Other Dimension's Knight

Shirou and Saber apparently met with the teacher that was a master were now located in a lodge.

" I've seen a few interesting things. " said Alexander.

His voice startled Shirou since he was still invisible.

" First I've discovered two masters in the school, the first one is the master of caster and is a teacher called Kuzuki. I don't know the identity of the second one but he's the one that created the formation and therefore is probably a third rate mage or not even a mage at all. " said Alexander.

" What?..... Professor Kuzuki is a master? But Saber.... " said Shirou with wide-opened eyes.

" Trust me on this, nothing can escape my eyes. " assured Alexander.

" So... why do you think this Kuzuki is the master of Caster " asked Saber.

" Although he doesn't have much Mana, he is a master and it wouldn't make sense for a servant to let his or her master alone. And the only servant that can assure the safety of his or her master from far away is Caster. Also, the cost of Mana of Caster is much higher than other servants since they have to establish a workshop. So while the formation to drain the student's Mana fit the description, choosing a school as a workshop is stupid, and it's not an error that a Caster would do. Also the formation was lousy and had several flaws that even I could detect. Although I am not a bad mage, a Caster would be much more efficient than this. This led me to believe that there was 2 masters, unfortunately the second master wasn't in school so I couldn't detect him. " said Alexander.

" I see.... " said Saber.

" Also, are you friend with a certain purple haired girl Shirou? " said Alexander.

" Sakura? Well yes I've known her and her brother since I was little " said Shirou.

" Well...? I have bad news for you then. She's also a master but she doesn't have the complete command seals. She gave up her servant to someone else. Also, she has some 'unpleasant' things inside of her body that are constantly eating her Magic Circuits for some reason. And let's just say that considering the way they enter her body, she's not pure anymore, and it's been going on since a while considering the state of her body. Whoever did this to her is remodelling her body the hard way for a reason that I don't know. She is quite strong mentally since she is not breaking down but I hope that you didn't show Saber to her. " said Alexander.

Shirou didn't speak for a long time, he just was breathing loudly and was trembling as the realization hit him. Alexander blocked the door in case his master wanted to do something stupid.

" Alexander, Saber, can we do anything for her? " asked Shirou.

" Yes, but not now, it will be too dangerous to act right now and the being that is doing this to her is much stronger and darker than you are, so we must approach him while he is thinking that nobody knows what he is doing. " said Alexander.

" But.... If we wait Sakura will suffer even more. " shouted Shirou as he was ready to rush towards Sakura.

" Calm down, she is not as weak as you think she is. She needs someone to save her but acting without a plan will only endanger her even more. " said Alexander.

That managed to at least convince that he will render the situation worse if he acts now. But he was still as concerned as before. He didn't except this to happen. Sakura was one of the person he cared the most about and the idea of her being eaten alive by worms was disturbing and angering to say the least. He promised that he would make the person responsible pay for his crime, and that was the first step that derailed Shirou from his path of being a hero of justice.

Saber was also perturbed by the situation, but she didn't let it show unlike Shirou. This reaffirmed her belief that most magus were people that needed to be cut down. This sort of actions went against everything she believed so she also was slightly uncomfortable to just let it go like this.

" If you meet with her, just try to act normally Shirou, the one that placed these things inside of her must be monitoring her as well, so be careful not to act out of character or it will be all for naught. " said Alexander.

On the way home, Professor Fujimura and Sakura were accompying Shirou and Saber. Saber simply wasn't speaking but Shirou's acting was slightly off. Sakura sensed it but thought he was just sick or something. So nothing went out of control. The dinner went without a noise. Alexander was eating outside the house but kept an eye on the surrounding. With his vision, he learnt many things. He spotted the place Caster was in, the Ryuudou Temple and realized the existence of a certain blond haired hero that shouldn't be here, just like him. Except he was apparently using children gathered by that disgusting priest to get Mana.

The more Alexander saw, the more he thought this grail war was seriously problematic. He then proceeded to look into the 'worms' inside Sakura's body to search for the source. He then followed the Mana link thanks to his eyes and arrived at the house of the Matou family and saw a literal living corpse. This thing couldn't be called human anymore as he was simply a mass of worms that looked human. He reeked of the dead and was doing things that even the worst magus wouldn't tolerate. Looking around the house with his piercing eyes, he understood many things and also found the servant and the 'master'. He was apparently Sakura's brother and was currently having his servant eating the soul of a student. That's when Alexander realized there was something wrong with the Grail. The servant wasn't an heroic spirit, but something depicted as a monster by humans. She was Medusa, a Gorgon. There was no way that a normal Grail would summon her so that meant that the Grail was tainted by something, but since he couldn't see where the Greater Grail was without using his ability that would alert every servant and magus in the region.

He decided to inform his master and Saber in order to devise a plan. He could easily kill the 'thing' that made Sakura suffer but that would attract the attention of every servant, especially Caster whom he had already destroyed several familiars today. The longer Caster was allowed to stay in the Temple, the stronger she would be. Medusa wouldn't be able to get Mana from the school as he destroyed the formation and it would take a while to recreate it but the worm-man and Gilgamesh were variables that he needed to eliminate. He didn't have much time left, the beings that were menacing to destroy the world were getting active, and right now the Dead Apostles were fighting them, but they wouldn't last long. Even Type-Mercury was fighting against them so he would finish this war quickly and take care of the other threat.

Apparently, Sakura and Professor Fujimura were going to stay here for a while, which would give Alexander the opportunity to heal Sakura without having an instant comeback from the 'thing' that was made out of worms, which was a good point. The bad point was that this 'thing' basically was monitoring his master and Saber, so that meant he indeed had plans for the Grail.

Shirou was having a hard time holding his emotions in when he saw Sakura, but he was doing a great job. It seemed that Alexander needed to take care of Sakura's case if he wanted his master to stay composed for the rest of the war. He knew that Shirou wouldn't be able to act correctly with Sakura's state in mind. Saber was simply looking at the girl with sadness which confused Sakura since they just met each other, but she didn't say anything.

Like this, the night passed in the Emiya House.