Chapter 1

"Ah! Finally! Finally, I have left behind my mortal self and ascended to perfection" he says to the heavens with bravado in the middle of the street where he just appeared, the people walking around gives him weird looks and a wide berth but he don't mind, he forgives them for their ignorance for they know not what has graced their lands. They would learn soon and like every other, they too shall worship his perfection.

The name bestowed upon him by the ones who were lucky enough to birth him is 'Fate'— all bold— so when he found himself given a choice to do away with his mortal limitations and ascend to something beyond comprehension, something beyond what the minds of peasants can fathom, he accepted it with his whole being. It's only natural after all. His fate has always been far greater than what his previous world could contain so he would let this new world too revel in his arrival.

He picks a random direction and starts walking while observing the structures of the city he finds himself in, it's typical fantasy style with fantasy type residents going about their day, people with animal traits, dinosaur like creatures pulling carriages and other fantastical elements.

After exploring for a while something, or rather someone catches his attention "Hey! You over there!" He calls out

She looks around herself "Me?~" She questions with a soft voice. Long silver hair and amethyst-blue eyes meets his in puzzlement as he walks towards her

"Yes you" he stands before her and takes in her appearance, she seems to wither a little bit. The more his gaze seem to scrutinize her the more uncomfortable she seems to get, nodding his head as if he finally found what he's searching for, he replies

"Yes, you would do just fine… What is your name, girl?"

Although very confused, she starts to reply but then the green crystal on her chest glows and a creature appears before it "And who are you supposed to be? What are you trying to do with my daughter?" The creature asks

Fate looks at the creature for a few seconds then back to the girl "Servant, what is this talking cat?" Yes, this creature is undoubtedly a cat, a cat with a purse, mind you but still a cat nonetheless.

That only just seems to annoy the cat more, it doesn't help that he can't get a read on the boy "Hey! How dare you call my Lia a servant, do you have a death wish or something" he berates

"Calm down, Puck! Let's ~ just listen to what he has to say first, oka~ay? Oka~ay?" The girl now known as Lia says to her cat as he relents to her. Fate watches with an approving smile.

"And you! Stop that! Puck is a spirit you know, a great one at that" she says proudly "… Do you need something from me? And my name is Emilia, not servant"

"Oh? You assume yourself capable of providing something I would need? That's very bold, I like that. So you are called Emilia huh, well then I shall let you call me Fate— all bold— be grateful. I shall call you Lia from now on as well, come now Lia! And cat spirit named Puck, we must find a befitting place for my rest"

"Lia, I really want to hit this guy" Puck says from where he's sitting on Lia's shoulder but Fate elects to ignore him.

"Wait, wait, I can't go with you, I have to look for my insig- my item that was stolen, I was trying to find the culprit when you stopped me" she quickly says, she really has to get her insignia back so she can't afford to help him… Okay maybe she can help him a little bit, but only just a little bit.

"Oh? Is this stolen item important to you?" Fate asks

"Ve~ery important" she replies singsongy

"And you let it to get stolen? That's very careless behavior for one of mine. No matter! Walk with me Lia! This great me shall lead you to your stolen item!" He assures her, a servant's carelessness is a stain on the master's name so Fate shall rectify this insolence. "… 'One of mine'?" Emilia murmurs

"Are you saying you know where it is? Are you perhaps working with the girl who stole it?" Puck asks with an edge to his voice

"No, I do not, and no I am not" He easily respond

"Then Fate, how do you know where it is?" Lia asks with an head tilt and finger on chin as she walks beside him.

"The world works for me in whatever way I want Lia, that is what it means to be as great as I am, now that I want to find your stolen item, the world shall lead me to it, it's as easy as that" Fate replies without missing a beat.

Emilia doesn't know if such a thing is possible but she walks with him anyways, while Puck narrows his eyes a bit on Fate, if he feels the gaze, he doesn't respond to it.

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The two people and a cat spirit currently in a crystal, stand before the door of a worn down building right in the slum area of the city.

"Fate are you sure this is the place?" Emilia is skeptical because all it seemed like to her was that they just walked all around the slums and then walked straight here, it almost felt like Fate just guessed this was the place.

"Do not doubt me, Lia, you shall witness your master's prowess in a moment " he replies

"My master?" Emilia asks but Fate ignores her as he proceeds to knock on the door

"Ah! That must be the original client" a muffled feminine voice responds from within

Footsteps and then

"D-don't open it! W-we'll all be killed!" This time a panicked male voice rings out

"Uh? What are you on about?" The door opens and we are greeted to the sight of a young girl with golden hair styled with a black bow and red eyes, said eyes widen as she sees us

"Kill you? No way we would do something so terrifying" Emilia responds to the boy and then glares at the girl

"You never quit do you? I'm telling you just give it up" The young girl says as she takes several steps back

"Sorry, but this is something I cannot give up on, if you do as I say I won't hurt you " Emilia responds resolutely as ice spears starts to form around her. Fate looks at the ice spears around her with gleaming eyes, this is the first time he is seeing magic being used in this world after all "I have only one demand: Return my insignia, it's very important to me" Emilia continues

Fate takes in the appearance of the remaining two people present in the room, a giant man and a young boy wearing clothes that are undoubtedly from the modern world, hmmm either clothes like those are common place in this world or the boy is an outlier just like himself. The boy looks at him with confusion and curiousity as well, White hair and gold eyes. He is certain he never saw this person in the previous… loops.

"See Lia, I told you not to doubt me didn't I?" Fate speaks out in the middle of the tension in the room as everyone looks his way.

"Ah, you are ri~ght, that was rea~lily amazing Fate" Emilia says with genuine respect in her voice now seeing him in a new light.

"Fufufu, for someone as great as myself, such a thing is par for the course… but go ahead and praise me more" Fate responds humbly as he walks towards a wall in the room where an old sword is displayed

"Ehh, what is wrong with this guy?" 'Goldie' asks incredulously, she's not the only one as the young boy also looks like he has bitten something bitter, the giant just looks at him with an appraising eye, while not obvious, battle sharped instinct tells him that this one is bad news as well. The conversation seems to go on in the background.

Taking the sword off the wall, Fate inspects it, he has held a blade countless times before but it seems like even an average one from a fantasy world feels more well made than most from the previous world. He sheaths the blade and then turns around to look at everyone

"Why are you suddenly being so nice? I don't under~stand at all~" Emilia seems to be speaking to the other boy present

"I don't understand you either bro! What's up with you? Stop being weird" 'Goldie' snaps at the boy as well who just smiles. The boy catches something from the corner of his eyes

"Puck! Shield her!!" He screams and a magic circle appears behind Emilia just as a blade strikes it

"Wow, that was almost close, you saved us there boy!" Puck gives a thumbs up

"Nice one, Puck, thank god it was before five while you're still on duty" the boy responds with a thumbs up of his own

Meanwhile Fate observes the person daring enough to attack his servant right in front of him. Tall, long wavy black hair, a beauty spot below her left eye and an outfit that accentuates all her curves

"Spirit, that's a spirit isn't it?" She giggles "I've never cut the stomach of a spirit before… ah~" she squirms "I bet it's going to be amazing"

"Hey! What do you mean by that?! Aren't we supposed to make a deal here?" 'Goldie' asks a little panicky

"We can't negotiate if the original owner is here right? So I've decided to kill everyone here. You couldn't even do your job well, I guess a slum dweller can only go so far" She responds without remorse. The young boy is about to berate the assassin when

"Oh? So you have decided to kill everyone here?" Fate speaks aloud and everyone looks at him, he seemed to have a neutral expression "How daring of you… You think yourself capable of killing me?" A pressure seemed to envelope the building "Killing greatness?" A smirk "Don't make me laugh"

The assassin studies Fate, she can tell he is strong immediately, he is not trying to hide it after all. She wonders what color his guts are and then strikes immediately

Torso

Lower back

Left leg

Feint and middle strike

This goes on for a while and to the surprise of everyone, Fate parries all with minimal movement with the unsheathed blade he took hold off earlier.

The assassin takes a distance.

"As expected of myself, it's only because I am so great that it's natural for my opponent to at least have skills of this level" Fate manages to praise himself while praising his foe "But your blade—" he looks at the marks on the sheath of his sword "Your blade weeps silently"

The assassin narrows her eyes for a moment then giggles and brings out another blade now holding two "So, to whom do I owe the pleasure of this dance to?" She asks with a sultry voice

Fate looks at her for a moment and laughs aloud with a deep rumble "Hahahahahaha, fine, that's alright, I shall grace you with my name, be thankful for being in the presence of one such as myself. I am known by many names where I come from, genius, Devil, monster, Fortuna's love child, master, boss, president, chairman-"

"Stop bragging!!" 'Goldie' shouts in the background

"-but you, you can call me Fate—all bold— … Fate Starlight"

"Fufufu, wonderful, ah how wonderful" she squirms "Your smell is so great, you smell of so much pride, ah I want it, I really want it, I want to know what your bowels feel like. Is it cold? Enough to give me frostbites? Or warm enough to cause scalding? Ah I want it" more squirming and a smile "I really want it!"

"Oi! That's gross" the other boy in the room screams out.

"Fate, be careful" Emilia says with worry, even as she readies ice spears in case he needs help.

"Bowel hunter, Elsa Granhiert" the assassin now named Elsa introduces herself

"Charmed" Fate replies, he then looks towards Lia and the others who are spectating "All of you get down" he tells them and they quickly oblige

Immediately, Elsa starts blitzing around the room, rapidly picking up speed with every movement

Fate rests his sword on his leg then takes out a black ribbon from his pocket and then tied his hair into a ponytail, he picks back the sword and then sets into a familiar stance with his blade held at his left hand and the hilt held with the right. This is not the kind of blade used for this stance but it does not matter to him, the blade will work as Fate intends it to. He takes a deep breath and releases it.

Elsa approaches and then

"S E V E R A N C E"

A circular iridescent vibration expands from around Fate as he draws his blade spreading out and expanding in every direction, cutting from the mid section of the whole building and upwards to the roof and destroying it completely. Debris scatter about and Elsa is nowhere to be found.

He holds the stance for a few seconds before dropping it, he stands back up properly, looking at the rapidly decaying sword on his hand "You served me well, be proud" he tells it.

"Wow, I think understand why you mentioned 'monster' as one of your names earlier. How scary" the other boy in the room raises his head and appraises everything

"Oi! You completely wrecked the shop" Goldie chastise but you can obviously see the tension leaving her body

"Amaz~ing, Fate" Lia praises

"Go on, praise me more, you don't have to hold back at all. I, Fate is amazing after all" he folds his arm and raises his nose to the sky.

"This guy…" Goldie says with an eye twitch

"It seems I am a bit late" a new voice cuts in

Everyone turns to the source

"Nice to see you are well, Subaru"

"Reinhard!" The boy now named Subaru greets in recognition

"The sword saint" the giant adds.

Flaming red hair and gentle sky blue eyes looks at everyone present.

"So can you guys tell me what happened here?" He asks politely

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"I see, so that's what happened… that is without a doubt the bowel hunter, an infamous assassin who has been wanted for a while. I'm glad you guys are alright" Reinhard says with a smile after getting briefed on the situation. He looks towards Fate "You must be very strong to have defeated her" he says.

Fate looks at Reinhard, as if seeing something the others present can not see, he walks towards him and puts a hand on his shoulders "You, I like you. I will allow you to become my right hand man, rejoice and serve me faithfully"

"Ah, although such an honor is wasted on me, I am very sorry, I am already a knight of the kingdom" Reinhard genuinely apologizes

"Don't sell yourself short, you're going to make me who recognizes you, look bad!. Anyways, it can't be helped… then I will consider you my rival, that is a great accolade I have never given anyone, be grateful Reinhard of Astrea, only you are worthy of that title, do not disappoint me in the future. Also I will permit you to call me Fate— all bold" he says with all the bravado in the world

Reinhard widens his eyes a bit " Your rival?… I see, then I will not disappoint you, Fate. You can call me Reinhard as well" Reinhard smiles

"Good"

As men bond with each other and Subaru talks to Lia, a noise catches their attention and they see Elsa running towards Emilia with her knife poised to strike. Reinhard is already on her but another knife is thrown towards Emilia and Subaru pushes Emilia out of the way taking the blade in the gut.

"Huh, are you some sort of vampire or something? I am certain my strike should have given you the respite your blade seeks" Fate asks Elsa who has already widened the distance between them

"Fufufufu, let's meet again, Fate" she says as she flees into the night.

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Emilia heals Subaru to prevent him from losing blood so he would be fine, even though he is currently unconscious.

A situation occurred where Reinhard knocked out 'Goldie' now identified as Felt but the giant who was named Rom refused to let him take her so he decided to go together with her, the building being destroyed was also part of the reason.

So currently Fate stands beside Emilia and an unconscious Subaru as a carriage stops in front of them, the coachman who is a pink haired girl in a maid outfit steps down and bows towards Lia "Emilia-sama, sorry I was late" She looks towards Subaru then Fate and back to Lia "Who are these obviously suspicious looking men?"

"Ram! I'm glad you're here, ah this is Fate, he helped me find who stole my insignia, and this is Subaru, I don't rea~lly know his deal but he got hurt saving me" Emilia recaps to Ram

"Servant, open the carriage, this great me would like to take a rest" Fate who has walked towards the carriage says to Ram whose eyes twitch.

"Emilia-sama are you sure you should be bringing this rude!" She gives a side eye to Fate "And suspicious looking men back to the manor?" Ram asks even though she knows the answer, Emilia would never abandon people who helped her after all.

"Yes, Ram" she responds immediately

She sighs "Alright then"

Fate walks back and picks up Subaru, he didn't think much about him before but after he put himself in danger to protect Lia, Fate respects him a little bit… he likes for his servants to be selfless after all "Lia, get the door" he orders

"Ah yes" she immediately goes to open the carriage door and Fate gets in with Subaru in tow. She looks back at Ram "Alright, let's go Ram!" She then enter the carriage as well.

Ram watches this and sighs again "How troublesome" She sits in the coach box and then start the journey back to the manor.