Emiya's New Ideology
"What is this!?" Archer looked at his younger self, the Counter Guardian already remembered that it's his past self.
Nonetheless, that's where the differences start to appear and their path diverse, in his past self he was Master of Saber just like this one but, there never was a visiting Sorcerer in his past!
That moment the Servant of Bow saw the crumbling sword his counterpart had in his hand he instantly was blown away, his Unlimited Blade Works copied it. but, he didn't know what it was!!!
Yes, he can project the Katana, but it will be just a regular Katana in his hands, not a Noble Phantasm, yet in his younger version hands, it was something akin to a God Slaying weapon!
'What is this bullshit!!! Nothing makes sense in this war!!!'
Moments later after saying something to his monster of a teacher the teen collapsed on the ground.
Rin rushed over to see if he is okay…
Archer could not understand how quickly his counterpart is progressing with his Magecraft, he remember projecting Caliburn for the first time.
But, that was after trying multiply times, and it was much further in the war…
"Shirou!!!" The redhead's Servant rushed forward she saw her Master down, she panicked for a moment.
"He is only exhausted nothing more than that." The Sorcerer said to the King of Knights.
"What happened?" The Blue Saber asked seriously.
"He succeeded in using his Magecraft." The True Magic-user said with a large smirk.
A smirk which send chills going down EMIYA spine. What this monster is planning with his younger version?
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As the battle was over, the school was in a complete wreck, the whole first floor was destroyed, from shattered windows to destroyed doors, tables, furniture...
Because of this, the school is closed for a week something Ren foreseen and so now he will be able to teach his student even more.
But, then he remembered something...
"Please Ashwell-sama! Teach me magecraft!" Rin Tohsaka on her knees was begging to teach her Magecraft.
Both Morgan and Saber Alter looked at this with baffled looks, this was the second time they saw this happening…
Ren already taught a younger Rin before…
"You want me to teach you Magecraft?" He asked with raised eyebrow, perfectly honest Shirou has greater potential than Rin…
Yes, she has all the basic elements, yes she has more circuits…
But, all those things pale in comparison to what Emiya can do…
*Sigh*
"I suppose I could teach you some things." He said with a casual shrug.
That moment Rin jumped back on her feet, fist-bumped into the air.
'Rin, what about the war?' Archer asked with a barely hidden groan.
'We can always ally with Emiya-kun!' Rin said to her servant, after seeing what he can do with just a few days of learning she is somewhat reluctant to face someone who can create a noble phantasm capable of killing Gods!
Archer reluctantly nodded, he felt how Rin is feeling about facing his younger version.
"Well, we will talk about this more once Emiya is awake, I am sure you want some sort of alliance with him now?" Ren said out loud what Rin was thinking at this moment.
Tohsaka looked with disbelief at him for a second, is she that easy to see through!?
"Y-Yes! I will come over later if it okay with you Sensei?" Tohsaka respectfully asked him.
"Sure, take your time."
Her eyes brightened when she heard that, not long after that she bit goodbye and left towards her house.
"Are you sure it's fine? You didn't even ask for Shirou's opinion!" The blonde Knight asked with narrowed eyes, she dislikes such disrespect shown to her Master.
"Not at all, Emiya will be delighted to hear that Tohsaka is to become his ally," Ren said while shrugging his shoulders.
"Now you sounded like Merlin, do you have Clairvoyance of some sort?" She asked while realisation that may be the case!
The King of Knights remembered how they arrived at school at a specific time when Shiro required her help!
I was like a set-up of some sorts!
Cold sweat run down through her back…
If this is true then it means he knows how the war will end, he probably knows so many more things!
"You are not wrong there little sister, husband is the Sorcerer of Three Magics when he combines them he can do incredible things," Morgan spoke with an arrogant look, she was basking in Artoria expression.
'Three? What sort of madness is this!!!' The blonde took a step back, no wonder her Master can already use incredible magecraft!!!
But, three? Seriously? That means he CAN use Clairvoyance, probably with a permanent connection to the Root itself!
By this point, she started to believe he can do anything! If he puts his mind to it…
After she realised that the internal battle she was having just intensified even more.
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Once evening arrived, Emiya woke up, Ren has fully restored his Prana reserves, and the teen was delighted to hear that Tohsaka is willing to ally with him.
Blue Saber could only grimace realising that what Sorcerer has said was right about the whole her 'Master is delightful about alliance' thing.
Her Master was just that naive about how dangerous the Holy Grail war truly is.
Few hours later on, Tohsaka arrived with luggage of all things…
She is moving in for the duration of the war.
"Thank you for having me over Emiya-kun!" Tohsaka said with a smile worthy of nobility.
"Tohsaka?" The redhead teen scratched the back of his head.
How in world he should respond to this?
"You have a western-style guest room no? It was built with Magus in mind Emiya just send her over there." Ren popped out of nowhere and said that while popping back to the kitchen the very next second.
Tohsaka squeaked seeing that while Emiya Shirou already got used to his Teacher using time magic casually like that…
"What was that!?" Tohsaka asked Emiya.
"Sensei making his point, let me show you the room he has mentioned." The redhead grabbed her luggage while motioning to follow him.
"Oh, Emiya-kun what happened to Shinji?" The twin-tailed girl remembered about the Matou.
"He was given to Sensei's wife, I think she did some mind magecraft on him."
"To The Fairy Queen Morgan?" Rin eyes went wide, she doesn't know if she should pity Matou or look at this with glee.
"And you okay about it?" The girl then asked curiously.
Shirou thought about it for a second.
"It cannot be helped, Shinji was worse than I thought of him, he wanted to sacrifice whole school and did 'things' with Sakura.
He cannot be saved normally Tohsaka, so he requires a different type of saving."
The twin-tailed girl blinked several times hearing that.
"What are you talking about Emiya-kun?"
*Sigh*
"My dream was… IS to become Hero of Justice." Shirou started to explain to the girl.
"But, that is just one side of the coin, justice only exist with human but what about everything else? What about Fairies? Or other creatures? What kind of justice do they follow?"
"That's why I started to think about bigger things, not just human justice, no! I want to become a hero who saves as much as I can!"
"That's why I was started to think about what kind of types of saving there is in the world, for what Shinji has done, he would spend behind bars for hundreds of years, that's why he is better to serve punishment with Fairy Queen." Tohsaka blinked several times hearing all that…
No wonder he can summon God Slaying Sword...He is not normal at all!!!
"You do realise that Morgan is not a merciful person, do you?" The girl said with a raised eyebrow.
"I am sure she knows what she is doing, she is Sensei's wife…" Emiya quite casually shrugged at her, earning a twitching eyebrow which he missed…
"Here, this is the room my old man prepared for my step sister but as you already know how it ended up." The redhead teen motioned the western style room.
"It will do, it was built with Magus in mind," Tohsaka said while looking around.
"Great, I will be in the kitchen." He left after saying that while Rin started to unpack her stuff.
While the Master of Archer was doing his thing, the Servant in question was in astral form the whole time listening in.
'It seems the Sorcerer has changed the whole mindset of my younger self, he turned into something… more? Twisted Kiritsugu ideology and made it into an even bigger picture?'
'Saving Shinji by leaving his fate to Evil Fairy Queen? Seriously Shirou?' EMIYA shook his with quite an amused look, he never expected such a thing from his younger version! It's quite refreshing actually!
Nonetheless… this was better than his original self destroying ideology of being Hero of Justice…
'But, seriously? What kind of justice does Fairies follow? Is it similar to a human one? Never thought about this before.'
For the first time in aeons, the Counter Guardian didn't know how to answer that…
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"We should attack the temple tonight, we know that it's under Caster's control!" Blue Saber pointed at the temple on the map.
"I already did scouting in that place, it only has a single entrance through the stairs." Rin Tohsaka pointed at the stairs.
"It's a trap, Caster will be at her strongest if we attack her directly like this." The Master of Archer explained to the Blonde Knight and her Master while looking at her Sensei waiting for his reaction.
"Rin is correct, what we saw so far of her, she is a traditional Caster, her Territory Creation should be a high level, she will be in her element at the temple.
The twin-tailed girl was happy that her judgment was right, she internally fist bumped to herself.
"Even so, she has been attacking regular people and draining their Prana!" The blond Knight said with an angry look.
"Listen, Saber, we already finished one Servant tonight, we can plan this in more detail, we can't just match in blindly!" Emiya reasoned with her, as someone who wants to be the hero he wants nothing more than to fight this woman and beat her up.
But, this Shirou already understood the bigger picture, if he is to blindly attack he will lose since he knows this Caster is strong, that's why he needs to build up his strength and attack when he is ready.
Rushing blindly is not the way!
Once again Emiya needs to thank his Sensei for those books he gives him to read, it's like the Sorcerer know what kind of books the teen needs to understand his hero way even better!
"Emiya-kun is right Saber, we have no clues about this Servant apart from that she is powerful Magus."
"I can safely say that she is anti-hero like I am, a woman with a sad past, I could guess that she is a... witch." Morgan chipped in from her side.
Blonde Knight that moment nearly groaned hearing that Morgan is an anti-hero? Well, that can slide for a moment, the King of Knights is more interested in this Caster.
'They are multiplying! Why for once I can't have someone easier to face!? Last war I had some lunatic who was obsessed with me, and this war we have a scornful witch!?'
"A witch? Hmm, can you tell more about this witch please?" Tohsaka respectfully asked the Fairy Queen.
"Well, that she is from Age of Gods, her prana is very powerful compared to magus of today," Morgan said that while putting a finger on her chin.
"The dragon tooth warrior are magecraft used by middle east and greek mages of old," Ren told to the teens.
"Ok… so, that narrow down to quite a bit, my wild guess it's Circe, she is a famous witch in Greek mythology," Tohsaka said from her side after thinking for a bit.
"Nice guess, but her methods are slightly different Rin," Ren said while sipping his tea.
Tohsaka raised her eyebrow where did the tea come from?
"Wait! You know who she is?" Rin slammed her hands into the table and asked him then her eyes went wide she quickly realised that she was behaving wrongly so she quickly kowtow to him asking for an apology.
Ren and Morgan shook their head seeing how Rin-like this girl behaves.
"Of course, Heaven's Feel remember?" The Sorcerer said while shaking his head.
Tohsaka wanted to groan from frustration...of course, he knows why she is even asking that!?
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