Note:
" Speech." = Regularly Speaking.
' Speech.' = Internal Thought
" Activation." = Magic/Np/Skill used.
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FuyukiCity
MatouResidence
30January
"You must care a lot for this young man, Master." Rider watched as his master, woke an auburn haired boy.
Shirou Emiya, the protagonist or one of the protagonist of Fate series and also master of the famed King of Knights.
It certainly had been a surprising experience for Rider to have been summoned in a Holy Grail War, of all things. That's at least what he could remember from his fragmented memories.
A young man reincarnated in the ancient land of Hindus, filled with Gods, Asuras, Rakshas, Humans, etc. Someone who only in his Death realised the true world he had lived in, a world he had seen on a modern device before his reincarnation.
His usually expressionless master, became embarrassed at his words.
"I-It's not like t-tha-"
" Hmm, Sakura?" Shirou Emiya, groggily murmured as he got up.
"Good morning, Senpai." Sakura calmed herself, as she greeted the young man.
"Morning Sakura." The auburn hair boy, rubbed his head as he greeted the girl in front of him.
" It seems you fell asleep here, once again Sempai."
"Yeah, I had a lot to do." Shirou nodded as he stretched out arms, getting up.
Rider watched as the duo continued to converse, glad that Sakura could at least behave normally with someone.
Deciding to leave the two alone, Rider examined his surroundings. A Magus's Magical Workshop, or at least that's what it was supposed to be.
"Will you be alright, An.. Rider-san?" Rider looked at the duo of masters, one of them soon to be.
"You can use my name when speaking telepathically, just don't use my name out-loud." Rider calmly advised his master. "And don't worry, you can close the door. I will get out, after observing this place."
After saying his part, Rider returned to examining the "Workshop" as the door behind him was closed.
Rider knelt down near some rocks, that were scattered around. Looking closely he could feel slight traces of mana residue within the object.
'He must tried to strengthen the Rock, but it ended up collapsing.' Rider mused as he absorbed the mana residue from the fragmented stones.
Rider continued to look around the place, which contrary to his thoughts didn't have anything interesting.
"Oh?" Rider looked down, to see a magical circle drawn on the ground." This must be what will become the reason for summoning Saber."
Saber, HeroicSpiritoftheSword, one of the Three Knight Classes among the seven standard Servantclasses summoned for the Holy Grail War.
And the Saber in question being the infamous King of Knights, Artoria Pendragon. A Heroic Spirit that came to be millennia's later than him.
'At least I remember the names of those who will be summoned in this age, that would certainly be useful.' Rider mused as he stood up, not altering the magical circle.
Rider walked out the workshop, effortlessly phasing through the door.
"I wonder what that idiot has been doing." Rider thought out loud as he recalled his partner, the primary reason for him being a Rider. "He hasn't returned since last night."
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"The gall of that man." Rider said as he looked at his master. "To let you walk to the school alone, after you went through the trouble of waking him up and helping him."
"It's alright, Ankit-San. Senpai wasn't feeling well, and it was me who said I will go alone."
" No it's not alright, he should be more grateful and show some curtesy." Sakura chuckled as she heard her servant.
Sakura paused as she turned towards Rider, at atleast where he was supposed to be.
" Is something wrong, Master?" Sakura hesitated at Rider's question. "You know you don't need to hesitate with me."
"I-I know senpai and Fujimia Sensei didn't notice you, but couldn't the other master see you."
" Ah so that what's bothering you, don't worry no master outside of you will be able to sense me neither will most servants, due my usage maya." Rider explained as he urged his master to walk forward.
"Though if another master does see me materialised, they could see my possible capabilities."
Sakura understood what he meant by that, the moment she had first seen Rider, and even now, she could see a weird sheet with alphabet denoting Riders capabilities.
Servant: Rider, Ankit.
Strength: B+, Endurance: A+, Agility: A Mana: B+, Luck: A, NP: A+.
From what Rider briefed her, A is the highest a regular servant can have, and even then it is a supposed to be rare.
Something that clearly told her, Rider was an irregular if he had multiple A's in his stats.
That's not even considering his expectational skills that Rider possessed, mainly ProtectionfromFalsehood( Ex Rank) and Valor( A+ Rank).
This further solidified her intention, to learn more of who he was and is? What mark did he leave in the world and what kind of life did he live?
"You should focus more on yourself than on me, Master."
" Was it that obvious?" Sakura asked as she opened the gate to the archery Club.
" Clear as day." Rider sounded playfull, as he answered.
"You truly shouldn't bother with that, my time has passed. Focus the time you have on yourself than on me."
Before the duo could talk more, both their eyes fell on young man with blue seaweed like hair, Shinji Matou.
A look of absolute hate and disgust could be seen on his face, something that seemed to grow by the second.
"Tch." Shinji walked towards the exit, not wanting to see Sakura.
"Move out the way, you du-" As Shinji tried to push aside Sakura, his hand was immediately batted away by something." Ahh! Tha-"
"You don't learn do you."Shinji was interrupted from his pain, as Rider materialised beside Sakura.
Shinji angrily stared at Sakura and then her servant, yet unable to do anything.
Rider stepped forward, intending to make his words clear to Shinji but was stopped by his master.
"Please Stop." Rider looked the his master grabbing his arm to stop him.
" Leave before I lose my patience." Shinji clenched his fist as he heard that, clear that hdd ed did like any of it.
As Shinji left, Rider glanced towards the covered hand on the boy. Something truly strange.
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A/n; leave a review. And the next ch will be Friday.
The same day will be Tensura fic. And tomorrow a new fic