Other Dimension's Knight

Chapter 7 - VII: Truth

A new day arrived in New Fuyuki.

" Well, what was the urgent errand from Professor Kuzuki? " asked Shirou to Sakura.

Saber, Sakura and Shirou were currently eating breakfast before school.

" I don't know, all she said was: 'I have to finish the errand Professor Kuzuki asked me to do tonight or else I will be in trouble. So Sakura and Saber, try to get along. '. She didn't go into detail. She just left.... " said Sakura.

" Jeez, she's the one that suggested that you should stay over, and she just leaves like this " said Shirou.

"But it's okay. It gave me a chance to chat with Saber about a lot of things. " said Sakura.

Saber looked surprised at the attention she was given out of nowhere so she just laid down her bowl full of rice and said:

" Yes. I and Sakura get along pretty well with each other. " with a slight strained smile that did not go unnoticed by Shirou. He didn't forget what Alexander said to them yesterday, he could only act like normal while he kept his rage down.

Sakura simply smiled at Saber's words.

Once they finished eating, Sakura left first since she had club activities. Saber first wanted to stop Shirou that wanted to go to school, but since Alexander was here in astralized form, there was nothing to fear. Saber didn't need to rest since now that she got her Mana from Alexander, she was at full strength all of the time, she even wondered how Alexander was able to give her that much Mana since he didn't look like a mage at all.

" If you run into an emergency, do not hesitate to use a command seal. " said Saber before Shirou departed.

" I will don't worry. See you later. " said Shirou.

At school, Shirou and Rin met and the fact that Shirou acted like nothing happened unnerved Rin to the highest point. She simply ignored him and went to her class.

Neither Rin nor Archer managed to spot Alexander who was right behind Shirou in astralized form. After all, since he had an actual physical body, his astralized form was very different than normal servants and was much more efficient.

At lunch, Shirou went to the Student Council Room like always and met with Issei, the student council president who looked extremely tired.

" Issei, aren't you going to eat anything? " asked Shirou.

" I'll eat later.... I just want to sleep right now. " said Issei.

" What, did you stayed up all night today? " asked Shirou.

" No, it's just that I have trouble sleeping recently.... " answered Issei.

Meanwhile Alexander was keeping an eye on the school from the roof. He saw the professor named Kuzuki going near his master, so he got more alert but he also noticed the brother of Sakura, apparently named Shinji and his supposed servant, Medusa going around the school, apparently searching for a prey now that Alexander put down their formation.

He took a glance at the boy's hands and knew that he wasn't the official master of the servant who had purple long hair. He deduced that Sakura must have been the master and willingly or unwillingly gave up commands to her brother. But the brother had absolutely no Mana, which was even rarer than being a first rate magus. Therefore he needed to take Mana from students.

He decided to let Shirou know once school is over.

After a message from the school, Shirou decided to investigate the problem with Shinji and another classmate's disappearance by himself. Every student was already gone from the school, except Rin and Shirou. Shirou who was walking around the school trying to find clues since his mind was being corrupted by the fact that Sakura was forced to endure these things, met Rin in the middle of the school.

" Uh, Tohsaka? " said Shirou

" Unbelievable, Are you crazy, coming to school without your servant ? " said Rin.

".... What choice did I have? Saber can't dematerialize so I can't bring her and Alexander is apparently busy doing something else. " said Shirou

" Then stay home and don't come to school. A master strolling around without his servant may as well be holding a sign that reads, 'Please kill me'. Emiya, do you have any idea how big of an idiot you are? " said Rin.

" Idiot? Masters don't fight with other people around right? So school should be perfectly fine." said Shirou.

" Uhmm... Then tell me this.... Do you see anyone here? " asked Rin to Shirou.

Then Shirou looked around and saw the vacant corridors of the school.

" Huh? "

" Finally sinking in I see... Seriously, this morning, I went from exasperated to pissed off. ' After everything that I told him, why is he doing everything he can to get himself killed? ' " said Rin.

" A magic crest.... " said Shirou, noticed the symbols on Rin's left forearm.

" Yes, this is the incarnation of the magic passed down in my family. Simply by passing Mana through it, I can invoke any spell etched here. I've sent Archer away. The Gandr shot will suffice for you. " said Rin.

" Interesting, now, following your words young magus, tell me a reason why I should spare you? " suddenly said Alexander, materializing in front of Rin with one of his twin swords on her neck as a little bit of blood was flowing down her neck.

" You.... how ? "said Rin frightened by the sudden appearance of Alexander and the fact that she might die any second now.

" You can't possibly think that I would leave my master without protection? Also, if you think that the measly perception of your servant might discover me when I'm astralized, you're doing a big mistake. Now answer me, why should I, a servant, spare an enemy master that is walking around in an empty space without her servant? " said Alexander narrowing his eyes.

Rin couldn't answer for a while, she regretted sending Archer away, thinking that this monster of a servant would leave Shirou alone. As long as Alexander was here, she was sure that nobody could win the war so the most efficient way was to kill the beginner magus that was his master, Shirou. But apparently he bypassed their detection and now she was alone against him.

" Alexander, don't kill her please! " said Shirou, looking nervous as he knew that Rin's head could fly at anytime.

For the first time, Rin thanked from the bottom of her heart Shirou's stupidity, as this may be a ticket to live for now, but even then, she didn't have the confidence to take on this servant.

" Understood Shirou, rejoice young magus, the same stupidity that you condemned a few seconds ago is the thing that will spare your life today. " said Alexander as he withdrew his blade from Rin's neck.

Rin stumbled when her life wasn't in danger anymore and sweated a little bit at how close her death was. She made a big mistake, and now she owned Shirou once more.

" Now that the serious part is over, I propose an alliance between you and my master as I have some serious information about the Holy Grail War that I think you two need to know. " said Alexander, which earned a surprised and questioning look from Rin and a serious one from Shirou.

Alexander told the two of them the information he got from today and also informed Rin of what he found yesterday. Rin was feeling extremely guilty once Alexander was done and Shirou wanted to look for Shinji and settle things with him.

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