Fate: Emiya the Host

"Come, let me see the true face of this world!", Shirou stood at the warehouse entrance, stretched out his right hand.

'If this is Fate, if it is destiny, then let me see it.'

As Emiya Shirou, what he must accomplish.

"Heed my words! My will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny. If you heed the Grail's call, then follow humanity's path and answer me! Seventh Heaven clad in the great words of stargazers... Come forth, pass on your judgement, and punish my enemies... King of the Swords!"

This was a proclamation of resolve;

It was the power representing overflowing mystery;

Redder than crimson, deeper than blood.

A domain that mortals, those without qualifications, absolutely could not step into.

The ether in the air began to rampage.

The soul seemed to be sucked into the gate of a vortex, bands of azure light, no, rather than light bands, it was more like the radiant history of human heroes.

Throne of Heroes.

'System! Do you have anything to say?', The intense heat inside made Shirou suddenly cough out a mouthful of blood.

He guessed it was the shock of the magic circuits being forcibly activated.

Like a pistol trigger being pulled.

But he preferred to believe he was a bullet hit after the trigger was pulled.

Pain rooted in the nerves, all five fingers spasming uncontrollably.

'Crap!'

He'd been so focused on verifying, he forgot he was a layman. Forcing open even a single magic circuit like this, he would die.

'System, training mode! Activate training mode, save me now!'

Luckily, Shirou was prepared in advance.

No need to say anything, his intent was conveyed, and the system naturally understood what to do.

["Beginning training mode…"]

["Attention! Attention! Unknown power detected, beginning analysis, estimated five seconds."]

[5, 4, 3, 2…]

[Warning! Warning! Unknown power, analysis…]

Then came a string of garbled code.

Shirou: "?"

His vision went black, and he fainted from the shock.

'What a fu**ing useless system!'

Thud!

Shirou collapsed straight to the ground.

[####...]

Countless garbled lines flew across the panel, lasting roughly five minutes.

[Analysis complete, beginning training mode…]

BANG!

The previously unconscious Shirou opened his eyes, coldly staring at the ceiling. He extended his right hand, green magic circuits connecting throughout his body.

[Confirmed attribute: "Sword"! Magic circuits: twenty-seven strands, forced activation complete.]

"I am the bone of my sword," Only for an instant, but the system had completed in a flash what took original Shirou over ten years to achieve.

At the same time, the magic circle on the ground glowed brighter and brighter.

Soon, it filled the entire warehouse. However, no Command Spells appeared on Shirou's hand.

Immediately after, a burst of intense light, his consciousness detached from his body.

———

[End of 2003]

In a expnase of wind and snow, a European-style castle as grand as a manor stood in the center of a snow-covered forest. This was a mountainous area near the Rhine in Germany.

Einzbern Castle. A desolate castle shrouded in eternal winter, completely isolated from the outside world.

It was built by the disciples of the Third Magic user, to recreate their master's miracle.

It had over 900 years of history.

"Yet, though serves with thine eyes clouded in chaos. Thou, bound in the cage of madness. I am he who command these chaos."

"From the Seventh Heaven, attended to by three greet words of power, Come forth from the ring of restraints, Protector of the Holy Balance!"

This was the special incantation for summoning a Servant: Berserker.

But… it was too soon. Only ten years had passed since the Fourth Holy Grail War.

The eighth-generation head of the Einzbern family, an artificial human who had prolonged his life for nearly two centuries, Jubstacheit von Einzbern. Also the old man who once sought Avalon's sheath for the magus killer, Emiya Kiritsugu, during the Fourth Holy Grail War, Acht.

He had foreseen that the Fifth Holy Grail War was about to begin.

To fulfill the Einzbern family's long-cherished wish, he chose to summon a Servant two months before the war officially began.

And learning from the failures of the past four wars, he decided to bestow madness upon this summoned Servant, turning him into a "mad dog" who obeyed only the Master's command.

"How could this happen?", Wearing Einzbern-style attire, white-haired old man Acht now looked on with disbelief at the Servant summoned prematurely.

"I actually… failed?"

He had intended to summon that strongest hero of Greek mythology, the demigod Heracles.

He had even made perfect preparations.

But what now met his eyes? A red-and-white jacket, eyes cold as ice, an aura of rage brimming at the surface.

Definitely a Berserker, no doubt. But… not a strong Servant.

Just based on the aura alone, he was clearly a third-rate Servant.

"Even with a proper catalyst, I still summoned a modern-era Servant, damn it!", Acht clenched his teeth, waved his sleeve, and stormed off, "What a complete failure!"

———

"This place is…"

Not long after Acht left, Shirou gradually regained consciousness.

His eyes cleared quickly, scanning the surroundings.

The walls were built of red bricks, the floor tiles were black mixed with gray, the entire room was dark and cold, and even the occasional light felt mercilessly icy.

'Was I kidnapped?', Confused Shirou was quite confused.

'Also, my body… feels a little off?'

A surging power rampaged inside his body, like floodwaters behind a dam, just waiting to break free and destroy everything in its path.

'What the hell is this?', Feeling this all-powerful strength, Shirou was filled with confusion and doubt.

He tried to move his body, then suddenly remembered he was in training mode.

'System? System? Training-san, don't play dead, tell me what's going on.'

["Source deciphered, panel update complete."]

Before Shirou could say anything, a familiar panel appeared before his eyes.

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[Name: Emiya Shirou (Servant)]

[Age: Not important]

[Class: Berserker]

[Strength: B]

[Agility: A]

[Endurance: B]

[Mana: B]

[Luck: C]

[Noble Phantasm: None]

[Class Skill - Mad Enhancement: EX (In exchange for lost sanity, all your stats are boosted, rejoice, for in losing your reason, you're finally not a D or C weakling anymore)]

[Innate Skills: Absolute Rationality: A (Due to unknown reasons, you do not lose sanity and can remain absolutely calm at all times. Or perhaps, it's no longer calmness but emotionlessness, yeah, with emotionlessness in exchange for absolute reason, are you even still human?) High Jump: ? (Nothing much to say. Young man, if you want to turn the whole world into your harem group, jump all you want~)]

"No more?", Shirou didn't understand, 'I am a Servant now, right? A Servant?'

'And that's it?'

'Isn't this totally useless?'

'Where's Projection Magecraft? Where's Unlimited Blade Works?'

'I have already become a Servant, why aren't those here?'

["Would you like to train in "Projection Magecraft"?"]

["Would you like to train to acquire "Unlimited Blade Works"?"]

"Oh ho ho, so it's not that I have them, it's that I have to learn them."

'Can you teach me, System-san?', Shirou poked the system like one pokes a phone screen.

He was surprisingly calm about becoming a Servant. As if everything was part of Steins;Gate… cough, wrong franchise.

More accurately, everything was "the choice of fate."

'System, did I die and become a Servant?'

Finally, he asked that question.

[T/N: I used Ritsuka's version of chant since I couldn't find Emiya's. If anybody knows, let me know, I will correct it.]

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