Prologue IV

"Um, Liz, I remembered I told you to invite them?" Shirou stared at the unconscious and chained group that he ordered Leysritt to "invite" and couldn't help but glance at the usually lazy woman.

"Oh," said Leysritt as she tossed a piece of peanut to her mouth, "But I brought them in. I think this also counts."

"You could at least be a little gentle." Said Shirou while smiling wryly.

"Hmm," Liz dully nodded and was about to eat another piece of peanut when she noticed that she run out of it, turning towards Shirou, "Shirou. Can I go find Sella to make me some snacks."

"Hey!" Illya pouted at her, "Why aren't you asking my permission Liz! I'm supposed to be your master~!"

"Oh," Liz turned her dull red eyes at Illya and thought for a moment before answering, "But Illyasviel, didn't you give me, Sella, and all Homunculi to Shirou? Besides, he already lay his hands on u—"

"I think you already speak too much Liz!" Shirou hurriedly covered her mouth, "You can go and ask Sella for your snacks okay?"

"Hm." Liz nodded and walked out of the room woth Illya pouting at her.

Sakura who was standing at the side decided to get back to topic and said, "That aside. What are we supposed to do with these people? We can't just ask them nicely now that we kidnapped them."

Luvia glanced at them and hummed disdainfully, "Just use "suggestion" on them, it's not like we need them to cooperate. Knowing where we are is far more important."

Rin, as much as she dislikes it, agreed with her rival as she place her palm on Illya's head and grip on it tightly, "If this chibi actually listened, we wouldn't be in this situation."

"That hurts Rin!" Illya struggled to get Rin's hands off of her head, even with the use of Reinforcement, "It's not my fault you have a defective product!"

"Shut it you damn brat!" Rin glared at her and increase the strength she was using.

"It hurts! Stop! Stop!" Tears were already starting to fall from Illya's eyes before she stared at Shirou, "Onii-chan! Help me! Take this devil away from me!"

Sighing, Shirou said, "Rin, that's enough."

"Hmph!" Rin listened and let go of Illya, who run towards Shirou and hid behind his back and spit out her tongue to Rin. Clenching her fist, Rin roared, "You damn brat!"

She almost leaped towards Illya if Bazett did not grab her, "Alright, alright, enough. Nothing will change even if you two argue with that."

Shirou glanced at Illya who was grinning at Rin and patted her head, "Illya, stop that. Rin's not wrong, if you had listened to her, this wouldn't have happened in the first place."

Pouting, Illya glared at him, "Shirou! You're supposed to be on my side! I'm your sister!"

"But Rin's right Illya—"

"That's not fair! You're going to side with her just because she lets you plow her pussy!? Shirou, you have changed!"

"Illya..."

"What did you say!?" Rin whose face was as red as a tomato due to embarrassment and shame, struggled to get off from Bazett's hold as she wanted to smack the little chibi with her fist.

"Maa~ maa~," Sakura patted her sister's shoulder, "Calm down first nee-chan. For now, let's get down to business."

"Right," Shirou agreed as he thought of the earlier events that brought them in this new land.

He was just cooking with Sakura and Medea earlier when he was forced to close his eyes from the bright kaleidoscope colored light that seem to engulfed everything.

He then felt Rider's chain pulling him. He did not struggle but merely prepared for battle. And when the light finally subsides, they noticed that everything remained the same.

But when they finally took a look outside, they found out that their surroundings have changed.

And after some analysis by Rin, Luvia and Caster, they concluded that the "Kaleid-Gem" malfunctioned and probably went into an overdrive due to the pseudo-Heavens Feel used by Illya somehow.

The gem which is used to connect to parallel world was overloaded by nigh-infinite amount of magical energy, but instead of exploding it sent them to a parallel world or a different timeline.

Caster concluded that it should be somewhere around the Age of Gods or something, due to the sickening amount of Mana that can kill any modern men.

The reason Rin and the others survive is because they have been thrown into the Age of Gods by Zelretch for so many times that they eventually adapted to it.

Knowing this, Shirou ordered Caster to set up a Bounded Field around the castle, and Bazett, Rider and Saber to scout their surroundings.

He then ordered Sella - Leysritt's sister - to check the castle along with some maid homunculi to see if something was damaged or if there are any danger.

As for Caren, she quickly excuses herself and went to the mini praying room Illya specifically have made just for her some time ago.

After awhile, Rider then informed them that she spotted a group of people who seems to be looking at the castle, and Shirou ordered Leysritt, or Liz for short, who was napping in her room, to bring a group of Homunculi Combat Maids to "invite" them over.

But who would've thought that she would just knock them unconscious and bring them here.

"You know I could just used Structural Grasping on their weapons to know their history right?" Said Shirou, staring at Rin and the others. "It won't be much, but I would at least have some basic understanding about where or when we are."

"..."

"..."

Coughing, Rin tried to avoid embarrassment by saying, "W-Well, you should've done that already! Why do you have to wait this long?! Do you want to make fun of me huh!?"

Shirou raised two hands in a mock surrender before placing his hands on the bald man's weapon before using his Structural Grasping.

He saw the forging process of the sword, the care and love poured by its maker who is an old man. It was then place in a store and bought by this bald huntsman called Alec whose weapon was destroyed at the time.

Shirou then saw how Alec wielded the axe, he learned about the academies for huntsman, about aura, Grimms, Dusts, and some more.

He repeated the same process to the other weapons of their "guests" as well.

Closing his eyes, Shirou took a moment to digest those information. He then told everything he found out to others.

To say they are shock would be an understatement. They are not just in a different timeline or parallel world, but a different world entirely!

"...However, there is still so much more I wanted to know about this Aura and Semblance, especially Dusts which I admit, is something that would surely help Rin and I in our magecraft." Said Luvia. "But the aura and semblance doesn't make sense, is it something similar to a Reality Marble? Or maybe some bastardized version of Heaven's Feel?"

"I mean, it is Age of Gods," Illya rolled her eyes, "What do you expect? This is an era of Mystery so of course a lot of things won't make sense. Also, don't compare the Third Magic to that so-called Aura! They're not even on the same league!"

"She has a point." Said Sakura with a smile.

"Alright," Rin stared at the group and shooed them away, "You guys go outside for now, Luvia and I still have things we wanted to know and only these guys can answer for the time being."

In normal days, the moment Rin uttered her name, Luvia would've already gone berserk and started an argument with her. But now? She just nodded at Rin and remained silent.

They were in an unfamiliar place right now, and it is no time for their banter, she knows that.

Shirou and the others followed her words and went out of the room, leaving Rin and Luvia alone inside with the unconscious group.

Turning towards Rin, Luvia asks, "So should we wake them all up? Or kill all except one? I know we can just erase their memories but I just want to be safe. After all, they are not muggles."

"Muggles? You watch too much Harry Potter." Said Rin while staring at their captives.

Luvia crossed her arms under her chest and hummed, "Hmm, well, for some reason Medea is just really into it and from time to time I would accompany her to watch...wait, how'd you know about Harry Potter?"

"..." Rin remained silent.

Luvia narrowed her eyes and stared at her intensely before giving a cold snort and stared at the bald man who was chained and unconscious, "According to Leysritt and Shirou, this man is the leader of so-called Team AMBR, whatever that means."

"It doesn't matter, what matter is that we can get more information out of him." Rubbing her chin, Rin observed the man for a few moments before nodding, "Alright, let's do this. How good are you at Mind Manipulation spells?"

Puffing her chest with pride, Luvia answered, "I learned from one of the best Magus since Ancient Times. I'm not going to brag, but Medea is definitely on the Top Five greatest magus to have ever lived."

"Alright, then let's start."