalter snickered, her words contains nothing but sarcasm, probably rolling her eyes right about now.

"…" Mashu had been completely silent for a while, well I guess I should play the kind Master part, and sort out her problems.

I slow down my pace to match Mashu's, she seems to be deep in thought, looking down while walking, hmm.. I should probably tell her the true name of the Servant she contracted to, aka Galahad. But no, I mean, c'mon. Right now it would do more harm than good, because I need Saber Lancelot, who will most assuredly help her grow as a Servant, After that, hopefully my plan to 'Save Mash' will be ready, I'm not going to explain how its going to work, but it will not involve a holy grail, I will save her with my own (heavily restricted) power. No cheats involved, I promise.

"Mash, what's wrong?" I asked, worried.

"…Master, am I useful?" her voice is meek, reminds me of the time when we first met… I smile and put my arm around her shoulder, causing her to gasp.

"Yes. You are." After all, you are providing fan-service and shit, also you are fucking adorable.

"But I can't even use my Noble Phantasm…"

She is shyly leaning into my side. Aw…

"You'll figure it out how to use it, I'll be with you every step of the way." I give the side of her shoulder a comforting squeeze.

She nods with a smile.

"…Are you guys done flirting? We are getting surrounded." Jalter interrupts us with an annoyed tone. Tapping her flag spear onto the ground, being all impatient and like.

I release Mashu.

"More skeletons I guess…" I said while cracking my knuckles. Mashu takes a step forward to stand next to Jalter. Who gradually grins more than usual with apparent blood lust on what's about to come.

I don't think I need to do anything, but just in case, or at the very least, for the experience, I prepare a AOE buff, now that I have two Servants and all.

Jalter raises her flag spear in one hand, other firmly grasps the hilt of her sword that is sheathed an' strapped to her hip.

Skeletons, which I tried to count how many there are, but stopped at twenty six, were surrounding us. They seem to increase in numbers with each encounter.

"Burn!" Jalter unsheathed her sword, and summons forth a flame wall that engulfs a good dozen skeletons who tried to jump at us, leaving nothing but ashes behind.

"Wow.." Mashu looks amazed for a second, before hitting a skeleton with her shield, sending it flying into another one, shattering both into tiny little bones.

"Uh... Shit..." I sweat drop, and cancel my buff spell as I awkwardly wobbled backwards to not get skewed by a dagger, it seems that there are three skeletons snuck from behind, I hastily prepare a fire bolt…

"Sigh* I got you." Jalter with an over-exaggerated sigh, comes to my save, she swats the skeletons with her flag spear. Sending all three of them flying into a wall. They shatter into smithereens.

"Damn, nice hit, but I had that." I shrug, and throw the fire bolt I finished preparing at a group of skeletons, getting a few more kills to my list.

"...Just don't hurt yourself." Her voice is sarcastic and borderline playful mockery. She moved to help Mashu, along the way she raised her flag spear as flames surround her. Several skeletons tried to attack her from multiple directions, but ended up getting swallowed by the protective wall of fire.

"Master, there are so many of them!" Mashu called out, rapidly one-hitting skeletons left and right.

Jalter wordlessly slices a skeleton in two, as it tried to flank Mashu. Before turning around to face even more Skeletons,

I ran up to them, giving up on a AOE buff spell, since it takes more time to prepare one, so I instead use a regular one.

"Here!" I cast on Alter Jeanne.

"-Huh?" Alter Jeanne looks surprised, her mouth took a perfectly 'O' shape, before regaining her usual grin.

She almost disappears in a flash, her cloak fluttering harshly because of her momentum, I really shouldn't underestimate my buffs, should I? Maybe that's her normal speed? Insert stupefied shrug here.

Mashu stands next to me in high alert, while Alter Jeanne have the time of her life cremating some skeletons, zombies alike.

…

...

"What is this place?" Alter Jeanne asked as we entered into the dark, dank pf... Cave, yes, I said dank. That's yer cue to laugh.

"..It feels... Off, something, no.. Another Servant is lurking around, be on your toes." I narrowed my eyes as I mentioned both of my servants to stick close to me, in high alert, Fou seems to agree as well.

...

"How quaint, trespassers." a voice laced with pure sarcasm called out from the shadows, making all three of us stop as we looked around for the Shadow Emiya.

"...Show yourself!" Jalter impatiently shouted with a frown. Her gold colored eyes narrowed in concentration.

Without any warnings, Mashu jumped right in-front of me, to block an impossibly fast arrow that no doubt taken my entire head off… I didn't even see it coming.

"Be careful Master." Mashu told me, Jalter nods, standing still, her calculating eyes looked towards where the arrow came from.

"Tch. Here I thought I could get the Master out of the way and be done with it, but I guess we can't have everything..." Shadow Emiya stepped out (of... The Shadows pff..), showing his ungodly corrupted presence. His bow at hand.

"Master, who is that? I can sense he is a Servant, but..." Jalter lightly bit her lip, her flag spear tilted sideways, she holds it with both hands.

"That's a Shadow Servant, Archer Class." I whispered. She nods with slight confusion.

"Well, heh. Please kindly die." He chuckles, while preparing to shoot once more, he seems to be aiming at Alter Jeanne.

Jalter, with a grin, silently dashed towards Emiya, her cloak burns into ashes along the way, showing off her third stage armor. Damn, burning cloak for the reveal? Dramatic effect is unreal right now.

"A mere Archer is no match for my flame!" She shouted, flag spear raised for an overhead strike.

Emiya clicked his tongue and projects his famed twin blades, smoothly dodging Jalter's attack.

She jumps away just in time to avoid Emiya's counter-strikes, Jalter unsheathed her sword to use her fore-mentioned flames-

While they are busy, I turned to Mashu, who seems to be a little lost on what she should do, but no doubt her mindset is all about protecting me, so she stuck to my side, shield raised to block anything that may threaten my safety.

"Mashu stick close." I said, and raise my hands to prepare a debuff spell I unlocked a few encounters ago. Very basic, but also very, very useful none the less, but still, I don't think this can work on an actual Servant.

Jalter raises her sword and sliced the empty air, towards Emiya, who rolled away just in time to avoid the flames that sprouted on the spot he stood a moment's prior.

When the spell is done, I cast it on Shadow Emiya.

"U-ugh! What's..." Emiya felt himself getting sluggish, his incredibly sharp senses dulling, feet wobbling ever so slightly, he couldn't do anything to stop Jalter from battering the shit out of him with her flag spear. Sending him flying.

"S-shit!" Shadow Emiya found himself sprawled all over the damp ground, that debuff only lasts about 10 to 15 seconds, the disorientation spell, very snazzy right?

"I got you now!" Jalter stabbed her sword into the ground, and suddenly…

"Ah-" a significantly large pillar of fire sprouted right bellow the Shadow Servant, completely swallowing him.

…That went just about as I expected. When the pillar of fire disappeared, the Shadow Servant was on his knees, heavily breathing in pain, before Jalter decides to finish him off by stabbing her sword straight through his chest. Hot scorching fire sprouts inside his body, he couldn't even scream as he burned inside out…

"Heh, not so tough now, are you?" Alter Jeanne sneers with absolute disgust, she pulled out her sword from his chest with a sickening plop, and flicked it in attempt to get rid of the black pulsating blood of the Shadow Servant.

Shadow Emiya, just like the other Shadow Servants, turned into nothingness as he dissipates, no longer being able to continue his sarcastic sass. I believe I have enough of that already.

Well, that was a 'little' morbid… Even Mashu looks a little on edge, although her expression is more or less neutral. Her gaze going back and forth between me and Jalter.

Easier than expected as well, but he wasn't the real deal, if he was, this would've a lot harder than this, and also it actually makes sense, since Jalter can one shot (except the boss lady and some of the free quests) pretty much any enemy in this Singularity.

Jalter turned around as she sheathed her sword, looking at me expectantly. Her furred cloak magically phased into existence in her empty hand, she donned it while still holding my gaze.

...How can I get one of those? So cool!

-Wait, her eyes are searching for something, although she didn't lose that blood thirsty smirk, she is perhaps looking for a reaction?

"Great work." I smile and nod towards Jalter, she can enjoy doing what she does best, can't really find a fault in that, can I? Either way, let me tell ya something...

He tried to kill me. He deserved everything she did to him in tenfold. I may look the bubbly softy protag boy #3067 but I ain't the one to care much about morals and shit.

Mashu awkwardly shifted at my side, she didn't get involved that much in this particular fight.

Jeanne rose an eyebrow before nodding, her expression momentarily losing it's permanent smirk for a split second before regaining back.

I turned to Mashu, and patted her head lightly.

"M-Master?" She looks at me in surprise, I smile at her.

"You too, I would've lost my entire head if you didn't block that arrow." I said in a grateful tone, continuing to pet her head, yes, that arrow could've beheaded me entirely.

"Thank you Senpai!" She grins happily, her head raised high, Fou seems to appear out of nowhere and claim her shoulder after the fight had ended.

Damn, my compliments are that effective when it comes to her huh? Good to know.

Jalter fake coughs into her hand, trying to get my attention.

"We need to get going." She did a perfect one eighty degrees turn while twirling her spear flag, the black banner swishing harshly just about everywhere, and proceed to walk away, leaving us behind, Mashu and I share a look, before catching up to Jalter.

…

…

"...You are finally here, foreign Master."

Alter Altria called out coolly as we approached her, her Excalibur held in two hand, pointing directly at us.

"...This readings! You should be able to see the Greater Grail within your vicinity!" Roman exclaimed, not exactly helping are ya?

Yes, I can see the giant fucking beam right there!

"Basically..." Jalter spoke from my side, Mashu took a slight forward step and raised her shield, ready to protect my lovely arse.

"I have to beat her, right?" Jalter looks at me with narrowed eyes, her head bobbing slightly towards the general direction of Alter Altria.

"That's the gist of it, yes." I nod.

Meanwhile Altria stood there, watching us silently before speaking.

"If you can that is, Dragon Witch." Alter Altria took a stance, her steel gaze looking straight at my Jalter.

"Oh… I will." Jalter burned her cloak into nothingness once more, revealing her armor in all of its glory. She pulled out her sword, banner spear in other hand.

Altria wordlessly, with no visible emotion in her facial expression rushed towards her, Jalter doing the same.

Sparks flew around as they clashed swords, Jalter grinning like a madwoman all the while, her expression is basically the contrast of the emotionless Alter Altria.

"Strong..." Altria heaved, although the clash was more or less even, Altria was forced to jump back to avoid Jalter's flames. But get nicked by it. Damn, to a normal human, that would've left at least a third degree burn.

While they are clashing, I was working on a buff, a new, better and combined version that I just unlocked.

This contains strength, speed, defense, all in one.

"Jalter!" I cast it.

"HAHAHAHA!" Jalter laughs in delight, a tiny wee wee madness laced, of course. Running towards Altria, sword raised.

"…!" Although Altria successfully blocks the attack, she couldn't escape the fire as it sprouts all around her, swallowing both Altria and Jalter.

When the flames go away, we came up with a scene where both of them trade hits left and right, with Jalter getting somewhat damaged, though thanks to my spell its reduced, Altria's situation is much more worse as she gets pelted by the occasional flame Jalter cleverly summons.

"Enough!" with an uncharacteristic scream, Altria somehow pushes Alter Jeanne aside, several meters, her feet dragging along the floor, lifting up dust and leaving a trail behind.

While Jalter tried to gather her bearings, Alter Altria raised Excalibur high, the tip pointing straight towards the sky, it glows with high magical density as it gathers power.

"Iron hammer of the Hallow King. Overturn the aurora..."

Oh nonononono-

Altria isn't aiming at Jalter…

She is aiming at me.

"...EXCALIBUR MORGAN!"

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Alter Altria swung Excalibur with a war cry, using her NP. It's less than a second before I meet my doom.

"Master-" I hear two voices cry out in anguish, admittedly one is much much more than the other.

Mashu stepped forward in-front of me, with a determined look, she brought her shield down to the ground, as a magic circle formed just above her, just not a moment too late to block Altria's NP.

The circle crackles from the force, Mashu grits her teeth and yells with determination.

Huh, color me impressed, she unlocked her NP…

"..." Altria stood speechless as her sword sizzled with magical energy, her chest heaving with fatigue from using her NP.

"How dare you!" Jalter screamed, raising her sword. Her expression is just about the face you make when you see someone rape your beloved 3 months old pup.

I feel accomplished, it literally been like an hour or two since I summoned her, but she actually cares about me? Damn.

Flames surround Jalter, who scowls at Altria, she can only watch as my Avenger does her thing.

"This is the howl of a soul filled with hatred-"

The flames grew in size, even though I'm relatively far away from her, I can feel the heat as if I'm right next to it.

"Le Grondement de la Haine!"

She swung her sword at the empty air, the flames surrounding her spring into action as they head straight for Altria.

The hellish attack found its victim as it completely swallowed Altria, who screamed as she burned alive.

To add insult to the injury, several black spears sprouted from bellow and impaled her. Lifting Altria a few meter high.

Jalter's NP ended, Altria lifelessly plopped onto the ground like a sack of potatoes.

...I'm kind of thankful that Altria didn't target Jalter, if she did, I would've had to use one of my Command Seals to revive her.

"Agh… I was defeated..." with that, Alter Altria is no more, she glows with bright gold aura as she gets teleported back to Throne of Heroes.

"Never ignore me, you stupid bitch." Jalter spit out. Sheathing her sword and donning her awesome cloak afterwards.

"That… Was..." I release the breath I was unconsciously holding. I finally get to use my second most powerful magic.

Healing.

"Thank you, Truly." I put my hand on Mashu's shoulder, who seems to have minor injuries here and there from blocking that NP, and use the spell. I give her shoulder a gentle squeeze to show her my appreciation.

"Master-!" she looked astonished as her injuries disappeared in a flash. Restore some of her stamina and help with her fatigue as well, her expression is abashed with a healthy blush.

After making sure that she isn't hurt anymore, I turned to Jalter, who is silently watching me from afar.

I walked up to her, She offers no response, I stop when I'm right in front of her.

"Great work, wouldn't have done it without you." I smile softly as I prepare another healing spell.

Jalter looks up to me. Her usual smirk isn't there, she crossed her arms on her chest, looking away.

"O-Of course! She would've killed you both if I wasn't here!" she seems embarrassed, her speech gone a little doodle there, hmm..

A tsundere, perhaps? Well, if I keep on giving her my honest feelings, and truly understand her motives...

I chuckle mirthfully, and pet her head as she gasps in surprise.

"O-Oi! don't do that!" She hastily swats my hand.

I stop chuckling as Jalter looked more and more irritated, while Mash hugged Fou like a pushie in the background, still blushing.

...

"...Most impressive." a familiar voice called out, making us look towards the voice.

"Lev?! Is that you!?" Roman exclaimed (out of nowhere I might add) in surprise as he recognized Lev.

Lev blatantly ignored Roman, and looked at me in the eye, the Greater Grail next to him.

"You... not only managed to get this close to the Greater Grail and defeat her, but you also managed to do it less than 2 hours." his words have a passive aggressive tone, that I most certainly hate.

Also wow! Only two hours? Felt like a good 3 hours to me.

Wait, Hold on, I'm pretty sure this is the first chapter, soo…

Writer pretty much finished Fuyuki Singularity in one chapter.

He is rushing stuff, I know, you are not happy about it, but you should know that; Fuyuki is the Tutorial Singularity, the 'tame' start, learning the ropes and shit, I don't blame him for rushing this part, Hell, I don't think we will get a Holy Grail from here, even though the game does reward you with one when you complete it... Right? or am I remembering wrong?

Anyway.

Orleans, Heh, that's when the story truly starts mate, can't wait.

"I guess the rumors weren't over-exaggerating when it comes to your prowess in magic." Lev dramatically clapped.

Both of my Servants are tensed, I resist the urge to order an attack, I fear he might to something unruly to them.

"Professor Lev? What are you doing here?" Mashu asked.

"Ah, Mash and Romani, both of you survived?" Lev sighs with a shake of his head.

"Why is that humans always try to avoid their preordained destinies? I told you to come to the command room immediately, Romani, yet you did not." He glares deeply at the holographic Roman.

Pff, Fate he says, Bitch! I'm the literal opposite meaning of that shit, because if it where up to 'Fate' I would've died at the mere age of 32 in a dark pit somewhere, and... You know, not be a omnipotent being and stuff. Yet. Here. I. STAND!

"And you…. Not only you foiled this Singularity, you somehow managed to save that pathetic piece of trash, Animusphere." He hollers in anger.

"Master! Get behind me, he is dangerous!" Mashu took a step to stay just in front of me.

"...I don't know who you are, but if you dare to attack my stupid master..." Jalter called out with an even tone.

She twirled her flag spear.

"I. Will. Burn. You. Demon, That's a promise."

Even I get the chills shesh, Lev spares a glance at Jalter, before turning to me.

"Quite the Servant you got there Candidate 48th." He seems bored, disgusted.

Before I can respond, the ground suddenly start shaking like an earthquake, Lev looks around, before turning to look at us once more.

"It seems that this Singularity is at its end, what a shame, I won't be able to enjoy watching all of you die. For I have work to do." Lev laughs and finishes with;

"This is the end of Humanity, There is no hope, Just give up and die, will you?" with that, he is gone.

Reality wraps and breaks all around us as the Singularity collapses. Mashu turns to Roman.

"We need emergency Rayshift ASAP!" Mashu shouted at him.

"-On it!"

And so, I lose consciousness.

…

…

I open my eyes as I regained my consciousness, this time I'm currently in a semi-comfortable bed with white sheets.

"Who's a good boy? Yes~ you are, so cute."

I make a 'I came.' face as I watch Da-Vinci play around with Fou.

"Hm? You are finally awake, aren't you? that's how a main character should be." Da-Vinci looked at me with her usual smile.

"I dunno, I think I'm dreaming right now." I joked. She grins at my words.

"What makes you think that, Mister Protagonist?"

"...Okay, Firstly I don't like the fact that you are breaking the fourth wall, because that's kinda my thing." I narrowed my eyes at her. She grins all the more.

"Is it really?" She innocently blinks. I don't change my expression.

"Fine, I'll refrain from that… For now." She winks some more.

"I'm Da Vinci, the third summoned Heroic Spirit of Chaldea." She curtsies.

In one smooth move, I get up from the bed; and elegantly bow to her in response to the courtesy she had shown me.

"Nice to meet you my lady, I'm Alexander Tormond."

She lightly blushes with a giggle, a dainty hand (not to be confused with her mech-arm) rose up towards me expectantly, with even more elegance, I softly grab her hand and brought it up to my lips.

"Oh my, what a gentleman you are~" she seems to be enjoying herself at least. Also you don't need to scream it out loud mate, I know her gender situation, but I checked with my ability, she is a she, with a V. There is no P's involved. And that's good enough for me.

And considering I can change people's gender at will, including myself, I don't have to worry about it too much, I can just gender bend everyone into a female when there is need for it. In fact, is there a character that you would like me to change their gender? though I feel indifferent about Astolfo and Enkidu etc, if there is enough request, I might make their gender, 'Female'. Just to let you know.

"Anyway, we'll have plenty of time to talk later, Somebody's waiting for you in the command room."

"The Director or Mash?" I asked.

"Director still hasn't waken up, I'm afraid, you are right about the last one." She nods and continues with;

"Well, starting from here, you'll be the center of this story. Your choices might save us all." She once again somewhat breaks the fourth wall, I narrow my eyes.

"Again, I'm the only one who can break the fourth wall! Stop it!" I waved my hands around like a child throwing tantrum. She merely giggles. Offering no more response as if shooing me.

…

…

"Good morning, Senpai. I'm glad to see you are okay." Mashu greeted me, with Jalter next to her, she seems to be inspecting her gauntlets, she looks up to me with bored eyes, barely acknowledging.

Roman interrupts me before I can respond to Mashu. I look at him with an annoyed look as he talked about some random stuff and shit nobody cares, bla bla bla, I fucked your sister bla bla.

"...Are you listening?" Roman brought me out of my stupor with a hurt look.

"Yes? Can we get to the point where we save the world?" I look at my wrist as if I'm checking my non-existent watch, boredly tapping my foot along.

With a sigh, Roman continues. Which again, I do not listen.

"Rayshift into these seven singularities and..."

bla bla bla.

"I realize you're being forced into this situation..."

one sheep, two sheep…

"Hello? Are you there?" Roman really looked like he was ready to cry as I continue ignoring him.

"Fine… Sniff." He… Is crying? Wowie, I made a grown jewish man cry. Pf..

"Are you prepared to sniff* save the world?" even after all of that, he still continues on his charade of shit fuck.

"Yes, Yes, Yes." I yawn.

I hear a familiar snicker from the sidelines.

"This is the last Master, humanity's only hope in survival? Heh, what a joke." Jalter's shoulders moved up and down as she silently chuckled.

"Senpai..." Mashu pouts.

"Sniff* Don't mind me, I'm going to the toilet..." and with that Roman left the Command Room.

…

"Yey, The Grand Order, Start!" I (un) enthusiastically said, flinging my arms about, Mashu pouted harder, Jalter's chuckle turned into full blown laughter.

And so, it begins.

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