Sitting at the table, drinking tea, trying to understand how I rolled to such a life. Let's start with this smiling cheerful girl teacher—granddaughter of the local mafia boss. As they say everyone has their flaws, I'm a budding maniac myself! But strangely why with such connections she became a simple teacher? Or is it a cover for something bigger? Though possibly my paranoia.
But that's insignificant details and musings. The true abyss is that living under one roof with an average anime protagonist is undesirable for many reasons and the chance to die as a background character he'll later avenge isn't the main one!
Mostly what tenses me is that almost half the Masters of the upcoming war will hang out in this house together with Servants. And I'm also aiming to participate in it and even win, and by win I mean—kill everyone!
Yes, of course the goal of the war is to kill enemy Servants, and Masters by desire. But remembering all the nuances of the anime I once saw—Masters don't just give up and always climb somewhere, and can also ally with a new Servant!
That's why from the context need to remove "by desire", leaving "kill Servants and Masters"! The problem is exactly that they'll burn me almost immediately. And playing "friendship is magic" doesn't attract me at all, of course need to see what Servant I get, but in any case I have no desire to ally with anyone.
My plan is simple—hide and wait他们在 kill each other, and by situation backstab. Yes, not very pretty—but when any wish fulfillment is at stake—all means are good!
Yes, not very pretty—but when any wish fulfillment is at stake—all means are good.
Elbowed in the side.
"Aaaa? Yes yes, I'm glad too." Don't know what was asked, but leave me alone, see I'm not here.
Finally surfacing from thoughts I paid attention to the local MC, seemed to me he should be called Shirou, not Shirou. And hair seems was red, not ginger. But think here 2 points, I watched the anime long ago and in translation, so name error is understandable. And hair color, well we're in a relatively real world after all, not drawn anime. Which makes me think how much other characters will differ from what I saw on screen and in reality. And whether I'll recognize them at all.
And possibly this is a slightly different world, and all my knowledge is worth nothing. In favor of this also the 3rd difference is the city name. In such heavy thoughts I sat the whole evening. From pleasant they gave me a separate room, which made me think about one more thing—still need to move out to live separately, even if to a studio. But apparently not now, in the sense not this year. I was somewhat lost in myself, with the edge of my ear listened to what they say and apparently the first year I'll live here.
Eh, luckily I have another 2-3 years in reserve, I'll manage to move. The only thing I feel with my liver that I need to somehow distance from the local MC—talk less with him, and not try to make friends. Possibly it's stupid, and I could play friendship, impose myself and be so-called in the center of events and in relative safety—in the sense MC plot armor will partially protect me too. But my entire gut screams—RUN! And I'm inclined to listen to it.
The attempt to find something good in my situation surprisingly succeeded! In my notebook there's a note about the Servant summoning circle that's in the local shed. Which crosses out breaking and entering from the to-do list—now just need to find a camera and photograph it. Hmm, and in general should search this entire house—there might be some magic books here! At least some! And even 1 is already more than I ever had! See, already seeing pluses. Positive attitude is important! With these thoughts I decided to fall asleep.
The following days passed wandering with parents around the city, visiting local landmarks and buying everyday trifles. And also visiting the beach, yes beach—is good.
That's how peaceful summer days passed, until one day another canon character showed up at our average anime protagonist's place. At first I didn't even recognize her until she introduced herself—Sakura. And at that name my butthole clenched. In my notebook a lot of memories about this anime are mixed, not only reliable but also my hypotheses, assumptions, theories.
So Sakura—yandere character, once Rin's sister given to another family. After that some… mmm… dark stuff happened to her in that family related to insects that are the basis of that family's magic. Well you know that favorite Asian trope with demonic insects and unknown properties. So now a third of her body is worms that constantly eat her. And to not die she herself goes out at night and eats people.
I once saw a clip where she ran around a fairy-tale world, well one with ponies that eat rainbows and shit butterflies, and in reality there was dismemberment and cannibalism. After which she ate Gilgamesh—and that's the strongest Servant! Can assume all the horror she does unconsciously while sleeping, but that doesn't make it easier for me!
And now this walking trash sweetly smiles and offers Shirou personally made bento! My parents are touched by this, and in horror my butthole clenches. "Ah, how cute she calls him senpai"—run, damn it, run! That's what I want to shout at all this cuteness! And they start explaining to her who I am and what I'm doing here. She looks at me and says "senpai, SENPAI?" And everything clenches in me, and no, I conveyed the emotions correctly.
The rest of the evening until Sakura left I was all nerves. But glory to self-control, if anyone noticed anything, wrote it off as shyness. And so, here's another argument to move out of this house! True I can't voice it, so will have to avoid her when she comes. Sometimes much knowledge, much sorrow. Yeah.
And if you think about it, the number of maniacs with superpowers in this city is far from small! And how am I supposed to catch a victim here and not become a victim myself? Okay, I knew what I was getting into. But damn let's not immediately confront me with the local raid boss!
A month later.
A person gets used to everything, even to a predatory NEH coming to his house a couple times a week and cooking dinner in the kitchen! Parents already left back two weeks ago, and my new school year started in a new school. And here I look at this class, and one anime comes to mind. Don't remember exactly what it was called, but its title exactly conveys my feelings, something like—"The spring of my youth? In high school it's all deception?"
Something like that, what am I getting at—possibly I'm spoiled, but there are no beautiful girls here again. Of course nothing works below the belt yet, but damn—sexy high school girls! I was counting on them so much, at least to touch… eh. Maybe it's karma?