FATE/Probability

"You hardly needed the help of a wicked woman like me. You would have found your own way to hell sooner or later."

Finally, the voice took an ethereal echo as it said 

"The unforgivable work of an inexcusable person who can't excuse any evil."

When he expected that he would be put to the rope, he wasn't rather men in suits came to him and brought him into a soundproof room and the vision cracked again. In the next instant, he found himself continuing to do massacres, sometimes civilians, sometimes soldiers and sometimes cultists. He continued killing endlessly repeatedly and kept pushing his body hard, in a spilled pool of oil he saw himself as a reflection.

A man with dark skin like the bark of a charred tree and hair as white as spider silk, wearing under armour and a black suit overcoat and black pants. He suddenly felt the magic circuits in his arms flare to life and the black and white blade that his future self had used forever melt which surprised him. The blade melted and then morphed into the shape of a desert eagle with the blade tip poking out in the place of the bayonet.

(image of emiya alter`s guns)

Then the vision finally shattered and he went to sleep, after learning what happens to him when he has a mind and heart of steel along with a body of steel. As a certain someone said, "The heart of steel is not something a human should have". In this world of being unique, it grants power as well as suffering. The man who ate gods is being chased by the experimenters, the mages are miserable in their race to reach root themselves and stop others from doing so.

Time passed and shirou never talked about the events of the dream but they left a very deep impact on him on the level of Kiritsugu`s death. Currently, he was standing on the lawn of emiya residence and holding a phosphoric fang at an angle right in front of him. Holding the blade his circuits thumbed with mana as he remembered the lessons on iaido class

"Remember don't try to pull the sword your way, rather follow it."

"The sword knows how to move, just let it flow through you. You are the conduit for the blade, not the other way around."

Normally for mundane men, this means that katanas being optimised for slicing are made in such a way that their centre of gravity is balanced, hence when chopping the sword automatically turns into a position where the blade is facing towards the ground. Then when swinging the momentum of the blade takes care of the last part of the swing so, the user should allow the blade to flow rather than try to make it move in a way and make it lose its force.

Still, the current user was a magus someone able to move mysteries so he took the words literally and after a lot of failures the change happened, shirou let his mind go into a state of meditation and using his magecraft he felt like he was melding with the sword. Finally, his months of practice showed their results but shirou didn't feel any different and assumed he had failed again. He didn't know that his eyes had a blackish-red tinge on their periphery.

(eyes)

As he began to practice swordsmanship, he noticed some imperfections in his skills and began adjusting them. Still, by the time he was done, he was already sweating like crazy and his head was throbbing. Surprisingly, his mana was nearly untouched, but it was his physical stamina that was at rock bottom.

This moment of distraction broke his concentration and the red tinge in his eyes receded as the contracted pupils dilated and along with it the blade also lost some of its red tinge and appeared dull. If the families holding philosophy keys and the sects knew about what he had just achieved then they would be astounded but some specific people would surely spit out blood and pass out. This is what they termed as sword-man unity and some of them spent their life to try to achieve it only to fail, while a kid in the bonnies of the moonlit world achieved it without any proper teacher following a dwindling arts.

Time passed and the planned festival came close, shirou was one of the foremost iaido club`s students hence he was given the duty of representing them with a few others. While practising a rehearsal in the hall, Shinji walked towards him in the white one-sided robe and a single-arm guard that exposed his shoulder.

This is not unusual, as Shinji underestimating the sword once asked shirou to teach him and sadly failed at drawing the katana properly, the talk about katas is not even to be raised. Still, when Shinji in his embarkment had caught the falling katana from the blade he was reprimanded by the older students.

Thankfully the blade was a blunt practice blade and was unsharpened, this led to the seaweed sneering and mumbling something about ignorant people. Still after that, he had invited shirou to try archery, to which the boy had affirmed. Now the blue-haired boy pulled the red-haired one to the kyudo range.

Shinji acted like he was hastily handed shirou a Japanese bow made of bamboo called "yumi", and similarly long arrows called "ya". Finally, he threw a 3 finger deer skin gloves at the boy and was about to teach him to shoot in his way only to be interrupted by a girl 3heads taller than him. She held eye contact with Shinji until he finally caved and looked away.

After shooing him away, she introduced herself as the leader of the archery club and took it upon herself to explain what they were about to do. She explained that the form of archery they practice is called kyūdō, which is similar to iaido in that it is an art of war repurposed into a way of physical meditation under the influence of Buddhism and peace.

Rather than hitting the target, the focus is instead on the shooting aspect. The motto is "true shooting, certain hitting". The belief is that when the archer achieves the correct shooting with a virtuous spirit and selflessly, the target will naturally be hit. The meditation aspect is the desire to achieve the state of selflessness and melding with surroundings, a way to describe the state of Zen in Buddhism.

Finally, when shirou introduced his desire to try, the black haired unremarkable girl whose name he didn't know till now said

"Follow the steps I tell you, then you can try."

Looking at the boy nodded his head she sighed and instructed him on what to do. Listening to her shirou wore the gloves Shinji provided and then sidestepped as he took a closed-leg stance and held the large bow in his left hand and the arrow in his right.

Then he hooked the arrow and tilted his body as he stepped back and drew the bow when he planted his right foot back the distance between the feet was the same as the arrow. After he did this the girl checked his arm protector and said 

"It's very common for the string to rebound and hit the forearm in newbies so be careful.don't resist the spin if the bow tries to turn after the string is released"

"Now focus, try to connect with the bow. Let your sense of self go and try to merge with the surroundings."

"Imagine you are not this body but rather the environment around you too."

Looking at the boy take deep breaths and close his eyes she continued 

"Yes, breathe slowly and try to meditate."

After taking a deep breath, shirou focused his eyes and the step of letting go was beyond his comprehension. He did not understand what she meant by letting his sense of self go, rather he tried to mediate as he usually does with a sword, as he suppressed his instincts to release mana into the bow.

Slowly he went into the state as his view sharpened and there existed only his target and himself, then he released the arrow and lowered the bow as soon as the arrow left it.

The arrow punched the bull's eye with a thud.

(A/N: With this, the archery and swordsmanship are done. We can quickly have a funeral and then go to the enforcer arc. Sigh, I also feel weird with a kid MC nowadays. 

That is necessary now, magi are a depraved bunch so I think it should be time for sex education for him in about a year. 

But for those who didn't get the archery think of it like minor casualty bending hence, the range of emiya is only 4km, as above it he can't merge with the environment and hence not have that sure hit bonus.

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THANKS FOR READING:)